The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 06, 1903, Image 4
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, ?903.
The &MW-ier ffareftma? was rouodec
ia 1#5U and the True Southron in 1866.
The Watchman and Southron now has
the combined oircahtion and in?neDce
of both of thc old papers, and is mani?
festly the best advertising medium in
Sam ter.
FIX THE BA3 PLACES.
The following is from the Anderson
Mail, but it applies just' as well to
Sumter:
The other day we were talking to a
successful farmer about the necessity!
of having better public: roads.
' * Why, we've got pretty good roads, "
lie said. "Between my house and the
eity we have only two or three bad
mudholes and che steep hill. If it
wasn't for these we could haul the
biggest kind of a load on our roads. ' '
Our friend unconsciously made the
best kind of an argument in favor of
better roads. We must fill up the
"two or three bad mudholes" and dig
down or ga around the "one steep
Iiill" before we can have good roads.
None of the roads of the county are I
in bad condition for their entire dis?
tance. But the ,:two or three mud
holes" and the "one steep hill" are
there and they offset the good part of
the road. A man has to measure the
size of his load by the worst places
in tlie road. If a man's team cannot
pull a load through the "two or three
bad mudholes" ? or up the "one steep
hill" the good parts of the road are
not of much value to him.
We have to improve all the bad j
places in our roads before we can say
that we have good roads in Anderson
county.
Sims, the Atlanta bank clerk who
stole $9?,000 has been sent to the pen?
itentiary for six years:. The judge who
fixed the sentence plased a high valua?
tion on Sim's time.
The Associated Press reporter who
follows President Roosevelt around the
country is a toady of the worst type
and appears to enjoy his job.
At times during the summer months
mosquitoes become a pest in this city
and sleep is impossible without the
protection of a net. This condition
can be entirely prevented this sum?
mer if the Health Officer will begin
mow the use of kerosene oil in all pub
Jic drains, and if the people will co?
operate with him by careful and sys?
tematic inspection of their promises
and the removal of all breeding places
for mosquitoes, and the use of kerosene
in such receptacles for stagnant water
as cannot be removed. An old tin
can, a bucket or even a bottle in which
.water is permitted to stand until it be?
comes stagnant will breed sufficient
mosquitoes to become a pest. It is
easy to get rid of the mosquitoes if a
little trouble is taken to destroy the
breeding places, and it is a reflection
on a place situated as Sumter is that
it should be said that in it mosquitoes
z::e at times a pest.
The Place to Advertise.
Tile result of the contest for a New
Home Sewing Machine conducted by
Mr. Ti B. Jenkins, Jr., the local
agent, is a striking testimonial to
the value of the Watchman and
Southron as an advertising medium.
In response to the advertisement of the
contest that appeared in this paper,
Mr. Jenkins received nearly four hun?
dred replies, which came not only
*i'ro:a Sumter, Clarendon, Lee, Dar?
lington, Florence, Kershaw and other
counties in this State, but from a half
dozen other States. It is not to bo
supposed that one of fifty who read
the advertisement entered the contest
hat involved so much labor, which
gives some idea of the extent of the
circulation of the paper and thc num?
ber of people who read it. Nearly four
hundred replies from an advertise?
ment is a record to point to with
pride.
Weekly .Crop Bulletin.
Columbia, May 5.--The mean tem
peratme for the week ending 8am.,
Monday, May 4th, was about 65 de?
grees, which is 3 degrees below
normal. There were a few warm days
during the middle of the week, but
the first and last days were unseason?
ably cool, and unfavorable for the
germination of planted seeds and the
growth of young crops. The ground
remains cold, and, owing to the lack
of rain has become hard and crusted
this being especially true of bottom
lands and clayey uplands. Frost occur?
red on the 28th at a few northern
points but did no perceptible damage.
There was a quite general rain on
April 26th accompanied by hail in the
northern counties falling to a depth
of six inches at Hickory. This rain?
fall was beneficial but was followed
by drying winds, and the need of rain
is again noted over a large portion
of the State more especially in the
truck raising districts. Showers oc?
curred over the central and eastern
counties on May 3rd, the effects of
which will be noted in next week's
correspondence.
The dry weather enabled farmwork
to make rapid progress, and planting
of the staple crops is nearly finished,
except that some upland and almost ali
bottom land corn remains to be plant?
ed over the western tier of counties,
and bottom lands in the central coun?
ties, though some have already been
planted in the latter.
Early corn is coming up generally,
and much has received its first work?
ing, bat stands average only fair, and
are poor in localities, owing to the
ravages cf birds and worms, and to
imperfect germination. Replanting
is being done extensively. The weath?
er has been too cool for favorable
growth.
Cotton planting is nearly finished,
and will be entirely finished the coming
week if the weather remains favorable,
but owing to the prevailing coolness,
germination is slow, and some seed
failed to germinate at all. Many such
fields are being cultivated, but the
plants looks sickly.
Tobacco is almost all transplanted,
but is making no perceptible growth.
Rice is in the same condition, with
growth at a standstill. The George?
town districts are being sown at this
time
In a few localities oats are promis?
ing, and, while still poor, show some
improvement, but correspondents re?
port the oat crop generally unpromis?
ing with probably half an average
yield. They are heading low. Wheat
is also poor, owing to rust and the hes?
sian fly. Fruit continues promising,
although pear trees are beginning to
blight, in various localities, and
peaches to drop in Charleston Coun?
ty. In the same county a green louse
is damaging white potatoes.
Rain and warmer weather would be
of great benefit to all crops.
WEEKLY REPORT OF THE DE?
PARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
IN WASHINGTON.
Washington, D. C., May 5.-The
weather bureau's weekly crop report
says : The week ending May 4 was un?
seasonably cool over much the greater
part of the country, the minimum
temperatures on April 30 and May 1
and 2 being the lowest recorded in the
last decade of April and the first de?
cade of May for the past thirty years
at nearly all weather bureau stations
from the Central and West Gulf coasts
to the upper Missouri Valley. Drought
has been relieved over Southeastern
Texas and over limited areas in the
Central Gulf States, but continues
over the greater part of the last men?
tioned district and in Northern Tex?
as, and rain is needed in Florida.
The early planted corn was ex?
tensively killed by the freeze during
the latter part of the week in Mis?
souri, Oklahoma and Texas, and the
crop lias suffered from cold weather
throughout the Southern States.
Early-planted cotton on lowlands in
Northern Texas and Oklahoma was
killed by the freeze of April 30 and
May li and throughout the cotton belt
low temperatures have proven seriously
detrimental in retarding germination
and growth, while drought continues
in Northern Texas and in Central Gulf
States. Poor stands are very generally
reported. In the Eastera districts
planting has been vigorously pushed
and is nearing completion.
Transplanting tobacco has begun in
Tennessee, but none has yet been
planted farther northward. Plants con?
tinue plentiful.
Local Weather Report.
For 24 hours ending 9 a. m., May
6. 1903:'
Temperature: Maximum, 78; Mini?
mum, (38; Mean, 66. Precipitation,
0.00. Character of day-Cloudy. Di?
rection of wind-South.
Sun rises, 5.OS; sun sets, 6.45.
Forecast for 36 hours ending S p.
m., Wednesday issued from Washing?
ton, D. C. :
Fer Sumter and vicinity-Rain to?
night and probably Thursday. Sta?
tionary temperature.
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Clear weather prevails over the
eastern half of the country. The cen?
tral valleys and the western portion of
the cotton belt have cloudy weather
with rains on the Texas coast, and
light showers in the interior of Texas
and northward to the upper Mississip?
pi Valley. Heavy rainais reported
from Wilmington, N. C., and mode?
rately heavy rains from Kansas and
Nebraska. Temperatures remained
almost stationary during the past 24
hours with, however, a rising tenden?
cy in the upper Mississippi and in
the Missouri Valleys and along the
Pacific Coast. The highest tempera?
tures was 86 at Jacksonville and Tam?
pa, the lowest was 30 at Bismark,
N. D.
F. Prescott-Bullock.
Local Observer,
U. S. Weather Bureau.
Basket Picnic.
The public is cordially invited to
attend the annual picnic given by the
S. M. A., and S. F. S., at Pocatali
go, Friday, May 8th, 1903:
Committee-Academy, Edgar P.
Mitchell, C. Erwin Van Valer;
Seminary, Miss Eula M. Rogers, Miss
Pet L. Wilson.
THE PRIMARY ELECTION.
L I. Parrott in the Lead and Will
Probably Win by a Safe Majority.
The following partial returns from
the primary election for Clerk of Court
held yesterday show that Mr. Parrott
has probably been nominated by a
small but safe majority. The unre?
ported clubs do not poll a large vote
and it is not considered at all likely
that Mr. Parrott's majority can be
overcome :
Scar
Parrott borough
Bandana, 4 4
Bossard, 25 14
Concord, 30 23
Earle, 41 19
Farmers, 25 20
Gaillards X Roads, 7 12
High Hills, 10 S
Labor's &Mech'ics, 101 28
Manchester, 18 36
May s vi lie, 51 74
Privateer, 14 36
Providence 8 ll
Pleasant Grove,
Rafting Creek, 13 13
Scarboro 6 64
Salem 10 8
Stateburg, ll 9
Shiloh, 19 46
Sumter, 274 1&3
Taylors
Wedgefield, 12 26
Zoar, 29 24
Total, 708 672
Wedgefield Items.
Wedgefield, May 5.-Several improve?
ments are being made to buildings in
our little town.
Messrs. Jas. H. Aycock & Sons are
enlarging their store. An addition is
also being put on the Presbyterian
Church. There was a light vote polled
for Clerk of Court, only thirty-nine
votes and one of these could not be
counted, for one of our voters seeming?
ly tried to vote for both candidates.
The school taught by Miss Lucy
Mellett at Levi will close on Friday
with appropriate exercises.
A Privateer School Picnic.
Pirvater, May 2.-A joint picnic of
the Bethel and Mellett schools, taught
by Misses Pretto Lockwood and Julia
Cuttino, was held at Cain's Mill yes?
terday. It was attended by the pupils,
patrons and some others, and was an
occasion of pleasure McD. F.
? ? <
The civil service examination of
applicants for positions in the postal
service was held in the Court House
Saturday under the direction of
Messrs. B. R. Sandersand W. D. Shaw,
of the local board. There were fifteen
applicants, of whom only six were
white men.
Summi
We will sell at prices
that we only want a livi
but want all that are ii
have it. We have the g<
and must sell. Our sale
our prices are right, anc
prices on all goods for CJ
see us early. We wil
prices to merchants in s
Furniture as a side line
their interest to give us
.We lead-others folio1
Yours fi
No. 10 Liberty St., (Next t
April 22-lt
FERTILIZES HI
The Virginia/Carol
"Manufactures the best
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co.,
CHARLESTON. S. C.
STATE SANITARY CONFERENCE.
Annual Meeting to be Heid in Columbia
May 28-29th.
Dr. T. Grange Simons of Charles?
ton, Chairman of the State Board of
Health, has notified Health Officer E.
I. Reardon, the President of the j
South Carolina Sanitary Conference, j
that the State Board cf Health will
meet with the Sanitary Association in
Columbia May 28th, 29th, 1903. A
sanitary conference between represent?
atives of all the local health boards,
city councils, health officers, physi?
cians, county officers, school superin?
tendents, and the State Board of Health
will be held to discuss measures to
create a greater interest in public
sanitation in this State. Practical pa?
pers will bc read and discussed by
members of the State Board of Health,
and other prominent physicians of
this State relative to improved sanitary
conditions. The organization and con?
trol of boards of health, the prevention
and control of epidemic diseases,
typhoid fever, malarial fever, con?
sumption, and sewage disposal ; drain?
age," sanitary street improvements,
garbage, vaccination, disinfectants and
general disinfecting, disinfecting after
contagions diseases, teaching of gen?
eral hygenic principles in public schools
and many other important subjects
will be discussed. The State Board of
Health and the South Carolina Sani?
tary Conference are working together
and hold annual meetings which are
really schools of instruction for various
municipal officers and county officials.
The physicians of the State are the
instructors. The meeting in Charles?
ton last year was well attended, and
many interesting and instructive pa?
pers were read and some good accom?
plished thereby The officers of the
South Carolina Sanitary Conference
are :
President, E. I. Reardon, Sumter
Secretary, Dr. J. Mercier Green,
Charleston.
Legislative Committee-Mr. H. D.
Corbett, Bishopville, Chairman; Dr.
J. W. Babcock, Columbia ; Dr. Charles
W. Kollock, Charleston; Dr. J.
W. Folk, Annandale; Dr. T. G.
Simons, Charleston.
Paul Du Chaillu Dead.
St. Petersburg, April 30.- Paul du
Chaillu, the American author and ex?
plorer, who was stricken with partial
paralysis yesterday died at midnight.
Paul Du Chaillu, has frequently
visited in this county and has a num?
ber of friends here. He was an
adopted son of the late Rev. Leighton
Wilson, D. D., the distinguished Af?
rican missionary and explorer who
was a natiive of Sumter county.
S. M. A. Notes.
Mr. S. H. Butler, of Reidsville, N.
C., who is the senior member of the
firm, Butler Bros. tobacco manufac?
turers, has just completed the com?
mercial course in the Sumter Military
Academy.
Mr. Powell R. Felder, of St. Georges,
who has been a resident of Sumter for
some time, has just completed the
bookkeeping course at the Academy
and takes an important position in
this city
?r Sale.
that will convice you
ng from our business,
i need of Furniture to
Dods, but not the room,
s of the past show that
L now that we have cut
ash, it will pay you to
1 be pleased to quote 1
mall towns who handle
?, and will make it to
their orders.
RT. !
Dr business,
We have just received a new
stock of
at prices that will please.
We have about 25
doze is children's JLACE
STKIPE Stockings, sizes
5 to 9 1-2 ; extra value
at IO cents.
Ladies9 white and black,
Lace Gloves, 16 inches
long ; not more than four
dozen in this lot. They
will hardly be here more
than a day or two at the
price, 25c.
J. RYTTE8BEB8 ? SONS.
IFS SIB emil.
The season is near at hand when the
MEN FOLKS
Will be looking around for thinner wearing .apparel, and our
Clothing stock offers unusual attractions and
Excellent Tuiues
in that line. The two-piece-suit promises to be very popular,
and justly so for in dispensing with a. vest a gentleman is re?
lieved of the most uncomfortable garment in his summer
suit. We have them from
?5.0? to $ 1 #.00 I
in a beautiful assortment of patterns. There are probably six
or eight styles of the $5 00 grade and picked up at a sacrifice,
and we expect them to go in a rush when the weather justifies,
50 don't wait until they are ali gone as you did with our ?
$4.9? Suit
when you saw what a bargain your neighbor got, and you
wanted to get one like it and found you were too late.
If you find that
The Trousers
we sold you last year will carry you thorough the season and
yon only want a coat, we can suit your pocketbook and back
is well, as we have them from 50 cents to. $7.
Our blue serge in Double-Breasted
At $2.5? and $3.SO
ire both dressy and serviceable. If it be your trousers and
lot your coat that need replenishing, permit us to call your ?t
:antion to a lot of real Worsted Pants-no cotton backs-re?
cently received in a beautiful assortment of patterns, principally"
stripes, no two alike, but all sizes, in which there are many
/alues up to ?5, but they were bought to sell at $3. and at that
price they will go while they last.
'Donnell k Co.
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