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? k <mztt\)wmi w? ^on?jiron WEDMESDAY, JUNE IO, 1903. Evered ctr the Post Orfije at Swater S 0.. a* Second Class Mittet NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. H. F. Wilson, Master-Sale. D J. Chandler-Umbrella Weather. Harby & Co-Genuine Peruvian Guano. Sumter Dry Goods Co-Great June Sale. Schwartz Bros-Ladies Look this Over. T. E. Richardson-Want to Sell or Exchange Books. H. F. Wilson, Master-Notice to Creditors of J. B. Trimnai, deceased. " M. Reynolds, A ttorney--Summons In Re R. N. Owen sud others. PERSONAL. Mr. Thomas Wilson was in town on business Saturday. Miss Boy kin of Camden, is visiting Miss Tasie Manning. Mrs. Gus Find, of Stateburg is visiting Mrs. Dr. Spann. Mr. Herbert A. Moses, of Columbia spent Monday in the city. Mr. W. F. Stackhouse of Marion spent Thursday in the city. Mr. Ladson Boyle is at home from the South Carolina College. Mr. and Mrs. Altamont Moses have returned from Washington D. C. M. L. Smith, Esq., of Camden, was in the city yesterday on business. Mrs. M. P. Cordes, after an illness.of several weeks is able to be out again. Messrs. H. G. Carrison and N. A. Bethune, of Camden are in the city today.. Miss Carrie L. Yates, of Greenville is visiting the family of Mr. W. H. Yates. Messrs. G. F. Parrott and T. C. Perrin of Bisbopville spent yesterday in town. Dr. Geo. W. Di eli and family have moved to their summer home at Pro? vidence. Mr. J. M. Knight went to Ashe? ville, N. C., to join the pilgrimage of the Shriners of Oasis Temple. Mr. Charlie Poole, after spending several days in the city, returned to Roanoke, Ya., yesterday morning. Mrs. E. S. Booth returned Thursday from Memphis, Tenn., where she has been vistiing relatives for two months. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony White of New York city are spending a few days with the Misses White on N. Main street Miss Mary Florence Shields, of Lynchburg and Miss Anne Chandler, of Bethlehem are attending the county summer school. Mr. W. E. Lea, of Tim m ohs ville, spent yesterday in town in the interest of the annual excursion of the Tim monsville Guards. Mr. H. J. Grover, Jr., has returned from St. Louis, Mo., where he was called a few days ago by the sudden death of a brother. Mrs. Altamont Moses and Miss Kate Moses who attended the Winthrop College commencement returned home Thursday afternoon accompanied by Miss Armida Moses who was a member of the graduating class. Dr. Henry Stuckey of Mannville has been quite sick for ten. days but was a shade better yesterday. Sumter must make an effort to send at least $1500 to the Piedmont flood sufferers. The advertisement of Schwartz Bros., today is particularly interesting for ladies. The guests at the Hotel Sumter Sun? day night took up a collection amount? ing to $23 for the Piedmont flood, suf? ferers which was fowarded next day. The county summer school fer teach? ers now has an enrollment of more than fifteen and the regular work is progressing in a thoroughly satisfac? tory and systematic manner. All packages for Piedmont sufferers are to be sent to the store of J. Ryt tenberg & Sons, who have offered to receive, pack and f o ward all clothing and other articles contributed by the people of Sumter. The 44 Alacre" Club held its semi? monthly meeting at the residence of Mr. A. B. Stuckey on Thursday even? ing. There was a full attendance of members and the meeting was through? ly enjoyable. There was another extremely heavy rain in the Providence section Thurs? day afternoon and many of those who attended the Baptist Sunday School picnic at Providence Springs were caught in the downpour,. Engine No. 66, which had been bur? ied in the washout near Cain Savannah sines Wedneday morning was pulled out Sunday. Tackle was fastened to the engine and three engines were attached to it and their united power was required to pull No. 66 out of the mud into which it had settled. Sumter is growing more rapidly now than ever before, more new houses are under construction and there are tenants for every house that is built. In fact the demand for houses keeps well ahead of the supply. This is but one phase of the rapid growth of the city, other indications being noticeable on every side. The business of the Sumter Post office increased so largely during the past fiscal year that the office has been raised to the next higher grade and the salary of the postmaster has been increased $1C0 per year. Post? master Shore has received notice of the advance in grade of the office and the increase in his salary. Wednesday morning when the relief train made up in this city was hasten? ing to the wreck the engineer was forced to bring the train to a dead stop a few miles out of town to keep from running over a negro who was lying on the track sound asleep. Why will so many negroes pick out the rail? road track as a place to go to sleep. The regular semi-annual cost sale of J. Bvttenberg & Sons began on Mon? day June 8th. These sales are always harvests for the close and careful buy? ers and this season the bargains are greater than usual, for many lines of goods have advanced in price since be? ing put in stock and could not be re? placed at the prices that will prevail during the clearance sale. A GREEN ANO WHITE WEDDING. Nuptials ot Miss Julia Mood and Mr. W. G. Peterkin. Miss Julia Alma Mood, youngest daughter of Dr. J. A. Mood and Mr. .Gilliam George Peterkin, of Fort Motte, S. C.. were married in the First Methodist Church at 8 o'clock last Wednesday evening, Rev. R. Herbert Jones, pastor of that church, per? forming the ceremony. The bride who entered on the arm of her father wore an exquisite gown of embroidered mousseline with plaited chiffon trimmings and a long bridal veil. She carried a shower bouquet of bride roses and fern. The groom entered the church through the chancel door, accompani? ed by his best man, Mr. J A. Peter? kin, Jr., and met his bride at the altar. .Mrs. A. P. Burgess, the Dame of Honor, carried a bouquet of pink and white carnations, and the bridemaids, eight in number, had bouquets of pink carnations and ferns. The .attendants were: Miss Theo Gregg and Mr. Higham Darby. Miss Olivia Ingram and Mr. A. J. Stubbs. Miss Maria Mulligan and Mr. Percy Mood. Miss Maud Everett and Mr. Ash? leigh Mood. Miss Roberta Archer and Mr. Derrill Taber. Miss Sally Ingram and Mr. John Switzer. Miss Julia Badger and Mr. Jeff Goodwyn. Miss Emma Mood and Mr. Zac Drake. The Bridal Chorus was played while the bridal party was entering and Mendelsohn's Wedding March as the ceremony ended and the bride and groom and attendants filed slowly out of the church, Miss Irma Smith presiding at the organ. The church was decorated with white and green, the color scheme be? ing carried out in a most beautiful and artistic manner. The decorations were more elaborate and extensive than usual, not only the pulpit, chancel and altar being covered with flowers, smilax and ferns, and illuminated with hundreds of candles, but the decorations were extended to cover a large part of the auditorium. After the ceremony the bridal party drove to the residence of Dr. Mood on Washington street where a recep? tion was held for the attendants and the intimate friends of the bride and goom. DEATH. Mr. J. Frank Pate, received a tele? gram Sunday evening informing him of the death of his sister, Mrs. Dr. P. B. Pate at Gibson, N. C., from typhoid, fever. The interment took place there Monday at 4 o'clock. The Presbyterian Church. Z There are six branches of this church in the United States, whose General Assemblies have recently met. " These are the Southern, the North? ern, the Cumberland, the German Re? formed, and the United Presbyterian.. The Assembly of Canada will meet next week. 3 Altogether they number two mil? lions, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand and eight hundred Presby? terian Communicants on this conti? nent. The General Assembly of the South? ern Church met in Lexington, Virginia on the 21st of May, and was opened with a sermon by Rev. W. T. Hall, D. D., of the Theological Seminary in Columbia, S. C. The next meeting will be held in Mobile, Alabama next May. Rev. J. C. Bailey, of this coun? ty, and Ruling Elder J. E. McCutch en, of Bishopville, represented Harmo? ny Presbytery at this meeting. What about the* subscription for the Second Regiment Band? There was another accident at the scene of Wednesday's, wreck Saturday but fortunately no one was injured. While a freight train was passing around the wreck over the temporary track, two box cars jumped- t?e track and fell into the washout, one on either side of the track. The track was not damaged and other trains ran through on schedule time asusual. The Sumter Light Infantry was in? spected by Adjutant General John D. Frost and Col. Morris, U. S. A., Mon? day afternoon. The company pass? ed the inspection in a thoroughly sat? isfactory manner and the soldier boys, attired in their new summer uni? forms presented a very creditable ap? pearance. The company had fifty men in ranks. Engineer George Brothers, who brought in the freight train from Co? lumbia last Wednesday morning a few hours before the wreck of the ex? cursion train occurred near Cain Savannah, was in the city yesterday for a few hours. He says that the rumor that he noticed the track to be in bad condition at the point where the washout occurred and so reported when he reached this city, is without the least foundation. That he ob? served nothing wrong with the em? bankment and made no report. As far as he knew the track was in as good condition as usual when his train passed over it. A Swapping Exchange. Under the auspices of the ladies of the First Baptist Church, a Swapping Exchange will be held at the resi? dence of Mrs. J. D. Wilder, 25 S. Magnolia street, Tuesdav evening, June 16th, at 8.30 o'clock. Admission, 10 cents. Refreshment tickets sold at a bargain-no old stock kept on hand. Bring with you any article you want to swap off for a better one. An entertaining programme of music and recitations will be rendered. An enjoyable evening is promised all. Public invited. An entomologist estimates that bugs jost this country about 8250,OOO,(XX) a year. The grasshopper eats up ?90, - 000,000 worth of vegetation if he is feeing well, the Hessian nv $50, 000,000, "the chinch bug 810,000,000 and the potato bug 88,000,000 worth. Tobacco worms, moths, souasn bu?s, beetles, eic, make up the rest. Ento? mologists have buen studying the pro? blem of bug destruction for many years, but progress toward the desired end is not rapid. MARRIED. Pinewood, June 9.-Mr. Walter D. Epperson, one of our promising young merchants, and Miss Nora Lawrence, the beautiful daughter of Mr. J. P. Lawrence of Fulton, were married on the night of the 3d by the Rev. Mr. Porter in the Presbyterian Church, which was tastefully decorated for the occasion. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Decca Lawrence, while Mr. Alex McGill was the best man. The newly married couple is occupying a neat cottage in town. Privateer Personals. Privateer Township, June 8, 1903. As several of your readers know, the American prima donna, Clara Louise Kellogg was born in Sumter and it will interest your Privateer readers to learn that a lady has lived in this township who held the prima donna in her arms, ivhen the latter was an infant. This lady was Miss Anna Reid, she married Major Richard B. Cain. Her death occurred at Wedgefield a few years since. Sometime back a very neat monument was placed at the graves of Mr. and Mrs. John Nettles, in the Bethel burying ground. Mr. Nettles died in 1885. He has no descendants living in Privateer Township now. We saw it announced in the Baptist Courier last month that the Rev. Eugene E. Ayres, of Georgetown Col? lege, had been nominated by Crozier Theological Seminary faculty for the chair of New Testament Literature and Exegesis. Mr. Ayres will be re? membered as an ex-pastor of the Wedgefield and Bethel Baptist Church? es. He is a minister of marked scholar? ly attainments. Mrs. Estell Barkley, wife of Mr. Bruce Barkley, was buried at Bethel Church on Saturday. The Rev Man? ning A. Connors, of Summerton, con? ducted the service. Mrs. Barkley was about 26 years old. Her maiden name was Kolb. In our last letter we mentioned the names of some of our farmers who are trying tobacco culture. Mr. Zack Trimnal is another farmer who is cul? tivating it. Miss Hattie 2.3wsom, of Williston, who is visiting in the township, ex- ! pects to leave today. Miss Retus Bradford, of Wedgefield, has been'visiting in the township. Misses Hennie May Bradford and Sadie Nettles and Master Charley Jen? kins are home from the schools. Mas? ter Sam Bradford will return this week from the Welch Neck High School. Miss Susie Jackson has a position with O'Donnell & Co., of your city. McD. F. A rumor gathers strength in New York that the young Duchess of Marl? boro will return to her native land this summer and will never return to Eng? land. Her husband is said to be tired of conjugal fetters and among his in- ! timates makes no secret of the fact. In fact, it is said, his heart belongs and always has belonged to another. Some? times there are whispers of an occasion when his father-in-law, William IL Vanderbilt, took him by the throat in a club room and was about to "mop the floor with him" when friends ? separated therm I TEN YEARS FOR WHITE MURDERER. Belton Stokes Convicted in Lee County -Other Cases. Court convened in Bishopville at 12 o'clock Monday, June 1st, with Judge Gary on the bench. The following is the record up to Wednesday : . State vs. Spain Kelley-murder and carrying concealed weapons. True bill. Continued on motion of counsel L. M. Smith. State vs. Wm. McDonald, obstruct? ing railroad. Plead guilty ; one year on chain gang. State vs. Edward Jones and Alice Rogers-murder. True bill. Contin? ued until September term. State vs. Nazarus Jackson-Arson. No bill. State vs. Arthur Davis-Assault and battery with intent to kill. No bill. State vs. Henry Manus Hughes-As? sault and battery with intent to kill. No bilL State vs. Belton Stokes-murder. Guilty of manslaughter-sentenced 10 years in penitentiary. State vs. Gabriel Samuel-Privily stealing. True bill. State vs. Richard Pierson-Bigamy. True bilk State vs. Rivers Holland-Assan't with intent to kill. Spain Kelly, Ed. Jones and Alice Rogers, whose cases were continued have been brought back to this city and committed to jail. "Woodman, Spare That Tree." The North, just at present, seems to be enjoying what, for want of a better name, we may call Spring Indian Summer, and the prevalence of hazy atmosphere has set the leading jour? nals of the metropolis to unite in a protest against the criminal careless? ness that renders such possible. For it is all due to forest fires-from Maine to the Adirondacks-and the burning of these forests at this time of the year results from the long drought that section has experienced plus a careless-or mischievous or even malicious-match or camp fire, for the New York World tells of the de? liberate annual burning of certain wooded hills of Long Isiand. Why the destructive torch is applied in this instance is not explained, but it requires no argument to impress on any one the value of the trees that are consumed by forest fires. The premium that is placed upon their growth in the prairie states, of the West is sufficient to emphasize their value to the agriculturists and to all other inhabitants of the country as well. Already the sweeping away of th? original forest growth has altered the climate and the soil of this country for the worse-has changed the nature of streams, and has caused the cyclone to be common, and has metmor phosized the temperature of different sections. The New York papers are right. Spare the trees. Not only the in? dividuals, but the forest growths wherever they are to be found. The comfort and the sfety of the future is largely dependent thereon.-Augusta Chronicle. Flower baskets of many sizes and artistic shapes for sale at H. G. Osteen & Co's book store. SUMTER'S NEW DRY GOODS ESTABLISHMENT.... THE MINOR STORE 14 South Main Street. We will be pleased to show you our large, new and complete line of DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, RUGS, MATTINGS, ETC., ETC The MINOR STORE shallSal ways stand-a monument to that mutual confidence between buyer and seller without which perma? nent success is an impossibility. Visit our store and get acquaint? ed with our way of doing busi? ness. You'll be surprised to learn how much clean, fresh merchandise your money will buy at THE MINOR STORE. ': .. OF " Waists, Shirt Waist Suits and Parasols. For a limited time we will offer strictly at cost, without reserve, the remaining lines of these summer requisites. The assortment consists of White Lawn, Black Lawn, Fancy Madras, Batiste and Silk Garments. Not an old style in the lot This is not an everyday chance, to get more than you expected for your money. A beautiful line of Fancy Parasols in black, white and colored styles to select from. The Sumter Dry Goods Co. $*l"i"t"f* ifif if if if Hf if if if ifif? * * I The weather for the past ten days has been just the kind to sell Umbrellas. We've had a good run on them, and in consequence our supply was vcry jmuch reduced. _ Received yesterday, a case of assorted styles to retail from 50 cts. to $3.50. In the lot are a good many "Self=Openers," sizes 26 and 28, at$l. %4 D. J. CHANDLER, Phone 166 = Sumter, S. C. ."I*. "*!* -'- ?A? *i? -I? ?i? -J.- ??. ?j. <^ *f * * jj* ?J* +j? <r$+ ?r?6 &?? +p* tr?? &Q? *j? 4