The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 30, 1903, Image 6
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WEDNESDAY, ^DECEMBER 30, 1903.
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KEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
H.. G. Osteen? Co.-Art Calendars.
J. Ryttenberg & Sons-Clearance
Sale.
O'Donnell & Co.-Christmas has
.Gone.
The Minor Store-Guessing Contest
.Closes
Virgxnia-CaxoHna Chemical Co.
2?ert iii zers.
PERSONAL?
Mr. Tom Sumter, of Charleston, is
. in the city.
M?. Frank Lynam of Augusta is
in tho city.
Mir. JnMan E. Harby, of New York
is in the city.
MB. Tom Bradley, of Augusta, spent
?Sunday in the city.
Mr. Bert B. ?eckbam is in the city
to-spend a few days.
Mr. William Auld was in the city for
a ?few days last week.
Mr. Harry Pate, of Union, was in th?
.city 1er the holidays.
Miss Sosa Kee is visiting her aunt,
Mrs. T. B. Jenkins.
' M?. W. P. Smith has gone to Cow
pens to spend a week.
Mr. J. H* Burns, of Camden, was
in the city Christmas.
Mr. iD. V. Keels, of Remberts, was
in the city Wednesday.
Mr. Dozier Lee is at home from the
South Carolina College.
''Mr. Plummer Clark, of Dillon,
?pent Sunday in the city.
Mr. lu lu Baker, of Bishojpville
?spent Monday in the city.
Miss Cora Carrison, of Camden, is
?he guest of Miss Lydia Lee.
Mr. Hosea Woodward, of Bishop
ville was in the city last week.
Mr. Albert L. Moise, of Pniladel
phia spent Monday in the city.
Miss Blanche James of Bishopville
is visiting Miss Louise Durant
Miss Zouiean Anderson, of Florence
as visiting Mrs. R. L. Edmunds.
Mr. W. A. Green, of Wisacky has
?been in the city for several days.
Maj. H. F. hilson bas returned
from a business trip to Savannah.
Misses Mamie and Lela Earvin, of
Manning are visiting Miss Carson.
Mr. A. C. Carson, instructor in the
South Carolina College is in the city.
Miss Beaufort Brand is at home
from Augusta, Ga., to spend ten days.
Mr S. Cherry is spending- the holi?
days at his old home in Lancaster, S.
C.
Messrs. E. W. Dabbs And S. M.
BafSeld of Salem, were in the city to?
day.
Miss Hawthorne Reams of Bishop?
ville, is visiting at t Mr. J. Frank
Pate.
Miss Marie McCullough, of Darling?
ton visited Mrs. C. P. Osteen last
week.
Mr. George Dickson, who is teach?
ing at Eastover, is in the city for the
holidays.
Mrs. Phil Miller and Miss Annie
Seels of Remberts were in the city
last week.
Miss Clyde Durant has gone to
Columbia to visit Miss Ermine
Lachi cette.
Mrs. V. R. Gaston, of St Charles is
visiting her parents Dr. and Mrs. D.
E. McCallnm.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Harby arrived
in the eity yesterday from their bridal
trip to Florida.
Clerk of Court Albert Parrott of
Darlington spent Christmas with his
brother in Sumter.
Mr. Leon Green is at home from the
South Carolina College to spend the
Christmas holidays.
Miss Nita Stuckey who is attending
the Columbia Female College is at
home for the holidays.
Miss Ethel Cobb, who has been at?
tending school in Baltimore, is at
home for the holidays.
Jos. F. Rhame, Esq., of Manning
and Col. J. A. Rhame, of Magnolia
were in thfe city Wednesday.
Mr. James Calk went to his old
home at Lexington, S. C., to spend
Christmas with his parents.
Mr. Warren Moise who is working
with DeLeon & Lopez in Darlington
is in this city to spend a few days.
Dr. and Mrs. S. D. DoaT and Miss
Jennie Doar, of McClelianville are vis?
iting Mr. and Mrs. Geo. D. Shore.
Miss Pickens of Mt. Pleasant, S. C.
is spending the holidays with Miss
Fish burne at 20? W. Liberty street.
Mr. J. P. Booth has moved his fam?
ily to the city and is living at the cor?
ner of Sumter street and Hampton
avenue.
Rev. Shirley C. Hughson, is in the
city, having been called home by the
serious illness of his father, Dr J. S.
Hughson.
Mrs. Sarah McHugh and her son
Cor. McHogb, of Hazleton, Pa., are
visiting Mr. Neill O'Donnell, Mrs.
McHugh's brother.
Cadets Henry Mose:-, Ed. McCutch
en, Guignard Jones, Robert Graham
and Lew Hoyt are at home from Clem?
son College to spend Christmas.
Mr. S. M. Mathis, of Kernott,
leaves this week for Summerton, where
he will have charge" of the farming
interest of Sheriff Scarborough.
Mr. Frank Jones and Iiis son Sam
Jones, of Columbia were in town Sat?
urday. They formerly lived here, but
removed to Columbia several years
ago.
Mr. A. Gillan Fishbnrne. cashier of
the Southern Cotton Oli Mill went j
to spend Christmas with his brother- !
in-law, Mr. T. D. Ravenel, at his j
plantation on Pon Pon river.
Dr. W. W. Si bert who bas been in j
business in Timmonsville for the past
year bas returned to the city and will \
open a drug store at DeLorme's old j
stand on Main street January 1st.
Mr. S. H. Edmunds has gone to
Colombia to attend the annual meet- I
ing of the Association of College '.
Presidents and School Superintendents j
and from there will ?o to Atlanta to j
attend the nareling of the Southern
Educational Association.
MARRIED.
Miss Hattie Vinson and Mr. Sanford
Jennings were married at 5.30 o'clock
Snnday.aftemoon at the borne of her
father Capt. A. P. Vinson, Rev. N.
W. Edmunds, D. D., performing che
ceremony. Only, tbe immediate $pmily
and a few friends witnessed the cere?
mony which was a qaiet home affair.
Mr. Murray Griffin and Miss Evelyn
Rhame only daughter of Mr. C L.
Rhame were married in the First
Methodist Church at the conclusion of
the regular services last Sunday night.
The marriage was a complete surprise
to many of their friends, but the con?
gratulations were none the less hearty.
Mr. and Mrs. Griffin will go to Ben
nettsville today to visit Mr. Griffin's
father.
A LONG LIFE ENDED.
Hr. W. Winfield Wilder, One of the Forty
Miners, of California, Passes Away.
Mr. W. Winfield Wilder died at the
home of his half brother, Mr. J.
Biggs Wilder, on Magnolia street at
9.25 o'clock last Wednesday night,
aged 85 years.
Mr. Wilder, who WP.S born io this
city and spent the greater part of his
long life here and in this county, had
an unusually adventurous career in
his early manhood. Leaving his home
here before attaining his majority he
went to Mobile, Ala., and spent
several years steamboating on the Ala?
bama river until gold was dscovered in
California. When the gold fever swept
over the country he was one of the
first to contract it and in company
with a few other adventurous spirits
set sail from Mobile in a small ' two
masted schooner for San Francisco.
The vessel was driven out of her
course and finally reached the Cape
Verde Islands where more than a
month was spent in making repairs.
Undaunted, these argonauts again
set sail and after a long and tem pes?
tons voyage around Cape Horn they
reached San Francisco and hastened
to the gold fields. Mr. Wilder spent
four or five years prospecting and
working in the mines, meeting with
considerable success but never striking
a bonanza nor accumulating a fortune
to bring home with him when he tired
of the life and returned to South Caro?
lina after a series of adventures that
would read more like fiction' than re?
ality, if printed. Subsequent to his
return to this State he was in the rail?
road service until the breaking out cf
the war in 1861. fie was among the
first to volunteer and to go to the
front and was in active service until'
the surrender at Appomattox. Since
the war his home has been in this
county. He never mairied.
The funeral services were conducted
from Mr. J. Diggs Wilder's residence
at 1 o'clock Thursday and the inter?
ment was made in the Bradford family
burying ground two and one half miles
from the city.
"Mr. J. J. Ragin is in the city.
'Mr. ?Ladson Boyle is spending the
holidays at home.
Mr. W. D. Rhodes, of Mayes vi lie,
was in town on business today.
S Mrs. B. D. Wilson, of Knoxville,
Tenn., arrived in the city this morn?
ing.
Mr. C. M. Hurst, Secretary of the
city school board has gone to Atlanta
to attend the annual meeting of the
Southern Educational Association.
Mrs. W. C. Bull and Miss Edna Bull
have returned from a visit to Char?
leston.
Miss Jcsepha E. Cairns of Charles?
ton, is visiting her grand father Mr.
J. A. Enslow and her aunt, Mrs. M.
De Veaux Moore at 108 North Wash?
ington street.
Mr. A. C. Durant and family of
Bishopville have removed to this city
to reside and are occupying the Winn
residence on West Hampton avenue
recently purchased by Mr. Durant.
Mr. Durant formerly made his home
here returning to his plantation near
Bishopville only a few years ago, and
he is welcomed back home by his
many friends.
Mr. R. E. Deans, formerly of Dar?
lington, but more recently in the
wholesale coffee business in New York,
was in the city Wednesday on busi?
ness. Mr. Deans was one of Darling?
ton's most successful business men
while there and we hope that his visit
here will result in his making t-his his
home.
According to their usual custom of
conducting a cost sale at this season of
the year, J. Rytenberg & Sons have
advertised their entire stock of goods
at cost.
FIRST NATIONAL BUYS BONDS.
The Refunding City Bonds Taken at Five
Per Cent, by Local Institution.
A special meeting of the City Coun?
cil was held last night for the purpose
of opening bids for the city bonds to
be issued for refunding the bonds fall?
ing due January 1st. These bonds
amounting to 88,000 are known as the
old Town Hall bonds having been
originally issued to secure funds to ?
build the old Town Hall which was
burned some years ago. There was !
but one bid, that of the First National
Bank of this city, the offer being to
take five per cent bonds at par. The
bid of the bank was accepted.
Turkeys are selling at 12*0 cents per
pound and the supply is le>s than the
demand.
The holiday trade was very sat?
isfactory and a majority of the mer?
chants who cater to this trade have
been well satisfied with the vol ame of
business they have done.
Mr. L. I. Parrott was busy Thursday j
distributing sifts to the poor of the ;
city. WaL'OM load after wagon load of ;
substantial tovs and comforts way sent !
out and if any family in the city was
without a good Christmas dinner and
if any child was without toys and other
gift*! to make the day a happy one it was
not the fault of Mr. Parmtt and his
co-workers on the commitee.
Christmas Recitai.
On Wednesday afternoon a most en?
joyable Concert was given by pupils
of Miss Ammie Teicher at ber home
on Hampton avenue. Every number
was nicely rendered and several of the
young ladies are highly talented. Af?
ter the following programme was ren?
dered they were invited into the par?
lor, to a beanifnlly decorated Christ?
mas tree laden with pretty gifts. Each
pupil receiving one from their teacher.
Programme.
Courage, Petite Waltz, Little Iris
Skinner. Evening Prayer, Miss
Carita Randie. Here We Go,
Hoilday March, Miss Rose Cheyne.
Waltz. Miss Laurel Carr. In May,
Miss Kathleen Bostick. Song of the
Mill, Miss Maysie Brailsford. Hun?
garian Dance, Miss Kate Pierson.
Galop, Miss Vera Randie. Village
Festivities, Miss Katie McKiever.
Caprice, Miss Margaeret Cheyne. Ro?
mance, Miss Lois Ballough. Medita?
tion, Miss Sallie Wright. March of
the Guards, Miss Daisy Munn. Con
Amore, Miss Mable Welsh. Pixie
Dance, Miss Bertha Bultman. Tar
rantelle. Miss Jennie Walsh. Recita?
tion, "Christmas," Miss Ballough.
The merchants began taking stock
bright and early Monday morning. ?
The sales of the Dispensary on Christ?
mas Eve were $2,092.50, and on the
preceding day more than $1,300.
The Mayor's Court Saturday was
crowded with drunks and disorderlies,
there being a dozen cn the mourner's
bench.
Mr. Eugene Hogan gave a dinner
Tuesday complimentary to the mem?
bers of the police force and other city
employees..
The South Carolina Optical Associa?
tion was chartered on December 22nd.
Dr. M. R. Abbe is the Secretary and
Treasurer.
There was a big crowd in the city
Christmas eve, the streets being as
crowded as on circus days, and the
stores were thronged with shoppers
from early morning.
The D. J. Chandler Co., has been
organized and will succeed to the busi?
ness of D. J. Chandler on January 1st.
D. J .Chandler is President and J. H.
Chandler is Vice President and Mana
ager.
Alfred Scarborough, son of Mr. H.
h. Scarborough was accidentally shot
in the leg with a toy rifle Christmas
by Craig Hurst* The wound was pain?
ful but not serious.
One of the big plate glass windows
in the front of the Sumter Dry Goods
Co's., store was broken Christmas day
by a torpedo. The person who threw
the torpedo has not been found.
The first annual statement of the
Home Building & Loan Association
bas been issued to stockholders. The
Association has had a remarkably
prosperous and successful year and the
stock is a gilt edge investment already.
Frank K. Bulter, colored, the sub?
stitute letter carrier, bas secured a
position in the railway mail service,
and has resigned as substitue lettter
carrier. This creates a vacancy and
his successor will be appoionted as a
ra?-"ular letter carrier, if the efforts
to ecure another is successful. All of
those on the eligible list are white.
Charlie Davis, a negro boy who.
hangs around the Monaghan Hose
Co's., house was injured Christmas day
by a fragment from a cap stick striking
him in the eye. He overloaded the
stick with caps and when he exploded
it the iron knob on the end of the
stick was shattered, one of the pieces
sriking him in the eye. At first it was
thought that he would loose the eye
but after the wound was dressed it was
found that the injury was superficial.
Within a few weeks it will become
necessary for the city democratic exec?
utive committee to begin making ar?
rangements for the reorganization of
the muucipal primary. As yet there
are no avowed candidates in the field
but there has been more or less talk
for several months and there is no rea?
son to anticipate any scarcity of candi?
dates. Mayor Stuckey has served two
terms, but it is not known whether he
will or will not be a candidate to suc?
ceed himself, but leaving him out of
the calculation it is said that there will
be several aspirants for the position if
the proper encouragement is vouch?
safed them.
Postoffice Inspector Maries was
in the city for two days last
week for the purpose ot* mak?
ing an investigation of the
necessity for another letter carrier to
make the free delivery service as effi?
cient as it should be. Inspector Maries,
while not committing himself, has ex?
pressed himself as being very much
impressed by the evidence of growth,
development and business enterprise
of the city and there is reason to hope
that the report he will make to the
department will be favorable and will
securegthe appointment of another let?
ter carrier. The visit of In?
spector Maries is due entirely
to the efforts of Congressman
Lever, who had a personal
interview with the Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General and secured from
him the detail of an inspector to visit
this city after the regular application
for another letter carrier had been
positively refused by his subordinates
in the regular routine of business.
Mr. A. R. Flowers accompanied by
Messrs. Tryon, Miller and White went
to Sumter Junction on Saturday morn?
ing to spend the day in Wateree Swamp
hunting duck and squirrel. About 1
o'clock Mesrs. Tryon and Miller be?
came separated from the others who
were with th* two negroes they liad
engaged as guides and trot lost in a
cane brake. When Mr. Flowers realiz?
ed that his friends were lost be sent
the two negroes to search for them
while he and Mr. White fi red their
gnns at intervals. The search was con
tinned until nightfall without >uccess
and Messrs. Flowers and White re?
turned to the city leaving the negroes
to continuo the search. Messrs. Tryon
and Miller did not realize that they
were lost until -1 o'clock, and by that
time had wandered so far away from
thc others that they could hear neither
the reports of their guns nor their
shouts. They succeeded in making
their wa.? out of the swamp and reach?
ed high land soon after dark an;! then
made th'. ir way to Tiverton where they
secured a bu^L'v to drive home. They
readied the city about midnight, none
the worse for tiieiradventure although
completely worn out. They were more
than lucky in escaping a night in the
swam]) with the temperature below
the freezing point.
CHRISTMAS AT PISGAH.
News and Comment, Persenat Hems,
Farming Prospects and Other Matters.
Pisgah, Dec. 28th.-Christmas passed
off quietly here. Scarcely a gnu was
heard to remind us that another year
has passed by. The law prohibiting
the sale of dynamite fire crackers is a
wise one. They have caused more harm
than pleasure in the use of them and
no doubt many a hand has been saved I
from serious injury by their absence
from the State. The rain kept people in
doors, but ali had something to enjoy
by the warm firesides. Nowithstand
ing the severe weather the oats are
trying to get up and it now looks as if
we will have a tolerable stand.
Farm labor is scarce. Many planters
have none and very few have enough to
run their plows. This labor questiou
is a problem that becomes more diffi?
cult each year to solve. As things
now look it will soon be a question
whether to abandon the present labor
for foreign or change the entire agri?
cultural system. It does not pay to
have stock stand idle for the want of
plow hands.
Fever still abounds in this section.
Several are down with it.
You did not hit John G. Capers a
lick amiss last week.
The serial running through the
Watchman and Southron is an intense?
ly interesting one. It is well worth th
price of the paper a year to read lt.
The author is a fine writer, and will
hold the attention of the reader to
the end.
Chicken choiera is playing havoc
with the fowls on several places
Eggs are very scarce, more so than I
have ever known.
Capt. J. M. Ross will move to his
new home on the old Jennings place
near Sumter. He and family have
many friends here who regret to see
them leave.
Mr. John W. Allen of Columbia is
visiting relatives here, also Miss Cooley
of Darlington.
The Tournament at Dalzell.
A large and enhusiastic crowd at?
tended the Tournament at Dalzell,
Saturday, December 26th. A large
number of visitors from Sumter and
surrounding neighborhoods were pres?
ent to witness the gallant knights,
while they charged on their fiery steeds
and in friendly contest strove to win
the smile of some fair lady. Mr. J.
Edwin Rembert, who is well known
throughout the county, acted as
Herald, and in a short and appropriate
speech introduced the noble knights
to the ladies.
Then began the contest of modern
chivalry.
First came the Gallant Knight of
Argyle, Marion L. Moore, who caused
many fair hearts to palpitate by the
gallantry of his charge. Following
close in order came The Knight of the
Red Roses, Albert C. Moore ; Knight
of the Red Cross, H. B. Boykiu ;
Knight of Chivalry, T. A. Scar?
borough who distinguished himself
by his graceful! riding and manly
bearing.
In swift succession still they came.
Knight of the Lone Star, R. G.
Scarborough ; The Disinherited
Knight, Vivian Manning; Knight of
Ivanhoe, H. A. Boykin; Knight of
Dalzell, Joseph Boykin; Knight cl
Wateree, M. 0. Burkett; Knight of
the Lost Cause, R. E. Rembert;
Knight of Gaillard's X Roads, Louis
Williamson; Knight of Bill Bailey,
Belton Jennings; Knight of Hagood,
Clarence Myers.
T?es? gallant Knights all rode well,
but the honors of the day were won
by Mr. Joseph Boykin, who crowned
Miss Lida Richbourg as the Queen of
Love and Beauty. Mr. Vivian Manning
chose Miss Janie Spann, First Maid of
Honor, and Miss Nita Doby was
chosen by Mr. Hazel Boykin as Second
Maid of Honor. The pleasant occasion
was thoroubgly enjoyed by all, and
added one more to the long list of suc
cesfnl Tournaments, which have made
the Dalzell neighborhood famous.
Prof. Lane's Lecture.
The treat of the evening came in
the appearance of Prof. Lane of the
Southern Lyceum Bureau, the talent?
ed Georgia humorist who lectured be?
fore the Florida State Teacher's Asso?
ciation last night. He was greeted
with loud applause, and began his re?
marks by an apology for his apearance
in garments other than the regulation
attire prescribed for evening wear.
The subject of hi3 lecture was "The
Analysis of Laughter," a subject
abounding at oncejin opportunities for
the display of erudition, and for the
merry phrases in which the lecturer
delights. To attempt a description of
the lecture would be rank folly. To
attempt a summary would be nonsense.
Nothing less than a stenographic re?
port would do justice to the subject,
and this must needs be accompanied
by a vitascopic picture of the man
himself in the attitudes that lend life
to the subjects with which he deals.
He quoted eminent authority on the
subject of laughter from the caustic
pen of several eminent English misan?
thropes, and in lighter vein from the
French authors.-Tampa Fla. Times, j
Prof. Lane will lecture in the Opera
House on the night of Jan. 12th for
the benefit of the Magnolia Street
Methodist Church. Admission 50 and
35 cents.
All of the January Magazines at
Osteen's Book ocore.
C. P. Osteen, M. D.
No 104 N. Main Street, j
(Winburn's old Gallery),
SUMTER, S. C.
N. G. Osteen, Jr.,
SURGEON DENTIST,
OFFICE :
No. 104 N. Main Street, j
(Winbarn's old Gallery),
SUxOTER, S. C.
Office hours, 9 lo 1.30 ; 2 30 |
to 6. i
Closes January 1st. Get your tickets
in before that date. A free trip to
the St. Louis World's Fair and $50
in money is the prize.
The winner will be announced
through the press.
THE STORE THAT
SETS THE PACE?
Wishing to further reduce our stock
?g???ti#i?we now offer same?*?????
This sale includes our HARNESS
and HARDWARE DEPARTMENT
as well as
Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes,
Clothing and Furnishing
This sale will continue for only a
limited time, notice of which will be
given.
J. RYTTENBERG & SONS.
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