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83W TO SEGURE FACTORIES. SUGGESTION'S MADE BY A SUC CESSFTIi MANUFACTURER. Extracts From a Paper Read Before Manufacturers" Committee of the* Chamber of Commerce by Mr. E. Su Witherspoon. Bein? a manuftacturer, I bare been asked by one of the committee on manufacturing to give my views aa to the best m?thode to puisne in induc? ing1 manufacturera (desirable ones) ^ to locate in our oily. The views I baie* I save maintain? ed for several years, but being an Borne I have done as Rome did ; every fellow for himself, bot as I have been asked for my views on the sub? ject, X am pleased to submit' the fol? lowing, which if it could be grasped by the citizens of our city, I am sure *hafc within the next ten years we could have a city, with population of, at the very least, 50,090, composed of bright, econ?mica! and intelligent citizens, aa this is a class of people that are required to operate factories; leaving oct the cotton mill operatives, which should never bo allowed in the incorporate limits of a city. Z The first thing to be considered: Do we want the factories with us? To this question every body would answer yes. The merchant would say: We sell their mee goods on which we make a groas profit of 25 per cent. The landlord would say : Yes, they furnish men to rent our houses. Street railway would.say: Yes, they furnish men to ride on our oars ; The theatres would say; Yes, they furnish us a crowded bouse; The churches "to old say; Yes, they would help us wo maintain a comfortable church. Even the little colored boy would say ; Yea, when they come I will get a job. What harm do they do; None. vOn the othr hand? what good do they dc* (a good one). After deducting the amount of ra? material that they purchase from elsewhere, and also deducting the raw material that is procured - in the city, 25 per cent of the balance of their gross receipts go to enlarged the . city or to add to the wealth of the city. What should they get in return for this? It is sad to relate, but up to this time, they are not getting 5*cent?, and are bein? taxed for the pivilega of increasing the town in this way. When this if the state of affairs, it is a wonder that any factories are here at all. bu' you will note carefully that all the. manufacturing done in our city, i done by those who were raised here, and would rather live on bread and ! water than io go elsewhere. In my j opinion, it would be a good idea tc j insert an advertisen*ent?in the MaD ufactnrera Record, or any paper thar would ; reach this class of trade, thav we are open to the Manufacturers.: and to those that in our opinior would be desirable, we extend * hearty welcome, and would give then our utmost, support, and will allov on to operate free of any license O? ixes whatsoever, on any goods tbat yon manufacture, sold in the city 01 ot of the city. We further agree to furnish you a site, and furnish yoi - ar& of the original capital; and we - arabel agree to see tbat our mer ?ants buy from you whatever good? y m manrfacture, providing you set -iiem as cheap aa they can bay then elsewhere ; giving yea the fuii benefit freight We farther agree that w< will assist ia every possible way t make you* business a success. Wit! aa advertisement like tbe above it serted into a-proaiisent Manufacturer? journal, inquiries would pour ir j from all parts of tnt? world, and th i Chamber of Commerce won1 d have fcc meet a.i least once a week to conside the applications. The first thing t( be considered with an application would be, to know if he is thorough 1? familiar with the manufa turing in dnsfery that be wishes to go into The next thing ia to find oct hov much of his raw material would b bought in ?Sumter; how much mor would be required from elsewhere ; and what would be his total annus "' output? What he can make out of tb* business, we have nothing to do wit whatever. The more he can make tb better we will like it. and the mor we -will be willing to help bim Ee will be getting the difference be tween what he sells tbe goods at, ant what the material will cost, all o which is to be spent in Sumtter: 2f per cent, of which would be clea profit to the merchants, and otbei who get the benefit of bis trade. I he makes a lot of money clear, he wil enlarge his factory build him J nice bouse to live io ; employ lot mor men and help the town to build m its schools, churches, and other en? terprises tbat the manufacturer is in? terested in. We, as a Chamber 01 Commerce, should further obligat ourselves to protect bim from iiligiti mate competition where it is in om power. We should not allow any on to come in, who is in competitic? with those that we bave with u-. Any honorable manufacturer wil treat you perfectly right, and wil also treat the country perfectly light, ? if he is thus treated. Another thing to find ont about a man who w iahet to locate an enter prise here is his ability to carry on his business (we don't want failures), as part of his investment belongs tc us, which would mostly go with bis failure. Nine-tenths of the failures to? day are caused by ignorance, or the inability of the man for that partie io lar kind of work. For instance, we had a man in oar employ who we were paving $3.00 per day, and a new pump that we bad jost purchased, was not giving satisfaction, by some means or anoher, when this $3,00 man asked permisson to try to adjust it. At the end of two days the pump was not in any better conditon than when he started on it (though mind yon, he was a fine cabinet and cloth man.) At the end of the time we employed a regular pump man at $5.00 per day, wbo pnt the pump in satisfactory condition ia one hour. It is my opinion that the town should own its water works, electric lights, and street railways, or give them a franchise free of taxes or any othei cost, bat it would be the duty of this Chamber of Commerce to see that they give os good lights, good water, and good services, and at a legitimate profit, allowing no competition by private individuals, corporations OJ otherwise, to come in and interfere with their business. Bat if they don't '. give us the best services, rr as gc to be had in the United States, is only one conclusion for this C bar of Commerce, and that is wrong men arg in the place, am satisfactory explanation cannot made with positive assurance tba trouble will be remedied, this C ber of Commerce is then und obligation to give such a per soi support, and he should then step ? and out. Ice factories, soda \ factories, who depend mostly on trade for their support, I don't t should pay any license or tax as don't take anything from the tow do they do it much good in the w increasing its wealth. Wbol houses, we don't think shonld paj taxes or license either. They their wares shipped here, and tb only a distributing point for c towns. What they sell in the tow] course they should say on and < under the same head as m ere bj but it would not be right for wholesale man and the merchant to pay license on the Rame thing, wholesale house is also a great b fit5 to a ci$y, as they gnerally ave a clear profit of about 10 per c and this profit goes to increase wealth of the town in which it is lc ,ed. For instance, we sell hardware clear profit of 25 per cent, and . of this hardware being used in S ter, this 25 per cent, is added to wealth of the town, and for this son nothing of this kind should p? license or tax. What we sell in t of course, we should pay on fche s as any other merchant but if 11 paid it, the retail man should not it' too. If this was a rule, it wc be an inducement for our retail ? chants to buy of the wholesale pe< of the city, as they should then ki the tax and license was paid, would ask then : Who should pay license or taxes in order to have funds to induce these manufactu: to come to the city. In my opinio is the people who are directly bc fited, and they who are directly fc slited, are those who take the mo distributed by the factories, sen* out of town and get one fourth b in the way of a clear profit. The rr chant who sells the manufactu everything that be buys, and co not exist without bim should supp him. What a merchant sells to ionntryman for his cotton or prod of any kind, this is a different prop< ti on all together. He is due a leg mate profit on all of the good? that sells the countrymen, and is not c to pay oat one cent, only enough have good streets for the count man when ne goes to town, and pay a policeman to keep bim straig 7ou would ask the question: Is tl plan practical, and if you will ts .ihe case of Witherspoon Bros. & C as a sample, I would say, yes, rn* iecidedly so. We manufature eve -ear $60,000 worth of goods, $10,000 vhich is material that we proci from home, $10,000 more is bens i way from home which of conn ran not bs considered at all ss tJ i oes not ben fit the town, .. (or is iraw ^ack to the town) but $40,( )f this5 is spent in our city, and sn nosing that one of our merchants wc o ?et - the. whole. .amount, be won make out of tb is a clear profit cf $14 00, which he would not get at all the manufacturer was not here, ai or which amount be is solely depen .nt upon the manufacturer to g? Cbis $10,000 is all that the city h ! leen enriched. And if the city h oeen enriched $10,000 who sb o c id pt -.he license or taxes for the inorean vicst decidedly the man who gets tl ' >enefit of the money. If sc small Vactory as oars can enrich the to* iy $10,000 per year it is certainly tl nty of the town' to encourage it avery way they can, lending it i tssistance both in influence and final . i ally, in oar plant we have an ii vestment of $40,000, and to get anotl r factory to our town who *will agr< o do as mach as we have clone, or i ouch more, it would be as little i be town could do to make them .resent of at least $10,000 or om ourth of the amount invested, an iy this you can readily see that tl own would receive 100 percent, o he dollar for its investment. If tb ' own has not got the money, it cou 1 ?e bo rio wed at 6 per cent and tb ai rcbant who sets this entire trade ; 40,000, it would indeed be as little s ne could do to pay this ?Dt?rest, an Hen be would have $9,400.00 cl-ai What does the manufaenrer get? Tba oes not concern the town at all, on) be more he gets the better the tow Hould be pleased; even to one-hal .f the full amount. He will of cours seep it in the town, and being assist d by the town would give it hi j^arty co-operation. The amount b nakes will depend entirely upo is ability to manage the factory, an* be 8ooport that he receives from tin ^bamber of Commerce. If we coul< et the people to grasp and pursue :ourse alone this line, I am sure tba within 10 years, we could have a cit; hat would put Atlanta, New Orlea? #>r any Sontheim city in the shade. I s nothing in the world'but a small imple proposition, and surely it ba ">een thought of by thousands of peo ole at thousands of times, but wha ve wa"t to do gentlemen is to pu something of the kind into practice .nd in the course of five years, I an ure that von would feel honored t< b? a member of tbs Sumter Cham ber of Commerce, and instead of mak >ng one excuse and then an??cher fo .ot wanting to be president, yoi would work harder than Mr. BoyL or Dr. Dick either at the last elec tion to be Mayor To- be president o this Chamber of Commerce would b> more honor than to be Mayor of At ianta. Suppose Columbia tomorrov would put such an advertisement ii the State, as I bave suggested, mak ing us a present of $10,000 to come ti j Columbia, we would be in operatioi I in that city within four monthp, un , iess Somter made us a counter proposi tion to stay and would give us $6,000 This is a simple, easy, plain, businesi proposition-$10,000 with which wi i enrich Sumter every year, would bi ; transferred right over to*Columbia, at a c'.ear profit for that city of $9, ; 400.00 a year. As it is we are increas [ ing this town every year $10,000, anc in return they are making us pay a bif i tax for the favor we do them. Whal ; do we get out of the town? Not j enough to half pay oar taxes. ; Think what a beautiful thing ii would be to have perfect harmony be 5 tween the manufacturers, merchant* r and every entrperise of the city, anc r bow nice it would be for this Cham > ber of Commerce to bring it about ?; t even if it is only with the present peo pie of our city. Look what a sri all request was made by one of our Man? ufacturers to the City Ccuucil some time ago. He asked to be exempted irom license, as a manufacturer, when they said, no, you are ony a saw mill man. This saw mill man, as the Council called him, buys his raw material at 15 per cent, of his selling price ; the balance that he gets comes from other cities, which anx?unts to at least calculation $60,000 per year, $15,000 of which goes to enrich the town. How nice it would have been for the Council to have said: Yes sir, we will grant your request with pleasure, the matter of charging you was overlooked, and rather than to have him pull up and leave the town, it would have paid the town hand? somely to have said : We will further help you out by paying for part of your plant, and letting you have it free of cost. In a case like this, it would be the duty of the Chamber of Commerce to see that he gets his rights, and not only his rights, but substantial encouragement. Suppose this city should now begin to increase in population, and within five years be increased to a population of 30,000, with $2,000,000 in factories, $2,000,000 in houses for homes for the people, and at least a million more in electric railways, water works, elec? tric lights, and telephones. What would a lot now worth $1,000 be worth then. Huts now selling for $1,000 would then be worth $2,000. ? man's ?tore that rents now for' $50 per month, would then rent for $100 Land now selling in the city for $100, an acre would then, some of it, bring $1.000 an acre. If all this could be done, which is very easy indeed, and which is a very simple proposition, is it not worth the effort. To donate to each factory the size cf ours $10,000 and exempt it from taxes and license, or a factory twice as large, twice a much, and a factory half as lar se. half as much, it would require $500,000 to bring this about. How can it be done? The first thine in our opinion is to put the matter be fore the City Council in a simple business way, and to have them ex mpt all manufacturers of any kind prom taxation and license, perpetu ally, and the next thing to do is for us to pledge ourselves to raise th? 3500.000. This in my opinion conk be very easily done indeed, if w* .onld only get the people, grasp th> dea of the great benefit that each om it tbem would derive, and where ? nan now owns 30 acres of land, hf i ould very easily donate half, as ht .ould then sell the other half for mon t an he could get for the whole thins .ow, even if he can sell it at all. anr fhe man who, is now selling $40,00* ?orth of goods annually, be conk a?ily donate $10,000, as be would tber asily sell $80.000 wortb, and alon* tn is line the $500,000 could be easiTy aised, payable one-fifth annually fo ive years. This half mill?n dollar vould bring to our city 50 factorie .usfe like ours, and would add ir machinery and buildngs one and one alf million dollars, and it would br ng at least two million more in res dence property for the people, beside* ll the other things essential to a city vi th a population of 30,000, and th esr actories woo ould bring tur city ar nnnal income of two million dollars, s much as the entire cotton crop of be county 1 for 1904, at 10 cents per >ound. How can we start tbe ball ~lling; thoush tbe town if it con ained a population of 20,000 more, ould be worth very little to us in leed, and tbe only - other factory ir 'he city that it would not benefit, the ame as ours, would be the Telephone tctory, but for the interest that I iavb in the town and for the extreme Measure it would give me of being s< reat help to the town, I .will be one f 100 to pledge my part4 of this mount, payable in five equal pay nen ts of $1,000 each, annually. If ve haven't got the money, we car 'orate a part of our land, as susrgest .d above, and where an acre of land hat is now wortb $100 is thus donat ed, we can easily count it worth $200 vhen we get ready to dispose of it. Ten such factories is about all that we ould build annually together with all -he houses and everything required to ully equip them, and one-fifth of our donation would be all that is required ach year. If it would be impossible or us to get the factories, we would heu not have to make the donation, ut if we could get the factories, vbich I am sure the donation would bring, we could easily make cur noney back, and have a good profit o ourselves. .The plaining mills, saw ni Us. and sash and blind factories of ur city would have all they could do ti supply the demand. The railroads, as I understand it, ould not come in very well in this donation, BS the law would call it a rebate, and would be an advantage ziven Sumter over other ci?ies, but we have plenty of ways of getting our money out of them, as they would be perfectly willing to pay $1,000 per icre for land, that they would not now pay the taxes on. With a picture of the town in onr minds, and so much to be gained, let us come together and work. I can solve any problem that woulJ come np to make this practicable. Grave Trouble Foreseen. ?It needs but little foresight, t o tell, that when yoi"* stomach and liver are >adly affected, grave trobule is ahead, unless you take the proper medicine ?Tor your disease, as Mrs. John A. Young, of Clay, N. Y., did. She says: .T had neuralgia of the liver and stomach, my heart was weakened, and I could not eat. I was very bad for a long time, but in Electric Bitters I found just what I needed, for they quickly relieved and cured me." Best medicine for weak women. Sold under guarantee by J. F. W. DeLorme, drug? gist, at 50 cents a bottle. West Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 16. The Commercial Hotel burned this morning. Several of the guests had narrow escapes having to flee in their night clothes. CASTOR IA Por Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of LEE COUNTY'S FINANCES. THE REPORT OF THE EXPERT ACCOUNTANT WHO EXAMIN? ED BOOKS. A Deplorable Condition of the Finan? cial Affairs of the Baby County Revealed-Spent More Thhn $60,000 in Two Years, Owes $43,000. H. B. BOUDAR & CO., General Public Accountants, Ricbmond, Va., Norfolk, Va. B?sbopville, S. C., Feb. l?th, 1905. The Board of Commissioners of Lee County, South Carolina. Gentlemen : We beg leave to report to your Honorable Body, that we have made an examination of the office of the Supervisor of your county, said ex? amination covering the period of 0. O. DnRant's incumbency, from January 1st., 1903 to December 23rd., 1904, in? clusive. We submit for your earnest con? sideration the exhibits hereto attach? ed. Exhibit A . (pages 1 to 9 inclusive) This is an itemized* list of warrants drawn by the Supervisor, in payment of vouchers that are not approved. b> the Board of Commissioners, the claims represented therein being foi various county purposes, aggregating 17385.28. Exhibit B (pages 10 and ll) Thus is a similar list of warrants paid, but the vouchers are for salar? ies only, and aggregate the sum ol $2047.85. Exhibit C (pages 12 to 20) This is a list of 269 warrants drawi by the Supervisor, aggregating the sum of $11937.86, for which there an io vouchers receipts or statements OD file m this office. Exhibit D. (page 21) There is a summary of all warrants irawn by the Suvpervisor, (including .bose embraced in the proceeding ex libits) aggregating the sum of $62, 982.83. Exhibit E. (page 22) This is a statement of Superviosr J. 3. Durant's salary account, showim varrants issued in his favor in exce.-6 if the amount fixed by law in the sum of 8294.62. Exhibit F (pages 23 and 24) This is a list of warrants drawn b^ the Supervisor in favor of Wm. F y room s aggregating the sum of $3152. . 57. Exhibit G. (pages 25 to 28) This is a list of Habilites of Le? jounty embracing Bonded debt, Note for borrowed money from the Baul? and the Sinking Fund, Notes and varrants issued in settlement of claims and unsettled claims aggregating the sum of $43,696.83. Exhibit H. (page 29) This, is a list of vouchers paid, where the warrants issued, exceed tb? tmount of the claims. We find tim office has been very loosely conduct? ed and an almost entire disregard pair co the law defining the duties of the Supervisor. Schedules A, B & C. show that warrants aggregatng $21, - 370.99 were issued without proper au thority, and if any were authorized, Gee . vouchers do not show it. ? large iroportion of the vouchers approved by the Board, show no detals by which they can be verified, very few aie receipted or sworn to, and many bear ?o date. Some vouchers show alter? ation of the figures, and that such alterations were made after approval by the Board, and in some instances, tarrants were issued for more than be bills enclosed in the vouchers. Very many vouchers are filled up by the Clerk and no items specified, mere? ly stating for Road-work, Road and Bridge-work for account rendered, etc. & etc., but no accounts attached, and nut receipted. Some of the war? rants are made payable to bearer. The minutes cf the meeting of the Board, with the exception of the months of January and February, 1903, fail to record the namr. of the claims and the amount of each claim presented and approved, bnt simply contains the fact, 'that various claims were presented and approved. " No copy of the list of claims ap? proved by the Board, has ever been furnished the Treasurer as provided by law. Schednle D. shows the amount of warrants issued monthly for each sep arate purpose, and the total amount issued monthly, the amount of war? rants issued yearly for each separate purpose, and the total amount issued for the two years for all purposes. The total issue amounted to 862,982.83, of which amount there was issued for Roads, Bridges and Chain-gang the sum of $23,993.03 The estimate of the Supervisor for Roads, Bridges and Cbain-gang for the year 1903 was 82,500, but Exhibit D, shows an ex? penditure of $8801.99, over three times the estimate, and for the year 1904 an expenditure of 815,191.04, over six times the estimate. Schedule E, shows that the Super? visor J. O. Durant issued to himself warrants for salary to the amount of $1,477.95, whilst his salary as fixed by law was only $1,183.33, he has, therefore, drawn illegally the sum of $294,62, and should refund same to the Treasury. Mr. Doraut stated to us that his salary for 1903 was $600. 00 and for 1904 was $7C0.C0, yet even if the law allowed these amounts, he would have to refund the sum of $177.95 improperly drawn by him. We would call your attention to item of July 6th, 1904, warrant No. 203. j which was for July salary and warrant No. 460, August 27th 1904 for August salary, but the statement shows a warrant No. 346 was drawn on August 1st, for $177.9 two months salary, and the last item is for 4}>? months in stead of 4 months. Schedule F shows the warrants drawn in favor of W. F. Grooms and the irregularity of some of these warrants should call for a fuller in? vestigation than we have the power to make. Mr. Durant collected under the authority of the Board the rents of the Stores and Opera House, but failed to turn same into Treasury. In ex? planation of which he states that he paid out these collections for Road purposes, and to cover same issued the following warrants which are now in the hands of the Treasurer, but unpaid bv him : Dec. 7tb, 1904, Ne. 727, W. F. Grooms, Road work for July and August $176.00. Dec. 7tb, 1904, No. 728, W. F. Grooms, Road work. Schedule G. This schedule shows the amount and the nature of the Liabilities-of the County up to Feby. 13th., 1905, and a synopsis of same is here given, which may prove of more or less in? terest to the public. Notes to Bank of Bishopville, from Jany. 15th 1904 to Aug. 29tb} 1904, by J. O. Durant $21,105.37. Warrants issued by J. O. Durant, Supervisor, and held by Bank of Bishopville 82,623.612. Clerk warrants held by Bank of Bishopville $11.05 Warrants issued by J. O. Durant, Supervisor, and held by the People1 s Bank $845.10. Vouchers approved by J. O. Durant, Supervisor, $233.75. Vouchers approved by J. O. Durant, Supervisor, $15.40.' Vouchers aroved by C. J. Rollins, Suer visor, $360.22. Unapproved accounts, incurred dur? ing term of J. O. Durant, Supervisor, 3,797.01. Notes to Good Roads Machinery Co. by J. O. Durant, Supervisor, $696.15. Bonded debt, dated July 1st, 1904 $10,000.00. Debt to Sinking Fund, incurred 1903, 4,008.72. Total Liabilities 843 696.38. Convertable Assets. Cash in hands of Treasurer for County Fund, Feby. 13th, 1905 $114. 00. Bonded debt less claims of Sumter County $728.43. Total, $842.43. Uncollected Taxes. Amount of taxes due and unpaid ?430.06. For Jan., Feb and March $150.CO, Dec. 7tb, 1904, No. 729 J. D Mooueyban, road work $105.50. Deo. 7tb, 1904. No. 730, W. F Grooms, road work for September and October $180.00. Dec. 16th, 1904, No. 759, M. B VTcCutchen, Chain gang supplies $12.00. Dec. 23rd, 1904, No. 78, W. F. Grooms, Chain gang expenses $102.20. We find no record of any of the Notes outstanding, either in the Su ?ervisor's, Treasurer's or Auditor's . ffices, and had to obtain the informa? tion from the Bank of Bishopvillt ind from letters, etc. The Treasurer's Ledger shows that on Nov. 6tn, 1903 there was paid iver to bim by Mr. F. F. Herndon for rent of office previously occupied by the Judge of Probate Court, tht sum of'$12 50 and on December 3ra, 1903 tbe'sum of $6.25. These sum vere subsequently withdrawn hy Mr I. M. Smith, the Probate Judge, md we are informed the Judge con inned thereafter to collect the rent, regarding it as his perquisites. The amounts of over-payment for .daims as shown by Schedule H, should be investigated and if any '?bing should be due the County foi web discrepancies proper steps should be taken to recover the same. The present Supervisor we find lias p?? some claims that have not been .roperly approved and we would sug? gest* that he be required to have same put in proper shape and for the future avoid any repetition of such irregu? lar ity. Respectfully submitted H. B. Boudar& Co., Accountants. THE NEW RAILROAD. Possibility That it May Not be Built Owing to Excessive Prices De? manded for Rights of Way. , The promotors of the Sumter & Northern Railroad have met with an unexpected obstacle, and their plans to give Sumter and Bishopville a new outlet and a connection with the Seaboard Air Line may even now be defeated after having practically com? pleted the final survey. This obstacle is the unexpected atti? tude of the land owners in the vicinity of Bishopville in respect to the right of way. No obstacle was met with in this city or in the couutry between this city and Scape O'er Swamp, every land owner, having either given the right or agreed to sell at a price so reasonable as to be well with in the ability of the promoters to pay. After crossing Scape O'er Swamp no difficulty was encountered until atfer leaving the lands of the Barnetts, who own large tracts in the vicinity of Mannville, they having agreed to grant the needed right of way on reasonable terms. From there on to Bishopville obstacles were met with on every band. The property owners appear indifferent to the sue ness of the road and demanded prices for the rights of way that, to the pro? moters, seemed prohibitive. After haviug exhausted every effort to secure a right of way to Bishop? ville and through that town on rea sonable terms, the promoters have temporarily, at least, abandoned the enterprise and have called in their surveyors who were locating the per? manent line. Mr. W. H. Ingram, who bas charge of the active prosecution of the work for himself and associates, who are promoting the enterprise, gave these, facts to a representative of the Daily Item. lie said, further, that, at present, the plans of those who have been working to bcild the road and have already expended considerable money in having the survey made, are somewhat, nebulous and they do not know what they can do to further the enterprise. It must be confessed that the out? look is rather blue and discouraging, and the fact that the surveyors have been called in is the strongest evi? dence that the new road has received a black eye. Cabbage Plants. From the best tested seeds. Xow ready for shidment, large, strong, healthy, these plants are grown in the open air and will stand se? vere freezes without injury. Early Jersey Wakefield. Large Type or Charleston Wake? field, which are the best known varieties of early cabbages, also Henderson's Succession, the best large, late and sure header. Augusta Early Trucker, alsoa fine ty pe of I ate variety. Neatly packed in light baskets. $1.50 per M; for five thousand or over 81.25 per M, F. O. B. express office, special prices made on large lots. Chas. M. Gibson, V0U1TGS ISLAND, S. C. Dec. 14-3mos. Better Fruits-Better Profits Better peaches, apples, pears and berries are produced when Potash is liberally applied to the soil. To insure a full crop, of choicest quality, use a fertilizer containing not less than io per cent, actual Potash . Send for oar practical books of information ; k they are nat advertising pamphlets, boonun* fk a special fertilizers, but are authoritative ? mk treatises. 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Testimonials md "Relief for I>a<i ic?.7" rn letter, bj re? lara Malt. lO.Ooo (Vnijaonials. Scrfdbj all DrugsiiM. Chlehedter Chemical Co ?aaitloo >Ms r>?r~- <. ?'T?;LA?l?Al $100,000.00 Capital. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Sumter, S. 0. THE Comptroller of the Currency hav? ing approved the increase of the Capital >f this Bank to $100,000.00, depositors .iow have as security for their deposits : Capital, - S^._. $100TQOO PP Stockholder?' Individual Lia? bility, - - - '00,000 00 Surplus and. Undivided Prof? its, ... 25,000 00 Total Security for Depositors, $225,000 00 ONLY NAT10NLA BANK ll? CITY OF SUMTER. Largest Capital of any Bank in this section of South Carolina. Strongest Bank in Eastern part of this State. Interest allowed on deposits to a limited amount. BOARD OP DIRECTORS. A. JT. CHINA, President NEILL O'DONNELL, Vice President, a. D. BAR??ETT, R. D. LEE, 3. A. LEMMON, JOHN REID, - E. P. BICKER. R. L. EEMUNDS, Cashier. R. D. LEK, Solicitor. BOOKKEEPERS. J. L. McC?] lu.cn, D. J. Winn, Jr. Oliver L. Yates. THE BANK OF SUMTER] SUMTER, S. C. City and County Depository. Capital stock paid in, $75,000 00 Undivided surplus, 16,000 00 Individual liability of stockhold . ers in excess of their stock, 75,000 00 Transacts a general banking business; also has a Saving Bank Department. De? posits of $1 and upward received. Inter? est allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, President R. L MANNING, W. F. RHAME, vice-President. Cashier. Jan. 81. THE SUITER SAVINGS BANK. HORACE HARBY, President L C. STRAUSS. vice-President GEO.. L. RICEER, Cashier. Capital Stock, $25,000 Liability of Stockholders, 2?;,ooo Every Facility For the transaction of business is afford? ed those who deposit their money with The Sumter Savings Bank, Important papers can be drawn up and signed in a private room set aside for use of our clients and any information de? sired will be cheerfully furnished by the management, Savings deposited here draw interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum. $1.00 will open an account and secure a bank book.