The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 11, 1906, Image 6
SM^mmi m? Southam.
WEDNESDAY, JULY ll, 1906.
Eutered at the Postoffice at Sumter, S.
C., as Second Class Matter.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
The Bank of Sumter-Statement. j
Charles Pinckney-For Superinten?
dent of Education.
Mrs. Elia Morgan Osteen-Sum?
mer Boarders Wanted.
PERSONAL.
Mr. J. V. Wilson has returned from j
Cner&w.
Mr? Cecil Wilson has returned from
Glenn Springs.
Hon. I. G.'McLeod was in the city
Friday afternoon.
Miss Rosa Brogdon is spending a
month in Beautort.
Col. J. J. Dargan, cf Stateburg,
was in th6 city Monday.
Mr. T. T. Upshur has gone to Vir?
ginia to spend some time.
Miss Gussie Hood is visiting Mrs.
Marie Baker at Calhoun Falls,
Miss Agnes Corbett, of Greenville,
is visiting relatives in tbe city.
Mr. J. J. Team and little Miss Mat?
tie spent ?puuday on frawley Island.
Miss Eva Bethea, of Latta, is visit
. ing her sister, Mrs. T. T. Hamilton.
Mr. A. J. Moses is at home from
Wrightsville Beach fer a few days*
stay.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. McGraw have
returned from a visit to Orangeburg,
county. '
Mr. and Mrs. J. Harry Spann ar?
rived in the city Saturday from their
bridal trip.
Mr. D. W. Cuttino and famjly have
gone to Horseshoe, ii. C., for a stay
of two weeks.
Dr. and Mrs. H. T. Abbott and
daughter left yesterday afternoon for
Niagara Falls.
Mrs.. Theo. Barbie and little son,
Theo, of. Uiangeburg, are visiting
Mrs. T. E. White.
Mr. Van Gregory, formerly of' this
city, but now of Cneraw, is in town
for a few days' stay.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Bull and* boys
are at home after having spent several
weeks in Charleston.
Misses Margaret and Gertrude
Fagen, of Washington, p. C., are
visiting Mrs. J. W. McKe?ver.
Miss Willie Brunson returned home
Friday evening from a very pleasant
visit to friends in Atlanta, Ga.
Miss Leila Ki bier, of Monroe, N.
C., is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. A.
Kinard, on West Liberty Street.
Miss Mildred Mellett, who has been
spending some nine is this city, has i
2i&tuxaed to her home in Wedgefield, j
"Irs. S. Belly, ct Macon, Ga., and j
?her daughter, Miss \dele, are visiting j
Mr?. W. hi. Cherry oe Church Street, j
?r~. j. %?. Team ..'.????"01 X?UO?I? j
returned to the city Monday, after
two weekes pleasant stay on rawley^
Island.
Mr. J. H. Villeneuve, of St. Au?
gustine, Fla., is in thc city on a
visit -to his sister, Mrs. J. Walter
Durant.
Mrs. E. J. Comer and Miss Julia
Phillips came np irom Charleston to
spend the Foziszh with Mrs. L, B.
DuRant.
Miss Jennie Barnett left for the
mountains on last Thursday, where
she will remain for the balance of the
summer.
Mr. James S. Rogers, of McCall, S.
C., made a short call to Mr. Howard
.Jones, of Brogdon, one afternoon
last week.
Mrs. P. G. Bowman and Misses
Lemie and Mable Bowman have re?
turned from a visit to relatives in
Darlington.
Mr. -G. W. Connoe, a graduate of
^Northern Illinois College of Optics, is
cow in the city with the view of
locating here.
Mrs. E. Wells and Misses Ethel and
Mary Carson" have gone to the moun?
tains of Western North Carolina to
spend tbe summer.
Mr. D. L. Rambo returned on Sat?
urday from Hartsville, where be has
betn teaching in the Pee Dee Sum?
mer School for the past montb.
Mrs. C. >V. Boshamer and SOHS.
Henry, Clarence and Carey, left on
'Tuesday for Sta tes ville, N. C., where
they will remain until September.
Miss Elliott Taylor, cf Dallas, Tex.,
is visiting ber uncie. Mr. W. H.
Seale. She is a daughter of Mr. John
W. Tayioi, formerly of this county.
Mr. Augustus Merriman, of Orange
burg, bas accepted the position of
.bookkeeper foi Mr. W. B. Boyle, and
has entered upon the discbarge of
?S duties.
Mr. D. F. Jordan, who has been in
the employ of Mr. J. iL. Doyle for
.some time pa^t, left on Sunday nigbt
for Asheville, N. C., where he will
.spend some time.
Judge R. O. Purdy bas rented the
Cureton residence and will move into j
it in a few days. Judge Purdy is no j
?stranger in Pickens. having spent cue j
summer here.-Pickens correspondent j
News and Courier.
Mrs. Albert Brown and children,
Albert and Louise, cf Charleston, are
.on a visit io her motlier. Mrs. M. M. j
Willeford, at No. 10 Church Street. I
.'Mrs. Brovvn has many friends here
who are glad to her again.
Mrs. Wm. Patterson, wno bas been j
spending some time in Charleston with ?
relatives and friends, has returned to
the city, being accompanied by Miss
Minnie Elizabeth Rivers, who will
spend some time i*s her guest.
Dr. H. M. Stuckey and family re?
turned to the city on Wednesday,
after an. absence of about six weeks, a
part of which time was spent by Dr.
Stuckey in Chicago, where he took a
post-graduate course on the diseases
of children, Mrs. Stuckey and chil?
dren in the meantime being on a visit
to her old home in Kentucky.
MARRIED.
At the residence of the bride's par?
ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Brown, Ben
nettsville, C., on July Sth, Miss
Bertha Pauline Brown, and our pop?
ular fellow townsman, Mr. J. C.
Cooper, Atlantic Coast Line agent,
were united in marriage, Rev. Jones,
of the Baptist church, officiating'. Mr.
G. C. Cooper, of Eastuver. brother of
the lucky groom, acted as best man.
and Miss Odell Patrick as maid of
honor. Mr. Cooper, the groom; has
been agent of the Atlantic Coast Line
at Sumter for nearly a year now. hav?
ing succeeded Mr. Thomas V. Walsh.
Jr., as agent, and during his stay in
this city, he has proved himself a very
valuable citizen and railroad official.
He has made many friends here. Mrs.
Cooper is one of Bennettsville's most
popular and charming young ladies,
and the people of Sumter will extend
to the newly married couple a hearty
welcome upon their return to this city
from Wrightsville's Beach, where they
are now spending their honeymoon.
Death of Mr. I. B. Keels.
Mr. I. B. Keels, an old and highly
respected citizen of Sumter, died at
his residence on Sumter street Friday
morning at 8:15 o'clock from a stroke
of paralysis, which he suffered about
a week ago. this being his third or
fourth attack.
Mr. Keels has been a. resident of
Sumter for many years and was at
th* time of his death a valued em?
ploye of the Atlantic Coast Line rail?
road. ?
Mr. Keels leaves a wife and four
children, Mrs. Palmer, of Georgetown;
Miss Gussie, Messrs. Robert H. and E.
Taylor Keels, besides a wide circle of
friends and acquaintances to mourn
his death.
DEATH.
Miss Madge Weldon, daughter of
Mr. R. P. Weldon, of Heriots, died on
July 3rd after an illnesSjOf six weeks,
aged 21 years. The funeral services
were held at St. John's Church,
Smithville, on July ?th.
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The Recorder's Court.
B. H. Honso waa tried by Recorder
Hurst Monday ou the charge of
public drunkenness. He plead guilty
and was fined $2.00.. Officer Weeks
made the arrest.
H. L. Bryan and Buford Hussey
were arrested by Officer Weeks and
Gallagher for public drunkenness and
disturbing the peace. They were,
both found guilty and fined respec
ively $5.00 and 810.00.
There wexe three cases on the dock?
et of* Recorder Hurst yesterday
for failure to do street duty or pay the \
regular COQISC'SV?O? rax. I he: ..'.'ere |
against John McDonald, W. H. Weav- !
er and w. D. M. Green, all being ar?
rested by Officer Tri bole. The first
named has bad a hearing and was re?
quired to pay the tax with the pen?
alty of 81.50. The others have not had
a trial yet.
Drunkenness and rowdyism at the
ball park will kill baseball in Sumter
quicker than anything else. Ladies
and gentlemen will not go to a place
where they are subjected to hearing
-profane language.
The guard house is the only proper
place for drunk and disorderly persons
and every man who creates a dis?
turbance or uses objectionable lan?
guage in the ball park, he he a Sumter
man or a visitor, should be arrested
and locked up until he gets sober, j
There is no use in temporizing or try?
ing to deal gently and considerately
with such cattle. Run 'em in in a j
hurry and prevent further trouble.
Dropped Dead.
Peter Giles, a colored man from
Lanes, applied at the office of the
Penn Lumber Company for work last :
week. He worked until the noon j
hour and had started for his dinner,
and when about 50 yards from the
mill he fell to the ground. When those
who saw him fall reached him he only
lived a few seconds. Coroner Flowers
was notified and went immediately to
hold an inquest. After examining a
few witnesses and hearing the state?
ment of the physicians it was decided
that an inquest was unnecessary, as
the deceased came to his death from
natural causes-probably heart dis?
ease.
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There's no gift of earth or sky.
Which your rich store? withhold,
lt. is thc breath of life to me.
Your famous Rocky Mountain Tea.
-China's Drug Store.
Dr. L. J. Corbett, in association
with Dr. J. A. Hayne and Mr. J. R.
Rutledge, have organized the South?
ern Oaks Sanitarium Co.. of Green?
ville, S. C.. with a capital stock of
$15.000. Dr. Corbett is a native of this
city, a son Mr. J. x. Corbett.
A vpainless cure for pain. One's
pains are curable. Hollister's Rocky
Mountain Tea comes t>> one's relief
immediately. Tea or Tablets.' 35
cents. China's Drug Store.
Th** Third Regiment has boon or?
dered to leave Charleston for Chatta?
nooga on Julv 27th to go into comp
Chicka m a ugga.
You sri- often out <.? sorts, your
body lacks energy, your nerves are
weak, hid taste in your mouth: why
not heh? nature hy taking Hollister's
! STATE CAMPAIGN RE-OPENS.
I NO HAPPENINGS OF A SENSA?
TIONAL NATURE.
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A Good Deal of Hot Talk-Senator
Biease Renewed His Attack on
Senator Manning:, Accusing Him of
Inconsistency, and Quoting From
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Mr. Manning"> Record in the House
j and Senate.
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j Columbia, July ? -The campaign
j meeting here today was divided into
I two sections, and ail-day sucker and a
I night matinee for Senator Tillman's
j special stunt. There were some good
speeches at the day sessions, particu?
larly those of Senator Biease, General
Tounians and Mr. John McMahon.
Mr. Bleasce unmasked his battery to?
day. He did not use a stiiletto, but
got right out into the open and used
his sledge hammer on Senator Man?
ning. It is very evident that Mr.
Biease has gotten out his sledge ham?
mer for use on Mr. Manning, as he
wielded it evidently against Mr. Man?
ning, no doubt counting him as
worthy meat. One of the slaps that
Mr. Biease directed against Mr. Man?
ning was that the backbone of the
Raysor-Manning dispensary bill came
from the workshop of Senator Till?
man and that it came typewritten
from Senator Tillman to the dispen?
sary caucus. This was the statement
yet undenied.
Senator Manning took a turn out of
Mr. Martin F. Ansel by asking him
wherein was his consistency in deny?
ing the option of hgh license when he
favored each county acting for itself
when he was so insistent in advocating
coun ry action.
Gen. Youmans loses none of his real
eloquence with his ripening age. He
made a ringing. speech and received
real applause. Mr. Lyon shows that he,
too. can steam up and hit out from
the shoulder when so inclined, and he
did so today.
HOMICIDE EV ORANGEBURG.
Orangeburg, July 9.-There ,was a
shooting affair here this afternoon be?
tween Jefferson M. Way and John D.
Palmer and the latter was shot dead
by tte former. Mr. Palmer was shot
through the head, the ball entering
about the eye and death ensued, at
once.
Thshooting occurred in the store
cf Mr. Way,, just across Market street,
"r m the postoffice. The report is that
Palmer went to Way's store and they
. a talk. Later Palmer returned
the store and the report is that he
. -ed fire on Way. The latter ran
behind his counter and grabbed his
pistol which he is said to have always
kept hung up, and then he opened
fire. Palmer's pistoi is said to have
been emptied when it was found ly?
ing beside his body on the store floor.
Way is said to have shot four times.
Way's hand was hurt from splinters
from one of Palmer's balls striking
the store counter.
It is said that the difficulty grew out
of Way's objections to attentions that
Palmer was paying to a grown daugh?
ter o' the former. Palmer is said to
have been drinking. Way is a man
over 50 years old. while Palmer was
about 30 years old.
Sheriff Dukes arrested Way a short
time after the shooting and he is now
in custody.-The State.
The Sumter baseball team has no
grounds for complaint that they have
not received proper support. Sumter
has been back of the home team to a
man and will continue to give the
team hearty and loyal support, but
the team must play ball and "blay to
win to merit this enthusiastic sup?
port. If the team gets hacked and
fails :o play with vim and determina?
tion, even though defeated a few
times, the public will lose interest and
the support heretofore given will be
withdrawn.
At a meeting of Game Cock Lodge.
No. 17. K. of P.. held on Monday
night the rank of Knight was con?
ferred upon Messrs. J. M. Brogdon, J.
P. Commander, C. A. Bruner. D. P.
Shuler. Geo. P. Booth. W. W. Mc
O nnell, J. H. Holliday, M. H. Hodge
and J. J. Whilden. There are seven
candidates for the rank of Page next j
Monday night.
The old court house is becoming
very nuch shut in and if the owner of
the bingle remaining vacant lot should
con cl ide to erect a building the coun?
ty Officers would have t<> seek other i
quarters. It is thought that the ?
erectile: ;.f the court house will re
Quire at h ast-a year, and it will be
needed tong before it is completed. ?
Mr. Charles Pinckney of Stateburg,
has entered the race for County* Su- j
penmen dent of Education, and \\ill
make an active contest for the office,
le is quite popular where known and j
ts strongly endorsed for the office by
**" ^ " ^' 'eSt. j
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Memorial Serviqjes.
' Tiie friends of the Late James E. j
Tindal are invited t<? attend his ?nen-,- j
"?rial services at Calvary Baptist j
.burch Sunday morning; July I nth. j
? STATEBURG SCHOOL PROBLEM.
Col. J. J. Dargan Replies to Prof.
Langtry's Article on '.High Schools
in Sumter County/'
Editor Item:
My attention has been called to an
article appearing in your columns
from the pen of Prof. Harold Langtry.
It is a good article, and I have en?
joyed reading it. as I have enjoyed
Prof. Langtry's conversations along
the same lines. He did not sign his
name from modesty and I mention it
to, give credit for merit where it is
due.
He points out in a philosophic way
the effects of the natural divisions of
the country on school problem now
presented to the people here for solu?
tion. And it is a fact that the divis?
ion caused by the '-Hills of Sautee"
has worked almost as complexly on
society as the Grampian Hills of
Scotland: wrought the people there
into Highlanders and Lowlanders and
brought about the conflicts of centu?
ries between those equally meritori?
ous clans. Birt modern day tenden?
cies and forces are removing all bar?
riers of this kind. The etymology of
the word river alone survives to re?
mind of the divisions once made by
small water courses. But boats and
bridges have removed the river-bar
riers and made possible the union of
peoples residing on opposite banks
so. too, are mountains tunnelled and
oceans crossed and isthmuses cut that
men may come together to their mu
tual help. The facilities of commun!
cation and transportation of present
day life make old time natural bar?
riers against co-operation pass away.
So must it be here, we believe.
Besides, as I have told Prof. Lang?
try, I think my past life here pecu?
liarly fits me to become instrumental
in effecting a union of the peoples of
the hills and the plains, because I long
worked in intimate relation with both
peoples and formed personal attach?
ments in both sections that it would
be very hard to dissolve. I have never
for one moment thought of having the
schools around here closed by the
force of a law on our statute books.
If they ever all come together under
my work, it. will certainly have to be
by the force of laws written on their
hearts. Not for any consideration
would I consent to compulsory at?
tendance upon my school. The three
little schools which united to form the
General Sumter Memorial Academy,
last year, did so voluntarily and the
two in the district that did not corns
into the arrangement were not look?
ed upon nor treated as offensive ri?
vals; but with every possible courte?
sy that would indicate friendliness
and good will toward them and I am
happy to report that every courtesy
extended was met with a hearty re?
sponsiveness by the teachers in each
one. Ey Professor Langtry himself
with marked cordiality always. So
much has he done for good feeling1
between the schools that we up here
regret almost as much as his friends
down there his leaving in the near
future. He has done a thoroughly
good work since he has been among
the people there and it is a misfortune
to us all for him to go just at this
time. I do. hope to see all the schools
here united some day for the good of
all. I have returned to this section
of the State after an absence of a few
years, with the most deeply seated
purpose to make my life a blessing as
far as my small abilities will enable
me-to bring friendships and not en?
mities among neighbors, co-operation
and not conflicts and progress along
all the lines of life that lead to high?
er and better things and no doubts
disturb me as to ultimate success.
John J. Dargan.
THE ALCOLU RAILROAD CO.
Will offer for sale every Friday, Satur?
day and Monday during June. July,
August and September, 1906, round
trip tickets over its road at reduced
ra^es, gjod to return until the follow?
ing Tuesday. This notice is subject to
change or withdrawal without notice.
Your patronage is solicited. For fur?
ther information, address P. R. Alder?
man, Traffic Manager, Alcolu. S. C.
6-6-4m
Have you thought about where the ? <
new postoffice should be located^ to ! <
he most convenient to majority of the
city? Bids for a site will he called tor ! <
in the near futuro. i i
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Where Go-Fly goes hies will not go. ? i
Use it on your horses ana cattle, sold | ?
hy China's Drug stove. DeLorme's ? t
Pharmacy and King & Gardner. ! (
Mayesville. S. C. 5-:>u-St* j t
The opinion of the Supreme Court
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in the case of the State vs. John Hen- (
derson. indicted for the murder of his ! (
wife. Mary Henderson, fins been riled. I ^
The tribunal of last resort overruled }
all of the exceptions of tim defend- j J
mt's attorneys and affirmed tho court ? ^
?..low. Hendeson w ill he sentenced at ?
he nexr term of the Court of General j
Vssions. j ;
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Co-Fly keeps Hies, off horses and '
old bv Chin?*? Drug Store, j
. - rm my 1 King & ]
.i.e.
Washable Suits
for Little Fellows
We are now showing some
beautiful styles in washable suits
for the little fellows.
And trimmed entirely different
from anything heretofore seen.
These suits come in Galateas,
Chambrays, Drill, Duck, etc.
Washable Sailor Suits, 5 to 9
years, $1 to $3.
Russian Blouse Suits of washa?
ble material, sizes 2% to 6 years,
$1 to $4.
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Phone 166
Sumter, S. C.
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Read What The New York Mercantile and Fi?
nancial Times has to Say of the Mill
bourne Mills.
(Staff Correspondence.)
When we glance back over the pages of history we find many ira
portant mercantile and commercial establishments which stand as
:onnecting links between the Philadelphia of the present and the
Philadelphia of the past, but there is probably none that enjoys a
more extended reputation in its special field of trade activity than
:hat so widely and favorably known under title of the Milbourne
Mills Company. Its long and successful career is a representative
Dne of the type which has carried American enterprise in commercial
pursuits to its present high standard, passing beyond all foreign
rivalry, and the near approach of the one hundred and fiftieth year of
its existence marks a new and important epoch in its long and useful
:onnection with the manufacturing and business interests of the
Quaker City. *
It is necessary to go as far back as 1690 to start with the actual
history of the company, for it was in that year that Samuel Sellers,
emigrant, purchased from William Penn a tract of land on and ad?
joining the site of the present extensive Milbourne Mills, at Sixty
third and Market streets, on which about that time a small flour mill
ivas built. It was not until 1757, however, that John Sellers, first,
grandson of the original purchaser, began to improve the property
md erected a larger mill, which was later to become the great Mil
Dourne plant that it is today. In 1814 the second mill was erected by
John Sellers, second, and was operated for a period of fifty years by
fohn Sellers, third, as lessee and owner. Improvements were made
from timeto time, and in 1SS5 the property passed into the control
o? the Milbourne Mills Company, of which John Sellers, fourth, be
:ame the first President.
If one cakes the time and trouble to glance back over the history
~)? commercial and trade effort in Philadelphia he will probably find
Pew enterprises which can point to the unusual distinction of having
Deen in continuous and successful existence for a period of practically
nore than one hundred and fifty years, while at the same time the
energy and ability that have been displayed in the management of
:he business during all of these years have had the gratifying result
>f steadily broadening the scope of its operations. Our purpose in
:hus referring to this old and important enterprise is merely that of
)articularizif)? it as one of the historic commercial establishments of
:he Quaker City, and it is not necessary that we should attempt any
description o: the modern and complete equipment of the plant nor
)f the superior facilities at command for general manufacturing and
:rade purposes. Even io acid a word in praise of "Millbourne Flour"
vould be equally superfluous, as this celebrated brand already en
oys an established reputation for its uniform excellence, purity and
vholesomeness.
Those who have been buying this flour from
is for 15 or more years will eoniirm the state?
ment as to ?s uniform excellence, purity and
wholesomeness.
NELL & COMPANY.