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jjtt?8N?SDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1906. The SM infer Watchman was founded in ?S50 and the True Southron in 1866. The Watchman and Southron now bas the com? bined circnlation and influence of both of Vhe oki papers, and is manifestly the best "advertising medium in Sumter. DEPORTANT NOTICE. Subscribers are requested to ex lanine tie label on their papers, Which show the date to which the Subscription has been paid. Those V?? find that they are in arrears arl tequested to call and settle or remit the earliest convenient date. The ?mount that each subscriber owes is ?nail, but in che aggregate the amount due us for subscription is traite large-and we need the money. ^LX ATTRACTIVE PROPOSITION. We take this occasion to call par ^icular attention to the' remarkably attractive clubbing offer we are offer? ing subscribers of the Watchman and :Sou thron. For $4.15 they may ob? tain for one year the Watchman and Southron, S1.50 a year; the Review H>f Reviews, $3.00 a. year; and the Woman's Home Companion, $1.00 a ;ye2x; v Success, $1.00 a year-three of the best monthly magazines publish 'ed in America- The Watchman and j "So'ithron gives weekly the news of tho world, but it is as a local and State newspaper that it has ?ts chief Value, and no Sumter county man can afford to be without it The three -monthly magazines give the best in litrature, art and fashion, and each -member of the family from the old >est to the youngest will find in them >?ach month matters of interest. This dubbing offer hold good for but a short time longer, and those who de? sire to take advantage of the offer -should not delay doing so. If anyone should not wish all of the magazines himself he can have dither or any of chem sent to different .addresses. This is an exceptional op? portunity to make an acceptable pres? sent to one or more . frienda What ?ould be more welcome than a year's subscription io a good magazine? Anyone who will send us six new "subscribers to the Watchman and Southron at ;i.50 a year will receive ?s a premium one year's subscription to the Watchman and Southron and s, year's subscription to each of the magazines above mentioned. Or we will give the same premium to any? one sending us six new subscribers to the Watchman and Sou vb ron and the three magazines at $4.15. This offer W?l remain open until January 15th ?only. ?ANNUAL MASS MEETING? Sunday Schools to Meet Sunday Aft? ernoon to Raise Christmas Fund, TThe annual mass meeting of the Snnday schools of the city will be ^leM in the First Baptist Church Sun- ^ .day afternoon at 3.S0 o'clock for the porpose ot raising funds to provide . 'Ohristmas gifts for the poor and de? serving of the city. Each year the * amount raised has been larger than j : that of the preceding year, and each j ] -jnear there has been need for all that fetas been contributed by the charita- I hie people of Sumter. This year there "will be greater opportunity for good, . Vand it is hoped that the mass meeting ^ Viii be largely attended and the con? tributions liberal. ^PTuRIFICATION OF SEWERAGE. ?^tcts From the Experience of Other Towns Gathered by Health Officer ?Reardon. As a matter of ^information, for the ] benefit of some citizens who are ap? prehensive that sewage cannot be purified to such an extent that the "Water, after being separated from the < sewage, win be absolutely harmless ! "When emptied into any stream, we 'publish a stemen t from . Secretary < Henry Y. Powell, of tho Board of in? ternal Improvimt.nts ot' Hen?!elson, ? C. In a letter to Health officer Reardon Mr. Powell says that there. ? sewage is carriel t> a collecting well or disposal plant, but ?re being emp? tied into ?. stream, and that they did 3>ump a smail part ci the r sewage on account of the fae*, th;*" part of i their town was on the dec .^e of a J steep hi'- hut he rays "I do not I ?D?OW anything abovt sc-ptic tanks, j ^mt our collecting well is built on the j same pla::. a.nd the overflow, it is all j overflow now, (we do not attempt to : purni?,) : P *re wh te, and has no | ?dor at ??L You would drink it with %Bt knowing any better, if you did Hot already know it" Captain C. G. Rowlond, who recent? ly visited Henderson, and investigated this collecting well or purification {riant, says that there Is absolutely no ,0*tar form the purified sewage, and that the water is as clear as spring Vater. The actual cost of putting down a Sewerage system in Henderson, N. C., >?*as $?,546 per mile where excava? tions had to be made through tough V?ay and rock, with much blasting to KW?.'-".-" be done. Mr. Powell says that it could have been put down at even less cost there, but they have had some experience in this line of business, which will make it cheaper. Then why should Sumter have to pay such "fabulous prices" for putting in sew? er pipes, when we have sand and sofv. clay to excavate, no rock and no blasting to do. It seems that the of? ficers of a board of public works who have just put in, and paid for a sew? erage system, should know equally as much about such a proposition as some of the people of Sumter, who are opposed to sewerage on account of a little more expense, and some of them too who never saw asewerage system, or read about one, but are teling that it will cost between $5,000 and $6,000 in Sumter, per mile. All of the talk about Green Swamp being contaminated by sewer? age from Sumter, and law suits aris? ing therefrom, is absolutely without foundation. The problem of purify? ing sewage so that it is absolutely harmless and odorless, has be .n solved years ago. There are many in Sumter who have known this for some time. Thon again th?re are many others who are willing to be? lieve what others have seen and what science has proved. But there are a few (fortunately a few) who in their efforts to muddy the waters, be? lieve, and some who profess to be? lieve, that there is no such thing pos? sible as purification of sewage. The man who believes only what _be sees, j and does not think--that there is any? thing which can be accomplished, that he does not think can be done, is behind the times. No one in Sumter who have believed ten years ago that you could send a telegram across five hundred miles of ocean . without a wire. And while there is not ? man in Sumter who can perform such a feat today, and doubtless there is not a man who has seen it done, yet there are none who doubt that it can be done, and there are some who have received such wireless messages here in Sumter. The water that will go into Green Swamp from our sewage disposed plant will be a great deal purer than the water that is in Green Swamp now. We will improve the quality of Green Swamp water, rather than be? foul it POSTOFFICE BOX RENTS. An Increase in Rates Ordered and Advance Payment Will Be Strictly Enforced. Postmaster Shore has received the following order from the Postoffice Department: "You are hereby instructed to col? lect box rents at your office at the following rates from January 1st 1907: V Lock boxes, small, 60 cents per quarter. Lock boxes, medium, 75 cents per quarter. Lock boxes, large, drawers, $1.00 per quarter. A general order to postmasters has also been issued requiring them to collect box rents within the last 10 lays of each quarter for the quarter next ensuing. If box rent is not paid prior to the first day of a quarter, postmasters are required to close the boxes for which advance payment has not been made and place the mail for the persons who have been renting me boxes in the general delivery. Heretofore box rent has been due and payable during the first ten days Df a quarter, but hereafter under the 3rder above referred to, boxrent will be strictly in advance. WEATHER BUREAU SERVICE. Pull Weather Forecasts Will Be Sent Out Daily. Through the efforts of the Chamoer >f Commerce and by courtesy cf the ?umter Telephone Company and tb*; Pestai Telegraph Company, on and after December 10th, complete ( weather bureau service will be estab- ] lished in a manner that will give quick notice daily to all of the sub- | scribers of the telephone exchange in the country districts. Each day at ll 1 o'clock, as the telegraphic reports ( come in over the Postal wires, these j i rojorts will be immediately sent over ] to the telephone exchange, and at ll j ? a. m. each day subscribers in the j country districts may call up central \ 1 for information as to the weather n conditions. rj hese reports will also j b. . sent to the Daily Item, each day I ' for publier Lion. Rural free delivery i< routes wi": also bc supplied daily with the reports, where parties have no telephone service. The reports will also be displayed in front of the Pos? tal office, and as soon as thc new sig? nal flags arrive they will be floated from a flag pole in front of the Postal office every day. The city council will furnish the flag pole. Had it not been for the cheerful co-operation of Manager T. M. Bradley of the Postal Company, and Manager Robert She lor of the Sumter Telephone Compa? ny, this complete and very valuable service could not have been inaugu? rated. FIVE DIVORCES IX A FAMILY One Member Marries His Brother'? Ex-Wife-Sixth Divorce Pend? ing. Omaha, Neb., Dec. 4.-George Timm of this city who last May ob? tained a divorce from Lena Timm, married last night Bertha Timm, the divorced wife of his brother, Albert Timm, who lives in Iowa, At the same time Mrs. Timm's sister, Sarah Lamp of Omaha, was married to Ralph C. Daniels. The matrimonial record of the Timm family is one of the most re? markable in the history of Nebraska. Within th last five years there have been five marriages and five divorces, while a divorce suit, in which one member of the family figures as one of the principals, is now pending., Hans Timm, who was married in 1902, is seeking a divorce in the Dis? trict Court here from his wife, Rose. The marriage of cousins is recorded in the family, as is also the divorce of cousins. None of the divorced ones ever remained single for long, how? ever, for in every case the div ree was followed quickly by a marriage. EAGLES ELECT OFFICERS. Wade Hampton Aerie, No. 1419, F. O. E., Select Officers For 1907. Wade Hampton Aerie, No. 1419, F. 0. E., held a regular meeting in the Masonic Temple Wednesday night. It being .the regular night for the elec? tion of officers, the election was at once entered into with the following result:. - Past Worthy President-H. R. Van Deventer. Worthy President-P. G. Bowman. Worthy Vice President-C. H. Dorn. Worthy Chaplain-L. L. Hunter. Worthy Secretary-H. C. Rogers. Worthy Conductor-J. H. Grady. Worthy Treasurer-Wm. Moran. Inside Guard--J. W. Bradford. Outside Guard-P. J. Gallagher. jfcrustees-W. B. Boyle, J. C. Cooper, W. W. Sibert. Aerie Physician-Dr. C. P. Osteen. The following candidates were then initiated: Messrs. Jack Edens, D. A McPhail and W. N. McLeod. The fire department was called ont twice Friday by an alarm sent; in from Dr. H. T. Abbott's residence on Wash? ington Street. On both occasions the fire was extinguished without diffi? culty before the hose wagons arrived and little or no damage was done. While the hose wagons were hastening to the scene in response to the second alarm, Mr. Frank Mathis, who was riding on the footboard of Bose Wagon No.> 3, was thrown off as the wagon whirled around the corner of Liberty Street into Washington. Bis head struck the ground and be was knocked senseless. Be was taken into. Mr. C. P. McFaddin and Dr. China called in. Be revived within ten or fifteen min? utes and was apparently none tbe worse for the accident, save for a few irnises. / In the Recorder's Court. Andrew Buddin, who was tried be? fore Recorder ll rs! Wednesday on the j marge of e' aling cotton from the lepot platform, was convicted and ;ensenced to 30 days on the chain jang. Thomas Law, who stole an ox, was irrested Thursday morning by Officer Pierson, and when taken before Re? corder Burst admitted his guilt, as be :onld not well do anything else, hav? ing been caught with the ox in bis possession. Be was committed to jail :or trial at the court of general ses? sion. j! The bunch of negroes who were ar? rested for violating the sanitary reg llations in Epperson's Bundred, were iismissed. There has been a great louse cleaning in tbe Bundred. Abbie Jackson and Charlotte Felder were required to pay a fine of S5 each er ct j ng and^ fighting. There was a rather heavy docket >f cases for trial by Recorder Hurst Monday morning. The first case considered was igainst M. R. Cannon, E. B. Loylcss md S. W. Sorrell for riding horses at m excessive rate of speed. They >ffered as a defense, that their ani? ??is took fright at an automobile md that they were unable to control :hem. The case was dismissed. George Rowe was charged with :he larceny of $1 from Eliza Davis. Dn request of the prosecuting wit? less the case was dismissed upon the i payment of $1 alleged to have been I ? stolen and $2 costs. Albert Nevberry was fined $1 for keeping his premises in a filthy and unsanitary condition. The case charging Isaac Spann with disorderly conduct was dismiss Bd. ! j Charles Winn plead guilty to the \ charge of public drunkenness, and paid a fine of $5 imposed by the re? corder. Ivory Montgomery was brought before the recorder for trial on com? plaint of Mr. J. R. Ligon, T 'ho charg? ed the defendant with larceny of a pair of shoes. A fine of $3 was im? posed. What Adam ate, not what he drank, Was he from Eden's garden driven, O, what a difference there now would be. If he fotro.~ ?D'>?ky Mountain Tea. MANY IR T S. This is one of the difficulties under which we are laboring at present, and when we have troubles of this character or any other,our rule is to unload it as quickly as possible, and that is just what we mean to do if price can be made an inducement. Ladies' Oxford Skirts an excellent house garment well worth $1.50, the material alone would cost $1.00. - - Special 80 cents Ladies' Bottle Green Skirts a very sightly garment well worth $2.00. Special $1.15. II i mm wm \i\tm BIIMIMB III! ? --^-------- ---- ? Ladies' Navy Blue Skirts, this shade is always good, sold freely at $2.00. Special $1 25. Ladies' Black Skirts neatly trimmed with bands of silk and buttons, cannot be du? plicated for less Iban $5 00. . - ? - Special $1.75. Ladies' Roja! Blue r-kirts, a very handsome garment made of a good quality ladies' cloth, pleated and neatly trimmed with buttons a regular $5 00 seller Special $3.25. Ladies' Cadet Gray Skirts, pleated and neatly trimmed, a garment that would ap? pear cheap at $3 10. ----- Special $2.25. We have several small lots ranging in price from $2.00 to $7 50, which will be sold on a basis of the prices quoted aboxe. If you can get a fit a bargain awaits you. onnefl 1 Company. SPELLING NO 6000. Congress Deals a Knock Oat Blow to President Roosevelt's Simplified Spell ng. Washington, December 7: President Roosevelt's simplified spelling order was given a hard knock by the house committee on appropriation. In the legislative, judicialand executive bill report? ed today, it decrees that hereafter in printing documents authorized by law, or ordered by either branch of congress, thc govern? ment printing office shall follow the rules of spelling of Webster's Dictionary. FINLEY ELECTED New York, Dec. 5-Directors of the Southern railway today elected W. W. Finley of Washington president of the company, to suc? ceed the late Samuel Spencer. Mr Finley has been second vice pre? sident pf the road since Sept. 15, 1896. He has been active in railway work si ti cc 1875. Ul RETINS FOR 1907. OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR, SUMTES COUNTY, SUMTES, S. C., Dec. 7,1906. Notice is hereby given that I will attend, in perFon or by Deputy, at the following plaoeE on the days ind cated, respectively, for the purpose of receiving returns of personal property and poll taxes for t^e I fiscal year, commencing January 1st, 1907 : j Tindall'? Store, Thursday, Jan. 3rd. | Privateer, Jenkins' Store, Friday, Janu- j aary 4th. Manchester. Levi's Store, Tuesday, Jan- ! UBI y 8th. j ( Wedgefield, Thursday, January 10th. ( Stateburg, Friday, January 11th. | / Hagood, Tuesday. January loth. | Bemberts, Wednesday, January 16th. Dalzell, Thursday, January 17th. ! .'Jordon's Mill, Friday, January 18fcb. j Mayesville, Tuesday. Jauuar> 22nd. ( Shiloh, Wednesday, January 23rd. ^ Norwoods X Roads, Thursday, Jan- , aary 24th. \ O*wego, Friday, January 25th. The law requires that all persons owning ' property or in anywise haying charge of such property, either as agent, hrsband < guardian, trna tee, executor, administrator, etc. return the sarre under oath to the ' Auditor, who requests ?ll persons to be * prompt in making their returns and save i the 50 per cent penalty which will be i added to the property valuation of nil * persons who fail to mske returns within the time prescribed by la'v. 1 Taxpayers return what they own on the I ; f 'pt dav of January, 1907. Asset so rs and taxpayers will eu or fc?ie ?rst given name of the taxpayer in fnil, ^ also make a separate return for each township where the property is located? ^ and also in eaok and every case the Num- t ber of the school district must be given. j Every male citizen between the age of twenty-one and sixty years on the first j day of January, 1907, except those incap- < able of earning a support from being ( maimed or from other causes, are deemed j taxable polls, and except Confederate sol- ( diere 50 yeare of age, on January, 1st, 1907. < All returns must be made on or before 1 the 20th day of Feb r TI a rv, next, I cannot f take returns after that date and all returns t made after the 20th day of February, are subject to a penalty of 50 per cent. J. DIGGS WILDER, Auditor Sumter County* This is the Season of year when every person wishes to add to the happiness of their family or friends . by giving them presents. It matters not wfiat their conditions in life may they feel it to be a duty and we cannot conceive of anything more aopropriate than Jewelry or Silver Ware. We would suggest the following as being use S? ful and desirable gifts: WATCHES FROM $5.00 TO $75. (?OLD NECK CHAINS FROM $2 50 TO $12.00., BRACELETS FROM $2 00 TO $35.00. GOLD EMBLEM CHARMS FROM $2.50 TO $40.09. GOLD SCARF PINS FROM 75c TO $7.00. GOLD SIGNET RINGS FROM $1.00 TO $10.00. We have recently been appointed sole agents for Eastman Kodaks, and our initial order is now in tran? sit, due to arrive the end of this week or first of next. What would be more suitable than a kodak as a Xmas gift? Prices $1.09 to $25.00. We guarantee to keep on hand a fuil line of supplies at all times. MM Erie, Pa., December 10.-? Terence McGill, aged eighty-one ..ears, was burned to death in his lome early this morning. He was n the habit of smoking in bed. It is supposed sparks fired his bedding. The family discovered the blaze too ate to save the old man. Holiday Rates via THE STATE f?r SQIJTH CAROLINA, uiT SUMTER. 3y Thos. V. Walsh, Esq., Probate Judge. Whereas, Richard B. Cain made suit \o me t:> grant him Letters of Administra ion of the Estate of and effects of John Et. Cam, late of Sumter Coanty, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admon sh all and singular the kindred and :redito:rs of the said John R. Cain, de? based, that they be and appear before ne, in the Court of Probate, to be held it Sumter Court House, on Friday, Dec. 28th, 1906, next, after publication ?hereof, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the ?aid administration should not be granted. Give.i under my hand this 5th day of December, A. D. 1906. THOS. V. WA?SH, 12-5-St Judge of Probate. The Southern Railway will sell Excursion tickets between all pointa East of the Mississippi acd South of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers, to and from St. Louis and intermediate points. Rate oue fare and one-third pins twenty-five cents for round trip. Tickets sold December 20th to 25th inclusive, December 30-31st, 1906, and January 1st, 1907, with limit good to leave destination returning not later than midnight January 7th, 1907. For full information, apply to any Tioket Agent of the Southern Bail way, or write R W. HTJfNT, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. O. G. B. ALLEN, Ass'^Gen'l Pass. Agt Atlanta,, Georgia.