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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19. 1907. Entered at the Postoffice at Sumter, S. C., as Second Class Matter. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. O'D?nnel & Co.-Matting. The D. J. Chandler Clothing Co. The Mother's Friend. Co. Board-Election for Cotton Weighers. Estate of Jas. C. Caldwell-Notice to Debtors and Creditors. PERSONAL. Mrs. H. G. Osteeu has gone to Che ? raw. * Mrs. L. R. Camp, of Charlotte, N. C., is in town. Dr. J. A. Mood has returned from Brevar-J, N. C. Miss Miller, of Memphis is, Tenn., visiting Mrs. E. S. Booth. Miss Ciandia Zemp, of Camden, is g visiting Miss Clyd? Durant. ? Mr A..S. Find, of Stateburg, was in * the city Monday on business. Mr. Frank S.* Wilson, of Richmond, Ta., was in the city Sunday. Mr. C. A. Ellerbe, of Hagood, wss in the city Friday on business. Miss Bessie Briggs, of Manning, is * visiting Miss Fannie Rettenberg. Mr. Perry Moses, Jr., went to Spar burg Monday on a business trip. Mr. Leon M. Green is at home from the University of South Carolina: Miss Mabel Welsh, of Orangeburg, is visiting at Mr. J. Walter Durant's Mr. James McCntcben, of Wateree, -spent Sunday iu town with relatives. CDr. Jesse A. Clifton, of Orangeburg, \ is visiting his brother, Ben. John H. Clifton. Misses Edna Hughson and Moneta Osteen returned Monday from the Isle of Palms. Miss Virginia Baiby left Friday for s visit of several weeks at Hender? son, N. C. ^ Mr. F. M. Cannon, editor of the ^ Chesterfield Advertiser, is in the city for a few days. Misses Daisy Bowman and Ellen Harrell spent Saturday and Sunday at Sullivan's island. Mr. Wade McConnell has gone to his old home in Mooresville. N. C., to spend some time. - Dr. ard Mrs. H. M. Stuckey left Friday morning for Henderson, Ky., to visit Mrs. Stnckey's parents Miss Annie McCullough, who spent the past winter in Nashville, Tenn., is visiting Mrs. C P. Osteen. Professor W H. Hand, cf the Uni I versity of Sonth Carolina, passed p\ through the city Friday morning. Mr. Hugh Phelps left last Thursday foi Washington, N. C., where he will play with the ball team of that town. Dr. Geiger sad Mr. Louis Levi, of Manning, were in the city Sn nd ay as ?he ?seass of Ir. aud Mrs. Mitchell Levi Mi???' Anni? Chandler is visiting in Marion. She will spend several days in Florence with friends on her re? turn home. Misses Lillian and Margaret Ryan, of Lexington, Ky., are here for a month's stay with their sister, Mrs. T. ?. Jenkins. Mrs. W. S. Smith, of Smithville, ?was in tue city Monday on her way to Bennettsville to visit her niece, Mrs. Dr. Crossland. Mr. W. D. Aiksn, Jr., of Charlot^, ??. C., a recent graduate of the > school of the University of South Co? olina, was in the city Friday. Mrs. Black, of Columbia, who has been visiting aa rs. E. S. Booth, left Monday for Georgetown, where she will spend some time with relatives. Mr. T. B. Jenkins bas returned from Charleston, where he went to participate in the automobile races on the Island of Palms last Thnrsday. The Reo won the free-for-all race with ease. Only criminal cases will be taken up when the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions convenes on July 1st Work will begin on the Atlantic Coast Line passenger station within the next few days. The material is on the ground and the man who will superintend the work arrived today. The directors of the Sumter Base? ball Association have decided to have no Ladies' Day at the park this week. This action was taken on account of the large number of visitors who will be in the city Thursday. Florence, Darlington, Bennettsville and other places have found it neces? sary to increase the salaries paid the teachers in the city schools and in all these schools better salaries are now paid than in the Sumter schools. Florence is the last town to increase the teachers'salaries, an advance of $5 a month having been voted all teachers by the school board at a meeting held a few days ago. An order for the first lot of sewer pipes will be placed this week and wh?n the order, which will amount to about tweiity car loads, has been j filled e^rything else will be in readi? ness for beginning active work on the sewerage system. The outlook is that thefirst lot of piping can be delivered a?out August 1st and on that date ex? cavation will probably begin. The prospect is that there will be the greatest gathering of Masons in Sumter on Thursday on the occasion of the laying of the corner stone of the new Court House that this city has ever known. Invitations have been sent out to all Masonic Lodges in this section of the State and a gen? eral invitation has been e: 1 to all Masons to be present on fl Claremont Lodge will give - t ' night in honor of visiti o - 'MARRIED. Mrs. Caieb Leonard, of Asheville. X. C., announces the marriage of her j daughter. Kathryn Louise Bright, to ' Mr. Kenneth Sutherland Conrad, at Asheville, on Monday, June 17th. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad will be at home in Greenville. S. C., after July 15th. DEATHS. The infant child of Mr. Thomas M. Bradley died Friday afternoon. Jesse, '.he little son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Clifton, died last Monday morning at 10 o'clock, after a brief illness. Mis. James Frierson, "he mother of Mrs. W. W. id?ese, of this city, died on the 11th at her home in Clarendon county, after a brief illness, aged 71 years. Mrs. H. J. Seymour died at her home on South Harvin Street Thurs? day night after an illness of several weeks, of typhoid fever. She is sur? vived by her husband, mother and ene sister. The funeral services were held at the cemetery at 3 o'clock Fri? day afternoon. Died at her home on Oakland ave? nue, on Monday. June 10th, Mrs. J. TA". Harper, after an illness of twelve days. She was not 32 years of age. She was a member of the First Meth? odist church of Sumter, a sincere Christian, a kind friend and neighbor, a devoted wife and mother. Shs leaves a husband and five children to mourn her untimely end. Her re t mains were taken to her old home in Marlboro county for interment. All that cpuld possibly be done by phy? sicians and kind friends was done, but God, in' His infinite wisdom, saw best to take ner to. Himselt MayesviHe, June 13.-Mrs. Parker, che mother of Mrs. S. W. Wilson, died '.his morning at the hom? of the lat :e; after a brief illness. The funeral was held at the house this afternoon and the body was taken to Charles? ton, the former home of Mrs. Parker. fer interment. KILLED OX THE RAIL. Coroner Flowers Holds Inquests Over the Remains of Two Negroes. Coroner Flowers held an inquest at Sumter Junction Saturday over the body of Boykin X. Cantey, colored, who was killed on the trestle Tues? day morning last by Southern Rail? way train Xo. 141. Cantey was asleep on the trestle and when Xo. 141 came along at 8.55 a. m. he was knocked into the water. Efforts were made to recover the body, but owing to the high water in the swamp it could not be located until Friday afternoon when it was found floating . on the water near the sce>;e of the accident. The back of the head was crushed, and it was evident that death was in? stantaneous. The crew of the train testified before the jury of inquest and several ot* * witnesses were ex? amined, but there was no evidence to indicate that the train crew was in anywise responsible for the accident. The jury rendered a verdict that Boykin Cantey was killed by train Xo. 141,.and that his death was the iesuit of his own carelessness. The lower portion of the body of a negro man was found lying on the Atlantic Coast Line track near Liber? ty street crossing Sunday morning about 7.30 o'clock and those who be? gan to search for the balance of the body found parts of it scattered along the track all the way fron the cross? ing to the brick yarfl. The head, however, was missing .''nd was not fe und until several- hours later, when it was picked up on the M. & A. track nearly two miles west of the city. When the head was found the body was identified as that of Garner Green, a negro about 17 years old. who was last seen late Saturday af? ternoon. He was then under the in? fluence of liquor and it is the sup? position that on his way out of town he went to sleep on the track and was run over by one of the night trains. - At the time it could not be determined which of the two trains killed him, but it was either a freight passing here about 2 a. m. or the pas? senger train that went through to Augusta about 6 o'clock. Coroner Flowers held an inquest over the remains Sunday and a ver? dict was returned that the deceased came to his death by being run over by an A. C. L. train. It was decided today that Green was killed by passenger train Xo. 35. as engine Xo. 92. which was pulling that train Sunday morning, had blood and brains on the pilot when examin? ed by the coroner, while the freight engine was not blood v. Cosmetics will ruin the complexion. There's no beauty practice equal t ' the effects of Hollister's Rocky M<?ur. tr-in Tea. i eeps the entire body in P'-rf^ct t. ' h. Tea or Tablets, ?I cf hts. 's Drug Store. / W. H. BROWN & BPOS F ca.hontas Per: } rhe latest creation. For sa ' MULDROW DRUG COMPANY. VISIT OF CAPITALISTS. A Party of Northern Capitalists Who Are Seeking Investments Spent Sunday in the City. j Mr. A. X. Walker, Vice President I cf the South Carolina Public Service i Corporation, and Messrs. H. Bird Cas : sei!. John R. William?. R. V. Kane I and Dr. Lmis Adler, of Washington, j D. C.. A. P. ^nes and Jacob M. j Hodges, of Philadelphia, and W. S. j Logan and O. E. Wolfe, of Scranton, j Pa., spent Sunday in the city. The j party is making a tour of the South j ror the purpose of inspecting and in I vestigating a number of growing j towns with a view of making invest I rr.ents. They are traveling in the pri? vate Pullman car, "Magnet." as the guests of Mr. Walker, who is promot j ing a number of enterprises in South Carolina and other Southern States. They visited Florence and Darling? ton on Saturday, by invitation, to !? ok into the proposed electric rail? way between the two places. They had no particular interest in Sumter, but having heard the place favorably spoken of decided to stop over and j spend Sunday here en route to Amer- j ious. Ga. Sunday morning they pro- j cured carriages and drove over m the ; city and in the afternoon, having j made the acquaintance of some o? OUT citizens, they were given an au? tomobile ride over the city and out into the country. They seemed to be wc!! pleased with what they saw of Sumter and several of thfc party said that they would pay another vis^r, in the near future and remain long ! enough to make a fuller investigation j of conditions in this city and county, j PETIT JURY. Jury for the First Week of Court of | Genera! Sessions. The Court of General Session will ! convene on on Monday, July 1st. with j .Tundge Memminger on the bench. W. O. Erad ford. H. S. Tisdale, Geo. j F. Epperson. J. F. Reid, C. L. Simp son, R. D. Bradford. H. C. McLeod, W. E. McBride, J. T. Erogdon, A. J. Pipkin. C. E. Mayes. J. B. Baker, W. F Jenkins. W. J. Jones. R. W. Wel? don. H. D. Tindall. J. M. Woodley,' J. S. Weldon, E. D. Witherspoon, J. H. Mills. J. T. Burkett. Charles Thames, D. J. Winn. Jr.. C. W. Stansill, Jr., W. E. Kolb, P. E. McLeod, W. J. Spen? cer. W. D. Dawkins, Moses Green, J. M. Chandler, Joseph Muldrow, Hamp? ton Lewis. B. F. Estridge, L. B. Du? rant, E. H. Moses, W. F. Player. T*.e sewerage survey has been corn? il ,ted, and the uninformed public is anxious to ascertain when real work is to begin. The city has been twice surveyed for sewerage, and it it is he ped that work on the system will be commenced just as soon as the necessary piping and other material can be procured. I The positive statement of Supt. A. ! vv. Anderson, of the Atlantic Coast Line, that no change in the schedule of passenger train Xo. 46, (the morn ! ing train from Orangeburg to Lanes) is contemplated and none will be made, will be received with much sat? isfaction by the business men of Sum? ter. The present schedule of the train is convenient and is beneficial to Sum ; ter and all other towns on the road i and there has never been any local between Orangeburg and Charleston, and there had never been any local demand or wish for a change. This teing the case the Atlantic Coast Line officials will be slow in yielding to the demand of outside influences foi a change. Mr. M. A. Mahaffey, of Belton, An? derson county, is spending some time in this county, working in the inter? ns', of the Farmers' Educational and Co-op?rative L'nion or" South Carolina. During the present week he has or? ganized local unions at Wedgefield and Dalzell. Next week he will visit Priva? teer. Mayesville and Brogdon for the purpose of organizing local unions. It i-: Mr. Mahaffey's wish to organize ten or more Iocanl unions in the county, and then perfect the county organiza? ren. Tlie union is strong in the up? per portion of. the State, ten counties having been thoroughly organized al? ready. The shade trees of this city are be? ing ruined in -large numbers as the re? sult of the carlessness of drivers who use them as hitching posts. On al? most every street from one up to dozens of trees can be noted that hr ve been denuded of bark by horses, and many of them having been gird? ed, will shortly die. There is an or? dinance against hitching to trees and ie law should be enforced. Many drivers of delivery wagon, while they do not hitch to the shade trees, per? mit their horse? to stand within reach of the trees and the damage that re? sults is just as serious. The condition of the cotton crop at the present time does not warrant the belief that there will be a large crop produced^ in Sumter county. The plant is small, the stands broken and the cool nights are retarding growth. Ideal conditions of weather from now on and liberal fertilization will be re? quired to make an average crop this year. . There can be no more bond issues in Sumter until there is a decided in? crease in the valuation of property for taxation, and property owners are glad that this is true. Taxes are high enough and no one wants them to be? come burdensome. Public improve? ments are desirable, but everything else should not be sacrificed to ac? complish one end. The board of county commissioners J will elect cotton ewighers for Sumter ? and Mayesville on July 2d. Everything at the new Court House will be in readiness for the corner stone laying on Thursday. The grounds are being cleared up and a large stand for the Grand Lodge of? ficers and speakers is being erected. Considerable money will have to be ?pent on the new Court House grounds to have them in keeping with the building. It would never do to let them remain as they are. The Executive Committee of the State Baseball League met in Colum? bia today. Tt is understood that the matter of most importance to be con I aidered is a proposition from one of ? t'ne other towns to reduce the season j from i'O to 60 games. j Mr. C. W. Chandier. of Wedge . field, was in the city today with a wagon load of early peaches, the first cf the season from local orchards. Compared with the peaches from ~.he same orchard last year, those on sale today were small and inferior, owing j to the unfavorable weather, but they found a ready market, nevertheless. The Southern Railway will run a special train from Columbia Thurs? day afternoon for the' accommodation cf the Columbia sports who expect to attend the Adamson-Soeven wrestling match in the Opera House that night. There is great interest in the match in ! j Columbia and a large crowd is ex- ! j pected to come over. The only rea- j j son the match is to be pulled off here j.instead of Columbia is that the Co j lumbia"Opera House could not be ob I tained, being engaged for the month. ; A party of gentlemen left the city : early last Thursday for the Reid State I farm, near Boykins. to attend a fish ! fry and barbecue given by the direc . tors of the penitentiary. The annual i tish frys at the State farm are always j pleasant affairs, and those who at ' tend one are always eager to attend a rother. There is a congenial crowd present and the dinner is one to de Mght an epicure. Dispensary Sales. The statement compiled by Dispen? sary Auditor Tv'. B. West shows that the county dispensaries sold during the month of May a total of $212.046.72. The total sales for March. April and May were $573,- j 147.75. The sales of the Sumter coun- j ty dispensary for May were $11,657. 12, and for the three months ending May 31st, $35,S12.47. Of this amount ! Dispensary Xo. 1 sold $28.808.60; Dis- j pensary Xo. 2 (beer) $3,449.10: Mayesville. $3,556.77. Success in life is accompanied by in? crease of enemies. That's why Hol? lister's Rocky Mountain Tea has so many imitators; it's a success. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. China's Drug Sotre. The banks and stores of the city" have agreed to close, tomorrow, on account of the laying of the corner s'cne of the new Court House, from 11.45 until ceremony has been con? cluded. ?Master's Sale. By virtue of a decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, j in the State of South Carolina, in the j case of Marion Moise against Ed J mund M. Glover, Henry Sanders, James Jones, L. D. Jennings, A. TL Glover, L. C. Glover, A. J. Glover, T. G. McLeod and Neill O'Donnell, who ? is doing business under the name and j style of O'Donnell & Company, I wil! ! sell to the highest bidder, at public I auction, at the Court house, in the I j city of Sumter, in the county and I State aforesaid, on saleday in July, ! being the first day of said month, at I the usual hours of sale, the following i described real estate, to wit: All that tract of land in Sumter coun i I ty. in said State, containing one hun I dred and thirty-nine acres, more or less/ I bounded by lands now or formerly' I as follows: On north by lands of j Estate <of Bradley and of Brown; east ! by land of Marion Moise, south by j land of M. Reynolds, and land of i Geddis. and west by land of Estate of j Bradley. Terms of sale cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. H. PRANK WILSON, Master for Sumter County. Master's Sale. By virtue of a decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County? in the State of South Carolina, in the case of Emma Jamison against May Pell Pringle. J. will sell at public auc* tion. to the highest bidder: at Court House, in the city of Sumter, county and State aforesaid, on saleday ia. July, 1907, being the first day of said month, at the usual hours of sale, the fellowing described real estate, to wit: All that lot of land in the southern part of the city of Sumter, designated as lot No. 9 on a plat made by H. D. Moise, surveyor, measuring fifty-five and six-tenths feet on its northern and southern boundaries, and one hundred and eighty-seven feet on its eastern and western boundary lines, and bounded on the north by a street of said city, east by lot No. 8 on said plat; south by lands of the estate of Hoyt. ari west by lot No. 10 on said plat, being the lot of land conveyed to William Pringle by Barrow Walsh, by Deed recorded rn office of C. C. C. P. for said county in book G. G. G. at page 382. Terms of sale cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. H. FRANK WILSON, Master for Sumter County. r Boys' Blouses - and - Wash Suits. * ?i? *$? it* * *t* * rt* *t* rt* rt* 4? *k> ?t* *t* H?.<** *t* * <t* <t* ?& ? "The Mothers' Friend" ! * * * * A? ' Suits $1.00 to $4.00, Blouses 50 to 75cts. J i c FOR SALE BY I UK & J. CHANDLER CLOTHING CO, % TELEPHONE NUMBER. ?6{ SUMTER.. SO. CA *fr X 4*4? 4* 3* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4*.4* 4* 4*? 4* 4* 4*4? 4 Y 4? 4? 4? 4?4?4* 4, 4* 4?44 44 %