The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, September 24, 1910, Image 3
<|jr flflhttbman ano Southron.
Knu rr?! at Ute l*OHU>fHi"? at Sunt?, ft.
<*.. as 8?vond Claas Malirr.
PKKMONAU
Mrs. J. D. Graham returaed Thurs?
day from a stay of several Wtjtkl
at Hendersonvllle. N. C.
Mr. J. B. Ryan. Jr.. of Wedgefleld.
spant Tuoaday In the city.
Mlas Hettle White left Wednesday
to spend a short while at Lamar.
Miss Fannie Chandler, of Mayes
villo. passed through the city thls
week en route to Columbia to at?
tend the Collage for Women
Mlas Emma Baker left Wednesday
for Columbia to resume her
studies at the College for Women.
Mrs. C. M. Rurst and daughter
have returned from Ashevllle. N. C.
after a stay of two weeks.
Mr. T. P. Lyman. who has been
living In Ashevllle. N. C, for the
past several months, has returned to
the city.
Mlas Louise Shannon, who has
been visiting at the hime of Dr.
Spann, has returned to her home at
Casnden.
Dr. Feely. of Clemson College.
State Veternerlan. spent a slort
while in the city Wednesday.
Mlas Martie Boyle has returned to
the Collage for Women at Columbia
to reaume her studies.
Mr. H. I*. B. Wiggins, of Savannah.
Oa.. la visiting relatives In the city.
Mr. S. T. Richardson, of Tlndal.
was In the city on bcslness Thurs?
day.
Mr. Marlon Davis, of Brogdbn,
Spent Thursday In the city with
friends.
Sumter Is not too small for a
commission form of government.
Cotton sold on the local market for
13.30 to 13.40 Thursday.
The staple of cotton now coming
on the market is said by buyers to
be much superior to that of last sea?
son's crop.
The storea are gradually falling In?
to tine on the early closing proposl
tloa. and it will only be a question
of time before all of them will "shut
up shop" at 6 o'clock.
An effort to secure an agreement
a at on* all the merchants to close
?????- store* *t ? o'clock p. m., Sat
Wt4 ?d, appears to have
failed time being, as only a
ig at that hour, but
e active In promoting
the movement should not abandon
the undertaking, for early closing
has much to recommend It and all
the merchants will probably see the
reasonableness of the proposition In
time and will f ill into line.
Some sort of censorship should be
exercised by ?*e city authorities over
bill boards, and pictures of a sug?
gestive or lascivious nature should be
prohibited. There Is a board of
health, a city physician and a health1
officer to safeguard the physlcial
health of the community, as is right
and proper, but there Is no public
agamy to safeguard the morals of
the people by preventing the display
in public places of objectionable pic?
tures. Watch the bill boards for the
next few months and note how many
of the posters are. to say the least,
neither artistic nor elevating.
The many friends of Miss Oussle
ReJReld. who hss been 111 at Waynes
vtlle. N. C. foe several weeks, will be
glad to learn that she was brought
home Tuesday afternoon, and Is rest?
ing well at the Sumter hospital.
The keen competition between cot?
ton seed oil mills Is pushing up the
price of seed. Some buyers are pay?
ing as high as 935 per ton for seed.
If It Is within the power and juris?
diction of the County Democratic
convention and county executive
committee tc discontinue the prac?
tice of uornln.itIna the magistrates ai
the pilmary, this action should be*
taken at the next county convention.
A day's work for a laborer varies
from eight to ten hours In different
sections, .i duy's work for a mechanic*
varies from seven to t??n hours, but a
majorlts or cbrks work twelve to flf
teen h eirs. That I* one reason why
the stores should close at ?> o'clock.
Along In July Ihsfl SJOfS numer?
ous reports of prospecth?? corn yields
of one hundred or gsOff bushels to
the n> re. It will be Inf r? sting to
have reports of act teal ybiis
Se\*r.il ? Ir? uses are billed to visit
the upper part of Um Mats' during
October, but none hn\e been adver?
tised |g show In Sumter this season.
Th.-y v. Ill scarcely give this town the
go-hv. however, ns It Is a good show
town und the circuses always make
money here, kHumter could very well
get along without a ? Ifang for one
season and the country would be bet
t. r off.
Oatt ig i '' ining in rapidly now and
the gfke holds up at and above 11
cent* This |s no big prb o for cotton
and e ? n It begins In decline many
farmer will begin to hold.
OaOfg~M never loot ? upon the per*
?Imm m until It Is red.
i>i:\tii.
Mrs. Samuel Reynolds, of Lamar,
who has been under treatment at the
Sumter Hospital died Tuesday. Her
remains were taken to her home at
Limit Wednesday for Interment.
Mr. Franh Shovenel died at 2.30
Wednesday morning, age 26 years.
His death was caused by ptomaine
poisoning.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
S. Welch died this morning at 6
S. Welch died Wednesday at 5
a. m. at their residence on West
Hampton Avenue.
DESTROYING SHADE TREES.
Specie* of Caterpillars Are Damagiug
Shade Trees of the City.
Judge T. E. Richardson who is
an interested observer of all sorts
of nature, showed an Item reporter,
Wednesday, a branch of one of
the many beautiful oak shade trees
In the city, which was almost covered
with a specie of yellow caterpillar.
All of the leaves had been eaten
off of the branch, and Judge Rlcb
ardsc n stated that such was the case
on a large number of shade trees
throughout the city.
He stated further that he had talk?
ed a 1th Dr. Ellison A. Smyth, Pro
fessor of Biology in the Virginia
Polytechnlcal In?Mtute, who spent
yesterday In thl city with friends,
regarllng th? destruction of these
caterpillars, and that Dr. Smythe
stated that spraying was the proper
remedy for getting rid of them.
He said, however, that spraying
would not affect caterpillars, which
lives In webs, and that they would
either have to be burnt out or the
limbs on which they constructed
their a-< as would have to be cut off.
hhst week jurors.
Names of Those Who Will Serve Dur?
ing the First Week of tho Fall
Term of Court.
The list of Jurors who will serve
during the first week of the fall
term of the criminal court follows:
D. Bull.
T. V. Walsh.
D. W. Hopkins.
W. F. Shaw.
M. I. Truluck.
E. W. A. Bultman.
B. R. Brown.
R. L. Burkett.
P. O. Leak.
O. B. Nettles.
R. M. Brown.
John Benenbaley.
D. M. Green.
H. H. Wells,
Herbert Ray.
T. E. Hlnson.
Wayne Mellette.
Geo. M. Foxworth.
J. B. Locklear.
Singleton Bradford.
R. E. DuRant
W. A. Brown.
P. 1?. Jones.
H. J. Hicks.
S. W. Glllesple.
R ,E. Wilder.
P. E. McLeod.
R. H. Ramsey.
R. H. Wltherspoon.
J. M. Bradham.
T. S. Drayton.
J. B. Baker.
E. M. McElveen.
J. C. Truluck.
S. W. Mobley.
NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS.
At Last Meeting of Dick Anderson
Lodge No. 138, I. O. O. F.
At the last meeting of Dick An?
derson Lodge No. 138, I. O. O. F.,
the following ofTieers were elected:
W. J. Orowson, Noble Grand.
J. W. Bradford, Vice Grand.
Bv C. Wallace, Financial and Re?
cording Secretary.
J. H. Mercer. Treasurer.
A me, ting will be held next Tues
Saj night. September 27th. when
otte r ofJIeors win be sis ited,
Al members of this lodge are re
?pectfully urged to attend this meet?
ing and assist In th* work of the
lodge.
Coiuini?.x>loners of Fleet Ion.
The following gentlemen have been
appointed to serve as commissioners
of flection for the general election?
Sumter county:
Federal-?n. O. Ooteea, w. J, r?in
ii 1, Brownfleld,
State i\ i ft, Knight, J. B, DuPre,
W T Green.
WANTED?\i! of our customers to
know that we nloat our store at t?
??'. lock, excepting Saturdays, when
OlOSS St 10 O'clock, Pive days
In the week our store Ii open from
86 a. m 'til ?'. p n?. and on Sat?
urdays from I 30 'til 10 p. m. mak?
ing an average o( more than twelve
hours thai our dore la open cneh
?lay. We hope that our friends will
hear In mind that we close St 8
oVloi k, and do their trading I . fore
thai hour. The l>. J, Chandler
nothing Co,
I 11 Iwkl 81 w. ,v. s.
Stumps, Brush, Weeds, Grass.
Wo pay a larger tax every year for
stumps, weeds and grass than Is re?
quired to support our municipal,
county, State and Federal govern?
ments, to endow all the colleges and
educate all the youth of the land;
and we got no return. A stump not
only occupies valuable space but it
prevents the use of improved imple?
ments for better and more rapid til?
lage of the soil. The cost of farm la?
bor Is on the increase with the cer?
tainty that this wdll continue till the
equation of wages on the farms and
in the town or city is more equal.
The remedy for high priced labor on
the farms Is the use of more and
better teams and implements. If the
day wage on the farms of the South
advances from $.75 to $1.50 then
each farm hand must plow, plant and
cultivate twice as many acres In a
day as he did before and this is an
easy problem. But the stumps must
go, and the farmer who does not try
to get rid of them will soon be a
back number. The stump farmer
pays about $3.00 an acre very year
for the privilege of having stumps in
bis fields. In addition, there are
generally a few feet of untilled soli
around every field stump which pro?
duces foul weeds and grasses to seed
the land.
What has been charged against
stumps applies with still more force
to trees, shrubs and bush patches In
the field; dig, burn, destroy; they are
natural enemies of the farmer.
Straighten out the sides of the field,
square up the corners and avoid the
short rows as much as possible; they
increase the work of tillage.
Farmers have become ?o accus
tomed to fighting weeds and grass in
the cultivated fields that they regard
It as a matter of necessity. They
think the land Is full of foul seeds
and of course tuey will germinate
when It rains.,
When virgin soils are first placed
In cultivation they are comparatively
free from weeds and grass, and that
they become foul Is duo to faulty
management on the part of the farm?
ers. It Is not difficult to discover the
real causes. First, careless cultiva?
tion, which allows weeds and grass
to mature seed in the cultivated
fields. Second, little attention Is paid
to the highways, the brush patches,
the fence corners and the pastures,
and they are almost universally
breedings for foul weeds and grass. It
htr*. been charged that the Southern
farmer is careless. It may be true
In some things, but in one thing too
many of them stand first among the
farmers of.the world, they never fail
to raise a crop of weed and grass seed
large ei.ough to seed their own fields
and theh* neighbors.
Tho cost of this universal weed and
grass seeding amounts annually to
more than five dollars for each acre
In corn, and ten dollars for each acre
In cotton. In 1909 in the States of
Alabama, Arkansas Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Caro?
lina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Ten?
nessee. Texas and Virginia, there
i
were 4 0,965,000 acres in corn and
30.692.000 acres in cotton, which
would shaw a yearly loss of over 511 j
millions of dollars. This loss can be ;
greatly reduced by intensive cultiva- j
tlon continued as late In the season
as possible and by moving the road?
sides, the fence corners, the borders j
of the fields and the pastures In June i
and in August. At first it seems like ;
a waste of lab^r, but its beneficial
effect! soon become apparent.
A persistent war on weeds and
grass, stumps and brush, In the fields
ll one of the great progressive move- j
ments necessary to progress in agrl
culture.
S. A. KNAPP, !
i
Special Agent in charge Farmers'
Demonstration Work.
A YOUNG CONGRESSMAN.
The Rise of James F. Byrnes Poll
tically Has Been Rapid.
Columbia, Sept. 22.?The victory 1
of Mr. James F. Byrnes of Aiken ,
over Congressman J. O. Patterson
has caused much comment. Mr.
Brynes is only thirty years old, but
for his years Is remarkably well ln
I formed and it is the opinion of many
! that he will be a big factor in South
] Carolina politics and statemansnip.
i Two years ago Mr. Byrnes was elect
1 ed solicitor, and he served the district
well. As court stenographer before
his first promotion he showed many
of the qualities of a successful man
in any of the professions. He was
unusually painstaking In his work
and made a most efficient stenog?
rapher.
TO MOVE INSPECTION BU?
REAUS.
State Feed Stuffs Inspection Bureau
Will be Moved from Clemson to
Columbia.
Columbia, Sept. 22.?Chemist Sum?
mer and the entire laboratory of the
State feed stuffs Inspection bureau,
operating under Commissioner Wat?
son, are to be removed immediately
from Clemson to Columbia and in?
stalled In new quarters at the old
State dispensary plant, which quar?
ters have been sub-leased from the
lessee. Chief Inspector W. B. West
already has his headquarters here.
The move is for the sake of economy
and convenience, and Is made with
the consent and approval of the
Clemson authorities.
I
j Received Monday load Horses
and Mules. Several nice saddle and
; driving Horses. 16 Mares in this
load. Several nice farm mules. Prices
j right. Boyle Live Stock Co.
It.
New Goods
Arrive Every Day
Afff We will thank
%\\ you for your
visit when in
the City shopping.
As in the past you
will find, it a pleasant
and profitable one.
O'Donnell & Co.
T ime, Cement,
ACME PLASTER, SHINGLES, LATHS,
FIRE BRICK, DRAIN PIPE, ETC
Uov (Zr<*irt\ Rice Flour, Ship Stuff, Bran, Mixed
nay, Vxram, Cow and Chicken Feed.
Horses, Mules, g^fUV. W:a:gon:8: "?
No Order Too Targe or Too Small
Booth-Harby Live Stock Co.
SUMTER. SOUTH CAROLINA.
T T'S to your interest to be well dress
-?-ed; ours to help you. Neve* before
has this store been so well prepared to
help you as now. The freshly arrived
suits, especially created for us by
Hart Schaffner & Marx
the world's greatest clothes makers,
are full of new ideas for the particular
man's peace and comfort. You'll find
them different from all other clothes,
because of the distinction in style and
fit they carry with them.
New colorings?grays, blues, browns, tans: new
weaves and patterns. Of course they're ail-wool.
Suits $20 to $35; Overcoats $ 18 to $30
X
mdler Clothing Co.
ne of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Sumter. S. C.