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ROCKT BLUFF.
Rocky Bluff. June It,?We are hav?
ing some hot weather now, the very
kind to kill grass, and we have a good
rain about twice every week. The old
corn Is about all laid by, and in some
peas have come up nicely.
Gardens are doing very well now.
Watermelons are a failure.
A tine chicken snake measuring six
fest eight Inches met his death la-st
night In the chicken coop of Mr. J. J.
Haul eld, where his snakeslip had
gone for supper.
Mrs. Graham and children of Sum
tee spent last week here with her
sister. Mrs. Dutton.
Mrs J. J. Hattleld and children
spent a part of last week with rela?
tives st Borden.
Mr. John S. Kennedy and family of
Sumter spent Tuesday at Mr. J. J.
Hatfteld's.
What hss become of our Pisgah
and Smlthville correspondents? Their
Utters are missed very much.
MATOSVILLK.
Mayevllle. June 30.?The Winthrop
Clemson demonstration train passed
through Mayesvllle yesterday after?
noon and was held here between the
late afternoon trains for about thirty
jninutes. Quite a crowd went down
to the station and Inspected the live
stock snd other exhibits of the Clem?
son section snd heard a short but In?
teresting talk on the boll weevil by
one of the Instructors in charge. It
was regretted that this train could
not have made a regular stop here
end It Is hoped If It goes out on the
road sgsln In the fall, that Mayesvllle
will be Included In the Itinerary.
The continued hot weather has
greatly Improved the cotton crop In
this section and all of the planters
report that they have very good crops
In sll of their different farm pro?
ducta, Cotton has bad "stands" In
some instances but these are few and
far between. Ripe watermelons for
"the Fourth" have ben reported from
several sections.
May r X I >. Womlde has returned
from s short vacation In the moun?
tains of North Carolina and will re?
sume hin duties at the Atlantic Coast
Line office tomorrow.
Master Willie D. Msyes Is on a visit
to Msster Harry Walker In Sumt? f
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. 13. Chandler and
family are spending the summer at
Chick Springs. 8. C, where they have
leased a cottage,
Mrs. J. Denmark has returned from
an extended visit to relatives in New
York city.
Ml?.? Catherine Miller, of Augusta,
Is visiting her mu le and aunt. Mr.
snd Mrs. W. W. Gardner.
Mny. Sjvtlle. June 30.? MayeHvllle 11.
Durant 2. This was the score of the
game this afternoon which was in?
teresting until UM -c\th inning Vfhet
the visitor* seemed to uo to pieces
and with the h. i\\ batting "f the lo?
cal*. 1h?? game became a farce. Mayes
and Corbett. the star battery of the
Maye?(viiie longa, were there with the
goo.N is ggsjnl and the etsltori ? ate
?nable to find for more than
two clean hits. The Utlfcsf home
players were In fine form and all did
their duty both in the Meld nnd at
the I..it. I'tvMcott f'?r the Durant
team showed up fairly well until the
middle of the tin.- when he seemed
to get discouraged by the poor sup?
port glv<?n him by his team mates and
went up In the air from then on. The
game wa<* Interrupted In the second
tnnlng by rain and both pftchsTl
wer?- soniew bat at a disadvantage af
t?r th.tt with the wet bails. An un
tisuallv large < rowd was on hand
and tin- ?rooting" was exeelent, be?
ing on,, of the chief features of the
is. The f Mowing was the field
up of the two teams:
Msyesviiie. Durant
Mayes, M. r. Pre* oit
Corbett. I?. C. UnoTSS
Rhaw, j. m. Durant
Corbett. If. fb, TTsJfOIT.
Shaw. w. lb, Crawford,
Ornndv. ?*. PloWdeS
Borge a. rf. ReevOU, M.
Pace. ? f. Bruns ?n,
Msyes. A. if. Montgomery,
Ceore l\ Inlngs
Mayesvdb- . .. II i) 0 0 7 2 3 x? It
Durant. 1 0 0 0 ft 1 o 0?2.
Struck out Mave*. h; pr'scott ?;.
Dasei on bails, Idayes, 3; Prescott, 2.
Hatter hit: Mayes, 1; Proooott, 1.
?w. t. r,."
I'RttES SPEEDY DISMISSAL.
subcommittee IWcoiiHfndi imme?
diate DlomkMO] of Mlonael and
Mevrteoa), Weaned ol afleapproprla
tion.
Washington, Juno 29.?The recom
in. adatlon for the dismissal from the
government service of W. I*. Michael,
Anori'.tn OOMtll general at Calcutta,
former Clliol Clerk of the state de?
partment, and Thomas Morrison.
present disbursing olerk, for their
connection with the Day portrait
taaOi ai announced yesterday, in
whi. h misappropriation of state dc
partmont funds is charged. WM re?
ported to the house committee on ex
p. ndltures in the state department to?
day by the subcommittee which is
conducting an investigation of the de?
partment. The subcommittee said
it had not completed Its labors, but
reported in the case of Michael and
Morrison in the hope that their ser?
vices would be dispensed with imme?
diately.
The committee's recommendation
is the result of investigation by it into
alleged expenditure by the depart?
ment of $2.4">0 for a painting of
Former Secretary of State Day, of
which amount the artist, Albert Ros?
enthal, said he reecived only $S5l>,
the remaining $l,tl00 being unac?
counted for.
SENSIBLE ALL THROUGH.
observations by a "Farmer" on Ortcr
mobilcs, also Onions, Bunions, Etc.
Editor Item:
I notice that you a**e usually quite
full, but as you are constantly
getting fuller (the paper and not
the editor is referred to). It
occurred to me that you might not
object to a few lines from this neck
of woods, even if the letter contain?
ed nothing of startling interest and
some advice, which latter is, as you
know, generally admitted to be cheap.
No charge is made for this communi?
cation. Now firstly I want to say
that there should be more automo?
biles (you ought to have one and this
correspondent ought to have one)
and fewer ortermobiles. An automo?
bile Is supposed to be an automatic
or self-propelling machine and not a
machine that looks good and orter
go but won't budge except occasion?
ally when It gets in the right hu?
mor. There are too many ortermo?
biles in and around Sumter. Also in
South Carolina. There are some po'
people that have 'em that orter not
have 'em and who orter put the price
into food and clothing, now that these
articles are getting cheaper and we
i an begin to consider, them more M
necessities and less as luxuries than
for some time past. Only those
who can Ford to have mobiles should
buy 'em.
1 am triad to note that In some re?
cent Issues of The Item you have left
out the wise saying "In union then
is strength, also there Is strength in
the onion," while the thing Is as true
as tb?sp? 1 it was ;i wa.-te of valuable
space to have it put in every day,
for weoka becaust its truth appealed
at OBCe and forcibly to all readers of
The item, However, this reminds me
that While a raw red onion Is SU1'6
to make Its pffoatBCO known so also
tad to a greater degree does a raw
rod bunion.
Whoa roof correspondent makei
this assertion he know.-; what lie ll
talking about. Some time ago said
< orrespomb nt was invited to ride i
long way In one of those ortermo
blleJ. The noddle looked all right
and beim ?tire that the owner could
l ord it and the gasoline, the invita?
tion was accepted. She ran all rlKht
for seven or eight miles and then
unit. The owner was a good choffer
but a poor mechanic and the out
COHM was that the said owner wai
b ft to guard his valuable machim
and yours truly had to walk home to
get help to bring the ortermobile
back. Now the weather being hot,
the distance |on| and the shoes n
your correspondent paased many
crops of raw red onions without no
lielng anything especially strong
about them but wai greatly Impress
ed by the raw red bunion that rap
Idly developed on one ol his feet,
Don't tell me about quick growing
onions or anything eis. ?that red
raw bunion in the sp ie,? of half . n
hour grew trom nothing to what ap?
peared 10 be loo Immense for com?
parison, Hence as the Item sol the
bad example, i repeat, In raw r< d
onions there in ami strength also
? nd in greater degree in raw red bun
Ions.
i '? i mer,
\\ X'l si ?\ |s \ \M| |?
Columbia, June ::<?.?Commissioner
Watson has been ipoplnted execu?
tive commltleeman From Routh Caro?
lina; to tin- National Irrigation con?
gress, to take the place "f James
Cosgrove of Charleston, deceased, The
appointment was made by B. \.
Fowler, the preoldeni "f tie congress,
CONGRESSMAN LEVER TO WEI).
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I
Viiiioiuhi in? nt uf Iii? Approaching
Marriage to Mi->^ Butler of Lex?
ington Comes n*. Surprise.
Lexington, Jini?- 29.?Of statewide
end national interest will be the mar- ';
rlage of Asbury Francis Leveri the
popular seventh district congress*
men, ;>n<l Miss Luclte Scurry Butler
of Lexington, the even! to be solemn
lied next Wednesday evening, July
r?, at ?> o'clock, Thla announcement
11 mes as ? surprise. Mr. Lever came
to Lexington a day or two ago, pre?
sumably <>n a business trip, and noth?
ing was known of the wedding ar?
rangements until yesterday when the
announcement was made.
The marriage uil1 take place at
the home of the bride and will be
very quiet, no formal invitations hav?
ing been Issued. However the public
generally has been invited to witness
the ceremony.
Miss Butler Will be attended by her
three sisters. Mrs. W. A. Wright of
Atlanta and Misses Alice Mae and Lil
lie Butler. M. E, Zeigler of Orange
burg former private secretary to Mr.
. Lever will be the best man. The
ceremony will be performd by Rev.
William H. Hiller of Columbia, a col?
lege mate of Mr. Lever assisted by
I Rev, T. S. Brown, pastor of St. Ste?
phen's Lutheran church.
The bride-elect is the second daugh?
ter of Maj. John Wilson Butler who
' comes of the old and distinguished
i family <>f Abbeville and Edgefleld
Butlers and is a relative of the late
Hen. M. C. Butler the famous Con
;'? d'-vate hader and later prominent
In the history of the State. While a
resident of Athens, Ga., she was a
student at Lucy Cobb institute and
was later graduated from Due West
Female college, Miss Butler Is a
womnn of rare charms and pleasing
personality.
Immediately after the ceremony,
Mr. and Mrs. Lever will leave for the
mountains of North Carolina after
which Mr. Lever will return to Wash?
ington.
M EMM INGER DECISION REVERS?
ED.
Supremo Court Says Judge Erred In
Charge That Persons Could not
Keep Whiskey for Personal Cse.
Columbbla, July 1.?Judge Mem
mlnger's famous decision upon stor?
ing and keeping Intoxicants wherein
he held that under the law, as It
stands, one may not keep liquor in
the house in any quantity, was re?
versed today by the Supreme Court.
The case was that of Lloyd Green of
Sumter, convicted last summer for
storing whiskey. Green claimed he
had the stuff for personal use. The
Supreme Court says Judj;e Mern
minger erred in charging that the
statutory term "Storing and keeping
?n possession" involved the Idea of
continuity or habit. Such a ruling,
Judge Menunlnger said, would have
been Correct under the old dispensary
law and is correct now in dispensary
counties, but In a dry county like
Sumter, the mere having of liquor,
no Quantity of liquor may4ha stored
for any purpose. The Supreme Court
Bays there Is no difference in this re
specl between wet and dry counties.
The Supreme Court says further that
Judge Memmlnger also erred in
Charging it was unlawful to hare
liquor in a prohibition county for any
purpose or In any quantity.
GOES TO SVPREME COURT.
Attorney General Asked for Opinion
OS to Right to Abolish Hosiery Mill
Agreement,
Columbia, June 2s.?The hosierv
mill contract with the Stats peniten?
tiary will be carried to the supreme
court for a decision. The contract
wii not be abolished as ordered by
the governor unless the consent of J.
M. Graham, who holds the contract, is
secured, The board of directors of
the state penitentiary addressed a
letter to J. M. Graham, asking that
he name the terms on which the con?
tract minht be abolished,
Dr. Roberl Wilson, Jr., of Charles?
ton, chairman of the State board of
health, yesterday addressed a letter
tu the office of attorney general, ask?
ing that an opinion be given as t i
the right ??f the board of health '.o
abolish the contrac t. M. p. DeBruhl,
assistant attorney general, has not
given an opinion as to the right of
the board, and no opinion will be giv?
en on the question until Attorney
General Lyon returns from the West,
where he Is attending the annual con
ventlon of the attorneys general <d*
the Cnlted states.
The lettef Of Dr, Wilson W.IS S"tlt
to the attorney general's office fol?
lowing the re. . jpt of a letter from
tie- governor asking thai steps be
taken to abolish "a common nuls
a nee."
Lyon Honored in Georgia.
Atlanta, Oa., June -hi the
Georgia senate today J, Fr?ser Lyon,
attorney general of South Carolina,
was accorded the honor of the fr.
dorn of the chamber during the ses?
A LIVI IA N.I I I
Subscribers to the Stock oi tin- Pro
postal Hotel < onij?ati> Hold a Long
and Animated Special Meeting.
A called meeting ol the subscribers,
to tin.- stock ot the Hotel Company
wan held un Friday night at
tin- request of several ot the
subscribrs, the object or the
meeting being, it was stated. to
devise, means tor allying the dis?
satisfaction ihat has been caused
in some quarters by the selection
oi" the lot on West Liberty street
as tile site of the proposed new hotel.
The advocates of a site on South
Main street for the new hotel were
active in calling the meeting and sev?
eral of the subscribers to the stock
were hopeful that the meeting would
be instrumental in bringing the dis?
cordant elements together and that a
plan could be worked out and agreed
uopn that would be satisfactory to
all parties and still secure the erec?
tion of the hotel on South Main street.
When the meeting got down to busi?
ness it quickly developed that some
of those Who voted for the West
Liberty street site at the last meet?
ing had in the interval changed their
minds and had become converted to
the South Main street idea. The meet?
ing was quite lengthy, and as no
reporters were present a detailed ac?
count of the proceedings ib not avail?
able, but it is learned that early In
the session a motion was made and
adopted that in the event that any of
the subscribers to the stock desired
to withdraw their subscriptions they
.>..auld be permited to do so and that
no attempt should be made to enforce
the collection by legal process. This
let out those who where dissatisfied
with the choice of the Harby lot, and
showed that the South Main street
faction was in control of the situation.
Then propositions were submitted
looking to the selection of one or
the other of the available lots on
South Main street on a basis that
would, it was hoped, meet with the
approval of the Liberty Street fac?
tion. Hut no success rewarded the
efforts of the advocates of this plan
The meeting finally came to an end
by the adoption of a re?v^\!*'on that
released all subscribers and practical?
ly dissolved the preliminary orgf.niz
atior of the hotel company.
A resolution was then adopted by
a vote of a large majority of thos.e
present that the Chairman, Mr. H. J.
MoLaurin, Jr., appoint a committee
of five to select a suitable site and
recommend same to a meeting to be
held at a later date, and that the
same committee be authorized to so?
licit subscriptions to the stock of
the hotel company to be organized.
The Now Hotel C ommlttce.
Mr. H. J. MeLaurin, Jr., who acted
is chairman of the meeting held la?t
night to reconsider the hotel site
riuestion, acting under authority of a
resolution adopted just before ad?
journment has appointed the follow?
ing committee on site and stock suV
seriptions: Q, A. Lemmon, chairman,
Nein (??Donneil. c. c. Rowland, D.
1?. Molse and J. II. Chandler. Thla
committee Wil meet at oncj to eon
itder the selection of a site ami take
necessary steps to carry on to d
lUCCeasful conclusion the plan to build
a hotel.
< < H i <>\ CONDITION s:,.;? CM;
< I N I.
I vertigo l);?i<- June 2;t ? Improve?
ment < Ivor %fuy.
\< w Vork, June 30?Prom the re?
plies! of 2,081 special correspond Us
of the Journal of Commerce and
Commercial Bulletin, of an average
date of June 23, the percentage con?
dition of cotton is found to be ?5.0,
'against 9Z.H for tin corresponding
<lat.- in May, or an Increase of; _M
points. This compares with a con?
dition of &0.1 year ago, and 7r,.s the
year before, and a ten-year average
of 81.0,
Improvements showed itself in all
j States except Louisiana. which lost
a.7 point, and Florida? ?'?.''. points.
j North Carolina, South Carolina, Ala
( bama, Arkansas and Tennessee all
' gained about 5 points. Texas just
I
j held its own. while i >klahoms galn
i ed 1.1 points.
tin- Ire of tii
minister was n
put her age In
at ry. her point
Mr. William?
visiting his dat
Kenney.
Mr. John W<
at
?nd
of
? r when tin
'ault The git
ivhat ii was t
1 M i Hge
Mrs. J.
?urg is
Walter
? >M citisens of this section was car
rled to the asylum a short time ago.
For sometime ids mind has been giv?
ing way and it was thoUgh! best to
s? nd him there.
Nelson Douglas, the noted colored
Democrat, died at his home in Raft?
ing Creek not long since from the i"
fermities of old as*-. When the thiev*P
ish crowd was running the State in
1876, he went to the polls and cast
his ballot for Gen. Hampton and re?
mained true ever since to the cause
of good government. He was highly
respected by Iiis white friends.
Rev. J. Walter Kenney married a
run-away couple from the- Mizpah
section last Sunday evening.
News From Pisgah.
Pisnah, July 1.?June ended with
the most severe heat ever experienced
here. Doth man and beast and the
advanced corn Magged and withered
under the terrible heat. Yesteri ay, a
line rain fell along the Wateree River,
but <lhl not reach here. Without
rain in a few days, the advanced
corn will be severely injured. Cotton
Is beginning to show the want of rain
although it is holding up remarkably
well. Watermelons are late this year
and the Fourth will come and none to
eat.
Peac hes are very few and scatter?
ed. Some places have none, so the
housewife will have not too many to
can.
It is a pity that we have nat a can?
ning factory here to can all kinds of
vegetables and fruits. Such a busi- 1
ness would handsomely pay. Mr. j
A. B. Btuckey of Sumter has demon- j man coach was Put on voluntarily
Btrated that this can be done, judg
.1
Negro Died Suddenly*.
Marcus Durant, ? ne?ro in the ern
ploy of the Sumter ('.?Min and Cask^
et Co., died suddenly Saturday at the
factory. He was at work during the
forenoon, but feeling unwell stopped
work and laid down on a pile of
boards. Shortly afterwards he roll?
ed off the boards and when some nf
the other workmen went to his
Blstance he was unconscious. He
died within a few minutes without re?
gaining consciousness. Coroner
Flowers was summoned to make an
investigation, and at his request Dr.
J. A. Mood made an examination. D^g.
Mood stated that the man died of apo^
plexy. The body of Durant was sent
to Camden for burial. Durant was 62
years old and was a quiet and hard
working negro.
Charleston claims that the Pull
*
the railroad company; Greenville
ing from the Mne pears that he can- I claims that it was put through the
' ned last season and put on the mar
: ket. They are certainly fine. The
? output of a factory of this kind
j would have ready sale, for who would
not rather have the home products
I than the imported stuff. Like home
! eggs and watermelons, they are al
i
j ways the best.
The marriage license law goes into
effect today to the pleasure of all
; sane people. It is to he hoped that
more safeguards will now be put
around getting married. This State
has a tight divorce law and justly so.
Now make it hard to get married,
then there wont be such a desire to
part. The idea that little kids of
school nirls say positively that they
are 17 years old, when they are 13 or
14 years old, in order to get married.
Such as was experienced by a min
! ister not long since and brought down
request of her Chamber of Commerce,
but Sumter is satisfied in the knowl?
edge that this great convenience was
brought about by the intervention of
Mr. R. I. Manning and his commit?
tee on railroad matters, who were
working for the Chamber of Com?
merce of this city. Sumter has the
proof of this and can show them to
anybody "from Missouri." > ? us
All corn meal sold in South Caro?
lina will be examined by the chemist
of the feedstuffs department of agri?
culture. Commissioner Watson an?
nounced yesterday that he had in?
structed the inspectors of his depart?
ment to draw samples of all corn
meal on sale in this State. The
amination of corn meal will be hel
under the pure food and pure food
stuffs law.
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