The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 19, 1911, Image 5
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PERSONAL
Mrs. J. M. Chandler, of Sumter, 8.
C. arrived last week to be the guest
of her slater, Mrs, Arm mus Wrlgit,
and Mrs n. M. Denwood for a mon h.
lira Wright, who has been quite HI
for several weeks, is much better.?
Atlanta Journal.
Mr. A. L. Jones, traveling repre?
sentative of the Acme White Lead
and Color works, has resumed his
duties, after a very pleasant vaca?
tion.
After a very pleasant visit of two
weeks at Heath Springs. 8. C, Misses
Leasts snd Estelle Jores returned
home Thursday.
Miss Bessie Burbage, of Con way,
Is visiting Miss Annie Bollard.
Mr. W. F. Alexander has gone for
an sxtendsd trip through the South.
Mr. John B. Duffle ?1,1.4 returned to
the city after a very pleassnt trip
to Hot Spring. Hendersonvllle and
other points.
Miss Bell Brlnkley left Monday
for a stay in Saluda.
Mr. W. B. Boyle has returned from
a week s stay at Qlenn Springs.
Dr. E. 8. Booth hss g/>ne to Ashe
vllle to spend several days.
Messrs Qeo. Reld and Guy Har?
beck passed through the city Tues
dsy morning on their way to Colum?
bia.
Miaa Oladys Turner has returned
home after a lengthy visit to her
grandparents In Spartanburg.
Mrs. Emma Cooper and Miss Dene
Cooper have gone to Blackstock to
vlalt relatlvea
Mrs. Lila Amsn passed through
the city Wednesday morning on her
way to Aahevllle, where she will
spend some time.
Mrs. J. H. Chandler and Misses
Teresa Chandler and Maggie May
Seal* left Wednesday for a stay in
tho mountains of Western North
Carolina.
Messrs. Msrshali Wescoat, Herman
Phelps and Willie Brooks Stuckey
left Wednesdsy for a trp to Hen?
dersonvllle and other points.
Mr. snd Mrs. J. H. Johnson snd
MUs Lucy Johnson, of Manning, left
Wednesdsy for a stay of ten days In
sss Ashevllle.
Miss Anm haf has gone 10
Annapolls, Md.
Mmj Bssste Bultrnan loft Tuen
ds> fat Atlantic City. N. J.
Sheriff W. H. Epperson Is spending
awhile at Olenn Spring?.
Mrs. D. M. Csmpbell and little
daughter. Kate, have returned after
a pleasant ten day's stay *r. Claren?
don.
Misses Bessie and Celeste Hughson
hsvs gone to Washington. D. C, and
from there they will visit other places
of interest.
Mr. snd Mrs. W. A. Brown left this
we*k far a ten days trip to Wash?
ington, D. C.
Misses Anna, ftoeslte, Violet and
Alston Brown ars vslltlng thoir
grandparents In Summervllle.
Mrs. T. L. Strange and Miss Luclie
Bsker Irft for Ashevllle Wednesday
to fpend a week at that place.
Mrs. It. M. Jenkins and Misses Su?
sie snd Elolse Jenkins, of nt. Charles,
passed through the city Wednesday
oa their way to Glenn Springs, where
they will spend a week.
Mr. W. H. Strange has gone to
Q\f n Springs to spend a week.
Miss Luis Cooke Boykln has return?
ed after an extended visit to Hender?
sonvllle snd other points.
Mr. Vsn CstVl Purrott has gone
to Wtsacky to spend ->? > r .11 days.
Mr. E. I>. Wltherspoon and famly
and Mrs. W. A. Cook are visiting In
Washington snd other point* north.
Mrs. Oeo. H. Hurst snd children
hsve returned after a very pleasant
trip ? , N <
Mr. Jaasef Bryan has returned af?
ter a trip to Glenn Springs, the Clem?
son c?.iieg?i Institute and other
places.
Mr. and Mr. r r. K, id. of Wi?
sse* y. spent Wednesday In the city.
Mr. L Wt l'olsom, Jr.. has re?
turned alt eg a delightful trip to
Wright*, ills Beach.
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Gr.. n b-f?
Wednesday for a trip |sj Washing?
ton. New York, N lagan Kails and
Other points. While in New York
City Mr. Green will purc hase a stock
of tancv footwear for the Sumter
Dry Goods Cnrnpmv.
Mr. and Mm. Ferd Levis have re
?urn?d from the mountain*.
M:\ H. J. I^iwreriee left Wednesday
for Ith hmonil. V'a.
M r. r. < >. I: -win m. ? f lb rub - sou
vilbv formerly of this city, is in town
f?.r a few dsys
A party from BMhopviii* tengtet?
Ing of M'wrt. J. >t. HesfOHi J. Bi
Kelley. W. N. ftfl Lit d and C. B. Me
l^endon. spent t ?h>>r\ While in t'.ie
ctly Thursday on their way to
N\?w York, Philadelphia and other
northern points.
Mr and Mrs. YV. 11. Commander
and Miss l-Istelle \Yeathcrl>, of Com- |
meree, Texas, are visiting at the home J
of Mr. J. P. <\?mmander on S. liar-1
vin street.
i
Misses Audery HuHe.se and Kate.
Parrott. of Pishopvllle, were In town '
for awhile Thursday en route to
Washington. D. C. I
Mr. Held Ard haa gone to Norfolk, ,
Vu., to spend several days.
Mr. Louts llhame left for a trip
to Washington and other northern ,
p..nits Thursday.
Messrs. W'lllam Bultmun and Ja k
Moses left for Washington Thursday.
Mesdames Wm. Heid and David
DuRant. of Blshopvllle, pusaed
through the city Thursday on
route to New York.
Mrs. T. V. Walsh has returned |
home after spending the past month
at Hendersonvllie..
Messrs. C. A. Bruner, J. M. and S.
R. Chandler have returned to the
city after spending several days in
Washington. New York and Balti?
more on business.
Mrs. D. W. Cunningham and chil?
dren, of Darlington, are visiting Mrs.
Dove on West Hampton avenue.
Mrs. Oscar Keep, of Jacksonville,
Fla., is visiting her mother, Mrs. J.
C. Dove.
Mr. J. 11. Myers left Wednesday
afternoon on a business trip to Haiti
more.
Thames-Ward.
A wedding that was a surprise to
a great many of the friends of the
contratclng parties was that of Miss
Margaret Thames and Mr. Jes*;le
Ward of this city, which occurred on
Wednesday shortly after 10 o'clock at
the parsonage of the First Methodist
church, the Rev. D. M. McLeod per?
forming the ceermony.
The young people had decided to
get married and they had also de?
cided not to tell anyone about the
marriage until it was all over, so
they quietly went to the office of the
Clerk of Court, eecured their license
and then went on around to the
Methodist parsonage where they were
married.
Marriage License*.
Marriage licenses were Issued Tues?
day afternoon and Wednesday to
two white couples and to two negro
couples, making in all twenty-eight
couples to whom licenses have been
issued since the marriage license law
went Into effect. Of this number
eight have been Issued to white per?
sons. Those Issued yesterday were
to: White, Charley Chandler and
Miss Viola Bell Compton and Jessie
Litt Waid and Miss Margaret Thames,
ail of Bumter; Colored, Bllli Dlnklni
and Amelia Dlckson ot Bumttr and
lien J. Clark of St. Charles i nJ lie
bocca Lonton of Oswego,
CHAIRMAN DUPRE'S STATEMENT.
Chainiaii of Board of Flection Com
lltaaloncri Replies t<> Mayesvllle
Managers.
Bditor Dally Item:
In your issue of the 1-th inst ap?
pears a communication from the
managers of the Mayesvllle box in
the bond election, and a reply to the
same from Mr. E. F. Miller, the ef
hcent clerk of the election commis?
sioners. Mr. Millers reply 13 so clear
and accurate as to the facts, as to leave
nothing more to be said, except the
charge aganst the commissioners
j which he very properly left for them
j to notice. The Act of the legislature
under which the bond election was
held was published In full in the of
Ucial notice of the eletclon, which
appeared In all the county papers.
See. 2d. of that Act reads as fol?
lows: "That said election shall be
held and conducted under the direc?
tion of the Commissioners for State
Election, who shall appoint the man?
agers, prepare the ballots, canvass
the returns, and declare the results,
j as provided by law for general elec?
tions. Now this is open and clear to
all, and with this before them and
the reglstratoln book sent them which
Is never U3ed in a primary election
the managers of the Mayesvllle box
jump into print and say they thought
they were conducting a primary elec?
tion, despite the fact that Mr. John
A. Foxworth, who is an intelligent
I man, and has served, I am sure, a3
( manager in both primamry and State
elections and knows that a primary
J eletcion Is conducted by a political
( party, and a State or County election,
j by the State and the laws governing
j the same. If the Mayesvllle mana
' gers needed any further information
about the law before entering upon
I the discharge of their '.utles, they
could have easly gotten it from the
clerk of the election board who was
ready at any time to give all the in?
formation desired. The 14 votes cast
i
? that were not registered should have
I been put In separate enevlopes with
the Indorsement on the back as to
why they were so placed, then the
commissioners would have known
I what to have done with them, but
I when illegal ballots are mixed with
legal ones, and'the illegal ones affect
j the election, not knowing how they
; were cast, the law in such ca3e is to
1 s<-t the box aside and not count it.
I And now as further information and
, speaking officially for the election
, board, will say that If the majority of
the votes in the Mayesvllle box had
been "yes," instead of "no," the de?
cision of the commissioners would
have been just the same as it was,
like conditions existing.
Now, with this Information, l hop.
that the Mayesville managers, and
others concerned, will see that the
election commissioners had no
thought <?r desire to discriminate
against the Mayesville box, for the
question was never spoken of or
raised in the hoard or anywhere else.
The same course would have been i
pursued with any other box, with like
conditions. The hoard of election
commissioner! will follow the law al?
ways, in the discharge of their official
duties.
J. B .DuPRK, Chairman,
Board Election Commissioners.
Pisgah, Aug. 15, 1911.
WON'T CONCEDE DEFEAT.
_ !
Opponents of the Bond IsgUO Have
Employed Counsel to Continus
Their Fight.
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Despite the fact that the County j
Flection Commissioners have held
I
their meeting and declared that
Sumter County shall Issue bonds to
the extent of $150,000 for road im?
provement, those who opposed this is?
sue in the recent election are so far
from acknowledging defeat that
they have employed Ex-Judge R. O.
Purdy, of this city, to carry their
tight against bond issue before the
State Board of Canvassers which
meets at Columbia,
The main grounds upon which the
contest is entered, as set forth in an
appeal consisting of about eight type
writen pages ,are a3 follows:
"That In declaring the election in
favor of the bond issue the County
Board of Election Commissioners er?
red in that:
"There was no charge of fraud
made and none proven.
"There was no charge in affidavit
of Mr. L, D. Jennings and no proof
before the Board of Commissoners
that the result of the election was
changed or rendered irregular, by
the irregularities or Illegalities sug?
gested in the affidavit referred to,
and the Board had no authority to
throw out the entire Mayesville b ?x
on account of such lrregularties.
As a matter of law, the board had
no right to consider the affidavit of
Mr. Jennings, and they erred in so
doing, because it made ho charge
of fraud, irregulnrlty. or Illegality in
any definite shape, and did not any?
where contain any statement that the
general charge of lrregularties made
in the affidavit, if found to be true,
I would change the result of the elec?
tion or render it doubtful.
I "If the board of Election Commis
I
?loners had any authority whatever
to consider the affidavit referred to
they had no authority to throw out
any votes, as there was no charge of
fraud accompanied with the state
' merit that the result would be chang
ed or rendered doubtful; un-l at there,
was only 14 votes claimed to be Ir?
regular, if they bad any authority to
act upon them at all, they should
have taken testimony and ascertained
whether the result would have been '
( hanged or rendered doubtful and j
this they did not do, for without this
tin y had no right to interfere with j
any vote and they erred in SO doing." |
The appeal further states that "In
less the result of an election is
changed or rendered doubtful it will
i o\ 1??' set aside on account "f any
irregularities or Illegalities. This be
iiur the law, it is respectfully sub?
mitted that the County Election Com?
missioners had no right to go behind
the returns of the managers of elec?
tion unlesr. the board had before them
a protest charging irregularities and
illegalities alleging also as a result
such that the result was changed or
rendered doubtful; and not having
such a showing before them, and the
returns showing that the electon had
not been carried by a majority of the
votes, the board of commissioners
should have so declared, and they
ei red in so doing.
'Having undertaken to check the
Mayesvllle poll list with the registra-I
lion books ,the board could do no
more than this as there was no charge
that the result was changed or that
the election was rendered doubtful,
and there was only the request in the
' davit "to count the Mayesvllle
box and to canvass the returns of the
i'me and to check the names on the
\tt il list with the books of registra?
tion, and they erred in throwing out
the votes of that precinct.."
It is stated also in the appeal that
no notice was given the managers at
Maj esville and no notice was given to
11 ? fourteen people whose names
aer? thrown out, and hence the com
to .-sioners had no right to pass upon
the votes.
The appeal is signed by YV. B.
t.o\le with Purdy and Bland as at
t< i neys.
Attached to the appeal is the sworn
statement of G. A. Brown, a man
ager of the election .it Ward 4 in the
cl y of B?mter, that certain persons
were permtted in the election to vote
as this poll without registration cer?
tificates and some whose names were
not on the registration book, It hav?
ing been set forth as part of the ap?
peal that irregularities were allow?
ed in this city which were of the same
weight as those charged at Mayes
\iile. The reason given for failure
to appeal before the county election
beard at their meeting is that ' de?
ponent had no idea of the Mayesvhle
vote being questioned or he would
have appeared and protested the* elec?
tion at Wards 2 and 4 on the
same grounds."
A car of fresh rice flour just re?
ceived. Booth-IIarby Live Stock
Company. S-1j-H.
The Markets
New York Cotton Market.
New fork, Aug. 17.
Opened High
11 24
Jau
Feb
Mch
April
May
.In tie
July
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
IS 22
LI 29
li to
IS 13
11 23
11 21
li 27
Low Close,
It II 11 23-24
11 32
11 41
12 2?
11 18
11 24
11 29
11 21 It 31-32
11 CO 11 40-41
11 11-43
? 10 12 09-10
11 23 11 25 27
II 15 11 23-24
11 22-24
?1 21 11 27-28
Spots, 12.40?20 off.
Sales, none.
I ?pened steady.
Closed steady.
Liverpool Market.
Liverpool, Aug. 17.
Open
600
Jan?Feb
Feb?Meh
Mch?April
April?May
May?June
Jaue?July
July-Aag
Aug?Sept
Stpt?Oet
Oct?Nov
Nor?Dec
Dec?Jan
Receipts, 4,0o3.
?American, 3,000.
Sales, 2,000.
American, 1,400.
Spots, 6.73?1 off.
Opened quiet and steady.
Closed steady.
603
637
629
en
604
602
Closed
596
5*74
599
600
601
637
6274
606
600
5954
5954
In The Police Court.
W. P?. Burns, violation of automo?
bile ordinance, $3.d0 or 6 days.
Bennie Jackson, violation of the
automobile ordinance, $3.00 or 6
days.
Phillip i'.oss?r.l. alias Duke Bos
sard, and Marcus Bossard were
tried on the charge of vagrancy. They
pleaded not guilty, but after a pro?
longed case in which many witness?
es were examined as to the profit in
a small restaurant which the two nc ?
groes ran near the depot, the Record?
er found them guilty and sentenced
them to a fine of $50 or 30 days each.
Evidently Mr. Bryan didn't know
it was loaded. He knows it now, all
right, though.?Birmingham Leader.
Ginning Notice.
The Oil Mill Ginnery has been
thoroughly repaired and is now in
readiness to gin cotton. Give us your
business and we will guarantee satis?
faction. The Southern Cotton Oil
Company, A. G. Fishburne, Manager.
I $-18-?w-W.
Jusl: a Glance at These Prices
ON
Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
will tell you that you ought to save a little clothes money
right away. There's a real opportunity here. It comes
twice a year and no more at this st.ore.
ALL $25.00 SUITS
REDUCED TD
$16.65
Strictly Cash.
ALL $22.50 SUITS
REDUCED TO
$15.00
Strictly Cash.
ALL $20.00 SUITS
REIHCED TO
$13.05.
Strictly Cash.
The D. J. Chandler Clothing Co.