Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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[man an) joutbron. rod needs y and Saturday. ?BY PUBLISHING C9MPAMY 8UMTBR. S. C. Tersas: li.se par annum?in advance. Aalintilamf in: On* Square first Insertion.$1.00 Bvvty suesesaent insertion.60 Contracts Car thrse snsstira, or '???"r will so mads at redueed sates, ossnmsiileatlena which sub prteets Interests will ba charged fa* as seven Isensenta obituaries and tributes of rasp act win be charged for. The sumter Watchman was found In lilt and the Trus Southron In The Wstehman and Southron sow has tb% combined circulation and oeneo cf both of tho old papers, la manifestly the bast advertising sneeftom tn Sumter. Ar"??soajoo?ohm?*oBo^oaraeowooo-s NEW ENTERPRISE FOR HVMTFll. Vulcan Work latest l*lant to Pre pare for Baud arse, tn the City. The Sumter Vulcan Work, a plant In coarse of erection by Messrs J. M. Harby and L, A. Prince of this ctly, la fhs latest addition to the list of Sern tor's enterprises. This plant will open up for local work on nest Friday and will be prepared by the *flrst ef January to do work for all of the central and eastern sections of douth Carolina. As Columbia on the West. Chariot ton on the Southeast and Charlotte and Wilmington or she North, are tho nearest places at which such tire work Is done as the Sumter Vulcan Works will engage In. It ts expected that this nsw Industry for Sumter will flint plenty of work to do. The plant has bought out all of she vulcanising equipment of the 7enklns Au Specialty Company and have established their plant on Salem avenue Just in the rear of the Jen? kins establishment. At present the Installation Is not complete, but the place will be ready for all local bust sau by Ftldiy. After that time the plant expects to gradually spread un? til ther ?ornocr tn t?V* ?n ef tire work in this section of the State. % ?rk t I Is n?>w sent off to Co* Otr?ftbtst Char'.wton or eVse'.vKrs. Hesldt? *h? vulcanising work the t?m?m will do equipped with a service system of keeping cars cleaned and oiled for regular pa trenn. Ons of the chief attractions at the building at the present time, before work ban commenced. Is the body of s reeer which was constructed In Hits erty. primarily for the purpose of asking part In tho Savannah racea This idea was gtven out. however. The racer has not yet been completed, but rts cbsssts show it to be a pow? erful ear. It ts of the Ohio msVe, which car will bo sold by the com may. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NOTES ? - Prospective Clttseus. A traveling man and family desire to settle in Sumter, provided they san secure a home that thoy can rent They need this home at ones, fee t aav In correspondence with a gentleman who is 45 year* of age and wishes do settle in Sumter. Ho ts sa export bookkeeper and thor? oughly familiar with the mercantile business, especially the grocery busi? ness He baa 12.000 to $3.000 to In? vest in a paying business but would prefer to secure a position at first in erdor to become familiar with local conditions. ? ? ? A young unmarried man. 26 years of ag? desires position. Mi H fa? miliar *tth grocery business and has tra-ebd for large cotton (?11 SSssV pany. Mas good references. ? ? ? A poultry expert a rites that he is thinking of establishing a poultry farm near Sumter of about .opacity. Must have from 2 to 10 seres of binil wel; shaded and well watered. *m-uhoard I Mention Coining. Mr. Ii I Manning stated Thurs? day In his conversation with Mr. Hons?l Tuesday that he Wag lnf<>in ? fl Mlnly come to Surnt r Ife stated tha It was nov Up V mitte? to get to wot k to raise the funds which had ? en SJSjSrsnised to the railroad prior to Its pr intse to come through Summer The survey which was started from HI*hop\llle several daya ago. running West of the Sumter-Hlshopvllle pub? lic road by the Aman. Ilosehlll. mil ether plsrce. will be completed at geese time soon. The engineers were gSJ?ed off from this Survey to d? aoim work on the road between llartsvl.V snd ftlahopvllle. Marriage l icense Record, v one marriage license was la? st), i m-toI.iv Johnson l/esesne of ?er and Wverette Muldrrw of Mayesvllte were granted a license by the reunty clerk. GRADERS PASS LYNCHES' RIVER I*c Coiinty Tewliers' Association Formed; Mens' Forward Move? ment tu Religion no He Discussed. Blahopvllle. Nov. II,?A force 3f gruders are at work on thla aide of Lynches' River on the Seaboard ex? tension to this point. There are about 30 mules in ihe output, but few hands as labor is very scarce. j Farmers who are selling at this t'me are blue; 7 to 8 conu |l about what Is realised for what *s being picked now. The County Teachers' Association met in the Court House last Satur? day morning. Prof. Dukes of this place was elected president. It was ascertained or brought out during the meeting that over half of the 65 teachers In the county were college graduates. Mr, T?te made a most Instructive talk. Mr. Miller of Charleston will pre? sent next 8unday In the Presbyterian church the plan of the Mens' For? ward Movement In Religion. The men of ths county have been invited to attend and will be entertained for dinner. The walls of our new passenger station are about finished and when the roof Is on it will make a hand? some appearance, besides being a ?rreat benefit to the traveling public. D AX CP PID CONQUERS. Many Marriage License* issued Sat nrday to Whites and Darkies. Pan Cupid, that little God who is always at his work, had things his own way Saturday and perchance, so busy was be. that he shot out all of his arrows from his quiver and will have to take time off to have his stock replenished. It Is true that he was idle for several days last wesk, but his shots Saturday cer? tainly hit their marks for there wer,' many who surrendered themselves to his wiles, and, with the assist ance of Clerk of Court Parrott, were tied with Cupid's knot Those securing marriage licenses were: Mr. Cantey Breeland and Miss Oussle R. Wright of Wedge lejd Mr. C. Lv>ton Atkinson and I Miss A ia Kf. Amnion of Dswefl ?: an< Mr. C Bugen '.rogdon of Charles? ten and Miss Kthel K. Lawr'-n* .>f Sumter. The darkles to seek the clerk of court office were: Harry Sharper and Ka Burress of Tin dal; Wash Pefrson and Mattle Welch, Sumter, Robert Boykin and Martha Leonard; Sumter; Willie McKnlght and Ida McLeod of Durwood; James Harris and Margaret Toung of Borden; Davis Mallard and Rose Mlckens, Provi? dence; Jackson Frierson and Jda Johnson of Privateer; Melvln Mathls of Lynchburg and Lydia Wilson of Trinity; James Dwyer and Dora Bur? ress of TindaL PAYING THE PENALTY. F.x-Carnegie Trust Company . Presi? dent Convicted of Theft New York, Nov. 20.?William J. Cummins, the former Tennessee pro* muter and recent head of the Car? negie Trust Company, was found guilty today of the thtft of $140, 000 from the Nineteenth Ward Bank by the jury. He was remanded to the Tombs until Friday, when his coun? sel may present any motion before sentence Is pronounced. Cummins seemed stunned by the result. His attitude throughout the trial was one of apparent assurance and cheerfulneos. After the verdict was announced the prisoner remain? ed standing, in an evident daze, as Judge Davis thanked the Jury. At the Tombs he broke down and sob? bed. ' It Is not myself that 1 urn think? ing about?there are others," he .said, as he sat weeping on a bench in the warden's otnee. Then rising to nis foot he exclaimed fiercely: "Ths bKht Is JOSt beginning. 1 foal 1 haVS gone nothing wrong and I am confident that If I wa.< confr >nc ??l *ilh th?* same circumstances again 1 would do the sum ? thing." The principal witness auainsi cum? mins was Bradley Martin. Jr.. vice piealdenl "f the Nineteenth Ward Rank, Who testified that the loans put i p by that Institution and the Van | N irden Trust Company had been lurte<l over to the Carnegie Trust Company) under a trust agreement by which the money was to b*i us??,i 10 n tire Van Norden, Nineteenth Ward Bank and Twelfth Ward Mank slo ;kg held as collateral on loans. The State held that Cummins had $1*0,(00 of this fund chocked to himself and that h<- need it to bolster up the finances of his various Indus? trial companies in the Booth, which tht Mate attorney referred to ' ps; ? ? " i ompenl* a Brooks. Wilson, aged l?. and Joseph Bheraad? aged it, were burn ed to death in bod when ttu house of Mr. Walter M. Wilson, of tbbevllle county, was homed Mend iy night The halanni of the fnjnlll se< iped. Farmers' Union News ?AND Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers (CM*?? by K. W. Dubh*, Prelle,,! F?r?.,?V Uuion of ^ Comuy.) >, - ? f? ? Markets for Producers. "The consumer and producer must be brought closer together. We waste too much in passing our produce from hand to hand. Living is high in the city and poor in the country because of this. I have spoken of the public markets of Springfield. Ohio, and Madison, Wisconsin, as ex? amples of successful and unsuccess? ful methods of cutting out the mid? dlemen. And now 1 want to tell of two cities which I have just visited In which 1 saw the passage from the market less state to the condition of cities supplied with markets. These are the two largest cities of Iowa, Des Molnes and Sioux City. Neither has had a public market until this last summer. Des Moines I has nearly or quit a hundred thous- | and people, and Sioux City about j half that. Both are fine, lively, hust ling towns, surrounded by ideal gar? den lands. In Des Moines especially ' there has been great complaint of the high cost of living. The com- j merclal organizations finally saw that unless working people could live cheaply, wages would have to go up, and manufacturing would suffer. Do you see the situation? It was a struggle not so much between the j middleman and the people on both | sides of him, as between a badly or- 1 ganlzed system of food-supply and the general prosperity of the town. j They had no market-house in eith- j er city. In Des Moines a little square j back of the City Hall was available, I In Sioux City nothing but the open street. In each case, the city com- j missions?they have the commission form of government?decided to use the streets. Each scored a gratifying success, j I was in Des Moines on the tenth market-day, and it was wonderful to trie ^banee. I found the farm-< ? ab pleased with th? result. One man hi..i crabapples which he was Selling for fotty cents a half bush- 1 el bask* r. He told BtS that In for? mer yoars he couia nm, ? . fro th*? grocers more than twenty-five cents a bushel and often let them rot on th? ground. Green corn was sell lug for ten cents a dozen, whereas, before the market started, the gro? cers paid only seven or eight cents. Similar results were reported on al? most every sort of truck-farm pro? duce. 1 watched the loads in wagons gradually dwindling to a small heap against the tailboard, and finally the empty wagon pulled out for home? cleaned up. And th?? consumers, rich and poor, pulled out for home. too?loaded down. 1 watched a woman .shopping. She had a little boy with her, draw lnp a small eart. The child was dressed In two garments. and 1 don't believe there was two dollar*' worth of clothes on both mother and "on. She was a Jewess or an Italian < r a Uun?evidently the wife of some poor immigrant not yet adjusted to our life, or striving deadfully hard to save, or out *?f work, it took her ten minutes to make her llrst pur? chase?I think she felt the breast and hefted every chicken in the market?and one ? or twice went back to get a good one and found it gone. Finally she went away, with a line Plymouth Rock lying In the cart like a French nobleman In a tum? bril on his way to the guillotine du? ring the Reign of Terror. She had a lot of onions two heads of cab? bage, some lettuce, ? few potatoes. .some, beans ami other staples. And on the top of the load were two fine cantaloups. I could imagine the sagsrpeSS With which that small bov would approach ths table laden with these esculents?many of them out of reach of the family until the pub? lic market opened, it rather warm? ed my heart. An sateemed reader of Farm und Fireside, Mr, B. P, Ham lb i f Dela? ware, writes of the old Wilmington .market very Interesting! He nays: "The street market \\ dng ton, Delaware, are watched with wonder; and BO -irre,] to me thai a short description <<t them mlghl prove Interesting to the read 11 of Form ;in.i Fireside, "They are situated on two streets ami extended from Second to Tenth 1 rests, making sixteen squares. The curt' is divided Into apace of seven feet, making room for marly seven hundred market-wagons, Recently ? air clerk of ths market told me that every' space was r mted. We pay $4.60 fop a year's rent. Our m:ir kei days are Wednesdays and Satur? days?rain or shin", summer and \\ Inter. "Kariv in the morning, often be? fore daylight, hundreds ?>r. wagona, I" id< d with all kinds of or^duee will be ??n their way to the oily, some of them Coming thirty or forty miles. When they reach iho city, they back up to their rented space on the curb, put their horses in the stable, set up their bench and are ready for busi? ness. From that time till two o'clock people with their baskets will be go? ing up and down tho streets, looking for their supplies. Most of them purchase just enough to last till the next market-day, as they know they can get a fresh supply from the farms and gardens. It would be quite an exceptional casj if a person did not find what was wanted. "A short time ago a lady and gentleman from Iowa stopped at our bench and expressed their surprise at the wonderful seen?. They had never seen anything of the kind. We were selling all kinds of vegetables and flower-plants, and they were sur? prised at the demand for them. They enjoyed looking at our flower .market on Sixth Street. Another gentleman said it was as good as a circus to see the markets. About two o'clock the market Is over and the teams are soon on their way home? ward." The cities which are starting may read this with good cheer. Some time they, too. will have complete markets. At present they have small? er but very effective markets at no cost to anyone. On the tenth mar? ket-day in Des Molnes there were over two hundred teams on the street ?the little square was 'overflowed, and the line had extended up and down and around for blocks. In Sioux City there were less than seven tv-flve after four weeks or so of ex? perience?but In Des Moines the reg? ular hucksters are allowed on the market, and In Sioux City it is re? served for the farmers alone. I don't know whirh is the best. In Des Moines every seller must display a 11 lib ' what he is?a blue one with' "huckster" on It if thai is nis station in life, n:)d "Gardener" if he rais' ? h;s own truok. Personally,, i think the hucksters be p to make the market, and 1 tnwiK ?.??o Moines plan of making everyone sail ?and makes sales?under his own colors is a good one. They arrested one huckster three times th<* same day for putting up a gardener's card. Both markets began very small? with only two to live teams. Both are growing. Each has brought prices from ten to one hundred per cent higher to the farmers for their produce. And both cities are plan? ning market-houses. I hope they won't do as Madison did?put It out of town. The slogan must be ' get together!" Get together in co-operative organ? izations. Get together in public markets. The hunger of the world ll a great fire which we farmers must, furnish the water each day to quench. We ihouTd not longer be content with the old-fashioned "fire line" in which pails- were passed from hand to hand, slopping fifty per cent mit in delivery. We must have the unbroken hose of the co-operative or? ganization and the public market? and the pressure of public opinion behind it.?Herbert Quick in Farm and Fireside. Don't waste your money buying strengthening plasters. Chamberlain's Liniment Is cheaper and better. Dampen a piece of flannel with it and bind It over the affected parts and it will relieve the pain and soreness. For sale by all dealers. "Tt is a pleasure t-> tell you that -hnmborlaln's f^ough Remedy is the best cough medicine T have ever used," writes Mrs. Hugh Campball, of T,r\vonla, Ga. "I have used it with all my children and the results have* be*n highly satisfactory." For sale by all dealers. Why Suffer From Eczema ? A Georgia Man Tills His Experience. 1 was a M let cd with a very hud case of Ejcscma f*>r twenty-Arc years which was in my feet, legs und hips. Through all tills time 1 tried different remedies and Doctor's prescrlptlont, obtaining no relief until I used your III NT's CURE. One bos (ftOc) cured me entirely, and though two years have elapsed I have bad no return of ho trouble. Naturally I regard ?v a-, the great IN remedy in the world. Yours, .). P. Perkins. Atlanta, (.a. Manufactured and Guaranteed by \. B. 1< * aids Medicine Co., Slu r man, Texas. Bold by Sibert's Drug Store. THE PEOPLES' BANK Do your utmost to keep a .?nu< balance with your bank. The bank will notice this and will be ready to extend accommodations. THE PEOPLES' BANK Mr. Theodore Roosevelt Says: Extravagance rots character; train youth away from it. On the other hand, the habit of lav? ing money, while it stiffens the will also bright? ens the energies. If you would be sure that you are beginning right, begin to saye." THE BANK OF SUMTER, SUMTER, S. C. A minute of Judgment is worth a day of ener? gy The Farmers' Bank and Tru^l Co. COME WITH US. LIME, CEMENT, ACME PLASTER. SHINGLE* LATHS. FIRE BRICK. DRAIN FIPB. ETC TJoxr /"Vain Rice Flour. Ship Stuff, Bran, nay, Urain, Mixed Cow &ad Chicken Feed. Horses. Mules. R No Order Too Large Or Too SmalL Booth-Harby Live Stock Co. SUMTER. SOUTH CAROLINA. GEORGE H. HURST, UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER 124 N MAIN STREET Day Phone 539 :: :: :: Night Fhone 2dl r Undertakers and Embal? and Private Ambula ore HEARSES FOR WHITE AND COLORED Ring 14 or 251?Day or Night Prompt Service J. D, Craig Furniture Company 8, 10, 12 West Liberty Street. DR. N. G. OSTEEN, JR., DENTIST. 18 W. Liberty St. -:- Phone No. 30 -OPPIOI BOURfl 8 TO 1. ?