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ftic Wc?mitu aii?^outjjr on. Pnbiuhcd \Vctliiotfd4) and Saturday. ?BY? OSTEEM PUBLISHING COMPANY 8UMTBR. a. C. Torn**: $1.10 per annum?In advance. Ad verUeeaneeite: One Square first ineertlon.$1.00 ?very subsequent ineertlon.10 Contract* for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub? serve private Interests wili be charged fee as advertisements. Obituaries and tribute* of respect will be charred for. The Sumter Watchman was found ad la ItiO and the True Southron In life The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and influence cf both of the old papers, and la manifestly the best advertising aaedlum In Sumter CHAmBKR Or commerce notes. What a Well Managed shoo Factory May Mean for Sumter. The securing of new Industries f >r any city Is a difficult matter these days when the keen competition be? tween cities la considered. Every city and town la after new Industries and each offers special Inducements to a factory that Is contemplating re saoval. The very best Industrios tha' any city can have are those that have been built up locslly. Industries tb it have been started with local capital and have started In a small way and have grown with their markets. Thee Industries withstand financial distress and are permanent future*. Better that any city should have ten indus? tries employing 25 hands each lb ? ?? employing ISO ban is at the start. If one of the ten should fall '. barm Is done but the result Is disas? trous should the large fall or move %way. The same la true of a factory which business Judgment would re? ject for the reason thi.t local condi? tions do not warrant Its establish? ment All these matters should be carefully considered before any fac? tory hi Invited to make Its home In your city. The shoe factory propoaltlon has been before the Manufacturing Com? mittee of the Chamber of Commerce for three months. Whether such a factory would succeed In Sum tor wa* carefully Considered A DejnraJttee from th? Chamber of Cesssneri vlett*d the neare it large shoe factor) at Wtnston-salem. N. C Two years ago this factory was housed In one small building and employed less than fifty hands, and made but a few hundred pairs of shoes per day. Now It employes over two hundred hands with twenty-six men on the road and awee two buildings with three floors In each building. This factory Is making over fifteen hundred pairs of sheas dally and has recently increased Its cap'tal by a stack issue of $100.. 000. The committee was reliably in? formed that this factory will net over $10.000 this year. Practically all band? have been trained from looal material under skilled foreseen and the labor Is almost entirely white. A factory of two hundred hands would mesn an Increase In population of about one thonssnd people. Figure what such an Increase would mean for the business of Sumter In the re tall line alone. There la not a .ihoe factory outside ef Sumter In the entire State. The raw material Is mostly leather which Is a staple little subject to variation In price and ts shipped In car load lots while the finished article is most? ly sold and shipped in small lots, hence the advantage in freight rates In all the surrounding trade terri? tory. Another advantage Is the fact tSjst ?mpared with other Industrie? there have be'jn com pars tl very few failures In this business ? .1 hsSOl sn Investment In the stock .f a sho| gojslory at considered good. Remem? ber also thst the lat?or Is of a class that will certainly benefit the cltv ee a whole which Is not always trio* of many factories. The men who will manage this factory. If It Is ??-? lah!l**?ed In Sumter. hSBph confl dence. After all. the success nf | fsetorv must depend upon the man- I agenient. Every cltlsen of fum'cr who nviy care ?o do so will hav?- the Sport ur> It v of talking wltfl these men < n Saturday and th?y will t. ? glad to sn*wer anv question* rela? tive to the RMMIOfaeture of shoos An 'ndusfry ??f thin kind ddSJ Sol knock >i* our doors every day |i the year. There are plenty of ot h??r eitle* that will Jump at the fawSfia In secure such a factory nnd two? will do so If Sumter neglects the oppor? tunity. Kvwy factory added to our lndust-|e? onlv makes It easddff Is secure ? ther*. These Is not a buwb ness man In Sumter whose l?uv i Will not ??.- helped h\ lot iflng this plant here It |g an o,u,y matter lo prove by a few minutes of Sgtlf Ing. There are business men In Swat ter who own considerable pn.p r who aro not on the list of auhscrlb era to the stock of this plant No matter how big you may think you are, you are never too big to Join with the others and no matter how small you may think you are, you are never too small but that you can help. What are you going to do about It? Sumter can not stand still. It Is either forward or backward. Which shall it be? Hiss Emma Tweed who spent the holiday season In the city with her brothers. Messrs. Geo. G. and Finley Tweed, h&3 returned to her home in New Jersey. PAPERS TAKEN UNDER ADVISE? MENT. Attorneys for Respondent* Agree to Pay Costa If Injunction Proceedings Are Dismissed. Columbia, Jan. 4.?After argument by counsel, during which attorneys for the respondents/offered to pay costs, if the proceedings were dis? missed, the Supreme Court this morn? ing took the papers under advisement, reversing its decision, in the proceed? ings for injunction against the alleged gambling in connection with the re- ; cent hor3e racing meet at the State I Fair grounds, brought December 8, by James A. Hoyt, on affidavits by McDavld Hortion, J. Edw n Brunson, Beverly Herbert and J. W. Ashburn. The court indicated by questions to counsel that it might not be fair to dismiss the proceedings and thereby impose costs on the petitioner, when j ! the proceedings had been brought h j good faith at some expense and the j race meet had been ended on the eve i of the hearing. Assistant attorney general DeBruhl, appearing for the petitioner, eombatted the point urged by respondents' counsel, P. H. and W. S. Nelson, that the court should not pass on an hypothetical question. DoBruhl cited the well known ^asc of the State ys. the City Club, in which the Supreme Court overruled the action of a Circuit Judge, who had refused injunction on the ground that the nuisance complained of, If It had ever existed, had been abated. Mr. Harry Hull left on Tuesday for his home at Stateburg, after visit? ing in the city for several days. In The Police Court. The following eases were tried In the Police Court: Sam Jackson, drunk and discharg? ing firearms in the city limits, was found auilty on both charges and sentenced to pay $5 and $25, respect? ively, or to serve 10 days and 30 uays. W. C. Wilson, cursing, $15 or 30 days. Ladson Cantey, gambling, $5 or 10 days. Mr. Hugh Reiser, of a visitor in the city Wed RE VAL Clearance Sale FOR FIFTEEN DAY We are going to clear this Store of WINTER WEARABLES, no matter what it costs us in LOST DOLLARS to accomplish our object , Within a short time we will have to move to No. 14 North Main Street, and we want to avoid carrying a dollars' worth of the present Stock into new quarters. HERE ARE A FEW OF OUR PRICE INDUCEMENTS IT WILL P A Y YOU TO INVESTIGA 1 Ejm $30.00 Suits, now $22.50 Suits, now $15.00 Suits, now 4 7.50 Suits, now $20.00 $15.00 $10.00 $ 5.00 $30.00 Overcoats, now $2(1.00 Overcoats, now $18 00 Overcoats, now $10.00 Overcoats, now $20.00 $13.34 $1200 $ 6.67 $7.50 Trousers, now $6.00 Trousers, now $4.50 Trousers, now $3.00 Trousers, now $5.00 $4.00 $3.00 $2.0(r $10.00 Knickerbocker -uits, now $ 6.00 Knickerbocker Suits, now S6.67 $4 00 $7.50 Knickerbocker Suits* now $4.50 Knickerbocker Suits, now $5.00 $3.00 This Sale Will Continue For Fifteen Days From January 6th to January 21 si: Men's and Boy's Furnishing Goods. $2.00 Negligee Shirts, now $1.50 Negligee Shirts, now $1.00 Negligee Shirts, now .50 Negligee Shirts, now $1.35 $1 12 75 38 $3.00 Underwear, now. . $2.00 $2.50 Underwear, now . $1.67 $1.50 Underwear, now. $1.00 $1.00 Underwear, now . j? All Gloves, Neckwear and Hosiery at Co^t. Nothing Charged at Cut Prices-?Strictly Cash.