The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 06, 1912, Image 4
ftic Wc?mitu aii?^outjjr on.
Pnbiuhcd \Vctliiotfd4) and Saturday.
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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
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$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.