Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cbt ?ttbnum aub ^outljron. KlWmt ** *ho Poitofflc?' ?4 Samter, & ^ C, m Second Class Matter. PHRSONAJD XETTS. Mrs. Harry Given has returned from w here sho has been visiting relatives. Miss Anna Louiso Brown spent the ? k end w Ith her parents Mr. and IpMrs. W. A. Brown, and returned to "Inthrop College Monday. Mrs. W. I?. Mlddleton has gono to IIal PA, \ i , |of ii ten days' stay with relatives then Magistrate J. L. Glllls. of Rembcrt, as a visitor to the city en IfodUSS iy. Mrs. Jns. Barr, of LecsviUe. S. C, I* visiting the family of Bev. W. L Herbert. H? many friends of Mrs. A. W. sj u.il be glad to knove tj,at she is getting ah?ng nicely after her re? cent operation in the Infirmary at i loren. e. Mrs. Thames was sick in the Tourney Hospital for several hveek*. after which she left to stay [with her daughter at Bcniettsville. l?r. Mary liricc Herbert, of Cbcs Iter. Is visiting her brother, tho 1 cv. Waltor L Herbert. Mr. Louis Parr still continues [at the IblMty Hospital. Miss Lilbe i ' ?! om Is spending her 1spring holidays in Columbia with her friend. Miss Iva Hello Hughson. Mrs. K. sternsberger. of Greens [bsro. X. C. tn.l Mrs. T. Bearlstein of _Abbavills are visiting their parents, a.Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Strauss. s Heath of S. II. Hcvill. Samuel 11 Bevill died at his home, 'No 12 Blandiig street Wednesday night after beim, -anhned to his room Iwith heart disease for about two months. The funeral services were (held at Bethany Church, Leo County, ^Thursday aftcrnoor at 4 o'clock. Mr. Bevill had for a number of rears been an overseer, having given lUp position on Mr. C. I* Cttttino'l [farm on a< count of sickness. He was [*8 years of age and leaves a widow Is I one daughter. Miss Janio Bevill. ill two sons. John B. und Joseph A. |Of this city and another son in Co > lumbla. Delegates to (.rand Innige. At a meeting of Game Cock Lo(L,> . .Knights of Pythias, on Monday even tojf three delegates were elected to attend the meeting of the Grand , Lodge In Chester. May loth to 12th. I and the Chancello ? Commander was 7 delegated authority to appoint four more delegates to attend tho con , ventlon. Those selected were Jas C. , Bryan, W*. I. Whltheud and lt. P. \ Won! of Appreciation. I As one. who was kindly mentioned by the Item SSj aceount of tho slight asslstatue that t rendered on the County School l?ay. I wish In the cause of Justice, to say that Miss h\ W McLean, our supervising princi? pal, did far more for this occasion than any of us, except Dr. Ilayns worth, whoso enforced absenco was the . ,iiimo of such keen regret to all who wire Interested. All who were a- ma in their assist,ui< | will, 1 am heartily concur In this expres? sion of Just appreciation. ->'. If. IM minds. Superintendent City Schools. ? ?prissj IsntMais for Ihnssnv The children of the city schools are enjoying their annual spring holi? days Thursday and Friday, these ? I iyi h i ving been decided upon as hol ? -? for the pupils. Many of tho d children have taken the holi? day as an occasion for holding plc - and Thursday there were hun n ds of them to go for an nll-dav outing at some nearby picnic grounds. Many are visiting friends at other ind others of the hoy* have ?na t<> Columbia to attend Um on* t .re ?I and athletic i out est s which will be hold there Thursday and Fri oay. I ro d for I ra import ing W hiskey. <.. \V 1: 111 * 11. the negro Who was .I Saturday by t if lice rs \V. .!. and ,i. Wi Lawrence on the ? l of iransoorltng whiskey, was i !? I Mowdajf afternoon iti tf?t Re? COUfl and was found not irullty. .Mensis. I' I Beirdon, Secretary ol I he Chamber of CommOfOS and W. I". || lertSOn, Cltj Manager, ha\f b. . it appointed in charge ol the t Minmltlcc to make arrangements for Ihs sotertalament or ihe Charleston BoOStSffS who SOWM here on April lithi arriving at LSI O'clock Ii thr morning. The VlsitOfl will stay fOI two hours and a meeting has been niged In the Acudcm\ Of Ittitle at nhJeti sppeo print* sprechen <?f weH WlH be made. serious DirnotJurc averted. Ti unties Beinum Negro and White* In Lower INirt 61 County Settled Without Injury. - " V r What eeemed for a time to portend serious trouble between the whites ami Marks in the lower part of. the county near Mr. j. t. Brogdon'i place cams to an amicable eetlement this morning when a negro, who was Wanted us a witness, gave himself up to a white man and allowed himself to be taken before Magistrate Hodgi . The negro way named Witherepoon; It seems that he confessed to a negro detective that he knew something concerning the burning of Mr. Hrog don'S ginnery last fall. The detective endeavored to get him to come be fore the magistrate to tell what he knew, hut this Witherspoon refused to do. Later when an attempt was made to ancst him, he ran into a barn, where he .ailed several other negroes, all of them fully irmed, and detled anyone to take them out of the place. A number of tho White people of tho community at once armed themselves and repaired to the scene to take the negro by force. It was dec ided to wait until the arrival of the sheriff on tho scene. The ne? gro, while they wcro waiting went to his employer and here was met by J. it. Brit ton, who pereauded him that it was best for him to go before the magistrate. Mr. Lritton told the ne? gro that if he gavo up and went he fore the magistrate ho would not be arrested, lie was wanted merely as a witness and there were not any charges agr.inst him. On this state? ment tho negro allowed himself to go with Mr. Britton, and the sheriff and his dt pUty, when they arrived on tho st sne, did not have any trouble to meet. a woman named Qleaeon was ar reated several days ago for setting lire to the ginnery and her hushand was arrested at the Sumter depot this morning hy a member of tho police force on the same charge. It is also understood that clues lead the of? ficers to suspect another negro for sitting the store on tire recently and they are in behind him. w. c. t. v. meeting, MISS ClOO Attaway, State OrganUcr to Speak Here May 1th. A very pie leant meeting of the W, C, t. U? of Sumter was held on M uch 17th at the residence of Mrs. J. S. Book, W. Calhoun street, also on ! last Tuesday at the Y. M. C, A. At l hoth of these meetings tho regular program was carried out. and plans ?>f work, discussed. On Tuesday at- k lernOOn, in addition, each member brought a question relative to some phaes of the temperance work. The answering of these queetionsj proved a source of much interest. The presi? dent s|ihm' feelingly of the recent death of Mrs. Lillian M. Stererrs, I President of the National w. c? T. c. i It was announced that Miss ClOO I Attaway. State Organizer of the W. . ?*. t. r. of South Carolina, would I 11 Sumter May 4th, and arrange? ments were made for a public meeting' at Trinity Methodist church. It. is hoped that a large audience of the Christian people, of sumter will greet this earnest temperance worker. Cor. Secretary. IIK.lt SCHOOL WINS game Defeats Cumdcii Team by Close Score of 8 to ?. The local High School Kam defeat id the Camdeu High School Tuesday on the Camden grounds by a score of v to H. The game was hard fOUght, ft show n by the score. Sumter batted In her winning runs in the ninth Inning, winning out by a timely hit by Allen. The Visiting team had slightly the advantage Of their opponent! throughout the game, although both teams put up a hard Struggle. The team showed good team work which added tO the interest of the contest. Brown pitched a etar game and Nunnamaker did Rne work at ft rat base, Burns caught a steady game and Allen deserves credit Tor batting In ihe winning runs. 'Ido- score by innings was: , Sumter.I 0 1 ? 0 I 1 0 I?8 Camden.I ? 0 0 <> 0 l' i 0 8 Latteries: Sumter?Crown and Burns; Camden, Smith and Watklna. Equal Suffrage Lecture, At the Chamber of commerce on Ihe second door of the City National Bank building at B.3Q oV lock on Prl? day evening, This is not a militant movement, so do nut be afraid lo turn out. There wid positively be no torch light procession and no window ? smashing, and perfect safety guar? anteed tO all. In other words you a ill listen l< an Instructive and entertaining loc ? lure, on one of the most \itai tpiei Hons of the day and It behooves n?? Intelligent, hroadmlnded and pro ? Igreaslve men and women ot Bumtct I to I urn out in full force. W. E. Mi itKiDi: HEARING. Itiirnl Policeman Charged with Ising Office t<> Further His Own Ends. From The Daily Item, April 21. Tho County Board nu t today in the court house to hear charges against Rural Policeman w. E. McBride. I There were six of the charges, tho Chief of them being that he used the Office he was holding to further his i own ends. The c harges arc: 1. Arrest of two small negro boys for shooting on public highway, same being for personal ends. 2. Stopping of sale of fresh meats and fish in Shiloh township anil there? by causing great inconvenience to all parties concerned. 8. Arresting and prosecuting two white men, Grooms and Minis, for cursing on public highway and the failure to arrest negro man, Bit Lowry, alleged to be guilty of tin name crime at the same time and place. 4, Arresting negro man, for theft of buggy shafts, who was in bed with a fully developed case of smallpox und the bringing of negro to office }f Magistrate Player and allowing children to go in and out of the of 'icc without warning them or their I a ten is of the danger, thereby causing the children to be exposed to the dis? ease. 5. Using Official authority for the furtherance of his own ends. This charge is supported by No. 1 and oth? ers not set out. it. Cursing in store in Shiloh town hop. The Board adjourned for dinner al? ler the completion of the hearing and tmswer on the first charge, it having boon decided to hear each ( barge and j; reply to it separately. The hearlnj Will H<- resumed this afternoon and probably completed sometime today. Tho first (barge, the arrest of tWGI <mall boys for shooting on the public;, highway for personal ends. These boyi were Dudley Goodman, who? loomed to be about eighteen or nine? teen years of ago and Willie James , Best, Who stated he was twenty-threeh rears Of age. The testimony was that Joodman had told the rural police-' nan that he had fired the shot and ater he, Goodman, had asked W. T. Hi ['layer, for whom he worked, to pay , i line of ten dollars for him. This , ,vas paid to Magistrate: Player. s'tithcr boy had ever been arrested i >r had come to trial. In reply W. E. McBride stated that ic had seen Best fire the gun and that ic had entered the charge against Joodman when Goodman had toldl ilm that he had fired a shot around he bend of the road. He had allowed i he boys to go on and later Goodman tad ?ompromised and paid the fine ind when he wont for Best, the boys father bad asked him not to arrest be boy, saying that ho would pay he line, Vann West, the father, had m en to Magistrate Player and had i nade a settlement with him. lie r.aid hat he had never received the money. Magistrate Player stated that there tad been no trial, because Goodman ind Best's father, had asked that they ?o allowed tO settle the cast without i trial by the payment of a fine. He iad accepted the lines and returned hem in his report for November 1012. it developed that the shoot? ing had been done In November, 1012, shortly after McBride was ap? pointed a rural policeman* The. hearing is being conducted In the court room and there were quite ? number of interested spectators. BoAB1 > DISMISSED CHARGES. Proved to Be Without Foundation and McBride Adjudged Not Guilty. Rural Polieman w. E. McBride, whose district is in the Shiloh and Mayesvllle section of Sumter County, was on Tuesday afternoon adjudged not guilty of the various charges which had been brought against him before the County Board and the charges were dismissed. The ver? dict of the board was: "Wo bud that Rural Policeman w. E. McBride Is guiltless of all (barges preferred against him." In fact, from the evi? dence adduced at the hearing, which' lasted all of Tuesday, it would be indeed thai Mr, McBride was a dill gent and efficient officer of the coun? ty. The (lrsl ( barge of arresting two small negro boys for personal rea? sons was tal en up In the morning and Its films) nature was shown in Tues? day's account of the hearing, as stut od In The Item of that date. The next (barge was that he had Stopped the selling Of bsh and meats in tb<- neighborhood, much to the In? convenience Ol the citizens. As there was no evidence to show that the sellers ware vending their own home raised meat and llsh, it was left to be judged that the) were buying and selling ihese articles for their own gain w it bout pti> Ing I he license re nulred by the State law, o practise thai M r. Mclhide stoppt d. The next charge was arresting two w hit* men named Grooms and Minis and allowing a negro, W.hll l?owry, to go without arrest, although ho was as guilty as the white men. Grooms and Mima were both put on the stand and admitted cursing, but stated that it was after the negro had first cursed thom. although Minis suited that he had told Mr. McBrlde that he had started the row and was responsible for it all. Grooms said that he was not guilty of being drunk and M ma stated that he had drunk as much 08 he wanted, although both admitted that they had been drinking. Mima Has paid his fine of $10, while Grooms had paid only $5 on his fine and still had $6 to pay. McBrlde, when on the stand stated that he had arrested the two men, Who were drunk and whom be had heard cursing, He had not heard the negro curse. The ease had been com? promised by agre ement of the men to pay their line <?f $10 each and not. to stand trial. Mis statements were cor? roborated by the testimony of Mag? istrate Player and Constable Weaver ami by an affidavit of A. J. Goodman, the only other white witness* to the cursing and drunkenness of the two men. Dr. Gamble testified that there had been chicken pox In the community during the first part of January and the small pox had not been called t" his attention until tho first part of February. This was in reference to the fourth charge of arr< Bting a negro an I bringing him to Bhiloh and lodg? ing him in a building there where children were permitted to come in and out Without being warned that the negro had smallpox. W. WJ. Green, one of the prosecut? ing witnesses, stated that the negro was brought to Shiloh on the 17th of December. Mis children, who had been In the building where the negro was held, took a disease about the sixth or seventh, of January, twenty two days afterwards. He said tho doctor was not called In and the chil? dren continued to go io school and m bneqttcntly many of the other school children took the same disease and it was called smallpox by tho doctors. He said that the disease in Januarj and in February and March was the same, or, said to he the same by those that had it or saw it. It, p. McElveen admited that he had previously had trouble with McBrlde and Magistrate Player and was not on friendly terms with them. He said ijUat his hoy caught the disease at IphQol and brought it home, all of tho etiler members Of the family hav? ing it later except those who were Vaccinated. s s. W. Coker had seen the negro with an eruption on his face, but h id not closely looked at him. John K. I Uveen, another of the prosecuting witnesses, stated that he knew noth-j ir>g of the various charges against Mi Bride except by hearsay. He stat? ed that he had told McBrlde that he had introduced the smallpox into the community by bringing the negro there. In answer to these charges the ru? ral policeman stated that he had been warne.1 before be went to the negro that he would try to keep him o:*f by jl^sjgy ^j^^^e^ss^MMMM><?WMs^gtg*giWr<r"^*T|> M| 1 a lpl'*11 '??1 telling him thai he had smallpox, thai the man did have another eruptive disease. He and several others had ridden with the man for live miles be fore they tiHik him to the magistrate ?uei he certainly would not have done this If he had had the slightest Idea that the man was afflicted with the dlseasd as ho had never had it nor had hern vaccinated at that time. There had been chicken pox In the community In December and January but he had not heard anything of ti:' were not present and they were dropped. Mr. Locklear, who state' that he lived In the extreme corner of the county, said that as a policeman McBride had done much to stop dis? order and promiscuous shooting on the public roads in that, section, esp - cially on Saturday and Sunday nights. He was not related to the defendant, but he wished that he was. As far as he knew the policeman had been polite and Impartial, treating all with courtesy and diligently upholding the laws of tho county. Sheriff Bradford and Deputy Sher? iff Epperson both stated that they had alway found Mr, McBride a good and efficient officer. This closed tho hearing and the board after only a few seconds' consid? eration returned their finding On the hearing. Tl 1" EY CREEK DRAINAGE. District Formed at Recent Meet It and Steps to Be Taken to Have Bonds Issued. At a recent meeting of those in? terested in the matter it was decided to organize the Turkes Creek Drain ago District and plans were made to have the necessary arrangements made so that beau's could be hsued to < arry on the work planned. At present the area is being map? ped out and the plans and specifica? tions arc being prepared. WAR NEWS EAGERLY AWAITED. People of Sumter Intensely Interested In Fighting b? Mexico. The fact the people of Sumter are Intensely interested in tho lighting Inj Mexico is decidedly noticeable to everyone. This is the main topic on tho .-treats and at the homes of many' of the people. One is stopped all along the streets and the Inquiry is al? ways "What is the t?test news from Mexico?" The members of the local militia company are keen to be called out to the border and a great many oth? ers have stated their willingness to go, If there is a call for volunteers; but others do' not consider this a war Of right on the part of the United states and have stated that they "did not desire to bo made a target for a Mexican gun." The situ itlon is intensely interesting to all, and all war news Is awaited with greatest anxiety. The bulletins at Slbert's Drug store constantly attract large crowds and are read with the greatest avidity as soon as they are posted. VT ?V ;! iv ON VYUC't K STORK. Building Being Removed to Sumter Street and New Building Cora necnci <1. Illustrating the "live wire, prompt ncss" of Sumter people is the fact that work has aln i 'iy been 'ommonccd on the ' ling for the new Wreck Store :?; tho Ldl ig formerly oc i upyli g the ]"?? misea had been moved a< rosa the street. The ol< Kentucky Home, pg it was ml nown, Is being moved from Its old location by Messrs. Moses and Upshur acroes Main street and through the vacant lot across to Sum ter street, wh< o ii will be repaired. ? nd put In condition to he sold. The trenches for the foundation for the now Btorc, which will be one of tho, largest one story stores in town, are being dug and brick for the building Is being placed on the ground. , SUPERVISORS TO ORGANISE. V- 111 Meet in < olumbia Next Wednes? day. April 29th, to I'orm Associa? tion. Supervisor Pitta and ihe members f the .Minder County F.oard of Com tnission* rs will go to Columbia next VV'ednesd y, April 29th, at the invita tion Ol 1 lot er K. J. Watson to ittend a meeting for the purpose of forming an organization ot the coun? ty : ipervisors and county commis? sioners. There are already associations of m ?st the other county oilicers and tho formation of the supervisors and commissioners into an association is in l i e with other organizations re cently form? >\. Sumter Boys Volunteer. At a meeting of the Sumter Light Infantry volunteers were called upon among the members of the company to go to .> dco and practically every member of tho company subscribed his name to the list of volunteers wil ling to b< I outside of the United Statt i and Into Mexico, if the occa? sion arose that they were needed. veral new names were added to the m< ? rshlp of the company, which iy now in pretty good shape to go, i ? lb d upon. The boys have been drilling much of late and have m< fairl) proficient in the various manoeuvres. Capt. retry M. Brown last nigr t?: mploted his examination and he I ? nt his papers to the Adjutant an I Inspector General. He has also aske rr an order eal.irg f"or the electioa t a first lieutenant and this order i i xpectod at any time. Second Lieu Edward Bradford and First Sergean Robert T. Brown arc the candidate tor first lieutenant. The p' ' plo of Sumter at present are lnt< rested in the Mexican situation and Liu socalled "war news." The local ? omi any of militia has volunteered Its services and la ready to respond at any time* ?aiucmRMOSMt et Ready For ?JA r 2 ?19 I VVe have the things that c?o to make your home a more cheerful and attractive place to spend the summer, and heip to give you "vacation days'" the whole summer through. LAWN MOWERS, SWINGS, BEUGER?, WATER COOLERS, SCREEN DOORS AND WINDOWS nARImuuiiO, LAWN SPRINKLERS, Paints, Oils and Varnishes for every purpose Begin your "fly swatting" campaign now by screening your doors and windows. The cost is reasonable. i. burns ? SON 35 N. Main St. Phone 463