The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 24, 1915, Image 2
Cbi ??lattbman airti Soutbron.
idftltb? Postoatoe M Biunter, S.
v.. es flecood Claas Mauer.
person AIj mention.
Mr. A. A. Brearley. of St. Charles,
waa a visitor to the city on Friday.
Miss Annie Herbert .of North Car?
olina and Miss Sallie Jones, of Mn
ii >n 8. OL, are the guests of Mrs. H.
W. Ba\*.
Miss May Hammond has returned
home after a visit to her aunt. Mrs.
J. M. Harwick.
Mr. J. P. Booth ha? returned to
the city after a week In St. Louis
spent In buying horses nnd mules for
the Booth-Boyle Lave Stock Com?
pany.
Ml** Marlon Satterwhltc. Instructor
In art at Winthrop College, and Misses
Mabel Booth and Esther Clarke, stu?
dents at Winthrop, are spending a
short holdlday In the city.
Miss Irene Bryan, who Is teaching
at Florence and Miss Louise Martin.
*vh<> in teaching at Timmonsville. are
spending the week end in the city.
Miss Louise Carson, of St. Charles.
Is spending the week-end with her pa?
rents.
Mrs. Minnie Heed and son. of Co?
lumbia, are here <?n .? visit to Mrs. T.
C. Duncan on Blandlng street.
Miss Corkill. of Chester ,1s visiting
Mrs. W. E. Thayer on East Liberty
Street.
e. C. Hayn?worth, Esq., has been
reappointed master In equity for
Sumter county by Governor Manning.
Miss Qenevieve Boyd spent the
week-end at her sister's in this city.
She Is a student at Winthrop College.
Messrs B H. Phelps and J. D.
Joye. Jr.. left Sunday to Join the
United States army.
Mr. and Mrs. W. If. Milliard and
little daughter, of North Dakota, are
visiting the Misses Pate on East Lib?
erty Street .
Mr. W. 8. Moseley. of Columbia, is
visiting Mr. J. S. Nunnery on North
church street
Mr. Marlon Wilson, of St. Charles,
was In the city today.
Mr. snd Mrs. 8. W. Glllespte of
Chvremont. spent a white In the city
today.
Mr. J. W. Player, of St. Charles,
spent a few hours In the city Satur?
day.
Mr. W. F\ Carson, of rfummerton.
agent Saturday in the city.
An A|?l?roa?*h!ng Marriage.
The following Invitations. which
have been issued, will be of interest
to many people in Sumter county,
where Mr. and Mrs. Martin and Miss
Martin formerly resided and had
manyy friends:
Mr. and Mrs. Oeorge Elmore Martin
request the honor of your
presence at the marriage of their
daughter
Clara Mary
to
Mr. Ansell Han s Hancock
en Wednesday afternoon. March the
tenth
at three o'clock
In Heulah Church
Thomasville. Oeorgla.
Delegates to B. Y. P. V.
The State Baptist Young Peoples'
i n ??n will open Its session In Dar?
lington on Wttnesday and the follow.
Ing delegates will be In attendance
(rum various churhes of this city:
Grace?M. B. Tolar. W. H. Felder.
Mlsa Virginia Thomas. Miss Uuth
Drown. Charles Boone. Percy Hhame;
l irst Baptist ?Miss Kffte Kose. Miss
Florence Shaw. F. B. Creech and
James Shaw, as delegates, and Miss
Innls t'uiiino as a visitor; Salem?
HSV, J W. Guy.
I>eath.
Mr. M. H. Pteam was called to
Charleston Saturdnv morning by the
death of his rather. Mr. Julius Flange*
on Friday night The funeral ser?
vices were held Sunday.
luath Si a Child
PaxvHIe. Keh. 20.?The Infant of
Mr snd Mrs. Jack TouchSSfffg died
Tuesday night. The funeral services
were held Wednesda afternoon
o'clock ut thn Baptist church nnd ihr
Ir terment was In the town cemetery.
Motliuc Week In Manning.
Mr .J Lawson Mrljeml forsakes the
tenantry of his ancestral acres for a
season of in nan delight In Sumter
Dr H. L. Wilson removes from Man?
ning to the plantation of Mr. J. L.
Mclyod; Mr. W. T. Adams leaves
MinnlMK for Witliaiushurg's capital
on the turgid stream. Mr. Sol Till
move* to Sumter to concentrate his
piano Interest* there. We are sol r>
to |..se IS*** friends, thousli we shall
hope the\ mav come bii? k to Mannin
Manning Herald.
The curb market in Improving IM
quantity and variety of produce ?i
fered fur sale.
WIMHm ISAM vktoiuoi s.
Y. M. C. \. Elve Easy WIgOJBfa OW
Columbia Mills Y. M. C. A. Buskci
ImiII Team.
The Sumter Y. M. C. A. basketball
quintet had an ca*;y victory over the
Columbia Mills Y. M. C, A. team on
Friday night on the local court, the
K?me being witnessed by a good
crowd who were enthusiastic in their
rooting. The score was .1? to 20. the
locals slackening up in the second
half In their scoring. The first half
ended 2f> to 11 in favor of the i e.il*.
and the score in the second half be?
ing 7 to 9, respectively. Lumotte of
''olumbia, an old Carolina player, ret
creed the game and made an excellent
official.
In the first half the locals got In
some good pass work, the ball being
sent to Chandler time and again for
goals. He scored six in this half.
Drevenstedt also got three goals and
Nash, Bryan and Cuttino one each;
for Columbia. Taylor, captain, was the
best player. He put up a good defen?
sive game and scored practically a'd
of his teams' points, making three
held goals and 10 out of 20 chances
at foul goals. Wallace and Splgener,
B., each made one goal. Drevenstedt
threw 8 out of 14 chances at foul
goals .
The line-up of the two teams wai:
Columbia Mills Y. M. C. A.?Taylor,
Capt, rf; Wallace, If; Spigener, B., c;
Spigener and Walters, H., rg; Walters.
P., lg. Sumter?Drevenstedt, rf;
Chandler, Capt.. Cuttino, If; Nash, c;
Bultman and Chattham, rf; Bryan, If.
POULTRY ORGANIZER COMING.
Prof. C. C. Clotcluud or Winthrop
College to Be Here on Wednesday.
Prof. C. C. Cleveland, state organ?
izer for the girls poultry clubs, will
come to Sumter on next Wednesday,
February 24, to visit the various
schools In the county to organize
poultry clubs among the girls In the
schools. On Wednesday, when Prof.
Cleveland will arrive, he and Miss
Lernmon will visit the schools at Os
wego and Dalzell. On Thursday, Feb?
ruary 25, Miss Lemmon and Prof.
Cleveland will viait the schools at
Mayesville and Wedgefield.
Much interest has been shown by
the girls in the county in the organi?
zation of the poultry clubs and It is
thought that thr??r> frill prove as
certain a source of benefit to the
county as have the tomato club.-,,
which have- been doin;; good WOrtl
for several years.
Ml?* Lemmon has in her oflice at
the Court Houso two large pictures of
the girls' canning club taken at Pu
calla. Both are excellent pictures and
have attracted much notice from vis?
itors to tho superintendent s office.
t t KB MARKET FLOURISHING.
Many Wagons of l*roduce and Numer?
ous Buyers on Market.
From The Dally Item. Feb. 20.
The curb market was crowded this
morning, probably more so than at
any time since it was inaugurated
several moots ago. There were plen?
ty of vehicles bringing produce from
the country and the citizens of Sum?
ter in attendance were sufficiently
numerous to purchase the products of
the sellers In a short time after tho
arrival of the products. Wagons,
'buggies and an automobile were used
by the farmers in bringing their pro?
duce, while there were men, women
and children on hand among the buy?
ers.
Pork and beef and their product'*,
eggs, fowls, collards. potatoes, corn
and other farm products were amang
those which were brought and meat
products went especially fast. Both
boyofl and sellers seemed very well
Bleated with their trades and indica?
tions are that the curb market is not
only a success, but that it is gradually
e\p uuling.
Murrigae IdgejSjg Record.
Licenses to marry have been issued
to Jos. Anderson. Oswego and l'riscil
li Hrnnson. Sumtei; S. A. Gonn.\.
Charleston, and FrOdUIIO Gourdin.
J.tines Island.
The legislature has increased the
appropriation for Confederate pen?
sions from f 2511,000 to $'.'.00,000 and
removed all property restrictions in
granting pensions. Wliv should pen?
sions be granted \<:erans who have
ample incomes to live in comfort.'
111 >*t? .id ?.f paving pensions to wealthy
meg who do not need the charity of
the Sttae, the pittances paid destitute
old soldiers should Inoreased, it I*
nonsense to ass?*t tin * no veteran who
has an income ?ullleleni lor be; need*
win oeeepi the states bounty souw
may not, but many will demand all
rlii' they can get. Rvery dollar of the
penolon fond should go to nedy vel?
ei ins or their widows and not a cent
to those who have property sufneloni
for their needs.
The soil, itude or Virginia and Vorth
Carolina tobooeo men loot South
' ifollns farmer^ lose money by plant?
ing loboeeo this vear Is peeuliar il not
suspicious.
IN THE POLICE COURT.
Young lion Tried for Breaking Cell
Lock?Glenn West up for Storing
\Vhi>key.
In the police court Saturday Lou
Bradford plead guilty to the charge
of disorderly con luct, the offense be?
ing the alleged breaking of a lock of
a cell In the guard house. Bradford
stated that he did not realize what he
was doing at the time. His sentence
was $50 or ;10 days, half of the gen?
tenco being snpended Upon payment
oi $25.
G. A. Brown. Jr.. pl< au pot guilty
to the charge nt disorderly conduct,
but was found guilty by the recorder,
who entered sentence of $30 or SO
days. Brown stated that he was in
the room when the lock was broken,
but had taken no part in the breaking
of it, nor had he tried to stop anyone
else from breaking it, but had said he
would have nothing to do with it. The
recorder stated that under the law
he was as guilty as the person who
broke the lock.
The case against Dick Merrimon
and Willie Boatfleld wcj postponed
until Wednesday, when it will be tried
by a jury.
Glenn West, colored, was charged
with storing whiskey. He said he did
not have any whiskey, nor had he any
money to buy whiskey with. It was
testitled that a gallon jug and a quart
bottle of gin were seen to come out
of his house and he was found guilty
by the recorder who imposed sen?
tence of $50 or 30 days.
Agnes Wilson, colored, was charg?
ed with discharging firearms in the
city limits and carrying an unlawful
weapon. She plead guilty and was
given a sentence of $25 or 30 days. She
shot at another negro on South Main
Street several days ago.
NEW FIRE HORSE SECURED.
Purchased by Councilman J. P. Booth
on Recent Trip to St. Louis.
A matter of much interest to the
members of the fire department, es?
pecially, and other citizens of Sumter.
also, Is the announcement that Coun?
cilman J. P. Booth on a recent trip
to St. Louis purchased a fire horse
to take the place of Jerry, the horse
which died several months ago. The
new horse is a big sorrel, weighing
about thirteen hundred and fifty
puundr gU'd i,; said to be a tine look?
ing specimen of horseflesh and one
which can wen take the place of the
former pet bl the department stables
The new horse ?s expected to arnvc
here about Monday .
DOGS TRAIL THIEVES.
Follow Trail to Railroad Crossing?
SupiKMicd RohhatM Boarded Freight.
The bloodhounds from Columbia a*
Wedgefteld Thursday took the trail of
the thieves who oroke Into the Wedge
held Mercantile Company store and
followed it to the Cumden crossing,
where the trail seemed to end! It
was thought by those with the dogs
?hat tho robbers boarded a freight
thain at this place, as there was a
freight which passed there about one
o'clock at night and It would have
been easy for the parties t ? get away
on it.
The thieves broke into the rear
door of the store by using a ladder
as a battering ram and opened the
safe by working the combination. It
is supposed for this reason that tho
thieves or at least one of them must
have been an expert safeman. Be?
sides securing more than two hundred
dollars in cash the thieves took some
shoes, making a change in the store,
some shirts, a belt and sweater and
other articles, all of the best mater?
ial in stock.
The Barn well dispensary board case,
which Gov. Manning has to dispose of,
Is a case In point that shows the
necessity of the governor having legal
advice other than that he might ob?
tain front the attorney general's office.
Time will show that there are many
other cases of a similar character to
come before Gov. Manning, concerning
which he will need legal advice. Con?
ditions justify his request for an ap?
propriation to pay for necessary legal
advice and Ids course in this matter
WgJ an open and above board pro?
ceeding stub as was to be expected of
a business man and a faithful public
servant An official who seeks to do
the right thing in all circumstances.
regardless of expediency and politics,
is almost certain to bo misjudged and
Condemned by those who think in
terms of expediency and consider pol?
icy more Important than frankness.
The demand for cotton from Eu?
rope, especlslly from Germany, has
been strong recently and the export?
ers who have succeeded in delivering
cargoes at tin- German ports or to
neutral porls for lruns-shipment to
Germany, have made q killing, buying
on ihe depressed American marked
nnd selling at famine prices in Ger?
many, if the facts ever come out it
will be lound that a good many cot?
ton firms in tin- s< th have made
Icomfortable fortunes out of the con
Iditlons brought about by the war.
PUNCH BOWL TO GEO. W. DICK.
Members of Ways and Means Com?
mittee PreiCllt Testimonial to Their
Chairman.
Columbia, Feb. 19.?The ways and
means committee last night present?
ed George W. Dick of Sumter, its
chairman, with a handsome cut glass
punch bowl. The gift was presented
in the hall of the house.
Mr. Li lea of Orangeburg made the
presentation speech, in which he re?
ferred In the highest terms to Mr.
Dick, praising his services to the
State. Mr. Liles' speech was ap?
plauded.
Mr. Huffman of Richland presented
to Mr. Dick the gift of his associates
on the ways and means committee.
Mr. Dick thanked his coworkers for
their token of esteem.
The Sumter member has served in
the house for 10 sessions, during the I
last three years as chairman of the j
important committee on ways and
means. He will soon resign his posi?
tion as representative to accept that
of postmaster at Sumter.
Mr. Dick paid a tribute to his asso?
ciates on the committee last night.
The house applauded his speech
thanking the committee last night for
its gift.
Rcsldpnor of W. Pcrcival Smith Dam?
aged by Blaze.
The fire department was called out
about one o'clock Saturday in answer
to an alarm from box No. 55, the fire
being at the residence of Mr. W. Per
cival Smith on Harvin street. The
fire was extinguished by the depart?
ment after it had burned off part of
the roof and fire and water had done
considerable damage to the building.
Men's Union Prayer Meeting.
There was a very large attendance
at the mon's union prayer meeting at
the Y. M. C. A. Thursday evening.
A most interesting address was made
by the Rev. Dr. Thayer. His theme
was service and he showed that ser?
vice should be personal, practical and
proportionate.
As it was brought to the attention
that some of our Jewish friends had
taken offense at a certain paper read
at a previous meeting, it was declared
to be the sense of this meeting, as it
war, the expressed purpose of the au?
thoi. that, aside from a brief refer
tjdee to an Old Testament prophoi j
no part of the paper was. directed to
the Jews any more than a* ail the peo?
ple of our community, and that any
offense was, therefore, unfounded.
T. V. WALSH,
President.
Thinks Hard Times Over.
Dr. Lawton .Harris, the (popular
physician of St. Charles, and for that
part of Lee county, was in town Tues?
day and paid us a pleasant call. The
doctor says he thinks the worst of
the hard times over as business is
brightening up.?Bishopville Leader
and Vindicator.
There may be a fair profit in plant?
ing Irish potatoes for shipment to
Northern markets?that remains to be
proven, but it will pay and pay
abundantly to plant a patch sufficient
to produce potatoes for home use.
Home grown potatoes are cheaper
food than flour at $7, $8, $9 or $10 a
barrel and one can live on potatoes
alone if put to the pinch.
The live stock business is one of
the most reliable barometers of trade
conditions in the cotton States. When
the demand for farm mules and
horses is brisk it indicates that the
people are hopeful and have Confi?
dence in the stability of business con?
ditions. For several months the live
stock business has been practically
dead in this section and dealers have
brought In from the west only a few
car loads, but within the past few
weeks there has been a decided reviv ?
al in live stock trading, and shipments
of stock from the western markets
have been resumed.
It costs more to have poor streets
in Sumter .than it would to build and
maintain paved streets. The interest
on paving bondl would be no more
than the amount spent annually on
building and rebuilding the dirt
streets.
There is a large acreage planted In
wheat in Sumter county and even
though the yield per acre should prove
to be smaller than hoped for. there
will still remain a good many thou?
sand bushels of wheat to be milled.
There are now, so far as the writer is
informed. but three or four nulls
in the county equipped to make Hour
and these are all small and with
limited capacity, and unless steps are
taken at an early date to provide
wheat mills the farmers who have
pin med w heat will find themselves at
harvest time with an unusable pro?
duct OU their hands. At this lime
mills are needed to convert the wheat
into Hour for h??me consumption, not
elevators and other facilities for the
shipment of wheat.
"Start Your Child Right"
Would i( not'be an net of wisdom to give yock chili) an ac
count with Tin: RAVINGS hank?
ONCE THE SAVINGS bank habit I? formed, the child soon
becomes THRIFTY and economical.
There is nothing that blends better with will POWER and
CHARACTER than THRIFT and ECONOMY and the combination
one created is ? joy forever.
??WE DESIRE to assist YOU."
t The Commercial j& Savings Bank, jj
X GEO. D. SHORE, J. K. CROSSWELL, R. A. BRADHAM, |
President. Vice-Pres. Cashier.
_Tim
i^mone^
onlyiwhehi
converted
into dollar^
by^usefuif
effort {and!
part of-thef
money put\
in the Bank?
K We extend a welcome tojevery man
who works hard for his money to
come in and learn the many advant?
ages behind a banking connection.
If We want such men to make this
Bank their Bank and you can easily
do it if you will save just a little of
what you earn. Don't be backward
about coming in with a small begin?
ning. $1.00 starts you.
''4 PER CENT INTEREST ON SAVINGS"
The National Bank of Sumter
ESTABLISHED 1889
LIVE AT:
HOME!
It seems now as everything in the provis?
ion line is going to be high this Spring. We are
in hearty sympathy with the "Live at Home"
movement that is sweeping the country. We
believe a good garden will very materially re?
duce your living expenses.
Irish Potatoes
On your table three times a day will save you
many barrels of flour. To have enough to eat
and some to sell depends on the seed you se?
lect.
To plant our carefully selected
Irish Cobbler and Red
Bliss
Will help you forget the war. You can't plant
too many.
O'Donnell & Co.