The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 09, 1919, Image 3
SUMTER NEEDS
MORE HOUSES
Development of Business Inter
ests of Town Blocked by
Lack of- Homes
The business manager of a small
but nevertheless important and desir
able industrial establishment in Sum
ter, an automobile sales agency and
garage which causes several families
' to live in Sumter called at the Sum
ter County Chamber -of Commerce
' yesterday seeking assistance in secur
' ing a residence for their mechanician
and his family. The mechanician has
been living in Sumter for months
and renting a few rooms for h;mself
and his family to live in because they
~ could not rent a house for love or
* money.
t They have been notified that they
must vacate the rooms. by August
i5th as the family from whom th^
rooms are rented must have these
rooms.
This industrial establishment has
been notified by this necessary me
chanic that the mechanic is going to
c-uit the employment of the firm and
leave Sumter if he does not secure a
house by August 15th.
The manager of the establishment
said to the managing secretary of the
, Chamber of Commerce that owing to
""store rent having been more than;
doubled in cost, his firm has purchas- i
" ed a lot and given a contract to erect ?
their own building at a cost of thou- j
' sands of dollars. But that if this me- j
chanio'leaves their employ on Aug- j
;ust 15th because he can not get a j
" house to live, in, that this industrial!
" establishment is going to cancel . the
*. contract for their building and will
* 'move to Florence where houses are
' -put up to accommodate employes of
industrial establishmemts and other
'\ enterprises. . ..
The secretary suggested to . the
manager of the business enterprise
that it might pay the firm to buy a
" lot and erect a house "for an employee
[of so much importance. But the'
{ utanager could not see v. that way.
j For sejjera] months an enterprise!
I that manufactures candy in another !
! town in this State has been trying to
i move to Sumter. But the proprietor!
j and his two sons and their families!
I could not rent houses here. The
Chamber of Commerce has had aj
committee of live of the liest business
linen in Sumter trying for two months:
j to solve the residenc e and house
I building problems, hut there are
(practically no citizens interested'!
i enough to build business houses or i
[residences for rent, except the houses !
? that Messrs. Harby, Forrester and!
? Folloy are arranging to build.
A few evenings ago the representa- j
j live of one of the largest depart
ment stores in this country called at
I the home of the secretary of; the
J Chamber of Commerce. As a result
j of a conversation the secretary called
j one of the owners of Main street va
Icant lots and made an offer to lease
|a store, two stories, fifty by 1">0 feet.!
'on a ten year lease at the lot owner's!
i price, if the lot owner would erect j
; such a building on this lot. The lot j
; owner said he did not care to be both-j
! ered with doing any building at this
! time, but he would lease the lot on a
long lease and the department store
; company could do their own building. '
Asked if he would sell a lot h<- replied j
that he would sell such a lot for one j
thousand dollars per front foot forj
the first fifty feet, and eight hundred j
dollars per front foot for the rest of;
the lot. Other real estate owners be- \
ing called up would not do any busi- ;
ness establishment building. ? j
Several civil and other engineers in
a firm. wish, to locate in Sumter, to
J make this their headquarters with i
I their families and stenographers, and j
j after the secretary of the Chamber of!
' Commerce, assisted by County Agent
jJ. Frank "Williams, succeeded in get
i ting these new people to decide to}
? locate here, immediately wanted two
I or/three connecting offices, and houses !
j for their families. But the Chamber j
j of Commerce could not deliver the j
! goods. There are other similar in- (
[stances.. /? :
TKe chamber of Commerce is no
gotiating with parties io establish a
furniture factory here. But the first
question which bobbed up was. can
we g?>r houses for our families and for
our employees and their families to
live i? after we locate this enterprise?
There you are again. Now what can
the Sumter Chamber of Commerce do
when it is handicapped in such style.
Not sufficient stores, not sufficient o;'
fiees, nor sufficient houses to accom
modate employ* s or proprietors of
new enterprises that wont to locate
here.
Already established enterprises
wish to expand and in order to fii
large must have more help. .But they
are deterred from enlarging just be
cause '.here are insufficient houses in
Sumter.
Prices of houses and rooms in
Sumter have advanced a gr?-at deal.
Boarding house prices have jumped
up pretty high.
The scarcity of houses, scarcity off
living rooms, scarcity of boarding
places have given owners and manag
ers of these necessities opportunity to
advance prices wonderfully.
More houses mean regulating the
prices of rents by the universal law !
of supply and demand mean more
rooms to rent .-;! reasonable prices,'
more houses for boarding houses, j
more competition all around, more;
houses to do housekeeping in. etc.
of course there are arguments!
against building Houses for rent with j
high priced and mighty poor labor,
high priced building material, high j
priced plumbing, and high priced ev- j
e'rything else about building opera
tions. Rut where will Sumter get off I
at in the long run if we not only lose!
citizens, but also fail to get new en-;
terprises because of the insufficiency i
of business houses and residences?
At the Moore Brothers warehouse j
Monday, about 35,000 pounds'-of to- j
bacco was sold. The highest pricei
was that brought by a pile of 1,124]
pounds, which was 63^ cents. The av
erage price for the day's sale was 33
cents.
HOME DEMON
STRATION WORK
Interesting and Instructive
Meeting of Privateer Club
The monthly meeting of the Provi
dence (Privateer township) nome
demonstration club at Providence
school Monday was. weil attended by
iadies and also a few gentlemen of
thai "school district.
Miss Aiiee .Martin gave a very in
teresting lecture and ;i practical dem
onstration of cooking an entire din
ner in twenty minutes in a steam
.pressure eool.er. Every one present
was served with some of the delicious
meat and vegetables cooked in such
short time, and all were delighted and
surprised also with the time. labor,
and fuel saving method. Some of the
ladies said that renewed interst in
home demonstration club circles is ap
parent in that school district and that
a number of new members of the club
will be at the next meeting.
Secretary Reardon of the Chamber
r>f Commerce talked about the big
lfly Sumter county fair, and appeal
ed to the ladies and gentlemen of that
r.chool district to take an active part
in contesting for club and individual
prizes offered, and for school prizes
also.
? Mr- told about what the Sumter
County Fair Association is going to
do to make this year's .fair a great
success. He was guaranteed the co
operation of those at the meeting.
OFFER HELP
President of Southern Wholesale
s Association to Co-operate to
Reduce Cost of Food
Washington, Aug. ?President Mc
Laurin of the Southern Wholesale
Grocers' association telegraphed Trade
Commissione. Colver offering the ful
lest cooperatii 1 in the solution of the
rost of living-.
LOOTING IN
BUDAPEST
Roumanians Begin Plundering!
^hen They Enter Suburbs i
Paris. Aug. 5.?Telegrams from
jAmerican ollicials at Budapest state
that Rumanian troops upon entering
[ Budapest yesterday started plunder
j ing in the suburbs. Fifteen or twen
ty civilians were killed during the day.
Cow Testing: Association.
j The following table gives the names
land records-of the cows in the Pioneer
^Jouth Carolina Cow Testing Associa
tion which have produced more than
40 pounds of butterfat during the pe
riod of 30 days ending July 31. The
owner of cow. name of cow, breed,
age, when fresh, pounds milk, per cent
of fat. pounds of butterfat follow: .
R. M. Cooper. Jr., Wisacky, Lady
Dixon; Guernsey; 12; May; 1100; 4.3;
47.3.
R. M. Cooper. Jr.. "Wisacky, Dairy
Maid; Guernsey; 5; June; 1168; 4.5;
i 52.6.
Dr. Archie China, Sumter; Rose;
Jersey; 5; May: 1001; 4.2, 42.0.
Dr. Archie China, Sumter; Queen;
[Holstein; 5; March; 1277: 3.4; 43.4.
j Dr. Archie China. Sumter; Antho
Aiken: Ayreshire; 7; June; 983; 4.1;
40.3. ?.
E. B. McCutchen, Biahopville;
! Pearl L. Ill; Guernsey; 6; Jan. 934;
I 4.5; 42.0.
E. B. j McCutchen, Bishopvi^e;
j Dairy Girl of Oak.; Guernsey; 4; June;
j 1029; 5.0; 51.4a
I R. A. Smith.^Lynchburg; Josephine;
(Guernsey; 8; May: 1093; 4.1; 45.0.
j R. \a. Smith, Lynchburg;. Bessie;
?Guernsey; 5; May; 932; 4.3; 40.0.
R. A. Smith, Lynchburg; Minnie;
(Guernsey; 7; "May; 890; 4.5; 40.0.
R. A./ Smith, Lynchburg; Kate;
Guernsey; 6; June; 899; 5.2; 46.7.
Jchn Hickson. Cheraw, Rinor?'s
Eva; Jersey; 6; May; 1138; 4.4; 50.0.
Andreas Wesrergaard,
Secretary.
J. W. Herring, Official Tester.
.ENGLAND PAYS ' |1
ER0MPTEY
I -:???
Settles BiH For Munitions Pur
chased in America v
Washington. Aug. 5'!?By the pay
ment of $35,176,123, Great Britain-hjfcs
settled her obligation to the * AmeSi-"
can government for munitions neSp>
"iated for during the war the War fjfc
partment announced today. Of-the
rotal sum paid. $13,600,000 was for
Liberty motors: SI3.274,000 for air
plane spruce; .$2,88-7,000 for wood dis
tillates; $4,690,000 for powder and
$651;00b as the Eritish share in the
cotton linters. pool. - '
Th"? announcement was in thn? form
of a letter addressed to Secretary Ba
jker. from Chester W. CutheUi Mr.
I Baker's special representative >in
negotiations with the British minister
of munitions. Mr. Cutheil said the
transaction probably was Without pre
cedent in "that a government > has
recognized obligations, : based almost
(entirely on verbal statements,- to c&*f
i tribute to losses sustained by an ally
in the production of war niaterials
beyond its own needs. It is llkeTtfnfe
without precedent in our country? as
:o the amount of money involved, and
j ibecause of the fact that no reco?ibse
I was had to any mternational trib^
HONDURAN REB- h
ELS DEFEATED
j Force of Revolutionists Driven
Across Frontier Into m
Salvador
San Salvador, Aug. . 6 ?-Hondurah
rebels have been defeated and forced
to retreat across the: frontier into Sal
vador.
?ii?;--jL-:?'.i,- i ?.. ? ;-> ~i
Paris, Aug. 6.-=?The Austrian coun
ter proposals to the peace term*, ^re
handed to the allied mission today:j, .
NORWAY
Orangeburg County
Candidate for Consr
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CLEAN
Swansea, S. C., July 23, 1919.
Hon. H. P. Fulmer, Norway, S. C.
My Dear Mr. Fulmer: , w
-1 am very glad to know that you are in the
race to succeed Mr. Lever in Congress-. I recall
with great pleasure our association and Legisla
tive work together as members of the House
during the session of 1916-17, and remember
quite well the admirable positions you took and
the splendid work you did, both on the floor and
in' the Committee ^ rooms for the best interests
of your County and State on the many vital is
sues that came before us.
Your moral, business and political record is
:>pen and clean and should and doubtless will ap
peal strongly to the voters of the District. Of
:ourse you will sweep Orangeburg County, and
from expressions heard on every side you will un
doubtedly make a handsome race if you do not
carry Lexington County.
Your graceful withdrawal from the race last
year, respecting a desire of the President is
everywhere commended.
In this campaign the people will know that you
are one of them, and that you will work for the
masses, and I believe that they will do you and
themselves proud by supporting you.
paign, advise me.
Very sincerely your friend,
S. E. SMITH,
If I can be of any service to you. in your cam
Member of House of Representatives from Lex
ington County.
Norway, S. C, July 25, 1919.
Editor Times and Democrat,
Orangeburg, S. C.
Dear Sir:
Please allow me space in your paper to say a
few words in behalf of the candidacy of the Hon.
H. P. Fulmer, who has entered the race for Con
gress to succeed Hon. A. F. Lever, resigned.
Mr. Fulmer came to Norway from his old
country home about ten miles from here about
fifteen years ago and entei ed into the mercantile
business. 1 have had considerable dealings with
him ever since and have iilways found him fair,
upright and honest. His business has naturally
grown under such management and is now one
of the largest in the County. He is a successful
farmer, merchant and banker. I attribute l^isr
wonderful success to his good business ability,
his uprightness in dealing with his f ellowmen and
his social interests in the welfare or humanity.
He has time and. again sought out those in need
and helped them and induced others to help.
I have watched his career in business and re
ligion and see there is something deeper thai*
mere business ability?that is, he has the charac
ter behind it all. Unless a man have character to
back up the other qualifications, he is not the man
we want to represent us.
His stand in the Legislature was for the eco
nomical expenditure of the taxpayers* hard-earned
money and for the masses against the "Interests"
and the rule of the few and he was able to combat
these things on the floor of the House of Repre
sentatives. In one of his speeches he said: "Gen
tlemen, if I were to conduct my personal business
J like you propose to run the State's business, I
would be broke in less than twelve months. The
only reason why South Carolina is not bankrupt
today is because she has the pockets of the taxr
payers to fall back on."
The time has come when we ne~u good, sound
business men in politics; men in direct contact
with the agricultural interests of the South so we
may get legislation^ fair to the people who clothe
may get legislation fair to the people who cloth?
and feed the world.
Let's stand behind Fulmer in this race, for his
record in home politics is evidence enough that
he will represent the masses of the people in our
National Government.
Very truly,
DR. C. T. DOWLING.
We Need this Good Business Man in Congress