The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-03-18
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Ootoiiuo OtdtC 1000 IAoSOCiotiOu VIII
be held 10 the City OF Charleston on
April 23d aud 24tb. An interesting
programme was arranged by the Exec
utive Committee at the meeting held
in Charleston few weeks ago. aud in
addition to the pleasure and benefit that
will be derived from the regular busi-
ness meetings, the sojouru in the city
will be made delightful in many ways
There is no more pleasant place than
Charleston. nor more bospitable people
than those who .have their home 10
Charleston. There should be full
meeting Of the Association next mouth.
as these aOoua' meetings are highly
beneficial to all who attend.
The verdict of $500 against the
Southern Express Company awarded
Miss NJ. H. Girardeau on Saturday is
an exam pie of what it sometimes costs
not to advertise. The law in relation
to the sale of unclaimed express pack
ages provides that the unclaimed pack
ages on which the charges have not
baeu paid shall be kept for six months
and shall then be advertised in one
newspaper published in the county for
four consecutive weeks before being
sold at public auction. The Southern
Express Company as matter of econ
omy did rot advertise in a newspaper.
the .:old boss" sale at which the package
Of pictures addressed TO Miss Girardeau
was sold. The sale was advertised by
means of large posters at the Court
House, Post Office aud elsewhere, but
as this was not mpiiapce with the
intent and letter of the law the verdict
was given against the Company. 1n
future we have DOT the slightest doubt
tie Southern Express Company will ad-
yer,ise old boss sales io the newspapers
as lie Law very properly requires. The
failure to advertise this one sale has
already cost the company many times
what it would have cost to advertise
number Of sales, aud If the company
finally has to pay the $500, the expense
TO be charged up to not advertising will
he augmented by that amount Had
the sale been advertised 10 newspaper
the case would have had no standing in
court, and suit would have pever been
entered.
Cotton mill building 10 Sumter and
Charleston has been found to be uphill
work, so much so that those have had
sufficient interest in the growth and IN
drstsial prosperity Of these places to
endeavor to build mills by popular SUBJ
scrip,ions, have become almost discour-
aged after repeated failures. The
reason for this difficulty in Sumter as
we'll as Charleston at time whea mills
are going up all over the State is DOT
hard to 6nd To few words. it is due
entirely to the unfortunate experience
investors have had with the cotton mills
built years ago 10 these places. Other
0faces have built mills that have paid
large dividends from the start. have
accumulated large surplus funds aud
have doubled, trebled aud quadrupled
in sizs aud 10 producing capacity. while
the mills in Charleston and Sumter
have succeeded 10 eking out bare ex-
istepce aud nothing more. With the
failure of one mill before them is it
strange that people have refused to 10
vest their surplus money in other cot
ton. mills? They fear that they will
lose their money altogether. or that 1t
will be tied up io an Improbable mill
40 that it will be equivalent to lost as
far as the benefit they will derive from
it. They do not consider the phenom-
email success of dozens aud scores OF
mills 10 other parts Of the State, ncr do
they consider that the Charleston and
Snmter mills are exceptions and not
the rule in the history Of cotton mills
in South Carolina. 1t would be to
their advantage and to the advantage
Of Sumter were the people who have
money for investment to consider what
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