The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-05-05


Lenten season which has been filled with a
succession of social events
Why will you buy bitter nauseating tonics
when Groves TaStciesS Chill Tonic is as
pleasant as Lemon Syrup. Your druggist is
authorized to refund the money in every case
where it fails to cure. Price. SO cents.
The bicycle riders turucd out in fall force
Monday af,ernoop, Immediately after the
stores closed at 6 o'clock, to celebrate the
heginuine of the early closing for The snm-
mer months ani there seewed 10 be more
wheels on the streets than ever before.
Mr.. Erust Bnltman has engraved two
plates to he placed on the nre alarm boz at.
the coroer of Main aud Liberty Streets. AS
he is an enthusiastic frenen be hns done his
hest work on the plates and they a'e f spe-
ci1eps Of the e3graver's art.
Births ard deaths reported 10 Health Officer
RearGop for past week, endin Friday, April
3oth, are Births-Oce white male, two COL
o:ed msi-s and two colored females. Deaths
-Ooe colored maie IS years cl4, and one
coIored female Is years old.
The strawberry shipments On the 4. C l..
are immense this Year. Thursday 320,00
quarts were shipped from points between
Wilmington aud Goldsroro, n c. The
quantity Of berries shipped daily from points
South of Wilmington is also very large, and
the total amount during the last few days has
probably averaged half-miIlion quarts.
Mr. Mcdonald Farms has heen hocored iu
way most gratifying Without any solici-
ta,ion whatever on his part he has been Faade
q member Of the Southern History Associ--
tioG aud has also been asked to cootribuie 10
the Association publication. William l..
Wilson, who was Postmaster. General under
Cleveland, ,s President of this organiz alton.
Th. English sparrow nuisance is becoming
serious, aud il is almost impossible to have
gardens 10 this city on account of the depre-
dAtious o. sp4rrows Some OF the citizens
are thinking seriously of asking that a coun-
,y be placed on the heads cf sparrows as
ioducsmeot for their wholesale slaughter.
TIE most novel advertising scheme evtr
gotten out in Sumter, has been started by
that large and enterprising 6rm Of J Ryt;en-
berg 4 Soma. What is more than the nov-
city is .he usefulness of the inuoyation
Realizing the demand for ice in the warm
weather, they have contracted for large
supply of ice aod will give it away on the
card system, 100 lbs for SIS retail cash pur-
chases. This will ee a good, cool thing for
everyone
The work of rebuilding The Guoney
Block, which WAS wrecked by Ere few
months ago, has been commenced The
block will be thoroughly overloaded and
will be restored as it was before tee Ere. Mr..
L. L. Num-, who he's the contract, has nis force
OF hands at work and the re- airs will be
pushed to completion. The rebuilding OF the
block vii! be decided improvement to Main
Street. for since ,se FIRE it has been disman-
tied and forloru looking wreck, that was
not 10 keeping wi b the business portion Of
live Iown.
The regular quarterly inspection Of tie
public school buildings was madeyesterday by
a committee of the Board of Health, consist
Dr.. S. c. Baker and Health Officer Rec rdon
The State Board of Health requires quarterly
Inspections and reports while the schools are
in session The Sumter Schools compare
tavoFably within any in the State ano the
repor,s 10 the State Board have been hereto-
fore very satisfactory.
Atout half Of the machinery for the Peo
cles ice Co bas arrived aud the remainder
is expected TO be Oh the grouad ny the end OF
this week. The plant will oe installed and
ready for business on or before the goth IN
st.nt, and after that date the Peoples Compa
ny will supply i,s patrons with the very best
ice that ,he most moderu and best equipped
plant on the market Can make The output
of the factory will be eight tons or more each
twenty-iour hours, without pushing the plant
beyond its capacity aod thereby producing
soft and Inferior ice which will met rapidly
The makers of the machinery tha, the Peo.
pies Co /, has purchased claim hat their plant
makes the c!earest, 6rmest and NEST lasting
ice of any machine maufactared.
There are always crowds of people who
watch the papers and keep track of the death
of persons Of supposed wealth who die in,es
tate or without known heirs and then pro-
ceed to get up a claim of heirshlp to the prop
erty. More thao once wi.hiu the last few
years when men nave dI0d in this county
leaving valuable estate tbE publication Of the
fact has been followed IN a short time by one
or more letters from people in remote parts
of the country who claimed to DE The heirs of
the deceased Dolly few days
ago letter was received at this
office from party in an ia,erior 10, of
New YORK State inquirirg concerning the
estete of the said persons late uncle Joseph
Cohen Nelson, OF Which she. the writer Of
this letter being womar, wIshsd TO obtain
possession
As fer as cen be a=cersaiaed thv surveyors
of the Ohio River and Charleston Railway
have not yet started to locate be route from
Caa den 70 this thls city, nor does the item
liaou ND y,hing definite ina, wsrran.s The be-
lief ,uat the road will be bu;!t within the
..ear future. Such rGn.ors as hsre aeen pub
.ishsd we're not vcached tor, aad it was so
state. at .be uc.c fiaving go inside infor-
ma,ioa it s :mpo:sibe 10 give satisfactory
aos we!s 10 the macy personni ii.qnirles made
oy ip,eres:ed parties, AID while The Inability
10 assure tie public that the road IS 20 be
buiit is regretted, it i unayoidsoe When