The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-11-15

The sntertsipment to bs given 10 the Y. n.
O. A. ball next Thursday night will be both
sutertsicing and interesting. You will 1ud
IL pleasant to attend. Admission 10 cen,s.
The work on the Dew telephone foc,ory
70 progressing rapidly under The supervision q
of contractor J. W. NcKievsr. N the wealth.
Or permits, % that the brick work can be
pushed rapidly duriog the next moath or six
weeks, the factory will bs completed and
ready for The machinery ABOUT February Let.
The bird hon'srs are having Hns sport and
90 every outing they beg . lot Of partridges.
The birds are 90 plentiful this season % ever
before end are we'll erowo for ,hia tins of
year. The Thousands killed every season
do sos appear to decrease the number the fol.
loving ssnson.
"Wbeo our boys we're almost dead from
whoopiog cough. our doctor gave One Min.
ute Cough Cure. They recovered rapidly"
writes p. B. Bellies. Argyle. Pa. I, cures
eouehs, colds. grippe sud oil ,hroas aod luos
troubles -ausbsoo.Ligon Co.
The invitatioss to the annual bell Of tho
Sumter club, on the evening Of the l6tb
sSS'eSst oo'0 SSUo o0ot Voss ooV tO0 Oov0HoI
committees have completed oil the arraoRs.
msuts for the most brilliant ball ever given
oy the club. The Fourth Regiment Orchestra
will furnish the music.
The regular monthly rss,iog of the City
Board OF Education Was held in The Oity
Clerks Office last week. Minutes Of Oc.
toeer msetines we're read and confirmed
The usual reports snd routins business was
dlscused. Nothing Of special iutsrest was
presented.
III you scour the world you will never
Ind . remedy EQUAL to One Aiou,s Cough
Core" ssys Editor Fscklsr. Of the Nicanopy,
Vla., "Hussler." II cnrsd bic family of La
Grippe, and caves Thousands from pueumo.
nis, bronchitis. Group and ell throa, and
lung oublss.-Hugbsoo.Ligoo Co.
A negro BY the name Of Jones Who va,
ipjared on the Atlantic Coast Line, between
this city and Columbia. on Wednesday nipbt
died csarsdsy night from bic injuries. One leg
was crushed aud II was amputsted, but bis
isjuriss were 20 serious that hs did not rally
20 expected after the operation.
The Missionary Society OF ths Mseno,is
Street Methodist Church will give az enter.
laiomeot 10 the Y. n. @. A. ball on next
Thursday evening. Admission 10 cent?.
Refreshments will be served after the enter.
talon ent.
Eat plenty, Kodol Dysrepsia Cure will
digest what you eat. 1t cures Gil forms Of
dyspspsis asd stomach troubles. E.R. Gam.
sls, Vernon Tex says "It relieved mo from
the start aud cured me. 1t 10 now nv evs,.
lasting friend'- Hushson-Ligon Co.
Policeman Il. n. Smith. captured q bicycle
thief last Thursday moroina. The culprit
was JACOB Davis who bad Guy Warreu's
wheel 10 bis possession. He bad painted the
wheel oil over With stove polish, but the dis.
curse was not snfficient TO deceive the police
The bicycle thieves are hsviuR . hard time
and they vill 6od that II does not psy to
steal wheels in Sumter.
The Atlantic Coast Line and Southern
Railway are nov using the Same passenger
depot, and Ne have In effect q union DEPOT.
eu' the smsll, crsmped, insigoi6caut aud un.
comfortable little affair 10 not 10 keeping
witn Sumter or the business the two roads
handle. There 10 no better channel 10 which
the Business League could directs its energies
than 10 the effort to induce tba two roads to
pnite 10 building large ssd we'll appointed
passenger station, with train sheds and other
necessary convsniences for the comfort And
protection OF the travelling public.
President King. Farmers Bank, BROOKLYN
Mich, has used DsWitrs Little Early Riser,
10 bic family for years. Says they ore ,b.
best. These famous little pills cure coos,i.
patton, bill'ousosss and oil liver and DO vs,
,roueles --Hugbson.Ligou Co.
The cotton receipts THE year will .,csea
the rtc-'pw OF last year By several thousand
esies. Last year tho total receipts for the
cotton yesr ossioning Sept lot, 1888, and
sodi?e Aogu" 3lst, 1899, we're "a, ,33s. Tn.
puolc cotton wsighsrs have weighed sincs
Sept. let II, 8,esS, and to ascertain the ,o,sI
receipss. TO this must DO added the cotton
bought from the wagon by the cotton mill
and several bundred bales bought bv locs.
euyers but not weighed at the puolic sca,es
The receipts are known to have been alread ~
more than nineteen thousand bales, and IL il
. conservative estimate to place the recejp,s
Tor the cotton year ending August 3lst. 1900,
al ~. 600 oales. Some well posted meu pre.
dict that sumter will handle bet veen tbir,v
end thirty.hve thousand bales this year. Tbs
| Increased receipts are not attributed To a
larger crop, bat to the impro vemept in tbs
market and the higher prices paid in This
| city. The improvement 10 due to ,bs s,,sh.
iishneut Of the compress and the opsnio0 n
the Sumter Wsteree X. r., which has en-.
soied tue cotton mills Of the up country tc