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

| eOp OF Mr2. Is. ID. JOnes VI tbo A1ot oe'6o'
borhood.
The entertainment to be given In the \. ".
G.. A. hall next Thursday night will be both
entertaining and interesting. You will End
| j, pleasant TO attend. Admission 10 cents.
The work on the pew telephone fnctory
ia progressing rapidly under the supervision
Of contractor j. W. AcKiever. Ii the wealth
| pr nerm,ts. go that the brick work can te
nushed rapidly duriog the next mosth or six
weeks. the factory will be completed aud
resdy for the machinery about February lst.
The bird hunters are having fne sport apd
on every outing they bag lot of partridges.
The birds are as plentiful this season as ever
before and are we'll grown for this time of
wear. The thousands killed every season
do not appear to decrease the number the fol-
lowing senson.
"Wheu our boys were almost dead from
whoopiug cough, our doctor gave One Min
ute Cough Cure They recovered rapidly, ;"
writes P. B. Bellies. Argyle. Pa. 1t cures
coughs, colds, grippe aud all throat and lung
troubles -Hugbson-Ligon Co.
The invitations to the annual ball Of the
Sumter club, on the evening Of the loto
instant, have been sent our, and the several
committees have completed all the erraoge-
ments for the most brilliant ball ever given
BY the club The Fourth Regiment Orchestra
will furnish the music.
The regular monthly neetiug of the City
Board Of Education wes held in the City
Clerks Office last week. Minutes of Oc-
tober meetings we're read and confirmed
The usual reports and routine business was
discussed. Nothing of special interest was
presented.
eff you scour the world you will never
spd remedy equal to One Minute Cough
cure," says Editor Fackler, of the aicanopy,
Fla, ssHastler.'' II cnsed his family of La
Grippe, and saves thoussn snds from pneumo-
MIA, bronchitis. Group and all throat and
lung troub!es.-Aughson-Li Co.
A pegro by the name OF Jones who was
Injured on the Atlantic Coast Line, between
this city and Columbia. on Wednesday night
died Thursday nightfrom bis injuries. One leg
was crushed aud it was amputated. but his
ipluries were so serious that he did not rally
as expec,ed after the operation.
The Missionary Society of the aagnoia
Street Methodist Church will give an enter
tsipmens in the Y. Vi. C. A. ball Oh next
Tnursday evening. Admission 10 cent?.
Refreshments will be served after the enter
taion ent.
Eat plenty, Kodol D5srepsia Cure will
digest what you eat. 1t cures all forms of
dyspepsia and stomach troubles. E. R. Gam
BILE. Vernon Tex says SIT relieved me from
the start and cured me. It's now my ever
lasting friend'- Eughson-Ligon Co.
Policemen 4. H. Smith, captured bicycle
was JACOB Davis who bad Guy Warren s
wheel in his possession. He bad painted the
waeel ell over With stove polish, but the dis
curse was not snhicien: to deceive the police
The bicycle thieves are havirg hard time
and they will fod that 1t does rot pay to
steal wheels in Sumter.
The Atlantic Coast Line and Southern
Railway are now using the same passenger
depo., and We have in effect union depot,
but the small, cramped. Insignificant and un.
comfortable little affair is not in keeping
with Sumter or the business the TWO roads
bapde. There is DO better channel in which
the Business League could directs its energies
than in the effort to induce tha two roads to
unite in building large asd we'll appointed
passenger station, with train sheds and other
necessary conveniences for the comfort and
protection of the travelling public.
President King, Farmers Bank, Brooklyn
Mich, has used DeWitt's Little Early Risere
10 his family for years. Says they are the
best. These famous little pills cure consti-
patton, billlousness and sill liver and bowei
,roubles --Hugbson.Ligon Co.
The cotton receipts this year will exceed
| the receipts of last year By several thousand
bales. Last year the total receipts for the
cotton year beginning Sept Let, 1888, and
public cotton weighers have weighed sicce
Sept lst l8, 6S8. and to ascertain the total
receipts 10 this mus, be added the cotton
bought from the wagon oy the cotton mil
and several hundred bales bought by loca
buyers but not weighed at the puohc scales
The receipts are known to have beeo already
more than nineteen thousand bales, aud it il
a conservative estimate to place the receipts
for the cotton year euding August 3ls', ,ec0
at q 900 bales. Some we'll posted men pre-
dict that Sumter will handle between thirt,
and tbirty-6ve thousand bales this year. Tn
Increased receipts are not attributed to
larger crop, bat to the improvement in ,h
market and the higher prices paid in hi
city The improvement Is due TO the estao
lishrent of the compress aud the opening Q
tie Sumter / Wateree R. R., which has en-
abied the cotton mills Of the Hp country ,
buv cotton here