The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-11-13

Not as many red wheel buggies are
seen going out of town these times as
were observed last year.
The Sumter Club gave a dance
tonight at their club rooms in the
Masonic Temple, from 8 to 1890
O'Clock last night.
The Mayor had full house yester-
day, but the larger part of the audience
4 were spectators and the cases were
only unimportant ones.
The ladies of the Lutheran Church
will serve oysters on the first Monday
in January, the 9Th of the month.
The place will be announced later.
TIE work of rearranging and put
ting in new tracks in the Coast Line
yard is being pushed along and before
long the various side-tracks Will all be
In frst-class shape.
The dispensary sold upwards. of $3.50
worth Of booze" Thursday. It was
closed Friday, as usual, on circus days,
and everyone tried to lay in. Thursday
a supply of stimuiants for Friday.
There was an alarm Of fire about
midnight Thursday night. The FIRE
proved TO be outside the city limits,
near the brick-yard, and consequently
the hose companies could do no good.
There is very small attendance at
court this week. The civil cases do not
attract as much attention as the
criminal cases. There will be a num-
Der of quite interesting cases during
this, week, il the court reaches them.
Work has at last commenced on the
macadamizing of Main street. The
workmen began breaking up rock at
the intersection of Main and Liberty
Streets Monday morning, and the work
will go on rapidly from now on.
At the annual meeting of the Chris
tian Temperance Workers of South
Carolina. in Greenyille, on Saturday,
Mrs. Joel E. Brunson, of this city,
was elected president of the organiza-
ton:
The preliminary trial of the three
prisoners charged with the burning
of several buildingsin Mayesville, will
be begun this morning at 10
O'Clock at Mayesville before Magis-
trate Rhame. Mr.. Reynolds will repre-
sent the State at the trial.
There was a general mix-up at q
negro entertainment in the tobacco
prize house Wednesday night from all
accounts. AS results Of the fracas, Ed
Scott was before the Mayor today and
was fined $40 or 20 days for his fun.
The uniforms for the students of the
S. M. a. and F. S. have arrived and
the students may be seen wearing
them. They are made Of the usual
material ior military scohol uniforms
and are quite neat in appearance. The
girls will wear dresses of the same
color and material as those of the ca
dets and mortar board" caps.
Work on the macadamizing Of Main
Street, which began Monday morn
ing, was stopped at noon.
Some little trouble about contracts, it
appears, caused the delay in the work.
It is reported that the work will be
resumed at once.
The South Carolina Telephone Co.
suffered severe loss In the Timmons-
Vile fire losing nearly all their proper
ty there without any insurance. Work
has commenced on repairing the ex-
change and everything will be in
working order again as soon as posi-
ble
The money for paying the managers
and defraying other expenses of the
election on last week, will not be
available until the Legislature meets
in January and makes the appro-
priation. This was an unexpected cleo
tion and no appropriation had been
made in advance.