The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-10-01
Pisgah Correspondence.

The cotton fields look brown and
bare. Very little more is to open. All is
about sold that has been picked.
Corn is very good and very little will
be bought by the white farmers in this
section. A large oat crop no doubt
| will be planted.
If those from distance could get
their cotton weighed more promptly
without waiting so long for their turn,
Sumter, would get more cotton than
she does, as your market for trade is
good; but they cannot attend TO their
| business and wait several hours before
their cotton is weighed, hence it goes
to other places. Il you keep up the
public system the weighers should be
increased during the busy season. No
| doubt the weighers, weigh as fast
as they can, .but it as impossible to
weigh SO much in short time, con-
sequently people are kept waiting
for hours. Private weighers in Camden
get on all right and can't see why
it can't be so in Sumter. have ever
found the Sumter cotton buyers all
right in their weights.
Rev. J. Walter Kenney had the mis-
fortune to get his knee dislocated some
time ago. He was riding in wagon.
when the mule ran and in attempting
to put his little boy lest his balance
and fell over the wagon, and was drag.
ged some distance. DR.. Britton set
the knee He has been on crutches
ever since, but is. doing fairly we'll.
He made a narrow escape from more
serious hurts.
A large quantity Of cotton has been
picked this fall by young ladies rather
than it should go to waste for the want
of labor. All honor to them. Girls
of this sort can be depended on like
the women of the revolution, equal
to the exigencies of the hour.
Mr.. W. r. Brown, has built nice
residence near New Hope Baptist
Church. He is man Of energy, as
his fine crops, grown on old fields, and
other Improvements, can testify. He
is an active man in his church-which
all good people are, or should he.
The protracted meetings at Swift
Creek and New Hope churches that
were te be held, are postponed, until
the pastor gets able to hold them.
I The last prinafr has proved that the
voters Of the Ssate don't care what q
man did ii the war. Now lot the
Legislative candle dates quiswiping their
Esyes when speaking abo1t the "old
EsoldieFs, but 60 to work and help
them. aft the State can afford. This
3 viii be business and not sentiment.
u Ihavs SShoaghs S OF d plan to save 3
great deaf Of expense in future cam
paigns, and will give it to you. Let
all the candidates, both State, and
| national, file their pledges With the
State chairman as usual. Then let
him turn over the list Of candidates
to the editor of the "State," and he
select the State and national tickets.
| The executive committee can then de-
clare the result and we have the nom-
inees of the party without further
trouble, thereby saving to the ,candi-
dates the expense and worry Of going
over the State to address the people.
When McLaurin undertakes to con-
vert the people of this State to his way
of thinking, he will have the biggest
job on mis- hands he ever undertook.
| It is amusing to see how some men ar
| rogate unto themselves greatness and
you can't convince them to the con-
trary until the people show them what
small potatoes they are.
The card of Capt. Hayward to the
voters Of the State, thanking them
for their support, is like the letter a
man would write to his sweetheart,
just before marriage, short and sweet.
Wonder if the Captain is going to
give Us in his official communications
the same sweet writing.
The population of Pisgah is fast in
creasing.