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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-04-16
Harmony Presbytsry.

Harmony Presbytery convened on
the 9Th instant in Beulah Church,
Florence county, and was duly organ
lied by the election of Elder R. NJ.
Cooper as moderator and Elder Reeves
as temporary clerk.
The sessions occupied three days,
adjourning Friday afternoon to meet
in Sumter on May Both to transact a
small item of business and in its regu-
/ lar fall session in Richmond Church,
Williamsburg County.
The matters attended to were main
ly of routine nature. Much stress
was laid On public preaching, two
services beine sse1a see,a eachn easch dav f morning
and night. The congregations were
large and seemed to enjoy all the ser
vices both business and devotional
greatly.
The attendance of delegates was un-
usually large Notwithstanding the fact
that Beulah church is twelve miles
distant in every direction from rail
road connections.
The pastor of this church, the Rev.
W. W. Sadler was chosen as commits
sioner to the General Assembly which
meets the middle of May in Jackson
Miss, with the Rev. W. H. Mills as
his alternate.
AS lay-commissioner Elder B. F.
Wilson was chosen with Elder NJ. R.
Wilson as his alternate.
Mr.. ". J. Barrett was unanimously
elected treasurer Of the Presbytery to
succeed Mr.. Shepard Nash who resign
ed on account of i'll health.
The roads in the Beulah section are
ideal. One can ride bicycle at full
speed from Lynchburg to Lake City
without dismounting. The people are
thrifty and prosperous. Tobacco cul-
ture has for the most part supplanted
that of cotton which has saved the
community from bankruptcy. The
cloth-covered hot beds for the young
plants appear right and left and the
unsightly curing barns are conspicu
Gus A good deal Of trade comes to
Sumter from that section but the bulk
of it goes to Timmonsville on account
of its being the best tobacco market.
If Sumter had continued in that line
as it started few years ago and if it
had exerted itself to improve the roads
in that direction as perhaps might
have been done the benefit would now
be apparent.
The hospitality of this community is
fully up to the standard of true south
ern hospitality and the people are well
able to practice it.
The meeting was altogether an
enjoyable one and no less profitable we
trust in all respects. Presbyter.
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Among the Lodges.

Game Cock Lodge, K. of P. con-
ferred the Rank of Knight at it's meet
ing Monday night on Esquires c. c.
Brown, W. H. Seal and Z. S.
Chipley. and these gentlemen are now
full hedged members of this popular
order.
The following Past Chancellors have
been elected delegates to the Grand
Lodge which meets in Greenwood on
May 10Th, G. w. Dick, j. Il. Levy,
C. NJ. Hurst, Jr., II. L. Scarborough,
Z. I. Parrott and T. E. Richardson.
Hollywood Camp. Woodmen OF the
World is growing at a rapid rate. They
meet once month On the third
Wednesday and there are always
candidates for initiation. There is an
unusual boom on just now due to the
fact that the order celebrates its
twelfth anniversary IN June, and
the initiatory fee from this time
10 June 9Th, has been reduced to s.
for medical examination. We have
heard of twelve or fifteen applications
to be presented at the next meeting
with the probability of much larger
number. The camp already numbers
more than one hundred members.
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Master Sale.

BY VIRTUE of Decree of the
Court of Common Pleas for Sumter
County, in the State of South Carroll
ma, in the case of Mark Reynolds,
against Marcus Sumter, Charlie Sum-
ter, Binky Wilson, Richard Sumter.
and Dorcas Sumter, the two last
named being infants under fourteen
years of age and sole heirs at law and
distributes of Richard Sumter, de-
ceased, I will sell to the highest bid
der, at public auction at the Court
House in the City of Sumter, in the
County of Sumter, in said State, on
sale day in May, 1902, being the fifth
day of said month, during the usual
hours of sale, the following described
real estate to wit:
All that parcel of land containing
forty-fve acres, be the same little
more or less, situate in the County Of
Sumter and State of South Carolina,
bounded on the North and Northeast
by land of estate of DR.. Mark Rey-
nolds: South, Southeast and South
west by the Cane Savannah Road and
on the West and Northwest by lands
of estate of DR.. Mark Reynolds: hav-
ing such shape and boundaries as are
represented on plat certified by NJ.
A. McLaurin, August I'd, 1893, and
attached to Deed Of Dr.. Mark Rey-
nolds to NJ. Sumter, recorded in R.
M. G.. Office for Sumter County in
Volume Y. V. page 26S.
Terms Of sale, cash. Purchaser to
pay for papers.
Master for Sumter County.
April II, 1902.-3tw
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which it operates cannot fail to be
convinced that it is the best and most
business like of all fraternal insurance
orders and that it affords its members
the greatest security and the cheapest
insurance to be had. 4 reserve or
emergency fund assures a limit Of
only II assessments year. No extra
assessments, no step rate plan increas-
ing amount of assessment each year.
The assessment rate is always the
same, as is established for the age at
joining. The rate is graduated accord
ing to age from 65 cents per thousand
at is to Is years to s2.75 per thousand
for 80 years.
To commemorate the Twelfth Ami
yersary it has been decided to reduce
the entrance fee to 50 for one day only.
This includes medical examination
and all other expenses. Applications
should be handed in to some member
of Hollywood Camp at once-all ap-
plications must be in on or before
May 18th.
If you want insurance-you certain
ly need insurance-now is the time to
secure-s2 admits you to membership
in the Woodmen of the World if ap-
plication is made between this date
and May 10Th.
Literature and full particulars may
be procured of R. S. Hood, Clerk, or
any other member of Hollywood Camp,
W. of W. Sumter, S. G.
April 15-1m.
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spartanburg Girl to Wed.

A large circle of friends will be in
terested in the approaching marriage
of Miss Elizabeth Margaret Archer to
DR.. j. Grenville DeLorme, of Sumter,
S. c., on the afternoon of April 16 at
5 o'clock. The affair will take place
at the home of the bride and will be
witnessed by relatives and intimate
friends about so in number. Miss
Archer has made herself a great favor
tie by her lovely disposition and
bright manner and numbers of her
friends regret that her marriage will
take her from Spartanburg. DR.. De-
Lorme is prominent druggist and is
one of the most successful and popular
young business men in Sumter.-Spar-
tanburg Herald.
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Darlington = Darlington: Upland
corn nearly all planted; some cotton
planted, but most will be next week
tobacco plants plentiful but small;
oats and wheat, where not killed,
doing we'll; gardens backward.-Hon.
E. R. McIver.
Florence-Lynch Farmers we'll up
with their work; cotton planting just
begun; corn coming up to poor stands
tobacco plants are generally small and
beds weedy; transplanting will not
begin for several weeks; oats are
promising.-E, J, Smith,
Kershaw-Tiller's Ferry: Frost and
thin ice on 9th killed some beans and
melons; but little cotton planted :;
rapid progress during the week in pre-
pairing lands: tobacco plants nearly
ready to set out but are scarce.-J.
W. Gardner.
sumter-Hagood: Cotton planting
begun, and will be general next
week; early corn coming up to poor
stands; fall oats and wheat up to
average; gardens backward, fruit
safe, an abundant crop promised.-A.
x. Sanders.
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Hampton Day Memorial Exercises.

The Graded School deserves the
credit for the successful conduct of the
Hampton memorial exercises. It was
the Graded School that requested the
pastors to announce at Sundays SER
vice that these exercises would be
held in the Opera House under the
auspices of the Graded School. It
was the Graded School that requested
the merchants and others to close their
places of business, that procured the
services of the band, that arranged the
entire program, that requested the
other schools to be present at these
exercises in honor Of Gen. Hampton.
It is due to the Graded School to
say that it deserves all the credit for
the pleasure and privilege OF these
memorial exercises.
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OF for the Exposition.

Still the crowds go from Sumter to
see the big show. On yesterday
mornings tri-weekly were bound:
MI. and Mrs. G. 7. Mason, Mr.. and
Mrs. ". II. Seals, Maj. Noise and
family, Mr.. y H. Phelps and family,
Mr.. NJ. D. Moore and family, Mrs Fl.
G. Moses, Misses Arabella and Katie
Moses, Lizzie Dinkins, Alice,
Anita and Gussie Hardy, Mi
kell, Schwerin, Sanders. LaMotte-
Atkinson, and Messrs. Willie Moran,
Harry Scarborough, Charlie Smith,
Jim Chandler, Barlow Walsh, Jr.,
Hazel Dick, Jr., and many others.
The regular TRAN this evening Will
also take an immense crowd.
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We publish elsewhere today the re-
port of meeting of the Executive
Committee of the United Charities Of
Sumter to which we direct attention
Of all our readers. With the end of
this month will also end the first year
Of she society. There were many who
predicted at the time Of organization
That it would not I've through the
wear, but it has lived and accomplish
ed great good in the community. We
feel that the thanks of the citizens OF
Sumter are due to the Executive COM
rittee ard especially to the ladies OF
the Ward committees for their unselfsh
labor of love. Feeding the ungry,
clothing the naked, caring for the
sick, ministering to the. dying chill
dren of destitution, this is the work
which has been done silently and
without show or flourish. a work
npon which angels might smile and
to which ali men n whom is any
Of the milk of human kindness must
give their appreciation We hope the
society has come to stay among oul
permanent institutions. It is hard te
realize how we ever got along without
such an organization and harder still
to see how we can dispense with il
after the first years experience.
Every one who gives at all to charity,
and who does not, every such one
should be member. Instead Of one
hundred and eighty subscribers, there
ought to be two or three times thar
number. Though the amounts con
sributed be small, yet the aggregate
would make a handsome sum, which
placed under coontrol Of discreet com
mitees will do incalculable good
Much more good than the same sums
given at random to beggars. We hope
shat pubic interest will be awakened
as never before in this importan
work of benevolence.
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WEEKLY CROP BULLETIN.

Columbia, April l5.-,rhe early part
OF the week ending a. m., Monday,
April Il, was unseasonably cold, with
heavy frost and thin ice in exposed
places to within about thirty miles of
the coast, on the 9th. The close Of
the week had about normal tempera-
ture. Light frosts occurred in the
northwestern portions On the 10th and
11th. The, frosts of the week nipped
some corn, yellowed some oats, prob
ably injured peaches slightly in places
but otherwise did no material damage,
owing to the backwardness Of the
season.
On the 7th, there was a beneficial
rain that covered the entire State,
and ranged in amounts from one
third to over an inch. In places it
was accompanied by hail. There was
a snow furry in Newberry County on
the sth. The sunshine was about
normal. High winds prevailed on the
9Th and 9th. The week was generally
favorable for farm work, and rapid
progress was made in preparing lands
for spring planting, except on bottom
lands which are still too wet to plow.
In the southeastern and east CEN
trail counties corn planting is nearly
finished, and much is up to poor
stands, while some has been replanted.
Birds and cut-worms have injured
stands. In the central upland corn
plaating is we'll under way, while over
the western it has only begun.
Not much cotton has been planted
anywhere, scarcely any in the western
portions of the State, but over the
eastern portions the bulk of the crop
will be planted during the present
week.
Rice is being planted, in all the
regions where grown, under favorable
conditions. Tobacco plants are plenti-
full but small: transplanting will not
begin for some time. Truck mad favor
able weather, the rainfall having been
particularly beneficial along the coast.
! Wheat is generally promising, al
though small, with, however, numer-
Gus exceptions where the crop is poor.
Oats are exceedingly variable in con
dition, with only few localities where
the crop is entirely satisfactory.
Gardens are backward. Pastures
afford grazing over the eastern por-
tions of the State only. Fruits are
late in blooming, and the majority o.
correspondents regard it as safe tt
date, but in Lexington County and
few other localities, peaches have beer
materially injured but not all killed.
Clarendon-St. Paul: Heavy rains
and high winds packed and dried th'
soil, causing poor stands Of early corn
and hinders cotton planting; medium
TO DOOR stands of oats; gardens latt
and poor; fruit materially thinned 3!
| The cold weather.-A. j. Richbourg.
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Mayors eeart.

There was quite az array OF offend
ers before the Mayors Court Tuesday.
Carrie Mcdonald and Viney Shaw
two colored women got into fight on
Wells street and plead guilty. No
serious damage was done and they
were lightly punished. Carrie was
fined three dollars or six days and
Vinev one dollar OF two days.
Theodore McFa6din was charged by
his better half with disturbing the
peace of the home and running her
off the premises. The Mayor admon-
ished the pair of the evil of such con-
duct and dismissed the prisoner on his
promise to live with his wife in peace.
John Smith young white man was
arrested at the passenger depot in an
intoxicated condition. He also had a
pistol which he had drawn on two
citizens on separate occasions. Cursec
and resisted the officers and conducted
himself in riotous manner general
ly. Smith managed to break the loca
of his prison cell and escaped, but was
overtaken by Officer Barwick. before
reaching the city limits and again
taken into custody. He seemed quite
penitent when he faced the Mayor and
invoked the clemencv Of his Honor
promising to shake the dust OF the
city from his feet and depart never to
return if released. But the court
didn't see it that way, so MI. Smith
was given ten dollars or twenty days,
and promptly paid the fine.
Three other white men charged with
various offences. Disturbing the peace,
carving concealed weapons, cursing,
interfering with an officer IN dis
charge of duty etc, etc. These being
represented by Claude Aman Esq,
demanded trial by jury.
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WADE HAMPTON.

Death has removed South Carolina:
most distinguished and best beloved
citizen, and the whole State mourn:
today beside the bier of Wade Hamp
ton, patriot, soldier, statesman.
No man in all America occupied
position similar to that of Wade
Hampton. Other States have hae
great mon and influential leaders
South Carolina has had in the pasi
and now has men who were al recog-
nized as leaders, but Hampton stood
alone, and for quarter of century
he has been the first citizen, the
most representative man of South
Carolina, the man in whom all men
had confidence, the man whose name
aroused in the heart Of every true
Garolinian a feeling of pride that
soutl, Carolina possessed such a
citizen.
Prior to 1851 Wade Hampton was
one Of the prominent and well known
men of the State; from 1861 TO 'e5 his
services as a soldier shed lustre on his
State and won the admiration and
confidence OF his superior and inferior
officers, as well as the devotion of the
men whom he led in battle; but it was
HIS services in 1876 that raised him to
the proud eminenee he has since
occupied. He was the man to whom
al turned when leader was needed
at that crucial time in the Safes
history, and the way in which he dis
charged the onerous and heavy respon-
sibility placed upon him amply
justified the faith reposed in him by
South Carolinians.
More than twenty-five years have
passed since Hampton and his red-shirt
brigade swept the State from the
Eaountains to the sea, but still the
memory OF those days brings back the
FIRE to age-dimmed eyes and vigor to
time pslsied limbs Of the men who
then implicitly followed Hampton and
nnder his leadership redeemed their
native State. To those who have but
childhood's impressions Of the days
OF '76, Hampton's campaign is land
mark, bold headland, in memory's
chart from which all other early recol
lections are assigned a place. The
name of Hampton is craven deep in
Che very life of the State and time can
never wear it away. No monument of
stone or brass made by hands could be
as enduring as the vital, living force
OF his own life and its effect upon the
lives and history of his fellow citizens
and posterity.
South Carolina trusted and honor
ed him in life and he fulfilled every
trns5, and the State honored herself by
bestowing honors upon him. Today
be lies dead, and a whole State is in
mourning.
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HAMPTON.

Peace, Toll no Beli-All is we'll,
tonight,
Cardinals son has seen the light
OF Gods approving smile.
Shed no tear, have no fear, ransomed
On the shore all adore, has reached its
Goal.
A spirit hero without guile.
Wade Hampton, dead! No, no, not
dead!
He lives where e'e- wisdom's words
are said,
Or noble deeds inspired.
A life like his can never pass from
earth
Whilst mortal men still worship
worth,
Or heroism be fired,
By actions which a world reveres,
Or thoughts too tender cen for tears
Are still admired.
His spirit before thousands passed
Has reached its final home at last,
And rests in peace.
The world is better taat he lived,
And brighter they who have survived.
His grand release.
His place within our heart of hearts
His kingly bearing can depart.
Nor can his memory cease,
Whilst virtue, valor, manly grace
Maintain on earth their wonted place,
His name will live for Aye.
In song and story,
And the child who knows
Of his fame, of his modest mild re-
pose
And courteous gentle way,
viii strive to be a better man or maid,
VIII pause to leave an unkind word
unsaid
For his dear sake.
And many an act Of generous design
In example so humble, so benign
It's root will take.
Until the name of Hampton to the
youth
Of Carolina be indicative of the truth
That love is far more dear
Than all earth's triun.phs, that Life
is less
Than duty, that no kind Of success
Can justify a needless tear.
Build him monument Of marble
white,
And on its stainless surface let US
write
These words-no more;
8 He was a man, take him for all in
We shall not look upon his like
again.
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Wo0DMEN ANNIVERSARY.
You Can Join This Great Insurance Or
der for TWO Dollars.

Friday, June 9th, is the Twelfth
Anniversary of the organization of the
Woodmen of the World, the 4th largest
life insurance fraternity in the United
States. The growth of the order in
the short space of u years has been
phenomenal; the membership now
exceeds 24o, GOO and more than $40, 600,
600 have been paid ia settlement OF
death claims.
The growth and popularity of the
order resulted from merit alone and
anyone examining che. plans under
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-04-16

The County Board of Comissioners
at the regular meeting on Tuesday
decided to erect an iron fence around
the Court House square. Supervisor
Scale was instructed to obtain prices
and at The next meeting of the Board
the style OF fence to be erected will De
decided npou.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-16
REPUBLICANS SET DATES.
Meeting of State Central Com
mittee in Hagerstown.

The Republican State Central
Committees of the several counties
comprising the Sixth District of
Maryland met at the City Hall
III Hagerstown on Monday. Con-
gresham George A. Pearre at
tended the meeting. He is not a
member of the Central Committee
from Allegany, but he held the
proxy of his brother. William
Pearre. 1t was decided to hold
the Sixth District Congressional
Convention in Hagerstown on
June 5.
All the members of the commit
tees present were in favor of the
denomination of Colonel Pearre.
The Washington county prim-
aries were fixed for May 81; con
vention. June 3.
Frederick county primaries,
May "a; county convention, May
81.
Montgomery county primaries,
May 81; convention, June 3.
Allegany primaries, May "a;
convention, May 26.
Garrett primaries, May "a; con-
vention, May 26.
The following members of the
respective central committees
were present:
Allegany-C. Ii. Hoffman, Col.
George A. Pearre, the latter hold
ing his brothers proxy.
Frederick-John U. Markell,
Capt. III. G. Henshaw, William
II. Harry.
Garrett-Dr. j. w. Laughlin.
Neutrality-suspicious.. G. Noyes,
Peyton Gordon. the latter holding
a proxy.
Washington-John w. Gable,
Charles w. Adams, Leander I'll.
Kuhn, Harry X. Startzman. Mr..
Gable held the proxy of George
A. Davis.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-16
Farmers to Meet.

Prof. r. w. Sylvester, president
of Maryland Agricultural College,
has issued invitations to the
farmers organizations of the
State for a general meeting at the
college on May % and 80. Com
mittees of the several societies
and clubs are expected to assem-
BILE there on the 2Sth and make an
inspection of the property and
buildings and experiment station
grounds, and report on the Goth
to the general assemblage. The
committees will be provided for
and lodged at night on the 18th at
the college, and on the Goth dinner
will be served.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-16
Western Maryland College

Western Maryland College.
Westminster, Nd, has just issued
the announcements of its 32nd
commencement, beginning June
9th and closing with Commence.
ment Day on Wednesday, June
18th.
The class roll shows a list of is
young men and IA young women
to be graduated. 1t is the most
distinctively Maryland class the
college has ever graduated, every
county in the State being repre-
scented except four. In honor of
this unusual fact, Governor Smith
will preside and deliver the diplo-
mas on Commencement Day.
Among the graduates we note
from this county are, Mr.. Harry
G. Hull and Miss Helen A. Multi
nix, of Frederick.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-16
Don't Start Wrong.

Don't start the summer with a
lingering cough or cold. We all
know what a "summer cold" is
It's the hardest kind to cure.
Often it ''hangs on" through the
entire season. Take it in hand
right now. A few doses of One
Minute Cough Cure will set you
right. Sure cure for coughs,
colds, Group, grip, bronchitis, all
throat and lung troubles. Abso-
lutely safe. Acts at once. Chill
dren like 1t. zone minute Cough
Cure is the best cough medicine
| ever used," says j. Ii. Bowles,
Grovetown, N. ii. "Inever found
anything else that acted so safely
and quickly"