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

Wher the chain gang finishes With
the improvement of the Blanding Mill
road it will be as good, or better, drive
than the Stateburg road.
Mr.. G. A. Lennon has been elected
a director of the First National Bank.
to FIJI the vacancy in the board that
has existed since the death of Mr.. B.
R. Nash.
Mrs. Abe Ryttenberg has been ap-
pointed to place on the "Ward Com
mittee'' of the Associate Charities for
Ward 4, Miss Julia Cuttino having
resigned.
Attention is invited to the adver
tisement of ". S. Reynolds. He car
ries a stock of high-grade sporting
goods, guns, ammunition, bicycles,
sundries, ETC., and his prices are as
low as possible for the standard goods
he sells.
The bank deposits are crawling up
now and instead of money being scarce,
as it is reported to be in New York,
the local banks, Judging from their
deposit accounts, have plenty of
funds to supply all legitimate
demands.
The bloodhounds, four in number,
owned by the city are now kept at the
jail and will be used by the county
and city authorities whenever needed
to run down criminals. The hounds
have been kept at the State farm for
more than year and have received
thorough training.
Reports from all sections of this
county are to the effect that 1practicsl-
ly all the cotton is open in the fields
and that there will be scarcely any
late top crop harvested this season.
The crop will all be picked out and
ginned within few weeks more if
good weather continues.
The pantry of Rev. R. H. Jones was,
entered by a burglar on Saturday
night. A lot of groceries, including
bushel of rice, a lot canned goods,
sugar, etc., and other articles stored
in the pantry were stolen. The
burglar has not yet been captured.
The passenger train from Charleston
did not come Thursday morning until
l1.20, the two hours delay being caused
by freight wreck near Lanes. The
track was blocked by a rear end col-
lision between No. 50, the regular
freight, and an extra freight. The
caboose and several cars on No. 81
were smashed and the engine of the
extra was injured. No one is report,
ed to have been injured.
At a special meeting of City Coun-
ell held on Tuesday afternoon resolu.
tion was adopted directing Street Com
missioner White to complete the clay
sand roadway on Broad street Estate
burg road to the city limits to connect
| with the section Of road built by CoIn-
| ty Supervisor Scale. The work has
been commenced and will be COM
pleted as soon as possible.
The large amount of. cotton brought
to market last Thursday kept the cotton
Weishers busy nearly all day, and for
hours there was a blockade OF wagons
around. the cotton platform. Those
who were kept several hours waiSng
their turn to have their cotton weigh
ed were complaining considerably on
| the streets during the afternoon. They
take the position that some means
should be devised, when cotton receipts
are very large, to weigh it more rapid
y, for Sit is asgEeat hardship to keep
the wagons waiting at the scales the
greater part of the day.
A tobacco grower who wasin town last
Thursday said that hundreds of Sum
errcounty tobacco farmers sell their
toaceo in other counties and come to
Sumter to do their trading. as they
find that it pays them to do SO, the
merchants here carrying larger and bet
ter selected stocks Of goods. He sad
also that there is in the immediate
vicinity of this city some OF the fnest
tobacco land in the State, that it
is altogether a mistaken idea that the
lands in this section and the upper
| portion of the county are not suited
to tobacco. In his opinion Sumter
| will yet be the leading tobacco mar
ket,, as it is now the leading cotton
market of the eastern part OF the
State; all. that is necessary TO bring IL
about is for: the farmers near Sumter
1 to begin planting tobacco as q staple
crop and produce it in suf6cientsquan-.
titles TO give a fair. support to local
market.
An out of town insurance agent, who
blew into the city. last Wednes-
day morning, went up against
hard proposition early IN
the day and was put out OF action.
He tackled three policemen in front o5
the City Hall and undertook to sell
them a hundred thousand or SO OF IN
surance as a starter for his Sumter
campaign. He introduced himself,
stated his business and remarked IN
very affable manner that " Three
policemen and an insurance agent make
a mighty bad mixture. Chief Brad
ford replied, cit certainly does, If the
insurance agent hasn't paid his
license - The agent failed to eaten
the drift Of the Chiefs remark at
first, and the necessity of taking out a
license had to be fully explained. to
him before he realized the situation.
He was escorted to the Clerks once
| and received fuller explanation, al
ter which he decided to withdraw from
business and began making inquiry as