The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-10-15

sportsmen should read W. S. Rey-.
nclds' advertisement.
Schwartz Bros. have a new adyer-
tisement IN this issue.
The petit jury for the November
court was drawn at TO o'clock 5his
morning.
The cotton fields are beginning to
look bare, and there is little more cot
ton TO open.
he S. bazaar promises to
! Be- the biggest affair Of the kind ever
held in this city.
The rock for macada Bartleste:
ssree5 betwsen HarViE and Main
has. been received.
Cotton receipts saave passed the six
teen thousand mark and the daily re-
ceipts are still quite large:
This last open air concert by the band
Eas given on the Graded School
Square st s o'clock last Friday even
ing
Gotten was lower Monday and the fu-
sRre market, which has been weak for
several days, shows q tendency to go
still lower.
The cestoR wagons formed a long
line from thes cotton weighers plat,
form on .Dingls street and up Main
street last Thu ursdag
The State Fair is becoming a
topic OF conversation and hundreds
are planning 80 spend a day or more
n Columbia Fair week
The doors will open for the Gordon
Shay Grand Opera matinee Thursday
afternoon at;l O'Clock, performance be-
GINS promptly at 2 O'Clock.
Some people prefer going to the
uossofice for their mail, because they
don ,5 like to have their letters han
died by SO many people. Well, well
At meeting of the Board ofDirect-
ors OF the Sumter Cotton Mill, Mai.
Marion Noise was elected President to;
succeed Col r. NJ. Wallace, deceased.
The ladies Of the First Methodist
Church will serve dinner Monday and
Tuesday Of court week, November
3rd and 4th. The place will be an
nounced later.
Sumter, or iat least the committee
in charge OF the matter, appears to
be doing nothing at present toward
securing the removal Of the Columbia
Female Collegsf TO this city
The Columbia. State says: Green
wood is hrstling TO get the Columbia
Female College. The, home folks who
are interested are not idle, however,
and have little fear of the college
going elsewhere. =
Jimmie James, colored, escaped
from thecEain gang Monday night. He
was serving term for larceny, and
his time would have expired next
week, consequently it is difficult to
understand why he ran away from
the gang.
The three prizes to be given to the
Girls who sell the most tickets to the
s. Z. I. bazaar are now en- exhibi-
tion at China's Drug Store. The
Drizes are both handsome and valuable
and we'll worth working for.
During the past week many of
the a. G. L. passenger trains have
been late-some Of them three to i've
hours behind schedule. The delays
are said to have been caused by wash
outs on the road between Richmond
and Washington.
Mr.. Spann Young, of Oak6eld, Ga,
accidentally shot himself with gun
on Thursday last. At first his injuries
were thought to be mortal, but at last
reports he was improving. He was
formerly of this county and sister,
Mrs. Il. w. Baker, lives in this city.
Mr.. Ernest A. Bnltman is install
ING and fitting up an up-to-date opti-
ca7 parlor in connection with his
ieweiry business. It viii be furnished
w.th the latest modern electric testing
instruments, and he has engaged the
professional services Of Dr. q +.
Highsmith, eye specialist, OF Palladel-
phia, to manage same. Tbis depart
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