The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-09-17
LOCAL NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

Eggs are selling at 22a25 cents a
dozen and the supply is not equal to
the demand.
Middling cotton sold Monday for 514.
The market was steady and higher
prices are looked for at an early day.
| Many people are inquiring when
the mail boxes are to be put up at the
street corners.
Attention is wanted to the advertise
ment of D. j. Chandler, the Clothier.
Quite party of Winthrop College
girls spent the night in the city and
went on to RockHill on yesterday morn
ing's train.
| Mr.. j. T. Meehan, of Chesterfield,
last Friday placed an order Tor s., GOO
worth of telephones with the Tele-
phone Manufacturing Co.
The first advertising car of Sells
Bros. and Forepaugh's circus arrived
last Saturday and the city and sur
rounding country has been thoroughly
billed.
If cotton brings eight cents or more
] throughout the season this will be a
great year for the horse, mule and
buggy dealers.
The Gibson train was about one hour
behind time yesterday morning, on ac-
count of the heavy passenger travel
college girls on their way to Winthrop
College.
Mr.. S. Y. Delgar is hard at work
collecting statistics from the cotton
ginners Of the county for his first re-
/ port to the Department of Agrlcul-
ture.
The Republican politicians in
Charleston are already scrambling for
| the position of Collector of the port
made vacant by the death of Col. r.
Nc. Wallace.
The general election in November
will be almost farce, for scarcely
twenty per cent. of the vote cast in
the primary will be polled.
jenkins Bros. have just received large
shipment of ball bearing, drop head, New
Home machines. See them. Under Ma
sonic Temple. ~ July 80.
M. J. Frederick, Of Orangeburg, has
been elected to succeed S. j. McDon-
aid as teacher in the Lincoln Graded
School. He will have charge of the 9TH
and 9Th grades and also of the depart
ment of carpentry.
The Graded School opened with over
46o pupils present today. The City
Board and Superintendent are wrest-
ling with the problem of seating the
pupils. This isino longer posi- bill
ity; but fact, and some provision
Will be made at once, as the authorl-
ties are unwilling that any pupil OF
the city who applies for seat should
be denied admission.
All the teachers of the Washington
Street5Graded School we're on hand
Monday morning when the school open
edand everything moved off as smoothly
as if the school had been running for
some time.
The enrollmentof pupils continuedyes-
terday at the Washington street school
and until the plan of the school board,
for providing more class rooms the
grades will be uncomfortably crowded.
Mr.. W. D. Shaw has received the
appointment as regular mail carrier to
succeed W. T. Andrews, resigned.
Heretofore Mr.. Shaw has been acting
as substitute.
The only fault to be found with
Sumter county's vote is the unmerited
strength developed by John Gary
Evans, W. Jasper Talbert, j. I. CAN'T
and A. W. Jones. If,the county had
voted with Stateburg this criticism
would not have been made.
Sumter certainly gave Hayward a
hattering vote. To have received only
six less votes in this city than Col.
J. Harvey Wilson, the only candidate
Sumter has had for State Office IN
many years and withal popular
man with his nome people, is some
thing for Mr.. Heyward to be proud OF.
The County Democratic Executive
Committee met in the Court House
Thursday, tabulated the returns and de-
clared the election. The result is
s.own in tabulated form elsewhere in
this paper. Mr.. B. D. Wilson having
received majority of the votes cast for
the Office of Superintendent of Educa-
ton, was declared the nominee of the
party for that office.
Schwartz Bros, the pioneer dry
goods dealers of Sumter, make their
fall announcement today. During the
summer their store has been enlarged
and improved to meet the demands Of
constantly growing business and they
now invite their friends and patrons
to visit place of business that is a
model of completeness and to inspect
stock of goods of the newest and
! most fashionable designs.
Large shipments of Guns, Rifles and
Ammunition, just received by Z: B.
jenkins, Jr., Masonic Temple.
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