The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-03-05
LOCAL NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

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seed potatoes.
Are we to have fremen's tourna-
ment in Sumter this spring?
Many people are planning to visit
the Exposition this month.
Mr.. Edmund R. Murray on last Fri
day sold out his fruit and grocery
business to Mr.. Ruthven Plowden.
Friday afternoon there was a
heavy hail storm at Wedge6eld. The
hail stones were as large as marbles.
The sewerage question which was the
issue in the municipa campaign two
years ago appears to have dropped out
of sight.
The storm was quite severe in the
vicinity of Carter's Crossing Thursday
night and several small houses were
blown down.
Clerk of Court Nash, Auditor Will
der and Treasurer Scarborough on
Thursday revised the jury list and
prepared the jury box for the year.
The man who does not believe in
advertising may hold a certain line
of customers but he cannot hope to
attract the new business that the
advertiser does.
The storm Thursday night was very
severe throughout Georgia, Alabama
and adjoining states and follwing the
storm and flood of rain of the previous
two days was quite destructive.
The recent bad weather has retarded
ILo NE No
Bishopville road and the clay road
will not be completed to the poor
house as soon as expected.
Mr.. Jackson, who has been superin-
tending the macadam work on Main
Street, went to Newberry several days
ago and will not return until suf1i-
cient supply of rock is on hand to
finish the roadway to the depot.
Edgar Smith, a son of Mr.. W. P.
Smith, had two fingers Of his right
hand crushed in a punch press at
the telephone factory Wednesday. The
| injury was both painful and serious.
but it is thought today that it will
be possible to save both fingers.
When the Seaboard Air Line COM
pletes the road from Charleston to
Augusta, which is now being built, it
| may take up the matter of building a
branch road from the main line to
Sumter, the people in this city and
Bishopville will push the matter.
United States officers stationed at
the Charleston Exposition have Or
edred four barrels of Sumter water
shipped to them weekly until the close
of the Exposition They have been
drinking the water sent to the Sumter
exhibit and have been so well pleased
with it that they want no other
water.
The Sumter County exhibit at the
Exposition is generally admitted rank
as fourth best among the county ex-
hibits. this is gratifying, so far as it
goes, but when it is remembered that
our exhibit could have been made the
best at the show no one feels puffed
up with pride over the achievement OF
fourth place.
Stephen and Mary Johnson, colored.
were convicted in Magistrate Wells
court last Thursday of receiving stolen
goods and sentenced to pay a fine OF
S15 each or to be imprisoned thirty
days. They paid the fines. This case
grew out of the robbery of the A. G.
| L. freight cars few nights before by
Tom McCallum and Nathan Cold
cheese, johnson and his wife having
harbored the thieves and received the
stolen goods, knowing them to have
been stolen.
The police have recovered several
boxes of tobacco. side Of bacon and
can of lard stolen from freight cars
in the A.;C. L. yard by Tom Mccall
lum and Nathan Coldcheese. These
articles were left in the keeping o1
other negroes by the thieves, and the
police had difficulty in finding them.
It was ascertained last week after the
arrests had been made that not only
one but several cars had been robbed
and that the thieves had secured more
goods than was at first thought they
had.
The distance in direct line from
the Lee county line on Scape Oe'l
Swamp to the Court House was meas
ured again Thursday. This survey
was made by Messrs Perrin and Pate,
who made the original survey for Lee
county and the resurvey was made
yesterday for the purpose of establish
ing beyond question the fact that the
distance from the county line, as es
tablished by them, to the Court House
is more than eight miles. When seer
last night they had not had time te
complete their calculations, but they
were confident that this sruvey would
show that the distance is greater than
eight miles. The difference between
the surveys made by Messrs. Lee anc
Brunson, on the one hand, and Messrs.
Perrin and Pate, on the other hand,
is not in the comparative correctness
of the two surveys, but in the starting
points Messrs. Lee and Brunson
started from the main stream of Scape
Ger Swamp, while Messrs. Perrin and
Pate started their measurement from
point on the eastern side of the
swamp.
How He Took Her Refusal.
"What did alr. Strongnerve say when
you told him you would be sister TO