The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-09-24
LOCAL NEWS PaRAGRAPHED.

LOCAL NEWS PARA6RAPHED.
The mail boxes have been put up,
and letters can now be mailed at al
most every corner. The mail is col
lected from the boxes regularly.
Bishop A. Coke Smith has notified
the Charlotte committee that he had
accepted their terms and will move
with his family to that city the lst OF
October.
A negro tenant house on Grier
street, IN the eastern portion of the
city, was burned last Thursday morn.
ING. The house was the property OF
DE-. II. T. Abbott.
The prize list of the Charleston fire
mems tournament may tempt the
Sumter fremen to enter their racing
teams, although nothing has been
done in that direction.
A large crowd of college boys and
girls passed through the city yesterday
morning, and for their accommodation
it was necessary to attach extra coach
as to the Charleston Columbia train.
A bale Of cotton was stolen last Fri
dav night from Mr.. j. NJ. Woodley, at
Providence, and the police have been
on the lookout for since then, but they
are of the opinion that it did not come
TO this city, although it was tracked
in this direction.
Mr.. c. Tyler, of the Atkins section,
got his arm so badly laeerated IN
cotton gin thatit had to be taken off at
the shoulder. Mr.. Tyler had just
taken charge Of Mr.. r. A. Chandler's s
ginnery at Mayesville on the 18th and
was at work only few hours.
The chain gang having finished
building the clay and sand road from
the city limits to Shot Pouch branch
on the Stateburg road, has been moved
to the Blanding Mill road and is now
.camped near the First Mill A clay
and sand road will be built from the
city limits to First Mill.
The demand for Sumter telephones
in all parts OF the United States and
abroad is evidenced in several orders
received last week from Iowa, Texas,
Indiana, Massachusetts, and Canada by
The Sumter Telephone1 Manufacturing
Co. From Iowa was an order for l0o
phones from one company.
There is gap of about one hundred
yards between the end of the clay-sand
roadway, Broad street, built by the city
last spring and the road recently built
from the city limits to Shot Pouch
branch by Supervisor Scale. The city
should take steps at once to I'LL IN
the gap which mars what is otherwise
the best road in the county. :
Hon. A.. Frank Lever has gone .to
try the OLD plow handles on the red
hills of Broad river and for the next
ten days his sonorous voice will be
heard echoing through the tangled
luxuriance of the river bottoms, as he
cries ont gee haw, and pulls the beA
cord across his. mules back. Farm
life still hasits attraction for Frank.
Lexington Dispatch.
Mr.. J. ". McKiever has received sew
eral car loads of machinery for the
wood working plant he is establishing
at the old c., S. & n. depot which he
has leased for term Of years from the
city. The machinery is being erected
as rapidly as possible and the plant
will be in operation within a few
weeks. Mr.. McKiever will make
doors, sash, blinds, moulding, etc.
A little child of MI. S. H. Edmunds
was run over on the sidewalk on Main
Street near Mr.. Edmunds' residence
Saturday afternoon by young man
named Moore, who, it is charged was
riding bicycle at an excessive speed.
The child was not seriously hurt as
the wheel did not strike it with full
force, the pedal merely catching in
the child's clothing, throwing it to the
ground and dragged it some distance.
A warrant has been issued for Moore's
arrest and he will be tried before the
Mayor for fast riding. At the time of
the accident the child was accompa-
MED by Mrs. Edmunds and it seems
that Moore was entirely responsl bic
for the accident.
The will of the late Col. R. NJ. Wal
lace has been fled with the Judge Of
Probate. The will makes number of
bequests to relatives and others ag-
gregating in all about forty thousand
dollars and the residue is left to
Col. Wallace's sisters and his nephew,
the son of the late Capt. George D..
Wallace, U. S. a., in equal shares:
No statement of his estate, real and
personal, is made in the will, but. it
has been stated that he left property
exceeding 500, 900 in value. To his
wife s15, 900 was left in trust during
her life time and special hequest OF
81, OOO. Messrs. R. D. Lee and Marion
Noise are the trustees and executors
under the will.