The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-09-09
LOCAL NEWS PARAeRAPHED.

lie you want to rent, sell or buy a
house. try an ad. in the want column.
The work on the new school build
ing is we'll under way.
Street Superintendent White has
been laying terra Gotta drains in the
cemetery ditch this week.
North Main street, between Hampton
avenue and Canal steet is torn up pre-
paratory to putting down macadam.
d. J. Chandler, is prepared to
furnish outfits for school and college
boys. See his advertisement.
The building boom still continues
we hear of four or Eve new houses to
be started within the next month or so.
The Sumter Cotton Mill which has
been shut down for sometime is ex-
pected to start up within the next two
weeks.
Mr. j. E. Jervey has leased the Ing
ram House for three years, with the
privilege of five years and will take
charge on the 22nd instant.
The outlook for business this fall is
now believed to be hopeful. but it all
depends on the average price OF cotton
between now and January 1st.
The banks and the postofice were
closed Monday on account OF Labor
Day, but everybody else were lard at
work as usual. Labor Day is not
generally observed in Sumter
The. fall crop of COOK shops is
fonrishine, and the skin game and
hipi-aam artists who reap a harvest
out Of the country coons are in evl-
dence. IF the police keep their eyes
open the chain gang will receive
number OF recruits.
Lumber brokers say that they find it
difficult to get any of the lumber mills
within fifteen miles of Sumter to ac-
cept an order for shipment, as they
have more orders for local delivery
than they can keep up with ali higher
prices than the brokers can sfford to
pay.
The Sumter Light Infantry received
so Krag rifles few days ago and Capt.
Yeadon distributed them to the
men at the regular company meeting
Thursday night. The company is now
uniformed and armed as the regulars
of the q. S. Army are equipped.
The Sumter Light Infantry Ball
which was given Monday night in the
arlnory was one of the most largely
attended and most enjoyable affairs
that has ever been given under the
auspices Of the company. Tie attend
ance was so large that at times the
floor was over crowded, the music was
exceptionally good and everybody was
in the humor for good time.
Crosswell & Co., the wholesale gro
Gers of this city, have made application
to the Secretary of State for the pri-
yileoe of increasing their capital stock
from s15,O to S25, 900. This enter
prising firm will have two statesmen
ont on the road. Sumter is. getting to
be quite wholesale market.
The Mayors court was quite inter-
esting Monday. Henry Evlie vas on the
mourner's bench for publicdrunkenness
and carrying concealed weapons. He
was found guilty and paid fine OF
s5. His dagger-a wicked looking weap-
on was restored to him. Gus Lewis
was fined So for careless driving. Ellr-
SON Henderson paid IS for getting
drunk, beating his wife and throwing
a fat iron at his stepson. Sam Bracey
was up for dodging street taxes. An
derson Franklin was up for dlsorderly
conduct, but the case was postponed
until p. m.
The Improvements on North Main
street will increase the value of prop.
erty, but unless desirable stores are
erected for rent at price that will
be an inducement, the business drift
will be Ia the opposite direction. Ine
movement of business to South Main
street was started by the erection OF
new stores and low rent rate. what
North Main street needs is not dis
pensary, but new and desirable stores
and low rents to attract tenants.
There is certain to be a hot fight
over the sewerage question before it is
decided, for there is not little op-
position to it. 1t may be that the first
effort to secure this greatly needed
public Improvement will fail, but the
necessity for sewerage grows greater
each year and it is but question OF
time WOen GuS system iuuoe 10 SoA
structed. The physicians who have
given the subject most thought are
emphatically Of the opinion that no
time should be lost, that a sewerage
system is needed now for present pro-
lection and as a preventive Of future
unhealthfulness.
No city with a water system can get
along without sewerage and remain
healthy, so the ablest sanitary engi.
neers and physicians declare The soil
soon becomes water sogged and con-
taminated with disease breeding matter
and unless sewerage system is install
ed to remove the unnatural surplus
of impure water poured into the sur
face soil by the hundred thousand gall
Ions day from the water system IN
sanitary and disease breeding condi-
tions are the inevitable result.
The Second Regiment Band arrived
home about 1.3o o'clock Friday from
Kershaw where they furnished music
for the Good Roads meeting on Thurs
day. Members of the band state that
there was an immense crowd present
ord ono Of the haSt harbecna dinners