The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-09-07

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CLERK and Treasurer is being enlarged.
Read the new advertisement in refer
ence to fsll business by C'Donnell q
Go.
If you hear any news of public inter
est don't hide it, but tell us all
about it.
The crowd on the streets Saturday
Indicated; that the busy season has
begun for the merchants.
The D. j. Chandler Clothing Co.
is prepared TO. ont6t the boys for
school, Note the prices on school
suits.
a first class Carnival Will cali for
the expenditure of I. considerable
money, but it will De a paying invest
ment.
The banks were the only business
establishments in the city to
observe Labor Day by taking a ho]i-
day. Everybody else iabored usual.
Attention is directed to the adver-
tisement Of NIB. Randle, who has re-
moved to the store next to the Post
Office, where he Will carry larger
stock and be better prepared to s,.p-
ply the needs OF his customers.
Liberty street should be clayed or
macadamized between Sumter and
Washington streets. The macadam
now ends at Sumter street and the
clay roadway begins at Washington.
Street Superintendent White has
practically completed the macadam
work on Warren street and has COM
menced work on Manning avenue.
Bill Epperson and Charlie Stansill
have the Second Primary all to them
selves, and if they do not have lots OF
fun and q wide open race it will be
their own fault.
Would it not be a good idea for City
Council to open up some OF the pro-
posed new streets before the Carnival,
in order to let the visitors see the
splendid building lots:
The third quarterly conference OF
the First Methodist church will be
held at the parsonage this
Wednesday evening at $50 O'Clock,
announced.
The crowded condition of the street
Saturday rendered it extremely danger
Gus to race the hose wagons at break
neck speed, through Main ard Liberty
streets. When someone is accidental
ly killed regrets will not bring the
dead back to life.
There has been some talk Of start
ing a movement among the merchants
TO close their stores during the winter
months promptly at 7 o'clock every
night except Saturday It is an excel
lent idea, but before any step is taken
it would be just as well to devise some
means to pursude all those who signed
the agreement to close at 10 O'Clock
every Saturday night to live up to
that agreement. There is no sense
in signing agreements Unless they are
binding upon all who sign.
Recorder Hurst had Messrs.
Ashleigh Mood and Carl Mason before
him Tuesday for driving their auto
mobiles through Main street at an ex-
cessively high speed There is 20 or
dinance forbidding automobile racing
on the streets of the city, consequent
ly Recorder Hurst had nc authority
to try or impose a sentence on the
young men, An ordinance will be
passed at the next meeting of City
Council prohibiting fast automobile
driving on the streets and prescribing
a suitable penalty for violation of the
law.
Mr.. D. James VIM returned from
Columbia Saturday after stay of
three2weeks, during which time he was
engaged in equipping the CRANKY Cot
on Mill with his recently patented ap-
pliance for cleaning cotton of dust and
trash more quickly aud economically
than has heretofore been possible with
the machinery in use. The other Co.
lumbia mills will be equipped with
Mr.. Winn's appliance as soon as
trial in the CRANKY has demonstrated
to the Columbia mill men that the APP
rliance will accomplish the results
claimed for it, As Mr. Vim gave
bis invention m.re than a years trial
in the Sumter cotton mill before be
made any effort to put it on the mar
ket be has no fear of the result of the