The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-06-15


The water pressure as shown by the
register in the City Clerks Office was
% pounds yesterday afternoon. and
this morning the pressure has fuctu-
ated between 25 and 35 pounds. The
maximum pressure obtainable is about
55 pounds.
Mr.. Walter G. Stubbs was painfully
hurt while out riding Thursday morning
by his horse falling with him. When the
horse fell he was thrown over it's head
and BE- thinks the horse stepped on
him when it attempted to regain its
feet.
The drop in the price Of cotton, as
represented by the future quotations,
is worrying some cotton planters who
made their calculations on the basis
of IL cents for September and October
cotton.
Dispensary corstables say that
there is less contraband liquor being
brought into this section of the State
than ever before since the dispensary
system was established and conse-
auentlv there is less doing in the
blind tiger business. However. as
many of the retail tigers obtain their
supplies from the dispensary they
manage to do some business.
The chain gang passed through the
city last week on the way to Rocky
Bluff, on the Mayesville road, where a
clay road will be built to take the
place Of heavy sand bed. The con-
victs we're in the new cage and ap-
pearec as happy and contented as
so many canary birds.
!, Maj. Fl. Frank Wilson brought in
on June 7, from his farm in
Priyateer specimen stalk from forty
acre lield of Peterkin cotton. The
stalk WAS thirteen inches tall and had
ten foims on it. Maj: Wilson did not
say that he selected the smallest stalk
in the field, but he did say that this
field 0as the finest cotton he had ever
had at this season.
Acting at the request of the War
Depar tment Chief of Police Bradford
arrested Bradford Jones last Thursday
for degertion from the D. S. Army and
carried him to Charleston last night.
Jones had been in town for week OF
more and it was not known that he
was deserter until the order for his
arrest arrived.
Sumter's own poet, Thomas
Anonymous" who is known in private
life as Thomas Childs. has Issued an
other volume of his Wooden Works. y
It is bound in boards-black walnut
boards-and printed on wood, holly
wood veneer, snd is illustrated with
original pen and ink drawing by the
author. 1t is a unique and artistic
volume and the poems and prose ar
ticles it contains are as quaint and
original as the volume itself A few
volumes of shis limited edition are on
sale at Osteen's Book Store.
All of last week the trains
passing. through this city were
crowded with college boys and girls
on their way home from the colleges
in Columbia and the upper part of the
State. In the matter of colleges the
eastern and southern parts of the
State are a long ways behind the
Piedmont section and it is high time
that the people of the eastern counties
unite to secure college or two.
The scarcity and high price of chick
ems should be an incentive to some
one to establish poultry farm to raise
chickens for market. Every effort
heretofore made in this vicinity to
establish a poultry farm has come to
grief. because the promoters under
took to raise fancy chickens exclu-
sively and had none to sell save at a
fancy price. 1t would have been akin
to sacrilege to kill and eat one of the
blue blooded featlered aristocrats
raised at great cost on Sumter soil.
What is needed is farm that will
raise c,ickeos for the market and not
fancy stock that the owners come to
look upon as members of the family.
There ought to be good margin OF
profit in chickens now when baby
chickens are selling for twenty cents