The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-05-10

The city of Sumter can afford 10
set aside three or four thousand del
! lars a year to provide a nucleus Of a
ifund to establish a first class and
thoroughly modern electric light sys-
TEN when the contract with the Sum-
tier Electric Light Company expires.
There has been some talk that the
city will be unable to establish
Its own electric light plant owing
/ to the fact that it may not be in
position to issue bonds for that pur-
pose: There will be no necessity for
! a bond issue, if the city council will
begin now to economic and accu-
lmulate fund for the purpose.
| If the directors of the state dis
pensary should decide by the advice
Of the attorney general that the beer
dispensaries cannot stretch the law
and run a beer saloon where their
patrons may drink their beer in COM
fort and at their leisure, there Will
be fewer applicants for beer privil-
eyes. The popularity Of the beer
privileges is dependent wholly upon
the saloon or beer garden plan upon
which they are conducted.
Ten per cent. is a fairly. good divi-
dend on an investment Ten per cent.
Ion $50 would be SIS. If you invest $50
! in the proposed Consumers Ice fac
| tory you will receive exactly 10 per
cent. out of the investment if you use
only twenty pounds of ice a day dur
ing the five months that ice is a ne
cessity, even though you do not re-
ceive a cent cash dividend. Take a
piece Of paper and figure it out: You
! now pay 60 cents hundred and if the
Consumers Ice Factory is establish
ed you pay 35 cents hundred.
| AS usual the fruit crop IN the Prov
idence and Catchan hills has escaped
material injury and there Will be
peaches in that section this summer.
Some day the peach crop Of Provi-
! dence and Catchall will bring thous-
ands of dollars into Sumter county
each year. The Providence hills are
as well adapted to successful peach
culture on large scale as the Ridge
section between Columbia and Au-
gusta. but the natural advantages Of
this section have not been improved
/ and made to yield wealth as have the
advantages of the Ridge.
South Carolina town bonds do not
go begging these days. A glance at
the list of securities in which the re-
serve fund Of the Woodmen Of the
World is invested will discover the
bonds of quite number Of South Car
olina towns rubbing elbows with Uni
ted States bonds and other equally as
] gilt edged securities.
! A little more than year ago the
City Board Of Education issued $15,-
o0e in bonds to erect the high school
building. Today this board Is pre-
pared to retire one-sixth Of the bond
issue IL the holders Of the issue will
agree TO accept the cash for $4,000
worth Of the bonds. That looks like
prosperity and good business man
agement Of the schools.
Some people want the city to es-
tablish an ice plant in connection with
the water works system, b.: this is
not necessary at this tic1e to protect
the people, Consumers Ice Fac
tory can be made profitable as COM
mercial enterprise.
I The Confederate tension roll shoulI
be a roll Of honor, but for several
fyears there have been charges. more
or less openly made, that it is any
) thing else. If it is tainted with fraud
! or If there is any unworthy men draw
t ing pensions to which they are not en-
| titled, the rolls should be purged.