The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-03
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Items Of Interest Condensed and Par.
agraphed for Quick Reading.

agraphed Tor Quick ReadluS.
Cotton mills in the Piedmont are,
many of them, trying English labor
in quiet way. Many managers think
they will prove a solution OF the
much vexed labor problem in that
Fsection, but in Charlotte, n. c., the
experiment is considered a failure.
Secretary M L. Smith, of the
Glover Cotton Manufacturing Compa-
ny, in York county, has asked that
permanent constabulary be located
there. The moonshiners ON the North
Carolina line are always causing
trouble.
The Blythe Rifles, of Greenville,
are working hard to become a crack
military organization. They take
weekend camping trips into the sur
rounding country, and already are
much beneftted thereby.
A new phosphate mine is being
started by the virginia-Carolina Co.,
at Oak Point near the side of the old
Coosaw works on St. Helen Sound.
The steamer Marion is bringing men
and tools from Charleston.
Every thing and every body in
Charleston is getting ready for Gala
Week, November $40. There will
be a guard mounting competitive
drill, a pyrotechnic and aquatic dis
play in the harbor and floral, fantas-
tic, military and trades parades.
There will be a. one cent rate from
points in North and South Carolina.
The negro ministers Of Greenville
have written joint letter to their
city papers deploring the Atlanta
troubles, and expressing their willing
ness to aid the whites in upholding
the law. They also commend the
Greenvilie city council for not issuing
a carnival license this year, saying
that these festivals were a demorali-
zing influence on young negroes.
J. w. Harris, W. F.. Abbott and ].
W. Grimes, employees Of the South
ern Railway at Spartanburg have
been indicted for running trains on
Sunday. A true bill has been re-
turned against them by the grand
jury.
South Carolina's Jamestown Com
mission has decided that no ladies
need apply for membership. The
statute makes no provision for them.
Mr.. J. r. Dickert, formerly train
master on the Union and Glenn
Springs railroad, has been promoted
to the post Of general manager.
The recent collision in Columbia
between a freight train and trolley
car at the Taylor street crossing is
bringing out much talk for obviating
this danger. A plan is under dis
cussion far either viaduct for the
railway or subway for the trolley.
Governor Hayward has been asked
to offer reward for Thomas Nc
Griff who committed murder in Fair
field county last April.
A. A. Gates, for twenty years pro-
nrietor of the Mansion House, IN
Greenville, has given up the lease of
the building.
Ubi V. Millican, aged IS years, for
mally of Orangeburg, who shot and
killed Peter L. Cameron, his father
in-law, in Spartanburg, May l2tn
last was found guilty of manslaughter
Thursday, and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for two years.
j. J. Gray, of Brunson, Hampton
county, aged SO years, was found
dead in bed at Wright's Hotel, Co
lumbia, Thursday.
Orangeburg is ready to number her
houses and tag her streets. Three
thousand units will be necessary,
costing when put up about five cents
apiece. One hundred forty-one
posts are needed for the street cor
ners and four hundred eighty signs.
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