The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
New Series-VOl. Xxx. 10. "a.

hremei@ = require for prizes. enter
! tain' # visiting teams, advertis-
| in incidental to the tournament
ano ,Ie State Firemens Association
meeting.
But sir, the thought has occurred
10 me that while We are raising the
$1,000 for the firemen we might Just
as we'll go ahead and "raise the limit"
to $4,000 and give the IS. L. T." boys
enough money to pull off a big mill
tary day, prize drill, and parade, and
allow the firemen and the soldiers to
have a kind of rs. L. l." and Sum-
ter volunteer fire department "jubi-
lee," embracing memories of the past
and reunion of the "old soldiers and
firemen from 1865 to 1910"
And also invite the gallant old
Confeds' who wore the gray and any
of the Grand Army of the Republic
survivors who are "in our midst" in
the Gamecock county, to be our
guests, have a place in the parade,
and feast with good things to eat and
drink' served by Gamecock county
fair women, the "old soldiers of the
bue and gray" Let our ladies
look after the "blue and the gray
veterans, and have President Taft to
review the military parade, and sneak
to the old and young soldiers.
| From past experience with festival
affairs, in tie collection and djsburse-
ment of funds even when Sumter
mad much less population, much less
business establishments, and conse-
quently less money 1 am quite GER
tain that the $4,000 to be put up for
the military feature and firemen's
| tournament, taken in connection with
about $1,000 which will be added
from collections for concessions, priv
ileges. and at the least $500 for votes
FOR queen of the efstival, (the last
contest for queen, in the 1904 Game
cock City Fall Festival gross recei DTS
exceeded $1,000), will make $4,000
with which Sumter can have a mag
nlf1cent spring festival with floral
snow floral parade, horse show, horse
races, military and firemens ball.
good roads meeting and road build
ing demonstration, and such other at
fractions as may be wanted.
| The Sumter merchants could have
merchant day. on which could be
displayed in attractive style all of the
latest spring styles in ladies dress
goods, shoes, millinery, and other
nllagarees" so dear to the feminine
heart and eye, and thousands of the
fair flowers of the Pee Dee" and
| Eastern Carolina would come over to
the Feminine Attire Exposition
Limited" And thousands of men
would come, or be brought, whether
they were reinterested or not in the ex-
position, by their wives, sisters.
daughters, some other fellow sisters,
and sweethearts. Then the merchants
/
furnishings, and have the biggest.
choicest, and most select stocks. of
clothing, hats, caps, shoes and the
biggest stores, at the least cost to the
wearer, and the hardware, grocery,
| furniture, baby carriage, carminative
and soothing syrup dealers, drug.
stationery, jewellery, fruit, bakeries,
bicycle and automobile, sewing ma
chine, piano and organ, carpet and
mating, lace curtain, merry widow
and peach basket hat, drop stitch en-
broidered hose, tailor made suit, and
| all of the other merchants and deal
ers, too numerous to mention, could
have in their elaborately and artisti-
| cally decorated show windows, show
cases. and in their stores, displays of
different kinds Of wares which would
make merchants day alone we'll
worth the $4,000 the business men,
and others, would put up for the
spring festival.
The telephone, door sash and blind,
building supply, coffin, cotton yarn,
cotton seed oil, bottling plants auto
mobile speciality, lumber and hard
wood, brick works, wagon, buggy,
agricultural machinery harness. hay,
grain wholesale e. ers, and packing
house agencies, wholesale drug house
and other manufacturers and dealers.
could rent one large store or hall and
have a very creditable trades expo
sition showing what is manufactured
and sold in Sumter wholesale.
A monster parade by the more
than 900 school children in our pub
lie schools, and st. Joseph's Academy.
headed by the Sumter band, each