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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31
Some Random Thoughts.

On Friday the regular monthly
meeting of the County Union will be
held with Trinity local. There should
be full attendance of delegates and
union members for matters of great
importance to the order will be
brought up for discussion, and the
best thought of the best minds in the
uinon will be needed to settle on a
course Of action that will be wise and
conservative, and at the same time
progressive. The farmers union has
just begun on a system of cooper
alton In buying and selling and many
details of procedure need to be work.
ed out. At the same time we, of
sumter county, are not pioneers in
cooperative effort. Other commu-
mites have demonstrated beyond the
shadow of a doubt that not ONLY is
cooperative work practicable, but
that it means the difference between
hard times and independence. 1
in detail accounts of what other
farmers are donig, could be repro
duced bodily, in these columns, but
owing to copyright laws, that cannot
be done. Of one thing l have been
impressed and that is the greatest
benefits of cooperation come from the
selling side. 1t is the profits on what
We grow that makes us rich and not
so much on the cheapness of our
purchases. One cent a pound in
crease in the price Of cotton means
q great deal more than one cent a
pound saved on sugar, Or lara or
dour or bacon, or dollar d. ton or
Fertilizers Not that W. ought to
neglect any of these smaller savings.
but that we ought to use even more
effort to increase the net price of our
farm produce.
Then too L am impressed with the
fact that other sections are growing
rich faster feeding the world than we
are clothing it. Why not then let us
take hand in the feeding process?
The greater part of the work that
has been done by farmers Institutes
this summer has been along the line
of growing more food crops and
building up our soils by judicious ro-
tations of crops. To carry out this
scheme successfully we must arrange
system of marketing. Hence the
produce exchange idea that 1 have
written so much about. If others
can do it, we can. 1t is no longer an
experiment. We have made a good
beginning. But we must not stop un-
til our warehouse has more home
grown flour and lard, bacon and corn,
meal and grits, hay, oats and hum
dreds of other food supplies in it
than of imported stuff.
E. w. D.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31
NEW MOTOR CARS FOR SOUTH
ERN.
Will Have Many improvements Over
Cars Now I'm Operation Between
Greenyiile and Bolton.

Washington, ID. c.. August as
Especial 1.-The two new electric mo-
tor cars now being built for the
Southern Railway Company will be
decided improvements over the car
now being operated between Green
vile and Bolton, 8. G..
The thorough test given to this car
has enabled the officials Of the COM
pany to decide on several changes
that will contribute materially to the
comfort OF passengers. The new cars
win be larger. with separate COM
partment, separate entrances and
separate toilet convenineces for white
and colored passengers. Water cool
ers will be provided In each compart-
ment.
II has been found that for summer
use In climate like that Of South
Carolina II Is desirable that the win
dows can be raised higher than is
possible In the car now being oper-
ated., Accordingly. in the new cars
the windows will raise higher. hav-
Ing clear opening of twelve inches.
In addition to this new system of
ventilation will be provided in the
roof which will thoroughly ventilate
the car and make II comfortable,
even. when the windows are all
down. The seats. which will be up
holstered in crimson plush. will be
larger. with higher backs. and will
be more comfortable. The end of
the vestibule will be provided with
an outside door which which can be
closed to keep out the dust. In aj-
dition TO these changes which con-
tribute TO the comfort Of the passen-
gsr5. numerous mechanical improve
ments will be incorporated in the
new cars.
In addition to these two electric
cars, the Southern Railway Company
Is also having built a McKeen Motor
car. which will have an extreme
length OF 70 feet 10 inches. and will
be divided into four compartments.
one TO accommodate the engine, the
baggage and express room, and two
passenger compartments designed for
the separation Of the races. one hav-
Ing a seating capacity Of forty and
the other OF eighteen. These COM
partments viii have separate en-
frances. and each will have it's own
lavatory. water cooler. and other con-
venienCes. The body OF the car is
OF all steel construction. OF torpedo
design. IL Is unique in appearance
and will be exceedingly strong and
comfortable The seats will be Of
the latest design and will be cover
ed with green leather. The car will
be lighted with electricity and in win
ter will be heated by hot water. The
side windows raise TO a clear height
OF eleven inches and the roof venti-
lation Is designed 20 thoroughly
ventilate the car regardless Of wheth-
er the windows are open or closed.
The motive power OF the car is a
20O-horse power gasoline motor. sus-
pended from the trucks so that the
motion OF the engine does not ir any
way cause vibration 10 the body OF
the car.
As soon as one OF these new cleo
trio cars has been received II will be
substituted for the car now being
operated between Greenville and An
ders ~. The other electric car and
the McKenn car will be put In SER
vice In localities where they can be
used 20 the best advantage.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31

ant and ENJOYABLE events ever listed
upon the rolls of social entertain
ments. ON Friday Gfternoon at s
O'Clock, quite large number OF
friends Of this and surrounding COM
munity gathered at the home of Mrs.
E. c. Tindal to be participants of
Mrs. Anderson's hospitality, as she
graciously entertained at a Garden
Party" Supplementing the rustic
beauty already obtaining in the yard
were many novel features designed
to perfect the picturesque ap-
pearance. Placed attractively near
the front entrance was a punch
bower made lovely with deco
rations of evergreens and cut
flowers, presided over by Mesdames
Nelson and Gentry. Not far distant
was to be found the improvised band
stand, from which colored musicians
furnished music during the whole af-
ternoon. Still another attractive
feature was the cypress well curb in
which had been placed a bucket OF
ice water. The several contests pre-
pared for the occasion were appro-
pirate attributes to a garden party,
and served admirably to entertain
the guests, all Of whom might have
striven hard to be winners had they
seen the lovely begonia plants to be
presented to the successful contest
ants. The recipients of these favors
were: Mesdames John Brailsford.
Robert Carrigan and Frank Wells,
and Miss Pauline Woodley. To COM
plete the novelty and originality of
the entertainment was the manner
in which Mrs. Anderson served re-
freshments. Two colored waiting
men dressed in white, carried large
walters bearing choloate ice cream in
flower pots, in which were planted
lilies es-of-the-valley, together with
maccaroons. Following came Misses
Lucille and Marie Mood and Mildred
James with wooden trays and spoons
to be given to each guest. Coffee
was served later on the porch by
Mesdames Rhame and Davis. About
seventy-five guests enjoyed the after
Moons festivities, and would no
doubt give a concordant vote az to
the excellent merits of the occasion.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31

u Jas. Winn takes great pleasure
I'm Informing his friends that he is
now employed by Messrs, Wither-
spoon Bros Furniture Co., In their
new furniture sales room Nos. ia
and i16 s. Main Street. opposite the
new postofice. Call on him and see
an elegant line OF goods. 1t will do
your eyes good to simply look at
them. and anything bought is guar
antocd To- give satisfaction. He will
take great pleasure I'm showing the
full line 90 the best OF his ability
whether you buy or not. He invites
you 10 come. and on behalf OF the
company extends a generous welcome
90 all OF his friends and others.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31

Some time ago 1 fell into great
disrepute by assuming position
that the farmer was being cheated
out of several pounds in every bale
of cotton under the system of tares;
men high up in financial, social, and
business affairs Of this State proceed
ed to show the farmers that 1 was
uninfOrmed, and that no one possess
ed any knowledge concerning equi-
table tare but some few people whose
business it was to make this special
profit on every bale of cotton bought.
Their criticisms did not deter me
from pushing this investigation, just
a little, to see what was in it. 1t
did not take me long to get evidence
that in Wilmington, N. c., where the
cotton buyers were only allowing the
farmer twenty or twenty-five pounds
of tare, were placing on every bale
exported the full thirty pounds. At
lanta was guilty Of the same offense.
SO was Augusta, Savannah, as well
as every other bale exporting mar
ket.
The people in the city Of Atlanta
engaged in the cotton business were
quick enough to throw in our face
a bill for cotton delivered in the
New England States showing that
the tare was TWENTY-FIVE pounds they
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31
Farmers Union News
QP ractical Thoughts for Practical Farmers
Conducted Dabbs Farmers Union OF s


and Soutnon
seniweeky
The
Practical Farmers which will h.
Aih 70 give the Union
officers and members co
Also the agricultural nane ord
OF orr
ginal their Successes or
will be nd Ablis she'd.
Trusting be of
All communications for E. w Dahhs
S. C. - We D~"'''
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31

have recently visited Louisiana, esti-
mate that it will produce from 70 to
80 bushels of corn per acre. Of
such lands Louisiana has several
million acres. Great drainage enter
prises are being carried out in that
State, largely by Western capitalists,
and associated with them are some of
the greatest corn growers of the
West. Last week corn growers of
Illin Ois, Indiana and other States
having a national reputation for the
! magnitude of their farming opera
tions-such men as David Rankin,
who annually cultivates 10000 acres
in corn, and Others--were in Louis
lana looking into the possibilities of
developing on a very large scale rec
lamation work, attracted there by
what they, heard as to the suitability
of this land for corn growing. They
were almost boundless I'm their en-
thusasm about what they saw and
about the work of drainage now un-
der way, and the character Of crops
now being produced.
In Florida the State Government
has recently let contract to the
same company which is cutting the
Cape Cod Canal-the Furst- Clark
Construction Co.-for cutting about
ESQ miles of canals to drain the Ever
glades. This will reclaim about g.
100000 acres of wonderfully fertile
soil, an area about equal to the State
of Massachusetts,.
Though the industrial development
of the South Is but in it's infancy.
that section is now mining more than
twice as much bituminous coal as the
United States mined in 1880 or 1OO,-
100000 tons year, against 42,OOO,-
600 tons Yor the whole country at
that time. 1t is making nearly as
much pig-iron as the United States
made in 1880. 1t is consuming more
cotton and producing more oil and
more lumber. It's cotton mills are
now consuming over two and a half
million bales of cotton a Year, or
about the same amount of South
ern grown cotton as New England is
taking, having once or twice consid-
erably exceeded the total CONSUMPTION
of New England mills, as they will
probably do this year.
While Boston is planning to estab-
lish a steamship line to Galveston it
may be interested in knowing that
the foreign export trade of that city
exceeds by $4,000, 900 a year the COM
bined foreign exports of all Pacific
coast ports, and last year reached
$1S7, 900.
With three times as much coal
area as Great Britain, Germany
France and Austria combined; with
over 40 per cent of the standing tim
Der of the United States; with iron
ore in keeping with it's vast coal rg-
sources; with a practical natura.
monopoly Of the worlds cotton pro-
duction; with water-powers sufficient
If fully developed to create power
equal to that now required to run
every wheel that turns on rail or
in factory in the United States; with
a variety Of soil unsurpassed for every
kind of agriculture; with a climate
ranging from that of the high noun
tains of North Carolina. almost identi-
cal with that Of Canada, to that of
the Gulf coast, the South has mar
vellous potentialities, the develop
ment of which has only begun. It's
resources make the South a national
asset, the utilization of which will
enormously enrich the whole coun-
try.-From Boston Evening Trans
crpt, August 6, 1910.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31

The city schools will reopen, on
September the 18th. Necessary re-
pairs are being made coal is being
delivered and all arrangements are
being made to insure a proper readi-
ness for the opening. On the 18th
Of September the Superintendent will
begin to enroll the new pupils
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31
Che Santbmm mo Soutbrur

The Sumter watchmau was found
cd In 1850 aid the True southron In
1sss. The wstchmsn and southron
now has the combined circulation and
influence CT both of the old papers.
and is msnifestly the best advertising
medium In Sumter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31
Notice.

The business Of the Union Broker
age Co, has increased 50 that 1t was
necessary 20 enlarge their warehouse.
Now we have the goods at the right
prices. Give us a call, or phone 544.
Union Brokerage Co. S-22-3t-I-w
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31

Nice-President Sherman does not
intend to die, politically, of neglect,
like Vice-President Fairbanks, so it
is to be with his dancing pumps on.
New York Press.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31
BUSINESS OUTLOOK SOUTH.
AN EXPERT ON THAT SECTIONS
GREAT PROSPECTS.

The Editor OF the Manufacturers
Record on the Tremendous Agri-
cultural and Industrial DeevlOp-
ment of the South-One Of the
Most dramatic Things I'm Our Com
mercial History - Impoverished
Beyond Belief After the Civil War.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31

Mayor Gaynor is getting we'll Now
for the human-interest stories about
poor Gallagher, cruelty confined in
a Hoboken dungeon. Milwaukee
Sentinel.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31

Warren Blandlng. the negro convict
who cut his own throat several weeks
ago. was sent 20 the penltentlary last
week TO serve the remainder OF
his sentence.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31

Teh campaign meeting at Newber-
ry was a quiet affair and Hub Evans
was not In evidence. so far as the
reports show.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31

In his speech at Laurens Attorney
General Lyon hinted quite broadly
that the Carolina Glass Company
gang of Columbia was responsible for
Barney Evans candidacy and cam
paign. We don't blame the glass
company crowd for not loving Lyon,
but IL was a sorry piece of business to
hire Evans to camp on Lyons trail.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31

Summerton, Aug. 29.-Summerton
society is indebted to Mrs. w. III.
Anderson for one of the most pleas
ant and ENJOYABLE events ever listed
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31
Cheated Out of Several Pounds Per
Bale"

(J. l.. Lee, retiring President
Georgia Farmers Union, in Farm
ers' Union News.)
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-22

billion dollars at a net profit of a
fraction above 3 per cent. Packers
pay etsh always. Tn the scientific
handling of the products. -fert III
ger, soap, glue, hiaes, hair, ete.-the
profits are obtained.
The following table shows the gross
Sur. and cap.
Armour & Co. ..... 800 coo, 900
Swift & Company ..-...... 5000 ,0ot
Morris & Co. .--.---...- 4o,ooo,eee
National Pkg. Co. ..-... 25,o00,0oo
Cudahy ......... 100000
Sehwarzschild & Salzberger14 ,0oe 600
Total S2fo,Voo,ooe
1t would require several columns of
the Boston News Bureau to outline IN
retail the causes of the scarcity OF
meat in this country, chief among
which are the disappearance OF the
ranges of the West and the congestion
of population in the cities. A beef
famine Is close upon the heiks of the
hog famine. It will be as serious
while it lasts and 1t viii last much
longer. A new crep of hogs may be
available in SAX or eight months, but
two years wall pass before the supply
of cattle can be repienished. Sheep
are beconafng almost as scarce The
snIy hope of substantial and parma
aent relief this coantFy can eHer is
more extensive feeding by farmers IN
all sections, as result of the high
prices. This may be expected if the
new crops turn out all rigAt.
Otherwise, how many Of our s9,eeo,-
900 people could continue to be meat
eaters with only some 50,00o,oo0 west
ern cattle on the hoef and a net an
nual decrease of nearly 2,5oo,o 600 read '
Where would the East ger its meat If
the West needed al it had for its own
useg The West is nearing the strictly
domestic basis as It's indastT7a al and
commercial expansion proceeds at a
terrible pace. The next few ysafs Will
see the rernaining available farm area
occupied.
who gets the extra money when the
prices are hHhs Growers and farm
ers get tlssir share, IF cssrse. The
packers, whom everybody bsames, feel
asgrieved when the entire responsible
hty - placed at their doors.
| Packers are human. They regret
that there should be any feeling Of
pnbaac hestikty. Reeontly they have
taken the pahlSc into their confidence
in MASTERS pertaiping TO their business
TAeirs i 80 greetest Industry m the
Vest. II ; saranes ti,et the Wesnsrn
nswspaPss1 sAeald s. Gieefully md
lev1 ast1aGly asais1 thann
HneD al6pvs - eonsuA -
peeuH - I'm 60 -
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-22
APPLES AS A CURE
FOR INTEMPERANCE

Ehe forbidden fruit of the Garden
of Eden which brought sin into the
world IS now looked on as the means
of ariving SIN out of the world No
less an august body than the Iowa
State Horticultural society is standing
sponsor for the novement to remove
the stigma frem the apple.
When Eve, sorely tempted, partook
of the. luscious hait which she had
been forbidden to nsaeh, she all I'M
wsstingly east . blight upon the apple
which centuries Of eAltiua&ion and two
apple shows at Spokane have been an
able to renDove. It has remained for
an apple loving country doctor TO dis
cover that NOT only. can the world be
fed until II hos secured the neseccary
calories Of energy, but that the crAv-
ing for lsquor conceded 70 be the
assstost esase Of MISERY ard enu,e
ean IS end1oxted from ne hnnan bod5r
~ - apple. Ae~if This y - ~ rsir
sc1e elSpea = Il eollta - 49, Gen
60 - - -. - IS
\ - - tl.S I,
80 -. - ig
IsIas1 ~ = ~ omr -. q - -
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-22
GUARANTEED

Positions Guaranteed is the head
line used in the advertisement Of many
schools to secure patronage. We pre-
fer to emphasize thorough, practical
courses Of training, which are suff-
eient in themselves to make for our
school such q reputation that orr stu
dents have no ttnuble IN securing posi-
tions, or in receiving rapid promotion.
As we have not had single student
out of employment more than ehree
days who has taken either the corr
bined or shorthand course, and only
two that had taken the straight book
keeping course, which is little hard
to place this time of the year. Nearly
everyone who employs bookkeeper
does that during the fall of the wear,
and does not wait until the spring.
You can readily see by this that ne
could afford to guarantee positions,
so far as securing the positions is con-
eerned, but we do not want to hold out
this as the only induce1nent 20 secure
patronage. Any school can give q
guaranty contract to place yon some
kind Of q position but they wont gs1ar-
antee that You viii hold 1t. We viii
duplicate the guarantee Of any other
seheol after xpIaining its contents
e. Tie p1pspectivs stndsnt If guar
.s.tse q what yosa - Iopixlag fprs ~
aef ar zf<sxv Is. IN. ks,sssas.ss
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-22
Low ROUND TRIP FARES.
TO WINoNA, MISS.

Via Southern Railway Company in
Mississippi for Field Day, April q.
Tickets on sale April 22nd, limited for
return 10 April 23rd, 1919. For fares
aud other particulars apply to nearest
AGENT Southern Railway Company in
Mississippi. =
H. E. Jones, Jr., A. G. P. A.,
Columbus, Miss
JIso. NJ. Bean, G. P A..
ST. Louis, Mo.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-22

tien. Inspection, official or personal,
is welcome at all times.
In, contrast with the popular view,
they are alert to take advantage of ev-
cry popular device or improved method
in manufacturing, treating. storing or
distributing their goods, SO that the
consumer may get better product for
less cost. Theirs is not a parlor oc-
cupation but their plants are as serup-
ulously clean as a New England kit
chen.
They are serving the public well to-
day. they have brought mush credit
TO their country in every quarter Of the
globe They do not pese as philan-
thnopists; they seek no glory as public
benefactors, but they do want square
deal as packers and honest business
men.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-22

a billion dollars at a net profit of a
fraction above 8 per cent. Packers
pay etsh always. In the scientific
handling of the products. -fert Iii
ger, soap, glue, hiaes, hair, ete.-the
profits are obtained.
The following table shows the gross
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-22
PULLMAN DRAWING ROOM BUF-
FET SLEEPING CARS.

Southern Railway Co. in NIississip-
pi Trains Nos. II and II carry Pullman
Drawing Room Buffet Sleeping Cars,
ronted through between Birmingham
and Greenville. For time of trains and
other information apply to nearest
agent Of Southern Railway Co. in. Mis-
sissippi, or write
e. JONES, JR., A. g. P. A.,
Columbus, Miss.
JNo. NJ. BEALL, G. P. a.,
st. Louis, Mo.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-22
THE MAXWELL -
THE SILENT CAR
Perfectly Simple and Simply Perfect
THE SILENT CAR

pleasure announce we have secured the Agency
MAX
the MAXWELL
in daily use In
WILLS have carried
FEATURES THAT 4Avr MADE IT FAMOUS
t2)UN1T CONSTRUCTION OF Even AND rRANsnIss4oN.rb
a single
CTEIERnosYp1zoN ooo1Vq-rhs docs away with that most fruit
in ouproof
instantly
tETAL BoDIEs-rhe MAXWELL Bodies are made of STEEL thew
HAVE CAPTURED FIRST HoroRs:-
n
In Long andD erby with of 55mles
ascending stone M0untainnsver before
We OFFER THE Fo1LowINo qyPna:--
MODEL ca Cylinder 50 Horsepower Roadster
dashy-ap-
psaring
50 Cylinder
The Family oarpar excellence The utmost perfection
MODEL os4 Cylinder % Touring s1oooos
small Family Touring Car with attribute of the
MODEL ct Cylinder q Horsepower sPoRTsA1AN
o2-4 Cylinder Horsepower Surrey s05oOo
A popular n
The addition Of rumble seat makes this car an attractive
where occasional third
o. Cylinder,
Cylinder
wbou
Before buying elsewhere write us for TERMS LITERATURE and Gaia
Demonstrating carried
DAVIS-BELL. FIDW. CO.
TTTA BENA, MISS.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-22

sales of five big packing concerns the
past year and their percentages of pro-
fits, according to the best information
ebtaina Bile, the gross in each case be
ing conservative, especially in the case
Of the National Packing Co, its igu-
res being partly estimated:
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-22
HARMoNIzrEG ooLoRs.

Father-whatl You want TO become
engaged to that measly little Blink!
Why, he isn't bit of use.
Daughter-Why, papa, he is perfect
~ lovely. His hair and complexion
match my new spring suit exactly, so
there.