The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-21
QSUMTER'S CyyTTON MARKET.
To BE Featured OH Get Together
Booster Trip on August 26th-LO-
cal Buyers are Urged to Take In
tcrest, mix I'm" and Talk Cotton
Market

The Sumter cotton market will be
featured on the get together between
city and country buy at home trip on
August 26th, provided the local cot
ton buyers can he interested in the
advertising campaign. In the sec
tions to be visited there are many
hundreds OF bales of cotton that nat
urally should come to Sumter that
have been going to other markets be-
cause the competitive markets are as
near to the Rafting Creek township
cotton fields as Sumter is.
The Chamber Of Commerce and Re-
, tail Dealers Association, however,
think that the Sumter cotton buyers
should go along and have a heart to
heart talk with the cotton producers.
Sumter is the most important in
terror cotton market in Eastern Caro-
lima and handles more cotton annual
ly than any cotton market east of
Solumbia. And Sumter ought to get
more cotton than it does.
This cotton market is susceptible
of much greater development, by ju-
dicious advertising and cooperation
between the Sumter cotton buyers
merchants, bankers. and the cotton
producers. The Sumter cotton buyers
should each and every one take suffi-
cient interest in the trade and get to-
gether trips to go along and tell the
cotton growers what they can and
will do for the cotton farmers this
fall, and show that Sumter pays the
highest market price for cotton.
The local buyers should personally
interview the cotton farmers and find
out what. IL anything, should be done
to make Sumter the logical market fol
all Rafting Creek and Statebure
township cotton. Questions Of loca
freight rates. highway conditions and
other matters of accommodation and
convenience to the cotton farmers
should be Investigated fully before
the 1915-1916 cotton selling season
opens up.
If the Sumter cotton buyers are
sufficiently interested to go with the
boosters on August 2Sth, ample time
and opportunity Will be given for the
buyers and the cotton growers to dis
euss from the rostrum, and person
ally such matters as may be neces
sary to bring about a correct adjust
ment OF any difficulties now confront
ing the buyers and cstton sellers. Il
any there be, imaginary or real.
Cotton buyers are business men
and very important business men OF
every cotton market. And they are
usually and for the most part among
the most progressive, public spirited
and hustling community builders
and desirable citizens in every respect
Therefore the Sumter cotton buyer.
should mix in with the other boost
ers, and do as much advertising and
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on the get together booster trips.
The average business man. not ex.
perienced in cotton buying, does not
know what to say about a local cot
ton market. The trained cotton buy.
er does know how to talk cotton and
therefore the cotton buyers are logi.
cally the men to go along and helr
to build up Sumter's cotton receipts
Every business man in Sumter Is
interested in getting .all the cotton
possible sold on the Sumter market
Increase in cotton receipts means
more trade and more cash deposits in
Sumter banks.
Boosting the Sumter tobacco market
got more tobacco. and going after
more cotton will get more cotton for
the Sumter cotton market.
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