The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-07-07
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. NOTES
The Tobacco Market and Trade Boost
Ing Trip Should Prove Profitable
The Way to Get New business is to
Go After IL, and Advertise.

The business men of Sumter. and
this means every man who has any
business or anything to offer for sale,
whether it be groceries. dry goods,
clothing, shoes. building lots or talcum
powdr, baby carriages or safety razors.
horses or mules, shoes or stockings,
buggies or wagons, harness or sus-
penders and garters, or any man who
wants to sell his professional services
and knowledge, or to dispose of any
thing for the coin of tn realm, should
know that the best way to sell any,
thing Is to advertise what he has for
sale.
Going after new business, and mix
ing with the buyers who want to get
separated from their money by buying
something, is one of the best ways to
get acquainted with each other, the
buyer and the seller.
| Hundreds of men and women in
the tobacco growing districts of Clar-
endon and Sumter counties don't
Know all that Sumter's mercantile and
manufacturing establishments have
to offer. Hundreds of tobacco grow
ers might be induced to sell their to-
oacco In Sumter and to do their bank
ing and trading in Sumter If the Sum
ter business men will only take a day
on from worrying about dull times"
and go on the Boster Trip and carry
few hundred well worded hand bills
along for distribution. telling the
thousands of consumers what the
business men has to offer for the mon.
ley.
Florence. Lake City, Olanta, Tim
monsville Darlington. Manning, Ma
rion, Mullins, and other tobacco mar
kets find these annual ADVERTISING
and tobacco market boosting trims
profitable. Sumter found last years
trade drawing excursion profitable.
Sumter didn't need trade drawing
excursion as much last July as Sum-
ter needs one now.
The clouds of the disastrous Euro
pean war were lowering on the hor-
lion last July, but we didn't believe
that anything would come of the
gloomy outlook.
But now We know different. Sum-
ter must get busy increasing it's trade
ana its trade territory.
Sumter Is slated by the large whole
sale tobacco buyers. large exporting
and large manufacturing concerns as
the leading tobacco market of South
Carolina because of Sumter's acces-
sibility TO the tobacco growing dis
tricts of the Pee Dee counties, and
because of Sumters nine railway lines
affording unexcelled distributing fa-
cliities to the large Tobacco manufac-
turing and exporting points.
The tobacco warehousemen who
are putting their time and money into
the efforts to make Sumter the big
sest tobacco market in South Caro-
INA should be given the backing of
the Sumter merchants. manufacturers,
ana bankers because hundreds OF
thousands of dollars are TO be brough,
10 sumter by the reestablishment and
the enlargement of the Sumter tobac-
co market.
The "Go Together" and Get Il o,,t
OF your system" spirit engendered b,
one hundred business men of Sumter
taking day OFF, in friendly inter1-
course with each other and getting
In touch with thousands of their coun
try friends In one day is big thing
Tor the business interests of Sumter.
80 get your Advertising matter print
ed up and await the notice Of the time
for assembling for the start on the
Dig tobacco market and trade boosting
trip. Combine business with pleas
ure. No reason why the ladies should
not go along too If they want to. The
business men of Sumter are not
ashamed to take their wives. daugh-
ters. sisters or swcethearts with them
on any business or pleasure trip the
Sumter business men take. Nor are
they ashamed to take their ministers
along. Ladies and preachers are well
come.
Dividend at OIanta.