The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-12

Excursion OF Business Men Was a Sue
cessful and Enjoyable Event.
From The Daily Item, Aug. 9.

From The Daily Item, Aug. 8.
The first 1916 community boostins
tour of the Sumter Chamber of Com
! merce and Retail Dealers Associatio,
was successfully and happily pulled
on yesterday, when about twenty-five
automobiles filled with Sumter busi.
ness and professional men and Sum.
ter ladies visited Trinity, Shiloh
Turbeville, New Zion, Sardinia and
Mayesville in Sumter and Clarendon
counties.
The attendance upon the booste,
meetings by the farmers and thei,
Families was below the normal ot
booster trip crowds, but the cordiality
and friendliness of the welcome ex.
tended was splendid. The farmers
are not in boosting frame of mind
at present, but their hospitality was
all that one could wish. and they evil
IDENTITY appreciated the spirit of the
visiting boosters, and desire to cooper
ate with the business and profes.
sional men of Sumter to overcome the
misfortunes of the season and to pre-
pare to fight the Mclean cotton boil
weevil.
During the course of the day a
number OF short but splendid talks on
timely topics were made by President
Belser Of the Sumter Chamber of
Commerce, ]. Frank Williams, S. H.
Edmunds M. O'Riley III. L. scarLor-
ough. 8. l.. Krasnoff, r. ]. Reardon. of
Sumter. and Messrs. r. w. Green and
j. X. McElveen. of Shiloh, and J. w.
Player Of Trinity.
| The dinner at Sardinia was a splen-
did treat and one of the most heartily
enjoyed Of any that the boosters ever
had the pleasure Of eating, and the
ladies and gentlemen Of Sardinia who
Furnished the delightful meal certainly
have the gratitude of the more than
one hundred and fifty guests who
partook Of the meal.
The Sardinia meeting was the
largest attended and many went di-
rect from Sumter to that point to be
In time for dinner.
A baseball game at Manning pulled
away 81 large number of the Sumter
boosters just after dinner, and a great
many more accepted an, invitation
from Superintendent Gable and visited
the big plant Of the Black River Lum-
her company near Sardinia. So that
only small crowd went into Mayes-
lville, and II was so late that no meet
ing was held at that place.
One pleasant feature throughout the
tentire daywas the democratic spirit OF
good mixing and cheerful, jolly, good
natured demanor Of the boosters and
their hosts. Everybody was cordial,
friendly. and in a good humor. The
speeches were of an order calculated
to put some ginger into the crowd,
and 1t was a very happy day to all.
| The roads were in good shape for
the most part in both counties.
| Cordial invitations to stop and eat
melons and fruit were extended by
hospitale farmers.
| At Shiloh Mr.. r.. w. Green's chill
dren, and other little ones of that
section had "a large and pretty ban
ner stretched across the road with
the inscription Boosters are Welcome
Stop Here" which was appreciated
very much by the boosters. The kids
were heartily cheered as the auto
mobile party came up. Running be-
hind time as the party was some of
the invitations to eat melons were
reluctantly declined.
a number Of business men have re-
quested the Chamber Of Commerce to
put on another booster trip this
month to take in Mayesville, Pleasant
Grove. Lynchburg. Elliott, st. Charles
and Oswego.
Some very cordial invitations have
been received from the hospitable
people of those sections to have the
Sumter boosters visit those places.
Several of the most public spirited
and intelligent farmers and mer-
chants Of those sections say that the
meetings and talks put on by the
community boosting tours are a great
source of pleasure. education, and in
spiration to the farmers, and that
now that the farmers are down ir
the mouth" so to speak, is the appro.
lpriate time for Sumters business men
to go out and talk to the farmers and
lcOOnerate with them in every pOsSibls