The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-12-30
CHAMBER Of COMMERCE NOTES
TEN NEW MEMBERS HAVE JOIN.
ED VOLUNTARILY.
Business Men 81 Sumter Urged to
Unite With Commercial Organize
ston--Soaiciting Committee to Get
Oue Boon-Thoso Who Have Joined.

taon--Soaiciting Committee % Get
One t3oon-Thoso Who Have Joined.
The Campaign for members Of the
Sumter Chamber OF Commerce for
1917 Ia on. and already q gratifying
number Of voluntary active co~ntribu,-
ing members have joined. Ten new
have voluntarily united with
the association in addition to a num-
Der Of the "Old Guard" who have
been working for Sumter for years.
There are several leading business
men who will a. that II pays any
concern to be q member Of the Sum-
ter Chamber Of Commerce. and there
are hundreds of farmers who are doing
businsss In Sumter because, As these
farmers say. 1--WE naturally like to do
bustns&s with those who associate
with US and help US farmers solve u
economic problems"
BY mixing with the masses of the
people any man or woman In business
naturally forms many acQuaintances
with an opportunity to make CUSTOM
ers.
You can't livs unto yourself and
run . bank or u store. You may do
very well. but The other fellow In bus
Ines opposite you who IL mixing is
getting = lot Of business you might get
and landing thousands Of dollars be-
cause Of . number of good friends he
has made by bsing . mixer" This is
ths day OF "going after business in
the right way" and going after It gets
f.
the most successful bankers and
mSrchants. and the most popular men
n Sumter are those who belong to
civic. ccmmsrctsi and ~fraternal or
o~ahisations.
Below II Q liz: OF the business and
~ttofsssional mon who have voluntar-
~ Joined the boosters and hustlers
rAAks' Tor the Greater Gamecock City
AID County. and as more enlist. their
$500 Will b pnblished to show what
Aon ehd businsss establishments OF
9nant1- are cooperating for tho great
~ sUod to the Greatest number"
The canvassing committee on men,
berships haven't started out yet. This
'cetnmittss II juHt curious TO see how
many Five wires there are in sum-
'eSr who VIM ccme across IKE these
les1esa.ad bSlsw without having to be
~ neasbsra xsthop& soiics-
7Nf>4W @oitz< ~ My 7CmRnTB1E
ia O>mzmsrcs or phonsd to put their
ne0>u down ~ members for 1917.
r. might be mentioned ip passing
that IN the course Of overy twelve
months the commercial organisation
publishes to many thousand of pso-
pie In Sumter city. and throughout
sumter. Lee and Clarendon coun-
tieb. the names OF those who belong to
the Sumter Chamber of Commerce.
This 10 done by the Chamber getting
out thousands or printed circulars
with the names Of Its members. In
other ways also che members are ad-
vsrtised locally and out Of town. The
sdvertising alone is worth many times
what most Of the business concerns
ana individuals pay In membership
contributions.
voluntary members so far for 1917:
L. ID. jennings. National Bank OF
Sumter. City National Bank Of Sum-
ter. DIR. H. M. Stuckey. ID. n. Noise,
8. H. Edmunds. O'Donnell C Co,
Thomas b. Fraser. Sumter Dry Goods
Co.. Gosard Corset Company. Wreck
Store. Schwartx Bros. Hardy & Co.
Inc. H. L. Mccoy. Wallace & Moses,
Hearon's Pharmacy, Ralph Hill.
Sumter Clothing Company, ]. C..
Cooper. J. Franz. Williams, J. p. COM
mander. Osteen Publishing Co., w. II.
Shelly and Son. L. Z. White, Mitch
MS Drug Store. Chero-Cola Bottling
Works. McCallum Realty Co., b. +.
Estridso. Knighe Bros. Sumter Motor
Co., Shaw and McCallum Mercantile
Co.. Joseph A. Warren. Isaac Strauss
Sumter Gas and Power Co., Sumter
Coca-Cola Bottling Company, c. C.
Beck. e. L. witherspoon. Sumter Rail-
way ani Mill supply Co.. w. Percy
Smith. Consolidated Insurance Agency.
n. b. Beiser. e. p. Martin. w. w.
Rowland. Rowland Buggy Company.
II. A. Moses. L. A. Prince, l.. C. Noise,
b. Manning. w. b. Boyle Co. r. w.
Plowden. Sumter Machinery Co..
Crosswell & Co.. w. b. Upshur.
ALLIES PREPARE ANSWER.