The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-06-26
Turbeville Mass
Meeting
People to Hold Big Picnic July
7th to Discuss Annexation

7th to Discuss Annexation
The Turbeville school district. COM
posing most of Douglas township, and
New Zion school district adjoining
| Turbeville district. will join in a big
! township basket picnic and anneXa-.
ton to. Sumter county gathering on
! Wednesday, July 7th. at Turbeville.
/ This was determined upon last Fri
day at Il meeting of the ladies and
gentlemen of Turbeville at the Tur-
beville. school building in confer
ence with Mr.. E. l. Reardon. secre-
tary OF the Sumter Chamber of Com
merce. The people of Sumter are in.
vited to join the Clarendon citizens in
a get-together gala day, and the Sum
ter business men to do all the adyer-
tising they care to do. Ar. Z. d. Tur-
beville, Dr.. c. E. Gamble, Mr.. D. L.
! Green and Mr.. John Turbeville suS-
gested that the annual booster trip
of the Sumter business men be run
on that day, July 7th, and further
suggested that the TurbeviIle COM
mitteel be permitted TO invite the to-
| bacco growers of the sections usually
twisted by the Sumter booster trip TO
meet together at Turbeville and take
part in the basket picinc, the Sumter
Chamber of Commerce to furnish
several good speakers to discuss the
advantages Of Turbeviile and New
Zion voting into Sumter county, and
i Sumter to furnish band and base
ball team to play the Turbeyille
iteam.
| The county board of commissioners,
Legislative delegation, permanent road
commission and the Chamber of
Commerce are invited 20 attend this
gathering. Secretary Reardon ac-
cepted the invitation in behalf of the
| city of Sumter, and further agreed
that the Sumter business men will
have the band if one can be secured,
and he also promised the ladies that
1.-TWO hundred pounds of sugar would
be sent for them to bake cakes. and
| pies.
Messrs. Lee Knott and Fred Bryan
of the Banner Tobacco Warehouse of
Sumter accompanied the Sumter COM
mercia1 secretary to New Zion and
Turbeville last Friday, and the com
mittee OF Sumter tobacco market
| boosters found themselves confronted
at New Zion and Turbeville with in
tense enthusiasm and interest in, the
question Of New Zion and Turbeville
districts voting into Sumter county.
At New Zion is voters of that district
discussed the proposition of voting
| into Sumter county, and it looks like
that district is going to take. immedi-
| ate steps. to vote on the matter the
same time that the Turbeville annex
| alton to Sumter county election is
HELD (if such an election is ever
lheld). At Turbeville it was found
that petition Of citizens constituting
about 80 per cent. OF the voters had
been signed requesting the ordering
of the election, but it was also appa-
rent that nothing further will be done
until the Stnlter county board of
commissioners decide upon the 1oca-
ton of a short cut road leading from
the hard-surfaced road to be built to
Hudson bridge TO Turbevil!e. should
Turbeville vote into Sumter county.
The Turbeville ommittee in charge
of the annexation proposition said
very candidly that there was small
chance of Turbeville voting in unless
the county of Sumter constructed
road, or rather extended, a road al
ready built two and a-quarter miles
out of Turbeville, to connect with the
Hudson bridge hard surfaced road to
be built by the permanent road COM
mission.
It looks as though the inability Of
the citizens Of the Salem or Mcbride
sections of Sumter county and the
TurbevilIe citizens to agree on the To-
cation of the Turbeville short cut road
will lose Turbeville section to Sumter
county unless the Sumter county
commissioners agree to build the road
as the Turbeville citizens want it
built
Both roads are needed. the Nc
Bride section road and the other
road, if Turbeville section votes into
Sumter county. It is hoped that the
meeting and picnic of July will re-
suit in an agreement suitable to all
parties.