The Watchman and Southron from Sumter, South Carolina • Page 8

IY (8UESP0N0ENGE. mt IXTTER8 FROM Ol'H IAL COIUtKSPONDKNTS. of Intend From All Parts of and Adjoining Counties. JNmOB TO DENTS. llail your letters so that they will this office not later than Tues moralng Whsn the letters are Wednesday it Is almost an kbillty to have them appear In Issued that day.

Dark Corner, June are beautiful weather today. We a aloe rain last Thursday night, another Friday evening. But land la In fine condition for work Crops seem to be doing finely, they are amall. i have esen little fine corn as yet. but it Is growing nicely.

Old man Jlsa Mclntosh left home Sunday morning, the list, and no case here knew where hs was until i Jaaard of him In Sumter last 4mXJl but some how be got back home Friday night. Where all he been no one knowa lie was seen Privateer station by the writer on night when the shoo fly there. Hie step-son, Joe Johnston has taken him to Burnt er to have him examined to see Se ta craay enough to be sent to asylum In Columbia. a C. Koib get a fall laat iy.

the 4th instant, from auaTered a good deal until morning, when she and her iter, Mrs. Thus, H. Osteen was in the garden when ahe took faftailng spell and would have fall ta ground had not Mrs. Osteen her. They bad to call In Dr.

mV at. Fur man and at last accounts was quite sick. Her daughter, 'Frank J. Graham of Paxvllie, Mannt Use day with her yesterday. Mass Bailie Johnston Is quite sick, lira.

Joe M. Ardts has improved a Mia, bat her health Is still bad, and Dud Weeks, with John visited at Mrs. Laura A. Ardfts'. paxvllle, yesterday evening.

Mary Lee Ardis returned yea from Paxvllle, where she has two weeks visiting relatives, was accompanied by her uncle, Henry Geddings, and little duugh Well. 1 managed the county court at Bloom Hill on the 2d. 1 In two votes, both no's. So you we vote solid down bag allowed. Mr.

Editor, 1 was aaked a question et? other flay, while In your city, I lid not answer; so i will ask yo nrby did the commissioners appoint Democrat and two Republicans an aaanage the election at Bloom Hill, asad one of them not registered. Waise at Bloom HUI i saw a bores be? eng ta Wesley Wilson, colored, It was supposed to have Mfcten by a snake on the night of the nnsi of June while In the stable. i auti sorry for Wilson as he Is a hard working negro, honest and upright, i i also saw that the colored school house Is about to sewn, as the the foudatlon la rotten. It as unsafe fer any one to go Into It way It now stands. Miss Eunice Osteen, teacher of the let ad school, expects to give her school a picnic at the Hand Hill or Oreenlantl Savannah school house, an neat Friday, tbs ltth instant.

1 erleb for her a pleasant time. It la ex? pected that some of the candldatea mjiU be preeent. Will try and send jrea a dot or two about It for your nsnt week's Issue. F1UTA1 Privateer. June are small but generally are well worked and avowing Very.

Some of the farmers lat.ve begun to Uy by their corn. Masses Annie and Ines Welle have on a visit to Georgetown. Paw laterd and other places on the eoa't. Miss Daley Ude Is visiting tu Mise Eunice Osteen will have her school picnic on Friday, the 12th, at an ad Hill school house Mr. and Mrs.

H. A. i Pvnday at Plnewood. Mr. ft.

E. Nesblt and daughter. ssna, are visiting relatives In etile We are Informed that Mr. O. A JJettles has entered the race for mag.

istrat? of this district, and that he he be In the race to win. DALZKLL. Dalaell. g. June are hav wsather and the crops are grow accordingly.

Cotton and corn are fine and with no backset from on there will be a crop Ed. Boykln Is very sick at his Ibers. Mr. Boykln, with trouble brought on from ex re smoking of clgsrettes. It is strange thst people will In In a habit that they know will still them; though we see young men day doing the same thing.

Mm Thos. Phillips? of Wilhams burg, la up hare on account of her brother's Illness. Mrs. Stackhouse, of Clio, S. ami daughter have been visiting the for? mer's brother, Mr.

Dunbar, and Mrs. Jim Woodley for the past few days. Miss Pauline Woodley spent Sun? day In Sumter. Mr. J.

M. Woodley, Mrs. Woodley and Mrs. Stackhouse attended the quarterly conference at Bethesda on Saturday. Mrs.

T. M. Crosswell has been at Eastover for several days on account of the illness of one of her sister's children. Rev. Mr.

Whltlock will take charge of the St. James Methodist chureh and will preach there on the third Sunday at 4.30 o'clock, and on th3 first Sunday at the same hour. I hope that all who can will attend and give Mr. Whltlock a cordial welcome. Messrs W.

8. and H. B. Boykin re? turned home from a visit to St. Ste? phen's yesterday.

WEDGEFLELD. Wedgefleld 8. C. June election on last Tuesday passed off it seems very quiet, and I hope the county court has received its death sentence in this county. The Wedgefleld baseball club and Jordan have played two games and the former won both, but when they faced their old time rivals, "Hagood." on last Frldsy they went down in de? feat to the tune of 8 to 2.

both teams i layed good ball at times and at other times a very poor article. Well, our horses will have to make up their minds to endure the automo? bile, for she has come to stay this time. Dr. M. L.

Parier has bought a Ford machine. Rev. Wm. Haynsworth preached a very Instructive and Interesting ser? mon to the children at the Baptist church on last Sunday. Mr.

and Mrs. J. O. Troutman, of Rocky Mount, N. are visiting their mother, Mrs.

Cleo. Troutman. Miss Sudle Wright who was num? bered among the graduates of the Rocky Mount, N. graded school, has returned home. Mrs F.

8. Barnee after a pleaaant visit to relatives in Blshopvllle, bus returned home. The friends of Mr. Bert Moore were sorry to hear of his death In Florida some days ago. He sold his property here some years ago and located near Walterboro, but moved to Florida two years ago, where he was engag? ed in the truck business.

Miss Hallle Covlngton, of Marlon, la visiting her gradmother, Mrs. J. H. Ay cock. The farmers are all up with their work now and all would be glad to see a good rain.

The A. C. L. Is doing some much needed repairs on the depot platform here. The platforms were In a dan? gerous condition and were not repair? ed any too soon.

PINE WOOD. Plnewood, June R. A Law? rence and Mr. Alva Graham have been attendfng court In Manning, S. this week.

Miss Maysie Brallsford has return? ed home from Greenville, S. where she has been a student at Chicora Col? lege the past session. Miss Maysie won the medal In the vocal class offered to the one who made the greatest ad? vancement. Mr. David R.

Llde has a freak In the shape of a four legged chicken that was hatched In an incubator about a week ago. Miss Ue.irl Reynolds has returned home fiom theh Greenville Female College. Senator Appelt. Mr. McSwaln Woods and the county supervisor were guests at the P.

smoker given last Wednesday ght. Mr. O. D. Harvln spent Wednesday ut Ferguson, S.

but returned that afternoon to participate In the smoker given by K. of P. Lodge, No. 124, on that evening in its Castle Hall. Susan Richardson has return? ed here to spend June and July at former home.

Mrs. R. M. Brallsford has re? turned home after a visit to friends In Greenville. S.

C. Ml Midge Weeks has returned home from Columbia. S. where has been attending one of the colleges. Mis Kagtn is visiting in Dar? lington, S.

C. The Plnewood ball team cleaned up the Jordai. team (from up about Wedgefleld) yesterday afternoon, to the air of 17 to 6. MAX. Max.

June are excellent for growing crops and farm work. Mr. Alison Deffee Is very sick. Dr. Wily Whltehead lost a valuable borne on the evening of his marriage.

Mr. Thos. Cole had a young horse Injured by running while hitched to a plow. Mr. and Mrs.

J. C. Truluck are ad? miring a fine boy baby who has come to their home to stay. Mrs. H.

T. Klrby Is spending this week at Mr. J. M. Carraway's.

Miss K. Ellen Burgess is visiting relatives here this week Mrs. I. M. Truluck Is Improving af ter a several weeks' Illness.

Miss Caro Truluck has returned home from Greenville Female Col? lege. URGES HOLDING COTTON. President Harris of runners' Union, Appeals to Farmers. Columbia, June B. Harris, of the Farmers' Union, has made another call to the farmers to hold their cotton for 15 cents, the ralnmum of 1907, and declares again that the acreage of 1908 has been re? duced, both by natural causes and by the co-operation of the planters.

The Union officials assert that not only does these conditions exist, but that the mills need the raw material. If they are correct In their diagnosis the former who is holding his 1907 crop undoubtedly has the situation In his own President Harris's latest call is as follows: ACREAGE REDUCED, HOLD FOR FIFTEEN CENTS. On June 1 the State presidents of the Farmers' Union met In Memphis, Tenn. A full delegation was In at? tendance. The principal object of the meeting was to estimate the acreage and crop conditions.

After a close investigation we find 28.832.000 acres planted for 1908 crop. May 31 crop condition 74, which is the lowest average for the last ten years. The flooded districts were not counted, as It will be thirty days before the results be known. If we had considered the flooded districts the acreage would have been lower, and also condition, as we could not figure on something we did not know what the outcome would be. Hold spots.

Remember futures can? not be spun, and both European and American mills are about out of cot? ton. Hoys, hold, hold' hold, and the minimum price will bales short in 1907 crop. The broker has sold your cotton to the manufac? tures and they cannot spin futures, so spots he must have to deliver. Hold and get your price. From the reports of all the State presidents arrangements have been made to carry the remainder of the crop for an indefinite time.

The farmers are making the 1908 crop with the least expense that they have in several years, and will be In better shape to hold their cot? ton this year than any year. There has been more food crops planted this year than any. I was asked while in Memphis by a cotton man If we had any cotton 1ft South Carolina. The reason he asked this question was because a South Carolina manufacturer was trying to buy cotton over there. I told him we had It.

but it is 15 cents cotton. He replied: "I have it, but it is 15 cents, too." The mills will need all the cotton in sight before any more comes in. You may rest assured the crop is 15 days late. The crop remnant is vir? tually cornered naturally. If the present holders, who are the farmers, will only be brave and have the manhood to stand for the minimum price they will get The Eastern exchange leaders say cotton cannot go up as long as the farmers hold it.

They sold futures down, down, to try to scare you out of your spot cotton and force you to sell, when they would put up the price to your figure to show how pow? erful they are and what a fool you are. We are glad to know some of our farmers have backbone made of Iron rods and held to their spots. Mill stocks are short all over the world. American exports are short 1,081,946 bales compared with 1907, you see cotton they must have. Hoys, hold spots; the manufactur? ers are hunting them.

They are scarcer than they have been in 25 Goods are getting scarcer ev? ery day and will in a short time be high. The question Is where will the world supply its actual needs for spot cotton unless it calls on the hold? ing farmer for his 15 cotton, r. President South a ers' Union. I'endleton, S. C.

J. H. Hammond, of Charleston, a graduate of the South Carolh.a Mili? tary Academy has been designated as the successful applicant to stand the examination for apopintment as second lieutenant In the regular army. Revenue officers raided an illicit still In Oconee county and captured Stiles Cobb. Shortly after the arrest was made a rifle shot rang out and the horse ridden by Deputy Officer Merrlck fell dead from a bullet wound in the head.

A horse belonging to Wade Hamp? ton Sellers, the blind tiger king of Columbia, ran away, knocking down and painfully bruising G. M. Berry, cashier of the National Loan and Ex? change bank. I BASEBALL NOTES. Although Greenville la glad, ac-! coring to the Greenville News, that Stouch did not in signing Catcher Stephens at the beginning of the season, Manager Stouch, who Is a better judge of ball players than some other folks, has been trying to get lines on Stephens within the past week, in the event that Orangeburg withdrew and caused the State League to disband.

Kelley is doubtless a pretty fair back-stop, but he is not in the same class with Stephens. Ask Tommy Stouch. Cowell let the Chester heavy hit? ters down Friday. Two hits and not a free pass. The Chester team is as gentleman? ly a lot ball players as ever visited Sumter and they play great ball, see The Chester Lantern says: "The boys were well pleased with the treatment received in Sumter Item.

And the Chester team was pleased with the treatment of the Sumter people. That Game Cock team Is made up of a gentlemanly set of players." see The following dope, clipped from the Anderson Mail, refers to happen? ings in a game between the Green? ville and Anderson teams of the great Carolina Association of near professional baseball clubs and not an aggregation of "There is another kick against that game yesterday. After Anderson had won Stouch put the Greenville's team mascot, a lad of 9 or 10 years, in cen? ter field. That should not be allowed Such action should be taken to headquarters for judgment, and it is believed that it will be." "It does seem that there should be some rule against the managers put? ting in men in the box who are not pitchers. Jackson hit and severely hurt five of Anderson's players in the three innings he pitched yesterday.

He hit Meyers and broke his arm. Hohnhorst got one on his feet, and he Is in bad trim. Three other players suffered likewise." "The grand stand and bleachers yesterday were severely down on Stouch for putting Jackson in the game. It was was said on a11 sides that Stouch put him in to cripple An? derson's men. I don't believe that he did it with this intention, but there should be some rule against a man? ager putting in the box an inexperi? enced man.

He cripples the opposing team, and Anderson can't stand any crippling." see "After Anderson had knocked out of the box three of Greenville's pitch? ers and after the game was conceded to Anderson, Joe Jackson, Green? ville's center fielder was sent in by Stouch to complete the game. Jack? son was as wild as a buck. He is no pitcher, and he has never claimed to be one. His aim seemed to be to hurl the ball as hard as he could with i no real objective point. He hit sev- eral of Anderson's In fact.

Heins told his men to go to the bat and strike out. The game was won and Anderson could not afford to have her players subjected to the fire of a gatllng gun which was fir? ing at random. Well, Meyers came to the bat. He is a left handed bat? ter, as you know. Jackson delivered a swift ball, which struck Meyers on the right arm Just above the elbow.

Everybody on the grand stand heard Meyers' arm pop." Isn't that horrible? It is really more dangerous than charging up San Juan hill with Teddy or playing football. But they have queer base? ball ideas In the shadow of Paris mountain. Chester can never hope to win the pennant so long as Waters and Cow? ell are memebrs of the Game Cock pitching staff. These two big side wheelers have the left hand Chester batters at their mercy. It is a cinch that they will never lose a game to the Chesterites.

If Charleston had Cowell on her pitching staff, it would cause some msternation in the Sallie. This comer has pitched five games and won them all. While he was performing, he fanned sixty men, yielded only two bases on balls and fifteen hits. Meany, you had better take notice. Springs is another Game Cock des? tined for higher company.

The crack center fielder has been the sensation of nearly every game this son. His batting is over the 300 mark, and he has stolen over 30 bases. see Anderson should take out an insur? ance policy against injury by Gatling gun Jackson, of Greenville, who slaughters opposing teams at the or? der of Manager Stouch. see "Manager Stouch has received a letter from Lamar Ham, the twirler recently released by Sumter, asking for a tryout. Ham stated in his letter that his arm had been in very bad condition all of the season but that he had about rounded too now I Baseball Resolutions, and that hs would like a hook on At a meeting of the board of di with the locals.

He will hardly be rectors of the Sumter Baseball As taken as the local staff is full up sociation on the evening of June 3, News, June 6. the following resolutions were offer Sumter fans will be glad to hear and unanimously adopted: that Ham is at last in condition to Whereas, our country bas gone pitch ball. through a trying period and it be? hooves us all to make every edge A meeting of the baseball fans baa resulted In the appointment of a com? mittee, consisting of three of Ander? son's best business men, to solicit sub? scriptions to raise $1,000 with which Anderson's team can be materially strengthened. The meeting was large? ly attended and much enthusiasm was shown. Anderson wants a win? ning team and expects to go for one.

Cor. News and Courier. is 708 and Sumter's percentage still climbing. The team is playing to win every game. Careless and loose playing don't go any more.

Sumter is carrying only eleven men on the team at present, but eleven good ones are better than a score of half-way ball players. Lindsay, Sumter's last year's short stop, is now with Winston-Salem, having been sold to that team by Nor? folk to whom he was traded for Dingle by Sumter. From the Chester Reporter. Newman seems to have played the game of his life at Sumter. There is no doubt about his being the fastest and surest fielder in the league.

The race in the State league Is get? ting interesting. Sumter has a good lead, but it Is by no means a big one. A little fast ball on the partx of the locals will easily close up the gap. The league seems to be on good fi? nancial footing now, the determina? tion of the Orangeburg fans to stay in the league having inspired the en? tire organization with new life All four towns represented are amply able to supoprt a team, and there is no reason why there should not be a full season of first class sport. The locals are almost against left-handed pitchers.

The only antidote is to get a left-handed twirler ourselves, and let the other fellows bite too. a 4 O'Mara has been sold to Chester of the State league. He has not yet te ported, however. Spartaiburg Journal. cut, the action of our merchants in coming to the relief of the association by closing their stores at 5 o'clock is most commendable and is another link in the chain of evidence which bears out our claim that Sumter is never to be found wanting when the good of our community is at stake; now therefore be it Resolved, That our most thanks are hereby tendered these firms for their most sup? port thus given to this our i pop ular national sport; and in suf? fering this Inconvenience and sacri? fice they have placed the management under lasting obligations.

i Be it further resolved, That our thanks are hereby tendered to the 1 fans who have so loyally attended the games and we urge a more patriotic support by all our people. These resolutions were not only unanimously passed, but were much strengthened by the many grateful remarks made in the meeting. It was the concensus of all present that the fans should be looked after and urged to give us larger audiences, and we feel that, when the people realize fully the struggle the association is making in their behalf that they will then rally to our support and give us the means to keep Sumter she rightly belongs in is, at the front. P. Q.

Bowman, Secretary. COTTON BLOOMS. First of the Season Brought In By Charlie Reanies. Charlie Reames, colored, who runs a small farm within the city limits not far from the cotton oil brought two fully developed cotton blooms to this office today. One bloom, which he says opened on June 1st, was red and shriveled, and the other, which opened this morr'rg, was white and full blown.

June 1st is early for cotton ear? liest in this section in many years. One solid car load of the best or? gans in the world just received at M. B. Randle's. Sold on easy terms.

5-20-tf. Our Men's Wear Department is one branch of our business that seems to get along without much advertising, it must be a case in which quality and prices do the work. We have been improving this department each yiear until now it ranks second to none in the city. The season of the year is upon us when the men folks will have to lay aside their heavy wearing apparel and take to the lighter fabrics. In this connection there is noth? ing we could recommend more highly than the Blue Serge Two Piece Suit They are always dressy, hold their shape and color well, and more serviceable than anything else you can buy for the money.

We have sn ift sjp cn them in single and double breasted 10 10 gID.Oil The Alpaca and Serge Coats Are always desirable garments for summer wear. Either of these with a pretty pair of striped pants makes up a suit that is presentable on all occasions. We have the Alpaca Coats from $1.50 to $4.00. Serge Coats from $3.00 to Pants from $1.25 to $6.50. The man of moderate means can be suited here as well as the man with an unlimited bank account.

Men's Nainsook Shirts Drawers The proper thing for hot weather $1.00 the suit. OUR GAUZE UNDER VEST AT 50 GENTS Is an excellent garment, and even at 25c, we are sell? ing one good enough for most of folks to wear. Elastic Seam Drawers Practically as good as Screven's, 50c the pair. Our Colored Negligee Shirts At 50c are very popular sellers. They are full size, well made and hold their color.

Straw Hats Yes, we have a full line of all the newest shapes, from 50c to $6.50. 0'DONNELL COMPANY..