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ueeeeeor to the Cheraw Reporter wfeloh waa established July 9, 1196. Md entered a* Second Claaa matter St Oheraw, 8. C. J. tt 8TRICKLIN. Editor and Manager. Published on Thursday by BTRICKL1N PRINTING CO. Ct??ow. 8. C JIM lit :w. . t . All Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of Beepeet, ObltuarlM, or notices of other Altar* not of public Interest, and all aeticee cf a personal nature Is charged tar at the rate of one cent per v>ord tar each Insertion. Such mrtter Is set sews. fc The Chronic Pessimist. Of all the cranks, the crankiest is the - -1 ...ut.. chronic pessimist, ne is aiways fuming like a half-starved dog with a tin can tied to his tail. When the sky is beautifully clear, he is positively certain that everything will dry up and there will l>e a scarcity. When the gentle rain begins to fall, he laments and is afraid 'the erojis will lie spoiled. He is always expecting some ggreai calamity, misfortune of some k...u, or of being laid up with rheumatism. No matter how rosy the apples look or how Juicy the i>ears, he is afraid that the; are wormy at the core and cant be kept until Christmas. The country is going to the bow-wows and everybbody is a dirty and dishonest rascal. His own peaceful and progressive town is ai: right but he is convinced that it wil' never improve so very much. The hig! church spire is a notable landmark, but it might fall down some day and dgreat damage. He himself enjoys excellent health at present, but he is sun that he won't live long- and he should P& not The world would be mucQ nappiei without such cranky pessimists. y* STMCKLIS'S GOAL AHEAD. ' v. 2 Appreciation and a Little Bit o Shop Talk. A well known printer from Whdes boro was In Cheraw recently and dli us the honor of paying us a visit After being shown through all th< departments, this printer went hom< and told his "boss" that Cheraw ma; not be any better town than Wades boro, but it surely has one real print ing office. We are not interested in the sor of printing office Walesboro has?i knows It has three good ones?but i pleases us to know that when dis cernlng visitors go through our plan they go away thinking we have a sure enough, modern printing plant. In this connection it may not bi amiss to add a few words: Stricklin's plant was planned, built and is being run to please folks wh< know what good service really is. We haven't any ambition to rui Just a "fairly good" plant?what w< want is the best anywhere in tht territory. The thing we are trying for?an< want?is to surround this office wltl an atmosphere of efficiency and cor da lity that will ?e distinctive. Besides this, we want our patron; to feel that when a package of worl comes from Stricklin's it must b< everything that it could possibly b< expected to to be. These are our printing ideas. Yes, surely, we blunder occasion ally and do wrong things but the goa ahead is never lost sight of. Is a minister, who in the heat of i temperance campaign prayed for th< destruction of a hotel which was selling liquor on Sunday, liable to th( owner of the hotel for an apparen answer to his prayer when the hote is struck by lighting and burned t( the ground? According to one editor, the woman of today outstrips all hei predecessors. But he seems to havr forgotten mother Eve. Most lambs must suspect that the good die young. If a lamb could think, it would explain why so man} butchers grow old. When a farmer marries he always is referred to as prosperous. Probably the other kind don't marry. Remarks about the weather never change it. "N THE AUTO ON THE FARM When The City Man hears of the farmer with an automobile, he pictures the purse-proud tiller w the land, having disposed of his bumper wheat-crop , at famine prices, as rolling along the ' well-kept country road in his 'touringcar, accompanied by his wife and daughters in their best clothes. It is y true that large numbers of farmers now own motor-cars. They and their families take 'joy-rides occasionally, too; there is no doubt al>out that; but( . the cars were not bought primarily for i i that purpose. The farmer needs the 1 car in his business. Just how, a cor- ? ?I?. ?? Tt... Rum] Vow Yorker I respouueiu ui me jl?u?c. (New York) tells us in a sort of symIHjsiuin of interviews, under the general heading, "How Farmers Use Their Cars." We read iu this: "'I did not buy a machine because autos are the style, but I lmught it to use,' a farmer remarked as he pointed to his load piled in the rear-seat space of his touring-car. The machine is one of the well-known low-priced cars, and this farmer had a half-dozen sacks of fertilizer in his car. 'I have carried such loads, I drive carefully, have some hilly road, but I find I can make two or three trips and do it more quickly and cheaply than with a team,' 1 the farmer said. 'In fact, there is one disadvantage in using the auto for a =: truck: the farmer makes sivh speed with his load that his horses can't tra- |n vel fast enough to satisfy him. He f) keeps urging them on, and he can't l-ealize there is a limit to the ground () they can co^er.' 1(] "I used my auto to unload hay, an. (j( other farmer said. 'I hitched the hay. oik; to the rear axle of the machine, tnd by driving -the machine carefully r ...... ?... ,1,, fI,,, n-iirlr ns ofHeieiitlv 1 ill'IU l\? uv? H?V M v*? M>> is with a team.' *"I use a trailer,' a Pennsylvania k' 'rutt-maii icmarke.3 'My machine ^ lelivers the goods. I had an old phaeton, which I made over Into a trailer, i [ cut off the tongue to about three or v1 tour feet in length, had a blacksmith 'roil the tongue, and by placing a bolt through the iron and through a board at the back of the machine a little a- ; Vve the axle, I am able to attach or letach my trailer as I wish. I have arted sixteen bushels of berries in my trailer and hauled seven Italians in he machine. I have used my machine "or three years, putting it to hard vork, and it has paid. I am a lover I >f a horse, and am satisfied no auto vill take the place of a horse, but visely handled, the automobile has be omo a necessity in my fruit-business "'I bought this large touring-car econd-hand. I have used it almost tally for three years and it has more ban doubled my business, a marketardener told me 'I live a dozen \ lies form the city, my work is large- v v wholesale, and 1 make as many n* F cite trips daily. J lot.l my machine I , ho evening before, have material for S . c cr two uioiv loads in the packing- ( . house realy, anl I am able to I make the three trips before noon.' C "'We have twenty-five cows; wv t live back about six and one-half nii'es F among the hills.' another farmer said: ? f I also haul the milk for one of my s neighbors. We are shipping to a city F about one hundred miles away, and ^ . ihe auto has made it i>os.sible. We use N the machine over the roads nearly ev- ^ 1 -ry day from seven to nine months in I the year, and, aside from tires, oil. ( and gasoline, our expenses have been f anaII. It would have required the lar ]\ , *er part of the forenoon to make the ? ^ trip, and we can do it now nicely after ^ breakfast, in about an hour.' ^ "T have three farms,' another uvto I owner said, 'and I am aide to keep ir ' totich with what is doing on these ^ farms each uny. There were, at fines 1 ^ two or tliree weeks during which i F would not see more titan one of these ^ farms. To make the trips, it would F have required a half a day at least T . and now I make daily visits to one or C fnrma Tt nnvc nu? hi ).M>II ill F touch with what is doing.' *"I am throughly familiar with the ^ i machine,' a woman said, as she tugged 1 at the tiro. 'I have had a blowout and r : am going to vulcanize the break, and ^ ; put on that new outer casing.' The ^ C t woman explained her husband'sbusi1 ness: 'We have a small farm, and we * ) market our privlucts in a small city eight miles from home. We finl that ' we can supply our trade quickly, and ' ? the expense is much less than with T horses. We have developed an egg ^ business of some proportions. My T husband goes to inland towns regular- r !y. sts-urcs the supply of country mor * 'hunts, and wholesales them to grocers in the city. lie finds that he can do T l.iw- l.ncliiiiwu i f 11 uriiOt mi ;i mnriHn "V 1 Q I -?f ji cent 11 dozen. Wo buy considernblo fruit and vegetables to supply our trade, and the maohine has iuade ^ rill of this business ]?ossible and pro- ;i fitable." i n The nninber of bales of out ton finned in Chesterfield county this season, as jriveti by the rejMirt of the Department of Coinmerce issued last week, is 1.4711 more than last year to the same date. .. ^ I I I I - fltrrr ^WOl i fK 'S4emM M ! $nngr i? lo our 1 I ffiepwrfleparfmenfc u n(^5'h*p", that watch only M needs adjusting; perhaps it's ????- < h\Te 14 cleaned. D Sw? ?fD Ju? Uke "T other I or rocchanlgm. f?^.t!ches5 1,0,1 know. require nKl0n, ,urt 140 "* other 1 plocos of mechanism. | (Bring It In. Oar repairer II will quickly tell you what's II wrong. And he'll advise yon. U too. If It will pay you to have V It repaired. A good wr.tch can be made to give you years I of extra service if you treat it CROWN JEWELRY CO. V Chernw, S. C. 1 Selling Agents for 1 L 8outh Bend Watches M We are now prepared to handle youi rlntlng probleines better than ever be ?re. Modern machinery, new type !i ict nearly everything new except ou Id experieneeed workmen. Send o ring your printing ideas to us, we wil 3 the rest. "The House of Quality" NOTICE OP COURT. Court of Common Picas will coi ene on Monday, October 25th [115. Jurors and witnesses take no ce. Jurors need not attend unti Wednesday 27th, 1915. Grand Jurors need not attend I. P. MANGUM. Clerk of Court. Tax r t; The Tax Books will be open f< 5th October untiU31st day c Ordiffary^ Counf^A**^??^ Constitutional school. Countv Roads ? m aa ? Total levy Special 1 'heraw Graded Special.. 3 mi larburg 3 )range Hill. 8 >at's Branch .. . 4 Jee Dee ' 8 Stafford 4 ?heraw (Outside) 2 bethel .. 4 'hestcrfield 4 'arker 4 'ine Grove 3 Jhiloh ' 3 Snow Hill 4 fcuby 5 Taughan 3 Vamble Hill ...: 4 Vhite Oak 4 ilack Creek 5 >08s Roads 6 enter 4 It. Croghan_. 3 Jew Hope 1 Wexford 4 Wilizo 2 luffalo 2 iion 2 ft Crncrhan (Outside).. 2 Buffalo 2 five Forks 2 languni 2 *a gel and 6 Mains 4 Ynter Grove ?*> friendship 2 efTerson 5 iOng Branch. ? 4 efTerson (Outside).. .. 2 Jreen TTill 4 Tiddendorf 2 IcBee ^ handy Run 4 Tnion 8 Uligator (Outside) 2 lay Springs 4 tear Greek 2 tethesda ? 2 nnir?er ^ Ytriek 3 YtPond 2 <n\vis 2 hislev 7 ?..! u. O ?' f MUM HI ? Valla oo 3 ifper Pen 5 ' For Pack Indebtedness and E: cliool: Chesterfield School Dist nd Tluby 5 mills. Cheraw Township, special levy < lills for Tload Ponds. w. / Sej>t. 15, 1015. I. ATouchofa Touch a match. utes the Perfect?* Oil Heater is spre * . % Sold in many styles an Highest Award at Panam Look for tha Triangh 1 9 Use Aladdin Security Oil Oil Stoves, Lamps and H fl| Richmond, Vt. BjS JB |KfjfjJ man-v Notice. sr ,the collection of taxes ifrom >f December, 1915. .. 7 mills .. 71/2 mills ,... 3 mills Vij mill3 18 mills jocal Bonds ills 4 mills ' 2Vi mills ' 3 mills ' 5 mills ' mills ' 2 mills ' 4 mills ' .. ? 5 mills ' ? . 5 mills ' ? 4 mills r. ? :ii,. ' . . . . . ) mum ? 41/j mills I t ( ( ( t 4 mills ( i i i i i ( ( ,<ctending .School Terms: Special riet. 2VL? mills; Mt. Oroghan, f> mills. of 2 mills for Roads; Alligator 7 V. DOUGLASS COUNTY TREASURER. Match Brings aToucl In five min- chill-frte and cosy m Smokeless and take it where ading comfort extra heat. Lig carried. Smokeles Ten hours glowir ;eps any room a gallon of kerose d sizes at afl hardware and general stores a-Pacific Exposition. 'rademark. or Diamond White Oil to secure best results ii eaters. OIL CO. ey) )RB ^ Charlotte. N. C. Cbirleaton. W. V?. Charleston, S. C. \ See our representa 4 mate on your gous ed time we are c proposition. Yadkin River Pc n?? t or a My plantation known containing One Hundret with dwelling, tw tena buildings, ali in good co public road from Ciiera\ For terms write me i MRS. B, R. Fresh JV-ef, Pork anrl P H. A, BURCH i'ilO-M Cuvlngrto.: licit! "I J; Cnl.uA r h of Spring Pick it up? 9 ver you want ht and easily I s and odorless. I lg warmth on I ne SBBbm SBXUiUiM : BBmRHB. ?? tive for an esti< ;e. For a limit- j iffering a liberal i >wer Company >aie. \ as ay home place, 1 and Sixty-six acres, in houses and outnuition. Situated on *r tn P ii octnrholri rv i\j uiicoicuitiu. it Florence, S. C. SPENCER. ork Sanpsage 'S MARKET :J?conil Street t*f 21. W. '