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T\)i fester field "^Advertiser B CHESTERFIELD, S. C., SEPTEMBER 23, 1015 v $1.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE I* ? "J ^ ?o f. Mathis is a wealthy lic'sden, Ala., who is dcfcf her time to educating Icrs in the matter of diIf crops. In this she acta lament of the Alabama Bi ition. Ill disavowal Biet it will sever ^ C RELATIONS |Hgermany. ^Bwo Countries Are ^^Bil Discussions at and Beriin. ^^Bvornblo adjustment controversy i111 iuhcly on Berlin's ^^^Hitiu-nd.itions cabled ^^^^BnstorlT as result ^B^Hith Secretary Lanference became ^^^^Bht on ITiiment was diplomatic rcla ielay taking any nuld 1)0 furnis.i U possession ?'i ndor are under frized the con Lansing and Blatter now ha? Blty to conitnu Kove:nment Hinih reload in ^B*e are eon f the Arabic ^Biistake, just: the Fn'ted ol ^^ Counl Hern I^Ht be BHtii ^^Hcrnm-nt to ^^^Bped H^B-nvc: ^^^B> arbitrate, ^^^B indetnnity H^Beived. B^^^B'.nte a t EM^^Bner 1 les H^^^Hrine R^H|[Hrtion BB^^Bt before tttt: BHHBHHn r<> com ho BH^H^BHXHB^^^HAi by H^BHRMMMH th< inBD^HHUIw a? BHHQHS^HHHinr B BHn^BHBHHc!) BnnMraBHB|ui B 9^9B^^BHIHBjfl^B^ HMHHBHHc Booster Trip For The County Fail The "Live Wires'* who are boosting the C ?onty Fair have decided to in A e a trip around die entire do mty on Tuesday, . Octnhrr 5th, ii t he interest ot tlte Pair. E 'ery automobile owner in Chcsi erfbdd County if Invited to go 01 tins Grand Parole oi ninety miles aronnd Oln sterficid C unty. The P^uii is for tiie entire County?not for Chesterfield alone. Let this be understood otn o and for all?the County Fair is all that the name n. n 1 i. s?'T11E O H E ST E R FI F LD OOIJNTY FAIR. The "boosting" trip will start it II o'clock oil t lie nit.rriiig of ' <\i' suuy, ?;ctoi)er fc>th, from tin Oonrt House at Chesterfield flu* route will first be westward. The towns of Iinby, Mt- Croghan, Pugeland, JeilVrson, Old Oa tarrh, Me Hue, Middendorf, Patrtok, and Cheraw will be visited. Short stops will be made at. each of the above named places and snappy speeches of a few minutes will made in the ititerehtoft.lt County Fair. Hr puts from all oyer the County say that automobile owners ate waiting to jo; t the 4 "Boos ing" l'rip. l)o not wait tor a persontl! invitation. Ever one is invited to go a!- g. A grand tr', it will be?one ' full of fuu. L; 7 your cares aside for one day an : join the ninety nine pari on a1 ?un?i the County in i he interns- <>f t lie Chesteri field County I* vir. . It is l)?'!i< ve i that, one hunired em s v. ill .0 in line. Every . i'ar owner in C " .ief.terfield Couny is tilled to d in the trip and . irr? v.t'h Into sevnal of his i- nds rvh ar reul "'Bon-tors". i '.-o full, wit g have u r. udy si.'ni'd upiojv.on ii<e trip: I. i\ Man^uii .1 <'. Mel.aurin, 1). !,. Smith, D. 1*. Ih.tigiass, W. (i White, J. Baker, Kinsley AtnilL-ld, V/. i'. (hlom, W. 11. Hotter, .1. <\ Hi vers, I). H. Lan >y, A. W. llurscy, W. A. Douglass, I). E. KodtVarn, II K. Ilanim, W. A. Itiv? rs, J no T. UuiRt, W. .1. Til It r, -f. A. Welsh, II. K. King, H ... -eliers, T. K. Kd.i .s, .! 11 Sr or* and C. 11. Hi vers. Cotton Market The high- s* price paid for cotton in ('host erti ?ld yesterday was 11 cents. Seed is bringing l'2e per bushel. Cyprus Shingles at. moderate price . A ri . t'?>!d I Idw. (hi. NOTICE OF COUUT t'onrt of (J'Tirrul Sessions will convene on Monday, Sept 27th, 1915 I I'^JIan^'im 0 of Court. Sale of Land for Taxes Under and by virtue < f authority contained in certain Uxecutions issued I?v W. i'. Douglass, Oounty 'Ireamrer, and d'rectod i to tne, I Imve levied upon and taken exelus ve possession of the ii.llowing r< al estate, to wit, and will soil the same lor cash, to .he highest bidder, before the . court house d?-or at ?'he-terfield, on tho lirst M< nduy in .Julv 1915 ojtwi en the 1 gal hours of rale. 177 Acres i .JeHereon Town*inp known a.> M. McCaskill Kst. lands. lot) acres in Steer I'en Town snip knowi. t I. H. Merriman, land. FOU 6ALK 32 sharps ? ' of the Capital a'ock ??1 t he H . ik of Chesterfield, f if Kkrkison, V u nvillo, 8 C. I I# a pmerlptioa prepared eipi I for rAr.' AMA or CHILLS & FEVHH I .\ or . o'oli II h: : .y . o . I B / < : l I. iC 11 v iitd u??- < " H Sharpen In,; a V/orn File. H "When u Hie gets dull," said the ^master meollAQie, "you can restore its ^BfToctivoness by pouring a little nitric ^Hrdd over it. Thi.i roughens the raised ^Kirts and deepens the sunk parts nc Hut it will again file your nails or cut Murder Trials at Fall Term Criminal Court i A groat deal of interest iR be ing manifested ir the trial next I week at the criminal court of ( genera! sessions here of Walker Arant charged with the murder of Dock Wallace and Sheppard ; West charged with the murder of Wesley Arant and half a dozen others are to be tried on the charge of riot. The Pageland war of March is i still fresh in the minds of the people. Two rival factions met on the streets of the town of i rage.ana ami a wholesale shoot ing occurred. At rhe end of the battle four men were down with their boots on; several others were wounded. Out of the four who were shot down, Wesley Aiant was killed instantly. Dock Wallace died five days later at a hospital in Charlotte, N. C. Babe A rant recovered from severe wounds, though at one time he was expected tc die. All of the defendants are out on bond. Unless a continuance is secured these murder and riot trials will be heard at the Critnnal Court term of Court next week. TIIK DOCK KT Following is the list qf cases to come up in the FaU term of Criminal court which convenes on Munduy, September ii7th. W. T. Arant, disposing of mortgaged property ; Coot Adams disorderly conduct. Walker Arunt and Shepherd Wo si, murder. O \V Arant. Charlie Funderbnrk, .1 M Arant, John Robinson, 11 11 West, Luther WV-t, Baxter U'.'sr, Arthur West., Shepyard West, William Wallace, Luther U'jiilac , John Vveat. Walter Wttllace, riot. etc. W II Buchanan, breach of trust; S L' Brown, disposing of mortgaged property; James Brewer, and James Lowry, ctur.\ing concealed weapon; i'ly Brewer and Will McManus, assault end battery ; J K Brow n, refusing to work on liighw ay ; (Jlcve Brewer, assault and battery; It. and Ernest Boasly, misdeniea nor; Anderson Burns, Arson; John and Garfield Boat.wright, assault and battery; Ed 1 Cumj bell seduction ; O A Cun.pbell, | disposing of mortgaged property. James Clyhurn, false pretense ; Thedore Dunlap, larceny Foster Kdgeworth, as*ault and baltery; Luther Uainey, violating dispensary law; John Hamilton, arson; L' E IJairer, falsi? pretense; Hay Hunt, house breaking and larceny ; Leroy James, hou-e breaking ami larceny; C E Johnson, misdemeanor ; John Jefferson, gamb ling; K 0 Johnson, etals; Leonard King, burglary and larceny ; Ed Morris, violating the dispensary law. Earl Morgan, breach of trust ; Earl Meiton, assault ami ba'ter.v ; 1 8011 Cue McManus, assault ami I battery ; W A McCall, forgery, charges; K It McKay, as ault ' and battery; VV L L'ate, trespass; W 1< and T C l'hillips as , salut and battery; ami carrying concealed weapons; George Patterson, violating dispensary law; J W Kaley and (J Hort.m, wi?t>ruuriy cmmuci una carrying concealed weapons; Joe Itobeson, assault and battery; J Wesley Kaley, misdemeanor; Douglass Robeson false pretense. William Stanley, housebreak' inland larceny; U W Steater,1 ' burning lands of another; Mary | Sikes, larceny ; J A Sellers, violating dispet sary law; Henry Stanton, violating contract; Henry Turnpge, disposing of ' mortgaged property; Henry WiIke, forgery. South America Disappointed. New York.?Dr. L. S. Howe, goer?. tary general of the Pan-American Financial Congress, who returned ) from n three-months' Invcgllgatlon of i financial, indu r'.al and commercial ' conditions In South America, declared I that In Peru and Chile especially, he ? found a feeling of disappointment that I American exporters had not taken advantage of the opportunity to build up oloser trade relatione. ^ ? -jMfr - Mr. Oliphant on I A (iood Mission' Assistant Secretary A. D. Oliphant of the State Board of Charities and Corrections was in Chesterfield Tuesday and Wednesday of this week investigating the cases of Fred and Frank Rushing, two of the lute Charlie Bushing's chil Iren. lie is also investigating the case of Will Mareo who is now out "tfn bond. Maree is fifteen years old and has never been to school a day in his life, at l< ast had not, up to a tew weeks ago, according to his own statement. The State Board of Charitie3 and Corrections is interested in these chil dren and wishes to aid them, to get them nlncnd whprp tlipv will have educational advantages and not grow up in idleness and ignorance and. perhaps, under immoral in (luences. The Board of Charities and Corrections only has visitorial and a Ivisory powers. Their object is to help, to suggest to the County officers in authority remedial measures whenever the same are found to be necessary. Their entire attitude, as expressed by Se retary A. S. Johnstone before the recent Welfare Conference in Columbia, is one of helpfulness, to assist by suggesting and advice. After inspecting the county poor farm Mr. Oiiphant suggest ed to tne County Supervisor that a negro woman be employed to nurse four of the inmates of the County home, who are helpless, lie found that Mr Sullivun, the superintendent of the home and his good wife are doing everything within th'ir power for the benelit of the inmates and he commends th m lor their good work. But t' o ca:-e of the four helpless negroes who are unable to control their natural functions demands a no;ro nurse. Atter cons llration with Mr Oliphant, I'ro >ate Judge Hough decided to let the cases of tlm Kushitig boys. Will Maroe and Miss Sykes remain as it was. Casual reading of the daily pa pers will convince anyone that South Carolina is ashamed of her method, or lack of method, in handling such cases. The Advertiser In p"S hat Chesterfield County will share in this feeling and join some other good counties in changing our luck ward methods. Auditing County Books A thnrougl.gf ing audit is being nude of all the books of the county oflicers. Mr. J. S. Bi?hop, expert account! nt, of Cheraw, is doing the work, assisted by his daughters. This work was instituted l>y the recent grand jury ami is for the benefit of officers as well as. the tax payers. The* work this time is a piammoth undertaking as it has beer, some eight years since a thorough audit has been made. If the county would tuke a suggestion from the large corporations and have an audit made every year, it. would be bettor for ail concerned. Nelsen Bennett For the third time this .season. Nelson gets i i the paper. This time Nelse br< light to this oflice a boll of cotton that opened on the 8rh of Sop ember, the seed of winch wftf* put iu the ground on the 8th Oi' .June. Nt'luo is a darlcie of tiie right, sort in some respect-, lie is evidently a good farmer and si ys he is "getting to be pretty honest, yes, sir, hanl>e? sir." Pe muts The Advertiser will accept a few bushels of peanuts on subscriptions. Commercial Hotel Get a square meal at the Commercial Hotel and you'll Le 'round again. Seel) f REAR ADMIRAL WINSLOW ' : 1?* \ / ^*w Rear Admiral. C. M. Winalow haa been transferred from the Naval War college at Newport to the command of the Pacific flcot. AMERICANS ORDERED OUT SECRETARY LANSING DESCRIBES INSTRUCTIONS TO CONSUL AS SIMPLY PRECAUTIONARY. Obregon's Rapid Advances to North and Frequent Lawlessness Led to Present Measures. Washington.?American Consuls in northern Mexico, which now has become the chief battleground between the contending factions, have been advised by the state department not only to notify American citizens to withdraw from Lie danger zones, but to leave Mexico t emselves if conditions become inlol rable. Secretary Lan L ; described the instructions to (Ymsuls as simply pre cautionary. They re similar to those given American C isuls in Europe whenever the < ont< . ling armies draw near cities pr< rioi ly untouched by the fighting. Obregon's ra. id advanc- into northern Mexico, nil 1 frequent r?-ports of lawlessness on the border ! J to the present measures, according to slat.*: department olllcialr.. The only formal announcement on the subject follows: "Owing to disturbed conditions prevailing along tlie Mexican border, the department repeats the adivoe heretofore given to American citizens to remain on this side of the international line for the : resent." As soon as American citizens have withdrawn, there will be no necessity, in the opinion of If gh officials, for the Consuls to remain, but it was denied that they had bee; ordered to leave, discretion being v< ted in the Consuls themselves. The v ?tideations extended to Consuls in 'J rreon. Chihuahua, ITermonsilio, fluay ms. Nogales and Juarez. I.atest to -grains to the department indicated a general exodus. At the Villa Washington agency the department's action was received with resentment. SEVENTH VOTE OF CREDIT. Premier Emphasizes Growing Expenditure?* War London.?The seventh vote of credit since the war begi n, bringing up tlie total to 1,262,000,000 pounds (*'.310.000,000) was moved in the House of Commonns hy Premier Asquith. The amount asked for was 250,000.000 pounds ($1.250,000,o00-. The Trenticr also announced that nearly 8,000,000 men had enlisted, 11 o made this statement in reviewing the financial and military situations, so far as military exigencies perrnitt d; but this requirement necessitated in many Instances only vaguo references to the trend of events. The growing expenditures for the war were emphasized by the Premier. He said the average daily cost from April 1 to the end of Juno was 2,* 700,0'.^ pounds (513.500,000); from July 1 to 17, 3.000,000 pounds; from July IS to Soptember 1), 3,500,000 pounds. Thus the total for this period in round figures i3 500,000.000 pounds. There has been rapid 50,000.000 to the nank of England. 20,000,000 pounds has been lent to foreign governments and 28,000,000 pounds lent to the Dominions. Thinks Trouble Nearly Over. New York*?Settlement of the difficulties between the United States and Germany within a fortnight was pre dieted by Count Bernstorff, the German Ambassador, here shortly after hl9 return from Washington. Fighting In Africa. Paris.?"Fighting continually In Africa since last September along a front of more than 2,<F*0 miles, the French colonial troops aided by the British, have obtained remarkable results," said Gaston Poftmejrjrue, minister of the Colonies. "German East Africa," the minister continued, "will soon bo the only colony possessed by Germany with the exception of a small part <tf the Kcmerrns. The other Germain possessions are cither occupied bj^the French or English. i ' i i STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ALL SOUTH CAROLINA PEOPLE. S. M. Williams, a Lexington county farmer, was painfully hurt in a run^ away a few days ago. j i The large wooden building occupied by the Orangeburg Lumber Company was destrnvAH The building was owned by E. R. Pauling and tho lumber business owned , by L. A. Walker, Jr. : s Upon the completion of estimates to be finished with a few days, work on the roadbed of Carolina ^ Northi Western railroad below Newton, N. C., j involving the expenditure of several thousand dollars, will be started. A third big export and bunker coal concern has made connections for tho purpose of using the Charleston port for a large fuel movement, the presence here recently of C- C. Froedrlek and J. P. Brennon, representing WhltDey fc Kemmerer of Philadelphia, a $7,000,000 corporation; confirming tho proposition. When the British steamer Cayo 6oto cleared up for Liverpool with a cargo of 10.250 bales of cotton, what la believed to be, not only the first shipment of cotton for a foreign port through Charleston, but also well up among the first cargoes of the export season from any port In this country this year was in her hold. Secretary Josephus Daniels promise ; ed a delegation of Chnrieotnn v..,-,1---? men that ho would havo a division ol the Atlantic fleet stop at Charleston during the annual convention of the Southern Commercial congress which meets at Charleston December 13 to 1C. Sam W. Parks, of Fort Mill, captain of Company G, First infantry, N. O. i S. has received advice from the adjutant general's office that of the 50 men from the 24 counties composing the state m'iltia, who will participate in the state shoot to be heid this month at Styx, eight will go from his company. P. II. Calvin, of the live stock department 'of Clemson College, spent one day recently In Columbia, arranging forage crop plots on which pigs to . 1: exhibited fair week will feed. These "platform" patches will be sown ip ^ the different grazing clovers and grasses, and one pig from each breed will he shown in its natural habitat. The plots aro to bo movable. After one week's idlenes the full service of Columbia's street cars wai started up again, the strike of the em play os having e nded when carmen and ofliclals reached a complete au4 satisfactory agreement. The agree ment closes the second strike on the street railway system since its organ ization. Leaders of both sides say that the agreement would prevent strikes in tlie future, as riifVultiei will be submitted to arbitration. The Rev. Howard Lee Jones. Di D, president of Cokor college, died In a hospital at Florence. The well k*owa educator had beeu la 111 health foi several mouths and had sought real and treatment away rrom home, hop ing to recover before the beginning o! the new college session on Septembei 23. Following a decline a few dayi ago ho was taken to a hospital In Florence, but his frail constitution could not respond. John McLaughlin, Jr., an enterprla ing young farmer of St. Matthews, does not belong to tho tomato cluh but he raises tomatoes just the stma This spring ae ventured upon the plan of planting two acres. He has Jusl about closed his tomato business un and ho finds that from the two acre* ho has canned 4,500 cans, at an aver age return of seven cents the can, and ho did not save all that the cro| yielded. MARKET REPORT. Prices paid for cotton, cotton soe*. corn, wheat, oats, peas, etc., on the different markets in South Carolina during the past week: Abbeville- Cotton, 10Ho; corn, $1 bo: wheut, tl/JT) bu: oats. Ot; l>u; rye, $l.&4 till" bll#t?.r ?r? ,k-. ' *KB>, iUC UOK. \llctwlale?Cotton, 10c; corn. 95c bu: oats, s<>< bu; rye, $1.25 bu; peas, $1.25 bu; butter, 30c lb; eggs. 20c doe. Helton?Cotton, 10c; corn, $1 bu: wheat SI .25 hu; oats, 65c bu; rye. $1.40 bu; peas, 1. bu; butter, 2r>c lb; ctrits, 20c do*. Bamberg -Corn, $1 bu; wheat, 1.20 bu; oats, C5o bu; butter, 25c lb; egg*, 20o do'/ Camden?Cotton, R%c. Clint.>n Butter. 30c lh; eggs, 3?c doa. Charleston -Cotton. 10c; corn, 1.1? bu: wheat $1.10 bu; eats. 46c bu; rye, $1.2* bu: butter, 20c lb; eggs, 21c doa. . c'heraw? Cotton, PVtc. Conway- flutter, $5e lb; egg*,' 15c do*. Cluster Cotton. 10'4c. Chesterfield -Corn, $1 bu; wheat, 1.25 bu; oats, 65c bu; rye $2 bu. r>illon?Cotton. OHc. I Kdgefeld- -Cotton. 10c; corn. $1.10 bu; j wheat. $ 1.50 bji; oats. 65c bu; rye. 1.6? hu. Hurt Mill Cottno. 16e; earn, $1.10 bu; wheat, $1 bu; out*. 60c bu; rye, 1.26 pea* $l.f.rt bu; butter. 20c lb; eggs, 20c <Io*. < llonea l'ath?Cotton, 10c./ .Toresjvillei Cotton. 9'4r; /torn, $1 bu: when t. 41.25 bu; outs. 56c bu; rye, $1.1? bn; butter. 20c lb; e?fes, 20c do*. Lancaster Cotton, 4|y>; corn, $1 bu; wbeat. $1 bu; or'*, 5^^B|^"ye, 1.38 bu: r, $1.50 bu; butt^^^^^k: eggs. 29d I Orangeburg $1.1$ . ^JMi bu; $l<Utf|gnMR9H| i 23c Mat thews tai.ourg? do* ^iValtei boi o