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S(Pf(??I(LE: a accessor to the Cheraw Reporter F which was established Tuly 9, 1885, and entered as Second Class matter ^ In accordance with Act of CongresB ^ of March 3, 1879. ______ r Published Weekly by p Strlcklin Printing Company. Subscription Price 11.00 per year. d Advertising rates made on request. , t Charming Cheraw! Fly the pennant a eaily. c 1 Charming Cheraw! Boost your town Keep on boosting; the more you boost F the more you will believe in it your- ' self. I Don't lose a chance to swat the * fly. The best swatting is done by s "Cleaning-up" back yards, etc. N < Petitions are easily gotten up and 1 circulated. Better study the origin aud purpose of fvery petition pre- 1 aented to you before you sign it or 0 decline to 6ign it. * 1 That the result of the ballot at the ( election held Tuesday on the quest'cn F of issuing bonds for waterworks 1 ai d sewerage was so overwhelmingly F in favor of the bond issue is certain- 11 ly very gratifying to the little handfull of citizens who made such a stren- b nous fight to get the matter before the 0 people. That water and sewers for h Cheraw were chief among the neces- n sary improvements for the contin- * ued growth and prosperity of the city F was the honest opinion of the little band and their belief that a thorough s discussion would convince every citizen of the town of the fact has been r thoroughly vindicated. c The three gentlemen elected as com- B missloners or puonc worns are sue- ? cessful, practical business men and under their management every interest of the city will be safeguarded * and we predict that when completed b Cheraw w?11 have as complete and v as ideal a system of waterworks and F sewerage as can be found in the coun- u ^*^Try. W'ork on the plan!t will no s doubt be commenced as soon as ar- u - rangements can* be made to place the e bonds and competent engineers and a contractors be found and satisfactory * contracts ar-anged. d We see an article in & New York newspaper which claims that a farmer in that state has electricity to "burn on his place. In fact he has his pig : sty lighted from the juice from Ni- I agara or some other falls. The article is very interesting and in some nartionlnrs thp writpr no douht has ? ? i his facts straight. But we are infclined to believe that he is Mistaken when he says that "The pioneer * work in converting water power into c electrical power and transmitting it, was done at Niagara Falls; and it is ^ in that section of the country that j the benefits of water power have been \ most evident." If we are not mistaken the pioneer work of conveying or transmitting electric power to a 1 O distance was undertaken right here . in South Carolina. The first mill with electrical driven machinery in which the electricity was produced 1 from water power, is the Columbia 1 Mills company of Columbia. It is 1 true that the developemcnt at Niagara falls is incomparably greater than that anywhere else in the world, but as the old South Carolina road from Charleston to Augusta was the' pioneer commercial railway in the' world, so is the Columbia .Mills fovj the manufacture of duck, cloth the pioneer mill operated by electricity J transmitted from a distance. THE ItANK EXAMINER SMTATION The governor has done exactly what he said lie would do in the mat-; ter of the closing of the Lexington J Savings bank. He has fired Hank Examiner Rhame. or rather, thinks he has. AVhen the state bank examiner or-1 dered the Lexington Savings bank, operated by Mr. Roof, closed?or a few days later?Governor Illease said if Mr. Rhame didn't make a report on his action suitable to the governor. he would fire Mr. Rhame. Mr. Rhame's report has been made I 3 the governor, and the latter evilently doesn't find it to his liking, ince he has issued an order firing i be bank examiner out of office. Im-L lediately thereafter came a brief j tatement from Mr. Rhame, in which ( c. not only snaps his finger at the , ;overnor, figuratively, but declares ie will hold onto the office until renoved by the court, and charged the . ;overnor with falsehood. Here's what , dr. Rhame said of the governor's , rder of removal shortly after the or- , ler had been issued. "The governor's act in attempting o remove me from my office is purely irbifrary, and his statement that the , ondition of the bank was not cor- . ecfiy published is false. "I shall disregard his order and 'hall hold the office until ordered by ( he courts resign it." ( The general understanding about he situation is that the case will bej aken to the supreme court for final ettlement and that Hon. \V. F. Sterenson has been employed to take lare of the interest of State Bank ixarainer Rhame. Serious doubt has been expressed >y eminent legal minds of the power if the governor to remove the state iank examiner frolm 'office on the jrounds as set up, It may be that he :ould have suspended him, but his lower of removal is seriously quesioned, if, indeed, the power of suslension really rests with the goverlor. As it appears to us Mr. Rhame ias made a very clear showing in his wn defence. It seems to us that e has purged himself of the charges aade by the governor to the effect hat he was indifferent and incomletent. According to Mr. Rhame, he himelf it was who put this bank out of usiness. In other words, if he had lot acted, the bank would probably be onducting business today. Mr. Lhame states very carefully his reaon for acting with deliberation. It requires a very little thing someimes to cause *a "run" on a bank I hat is entirely solvent, and by not aving enough ready cash in the aults to satisfy the depositors apdying in such unusual number and inder such abnormal conditions?Jt|fl trongest institution might go dowff^ nder the strain. Therefore it is j asily seen that a bank is like a wornn with respect to the manner in 'hich its reputation must be han led. ( ] WOMAN IN EPIGRAM } There is a woman at the beginning < >f all great things.?Alphonse Do ^amartlne. Friendship between two women Is ' ilways a plot against each other.? Uphonse Karr. , 1 A woman is seldom tenderer to a i nan than immediately after she has leceived him.?Anonymous. ( One syllable of woman's speech can ' lissolve more of love than a man's leart can hold.?Oliver Wendell folmes. i _____ t Women, deceived by men, want to i narry them; it Is a kind of revenge, is good as any other.?Marquis De | ( ieaumanoir. ? 11 Discretion Is more necessary to I' vomen than eloquence, because they lave less trouble to speak well than < o speak little.?Father Du Dose. NOT IN THEIR CLASS. f ! "Hi. fellers! Jest look what sez II ' !r.n"; mind playing wit us if we aLn'f.1 couu'i'" , | < f >0 PROOF ON INSINUATIONS g (Continued from first Page) jefore the legislative committee to give testimony as to the charges prefered ind tell, generally, what they know of the affairs of the old State dispensary. As was to be expected, nothing new has been developed from the witnesses with reference to the dispensary. Much of the testimony Is a resume of the record as a result of cj the several investigations. C1 Among the witnesses appearing ^ were members of the Ansel commissi sion,* members of the Biease com- . lc mission, members of the boards of control of the State dispensary, Attor- ^ L?ey Gene ral Lyon, attorneys and accountants and officials connected with the wiuding up of the dispensary. ^ Most Serious Charge. One of the most serious charges to be prefered by the governor was that James S. Farnum, of Charleston, had paid more than $5,000 for his .... . ,. ... y< immunity alter pieaaing guiuy. Members of the committee heard that the charge of Farnum had paid e' 550,000 was contained in an editorial ^ appearing in the Fairfield News of Ridgeway. Senator W. J. Johnson of ^ Fairfield county, who at one time owned some stock in the paper, was ^ summoned. He was asked concerning J< the editorial, rfe did not remember S( anything definite with reference to the n' fiditorialdabouttheG eshrdulpupupupu ei editorial. He thought hat he 'had ai 3eard the rumor to the effect that 01 Farnum had paid $50,000 and that he alight have read the staement in a newspaper. He denied that he knew ni of any money being paid by Farnum 111 or any other State official to the attor- (*' ley general. H. D. Ran tin, who was [c editor of the News at the time of the appearance of the editorial charged iirectly that Senator Johnson had informed him that Farnum paid $50,000 'or immunity and that it was upon the statement by Senator Johnson that he ivrote the editorial. Senator Johnson F< tvill very probably be recalled by the committee to testify as to the statenent by Mr. Rantin. Mr. Rantin may w also be recalled. mkmH Felder; Members of the commission te admitted that the work attempted by ^ tihe board was the prosecution of Felder. This board .spent $4000 in >ne year and failed to collect anything 3c During the several months the board l)f ivas In session this year a settlement da ivas made with the Richland Distilling dl Company. Two Contracts Compared th The members of the Blease commis- P1 sion charged that the contract with the Atlanta firm was unreasonable \ contract almost similar to the Fe'derj0' contract according to the witness was, nade by the commision with B. L. Abney of Columbia, for the handling de if the case of the Richland Distilling di company. g t ni For rheumatism you will find noth- ?> ng beter than Chamberlain's Liniment rry it and see how quickly it gives!|> relief. For Sale by all dealers. >J? ?|? ?*? >!> t^a i j I- Among the Churches at Patrick 4*| ?. ?!. ?. ??, ??? ?!? 19 lit Methodist Rev. \V. C. Rawden, Pastor. |bc Preaching at 4.00 p. m. First Sun- M lay and at 11.00 a. m. Third Sunday. Sunday School at 10.00 a. in. I). S. *r P>rower, Superintonndent. j111 Prayer meeting at S.00 p. m. Wed- T1 aesday evenings. Pr _ ,k; Baptist ii" Rev. J. M. Sullivan. Pastor I*' I a, Preaching at 4.00 p. m. Second : F.n iml Fourth Sundays. on Sunday School at l?.HO p. ni. O. D. j rurimgo. Superintendent. ? ic' Presbyterian 1 ,fl Rev. A. W. White, Pastor Pleaching evcrv Fifth Sunday ll.uO Eti i. m. at Methodist church and at r.30 at Runt 1st church. i St Don't h(? surptiscd if you have ar? ^ it tact of rlieuinatisin this spring. Just 1,1 ruh the affected narts freely with. "hanibcrlaiii's I.ininient and it will >oon disapcar. Sold by all dealers. 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It will cleanse the blood, >othe the nerves, strengthen the kideys and bladder and build up the Hire system . It will build tissue nd cusle and put new vim, new vigr, new life force, energy into your ady. . You will be surprised at the rearkable benefit you will derive from 3ing Root Juice one week. Any .good ruggist can supply it or will get it >r you, but beware of trixters, who isult your intelligence by offering )u something "almost like it." Bankrupt's Petition For Discharge. i the District Court of the United States: >r the Eastern District of South Carolina. In the Matter of Coward, Bankrupt. In Bankruptcy ^h^^jbnorable h. a. m. Smith, ^P^TOe District Court of the Unid States for the District of South irolina: W. G. Coward, of Cheraw, in the >unty of Chesterfield and State of >uth Carolina in said District, resictfully represents that on the 11th iy of December last past he was ily adjudged Bankrupt under the acts Congress relating to Bankruptcy; at he has duly surrendered all his operty and rights of property, and is fully complied with all the relirements of said acts and of the ders of the Court touching his BankIptC/. Wherefore he prays that he uwv be jcreed by the Court to have a full seharge from all debts provable a linst his estate unaer sam oaunipt Acts, except such debts as are :eepted by law from such discharge. Dated the 19th day of February, A. .. 1012. W. G. Coward, Bankrupt. Order of Xotlce Thereon District of S. C.?ss: On this 21st day of February. A. D., 12, on reading the foregoing petition, is? Ordered by the Court, that a hearing ! had upon the same on the 6th day of j ay, A. D., 1912, before said Court, Charleston, S. C., in the said Dis-i ict, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, | id that notice thereof bo published in ae Cheraw Chroiwcle, a newspaper inted in said District, and that ail I lown creditors and other persona lii'trcst may appear at the said me and place and show cause, if ny they have, why the prayer of the1 id petitioner should not be granti. And it is further Ordered by the uiirt. that the Clerk shall send by mail! i all known creditiors copies of said t it ion and this order, addressed toj cm. at their places of residence as1 ated. Witness the Honorable H. A. M ! nith. Judge of the said Court, .nd e Seal thereof at Charleston, S. C'.l said District on the 21st day of. hruary, A. I)., 11)12. iSEAL) Richard W. Hut son, Clerk. I. E. . HONS DEALERS 15 Pure Drugs and Medicines FRESH GARDEN SEED?The old reliable kind and just such varitlea* ?s suit Cheraw and surrounding; country. Every variety we carryhas been successfully, raised here. 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