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Volume 19 CHERAW, CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, S. C.. APRIL 8. 1915 Number 22
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Ffor compulsory attendant*
Superintendent Swearingen Picks Oi
the Important Feature of
the Sinkler-Hawkins Bill.
It is highly iKJssible that election
may be held in some of the school dii
triets of Chesterfield county this sun
mer on the question of compulsor
school attendance, 'the election belli
held under the Sinkler-Hawkins bil
which was passel by the recent get
eml assembly.
Following are the important fen
tuiec of the law as picked out b
Vatv Superintendent Swearingen:
i. The,adoption of compulsory a
tendance in air-' district depends al
Kithiieiv uDon the ci.-operatiou of th
!<eople. This law simply moans thr
all children between the apes of si
M.d twenty-one years of ape have tl'
right to attend th< Iccwl ?fliool of the
C. tr'ct.
Lut in district's adopting the pr<
t'sions of this act. ''hlldren l>etwee
the apes of eipht and fourteen yeai
district.
b. Upon election after petition I
one-fourth of the qualified electors n
sidinp in any district
c. Upon election after pelit'on by
majority of the board of trustees t
any district containing an incorporate
town of 1,500 inhabitants. (Sec. 9.
Elections shall be held upon the o
der of the county l>oard of educatic
on thee second Tuesday in June. Pet
tion either from the State super! litem
cut or from the county super oteuden
3. Every dlstrlbt already voting
local school tax under section 1'iM
>? the code will have no dldiculty i
adopting and er.n rcing compulsory a
tendance under this act. On June 3
1914, there were 1,887 school ..district
If1
Every local tax district should ci
culate its compulsory attendance pet
tion at once, should hold its eleotk
on the second Tuesday in June, ai:
should put every child in school d
ring 1915-10.
4. There remain 529 districts whic
have neglected or refused to vote
local school tax. Some tvf these do m
need additional money, but nearly e
*
ery one needs greater interest in o
ucation.
Some two score of these distric
without a local tax have voted in f;
vor of an extra levy since July 1st. 1
least oue hundred new levies will ce
tainly l?e voted during the scholast
year 1915-10.
The trustees and teachers in the;
529 districts now have a double o]
portunity to ask for a local tax and f<
compulsory attendance.
The legislature in enacting this la
has also made liberal appropriate
for the public schools. A fair chain
and a free field are thus offered 1
every locality.
Every progressive district Ls urge
to take advantage of the law.
Respectfully.
J. E. Swearingen,
State Supt. of Education.
McFARLAN SEWS.
Messrs. Hoss Davis and Lester D;
vis, of Rockingham, spent Easter wil
homefolks near here.
Miss Mary Rrooks is spending tl
week in Cheraw with the family of M
Jas. T. Gainey.
Prof. Fred 0. Scroggs with a larr
number of the school children attem
ed the county commencement at \Va<
fesboro last Friday. They report
most pleasant and profiitable time 1
spite of the rain.
Julius Carr, the little son of Mr. ar
Mrs. W. X. Xorthcptt. has been sic
for several days but is better, we ai
glad to learn.
The Ladies' Aid Society held the
regular meeting at the home of Mr
H. E. Braswell Wednesday afternoo
a large number of the members wei
present and the society is planning i
'*? ~ liiaKe some lutpiuvinuis ui ua- .w. i
church.
Misses Bertha and Christine Tei
spent the weekend in Wadesboro wil
relatives.
Miss Annie Grant, of Rockinghai
is visiting the family of Mr. V. T. Kei
dull.
Misses Sadie, Sophia, and Lea
Kendall spent the weekend in Wade
boro with Mrs C. C. Bowan.
A good any of the farmers hei
planted corn before the snow and the
are afraid they will have to pla:
again. From the amount of fertil
r6 that is being hauled it would n<
D. BACK WITH A BUSH.
it The Return ?f Business -With the'
Advent of Spring.
'Boston Dispatch.
It was figured a few months ago
IS that the advantage that the United
s' States would get from the war would
he almost wholly in war orders from
v 'the belligerents, as cotton was sell"
ing $300,000,000 below its normal val'
ue, offseting the advance in wheat by
the same sum of $300,000 000.
And as for securities, it was flgl*
ured that it would be a fair thing if
'we held our own and were able to
absorb the billion a year that Europe
must send back to us during the year.
H Inv<f?|igations, however, the past
ie month, showed the ability of the
United States to absorb at least a
A 'billion of its own securities at the)
0 rate of a billion per annum as long J
1 as they are able to fight, and give
us half a billion war orders per an>_
num.
11 Conservative bankers figure that
8 'beginning last May, when the real
'selling of American securities in an'
Mcipation of the war was begun in
e 'Europe, there will have been shipped
to this side for the first year about
^ 'one billion of our securities.
It is now figured that for the year
' 'to end May first, we not only have
absorbed this billion of American
rsecurities
but established a foreign
. credit of very many billions.
' This has been easily accomplished <
{ almost from our own savings, but
a* 'we have been assisted by the cutting
out of American travelling expenses .<
'in Europe amounting to about $250,''
000,000 per annum, and by a few <
^ hundred million of orders for war
^ 'material.
. We have also been assisted by the
? colter 1b cjsng Into its own anuj
.. the soutn is aoxe 10 reauze a prum
>n 'instead of a* loss from its staple
I product.
u In other words the West has realized
its profits from wheat, and corn
and the South is not going to lose
any $300,000,000 from its cotton crop.
^ Indeed, the financial surprise of the
v_ world has come from the South tak.1
ing less than $50,000 of loans to carry
cotton from that $135,000,000 of pooled
ts assistance that was offered. It was
a. onlly moral support the South needed.
Now, comes the reaction for the
r_ South. The past week the New Engj(.
land boot and shoe manufacturers
have begun to receive increasing or;e
ders where a few months ago collectp.
ions were opor. the orders were nil,
)r and the conditions discouraging.
Shoe manufacturers now reoprt that
vv tho delayed orders from the South are
ls coming with a rush,
e ????
t(> surprise the writer if the corn patches
k1 were planted over in cotton. The
price of cotton most always gets liigh-|
erer about planting time*- so as to insure
the speculators a large crop.
1 Mr. J. H. Miller planted part of his
cotton crop Tuesday.
Misses Sora and Rosa Caudle, of
Bethel, visited the familv of Mr. W. A.
a^fPegues
Tuesday.
Mr. H. E. Braswell has qualified as
justice of the peace for Morvon township
and is ready to serve the public
whenever needed.
Dr. J. B. Gunter went to Chera
^ Tuesday on business.
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>"ew Advertisements i:; this Issue,
in
j Special attention is directed to the
l(j 'following new advertisements in this
'issue:
re1 Johr. C. Evans?Special sale on Mens|
Made-to-Order Coat and Pants Suits,
r J. F. Hunter?Moved to New Build's.
;ing 011 Second street.
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11 j" G. W. Lewis?New Store ami Newt
ro'Goods.
tf> j County Supervisor--Notice of E'ec!
tlon.
Town of Chcraw?Commutation Tax
jj now due.
Madame Eldon?Clairvoyant,
n,; 15. F. Pegues, Administrator?Notice
l- to debtors ami creditors estate M. W.
j Wright.
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s-j .Mrs. Kingbniirn. of ltuchcstcr, N.Y.,
lis visting her daughter, Mrs. Henry
c' Mclver.
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it Mr. Mini Mrs. \\. M. Godfrey. are
i-; spending a few day in Chrlestou and:
)t| Savanah, (1. A., I<
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I I am now in She j
| on Second streefep
i Mercantile CoJgL
I Groceries isse$nd
| Thanking you fc
I solicit a continuaoc<
* SUMMARY OF THE
IN THIS ISSUE ;/? ?
American note to
Nearly 100 lives t/re
United States again aiks Cai^^E
to respect foreign flags.
Big storm plays havoc on A^^Hic
American manufacturers are S^irgent
need of dyestuffs.
' Russians have assumed off ensive
along entire front in Poland.
German submarine sink three trawlers.
Washington proposes plan for safety
in Mexico City.
Federal department reports foot
and mouth disease has been conquerstcamcrs.
Washington considers death of
threaslrer a grave matter.
Reports of price paid for <*)tton,
corn, wheat, etc. during the past week,
ed.
Germans sink two more British
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Deposit yoi
The Bank
Chera\
STRONGER THAN ALL OTHER
A QL comp?ui
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DEFINES ADVERTISING. I
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Clear Definition of Word Given by C.
C. Thompson. ,
Clyde S. Thompson, who is president
of the Thompson-Carroll company,
Cleveland. <>., Is credited with this
terse definition of advertising: *Adver j
tisinj; is telling; people what yuju have|
tluit they want in such a way th!at tlicy
come to you for it."
Vi * mpsoii jo'Cs further ami explains
!luit advertising often gives peope
v.'hal tlicy need. lint did u re ilize it
i n.i. it was ad.ertised. Tie savs thai
asiii" from "paying" that advertising
facilitates business ami promotes the
health and happiness of 'leoplo. lie
p<mts to the a. toinobile as out of the
l.o.t "examples' of what adv .wiisuiy
i ?'i do.
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Irage brick building *
door to Cheraw I
"t, and my stock of I ;
to none in town. I
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HUNTER. |
:SAYS DECISIVE BLOW HAS BEEN f
) STRUCK AT CAUSE OF CARRA- 1
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Bp* t ANZA /
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I jj Prtso, Tex?H,^ April S.?By t|io de^ ^
said Obregon's force was .retreating ]
southward from a i>olnt midway be- (
tween Queretaro and Irapuato. Villa (
personally is directing the pnrsuit j
Each side had from 20,000 to 2o,000 (
men, according to reports. j
Afalloy Will be Elect rosuted.
The United States Supreme Court
has rendereu a decision in the Joe
Malloy case, in which it says that the
changing of the method of applying the
the death penalty does not render the ]
law inoiKjrative, consequently the ne- ,
gro who was convicted of the killing ,
of young Prentice Moore, near Bennettsville,
more than two years ago ,
will he electrocuted unless the gover- ,
nor commutes his sentence.
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[ BALL GAME YESTERDAY
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rJhe F. II. S. team played Cheraw ]
yesterday afternoon and was again i
def 'ated l?y score of 4 to (>. The game
I win interesting from start to finish i
and some mighty good work was done ;
on I loth sides. Thrower for Clieraw i
made a good twirler, striking out 10, i
wli'le Ihnvell for the Florence team i
did splendid work, fanning out J) of the 1
vis tors.
F.atteries?For Cheruw Thrower and ]
Wright.
For Florence?Howell and Inmuu.?
Florence Daily Times.
These two teams will play here to 1
morrow afternoon, at 11.30.
'opiuojto oiix 0} .)t|i.i.)S(|nx '
L/\f 'MAIAIAlAlAIAlAI/? lAIAI/VAtAIAiAIAtAiAIAlAlAIAIAl/
OBSERVATIONS
5Y OUE MAN ABOUT TOWN.
Why make such a hurrah about the
tegro crap game, while the white man
3 allowed to "shoot" without hinIrance?
Is it possible that tbe police
0 not know where "the room" is at?
Llraost any boy In the town could tell.
expect to have something more to
ay on this subject just as soon as I
;ct over an attack of grippe I am now
wrestling with.
Are you swatting the fly? Have you
een any Alios to swat? If not, be oh
ruard and massacre the first one that
hows himself.
Scientists tell us that every fly w<
till now means that there will Ik
nillldns less to kill later in th:
eason. And others, who were paid by
ouiiuissions to pay attention to the
car waged upon this pest last year are
Inn in their helief that the nation is
in the right track to exterminate the
ittle nuisance. Last year was really
he first when any determined Effort
vas made, shaking broadly. Housevives
all over the United States toot
inns against it as a common foe, and
he result was that many communities
eported even a distinctly visible
iecrease in the number of flies
hroughout the summer, and in some
nstances reports stated the exterminaion
was almost complete.
Think of thirty million women with
>erhaps as mauy children swatting
i dozen flies a day! It is plptn'y
een tbe war can Jbe won. All thai is
ecded is deterrahied effort In every
ivork \vill go forward much mob1
rapidly. It's a case worthy of your
. operation. At first, the Idea of ex
terminating 'the fly by killing them
individually was ridiculed, but a
<eafbn's determined effort proved that
it is not impossible, and the coming
oimmer will give even more positive
iroof.
But all must h'olp. Do your swattiug
?arly.
Let a young man of twenty years of
lge put twenty dollars at interest, instead
of expending it for tobacco,
riien, at the begining Of the next year
repeat it. and Include also the principal
ami interest of the proceeding year,
and thus continue to do so from year to
rear until he shall have reached the
ige of seventy the amount he would
1 i"" ".""',1 avnaail f >, i vfr thnmsqnd
I t'lUUiC ? I'UIVi c.ucwu tuiJLij
dollars. How many of our young men
will try it?
0. come now! Don't rush the postiffice
people. You should understand
hat "the kid" must be looked after
iven if you do have to wait for your
nail!
Only n short time ago I was a visitor
in a home where a little girl had
just recovered from what her parents
ind the family physician had feared
would he a fatal illness.
The conversation between the mother
and the physician on his last visit
was, I think, well worthy of recording
here. The mother had told the doctor
die felt so thankful that he had saved
ler child's life.
"That may be," said the physician,
'but your own training of that child
Ls what has more likely saved her life,
reaching her how to gargle, to have
her temperature taken to have her
throat examined, and to take even badtaking
medicine when necessary has
made it much easier for me and far
bettor for the child. Many of my littlfe
patients have a fear of a doctor and
think i f him with as as much horror as
thought lie were a big, black policeman
coming 'to get them. Then they
resist every effort we make to help
them. Consequently, they raise their
temjierature. excite their nerves and
tints get little benefit from our
treatment. I wish every mother would
teach her children that the family
prysfcinn is their friend and that his
wishes must bw obeyed."
Turning to me. the physician continued
: "It is because all parents
love tbeir ehidren that they feel they
must humor them in every way possible
wh"ii they are ill. but they often make
a mistake In this. Then, too, if the
child has been brought up with an
understanding of what medicines ana
physicians are for, they will not expect
humored?will not even want to be?
when they do fall ill."
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The United States of Texas.
How long will Texas remain one? .
The question has been revised
by agitations growing ... of%
tiie conflicting interests of the different
sections of the vast empire in which the
entire population of Germany could Ye
located without crowding. Even The
Houston Post is inclined to give serious
consideration to the' plan of making
three or four States out of the one.
"The Prohibition' Panhandle *ith its
economic problems, affecting vitally the
welfare of a people largely drawn from
other States is -beginning to despair of
land and railroad legislation upon
which its prosperity and development
dej>ei)d," says The Post "South Texas
with its heavy anti-prchibition.
preiwnderauce drawn largely from
Europe, Ls weary of the constantly
tightening coil that the prohibitionists
??" <1?nmlnn oh/Mlf It Woat Ten*.
UIU uiair lUh uuvuv .t
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like the Panhandle, has its peculiar
problems, which fail to exact the
interest or the sympathy of the other
sections of the State."
When Texas, the independent republic,
joined the Union, it reserved to
itself the right to divide itself into any
number of States not exceeding five
without consulting Congress or other
authority. If therefore, Texas should
decide that its motto shall be "We are
Gve," and thereby secures for itself ten
.United States Senators Instead of two, * y .?j|
nobody could object, however dlspleas- ,
ing the prospect would be to the Repub- Y*
Means and Progressives hWOongresa, One
somehow harbors
American flag. From time to time
other Commonwealths hate met the yS
some question and have sacr (!? ?! ^
bigness to efficiency in government
A i>oet wrote of the Old North State:
1 "North Carolina was once so large
she thought it wouldn't do;
She touched the Atlantic Ocean, and * Vjtj
the Mississippi, too,"
and Tennessee was given her independence,
not without maternal and filial . y:
pangs at the parting. But it will take J?i
heroism for any portion of Texas to
relinquish that ^>roud name.?Charlotte
Observer.
Program Eastern Division Institute,
Timmonsville, S. C. April 13tb and
14th,
TUESDAY MORNING.
10.30 Song Service?Mrs J. S. Sowers.
Greetings.
10.50 W. M. U. Training Class?Mrs
J. R. Figer.
12.15 Devotional s?Mrs John Lake.
12.45 Systematic Giving.
I.00 Adjournment
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
3.00 Royal Ambassador Hour, Mrs
Carpenter.
4.15 Sunbeam Hour, Miss Mary
Adams.
5.30 Adjournment
TUESDAY EVENING ,
S.OO Rev. Josiah Crudup presiding.
Addresses, Mr and Mrs John Lake.
WEDNESDAY MORNING
10.00 Song Services, Mrs Sowers.
10.15 Mission Study, Mrs J. T.
Rice,
II.10 Personal Service, Miss Sue
Wilson.
11.40 Talk, Mr John Lake.
12.40 Use of charts, maps, etc., Miss
Ui'th Pettigrew.
1.00 Adjournment.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
3.00 Devotional.
3.10 Training School.
3.20 Y. W. A. Hour, Miss Ruth
Allen.
4.50 Reports of Committees.
5.00 How Conserve Results.
5.15 Closing Praise Service. ^
5.24 Adjournment
Every association officer, society
president (or representative) Auxilary
* * * L. MMMAil ntton<4
jiikI Itanu leaner is uiscu
Send your name at once to Mrs Alice
Cole. Timmonsville. Be on time for
the first meeting and stay through the
last. Bring any questions you wish
discussed. Let every one do her best
to make this. Eastern Division's first
Institute a great sucess. . ^
Bring note book and pencil, you will
i need them. 5