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* < - Ji R>r; -1 - , ' ' -'Jot rs?^>..... . (< ! m*' T5he Cheraw Chronicle 1 * Volume 19 CHERAW, CHESTERFIELD COUNTY,, S. C., SEPTEMBER 16, 1915 Number 46 i : M PROHIBITION G SWEE1 Majority of More Than Charleston and Dorchester ber of Ballots Not Far F Becomes Effec Statewide prohibition will take ef-| feet in South Carolina January 1st, 1916. At the polls Tuesday the people of the State, by a majority of more than two to one, voted to substitute Statewide prohibition for th< present ^system of ocal option between the county dispensary and prohibition. The total vote probably will not be far from 60,000. This is less than half the size of the vote cast for senator in the last Democratic primary, but is some 25,000 more than the vote in the last general election. Following is the vote by counties so far as heard from. Only a few boxes in each county remain to be heard from: Abbeville 786 197 Aiken 1040 326 Anderson 1609 678 < r Bamberg zzi no Barnwell 617 514 Beaufort 188 156 Berkeley 96 80 Calhoun 346 185 Charleston 346 2504 Cherokee 1507 230 Chester 617 196 Chesterfield ?. .... 586 320 Clarendon 424 11' Colleton 784 227 ,, Darlington 914 149 Dillon 403 134 Ed^efkiterv:: r : Fairfield 391 93 Florence 1274 264 Georgetown 245 103 Greenville 1792 940 Greenwood 1088 1 Hampton 520 2< Horrry 736 690 Jasper 129 30 Kershaw 541 252 Laurens 960 232 Lancaster 1149 223 i'op 437 236; Lexington 1396 576 Marion 552 118 Marlboro 828 39 Newberry 1179 397 Oconee 1108 162 Orangeburg 1403 497 Pickens 575 213 Richland 1237 793 Saluda 797 136 Spartanburg 3180 1096 Sumter 618 198 Union 1281 427 Williamsburg 119 IS York 813 164 Total 35417 15069 County now has dispensary. Of all the counties only Charleston and Dorchester voted decisevly Statewide prohibition. The upcountry counties, led by Spartanburg, turned in sweeping majorities for prohibition, [n the Pee Dee, while the vote was smaller, the the general trend was the same, most of the eounties giving strong majori tics in favor of Statewide prohibition. A good many cotton authorities took the view that would he better for Britain to declare cotton contraband than to jH'rpetuate the provoking system she had in force previous to the contraband declaration. This view has been justiiied by results up to the present. The price of cotton advanced immediately after the contraband order was made public and the farmers have no cause to complain at the prevallng situation. Meantime. President Wilson is prosecuting the matter of n satisfactory ;ul itisf nii-iit nf coinnit'l'i-i:! I relations with Kngland ami api>ears to have the situation well in haml. Conditions as they stand at present indicate the coming success of the President in securing what he has asked fur. The merchants who uses stateneiry and other printed 'natter printed in some other town is. to the home printer, what the mail order bouse is to the home merchant. Ji AINS PING VICTORY Two to One Recorded In Minority?Total Num* Tom Sixty Thousand? tive January 1 The Red Badge of Chivalry From Mouroe Journal. So again our tradition* have been lived up to. Southerners are true to themselves. Womanhood has been protected. Let not again be it said that we will not rise in our glory and might and virtue und Just indiguution .ind punish to the last horrible detail when a crime has been committed. Our women must be protected! Also our mules! On Tuesday a noble band of patriots, moved solely by the desire for single minded justice?rigorous but necessary? contemptuously handcuffed the lawful officials of Georgia and took from them the prisoner who was even then serving the sentence which the orderly processes of the Constitution had said he should suffer and gallantly hanged him to a tree. The other bands of galllant patriots who assembled to'view the work after it had l>een done, with marked self-restruint and virtue, refrained, at the suggestion i of prominent fiitlzens from jumping upon the corpse gouging out the eyeballs and carrying oo ami mumon trrfm 111 trill Ull ao WUICUllo MUX* hivm?vm?vvv of justice triumphant Let it be forever known our women shall be protected 1 On Wednesday another gallant baud assembled in a Southern State Aiul put to A?*th three hrmnn being* who were suspicione<l of having poisoned some mules. On Sunday morning, in this good State, which of late years has l>een all too lax in the duty of administering safe and sane midnight Justice, a hand of patrotlc guardians of the public weal, shot an unaccused man and an innocent little girl for the crime of having let a couple of negro women stop in the house while seeking to escape the Just the of the gallant gentlemen who were righteously seeking t administer it. Our morals shall be protected! Every barroom bum and brainless scallawag in the South has sworn a mighty oath to do it Let there lie no mistake. The world is on notice. Women, mules and morals are safe In the South. We are a progressive ijgople. We started out by hanging negroes caught red-handed in the crime against women. Then we began hanging those who hapneniHl to be in the neighborhood when the crime was committed, hanging last and afterwards detenuing that there was no need of Investigation. Mark the progress. Then we l?eguu to hang and Inini when there was a suspicion that a crime had heen committed. Justice shall l>e done. Now we don't take the trouble to go at night to execute justice. We go into the court room and dominate that, and when the constitutional processes have said that a prisoner may suffer a life sentence, we take him out and tie a ro|ie into the quivering gash of an unhealed wound and string him up. Also we liMtk after those who are suspicioned of poisoning our mules. Southern chivalry! Contemptible hypocrisy! Avenge the death of Mary IMiagan! Was it that ? Only the blind believe it. Every member of the howling mobs that have (logged tnis case would have seen the little factory girl bedraggled in the diteh of poverty and sin without extending a hand to help her. They would have seen her virtue betrayed and dpsjiolled by any tJeorgia buck of social standing, then kicked her to the bawdy house and shielded him. Hut ignorance and passion and prcjnduce and savagery stirred into the hellish brother of murder and anarchy plumes itself as Southern chivalry. One step yet remains in the progressive development of the protec rum iu society ami morais aim mines. T.et no man of critnal Instinct kick onr yallar dog. If lie does let us "take the law in our own hands" and string him up. Dogs ought to lie pr<\tected. They must he protected. Tom Watson is due a special issue of the Jeffersonian telling the patriots COME TO THE FAI.H?CHERAW Charming Cheraw here's to you! You are all that you say you arecharming and tip-:op. We like your streets, We like your air, . Bring on your exhibits To the County Fair, The county is ydur county; tin Fair ia your Fair. Here's a nearly Invitation to get on the band wagoi and do your part to make your roua ty Fair a thing to be proud of. The above is copied from the la* issue of the Chesterfield Advtrtisei and it is hoped that the people o Cheraw will cooperate with theii friends of the other sections of ib( county to make the- Chesterfield Fail a big success.?lS?l!tor Th? Cbrouicle One of our metropolitan exchanges tells of a man who held a stick of dynamite close to his breast and then lighted a fuse and adds that the last seei of him he was going off with the dynamite. 1 ?i Deposit yo The Bank Chfera' ' */-. STR0I6ER THAN ALL OTHER / C/ in savin Jurors for Fall Term of Court. The following jurors have beer drawn to serve at the fall term o Court which will convene at Chester field, Monduy, Sept. 27, 1915. Court House Township?T. L. Teal C. Watt Davis, J. Andy Teal, F. Cheraw Township?S. T. A. McMa Rivers, Ervin Melton, R. M. Myers, inanus. C. F. Pendleton, R. L. Rivers M. A. Knight, H. W. Harrall. Mt. Croghan Township?E. E. Low ery, W. A. Gibson, C. W. Hancock G.*K. Sowell, J. S. Watson, W. M Moore. Old Store Township?D. E. Clark ^Whiteford Evans, A. G. Caston, W. / Pigg, Sr. Jefferson Township?J. G. Holley G. W. Kirkley, W. L. Jordan, P. R Baker. Alligator Township?J. H. Wadkins P. King. J. E. Middleton, M. A. McPherson, G S teer Pen Township?P. E. Tracey W. A. Teal. D. J. Brown. Cole Hill Township?D. T. Odoni Cordy Hunt, F. L. Davidson, J. A Davis. Dnath of Z. T. Peanxm Zack T. Pearson died suddenly a his home near Osbmie about 12 o'oloel Tuesday night. He had been umvel for several months, hut his death was unexpected. The funeral will be at Oak Ridg< cemetery in Bennettsville today, a 11 j nuixui\ 211 11 21. in, Mr. Pearson Is survived by his \vif< nn<l two sons, Sain J. Pearson oi Bennettsville and Zannnie Pearson o Bllerlie Springs; three brothers Moses W. Pearson of Columbia: L. P. Pearsot of Bennettsville; and one sister, Mrs Frank A I,ovin ??f Ellerbe Springs ?Bennettsville PeoPeo Advocate, Sept. t). just what to il<? in case their yalier dog> are molested. And the Thing now called the May or of Atlanta Is due to make iiuothci speech and tell the guardians of pub lie morals how patriotic it would Ik to hang si governor who exercised tin right which their (Nxnstitutiou placed in his hands. The Thing says that (Seorgia is the leading State in the South?from which had einiiiowo lor all other Southern States dr?*v hack. g WANTS .tpOAN OF A BILLION New Yolk, Sept 13.?The present I ! plan of the Anglo-French Financial . Commission! it was reported tonight, is to borrow? 1,000,000 in the United States on (^faight British and French Government .bonds without colateral. If this v)l-it sum Is obtained, It was said, It Is ii lie spent to the last cent in the Unned States In payment for wheat, cottH, meut and other comino' dlty shipnfe its, including' war muni1 tlous. It! vill, therefore, flnanol; ou'thoritlesj way, lie classified as a commerclu joan. J THE MOSQUITO. f The raiilfl coming along found the f maturlug ffcetatlon of the waning ? Summer jot# right for "the propaga tion e? a *4endld crop of mosquitoes, together with these little fi&fc hiies a * Luut iwui itu; grussiiupper seeus. consequent^ life iu Cheraw ban not i been exactly one gpaid sweet song . the past few (lags. The grassbopiwj seed fly ia through the open windows and jump mbout like so man}' flpas, 1 and their ^^Ite Is as sham qy..' th? i bite of the ntosqulto. It Is 4ne festive luosqulto, of ffheraji .' v, 4 " w> d c. ?t BARKS I COUNTY COMBINED gs department.! ii humanity actually, as well as theoreti1 cully. A i>eculliarlty of the present f visitation Is that most of the mosquitoes now with us do not sing. It Is explained oy aurnonnes rnui iney are the albinos, or the psoroplora of the culicidae family, hut howevevr that may he they carry the usual full lairing outfit The inen have not been bothered to any great extent, though , they have made fuss enough about . It in all consecience, with characteristic inconsidera^ion, not stopping to think ? how it ha^ been with the women in short sieves, gauzy waist covering and drop stitch. stockings. To these, ? through tilt visitation of the past few days, life has lieen made a burden. There is a breeze coming along soon, the weather man says that will blow away the pests as mysteriously as they were blown in. Cattle Tiek Costs U. S. $90,000,000 W'nshinton, September 7? The cattle tick cost the United States approximately $90,000,000 during the past year according to estimates by Dr. A. I). Mvlvin, chief of the Federal Bureau of Animal Industry, today. This in eludes destruction of the cattle, de1 creases in value of hides and in produs ction of inilk. Government agents report great headway in the organized - effort to eradicate the tick. ' YOUR( f Have your cotton ai > and reliable companie loss. t;! We insure property < with us and investigate ( i [ MAYNAKD Phone 84 NEW EVIDENCE SEEK REPARATION U. S. FURNISHES MORE FACT3 Calls for Disavowal and Suitable Compensation?Austro-Germans Continue Campaign in East Bulgaria's After furnishing the German urnbussador with testimony of officers and survivors of the liner Arabic that the steamer was proceeding i>eucefuil., when torpedoed August IS) without warning, the United States asks for a disa vowal of the attack and reparation for the American lives lost This evidence will be submitted by the umbassador to the German foreiirn office and considerable time must elapse before the mutter cuu be finally decided. t According to late dispatches. from Berlin, the Amerlcuu umbassador, |nae^,W. Gerard, has been in confer euce with the German minister of fore lgn affairs, Herr von Jagow, and it'is Intimated that both the imperial chancellor and the foreign minister, with other German i>olitlcnl and military leaders, ure using their utmost en |lea vors to bring alwut a letter understanding 1 let ween the United States 'and p ermnny. I The numerous attacks on X^Hulon by Zeppelin dirigibles have impelled the British government to appoint Admirlal Sir Percy M. Scott, formerly director of naval gunnery practice, to assume charge' of the defenses of Londcu against air rails. Tlie Anglo-French financial commis slon. 1* is reports I, Is endea.'crU-'g ? borrov from Vaek?in i.li.? 1'idied States $1,00^ 000,0 0 with which to purchase in thu - on ./ iuwih. ii? of war and.wheat, cotton and jither commodities. It is their pnriHJse. it is Me elared. to obtain this money on British and French government bonds. Finnncers are credited with the l?clief tlmt Washington will not intefere with such a loan. Along the Eastern war front the Germans and Austrians are reported to be continuing their gains. A notable gain for the Germans is claimed along the Dlvina river, where the operations have as their object the capture of Riga. Artillery ^bombardments are going on in the West. on the Austro Italian front infantry engagements in the region of Flitsch and Tolniimno have taken place and Vienna asserts that the Italians suffered heavy casualties. Four atj tacks by the Italians against the bridgehead at the Tolmino are declared to have been repulsed. The Bulgarian premier has reasserted that Bulgaria assumed no i>olitlclal obligations with Turkey or the Teutonic powers as the result of the cession of territory to Bulgaria by Turkey. The triple entente liowers are declared to Ik? still endenvm-ing to per simile Servia to give to Bulgariu the territory the allies have requested her to ceile. Bulgaria has called to the colors the Macedonia legion for a train* inj; i>eriod of 45 days. Armenians have sent to the Bulgarian govrnment a note requesting Bulgaria to use her goivl offices for the amelioration of the condition of Armenians in Asiatic Turkey. The note asserts that nearly 835.000 Armenians have been driven from their homes and many have been murdered. :OTTON INSUR nd other property insure s; You get fair and promp ' 1 - 1 of every description and a our companies before pla ?nnnnm ?rrt^ t'AI'D PI WIVLXW nri .irrivrA 1.11 n ? i?v RALEY REALTY & Ti i *f * . t ? I .. i -,m ; *&} ? * .rfc SEABOAI D BUYS FOR CHERAW WORK .... . Ideal Location Secured for Terminal? Company Expects to Spend Big . Sum. j ' ' ' 4 S. T. A. Mcmauus and J. A. Watson have jest sold purt of thter property oil -Front street at the foot-of Market to the Seaooard Air Lino Railway company for terminal purposes. This Is an ideal location for the purpose and the company $31,100. It will spend * between $50,000 and $75,000 on freight depot and concrete cotton platform. This move has been made 'to compete with the Atlantic Coiaat 'Line, which has its tracks behind the busl uess houses on the north side of Market stret, the Seaboard's new property belli:,' on the south side. Three years a no Mr. McMauus sold to the Coast Line Railroad company certain property on the north side, for $13,000, and the company siient nearly $1000,000 on freight depot, platform and truckage and got nearly all the freight goig Into and out of Cheraw. With these new fuctoriesetoainOO' With these new facilities fbr shipping, Cheraw will lie second to no city 1 the State as a coveit loealupuup clyy In the State as a convelnent local freight centre. News Jiotes From Maefarlaa. The fourth quarterly conference wa3 held at Pleasant Hill Saturday and Sunday. Dr. J. C. Rowe preached | Saturday morning after which dinner was served and the'regular business of the conference took place in the afternoon. Good reports were made from every church on the circuit ' Dr. Rowe preached another splendid sermon Sunday morning. Mr. Ray McCasklll spent t he week end ft* Charlotte. a. . \ Mr. Lawson Trexler and son, Charlie Trexler, of near Wadesboro, spent Sunday with the family of Mr. P. M. Moore. Mr. W. M. Gaddy visited his daughter, Mrs. Robert Gulledga, Saturday and Sunday. Rev. Frank Parsons, colored, baptised 15 at Mill Creek Sunday morning. Mr. Allen D. Oliver, the poultry club manager, will meet with the poultry club here Friday afternoon. Mrs. A. B. Parker died at her home about three railss from here In Chesterfield county. She leaves an infant only a few hours old, Miss Leah Kendall left last week for Littleton College. In order that a town or city may make u substantial and steady growth it must have factories so as to induce l>eople to make their home there. People will flock where there is employment. City or public work will give employment to but few men, and that only for a portion of the year. The question of securing factories- and other sources of employment must be agitated and inducements held out to either the citizens or outsiders to lnveste, or at least investigate the possibilities of successfully operating plants here. As a starter, we would suggest the feasibility of establishing a hosiery mill.' We are sure that there can be found plenty of help right here at home, now unemployed, to oi>erate a good sized plant. Subscribe To The Chronicle ANC . d in one of our strong t adjustments in case of t any location; Figure cing your insurance. i ill ST CO. Cheraw, S. C.