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Volume 19 CHERAW, CHESTERFIELD COUNTY,, S. C., SEPTEMBER 16, 1915 Number 46
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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