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XJ^J3o VluCTSJlxl .tl |/fl^|- ? li^;:^, Ck: ^ ?.vV A X^A^Vt .-. **/?n r .o..o?,o?he ^htsterrielo ^c\overii5er vnri/r aiv ti t s/*yv *3\ir A vw i ii\jf 1 * .- !??? r^-. ?; - - ! - :"',ikfn" v,"mM' !-!" Y.^yliiPS?l i lU e ? >1 V Af, ? I?. 8 3 ?? | i;??,t?.-, *r?i , -.n . . -:h.ii j '?<>* >o ?g..?"t;Q vll < < h-m i.r .,VI^ 4 , T;yiMM^ mi<. | : . . VOLUME 86-NO 88, K? H0 ,,f ' $1.00 A YEAK IN ADVANCE ?? ???; * . .; | '. . -..I - - ! - ! ?| ' ?'uj? " ' " ' i.". ?* I for the best exhibits at the C but same must be placed eitl Twenty-Five Doll will be paid to the individual farmer who n exhibit of the products raised on his farm 1 second prize of Fifteen Dollars; a third prize < and a fourth prize of Five Dollars. Are you er??then prove it by earning some of this goc CHESTERFIELD ' - - 1 i j ? y " 1 -? .'i "1 1 a ?1. .1 CJ I 1 1VI * ? <l"y morning in the interest Illgn ocnool Liotes Lyceum course, which Chcstt to have this winter. Thirty* Seventy-five books for the school P''s have already expressed 1 library came last week. The pupils tention of buying tickets, and are finding them interesting and in- lieved that at least one hunt i i. nils will trot Vi<>?< Unlnto on uvvivci i iic aLiiuui nut <ii y una auu- * n-v ?.v?v v'vnwo. scribed for The Review of Reviews, Collier's Weekly and other magazines. ********* Mr. A. R. Poston spent Monday in * Columbia attending the State Fair. * COMMUNITY FAIR DA The first program of the Literary * Society was successfully carried out * MACEDONIA, Novembc last Friday afternoon. It was voted * MT. CROGHAN, Novemb that the Society be named "The Wade * MIDDENDORF, Novemb Hampton Literary Society." * Dr. Trotti visited the school Tues- ** ******* With every cash purchase amounting to titty cents, We Will Give You , Coupon ?r rth 10 Cenl We give these coupons with the pi chase of any kind ot goods we s( even if it is ice and gasoline. The or conditions are that the purchase mi be not less than 50 cents and it mi be a cash transaction, and you get cc | pons in propotion to the amount I I the purchase. For instance, a five.d J lar purchase will get you ten coupoi These coupons are good fo. their face value in purchase of any article of jewelry in cur Novelty Sf ^.ase, which we invite you to inspect. These coup cost you absolutely nothing as we sell the goods at same price whether you take them or not. Oclom Bros. Cc L? i ? 1*^ Take Your Meals at The Busy Bee Cafe The Best Restaurant in l*own Everything We Cook is Clean, Fresh And the Bert on the Market. The Oyster Season IS NOW OPEN And We Will Hare Them Every Day K Also We Keep Nice Line of V 1 Home-Made and Factory Candi< yr P. J. Zounis, Prop. mM,^ Km, ^a.'Ur, .. jadi iava ItiL NOVEMB1 Handsom ounty Fair. Remembe her Monday or Tuesday ars Woma hakes the best Fifteen Dollars ( There will be a makes the best dispk of Ten Dollars; and third prizes of T< a good Farm- lv. Numerous othei missions on the sale of a tract of tim- young ber land in this county below Cheraw. grand Suit was begun for the five thousand of thi dollars and an attachment levied, grand Defendants' attorneys secured an or- first t 1 der from the then Circuit Judge, R. everyl C. Watts, dismissing the attachment. A v Watson's attorneys appealed to the consid Supreme Court and Judge Watts' or- ficers der was over-ruled and attachment buildii was allowed to stand. ing do The case then came on for trial be- groun aJJ fore the late Judge Ernest Cary, who, Ow * after plaintiff's testimony was all in, for ex 11V granted a non-suit. Watson's attor- the IT neys again appealed to the Supreme has li ist j Court and that Court over-ruled the wareh trial judge and sent the case back for cause JSt I a th rd trial before a jury. The case ing. { was tried again and this time resulted groun )U- i 'n a verdict in Watson's favor for the v ! the full amount claimed, $5,000 and house OI 1 interest, a total of $8,200. The at- ?nd v dtorneys for Paschal and Gresham filed house an appeal to the Supreme Court and The on some ground or other, secured a munie US, new trial. The case was then tried Farm again and resulted in a jury verdict in their 1 favor of Watson for $5,000. Upon The S lOW motion, however, Judge Frank B. has al CHS | Cary set the verdict of the jury aside, exhibi aU- j watsons attorneys appealed to the I Aut c Supreme Court but this Court sus- questc tained the trial judge and ordered the rious case for trial again. tomob This celebrated case was set for the nn^ nt ^ present term for another triul and distirn ^ was to have been started Wednesday One morning, when a compromise was lines j reached, to the great relief of every- ^ omm ?body concerned, including the presid- the th ^ ing judge, the bar and last, but not he hel least, the tax payers of Chesterfield Maced ""connty. ; dorf. Watson's claim to date with inter- being est, exceeds $ 10,000 and it is under- i the h stood in the compromise he received 1 here about forty per cent, of this amount. ^or *h Watson lives in California and The ^5 four times he has traveled across the which ||| continent and back again, for this ^or th Ajtfx case has ben heard four times before ' numbf ftRjH circuit judges and four times by the j Chestc IS Supreme Court of South Carolina. It ' ^ ^ai |lf\j is reported in the following volumes ! furni8 |/ of South Carolina reports: 73d S. C.; i 'n ^ov jg 83d S. C., 93d S. C., and 100 S. C. 1 tion 01 WW It is believed that the Supreme Court j tr?ctic also will sigh with relief when they tion w hear the glad news that this case is ' ^un f? 13 ended and they will not have to pass little |* on another appeal on the same old j w'" I1' I case. But; It is estimated that each side has ' ^'e ur ji spent over one thousand dollars I y?ur8< jj fighting this case, while the cost bill ^ ou w | will go into a third thousand. fj Benefit* derived from your Sev- will b jij ingai We pay 4H per ent. if left six Thur*? $ month* or longer. C. P. Mtngum, tober I ~ Cashier, ay** Da H^ VS >< : I^M-.'J: '> jl ER 8, 9, 10, 11 ie Cash r the dates, Nc / before the Fa in's Departme xi cash money. culinary art. C. L. HU1 COUNTY FAIR rfieifMs Watson-Pascal Case 0p( their In- Settled at Last. F it is be Irod pu- A sigh of relief was heard from all over the court room yesterday when ^Wl attorneys in the celebrated case of ness t Watson vs. Paschal and others an-/ annua * * nounced that they had compromised^ c^esti their differences and that the case ^over TES * could now be marked "ended." * Thi3 case has been fought over ^hi r 2 * back and forth from Supreme court ever h cr 3 * | to lower court for a matter of ten secom r 4 * years and judge, jury and attorneys you C] were looking forward to a very hard . ., , , , , , ^ in the * * * and disagreeable struggle when court opened yesterday morning. ex' About ten years ago a Mr. Watson And e || was a lumber broker and claimed that one h II Messrs. Paschal and . Gresham were Fair i II rllin Kirv* fitfn tUnnenn/1 /lr\llo??n ?n :ash will be paid to the \ iv of canned goods; there en Dollai s and Five Dollar! : prizes to the ladies for san VLEY, Seci ASS0C1A' ;ning Date of Big I air Two Weeks Off a weeks from to-day will withe grand opening of the fourth 1 Chesterfield County Fair at , q erfield. Remember the dates, d nber 8, 9, 10, 11. o s will be by ffiVfhe best Fair a eld in this county and, we think, ' 1 to none in the State. There g an see everything worth seeing county, for everybody is going o libit his very best possessions. very day will be enjoyable and ~ ing to be remembered. This s destined to make history for jrfield County. In after years folks will sit beside their parents and listen to the story is Fair, and, mayhap, to how father met grandmother for the ime at the Fair, for, you know jody meets everybody here. risit to the Fair grounds shows erable activity by the Fair ofin getting the grounds and rigs in shape. Everything is beine that can be to place the Fair ds in first-class condition, ing to the need of more room hibit purposes, the president of ur Association, I)r. L. II. Trotti, eased the large brick cotton . uusi-, wnicn is now empty, l>eof the fine price cotton is bringThe fence around the Fair ds is being extended to take in warehouse. The cotton wareis one hundred feet each way brill furnish abundant room to all exhibits. i Fair officers are now in comation with the Pedigree Seed at Hartsville and trying to get j splendid exhibit placed here. | tate Department of Agriculture I so been requested to send their t to the County Fair, o dealers are going to be re d to make an exhibit of the vamodels they handle. An auile show will be something new >vel for the County and will add :tion to it. of the features along exhibit it the County Fair will be the unity Fair exhibits placed by ree Community Fairs that will Id in this county this year by Ionia, Mi. Croghan and MiddenA special prize of $'25.00 is offered by the County Fair for est Community Fair exhibit. will be a second prize of $10 , e second best. Dorman and Krause shows, will furnish the amusements e County Fair, are fifteen in r and they will come direct to rfield from the Marlboro Counr at Bennettsville, where they h the atractions the first week rember. This carnival aggregaily has high-class shows and at>ns of every kind and descripill be furnished. There will be ir grandfather, father, son and Willie and Mary. Every body we a good time. , "The half has not been told." e leaving it for you to see for If when you attend the Fair, ill be missed if you don't come. H. Smith, Eye Sight Specialist, e in Chesterfield three days, lay, Friday and Saturday, Oc26th, 27th and 28th. Have your xamined and fitted. 32 ' OUNT L, 1916 i Prizes )vember 8, 9, 10, 11. lir opens. mt voman who Have yOl are second illustrated pi 3, respective- plete inform; -f lU-:- 1 ipica ui uicir cash prizes c to-day. retary, TION, CHESTE > J* _j C a. from maj . roceedings or Liourt inK of or, Of Common Pleas board?Ai jheavy di Court of Common Pleas convened the Cour londay morning with Judge J. W. j the plain >o Vore, of Edgefield, presiding and j of the cl Jerk of Court I. P. Mangum at his years ag< esk. Sheriff Douglass was absent, when the wing to sickness, being confined in put in a < hospital in Columbia. In the ab- tracks a jnce of the Sheriff, James T. Grant Court mr jok his place and was assisted by the cross: aliffs Davis and Gripgs. The fii By agreement among the members Wodnesd: f the bar Monday and Tuesday were chal et al tken up in the disposal of appeals promised liii m ? ? TOO ipf Has been cut into be lip ^arc S Sold to 1 | Tuesday, There ill be 40 , Main ht., easy waJ churches. The bala 1^ of 30 to 45 acres, mc II on R?,od. r-ads; . . 1 nis land incluc Chesterfield County. There is no more he; |yT> farthest point is not 1 ||P Courthouse. Sale includes the heautifu on Main St., and the store huildii Chesterfield DrujJ Co. These hi constructed, have the best locatio Property will be sold as i cyT doubtedly the greatest opportune fifor many years. Blue prints showing roadj ProspeCtive buyers gladly shown TERMS: One-third down; y" A. M. and ^fh A deposit of S10 on lots an^ , . 1 - I1T p A T|\ All exhibits admitted free Premium List i seen a copy of the handsome, *emium list which rnves mm o ition as to the hundreds of )ffered? If not; write for one RFIELD, S. C. ajistrate's courts, and obtain- of Moore & Grant, of Ilartsville, vs. iers from the judge. W. L. McCoy, of McBee. lits by employees of the Sea- . This case involves a noto given for r Line Railroad Co., all for boot in a mule swap. As the mule images, were dismissed by died, Mr. McCoy is contesting the t for lack of prosecution by note. tiffs. These suits grew out j The court calendar is badly conlispute (near war) several gested and a number of cases are ) between the two railroads , set for trial. One of the most im Coast Line was trying to portant is that of Mr. H. H. Wallace ^rossinrr ncrnca t W... ? ?' 1 - *' " ? . 1.1 tv; ucduuiini j vs. uie Hank of Ruby and Mt. Crogt Cheraw. The Supreme j han. Mr. Wallace, through his atule the Coast Line take out j torneys, Messrs. Hanna and Ilunley, ing. j is asking for ten thousand dollars rst jury ease was set for , damages against the bank, alleging ly, that of Watson vs. Pas- I that they not only refused to cash a I., and after same was com- check given him by Rivers Bros., but the first case tried was that also confiscated his check. A rorcm -TTL Jl^ ?3 U autiful dwelling lots and small $?? as and will be 1111 ?H Highest Bidder November 14 1 dwelling lots 100x210 feet, on c||| king distance to school and ,nce is divided into srrtall farms )stly on public highwav, all vm ies some of the richest soil in $|| Natural drainage is perfect, |||| althful spot any where. The |j||| more than ] 1.4 miles from the ^?1 1 residence properly of the late E. N. Redfearn nj}s now occupied by the Redlearn Co. and the isiness lots are 25X125 feet. 1 he buildings, well ^ n in town. r ndicated and offered as two farms. Tl.is is unty offered in Chesterfield County for investment dvv? cm i ? and .streets are in the hands of Z. T. Redfearn. over property. WW3 balance in one and two-year payments. <j||| Z. T. Redfearn g EXECUTORS. wg d 125 on farms will he required at time of sale.