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ifhcrt Jtemtf cf Mr. R. E. Hanua spent Tuesday in Pageland on legal business. Ice Cream at the Chesterfield Drug Co. Mr. B. E. McNair has gone to Charleston to enlist in the navy. Spring tonic for horses, cows, hogs at the Chesterfield Drug Co. Mrs. Madge Curtis has returned home from a visit of several weeks af Paxville. Baby Chick Food at the Chester* field Drug Co... Makes 'em grow. Work is progressing very rapidly on Mr. Myers' new residence on Green street. Mr. D. E. Redfcarn is now occupying his handsome new residence on West Main street. Humors are falling thick and fast that a United States secret service man is now in town. The British armies under Field Marshall Haig have captured 11,000 Germans in two days. Cotton has passed the twenty-one cents level and some are predicting it will go to twenty-five cents. Sun htti for ladies; old harvest hat* for men and boy*, 15 to 25 cent*. Chesterfield Dry Good* Co. The latest information from Washington is that Congress will probably pass the Armv Staff's conscription bill. Mrs. W. H. Porter, Miss Gertrude Meehan, Mrs. P. A. Murray, Jr., and Mr. Edgar Porter spent Tuesday in Wadesboro. Misses Pearl Moore and May Belle Welch gave a party Monday night to their young friends at the home of Miss Moore. See L. A. Campbell Hardware for good Pine Shin ilei, $2.50 per thousand and up. Mr. C. W. Rollins left early this week for Columbia, where he will cn- I ter the Baptist Hospital for a minor operation. A man froru New Jersey has been sentenced to six months in the penitentiary for using threatening language against President Wilson. War News: For Ruby, Mt. Croghan and Chesterfield. The Chesterfield Drug Co. will have the Sunday State on hand every Sunday morning. Special communication of Chesterfield Lodge No. '220 A. F. M. will be held Friday evening at H o'clock April 1.1. By order B. F. Teal, W.M The Chesterfield High School Base Ball team played Cheraw yesterday afternoon, which resulted in a victory for Chesterfield, score 5 to 3. An excellent game all round was reported. Underwear for every member of the family. Same price a* when cotton wn telling for 7 and 8 centa. At Chesterfield Dry Goods Co. rt-iuin.- tl... f 1 .L-.' i? ?... iu uk i.iti mat rain pre vented the adress by the Rev. S. D. Baily on last Sunday, the Rev. J. I. Tyler will preach on "Christion Education" at Ebenezer at and Ruby at 8 o'clock next Sunday. Big Una of Ladies' Shirt Waists and Wash Skirts, sclid colors, white and novelty stripes. $1.00 to $2.00. At Chesterfield Dry Gods Co. The Republic of Brazil, the greatest of the South American nations, has severed diplomatic relations with Germany and it is expected that they will soon join the United States in declaring war upon Germany. Dr. Tom C. Redfearn, a son of Dr. A. M. Redfearn and a grandson of the late Mrs. T. P. Craig, a graduate of Clemson College and of Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed lieutenant in the medical corps of the United Stat's Navy. Latest shapes in Men's Straws and Panamas, 50 cts. up. Chesterfield Dry Goods Co. Company "I" is to-day making a whirl-wind trip around the county seeking recruits aided and abetted by the Chesterfield Brass Band. We trust this combination will swell the company to the bursting point. Dandy assortment of children's rompers at 50 cents and 11 Oft OU price*. Chesterfield Dry Good* Co. The ladies of Chesterfield are to give a diner to the Confederate Veterans and theii wives on May 10th. Appropriate rm morial exercises will be held at the cemetery at 4 o'clock on that day. ^11 who can will please send flowers to Mrs. D. H. T'ller. M isses Millie Douglass, Sallie Berry Douglass and Gertrude Meehan, Jnck Douglass and Mr. and Mrs. Press Dougiass motored to Midendorf last Friday evening to attend the commencement exercises of the Middendorf Graded School. Spring and summer dress good* and novelties in great profusion. Some of the prettiest thing* the season ha* produced. Chesterfield Dry Goods Company. Major W. J. Tiller is being flooded with offers for enlistment if he will get up a company at Chesterfield. The first night after The Advertiser carrying the statement that he migh* organize a company was placed in the mail he received five applicants and many have followed since. When the time comes for a company to go from Chesterfield the boys will go. Messrs. R. E. Hanna, Emsley Armfield and J. A. Welsh, having passed the.mental examination, have enlistee for the government training camp ac I'lattsburg, N. V., this summer. At the conclusion of three months of intensive training these gentlemen will be appointed officers in the United States array; and thpy are carried on %cealJntere&t | Mr. R. M. Myers made a business trip to Sumter this week. Mrs. P. A. Murray, Jr., spent Easter with her parents in Cheraw. Messrs. C. C and Jack Douglass spent Sunday in Statesville, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Melton and little son, Carroll, are visiting their parents in Chestei *ield. Miss Pearl T 'jrner has returned from a visit to Columbia for Easter with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. I Turner. i Mr Ron Hani. 1"? * 1 * " -wn. ncio iciumeo to I/O- ' lumbia to resumi his studies after visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Davis. - Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lucas and children, of Charlotte, were guests at the ' home of Dr. and Mrs. T. E. Lucas for ; ..he week-end. ' Little Miss Sa *ah Page Murray has ( returned home after spending Easter wi'h her grandparents. Rev. and Mrs. j P. A. Murray, Sr., in Rome, S. C. Mr. Wilson, the manager of the , Chesterfield Hardware Co., has moved his family to Chesterfield and they ; will occupy Mr. D. E. Redfearn's resi- , dence on West Main St. j M iss Myrtle 'lawn, of Greensboro College fe Women, Miss Clarice ? Clark and Mr. R >y Rivers, of Morven, r spent Easter wi.h Mrs. L. B. Rivers, v Mr. L. B. Da' is, one of the promi- t nent farmers o the Snow Hill secdon, was in town Monday. Mr. Davis v is recovering fri m a severe attack of I I the grip. There was a neeting of the town- b ' ship peace olh< ?rs for Chesterfield ( I COUntV in the onrt hmiao The object of the meeting was their .nstruction on the law as it applies to .heir ofiice. i The many friends of Dr. Tom C. 1 Hunley will be jlad to learn that he , s now convalescent after an opera -.ion for appendicitis at the Bakei ( ianitorium in Chearleston. ! Shirt Waiats at Tha Chesterfield Dry Goods, SO cts. to $6.00. Invitations have been received in Chesterfield to the marriage of Mr. den Thurman. Mr. Thurman has a >osition with the Southern Cotton Oil Co., at Ashville. He has a great nany friends and relatives in Cheserfield. Invitations have been received in Chesterfield to the marriage of Miss Her nice Shannon to Mr. Davidson, of Vlonroe. Miss Shannon is a niece of ur treasurer-elect, Mr. J. A. Welsh. She is pleasantly remembered as a /isitor to this e-ty. Mr. II. R. Rp ?rs, of Columbia; Mr. it. P. Turner, of Columbia University, ind Miss Minnie Oliver, of Chicora College for Women, who lives near tuby, spent Easter among their reia.ives and friends. Children'* V/aoh Drenei and tomperi, 25c to $1.00 at the Cheaerfield Dry Good* Co. There will be a meeting of the a; \\r a-4? ? o .? i u . \i. ?? . oiiiui ay infill at o o ciock. An event of interest to many pc>ple in Chester' eld is the aproaching narraigc of Mi s Lina Covington, of Vlarshville, to Mr. James Solomon ilarrell, a prominent business man >f Marshville. The marriage will ake place on Tuesday, April 20th. diss Covington is a daughter of Mr. J. 11. Covington, formerly cashier )f the Bank of Chesterfield, and now ashier of the Bank of Marshville. At St. Paul cnurch last Sunday evening the Rev. S. I). Bailey, of McBee, preached an interesting and inspiring sermon > n the subject "Covetng the Graces." Mr. Bailey presentMi the cause ot Christian Education .0 the Shiloh congregation on Sunday norning. Chesterfield charge is responding in fine spirit to the call of he colleges of the Methodist church ,n this State fo $300,00(4 with which to meet an urg nt need. Spring Oxfo ds for women, $1.50 to $3.50 at the Chesterfield Dry Good* Co. Children'* Oxford*, 60 cent* to $2.50, at the C -lesterfield Dry Good* Company. Men'* Oxfor *, $2.25 to $5.50; all leather*, at tie Chesterfield Dry Goods Compan -. The best wa> to show your patriot ism 10 tne United States government is by raising something to eat this year, as the f->od crisis is becoming serious all over the nation. It is reported that the wholesale grain and provision houses will no longer take orders for shipment to the South. The Assistant Secretary of Agriculture states that the South must raise its own food supplies, as the government needs eve-y freight car in other parts of the country. The Army Staff's Conscription Hill has the unqualified approval of President Wilson. This bill proposes to conscript into the army all single men between the ages of nineteen and twenty-five. The first steps will be to register and enroll all the men bebetween the ages of nineteen and be called to the colors in drafts of five hundred thousand each. While it will be necessary for all single men betwen the ages of nineteen and twenty-five to roister and enroll as soon as the act is passed (and it will be within the next few weeks) it is not believed that the government will call them to arms before laying-by time. It is expected that they will be called out Juring the month of July. The government, in conscripting all single m n between these ages will take white and black alike, irrespective of creed, color or previous |condition of servitude. .... - ... ?????????????? HONOR ROLL RUBY SCHOOL Month Ending April 6th First Grade: Cleo Gibson, Clarice Smith, Carrison Threatt. Second Grade: Minnie Crawley. Third Grade: Pleas Eddins. Fourth Grade: Ruth Hancock. Fifth Grade: Eva Eddins, Iris Mc-, Nair. Sixth Grade: Kola Griggs, Chaworth Griggs. Seventh Grade: Fay Burch, Drew Threatt. Eighth Grade: Carson Griggs, Tinsley Griggs. Ninth Grade: Boyce Allen, Ethel Griggs, Marjorie Huntley, Ruth Smith. W. E. Wilson, Principal. MERRIMAN'S MILL The Rev. S. D. Bailey, of McBee, preached a very interesting sermon it Shiloh last Sunday morning. A large crowd was present. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Middleton and :wo children, Virginia and Hildreth, ire visiting in Hartsville and Darington. ( Prof. Ingram spent last Sunday ,vith Mr. Joe Sowell. Mr. ami Mrs. lohn C. Huntley and daughter, Vlarjorie, of Ruby, spent several days vith Mr. James Huntley, of this ilacc. Mr. J. W. Merriman and family and VIisses Pauline and Dora Middleton notored to Midendorf last Friday, i vhere they attended ?he school enterainment. 1 Miss Maud Eeleby, of Montrose, isited at the home of Mr. James luntley recently. Mr. John B. Rivers and family pent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. iuss Oliver. PATRICK, ROUTE 2 Many of our boys are preparing to jo to the war. We are sorry to see j U.. 1 - 1-..4 .-1-1 Hem u-un; uut giuu i" say mey go ' vith a good heart. Mr. Guss Clanton spent the week- i ind at his home. His many friends were glad to see him again. Miss Jonnie Smith spent the weekend with friends and relatives near Middendorf. The Sunday school at Palmeto is progressing nicely, and so is prayer meeting. Mr. B. C. Clanton and wife spent the week-end with their daughter and son-in-law near McFarlan. We are glad to say we have a neighbor in our community who has had good luck with his farm work. Mr. J. A. Clanton and wife, of near Middendorf, spent the week-end with Mr. Claton's uncle, Mr. J. N. Clanton. Mrs. A. B. Davis and wife and younger son, of Cheraw, visited the home of Mr. B. C. Clanton Sunday. NEW FACE FOR BURNED BOY Clever Chicago Surgeon Constructs New Features for Youthful Victim of Fire. Chicago.?A clever surgeon ho mnde new ears for Mike Montlferro eight years old. lie has made ne eyelids for him, eyelids that will wink und shut. He Iihh made new Hps for him, lips which It Is hoped will have learned how to kiss before Mike Is taken hack to his home at Miles City, Mont. Mike Is In Augustana hospital and rapidly getting better. Mike's father Is a railroad laborer, his mother "works out" part of the time to fatten the fumlly purse. They liuve been In the habit of leavlnc Mike In charge of his younger brothers and sisters. He didn't know how to manipulate a new stove and It exploded. Mike saved his little sister, but his faee was terribly burned. Parts of the flesh were crisped and as the wounds healed the skin grew tight about the boy's eyes und ears and mouth. So the doctors out In Montana sent Mike to Chicago for the operations which would restore his face to him. j THE BEST| | Of Everything j | TO EAT j At Lowest Prices j | A. F. Davis Market j | Will pay highest market price | for Hides. I fee -V W* ! GERMAN RETREAT BLAZED BY TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION American and English Correspondents Working Separately Agree in Reports of Ruin. Dlinu fimni ire rnn Tiir nnnn ounnourruu run inc ruun I Well* Poisoned and Defiled?Fruit and Shade Trees Cut Down?Houses Burned and Contents Looted and Wrecked. ! London.?The skeptic who Is unable to believe the reports of the absolute ruthlessneslh with which the Germans are doing their best to blot out that part of Prance from which they are retreating should compare the following dispatches, written by correspondents at the front, which supplement tiie ofllclal announcements of the British and French war ofllces. These dispatches were sent by different correspondents, two American and two English. Of these one of each, an American and an Englishmail, was with the British army, one of each with the French army. Whut they write about they saw with their own eyes. These men are experienced war correspondents and can differentiate between military damage, which every army must Inflict to hamper the enemy, and malicious pillage. A few of the things the Germans have done and are doing In Pleardy and Artola, two of the loveliest of the provinces of France, are these: Burning supplies furnished for the starving population by the American relief commission, supplies bought by >merIcnn gifts to help people lmpove. .shed by German Invasion; poisoning and defiling with filth nil the wells; cutting down nil the fruit trees nnd shade trees; burning every house, regardless of Its lack of military value; smashing pictures, crockery, furniture that they could not take off with them from the homes of the peasants; leaving these peasants, women, old men, children, with nothing to eat. Looting Officially Ordered. The first of these dispatches Is from the Associated Press correspondent who advanced through this scene of | desolation with the lirltlsh troops. He Is an American. This correspondent saw with his own eyes captured German orders for the looting, which ordered among other things that filth was to be assembled near all the wells abandoned to contumlnute the water. He refers to the wanton destruction of : the trees, which Is more fully described In another dispatch. He I writes: j "Wherever the British troops penetrate territory formerly held by the Germans' they encounter the same conditions of destruction and devastation as In Bapautne and Peronne. Only a few villages have escaped, the Germans In these instances having been f= 1? I I T, I I | into j ! j I R | F. I l I .bnMMMaHni compelled to leave before their" plans to lay waste could be carried out. "ThC use of cavalry by the British and French seems to have taken the Germans by surprise, upsetting some of their calculations. In one village supper, which had been laid out, was abandoned, together with much ammunition. and In other places aawly opened boxes of high explosives were found, with which the Germans had planned to destroy the villages before leaving. That the wholesale destruction was systematized In a manner characteristic of German thoroughness was shown by captured orders on the subject. "These directed the blowing up of all houses, wells and cellars, except those occupied by rear guard outposts, the rear goard being held responsible for making their shelters uninhabitable before falling back. Farming Implements were all burned or destroyed. Wherever a building was spared, It was first rendered filthy. The orders also directed the assembling of filth In the neighborhood of all wells for the mirnnan n# ? * ,? ?? \.uiuniuiuitiiiiK ine wmer. "The destruction of fruit trees now apparently covers the entire belt of evacuated territory, even those clinging to the walls having been stripped off." Wanton Destruction of Trees. The wanton destruction of the trees Is described also by the second American correspondent, who represents the Associated lTess with the French army, In describing the following touching Incident: "Continuing our visit In Roye we encountered on the summit of the city an old man, tall, with white -hair and mustache. He waved his arms, being Incapable at first In his emotion of saying a word. He lived In the last house of the town, where he had spent the existence of a savagp for two years, deciding not to see the Germans. Two days ago, realizing that something new was in preparation, he went up to the roof of his house and from afar saw masses of soldiers in blue, their helmets scintillating in the sun. " 'I was waiting for the French,' lie said. 'I looked for their red trousers, but saw only men In unknown uniform. My blood turned. I said to myself: Are they more Germans? But suddenly from the smnll groups moving across the country came detonn iions. 1 understood they were the French warriors, the French clothed In blue, who hud arrived.' "We left the village under the guld'' nnce of this old man. The Germans, said he, had revenged themselves even on the fields. In fact everywhere the trees were cut down, all the apple trees from Roye to Champlen, and the fine trees along the Itolgllse road suffered the same fate." Luat of Destruction. The correspondent of the London Times with the French army tells of the destruction wrought In Chauny, which was excusable for military reasons, and then continues to describe that which was not: "Rut for the rest of their conduct there Is no possible defense. In village after village, especially In Chauny Itself, they burned whole rows of houses for no reuson whatever except for pure spite and lust of destruction. arm &500,< o Loan in Che* AT C No loan under $2,000. No loan too large. No Loans under $10,000 a Loans of $10,000 and *rest. Write us to-day for full See us before making a < ealty Loan an D. Slaght, Mgr. HI | "Houso after bouse was pillaged, stripped as If by burglars. In every ' room that was not fired they had taken all the contents away, or more vilely still had smashed them to atoms. "I have written these things before, I when I myself have seen them In other sections of the line. I write about them again because I cannot impress ; too strongly the rest of the world that i the power for this particular form of evildoing must be taken away from this uncivilised race. Even now, even In England and In France Itself, people who have not seen with their own t eyes seem not to realize what Is boIng done here. "One fact may bring It home to them. It Is the latest Invention of this generation of house breakers, the newest refinement of doing mischief. In the fields between Noyon and Chauny, many of which?a sure sign that the German retreut had not been foreseen until comparatively lately?had been 11.. -i -? vu.nuii; piuwt*u ana even sown, there | were a considerable number of fruit i trees. Every one of them within a certnln distance of the road hnd been killed. They either have been sawed ; through a couple of feet from the ground and left lying where they fell or gashed nnd hacked three or four ; Inches deep. "This massacre of trees must hove ; been carried out by at least thre^ or four companies acting under the orders of their officers Just before the retreat began, when the troops were In such a hurry that they even left behind stores of old metal which they had carefully collected. I want to Insist upon this point, that It Is clear that It Is the officers of the German army who are responsible for this particular crime of tree mutilation." Burned 8upplle? for the Poor. The correspondent of the Times at British headquarters writes as follows : i "Old men, women and children, to ' whom the British were only a myth, welcomed the advance guards with ten re. '"Are you many?* asked one woman doubtfully of a staff officer. " 'We are two million now,' said the j olllcer. j "The woman's relief and Joy were fine to see. | "What these people wanted was food. They had hardly had any meat, Mutter or fat for months. They soy ! the German soldiers are getting less ! to eat now and grumble a good deal. "When the French troops arrived at Tergnler, where the Compalgnle du Nord had large workshops and locomotive sheds, they found eterythlng destroyed by dynamite. "A Derlln telegram which describes the movements of the German withdrawal, says the greatest consideration was paid the inhabitants. The rond from Chauny to Noyon was one continual stream of refugees from the | villages beyond Chauny. They had ; been sacked and burned by the Ger^ mans. These poor refugees consisted 1 exclusively of women, babies and | small children. For weeks past the Germans had expelled them from vllj luge after vlllngc In preparation for ; the retreat. When the final moment i came their houses were sacked nnd then burned before their eyes. The refugees were left helpless without food to await the French_advance. Loan: )00.00 >terfield Count )NCE No charge for inspecti( annual installment, t 6 per Ct. annual intere over at 5i per Ct. anni particulars. deal. d Insurance C< Hartsville, S. , T'T *sfe=s========s=-sM^ "At Noyod, owl ay to tfie ftet that the Germans had concentrated there ,4M 10,000 women and children, they prom- , Tsj lsed to leave the American relief commission sufficient supplies to feed them. Nevertheless, the last German patrols to leave Noyon completely sacked the American relief storehouse of everything eatable, and then dynamited the building. Finally they turned the canal water with which they had flooded the city Into Its ruins." ;| ARKANSAS DIAMOND ll ^ MINES A BONANZA ; ' Buffalo, Ark.?In spite of the ' ' fact that companies developing * t the mines near here make every ' * effort to prevent any lnforma- * ' * tlon leaking out as to the quan- * * tlty of diamonds found. It Is t * conservatively estimated that \ J the number of the past twelve * r nullum 111 uoi tens innn i,nw. \ The largest diamond found la * J reported to have weighed 30 \ t carats, uncut. The main bed * * consists of about 80 acres, al- t jai t though two smaller beds are be- ' * Ing worked. Thp properties are t t surrounded by high barbed wire J * fences and under guard night $ 0 and day. i * }? REAL ESTATE FOR SALE; MONEY TO LOAN. Money to loan on improved farm land; five year loans; cheap rate of interest; also real estate for sale, on jifr good terms. Chesterfield Loan & Insurance Co., W. J. 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