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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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GERMAN RETREAT
BLAZED BY TRAIL
OF DESTRUCTION
American and English Correspondents
Working Separately
Agree in Reports of Ruin.
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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
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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
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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
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"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.
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| "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
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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
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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.
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"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."
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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
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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. Douglass, Mgr.
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Sanitary Steam Pressing Club A
Will from now on giro 4 suits per "4
month end each additional suit 2S
cents extra.
Single suits 50 cents.
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Firat-Clasa work guarantaad. Special
attention given to altering.
The only aatiafactory way to get
your Palm Beach Suit cleaned and
preaaed aame aa new. Give ua a trial.
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