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Ol)e (Tfyesterfield 72V6vertUet VOL. 37.?No. 43 ^2___ CHESTERFIELD. S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1919 $1^50^YEAR IN ADVANCE MR. JOHN G.'HURSEY ( Sunday at 3 n.m. The hnHv w?? lai>l Ithp ? itcd a/-v I ?? All Chesterfield was grieved when it became known that Mr./ John G. Ilursey had passed away. Death came to Mr. Hursey on Sunday night at 9 o'clock afterv an attack of influenza followed by pneumonia. The funeral services were conducted Sunday nftornoon at 3 o'clock by the Rev. B. S. Funderburg, and the body was laid to reBt in the Chesterfield cemetery. Mr. Hursey was raised in Chesterfield county and had been engaged in business here for a number of years. He was universally popular u:_ui-. i-i ?- ?-- *? u u iiikiiijr icbiicciuu. hi; whs twice e'ected magistrate of Courthouse Township. He was about 35 years of age and had been fo'r a good many years a member of the Baptist church. Besides a great host of friends and relatives, Mr. Hursey is survived Ly his mother, Mrs. A. B. Hursey; his wife and five children; three brothers, Messrs A. W., S. D., and F. G. Hursey; three sisters, Mrs. Weaver, Mrs. Tomlrnson and Mrs. A. M. Moore. The bereaved family have the deepest sympathy of the community. ' MR. W. H. MELTON Mr. W. II. Melton died suddenly last Saturday ut 2 p.m. of appoplexy. Mr. Melton was in his 77th year, and though feeble with age and in rather dolicate health, his death came unexpectedly to his large circle of relatives and friends. At the moment when death claimed him he was engaged in thoughtfully caring for his wife, who tired, had lain down to rest. Mr. Melton had covered her with a quilt when the fatal stroke come, and he fell across the bed. The deceased is survived by his wife and six children and one brother. The children are, Mrs. G. R. Catoe, the only daughter; Gus, K. M., Vance, William and W. W.; and his 9 brother, Jesse Melton. The funeral services were conductPIANOS . THA I wish to thanl tomers for the patror ? i the past year. I trust it will be you further during th With the best < A. B. F1 With The Crawford . For; We have a few I Blue Kelsey Str for Ford Cars lefl f pose ot at a bargai write us. CHERAW MOT CHERA / If It Is Building You want, we hav of Doors and Wi Oement is complet The Prices Are IS It Is ! Fencing You want to do, w needs. We kave Field Fencing, ali Wire and Barb V\ ' FARMERS' HA ' *? f V' i^rtn'rr . A , to rest in the Chesterfield cemetery. Mr. Melton was one of Chesterfield county's much loved Confederate Veterans. He served the full four years of the war as a courier. The bereaved family have the sym- , pathy of a large circle of friends. FURS, HIDES, PELTS BOUGHT Get my prices for your furs, hides and pelts before selling elsewhere. 2t D. H. LANEY. SNOW HILL Mrs. Tommie Sings and brother, Dewey*-spent the Christmas holidays with their father,* W. B. Clanton. Miss Elma Duncan has returned to Kings Business College after spending Christmas with home folks. Mr. Randolph Freeman has moved into his new home, the Griggs place. We are glad to have Mr. Milton Eddins in our community. Snow Hill School is now progressing fine. Miss Serena Hammonds as principal and Miss Ethel Duncan assistant, ure two fine teachers. Mrs. T. B. Davis is spending the week with Mr. nnd Mrs. L. B. Davis. A strunge track has created great excitement in this community. The track is apparently that of an animal. It measures ten inches long and has two toes in frnnl nrwl turn l.oUIn.l It is hard to tell which way the animal tfoeB. The tracks have been seen for a week or more. The last one seen was near Mr. Boh Winfee's place. The swamps have been searched by a lar^e number of men, but the animal was not foujid. We are sorry that one of our citizens has left the community on account of the animal. FORD CLOSED CARS We ar? now in position to furnish few Ford closed cars, either two or five passengers. If interested, please see us. CHER AW MOTOR SALES CO. 44 Cheraw, S. C. PIANO PLAYERS .NKS II c my friends and cuslage given me during it my privilege to serve e year 1919. )f good wishes, RALEY Jewelry Co., Cheraw. Sale Vlaroon and Dark eam-Line Bodies t that we will diisin. If interested rOR SALES CO. w, s. c. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Material e it Our stock ndows, Lime and te. F&easonable 1 \ r * 1 e can supply your cm nr/w4 />T w 5WAJ oiva^IV ui I widths; Poultry /irfc. 1 RDWARE CO. ' 1 ? ! 1. ..oKiiunnv.1 The Illiteracy Commission, composed of Dr. Patterson WardlaW, State Superintendent of Education J. E. Swearingen, George D. Brown, C. E. Burts, S. II. Edmunds, Mrs. J. L. Coker, Miss Mabel Montgomery and Miss Wil Lou Gray as Field Worker, has written every county superintendent of Education urging that the counties be orgainzed for the establishment of Adult Schools. In each county there will be a committee on Organization, consisting of the coutny superintendent of education as ex-ofticio chairman, a member appointed by the County Board to be County Leader, and a third member to be selected by the other two. The committee has been asked to undertake the following work: (u) To see that a school census is taken, especially in those districts where Adult Schools are to be opened. (b) To encourage the establishment of Adult Schools. (c) To work for such legislation as is necessary for th<? cause. (<1) To use all possible means of publicity in an effort to bring to the attention of the public the great need for Adult Schools and the resultant good to the community at large as well as to the individuals and families benelitted. It is the purpose of the Commission to urge the establishment of two kinds of schools: (a) An adult school, three nights a week, to teach neonlp to nun! ???! write. (b)A Community school, one night in two weeks, open to ail, for the purpose of civic instruction?a public forum. The program of this session will be instructive to the community and it will make the illiterate feel thut there is no disgrace in attending school, as hiB more fortunate neighbor finds is helpful to uttcnd occasionally. Schools will be opened at any time that occasion demands, but a Statewide effort will be made to have rural schools run during January and February and Mill Schools during January, February nnd March. No pupils will bo admitted under the compulsory agc limit, of fourteen, unless by special permit. Teachers will be paid $1.00 per night by the State Department of Education, provided at least ten pupils are enrolled. The counties and the mills will be asked to puy $1.00 additional, giving a salary of $2.00 per night. In order to receive State Aid, a detailed report must be filed with the State Superintendent of Education at the end of the term. An Institute wns recently held in Columbia under the direction of the Commission when County Leaders and teachers of night schools came together to study the problems peculiar to this type of work. Twentysix counties were represented with over fifty delegates. The program ^ nnuiuto /I a f n/?nn/l * ??l? 1 ^ A : wMMRivu v* svrusau lautc (iincunnsiuilH, demonstration of materials and inspirational addresses. The attendance and the unusual interest shown demonstrates the fact that the teachers and those in charge of mill work are awake to the situation and if Mouth Carolina remains ncrxt to the most illiterate state in the Union it will no be their fault. Illiteracy is a burden to the State. Bolieving this to be true The IlliU eracy Commission is asking the Legislature to appropriate $25,000 for work of establishing and maintaining Adult Schools, so that those men and women who were neglected by the State in their childhood my still have the opportunity of learning to read their Bible, of writing to their absent children and friends, of transacting their own business and of following hrough the press events of the day. The task of wiping out illiteracy is oiiu common to the entire citizenship and it should be the duty of every patriot to see that this appropriation is made. Trustees, teachers and public spirited citizens are urged to write to the Illiteracy Commission, Columbia, S. C., for further information and lit erature concerning the work. LEMON JUICE IS FRECKLE REMOVER Girls! Malta this Cheap Bsauty Lotion to Claar an?l Whitan pour Skin. Squeeze the juice of two lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle and tan lotion, and complexion beautifier, at very, very small cost. Your grocer has the les|pns and any drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces of ordhard white for a few cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the face, neck, arms and hands each day and see how cltr, soft and white the skin becomes. Yesl It is harmless. Adv. 8. - rKUM UUK SULOItK BOYS ( W. Jeff. H*nnt I Mrs. W. J. Hunna has received the following letter from her son, Mr. , W. J. Hannn, who is with the "Y" I service in France. Paris, France, Nov. 13, 1918 j My dear Mama: , To say that this city has been wild since Monday morning would give | you no idea of the rejoicing. Old and young, lafgc and. small, were on , the streets, and every where you \ turned you heard "Vive I/Ameri- | que!" and our response, "Vive La France!" Let 3 or 4 Americans ] start through a crowd, which mount to start anywhere or any direction, | and they would soon have a parade of , their own. They seemed to think all , they had to do was to follow us and < they would see the fun. Last night | a bunch of us were in the midst of , something less than a million, in front ? of the opera, singing and yelling, , when wt. sang "Good-bye Broadway" | and when wc ended with "We've ( come to pay our debt to you," some , one standing near, and who spoke English said, "You certainly have ( paid that debt." Hobson isn't in it with any of us ( any more. I think we got at least , ten kisses for every dollar the war has cost, so you can estimate about how | many that would be, and what tickled us wus that the American women were not exempt. It was certainly amusing to see a Frenchman make a dive for one of them. When the news reached us about 11 o'clock Monday (It was not made public here until it could reach the U. S. so that it would be known there at the same time as here), we quit work, of course, and joined the gang. Then we tried to work yesterday 1 morning Stood it until noon, then quit. About 3,000 of us, soldiers and "Y," formed on Champs Klyses, about 10 last night, and marched to Concorde, where we struck the crowd on the square It was so dense we wert. broken up into little squads, and each squad started a procession of its own. Sometimes we would meet, then would come the tug of war to see which would have the right of way. I was afraid sometimes for the women and children, but they never thought of trying to get out. I saw old ladies running to keep up. Once last night I saw a kid, about the si'/.e of Leila, his mother.had him in her ( arms and was right in the thick of ' on,, of the worst jams. He seemed ' to be frightened and we managed to ! hold the line long enough to pat him 1 and talk to him. He couldn't under- ' stand what we were saying hut seem- 1 ed to feel that he was alright, as he grinned in perfectly good American. ' We can recommend Paris taxis as ' unbreakable. You would hardly ever 1 see one that was not running over, ' radiator, running board and top, as long as anybody could hold on. They ' would ride that one until the fare got out and then they would get olf and wait until another came by and climb on. One bunch of boys were taking the < town as it came. They would go into a crowded cafe ?'id one of the crowd would get on a table and make a speech, then on to the next, theat- ( res, the same way, march right in and stop the performance long enough for their act, then march out. This morning I heard that they went to one of the theatres whore there were a good many high officers, Jack t Pershing among them, and the police stopped them They left and gathered up several hundred and went back, taking theni by storm, staged their act and as they marched out, (Jen. , Pershing joined in the applause. The | man who told me said that several Australians with them said that , flag had never been downed and they <li<l not expect to stand by and see it stopped. dust think of it, .'1,000,000 people < wild with enthusiasm, and not a face that wasn't smiling. Sometimes the boys were a little rough, but everyone seemed to think that i was part of the game, and if someone I stepped on somebody's toes, they just | I grinned and stepped on somubody i else's toes. As I said, I saw old women and men and children in jams ] that were strenuous, but you couldn't have hired them to get out. Last night was the first time the city has . been lighted in four yeurs, so you may imagine that a few creature discomforts, such as mashed corns, etc. ] didn't count much. I The changed conditions mean a \ considerable change in the "Y" ( work and organizations to meet the i demand that will be made. I think everyone realizes that now is the i opportune time for work, and our , leaders have been getting things in i shape. i Miss Margaret Wilson is now out i at the front, singing at the different ] camps. We Also have a sure-enough honest-to-goodness Indian l'rincess as { a "Y" girl. Had letters from Tom and Sue last , week. Tom asked itie to write about the country and folks. Shucks, I'm no novelist. I'm going to send you a little book on Franc* that will b* of - .. - - n.rtSlii interest Then when I get hack I can enlarge on the author's work, on [ uny subject that muy interest you, | and while my descriptions may not be ! exactly according to Hoyle, as long' as my superlatives hold out I won't . be far off the trnck. The Republicans may think they have put one over on Wilson, but they haven't the stock to raise his equal, and the WORLD knows it. While most of our*'Vivcs" have ^ been for La France and L'Amcrique we will never forget obi England, and while we may think them a lit- ^ tie slow sometimes, "sure" is her middle name. Sat. Nov. 10?Yesterday the office ' hoy came in and told us that Prince Albert was around at the British Embassy, so we closed shop and went to j see him. We are about normal again after the main celebrations. ^ To-morrow (Sunday) the firBt formal paradc. w'" 'K; held, celebrating the return of Alsuc and Lorraine. All ^ "Y" men and women in Paris will ^ take purt. There will not be a very large number of troops, though all ^ >f the Allies will be represented, and tvill make quite u showing. ^ The newspapers for the past day r?r two speak as though President C] Wilson may come to Paris during De- ^ comber to take part in the final peace ^ negotiations. I haven't seen any of the home boys, but am always on the lookout, I handled a remittance from Tom ^ Rcdfearn a few days ago. Love to all, Jeff. i n \/ 1? Hovelling*', Luxemburg, v Nov. 24, l'JIK ? Dear Father: 1: We are well ami having a good I Lime. Trust you are all well. ? We have been busy hiking for the ? past few days. Have gone over some $ beautiful country too. t The Belgium people seem more r like home folks than any other people ( I have seen. They gave us a warm f welcome while passing through their | country. I I passed some beautiful towns well decorated with flags, American. Hnglish, French and Belgian. The people ] of Luxemburg are also very kind to i ys. i We will continue our hike to the 1 Rhine. After being there for a < while I guess we will begin to think j about going home. 1 will be proud i Lo see the day come when we can t land in a sea port town across the \ leu, and the moment I can put my feet unde Dad's table again and rend ve the warm welcome you have for me. I shall not try to write you a long letter, for 1 feel sure it will not be ^ long before 1 can sit by the fire udc and tell you more than I can ( ever write. Give my love to Mama and all the rest. Your loving son, Kvan 1). Vaughn. , Corp. William Winburn I Mr. Cordy Winburn has received t the following from his son, William. Nov. 17, 19 IK Dear Father: ^ i I guess you have begun to think \ I that 1 was not going to write you all. i It h..a knnit -i.. ,u 1-- I .v ./? VH aavai via I re wtrrn.i Mllfl' I I had a chance to write to any one. < It is Sunday now and I am taking < advantage of it. ! I am feeling line and enjoying my- < self. We went up to the front about 1 two weeks ago. I did not go up, but. I was near enough to see and hear i what was going on up there and I < am glad it is all over. I only hope , we ran get to go home soon so I can < be back with you all. (Jive everybody my best regards i and love to all the family. I hope < to be with you all soon. I am in the < hospital now. Think I will be out j in a few days. I am at Bordeaux, i This is a very large place. Write I me often. Your son, "Mack." i ( CLERK'S SALE Stato of South Carolina, County of Chesterfield. r In the Court of Common Pleas. < Hurst-Streater Company, < Plaintiffs vs. II I. C. Hillian, r Defendant It By virtue of an order granted by ?i Hih Honor, Judg,. Mrlver, Judge of c Lhe Fourth Judicial Circuit, I will of- fl fer for aale to the highest bidder for a rash, before the Court House Door c fit Chesthrfield, S. ('., on the first c Monday in February, 1919, between h lhe legal hours of gale, all that lot k i>f land in the Town of Cheraw in lhe above named State and county, <1 with fifty (50) feet front and running one hundred and fifty (lf>0) feet back, bounded by lot of the Rev. McArn on the Fast and W. I'. Pollock on the West, fronting the Camden road, bought of C. K. Waddell and Jo,. Idndnay. J Purchaser to pay for necessary papers. Same beint J C Hillian lot. I. P. MANGUM, CUrk of Court of Common PIom. rHEODORE ROOSEVELT PASSES AWAY SUDENLY Oyster Hay, L.I., Jan. G.?Theoloru Roosevelt, former President of he United States died this morning jetwcen 4 and 4:15 o'clock, while tsleep in his bed at ihs home on Saganore Hill, in this place. His physicians said that the immeliate cause of death was a clot of >lood which detached itself from a rein and entered the lungs. His sudden death took by surprise lis physicians as well as all others vho had been with him lately. It was innounced that the blood clot was lot directly due to the inflammatory heumatism from which he had been offering for two months, but must >e traced to earlier conditions. One ?f the contributing causes was the ever which he contracted during his (xplorations in Hra7.il, when he disovcred the River of Doubt early in 1)14. This fever left a poison in the ilood which bad been a partial cause if several attacks of illness which he tad suffered since that time. Colonel Roosevelt was working lard as late as Saturday, dictating ar idea and letters He spent Sunday luietly, but looked and felt well, unil shortly before I I o'clock, when he md dilTiculty in breathing. After reatment he felt better and returnd to bed. Mrs. Roosevelt looked in to see iow he was sleeping at 2 o'clock this norning. He then appeared normal. Two hours later James Amos, an old legro servant of the family, formery with them at the White House, hought that there was something vrong with the manner in which Col nel Roosevel was breathing. Amos lad been placed in the next room to ieep a close watch over Colonel Rooicvelt, and went at once to the bedlide lie was alarmed at the hollow ound of his breathing and summoned he trained nurse. When she arivd, the breathing had stopped. I)r. Jeorge W. Fuller, of Oyster Hay, the 'ainily physician, was summoned, and "ound that life had left the body a "ew minutes before. Oyster Hay, Jan 7.?^Theodore Roosevelt will be buried here tomorrow as a plain American citizen and not as a former president of the United States, in accordance with his nvn wishes. His body will be laid it rest in a plot of his own selection n the village cemetery not far from he Sagamore Hill which he loved so veil. FARMERS TO GET NITRATE Notice has been given to W. J. filler, County Agent for Chesterfield ounty, that the IJ. S. Department of Agriculture will sell at cost a supply >f nitrate of soda to the farmers in 'hesterfield county. The nitrate will be sold under the luthority of the Food Control Act ind subsequent legislation thereto. I'he price will be per ton, free in board cars at loading point or >ort. Farmers are to pay in addition he freight to their shipping points. How to Obtain Nitrate Application for a part of the nitrate bought by the government will ?e received only from actual farmers for use on their land, and may ?e made through the ("ounty Agent >r through any member of the local ommittee consisting of J. Sidney Smith, at Ruby; J 11 RatlifT, at Mt. ['roghnn; J. A. Turner, at I'airehwut Lewis H. Morton, at JefTorscyi; T. M. Heuttie, at Mellon; Calhoun .lowers, it Angelus; I). M. Howe, at Middcnlorf; F. S. Gillespie, at Patrick; S.T. \. McMamis, at t'heraw; W. P. htom at Chesterfield. No money will lie required with ipplication, hut farmers will be re piired to deposit money in hank as lesignatcd hy the Department of \griculture; or, in most eases the noney will he collected hy a County Mitrato Distributor. CITATION NOTICE State of South Carolina, 'ounty of Chesterfield. Hy M. J. Hough Probate Judge: Whereas Mrs. Mamie Wright na?le suit to me to grant her Letters >f Administration of the estate and fleets of John M. Wright, deceased, These are, therefore, to cite and idmonish all and singular the kinded and creilitors of the said John d. Wright dec-eased, that they lie md appear before me in the Court if Probate, to he held at Cheaterield, S. C., on 14th of January, next, ifter publication hereof, nt 1 I i'clock in the forenoon, to show ause, if any they have, why the aid Administration should not he Tan ted. Given under my hand this 28t.h lay of December, Anno Domini 19 IK. M. J. HOUGH, Judge of Probate. TAX NOTICE I will nrnke the following dates in January, without penalty: Pageland, January 9th. Mt. Croghan, January 10. J. A. WELSH, Traaiursr. % U ^ PRESIDENT RETURNS TO PARIS FROM ITALY Puris, Jan. 7?President Wilson has completed his swing through England and Italy, returning to Paris at 10 o'clock this morning. He was accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and Miss Margaret Wilson. The President is ready for the first gathering of the premiers and statesmen of the entente powers, and the informal conference will begin on Thursday or Friday. What it calls the American plan for a league of nations is outlined to-day by the Iiondon Daily Mail. 'I he paper says the British government not only has accepted the plan, but is prepared to go much further. London, Jan. 5.?Last week witnessed a strong general demand from influential British newspapers, regardless of politics, for the prompt meeting of the Peace Conference and prompt action to stem the tide of chaos threatening Germany because of the introduction of Bolshevism. There is a dawning recognition that if anarchy seizes Central Europe the decisions of the Peace Conference in drawing boundaries and levying indemnities can be enforced only through military control by the Allies, otherwise becoming merely "scraps of paper." The chief desire of the British people is to have the army demobilized as quickly as possible. The labor elements, in particular, oppose the retention of a large conscripted army for the policing of foreign territories, with the possibility of being drawn into conflicts with their people. The Sunday Observer, under the heading "A Warning," gives prominence to tho following: "The Allies are in some danger of precipitating in Germany what they should well wish to avoid. They are perfectly entitled to insist upon the disbandment of the army. They are also perfectly entitled to maintain the full right of blockade Hut simultaneously to empty millions of men into civiliun life and to exclude the raw materials which alone can give them employment is the most rapid process for making Bolshevists that has been discovered. "Unemployment and Bolshevism soon establish a vicious circle of mutual stimulation, and It hus already begun to operate in Germany upon a very serious scale. Nothing could be more calculated in thut country to frustrate the appearance of an authentic government with which peace might be concluded." The warning of The Observer is in line with the growing belief that the most urgent business now before the conquering nations is to restore the conquered nations and all of Central Europe to a status of order and normal living, or something as near to this as possible. LIEUT. DANIEL O. SPENCER KILLED IN ACTION Cheraw, Jan. It.?Mrs. C. R. Spencer hus received official information that her son, Lieut. Daniel C). Spencer, was killed in action in France on October 'J 1, 1'JIK. Lieutenant Spencer attended tho first training camp at Fort Oglethorpe and after receiving his commission volunteered for immediate service overseas and was nt once sent 1 to France, arriving there about October 1, 1017. After completing his training in France he was appointed as instructor in one of the largest army schools in Franc,, and remained at this work until about the middle of May l'JIX, when he was assigned to the Thirty-eighti Regiment of Infantry, Third Division, where ho remained in activc service until thu day he was killed. The Third I)i\ ision, regular army, was engaged in continuous service up to the signing of the armistic(. and was in a number of most important engagements. It took an active part in the first allied counteroffensive, beginning about July IX, l'.UX, when the Kheims-Soissons salient was wiped out, since wnicn me Allies were never stopped. Lieutenant Spencer was seriously passed toward the close of this offensive, hut after a few weeks in a hospital was returned to his company and saw continuous fighting from that time up to the time of his death. He was not quite 24 years old when he was killed nnd his untimely death is a (freat blow to his friends and relatives in Cheraw and throughout the State. Lieutenant Spencer was the first officer from Chesterfield county to arrive in France, and was the youngest officer from this county to ho killed in action. He wan the only on of hin widowed mother, who only a few weekr. ago suffered the loss of her nephew, the non of Dr. Harden, of Cheruw. POCKETBOOK FOUND A pockethook containing tome money wan found lant Saturday. Loser may recover name by describing : and paying for this advertisement. H. D WATSON, 4 ? f i uJk . v --??iiAaii.,.Lkj?