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VOL. 38.?No. 22 CHESTERFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 14,1919 $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE UUUV BALL CHESTERFIELD MORE THAI** EVENS MATTERS WITH CHERAW Sowsll Pitches a Two-Hit Game Anc Heath Gets Three Hits In Four Times Up. ? t There have been worse gam^s ol ball played ofn the Polo Grounds ir New York than the one that drew t crowd to the Chesterfield County Fail Grounds on last Monday. Also, the writer has seen two teami battling on those same Polo Grounds heither of which could surpass, ir knowledge of the game nor ability tc play it, either of the teams that play, ed in our little old midst on the eleventh day of* this August. The big announcement, spreaci throughout the county by The Advcr. tiser, that Cheraw and Chesterfield were to get together on Mondav drew about all the fans that cenld be drawn. They anticipated a fine gunu and, believe me, it was such. ^ Following closely on the heels ol Chesterfield's defeat by Cheraw, i1 wus a foregone conclusion that Chesterfield was going to make a lusty at? tempt to wullop Cheraw at Chesterfield. And that's what happened. The score? Oh, yes, we almost forgot. The score was 3 to 0. Chester, field got the 3. The big features of the gafne wert the pitching of Sowell and the batting of Heath. Sowell gave the enemj but two hits and Heath, who went tc bat four times, got three hits. And don't forget (that Cheraw played good ball, but not quite as good as Chesterfield. Look at thi score. The following was the line-up: Cheraw McPherson, 2d Base Thrower C. F. Rhame Third Base Fisher R. F. W. Brasmgton S. S. Gibson P J. Brasington First Base Mason . L. F. Bethea C Chesterfield . Potts S. S. Rivers L. F. iiooper <-> Heath First Base Lowery C. F. Dunk McGregor . . . .Third Buse Douglass R. F. Purdy Second Base Sowell P Hits: Cheraw, 2; Chesterfield 8. Runs: Cheraw, 0; Chesterfield, 3 Wacksboro Got Her'a, Too On Wednesday, nt Wadesboro Chesterfield defeated the Waifcsborc team by a score of C to 3. On Thursday and Friday Pagelanc will play Cheraw. Both games wil be played nt Cheraw. ELECTION NOTICE State of South Carolina, County of Chesterfield. To the Board of Tiir.toes of Warn. ? ble Mill School District No. 22: A petition of the qualified el>Jtor rnd free holders of Wamble ilil School District No. 22 asking that a> election be held upon the question o voting on four additional mills fo ordinary expenses of the said school these are to authorize you and com i mnd you u> hold the said election a the school house on Thursday, Au^us ?o?:h, 11)11). Polls to open at eiKh . * A.M. and close at four P.M. and th General Election Laws of the Stat to Kovern said election. And th people of said district will take tie tice that said election will be hel I at the time and place designate herein. J. A. KNIGHT, County Supt. of Educatior | Temple I Garden TEA |L A. F. Davis Market STATE NEWS IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN SOUTH CAROLINA OF WEEK Strikes on street car lines have tied up the service in Greenville. To make matters worse that city is experiencing a shortage of gasoline. As a result many people are walking who havn't had any exercise before in years. Locke C. Roberts, a popular young man of Greenville, was struck by a truck and fatally injured last Friday. J. W. Johnson, driver of the truck is in jail. Four hundred shopmen and other employees of the Atlantic Coast line, at Florence, who went on strike last week have returned to work. Maj. Patrick Drew, one of the best known traveling salesmen in South Carolina, is dead at his home in Barnwell. II. I*. Campbell, of Newberry, was accidentally shot Saturday night by fKLMUtNl WILSUN SPtAKS I ASKS CONGRESS FOR LAWS TO CURB THE PROFITEER. Say# Country Is Neither At Pence I Nor At War. On last Friday afternoon, President Wilson delivered an address to [ Confess on the high cost of living, i Mr. Wilson pointed out in plain i words the many evils under which r the common people are suffering at the hands of the manufacturer, the i jobber, the commission merchant, the , wholesaler, and the retailer. Each i of these demands and receives a pro fit on all food stuffs and necessaries, - often out of all proportion to the ac; tual costs, unitl the consumer is practically being robbed on all sides I and in many cases wages, though . higher than ever before, are still not I high enough to meet the demands. r "The prices the people of this country are paying for everything that it is necessary for them tp use 5 in order to live are not justified by a shortage in supply, either present or f prospective, and are in many cases L artificially and deliberlately created by vicious practices which ought immediately t(f be checked by law." This was almost the first sentence the President hurled at the law makers. He said that there is reason to believe that prices of necessaries have been set and maintained illegally by combinations of profiteers, that shoes, clothing and foodstuffs have been ? held off the market to create Jin im: pcession of a shortage so that prices ' might be made to soar to unheard of > heights. He recommended legislation to ' curb the profiteer and the hoarder, * whether he be wholesaler, jobber, * manufacturer or retailer. He suggested that the people b^ informed through a bureau of information and the newspapers of the cost of necessaries and the supplies in storage, 'so that it would be impossible to longer fool the buyer by claiming ficticious high cost of producing and shortage us an excuse for price boosting. Hack of all oi President Wilson's recommendations for the protection of the public against profiteering and th maintainance, so far as power exists in Government, of reasonable prices for the necessaries of life, stands the vital fact that he compressed into a single sentence,''JThcre is now neither peace nor war." Anil as we are neither at peace nor at war. wo lurk nil the elements of r.til I?i 111y that attach to cither state. The general condition of the world cannot be better described than President Wilson described it inthis timely address to Congress. "There can be no confidence in industry, no calculable basis 'for J credits, no confident buying or syst? malic selling, no certain prospect j of employment, no normal restorI ation of business, no hopeful attempt at reconstruction or the proper reassembling of the dislocated elements of enterprise until peace has been established, and so far as may be, guaranteed." Some of the President's specific recommendations are as follows: Early ratification of the peace treaty, so that the world may be actually at peace and that wartime fluctuations and uncertainties may not lu lp the profiteers by furnishing excuses for constant price boosting. lambing and controlling wheat shipments and credits to faciliate the purchase of wheat in such a way as not to raise, but rather to lower, the p? ice of flour at home. ijale of surplus stocks of food and jelothing in the hands of the govern1 'Time forced withdrawn! from storjnage and sale of surplus stocks in priy I vute hands. i I General Recommendation* I r, General recommendations included: f Increase of production. r Careful buying by housewives. I Fair dealing with the people on the Fair dealing with the people on the j part of producers, middlemen and j mcfchants. t 'that there be no threats and undue t. insistence upon the interest of u sinc glu class. e Correction of "many things" in re, lation between capital and labor in (j respect to wages and condition of lad borIn concluding the President made a plea for deliberate, intelligent ac, tion, reminding Congress that an unbalanced world was looking to the j United States. I "We and we alone," he said* "now hold the world steady. Upon steadfastness and self possession depend the affairs of nations everywhere. <t is the supreme crisis?this crisis for all mankind?that America must prove her mettle." GERMAN EVOLUTIONIST DIES Prof. Ernest Heimrich Haeckel, famous throughout the world for his research work and for his furthuring the Darwinian theory, is dead at the age of 86. He was opposed to Ger? man militarism. ' his brother. lie is in the Baptist Hospital at Columbia and may die. The cotton warehouse at Rowesville, Orangeburg County, was doslast week. Three hundred bales of cotton were destroyed. The warehouse w is under State supervision and was fully insured, the owners suffering no loss. I * ~ Calhoun county suffered much damage to crops and property last Friday on account of severe rain storms. Three mill dams were washed away. One of the mills was carried down stream. One man lost 140 bales of cotton when lightning struck his barn. John Shull, farmer 74 years old, Lexington, died of heart disease Saturday, while on his way home from Columbia. * Richard J. Person, of Columbia, has anno'uno d his candidacy for Congress in th: Seventh District to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of A. F. Lever. This is the sixth contestant, the five other candidates being: .John Hughes Cooper and Colin S. Monteith, Columbia; Ed C. Mann, St. Matthews; (ieorge Bell Timmcrman, Lexington, and H. P. Fulmer, Orangeburg. Prof. Robt. L. Merriweather, of Allendale, has been elected associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina to take the place of Prof. H. E. Dcnnison, resigned. i roi. mernweuinor is si grauuaie 01 Wofford. Tom Clarke, manager of the Columbia base ball club was fined $25 for "cussing out" Umpire Weir. George Goodwin, colored, was struck by a fast moving automobile on the Garner's Ferry road, near Columbia and died a few hours later It is not known who drove the car that ran him down. The State Health Officer, Or. James A. Hayne, reports that statistics from every county in the state show that South Carolina is enjoying excellent health. There is less typhoid fever than ever before at this time of the year, due ty the organized fight or this disease being conducted by the various counties. The South Carolina Cotton Asso ciation will canvass every county in the state for members. The South Carolina Wholesale Gro. cers Arjociaiiim has filed a complaint with the Interstate Commerce Com mission against all the railroads the state, charging that the roads have shown favors to the packers against the wholesale grocers. Sergt. M. McBride, Company t 18th Infantiy, at Camp Jackson, has been sentenced to 15 months at har< labor at Ia-avenworth, Kas., ami t< be reduced to the rmks. for stealiiu five army blankets and beinp: drunl and disorderly. He was tried bj court martial. A distillery was raided Tuesdny af ternoon on Phillip Street, in Charles ton. Some genuine . "boo/.e" am much "mash" was destroyed. .L F Ware and VV. T. Tnte, both *whitc were locked up. Window smashers p;ot $.100 in Co lumhia M-enday nitfht, besides doini considerable damage. Three window were smashed. IN MF.MORIAM Mr. Thomas Roicoe On the 28th day of July, 1919 th< death ansrol visited the home of Mr Thomas Uoscoe, of Bethesdn section and claimed him. His age was C years. He was sick about elevei months. We wish to thank his many friend for their kind attenti^ through hi siekneas and death. v , # GOING FINE 1 CHESTER! "I ELD STREET FUN1 MEETS WITH FAVOR Results Will Be Announced Nej Week. Work to Start Soon. The project of improving Chestei field's streets it* everywhere ineetin ! with approval. Definite plans have not yet bee made, nor has' the important eon mittee meeting been held, but everj thing is progressing most satisfac torily and definite lesults will he ar nounccd in the next issue of Th Advertiser. Not one person who has been a{ proached has had any objection to th plan and each and every one has ol fered his sendees and his money. It only remains to get together an ! arrange plans, collect the money an get the work started. Estimates are being prepared an the probable cost of the improv< meats to be made, the sums sul scribed and by whom, wiil be printc on this page next Thursday. YET ANOTHER SOURCE OF HEADACHE FOREVER GON Deputy Sheriff J. T. Grant an Magistrate's Constable H. B. Grave of Pagel&nd, raided a whiskey sti last week, two and a half miles Sout of Pageland. These officers have had their ey( and cars open for this particular sti for some time, although its exact 1< cation was a mystery until the bi day in Pageland, last Thursda; W^ile most of the people of that en of the county were welcoming so j diers in Pageland, Messrs. Grant ad Graves began a scouting expeditio that g ive them a very fair idea of th location of the outfit. A? soon as it was dark they aj prouehed the clump of trees and ur dcrbrush in which they expected t , find their quarry. When still coi , siderable distance away a gunshot ii formed them that their proximity w; , known to the moonshiners. Tin . 1 Ushed Iq the spot in time to hen . horses galloping away in the distanc i and found the most complete ou ] law outfit that has been discovered i Chesterfield county. ,! The dis4>llers had taken time t 'throw water on the fire and to tur the still over into the bushes, as we ' as to tai?e whatever finished produt they had on hand. Two hundred ga j Ions of sour corn mash was foun and poured out. A forty-gallon coj i per still was among the articles caj ' tured. STREATER OUTRUNS BULLET! Considerable excitement was caui U;d in the Parker School District Moi j day bya shooting affray that resulte | only in two shooters being haled int i; court to explain their unseemly coi . duet, as well us to carrying coneeak i weapons. 'I he principals, all colorei , are Abe l'egues and his brother, ui dor arrest for doing the shooting, an Clarence Strenter, who acted in tl capacity of target, i Streater is wanted as a witness, bi i it is doubtful if he can get back i time tor the trial. He started awa ; when the first bullet passed in h direction and disappeared so rapidi ; that it is thought all the bullets fai i ed to overtake him. Bad feeling had already existed b< I ween the I'egueses and Streater., bi the immediate cause of hostilities . said to be jealousy. i . SHARPER TAAN A SERPENT'S TOOTH WAS A GARDEN HO Mr. John E. Lucas, general superii - tendent of the Chesterfield Telephor rCompany, is carrying his hand in i sling as a result of undue familiar ? cy with a common or garden hoe. seems that Mrs. Lucas had suggesL that a little exercise with a hoe migl , be of benefit to Mr. Lucas, and woul i certainly improve the appearance < I the garden, if properly applied. J oh > found the weeds somewhat tought ; than he hail anticipated when he ui c dertook to exterminate them, so 1 / applied the hoe to the grindstone, little grinding helped some, but took an oijstone to put the real ma . ter barber razor edge on the old ar - rusted instrument. So far, so goo 1 The hoe took the edge like an old ba '. iow knife of childhood memories ar , had reached the stage of sharpne that caused John to consider whethi - he would not lirst give himself. K shave with it and dull it up or. tl s weeds afterward, when his foot sli; ped, causing him to fall with h hand resting olt the bright edge i the hoe. A deep and ugly, wour resulted. Dr. T. K. Lucas, father < e the victim, was called and took se oral stitches in the injured membe i, In a few days John wus able to r 7 sumes his duties on the 'phoi a syston\, but has forever foreswo: the hoe as a peacetime instrumcr s if the weeds have been eht some ot er member of the famlm must ha1 ANDREW CARNEGIE DIES Andrew Carnegie, steed king and 'philanthropist, died at Ids sun mer home near Lqnox, Mass., at 7:10 o'clock last Monday morning. Mr. Carnegie, who was in his 84th year, had recently suffered from two attacks of pneumonia. Ic was a rcc1 urrence of this trouble, augmented k Ly bronchitis, that brought on the end. n Dr. Paddock, Mr. Carregie'r phy1 sician, saw the approach of death and ( remained with the aged iv.r.n ail of Sunday night. Aiso at the bedside were Airs. Carnegie and a nurse. ie Mr. Carnegie was conscious until near the end of his life. He knew he had ? but a short time to live and spoke ic P frequently with his wife. Andrew Caregie was boi^i in Scotland in 1885. His father brought (' him to America when he was 1 1 years .ii * . ? " oia. The family settled in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, across the river from ,j Pittsburg. Being poor, Andrew was e put i> work in a factory at $ 1 .'JO i. week. Fifty years later he was worth half a billion dollars. While still in* Scotland young Andrew had learned to read and a gentleman named Anderson, who had books, invited Tom Carnegie and his E brother, Andy, to make use of his lid Lrary. Andrew Carnegie always s spoke of this benefaction of Mr. Anil derson as the most helpful one he j, had ever known, and in his later years he showed his appreciation of it by . ,s founding of libraries. < II From the factory he became a telegraph messenger hoy. At the ^gv j, of I t he was a telegraph operator, lie became expert in this field and when ,j the Pennsylvania It. It. put in its own l_ telegraph lines Andrew Carnegie was ?(j given a job at a month. During i n his Id years with the Pennsylvania he ie passed through all the ollices to Su- , ertendent of the l'ittshurg division. j_ While in that office he put into use th- block system. Having borrowed 0 some money and invested in a few 1. shares of Adams Express, he began to look for other ways of investing 1S money. Investing $40,000 in a farm v in Pennsylvania he struck < ;1 ami ( ir cleared about $.">,000,000. .e The war between the states broke l_ out and Andrew Carnegie was placed n in charge of all the Government railroads and telegraph lines. Almost 0 the/lirst task that fell to him was to n reopen the telegraphic communication 11 hctwwen Washington and Annapolis, g He was also the last Govcrnient ofii1_ cial to leave the Bull's Run hattle,1 field, being in charge of the railroad communications with Alexandria. In I860 Mr. Carnegie married Mi s .'.ouise Whitfield, daughter of a NYw York merchant, after a courtship of 3 fifteen years. 9_ The \Vur being over, he organized '.he Keystone Bridge Co. and held gan building metal railroad bridges ..I r .u- i () in |uuti- in nit* woonen structart's tin t i_ were then the only ones in use. 'i his ,,l was the start of his real career as jf "Ironmaster." He made a trip to u England and learned the? Ressemor i,| process of converting iron into steel, i,. Returning to America he applied this principle to railroad metals and its it success was instantaneous. He soon |n hud bought up most of his rivals. ,y He was a shrewd financial man. is He met and defeated in business deals |y John 1). Uocefeller and J. I'. Morg%n. |. Tiring of tjhe burdens of business he sold his steel holdings to the Morgan concern for $d00,000,000. It was it then he began to give away his mil is lions. In November, 1911, a list of his benefactions showed that lie had made gifts in excess of $220,000,000, most of it for the erection of linrarE ies* Andrew Carnegie owned Skibbo i_ Castle in Scotland? He . built the Temple of Peace at the Hague, so u that the Hague tribunal of Internai 'ional Arbitration could hold iis ses[t dens. .,1 His pet charity was the Carnegie it Corporation, of New York, which he! Id rave all told $ 125,0Q(),0OO. 'i he ob- : >jf ject of this gigantic institution was to in provide places of learnign, lit>r 'rary, scientific and technical, so that igonrunce might be dispelled from the i(. 'he United States, that poverty should A oe no oar u? education, it When he retired from business and s- began giving his fortune away he was l(j worth about $500,000,000. When he (1, died he was worth $25,000,000. 'I hus, r. he had given a\yay 10 twentieths of id his fortune. [>r Why Peoule Buy Rat-Snap in Prefer. ? . etnee to Rat PoUon (1) RAT-SNAP absolutely kills, rats and mice. (2) What it doesn't j P~ kill it scares away, (ft) Rats killed: is with RAT-SNAP leave no smell; they | of dry up inside. (4) Made in cakes, no; . mixing with other food. (5) Cats of j dogs won't touch it. Three sizes, 25c, 50c, $1.00. Sold and guaranteed by v- Farmers' Hardware Co., Square Deal if. Drug Co. and A. F, Davis. THE C. &. B. HAT COMPANY JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, | rn is the Awr.er of and is carrying on the j it. Mail Older business fownorly handled I )i. by theULW. Clarke Hat Coma* | vj| FRIENDSHIP Mrs. J. F. Caddy returned home Sunday from the Wadesboro hospital', where she ha^ undergone a successful j operation. We are. glad to say she j is doing nicely at this writing. j j Miss Era Gardner is spending this;' week in and around Morvin visiting! relatives and friends. < Mr. sjnd Mrs. E. J. Morris spent ' Sunday in North Carolina with relatives. N Mr. and Mrs. Therrell, of Anson, M. C., were visiting Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Yoder part of last week. Iicv. Clayton Jenkins has just closed a meeting of a few days at the i Vaughn school house. Mr. Jenkins j has preached some good sermons dur- ' ; ing these days. If some people would take as much j j interest in their children's schooling j as they take in some other things t there would be lots of graduates in our county. ? Sunday school next Sunday at 3:30, I preaching at 4:30, government time. Let the Sunday school be on time. ( Death of Mr?. W. P. Swinnie 1 Mrs. Sarah Louise Swinnie, died last Thursday, August 7th. at the age < of 58. Mrs. Swinnie had been an 1 invalid for several years and had always borne her ailliction with Christian resignation. While tying helpless she passed a great deal of her time in reading the Bible. She was a devout and consistent member of the Methodist church. Mrs. Swinnie is survived by seven childien. '! he; are: Mrs. .1. 1'. Parker, Mis. .1. ('. ' Baker, Mr. .J. A. Swinnie and Miss 1 Wilmcr Swinnie, of Chesterfield; Mrs. i : J. E. Myers and Mrs. J. iluniey, !' l>f Wadesboro, N. C.; and Mrs. A. W. ' ' McCall, of Monroe, N\ She was the daughter of Albert and Emily i Vick, both deceased. The funeral services were conduct- : cd by the Ilev. Mr. Guess and the- ] Rev. Mr. Way. 'i he grave at Friend- j ( ship was beautifully decorated with j (lowers by loving hands. * ! , NEXT WE THE LYRIC CtltRAv\ Our 1 ii?jc Exhaust Tan is now up. In To MONDAY, AL VICTOR i ?*-I X "Chimmie ALSO FATTY ARBUCKLE TUESDAY, AU ELSIE FEI IN "The Marri. Also FORD EDUCA WEDNESDAY, A BRYANT W IN "Poor 't'Ll i ! r? O f ^ A X/ f i wui\JUrt I , /? ANITA S" IN Her Third FIRST NA "Mary 1 to 11 o'clock FRIDAY, At: MARGUERI IN "Three Men / SATURDAY, / WILLIAM I.N "Riddle Also a JAMES MONTGO "ONE EVER1 on?K? .X doming Mondcf news notes from cheraw ^ ' } Miss Coppedge, of Wadesboro, <ia i visiting* her aunt, Mrs. Hendrix. ^ Sergt. Ross Lindsay is back from overseas ahd is visiting his brother, Mr. Joe Lindsay. ? Mr. Edward P. Wilson, of the McJregor Drug Co., Columbia, is visitng his uncle, Rev, P. A. Murray. Judge S. W. G. Shipp, of Florence, vas in Cheraw Wednesday. Ex Senator Pollock ic in Washingon on business. The Dining Room at the Motel Cov- H nglon has reopened under mw manigeniont. Meals will be served both i la carte and tabic d'hote. B I ('. Wannamaker, Esq., H Pirie have gone to Blowin^^^^^H lock, N. C. jjf Mrs. Malloy, who has I it Wrightsville Beach for some las gone to Ilendersonville, N. C. Messrs. I. B. and John W. of the Shiloh section, were lie raw on Wednesday. Mr. Dave Redfearn and Mr. W. raig, of Chesterfield, were in town'^^^^M fYednesday. j^BB The children of Mr. Burress Finlay- H ore ill with diptherin? . OBACCO WAREHOUSES j B1| I CLOSE TEMPORARlUhe Id On count .of the railroad's en i>r;r<> <>.i t.ihacco, the warehouses ftt 'heraw have had to suspend operaions for the time being* The buy!i. ii < unable to ship, stopped buynr in ij ht traffic assumes nora-j.< ets. TfCCROS HAVE BIG DAY 'i lie negroes of Chesterfield county ^B In- " last Friday in The crowd was most~tr^flttMBB|^H not a single disturbance or the occasion. -rr_-nL_. ,1 ft :ek at THEATf#CI The Lyric is the Coolest PlacSe ''^B 8th m MOO IRE I Fadciin" In "fatty BUTTS IN" gust 19th j| 3GUSON age Price" rional. weekly wUGUS r 20TH 'ASHBURN Boob" UGUST 21ST FEWART TIONAL Attraction Regan" Admission SO Cents GUST 22D TE CLARK I ? and a Girl" kUGUST 23D S. HART I?-? Gawne" MKRY FLAG COMEDY { MINUTE" H ^August 29th,