Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A report having reached Chesterfield that these two gentlemen had spent a part of theif vacation on the inside of a Virginia bastjle, The Adertiser has taken pains to investigate and furnishes the following true accoutn of the incident: Early one morning last week they drove into the quiet little city of Martinsville, Vu. Approaching the Courthouse, Sheriff Douglass thought it would be well for him to acquire some knowledge as to the methods of conducting county institutions in that part of the country and Mr. Odom thought he would like to investigate the modern conveniences provided for prisoners, so they parked their car and walked over to the jail. The front door being open they entered. Encountering no one, they walked down a corridor und inspected the institution. Finding everything about as it was in Chesterfield, even to the empty cells, "they started to leave as they had entered. Mr. Odom discovered that the front door had slammed shut und they both discovered thut it had a snap lock, which was in perfect wdrking order. So, there they were, locked up in jail, in a strange l..rwl i? :l??_ u?u, iiimuui tun me jiiuur s CO 11" sent. Mr. Odom began to fret und imagine things, but Sheriff DouglaA, knowing more about jails and suyh things, was not discouraged. He began searching for another exit. He found it. They passed down through an underground passage and canic out through an open cellar door in the rear. Mr. Odom is mighty glad that he had the Sheriff with him or he might have been there yet, as from the looks of things, it might be no telling how long before anyone came around that old jail. Read What U. S. Dept. of Agriculture Says Abauf What Two Rats Can Do According to government figures, two rats breeding continually for three years produce 359,709,482 individual rats. Act when you see the nrsi rai, uon't wait. KAT-SNAP is the surest, cleanest, most convenient exterminator. No mixing with other foods. Drys up after killing?leaves no smell. Cats or dogs won't touch it. Sold and guaranteed by A. F. Davis, The Square Deal Drug Co., and the Pageland Hardware Co. %ewnei($ Need no recommendaii We now carrys a coml licious sweets, always IN OUR MARKET WE C. The Choicest ] j Pork the V. j PRICES ALWAYi I A.F.DAVIS " ? ^ I ? The Rust Germs S I They were forced out of thel Clad Range w I "NO use sioeetNO I Hrse TMtfvf ocrrj a Copwu-Cmojr^ <MWL Bay a Copper Clad and the I It'. The WORLD'S ( FARMERS HA tv-j ' > * \ b-i&iA * , , <J' I a. K #? MAIN STREET IMPROVERS A meeting was held last Monday night at the Chesterfiejd -Wftig Store in the interest of the Strebt Improvement project. A goodly number of deeply interested citizens were present and plans were discussed and many valuable suggestions were made, some of which will be acted upon. # Mf. Ira Redf^arn, temporary chairman, called "the meeting to order. Mayor Trotti was present and expressed himself as heartily in favor >f the movement and offered his services in any capacity in which he might make himself useful. The following gentlemen were appointed to serve on a body to be known as the "Boosting Committee":. Messrs. T. E. Mulloy, Chairman" C. C. Douglass, J. W. Griggs, B. F. Teal, Ira Redfearn and C. L. Hunley. This committee will solicit and have charge of funds contributed and will boost the movement in every possible way. ? Reports of progress will be made from time to time and it is expected that much will have been accomplished by the time of the next meeting. The Chesterfield Drug Store proved a happy selection for the meeting place, as Mr. Redfearn never lost an opportunity of passing cigars, soda and candy. Those present will be oh hand early and stay late, provided the next meeting is held at the same place. Ladies' Tan Kid Shoes, French Heel, $8.50. TEAL. JONES CO. Ladies' Bedroom Slippers, $2.00 a*id $2.50. TEAL-JONES CO. THE COTTON MARKET IN CHESTERFIELD The first bale of cotton sold in Chesterfield this season was brought in by Mr. Thurman Teal. It was bought by the Hurst-Streater Co. at thirty cents a pound. The first bale of cotton reported sold in North Carolina was grown in Chesterfield county by Hampton Streater, colored, who sold it in Morven. Cotto nhas begun coming in briskly. About 175 bales had been sold on the local market at 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The rain Sunday delayed picking and ginning some what early in the week. All cotton sold so far hasi been graded as middling and has sold at between thirty and thirty-one cents. Several car loads have been shipped and several are now loaded awaiting shipment. Men's Gunmetal English Shoes $4.00. Teel-Jones Co. "Candies on. They are perfect, plete line of these defresh, always on ice. ARRY AT ALL TIMES II Beef And [arket Affords S REASONABLE j > MARKET I efck a New Home r old home when * Copper 'as installed I'tvt*r?00T i? ]['w?will1 Iocttmko a - * sutm.r \ \ ?-^jsH CQTTWCLAoj 3TAPVE mwti -r 'co*ie back hepf -tim CTl i? om.r a copptrnzto ~ : * \ RANM. IT IS NOT A - -Vv\ loit Germs will paaa you by. 3RBATBST RANGE RDWARE Co nwBiiw.w.w.iiinw < I uiniii iiLWJ By defeating Charlotte last Monday morning Columbia wins the South Atlantic pennant. The score was 5 to 0. The General Education Board, founded by John D. Rockefeller, has extended its operations to include Texas and South Carolina. A rural inspector of schools will be sent to this state to report on needed improvements. President Wilson has been invited to come to South Carolina during his tour in the interest of the League of Nations. J. D. Bethea, of Barnwell,, won* first place in all automobile races at Columbia Labor Day. He made a mile in 59 seconds on a bad track. tie carried home $700 in prize monfy. Sergt. John B. White, a native of Spartanburg, is the only man, so far I as reported, who is entitled to wear five wound stripes. He bears 63 battle scars and has had three individual citations. i Burglars attempted to crack the 1 safe of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank at Pimlico, last Tuesday night. ' They broke into the building, but could not open the vault. They damaged the combination lock to such an extent that an expert had to be obtained to open it. i A double killing occurred near { Starr, in Anderson county, Monday night, in which two negroes shot each ^ other to death, leaving no one to tell < the tale. A pistol and a shot gun | were found where the shooting had evidently occurred. Charles Rice and i Moot Sanders were their names. John McLain, a negro farmer of Florence County, fell from a wagon loaded high with fodder and .died from ' injuries sustained. * ' s The car strike at Greenville, which r has completely tied up traffic for three weeks, has been settled satis- 1 factorily to both sides* and cars are * running full time. ' 1 A mountain of coal, belonging to * the Atlantic Coast Line, at Florence, v is on fire and unless .r>0,000 tons can * be removed before the fiamcs reach * it, is in danger of being destroyed. ' , ? Orangeburg had a great religious * gathering on Tuesday when 36 > churches of the Orangeburg Association met to work for the Baptist ' Seventy-Five Million Campaign. Rev. Th9mas J. Watts, State Publicity Di- t rector, was one f th? snhnkom s Mrs. Martha Harden, believed to have been the oldest residents of Richland County, is dead at the age of 102. The City of Chester has voted to issue $.175,000 bonds for street improvements and water-works extension. Lexington County has spent $20,000 modernizing her old court house. Rub-My-Tism ia a powerful antiseptic; it kills the poison caused from infected cuts, cures old sores, tetter, Etc. ELECTION NOTICE State of South Carolina, County of Chesterfield. To the Trustees of Snow Hill School District No. 31, and to the patrons of said district: A petition of the qualified electors nnd free-holders of the above named district having this day been filed with the County Board of Education asking that an election be held in the said district upon the question of votI ing on four additional mills for current expenses of the said district, these are to authorize and require you to hold the said election at the school house in said district on Friday, September 12th, 1919. And all voters will -take note and govern themselves accordingly. yAug. 27th, 1919. By order of the County Board of Education. J. A. Knight, Clerk of Board. State of South Carolina, I County of Chesterfield. A netition <?f thr> nnnlified elpctnm und free holders of Center Point ( School District, No. 9, having been , i filed with .the County Board, these are to instruct you, the trustees uf ( the snid district, to hold, on Friday, , i Sept. 12th, 1919, at the school house , in said district, an election on the i question of voting on five mills or i so much therof as is necessary, for the purpose of building an extra room | to the said -building under Act No. | 594, of the General Assembly of I 1916. The patrons will take notice that the election will be held on Friday, Sept. 12th, 1919. i By order of the County Board, 4, A. Knight, Secy. 1 rii 'i . i NEARING COMPLETION Floods fthd washouts have no terror for Dr. D. T. Teal. 'This fact is evident when it is known that it iB expected that within the next two weeks a steady flow of electricity will be coming from the new water tffrbine at Teal's Mill. The new 130-horse power turbine is in position and- in another fortnight the cement sluice-ways will have set and the water will be turned >n. The present condition of the main lam will not interfere with this new turbine. With the installation of this machinery a governing system will be in operation, which will insure a steady current, no matter how unsteady the use of the current at this end. Thus, when a twenty-horse power motor is started there will be no diminishing of lights, nor will the machinery "race" when the consumption is suddenly cut down. Arrangements are under way whereby it is hoped the roadway and big dam will soon be restored. By the time this is accomplished a second lurbine will be ready for installation. This will increase the capacity to many times what it has ever been before. Dr. Teal has about completed arrangements with an electrical engi'npor u/Ka will ?1 ? ** " .?..w ^..n iorc cnarge ui ail departments and whose knowledge and ibility will insure results. Just as soon after the new water wheel is running that a capable elecLrican can be obtained day and night :urrent will be supplied. It is Dr.-Teal's intention to give Chesterfield and in fact other sections i lighting system second to none, and, judging by the determination with which he has met and overcome the )bstucle3 that have lately accumuated fti his path, he will succeed. VIT CROGHAN WAITING FOR STATE ENGINEERS The money realized in Mt Croghan Township is waiting to be spent. Mothing can be done until State highway Engineer Pennell furnishes lurveyors to prepare the maps for the lew highway through that township, dr. Pennell has promised the men and he work should be under way, but it icems that every countyin the state s now building roads and the demand or State Engineers is -finuch greater han the supply. It is hoped that the vork may be soon be started so that he new highway, which will be built rom about a mile this side of Pageand to a mile or so this side of Ruby ;an be finished in time for the bounty Fair, the second week in November. 'OISON FOR THE BOLL WEEVIL One would hardly expect to find in he Congressional Record a remedy 'or the boll weevil, but in a late islue of that windy daily is a method '? exiermiiiuiing me coiion Don veevil. Senator Ransdell, of Lo'uisima, made statements regarding the lew method that are convincng. He says that a remedy for the >oll weevil has been discovered in a loison known as calcium arsenate, some of the largest planters in Mississippi and Louisiana are using: the emedy extensively and with perfect success. Prof. J. VV. Fox, of Scott, Hiss., is general manager of the larg st cotton plantation in the world, rhere are 16,000 acres of cotton in cultivation in this one plantation, 'rof. Scott says: "I am now ready to say unqualiiedly that this poison will control the joll weevil at a cost which is not prolibitive." One of the largest cotton planters n Iyouisian is Mr. George S. Yerger. le says: "I have been applying calcium arsenate poison and am delighted to report that where the boll wevil nfested a number of my fields ae ligh as 47 per cent. I have been able .0 reduce that average to 3 tier cent." Senator Hansdell closed his renarks with these statements: "While Ihe experiment has been iretty thoroughly tested, as was stated by the Senator from Mississippi, n the rich, lowlands of the Mississipii Delta, where cotton grows very ligh and vegetation is rank, it has ont >cen tested experimentally so as to lirect people how to carry on the misoning in the hill section, and it s desired to havg some additional appropriation for that purpose. I hope he Secretary of Agriculture will rejuest it in his next recommendation to Congress and that he will be given vhatever is required. "Before sitting down I wish to idd that personally I am conducting his expirement myself on 400 acres >' my cotton this year. My manager, rhomas H. Estes, and his assistant, Curtis Grayson, hav written me a lumber of times in the last few weeks in the most encouraging manner telling me about how they have reduced the infestation of the boll weevil and how nicely the cotton is getting along under the poisoning process, much better than where it has not been poiaioned. Hence I feel that I have derived very great personal benefit from the application of this poison and wish the people throughout the cotton belt could know about it" L l>\ "Ill *1 I V . * I.. 'Ju- f.mr * Aut T MINIS IN lifcNtRAL An advertisement inserted as a joke in u New York paper for a bartender bosught such a cr^wd of them that the police reesrves had to be called to disperse them. The high cost of living is still soaring in England. Warehouses are choked with food stuffs and the profiteer is reaping a harvest, while the poor starve. Bread is 19 cents a pound and still going up. Gen John G. Pershing has sailed from France and is expected to land in New York next Monday. He will remain in New York three or four days before officially reporting to headquarters in Washington. New York and Washington are both preparing monster receptions. President Wilson has issued invitations to labor leaders, financiers, maunfacturers and farmers to attend a conference at the White House early next monlh. It is Mr. Wilson's belief that much of -the misunderstanding between all these classes may be materially lessened by a getto-cet.hpr mnotio" Robin J. Cooper, who in 190S was tried for the murder, in complicity with his father, of United States Senator E. W. Carmack, at Nashville, was himself murdered near that city last Satyrday. His automobile was found in the woods and his body was taken from, a creek nearby. His skull had been crushed. The latest theory is that he was lured to the lonely spot by the promise of whiskey sellers and that he had bought a large sum of money with which to make purchases and that he had then been murdered for the money. Two persons are under arrest. M1DDENDORF. Mrs. H. T. McManus and little son Herbert spent last week in Hamlet. Mr. W. J. Johnson passed away at his home on last Monday. 11 is death was not unexpected as he Had been quite ill for over a month. He was buried in the cemetery at Hebron church. The Sunday school at Hebron church will observe Children's Day on the second Sunday in September. Hon. W. P. Pollock is expected to be present and probably other prominent speakers. Everyone is invited to come and bring a basketful of good things to eat. The picnic given at the close of the "lay-by" school was greatly enjoyed by all present. The pupils recited old time pieces and one old time song was sung. After the dinner of many good things everyone ' gathered around the pjano and had a regular community singing. The affair was a great success and the school accomplished much good. New lot of Skirt Models Silk Lined Su'ts received this week. TEAL-JONES CO. 1 MT CROGHAN 1 Mr. Townley Jackson left today to enter school in Wingate, N. C. ' Mr. Tom Bailey, of Mc Bee, visited Mr. Arthur Rivers last week. Miss Virginia Burch spent* last ' week in Cheraw, the guest of Miss Nathalie Burch. Mrs. W. J. Perry and children, of Chesterfield, spent the week end ] with Mrs. I. S. Funderburk. i ^lessrs J. H. and J. T. Hendrix and ' W. W. Baker spent last week in i Baltimore, Md. < Miss Sadie Burch visited in Mon- 1 roe, Charlotte and Kershaw last i week. 1 Mr. S. S. Richardson and son, of < Monroe, spent last Wednesday in , town. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Taylor are visiting the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jordan, in Monroe. Miss Bessie Caddy, of Wingate, | M. C., spent Saturday night with her sister, Miss Ellen Caddy. High Grade MILL FEED at W. P. Odom's. ????? Men'* Mahogany Color English Shoes, Parado Last. Teal-Jones Co. ' RUBY, ROUTE TWO Mr. B. C. Wadsworth arid son, Lee, attended the picnic at Laurel Springs. Thursday, and report a fine time. Messrs Kirby and Roy Melton mo-' tored to Chesterfield on Saturday. Mrs. Joel Melton visited Mrs. W. L. Melton Sunday. Misses Mamie ar.d Essie Wadsworth returned home Monday after a visit to Miss Mary Johnson, of Hartsville. , j Messrs B. C. Wadsworth and Dwight Douglass spent Sunday at I^aurel Springs. Mrs. J. P. Melton visited at the home of Mr. W. J. Purvis Sunday. Rev. J. D. Purvis is conducting a revival meeting at Ruby this week. Rev. Mr. Stroudmire, of Jefferson, i? helping hint. COLUMBIA WANTED GAME WITH CHESTERFIELD The baseball season is over, so far os Chesterfield is concerned. The final game of the season was played at Cheraw last Friday. The last two sanies of the ChesterfieldCheraw series resulted rather disastrously to our team, the score on Thursday being 12 to 4 in Cheraw's favor; Friday's result bctng 4 to 2, the Cheraw team again winning. However, the season's score with Cheraw was 50-50, Cheraw and Chesterfield each winning three out of six games played. Chesterfield made a pennant-winning record during its brief history. All told 16 games were played. One being a-tic doesn't figure. Of the fifteen in which decisions were rendered Chesterfield won 11, losing but 4. The fame of the team had spread well over the State and into North Carolina. A number of games could have been arranered. had tH,. clnK I continued playing that would have ( attracted wider attention. On Wednesday a wire was received , by Manager C. C. Douglass from Columbia, offering a series of games 1 with the winners of the Sally pennant. That shows the reputation the club | made. It also shows the name of our | town has been advertised in other ways than on a cigarette box. High- ( ly elated at the success of the venture this year, Mr. Douglass is already ] planning for an organization next summer that will syrpass anything j| the local fans have yet dreamed of. j j And speaking of fans, it is fitting! to utter here a word of appreciation \ ' of the fans. They had much to do ' | with the success of the undertaking.' | Not only our townspeople but the i good funs from Pageland, Ruby and Mt. Croghan were consistent attendants and rooters. i < MOVING DAYS ON MAIN STREET . i The Farmer's Hardware Company . has vacated the store room on the , South side of Main Street and the j stock is being arranged in the new i double building across the street. The Farmers' Mercantile Company i; i just as busy arranging fixtures and t stock in the former hardware build- ' ing. Both stores will be in regular ? running order in a few days. In fact the Farmers' Hardware is doing busi- I ness, although somewhat handicapped 1 by the confusion of rearranging stock adn shelving new goods in convenient I shape for handling. SIXTY HOGS BRING AT AUCTION OVER $14,000.00 I An auction sale of pedigreed Du- f roc-Jersey hogs was held Tuesday at ^ Ihe Palmer Duroe Farm, at Carters- L ville, Florence County. Sixty head ^ were auctioned, bringing $14,242.50. Most of these fine hogs were bought ( by South Carolina farmers. A few | f went into North Carolina and one or two will bo shipped to Georgia. One ;| fine male and one fine female each . brought $f>00. Messrs. W. J. Tiller, F. H. Boat. v ritfht and A. A. Douglass, Sr., of 1 Chesterfield; J. A. Davis, of Patrick, 1 tnd L. S. Graves, of Ruby, attended s he sale. ' ' t ORDER RESTORED . 1 AT CHARLOTTE ' s Order has been restored at Char- v lotte, N. C., where the street car c riots resulted in a number of deaths, t The troops have been withdrawn, but ( many extra guards and police are on luty. Cars are bein^ run in the city, but surburban service will not be attempted for some time. A strike breaker, who was under arrest charged with murder, has been acquitted. 1 The Casl We Are Sf HIGH GRADE j And FRES j - When You V ! WE Hi The Casi V- -- - - - ? RIOTS IN TENNESSEE MOB BREAKS INTO JAIL BUT \ FAILS TO GET MAN IT IS SEEKING Negroes Are Aroused And Shooting * Begins?Seven Killed Soldiers Restore * '.Tt Order A mob broke into the jail at Knoxville, Tennessee, last Saturday night,in seareh\'?f Maurice Mayes, a negro who was under arresst charged with having murdered a white woman, Mrs.' Lyndsey. The murderer had previously been spirited away to Chattanooga. Learning that they had missed their man, the mob knocked the head from a barrel of moonshine whiskey and loaded up. As they be- ^ came drunker and drunker they became more and more infuriated, finally demolishing as much of the building as their condition permitted, meantime allowing half a dozen neirro murderers to escape. The mob then proceeded toward the negro settlement where a pitched v .j battle resulted in several of both races being killed By the time the miiiiia appeared trie original rioters had dispersed, hut the negro population was aroused and had to be reckoned with. As the negroes marched to meet the militia machine guns were turned loose, causing the negroes to retreat and barricade themselves in buildings. Altogether seven persons were reported killed, one being Lieut. James W. Payne, of the Regular Army, who was connected with the troops handling the machine guns. lie was lirst hit by a bullet lired by a negro sniper, and staggered lirectly in front of the machine guns. His body was riddled. Besides those killed eight whites and six negroes ire in hospitals. Some of them will lie. Eleven hundred soldiers were soon patroling the city and, after < lesuftory outbreaks lasting Sunday ind Monday, order was restored. Ten .vhite men have been arrested on suslicion of being participants in the iriginal attack on the jail. The State of Tennessee has offered rewards of $250 each for two prisoners whom the mob allowed to escape. These two hail been convicted of murl"r and were awaiting electrocution. Two other murderers who were sen enced to life imprisonment will iring $200 each if caught. -UCAS CAPTURES THE OVERLAND Once more The Lucas Auto Com>any lias demonstrated its right to a ront-rank position among wide awake lustlers. 'This time Mr. Lucas comes ip smiling with the announcement hat he has obtained the agency for Chesterfield and immediate vicinity or the Overland Four. The new Model Overland embraces dl the good points of the older models n combinations with many new ad'antages that are to be found only on ars of much hii'her nric An nn. irely new transmission and spring suspension systems are amonj* the ater refinemervts. With the acquisiion of this car The Lucas Auto Com any now represents a full and com lete line. * In point of price the Overland tarts at the bottom selling for somevhere around the $1)0(1 mark. Next omes the new Model Dort, at some- a hinjr like $1100. Then comes the f "halmers. A oar load of these cars a ire now on the road and all of them ire expected by the middle of this nonth, some of them any day. Men's Cun metal English Shoes, 'iccadilly Last. Teal-Jones Co. i Market J )ecialists In 1 GROCERIES H MEATS /ant the Best WE IT j? j h Market* ^