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pi ^ *x * ' & 1M . * . \ "sf^SB i _ ?Ijc CIjesfcrfMti Adttrrttarr VOL. 38. No. 39 CHESTERFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1919 $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE W m DTPIini IPAKI rnfUTDAV IrCWCD At DCDCUIAir IW I - I- ?~ I HANGS ON NEWBERRY Washington, Dec. 8?When Secretary of the Treasury Glass takes his eat in a few days as senator from Virginia to succeed the late Senator Thomas S. Martin,there will be 48 Republicans in the senate, provided n? casualties occur in the meanwhile among the membership. That will boing about a condition in which the one vote of Senator Newberry of Michigan will be vital to maintain Republican control of the upper House of Congress. Senator Newberry is now under indictment t>n the charge of conspiring to procure his own selection as senator by unlawful expenditure. Indictment and conviction are quite different things, but the situation is decidedly embarrassing to the majority party in the senate. Whether a senator should occupy his seat and cast his vote while under ? indictment is quite a pertinent question of propriety. Stories have been circulated that Senator Newberry felt the pressure of this point of ethics so keenly he contemplated resigning before his case came to trial, but that he was dissuaded by party colleagues. Be that as it may, the fact remains that Republican control of the Senate hangs upon the Newberry vote, and that the Newberry vote at this time is by no means a pleasant thing to hang on. In the case of Senator Newberry, there are several possibilities. (1); He may be acquitted by the court*, and kept in his seat by Senate. (2) . He may be unseated by the Senate, j (3) He may be convicted by the i L courts and retained in his seat by the Senate. (4) He may be acquitted and resign, or convicted and resign. (5) If Newberry is unseated this does not seat Ford, unless the Senate by its recount finds Ford to have been elected. (6) Should Newberry be unseated and the sent be left vacant, the Governor of Michigan would appoint an ad interim senator pending election for the remainder of the Newberry term. FLOODS IN THE SOUTH Various section of the South have suffered from heavy property damages and loss of life by reuson of DTTviicii ovtcama LUUl'U uy IfLt'll L ' heav? rains. Atlanta, Birminjcam, I Montgomery, Mobile, Meridian, Miss., j have been affected. [RWT OPTOM Eyes Treated Will be in bis new of BANK, next door to | Friday, I ISaturdi Monday Tuesda Wednesd ist chance to have you IEDFEARNDEAL EAVY & STAP elrose Flour, Sunflc ill Feed, Peanut Me ;ed Meal and Hulls, ar of Red Rust-prool y of 90-day Oats. H< Qome and see Fertilizers, SOUTH CAROLINA General John J. Pershing with his staff of nine officers, while on a tour of inspection of army camps in the South, spent several days in this state. Ln^t Saturday he was in Columbia, inspecting Camp Juckson. The Columbia Chamber of Commerce received the General and his staff.After completing his official visit to the camp, General Pershing held a public reception at the State House, where he shook hands with five thou- , sand people. He was greeted oil his way and from the reception by thousands of cheering people. From Columbia the General went to ( Charleston and left for Suvannah on ( Monday. UNION SCHOOL HONOR ROLL For the month beginning Nov. 3d ] and ending Nov. 28th: Tenth Grade: Mayme Blackwell. Kighth Grade: Fannye Campbell, j Willie Gardiner, Thelma Blackwell, Howard McDonald. O... iL n 1- - r* .1 oc-vurii.ii viraut; ivunye iNortncul, Wheeler McLehdon, Mary L. King < and Henry Campbell. ( Sixth Grade: Gillette and Hallic Ncwsoni, Lily and Sallie King, Car- > vin, Warden, Grace, Grettie and LiL . lie Blackwell, Dan Sullivan and v Thanie Smothers. , Fifth Grade: Connie and Leroy t Blackwell. t Fourth Grade: Blanche and Bur- ( rice McCoy, Alma and Charlie ^ li.uckwell, Connie Rogers, Redman , Sullivan, Hudson King. Third Grade: Willie and Lulu t Steen, Annie and (Jerome Blackwell, : Annie Northcut. Second Grade: Troy Belk, Vera I il'.er and Nettie Steen. Advanced First: Marvin and Geneveve King, Tommie Lee and Lucas j Blackwell, Cleo, Rudell and Colum ( McDonald, Jaunita and Annie Belk. , First Grade: Chris, Ellen and Bel- % ton Watkins, John Warn, Mary Norris, Fadia McDonald, Christon Wal- j ters, Ruth and Nettie Blackwell and s Lillie Stein.. g DEATH OF MABEL LILLIAN MILES 1 Mabel Lillian, the seven-year-old ^ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Miles, died last Sunday morning, Dec. 7. ' Although her illness was brief, she sulFered severely. The bereaved parents have the sympathy of their ( many friends in the community. Lewisi ETRIST Glasses Fitted | t fice in The PEOPLES ' j Scfuure Deal Drug Co* ' )ec. 12th i 4 A*1 ly, iitft f, 15th y, 16th lay, 17th ir eyes examined in 1919 KIVLKb LU. ERS IN LE GROCERIES >wer Self-rising Flour, ;al, Rice Meal, Cotton E Seed Oats and a Sup*y for Spring Prices on fur0* JAIL NEEDS REPAIRS STATE BOARD FINDS CHESTERFIELD COUNTY PRISON WOEFULLY OUT OF FIX Credit* Mr. J. T. Grant With Management Above Average, But Find* Fault With Condition Of Building On December 3 a commission from the State Board of Charities and Corrections visited Chesterfield and investigated conditions at the jail. In the official report, just issued by the Secretary, G. Croft Williams, there is evidence that the commission was much dissatisfied with the condition of the building, but gives jailor F. T. Grant credit for good management, under existing conditions. Following is the report in full: Mr. J. T. Grant, jailor. Visited December 3, 1919, by assistant Sec rctary Broyles. Population two white "nen and three negro men. The active management of the "hestereld jail by the jailor is above ;he average, but the plant is woefully )ut of repair, and needs considerable vork upon it to make it decently useible. To begin with, nearly all the vindow glass is out of the prison secion and the prisi ners are pathetic as hey hug a small stove in their efforts o keep moderately warm. In spite >f the State law requiring the comilete separation of the races in couny jails, the negroes and whites are ompelled to crowd together around* he stove. None of the hammocks, ron beds, or springs laid on the lloor lave mattresses on them, and there ire not sufficient blankets to serve >oth as mattresses and covering. The irisoners undoubtedly suffer severey when the weather is extremely old. Most of this condition could be emedied by putting glass in all the vindow sash. The toilets are in bad repair, eslecially the one in the main prison lection, which leaks on the floor conitantly, and does not properly flush, rhe water rusts the steel and in adlition to the filththiness of the floor t is poor economy to allow the steel o rust out for want of necessary re>airs to plumbing. We recommend that cotton pad nattresses be purchased for the hamnocks, beds, etc., and that these matresscs be covered with slip covers liade of heavy canvass, to protect hum from wear and to keep them lean. We recommend that one of the amtll cell on the second floor be padled, in order to provide a proper an<P >afc place in which to house insane >ersons until they can be brought to he State Hospital. It is dangerous ind cruel to confine them in a steel tarred cell, against the walls of which hey may seriously hurt themselves. Finally, some means ought to.be provided for getting more water into he jail. The jailor reports that the present supply is inadequate and says that he is seldom able to have the jail scoured because the present well loos not furnish sufficient water. Since our 1918 inspection the Commissioners have built a new fence around the rear of the jail, but the fates are allowed to remain open most of the time and visitors alk to the prisoners through the rear window. We believe there is constant danger of some outsider passing a weapon, a tool for filing or Jigging out, or even a key to the prisoner's inside, and therefore we recommend that back yard be kept closed, and that no porsons be allowed to communicate with prisoners under any circumstances except in the prescence of the jailor, or except as may be provided by law for legal advisers. / ' ODOT.'T ICM t TAMO \*. ivui i vv iiiijinmo, Secretary State Board of Charities and Corrections. W? have received a beautiful lot of Neck ties for the Holiday Trade call in and look them over, 50 c. to $2.00. TEAL-JONES CO GRACE MAYOR OF CHARLESTON John P. Grace was elected mayor of Charleston Tuesday, without opposition. Ma, >r 'Ij le '.'itf, Irt . from the race : nd (in ce with, eighteen of his supporters were elected. PEANUT EXPERT FOR SOUTH CAROLINA Bankers and cotton seed oil men at a meeting in Columbia Tuesday evening, authorized Clemson College to engage the services of an expert on peanut growing to come to South Caroling and teach farmers how to fight the boll weevil by growing peanuts. The expense will be met by tfte bankers and oil men. How Big Now York Grocery Firm Keep* Down Rata. Vroome & Co.. Butter & Cheese Merchants, New York City, say: "We Keep RAT-8NAP in our cellar all the time. It keeps down rats. We bu> it by the gross, would not be withoul it." Farmers use RAT-SNAP be cause rats pass up all food for RAT SNAP. Three sixes, 26c, 60e, $1.00 Sold and guaranteed by 8quarsJPea I PRESIDENT'S PLAN ENDS COAL STIKE The coal strike is ended: After five weeks of the most complete and far-reaching type-up in the his tory of America the United Mine Workers voted Wednesday to accept President Wilson's proposal and return to work. | This means that the actual mining of coal will be gin Friday and that fuel will be moving from the mines 1 by Monday. Restrictions on the fuel will continue in force for some time, however, in order that the shortage created by the strike may be partly , made up. The meeting of the miners' representatives was called at Indianj apolis on last Tuesday for the purpose of considering President Wil-: son's plan for ending the strike. There was some opposition to the plan by the more radical delegates t and considerable disappointment was I ' felt when the meeting adjourned for the day without accepting the plan. On Wednesday John L. Lewis, acting president of the Miners' Union, I mil tVto nnnoftAw ?"? "" " ' J'?v v.?v VJUVOHVII tu bllC IIIVII US C* |Jilfriotic duty and called upon them in the name of loyalty and order and suffering humanity to vote to return to work. This they did, with a single dissenting vote. The plan presented by Mr. Wilson provides for an immediate resumption of work on the same basis as was in effect when the strike was called, with the exception that the men shall receive an increase of 14 per cent, in wages. Within sixty days after returning to work a commission appointed by the President and which active miner and one miner owner altive miner and one min? owner, shall take up the matter i?f readjusting wages, working hours and conditions and the price of coal. It is the sense of the plan that the higii cost of living, which was the direct cause of the strike, shall be shared I y the miners, the mine owners and the public. Th#us the mine owners will not be permitted to increase the cost of coal to such an extent that they will bear no part of the increased cost of producing their output. At the sane time the miners will not be allowed unreasonable increases. The advance in wages will be computed in accordance with the advances during the last year in the cost of living. CITATION NOTICE State of South Carolina, County of Chesterfield. By M. J. Hough, Probate Judge: Whereas Mary E. Gainey made suit to me to grant her Letters of Administration of the Estate and Effects of Alexander Gainey, deceased, These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Alexander Gainey, deceased, that they be and appear before me in the Court of Probate, to be held at Chesterfield on the 24th of December next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'oloek in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administra uon annum not De granieu. Given under my hand this 8th day of December, Anno Domini 1019. M. J. HOUGH, P Probate Judge. Christmas presents for father, mother son and daughter. Big stock to select from if rou come early. CHESTER FIELD DRUG CO. DISCHARGE NOTICE On the 10 of January, 1920 I will apply to the Probate Court of Chesterfield county for a discharge as committee of Maggie B. Hamilton. P P. M. MOORE. WHY SUFFER SO? Why suffer from a had hack, from sharp, shooting twinges, headaches, dizziness and distressing urinary ills? People around here recommend Doan's Kidney Pills. Could yoq ask for stronger prqof of merit? Mrs. J. A. Coxe, of Cheraw, S. C. says: "I suffered terribly from kidney 'rouble .. <i il?o pai s v ore m. sc. ore I wr.j in co. 3t?.nt misery. Hi< y started in the small of my back and would shoot up and down as if a knife was piercing me. I had terrible headaches and I was so nervous, I couldn't stay quiet a minute. I couldn't sleep because the pain was so bad. My kidneys acted irregularly, iuo, nnn certainty caused me a 101 01 annoyance. A friend told me about Doan's Kidney Pills and I took a few doses. I could feel myself getting relief. I continued taking them and used five boxes. Doan'i completely cured me. Doan's and 1 are fine friends." 60c. at all dealers. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y, Adv. | "morphine . hanf. cured the easy and gentle way. - IKMskey habit by gradual reduction. Tobacco curyi^ 1 M KEELEjMHnfTfi GOLDEN WEDDING DAY OF MR. AND MRS. H. P. DUVALL On last Monday evening at their home in Cheraw Mr. and Mrs. Henry i'owe Duvali celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding, the ceremony having been performed on December 8, 1869. The event Mon-1 day evening was in the form of a reception and many friends called and congratulated the happy couple. Also, there was quite a family reunion, as five of Mi. and Mrs. Duvall's brothers and sisters were present, together with seven children and eighteen grand-children. Among those present were: Mr. M. H. H. Duvall, of Augusta, (Ja., and son M. H. H. Duvall, Jr., the latter recently returned from France, where he saw service in the aviation department; Mr. and Mrs.' II. G. Osteen, of Sumter, where Mr. j Osteon is editor of the Item; Mrs. J.i M. Witsell, of Walterboro; Messrs. K. Walker and Henry I'owe Duvall, Jr., and Misses Fannie and Ellen Duvall, and Mrs. E. Walker Duvall, of Cheraw. In 18'J3 Mr. Henry I'owe Duvall established the Cheraw Hardware Company at Cheraw. He is still the active head of this successful establishment, in which his two sons, Messrs E. W. and H. I'., Jr., are as-' sociated with him. ANGELUS SCHOOL HONOR ROLL For month beginning Nov. 3d and ending Nov. 28th. First Grade: Mildred Byrd, Iris Clark, Willie Edgeworth, Stanley ( Edgeworth, Lucy May Knight, Shay- j lor Knight. Advanced First: Ewald Eteen, A1-: ston Wilkes. Second Grade: Mary Knight, Rob-' ert Snypes. Third Grade: Curtis Clark, Nitabel Clark, Ruby Clark. Fourth Grade: Hannah Dcese, Pearle Gleich, Nellie Blanche Long, j Fifth Grade: Eula Byrd, Ray Clark, i Larry Knight. \ Si '<tl< Grade: Anabel Campbell,' Sydney ('lark, Kemp Long. Seventh Grade: George Byrd, David Knight. CARD OF THANKS We take this method of expressing our gratitude to those who have been uo very kind to us since the loss of our home by fire. Lonnie Douglass and Wife. AUDITOR S NOTICE The Auditor's OHico will be open j for th" assessment of all classes of peronal property, new buildings, j transfers of real estate, poll, road j and dog tax, from January 1st to February the 20th, 11)20. | All ablcbodied men between the . ages of 21 and 00 years are required to return and pay a poll tax of $1.00; and those between the ages of 21 and 1 55 years are required by a recent act | of the Legislature to return and pay a commutation road tax of $2.00, same to be collected as other taxes. The law requires a penalty of 50 per cent, on all property not returned for taxation on or before the 20th day of February, 1920. Places to be visited will be announced later. t uf rniiivc County Auditor. I To Close HURST Will Sell to the 31st, Beginning all sold Store Furnishings, Warcho the S. H. Huggins Land, 50 acr Merriman's Mill, one lot in tov Th.j al o\ j i . operty will be brings the most. There will als Haydcn's. Any of the above ] the sale will be immediately re And now just a word to the for years, standing by you duri times are no longer hard. Col old debts with case, all of you v auctioned otl on the day of sab will not pay their debts, Sucl thinking citizen, for it will pla< So we urge that everyone once and settle his accounts, Any of the aforementione present all the goods in stock ed Goods, RuLber Shoes, Mill i Hurgj NEGRESS GETS $2,000 FROM YORK COUNTY Mary A. Sims, wife of a negro preacher who was lynched by a mob in York County, having failed to see anyone punished for the lynching, brought suit ag linst the county for not properly protecting her husband. Recently a jury returned a verdict in her favor, granting her damages of $2,000. Judge Sease presided. This was the third trial of the case and the county will have to pay. | Don't PL tWiAJ1 ?c?a Don't forgei iliat we have < line of Automobile Accessories, BATTERIES, SHOCK ABSORi GREASES; in fact as complete Accessory Shop. The Winter Season is comii changing tires on the road. So e GOODRIC and forget your tire tro sizes in stock. IF IT S A FORD P LATTA'S All ACCES Sfioe To Our Customers and Friends, 2 We most cordially thank > past. We now give notice that on will begin a sale on S5 c IUl.lWk3 C This in< hides our enti: A. W. HU i out the B -STREAT1 Highest. Bidder f at 10 A.M. and > use Stock, Fair Association Stoc es of Johnson land, lying on Bla< /n of Cheraw, Store buildings ai sold in three <lifl\'i\ nt blocks, o ?() be sold at the same time the l property bid oil" bv parties t'ailii sold at said parties' risk. >se who still ewe us. We have p ing hard times, and helping you Lton is high and money is plenti vith a little sacririhce. All stai B, and their owners' names plact procedure cannot but be hus :e lasting blemish on his name indebted to us, whether to a 1 thereby upholding his credit am d property will be sold private are being and will continue to b Feed, in fact everything is goir If you are going to make the children happy this Christmas com^H| the Chesterfield Drug Company 4P select their presents. We have them ^ to suit every child and every purse. I have just unloaded 165 barrels of SWEET SIXTEEN and can fill your wants for the best flour ever offered here. X W. P. ODOM. ? Christmas comes but once at yoar. ^ Loosen up and make a few presents. The Lord loves a Cheerful giver. We have the presents. CHESTERFIELD DRUG CO. Forget jpened up a new and complete iS| TIRES, SPRINGS, STORAGE iERS, STARTERS, OILS and a line as you will find in any tig on and it's going to be cold quip your car with , :h tires I ?ble for a year. We carry all ART, WE HAVE IT. ^ (TO & | SORYSHOP I ?? Sale I ind the Public at Large: ML 'on for your patronage in the W J P A nri I f> rv * jaiukuai, Liec. 5, 1919, we JP~ it Gost 1 re SHOE STOCK. Wj Respectfuly yours, RSEY CO. 1 usiness of 1 SR GO. 1 ./-J or Cash on Dec. .M continuing until > " _ ' i k, 400 Acres of Land known m ck Creek, 50 acres of land near id lot on which we do busineas. i* as a whole, whic hever method ol on Main Street adjoining Dr. rig to comply with the terms of ' atienlly waited on many of you out in every way possible. But ful. Most of you can pay your iding accounts will he publicly 'd before the public as men who niliating to any honest, rightand injury on his future credit. j large or small degree, come at 1 maintaining his self-respect. ly before the day of sale. At e sold at and below cost. Canrt- > ig at astonishingly low price*. r Co.