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' (Sfyc&tcrfielb 2\titwrUscr ^ VOL. 39?NO 3 CHESTERFIELD, S. C? THURSDAY, JANUARY 15. l'.)2(> $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE ^ rrr r -nr i MI? H W DIICCCD'C I MC^nn """ " 1 he Lyric CHERAV % MONDAY DO ROTH ' The Popular ( IN "NUGGET A Paramount Picture, Als< SHOWS 5, 7 and 9 O'clock TUESDAY NAZIM IN4<eye fo TIIE GREATEST MOTION l'K SCR El Also Fox Sunsh SHOWS 5, 7, and 9 O'clock WEDNESDAY ' BERT L IN"blind mai ALSO L-KO ( SHOWS 5, 7, 9 O'Clock THURSDAY A PARAMOUh "TUC n I I I L_ O ALSO MUTT And SHOWS 5, 7, 9 O'Clock FRIDAY ^ A PARAMOUNT ART DOROTHY IN"the market Another Paramount Artcr SHOWS 5, 7, and 9 O'Clock . . . SATURDAY wallac k p ?1IN" "The Love A PARAMOUN A Paramount KIukk "THE CON IN SHOWS 3, 5, 7 and !) O'clock . Lucas A Of the Three 5-Pa two have been sold. Oi Three 7-Passenger us, on January 6th. Three Dort Tourint field January 8th. Overland Cars and Ctialir rmt - w* ?T* a I III 9 m I. 1 ft JKmM ,4-m J lheatre /, s. c. JANUARY 19TH Y GISH Comedienne r NELL" J Harold Lloyd Comedy ADMISSION 22c JANUARY 20TH IOVA R EYE'CTURE ACTRESS ON THE liN ine Comedy ADMISSION 22c JANUARY 21ST YTELL N'S eyes' JOMHDY ADMISSION 22c JANUARY 22D JT SPECIAL HEST" JKFF COMEDY ADMISSION 22c JANUARY 23 D 'CRAFT PICTURE DALTON OF SOULS" aft Special Production A injit-'C'i/ivf n i/i?l IOOIVJIN JANUARY 24TII E REID Burglar" T PICTURE Feature Comedy ,a ECONOMY" KKGUI.AR PRICKS LlltO C< ssenger Chalmers Cai tie awaits the first call. Chalmers left the fa { Cars and two Roadst Traffic Trucks expect iers, Don erland C raffic Truck: i AUTOMOBILE STOLEN Automobile thieves stole the Buick ear from the garage of Mr. H. W. Pusser last Saturday night. No clew upon which to work was left and from present indications the thieves have made a good escape. However, the matter is in the hands of the local and State authorities pnd there is hope that they may yet be apprehended and the car recovered. The cur stood in the unlocked garage at the Pusser residence on East Main street and indications are that it was rolled off the premises and down the incline to the street before being put under its own power. The theft was probably committed between fhe hoiir? <>f in nn.l 1 i ?i < u uiiu ti v viwtn and was not discovered until Sunday morning, thus giving the thief sufiieient time to get well out of the Slate before authorities in surrounding towns could be notified. The car was in fine running condition and this added to the ease with which it could be gotten away quickly. MAYOR TROTTI CAPTURES GUN Or. L. H. Trotti, our genial Mayor, had a lively tussel a few nights ago with a disorderly negro. In the absence of a policeman the Mayor, as is his custom, decided to take the offender in custody. He met with stubborn resistance. During the mixup the colored man reached for his artillery, but the Doctor was too quick for him. A well directed blow from in front in conjuetion with a trip-up movement of the foot sent the black man sprawling. He was quickly relieved of his weapon which proved to be of IIS caliber and good make. The town treasury is now one pistol ami seventy-five dollars better off. MIDDENDORF There will be a minstrel at the Middendorf school house, Friday night, Jan. 1(5, given by the Jefferson High School. The Misses Melton, of Chesterfield, spent the week end with their sister, M iss I'earl Melton. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Johnson very | charmingly entertained a number of , their friends Friday evening. ; Rev. Morrison, the new pastor, fill- ] ml his appointment at Hebron Sunday u afternoon. People of the church are i well pleased with Rev. Morrison. i We regret to lose from our community the family of Mr. J. II. Sims, I who have moved to Hartsville. Mr. Sims has lived here for a number of i year*. /\iso me uimiiy ol Mr, 1,. N. Huberts' who have moved to Angelus. Wo welcome to our midst Mrs. Laura Sullivan who has moved from the County Home of Chesterfield. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs Warren Johnson are sorry to know of the illness of their baby boy. Mr. J. Henry Johnson who recently underwent u very serious operation at the Baptist Hospital at Columbia, ' we are Kind to know, is at home much improved. i We are pleased to note the expressions of some of the leading people , of our coi^nty alon^ the lines of better roads. From the condition of some of our roads, the K??d work should be started up immediately and continued. . jmpany rs received last week i etory, shipped direct to ers started for Chester ed any day. t And !ars i )MPANY hH DU I KUU3 MAIL BOX OF $600 Tom Little, a negro boy of 15, is an inmate of the county jail pending action hy -the Federal authorities, lit' will answer to a charge of robbing the United States mails at the Chesterfield post office. On last Friday while hanging around the post office he observed that a certain mail box containing a large number of letters was not locked. Watching his opportunity he emptied the box and departed with the contents. A short time later he accosted Messrs. C. L. Hunley and Z. T. Redfearn and told thm he had found a money order and inquired if he could get a reward by returning it. Mr. Hunley took the money order and seeing that it was made payable to County Treasurer J. A. Welsh, told Little he would return it to the owner and get the reward if any was forthcoming. When Mr. Welsh was banded the order he noted by the date that it must have come in the morning mail, which he had not taken from the post office. Hurrying to the post office he found his mail box empty.' At this time of year Mr. Welsh usually receives several dozen letters daily, the majority of them containing tax returns, both in checks and money orders. He thereupon started post haste in search of the negro boy who had "found" the money order. Approaching Little's home he saw the dusky youngster take across the fields toward another house, lie followed to this place and again Little ran, but Mr. Welsh ran him down and took him to the court house where he turned him over to Deputy Sheriff J. T. Grant, who locked him up. Under cross examination he confessed to pilfering the mail box and told where lie had hidden some checks. Between live and six hundred dollars of the county's money was found under a log described by Little. The money was all in the form of checks. Whether or not all the checks and money orders stolen were recovered is not known.' One money order payable to the treasurer was found on East Main street Friday night. This is not the first time the Little boy has been in trouble. Several months ago he stole u bicycle from A. F. Davis, baV ^rus gotten off by his people returning the wheel and making good the damage. He was in jail about three weeks ago for stealing money from his grandmother. Upon returning part of the money and promising to reform he was released. HONOR ROLL ANGELUS SCHOOL The following is the Honor ltoll for Angelus School for the month beginning Dec. 1 and ending January 7. 1st Grade: Oscar Snypes. Advanced 1st Grade: Ruth Long, Ewuld Steene, Louise, J. B., and Curtis Sullivan, Alston Wilkes. 2d Grade: Lizzie Broom, Allison Miles, Robert Snypes, Herley Sullivan. 2d Grade: Curtis,Nitabel and Ruby ('lark, Summctt Wilkes. 4th Grade: Hannah Deese, Blanch lowers, Minnie Knight, Nellie B. Long, Lee Wilkes. 5th Grade: Kula Byrd, Ray ('lark, Ira and Larry Knight, Mary Lee. (Jth Grade: Sydney Clark, Vernon Johnson, Kemp Long. 7th Grade: George Byrd, Alma lowers, Kva Johnson, David Knight. 8th Grade: Nellie Clark, (Carlisle lowers, I.iz/.ie Johnson, Donald und Lola Knight. HONOR ROLL FOR JEFFERSON GRADED SCHOOL 1st Grade: J. 15. Small, Grenda Mungo, Elaine Thomas, Hilly Thrcatt, Marion Shute. Advanced 1st Grade: Leroy Bird, Ernest Demby, Hasty Demby, Joe Gregory, Robert Gregory, Pierce Morton, Cathrine Holly, Bertha Jowett, John C. Miller, Robert Kirklcy. 2d Grade: Dorenda Threatt, Alice Robertson, Anna Belle Shute, Geneva M iddleton. :td Grade: Emma Rlakeney, Mary Gantl, Ellen Miller, Evie Munn, Ruby Myers, Louise Seegars, Leonard Ra ley., 1th Grade: Clara Demby, Lucile Cook, Inez Horton, Joe Bird, Charlie Stoudemire, Aditme Shute. f?th Grade: Murphy Smith, Eugene Middleton, James Stoudemire, J. T. Nicholson, ('only Middleton, Katharine llorton, Vivian llartman, Vida Smith, Maggie Lee, Myrtle Belk, J. T. Jowers, Margaret Shannon, Elizabcth Holly, Ola Gardner, Renibert Gth (iradc: Juunita Biackwell, llorton, Nora I'hillipa, George Biackwell, Jack Threatt. Wincy Blakeney, Janie McCunkill. Lillie McCaskill. 7th Grade: Maude Knight, Gladys Bird. 8th Grade: LeRoy Sowell. 9th Grade Valeria Gregory, Helen Sccgars, Otie Griffith. WANTED?A dealer in Chesterfield County for Corbitt Motor Trucks, i* Freeman-Moore Co., Bennettsville, nOLL WEEVIL MEETING AT COURT HOUSE The Boll Weevil Conference called 1 y Governor Cooper will be held at (lie Chesterfield Court House next Vuesday, January 2(1. Similiar meetings have been held in many towns i f the State and will be held in every county seat before the end of the winter. Clemson College will supply a number of experts on the weevil and other important subjects. Better methods of farming under present conditions will be discussed as well as under weevil conditions. Stock raising, peanut growing, oil mills ami firiifl ii?>t inn ...ai C..~ ! I r.v?.wwiwii v** 11 v-v?iiic in iui fwiibiut'iable attention. Mr. W. J. Tiller, County Demonstration Agent, has received a number of inquiries from farmers throughout the county, asking for detailed information regarding this meeting. To these and many others Mr. Tiller is mailing post cards giving full details and advising every farmer in the county to attend nexl Tuesday's meeting. SERGEANT W. A. SELLERS RECEIVES SERVICE CROSS Sergeant Will A. Sellers, of Chesterfield county, has received his Service Cross from tire War Department, for especial bravery in battle. Sergt. Sellers is the son of Mr. .lames Sellers and is now living at home on the Sellers farm. The particular deed of valor for which he received the distinction of the cross consisted of his attacking, single handed, a German machine gun nest, killing the live men in charge and taking the- nest. While lighting with his command he observed that many men were being killed by machine gun fire from a nest that could not be reached by direct lire from our lines. He made a detour and approached the nest from the rear. He observed that there were but two men operating the gun, so he rushed them, bayonetting one and shooting the other. He was then surprised to see three more Germans come from under cover and make for him. Two of these he brought down by shooting and the third, who had closed in on him, fell with the bayonet through his vitals. TWO JUGS OF WHISKEY ARE FOUND AND LOST On last Monday morning when Mr. George W. Kddins repaired to the woodpile in the rear of the Hank of Chesterfield in search of fuel with which to build the daily fire iif his office he was amazed, shocked, thunderstruck, and, some of his friends say, befuddled to behold at the foot of a tree in the bank's backyard two jugs, one of clay and the other of glass, containing two full gallons of the li(|ui<l that, while voiceless, has a reputation for cheering. George was not at first so befuddled that he could not make sure id' the contents of the two jugs. They were tilled with moonshine whiskey. One smell told him that. Not knowing just how to proceed and not having any of his friends present who afterwards told him what he should have done, Mr. Kddins carried the two jugs to the oflice in the bank and called Sheriff I). I*. Douglass. The* sheriir soon arrived, and, as is required by law, poured the fiery liquor forth upon the unappreciative earth. It was then that Mr. Kddins began to learn what he should have done. "Why didn't you 1 ? t me keep it, we might have found the owner," was one suggestion. Another friend said: "What a pity to waste it. Suppose it was for some sick person." Several mourners, who were in at the finish, thought it had the smell of being a pretty fair grade of joy dispenser and all thought it might have been put to better use than settling the dust. The question uppermost in most minds was and is, by whom were the jugs deposited and for whom? The next is. whv did the nerson for whom they were left fail to connect with them ? To both these questions many answers have been conjectured, the niost plausible being that he sat them down and having others out of which he hail imbibed, thus causing him to forget or fail to remember or not to know or care just when or where he was expected to leave them for the party who was expected to get them. Some of these same questions have been puzzling the Sheriff and Deputy Grant, both of whom would very much like to know from whence the jag containing jugs came and whither they had been expected to go. BORN On Wednesday, January 7, a girl baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Lewis. Mrs. Lewis and the little one are reported as doing nicely. The young lady has been named Julia Ray. Victor Herger, the Milwaukee Socialist who was elected to a scat in Congress while standing convicted of aiding and giving comfort to the enemy, was denied his plice in Congress by a veto of 228 t</i; .. - a ima FRANK MOORE DIES FROM ACCIDENTAL SHOT A most distressing tragedy occurred last Thursday night by which Mr. Frank Moore was accidentally shot by his sister, Miss Anna May Moore. Brother and sister, the son and daughter of Mr. A. K. Moore, had gone from their home at Westfield Creek, Chesterfield County, to a party at McFarlan, N. C., and it was there that the accidental shooting occur-d. In the parlor of the house at which a number of young people had collected a large caliber revolver had been placed on* the mantel. Frank Moore picked it up and j removed the only cartridge it contained. He then playfully snapped it, while pointing it at' id muse in me room. Miss Moore was in the room at the time. He afterward replaced the cartridge and put the pistol back on the mantel. In the meantime his sister had left the room. She returned shortly and thinking the weapon was not loaded jokingly pointed it at her brother and pulled the trigger. The pistol fired and Frank Moore fell to the floor, a bullet wound near his eye. He was taken in an unconscious condition to Wadesboro and placed in the hospital where he remained until Monday morning when he passed away. The body was brought to Chesterfield and interred at Shiloh. Frank Moore was well known in 1 the Shiloh community where he had j spent a good part of his life. lie, was an ex-soldier, having spent a year and a half in France with the American Kxpeditionary Forces, lbwas insured in the United States Hureau of War Risk Insurance for .$10,000 and only a f> w weeks ago had taken out a policy on his life for $2,000 in Chesterfield. Miss Anna May Moore, who is 18 years of age, has many friends in this county, all of whom deeply sympathize with her in her grief. At the fifneral Mrs. A. K. Moore, mother of the dead young man ,and Miss Anna May Moore collapsed. Miss | Moore is suffering from mental and physical break-down and is under the care of physicians. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. B. J. Cuess. The American (lovernnient has decided to withdraw its troops from Siberia next month. The American forces in Siberia number about 8,(Hid. The Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations and President Wilson's opposition to reservations, the policy of the Administration in respect to labor and its establishment of the Federal Re. erve and farm loan systems were indorsed by the Democratic National Committee today. It was decided to hold the national convention in San Francisco on June 28. Annour The Chestei And Sup WISHES TO ANNOUNCE that 1 of town on Mr. Carl Morgan's p care of your Auto Repair Work a We handle the famous MIC When in need of anything ii serve you. The Chestei And Suppl) WEil The WHITE AUTO COM! \i tl- r* * vja Iicm M lie: L/cpUl* Complete New Mfichinery Methods Will Be Employed Bj Making Perfect Repairs On All No Books Will Be Kept, Th ing To Customers And To The Doubt As To The Advantages O Your Repair Work And We Wi! Wi"??i , . STATE NEWS I Anna Prater, a South Carolina negress, was officially listed by Los Angeles census enumerators as being 115 yars of age. 9 Georgetown, Hampton and Florence have recently had boll weevil ^3 conferences. J. L. Thomas, of Columbia, harvested 1,214 bushels of sweet potatoes from a four-acre lot. His net profit was $1,417.14. The South Carolina Landowners' Association advocates the floating of a $25,000,000 bond issue for the building of good roads in the State. The issuing of the bonds would entail an additional taxation of about two mills. The General Assembly will Le urged to pass such lep.islaion as will make this method of ac'I'Jinng roads possible. ] I Grade crossing accidents in the State during the year 1910 resulted in 01 deaths and 1H4 persons injured. , In the maioritv of cases nntnmnKiloa M wore struck by trains while crossing 1 the tracks. r ? The second session of the 73rd General Assembly will convene at 3 noon next Monday at Columbia. Congressman Madden will endeavor to put a bill through increasing the ' pay of postal employees at Columbia. . Tiie Columbia post olTice does an an- j nual business of between $300,000 I and $100,000. f William Jennings Bryan will soon I appear in some of the larger cities 1 of South Carolina to speak in behalf I of the Anti-Saloon League. I On account of the high cost of liv- If ing the South Carolina Hospital for I the insane shows a deficit of $141,500.73. The Peace Treaty of Versailles was ratified last Saturday between Germany and the Allied Powers, with the single exception of the United States. All other nations are now at peace except Germany and the United States, between which countries the terms of the armistice remain in efThe strike in the steel mills and furnaces, which on September 22 called out 307,OOP men, has collapsed. The National Commitee of the Steel Workers Union called the strike oil' last week. The failure of the strike is attributed by the strike leaders to the unfriendly attitude of the press, the courts, the police and the troops. Kub-My-Tism is a powerful antiseptic; it kills the poison caused from infected cuts; cures old sores, tetter. icement /-x1 / 1 /\ i nciu ^rvuiu >ply Co. Ihey are now located just East - A lace, and are prepared to take s well as to supply Accessories. HELIN TIRES AND TUBES. i i our line we will be pleased to rfield Auto ^ 7 Company tuto Co, ? I *ANY Is Now Located In The 3 1 Is Being Installed And Modern M r Highly Skilled Mechanics In 1 Makes Of Cars And Trucks. lereby Effecting A Decided Sav- L Company. If You Have Any f The CASH SYSTEM Bring Us II Convince You. Jj n