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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
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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.
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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;
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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.
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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.
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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.
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