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jf- . i LET THI If your Ford car And the best way to 1 to our authorized Sei acquainted with the 1 repair your car, can tv service. Then, too w and durable. They counterfeit parts that to human life to use pocket book. We are a part o serve the owners of ? in your car. Prompt motor overhaul. I)ri invested in your Ford Ctierav If Your Need j Legit. . i i i within the he tice, it will 1) And in pleased to h any business you. Our only a Bank is tl er; so consit THE FARIV RUBY, SOU1 T. H. BURCH o m r President. Our Savings 1 We Set in the sale of W this community. Our stock is rigt and we are amply ; Farmers' H; ???????????*??? J. ARTHUR KNIGHT Attorney-at-Law Office in Courthouse Chesterfield, S. C. H ANNA St HUNLEY ?Attorney*? R. E. Henna, C. L. Hunley, Cheraw. Chesterfieh Offices: The Courthouse, Chesterfield Bank of Cheraw Bldg., Cheraw DR. L. H. TROTTI, Dental Surgeon A _1J ci n vyiinieruoiu, o. Vj. Office on second floor in Roh Building. All who desire my services wil please see me at Chesterfield, as have discontinued my visits to othe towns. DR. R. L. McMANUS Dentist Office over Bank of Chesterfield. Will visit Pageland every Tuesday Mt, Croghan every Wednesday. L Other days in Chesterfield. T Prices reasonable. All work guai k THE UNIVERSAL CAR * IRE BE NO E is out of tunc, there is undoubtedly n v< ind that reason, and have it remedied, i: vice station, where one of our mechar Ford mechanism and who knows the F me it up in a parage that is properly equ e never use imitation pa-ts?only Gem wear from thirty to seventy-live per are softer and more cheaply made. 1 imitation parts, and it is not fair to ; f the gigantic Ford Service organization ill Ford cars and trucks; we have more , service is given on all work?from a ve in and see the facts for yourself?tl car to miss connections with the authori If It* a Part of a Ford Car We Have v Motor Sales C< Cheraw, S. C. Insist on Genuine Ford Parts 5 ~ imate, lpoi sound hanking prace gladly met at thisBank. any event we shall he ave you call on us w ith 5 problem that confronts excuse Lor existence as lie Service we can ren- , Jer us always. IERS BANK rH CAROLINA 4EWSOM M. L. RALEY, V.-President Cashier. 'lari Is Interesting the Pace indow Shade* for it up-to-the-minute thle to supply you. ardware Go. Uul.y-My-Tism is ? great pain kill<t. It relieves pain and soreness caused l>y Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sprains, Ktc. ! 'i? J ASHCRAFTS 'Condition Powders A high-class remedy for lior-e:and mules in poor condition am] in n*ed of a tonic. Builds solid muscle and fat; cleanses the sy* 1 tem, thereby producing a smooth glossy -coat of hair. Packed i* f I *, ; -s " *?i? THE CHESTERFIELD DRUG CO. MiflHiil 1 I I ? )iscorps -*ry Rood reason for it. s to jump in and drive lies who is thoroughly 'ord way to adjust or linniwl in rnol line Ford-made, strong cent, longer than the in fact it is dangerous your Ford car or your whose purpose it is to than a passing interest minor adjustment to a here's too much money zed Ford dealers. It ompany NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS When making inquiries by mail concerning amo~ of taxes, etc., it is essential that tax-payers name each separate piece of real estate owned by them, together with its location, in what township, school district etc. J. A. WRI.SII, Name "Bayer" is on Genuiro Aspirin?say Bayer /T\ M Insist on "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" in a "Bayer package," containing proper directions for Headache, Colds, Pain, Neuralgia, Lumbago, and Rheumatism. Name "Bayer" means genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years. Handy tin boxes of 1*2 tablets cost few cents. Aspirin is trade ?nark of Bayer Manufacture of Mouoaccticacidester of Salicylicacid. NOTICE On the Oth day of February, I will apply to the Probate Court for a discharge as administratrix of the estate of J. \V. Johnson, deceased. Jan. a, 11)20. p LEON A JOHNSON, Administratrix STOCKHOLDERS MEETING Notice is hereby given that there will be a meeting of the stock-holders of the Bank of Ruby & Mt. Croghan, at its office, on th 12th day of February, 11)20, at 12 o'clock, for the purpose of considering a motion to amend its charter, by striking out mi- wortis, yuuny etc," in its name, so that the name of the bank shall be, "Hank of Mt. Croghan." Jas. H. Ratliff, Cashier GASOLINE SYSTEMS Oil Tanks and rumps, Air Compressors, Computing Scales Floor Scales, Show Cases, Account Registers, Rebuilt Cash Registers Safes, Store Fixtures. HAMILTON SALES CO. Columbia, S. C. WHOLE SYSTEM JUKI-DOWN Quick Improvement Is No'.od After A Few Doses of ZIRON lion Tonic. Increase in appetite, the coming back bf strength, disappearance of headaches and otlier ills, are a few of the many good results obt-'ned frc :i the usn of r new remedy (Zircn Iron Topic). Mr Qiiii i rintdptf C. Hb tried Ziron and hag (his to say: "When 1 began to take Ziron, it seemec that my whole system was run-down but soon after I began to take Ziron, I could eat more'each day and would fee a great deal.bptter. fiver since it seem; that my heailn hag been'improving, as seldom have the headache or feel bac the least bit. Ziron is a new scientific combinatior of pure medicinal inorganic iron, com bined wilh phosphorus, the active prin ciple of nux Vomica and the hvnophosphiles of lime and soda. It will help t( add more red corpuscles to your blood resulting in more color in your cheeksmore vitality in your system. Try Ziron today; on the money-bacl ffuaiantee. 7N1I Your Blood Needs lS!B?BL BUY IT AT HOME If Y?? Cmm i. m r,? * i ;> V, , -w. r ^ " r :.r 7?r CROOKED ._ : *?k2*iSTR? RSI/lam JVkc COPYRIGHT.BY CS? .W. PI PART I 1 J Curly. " CHAPTER f. Following a Crooked Trail. ? Across Dry valley a dust cloud had g been moving for hours. It rolled Into Suguacho at the brisk heels of a bunch of horses Just about the time the town wns settling: Itself to supper. From ^ out of the heart of It cantered a rider, Q who swung his pony as on a half dolI ii r rarwl *??? * ? 1 ?., ...... .itumcu uie reuiuuu luwuru Chiinn's corral. The rider was In the brond-rlmnied r felt hat, the gray shirt, the plain leath- " er chaps of a vnquero. Under other conditions he might have been a col- '' lege freshman for age, but the competent confidence of manhood sat easily v on his broad shoulders. Curly Flan- d drau had more than once looked into t the chill eyes of death. t The leaders of the herd dribbled Into the corral through the open gate, and II the others "crowded on their heels, t Three more riders followed Curly Into a the inclosure. One of them, a red- z hulred young fellow of about the same C age as Curly, swung stiffly from the saddle. t "Me for a square meal first off," he s gave out promptly. "Not till we've finished thLs business, g Mac. We'll put a deal right through If Warren's here," decided a third mem- n her of the party. lie was a tough-look- v Ing customer of nearly fifty. "Bad Bill" v Cranston he was called, and the man k looked as If he had earned his sobriquet , ?"And what If he ain't here?" snarled Lute Blackwell. "Are you aiming to ? sit down and wait for him?" j "We'll cross that bridge when we (i come to It," Bad Bill answered. "Curly, want to ride up to the hotel and ask If Mr. Dave Warren Is there? Bring him right down If he is." v The young man cantered up the ;| dusty street toward the hotel. "Thought you'd fixed It with this- * Wurron to be right on the spot so's we could unload on him prompt," I c Blackwell grumbled at Crunston with- s out looking toward the latter. "I didn't promise he'd be hanging * round your neck soon as you hit town," " Cranston retorted coolly. 1 The owner of the corral sauntered c from the stable and glanced over the -bunch of horses milling around. t "Drive all the way from Bar Double f M?" usked the keeper, Ills eyes on the 1 brand stumped 'on the fiank of a pony ' circling past. ! I "Yep." Bud Bill turned away and began to 1 unsaddle. "Looks like you been hitting the road at a right lively gnlt." f Mac cut In. "Shoulder of my bronc's j chafed from the saddle. Got unythlng ] that'll heal It?" I "Yoil hot T hflVD Thn tnnn Knnwlnri Into tho stable and tho red-headed cow- < puncher winked ucross the back of his j horse at Bill. The keeper of the stable and the | young man were still busy doctoring the sore when Curly arrived with War- ( ren. The buyer was a round-bodied , man with black gimlet eyes that saw j j much be never told. The bargain he j drove was a hard one, but it did not ] take long to come to terms at about 1 one-third the value of the string he j wns purchasing. Very likely he had | his suspicions, but he did not voice | them. No doubt they cut a figure In ! the price. He let It be understood , that he was u supply agent for the I rebels In Mexico. Before the bills were warm in the pockets of the sellers, his vaqueros were mounted and were moving the remuda toward the border. Curly and Mac helped them get started. As they rode back to the cor- j ral a young mun came out from the stable. Flandrau forgot that therewere reasons why he wanted Just now j to be a stranger In the land with his j Identity not advertised. He let out a i shout. "Oh, you, Slats Davis 1" "Hello, Curly 1 How are things i I a-comln'?" j "Fine. When did you blow in to , i Sagunche? Ain't you off your run I some?" They had ridden the range togethei nnd had frolicked around on n dozen boyish larks. To put It mildly the ; meeting was likely to prove embarrass|, ?ng. I , j "Came down to see about getting some cows for the old man from the i Flddlebnck outfit," Davis explained ; "You riding for the liar Double M?" I | There was a momentary silence. I Curly's vigilant eyes met those of his J old side partner. What did Slats , know? Were his suspicions already I active? ' 1 "No, I'm riding for the Map of 1 Texas." Flandrau answered eveiuy. i "Come on, Curly. Let's go feed our J; Uub-My-Tism is a powerful anti- I , septic; it kills the poison caused from I infected cuts; cures old sores, tetter. HONIT BACK iHthout ouwtioolf Hunl'?S?lf? fails In the treatment of Itcacma. g, IMBI| i Tetter, Ringworm, Itch, J I Don't become discouraged be- m i ' I cause other treatments failed. I ^Vl t Hunt's Salve has relieved htm- xf B <M dreds of such cases. You can't VC f i lose on our Nsn?y fas* KX \ 1 ?5S4v"fc2RSiVrt-' - I v. * a"* ! i' -1 r-ti i -a. -- - - J?"' ?? TRAILS IGHT \r ZeodJPaizi& LLINGHAM COMPANY aces," Mu<f called from tlie stable. Flandrau nodded. "You still with he Hashknlfe?" he asked Davis. "Still with 'em. I've been raised to sslstunt foreman." "Bully for you. That's great. All Ight, Mac, I'm coming That's sure reat, old hoss. Well, see you later, Hats." Flandrau followed Mac, dissatisfied rtth himself for leaving his frleud so ! avallerly. He guessed Slats would he urt, but he had to think of his part- | ers In this enterprise. I After supper they took a room at he hotel and divided the money Waren had paid for the horses. None f them hud slept for the last fifty lours and Mac proposed to tumble tito hod at once. Had Bill shook his head. "1 couldn't, Mac. Let's hit the trail and lo our sleeping In the hills. There's oo many telephone lines Into this own to suit me." "Sho! Our play Isn't to hike out Ike we were scarhd stilt of some* liing. What we want to do Is to act s If we could look every darned cltlen in the face. Mac's sure right," lurly agreed. "You kids make me tired. I'm going o dust muy pronto," Blackwell uarled. "Sure. Whenever you like. You ot to split up anyhow," Mac said. I'ad Hill looked at Blackwell and ioddod. "That's right. We don't all cant to pull a blue streak. That could he a dead give away. Let the :ids stay If they want to." "So as they can round on us If hey're nabbed," Blackwell sneered. Crnnston called him down roughly. That'll be enough along that line, ,ute. I don't stand for any more racks like It." Blackwell, not three months out mm the penitentiary, faced the other cith an ugly look In his eyes. lie was lways ready to quarrel, but he did lot like to fight unless he had a sure hing. "Didn't mean any harm," the exonviot growled. "Hut I don't like til.* ticking around town." "Then I wouldn't stay if I were rou," Curly suggested promptly. "Mac md I have got a different noIon. So w e'll tie to Saguache for a lay or two." As soon as the older men had gone he others tumbled Into bed and fell isleop at once. Daylight was sifting n through the open window before heir eyes opened. Somebody was loundlug on the bedroom door. Mac was already out of bed when lis partner's feet bit the tloor. "What's up. Mac?" The eyes of the redheaded puncher jleumed with excitement. llis sixpin was In his hand. By the look of lira he was about ready to whang oose through the door. "Hold your horses, you chump," [Jurly sung out. "It's the hotel clerk. [ left u call with him." "That you, Curly? For God's sake, et me In." Before he-had got the words out the loor was open. Sluts eame In and shut It behind him. He looked at "They're ufter you," lie said. iS "They're After \ ' " He Said. "Who?" fir -i{ i u !y hack nt him. "Tlir i* i I?? 11T i? M iinjs. They Just i , ..c Ji' ?I on ii ' "Put up that Ktiii, Mac, atul move Into your clothes Immediately," orrlered Curly. Then to Davis: "<Io on. Unload the rest. What do they know?" "They inquired for you and your Dyed Her Faded Skirt, Also a Coat "Diamond Dyes" Make Shabby Apparel Juet Like New?80 Easy! Don't worry about perfect results. Use "Diamond Dyes," guaranteed to give a new, rich, fadeless color to any fabric, whether wool, ^ilk, linen, cotton or mixed goods,? dresses,Sh' sise-t. sti Leungs, skirts, children's coat y CVerythiyf! iiiisai mm 500 Bushels CLEVELAND BIG BOLL COTTON SEED $2.50 Per Bu. W. D. CRAIG friend here down at the Legal Tender." "Have we got a chance to make our getaway?" Mac asked. Davis nodded. "Slide out through the kitchen, cut Into the alley, and across lots to the corral. We'll lock the door and I'll hold them here long as I can." "Good boy, Slats. Lf there's a necktie party you'll get the first bid," Curly grinned. Slats looked at him, cold and steady. Plainer than words he was telling his former friend that lie would not Joke with a horse thief. Por the sake of old times he would save him If he could, hut he would call any bluffs about the whole thing being a lark. Curly's eyes fell away. It cnrae to him for the first time that he was no longer an honest man. Up till this escapade he had been only wild, but i now he had crossed the line that separates decent folks from outlaws. | Not another word was said while they hurried Into their clothes. I?ut as Curly passed out of the door he called back huskily. "Won't forget i what you done for us, Slats." Again their eyes met. Davis did not speak, but the chill look on his ; face told Plandrau that he had lost a II JUIIU. The two young men run down the buck stnlrs, passed through the kitchen where a Chinese cook was getting breakfast, and out into the bright suuHght. I "Won't do to be in any hurry. The ' play is we're gentlemen of leisure, just j out for an amble to get the mo'nlug j air," Curly cautioned. While they fed, watered and saddled they swapped gossip with the | wrangler. It would not do to leave ' the boy with a story of two riders in 1 such a hurry to hit the trail that they j could not wait to feed their bronchos. : So they stuck It out while the animals I ate. At that, they shaved it tine, for | I as they rode away two men wore coming down the street. "Kite Boniils," Curly called to his partner. No explanation was needfld. Bon- j flls was the foremun of the Bar Double M. He let out a shout as he caught sight of them and begun to 1un forward. Simultaneously his gun seemed to jump from its holster. Mac's quirt sang and his pony leaped to a center in two strides. A bullet zipped between them. Another struck the dust at their heels. Faintly there eutne to the fugitives the sound of the foreman's impotent curses. They had escaped for the time. | Presently they passed the last bnrb wire fence nnd open country lay before them. It did not greatly matter which direction they followed, so long as they headed into the desert. Neither of them hud ever been in serious trouble before and botli regretted the folly that had turned their drunken spree into a crime. They were stretched in front of the fire that evening trying to -nuke a smoke serve instead of supper. Mac broke a gloomy silence to grunt out jerkily a situation ho could no longer keep to himself. "Here's where I get my walking papers, I reckon. No rustlers need apply." Curly shot a slant glance at him. "Meaning?the girl?" The red-headed puncher took from his coat pocket a photograph and showed it to his friend. The sweet clean face of a wholesome girl smiled at Curly. "She's ce'tuinly a right nice young lady. I'll bet she .stands by you all right. Where's she live at?" "Walts in a restaurant at Tombstone. We was going to he married soon as we hud saved five hundred doliurs." Mac swallowed hard. "And I had to figure out this short cut to the money whilst T was drunk. As if she'd look at money made that way." Curly tried to cheer him up, but did i not make much of a Job at it. The Inj disputable facts were that Mao was j an outlaw and a horse thief. The redheaded boy rolled nnother ! cigarette despondently. "Sho! I'vo t cooked my goose. She'll not look at me ?even if they don't send tne to the pen. And she's the best ever. Her I name's Myra Anderson." They slept under a live oak with the i . .... ... soundness 01 neuitny youin. for inc time they forgot their troubles. Neither of them knew that as the hours slipped away red tragedy was galloping closer to them. The sun was shining in his face , when Curly wakened, lie sat up and rubbed his eyes. Mac was nowhere in sight. Probably ho had gone to get the i horses. A sound broke the stillness of the desert, riandrau leaped to bis feet, and at the same instant Mac came running over the brow of the hill. A smoking revolver was In Ids hand. From behind the hill a gun craclied j ? then a second?and u third. Mac 1 stumbled over his feet and pitched ' forward full length on the gerund. IIis j friend ran toward him, forgetting the ' revolver that lay In Its holster under I the live oak. Every moment he exj pected to see Mac Jump op. hut the flg| ure stretched beside the cholln never I (lUlVPti (Tlunflptlll fait tlifi I ? ~ round his heart tighten. He had seen sudden death before, but never had It ' come so near home. A bullet sent up n spurt of dust In 1 front of lilin, another Just on the left. | Riders were making a half eirele around the knoll and closing In on him. { In his right mind Curly would have ! been properly frightened. Rut now he thought only of Mat lying there so still in the sand Right Into the ttre zone > he ran Unelt beside his partner and lifted the red-thatched head. A little I# kffik f U* left aar and another the right plowed through Softly Flandrau put the and rose the dead his hund. The riders on The cu|qBt0 Almost at a thrtAV lllB arm of the trapped rusfljsB^^HB^B had nipped hlin from tholflr. Curly saw red. SumflNfr H, He would go down flgfa^1"? H fast as he could blaze b* enH ^BS Mac's gun. When the smake ?I^H the inun who had ordered >1? towl^^B| u{> was slipping from his bfliwe- (B)H^B wus surprised, but he kMff he have hit him by chance. "We got him. His gttn'S empt^^^B some one shouted. Cautiously they closed 1? kf!<1 him covered all the time. Ofja the piuin tilted up to meet tl> jH H Flnndruu felt himself swaying ^^^B feet. Everything went black H boy bad fuiuted. ^^^B When he came to himself faces were all around him a were 110 bodies to go with the seemed to tioat about in an oc sort of way. Then things cle "He's coming to all right/' H "Hfitv Is Culllson?" ^B| This was said to another Just mini mi. ijIioks anoui ar In the The rage (lied out of Cur flush he saw all that had con drunken spree: the rust 11 r|, Bur I>ouble M stock, the Jbisco I II the death of his friend and Cnlllson, the certain punishment would follow, lie was a horse tj^^HH caught uluiost In the act. Perhaps^^^H was a murderer, too. And the thing had been entirely nnprem^ tuted. "You've played h o** men told the boy. r*1" He was a sawed-off uUr" known ns Dutch. Flandrai hliu In the Map of Texas year or two before. TheV strangers to the boy. A1 n looked at him out of hard, h< s He was f?rarcely a human b them; rather u wolf to be stainpeu of existence as soon us it wus convenient. ' At a shift In the group Flnffflrnu's eyes fell on his friend lying in the sand with face turned whltcly to the sky he never would see again. A lamp came Into the boy's throat and he had to work It down before he spoke. "There's a picture In his pocket, and some letters, I reckon. Send them to Miss Myra Anderson, Tombstone, care of one of the restaurants. I don't know which one." "Send nothin'," sneered Dutch, .a* coupled it with a remark no decei. man makes of a woman on a guess. Because of poor Mac lying there with the little hole In his temple Curly boiled over. With u Jerk his right ant# was free. It shot out like a pile driver, ull his weight behind the hlow. Dutch went down us if a charging bull hud Hung him. Almost simultaneously Curly hit th^j sand hard. Before he could atir men were straddled over his unuto Ono of them ground his head into dust. "You would, eh? We'll see a' that. Jake, bring yore rope." They tied tlu> hands of the hauled him to his feet, and set ustride a horse. In the distant windmill of the Circle C ranch shining in the morning sun. Towa the group of buildings clustered arou this two of his ruptors started wi Flandrau. As they rode along a fenced la which led to the house a girl came f log down the steps. At sight of' th coming toward her she called ' quickly: "How is dad?" The quiver of fij^ broke In her voice. | "Don't know yet, Miss Kate,"V^ ' sxvered one of the men. "He's rV peart, though. Says for to toll m i not to worry. We've got lierp mangy son of a gun that did It." i llefore he had finished she wai off _ like an arrow shot from a how, but fl ' not until her eyes had fallen ?>q the I i youth sitting bareheaded and bjbody between the guns of his ?W#T?r ^ ' noticed that she had given a shi* j us one might at sight of a rimiS? niad dog which had just bit a qi friend. Long after the poa?|^jng her pony's hoofs had died it*. prisoner could see the startled e* fear and horror that had res' 1 him. ,|||l| His guards put Flnudrau In tlie r liouse and one of them sut at the <L4>ot with a rifle across his knees. The cvok, the stable boy, and red-headed Bob t'uMlson, n nephew of the owner of the (Continued on next page) LIFT CORNS OR CALLUSES OFF I Doesn't hurt! Lift any corn or callus off with fingers iSli* f * Tr A yj! Don't suiterJ A tiny bottle Freezone costs but a few cents any drug store. Apply a few d" on the corns, calluses and "hard si on bottom of feet, then lift thehi When Freezone removes < from the toes or calluses At I bottom of feet, the akfljl I 4 left pink and healthy ilHHlul U jk tender or irritated. - ? * ?