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Cljcstcrficli) IVtHrrtfoer VOL. 39?NO 8 CHESTERPljpD, S. C., THURSDAY, ^FEBRUARY 19, 1020 $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE CAIITU rtDAIiyi miruro jvuiu trtnuLillA NLYVd _ ' The white schools of Columbia have v .been closed for the week on account of scores of teachers being either < ,8ick or absent owing to sickness in their families. The srhoolx board hopes to reopen next Monday. The fine of ten dollars imposed on S. B. McMasters, of Columbia, for violating the State game laws by ending a wild turkey to President Wilson, has been remitted by order of Governor Cooper. Forty-nine citizens of Columbia, many of them prominent personages in that city, have been haled into a magistrate's court to answer to violations of the State laws requiring 1920 license plates displayed on all cars. The State Highway Commission announces. its intention of prosecuting all persons throughout the State found operating automobiles on expired licenses. Eight whiskey stills were destroyed in the State during the past week by revenue officers. Allendale county yielded five, Calhoun, Lexington and Orange one each. S. Joseph, a prosperous Syrian a merchant, of Columbin, was relieved ^ of $1 ,800 in an oldlime confidence game last Friday. Two strangers t wunted to give, him a couple of thou- ( Band dollars, provided he could show ( an equal amount. He drew $1,800 ^ from the bank and the men apparent- s ly placed an equal amount with it in j a tin box, locked up, handed it to j Joseph and departed. Ne$t day Joseph decided to investigate. Ho broke \ open the box and discovered that all j it contained was a package of paper | around which was wrapped four one ? dollar bills. The police have no clue. Prominent swine breeders of South a Carolina have called on all the farmers in the State interested in raising hogs to meet in Columbia on March 8, with the object of organizing an association for the purpose of co-operating and placing this State on the hog raising map. Rev. Richard W. Burts, well-known Baptist minister, is dead at his home, near Honea Path, at the age of 87. William Childers, aged 8, son of R. H. Childers of Florence, was drowned Monday by falling head-first into a hole filled with water by the recent rains. The electric light company had left the hole uncovered and .. . . XT. ' ?-? ... - - - an piwuniwQ xne Doy stumbled int6Ts It and being unable to extricate him- i aelf was drowned. t N. J. Baroody, of Bishopville, J alighted from a moving passenger i train at a crossing at Florence and i died from a fractured skull. t Charleston has forty new cases of 1 influenza and reports twenty deaths ' in the present epidemic. 1 A large tobacco warehouse is being 1 built at Orangeburg. < The city council of Bamberg has * purchased an eqippn ent of street building machinery and is bpsy jm- ^ proving the town's thoroughfares. H. W. Mozingo, until recently chief ^ of police of Darlington, committed suicide by shooting himself last Sat- t urday. He was suffering from an in- v curable ailment asd despondency over ^ his hopeless condition is thought to j have cauesd him to take his life. j Faul Lowe died at Spartanburg v Tuesday night from injuries received t in an automobile accident Sunday. ) Wilber and Wilford Simmons, twin brothers, who were TO MY Custom* You w Store in fron Those seed?Weig them in my your pay. Bring store; all the Have in Shoes Have Cotton Seed L?. J. -6-' - --a i.i me same accident, are not expected to live. The driver of/the machine, who is in jail charged with manslaughter, swerved into a tree when he tried to avoid u street car. T. Jeff Goodwin, ISptiortal bank examiner, died at Columbia Sundayof pneumonia, which followed an attack of influenza. Mr. Goodwin had lived in Columbia for a number of /ears, having moved there from Fort Mott. J. E. Riser, a farmer of near Saluda, was bitten in the face by a hound supposed to be mad. He killed the mimal and went at once to Columbia vith its head. If the1 dog is found to lave had rabies, Mr. Riser will uderro the Pasteur treatment. Carlisle College has established a itrict quarantine against the outside vorld. Carlisle has no influenza and ntends not to have. School will cominue, but no one will be permitted to >nter or leave the grounds. Scholars lot residing in the buildings will lave to move in or stay out until the juarantine is lifted. Dock Moore, a hitherto highly reslected young man of Gaffney, has ;een arrested charged with forging ind cashing checks to the amount of l7on Senator N. B. Dial and Represenativc Richard S. Whalcy, of South Carolina, who have been absent from Congress on sick leave, arc back in heir seats. Senator E. I). Smith is till confined to his room in a Washngton hotel, but is expected to be iack at work soon. Hog cholera is prevalent in Chareston County. 'LAN TO DEFER LOAN" INTEREST DUE FROM ALLIES FOR THREE YEARS It is reported from Washington hat Treasury officials favor having layment of interest on the $9,500,)()(),000 loan to foreign Governments leferred for three years and then "oregoing interest on the deferred inerest, amounting to more than $1,>00,000,000 over an eighteen year tcriod. This plan, tentatively-agreed ipon, was outlined to the Ways and deans Committee by Norman Davis, Assistant Secretary in charge of for:ign loans. While the WaVs and Means Comnittee has not made known its posiion on the Treasury plan, there teems to be much opposition. It is ecognized by the leading members if the Committee that the United States cannot afford to be mercenary ind should be lenient. Those opposng foregoing the interest say that he United States is paying 1,000 per rent, more taxes than before the war, Wmrlnnd about Mill rw>r <w.nl nrwl I France 60 per cent. They contend hat if the interest is not paid on the interest it will mean just that much ixtra burden on the American taxjayv r, who is now carrying the jrreatL'st burden of any of the countries vhich were at war. WILL TAKE POISONOUS GAS New Haven Conn. Feb. 10?Thireen students at Yale University have rolnteered to take carbon monoxide ras in tests which Professor Yandell Henderson is making to determine the iroportion <?f atuomobile exhaust rases which may safely be in the air >f the proposed Hudson River velicular tunnel. Tests will be concluded on March J. era Ann ill find me in Mr. W. \ t of his stables, who have always sold h them over at the seed house, come ove your cotton over in fr buyers are over here r * some special B about 150 bushels L for sale at $2.50 a bus , T. Hur if < ' v' w A " I I 'ki - * ? -* ' SUPERVISOR .WANTS HELP Lr. knight cannot keep ROADS IN DECENT CONDITION ON AVAILABLE FUNDS k _____ Aaka Farmora And Truck Uaera To .Drag Thoroughfares And Help Fill Up Mud Holea?Doea Not Expect To Run For Office Again i, To the voters of Chesterfield Co. I wish to thank you one and all for , the support you havo given rne in the past several years by your votes and your help and advice. I want to as- ' sure you that I have done all that I knew with the available means for:, the goo(T of Chesterfield County and i trust that we cun do more this year than we have ever done, but this will 1 depend entirely on the support of the | citizens of the County. It is true that we have a little more money for road 1 purposes than we have ever had, but , when you consider that it costs two ' or three times as much to fill a mud hole as it did five years ngo, and four times as much to build a bridge j you can see at once that we are up against a proposition. And right now-, is the time to get our roads in shape j for the summer. If we allow the holes to go unfilled through the ; spring we may expect to have them ( with us all the summer. Our Town- 1 ship Commissioners all tell me they can't get help. This being1 true it is \ a settled fact that our roads will go j unworked. Our ^preventatives tried ^ to get a good man for commissioner in each Township and if they have fail-1, ed it is your duty to be a good citi- | /.en and go to his assistance; tell him j what you think is best for a certain piece of road, offer to help him, give:' him all the encouragnient you cun, i( and not try to hinder the work. 1 ' think each of the Township Commis-; .doners will very much appreciate this. , If you will get together and give ! he Township Commission free help on ' the roads it will benefit you, especially if you are going to travel the | roads. I admit that you pay your ' tuxes but the small amount that we have for the roads, with the travel that we have on them will not keep them up especially where heavy trucks j are used. I feel sure that if each man that operates a truck on the road would make a trip 2 or 3 times a I month with a drag over the piece of road that he uses it would be time well -pent us he could haul more and legnthen the life of his truck. Another thing; if the farmers along the road would make drags and make a trip at some leisure time it would prove a great benefit to the road. 1'ieuse do not think that 1 am writing this for political gains for I ' am not. I do not expect to bi^'a candidate this yeur. I am writing this be- , cause I feel an interest in Chesterfield County and in the improvement of the county, and to have a good county we must have good churches, good schools, good frams and good roads to them. Again let me thank you for your support and trust that this may be the most prosperous year that you i have ever experienced. I am yours most truly, E. R. Knight. Friends ~I. Porter's I me their Depot, put r and get ont of the low. argains ong Staple jhel. st MANY CASES OF * "FLU" AT ANGELUS ' * Angelus, S. C., Feb. 1G?Then have been fco many cases of influenzi n and around here that it is perfect y useless tb try to give all the name: of the many sufferers. Almost ever; home in this community has been vis ited by the dread disease and in i number of-cases the entire family ha: been confined ,to beds with no one tt wait on thp sick. The writer and en tire family were among those so situ ated. We rfwish here to thank Mis: Mamie Oliver, one of our teachers who came to our assistance and ten derly nursed us for about ten days ulso Mr. George Simpson, who as sisted in waiting on us for govern' days. Mr. Robert Deese dibd at his honu near here Thursday night, February 12, and his remains were laid to rej?l in the Angelus cemtery Friday after noon. He leaves besides his wife several small children. Mr. Ileest came to this community from North Carolina sevei'al years ago. lie was a good citiien and was greatly like? by all who knew him. Mr. Jesse F. Hendrick, our efficient mail carrier, has been confined to his bod several days with the"flu",bu1 we are glad to report he is improving Mr. John D. Johnson underwent ar operation in a Columbia hospital i few days ago. At last report he was doing nicely. Miss Sarah Chapman, one of out teachers who has been suffering witt influenza, is .greatly improved. On account of the influenza the school at Angelus has been closed foi the past two weeks. Little Iloby Lee, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Threatt, who re zent.y moved from here to Rock Mill lied Tuesday, Feb. 10, of pneumonki ind was laid 'to rest in the Angel us Cemetery r. Wednesday afteroon Mrs. Threhtt is very sick with the fame disease. We hope for her n speedy recovery. The Lyric SHOWS 0, 7, and O'Cloclf Monday, ? . . . . February 23d A PARAMOUNT ARTCRAFT SPKC1AL BILLiE BURKE In "SADIE LOVE" Another Good Comedy Urania SHOWS r>, 7, and 9 ADM IS. 22c Tuesday . . February 2411 The Uncomparable NAZIMOVA "TOYS OF FATE' SHOWS 5, 7, and 9 A DM IS. 22c Wednesday February Zbtr A UNIVERSAL SPECIAL ATTRACTION AND A L-KO COMEDY A (i()OI) PROGRAM ASSURED SHOWS 5, 7, and 9 A DM IS. 22c Thursday . . February 2611 The Return to Our Program of One of the Screen's Most Rrilliant Stars Clara Kimball Young "Eyes ot Youth" A SPECIAL PRODUCTION WITH SPECIAL CAST SHOWS 3, fi, 7 & 9?Admis 30< Friday February 27tl VIVIAN MARTIIN "The Official Fiance ANOTHER WONDERFUL PARA MOUNT ARTCRAFT WITH THE CHARMING VIVIAN MARTIN SHOWS 5, 7, and 9 ADM IS. 22 1 Saturday February 28t ANTONIO MORENO In THE STH EPISODE OF "THE INVISIBLE HAND" ALSO MACK SENNETT COMED AND Of HSR PICTURES It... ;w?. . . J.... bftrtU ' - . NEWS IN GENERAL < L> Robert Lansing has retired from toe office of Secretary of State under 1 sensational circumstances, involving " personal differences with President ^ s Wilson. The immediate cause of the c Y resignation of Mr. Lansing was that t the President called him to account j for holding cabinet meetings during ^ 1 the illness of Mr. Wilson. According s to the constitutional law no one but ^ ) the President has the power to call C . the heads of the executive depart- ? nients into conference. The President called Mr. Lansing's attention . *.to this law and requested an explan? lation. Mr. Lunsing replied that he ^ - had no intention of usurping the pow- I t ;ors of the Preseident, but that he t ..would relieve Mr. Wilson of embar- f 1 Irassment by presenting his resigna- b tion. The resignation was accepted, c , The epidemic of influenza in New t r York City has abated to such an ex^ tent that all restrictions have been ? _ | wiinurawn. u The threatened strike of railway 11 > employees has been averted, at least , {for the present, by President Wilson's ^ J proposal of adjustment of their 1 j ! grieviences. The union leaders, rep- 1 resenting the 2,000,000 men, have " tentatively accepted the President's M ^ plan, which will be placed before a ' ^ jgeneral meeting of committees of 11 jtheir organizations to be held in a |Washington on February 23. Orders ' i calling the strike have been rescind- " i ed. ?' A memorial to the 400,000 allied sobliers kill<*?l in the defense of V'er- V dun will be erected through the com- ' , bined subscriptions of France, Great ^ Britain and the United States. Mar, j.shall I'etain heads the committee, ^ .{which has just issued an appeal to ( the United States and Great Britain . J to join France in this work. The ? monument will stand on Doua' {mont Hill, which overlooks most of w ' the battlefield. \ ' . The first test of the League of Na- t. (ions as a campaign issue has occur- t. ,'red. In the third Congressional I)is- z |trict of Missouri Capt. J. L. Million, s a League of Nations Democrat, won j, by a large majority over his oppon- $ ent, who was openly against the League. b , John H. Brede, who before the pro- f | hibition laws went into effect con- 'I ducted a liquor store beneath his resi- li dence in Brooklyn, moved his entire h k stock of 15 barrels of whiskey anil q some 1,500 bottles of various wet t I goods into his apartments upstairs, a He claims to be within his rights in !) I*? tain in ^ a supply of drinks pur- e chased before the law became effec- r tive. He says he intends the goods t ' for his own personal use. v Strawberries at $1.25 a box asd 1! peaches at $1 each are displayed in the New York markets. Having twelve murder cases on the docket, Judge 11. A. Mathews, sitting oa tne bench at Mnton. (la , has called for help. Two other judges will 1 assist in clearing the docket. Kleven women have been appointed members of the Democratic national | committee. Six more will be appointed. Five of the eleven so far are from the South. These ladies are: Mrs. i a ..f u:..... 1 * IIVVIV ?ki V UO| Ul I'll Illlll^lUtlll, I r Ala., Mrs. Josephus Daniels, of Kalei^h, M. Mrs. John K. Otloy, of - Atlanta, CJa., and Mrs. Beverley Mum ford, of Richmond, Va. i ('. I'\ O'Briant, a farmer of near Dalton, Ga., claims to have jjrown s green coloied cotton. He hiis experi- (l mented for years on the process and ,| now claims to have solved the prob- !< lom. He will not divulge his formula, I j but says he will riiise many bales the | r coming season. The color of samples j ( shown is a beautiful green the liber |, long and the textile fine, resembling jt lamb's wool. |;, Twenty-nine of the worst radical.i in America have been captured at j I'aterson, N'. J. All are professed an- ' archists and assassination is said to ' form the principal part of their creed, i The I'euce Treaty seems to be in ; about the same predicament as for i many weeks past. No progress whatever has been made toward the two parties getting together. Cotton exports from the United States during the month of January to European countries amounted to i>26,271 hales, valued at $194,1)65,i? 353. I Maryland has rejected the Woman Suffrage amendment by a vote of IK to D in the senate and 64 to 3d in the house. HONOR ROLL CROSS ROADS 1st grade: Lloyd Wadsworth, Avis Waddell. 3rd grade Clarke Woodward, Lawrence Oliver, Geneva Oliver, Anderc son Taylor, Olu Odom, Lester Taylor, Mary Ruth Hursey. 4th grrde: Owen Oliver, Gertrude h Taylor, Lois Waddell, Carl Woodward. 5th grade: Cliffton Waddell, Nora Gullcdge, Rufus Odom. 6th grade: Vara Waddell. 7th grade: Smith Oliver, Lessie Gulledge. V 8th grade Lonnie Woodward. fcimith Woodward. ...miia / trime statistics for quarter out Columbia, Feb 14.?The State Joard of Charities and Corrections las completed its analysis of the rime statistics of South Carolina for he quarter ending December .'11, 919. This analysis shows reports rom SI per cent, of the counties. There are no reports from Calhoun, Icorgeton, Horry, Lexington, Marin, Pickens and Richland. it says: "A startling condition of affairs exsts in this State. The gravest crimes lave had a marked increase over the receding quarter. It was expected hat crimes would decrease in tin-' ace of prosperity among people and ecause of the leadership of the (lov-1 rnor and his helpers for a diminu-j ion of felony. However, despite the, fforts of the constituted authorities nd the vigorous protest of the press,' ife and property have la-en violently ssaulted. "The last quarter shows ninetybur commitments for homicides in hirty-eight counties. This is more han a homicide a day. Perhaps in no it her part of the civilized world,: /here war and tumult does not exist, s there so high a percentage of holicides. During the quarter immeditely after the war, when passion was! uniting high and the war feu r had; ot abated, the number of homicides [ i the State was SI. Popular in- j i'rest was kindled I?y this revelation nd great anxiety ahout the eondi- I ion of affairs was shown. Now peace , eems to have settled down on the Utile, and yet a murderous spirit i- ' unning uncurhed through the land.' Vere all those that were killeil by heir fellow-nten in South '' <ro!inn n the peaceful year i1 !l stood up in Iain street with their hands stretch <1 out touching one another the line | /ould extend from the Jefferson Ho-j el to the State House. Were the ollins of those people that were kill-! <1 at the hands of their fellow-eiti- . ens piled one upon another the grewome stack would be over twice as igh as the tallest skyscraper in tin Hate. "Not only human life has been eld lightly, but property has also i aired ill at the hands of the lawless., 'he number of those committed for j urccncy was SOI. The highest numer committed prior to the December; uarter was 2ul, which were commit- j ed in the June quarter. Burglary has Iso thriven; the report show that <> commitments were made for this; rime. This increase of thieve- and ogues cannot be accounted for on ; he grounds of want, f<>r the Stale i yas never more prosperous than it j s now. There is j<: -nty of work to be ad, and at good wages too. "The violations of the prohibition aw were 2la. The officers of the aw have pursued with great energy ; hose who distilled alcoholic liquors >ut it seems that wherever a rabbit an exist a still is set up. Kvery brush leap is an object of just suspicion. I "It may be of interest to know that, tesides the crimes enumerated in the. receding paragraphs there were J2 J ommitments for forgery, Id for as-, siult, Kb for vagrancy, HI for fraud, f for arson and lb for rape. There! vere l,7bfi commitments; not an ex-j essive number, yet composed of sucli 1 tgly elements that its evil character turtles us. "The underlying cause for this evil i tate is the utter contempt that many j >f our people have for the law. They lo not feel that the State of South 'arolina has any power to curb thein 1 n their evil passion.-- <?r their un-' ighteous greed. The courts of ius- , ice are challenged, the sovereignty the Stale is flouted and the pro action of life and property is ne timed.?-Chariest on News Courier. At LYRIC CHERA1 I IIURSDAY, I EBRUARY 2(> : GRATEFUL FRANCE ? PRESENTS MEMORIALS TO FAMILIES OF AMERICANS WHO DIED FOT LIBERTY Chesterfied Post Of The American Legion Will Hold Services And Present Diplomas Next Sunday Dr. IlobcrtL. Gardner, Commander of the Chesterfield County Post of the American Legion, has received for distribution to the parents or nearest of kin of those of this county who died on the battlefields of France forty Memorials issued by the French Government in appreciation of the sacrifice made by these brave men for liberty. I h? Memorial is in the form of a diploma and contains an etching symbolical of the spirit of the American Army, with sword unsheathed, ready at all times to protect the weak 1 oonressed, the drawing being 'ramed with a border of oak and 'aurci leaves, which are always award) <1 to the victors. An inscription contains the name i the departed hero and the words in French: "Who died for Liberty during the (Leal War." '!!: i i followed bv t lie siimnfnrM < IVi :<i is? I'nineare, of the French RepuM ir. li is beautiful testimonial of the j. tat? I'tii French people to America and l<> I he hrave American soldiers who sacrificed their all to liberate France from the heel of the German e;.pr? It will serve for all time t a pr Uil reminder t<> those to whom it will l?e given that a Nation hows in c ni'ien of the pre at and noble servi.-e performed by the one whose name it bears. The National Commander of the American Legion has arranged with the Secretary of War that Washington's birthday will he set aside for the presentation of these .Memorials to the parents or next kin of those who lo t their lives in the World War. At cm ,imply Memorial services will be held in Chesterfield at the court house, mi Sunday, February, 22, at 11 A. M. At this service the Memorials will be delivered by the Chesterfield County Post of the American Legion. It is earnestly desired that the parents, relatives and friends of Chesterfield County's departed heroes he present at this ceremony. The following is a list of names of pan nt-s or others to whom the Memorials v ill he presented : < he terfield: Thomas W. Gaskins, Mrs. Millie Sanders, Mrs. Martha I'.rock, Malley Grant and Krvin Williams. .lelTwsoii: Mr> Bessie Kerr, Mrs. Fnima Stokes, Mrs. Sidney S tarn ex and It. It. \\ illiams. ('herau : l?r. II. F.. Bunch. Mrs. F. F. Mulloy, Mrs. C. It Spencer. Mrs. t'.. P. Bundv and .! C Ten-..II I'aireland: Mrs. S. ! '. Intrant1, |{. Smith ami \V. T. Knight. I'atrick: James Wilks, Mrs. .John T. Uadclitr. Ruby:'Mrs. Lizzie Hammond. Ml. Ctoyhan: William A. Short. Mcl'.ri': Mrs. Tom lSlaekwell and ' ha-. IS. Coward. Amrt lu-: Mrs. Krina Munjro and \\ illiam K. llorton. Seaboard: Andrew Britton. Memorials will he delivered to the following eolored people at the same time and invitation is extended them to attend the meeting: Connie I'oe, Aunes I'owe, Mariah I'owe, .1 ul i:i A. Smith, Annie Leak, Sky MrQueen, Carrie MeKea, Dora l'eirni's and l.ue.v Moore, Cheraw; Josie Streeter, Robert Kittle. I.ue Miller, and John I.. Lane, Chesterfield; lilt lie .ha i -on. Ml. < roydian. THEATRE w, s. c. SI low S 3. 7 and 9 O'CLOCK ill