The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, February 19, 1920, Image 4

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REDU COST 0 Wo are endeavoring the high cost oi -lotorii high," whether tli"y be i and we are prepared to T1RST?We have 1 SECOND?Wc ha> who have a personal int THIRD?We use o tainable. We handle the Fai a difl'eren<*e in the runei We handle MICH World's Eo^t,1' luiiy gun Aiiu w.i handle LE guaranteed for 5,000 ini Tube, at a very low prtc tube in its place. W h; 11 in tit - i i i > I Mi convinced. KKiMK.UMKR?Our The Ch And Su GALVANIZED COR Ha < two tlou-and two h t\\< tv-nine eauci (ialvuii Otic thousand four lium lenv'hs. Th:s is car that You ouyhl to use our lean for circular. C( >LIMBIA SU T~F V/tiiM J\Ts* 1/ I I/Mi Lei ^ I within t tice, it1 And ploasod any nil* you. Our a Banl er; so ( THE FA] RUBY, T. H. IiURCH, P rfsiilr 111 Our S, I^oyste^4 y ???? " ? /1 1^ ) 1^, RU*m?M ^ IFERTIUZ^ k ICING THE F MOTORING ! \> to aid the motoring public in reducing n "Which all wPl a<bnit is excessively h nnkoriug for business or for pleasure? 0 do this during the year 1920. educed our operating expenses. r k*e employed only skilled mechanics e erest in the business. t nlv the best parts and accessories obe tnous"GREEN FLAG OJL7 Ii makes *' ng and in the 1 i?* ol' any motor. ILL IN CASINGS and TUBES?"The t iraniocd. t: .HIGH Cabiii.g^, at a ciy low p>*!ce? r i!es, and the GREENWOOD Rod Inner ^ t guaranty* d again >t defect or a new i>ihing in our lite give us a call and be t motto is to please you. estertieSd Auto ipply Company RUGATFD & V CRIMPED ROOFING undred (2: <?o , >111 ? ts O.h ru'ratril numher liy.ed Koui'u.y: in d', V, S' and lo' lengths. I red i 1400) sheets \' Crimped in same ii'ft factory .Ian. 2! st, expected any d"\\ i headed Nails in juitlinp on Rooiinp;. Send PPI Y r^o columb,a. s c^ >23 West Gervais Street I I _^_ __ i ed Is ptimate, lie help ot sound banking praccvill be gladly met at t bis Bank, in any event we shall be to have you call on us with smess problem that confronts only excuse Lor existence as ; is the Service we can rensonsider us always. RMEHS BANK SOUTH CAROLINA K. M. Ni: VSOM M. L. HALEY, 1 V.-i'rt-sid. nt Cashier. . avings Plan Is IntfH'e.rting The Fish into the h \Tr\T /T\t ti-s m.-w m. ? - ? LNWJ. 1IN1VJ iriU/ lNAiYli TPAflC MAflK WEGlUIEKiJ irrrc-rr, v : 10 wr.rJ f..>h in their fertilize! ttin'j" it ) y i.isi tin;? on Rnyster'r., the on Izer. Wo h.?<ve been suczcssfr.l : . secui es of fish and will bo able l > fully meet j trade for this popular ?-.:-/.o'..b?te. > 7/ie Fertilizer '' Fish Scrap Fai I S. ROYSTER GUAI ? | lT/~" ' Richmond,Vn. Lynchburg, s. .. ttc, 11. C. Washington, il. C. ,.u. . . ir/, 3. C. Atlanta, Ga. Macon,G - h -go.nery, Ala. ;jaitimcro, MJ. , > L ? CROOKED TRAILS ! AND STRAIGHT (Continued from preceding page) living a quarrel. The girl's eyes were . ed, and she was still dabbing at thein j i*ii li her handkerchief when lie came ' ,-hlstling along. Sam looked dlacourged. but stubborn. Very plainly they ad been disagreeing about his line o( j onduct. The two yonng men took the trail : gain. Ahout noon tho next day they eaclied Saguache. After they had t aten, Curly strolled oft by hiiffself to he depot. "Clmme a ticket for Tin Cup for this vening. I want to go by the express," e told tlie agent. The man looked at lilni and grinned. You're so darned active, maybe you ould get off No. 4 when she is fogllig along sixty miles per. Hut urost oiks couldn't, not with any comfort." "Meaning tiiut the llyer doesn't top?" "Not ut Tin Cup." "Have to take the afternoon truln hen?" "I reckon." He punched a ticket nd shoved It through the window ownrd Curly. "Sixty-live cents, dense." Fhindruu puld for and pocketed the ieket he did not intend to use. lie mil found out what lie wanted to mow. The express did not stop at rin Cup. Why, then, luid Soapy narked the time of its arrival there? le was beginning to guess the reason, tut lie would have to do more than ;uess. Flandrau sauntered hack to the hoel on the lookout for Sam. He was nit t'u + hut waiting for him was a toy with a note for the geiitliniuni In No. 81V. "Kid looking for you," the clerk called to the row-puncher. "At e you Mr. Soupy Stone's ft lend, !lie one Just down from Dead Cow . reek?" asked the hoy. Curly nodded and took the noU?. This was what he read: "Sam. route to Chnlkeye's place soon is y.?u g< t this. There we will talk iver the business. "YOU KNOW WHO." Though he did not know who, Curly bought lie could give u pretty good ^11 ess both as to the author and the luslncss that needed talking over. Through the open door of the hotel lie saw Sam approaching. Quickly he muled the Hup of the envelope again. "A letter for you, Sam." Culllson tore open the envelope and j read the note. "A rricnd of mine has romp to town und wants to see mo," he explained. | To help out his hlutT, Curly sprang the feeble-minded Jest on him. "Rloiele r?r brunette?" "I'm no lady's man," Sam protested, content to let the other follow u wrong scent. "Sure not. It never Is a lady," FlanIrau called after him us he departed. Hut Sam had no more than turned l he corner before Curly was out of a ylde door and cutting through an alley toward Chalkeye's place. Reaching the back door of the saloon, he opened It a few Inches and peered In. A minute later Sam opened the front screen ami asked a question of the man in the apron. The hnrtender gave a Jerk of his thumb. Sam walked toward tie rear ami turned in at the second private booth. Curly slipped forward quietly, ami passed unobserved Into the third stall. The wall which divided one room from another was of pine boarding and did pot reach the ceiling. Flattened against the wall. Ids attention strained to the can be sure of the demands cf it Made lfl inous utmost, Curly began to catch words i< and phrases of the low-voiced speak- p ers In the next compartment. His po- n sltlon was perilous In the extreme, but n he would not leave now until he had t< found out what he wanted to know. o k CHAPTER VI. ? c Eavesdropping. I' Out of the murmur of voices cnme one that Curly recognized ns that of || Soapy Stone, nllns You Know Who. . . . then you'll take the 0:57, Sam ..." f After more whispering, "Yep, soon as you hear the first shot . . . cover the pussengers . . ." The listener lost what followed. Once he thought he heard the name Tin Cup, but he could not be sure. Presently another fragment drifted to him. . make our getaway and cuclie the plunder . . ." The phonograph lifted up Its voice. This time It was "1 Love a Lassie." Before the song was finished there came the sound of shuffling feet. One j of the inen In the next stall was leav- 1 Ing. Curly could not tell which one, | nor did he dare look over the top of the partition to find out. lie was playing safe. This adventure h.id caught him so unexpectedly that he had not found time to run back to his room for his six-inch gun. What would liapi>?n to him if he were caught llstentng was not u matter of doubt. Soapy would pump lead Into him till he quit kicking, slap a saddle on a broncho nud light out for the Sonora line. As the phonograph finished unex- ' pectedly?some one had evidently Interrupted the record?the fragment ; of u sentence seemed to Jump at Curly, j "... so the kid will gut Ids In j the row." It was the voice of Soupy, raised slightly to nuike Itself heurd above the music. "Take cure," unother voice replied, uml Flnndruu would huve sworn that this belonged to ltluckwell. Stone, who hud been sitting on the other side of the table, moved close to the paroled convict. Retween him and Curly there was only the thickness of a plunk. . don't like It," ltluckwell wus objecting sullenly. "Makes It safe for us. Resides"? Stone's voice grated like steel rasping steel, every word distinct though very low?"I swore to pay ofY Luck Culllson, and by (J I'm going to do It." Aguln they fell to whispers. The next word that came to Curly clearly : was his own name. "Luck Culllson went his bail. I learned it this ino'ning." I "The son-of-a-gun. It's a cluch lie's u spy. Reckon In knows anything?" i "No. Can't." , "If I thought he did?" "Keep your shirt on, Lute, lie don't know a thing. And you get revenge I on him all right. Sam will run with him and his friends while lie's here. Consequence Is, when they iind the kid where we leave him they'll sure guess Curly for one of his pardncrs. Tell you his ticket is good as bought to Yuma. He's u horse thief. Why shouldn't he be u ^rnin robber, too? Thnt's how u Jury will argue." Once more the voices ran together Indistinctly. It was not till Rlackwell suggested that they go and get a drink that Curly understood anything more of what was being said. The outlaws passed out of the little room ami strolled forward to the bar. Curly had heard more than lie had expected to. Moreover, as lie congratulated himself, Ids luck had stood up fine. Nobody In the sunburnt territory felt happier than he did that minute when he struck the good fresh air of the alley and knew that lie had won through his hazardous adventure ulive. At. \.IM II1IIIK lllill I* III 11*11 II II tlltl wh s to wit Ik toward the outskirts of tli* tonu, where he could thiuk It out by himself. Bt'forti he reached Arroyo street Curly came plum? h 'ft lust his old rango-muto, SlHts I>uvis. Fhimlriiu caught him hy the arm. "Hello, Sluts. You're the man I want." "I'm pretty busy toduy," Duvls un- J swered stlllly. ! "Forget It. Title Is more 1io|m>ptant." "Well?" I * "Come along and take u v/alk. 1 i got something to tell you." a Iteluctantly l>avls fell in heshle hint. "All right. Cut It short. I've got to 1 see a man." "He'll have to wait." Curly could 5 not help chuckling to himself at the evident embarrassment of the other. The Impish impulse to "devil" him had ita way. "You're a man of experience, * Slats. Kver hold up a train? Sopte of ' my friends are aiming to hold up one N shortly. If you'd like to get lit I'll S say a good word for you." ' Davis threw him a look that v drenched like Ice water. "I expert 'I you and ine are traveling different 41 trails these days, Curly. You don't mean it, of course, hut the point Is " I'm not going to Joke with you along I that line. Understand?" k "Wrong gui'hti, old Iiomm. I do iiican It." y I>iivIm stopped In Ids tracks. "Then ?' you've said too much to me. We'll part right here. When you choose li Soapy Stone's crowd to run with that ? cuts out me and other decent folks. >i If they have sent you here to get me mixed up in their deviltry you go hack r and tell them there's nothing doing." < "Won't have a thing to do with li them. Is that it?" h "Not till the cull comes for citizens f to get together und run them out of s the country. Or to put them behind bars. Or to string them to a cotton- d wood. Then I'll be on the Job." h lie stood there quiet and easy, the II There In more Catarrh tn this section '' of the country than all other dlsoascs " put together, and for years It wna sup- 1 posed to be Incurable. Doctors presc ribed o local remedies, and by constantly falling ' to cure with local treatment, pronounced h It incurable. Catarrh Is a local disease, M] greatly Influsnced by constitutional con- . dtttons and therefore requites constitutlonal treatment. Hall's Caturrh Medl- h cine, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, In a constitutional remedy. Is taken Internally and acts " thru the Blood on the Mucoue Surfaces Ei of the System. One Hundred Dollars reward Is offered for any case that Hall's' Catarrh Medicine falls to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. F. J. CHENEY 4k CO.. Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 76c. MaU'g fulg Pills to lossipetisg, x>lc In bis steady eyes piercing Curly's , runic smile as a summer sun duet* j juckerel clouds In a clear sky. Not ; inny men would have had the couruge i o send that message to Soapy and his utfit. For Stone was not only a uianlller, but a mean one, at that. Curly sloughed his foolishness and ame to the point. "You're on, Slats, 'in making that call to you now." Surprise, doubt, wonder, relief Oiled a turn the face of the other man. "I'm listening, Curly." Ills friend told him the whole story 10111 the beginning, just as he had "I'm Listening, Curly." ?een used to do In the old days. And Davis heard it without a word, taking he tale In quietly with a grim look lettling on his face. "So he alms to play traitor to I'oung Culllson." "lie means to shut Sum's mouth for rood and all. That Is what lit: has eon playing for from the start, to get tven with Luck, lie and his gang will jet away with the haul and they will cave Sam deud on the scene of tlie loldup. There will tie some shot ting, ind it will he figured the hoy was hit >y one of the train crew. Nothing :ould he easier, lie aims to put me ou the stand and prove hy rue that Saic mil he had a quarrel and parted emu |?any mighty sore at each other hnrdlj r week before the holdup. He'll luivt in alibi, too, to show he couldn't have lioon in It. See how slick his schctnt Is? At one lllp of the cards he killi the kid and damns his reputation, lit scores Cullison and he snulfs out Sam who has had the luck to win the glri Sotip> fancies. The hoy gets his and the girl is shown she can't love unothei man than Stone." "You've got It about right," Slats ad milled. "How about warning Luck?" "The point Is, would he he willing tc wait and let Soupy play his hand oul till we called?" "You would have to guarantee hit j hoy would be safe meanwhile." "Two of us would have to watch liiu day and night without Sum kuowlni It." "Count me In." "There Is where we hit heavy travel Ing, Slats. For we don't know wher tin tiling is going to he pulled off." "We'll have to he ready. That's nil.* "Happen to know whether l?ick Ma loney is here for the show?" . "Saw hi in this uio'niiig. Luck It ' here too, liiin and his girl." "Hood. We've got to have a tall , with them, and it has to he on th< q.t. You go hack to town and llnd IMck. Tell him to meet us at the He Mar, wh jie Luck always puts up. Fine mil ii .iii huh* i iii i uiiisuiis rmilll ii Il( inn 1:? un ;i|i|hiIiiIiiK'IiI. I'll be on K Molino siiirt all mo'ntng ??!V ami on A'hon yt.ii flnil ?t?l pas* me without dopping. I>111 toll in,> when we are to ueet and just where." Curly gave Sluts a quarter of an lour hefore sauntering back to town. Ls ho was passing the Silver Imllar .liloou a voire called him. Stone and Hark well were standing In the door, flandrau stopped. Soapy's deep-set eyes blazed at him. | 'You didn't tell me It was Lurk Cul- | Ison went hall fof you, Curly. So you mil hliu are thick, are you'/" "I've met liltn oner, If that's being lilrk. That time I shot him up." "Funny. And then he went hall for 'Oil?" I "Yes." "Now, I wonder why." , The eyes of the man had narrowed o red slits. Ills head had shot for- i vard on his shoulders as that of a nake does. Curly would have given a rood deal Just tnen for the revolver ylng on the hed of his room. For It vas plain trouble was In sight. The lesperado had been drinking heavily ind was ready to do murder. "That easy to explain, Soapy. I hot him because I was driven to It. le's too much of a man to hear a :rudge for what I couldn't help." "You're a lltir II" ?ll?l I# I on promised to sneak up to my ranch ; nd spy on us. That's why he did It." With the lust word Ills gun jumped I nto sight. That he wiih lashing him- j elf Into a fury was plain. Presently j lis rage would end In a tragedy. (liven a ehanec, Curly would have I un for It. Itut Soapy was a dead shot. | >f a sudden the anger In the hoy , i oiled 111? over the fear. In two jumps j * e covered the ground anil jammed his ' nee close to the cold rim of tike blue- < teel barrel. , "I'm not heeled. Shoot and he niniied, you coward. And with my , ist breath I'll tell you that you're a , ' inr." I i I'landrati had called Ids bluff, though j fi e had not meant It as one. A dozen 1 ten were In sight and were wutchlng. ' they liafl heard the young man tell | j tone he was not armed. I'uhllc opln- ( hi would hold hlin to account If he r hot Curly down In cold blood. He ling there undecided, breathing fast, Is Jaw clamped tightly. (To be continued) GGS FOR SALE from my S. C. R. I. = Reds. I have 5 pens mated up that are beauties. $3.00 per 15. Price to Poultry Club members $2.00. J. W. Hanna. . 1 infcfciMrn ? I . ' 1 n?*???fc?????W SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS8SSBSSSS 's^.. , M.? _ m carrying a k for less thar Freight rates have played in the rising cost of living. Other causes?the waste duction, credit inflation?fc to the cost of the necesi freight charges have addec The average charge fo of freight a mile is lesi A suit of clothing tha before the war was miles by rail from C Angeles for 16& cents Now the freight chai and the suit sells far $ The coat of the suit has incr The freight on It has increas Other transportation charg? cost of the finished article?< to the mills and the cloth tt theae other charges amount more. The $10 pair of shoe sell for $5 goes from land factory to the Flc a freight charge of 5 one cent more than thi Beef pays only two-t a pound freight froi N ew York. American freight rati est in the world Ifiis advertisement is, ?2ssuciation ufiRail ThfkMM </aitr?ait X^/nrttart/a'naa aaaeale. ? 7 * J "?*?y Ltaiu litnraturn hy writing to Thi J?n4culii'tu, tit Broadway 1= = 3$ank of %h The Oldest, Largest Bank in Chester! 4 Per C rut. Paid on Saving* Deposit See U* C. C. Douglass, R. F.. Rivers, President* C M. J. Hough, Vice-President. D. j She Seeplet i OF flHKXTRtt I T " j Will Appreciate Your Business. | $200,001 | Our customer* and friends helped need of accommodation or you hav | to see us. fiuarantced hur illar r | Let us show you this wontler. A to I K. U. LANKY, President (I. I CI1AS. P. MANCiUM, I Cashier BROKERAGE and I represent only the best comp 3ats, and Feed, Meat, Lard and lie ind Stains; Lubricating and Motor G ttones. Insurance that insures?Life, h If in need of any of the goods nr rou monev to see mo on the mud mi >flice every Saturday and Monday w ne. Yours for Service, S. J. SEL RUBY, S. Is Your Subscript >n a Mile i a Cent a very small part % of war, under-pro lave added dollars sities of life, while 1 only cents. r hauling a ton 3 than a cent. t sold for $30 carried 2,265 hicago to Ix>s -ge is 22 cents 50. eased 20 dollar*. led only 5} cents. is enter into the carrying the wool > the tailors ? but to butafewceota s that used to the New Eng- li >rida dealer for % cents?only e pre-war rate. hirds of a cent n Chicago to ' * js are the low- , I1 fndilislu'd by the way iExecutives thn railroad situation m?y .1 moriation of Railway i, York. eaterfield % antl Strongest , iclcl, S. C. 11 an Qi i. A _ A . <f I .WW k^iui ! nu nucuuiii Cashier. >. L. Smith, Assist. Cashier H. Douglass A*sjst. Cashier (' Zftank FIELD Total Resources Over ).00 us to do this. When In e money to deposit, come | roof and (ire proof safe, rdial welcome awaits you K. LANKY, V.-President .1. A. CAMPBELL, Assist. Cashier ' NSUSANCE anies and sell Flour, Corn, Products, Paints, Grease ids; Monuments and Tomblealth and Accident. icntioned above it will save in my ollice. I am in the hen in Ruby. Call and see LERS C. ion Paid Up? xjfaM - i iffliri n ir