The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, March 18, 1920, Image 1
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VOL. 39?NO 12 CHESTERFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY, March 18, 1920 $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
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The investigation of the Board of
Trustees of Clenison College into a
"wulk out" of the entire senior and
sophomore classes last week, resulted
in the complete disapproval of the
strike by the students. All those who
left are ordered to send written withdrawals
of their names from the ultimatum
sent to President Riggs by
11:30 P. M., March 21. Those refusing
to do so will be expelled from the
college.
Two sixteen year old girls of prominent
families of Abbeville were assaulted
by two white men near that
place Sunday evening. The girls were
on their way to church when invited
to ride in an automobile. They agreed
to ride as far as the church. The
car did not stop when the church
wus reached but continued several
miles into the country, where the assuult
tok place. Jim Wallace and Lee
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'"uuic, ui uiftnwuuu, were luier arrested
charged with the crime and
were placed in the penitentiary at
Columbia for safe keeping. They
were later^released when the two girls
said they were not the guilty persons.
Leonard Jordan, of Lodge, Colleton
County, chief machinist in the U.
S. Navf, while on leave of absence
fiom his ship at Los Angeles, California,
was killed in a light by Chas.
Orr. The body will be sent to Colleton
County for burial.
Dillon County has just completed
the installation in every school in the
county a modern sanitary toilet, with
running water and a septic tank. Dillon
is the only county in the state and
perhaps in the South with these sanitary
health measures for the protection
of its school children.
The epidemic of influenza is subsiding
throughout the state and in
nearly all of the alfected sections
quarantines have been lifted and
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pviiuuia upciicw
NOTICE TO FARMERS
We wil have a representative from
B. F. Avery& Sons at the Dr. I?cdfearn
place near the Fair Grounds
Friday March 26 at 3 P. M. to demonstarte
the Joy Rider Cultivator.
If you are interested in Riding Cultivators
come out and let us show you
how they will cultivate your crop.
Farmers Hardware Co.
Mar*
20 P<
We bought i
tion on these pric<
MEN'S DRESS SHOES, Val
J MEN'S ARMY SHOES, Val
/ LADIES DRESS SHOES, Va
LADIES DRESS SHOES, Va
LADIES DRESS SHOES, Va
; LADIES DRESS SHOES, Va
i LADIES DUES SHOES, Val
1 OLD LADIES' COMFORTS,
jjj All Shoes or
| ' 25 cents CICIIAMS AND CI
I 35 cents OlITINGS (Solids t
I 45 cents PERCALES for..
I 40 cents BLEACHING for.
| 45 cents BLEACHING for.
8 35 cents SEA ISLAND for.
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tUIIUN ASSOCIATION
DAY IN COLUMBIA
Columbia, March 15.?Col. R. M.
Mixson, President of the South Carolina
Branch of the American Cotton
Association issues the following invitation
:
The greatest gala week ever put on
in South Carolina will be put on in
Columbia March 22nd to 27th inclusive.
Thursday, March 25to is American
Cotton Association Day. We invite,
want and urge every farmer, every
banker, every merchant, every
business man, every professional men,
every school teacher, every preacher
and every newspaper man in the State
to be in Columbia on the date to view
the most magnificent parade; to witness
the greatest demonstration ever
put on in the interest of the farmer,
and in the interest of the upbuilding
and protection of the commercial
interests of the State, to take
part in and help make the day a brilliant
success.
We want the farmers, for they are
most vitally interested in perpetuating
conditions which will guarantee
to them a profit on their business and
better living conditions ror all time to
come. We want the bankers, the merchants,
the business and professional
men because their prosperity is interlocked
upon the prosperity of the
farmers. We want the teachers and
preachers because they are vitally interested.
Neither have been receiving
adquate salaries. The American
Cotton Association is striving to correct
this. When the farmers get a
fair price for their product, this will
be corrected. We want the newspaper
men because they are vitaly interested
and have rendered valuable service
in the fight. \ye want everybody
to come and help make Thursday
March 25th a glorious day. The parade
will reach for miles. Five floats,
banners without end, magnificent music
rendered by the best bands in the
South, splendid speakers, E. T. Meridith,
Secretary of Agriculture, Washington,
and Senator Ellison Durant
Smith mill speak. And Ellison Du rant
when he gets after the cotton gamblers
and the other enemies of the farmers.
After the speaking there will be
magnificent free entertainments. This
day will be glorious. We want everybody
to come and have a big time.
Don't miss it. This is the one opportunity
of your life. COME!
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ir Cent, off Ol
our Ginghams, Chambr
2S you will know the sa
ue $8.50- Sale Pri<
ue $7.50 Sala Pric
lue $0.90 SALE PRIC
lue 5.90 SALE PRIC
lue 4.90 SALE PRIC
lue 3.90 . .. SALE PRIC
lue 3.50 SALE PRIC
, Value $4.25 SALE PRK
i same basis, 1-5
1AMBRAY for
ind Fancies) for
These Sale Pr
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LEVA
SCHOOLS CLOSED FOR
LACK OF TEACHERS
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According to reports of the United
Bureau of Education, the country
is faced with a serious shortage
of school teachers, chiefly through
failure to provide adequate salaries. Bl
Based on returns from State school
officials, the reports show that on Feb.
13 last 18,299 schools were closed because
of lack of teachers and 41,980
were being taught by teachers characterized
as "below standard, but
taken on temporarily in an emergen- b>
cy." Greater shortage of teachers are of
shown is the Southern than in the
Northern States. se
Here is another alarming phase of
the situation: nt
In 190 State, county, city and pri- be
vate normal schools, representing: 60
per cent, of the total normal schools m
in the country, there were 11,593 cu
fewer students enrolled Nov. 1 1919,
tM
than the pre-war period. A similiar
fulling: off is shown in teacher-train- 111
ing departments in colleges, while
other departments show great in- r<?
creases in enrollment. til
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ROOF OF STATION MAY BE ?t
USED FOR LANDING FIELD hi
Plans for converting the roof of m
the proposed new Union Station in ?1
Chicago into a landing field for air- he
planes are being considered by the hi
Chicago Air Board. The plans were vc
presented by William J. 1L Strong to
of the American Association of En- ca
ginecrs. The station roof will have an
area of more than two city blocks, th
Mr. Strong said, affording adequate S?
room for low speed planes to lund. th
It would be particularly valuable for ?* '
the use of mail planes he stated, adding
that the high speed ships could st
transfer their cargo to the slower cr
planes in mid-air outside the city limits.
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DEATH OF MRS. ED. LOWERY to
fr
Mrs. Ed. Lowery passed away last ac
week at her home near the Wexford al
school and was buried at Elizabeth te
Church. Mrs. Lowery was about 49 e>
years of age and was well known and so
loved in the community in which she th
lived. Besides her husband she leaves th
four daughters to niourn their loss, bi
Sympathy is extended the bereaved w
husband and children by many sincere
friends throughout the county, at
rth to
n everything in
ays, Percales, White Goo
ving offered here is very
:e $6.80 MEN'S SINGLE SO
ce $6.00 MEN'S WORK SHC
E $5.52 CHILDREN'S SKU
:E ^4 72 CHILDREN'S SKU
E $3.92
|3 ,2 CHILDREN'S SKU
;E $2.80 CHILDREN'S SKU
^E $3.40 CHILDREN'S SKU
off.
20 cent*
28 cent*
36 cent*
32 cent*
36 cent*
28 cent*
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ANOTHER FIRE
HESTERFIELD HOTEL AN!
HENDR1X GROCERY STORE
GO UP IN SMOKE MONDAY
MORNING
laze Starts on Second Floor Whil
Guests Are At Breakfast?Part
of Furnishings And Grocery
Stock Saved
Chesterfield has sixain been visile
r a disastrous fire and again crowd
helpless people have had to stun
r and see the conflagration burn i
If out, knowing that when there wji
thing more to burn the fire woul
s over.
Shortly after eight o'clock las
onday morning flames were dis
vered on the second floor of th
1 ester field Hotel. Half a dozen c
ore guests were having breakfa:
id most of these rushed to thei
oms and succeeded in saving thei
fects. Several, however, lost col
ierable wearing apparel and, om
least, lost the entire contents <
s room.
When discovered the flames ha
ade very little headway and ha
most any provision for fire figh
>en available there is no doubt th
lildings could have been saved wit
ry little damage. As it was, th
wn turned out and devoted itself t
Trying out furniture from the h<
1 and the stock of groceries froi
e C. A. Hendrix store next doo
> slow was the progress of the fir
at practically everything was cai
i'd out of the hotel and the entii
ocery stock was safely across th
reet long before the walls began t
umble.
The wind was most favorable t
iresterfield and to this fact alone
tributable the confining of the fn
the two buildings. Iron roofin
oni the Farmers' Hardware stoi
ross the street was set up in front c
1 the nearby store windows, pre
cting them from the heat to a grei
[tent and undoubtedly preventin
me further damage, but there is li
u doubt that had the high winds <
e previous Saturday prevailed th
isiness section would have bee
iped out.
As it was there was a serious mei
:e at one time when sparks wei
April
our Store, ii
ids, Etc. last Fall at ]
attractive. Below
LE PLOW SHOES, Value $4.25.
)ES, Value $3.90
FFERS, Value $3.90
FFERS, Value $3.50 : . .
FFKRS, Value $2.90
FFERS, Value $2.50
FFKRS, Value $2.25
$2.25 OVERALLS, for $1
$2.50 OVERALLS, for $J
$1.25 WORK SHIRTS, for $1
$1.50 WORK SHIRTS, for ...$1
irchases and only to
i two weeks
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carried to the roof of the Bank of fore
Chesterfield and started a blaze the
i niongst some leaves that had collect- Gper
D (d on the roof of that structure. This q ^
wi s quickly extinguished without loss.
The hotel building, which was valu- fast
ed at $10,000 carried $3,500 insur- (ire
ur.co, with an additional $1,500 on the tel 1
I contents. effec
The Mendrix grocery building, with M
a value of $5,500 carried $1,750 in- arrii
surance, with another $1,000 on the out
stock. On the two buildings, there- clot!
fore,the actual loss to the owners is and
I $0,250, Mr. Joel Catoe losing $7,- T1
1^ 500 on the hotel and Mr. C. A. lien- trag
drix suffering a loss of $1,750 on of t
'' the store building. From these figures Grai
t- it will not require a college professor poss
is to determine whether it is cheaper to thro
,1 install water works or depend upon whei
insurance for protection. beer
Just what proportion of the insurance
on the contents of the building
will be collectable depends upon r" ,
ie the damage suffered by the hotel fur- e
>r nishings and the grocery stock. ^.ra%
Cinq
a Mr. Hendrix lost no time in his fron
ii business but moved at once into a jj
ir building at I'agc and Railroad streets s.m()|
i- and opened up for trade. rush
' Mr. Catoe is said to be contein- frus|
plating selling his lot, either cut into
smaller buildiiur nlots or as n whole. c
(' I at auction in the near future.
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^ Chesterfield is now without u liotel
and those who had been making the
^ Catoe establisment their home were ?uc^
hard put to find even temporary quar- *ny 1
ters. So far as known all have man- and
aged to get under shatter for the time |,cfo
11 being, but the absence in the town of pa
sufficient living quarters works a particular
hardship in the present einerr_
gency.
Dr. W. J. Perry, who had his office W. I
K> on the first floor of the hotel, has established
temporary headquarters at
the Chesterfield Drug store. Mr. A. qv
.f. Rohr has set up his chair and is eiec,
js mowing whispers and lilocks in the tjle
. front of the Farmers' Mercantile. gt
g 'tore. Prei
e It is now something over three prey
years since experts surveyed the field Qf y
y_ and estimated that Chesterfield could Supi
have had at that time a complete and sUpi
j, efficient water works system for $33,- man
000. Since the time that this system city,
,f could have been in operation Chester- secr
le I field has lost, by conservative esti- jnj,
,n mate, $85,000 by fires that could have Trei
been stopped with a trifling loss had q*
i- water been available. | socii
re' Among the hotel guests who suf- thirl
r~ioth
ncluding New Spi
prices much below to-day's i
we give you a few articles t
. . . Sale Price $3.40 SHIRTS a
. . . Sale Price $3.12 SHIRTS a
SALE PRICE $3.12 ROYS' SI
. SALE PRICE $2.80 ,!(n S SI
ROYS SUI
SALE PRICE $2.32 ROYS' SI
. SALE PRICE $2.00 ROYS' SI
. SALE PRICE $1.80 ROYS' SI
Bi|
We wa
items listed
"?? ular selling
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l.arlini I
1.20 '
Ready To
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purchases amounting to mor
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li the Jose of personal effects in
fire Mr. W. G. Allen, telegraph
ator and assistant agent at the
i L. station, was the hardest hit.
Allen had hail an early breakand
was at the depot when the rj
occurred. In his room at the ho- m
were all of his wearing apparel
;ts except what he wore. f,
rs. C. B. Edge worth, the newly j.
fed optician, succeeded in getting m
her trunk and a good part of her t.j
ting but lost several suits, shoes
hats that were in a closet. k,
ne fire came near resulting in a af
edy. During the early progress m
he flames Deputy Sheriff J. T. ro
it, after searching the rooms for jn
ible late sleepers, had climbed t ^
ugh a scuttle hole into the attic, m
re possibly a servant might have |a
i sleeping. While making a hur- ft,
search of this part of the build- m
the smoke became so dense that j.
Grant was unable to find the scut- jj
he had entered and he was in
e danger of being overcome,
ting about blindly and suffering
i suffocation he managed to stum- r.
through the dense volumes of ol
ke to his point of entrance and ca
ed down the burning stairs to
ti air and safety.
>me people who have been into
warehouse laiely say they had no
I kept such a stock and sold at ''
prices. They bought from me and J."
they will always see me hereafter, S(
were sorry they had not seen me
re. I am no piker by a horn full. (I:
me a visit and be convinced.
W. P. ODOM. NV
IX
M. S. OF ST. PAUL'S ! la
ELECT OFFICERS M
he following officers have been ni
led to serve during this year in
Woman's Missionary Society of V'
Paul's Church: c<
tident, Mrs. A. W. Hursey; Vice M
iident, Mrs. A. L. Griggs; Supt.
foung People Mrs. B. J. Guess;
I. of Juniors, Mrs. G. K. Laney;
t. of Social Service, Mrs. ThurTeal;
Supt. of Study and Publi- oi
Mrs. C. K. Curtis; Corresponding nt
etary, Mrs. L. H. Trotti; Record- si
Secretary, Mrs. W. A. Rivers; in
isurer, Mrs. R. I.. McManus. J e\
here will be a meeting of this! u:
L-ty Thursday afternoon at four n<
,y o'clock at the church.
TWO
WE
Inclu
ring Goods no
market, and with a 20
0 show you the value
ixl DKAWKRS, Value $1.2.
nd I)RA\VKRS, Value $l.f>n
UTS, Value $ll.ix>...
'ITS, Value $12.fill
ITS, Value $i:i.<X)
UTS, Value $14.1X1
!ITS, Value $17.fill
1ITS, Value $1S.;>0
1 line of Boys' P
nt to emphasize that everything
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LKIUW; 13 IU UC SUIU UUIlll^ IIICM:
price.
Ready To Wear, previously ma
Wear and J. B. Stetson Hats no
e than ftl.OO.
April 10th is
Chest<
NEWS IN GENERAL
Germany has had a revolution that
, first was said to be bloodless, but
oting later supplied the missiing eleent.
The Royalist party, said to be
nt upon returning to a monarchial
>rm of government, on last Saturly
drove President Ebert and cabi t
from the palace in Berlin and proaimed
Dr. Wolfgang Kapp, the new
:ad of the government. It is not yet
town exactly what the new state of
fairs really portends. The Ebert adinistration
claims the Kapp party
present the former ruling class and
tends to restore an emperior to the
irone. Kapp denies this, saying Gerany
will remain a Republic. At
st acounts the two parties were con rring
and there is talk of a comproise.
Bill Iluhenzolern is saying nothg,
but continues to saw wood in
olland.
My Shipments of hay are delayed
little, but it will pay you to wait on
i a little as I can save you money
i your hay needs. I am looking for a
ir ol INo. 1 I imothy and one of
hnice Michigan. W. P. ODOM.
MAYSVILLE
Roy, (lie small son of Mr. and Mrs.
. II. P.urch is able to walk after beg
confined to iiis room for the past
< weeks with a broken leg. Roy al
had influenza while in bed.
Mrs. \V. P. (lullcdgc is better toly
we are glad to report.
Mr. I). K. Burch and boys were in
radesboro. N'. ('., Saturday afterion
on business.
Mrs. L. W. Tucker spent one night
st week at the home of her mother
rs. J. T. Davis.
Mr. W. P. (Julledgo is sick with
unips at his home near here.
Messrs Earl Adams and Frank
aughn of near the Vaughn school
immunity spent several hours with
r. J. Wesley Adams Sunday
CARD OF THANKS
We take this method of expressing
jr gratitude to our friends and
eighghbors for the many kindnesses
lown us during the recent illness
i our family. We thank each and
rcryone who thoughtfully cared for
i and assure them that their kindess
will never be forgottn.
Mr. and Mrs. Donn Adams.
:eks
isive
w in.
per Cent, reduo
o! this reduction.
...... sai.k run k $1.00
.... SAI.K PRICK, $ 1.20
SAI.K PRICE $9.52
SAI.K PRICK $10.00
.... SAI.K PRICK $11.12
SAI.K PRICK $1 1.92
SAI.K PRICK $14.00
SAI.K PRICE $14.80
ants 1-5 off.
in our store (except a few
two weeks at I -5 off reg_L.1
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incu uur* II, Lflllll'K i'CH | I
t included in this sale. I S
last day. I
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