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VOI* 39---NO 62 CHESTERFliElLD, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16; 1920 $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE . LANE1 Headquart K1; ytuylers t TIlP Rpsf Hanrlipc ? k: o Cut G1 Toys Foi Presents For t. Lane} AUDITOR'S NOTICE The Auditor's Office will be open for the assessment of ell classes of personal property, new buildings, transfers of real estate, poll, road and dog lax, from January 1st to February the 20th, 191 j. All ablebodied men between the ages of 21 and 60 are required to return and pay a poll tax of $1.00 and those between the ages of 21 and 65 years are required to return and pay a commutation road tax. The law requires a penalty of 50 J>er cent, on all property not returned for taxation on or before the 20th! dhy of February, 1921. j I will be at the following places on 1 the dates named: Patrick, January the 18th, from 10 ( I 1(1 D II L'-iy r On all hands advertisements set ing on in Dry Goo of all kinds, and all whiskey has felt th I have stagec 1 11* . c am now selling r I Seed Meal, Snuff, Tobat | roasted, Sug on present WHOl Rememb the reductloi Wholesale pi f \ w i f f f'S PHAR] ers For Christma in/J Mlf/11/HA IliU * !UIUiU(l(0 Old Santa Claus Knows ass and Toilet Ar r Big and Little C Rich or Poor, Ol Fat or Lean FIREWORKS r's Phari ' ^ - -W . v ^.->i to 3 o'clock. \ 3 Cedar Creek, January 19th. from 1 II to 3 o'clock. John H. Wallace's, January 20th, l from 9 to 12 o'clock. Cash, January 20th from 1 to 4 t o'clock. Teal's Mill, January 21st, from 1 t to So'clock. Parker School house No. 2, Janu- t ary 22nd, from 10 to 12 o'clock. Cross Roads, January 26th, from 4 10 to 12 o'clock. Mt. Croghan, January 26th, from 10 to 3 o'clock. ] Guess, January 27th, from 11 to I 3 o'clock. Ruby, January 28th, from 11 to 8 o'clock. Angelus, February 1st, from 11 to r rices Are 5 you see flaring posters ting forth the great reduc ds, Clothing, Shoes, Noti other kinds of Merchant e effects of the reduction I no great reduction sale lour, Mill Feed, 1 Salt, Hay, Rust :co, Lard, Coffee ar and everything I hani LESALE PRICES of th er my prices are r\ is eaual to the c m ? 'ices Now. . P. ODC MACY s Presents | | : bandies 1 Anything About o o * * tides hildren d or Young macv o'clock. McBee, February, 2nd. and 3rd. Middendorf, February 4th, from 1 to 2 o'clock. Jefferson, February 7th and" 8th, o 12 o'clock. J. G. Holly's February 8th, from 1 o 8:30 o'clock. W. J. Hick's February 9th, from 9 0 12 o'clock. Dudley, February 9th, from 1 to 1 o'clock. Pageland, February 10th, and 11th. Cheraw, February 14th, 15th, and 6th, from 10 to 3 o'clock each day. T. W. EDDINS, County Auditor. 666 Br??lu a cold quicker than any emady w? know. ? . ll Kight and heavy display :tion sales now goons and Groceries lise. Why, even ; on my line, but I -lulls, Cotton Proof Oats, 3, green ana die at prices based I ie articles. reduced and 1 decline of the m | j. COUNTY FARM LAND BRINGS LOW FIGURE * t 7 \ A 57-acre tract of land! belonging to the county farm has been sold at j public auction for the very low price <] of $1,500 or approximately $26.35 s an acre. * This tract is separated from the 1 p tract on which the almslu use is locat- v ed by a strip of perso Ally owned land, and, as it has of 1( to been impossible to secure enot gh help to ^ have it cultivated it wai decided to v sell, in accordance with a recently en- ^ acted law making such stile legal. e At the sale only two'Jbidders ap- v peared. They were Hon.lw. F. Ste- a venson, who started it at $500 ^ for the tract. Mr. T. E. |(dlloy, representing the county, ran the bid up to $1,500 and had it knocked down to 2 him. It has since been {determined b that, as the sale was legacy advertis- d ed and carried out the lai^d could not v be bought in by the county but must e be taken by the highest Bidder. Thus \* Mr. Mulloy finds himself with the C land on his hands. He does not regret ji his action, however, as he has been offered $3,500 for the tract, but ^ thinks it should bring more than that. ^ The 25-acre tract occupied by the 1 almshouse it not affected J>y the sale, p although it is the intention to even- ^ tually dispose of the entire property . and with the proceeds ef the sale b erect a modern building on a small ' plot near town. This wiU hardly be done during the present financial stringency. o 3 $ AUTO LICENSES NOW . PAYABLE v The State Highway Department has a furnished the Clerk of Court, Sheriff tl Douglass and the Lucas ? Auto Com- 1 pany with a supply of; > application fl blanks for the use of autoists in securing their 1921 license tags. Q The new tags are nokr ready for w delivery and the departnsent is anx- ^ ious that applications be made at c once, as the rush at the beginning of v the year will be terrific. All cars must r be equipped with new plates by Janu- , ary 31. The new rating ik by weight and not by the bore of t&e motor, as t, heretofore. Class A, in which are .'Fords and a f few other light cars, take# in all cars up to 2,000 pounds and the price of the license is $6. Class B, takes in cars from 2,000 to 2,500 pounds and that type are in this class. J Class C, cars weighing 2,500 to * 3,000 pounds, $10. ^ Class D, cars weighing 3,000 to ^ 3,500 pounds, $12. a Class E, cars weighing 3,500 to e 4,000 pounds, $14- v Class F, cars weighing 4,000 to ? 4,500 pounds, $16. Class G, cars weighing 4,500 to 1 5,000 pounds, $18. ) Cars weighing more than 5,000 pounds will be classed as "G" with an additional charge for each extra 200 NOTICE OF MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS WAMBLE HILL N. F. L. ASS'N The annual meeting of the stockholdern of Wamble Hill National Farm Loan Association, will be held in the courthouse at 12 o'clock M. January 11, 1021. Will A. Sellers, President, 4tp B. J. Douglas* Sec'-Treas. 1 Merits1, A I vi SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS Charles Spencer, proprietor of a fell known Greenville restaurant, is n jail charged with the shooting to ' feath of Grady Prince, aged twenty even. Spencer claims that Prince atacked him and that he fired one shot ti self defense. Prince's heart was ierced and he died instantly. Prince r?n ~ * H * mo n vcbciaii ux xne world war. Mrs. Thomas Harrison is dead and. ,er husband is under arrest charged nth having fired the fatal shot. Monk roung was shot and seriously wound-' d at the same time. The Harrisons! rere well known Greenville people nd the shooting occurred at their ome in the residential section of hat city last Friday night. Thirty or forty gallons of whiskey, ,000 pounds of sugar and twenty arrels of mash were among the evience captured in a raid by Sheriff ^elsh, of Kershaw county, and scvral assistants last Monday. The still ras located 18 miles southwest of lamden. Two men were lodged in ?il charged with distilling. The County Savings Bank, of Abeville, which was closed by its own irectors last week, has been found erfectly solvent by State Bank Exminer Craig, who ordered the instiution to open its doors and resume usiness at once. Mr. Craig stated hat the bank was in better shape (tan many that were still open. The Mayor of Brookland, a suburb f Columbia, has offered a reward of 100 for the capture of Newton Kelly rho shot and killed David Shull last londay night. It is said that Shull nd Kelly quarreled over the fact hat both had visited the same girl. "he fatal shnntinrr roo..Hn,l v^li? pounas or iracuon tnereoi. The owners of trucks are hit a lit- c tie harder than formerly, especially \ if not equipped with pneumatic tires, t Trucks with pneumatic tires o? two s wheels and solid tires on two wheels ? are classed as solid tired and will pay t accordingly. r Following are the license rates on trucks: r Class H, Not exceeding 1 ton capa- s city, pneumatic tires, $11.25. I Class I, Not exceeding 1 ton capa- c city, solid tires, $15.00. Class J, Exceeding 1 ton, up to and c including 2 tons, pneumatic tires, t $22.50. < Class K, Exceeding 1 ton, up to and including 2 tons,solid tires,$30.00. 6 Class L, Exceeding 2 tons, up to t and including 3 tons, pneumatic tires, 1 $45.00. s Class M, Exceeding 2 tons, up to < and including 3 cons, solid tires, ' $60.00. t Class N, Exceeding 3 tons, up to 1 and including 4 tons, pneumatic tires, $75.00. ' Class O, Exceeding 3 tons, up to nn/1 irw-liirlintr i tnnn anlid t.irM.StlOO. 00. Class P, Exceeding 4 tons, up to and including 5 tons, pneumatic tires, $150.00. Class P, Exceeding 4 tons, up and including 6 tons, solid tires, $200.00. Class P, Exceeding 5 tons, and including 6 tons, pneumatic tires, $187.60. Class P, Exceeding 6 tons, up to and including 6 tons, solid tires, $260.00 Class P, Exceeding 6 tons, pneumatic tires, $362.60. Class P, Exceeding 6 tons, solid tires, $360.00 Trailers will be charged $7 for the first 1,000 pounds of carrying capacity and $2 for every additional 1,000 pounds or fraction thereof. - ?* VJUUVU, IVCIiy ed. An Anderson County plantation wner was shocked a few days ago ^hen he received a bill from an unertaker in which the plant? r was harged with 52 coffins. As the bill ras itemized it was found to be corect. The coffins had been bought for enants covering a period of over ten ears, during which time the underaker had neglected to present a bill. IRE DESTROYS COTTON AND GIN The gin house and the cotton seed Louse and a box car on the siding adatfent on the plantation of Mr. R. B. ^aney, near Cheraw, were destroyed y fire ldst week. The gin house conained about 45 bales of seed cotton nd the seed house and car held sevral tons of seed. The fire broke out /hile Mr. Laney was away from home n business. No ginning had been gong on for several weeks. The buildng, machinery and cotton were fairy well covered by insurance. There s no clue as to the cause of the fire. THE BIG COTTON CROP Washington, Dec. 13.?The cotton rop which began the season in the vorst condition in fiftv vonro urned out to be the biggest crop ince 1914, with a production of 12, 87,000 bales, according to final esimates announced today in the De>artment of Agriculture. The lateness of winter, the departnent said, has helped to increase the tize of the crop by permitting the >lant, which was late in getting start(d, to mature. The price of cotton paid to prolucers December 1, was announced is fourteen cents a pound, the low;st for that date since 1915. The final production estimate is 1,>00,000 bales more than forecast from he condition of the crop late in June, ^ast improvement was shown as the >eason progressed and the August condition brought a forecast of 12,783,000 bales. That was reduced by he September condition of 12,123,000 t>ales. In Texas and South Carolina the :rop is a record one, as is that of Arkansas. Production in California and Arizona hao oKonf ^aiiKI.i/1 - JAMES ALLAI ^ 28S King St., The Hallni 66 YeCrs of Satisfactory Service L duction of any previous year. Production this year by States in 500-pound bales follows: Virginia 19,000; North Carolina 840,000, South Carolina 1,530,000, Georgia 1,400,000, Florida 18,000, Alabama 660,000, Mississippi 885,000, Louisiana 380,000, Texas 4.200,000, Arkansas 1,160,000, Tennessee 310,000, Missouri 850,000, Oklahoma 1,300,000, California 160,000, Arizona 110,000. All other States 15,000. NEW ENGLAND TEXTILE MILLS CUT WAGES ^ The big cotton goods mills of Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island have announced a reduction of 22 Vfc per cent, in the wages of their 300,000 employees. The reduction which in most cases becomes effective next Monday, cancels the last two increases granted by these companies. Mosl of the mills have been running or part time or not at all and the an nouncemtnt of a cut In wages is sai< to mean an early resumption of busi ness on a full time basis. The aver age wages of workers under the nev ache^^ia <21 a weal^j PROHIBITION EXONERATED YOUNG MEN OF MT. CROGHAN DENY THE ALLIGATION AND DEFY THE ALLIGATOR They Remove The Blot Of Last Week's Row ?>everal Miles From Their Midst And Cast Reflection On Their Elders The following communication has been received by the Advertiser with the request that it be published. While it is strictly against journalis- 1 tic ethics to publish anonymous communications, this one is good enough 1 to warrant the overstepping of the rules for once and ix is given to the public as received at this office: We, the young men of Mt. Croir han, arc sorry to know that the gentleman who wrote the piece in last week's paper has been so grossly mis- ' informed. Especially so, a* that par- ' ticular piece is a reflection on the character of the few young men of 1 Mt. Croghan, who do not indulge in ? the spirit reviver of our friend, the "author" of the unappreciated ! piece of last week. We think that if the gentleman will go into the details of the case, he will < find that all the trouble was between men who live several miles from Mt. ? Croghan and of the older generation. It seems that if the "author" of the ] piece will take notice, he will sec that , he has made a great mistake in writ- , ing of something he knows absolutely nothing about, of which his entire piece from beginning to end shows that he was drawing on his wonderful imagination, of which he seems to be well blessed. The certain young man of whom he mentions as being in such a critical condition is no young man at all, but a middle age man and has only one bullet hole through his leg; his eye isn't in deep mourning; only blacked n Hit" nn/1 oflll ? , >? lino ins uuun lenaiice I and is also not a citizen of Mt ' Croghan. Judging from the facts of the piece, the "author" is a non-prohibitionist on the extreme, of whom the citizens of Chesterfield County should not be proud, neither are the young men of Mt. Croghan. The young men of Mt. Croghan. REV. MR. PEELER PREACHES AT ST PAULS Rev. L. E. Peeler preached his first sermon at St Paul's last Sunday evening. A large congregation turned out to greet him and all who attended were deeply impressed with their new minister. In a few well chosen words Mr. Peeler stated ihat Chesterfield had been well recommended ^o him; that so far he had not been disap poiniea. ne noped Chesterfield would be as well satisfied ns he. From the text, "The blood of Jesus Christ His son cleanses us from all sin," Rev. Mr. Peeler delivered a masterly sermon. He denned sin in all its forms; its progress and its effects upon the soul in plain but powerful language; n words that were simple and direct. He made his points with ease and illustrated his discourse with appropriate annecd Jte md quotation. Rev. Mr. Peeler s method of delivery is quiet and intense and is, withal, very pleasing. After the services most cf the congregation went forward to meet their new minister and to welcome him to his new charge. Nnw i. *1./. tim. ?~ 1 ? ----- " -? ?.?v ?? v ?v uuy uwiiug, Kinsham* and percale*; for every yard you buy at the regular price we will give you a yard. Chesterfield Dry Good* Co. To hreak a cold take 666. ? WATCHES FOR L SOME KIND WORDS TO OUR MANY FRIENDS We have refrained as long as we could from having anything to say about subscription collections, but the time has come when we must speak or ?bust! Though other costs and prices have fallen lately the price of paper and other costs of producing a newspaper liave not been reduced and give no hope of reduction in the near future. Our income has been reduced but our outgo continues the same. Among our 2,000 subscribers there are now more than one thousand behind with their subscriptions. This money cannot mean very much to ach subscriber, but in the aggregate it means much to us. Do you get the point? Here is the best inducement we :an offer you to be prompt (besides the desire for a good conscience) : The Progressive Farmer, the very be*t farm paper in the world, will :o*t you $1.00. The Thrice-A-Week New York World will cost you $1.00 The Advertiser will cost you $1.50. Here are FIVE papers a week, each ane the best in its line, worth $3-50. For a limited time we are going to jffer them all for $2.50. To take advantage of this great proposition only two things are necessary?to pay for The Advertiser in idvance and do it quickly. Pay Mr. John P. Gurganus, our representative, or pay at the office. ATKINSON?CARTER On Sunday afternoon the Rev. F. M. Cannon united in the holy bonds of wedlock Mr. John Atkinson am! Miss Lela Carter. The ceremony took place at Mr. Cannon's residence. Mr. Atkinson is a well known young man of this community and the bride is a popular young lady of Blenheim. Both have many friends to wish them long life and happiness in their journey through life. WANTED?500 People to see "Civillian Clothes." A big Special at oiruuu, oaiuruay, uecember IS, from 3 p.m to 10:30 p.m. The Strand Friday, Dec. 17 VIVIAN MARTIN ?In? "LITTLE COMRADE" Saturday, Dec. 18 LILA LEE ?Ill? "ROSE OF REVERE" Monday, Dec. 20 ETHEL CLAYTON ?In? "SPORTING CHANCE Tuesday, Dec. 21 DOROTHY GISH ?In? "PEPPY POLLY" Wednesday, Dec. 22 BILLY BURKE ?In? "M AKE-BEL1 EVE WIFE" Thursday, Dec. 23 MARGARITE CLARKE ?In? "COME OUT OF THE KITCHEN" Friday, Dec. 24 JACK SHERRILL ?In? 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