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Ir\ - " : ~ (Shtdtetfidb Uitoberiistfir ? iitu rr ?? 'aBge^ater VOL. 39?NO 15 ' CHESTERFIELD, S C., THURSDAY APRIL 7, 1921 $1.50 AYEARINADVANCE f _ _ . . """ 1 " '? ?'?? - ????????? . A sunrHiSb WtUDING i j McFarlan, N. C., Route 1.?This community was surprised to learn of the redding of Mr. John W. McDuffte and Miss Rosa May Morris, who were married at the beautiful home of thfi Rev. F. M. Cannon, of Chesterfield last Wednesday afternoon. Mr. McDuffie is a fine young man and! loved by all who know him. The bride is the beautiful young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Morris, of fine Ohristinn character and greatly loved by a wide circle of friends. Their friends wish them a long and happy life. A Friend. J TEAL'S MILL 1 i Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Teal spent sev-| eral days the past week in Columbia, enjoying the Palmafesta. Mr. and Mrs. Hey wood White, of near Chesterfield, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. T. McBride. Mrs. Carl Oates, of Charlotte, is' visiting Mrs. Oates' parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Teal. Mr. B. F. Turnage and Mr. Allie Caulder visited friends near Montrose this week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Everette Therrell entertained the young people of the community Friday night. Games and conversation were enjoyed until a late hour. Friday night Stafford School gives a measuring party. Five cents a foot and one cent for each additional inch. Everybody welcome^ especially tall eople. DEATH OF MR. J. C. POLSON Mr. J. C. Poison died at his home . >?ar Patrick on Sunday morning, , * 1 ".1. 1921. He was 8$. years of p-3 t> veteran of the Civil Mr. Poison had been rick for: ' out three months. He loaves to( Nourn his death his wife t.nd son, J V r .<-.ley B. Poston and six grandchildren, besides a host of fr.cnds. _ y TRIAL OF WILLIAMS FOR J KILLING ELEVEN BEGUN j i v'ngton, Ga., April 5.?Selection 1 f a jury to try John 8. Williams, in J tfewton county superior court on a ' .- srge of the murder of Lindsey Peers'* on was completed here late today ; 1 ' o tate made ready to put on; 1 '! tomorrow Clyde Manning,!' ' .frn bo?s to relate his version'1 of the deaths of 11 negro farm hands, j 1 vho, the prosecution contends, were i \ slain to block federal investigation of j * :.ccnore conditions. The jury, a body!l r r-ther young men, was made up < ' < ."ii farmers, two merchants, a 1 'oirber and a druggist, ns fol- i lows: I T. L. Hill, farmer ;G. W. Gaber, far- j r; Robert Stanton, farmer; W. A.., Pate, merchant; Charles A. Caeon,; i 'nnymr; W. C. Moore, farmer; T. P. } farmer; Ryron Tracker, grocer ] clerk; F. G. Crowley, merchant; J. T. ] > -ii. tanner; J. E. Rowling, barb- ' < f 0 ford, and Reginald Robinson, ] oggist. - ] Extra deputies were on duty in the 1 court room and only as many persona 1 s could find seats wer permitted to ; r n-ain. Judge John B. Hutchinson , warned the spectators that "any approval or disapproval would be severely punished," and there was hardly an occasion for the sheriff to rap for ord- j Ar I Effort by the state to prove that the death of Peterson was one of a "-.eries of crimes," which it was understood would be undertaken early ,n the first day of evidence was expected to bring from the defense one of the hardest fights in seeking to ! ; r from the trial all reference to ihe other deaths, and to hold evidence down to the single death of Peterson, whose body was found in Yellow river and who, the state contends, was brought into Newton county and drowned by Williams and Manning. TOMATO PLANTS?Stones, Perfection, Earlianas. J. Hanna. Lucky Strike cigarette |told| - i lAmftiii'S STATE NEWS T. A. Earle, believed to be T. U. Vaughan, convicted at Greenville, S. C., six years ago on charges of criminal assault on four girls under 14 years of age, was arrested at his home at Port Tampa by Tampa police detectives, J. A. Killibrew and Stansell and Marshall Sudduth of Port Tampa. The man's wife was also arretted and is held at the police station for investigation. Earl denies that he is the Vaughan wanted in South Carolina, but several attempts to commit suicide t? his being placed in a padded cell at the county jail for safe keeping. It is said that the crimes for which Vaughan was sentenced to death were committed while he wa^ in ehnrge of the Odd Fellows orphan home in Greenville. It is claimed that ne was convicted on the first count and sentenced to death by electrocution. Later he is said to have been regarded as insane and was transferred to the State Hospital for the insane in Columbia, from which he escaped about two years ago. He is alleged then to have made his way to Port Tampa, where he has held the assistant principalship of the Port Tampa city school, and that he was married here under the alleged assumed name. The wife, it is claimed, was one of the nurses at the hospital in Columbia. At the close of the Palftiafcsta contest at noon in Columbia Thursday, Miss Sarah Kirkpatrick, of Chester, was chosen queen, 6he having received the greatest number of ballots. Lillian Helen Ballew, the fiftecnmonths-old infant of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Ballew, of near Inman, died in the Good Samatarian Hospital at Spartanburg Thursday afternoon, as 'hp result of burns received Tuesdayafternoon when the child'*.- dr ?" i-aught afire from an open fireplace. After tiaving frustrated two 0at-' tempts to burn his house and havinghia ncnii^inn ormino/l ^ >?W * ?. vuqvu viinv vac IIIXO were of incendiary origin, Charter Martin, young married man of the Elound Peak section of Surry county, went to the home of a neighbor to borrow a gun to protect his home the lirst of the week and was shot in the back from ambush on his return' borne. As a result of the interest that Uni- < ted States Senator Nat B. Dial, of; i South Carolina, is taking in them, the c Catawba Indians, wards of the State, ^ who occupy a small reservation twenty miles east of York in York coun- (? tf, may be taken in charge by the Uni- i ted States government. It ia said that c the Catawbas aro the only Indian ? tribe in the. United States not under the protection of the federal government at the present time. d As the result of being hit in the * lead by a pitched ball in a game play- . * ?d at Timmonsville between Timmons-' ' inlle and Florence, J. Kiike White, the , * jeventeen-year-old- son of Capt. and ^ Mrs. Lawerence B. White, formerly of ^ Florence, passed away at 2:30 o'clock ' Thursday afternoon, in an automo- * bile, while being carried to the Florence Infirmary. In the last inning of * the game White, who was batting for'c the home team, received with full; * force near his temple a ball thrown by ; T a devoted friend, Manning Brunson, ; pitcher for the Florence team. .1 ______________ c WHITE WOMEN*PLEAD 1 AGAINST NAMING NEGRO FOR BOSS c < Washington, April 2.?Members of ' Congress today received copies of a; petition, addressed to Mrs. Virginia!, White Steel, chairman of the nation-j' al woman's Republican committee of j the District of Columbia, and signed!1 by 508 white women employes in th > ' office of the register of the treasury. ' opposing the appointment of a negro as register. 'We have been definitely informed," the signers of the petition declared, "that the appointment of a colored man as register of the treasury is beng considered. The register's office j i is now very large and is doing res- 1 ponsible work. Its personnel consists i of more than 900 clerks, mostly ex- < service men and white women, who ' are dependent upon their income here I for support. For a negro to have ju risdiction over these clerks would be intolerable. "It is true that colored men have served as registers of the treasury, but out of the tweniv-two ieg!sterc only four have been negroe?. At no time when this office was under the supervision of a negro did the person- 1 nel consist of more than nineteen cicias ana vug meuun^r. NOTICE Notice iv hereby given that I will apply for a discharge as Guardian of Annie Eliza Villeponiteaux, Alice Helena VUleponteaux, Beulah Inez Villepointeaux and Etta Lee Villo- < ; oimteaux, to.the Judge of Probate of Chesterfield county, at his office, in ChestcrAeld, 8. C? on the dth day of U.? 1091 10 L **aa/, i?r**9 mv am U tiVV.?. llOVUt Ur H I goon thereafter as business can proceed. ; fedeli v.^r>. H I u'^-Ji UBMraH At C TATE SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION AT ROCK HILL " -' I Spartanburg, S. C., April 4.?Rock . Iill, which is to entertain the next South Carolina State Sunday School ( Convention, has broken all records in , State Convention financing, by rais- i ng a larger amount and paying it 1 arlier than any other city that has ver entertained the Convention. This statement was issued yester- ( lay from the state headquarters of I he Sunday School Association in , Spartanburg by Leon C. Palmer, gensral superintendent of the qrganiza April 10. We earnently hope that every church in this division will send delegated to this meeting. Mrs. Edna Funderburg, our superintendent, will be with us, and will speak to the mothers. Come praying for a rich blessing upon the gathering. Tfrql all we do oK-aay may be for Hi^^ Mrs. B r. t. ion. "kock Hill is determined to nake this the best and biggest Sunday School convention ever held in the State," said Mr. Palmer, "and with 1 hia in view the Rock Hill Chamber of ; Commerce has already raised, among { he business firms of the city, the sum ( >f one thousand dollars to Oe extended solely in advertising and pronoting this meeting. "Thia is, I believe, the largest imount ever raised by a Convention :ity in thia State, and speaks volumes or the local interest in the Convention. Not only have they raised the imount; they have paid in cash, at an sarlier date than any other city has ;ver paid its advertising fund. Rock Hill stands in a class to itself among the cities that have entertained the State Sunday School Convention. "All who attend this Convention may well feel assured of a hearty welcome from the Rock Hill citizens and i delightful thre^ days of fellowship together during the Convention, which wil be held in Winthrop Colege, June 8-9-10." MAY EXPORT COTTON Washington. Anril 0. Prnnnanlo involving exportation of 1,000,000 bales of American cott>n to Germany and Belgium, members of :ongress said today, will be discussed it the conference to be held Monday by the far finance corporation wth Southern bankers. The exportaton of a large amount of cotton to Germany and Belgium is understood to have been subject of negotiation for some time between the war finance corporation and the exporting corporation recently organized at New Orleans under the Edge act. W. M U. QUARTERLY MEETING TO BE HELD AT DAVID'S GROVE There will be held ? quarterly meeting of the Chesterfield division of the W. M. U. of at David's Grove Sundav. [# '^vji f?. ^yjSBF^S^v^BBB^M Bg^*M^jiHfeajjg*,'jK ,,, w r^ r ^9BHHpp|VjflH^R^MHBpBBJyil hesterfield April 26, 27 PINE GROVE We are glad to report Miss Maud Hunt improving after a few days of illness. Mr. Clyde White spent last weekend with his uncle, Mr. Finley White. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Davis and children spent Sunday with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Bittle, near McFarlan, N. C. Misses Viola and Thelma Hunt visited Misses Carrie and Maud Hunt Sunday afternoon. Mrs. N. A. White spent last week with her son, Mr. Perry White, of Morven. Miss Eula Knight spent the weekend at Morven. Mr. and Mrs. Bub Hammonds spent Sunday with Mrs. Hammonds' ; father, Mr. H. W. White. ' Miss Thelma Hunt spent Wednesday with Mrs. Fred White. Mr. and Mrs. J. Andy Teal and children spent Sunday at the home of Mr. H. W. White. The W. M. S. of Pine Grove meets Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the church. Mrs. J. B. Rivers and Miss Eunice White spent Monday in Morven. Miss Pauline Parker spent the week-end at home in Cheraw. MAN PARALYZED TO WAIST From Warsaw, Indiana, comes this: 'Albert Wood, prominent farmer residing near here, is paralyzed to the waist and in a critical condition as the result of a blow struck by hia son, Dallas, twenty-one. "The father and son were attempting to break a balky mule today and became so enraged that the father told the son to hit the mule on the head with a club. The father held the mule's head. "The mule, however, was not caught napping, and jerked its head aside as the blow descended. Instead of striking the mule's head, the blow landed squarely on the head of the elder Wood, and he was knocked unconscious. Physicians say there is little hope for his recovery." n NOTICE OF SALE By virtue of authority contained in certain tax executions issued by J. A. Welsh, County Treasurer, for the year 1919 and directed to me I will offer for sale the following real estate to wit: 400 acres of land in Ausley School District, known as Peter Marsh and Covington land. 2 lots and 1 building in town of Jefferson, known as J. Wisley Raley lots. Tax and penalty, $48.73. All of which I will sell before the court house door in Chesterfield county on the 2nd dAy of May, the san\ff beinrfl e fly "Monday in May, for <MS ifcniraift IHH| g - fl ^ i ?mp*3 MMl ' ^jvl 1M ||^^^K|PMjjKS ,28 ' ?PRUNE TOMATO PLANTS A thrifty tomato plant left to itself will spread over a space from 4 :o 6 feet in diameter and will produce i peck or more of tomatoes. V staked and pruned it will yield almost the same quantity of fruit, the tomatoea will be larger, cleaner, better flavored, and superior in every respect, and enough space can be conserved to ac:ommodate several other plants car>d for in the same manner, say garden specialists. The staked and pruned plants are easily sprayed, and will rontinue to produce later in the fall. \s a rule, also, the pruned tomatoes will mature earlier. On the scale on which tomatoes are grown in the horae garden, staking and pruning require little trouble, and will fully repay the effort. When the plants are to be staked they may be set 2 feet apart each way, or every 18 inches in rows 3 feet apart. And substantial stake of sufficient size to bear the weight ef the plants and 4 to 6 feet long is suitable. Sawed strips or laths may be used. A stake is driven about 3 inches from each plant, which is tied po it at intervals of 8 and 10 inches as tho stem develops. Soft strings or narrow strips of cloth are used for this purpose. When the plants begin making a vigorous growth, shoots will appear in the little pockets where each leaf joins the stem. Later the blossoms appear on the opposite side of the stem. In pruning the plant remove all these side shoots and those around thc base of the plant, being careful not to dis+ iL. LI * ? tuiu me on/sscm clusters. rne snoots sometimes, called suckers, should be pinched off shortly after they appear. The main stem can be carried to tho full height of the stake, then allowed to hang over. By this time six or seven blossom clusters, on which the fruit is developing, should be set on the stem.?Clemson College. 1 32 KEYS IN HIS STOMACH j In an effort to avoid arrest by get-! ting rid of the evidence a Berlin burglar back in 1919 swallowed thirtytwo skeleton keys and one leaver. But he was convicted nevertheless and served his term. Whether he went back to his trade is not known, but it is certain that he forgot all about the hardware in his stomach until recently, when he presented himself at the University Hospital in Berlin and complained of suffering from stomach trouble. Would someone kindly prescribe the necessary remedy? Prof. Bier took an X-ray of the man's stomach and at first could not believe his eyes when the photograph disclosed the extraordinary number of keys. Moreover, the burglar was just aa much surprised as the professor when told what th? trouble was, and deckling that he ? aa^H^^pnger as CHESTERFIELD V WATERWO OVERWHE GIN COMES NEAR BURNING Fire was discovered last Sunday night about 10 o'clock in the gin house of the Chesterfield Gin Co. The building and contents were saved only by the prompt action of John Ratliflf, who was first to see the blaze. Services at the nearby colored church were over ar.d John Ratliff with the pastor and one other official had been detained on some business matters of the church. John states that he had just come out of the church and was facing in the direction of the gin when he saw a flash of light that seemed to spread all through the building. He gave the alarm and one of his companions began ringing the church bell, while he secured a bucket and ran to the grin. Fortunately a barrel of water was handy and after a very hot fight the blaze was quenched. The lint all over the large room had singed quickly, but fire was burning fiercely and stubbornly in a pile of seed and cotton bagging. John is convinced that the fire was of incendiary origin and thefe are circumstances that tend to coroborate his views. TO DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR Orange, Va.,?Clarence Brown and Henry Barnes, negro convicts, will die in the electric charr for the murder of a guard, Wi E. Snow, while trying with three others to escape, acnAvrlinn? fa c*/? * ??* vv ?cvK?n ui cue jury trying the case there. Brown, who confessed on the stand to the actual murder of the guard, will die June 28 and Barnes two days later. The crime for which the negroes were convicted took place March 1. The negroes, working under Snow, suddenly made a dash for liberty, one seizing the guard's gun and killing him. Posses numbering nearly five hundred men scoured the woods for twenty miles around searching for the convicts. Two of them were taken by a farmer's wife, single handed, with an empty shotgun. GERMANY MUST PAY, WASHINGTON VIEW Washington, April 1.?Rumors via London of conversation between Germany and the United States as to reparation payments brought an authoritative statement from adminministrative officials today that the attitude of the United! States toward Germany is that she must accept her responsibility for the war and pay her obligations to the fullest extent she is able. The London advices from Berlin said it was understood Germany had submitted certain proposals to the United States regarding reparation payments, including a suggestion that she assume liability for part of the debts of Allied powers to the United States. There was no confirmation of the receipt of any such proposal, although Commissioner Dressel at Berlin has rrnnrtpH in rnnuprootinna nri?k German officials in which the reparations question came up. The nature of these conversations was not disclosed. In connection with the subject, however, occasion was taken to make perfectly clear the general attiude of the new administration toward all matters involved in the controversey between the Allied powers and Germany which led to occupation of additional German territory. The policy of this government was summed up in the terse assertion that Germany must accept full responsibility for the war and pay her liabilities to the full extent of her ability. I STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP | Management, Circulation, Etc., Required By the Act. of Aug. 24, 1921 Of The Chesterfield Advertiser, published at Chesterfield, S. C., for Apri 1, 1921. Published by The Advertiser Pub lishing Co., Inc. Editor, Paul H Hearn, Chesterfield, S. C. Stockholders, Paul H. Hearn ant Fred G. Hearn. Mortgage holder, th< Bank of Chesterfield, Chesterfield S. C. Signed, Paul H. Hearn, editor Sworn to and subscribed before m< this 6th day of April, 1921. f? if n - r- nr1'.'Gannon; Deputy'Clerk of Cou NOTICE OF TO' ELECTION The regular e^^tion of tendent and wiulRns, foar .? ChiitorfleW, Mpi he v ^ ? ' weti< OTES FOR RKS BY AN LMING MAJORITY By a vote of more than two to one the citizens of Chesterfield on last Tuesday decided to have a waterworks and sewerage system. The vote was 96 to 43. This election is a never-to-be-forgotten milestone >n the history of Chesterfield's progress. It is undoubtnrlltr Ua ??* ? - ?* A ? 4 * vui/ uic luusu iiupuruiiii. move me town has ever made. It paves the way for a continuous development as nothing else could. While the town was threatened from Are, and insurance companies were withdrawing their protection, the outlook for Chesterfield was indeed ominous. But all of that is past history now. Capital will feel free to invest here because business inducements are good and fire protection and consequent reasonable insurance i*ates are assured for the future. Chesterfield is to be congratulated on really getting together on this subject. The vote was as nearly unanimous as could be hoped for, showing unmistakably that the people are practically a unit on this question and they mean to have these improve ments. The people have spoken! And the people rule. FISH FRY ON PEE DEE RIVER Mr. and Mrs. Welbon Pusser and Mrs. S. M. Jackson chaperoned a crowd of young folka on a big fish ? fry Tuesday evening. Those invited were: Misses Mcyda Jackson, Wilma Swinnie, Eva Teal, Ora Dodson, Dora Westberry, Cuba Nunez, Viola Neven, Mrs. F. B. Sanders, Mrs. J. C. Baker, Dorothy Lucas, Sallie Lucas, Miss Emma McNinch, Mary Pusser, Gladys Bottoms. Messrs. Walter Douglass, John Rutledge, King Moore, Henry Pusser, Laurin Rcdfearn, John Roseboro, Townly Redfearn, Arthur Knight, Joe Lore, Lloyd Rivers, John West Streater, Dan Laney, Dock Crawley, Preston Hurst. Mr. and Mrs. Welbon Pusser and Mrs. S. M. Jackson. Last week the northern part of Albany, Ga., was swept by a tornado that killed one man, injured sixty persons, half a dozen seriously, and caused property estimated at several thousand dollars. The Strand -TO-NIGHT? THURSDAY "THE SPENDERS" A Pathe Special FRIDAY 1 "CHORUS GIRL'S ROMANCE" Featuring VIOLA DANA SATURDAY ? J. WARREN KERRIGAN 1 "300,000" , - MONDAY ~ | "NUMBER 99" ? TUESDAY "BROKEN GATE" Go to the Strand every night. We are 1 running the very best. 1 GASOLINE SYSTEMS Oil Tanks and Pumps, Air Compressors, Computing Scales ' Floor Scales, Show Cases, Ac. count Registers. Rebuilt Cash " Kegisters, Safes, Store Fixtures. HAMILTON SALES CO. Columbia, S. C. i A. F. DAVIS MARKET The Finest ' J, .ThrVSC, Ht,k Gr^. - n , tw B~? of E.m? 3 -ft kiss