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VOL. 39?NO 37 ' . CHESTERFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1921 ?i Rn a v.. ad ..r
ANOTHER DIRIGIBLE
y DESTROYED
These are bad times f<2r dirigible
r.'.r hins. Only the other day the ZR-2,
the greatest dirigible in the world
and supposedly the best, crashed into
ruin on her trial trip and snufTed out
the lives of many brave men in her
own extinction. The ZR-2 was a rigid
dirigible and the rigid type, of which
the Zeppelins of Germany were notable
eamples, is the type to which
those who believe in a great future
for the dirigible pin their hopes. Now
the non-rigid D-6, the largest craft of
the sort possessed by the United
States navy, has gone up in smoke.
She caught fire in her hangar just as
she was about to start on a trin and
ship ar/i hangar and three naval ba!
loons were destroyed by the fiames.
Truly, there is no royal road to the
conquest of the air-. Nature, man's
friend and foe, is making a hard fight
against him there and he must pay a
heavy price before he has made himself
at home in the aerial spaces
which are the last of her realms
against which he has launched invasion.
There have been few more discouraging
checks in history of avia*1
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uun luuii iiium' which nave ueuuicn
the effort to develop the 'lighter-than-air
types of aerial craft; yet
there is no possibility that the effort
will b? abandoned, for what has been
accomplished has revealed what seems
to be great possibilities ahead. Even
most of the airplane men, though
firmly convinced of the superiority
of their own craft urge that the development
of dirigibles be continued j
willi oil possible energy.?Charles
tor. Ne?s sH Courier. 1
666 curat a cold quickly. 40
The Strand
THURSDAY
CONWAY TEARLE
, ?In?
"THE FIGHTER"
Also n Special/Educational Reel
, ????? riuuAi
L A PATHE SPECIAL
M "THE BUTTERFLY GIRL"
SATURDAY
EDDIE POLO
?In?
"KING OF THE CIRCUS"
[ Also a Harold Loyd Con^edy and
| Pathe News Reel
I ? MONDAY
WILLIAM S. HART
"THE WHISTLE"
I And a Mermaid Two-Reel Comedy
TUESDAY 1
OWEN MOORE
. ?In?
DIVORCE CONVENIENCE
Also
Pathe New* Reel
WEDNESDAY j
ROBERTSON COLE SPECIAL
"Occasionally Your*"
Also
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
I Two-Reel Comedy
"ONE AM"
THURSDAY
EUGENE O'BRIEN
ROAD OF AMBITION
?And?
JUGGERNAUTS OF THE JUNGLE
A Special Jungle Picture, showing
Wild Animals ?"
646 cure* Chills and Favor. 40
GOOD RHODE ISLAND RED
HENS FOR SALE
! This is a good chance to got a
start with Rhode Island Reds at a
small cost. Sold to make room for
young stock. All good layersv and
good colors. Sec me for prices.
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IRub-My-Titm for Rb?unn?tUm. 40
A Real
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. NEWS IN GENERAL
Cotton growing has just suffered
the most disatsrous month in its history.
The indie ciop witl be the
8TM?.est in the l.-*t 9i. y:nrt> while
the condition now is the lowest ever
recorded in any month in the history
of the industry. Rnvnges of the boll
weevil are principally the cause of
the crop amounting to a loss of 1,I
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nu,vvu umca in prugpeciive pTOUUCtion
since last morth's forecut. The
department of agriculture in announcing
today its forecast of a total
production of 7,037,000 equivalent
500 pounds bales based on a canvass
m$de August 25, declared everything
seemed to have gone wrong
with the crop.
Major General Leonard Wood has
announced his acceptance of the post
of governor-general of the Phillippines
tendered to him by President
Harding. Gen. Wood notified Secretary
Weeks that he would retire from
the army to accept the'governorship.
He said he believed it to be his patriotic
duty to accept the position,
owing to the seriousness of the situ'
ation in the Phil ippines.
Making1 good his threat that he
would hever be taken alive, Clayton
Smith, gangster, gunman and outlaw,
wanted for shooting Deputy Sheriff
Walter Clark at Chattanooga last
February, bolted from his home at
Brigdeport, Ala., early Friday morning
with his revolver flaming fire and
was riddled hy a posse of officers who
' had surrounded the house. Alabama
officers learning that Smith wohld visit
his home, wired Sheriff Bush at
Chattanooga and eight heavily armed
deputies to help affect the capture.
Sheriff M. C. Thomas, who led the
i posse, knocked on the front door of
the Smith home and demanded ad
mittance. smith dashed out tiring!
and was instantly killed. Deputy 1
I Sherff Clark, who was shot by Sheriff .
j while the latter was resisting arrest j
! last February, was a member of the i
porse from Chattanooga.
Two negroes arrested and placed i
m iail in J^.up. Ga., charged with
attacking a white woman, were spirited
away when crowds gathered and |
made threats against them, and later j
representatives of the demonstrators
were allowed to satisfy themselves
that the men were not in the jail.
Sheriff I. W. Rogers had previously
pleaded with the crowd to let the
men be legally tried.
Some improvement in industrial
conditions in the South is shown in
the monthly survey of the employment
service of the department of
labor for August. The brightest spot
in the South appears to be in Florida,
which reports practically no unem-'
ployment and a statewide shortage
of labor.
There is every reason to believe!
that Henry Ford will agree radically.
to amend his original offer for the
government plants at Muscle Shoals, (
and that, as a result, the seoretary
of war will feel justified in askintr
congress for authority and money by
means of which to complete Wilson
dam, and lease water power subsequently
to be available to the highest'
bidder. For, following the favorable
action of congress, it is reasonably
certain that there will be other bidders.
In the meanwhile the South
clamors for the acceptance of the
Ford offer, in response to which clamor
the secretary can not act without
cong'tessionaE authority. Conflicting
with the insistence of the South, are
various interests, political and industrial.
Still another school, of1
which Gifford Pinchot, the ultra-conservationist
is typical, wants to be
"shown." Pinchot declares' Ford's
'too low and too indefinite, especially
touching his guarantee of cheap fertllU.a
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Cotton Seed Hulls end Meel et the
the right prices. W. P. ODOM.
Eyes exainined, glasses fitted hy
most approved methods.
Edgeworth Jewelry Co.
You can get a good price for your
cotton seed around at Everyman's
Mill.
Full line of coffins and caskets at
W. M. Redfearn's * It
Bargain
id New
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FARMERS MEETINGS
A series of meetings of interest to
farmers has been arranged for next
week for the purpose of discussing
the problems of farming under boll
weevil~ .conditions. " The different
crops to be grown under these conditions
will be thoroughly discussed.
Meetings will be held at the following
places:
Snow Hill School House- Mnndnv
night, Sept. 12.
Parker School No. 1, Tuesday
night, Sept. 13.
Patrick, Wednesday night, Sept.
14.
Middendorf, Thursday, Sept. 15.
Ousley School, Friday night, Sept.
16th.
There will be able speakers at
these meetings, men competent to
discuss tnese problems.
The reason for calling these meet
iso ??v nielli is iu hvuju mceriering
with the farm work that is now at
its busiest.
W. J. Tiller,
County Agent.
THE SOUTH FIRST TO
SHOW BUSINESS REVIVAL
The advance of coUon within the
last low weeks has added about !?>300,-bOO
000 in value to the stock carried
over and to the n iv crop, a difference
which means the turning loose of a
vas' ; mount of money, the payment
o? >* : >.y debts an.l the ability to purchase
many things which a month
ago would have been deemed impos-u.i.
Three hundred millions of added
wealth in this one item becomes like
a reviving fund for the 8outh, which
does not only added $300,000,000 of
increased business but many times
that amount. Added to this splendid
increase in cotton values is the great
pi ogress made in diversified farming,
the enlarged supply of foodstud's
the greatest peach and watermelon
crops ever raised and shipped
to the North and West at profitable
prices, the big citrus fruit crops of
Florida, which early in the fall will
begin to move to market and which
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uuKni 10 Dring a nign price by reason
of the great shortage of apples
and other Jruits in the North and
West. Cotton mill work is reviving,
house building activities ore increasing
despite the adverse conditions
under which the country has long
labored and the South is beginning to
feel the warmth of the sunrise of
prosperity.
'this section, we think, will unquesionably
be the first part of
America to show a full revival of
business activity, and that revival is
now under way. "
The same unconquerable energy
witn which the South has met every
adverse condition since 1865 is being
put forth at the present time, and its
ettect will be as great and as tarreaching
as ever in the past. The
South can now begin to sing a song
of optimism. It can begin to rejoice
in the turn of the tide from poverty
to prosperity.?Manufacturers' Record.
RUNS INTO OFFICER'S ARMS
Monday night a freight car on the
Piedmont and Northern track at
Spartanburg was broken into and a
quantity of shoes, soap and hardware
stolen. Tuesday night the police
department got information that the
thieves were in an old house on
Austin street, and the place was surrounded,
but when the officers entered
the place it was empty. A search
WHS mado And Ihu aYinaa u/uro ^mmil
hidden in the walls of the building.
When the officers came out of the
building they noticed some negroes
in front of a store nearby and made
an investigation and found two of
the ones they were looking for and
started to the jail with them. On the
way, the two arrested, told on two
others, and the officers went to the
house of Harry Johnson for him.
Harry lives on Hines street, and
when the officers went to his house
Ka ron Ant knolr
nv <nu vuv viae uni.iv mm uuuc;
the house. He came out from under
the house running, and chase was
given, but he outstripped his persuers.
Fortunately two officers had
been left to guard the house where
the shoes were found and they heard
the commotion at Johnson's house
and begun to look out. Directly Johnson
ran into their arms. But he
proved hard to hold. He did not have
a rag of clothes on, and was rtrther
fat, and running covered him with
perspiration. it was nara to noia
onto him, but the officers did. The
negro Wanted to go to his house and
get some clothing to put on, but the
officers considered him rather slick,
and decided it was best to take him
on to the police station as It
was at 3 o'clock at night, and nobody
was on the streets. He was
given a uniform when he went to jail
and waa locked up. Five negroes have
been arrested implicated in this robcry.
FARMING UNDER BOU. WEEVIL
CONDITIONS DISCUSSEE
,
Major W. J. Tiller, our countj
' farm demonstration agent, has jus
closed a series of nine meetings hel<
in Chesterfield county for the bene
fit of the fanners who will ever here
after have to grow thciy crops^unde;
I boll weevil cnnrliiinna Tnntn ?
| ings have been well attended an<
show that the people are interested
for the boll weevil is here and is do
ing damage and it is evident that h<
will do greater damage in the future
The meeting scheduled for Ches
terfield was held last Thursday
About a hundred were present bu
these were thinking men and listenec
well to the messages that wen
brought to them by those who l\av?
contended with the boll weevil in thi
past.
The first speaker was Mr. Winters
who has worked for six years in Tex
as with the boll weevil. He statec
that to grow any crops profitably un
der boll weevil conditions it was nec
essary that one have a rich soil ant
this rich soil must be obtained othei
than from the use of commercial fer
tilizers. With the boll weevil this hall
crop to be made with any profit ont
can't buy expensive fertilizers. Tht
remedy is to build up your soil witr
cover crops and legumes. About Oc
tober 1st, one should sow rye ant
hairy vetch or crimson clover; thest
okn..U : ' '
onvuiu ue miiucuiaieu tne tirst year
If land is allowed to lay out all winter
the natural fertility is leachec
out of the soil by the winter rains
One must have organic matter in tht
soil, like corn stalks, leaves, etc., anc
by turning under rye in the spring
and velvet beans in the fall. Tht
people were urged to plant the velvet
bean. If planted in the corn he would
guarantee the fodder would not be
pulled?and it should not?this is a
natural hay country. Mr. Winters'
main theme was that the farmers
must improve their soil other than by
the use of commercial fertilizers
otherwise they ctould not grow cotton
under boll weevil conditions, God has
put the nitrogen in the air, man can,
if he will use intelligence with which
his creator has endowed him, transfei
the nitrogen of the air whete it can
be used to make our soil rich, t .
The second speaker was Mr. Schilletter,
who spoke on commercial peach
j orchards and sweet potatoes. The
; speaker said to grow peaches foi
j market one must use time and attention
and intelligence?no nigger and
mule. Land for the orchard should be
high where the air drainaca w?v
good. Frost does not damage as much
in high places as in low places. Trees
should be secured from a good nursery?not
from an agent. Should be
planted twenty feet apart each way,
must be well pruned. Prune the inside
limbs and let the tree grow like
an inverted umbrella or basket so the
aid an sunshine can get in. Varieties
to plant for market are Belle of Georgia
and Elberta. Spraying very important?first
in the winter for scale
and later for worms?twice?and
finally for rot. Spraying is no good
unless done at proper time. Major
Tiller would give all who desired a
spray calendar. Those who were think?r
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?<b yji t>io>viii}^ puacnes ior marKet
were requested not to go ahead until
they had conversed with him or others
as to the details. One must know
his ground before proceeding.
Chesterfield county is well located
and its sandy soil by nature adapted
for peach growing. Mr. McLeod of
McBee shipped $4000 worth of
peaches this year from ten acres of
trees.
Mr. Schilletter "also spoke on the
value of sweet potatoes. But to ship
thes potatoes in the fall and spring
when markets would take them call
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vu tui a nwvi'i ptunio nuuse to DC
constructed. Only way potatoes could
be preserved so they would ship.
Government had plans for a successful
potato house which was free for
the asking. Government would super
vise construction of same and curing
of first crop of potatoes. Average
cost of 1000 bushel house from $400
to $500. Sweet potatoe growers thif
year received average of $1.25 a
bushel for last years crop. Potatoes
must be graded and placed in baa
kets of standard sue; this should be
done when crop is gathered and potatoes
placed in baskts and in house
for curing in same way they are shipped.
i ne iaar speaker was Mr. McBridt
of the S. A. L. Railway industrial department.
He spoke on jfrowinjf and
shipment of perishables, like peache<
and watermlons etc. Mr. McBridc
said there were two classes of farm
era who grew perishables?one tht
"gimme" class who were alwayi
hunting for buyrs with a song "Whai
will you 'gimme,' 'gimme?"-?the?,
always went broke, because the]
would cut the price of the neighbor;
product. The other elass make goo<
i because they go about the marketini
> of their products with intelligence
Ih advance they secure from the gov
ernment list of buyers of pachcs,
> watermelons, etc. They get their
I banker to find out which of these are
p responsible financially. Then just
t about the time they are ready to marj
ket they offer their crops by wire
. to various dealers?not commission
merchant. The Government Bureau
i of Markets will inform them any time
( for the asking the market price of i
", watermelons- otr* OfTnru ,?,;n k.. ....
, l<--,
1 ceived from reliable dealers and shin-|
, ment can then be made on credit, the
pay to be received when produce is
received at other end. One must have
the banker to Tind out who is reliable.
* It is some risk in all business but by
- care this can be reduced to the minnimum.
(_! All the speakers urged the farmers
j to go slow in growing new crops. To
still grow some cotton but this must
; be on rich soil. Growing new crops
s must be done slowly and carefully
; and intelligently. If one plunged into
| a new thing they were apt to go
. broke. Conditions in th?? fntn "">? <?
. I going to be different but other states
i had learned how to fnVm successfully
. ' under boll wevil conditions and *we
-' could too?but it will be hard go|
ing for a while and only the hard
r worker and the man who thinks and
- plans and uses the brains will succeed
[ in the future.
? Major Tiller urged all who intend
to plant winter cover crops to place
j ordrs for their seed at once?not to
. delay this matter until they were
1 ready to sow. Seed must be secureu
5 in advance. Ho will gladly assist in
. securing seed for all those who desire
. his aid. Incidentally, it was brought
1 out that a boll weevil cannot live in
, ! the winter in a field with green crops
> growing if all dead matter is clean-.
I ed up.
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: Reading1 is an accomplishment!
1 which is acquired only by persistent
s practice.
t The near-illiterate man reads a 1
word at a tirfie, slowly and laborous- 1
I ly.
' I After doing a considerable amount
, I of reading, almost everyone learns to
i ! take groups of words at a glance.
' ' f inally, skilled readers find no diffi- 1
, j culty in reading simple matter, such
i' as fiction or articles on subjects with
which they are more or less famili
iar, by paragraphs or even pages.
.. ^ ..Imxnanuel Kant, the philosopher,
said he could digest any book in nr.
i hour. His biographers sav this was
! literally true, that his mind was so
' J keen and the art of reading was so '
j highly cultivated in him that he j
1 could take in a page of printed mat- '
! ter as rapidly us most of us take in j
> a word.
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cent, germination. $1.00 per bushel,
also full line field seed for fall
planting, write us for prices, our
seed are what we claim, pure, our
i prices right.
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pound tin humidort cnu
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STATE NEWS
While attempting to get a shot at
a hawk which had been bothering the
chickens around his home, Thomas T. g
Hane, of Fort Motte, and one of the j,
most prominent planters of Calhoun , e
county, accidentally received a gun- Lj
shot wound last Friday afternoon, s
which instantly ended his life. [ t|
Tom Hatchette and Lee Porter,! p
guards on the white chaingang operated
by the county highway commis- t?
sion of Spartanburg county, were d
bound over Friday night by a coron- ti
er's jury holding an inquest into the I v
causes of the death of Thomas H.'w
Keelan, who died at the camp Wed- h
nesday after being severely whipped o
by the guards. They gave bond in y
the sum of $2,000 each, and have q
been released. s:
. Friday about 2:30 o'clock, Mrs. y
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ii. m. v^uicr, wno resides at East '
Main and Converse streets Spartan- c
burp found a white man in her house, o
She procured a revolver and forced ?
the man to march before her down <1
the street to the traffic officer on 1 v
Main and Liberty streets and turned J
him over to the officers of the law. jo
The man pave hjs name as Ben Kel- p
ley, of Coburn, Va., and his ape as f
1'.) years. He had in possession a $10 c
bill issued by the Central National s
bank, and a number of trunk and ti
suit case keys. He said that he came ' ii
to Spartanburp from Columbia, and 1)
that he went into the house to steal <1
some money to pet home on. He was s
locked up and will answer before Re- ; s
corder Burnett the next day to the d
charges of housebreaking. Mrs. Cofer t
is receiving the congratulations of . ?
the police department upon her nerve t
and presence of mind.
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JIM McDUFFIE LOST t
Jim MeDuflie, who lived on the r
Cheraw-Morven road near the Britt a
school house not far from the North ^
Carolina line, has wandered, away '
from home. c
His mind unbalanced, Jim McDuf- 0
fie left home Tuesday, taking his
little boy with him. The following
Thursday the two were found in the
woods not far from home. The boy \
was taken home but the father re- s
fused to come. It was thought that ! I
he would soon follow but he failed \
to do so and Sheriff J. T. Grant and I
his deputy, Mr. C. J. Sellers were no- \
tified. I J
A posse of bout 40 men was form- ] (
ed and the woods were seached Sat- ' i
urday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, j
day and night, but no trace of him , \
was found. I 1
Though demented, he is considered t
harmless. He is about 55 years of j
age and when last seen was wearing ' i
a black hat, blue shirt and yellow i
corduroy pants, and was barefooted, t
He has a cancer on one side of his (
face and nose; is about 5 feet and f
6 inches in hight; weighs about 140 i
pounds and has dark mustache. t
The sheriff requests that he be no- 1
tified by anyone seeing this man.
Youl
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'RST thing you do next A
? go get some makin's Alb
)ers and some Prince ther
ert tobacco and puff away and
a home made cigarette our
t will hit on all vour ess!
>ke cylinders! P. ,
ro use sitting-by and saymaybe
you'll cash this ou
ich tomorrow. Do it while P
going's good, for man-o- co 1
n, you can't figure out smo
ityou'repassingby! Such smo
vnr sur.h rnnlness cnrti Vnn
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'e-isli-ness?well,the only ?if
y to get the words em- for
itic enough is to go to it rev<
I know yourself! or a
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national joy
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ILAMES JURIES FOR
CRIME WAVE
Spartanburg, Sept. b.?Judge T.
!. Sease, of the circuit bench, openng
a special session of Court of Gcnral
Sessions here today took occaion
in addressing the grand jury to
ay that responsibility for much of
fie crime in this State is due to tha
etit juries.
Judge Sease said he did not prejnd
to sav that th?> notit
ishonest, but that their action is due
o lack of intelligence to properly
a?igh the mattter.While the fault is
'ith the petit jury, the fault for the'r
ick of intelligence lies with the State
f South Carolina which for 300
ears has failed to provide an adeuate
compulsory education law, he
aid. It was not until the last few
ears that anything has been done to
orce the voti# and the juror to beonie
educated, he added. The State
wes it to itself to put a tax sufficient
n the real and personal property to
efray the expenses of educating the
oters.
The crime wave, Judge Sease went
n to say, is not an aftermath of the
reat World War, but it is due to the
ailure of the petit jury to convict
riminals, regardless of their social
tanding, whether great or small. Jusice
is said to be blind to the standng
of the criminal. The object of the
iw is to punish the criminal and to
eter others from crime. The juror
Mould consider it a matter of peronul
safety to bring1 in a true verlict
for he does not know at what
ime his life or property will be at
take becau-.e of the failure of juries
o do their duty.
For years, Judge Sease said, he
las advocated a compulsory educaion
law with teeth. No man has a
ight to let hir. boy grow up in ignor
,nce when the State stands ready to
ay for an education for that boy in
irder to make him an intelligent votr
and to keep him from being a
riminal, he declared
WOMAN IN HIGH POSITION
Kingston, N. Y., Sept. 3.? Folkf
vho have been gazing curiously at the
tructual activities in. .1 suspension
n idge r.OO feet about Rondout Creek
vere amazed today to learn that a
ilonde worker in overalls who is
velding cables is a woman. She is n
drs. Catherine Nelson, of Jersey
jity, a widow with two children, and
s earning !?30 a day.
When her husband lied she tri?d
vorking as a stewardess on an ocean
iner, but found the pay too sinonll
ind so obtained a job in a machine
shop. When the bridge contractor
isked a company in Jersey City for
ts best welder she was sent to Kingson.
She says she never is al'raid or ?
lizzy, at a great height, never had
in accident and never rejected a ta.sk
jecause of the danger. She hop<-s to
lake her children home to Denmark
for Christmas and then return and
Ion overalls again.
1 enjoy the
of rolling
vith P.
nd, besides Prince
ert's delightful flavor,
e's its freedom from bite
parch which is cut out by
exclusive patented procCertainly
? you smoke
A. from sun up till you
between the sheets witha
comeback.
rince Albert is the tobac-,
:hat revolutionized pipe
king. If you never could
ke a pipe ? forget it!
i can?AND YOU WILL
yon use Prinre Albert
packing! It's a smoke
jlation in a jimmy pipe
i cigarette!
smok*