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?Ijc (Cljfsfetfielti ^tMutrfiocr L *> j VOL, 40?NO, 5 CHESTERFIELD, S. cJTHUTObAYTyEBRUARY 2,1922 $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANOB PUTS MOB CRIME IN I ASK HENRY ?rri?r? w* I 1 JURISDICTION OF U. S. COURTS Washington.?The house has declared itself in favor of the government exerting its authority in an effort to stamp out lynching, passing by a vote of 230 td 119 the Dyer anti-lynehing bill: The bill provides life imprisonment or lesser penalties for persons who participate in lynchings and for state, county fend municipal officers who fail through negligence to prevent them. The measure also stipulates that the county in which mobs form or kill any one shall forfeit $10,000 to the family of the victim Democratic opponents of the bill, defeated in attempts to recommit it to the judiciary committee and to strike out the enacting clause, made no con+*1*1 a. - 1 1- 1 -* ' kjiku euvrb vu iwvc amencpenw adopted They declared "the vicious principle of the bill," could not be changed by amendments but expressed confidence thattihe measure never would receive senifiS approval VAUGHAN "We have been having some cold P weather and some are trying to console themselves that Mr. Boll Weevil has been frozen to death Some of the boys enjoyed fine rabbit racfes during vne cold days. Mr. John W. Campbell of near Patrick, spent a few days last week with friends and relatives in this section. It is reported that some person or persons visited Mr. Frank Vaughan's barn crib the other night and relieved Mr. Vaughan of a few bushels of corn. Mr. Mack Jordan and family visited Mr. John Wallace Sunday afternoon. Mr. L, J. Morris attended the quarterly conference at Pleasant Grove Church Sunday afternoon. Verdie Fay. the little daughter of M?? and Mrs. A. N. Stroud is very ill .St this writing. Hope she will soon be |fne of fhe men of the community did a good job at' the school bogp^thy replacing number of win#0# psne?, which had been broken ny sUng shots'1 In the hands of passers by. Look out boys someone is looking out for youFOR > Lumber, J building Call ' CHERAW LUMBE CHERAW, ? ? ? KING & M McBEE, ______ Lumber Yards ! New For ?.- I ' ! These are the For j the Ford Motor Co. ! Including Starte ( Tax, Gas and Oil . '! Which is the lowest by Ford Motor Co. - - W VV1 9 ! Touring I Coupe j Sedan [ Truck, no stai | Fordson Trac j Ask About Our Ei Luca^^ HARNESS SAVANNAH Greenwood, Jan. 25.?In the hope of interesting Henry Ford in the possibilities of developing the shoals nenr Calhoun Falls between Abbeville county, in South Carolina, and Elbert county, Georgia, on the Savanah river, the Greenwood chamber of commerce today wrote to the Detroit manufacturer and financier urging him to consider the Savanah river as a site for a power and nitrate plant in case he be unsuccessful in his attempt to purchase Muscle Shoals. According to prominent Greenwood engineers, potential power almost the equal of that at Muscle Shoals is going to waste on Savannah river. The Savannah river has a fall of 75 feet at the shoals at Calhoun falls, with high hills on each side of the river, which would make it possible to impound the waters into a great lake. The shoals also run for miles up the river. During the past twenty years various projects have been attempted to harness the Savannah, but nothing materialized. discharge notice On 11th February, 1922, at 11 o'clock A. M., I will apply to the Probate Court of Chesterfield County for a discharge as Administrator of the estate of Dr. James H. Blake, deceased. Jola Kelly Blake, January 26, 1922 Administratrix WHITE OAK The little son of Mr. and Mrs. John Brown died Sunday afternoon about 4 o'clock and was buried Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Bay Springs. Mrs. Catherine Jordan and family visited relatives near Jefferson Sunday. Mrs. B. C. Wadsworth visited Mrs. John C. Douglass Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Dennis Ratliff who has been sick is very much better now. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Ratliff qpent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Dennis Ratliff. Mr. W. L. Melton was the guest of Sic. J. P. Melton Sunday. Mrs. J. P. Melton was the guest of her dnughter, Mrs. N. C. Jones Sunday morning. fOUR mingles 1 Material 1 On R & SUPPLY CO. ? ? SOUTH CAROLINA IAYNARD ? SOUTH CAROLINA at Both Places d Prices j d Prices, quoted by $>n Jan. 16, 1922 r, Freight, War Ready to Run price ever known $465.55 I - 495.74 664.43 - 732.1 1 'ter 501.14 1 tor 670.00 . \ \sy Payment Plau uto Go. UUK WASHINGTON LETTER By Wallace Batsford (Special News Correspondent)' Washington, D. C., Jan. 27.?"Economy is wealth," said the Golf Player of the White House, "and I will gently inculcate a lesson in thrift for the benefit of those poor people out in Kansas who are so misguided as to be holding county mass meetings on the { subject of high taxes," and the "bestdressed President in a generation," carefully wrapped his left hand about the shaft of the mashie, then wrapped his right, fingers about the stick, exercising care that the two minor digits of the right overcasts the thumb of the left. Bing! "Smithcrs," (over his shoulder) "when we return to the White House gather up my worn shoes and send them to that worthy cobbler at Emporia, Kan., Mr. Spady for repairs. We, at the head of the nation, must teach the people a lesson in economy." Magnificent leadership or cheap bunk, unworthy of a President of the United States and showing a very low estimate of the intelligence of the people. The news about the batch of old shoes was given out at Emporia by E. A. Spady, shoemaker, on one day, and the following day the New York papers contained the news of Mrs. Harding's new wrap "of finest Russian ermine, with collars and cuffs of white fox, trimmed with ermine tails and lined with white Roman crepe over Harding blue chiffon velvet, made especially for Mrs. Harding and sent to the White House last week." Worth at least $5,000. If the President saves a few small coins on his old shoes, what does he permit and endorse wlien it comes to spending money from the people's Treasury?money wrung from empty pockets, sometimes called "banners of Republican prosperity?" Here is a sample: The Congressional Record of January 21 contained the official figures o nsalaries p??d by the Snipping Board, and all the while most of the vessels of the Board are lying at anchor, as idle as painted ships upon painted ocean. Under the Board 2 men are paid $35,000 each; 1 is paid $30,000; 2 get $25,000; 7 attorneys provided at from $15,000 to $20,000 each; 7 commissioners and chairman at $12,000, irfler this all single salaries will be omitted) 15 a; $11,00 each; 10 nt $10,000; 7 at $0,000, 8 at $8,5)0; at $8,000; 2 at $7,800; i 29 at $7,500; 7 at $6,500; 49 at $6,00; 5 at $5,500; 5 at $5,400; 43 at $5,000; 18 at $4,800; 46 at $4,500; 61 at $4,200; 8 at $4,140; 18 at $4,000; 79 at $3,900; 142 at $3,GOO; 6 ni O P AA 1 n i -J Ark AA? ??. f>,uiiu una it at. is,au|.'. Here are hundreds of jobs in one sub-division of the Government at figures ranging from $3,COO up to $35,000 and they arc not under the Civil Service either! You hungry Republicans who worked hard for Harding and now find yourselves in financial difficulties, out of a job or deserving of recognition, get busy! You can hold these jobs and perform the duties as well as those now getting the fat salaries. Some of them admitted before an investigating committee that they never made $2,500 a year in their lives before getting the present snaps. Many of them have little political pull back of them. Letters and telgrams to your Representatives and Senators should land you a plum; have all your friends get busy ?if your Republican * Congressmen can't get something, they are not the proper kind and should be replaced with better job-getters. The figures above are official?and there are other commissions, boards, bureaus and departments and places and the Republican leaders should have them. The Democrats believe in party government and they believe that the higher places should go to the leaders of the party in control, so that there can be no divided responsibility. If they don't go to the Republican lenders in the States, then the Republicans im congress are responsible. Republican economy has gone to such furious lengths that Secretary Mellon announces that there can be no bonus this year because there is going to be a deficit of three hundred millions of dollars at the end of the fiscal year; which is June 30 next, at midnight. Makes it look dark for the boys who went to France. By the way, the Board of Public Works of New York City finds 200,000 able-bodied men out of employment in the citv alone, 75,000 of whom are ve ernns of the war. Speaker Gillett says "nothing can bring prosperity again except self-denying economy and incessant, productive work.' That being the case, when will prosperity return for the 200,000 in that one city who can't find work? Senator Norris has carefully studied the attitude of the Administration or the subject of placing a farmer on rtbe Federal Reserve Beard. Don't forget that "he Is a Republican, lie says "The farmer is being fooled again." Note thpt %or4 "eg*in." In the old pagan days of Greece they held periodical festivals, for which a white ox Was curried, blushed, be-ribboned and caressed him, but before the celbration was over, Mr. Oxtwma killed, barbecued and eaten, and his bones thrown to the dogs. The Republican leaders are having the same old procession with the same aid victim. It would look like it is about time for( the ox to get next td the game and toss a few of the Republican high priests into the ditch. . * The House is passing the antilynching bill and thh galleries are crowded with negroes* whooping and yelling their approval. The House restaurant, which the Republicans have just refitted at a cosl^of $50,000, is full of the colored brothers and sist-1 era. eatinur with th? < 0 - itHSW A%V|IUUli" cans. S? CHIEF ABBOTTS BARN BURNED WEDNESDAY A. M. Mr. J. R. Abbottfj barn burned Wednesday morning at about 3 o'clock. The cause of 'the fire is unknown, but Mr. Abbott is convinced it was incendiary. No Ifrne who would have been smoking hqd been about the place since noon o|ji Tuesday and the fire did not originate in a place that would have beenlyisited by one feeding the stock. When the fire was discovered the east side of the barnand the roof were in flames. By qtick work Mr. Abbott and Eddie sated the mule, cow and Ford. The barn contained a good deal of feed, which was burned. The total loss was atjove $1,000.00. i? NEW CLUB ORGANIZED Chesterfield is to have a new club. Though as yet is unnamed, the or ganization was perfected when the following officers were elected: President, Dr. R. L. Gardner; Vice- . president, F. S. Blair; Secretary- ' Treasurer, Mrs. R. L. Hurst. 1 Board of directors: Mrs. R. L. Hurst. Mrs. Frank B. Sanders, Mrs. ' J. Arthur Knight, Mita Westberry, 1 C. L. Hunley and F. S. Blair. Committee on Bylaws: C. L. Hunley, J. A. Knight and W. F. Young. The membership duts are $2.00 a ' year. Ladies and gentlemen are eli- 1 gible. There are so far 3&ty eight paid up members. The next meeting will be Tuesday ' night at 8 o'clock at the Rosa Hall, ! whither all applicants for membership are invited to come. This is an important meeting, as it is to be a "naming the baby" affair^ when a 1 suitable cognomen will be selected. BEAR CREEK Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Ganey and family spent Sunday afternoon at tho home of Mrs. M. A. Johnson. Misses Katie Gulledge, Ruth CampUnll ? ar - X- ? ucn ?iiu verue Koar spent a while Wednesday with Misses Aillean and Pearl Johnson. Messrs W. F. Pate and Geary Johnson spent Sunday in Chesterfield, Sorry to report that Mrs. Gulledge is on the sick list this week. Quite a number of young- folks enjoyed the music at Mrs. M. A. Johnson's Monday night Mr .and Mrs John Gulledge spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G . E. McLean. Misses Maggie and Carrie Gainey were the guests of Miss Ethel Johnson Sunday. Mrs. Hunt of Hartsvillo is spending a week with Mrs. B. J. Odom. Mr. J. W. McLean seems to bo keeping time with his saw mill. RICHARDSON?LOVE Married last Saturday at noon in the office of Hon. M. J. Hough by R.v. F. M. Cannon, Mr. Robert L. Richardson of Camp Bragg, N C., and MissBertha Love, of Kershaw, S. C. The young people added a touch of romance to their marriage by motoring to Chesterfield on a snowy day, thus surprising their friends at home. WEXFORD Mrs. P. M. Jordan of the Friendship community returned home Sunday after spending the week-end here with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Hunter of Ruby were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ben T Griggs Sunday Mr, Jadie Griggs will take his little daughter to the hospital this week to have her tonsils removed. We hope her a successful operation. We are proud of our school. Our teachers are doing some fine work. There are over one hundred pupils, witn Misses Smith, Huntley, Evans,! Jackson as teachers. Mr. Thomas Moore of Mecklenbug, N C, spent a part of the week-end here with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs W T Sikes spent Sunday in the Center Point section The little daughter of Mr and Mrs. Jessie Tayh|r has been quite sick but glad to say she is much improved The little infant ehild of Mr. and John Jordan was painfully I turned one day last week by sitting down on a tyot fire shovel. Preaching next Sunday at Thompson church at Stfclock. Suneom* MOVIE HOUSE ROOF FALLS UNDER SNOW Washington, Jan. 28.?Fifteen persona at least are believed to have been killed and scores injured tonight in the collapse under the weight of two feet of snow on the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater, a motion picture house, located in the heart of Waghington's fashionable northwest section. Two hours and a half after the crash, which occurred about 9 o'clock iefinite information as to the number of dead and injured was wholly lacking as well as estimates of the number of thos in the theater at the time? these estimates ranging from 150 to 500, although the theater, one of the finest motion picture houses in the city, had accomodations for more than 2,000 spectators. All was confusion for hours after the crash, while police, firemen, marines from the nearby barracks and soldiers from Walter Reed Military Hospital, strove to burrow beneath the mass of debris. Scores had been removed from the edges of the debris and hurriofl Vin.nilnU Washington, Jan. 30.?Official police records early today placed tho known dead in the Knickerbocker Theater disaster at 107. The list of injured stood at 134, with 14 listed as "seriously injured." The exact number in the thenter when the steel and concrete span of the roof buckeled and fell under its three-foot load of snow probably will never be known The stories of perhaps a hundred who got out uninjured have been reported. Theso account for a few more than 300 in the audience that was roaring in laughter at a film comedy when the roof fell on them like a blanket, carrying down the front of the wide balcony in its crash. Normally, the theater has had every seat filled at that hour and nearly 2,000 persons was its capacity. The same unprecedented snowfall which brought death -to the venturesomfe few, kept the many at home. Street car traffic had been abandoned and streets and sidewalks were all but impassible with drifts. ? Frantic calls for aid went out as soon as those in the double-walled structures which form the Eighteenth Btreet and back wall of the auditorium realized what had happened. Firemen fought their way through heaping snow drifts in answer to a general alarm. Police patrols filled with men churned and skidded through the white muck and in answer to a summons, marines from the baracks clear across the city came at double time, panting through the neavy going. At Fort Meyer, across the river, the cavalry was turned out and started in truck loads to the rescue only to find roads blocked with snow. The men men shoveled their way frantically, but finally four mule teams from the fort and from the engineer barracks were called on. At the scene of the disaster there was wild confusion for a time. Those who first made their way to the auditorium doors saw before them a dim, mysterious heap of wreckage faintly lighted by a string of colored electrics on the stage that still stood intact, and by the reflected glow from the leaden skies about the void where the roof had been. Minute by minute the crowds about the door thickened. The crash of the falling roof had drawn many, some who had relatives in that mass of ruin and melting snow The clang of the fire apparatus brought others and until the marines came panting up the police were powerless to keep off the crowd. Plenty of Help Firemen plunged into the wreckage with lanterns. Men with elecf t?in - ? ? * - '* * * vi >. tuivnca cuuiu i rom an aides to aid. And it was a daunting task they faced. They stood on the debris they must risk life to reach those dead or dying below. On the Columbia road side the single walla towered menacingly above their heads, stripped almost bare except for the high exit signs marking the way out of the balcony, now a crumpled mass below. Not a window in the long wall was broken. With infinite care the rescuers began work. Every beam they touched might let another mass of concrete down if it was moved too swiftly. There wer some moans in the darkness below and no one knew how many men, women and children had been crushed or trapped there. The huge slabs of the concrete from the roof, torn from their steel supporting girders, stood in crazy attitude.' A touch might send them toppling. But against every difficulty the soldiers and sailors and firemen and police and citisens toiled desperately and a slow stream of dead and injured began to. trickle out through the doorways. Nearly every house and store In the vicipity became a rescue station. Housewives made up pote of MR. WANNAMAKER'S LETTER Januaray 28, 1922. Eidtor Chesterfield Advertiser, s Chesterfield, S. C. ^ Dear Sir, Among the matters of interest be- fi fore the Legislature are the new reve- a nue measures, the extension of the time for the payment of taxes, ex- h tension for the time for the operation t< of the stock law in the lower part of ( the state and various other proposals concerning bad checks, use of steel traps, hours of labor in certain in- t< dustries, twelve instead of six months t< for redemption in case of tax sales, a interest rate, highway department, ^ dog license, and in fact proposals cov- ^ ering almost everything and affecting n every person in the state. I The House passed and sent to the b Senate during the past week three o measures designed to lighten the tax q levy and to further distribute the bur- L den of taxation, to wit: increased li- si cense fees on domesic corporations ti and increased license fees on foreign h corporations, non-resident persons, S firms or co-partnerships for admission tl to do business in this state, and the hydro-electric tax which imposes a n tax of one-third of a mill for each p kilowatt hour of electric power pro- p duced by water power within the state fi of South Carolina. g The remains for consideration of the House, probably Tuesday, the lux- is ury bill which imposes a tax on cer- fi tain articles of consumption as soft t< drinks, cigars, cigarettes, tobacco, snuff, small arms ammunition, motor tl vehicles, etc., and imposes a tax on 13 admissions to amusements, entertainments, contests, places of interest, C etc., charge for an individual or firm t< profit of courso, and exclusive of re- n ligious and such like institutions. is The above mentioned so-called lux- d ury tax, if passed by both House and w Senate and approved by the Govern- h or, would largely be collected by the sale of stamps to be placed on the ar- H tide. It woifld necessitate inspection from time to time by agents of the tax commission. It has certain nui- si sauce features which or objectionable, a The passage of this bill through hi both House and Senate is not all cer- n tain so far as I am able to judge. I p have been told that the proposed tax will require such time and en- t< ergy of the retailer as will exceed in value the actual cash value return from the consumers to the State, thereby imposing a burden not only ft on the consumer but also on the re- E tailer. While non-committal as yet, I a am inclined to oppose the luxury tax si bill, and certainly I am opposed to 1 many features of it I understand that proposed consti tutionm amendment regarding the tax i levy is not certain of passage by both C the House and Senate. A two-thirds 8 vote for it is necessary in both bodies, v Maybe an amendment which does not a give the Legislature unlimited power, L but which does take off present re- ( strictions will be adopted and pre- a sented to the people next summer. d The inheritance tax bill has passed t the Senate with amendments and it v is believed that the gasolin tax bill will pass the Senate with amend- li ments, within the next few days. c Trusting the above matters are of interest, 1 am, t Yours veryt truly, L. C. Wannamaker. ( LIS! j Read this and Be Gov It has been talked amoi at Chesterfield that since the works and Sewerage this e I taken care of by adding it I goods, thereby increasing t consumer. Now, so far as I ai I my goods will NOT be incr sell goods in my line at the sa I have always made. I will s I prices as any man whether 1 porate limits of Chesterhel town, or any other old place 1 have taken care of the the size of my stock on hand smaller stocks, and buying ol ed amount of insurance I i smaller stock. If this does no tra tax. I will absorb the bal turnovers to take care of me I assure you?all of y vieiito vi price in my ousine works and Sewerage. Try i vinced. W.P.C WHY NOT SENATOR LANEY? The political pot is beginning to immer and will soon be boiling. At iresent the chief interest centers in he race for governor, for which of- ' ice Mr. Cole L. Blease has already nnounccd. In casting about for a man to beat im the eyes of many are turning oward our own Senator, tho Hon. ieorge K. Laney. August Kohn writing in the Stato ecently, had this to say: "There is much speculation and inerest in the next gubernatorial con est. Thus far there has been one vowed candidate?former Governor tlease. Numerous other names have een suggested. Around and about he halls of the State House there is luch talk about Senator George K. ,aney of Chesterfield. The matter has een seriously called to the attention f Senator Laney and he has the reuest under consideration. Senator aney is a man of ability and aggresiveness He does not want to go into le race unless he can do so wholeeartcdly and to win. He has been in enate for many years and has done lings." Senator Laney is one of the strong ion of the Senate. He is well equiped by native ability, and by long exerienee in alfairs of the Stato ,to 11 this, the highest office wfthin the ift of her people. His long public record is clean. He i known throughout the State as a ghter for his principles and a consis;n friend of the poor man. It would be hard to find a man in le State better able to defeat Mr. lease in a political contest. It would mean a great deal to hesterfield and Chesterfield county > have so able a son in the governor's tansion at Columbia. Therefore, it i to be hoped that Mr. Laney will ecide to enter the race and that he ill have a solid backing from his ome town and county. IU1 SUPER FOR BENEFIT OF UNION CHURCH On account of the weather, the hot jpper which was to have been given t the home of J. B. Northcutt en *- ' ist Friday night was postponed until ext Friday night, February 3rd. The rocecds go to Union Church. A cordial invitation is again exmried to the public. NOTICE I hereby forbid anyone to hire, - od, clothe, or shelter my son, Gene dward Oliver,who is under age and is way from home without my permision. tp (Mrs) Fannie Oliver. A WORTHY CAUSE The main dormitory of the Rescue Irphanage was destroyed by fire Jan. th, and seventy-one little children re re made homeless. At present they re crowded together into the other uildings and some are in tents. This hphanagc is non-sectarian, is mangod by a Board representing five ilferent demonations, and only akes children than cannot get in any /here else. .$ 10,000.00 is needed quickly to relousc these children, who come from ivery corner of the state. All people everywhere are asked o help. Solid mo'iey to Rescue Orphunage, Columbia, S. C. hen" erned Accordingly it ig the people who trade s town has put in Waterxtra expense would be I / to the usual profit on I he cost to the ultimate m concerned the price of eased one nennv I will ime margin of profit that ell you goods at as close te be just out of the cord, in some neighboring whatsoever. i extra tax by decreasing January 1st, by carrying ften, and by the decreas?vill have to carry on a t take care of all the exlance, and trust to quick in the end. ou there will be no inss because of the Waterrve and see !? >DOM ? - . ^ . A