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n ?hc <BJiirsfjerftdi> &ta>*rtiaer f-. ' , VQL. 40?NO. 8 "CHESTERFIELD, 3. (57, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1922 $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE WALL STREET TRYING TO EARMERS ARE JOINING I ELIZABETH nr??w?-c at u/.cu.urr^ - ? IVILL COMPENSATION HILL Wall Stfeet is determined to kill / the adjusted compensation bill at any cost, according to a report .>ent by New York state executives of tho / American Legion to national head- i quarters at Indianapolis, Ind. The re- ! port states that mandatory orders ' were issued by at least one large stock 1 exchange house, ordering employes, ' both men and women, to write their Congressmen urging against the passage of the measure. Suggested forms were handed out, and employes were instructed to deliver their letters in unsealed envelopes to their employers for inspection. Lined up with Wall Street against the bonus is the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, which, however, meet ii>k lonunua opposition from its constituent chambers in widely separate parts of the country. Chambers in Omaha, Nebr., in Battle Creek, Mich, and in several cities in Oklahoma and Ohio have now flatly declared in favor of the bonus in the questionnaire sent out by the national body. In Toledo, following a hearing by tlu American Legion, business men of the local commerce board refused to vote on the matter, charging that the issue had not been impartially presented by the U. S. Chamber. They said that it had ignored three of the five options. WHO AM I? "I think that I am 32 years ?f age. I am five feet nine, and weigh 130 pounds. My eyes are gray and I have blond hair. I believe I was a mldier.. If anyone can tell me wh^ I am or | anything about my past, please tele- I phone the police." This is what a clean-cut young man told attendants in a Los Angeles, Cal., hospital. He wore "an American Legion button, and Los Angeles posts of the Legion arc helping him find himself. THE LITTLE LABEL On the upper right-hand corner of this paper is a small piece of colored paper. Look at it while we talk about it. The name>' on the little label is a good name. And "A good name is rather to be chosen than -great riches." The Advertiser is glad to have that name on its list of reader-. But there is something else on the label, a little matter of business between the publisher and the subscriber. It is an automatic dunning letter. When the date on the label is over a year old the silent reminder is thrown into gear and .becomes a gentle hint that there is a little due on the paper. . (It may not be quite so dry reading, with a little "dew" on, so we'll excuse that.) Then, if the date on the label is two years old, its tone is automatically a little louder, more insistent, till the date becomes a regular _ ,dun?regular each week. Strange that anyone can endure that weekly dun for years and years! Yet some lo! None of us like to be dunned. The Advertiser publisher dislikes to dun subscribers, because he also is the editor, and his subscribers also are his readers, whom ho delights to please. But the publisher needs the money he has earned; there are times when he needs it very badly. Then he looks at the dates on some labels with sorrow in his heart, unpaid bills in his pocket and tierce determination in bis eye. In deep desperation he resorts to this reference to the automatic dunncr, the colored label. "It Pay An Ameri A The On the i . Chesterf ' ^ ^ Ka^;^ * 'J MARKETING ASSOCIATION Columbia, Feb. 20.?A veritable tjial wave of enthusiasm for the cooperative marketing of cotton ia sweeping ever the state, and officials of the South Carolina Growers' Cooperative Association say that contracts are coming in by every mail. The visit of Dr. Clarence Poe to the statelast week when he delivered speeches in Newberry, Aiken, Johnston and Bamberg has been followed by great activities in those counties. Dr. Poe strongly presented the plans of the association at those points, told of the successful completion of the campaign in North Carolina where over 400,000 bales had been signed und of the splendid business men chosen to head the North Carolina association. He predicted succe.-s for the South Carolina campaign. ' "If the farmers of South Carolina do not enthusiastically support thfc movement on foot to organize and to iut in successful operation the South Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association they need never start another farmers' movement be-' ause it will be a failure," says J. H. il. Jenkins, Jr., vice-president of the Peoples Bank and Trust Company of York, in a letter to W. B. Wilkerson, county director for Western York. Mr Jenkins declares that the asociation "will do more to bring about and regulate orderly marketing of cotton at a fair profit than anything else that can be done" and says: "We ka*-*o quite a number of farm- i crs among our stockholders. We number humLeds of farmers a> patrcns, and we are and will be just as willing, if not i.io?e so, to assist financially farmers who are members i f tne Association as those^who are not The fact that the Government through the tr eat War Finance Corporation a -d tin- large financial institutions and the money centers have endorsed Co-enerative Marketing Associations and have expressed a willingness of extend, and are already extending, financial assistance in large amounts, i is in itself evidence of the soundness 1 of the proposition. It is a great pity that the farmers of South Carolina llUVf IIWL Hi 11^, UC1UIU IIUW UlJiPlllACa such an Association. They would now bo enjoying the great benefits that 1 are being enjoyed through Associations already organized in Texas, Ok- i lahoma and Mississippi. "The farmer who does not join in this movement is not only standing in i his own light but is retarding the future development of the south." BAY SPRINGS The farmers of this section have begun their work again. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Cassidy visited i in the Shiloh section Sunday. Misses Mary and Pauline Woodard spent Sunday with Miss May Wilkerson. WANTED?Y oung women between ages of eighteen and twenty-five to enter training at The Anson i Sanatorium, Wadesboro, N. C. This is a fifty bed Institution and the training school is under the direction of Miss Ella McNichols, for i many years Superintendent of The Presbyterian Hospital, Charlotte. Write foi application blanks. 2t-9 i S To AtU can Legion Repi Firit Class Pla Funniest J American Stage ield Scho< 3NDAY, FEB. cents; Children The farmers Hf this section are not doing ruuch farm work on account of bad weather. Mr. Oscar Griggs and little son, Thomas have been sick for the past week but glad to say they are much better at this writing. Mr. J. W. RatlifT visited home folks Sunday afternoon. ! The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. Watts is real sick at this writing, but hope she will soon be well again. Miss Geneva Allen spent last weekend with her grand mother, Mrs. M, ' F. Sellers. I Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Sellers visited Mrs. Sellers' parents, Mr. and Mrs. II. F. Henricks Sunday. I ivir. atui Mrs. Lonnie ltatlitf were j the quests of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Red-' fearn recently. j Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Sellers visited Mrs. Sellers parents near White Oak last week. Mr. W. F. Moore and family were motoring in Wexford Sunday. Miss Betttie Ratliflf was the guest c.f Miss Susie Lowry Saturday night. 1 Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Sellers and children spent a short while with Mr? Sellers' mother, Mrs. N. F. Sellers Sunday. Mr. Julc Watson and family visited Mr. and Mrs. B. Watts Sunday. Mr. J. W. Lowry spent short time with Mr. Oscar Griggs Sunday. HONOR ROLL CROSS ROADS SCHOOL November 1st grade: Germane Oliver, Cleo Jordan, Douglass Hursey. 2nd. grade: Minnie Mae Taylor, 1 Cleo Woodward, Cyntha Watts. 4th grade: Boyce Davis. 5th grade: Townley Davis, Mary ' Ruth Hursey. Oth grade: Trudie Taylor, Pierce GuUedge, Carl Woodward. 7th grade: Jaunita Hursey. Nth grade: Naomi Hursey, Smith ! Woodward, Lessie Guledge, Smith Oliver, Carrie Woodward. December 1st grade: Cleo Jordan, German Oliver, Allene Gulledge. ?ihi graoe-: v.ico woocrward, Clyde Oliver, Winsie Hancock, Minnie Mne Taylor. Srd grade: J. C. Rivers, Loyd ' VVadsworth, Mamie Gulledge, Paul | Woodward. 1 5 th grade: Mary Ruth Hursey, Town ley Davis, Luther Steen. 6th grade: Trudie Taylor, Pierce : Gulledge. 7th grade: Jaunita Hursey, Susie ' McLaurin, Ethel McLaurin, Nellie Odom, Murtha Taylor. Sth grade: Uaoini Hursey, Smith 1 Woodward, Vara Waddell, Lessie Gul- ' ledge, Smith Oliver, Carrie Woodwa rd. January 1st grade: Hardy Allen, Harley GuMcdge, Cleo Jordan. 2nd grade: Gary Odom, Cleo Woodward, Lee Brutus Gulledge, Edgar Gulledge, Ernest Taylor. 3rd grade: Angie Gulledge, Almyra Hursey, J. C. Davis, Arus Waddell, Paul Woodward. 4th grade: Nolan Hancock, GenevnJ ' Oliver, Mary Woodward, Iney Wood-' ward, Clark Woodward. 5th grade: Mary Ruth Hursey. Gth grade: Townley Davis, Pierce Guledge, Carl Woodward. 7th grade: Jaunita Hursey. Sth grade: Lessie Gulledge, Smith ertise rodtf&ion y. i llhow I In Years [>1 House 27 i 30. cents. t \ J L rw?ta TT fliJIIIllU I Vil J By Wallac* B???ford | Washington, D. C., Feb. 18.? ] Mr. Harding seems to feel thai it is' i politically expedient^ if not necessary to provde a bonus for the soldiers. A i week ago he was hcil-foot for it. Im- , mediately there appeared on the bul- , letin boards in tl>e stock-brokers' rooms in all the cdties brief wires from the Wall Street section telling ] how the great moniy interests were j getting together to prevent it, on the ^ ground that it would necessitate lay- j ing an additional burden of taxation or the issuing of more bonds. Then I' paid advertisements appeared in the | _ Washington papers arguing against ' the bonus proposition. Immediately thereafter the President came forth ' with a statement that he would not " favor either additional taxes or a bond issue for the purpose, whereup- . on the metropolitan press expressed the view that this meant an end to the bonus, as there was no other way left * to raise the money. But at this juncture Mr. Byrnes of s South Carolina comes forward with a proposition that should appeal to ^ the President and everyone else. It is simply this: The Republican leaders 1 figure that it will take $350,000,000 per year to pay the proposed bonus ] Chairman Madden of the Appropria- < tions Committee says the Administration, through the new Budget ays- / tern, has saved $357,000,000 by cut- < ting appropriations. If this is true, the problem is solved and everyone . should be happy. Now it remains to be seen if the Administration can locate that $357,000,000 with sufficient definiteness to lay hold of it and use it * for the bonus. But right there is where the difficulty will begin. Of course there are at least one hundred Republicans who would have thought t of using the money if they really be- I lieved it had been saved,but it is like > trying to pay the grocery bill with money that you four " in a drean. ? These great savings are fictitious; ? they result from a juggling of figures I and remind one of the prestid'gator I who takes rabbit after rabbit from ? a hat which never contained one. The President makes savings of millions t upon millions in the columns of the i newspapers which quietly sending up t to- the AppropriationsTWtnmittee re iui i.iie ui IIIUI c uc- i ficiency bills for twice as many mil- I lions as those "saved." Another year of such economy will force a new \ bond issue. Senator Lodge, close friend of the 2 President, went before the Massachu- I setts Legislature the other night and made a statement which proves him to I je ignorant of the most important operations of the Government or else I ?uilty of falsifying the facts. There c is no escape from this. Mr. Byrnes t of South Carolina in the House show- > ed this to be true and no Republican t challenged his statements. Lodge > said: "Since the present Congress has been in they have reduced the appro- f priations asked for by the Depart- > ment from $5,337,000,000 to $1,428,000,000." Now the average citizen, paying high taxes and thinking the conditions of the Treasury de- < plorable, would think the millenium s had arrived and that the Republicans ( are wizards of finance. That state- < ment would be accepted from Lodge on the ground that he could easily get the correct information, and that a United States Senator could not afford to falsify the facts. But what J are the facts? Mr. Byrnes held in his \ hand the official estimates of the Bud a n d> O OA* AAA AAA ( get nureau totaling ^j.oui,uuu,uuu and then called attention to the fact that while only six of the annual appropriation bills had been acted upon by the House, those six had already < reached a figure of $2,908,000,000. 1 He showed that last year the Republican congress appropriated $3,771,- < 900,514.01, being about $38,000,000 less than was asked for this year, so that in reality the Administration ^ was seeking more money to run the Government instead of less. In the last year before the war (1916) a Democratic congress appropriated $1,114,000,000 to run the Government. Appropriations for the pmeent fiscal year are more than three times as great. I AM YOUR TOWN . Make of me what you will?I shall j reflect you as clearly as a mirrow < throws back a candle beam. ] If I am pleasing to the eye of the 1 stranger within my gates; if I am usch a sight as having seen me, he will re- i member me all his days as a thing of beauty, the credit is yours. i Ambition and opportunity call < some of my sons and daughters to high tasks and mighty privileges < to my greater honor and to my good 1 repute in far places, but it is not < chiefly these who are my strength. 1 My strength is in those who remain, who are content with what I can offer 1 them, and with what they can offer 1 me. It was the greatest of all 1 Romans who said: "Better be first in a little Iberian village than be second in Rome." I am more than wood and brick and atone, more even tha> flesh and 1 Ml. CROGHAN Dr. W. F. McKerizie of Orangeburg has bought out the Mt. Croghan Drug Co. Miss S. H. Burch and Mrs. E. D. Timmons have been quite sick for some time, but are some better at this writing. There was a Valentine party at the school house Friday evening. I think swapping hearts and flattery had the lead in the games. Speaking of flattery recalls to me a lady noted for her happy wit. She said to flatter a orirl the .direct method should be rarely used. It is too knock-down in affect, like a sledge-hammer* you ( (now. The indirect method will sue- 1 aeed much better. F*or example, a 1 young man should never tell a girl < :hat she has pretty legs. The girl would be offended, but would think < lim the nicest in the world if he i should say to her: "Your new hat is 1 limply lovely, but no one will ever no- t ,ice it unless you lengthen your 1 ikirts." 1 Mr. Roy Ausborn from Columbia was in Mt. Croghan Sunday. i Mr. Charles Hendrick of Ashville, C., is visiting in Mt. Croghan. Misses Mary Huntley and Nell ( Bureh visited their respective homes | Saturday and Sunday. I Mrs. W. H.. Gibson and Miss Allean I jibson were visiting at Mr. Osborn's j Sunday. i Mrs. Sanders with the banner class 1 n the Baptist Sunday School will * lave a banquet one night this week. Mr. Emmett Redfearn is very sick, 1 >ut hope he will soon be well again. J VAUGHAN It seems to evident 1\ be a fait hat the ground hog went back in his ^ lole for thirty days of bad weather, ^ vhich prophecy is being fulfilled. The many friends throughout this J lection of Mr. Mike Gardner were ?orry to learn of his untimely death. t dr. Gardner was a half brother to j dr. J. H. Gardner of the Friendship ? lection. | ? We would advise those traveling he Wadesboro road to bring along a irise pole and an extra team or an exra set of hands or both. Mr. Charley Liaenby and family of he Hopewell section visited Mr, Jeff * Jsenby Sunday. j, Mr. Will Curtis visited Mr. Henry Wallace of near Teal's Mill Sunday. Mr. L. J. Morris and family spent Sunday with his brother Mr. John dorris of the Sandy Plains section, NELLIE MARGARET HUNEYCUTT C The death angel visited the home of dr. and Mrs. W. K Huneycutt Mon- * lay at 2 o'clock and took from them j heir eight months old darling. Nellie 1 vas a bngnt child and was loved by ill who knew her and will be greatly nissed in hci vacant home. She was laid to rest in the Chesterield cemetery. The cause of har death vas bronchial pneumonia. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank the good people >f the Friendship community that nuuu uy us uuring me illness and < leath of our darling baby and may 3od richly bless them everyone. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Huneycutt. OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT New Miilinery Shop, Second sreet, Ranard Hotel building. We invite you to look our line over before buying. Mrs. Minnie Baker, 2t-9 Cheraw, S. C. NOTICE No extension of time for payment af Town Taxes. A 7 per cent, penalty will be in force on and after March 1st, as required by Town Ordinance >n all unpaid taxes that date. J. Andy Teal, Town Clerk. 4 F DAVIS MARKET The Finest Fresh Meet* The Best Fancy Groceries High Grade Canned Goods The Bstt'sf Everything for the Tahln A.E. DAVIS MARKET State of South Carolina, County of CheBterfield, In Common Pleas. W. J. Kayheld, as assignee, Plaintiff, vs C. D. Ilinson, et al, Defendant. By virtue of an Order of Foreclosure in the above stated case, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash before the Court House door at Chesterfield, South Carolina, within the legal hours, on Monday 6, Jay of March, next, the following real estate: "That tract of land in Mt. Croghan Township, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, containing 137 acres, more or less, bounded North by lands of B. C. Ogburn, East by the Camden Road, South by lands of Pickett Johnson and West by McQuaige Branch." Purchaser or purchasers to pay for all necessary papers. W.J. Douglass, J V A PRIZE ESSAY The Kentucky Tobacco Campaign Committee o(Tei^? a aeries of prizes to the various High Schools throughout the Burley District for the best essays on Tobacco Cooperative Markctng. The essay which landed the $20 in gold follows. The arguments advanced apply as well to cotton growers: "The first reason my father should join the Association is that it is a farm organization, organized by the farmers, operated by the farmers and used for the farmers' benefit. "The second reason is that labor is organized, business is organized and everyone else but the farmers arc or*anizd. Why should the farmers not organize? * "The third reason is that matters rould not be any worse. The farmer s selling his tobacco at starvation orices and buying other things at war :ime prices. This can not last forever, for the banker can not lend money without the prospect of payment. It las come to the point where the farmirs will either have to stick together or starve separately. "The fourth reason is that ihe furmo* KI~ > ..t? uiaiiicu everyone last year because he didn't get a fair price for lis tobacco. All the good it did was :o relieve him of his sentiments. "With 75 per cent, of the tobacco growers organized, the buyers will lever dare antagonize the organiza;ion, and the farmer's opinion will imount to something besides hot air. "For years the farmer has been :ompelled to take what was offered lim. This plan places him in a posiion to force the buyers to pay what le wants. Father, think what this lieans to you and your family. It lieans fair recompense for your la>or, better clothes and more f-eedom 'or your wife and an education for rour children. "The grape growers of California ind the wheat growers of the Wesern States have put through oiganiations of this kind and made a suc:ess of it. Why shouldn't the tobacco :roweri of the Southern States make i success of it also? "It is a democratic body, in which weryone ha? the same power?tentnt and landlord alike. So my father ihould join other fathers in making his a success. Remember: "The Lord iclps them that help themselves." CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank our friends and leighbors for their kindness to us luring the illness and the death of ?ur mother. W. A. Sellers. Make It Your Regular 1 Get Out Before \ 11 . nay, v^orri Flour, M La It s An Easy Waj J. C. RIVE In Warehouse Back Farming Ii From a Hamestring i Cutl Complete Line of tl Kitchen Granitware, Alumin Furn Still Selling at \ FarmgigJJg ! WEXFORD Married, Sunday afternoon at the home of the officiating minister, Rev. A. B. Smith, Mr. Redmon M. Hancock to Miss Mollie Welsh. We wish them a long and happy life. Messrs. W. D. Coker, E. V. Davidson and son, Robert spent a part of list week in Lancaster with relatives and friends. In the absence of the pastor, Rev. J. D. Purvis, Rev. A. B. Smith filled the regular appointment at Thompson Creek Church Sunday morning and preached an excellent sermon. Mr. A. C. Melton of the Friendship section spent Sunday afternoon, the guest of Mr. Paul Melton. Messrs. Silas Fincher and Billie Pittman of the Black Creek section were the guests of Mr. W. A. Sullivan Sunday. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Coker welcome them back to this community again. Mr. Elijah Smith of Wadesboro, is spending this week with his brother, Rev. A. B. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Privett of the Center Point section, spent Sunday with Mrs. Privett's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Sikes. Mr. W. A. Sullivan and children spent Sunday in Ruby at the home of his father, Mr. James Sullivan. ; Mr. and Mrs. Wade King spent Sunday night with Mr. King's parents Mr. and Mrs. James King of near Chesterfield. Sunday School next Sunday at 2:30 P. M. Everybody is invited. MORE LIQUOR POURED OUT W. C. Tiller, rural policeman, found thirty-eight gallons of corn whiskey in the home of Charley Cuffey, colored, near McBee recently. This liquor was in fruit jars and some of the cases carried the address of a merchant in Stillnian, Ga., to whom they had been shipped. CufFey was arrested on the charge of storing liquor. He stoutely refuses to divulge the names of the owners of the big drink. Four hundred gallons of beer was poured out last Wednesday. This was on the property of Jim Denby, two miles from Jefferson. Mr. Denby was placed under bond to appear at court. This beer had been watched a long time in the endeavor to catch the blockaders at work. Only Denby came to the scene while the officers were watching. Fifty gallons of beer was found in the corn crib of H. B. Blackburn. Business Habit to Prices 'ou Buy i and Oats [eat and rd / To Save Money IRS & CO. ; of Our Old Stand mplements to a Disc Harrow ery I W T - he Very best Made Utensils um, Stone, China iture ^ery Low Prices .