The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, April 20, 1922, Image 2
The ChestirSield J Advertiser
Paul H. and Fred G. Hearn
Editors
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Carolina.
FINE TRIBUTE TO WILSON
Senator John Sharp Williams of
Mississippi, in a recent speech in the
United States Senate, replying to
some remarks of Senator Frelinghey
pen, of New Jersey, paid a very high
compliments Lo ex-President Woodrow
Wilson. He said in part:
"Why, Mr. President, with the possible
exception of David LloydGeorge?aye,
without any exception?Woodrow
Wilson stands today
before thinking manhood and womanhood,
not only of America hut of
the world, as the greatest and most
unself'sh man in politcal life who has
during this generation grasped God's
purposes in the history of the world,
the man who has most clearly seen
the God in history, as Mommseu calk
him, der Gott in dor Geseliichtc. am:
has seen how the God in history u;c
the instrumentalities of the common
man's common sense and common
conscience, for the purpose ci \. jr:.
ing out his own plan, God's pi:.::, i'o.
the comiing of the peace of the \.oi!d,
and the upbuilding of tho prcj-tand
civilization of the world.
"I do not mean to be deflected from
this little funny talk into a j_,e
exordium or eulogy, but long, Ion.
after the Senator from New Jcrsej
dies, long, long, after Woodrow Wilson?crippled
in the Gear War for
world peace?has gone to his "wellearned
rest the Senator's grandchildren
and great-grandchildren will
wonder how he ever could have said a
disrespectful word of the greatest
public man of his generation."
NOT A CANDIDATE THIS YEAR
Here is some late news from Florida.
Hon. William J. Bryan, who habeen
making his home in Florida, and
as his enemies claimed to qualify himself
to run for the United States Senate
from that State, gives out a statement
that he will not become a candidate
from Florida. Thank you Billy.
BUSINESS PROSPERITY
AND SERVICE
The editor of the Atlanta Constitution
writes an editorial upon the
subject of "Business and Service" in
which Henry Ford a'nd his business
creed are used with fine elfect.
in a recent interview with the great
Detroit manufacturer and multimillionaire
he referred to some of tla
principles by which he had been guided
throughout his career. As the Con
stitution puts it whatever Mr. Ford
has accomplished has been the resal'
of effort based upon the theory that
individual or business prosperity i
essentially measured by service.
Mr. Ford gave a summary of his
business creed as follows:
"1. An absence of unreasoning fear
of the future or veneration of the
past. One who fears the future, who,
without reason, fears failure, limits
his activities.
"2. A disregard of competition.
Whoever does a thing best ought t<>
be the one to do it.
"3. The putting of service before
profit. The profit cannot be the basis?it
must be the result of service.
"4. Manufacturing is not buying
low and selling high. It is the process
of buying materials fairly, and with
the smallest possible addition of cost,
transforming these materials into :
consumable product."
WAKE THEM UP, SENATOR!
Sentor Dial, of South Carolina, introduced
a bill more than a year ago
that was adopted by the Senate and
sent to a committee where it has been
quietly sleeping ever since.
Referring to this message Senator
Dial recently made this statement:
"There are many things about the
cotton exchange which I desire to have
investigated; but I have not the least
shadow of a doubt about the justice
of my bill and about its sufficiency in
affording great relief to our people
should it be passed. In fact, unless
we have some legislation to help the
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ui tuHuii iiruuucnon, it win
not be more than a year or two until
we shall have to ofTur a premium to
get people to raise cotton in the United
States. There is now the darkest"
outlook for a crop of cotton which I
have even known in my lifetime,''
SLANDERING OLD VIRGINIA
It is true that the country is dry
and getting drier hut we can't ,
swallow this base insinuation from the
Washington Post which says that there i
is a town in Virginia so dry that they
have to pin on the postage stamp
Virginia postmasters can lick evei
if they haven't got any lieker.
NOTICE OF DISCHARGE
On 15th May, next I will apply to
the Probate Court of Chesterfield
County, for a discharge as Admin
"trator of the estate of D. R. Sumner
^ceased.
C. R. Sumner, Administrator
FOR SALEr^?Brown Leghorn Egg?
for sale. $1.25 for 16 or $1.00 pei
dozen. Pure bred. Best stock.
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BOLL WEEVIL '
CONTROL FACTS
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Methods Generally Employed With
Success, and Mistakes Whlc?t 1
Farmers Make. , 1
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By C. A. Whittle, <
Soil Improvement Committee. ' .
The boll weevil has practically covered
the cotton belt, but there seems ]
to be no marked reduction in the
amount of cotton grown as a result. ^
The fact is the boll weevil can not
and will not overthrow the South's
greatest crop. I ,
How are farmers meeting the 1
boll weevil most successfully? There <
are two main ways: (1) Pushing the
cotton to early maturity and (2) Kill- <
ing the boll weevil.
The following questions and answers ^
give the main things that are being ,
done and also the mistakes that pre
being made:
PUSHING THE COTTON CROP. 1
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What soils are preferred for hasten- ]
Ing the crop? i
Well drained, light soils warm up
oarlier and grow off the cotton quicker
than heavy or poorly drained soils.
Sandy soils are, therefore, better than
clayey soils. I'
Is It advisable to use poor 6olls? '
It would be a serious mistake. Poor
polls never did pay, and with the boll 1
weevil taking toll, poor land cotton j
will only put llie farmer into a deeper
hole. | <
Kemeniher that It costs more to grow
cotton under boll weevil conditions, ;
and there must be enough cotton
to make it worth while to fight with j
the boll weevil.
What varieties of cotton are pre
ferred?
Any variety which will set an abundance
of bolls early and will continue
to set fruit throughout the season. A
variety which is early but which also
quits fruiting early is not desirable
because the weevils will do heavier
damage to the bolls when they do not
find squares to puncture. Cleveland
strains are most generally preferred
by farmers. * i
What methods of cultivation are
used to hasten maturity?
Frequent, shallow cultivation until
the greater part of the crop is set. I
Then !o: s frequent cultivation. The
later cultivation should be the skipmiddle
method, taking alternate middles
and with tile novt cultivation tnlr
Ing the ones that wore skipped. This
So-eps half of the roots of the cotton
plant undisturbed so that there will be
less shedding, more squaring and bet- j
ler protection of the cotton bolls.
KILLING THE WEEVIL.
Is the poison method of killing the ,
weevil practical?
It is, but it is a particular method
which many farmers may fail with
when they first try it, because they
are not in the habit of doing particular
things right the first time;
I? -the rules for poisoning are adhctvd
to strictly the cotton farmer
will get the most complete and economic
control of the weevil of any
method known.
Any one contemplating the use of
poison should get complete instructions
from tho Government l3oll Weevil
Station. Talluluh, La.,?the State
Entomologist, or agricultural colleges.
Docs it pay to kill the weevils on
the young cotton stalks before squares 1
begin to form?
If tho weevils come out of winter
quarters in largo numbers and threaten
to take all the first squares, it
is considered advisable to kill as many I
of them as possible. Calcium arsenate
sprinkled from a perforated can or
from a cheese bag on the young plants
is the most efficient and economical
method of killing the weevils on the
young plants.
It is not necessary to apply the poison
until just before the squares begin
to form.
Is it practical to gather and destroy
squares?
If the poison method is not used it
will often be found necessary to gather
and destroy danmged squares that
contain immature weevils, in order to
have assurance of any sort of a crop.
Picking up squares is not as efficient
nor as inexpensive as poisoning, but
if thoroughly done a fair to good crop
can be obtained.
Is poisoned molasses applied to cotton
effective?
Poisoned molasses or other poisoned
weets will kill some boll weevils during
dewless nights, but the poisoned
sweets will kill honey bees and other
sweet loving insects that are needed
to carry from flower to flower the
pollen that causes them to fruit. Calcium
arsenate dust is more efficient
and le^s expensive to use where poisoned
molasses are effective.
A:-e boll weevil traps practical?
A farmer never tries a trap more
than once. The government has tried
till kinds and recommends none.
Can the say of cotton be poisoned
SO as to BftitAn ""
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Tlus Creator lias given all plants the
power to absorb through their roots
plant food and to resist all that is not
plant food. If plants could not resist the
poisons in the soil wo might run a
ri k of being poisoned every time we
eat a potato, apple, herry, etc.
Can the boll weevil be driven from
cotton by offensive odors?
The boll weevil has not yet been
successfully com batted through its
broat! ir~ organs. It has been subletted
to the most inlea.se war gaseiwithcut
results.
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THE SOUTH OF TOMORROW t
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The South has nearly one-third of '
he total area of the United States. ^
It has a greater combination of nat- {
iral advantages than any other equal 1
ireu in the world.
It has three-fifths of the coast line s
>f continental United States. t
It produces over 60 per rent, of 1
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.iiu worm > conon. 1
It has the greatest natural gas fields I
;nown in the world. t
It has the largest sulphur deposits ]
known in the world, producing three- i
fourths of the world's sulphur supply. 1
It has practically all the aluminum <
industry of the United States based >
an Southern raw material. j 1
It has three-fourths of the coking i
coal area of the country.
Its coal area is twice as great as
that of all Europe including Russia, ]
and five times as great as that of all
Europe, excluding Russia.
It has, according to Government re-!
ports, an estimated oil reserve of 55 j
per cent, of the entire supply in this j
country. * j [
It has 40 per cent, of the country's (
forest area. |
It has 55,000,000 acres of reclaim- 1
able wet land, which, when drained.
can be made to produce crops worth '
from $2,500,000,000 to $5,000,0r ,- 1
000 a year. ; '
It can raise cotton and wool with 1
which to clothe itself and much of the
world, and the livestock with which to :
feed the country. | '
It is already annually shipping sev-1 '
eral hundred thousand carloads of 1
early vegetables and fruits to North- !
i-ni ami western marKeis.
It has nearly GO per cent, of the 1
cotton consumption of American '
mills. j 1
The exports from Southern ports in
1021 were $1,807,000,000, compared 1
with $330,000,000 from the entire
Pacific Coast.?Blue Book of South- 1
ern Progress, Manufacturer's Record. '
FAIR PLAY ASKED FOR
SALVATION ARMY j
The attention of your readers is^
called to the desperate attempt of the ,
opponents of National Prohibition to ]
break down the morale of the splen- (
did Salvation Army. New York City j
has a $300,000 drive on for their ]
work. The Chairman of the Committee,
Mr. James Speyer, is head of the^
banking firm of Speyer & Company.
Mr. Speyer is also one of the vice-' (
presidents of the Association Against
the Prohibtion Amendment.
When the newspaper reporters in- ,
formed Commander Evangeline Booth
that Mr. Speyer was a "wet," she said ]
"Mr. Speyer is an old esteemed
friend of the Army, but I think he will ,
have to change his views if he is to (
continue a.-: Chairman of our drive. 1
Our stand with respect to Prohibition
is what it has always been, absolutely
tee-total.'*
Because of this consistent attitude.
the "wets ' J1VI> tvvin.r
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her. Shu refuses to recede and will 1
stand regardless of costs. One of New
York's great politcians who has the
power to do what he says, has prae- i
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Stories of By Elmo J
Great Scouts Vatson I j
?, Western Newspaper Union. '
"LONESOME CHARLEY" REYNOLDS,
CUSTER'S SCOUT
Many noted scouts served with General
Custer during Ids Indian cam- (
paigns, but his favorite of them all \
was Charles Reynolds, known as |
"Lonesome Charley." In the early s
seventies, Reynolds was a hunter for (
the garrison at Fort Rice, N. D. He ,
was a quiet little man who lived (
much to himself and preferred to |
hunt alone, no matter how many hos- |
tile Indians were near. Because of ,
his disregard for human companion- (
ship, he became known by everyone ,
as "Lonesome Charley."
Reynolds first served under Custer
In the exploration of the Yellowstone
country in 1873. During his expedition
two inoffensive civilians with
Custer's command were murdered by
the Indians. The next year, while
Reynolds was attending a sun dunce
of the Sioux near Fort A. Lincoln,
N. P., he heard a young chief named
Kaln-in-the-Face boast of the murder
of the two men. Charley reported this
to Custer and Ruin-in-the-Face was
arrested and imprisoned. Later lie
escaped and sent back his now-famous
vow of vengeance of the whole Custer
family.
"Lonesome Charley" was with Custer
during the exploration of the
Hlaek hills In 1874. When gold was
discovered, at Custer's request he
rode lf>0 miles, through a country
HWn rt til n cr will* 11? i.. .11 * - " 4
- r* ...... i ir; Iiiuiniia III r liri |
Laramie, Wyo., In 48 hours and gave
to (lie world the first news of the
discovery, causing ? stampede of rain* r
ers Into that region.
When Custer started on his Inst j
campaign against the Sioux In 1870, f
Reynolds was offered the position of (
chief guide. j
When the Seventh cnvnlry left the j
Bleatner Far West, Reynolds was 111. t
('apt. Grant Marsh of the For West f
tried to persuade him not to go with c
the expedition since he was In no j.
condition to do any fighting. Reynolds j
refused. f
"I've been watting and getting
ready for this expedition for two fl
years, captain, and I'd ruther he dead .
than miss It," he said earnestly. So j
lie rode away to his death. v
When Custer divided his command
:o attack the Sioux on the Little Rig ^
Born, the scout was sent with Major 0
Iteno. The Indians swept down upon r
[teno and forced him hack to the v
fvooded bluffs across the river. "Lono- f
tome Charley" was killed In this re- |
rent. Bis body was found surrounded
V. _
ically threatened to withdraw the
Salvation Army's permission to soicit
funds in the streets, on the
rround that this utterance of Miss
Booth is "politics." Miss Booth's adIress
is 120 West 14th Street, New
fork City.
We cannot and must not forget the
iplendid work of this organization
luring the war days. Then they sacrificed
and rendered glorious service
'or the brave men at home and on
'oreign fields. The thirty organiza;ions
that are opposed to National
Prohibition are certainly desperate
vhen they resort to such measures.
Let every ex-service man that appre:iates
the service of the Salvation Arny
rendered during the great World
War send encouragement to Comnander
Booth. Fair play must win.
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BE SURE TO PLANT A
FEW PEANUTS THIS Y EAR ^
What abort planting peanuts tins
/car? This question is being asked
>y hundreds of South Carolina farmjvs
today. The experience of those
who have planted peanuts the last',
/ear or two has not been very hapjy
one, but they admit that they are
setter off than if they had planted all
;otton or corn or any other so-called
noney crop. |
The price of peanuts has been dis- J
appointing it is true, but all farm
products have been alike in this res-1
pect; and now the peanut market is
the first to recover. Spanish farmers
stock is now bringing $70.00 per ton
md it is natural to suppose that the j
price will continue to advance as the J
public becomes better acquainted with i
the fact that peanut is the most eco-1
domical and most wholesome concen-!
trated food on the market today for
both man and beast. Advertising is
all that peanut needs to make it one
of our leading food crops. The growers
and manufacturers should cooperate
in advertising it, and I trust
that a movement to this end will soon i
be started.
For planting White Spanish peanuts,
the kind best suited for all soils
and market conditions, it requires 40
lbs of shelled seed to plant one acre, !
dropping one kernel every four inches
in 30 inch rows, or GO lbs of thorughly
cleaned peanuts in the shell, drop-!
ping one pod every G inches in 30
inch rows. j
Farmers who have not saved their;
own seed had better secure what they
want immediately, because good seed
is oeeonung very scai-ce. Get the graded
and recleaned seed in the shell
now, because the shelled seed will not
keep until planting time..
Last spring many farmers lost their
crop or a poor stand on ac-!
count of planting too early. It is risky
to plant before the last of April. May
would probably be better, and June
just as good.
No time should he lost in preparing
land and putting out fertilizer. Acid
phosphate is dirt cehap and it is the
best fertilizer for peanuts. Besides,
it is .r>0 per cent, lime, and the more
ter. Peanut planters and weeders
should be ordered at once.
| "VAMPS" WHO
| MADE HISTORY |
By JAMES C. YOUNG.
<(cj by McClure NuwMpaper Syndicate.)
THE WOMAN WHO WAS JEALOUS
OF HERSELF.
n ITC ... ?
^ ...j wus n wuuiau wnom no one
ever understood, who may have
been the evil genius or the guiding
spirit of Napoleon III, but who admittedly
was a beauty without peer. As
we study the picture of the Countess
tie Cast Igllone we see a woman of amide
figure, beautifully molded, and a
race which Is slightly haughty, yet
soft and winsome. She was a woman
>f contrasts, paradoxes and perplexities.
Born In 1840 of a noble Florentine
'amlly, at an early age she won the
iffectlon of Victor Emmanuel, king of
i'ledmont. Iy the course of things,
favour, his great minister, conceived
he Idea of sending her to Paris, the
lomlnant capital of Europe, for the
special purpose of bewitching Napoeon
III. The countess came, saw and
:onquered.
The existence of Italy depended up>n
French policy. Napoleon III ehershed
an Idea of reclaiming that counry
by right of its having been countered
under Napoleon I. And the
ting of Piedmont was striving to ennrge
his holdings Into what now conitltutes
the kingdom of Itnlv. It was
lie business of the countess to keep
Napoleon out of Italy and let Victor
iCiiinianuel carry on his plans. Na>uleon
stayed out. Italy eventually
leeame what It is today.
She gained complete control of Napoleon,
a scheming, nnrrow-visloned
nan who thought himself great.
Perhaps the countess' real love was
icrself. Paul Ilaudry painted an nnIraped
picture of her, lying on a
ouch. It was one of the most lieautl- j
ul canvases which ever caine from I
lis brush. The countess had It hung :
n her boudoir. And every duy she ex- I
indued herself lii comparison to the
reatlon of loveliness before her eyes.
She grew to fear that Rhe was not ao
>eautlful as the picture, that she was
adlng, that Baudry hnd flattered her
ind set an Impossible example, iler
usplclons turned to Jealousy of the
ilcture?literally, of her very self. And
n a rage she cut the canvas to pieces
rith a stiletto.
Then came the war of 1870-71, the
lownfall of Napoleon and the sorrows
f France. She rallied every possible
esource aghinst the Qermans, bat the
vorld knows the story. The countess
sded from the scene of great events,
'erbaps the best commentary ef her
In a new package t
At a pr ri that fit
The sati.e unmatche
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Driven despondent and perhaps i.A- (
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sane by an incurable stomach trouble,
John Helms, living in Mecklenburg
county, early Sunday morning took a ^
wood axe and slew three of his own i
children and then took a shot gun
and blew the top of his own head off. ^
a 13-year-old girl was the only eye j
witness to the tragedy, but she told a
THE RE/
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in life, but what you gain by hone
successful. What are you doing to
funds for future nc dr. by starving
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WHEN Hyman and Hess, dealers
In cloaks and suits on State
street, Albany, N. Y., sent a
check for $38.77 to Rels and Blum,
garment manufacturers In New York
city, they didn't have the slightest
Idea that they were starting a chain
of evidence which would land one of
the cleverest crooks In America behind
the bars.
A few days later, before the New
. York firm had had time to report the
nonnrrlval of the check and thus permit
Hyman and Hess to look Into the
matter, a young man came Into the
National Commercial bank in Albany
and presented a check for $880, made
out to "Bearer." The date on the
check, filled In with a rubber stamp,
1 corresponded to the day oa which It
I was presented, and the man who handed
it to the paying tetter mentioned
' casually that the check "was to cover
an option" and that he had to hurry
{ back to New York In order to complete
the transaction Thp nnvlnu tailor
: feeling certain that the signature was
r' genuine, cashed the check, and the
; man who had presented It walked ojit
| of the bank with $I.'80 In his pocket.
'; When Hytnan and Hess liad their ^c.
j count balanced they found that they
I: were exactly $380 short?for the original
check had never reached its NeV
York destination, but had been lifted
out of the mall box by one of a gung
of clever criminals, the body of the
check erased with an ink eradlcator
i and the date and amount filled In on
| top of the original signature.
| "Only one man in the country could
j have done that und gotten away with u a
j : It," growled (ieorge A. Fuller, assistant 1
| superintendent of the Plnkerton Detec|
tlve agency, when the bank culled the
| details of the case to his attention.
: "It's Poland's work !"
"Yea, Poland," replied Fuller. "Or
(Jard;.or. as he sometimes calls himself.
lie's got a regular orgnnl/.ution
for this sort of thing. Trains hoys to
loot the mail boxes, washes the checks
witli tnt ucld preparation of his own
invention, writes in a higher amount,
a.tikes litem payable to 'Pearer,' and
then another of his tools cashes
them."
"if you know so much about the
man," asked the untaxed bunker, "why
hasn't lie been arrested long before
^ tliis?"
"It's easy enough to arrest a man,"
was Fuller's reply, "hut it is sometimes
j* very difiieult to convict hint. So far as
^ the actual check-raising goes, Poland
J lays a lone hand. What's more, he
I pays his men well, and takes care of
i .:n in if they happen to get caught. So
i far, none of 'em lias turned state's evl!
ileiice. mid until tln.v <t<-> <>? until
Icutch I it.laud red-hunded?there's nothing
to do but -bo carefuj. We've got
our eyes on lilni. He can't wove without
our knowing It. I
Warned by Hynian and Hess check
that the Boland outfit wus once more
conducting operations In New York
state, the IMnkerton man kept close
I ateh on all persons suspected of be- it
I longing to the organizations, with the "c
' result thut three men were arrested
! and sentenced to terms In prison. But .. i
all of them steadfastly refused to Ina- -J
plicate the "man higher up." ^ J|
Finally Bolund and three of his as- "
soclates were arrested In Boston, aft- '
t er Fuller hud shadowed a boy whom
he suspected of robbing a mall box.
Pano, the boy, and Devlne, another ,
of the organization, drew short terms
Ifor petty larceny, but Boland escaped
on account of a technicality, and
moved to New York where he tried
| to continue his operations. But the
I New York police and particularly CoroI
mlssloner (leorge S. Dougherty, made
things so difficult, that he was soon reduced
to the expedient of securing
checks wherever he could?a necessity
which led to the fatal slip which
Fuller had predicted.
Out of the mall box of an up-town
apartment house, one of Boland's apprentices
secured a check for $60, made
out to a real estate company In payment
of the rental for one of the apartments.
It was child's play for Boland
to wash off the original name and
amount and to write In the words
"Bearer" and "Two Hundred and
' r.ieven uoiiars." Once that was done,
he had a perfectly good check (ap|
parently) and he sent one of his men
I down to the hank on which the check
was drawn, with inlnute Instructions
as to the cashing of It. Hut the cashier,
being suspicious of a check of that
size being made nut to "Hearer"?particularly
as he knew that the woman
whose aignnture appeared upon it was
very careful in her financial dealings
?declined to cash It, and Holand's
man returned with a story of having
been watched and therefore very fearfid
to approach the paying window.
Holand, In a spirit of bravado, again
altered the check, this time making
it ont In the name of "William llath"
and set forth to cash the check himself,
something which he had never
before attempted. One glance at the
odd amount?$211.?and the recollection
that a check of slmllnr size had
been presented that tnornlng, payable
to "Hearer," was enough to convince
ine paying teller that something was
wrong. The Plnkertons were Immediately
notified and Poland was caught,
red-handed.
Klfteor minutes after hla case caine
up In the County court In Brooklyn,
Poland was on his wuy to Sing Slog.
* \MTHUk KNIGH1
Attora?y-*t>L*?*
Office in Courthouse
3kciterti*l4 9 C
R. L. McMANUS - .?
Dentist
Cheraw, S. C.
At Cheetereld, Monday
A Page land, Tuesday.
At Ml. Croghan, Wednesday morning
Ruby, Wednesday afternoon
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