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' 'ur W .... PHP ... c %s-; II jam t u * *. i c*%' ' ?!jc Chesterfield ^a^crtiset' ?k? r ^ ^ ~ p ^ has your time expired! 1 ?-, Arr-<lrr ?, SI.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCt I VOL. 40*?NO. 41 ~ - L - . ? J \ - . . ' I CHESTERFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY. October 12. mas * I begin fighting weevil now by destroying | MEETING OF GREAT INTEREST TO HOME MAKERS AT COURTHOUSE Miss Elizabeth Forney, State Home Demonstration Agent, will give an interesting demonstration at tli?" Courthouse Friday afternoon, Oct 18th, at 3 o'clock. This meeting has been arranged for the benefit of all who are interested. All home makers will find the instruction that will be given helpful and are urged to be present. Mary C. Haynie, County Home Demonstration Agt. LOOK FOR PEACH TREE BORER Tk. 1 - * ^ a ??; iiiuumi oi carxn placed around the trunk of your peach trees should now be removed and the tree examined at the edge of the old mound, and if there are any signs of borers they should be removed. An old ice pick or sharp pointed wire should be used. It is very necessary to remove the mound between the 10th and 20th of October, not before or after. In case you failed to mound youv trees in the summer it will be well to remove about one inch of soil from around the trees and remove all .borers from the tree. W. J. TILLER, County Agent. BURR?BULLARD "Married, last Sunday morning, by 3tev. F. M. Cannon, Mr. Gadi A. Buli&rd and Miss Ethel Lee Burr. Mr. aod Mrs. Bullard have a large number .of friends to extend them best wishec, NOTICE Tl<? ? * * - .... V- ? ! ? m. iic iivai tcuvjuura t'xuniiuuuon "will be held Friday. Nov. 3d, and Saturday,Nov. 4th, at the Chesterfield High School Building, beginning at 9 o'clock A. M., and closing at 4 o'clock P. M., each day. W. F. Young, County Superintendent of Education NOTICE Applications arr betng^TPTf751Vo(1f uT this oflfcee for water connections. Each application must be accompanied by ten dollars as a part payment of costs on making connection, the balance of the actual cost to be paid December 1st. Connections will be made in order applications are received. :return wire stretchers? ^ Someone has borrowed my wire stretchers and forgot to return same. I need them now. ltp J. M. REDFEARN. ?cows for sale?Milk Cows with young calves; prices reasonable. j. A. DAVIS, :2tp Patrick, R. 2 | That M i Why Buy It, When It Is 1 i ! Running New 1 " I ' Sews So Easy and ? I j | Making a few of youi for a New Home Sewing J See these machines c Prices R? Farmers 1 jgya?i? ????^1 ??? A NEW YORK WOMAN ADOPTS JUVENIL RUSSIAN PRINCESS New York, Oct. 5.?A two and onehalf year old countess, the grandniece of a former czar of Russia, came to America yesterday. She was Countess Reneede Mondesse, and although she will be legally adopted by Mrs. Wendell Phillips, a wealthy New York widow she will retain her formidable title. "The name is one of the oldest and greatest in Russia," Mrs. Phillips explained to reporters when the liner President Polk arrived here with the tiny refuge?. "I do not wish it lost through her; besides if conditions are properly adjusted again in Russia and she come into her own. she will be one of the wealthiest persons in her country." Mrs. Phillips says the child's father, Count Henry de Mondesse, had been shot when the Bolsheviki ransacked the royal palace in Petrograd. Her mother, Countess Claude died, of influenza in Mrs. Phillips' home here in 1921 and on her death bed she asked Mrs. Phillips to adopt the child and rear her. Serum From Reptiles For Snake Bite New York, Oct. 9.?One hundred and twenty drops of poison were taken from 24 copperheads and nine water moccasins >n the reptile house of the Bronx Zoological Gardens yesterlay as the first step in a process to oe completed in Brazil and which will :onsumc nine months for the making | )f a serum to counteract snake bites. Several score visitors to the zoo matched Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars, curator of reptiles seize the snakes nd force them to strike their fangs gainst the cloth spread over the nouth of a glass. As he worked the curator conversed with newspaper men. "This will probably bo a great surviso and blow to most of you," he aid, "but, as far as science is concerned, the old theory for snake poism has been exploded. Whiskey only .timulates ihc.hcart action and 4?- *? tremcly detrimental to successful : treatment." NOTICE OF OPENING OF TOWN TAX BOOKS Notice is hereby given that the tax books of Chesterfield will be opened October 15th, 1922 for the payment of 1922 taxes. Said books will be closed November 30th, 1922, and on j Dec. 1, 1922 a penalty of 10 per | cent will be addled, to all unpaid ! taxes on that date. Regular levy is | fifteen miiis, waterworks levy ! twenty mills. Total thirty five mills. By order of Town Council. J. Andy Teal, Town Treasurer. I 6t 46 ! ?0 Dress I So Simple to Make on The Home--' j II' jtitche# So Perfectly * own dresses quickly pays Machine. lemonstrated at our store. ;asonable aaw.Go. v%\' \ N[ i TOM WALCOTT AND MOONSHINE START THINGS ROLLING Tom Walcott, colored, got his brands of moonshine mixed Saturday night and started on a rampage. He amused himself by breaking a guitar over the head of his mistress, Sallie Baucom, and driving her out in the rain. Tom, when arrested, proceeded to blow off steam and informed the world that he was not afraid to fight any man, white or black. But Tom is now much chastened for the Mayor thought seventy-five dollars about the right amount to give him a change of heart. Incidentally, the Town Council has ordered the police officers to arrest all those who are living illegally with women. It is rumored that there will soon be several weddings among our colored gentry. . NOTICE All persons are hereby forbidden to trespass upon my land for the purpose of fishing, hunting or for any purpose in any manner whatever. These violations this will be dealt strictly according to law. n A - II i_?. n. vyumpucMi, ltp Ruby, S. C. Japanese Women Also Extravagant I Tokio, Oct. 9.?Japanese women, j who, like their husbands, learned ex-] travagant habits during the war and were among the best supporters of J the silk Industry, are returning to cotton clothing, according to Tokio shopkeepers. Last year it was not uncommon for a woman to pay/1,000 yen for an obi, the broad sash worn around the waist, while sales of dresses at 10,000 yen were quite ordinary. "But this year," said one store superintendent, "the public demand is shifting from silk to cotton; leather to papers, and from fancy to practical goods.'' Mile* Standish's Home to Come To America The ancestral home of Miles Standish is to be brought to America. Within six montlis the four rooms of the Standish home, now located in the parish of Standish, near Wigan, Lancashire, England, will be fitted into the house for some American whose family history in this country goes back to Mayflower days. The Standish house has been occupied by the Standish family since the Norman conquest. Husband Shoots Wife Because She Couldn't Play Piano Miami, Fla., Oct. 8.?Mrs. C. B. Jones' inability to play a piano recently bought for her is the cause for flcr lying in a local hospital with a pistol wound in her lungs and her husband's death by a self-administered wound, she says. The shooting occurred last night at the couple's home According to Mrs. Jones, her husband came home intoxicated and upbraided her for her inability to play the piano. When she replied in the same tone of voice he chased her through the house, beat her and shot her. Then he turned the gun on himself. He died early to-day. Think* Woman Would Drink Rochester, N. V. October 0.?"If the use of beer and '<ght wines should again be permitted in this country, we would have a national drink bill of $5,000,000,000a year; the saloon would be with us once more; whisky also would come back, and we would have a new evil in the widespread drinking by woman." These satements were made here \ tonieht bv the Rev. Deets Pickett. ! research secetary of the board of I temperance, prohibition and public , morals of the Methodist Episcopal i church, in an address to the dele! gates assembled for the Genesee conference of the Church. E3-5 IOTH LfVEStbc'K' Stic :RB POULTRY] pi SPLAY (ABLE fttRICuLTli SAL EXHIBIT 'UTO-HARNTsl^UriHtNO A SQUIRREL YARN FROM ACROSS THE LINE This one comes fro..i Wadesboro i and first appeared in the Wadesboro Messenger and Intelligencer: "A few afternoons ago two of our young men, Tylpr B. Dunlap and George L. Bogan, 'were in some woods bordering on Jones crt:k, and near the road along which they were traveling they saw ' a squirrel's nest. Tyler Dunlap climbed the tree and a squirrel, nearly grown, jumped out, struck the ground and r. n up another tree some thirty feet high. T.vler I went up after him at once, when me irignienecv sqliirrci poised himself and made a niighty leap for the ground and safety fr?eay where George Boggan was pn the watch. While the squirrel was In the air al >ve George's head, he threw Up his hands and caught this mo$t active animal arourld the neck just as neatly as a professional ball player could catch a ball, and did no^ receive a bite or a scratch. The squirrel is now alive and well in Georgf's squirrel house. "Tyler and Geo#rge challenge all the world, to show just such squircatch as this, which is all true." ENRAGED BECAUSE JILTED, MAN SHOOTS TWO AND SUICIDES Trenton, N. J., Oct. 7.?Enraged | because Mrs. Joseph Matthews refused to elope with him, Charles M. Shinn, of Philadelphia, today shot and wounded Mrs. Matthews and her father-in-law at their home in Cookstown, brought the unconscious I woman to a hospital here and then | ended his own life with three bul| lets in the head. j Mrs. Matthews was reported to be l in a critical condition. The father| in-law was not seriously hurt. Shinn went to the Matthews home and demanded that Mrs. Matthews come back to Philadelphia with him. - The elder Matthews intervened, according to the police and after a struggle, Shinn shot^tUm through the shoulder . He then turned the gun on Mrs. Matthews, inflicting three body wounds: Apparently overcome by remorse, he seized the woman, bundled her into a jitney bus, and told the driver to hasten to Mercer County hopital here, where he helped attendants carry her into the opperating room. As he started to walk out ho ctnn. - ? wvvr ped suddenly and drew his pistol from his pocket. "This gun has got me into a lot of trouble today," he was heard to say. "1 might as well make a complete job of it." He then shot himself three times in the head, dying about an hour later. Mourning At The Bar New york, Cct. 7.?There was the usual "mourning at the bar" upon ships* putting out to sea today, despite Attorney General Daugherty's ruling on high seas liquor and the announcement of Chairman Lasker at Washington that all shipping travel dry. Incoming vessels were first to feel the effects of the attorney general's ruling. On arriving in port, each vessel, irrespective of the flag she flew, was boarded by customs officials, who looked and sealed up all bars, liquor stores and even the private supplies of ship's officers and ' seamen. L.usi uuii?strayed from my place j Oct. 1, 4 miles south of Chesterfield, a lion-colored collie, male, with white blaze on top of nose, white ring nearly round neck. Was sheared this summer up to I front shoulders and part of tail; hair hasn't quite grown out yet. Answers to name of Dan. Last seen at chain gang camp on Scotch road, 3 miles south of Chesterfield. Finder or anyone with information as to whereabout please notify P. T. Hurst, R.F.D. No. 3, Chesterfield, and receive reward. ' m # ^ y ?$9 Y J- Sones) jj^*y PIS TAX BOOKS WILL NOT OPEN UNTIL NOVEMBER 15 Walter E. Duncan, the comptroller general, with the approval of the governor, has extended the time for the opening of the tax books for the collection of state, county and school taxes for 1922 from October 15 to November 15. The extension was granted because of delays in getting out assessments of corporations by the tax commission and because of recent extension of the time for paying 1921 state, county and school taxes along with other reasons, Mr. Duncan said, j The tax commission has been busy j with the new revenue laws and short < delays were occasioned from this ] heavy work, it was announced. The auditors were not able to get their j books ready by the 15th of this monh and as a consqunc h comptroller ( general thought an extension wies. i i WEXFORD < The Wexford school opened Mon- , day with the following teachers: ] Miss Margie Williams, of Columbia, < o. e,., miss Ura Baucom, of Monroe, i N. C.t and Miss Mildred Smith, of ; Ruby, S. C. The school opened with < an enrollment of 82. I Born, to Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Dav- ] idson, Friday, Oct. Gth, a girl. < Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Luther Sel- f lers, Oct. 7th, a girl. g Mr. W. L. Sellers, of Cheraw, S. ( C., was the guest of Mr. A. P. Allen [ Sunday. ( Miss Ora Baucoin, one of the j teachers, was culled Monday to the ] bedside of her sick sister. j Mr. W. A. Johnson, of near Ruby, < has been quite sick for the past week, j but we are glad to say he is some better at this writing. . The 13th chapter of Proverbs for j I next Snuday night prayer service, se- 5 leeted by Mr. Robert Moore. { Sunday school next Sunday at 10; ( j preaching at 11 o'clock. NEW METHOD OF TESTING COTTON SEED GERMINATION \ I Washington, Oct. 9?A new meth- ] od of testing germination of cotton seed is being tried out at various southern experimental stations, it was announced by the United States j Department of Agriculture, with the ( result, it is expected that old methods may be superseded. Cotton growers ] would welcome a test method that , swould give results as dependable as the methods applied to testing corn , for germination, as the cotton seed tests in use at the present time are declared to be not very satisfactory on most strains of cotton. There is always much poor cotton seed for planting, both that in the ( (luulnvo1 n. V?..* !...? U.. MVMIV.IH iUUUJD UIIU tutu iu pt \fy LI 1 v growers themselves, it was said, and for that reason alone a pood per mi- , nation test is urgently needed. The reason for the large quantity of badseed, it is said is that very little is known about the effects of various conditions on the vigor of the seed. NATIVE CONVERTS AT MEET Peking Gathering Shows the Spread of Christianity in Countries of the Far East. In early years of missionary conference, movements in non-Christian lands were often represented hy workers from Christian lands who were laboring In the foreign field. To the recent conference held in Peking of the World's Student Christian federation, however, the various movements sent as delegates sons and daughters of the soil; e. g. of the 24 Japanese delegates only two were non-Japanese. Of the ' nine from India all but three were | Indians, of the six representing Koroa mil) iiiic mis ii iin i'igiirr, m i no limn from Russia and Siberia nil but one were citizens of tbose lnnds, and all of tbe 12 representing the Philippine Islands were Filipinos. HEN ROUTS OLD JIM CROW Protect# Her Little Flock V Chicks From tbe Big Black Kidnaper. , l.ewes, I>el.?A mother ben belonging to George Walls, a farmer, has proved that the chicken Is a better fighter than old Jim Crow. A day or two ago this hen, while piloting thirteen fluffy youngsters through a wheat stubble, saw a big black crow pounce on one of her little ones and attempt fo fly off with It. The mother leaped Into the nir, reaching the black kidnaper and helaboring him so severely that he was Obliged to drop the chick and fly Into high altitude for safety. Autoinobllists who witnessed the battle declare the hen never hesitated a moment In attacking the greatest foe of the chicken family. Wad* in Mud to Save Dying Fieh. Rochester, Minn.?Scores of villagers wading In mud to their wnlsts worked desperately to save lives of ELABORATE PROGRAM AT STATii FAIR Columbia, October 11, (Special) ? One week from next Monday the gates of the South Carolina StateFair will swing open and there- will be presented to the public what promises to be the grandest exhibition in the history of the State. Every department will be crowded with exhibits and displays depicting the progress of our people. The entire Fair grounds has been rearranged and presents a fine appearance with its new building, permanent walkways, flowers and shrubbery. The people generally are displaying unusual interest in the Stat > Fail and record crowds ire sure to attend. The State Fair po gram is the most elaborate ever ^attempted. From the opening day, Monday, October 2d, until the elosi lg day, Saturuay, Dctober 2X. unusual features are daily programmed. Officially the Day, featuring the laying ol the corner stone of the new woman's suilding u\J the public recentioon to Vlrs. Ed.tii Vanderlnlt; Tuesday, October 21, School Lay, fcatuimg football game between ii.v ;si.. fligh anil C t'umbia High; Wednesday, October 25, Agr.eultu'al and Confederate Veterans Day, featuring special events in honor of the >ld soldiers; Thursday, October 20, 'football Day featuring ClemsonJarolina game; Friday October 27, ^Javal and Circus Day, featuring Singling Brothers and Barnum and iailey Combined Circus; Saturday, Dctober 28, Auto Race Day, fcaturng professional auto races. In addition to the above, harness ind running races are to occur the Tirst five days on the new race track md some of the fastest horses :ampaigning have entered the twenty different races. Free circus acts ,v i 11 daily afford thrills and entertainment, while each night a stupendous display of fireworks will ie present. Johnny J. Jones, with lis aggregation of tented shows will oe on the Joy Plaza. The railroads ire offering special excursion rates luring the entire week of the Slate Fair , while for visitors traveling oy autos the management has provided a large free parking ground, fhe gate admission this year has been reduced to fifty cents and, with the myriads of attractions to be presented, attendance records are to be shattered. 0 YE FARME GOSSIP Oh what is so rare as a lawn in the country. Milk drinking nations rule the nrn..U You want new ideas for next year? Cio to the fairs and study them. Another reason for cover crops. A fertile soil makes much better use of its rainfall than a poor one. Next year's weeds, from this year's seeds, are being made now. It's your fault. The farmer who exhibits at fairs must be busy long before fair time One of the best forms of life-sav. (ng is wife-saving by means of more kitchen and home conveniences. Make your land comfortable this winter by wrapping it up in a blanket of green and it will make you comfortable next season by increased production. If it cost as much to fight the boll weevil wheather cotton yields one bale or a third of a bale per acre, what's the answer? Build the soil. Problem in dairy mathematics. If a purebred sire is worth $l,f?00 in three vcarn flii-nn !, ; 1 . VI vwtsu iiltlVilM'U pn?duction of daughters, what is- your scrub bull worth? The farmer who fails to plow under cotton stalks in the fall to help destroy the boll weevil is the kind of man who "trusts to luck" and i*. usually unlucky. Recently an Iowa Farm Bureau scrapped its Farm Bureau paper, the directors explaining that "a better way of reaching the farmers is through the established weekly newspapers" Righto! Youth Killed When Gun Discharged Florence, Oct. 7?Heyward Nettles, aged 20, of Florence, was almost instantly killed, near Kingstree, S. C., last night when his gun was ac COTTON STALKf 1 is atHUft 1 that ] As the cotton crop 4 gathered, it is very importan. every farmer, especially those who intend planting cotton next year, should rush through the picking and destroy all stalks at once. < If the stalks are left until after frost there will be but little use to destroy them before .January or February, as all weevil will hunt winter quarters as soon as frost falls. Kill the stalks before frost and you will kill the weevil. Various methods can be used to destroy these stalks. Where stalks are small they can be ripped up with an ordinary one-horse plow, but where they have made rank growth it will be best to use disk harrow, running down rows, and follow with plow, ripping them up. Where tractor and double disc are available, that is the best method. The idea of destroying the stalks early is to stop the growth, hence stop the breeding ;uf a late crop of weevils, as the last I crop hatched out are the ones that I L" .1 in t n * .....hi quitriers. W hile these stalks are being1 destroyed every acre where cotton was gtown should be seeded to some kind of winter cover crop of rye, rye and vetch, oats and vetch or oats alone. As vetch seed are unusually high this fall 1 would suggest that every farmer seed at least one acre to rye and vetch or oats and vetch in order to raise his own seed. Every farmer should grow enough rye and oats for ins own seed. Two farmers near Chesterfield, Messrs. (1. R. Spencer and Luther Therrell, planted not over three acres of abruzzi rye each and made from oO to 76 bushels. They have sold what they did not need at $2.00 per bushel, making of it a pretty fair money crop. Some say it won't sell. Let's see. During the fall of 1921, as county agent. 1 secured for farms in this county something over four car loads of rye, vetch, oats and crimson clover. That was worth about $10,000. Equally as much was handled by other people. One bushel of rye to the acre will ? give the old cow something green to eat and add to the soil from four to ten pounds of humus to each acre. One bushel of rye and 20 pounds of vetch seed per acre will .add the same amount of humus and in addition will store in the soil nitrogen that will equal 100 pounds nitrate ot soda or GOO pounds cotton seed meal. Can you afford to buy commercial fertilizer when you can do this at such a low cost? Vetch is not too high at GO cents per pound. The soil is in good condition now and every farmer shouldf seed as innnv iwre? t.-> u" v,? x v/? v i viwjis iic* trail. You can buy Carolina and Rozen rye lor $1.50 to $1.(50 per bushel; abru/.zi rye from $1.75 to $2.00; Vetch seed around 18 to 20 cents per pound. 1 will be triad to secure seed for you where you make up co-operative shipments and save you money, j but cannot handle seed of any kind in small lots. Let each community get together and make up its co-operative shipments of all kinds of seed and 1 will help you place them to advantage. You can get the same advantage b> making up your shipments and taking it up with your local merchant. They will be glad to do this for you. Call a meeting in your community at once and make up your shipinunl, designating some one of your number to have the seed shipped to The seed houses will shiip in individual packages, but to one adn.iiL Every farmer should have Extension Bulletin No. IS, "Farming Under Boll Weevil Conditions,"; Farmers' Bulletin No. 1262, "The Boll j Wet vi 1 Problem"; also Extension Circular N . 40, "Crop Rotation for Eastern and Southern Counties." I have a supply of these on hand and will be glad to mail them out on request. W. J. TILLER, County Agent. F.x-Army Captain Found Guilty Of Forgery Greenville, Oct. 7?A verdict of it'll 1 H /if fAI'rtO*.. ~ ? A , ^ ,, ... nil uni- luuiii was returned by the jury here late today in Federal Court in the case of Samuel Buckalew, former captain of the United States army. The jury deliberated for five hours after arguments by the district attorney and Buckalew, who defended himself and conducted practically all of the trial on his own behalf. He made a motion for a new trial.