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- - N 1 ;5 (SljcstcrfMii A&toeriisjer ?k? % HAS YOUR TIME EXPIRED? ?? '._. i i> .. VOL. 40?NO. 42 CHESTERFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY, October 19, 1922 $1.50 A YEAR TN Anvampi? OUR WASHINGTON LETTER By Wallace Baufonl 90a ____ % (Special News Correspondent) Washington, D. C., Oct. 16?Sen ator Medill McCormick, in a des perate effort to draw public atten tion away from high taxes, high liv ing costs, NewberryiBm, the defici in the Treasury, strikes, coal short age and other troubles, tries to rais< the issue of the League of Nations He taunts the Democrats with havinj dropped the League. A few weeks ago the country wai _ astounded that Sectary Hughs wouh reopen as foul a wound as the New berry scandal; now the thinkinj people are astonished that McCorm ick should bring up a subject upoi which his party has a record of fak ing. So far as the Democratic attitude is concerned; it is recognized tha the election in November can have nc direct bearing on the fortunes of the League one way or another. If the Democracy should lick the plattei clean in the coming election it would oe in no position to intiate or carr> hrough any desires it might hav? in the matter of the League. The Constitution gives to the House ol M Representatives, for control of whicli the Democrats are fighting, no voice in the determination of-our foreign policies excepting in the matter oi declaring war. If the Democrats c.iould win all the Senate seats in the contest they could not control that body, which the President, who stands pledged to an Association of Nations, ^ ^*-i?* i! l i ? in, ivi.vvii.iini.aiiuiiig' mat pieuge, a Dai to such a union for peace. How much more appropriate tc at.k, What is the attitude of the Republicans on the subject? Todaj that party is in absolute control of all branches of the Rorvernment,printed black and white in the record a pledge to ^o into the League of Nations. The most absolute of all the recorded pledges on the subject is the one signed by thirty-one of the most eminent Republicans in the country, printed ail over the luml just before the election of Harding, telling the people that the proper way to get into the league of nations was by electing Harding to the PrcsldWicy.'" "TGfii&ng the signers were Secretary of State Hughs, Secretary Hoover, ex-Secretary Root and former President Taft. Can anyone believe that this statement was sent broadcast without fullest consultation with Mr. Harding and the high est officials of the Republican National Committee It is the recollection of the writer that Senator Medill McCormick himself was one of the immortal thirty-one. Any reasonable man would take the position that that pledge is binding on the President and his party. But nc one can see them making a move toward carrying it into effect. This raises the question of sincerity.There were many who at the time of its That Why Buy It, When It la I XT I Running new j Sews So Easy aifd i Making a few of you for a New Home Sewing ] See these machines < Prices R Farmers ElU i * i^ate^C w+ jh i admission j fil jSl utterance believed it was merely a political fake for the purpose of holding within the Republican party that host of the Republicans p who had " enrolled for the League ufider the i- leadership of Hamilton Holt. It - was another of the many baits the - Republican party had used to catch t gudgeons?and it caught a great - many u it aid not meet the Presie dent's approval, he had a strange l way of showing his displeasure. He 5 put Hughs and Hoover in the Cabinate and Taft on the Supreme Bench. 9 But after the President had gotton 1 his seat warm what did he have to - say about the League of Nations, ? for which he had voted with reser vations, when a Senator? In his i message he referred to the adminis* tration's attitude as "rejecting the ? League covenant and uttering that [ rejection to our own people and to the > world." Thus the President kept the ! pledge given for him and with his * full knowledge and consort over the * signatures of thirty-one of the most I eminent Republicans in the land. If ' the President was sincere in the ? language quoted from his address to ! Congress, what was he when he conF sented to the publication of the statoi ment from the eminent thirty-one? ! And if they were sincere, why are i they all so quiet and agreeable to the President's rejection of the > league? They do not howl ^n proi test because the President has put . them in the position of being false ; prophets and fake promisers. , It comes with very bad taste for Republicans like McCormick, Bevercdgc and Adams to ask if the Demoi crats are still for the League?it is very remindful of the worst politr I ical trickery known to the game. '' They have used that great plan for the cession of wars as the gambler i1 uses the little ball which he shifts about, first under one shell, then under another, and finally, when all s the shells are lifted, lo! it is not ( there at all. The proponents, foll'ow! ing the preaching of the Prince of 1 Peace by the Sea of Galilpf two | , i thousand years ago, gave their best. | some of them almost their lives, to i i bring about at last that "peace on ywnri , yflk,twm<k.ii>Mi'' fan. ! which he was born, lived, suffered and died in agony on the cross, but the Republican leaders use the great movement as the basis for a vote; getting triek through a solemn pledge to make the League effective?a pledge intended only to help them get the miserable spoils of office. Republican politiciansaround Wash ington are now openly boasting about ' the clever move of the adminstration in pleasing the dry vofers with the i order suspending for the time be'^ing the sale of liquor on shipboard. ? It is another trick. The President I is using it to get votes in November i(and to get his Ship Subsidy measure i through Congress, for he has soundi ed all the Western Republican Con, >0 Dress So Simple to Make on The Home ! Stitches So Perfectly I r own dresses quickly pays j Machine. j demonstrated at our store. I easonable , Hdw.Co. NOTICE OF ELECTION State of South Carolina, County of Chesterfield. Notice is hereby given that the General Election for Representatives in Congress will be held at the voting precincts fixed by law in the County of Chesterfield on Tuesday, November 7, 1922, said day being Tuesday following the first Monday, as prescribed by the State Constitution. | The qualifications for suffrage are as follows: ' Residence in State for two years, in the County one year, in the polling precinct in which the elector offers to vote, four months, and the payment six months before any elec, tion of any poll tax then due and payable. Provided, That ministers in charge of an organized church and teachers of public schools shall be entitled to vote after six months' residence in the State, otherwise qualified. Registration.?Payment of all taxes, including poll tax, assessed and collectible during the previous year. The production of a certificate or the receipt of the officer authorized to collect such taxes shall be conclusive proof of the payment therof. Before the hour fixed for opening the polls Managers and Clerks mu$t take and subscribe to the Constitutional oath. The Chairman of the Board of Managers can administer the oath to the other Managers and to the Cierk; a Notary Public must administer the oath to Chairman. The managers elect their chairman and Clerk. Polls at each voting place must be opened at 7 o'clock a.m., and closed at 4 o'clock p.m., except in the City of Charleston, where they shall be opened at 7 a.m., and closed at 6 p.m. The Managers have the power to fill a vacancy; aud if nonn of the Managers attend, the citizens can appoint, from among the qualified voters, the Managers, who, after being sworn, can conduct the election. At the close of the election, the Managers and Clerk must proceed publicly to open the ballot box and count the ballots therein, and continue^withojit adjournment unjil the same is completed, and make a statement of the result for each office, and sign the same. Within three days thereafter the Chairman of the Board, or some one designated by the Boai'd, must deliver to the Commissioners KM.-.-II i!-* umviuii uic jiuii list, ine uox containing the ballots anil written statements of the result of the election. Managers of Election?The followlowing Managers of Election have been appointed to hold the election at the various precincts in the said County: Cheraw: G. W. Guin, S. T. A. McManus and P. A. Murray, Jr. Joe Lindsay, clerk. Usual voting place. Pee Dee: John H. Wallace, II. K. Linton, F. C. Newman. R. C. Spease, clerk. Usual voting place. Brock's Mill: J. W. Brock, D. C. Caulder, J. O. Parker. J. K. Short, clerk. Usual voting place. Patrick: T. P. Campbell, W. F. Winburn and D. F. Buie. Ernest L. Smith, clerk. Usual voting place. Middendorf: E. T. McManus, Knox L. Ammona, W. R. Johnson. D. M. Rowe. clerk. Usual voting nlnrp. McBee: G. T. Horton, H. H. Sowell and J. G. Grant. D. G. McPherson, clerk. Usual voting place. Cat Pond: J. W. Ruthven, J. A. Williams, Calhoun Wilkes. Clerk, L. E. Edwards. Grant's Mill: W. T. Rivers, W. T. McBride, W. H. Caulder. B. T. McBride, clerk. Atkinson's store. Snow Hill: A. J. Smith, E. C. Crawford, D. A. Campbell. C. S. Cason, clerk. School house. Odom's Mill: Miles Watson, T. C. Melton, C. B. Gardner. T. H. Douglass, clerk. Usual voting place. gressmen to know if they will support the bill if he should stop the sale of whiskey on the ships. It is stopped?for a while. The scheme again marks the party as mastertricksters. WTO* mumsWfiL f!W<K?-S6IOTH LIVESTOCK SI1C .RB POULTRYl DISPLAY (ABLE AGRICULTURAL EXHIBIT UTO-HARNESSvRUNMING ' RACE5 FIREWORKS Douglass Mill: B. C. Wadsworth, N. C. Jones, O. H. Douglass. J. L. Douglass, clerk. Usual voting place. Wexford: A. J. Jenkins, Arnold Sellers, P. A. Gulledge. A. P. Allen, clerk. Usual voting place. Ruhy: H. D. McCrcight, J. S. Smith, J. S. McGregor. L. M. Raley, clerk. Usual voting pla *e. Cross Roads: W. I), Gulledge, J. H. Dalrymple, D. A. l\ Douglass. Clerk, V. B. Waddeh. Usual voting place. Mt. Croghan: W. H. Gibson, W. J. Rayfield, A. B. Rivers. P. M. Therrell, clerk. Usual voting place. Winzo: G. F. "Evans, J. A. Taylor, H. Z. Outen.' W. L. Pate, clerk. Usual voting place. PJains: W. B. Evans, G. W. Hinson, J. G. Hicks. J. A. Bin ":eney, clerk. Usual voting place. Jefferson: Wm. Griffith, M. A. Raley, R. A. Griffith. Roland Gardner, clerk. Usual voting piaee. Angelus: T. J.' Knight, E. A. Middleton, W. L. Horton. J. S. Clark, clerk. Usual voting place. Catarrh: J. A. Horton, G. H. Middleton, W. L. Horton. B. E. Funderburk., clerk. Usual vot'ng place. Ouslaydale: F. J. Johnson, R. C. Baker, A. C. Winburn. S. A. Teal, clerk. Usual voting place. Dudley: T. D. Funderburk, Ransom Hunter, William McCray. G. C. Pate, clerk. Usual voting place. Pageland: J. A. Turner, R. H. Blakeney, H. J. Ogbu n. W. E. Courtney, clerk. Usual voting place. Court House: B. J. Douglass, Ray Rivers F". R Pnrtor T A I1""! clerk. Court House. The Managers at each precinct named above are requested to delegate one of their number to secure the box and blanks for the election at the Court House on the 2d of November, 1922. W. P. Odom. F. M. Moore, VV. J. Hanna, Commissioners of Federal Election for Chesterfield County, S. C. WEXFORD The Rev. and Mrs. ,A. B. Smith spent Saturday and Ffltfiflty *trr*4the Vaughn section at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alurd Smith. Miss Margie Williams spent the week-end in Chesterfield the guest of Mrs. C. G. Morgan. Mr. E. II. Burch, of St. Augustine, Fla., is here for a few weeks, and we understand Mr. Burch may again make old Chesterfield his home. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Fuller Seegers, last week, a girl. Miss Ora Baucom spent Sunday at her home in Monroe, N. C. Rev. A. B. Smith will preach at TU r*> 1 -i.l i iiuni|jsuii v.i v.-ck iiiuh ii ounuay mgni: at seven o'clock. Tim will take the | place of the B. Y. P. U. and the prayer service. In the financial statement of the 75 Million Campaign the Ruby and Jefferson Baptist churches are in the lead of all the churches in the Chesterfield Association. It is hoped that those other churches will pay their pledges at once and get in line wii'n Jefferson and Ruby. The Wexford school trustees have employed the fourth teacher as the school has greatly increased in numbers since the opening. Mr. F. L. Davidson, of the Hopewell section, has made over one hundred gallons of home raised syrup this year. Miss Grace Coker left last Tuesday for Ceder Springs, where she will enter school for her third term. Notwithstanding the weather was unfavorable, last Sunday night, there were 3,518 chapters reported in the prayer services last Sunday night, as having been read last week. DISCHARGE NOTICE On the 7th day of Nov. 1922, at 11 o'clock A.M., I will apply for a discharge as administrator of the estate of John D. Odom, deceased, p Lizzie J. Odom, Admrx. STATE FAIR TO OPEN THIS WEEK Everything is now in complet* readiness for the opening of the Stat* Fair next Monday, to continu* throughout the entire tyeek with elab orate programs daily. Entry books in all department have closed and never before hai such a mammouth exhibit been col ected as will be shown at the Stat* Fair. | So great has been the number ol entries in the Live Stock Departments that additional stalls and pens art now being rushed to completion. *Es pecially attractive this year will bt the disolavs in the Wnmnn'c nnif A ? ! Departments. Never before wert entries so numerous in these departments. The grandest displays ol agricultural products ever colloctec are now being installed. Visitor! will be amazed at the ^wonderful and mammouth agricultural displays. The Poultry Show will house no less thar fifteen hunderd birds, for greater in number than any previous show. In addition to the Premium Exhibits Clemson College and other State in stitutions have installed extensive displays. The amusement features are the most elaborate ever presented. They include harness, running and autc races, stupendous fireworks displays and the famous Johnny J. Jones shows. The Fair opens Monday with a full program and special features are carded each of the Six Day's of its continuance. Columbia is preparing to entertain record-breaking crowds during the week of the State Fair. APPEARENCE DECEITFUL The other day a shaggy-haired man was strolling along near the place called Coeherel, in France, where the American Army stocks are held. A young policeman arrested the man as ?. vagabond and walked him three miles to the police station. Arriving at the station the prisoner said fo~ his "captor, "YoiTTTave done a good job. You will surely be congratulated. May I use your telephone?'' Being permitted to use the telephone the shaggy-headed one called the Attorney General of France and spoke as follows: "This is Aristide Briand, Deputy and former Premier of France. I have just been arrested as a vagabond for walking the roads outside of my country estate. It would be extremely kind of you to have me released." After a few formalities the man, who oniy iusl Match ccaocd to be the head of the French government, was released. FOR THE HOME GARDEN Clemson College, Oct. 18.?Now that good rains have broken the lonir drought, home gardeners should get in certain garden crops without delay, say the horticulturists. Kale and spinach may be planted as late as the first of November. However it i< Kottar 4.. 4V... .......1 -- ... v.. *vv VI.t nvvu in the ground just as early now as possible. Siberian Curled is an exceptionally hardy variety of kale. Spinach planted at this season will be ready for use in the very early spring. Plant spinach seed thickly in the row (6 to 8 seed to the inch), as it is usually difficult to secure a stand. Onion seed and onion sets should be planted in Oct. or early November. Australian Brown, Pri/.etaker, and Yellow Globe Dan vers are good varieties to use when seed are to be planted. If sets are to be planted use Yellow Danvers and White Pearl. The Yellow and White Multiplier* are very desirable for home use,? one set planted now will divide and make at least a dozen onions by early spring. Lettuce seed may be planted now in cold frames and if protected with either canvas or glass will supply cutting lettuce during December, January and February. Lettuc* seed planted in the open ground now will usually stand the winter and bt ready for transplanting in the very early spring. Big Boston and Hanson are two exceptionally line varieties. Asparagus roots may be plante< during October and November. it. is not too iate to plant strawberry plants. If these are set by tht lirst of November they will become well established before very cole weather and produce a few berries next spring1. Cabbage seeds may be planted ir cold frames, protected lightly durinp the very severe weather, and transplanted to the field in early March, Charleston Wakefield and Succession are good varieties for home use. FOUND ? A package containing baby clothes, on street neat station; owner can get same by deI scribing, and paying for this ad tfMIAM WINS PULITZER PRIZE; L TRAVELS 206 MILES PER HOUF Mount Clements, Mich. Oct. 14.? J Unconscious at times due to the ter3 ritic speed at which he rushed through . the heavens, and during his conscious moments haunted by fears for the condition of his wife, Lieut. R. L. s Maughan, an army aviator flying an 5 army Curtiss high speed pursuit - plane, won the Pulitzer trophy aerial . race here to-day. He traveled the 1G0 miles course at an average speed ^ of 20G miles an hour. The race, run in three flights, resulted in the smashing of world rec' ords, both official and unofficial, for GO, 100 and 200 kilometer courses. When he brought his plane to earth Lieut. Maughan was so exhausted that he leaned against the ship for several minutes until he revived. t I 5 MANY NEGROES GOING NORTH I T.. .1 l i , H1UCX-.Journui: , Seeking to better their fortunes in i the north and middle-west, negroes , are leaving Greenwood county at the rate of between 125 and 150 per . month, according to ticket agents of . local railway stations. This is above normal, but it is not as high as the , rate of exodus o the north during , the war when wages went so high. , The gradual e nigration of the ne. groes from the farms of this country ; is destined, to have a marked economic effect. It is pointed out thai it will olfer a better opportunity than ever before for white men to purchase small farms and to become landowners. The present period of distress brought about by the boll weevil will be overcome in time and in the readjustment they foresee a larger number of small farms by tenant farmers. Looking Backward Dangerou* A wag says: "We know what happened to Lot's wife when she looked back; she crystalized into salt. Lot didn't look back; he just went ahead Iand looked for another wife. Looking back is dangerous, Success states,. To progresM. we must keen <?>?? eyes turned forward, not backward. If we would succeed, we must be pliable to the changing conditions of life, always alert for the new idea, the new opprotunity, responsive to the forward movement. The habit of living in the past, of regretting what has gone by, shut out the new chances, the new opportunity,responsive to the brings. It sets up within us a hardening process which strangles growth and renders further development impossible. A great many people go through life looking backward most of the time, and they are good illustrations of the thing that befell Lot's wife. They never go forward, they are never among the progressive or up-to-date. They stand still, become rutty and narrow?cases of arrested development. DOG TANGLED IN VETCH GOES MAD AND IS SHOT One of the most remarkable stories, a bit wicrd but hardly question' able, none the less, in which a field of hairy vetch became almost a menace to his farm is chroncled by Mr. Her. J. Smith, prominent Anderson county farmer of the Concord section. Last fall according to the story, Mr. Smith planted a field of vetch 1 and rye on good land near his barn. " The vetch was inoculated and put in good condition. It grew rapidly and ' made a splended crop of both vetch ' and rye. Just before the harvest time ' the wind blew the heavy growth to the ground so it was necesary to ' turn under the whole for improving " the soii. Mr. Smith attemped to ' turn it under with turnplows and good mules but could not manage it so he utilized a tractor. It was thoroughly disced and turned under with 1 a large disc plow. 1 The field is described as one of > the biggest "messes" he has ever seen ' by County Agent Byers. ' One of those aiding Mr. Smith in ' turning under the vetch said, "That 1 was some vetch! Some of Mr. Smith's guineas got out in the field and got tangled in the vetch and could not get rrti4. They starved to ' death in the field." When the question as to the tor. rectness of the Mr. Smith said, "It ' was worse than that.. My puineas ! starved to death in the field when I they pot out in the vetch, it was so ' thick and hiph.and my dop pot out in it also, was unable to pet out,went mad and had to be shot." ' While these incidents are unsual, said Mr. Ryars, vetch does make a wonderful crop and when turned un1 der is equal to any crop as a boll builder. This piece of land will show results of the crop turned under by I Mr. Smith for many years. Whiting and Cook stationary. All > 1 shade* and price*. Laner's PK*r ABBEVILLE MAN IS I "TOUCH HEALER" Abbeville, Oct. 14.?Abcville has I a man who claims to be possessed of a strange healing power. His name is Joe Munday and he lives near Buzzard Roost church on thv Ab' beville-Hodgcs road. He is a nuddle' aged spuare-set fellow with a face as full of freckles as a turkey egg is ( full of spots. He is of ordinary education and attainment but be' lieves absolutely in himself and in his power to heal, j lie says his power has been in his family for generations and is hand, ed down from mother to son ami from father to daughter. That a , man can teach a woman to heal but not another man, and a woman can teach a man but not a women. The power is passed down through the sexes in this cross-wise way. I :.,?J TL A i l.iycu m iici e Miwayi. The Mundays live at the old homestead. One brother, Rink Munday, has lived there for .r>5 years and has never been away longer than two weeks during this time. Joe Munday believes firmly that he has the power to heal and that this power is tJod given, lie says he can cure any kind of skin affection or disease like exc/etna or pellagra, or any hemorrhage or bleeding. He cites various eases and marvelous cures that he has made. lie makes.no charge for the treatment and claims that his gift would be taken from him if he accepted pay. His power is a secret and he will not reveal it. All that is necessary for you to do to he healed, he says, is to tell him your name and he will look into your eyes, and presto, you are well. There are magic words he uses in his mind, but that belongs to the secret. Joe Munday's family believe him possessor of this strange power. Recently one of the children while playing near the house cut a toe nearly off and a playmate ran for the mother, who kept on with her work saying that Joe was there and he would heal it. Xhey claim he .did*. %. . ^ He also claims to he able to heal animals. A mule while plowing in a field stepped on a broken bottle and cut a gash in his foot causing great loss of blood. He approached the mule, looked into his eyes, and th(> hlondinir ctAitninl i 1 ? * ? - A" unbliever asked how the mule could tell him his name to which the reply was made "Well, he was a mule and you would just call him 'mule* WHITE OAK CLUB MEETS Miss Mary Ilaynie met with the Ladies* Club at the home of Mrs. H. t". Wadsworth on Thursday P. M., Oct. 5th, 1922. There were about 1'il'teen members present. Miss Ilaynie pave a very interest inp demostration in "Cleaning Rups". The club will meet npain on Thursday P. M., Oct. 11), 1922 at 2:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. C5. N. Olanton. We hope to have every member present, and we gladly welcome those who are not members to come. Mayme Wadsworth, Secretary, , CHERAW REST ROOM Cheraw, Oct. 17.?Ever mindful of the pleasure and convience of the many tourists who either spend the night here or motor through, the town council has fitted up a vest room for their use. The council chamber, on the second floor of the old hall at the orni r <>f Second and Market street.;, built nearly 100 years aj?o, has beeti divided, and the front room with Its new stairway on Market street has been furnished with chairs, sofas, tables, levatory and toilet and rui^s. (In the table are little booklets t^ivinj? n history of Cheraw and describing its old landmarks and places of interest. This room may also he used by people front the country or ladies of the town who may be shopping and wish to rest awhile. The backroom, reached by the old stairway, is still used as a council chamber and for holding recorder's court. Some inprovemeiits have also been made in it which make it more serviceable and attractive. ! A M US ICAL NOVELTY COMPANY | The Venetian Trio, which will appear in Chesterfield Monday evening Nov. <5th, as the second number on the local Piedmont Lyceum Course in. personality as well as jreniua. Favorable comments on their work have appeared from many sources, ; and especial mention is made of the Ivarietv of combinations that arc pre| * I sented through their work on various j string instruments, vocal numbers and catchy character impersonations. The Mandecello, a new musical instrument, producing wonderful tone effects, is being introduced to the public by this springtly little Com