Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1913-05-15
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recent date played havoc with tno
newly installed electric lights here.
Hardly a store or residence where
the current Is used escaped without
having one or more of its bulbs brok.
On and in some instances every light
bulb in the house was put out OF
business.
FairfaI.-A hanstorm Of unusual
severity, followed by a torrential rain
swept over this section several days
ago and did considerable damage to
the young cotton and watermelon
plants. The full extent Of the damage
Is not yet known, but 1t Is certain
that some replanting will be neces-
sary.
Columbia.-Members of the execs-
tive committee and others interests6
in the proposed election In Richland
county on the dispensary election
held conference at the Y. M. c. A..
when the question Of circulating the
petitions for the election was discuss:
ed. The petitions have been placed
In circulation and q number Of names
secured. ...
Sumter.--There seems to beha, mfx-
up in store here between thesmem-
bers of the county legislative delegsr
,tion and Governor Elsayes unless thu
delegation mildly sgbniitS 80 the Coy.
s
and It is probably they Wilt not, * the
law Is on their side. ~
Chester. Nancy Hall, negroes,
and her granddaughter. about 7syears
OF age, were burned to death In q
fire which destroyed the old Sandifer
dwelling, near Browns bridge, about
nine miles from Richburg. Chester
county. The bodies were burned to
a crisp, only the charred skeletons
being dug out Of the ashes.
Chester. - Thomas Meek, Isabeif
Boulware and Ida Meek were recent
ly held by Deputy Sheriff Bindernan
as material witnesses in the case o.
John Lewis, who was murdered at hiS
home Thursday night, April "a. Dave
and Anna Davis were held in the PEN
itentiary in Columbia charged with
the murder. -
Observation-Disclosures ]. F. Hunt
err assisted by Attorney ]. Roach
Stewart of this place, held United
States civil service examination In
the court house for the purpose OF
filing the position Of rural mail car
rier Of one of the county's rural free
deliver routes near Stopesboro.
There are 13 applicants for the po-
sition.
Greenville.-A strike of Greenville
motormen and conductors Is declared
imminent Employees Of the Green.
vile Traction company have present.
ed a petition to the officials, asking
for an increase to 20 and % cents an
hour, the present rate being Is to II
cents. 1t is understood officials have
offered a compromise and that this
has been rejected by the men.
Anderson.-About the most salts
factory demonstration made with re.
gard to alfalfa as successful plant.
in the Piedmont country has been
that made by the Orr Cotton Mills,
few miles from the city Of Anderson
In this county. Only three acres are
in cultivation, but that has been
made ample to demonstrate once and
for all that alfalfa has come to stay,
a great and successful crop in Ander.
son and adjoining Piedmont counties,
st. Matthews.-Sheriff Hill is far
from being a blind tiger, but he is
running them just the same. Tho
way the sheriff runs them (they arc
plural in number), he keeps the tiger
on the go and gives them a war1
chase either until he captures the
tiger or his precious liquor, or the
tiger quits business. Early In the
year Sheriff Hill served notice upoH
evildoers In the liquor business that