The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-09-23
STATE ITEMS
OF INTEREST TO ALL SOUTH
CAROLINA PEOPLE.

II
5. M. Williams, a Lexington county
farmer, was painfully hurt in a run
away a few days ago.
The large wooden building occu-
pied by the Orangeburg Lumber Com.
pany was destroyed by fire recently.
The building was owned by e. r. Paul
ing and the lumber business owned
by L. A. Walker, Jr. !.
Upon the completion OF estimates to
be finished with few days, work on
the roadbed of Carolina e North.
western railroad below Newton, N. c..
involving the expenditure Of several
thousand dollars, will be started.
A third big export and bunker coal
concern has made connections for tha
purpose of using the Charleston port
ior large fuel movement, the pres
ence here recently Of c. c. Froedriek
anu j. L. Brennon, representing Whit
Dey & kemmerer Of Philadelphia. a
S"ooo'oOO corporation; confirming the
proposition
When the British steamer Cayo Soto
cleared up for Liverpool with a cargo
OF lO,25O bales Of cotton, what is be.
heVed to be, not only the first ship.
ment of cotton for foreign port
through Charleston, prt also wa,i u,,
among the first cargoes Of the export
season from any port in this country
this year was In her hold.
secretary Josephus Daniels promis
ed delegation Of Charleston business
men that he would have a division of
the Atlantic feet stop at Charleston
during the annual convention OF the
southern Commercial congress which
meets at Charleston December 1s to
1G.
sam w. Parks, Of Fort Mill, captain
or Company G, First infantry, N. G.
,. e., has received advice from the
adJutant generals Office that of the so
men from the "a counties compos.
ing the state militia, who will partici-
pate in the state shoot to be held this
month at StyX, eight will go from his
company.
+. IL. Calvin. Of the live stock de.
partment of Clemson College, spent
one day recently in Columbia. arranp.
ing forage crop plots on which pigs to
be exhibited fair week will feed. These
platform" patches VIII be sown in
the different grazing clovers and
grasses, and one pig from each breed
VIII be shown in its natural habitat.
The plots are to be movable.
After one weeks idlenes the full
service of COlumbia's street cars wa,
started up again, the strike of ths sm,
ployees having ended when carmen
ana officials reached complete and
satisfactory agreement. The agree,
ment closes the second strike On the
street railway system since its organ
lzaton. Leaders OF both sides say
that the agreement would preyen,
Strikes in the future, as difscultfe,
VIII be submitted to arbitration.
The Rev. Howard Lee Jones. d. D.
president Of Coker college, died In q
hospital at Florence. The well known
educator had been IN Ill health fol
several months and had sought rest
ana treatment away from home, hon
ing to recover before the beginning on
the new college session on Septembe,
70. Following a decline a few days
ago he was taken to a hospital ia
Florence, but his frail constitution
could not respond
John Mclaughlin, Jr, an enterpris
ing young farmer of st. Matthew.
does not belong to the tomato club
but he raises tomatoes just the same
This spring ne ventured upon the plan
OF planting two acres. He has lust
about closed his tomato business up
and he finds that from the two acres
he has canned $500 cans, at an aver
age return OF seven cents the can
and he did not save all that the crou
yielded.