The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-01-18
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| The little daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. A. Campbell is improving,
Mr.. p. A. Murray, Jr., made = bust
ness trip to Columbia this week.
Mr.. j. A. Davis, progressive farmer
Of Patrick, Route 2, was in the city
Wednesday.
| Mrs. p. A. Murray, Jr, and Miss
Kathleen MURRAY, are spending sew
eral days in Cheraw.
Miss Sallie Belle Teal spent the
weekend with her brother, Mr.. B.
F. Teal.
Il Miss Annie Barentine returned
from visit to her cousin, Mrs. Yates,
in Charlotte, yesterday.
Mrs. A. w. Hursey continues to
improve in the hospital in Charlotte,
where she went for treatment several
days ago.
Messrs. Ed and Bill Gulledge, of
Mill Branch, suburb of Patrick,
were in town Monday.
Misses Ruby Turner and Ruby
Burns have returned to their home in
e Columbia after spending a very pleas
ant weekend with the formers Sis
ter, Miss Pearl Turner.
2 Miss Pearl Turner delightfully."- en-
, tertained few friends on Saturday
afternoon in compliment to her Wis
itors, Misses Burns and Turner of CO.
lumbia. After several games of
Rook were played a delicious sweet
course was served.
o A great deal Of complaint is being
, caused by the promiscuous running at
r large of stock on the streets of our
town. Our town authorities should
enforce the law as to this.
k Chesterfield has enrolled in its
:, Sunday schools over two hundred pu
pills and the Sunday schools Of the
different denominations should begir
). a campaign to get every one in towr
into some branch of Sunday schoo
a work.
The merchants are receiving theii
O spring samples and now is the time t,
IS decide on that new suit We have a,
r early Easter this year, coming on tn,
9Th of April. The first announcement
of this kind has already appeared il
the columns of The Advertiser. Kee,
i your eye on these columns and yo,
d can't go far wrong in your selectio,
=, of new suit.
We wish to call the attention of OH,
e legislators to the inadequate and ex
a pensive heating arrangements of tn,
n Courthoue and Jail. A great savins
Il in fuel could be effected and mucl
:. added to the comfort of the occupant.
of these buildings by the establish
h ment of central heating systems.
: Mrs. ID. M. Barentine, whi has beer
; spending several days with relative:
n in Cheraw, has returned home.
a Mr.. r. E. Rivers will move to wha,
is known as the Kennedy place mex,
week and Mr.. c. II. Rivers will move
e INTO the house vacated by Mr.. R. +
J. Rivers here in Chesterfield. We un
: derstand that the partnership between
II these two gentlemen as to real estate
:. holdings has been dissolved, Mr.. r. F.
Rivers taking the Kennedy place anc
adjoining land as his portion and Mr.
II G. II. Rivers taking the balance OF
q their holdings.
! Mr.. w. X. McQuaig, of Pelham
Y Ca, but formerly of Chesterfield
county, was in town Wednesday. Mr.
McQuaig is engaged in farming anc
also has turpentine interests in that
section. When asked what the Dol
weevil was doing down there, Mr.. Nc.
!, Quaig said it was just eating every
! thing in sight that looked like cotton
J.. and some things that don't look like
! it. When told that some of our farm.
ers say that the boil weevil won't live
in our sandy soil, he replied that they
are thriving just fine in soil down
there that is equally as sandy as this,
and as to temperature, the sand there
gets much hotter than here and thew
like 1T. They are also living in colder
climates than this and doing we'll. So
,, 1T is MIR. McQuaig's opinion that the
farmer who does not prepare for Mr..
Boil Weevil in Chesterfield county is