davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-02-08
BETHEL CHURCH

MT and Mrs. r. F. Funderburk are
very sick at this writing. but we
nope for them a speedy recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Davis, Of Che.
raw, visited at the home of Mr.. j. A.
Davis Sunday evening.
Mr.. Lonnie Sellers was a pleasant
caller at the home of Miss Lizzie
Campbell Sunday afternoon.
Miss Verde Davis and little Ruth
visited relatives in Chesterfield last
Saturday.
Messrs. Tom. Bradley, Leonard and
Dwight Campbell were the callers of
Mrs. Minnie and Miss May Brown
recently.
Messrs. Bryan Odom, Leonard
Sellers and Oscar Douglass visited
Misses Irene, Novelle and Annie
Campbell Sunday evening.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-02-08
A Tomato Club
Girl Writes
Mr.. Editor:

Mr.. Editor:
Will you allow me space in your
valuable paper to express my
thoughts on subject in which I am
greatly interested?
1t is my desire to assist in making
our land and country better place
to live in every year. In last weeks
paper saw where our demonstration
agent, Miss Minis, is coming back
soon to begin with her years work
among the girls and women of the
county. was glad indeed to hear of
her coming. feel that by her in
struction we shall do greater things
in the year ahead than we did the
past year in our tomato club work.
I wish 1 could urge every girl in
our county to join us in our great
work this year, and demonstrate to
ourselves what we can do by raising
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-02-08

tomatoes and other vegetables. II
heard q farmer say, sMy main 81
pendence is-eotson and il Mr.. r
Weevil comes along / guess will M
to join the girls tomato club" No,
sir, we can't take you in our work.
We only ask you to raise corn, wheat
oats and fodder, poultry andS cattle
and help US grow our vegetab]ss and
we will have plenty to eat x<l1ed at
home and can get along withcnt cot
ton if necessary.
1 would like to san here that
through Miss Minis hell am able 70
raise all the vegetables Fe will need
and believe we can getsa1ong without
cotton if Mr.. Boil Weevil gets it.
l would like to urge every girl IN
the county 70 get pencil and paper
and write TO Miss Minis and offer to
join her in her great work of making
our country free and independent.
She will come and show you how to
grow your vegetables and how to
can and preserve your fruits and veg
etables.
Now is the time to begin to plan
our exhibits for the County Fair. Miss
Minis said she would help us in Wex-
ford to have fair of our own, and l
am planning to get all the blue and red
RIBBONS, SO come on come on girls,
and do You best.
L am now enjoying the good things
l caned last year. And of course il
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-02-08

DIR. Il. l.. McMANUS
Dentist
Office over Bank of Chesterfield.
Will visit Pageland every Tuesday 4;
Other days in Chesterfield.
Prices reasonable. All work guar
anteed.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-02-08

makes me hapy to think Of HAVING
won 2 scholarship to Winthrop. j
cant help but say, MAY CID bless
Miss Minis and show her how teach
u.s. When ! go to Winthrop II will
write again to let all the girls KNOW
how enjoyed the trip. nl.
will close by saying, Come on,
girls, and let's show Miss Minis we AN.
preciate her information and guild
ance. Aline Moore,
Tomato Club Girl.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-02-08
Open Your Account With Us
The FARMERS BANK


Governor Brough, Of Arkansas, has
signed the "bone dry" prohibition bill
that stops the shipment Of intoxicat-
ing liquors into Arkansas The bill
nprohibitsNthe shipment from one
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-02-08
THE BOIL WEEVIL IN CONGRESS

The boil weevil has actually gotten
into Congress and would be blessing
to the country if it were confined
there. Hon. Thomas Heflin, of Ala
bama, made an enlightening speech in
Congress recently in which he asked
justice for the cotton planter in legis-
lation and in which he referred to the
boil weevil menace. Mr.. Heflin said
the cotton crop would be small this
year and next on account of the boil
Weevil
Some of the Eastern members were
favoring an embargo upon cotton, not
permitting the shipping of cotton out
of the country. OF course that would
be fine for the Eastern cotton mills
Mr.. Hefiin reminded his hearers that
IN 1914 when Southern Congressman
were pleading for relief for cotton
planters on account Of conditions Gre
ated by the war, Eastern Congress
men said it was situation over which
they had no control and that we
would have to grin and bear it.
AA>''' SNpidihcu InaI SO
nothing has been discovered that dis
troys the boil weevil, but the Depart
ment of Agriculture has found that
by certain cultural methods you can
produce some cotton under boil
Weevil conditions. This is done by us
ing an early variety, planting early
and cultivating rapidly. If we have
wet weather in the cotton belt during
the months of July and August, it is
exceedingly difficult to produce any
cotton in the boil weevil section.
The boil weevil is spreading rapidly
and he will be in new territory this
year, and the farmer who produced
cotton last year may not be able to
produce any this year, but there is
one thing certain, if he will hold on
to the cotton that he now has he will
get good price for it, 1ne trouble
about that suggestion is, however,
that the cotton to very large extent.
has passed out of the hands of the
planter and the higher price, to use a
slang expression, "cuts no ice with
him"
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-02-08

| have ten fingers and ten toes.
| can count that much, but | Just
can't count all my good friends
down South h1re-they are far
too many.
And I'm mighty proud of them.
The men who make me, say you
can tell real quality by the com
pany one keeps.
Blood will tell. A good name and
good breeding count most of all.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-02-08
THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS

We quote the following words from
the Presidents speech to the Senate
on the occasion of breaking off nego-
tiations with the German government
Notwithstanding this unexpected
action of the German government,
this sudden and deeply deplorable re-
nunciation of it's assurances, given
this government at one of the most
critical moments of tension in the
relations of the two governments,
refuse to believe that it is the inten-
ton of the German government to do
what they have warned us they
will feel at liberty to do, l can not
bring myself to believe that theywill
indeed pay no regard to the ancient
friendship between their people and
our own or to the solemn obligations,
which have been exchanged between
them and destroy American ships
and take the lives of American citi-
zens in the wilful prosecution of the
ruthless naval programme they have
announced their intention to adopt.
Only actual overt acts on their part
can make me believe it even now.
IF this inveterate confidence on
my part in the sobriety and prudent
foresight of their purpose should un-
happily prove unfounded; if Ameri-
can ships and American lives should
In fact be sacrificed by their naval
commanders in needless contraven-
ton of the just and reasonable un-
derstanding of international law, and
the obvious dictates of humanity 1
shall take the liberty of coming again
before the congress to ask that au-
thority be given me to use any means
that may be necessary for the protec-
ton OF our seamen and our people
In the prosecution of their peaceful
and legitimate errands on the high
seas. can do nothing less. l take
it for granted that all neutral govern.
ments will take the same course.
eve do not desire a hostile con
fiict with the imperial German gov
ernment. We are the sincere friend.
OF the German people and earnestl,
desire to remain at peace with the
government which speaks for them
We shall not believe that they ar,
hostile to us unless and until we ar,
obliged to believe it; and we purpos,
nothing more than the reasor..ni,
defense of the undoubtci rights O.
our people We wish to serve n,
selfish ends. We seek merely t
stand true alike in thought and in ac
ton to the immemorial principles o
our people which l have sought t.
express in my address to the senat
only two weeks ago--seek merely t
vindicate our rights to liberty an,
justice and an unmolested life. Thes
are the bases of peace, not war. Go,
grant that we may not be challenge,
to defend them by acts of wilful in
justice on the part of the governmen
of Germany"
| 1t is doubtful if the principles upol
which the American civilization rest
have ever been better stated. 1t is in
conceivable that there should in al
this broad land be single dissentin,
voice raised against this bill of Ameri
can Rights, as propounded by ou
great President.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-02-08
FOR SALE

~ acres adjoining Bethesda school
mouse and church. One-horse farm
open. Write Mrs. Martha Grooms.
M v. 4tp
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-02-08
NOTICE

There is nothing that will give any
more pleasure for so long a time for
so little money as the four monthly
magazines We send our subscribers.
Are Xa tkese magazines?
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-02-08
DR.. L. H. TROTTI,
Dental Surgeon

Chesterfield, S. G.
Office on second floor in Ross
Building.
All who desire my services will
please see me at Chesterfield, as 1
have discontinued my visits to other
towns.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-10-26
How q Diamond Cuts Glass.

1t has been ascertained by series
Of experiments that a diamond does
not cut glass tile-fashion but forces
the particles apart. so that a continu-
Gus crack Is formed along the line OF
the intended cut. The crack once be-
gun. very small force Is necessary to
carry 1t through the glass, and thus
the piece Is easily broken off. The
superficial crack or cut need not be
deep; depth, according TO fine meas
erements, of two-hundredth part Of
one inch Is quite sufficient to accom-
plish the purpose, so that the appll-
cation of much force in using the dia-
mond only wears out the gem without
doing the work any better. Numerous
stones such rs quartz and other min
erals, when ground into proper form,
win cut glass like diamond, but
they are not SO valuable for that pur-
pose, lacking the requisite hardness
and soon losing the sharp edge neces-
sary 10 make the operation a succesA
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-10-26
People of United States Should
Not Waste Nut Harvest
By Garrett P. Serviss. Scientist

The time Of fast approaching when the forests will begin
robes nowhere the world these robes
royalty splendid they the United States But this year,
the feeder nations scale heretofore
attraction woods besides
which ought universal
everybody them their fragrant ases 1t
the call of the nut harvest.
you follow squirrel But the best lesson he
the food of Every nutbearng
fruit The of this country Alone could pre-
venting food famine.
Personally regard the butternut the best grows
excepting its great cousin, the walnut Besides the buut
native American But and find butenuts the
the about their buenut trees hear
them tell you that there used to be fathers me but
been cut Off M die OUT venture that buternu
down. while still the bearing age
matter what put in its place.
the with the hckoryanother of
of the ddest bits of have heard day that the hc
threatened with determination by insect But
regardless of enemies the hickory has been shamefuy neglected
Some of those supplied successive generations with nou
thousand of the kitchen that
the simply the easy delightful labor of picking
that the fross released and the brought
The consequence neglect of the that their product
has luxury instead ung food lists
the squirrel teaches the value of
the hog teaches that of Nothing perhaps will fatten hog
quickly give market quality of high value
But suppose that relatively persons
excellent and paaabe food for
Doctor Hornaday, of tie
crops whatever being
going the United States while being
n bread in Germany
What need be said?
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-10-26
THAT EXTRA TEN MINUTES
u 10 Good Business to Be Willing to
Give 4 Little Time Over and
Above Hours Paid For.

She had been promoted three times
within the year, and when I asked her
what her secret was she laughed and
said:
"Oh, I guess It's just that extra ten
minutes"
I laughed, too, for knew what she
meant. 1t was her mothers favorite
bit Of preachment.
"Sell your time for ell you can get
Tor it, my dear. But never hesitate
10 give an extra ten minutes"
1t is good business to sell your time
which means your brains and your
work for all you can get for them
But 1t is also good business to be will
Ing to give ten minutes over and 'bove
the hours you are paid for, when your
work requires 1t.
A few minutes overtime will often
clear up your desk, leaving no odds
and ends for next morning. 1t will
make a success of a Job that would
only Just scrape through II you quit
on the dot.
1t will prove both to yourself and
to your employer that you care for
your work; that you'd rather do 1t
well. That you prefer to sacrifice
little for the sake Of excellence.
The successful employer is usually
the discriminating employer. Your ex-
ira ten minutes may prove to be your
best MISUNDERSTANDING
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-10-26
WHEN FATHER TELLS A JOKE
Mother Sees Nothing Funny In It and
Daughters Glance Is Expressive
Of Her Pity.

When a man hears Joke which his
primitive sense Of humor Classics az
'the funniest thing he had ever heard"
he hurries home to bear the glad It'd
ings to his wife. Father produces his
great discovery, but mothers counte-
nance remains untroubled by SO much
as smile. observes the New York Eve
ming Sun. Nine wives out of ten will
gaze blankly into that interesting
emptiness to which woman's eyes
are continually travelling over her hus-
bands shoulder. The tenth and cruel
est creature will wither her spouse
with penetrating stare which regis
ters: II see nothing-absolutely moth
ing-funny in that"
Disguised and baffied, the husband
tells the same joke to his daughter.
Her only indication of amusement
IL a plying uplift Of the eyebrows
and subsequent absorption In her
knitting.
With his finger on the last unbroken
string Of hope father approaches his
nearest masculine relative. At last sue
cess Is his, for his son or his son-in-law
or his uncle roars. applauds and slaps
him on the back. Father bows to i'm
aginary audiences and compliments his
fellow man on his perspicacity and his
fortunate possession of sense Of hui
NOR. He pities "those women-those
poor defective women"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-10-26

War weddings are on the decline, II
irregular marriages In Glasgow as con-
elusive. In 1915 all records were
broken, the number of couples whose
weddings were legalized by the sheriff
exceeding anything hitherto known
Last year there was a drop, though
the total for the year was still consld-
cradle, and far In advance of normal
times. The present year shows fur
ther decrease. One day. for instance,
there were 80 civil marriages in the
county buildings, bringing the total
for the year so far to LAO At the
same Fate last year the total was
,76O.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-10-26

they had than kind Of foodstuf
AS relics of still later find the mounds various little
implements that evidently used for handling serving the food
This begins to approach conditions in the state Of cvla
ton that find the large cntes population Thousands
people make their sole livelihood preparing food for the table taking
of the dishes and the serving the the small boarding
houses to the hotels
In these places the health those thus employed
police supervision and have known that communicable diseases
have been the horrible
from another until they have become great
the health happiness and efficiency Of people.
The state of Pennsyv fortunately 1915 succeeded
ing law that those charge of restaurants boarding houses
hotels, etc. look after the health of their The handles
this way that holds the proprietor those responsible
employing people who have these dangerous diseases that
munaed to their through the oosuf ITSELF through
the Dishes forks knives Cooks and walters under
this law their without satisfying
that they clean from these diseases the law trying
prevent being thus spread The this law signed by
the large number of left their places the Pull
coaches the railroads and from the railroad restaurants
well as from the large and active hotels
This well the newspapers journals
ored spread this that the people might up
existed and what the law proposed protect them from When the
bill asking for this law introduced the general assembly
of the railroad companies that have large their
mini appreciated that sanitary and before the
bill became law they adopted its good points the management
their great eating centers throughout the United States
This law like all other that bring great
change public policies has to be ney enforced and the old
OF preparing food and washing of dishes hotels
not be too suddenly destroyed The fortunately here when the
public has become educated and the people demanding that the
spirit this good law
leterhead that the law is enforced in their establishments
AS the great cities grow the living change There become
fewer private homes and places where people live collectively
depend central for eating Therefore this law becoming
and important regard these centers they
spread dangerous disease through community
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-10-26
Cood-by Leather Shoes.

The leather shoe is becoming so ex-
pensive that it will soon be out Of
The reach Of all but the rich; therefore,
according to Andrew II. King, writing
in Metallurgical and Chemical Engi-
neering, its place is to be taken by
shoes with soles of rubber and uppers
of canvas. The properly made rubber
sole, into which ground cotton waste
and leather dust are Incorporated. viii
outwear two or three leather soles ana
will not slip on vet pavement.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-10-26

In the shadow of the lofty noun
tains of the Carso at this impressive
white altar of snow priest is cele-
brating military mass. His congre-
cation is made up of Italian soldiers,
who are battling in the snow-clad
mountains to wrest lands peopled by
Italians from the dominion of the Aus
TRANS. A broad ray of the sun was
shot down through the snow-covered
mountain peaks and has beautifully
Illuminated the altar in front of which
the priest is praying.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-10-26
Sea Water as Antiseptlo.

Glectrolyzed sea water possesses
powerful antiseptfc qualities. and an
apparatus has been devised by which IL
can be treated and used on shlpboard
to keep the vessel thoroughly clean
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-10-26
Generous.

Real Estate Broker Ito Unc!o
Hiram)-"Why, listen. here's what
ri do: I'll take your farm and cut
1t up into building lots and give you
the two best lots free of taxes for
two years for the rest of the prop
erty."
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-10-26
She Had Experience.

An applicant for telephone Job at
Memphis, when asked If she had ever
had any operating experience replied:
-Yes. have had my adenoids re-
moved."-Long Lines Traffic Doings.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-10-26
Clearly Food Is Essential to Family Health
By Dr. Samuel c. Dixon. u. S Commissioner Of Health

Wild animals eat their food raw, either while
fresh or after it has become tender with age. This
latter habit is of the vessels They kill quite lib
orally of their prey when the opportunity offers and
then allow it almost to decay before they feed upon
it. Primitive man hunted and deyoured his food much
like the lower animals
Later in the history of man he learned to make
fire and cook his food, and it quite evident from
what we find in the Indian mounds that it became the
custom, for instance of the American Indians to have
great clam bakes on the Atlantic coast. Sometimes
in these mounds we find homes of deer showing that
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-28

amist. The two institutions Travelled
together for ages until human eXpeT-
fence has condemned both to extinc-
ton.
But conceding his mathematical
argument to be true, it is hard to
see how the promiscuOus breeding of
400,000,0O0 white idiots is going to
help them in the coming war with
the wise, dark races.
A better way would seem to be to
cross the idiots with the wise races
and put Steven in charge of the job.
But there is still lingering suspi-
ciOn that he is trying to have little
fun with the rest of his brother fools
by stirring up race and religious pre-
judice.-George v. Wells.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-28
wood stands on these subjects, but
how about GTogan, Lewis and
TOuhy?-Lee Green, 1916 Masonic
Temple.
II ALL DEFENDS.

II ALL DEPENDS.-lt all depends
on who says or writes a thing
whether the masses of the people
will listen to it or not. Count Toll
stOi can go away to die by himself,
but if poor fish like me did that l
would be arrested as a wife deserter
and hurled into prison by Judge
Olson as a moron"
Count TOlstoi's son can lecture in
this country and say that our Mann
act proves the American people to be
a nation of hypocrites," yet if 1 said
the same thing some people would
want me lynched.
1t all depends on who says it. I
shouted birth control for two years
and was threatened, but when Judge
Stelk, Atty Brundage and a few
more big guys came out for it then
the prattling mob said 'hurrah." ~
Count Bernstorff says in ApriPs
PearsOns on Rants thou shalt do
this" and SHALT not do the other:
Il think a man should do what is
right, but Pm very lenient, especially
towards sins of the flesh when the
temptation is great and the results
unimpOrtant.
Now, Forum writers, you would not
take this utterance from me, but you
will eat it and relish it from Count
Bernstorff. So I say it all depends
on who says a thing. A poor fish like
me is apt to get kicked for uttering
truths and justice, just because I
have no literary, social or financial
prominence.
1t is the big lobster that gets away
with the truth, but the masses des-
pise minnies or creeping things, such
as worms and bedbUgs.
George Bernard Shaw "sees no
harm in polygamy' or crossing the
state line with a woman companion
not a wife. But let me try it and
OficialdOm would call out the whole
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-28

judice.-George V. Wells.
18TH WARD PoLITICS.-WouId
Grogan, Touhy or Lewis (Grogan's
straw NAM keep whisky and religion
out of politics if elected? Do they
believe education is both a right and
duty of the state rather than the
church? Do they hold our public
schools above their parOchial
schools? Do they believe in a uni
versaI system of education ortwould
they vote as others have done to
give the House of Good Shepherd
$4,000.
Would they first give consideration
to their constituents and secondly to
their church and thereby risk ex-
communication?
Do they owe allegiance to any for
eign sovereign?
Would they vote to close the City
Hall on church holidays? Do they
believe in free speech and the sep
aratiOn of church and state? Do
they believe in the taxation of
churches and like institutions?
Has their training and environ
ment been such as would make of
them full-fedged citizens? Would
they try to make the 18th ward a
safe and respectable place in which
to live? These are not private ques-
tons, but information that any citi-
zen has a right to know and are
being asked by the voters of the 18th
ward. We know how Harry Green