Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-09-29
Domestic

Good liquor is cheaper and more
easily obtained in the state Of Wash
ington now than before national pro-
hibition went, more or less theoreti-
cally, in to effect, according to a
United News Staff correspondent.
United Estates Senator James W.
Wadsworth, Jr., in his keynote speech
as temporary chairman of the New
York republican state convention, re-
Gently said that no finer stroke Of
diplomacy adorns the annals Of our
state department" than the new
treaty with Germany.
Official announcement was made
at Chattanooga recently that the an
nual convention of the Lee Highway
association would meet in that city
at an early date.
Two cents in damages were award
ed to Mrs. Melissa ]. Woodington by
a Rowan county superior court jury
at Salisbury, N. c., in a suit for
$4,000 against w. A. Roseman, a
grocer.
The evidence at the preliminary
hearing of Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle,
at San Francisco, was damaging to
Arbuckle's defense. Doctors testified
that only one thing-eXternal force
a blow or a fall-could have caused
the death of Miss Rape.
Willie Hunter, the British amateur
golf champion recently defeated Bobby
Jones, Atlanta golfer at the st. Louis
Louis Country Club, Clayton, Mo.
The Millinery Jobbers and Manu-
facturers' association at special
meeting of the board of directors un.
animously voted to hold their semi.
annual fall convention in Atlanta at
an early date.
Gloomy forebodings of last winter
with respect to the banking situation
are no longer justified and can be dis.
missed, Governor Harding, of the fed.
eral reserve board, declared in an ad.
dress at Charlotte, n. c., recently at
the Made-in-Carolina exposition.
Urban Ledoux, whose activities in
behalf of New York unemployed have
been combatted by the police, announc-
es that he and the police have arrived
at compromise-he promising to
abandon plans for holding modern
slave auction and the police agreeing
to aid in his efforts to feed the jobless.
Due to a heart affection, Oliver Lee
Mckay, 33' Mason, grand-secretary-
recorder of Mississippi Masonic bodies,
died recently.
Clarke county, Georgia, has gone on
record as having reduced the tax levy
from 10 to mills per thousand.
Engineer NJ. S. Bennett Of Louisville,
Ky, was killed, four persons severely
Injured and several others less serious.
" injured when Pennsylvania passen.
ger train No. 327 en- route to Indian.
apolis from Louisville, went through
bridge into Blue river, Indiana.
The nation, from president to hum
blest citizens. paid tribute to the men,
orv of sixteen brave men at New York
September II. These were American
officers and men of the ill-fated dirigi.
BILE ZR-2 whose disastrous plunge into
the river Huber put two nations in
mourning.
A twister windstorm hit the business
section of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, and dam.
aged the main business section, DAM
aging business houses into the hun
dreds of thousands of dollars.
Fields of corn were washed away,
homes were flooded in the lowlands
of Mcmahon Creek Valley, Ohio, in
a near cloudburst.
A blood-stained club, nail-studded,
and a bloody fingerprint were the
clues by which local authorities hoped
to clear up the murder of three per-
sons and the serious injury Of another
in their home at Dowagiac. Mich