The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1921-05-19
LOCAL ITEMS

The big fiddlers' convention at
Pageland was postponed on account
or rain. 1t will be held Thursday night.
May 10Th All fiddlers are invited to
come and contest for valuable prizes.
Funds will go to benefit of Pageland's
new auditorium.
Mr.. Ross Burr, sailor in Uncle
Sans Navy, is i'll with pneumonia in
the Naval Hospital at Brooklyn. His
condition was improving ar the last
report.
There will be an entertainment
at Cross Roads school house Friday
night, May goth. Admission 10 cents.
On next Friday evening, May goth,
at o'clock in the school auditorium,
there viii be given negro minstrel
for the benefit of the Young Peoples
Missionary Society of the Methodist
Church. Admission 10 and Is cents.
At recnt meeting of Chesterfield
Camp No. $50, United Confederate
Veterans, the following were elected
delgates to the State Runion of Con-
fedrate Veterans to be held at Cam
den: z. T. Redfearn, w. d. Craig, L.
ID. Ogburn, w. B. Davis, W. G. SUIT
ton. Officers elected for the year are
l.. l.. Spencer, commander; James
Sullivan, vice-commander; w. B. Da-
Wis, adjutant.
Mr.. J. Arthur Knight, County Su-
perintendent of education, made
business trip to Raleigh last week.
Mr.. Walter Teal has moved into
the house formerly occupied by MIR.
G. M. Smith on Green street. Mr..
Smith has moved into the Gulledge
house on East Main street,
Mrs. G. M. Smith is visiting her
mother in Union county, N. C.
Mrs. H. E. Wilson and children
have returned from a visit to rela-
tives in Lancaster.
The striking figure ofDoctor Blair
may be seen most any afternoon on
the tennis court as hatless, coatless
and breathless he chases the errant
sphere.
Capt. j. A. Welsh, Mr.. T. E. White
and Clarence Catoe, Esq, are fishing
in Little Pee Dee River this week.
Messrs. J. B. Buchanan and Shaw
Meehan were there last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Tiller spent
several days in Columbia this week.
Mrs. Tiller's sister is sick in one of
the hospitals in that CITY,
There will be an importane meet
ing at the court house Friday after
noon, at 5 o'clock. a highway is to
be constructed from Wilmington, N.
c., to Athens, Ga. It's best and short
est route will bring it by Pageland,
Chesterfield and Cheraw, but great
pressure is being brought to bear to
have it pass us by. Whether this road
runs through Chesterfield county or
not depends upon how hard we are
willing to work for it. Let everybody
come out and get behind the project
pull for Pageland, Chesterfield and
Cheraw.
1t is said on last Monday evening,
when the day police was home sick
and before the street lights came on
quite a number of our citizens got
cit up"
Thanks to the liberality of Dir.
Teal and Mr.. w. d. Craig, the per-
severcnce Of MIR. w. T. Lucas and
his friends, including Messrs. C. H.
White and N. S Kimban, with the CO.
operation of the Sellers Bros, Ches.
terfield is again enjoying the bene-
fits of electric current, both day and
night. DR.. Teal offered his franchise
and electrical equipment free of
charge to Sellers Bros, for four
months providing they could give the
town satisfactory service. The dina
mos of Mr.. Craig were placed at their
service. After some very strenuous
work by the other gentlemen lights
came on late Saturday night. Thus
the town is assured of lights until
permanent arrangements can be
made.
The Florence District Sunday
School Conference meets at Shiloh
Thursday and Friday, May 10 and
20.
Mr.. w. S Lewis has bought out the
Cash Grocery Co., and will! conduct
the business at the cid stand.
Little Ruth Kimball Douglass is
visiting her grandmother, Mrs. J. L.