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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE ? Published Ev**y PrUUy Fcr Anuurn . . . . $1.00 ?W. L. UcDof?U, . . . . Proprietor, h. u. iriiM,, . ... ) l>. A. McDowell, . . > Publish**-*. M. N. McDowell, . , ) '?> ' c~T " '*"^'.T'."C^- ' * ' "' V'^ " i ' i'" "T* ? UUlW M M *?i rl?M *t tU PwtaMlU tl Cwiifa, jUdk C*i*iima. IIOU N. llro?<l St. - 'fhOM SM SMPHFTO* Tf' 'g:- itfLi--r ?; i .;r ?* "*"*? ('aiixlen, H. M?r< l? 1, |91^ A bill which bofcamo a law oyer the veto of Governor Blease was passed laut wV*ek will prohibit all aliens and foreigner** from voting in the Democratic primaries Former United States Senator 0. F. Edmunds, who wat? for many ?years a winter resident of Aiken, has tendered Jthe Episcopal diocese of South Carolina his beautiful rcs idence-in Aiken for the use of the diocese in any - Way they may nee fit to utilize it, and it has been pro- i poiied that the diocese establish a college and use the Edmund* home for thlw purpose. The Episcopal church huH no such Institution in South Carolina, and lr la underatood that a movement ia now being start ed in thin direction. ' In Memorial". Mrs. Isabella Young, a devoted member of the Cftmden Baptist ?Church has been called to her ro wurd. The Woman's Missionary Mo os' thin church dedicated following resolutions to her mem ory: Resolved, Flr^t, That we bowl In subminrlon to our Heavenly Fath er's wlM, that baa called our win ter to her reward, although we miss her sadly and feel that her depart ure has loft a vacant place In our ranks. Second, That we strive to emu late her untiring zeal in the Mas ters service. Third, That, we tender our heart felt sympathies to her bereaved family and pray God's blessings up on them. Fourth. That a page of our min ute book be Inscribed to her mem ory and (hose resolutions be pub lished in the city papers and a copy be sen.t to her family. ' 0 Done in sosalon of Missionary So ciety, Feb. 20, 1912. Committee. Meeting Called. I have been requested to announc there will bo a meeting at the court house on Friday, March 8th, at 12 o'clock for the purposo of discussing plans regarding extension of tick eradication work in this county dur ing the coming summer. A repro sentatvle from the State Veterina rians offices and probably one from the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, will make addresses on the subject. All farmera Interested in stock rais ing are urged to be present. E. A. Brown. CANTEY NEWS NOTES. Business Changes and Personal Par agraphs From Tliis Hustling ( 'oinmunity. Cantey^S^C., Feb. 2 8. ? We aro huvlng tbo worst spell of weather we have witnessed in nearly fifteen years and as a result farmers have done but vory little towards their nineteen hundred and twelve crop. Mr. 11. A. Vaughan has purchased from Mr. B. It. Truesdell his saw ? mill outfit and is now conducting a general lumber business on the - property of Mr. and Mrs. \V. W. Huckabee. Mr. A. F. Watts is running a shingle mill in the upper section of the county and is turning out some of the nicest material that can be had. Mr. W. R. Barfleld, who for the past four years lived in the upper portion of the county, has returned to his former home at Cantey. Mr. Barfleld is a good citizen and we extend to him and his family a henriy welcome. Mr. J. W. Wat it, lias purchased the estate of his father and will in the near future make it his per manent home. Ho is an1 old Cantey boy but for a number of years con dnr.t'd a saw mill business in the southern part of the state. Mr. Wat is \\ i 11 farm altogether when ho rom% to i 'an toy. ..ir. J. IV Thompson, of Chester field county, near Jefferson, was the faiet.t at the. home of Mr. It. A": Vaughan on ianr Saturday night. Mr. .1 1). Huckabee, accompanied by his broihr-r, W. W. Huckabee, Jr., made a business trip to Monroe, N. ('., las; week. They report a pleasant trip with the exception of witnessing a very severe storm on their 'return trip. The roads in North Carolina are muddy and slop py, and aro in the same condition iis in our section. Mr. James E. Vaughan has re turned from Atlanta w'here he went to accept a position with the Byrd Publishing Co., of that place. Messrs. Lorick Bros, aro making preparation to rebuild at their old ?tand and will conduct in connec tion with their ginnery a saw mill. Mr. S. C. Trantham accompanied his daughter, Miss Lizzie, to the homo of Mr. E. D. Holland on Sun day ovening, where she IK a teacher of tbo Sandy Ridge school. B. R. Truesdell, Jr., Is the name of a fine boy who arrived Satur day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. U. Truesdell, Mrs. C. E. Watts and children aro boarding with Mrs. O. M. Tur ner until Mr. Watts has his house completed at Pageland, where Mr. Watts is conducting a grocey. ? The ladies of the Hospital Auxil iary will serve dinner at the armory bulldin# during the first week of court. Zemp'a Drtfa guarantee safe and praaqpt delivery. ? ' <1TY CAMFAWN MKKTINO. C?j?Ul? Ndirock Common U on Hu< niel|Ntl Along with a large number of fellow - votorn In the approaching primary election for city officer#, 1 attended the called meeting at the Court House on Wednesday night to hear the various candidates tell the "dear peepull" the reasons why they should be elected either May or, or Aldermen. . ' I derived considerable Amusement during the progress of the seauce, but honestly, didn't receive much enlightenment as to what we may expect from the incoming council In the way of betterment of exist ing conditions. The stock cry seem ed to be "Bond Issue to establish Municipal Ownership of Electric Lights and Water Plant." That supposed issue, people. Is poppycock, pure and simple. When the proper time comes, and surely we "have a sufficient number of law yer-cltigens In this city to inform us as to the proper time, we are going to vote the necessary bond issue, and we are going to own our Water and Light plant. As this Is an assured fact, why bring it in us an issue? No, friends, the crux of the ques tion In this campaign is not, how this, that, or the other candidate for Mayor, or Alderman stands as to lights or water, but, what effort this, or that candidate will put forth, If elected, to hotter the con dition of his ward and city. What we want to do In the ap proaching primary election is to elect a Mayor and a Board of Al dermen who will be liberal, yet not extravagant in the conduct of the affairs affecting the city, We want a Council, who, when Its at tention Is called by the Aldermen from the several wards to bad con ditions existing Jn their wards, will make every effort to have eylls abated and had conditions removed. The silly talk of rigid economy In the conduct of municipal affairs has long since boen exploded in pro gressive cities, both North and South. Nothing of value can he obtained without giving value re ceived, and that our city stands in need of something of value in.;tho way of better streets and sidewalks goes without saying. I don't want to bo tedious in t>- ' letter, so I am going, to quit after a while. Beforo closing however, let mo ask the voters to vote only for men vtoo will he liberal. Don't vote for a niggardly candidate. Vote for men, who, while safe-guarding the interests of those tax-payers of considerable property. are still broad enough in their views to know that parsimony In the conduct of public affairs has always re dounded to the loss of all. It Is only through the election of a Municipal Board such as I have suggested that our people can hope to prosper. I noticed at the meeting that there w^as a regular red - headed wood-pecker'i neat of problems pre sented by one, or the other of the candidates. You know that the ?he wood - peeker Lays ulna. eggs. At this meeting each egg waa rep resented and ticketed, but the big gest and most speck iedest of all waa marked "BOB LATTA," Ac cording to the story. Hob's pet ter rier (not terror) snapped some body's kid in bis yard one day last year. - The edict of the powers that were, and be, was that the terror must be killed pronto, and the head sent to foreign parta for analysis as to whether the whole dog had rabies, or not. Bob kick ed, of course, as either you or ! Would if we valued a canine friend, and the dog still llveth, but Bob lost his job hh policeman. There was a lot of other matter discussed at the meeting, some of it interesting, moat of it not. Some of the speaker!) thought they cover ed themselves* with glory, other* knew they didn't. Taken all in all, the affair was amusiug if not in structive, and no one regretted his presence. W. A. Sohrock. LITTLE LOCAL IMS OF CITY AND COUNTY FOLKS 1TEMH TOO SHORT FOIt A HEAD .GATHERED AND GROUPED, FOB QUICK HEADING. Marlon Scott of Sumter 1b visiting friends here. Mr. T. C. Stover, of Kershaw, was in Camden on Monday last. Mr. H. P. Patterson,, of Char lotte, Is visiting Mr. L. S. Davidson. Mr. W. T. Williams, of Lancaster, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. L. S. David son. Arthur Humphries, who is teach ing school at Rock Hill, is visiting relatives here. Messrw. I*. L. McNaughton and L. J. Baker, of Bethune, were in the city on Tuesday. ' Messrs. Ralph Dunn and Paul Schenk, students at Davidson Col lege spent the week end hero with relatives. ' Mr. J. H. Moore went to Rich mond last Sunday night to carry his wife for ireatment In a hospital in that city. Mr. Arnold Knapp has returned to her home in Nev York after vis iting her mother, Mrs. M. L. Long, on Mill Street. Edward K. Mandevllle.of Philadel phia, Is spending a few days with Mth. Mandeville at her home 'on N. Lyttleton street. The many friends in Camden of David Wltherspoon, Jr., are glad to learn that he is making good as a telegraph operator in Columbia. Mr. H, L. Qregory will commence in the near future the erection of a home on north Main street, one door above Senator W. R. Hough. Mr. W. Brsttou deLot iche bail been confined to bla bed by sick uobu for the paat veek. Miwt Charlotte Thompson has re turned from Panama, where she has beeu visiting her ?ftusin, Admiral 1 Co tit), U. 8. N. Admiral and Miss Kotik will visit Miss Thompson at "The Terraces" during the month of April. Mrs. w. H. Schiller and family, of Pittsburgh have retu;ned here for another season, ??? ! wui occupy Mrs. Schiller's handsome home on jKlrkwood Heights. -Mrs Hchiller hat* spent several sea<K>4'J heir and has many friends In Ci<n<;on. Mrs. W; D. Boykin entertained the Wednesday morning bridge club last week. A salad course, coffee and cheese crackers were nerved. Besides the regular guests, Mru. Marvin, of the Hobklrk Inn, and Mrs. Margaret Miller were present. K. R. Deas,' formerly' of Camden, and who is better known here by his many friends as "Shorty," liatj recently been made assistant cash ier of the People's Bank, of San ford, Kla. He eutered the bank there about three years ago, and has risen rapidly since. He is one of the most popular boys who ever grew up In Camden, and his friends here wish him continued success. Little George Wlttkowsky gave a George Washington dinner party to his boy friends on Thursday night at his home on North Main Street The occasion was strictly a "stag" affair. Cherries, hatchets and Geo. Washington hats were given guests as souvenirs. Those present were Masters Everett and Leonard Schenk John Nelson, Herman Baum, Denny Smith, Slrre deLoache, Harrington Yates and Geo. and Cecil Wittkow sky, Dan Miller, James Wallace and Doykin Clarke. Miss Minette Boykin entertained the Maids and Matrons Club on Sat^ urday afternoon of last week. Af ter several hours spent at auction bridge the hostess served a delight ful salad course. Miss Doykin's guests were Mosdam'ea vonTresckow, W. D. Boykin, Davidson, E. D. Hlakeney, of Korshaw, Margaret Mil ler, and Misses Hallie Carrlson, Jua nita Wylie, of Lancaster, Mary Boy kin, Edna Perry, Klara Krumbholz, Tiney Eldredge, Henrietta Johnson, Harriett Shannon, Lucia and Lillian Yates, Mary Whitaker and Alice Peck. ? ? . The most enjoyable affair 'of the week was the dance Tuesday night of last week at the Kirkwood Ho tel, which was attended by quite a number of people from the city and guests at the hotel. Tho German Was lead by Mr. H. G. Carrison, Jr., and Miss Harriett/ Shannon, and was participated in by sixty cou ples. There were several dinner parties on the Bame night In the grill room, who later on Joined the dancing. 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The subscription price is an investment that will repay you well. $1.00 Per Year JN ADVANCE The Camden Chronicle - , i -? amden's Leading Newspaper ? 222 22 2222222 22 2ww#jd5ci?? mmmmmsm ^wiWfWISTOS'PTS 22ggBSw33833SS333agg PPOOOOQ LOUIS HIEL. Many an Indian of th,e northwest Hid many Canadian half-br^oti ilrnily believe that a certain blue-eyed bu man firebrand, Louis Kiel by name, will ?omo day xtrise from the dead and lead bin people to victory ag&Ju?t the English. A number of less supersti tious people In Canada believed for yearn that "the blue eyed Indian" had never died; but that ho la somewhere biding hla time In a place of safety, waiting to bring riot and bloodshed once more to the Dominion's British settlers. Louis Kiel waa a half-breed of the "Metis" race of Franco-Indians. His father waa a leader nf the Metis and headed an uprising in 1849 against the mighty Hudson Hay company in Canada. Louis was bom October 13, 1844. He studied at the MontronI Jesuit college with the idea of becom ing a priest. But when he went to take holy orders he was for some reason refused ordination. In other words, he was turned, loose on the world with an excellent education, a keen knowledge of whito men and their ways, a gift for organization, a wild genius for oratory and ? as was .afterward claimed?a well-developed case of egotistic insanity. Such a man could do much among the local In dians and excitable French-Indian half-breeds. The "Human Firebrand." The Hudson Hay company ? one of the most gigantic trusts ever lauuehed had for a long time controlled the fur trade, etc., of the northwest. The company was the master and patron of thousands of half-breeds and In Hans. In the late sixties the Can a* lian government bought and assumed control of the Manitoba territories hitherto ruled by the company. The natives bitterly resented this change. They hated the English. They loved the company; although more than onco they had rebelled ? against its 3tern orders. Riel, by flery speeches, persuaded the hunters and savages that they were entitled to part of the money paid by the government for the company lands. He made formal de mand for this money. The Canadian authorities refused. Then Riel called his people to arms. William McDougall was sent by the British officials to assume control of their newly acquired tract of country as lieutenant governor. At the . head of a little army of half-breeds and In dians, Louis Riel forbade McDougall's entrance into the territory. Riel cap tured Fort Carry and other strong holds, and caused himself to be elect ed president of a "provisional govern ment." Thus, when only twenty-five years old, Louis Riel, half-breed Indian, ex theological student and professional insurrectionist, became known to his people as "President Riel." From December 8, 1869, to August 24, 1870, he ruled his wild republlo with tlrm hand. As one of the youngest presi dents in all history, defended his new title most gallantly, capturing an en tire British expedition of 48 men, and even ordering at leaet one execution. But Lieut. Col. Garnet Wolseley (la ter famous as Lord Wolseley) march ed against him with 1,000 regulars. Kiel had no army competent to with stand such a foroe. 8o he fled from Fort Carry and escaped into the United States. The Canadian gov ernment ofTered a |6,000 reward for his arrest. But when, a little later, he came back to Manitoba, no one laid hands on him. In fact, three years afterward he was elected by his local admirers a member of the Canadian parliament. This was too much for even so patient a government as that of the Dominion. Riel was not allow ed to take his seat In parliament. But. next year, in 1874, he was re-elected. He went to the parliament house at Ottawa, signed his name to the rolls and was sworn In as a member. But when the news of this step reached the English townsfolk of Ottawa there was a storm of indignation a'nd threats that forced the half-breed "ex-presl \ fleo fl rom clt>'- After which he was formally expelled from parliament. Again, In the fall of the same year, his faithful followers elect e J1*?, but this time the government declared him an outlaw. Then his brain apparently broke down and for some months he was confined In a Quebec lunatic asylum. A Mad Propheoy. Thence Riel moved to Montana, but a deputation of Indians and half breeds followed and begged him to aS*in and flght for their rights. So back he came. He found a dispute raging between the natives and the BnjfUsh. A second ? "elf at head ot a provincial government" In the north west, captured the Duck Lake Indian 0thers aDd geUed Canadian stores. Next he thrashed a ^orce of mounted police and volu* teers sent to crush him, and It was not until a larger body of troops waa hurled against him that he was de feated and captured. Rial was tried HIf 0000,161 *n ? nerfW*!^ ' declared himself perfectly sane and shouted* V ^ rpu put mo to death I tun rtw He was hanged November II, tgxg -TMJ* *?? Bjeee Initiation at what *as tfce needlescly sever* i? f At ? ffweramtat la pnttln* * ? ? wBKK? ? . 7*. idFv Houae of BenJ. Halle, on Fai? Street. Two bath rooiub hob, on each floor. Apply C. P. DqBqm 4 Co., Agent*,, Camden, ft. 0. -mm ? - 4 FIN Ait UWCHABOIS. T'? Notice 1# hereby given that ?*? mouth from tbl# date ? on March 23rd. ml. I will apply to th# JudKe of Probate of K?r?haw co u*. ty for a final discharge at guard, Ian vof the Eetat# of Cornell* Ml?. Icle Neleoa, - : ?. Corbel** MVkie, UuarfU^ Feb. >8? 19 12* LOST Waltham Watch with Fob attached. Initial* "A. B. M." on fob. 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