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j$E SHOES ARE GREAT SCTSeTrv.ce PEm^deLTtAeS^iceC0mf0Rt These fine lecommendations go to Lment b?rd to resist If you are |00klllD, ? up "" jftory shoe, 5 (>r ft SA&fis Your shoes are one of the" most ? jour costume, and require <rood !'"porUnt Part* .lection if you would secure the best Jf"their If you would be sure of shoe efflciencv i ,r new stock of 1917 models. Nothing ? Z\ ec% lroil? 'em\ i" this community. (4tter wus ever C. C. WHITAKER SHAVING FOtyPOOD Veferiiarian Tells of Hard ship,, in Prison ( amp. ^ Scpi. 115.?Dr. Bristol, ilv from Missouri, hut now from Hill this State, and following Session <?f veterinary surgeon, is, nljrht t,u> toWM ,ml1 lK?re, Ills pxiierlence as a prisoner [(ieriiirtii prison camp on one of olh Sen Islands. He had been employ ??f a British firm as Mif liorscs and mules out West | on tlx1 front, and had made sumvsful trips with Khlp animals. hut on his fifteenth vessel was submarined hy the im?, and he with 1 MO others, af itlug on wreckage for twenty hours. was picked up hy .a CJer Irildcr and carried to the island, lie was kept for seven months ^rtl work In the fields. subsisted on Jioof shavings from a hlaek -diop. which tastud letter than broth that was glvti) him/" by complaint or request was |rlth punishment of some kind, apel he was told to say "(3od the Kaiser." t?ut not endorsing iMtenient. lie varied It hy say j hell with tlie Kaiser." For wis Inuij,' up hy his thumbsv il days. After suffering-tortures [fiperk'iH'iin; the horrors of (?er frl/fbtfiilness seven months, he Ipxchaupod and returned to fills py. well-night a physical wreck, admission wa< charged, the pro :5oiugthe Red Cross for their BARBER SHOP iliis (hod of thanking piiMir for the patronage they re received siwe opening up iness in Camden. Pheir j>atr?.nair?* lias steadily in Sscsl .Hid every olT??rt will he t fnrth to Please Our Customers We are <r;uiiir?l with the patro ige bestowed upon .us, and rc tfully solirit the patronage of who havo not as yet become fcular customers. We are here stay and we want your busi s. We employ only white bar TS. W. J. Hopkins, Proprietor One Door Above Baruch-Nettle# KXrKKKNIONS OF KKUKKT Sent by German Government at Art ions of Count Luxburg. Expressions of regret over t lit* n?l egrums sent by Count v?m Luxburg, tiro German minister to Argentiue, to Hei*lIn through the Swedish minister at Bennos Aires, have been made to both Sweden and Argentine l>.v the Herman government. The tinder-secretary of the Berlin foreign office has informed the Argen tine minister to Berlin that, Germany regrets the actions of Count, von Lux hurg and disapproves entirely of the expressions used by him in the tele grams made public recently by the state department at Washington. Ger many asks for a safe conduct for Count vim Luxburg in order that he may return to Berlin to explain per sonally. . Argentine, it was announced by Its foreign tininister, declines to accept Jho verbal as?*urnncos of an under-sec rotary of the Herman foreign office and awaits the arrival of a formal note from Berlin before taking addi tional steps. To Sweden, Germany has sent a note, unofficial reports say, regretting highly the disagreeable issues raised ? the Luxburg telegrams, and thank 'ng the Swedish.government for trans mi ttljug the messages. % No spectacular operation on a large, rale Is reported In the official coin* municnt ioiis from the belligerent cap itals. On the '' ftalnslzza plateau, northeast of Gorlza, the Italians have | repulsed successfully four determined attacks made by the Autro-llunga rlanS. In repelling the enemy efforts General Cadorans men captured 7.'5 prisoners. Increased artillery activ ity is reported from the Carnla sector of the Austro-Italia 11 front which lies north wesf^f the Isonzo lighting zone. Field Marshal Haig's campaign of attrition during the breathing - sjh'Hs hetween major operations continues. In raids at three points between Arras and St. Quentin the British entered the German trenches.' inflicting cas ualties and destroyed trench mortar emplacements and ammunition dumps. The artillery arm is active all along i the western front and in Flanders, j Berlin reports. thC'drum fire lias in creased to one of violent intensity. ' French positions in the forest of Apre 1 monf have been attacked by the Ger f mans who succeeded -In entering a i few elements from which, however, they were quickly thrown out. by the defenders. > To Work For Kdisou. Dillon. Sept. l.r>.?Dillon County will be represented In the gigantic plan which the great inventor. Thos. A. Edison, has on foot to end the war. Hod Carmichael son of Mrs. Agnes Carmichael. has entered the Edison factory at Orange, N. J., to work in seotfecy without any com munication with the outside world un til the great pngine of destruction is completed.- For this confinement the. employes* are to receive a salary of .*15 a day and clothing. When. Mr. Carmichael enters the Edison factory his friends and relatives here will hear nothing from .him until the great work Is finished. ? ? '"|"'"-!? "Tf PRICK OF AMKHM ANH Reward For First Anurlron Soldier IKhmI or - An Associated I'rttMx story wnt out from British headquarters in France, dated Sept. 15, sh.vh; Germany mlll 1 u ry authorities on tlu> western front have she Ami concern about the Immi nence of tln? Aitwrixi) army's entry In to l!??? lighting l?y offering rewards for t!u> production of the first American prisoner. The n**iit*i'n 1 (HtmniAinUng the eleventh reserve division iwontiy put the price of 1(H) marks oil the first American soldier brought dead or alive into his Hues. Tin* information lias been disclosed by the diary of a Prussian sergeant brought from the twenty third resorVe Infantry regiment, Ue wrote'at the end of July: "We art* sup|H?sed to have had Americans opposite us, for some time now and two divisions of Portuguese on our right. The man who brings in the tlrst American, dead or alive, to headquarters has lieeu promised the Iron cross of the tlrst class 4(H) marks, and 14 days' leave from the division." The diary, which covers a period of nearly two months describes in de tail the destruction of an important I ml ust rial town hy the (icrmans and its transformation hy a German army coinnndor into a great mass of for tified ruins. Batteries have been nlaiited In the cellars of private houses, factories and public buildings, which !ve Iwen partly demolished to give a better Held for the tire, while the streets and squares, and even the city met cry have iwen torn up and en meshed with wire to provide positions for groups of machine guns. The diary describes lrow the troops quartered in the city spent their time when not on duty in llrlng machine guns from the barrlcvrtod windows and the roofs of buildings left standing, and in searching for hidden treasure and in digging among the ruins for silverware. Hospitals in Nineteen Cities. Washington, Sept. 10.?Sites have been chosen tentatively In 10 cities for the "great reconstruction" hospitals in which the United States will begin the work of x'chabitating for private life Its soldiers' who return wounded froiii the front In Rui ope. The cities selected as the largest centers of pop ulation.- were announced tonight by Major General Gongas, surgeon gen eral of the army, as follows: Hostoil, ,New ? York, Philadelphia, Baltimore. Washington, Buffalo. Cin cinnati. Chicago. St; Paul. Seattle. San Francisco, Los Angeles' Denver. Kan sas City. St. Louis. Memphis. Rich mond. Atlanta and New Orleans. The hospitals at Boston. Xew York. Washington and Chicago probably will be tlrst built. They will have 5(H) beds, with provision ^Tir doubling their capacity if necessary. Dairying. The success of seven Lee county far mers as dairymen with Guernsey cows, realizing $7,500 net profits ought to inspire a greater interest iu dairying by the farmers of the State. The ab sence of sufficient lime in South Caro lina's soil makes If rather 'doubtful wTTwher this State may reach great ?success in producing the beef type cat tle. bone ami large growth deluding much upon the products of soil con taining a large per centage of Bine, but there Is no doubt that South Caro lina can produce small lwned milk cows such as the Jerseys and Guernseys with great success and finally develop a large and lucrative dairy business thru cooperative creameries. ? Lancaster News. Death of Mrs. Waters. our community was shocked Wed nesday morning when it was learned that Mrs. Be*sie Waters, wife of Mr. Jas. W. Waters, who lives about two miles below town, was dead she hav ing died suddenly Tuesday nlglit of heart trouble. Mrs. Waters was about 45 years of age and leaves.a husband and five children.*" She was the sec ond daughter of the late W. 8. Mar shall, The funeral services and burial were held at the Brannon graveyard Thurs/lay afternoon at 5 o'clock.?Be th line Observer. PAY RENT TO YOURSELF Why can sell you ?now f tn i he other fellow when we veep on renting a farm and ^^Tdvantageaus terms'? The arto ?*?. sen you a very desirable one on very*civ&x anl interest on a spienam ^ ^ now poying would wipe out much f saje at a yer low figur . ruean the * have listed with us a id -offered for sale ax^ > u,fc wlt!l us. It may mean . _ If you are a renter we su?J?eBt ^ ? . u ? prove .a opening np of a more pr:fi table fut town house and lo nronerty will If you are open to a proposition on a wv pricc * right and this property toying investment, see u > without <lela>- \ ... always be in demand. C. P. DuBOSE & RgAL ESTATE INSURANCE . ' - - ?. II Only, Two Clashes In Amerka. Why should any one Ik> surprised > Ht the revelation of (loiwany pefliily Mu the matter <?f diplomatic fraud when 1 t able inessaj'es wore sent from tlu? Ar-! tfcntiuo through Sweden that A1 tine ship* sluml?l he sank tttal no trace; left ls?hiudY Diplomatic history prolutbly show* no such (IcKftf of cohl-hloodtsl iiertldy,' hut whut ??f tha't? Tho world's history shows no such record of hlack crimes as have mark ed tJennany's course since the begin ning of the war. It is iioi conceivable that there could have ever existed, outside of hell It self, ami It is almost a slander upon hell to mention it in such a connection, such I^Iuk. treachery, deceit, murder, raping, enslavement of men and women as Germany has shown since It de liberately trained Its people to pro pare for world domination. Why should we now he slnnked at anything which such devilish activities of mind and body could bring forth? We are lighting this desperate des potic power, and In a Una I life and death grapple. And yet our own country Is full of (icrman spies,, of pro-Herman men and women, profess ing to he decent, who are in thought u.d deed allied to those activities which reek with the sulphurous odor.of the lower world. There are now only two classes of l>eople in the United States. On one side stand men and women of honor and decency and patriotism, -haters f Oertnay and Its methods, and on the ititter side men and women who by favoring Uertnany ally themselves jis friends and coworkers of liars, mur lerers, rapists, and thus make thoui "Ives coworkers with and copartners in all the hell-born and hell-guided work "f (lernian.v.?Manufacturers Record. In Asia Ivory tusks ai'e only pos sessed by male elephants. SUMMONS FOR RELIEF \ Complaint Served 1 State of South Carolina, Coenlv of Kershaw Court of Common lMet?? F. W. Wagenev. Julius D. Koster. and F. W. Wagoner. Jr.. co-partners in business us F. W. WagCner &? Com pany, Plaliitlir against Jo^in Ilcnjainin Defendant. TO TDK DKFKXDANT You are hereby sumiuoned and re quired >to answer the complaint In this action of which a copy is here vitli served upon you. and to serve a copy of your answer - to the said complaint on* the - subscriber at his otliec nt Camden South Carolina, with in twenty days after the servi-e here of. exclusive of the day of such Ser vice: and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid the plaint in' in this action will apply ?o ihe Court for tho relief demanded in the complaint. W. M. KI7AXXOX. IMaintifT's Attorney. To defendant. John Ilcnjainin : Take notice that the Summons and Complaint in this action were tiled in the oUiee of the Clerk of Crturt * for Kershaw County at Camden. S. ('.. this 12th day of September. 1017. W. M. SHANNON. Plaintiff's Attorney. Dated at Cnindeii, S. C.. Sept. 12. 11)17. To The Farmers of Ker shaw & Adjoining Counties I have severed my connection with the Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. and will this season buy seed for SWIFT & CO., one of the largest cotton seed oil companies in the South. ..My scales and warehouse will be right behind the store of L. Schenk & Co. right at the cotton platform where all cotton must be weighed by the Sworn Weigher. I expect at all times to pay the highest market pricc for cotton seed and will great ly apreciate a share of your busi ness. ..My phone is No. 117. ..Call me anytime you want to know the market. - /r Yours respectfully, HERBERT A. CAMPBELL. Wood's Seeds Rosen Rye ' The most vigorous grow ing and productive of Seed Ryes. Stools out better, su perior quality of grain, and destined, in our opinion, to fake the place of all other Rye. Wood's Fall Catalog Gives full description and informa tion* and also teiis about the best SEED WHEAT, OATS, RYE* and Other Seeds for Fall Sowing. ? . Write for Cataktf? *od prices of T. W. WOOD & SONS. SEEDSMEN, - Richmond, Va. Without Reservation All America has been Captivated by the refreshing goodness of Those who have tasted it have spread the news of its deliciousness. Those who have tested it testify to its purity, wholesomeness and nutritive qualities. That's why, throughout the country ? north, east, south and west ? in cities and villages ? on land and water ? among civilians, soldiers and sailors are found hosts of enthusiastic friends of Bevo ? the all-yeaiVround soft drink Oct Be?o at inna, restaurants, groceries, department and drug stores, picnic ground*, baseball parka, aoda fountains, dining cars, steamships, and other places where ralreahing beverages are aold. Guard against substitute*?have the bottla opened in front of you. Bevo is sold in bottles only?#nd Is bottled exclusively by Anheuser-Busch ? ST. Louis BUSCH DISTRIBUTING CO. Wholesale Dealers COLUMBIA, S. WORKMAN GROCERY CO. Local Dealers CAMDEN, H. ( . Catue Transferred. I'IhAi motion of couuael for the tit fewse .hu'ge II !?' Kiee presiding over' the Lexington county court of gen eral sessions last U-cek granted an order transferring to MdgcMcld county for trial, tin* cases against W lMckens Ko..f ?>f Lexington. former owner atul operator of the Lexington Savings Hank, merchant and t-otton mill presi de!. who failed in March, 11)12 Mr, j Hoof ??< charged in n number of in-1 dictmcnts with obtaining money under false pretenses, nil growing out of his failure, and the transfer was made on the ground that the dofendeni could not secure a fair and impartial trial in Lexington County. More than / $3UQ?UtiO was Involvjul in Hi*' Hoof fail ure. The Associated Press is able to give approximately the figures of man jk?w cr representing <Jeri*?an,v in the war Mt the present time together with the | chief casualties as follows: Fixed for jiuatioiis on flu* various fronts, employed j on lines of comtnmiicat ions and sta tioned in the Interior. n.JWONKM). 1)1 i visions undergoing formation and men I in depots <>(KMKK>. Losses in killed., j perinatienlly disabled and prisoners ?4.(KM),(KM). .Wounded under treatment in hospitals .P)<MMN'M>. Total 1(MKK).(MK>. These figures account, for all the men called up to ^the present for service. After every imeal" ' V The goody that Is beneficial to teeth and stomach is best for children. Wrialey's is to all ages. It massages and strengthens the gums, keeps teeth clean and breath sweet, aids appetite and digestion. The ?^ f - ? > ?. . ^ ^4