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By Mian Louise Nettles ;? ? i r i 1 ? r _ Married in Maryland. Coming as a surprise to his friend* was the announcement of the mar jlajrtt 0f Mr* Sam tiowelU of Camdeu* tu Mi.ss Klcanor Loker, of Leonards town, Maryland. The ceremony took . .,t the home of the bride's pn ,VJJt s, Mr. and Mrs. Georg^ P. Loker, as performed by the Kev. Van Faust man, pastor .Of the bride, Mr. Sowell is a recent graduate in macy from Chapel Hill, N. <\, and m| his charming bvlde arrived lrtst week and are making their home ; for the present with Mr. and Mrs. I.. A. Sowell. Mr. Sowell will be comu'ctod With -the Clyburn Dhik Company. . ? Entertained For Visitors. Miss Nancy Lindsay entertained at Vfidge on Wednesday morning for her attractive house guests, Miss Minnie (jlass Whitaker of Orangeburg, and Miss Eleanor Mitchell, of Greenville. Miss Kebekah deLoache won the score# prize, a dainty hand-mnde handkur chtefi and ?*ch q{ the ho"?xr K"e8t* Were presented with a dainty remind er of the occasion. At the end of the game, a salad course was served. * Pretty Party For Visitors. Misses Kathleen and Mayy Anice Voiints, of High Point, N. C., were Km*sts of honor at a pretty paVty On Tuesday evening given 'by Misses Mary and Frances Ilough at their home on Hampton Park. Delicious refreshments were seWed. Mrs. Margaret Eckard Wilson Brown. .# | _ Re solutions .adopted by the "Woman's Auxiliary of tho ISethesda Presbyte rian Chv?rch, Camden* S. C. Whereas, it pleased our Heavenly Father, in the loving council of Hid hoi v will, to call from hef aarthly labors to eternal rest our beloved friend and co-worker, Mrs. Margaret Eckard Wilson Brown, therefore be it resolved: . I. That although her removal fro**) our church and auxiliary^ jwill- be keenly felt, we bow in humble submis sion to our Father's will, and thank Him for her consecrate^ life. ;;."1 II. That her cordiai ii?tumer, ?t tractive personality and church loy alty will be missed by all who knew her. . ' III. That as a testimony of our affection for her and of our apprecia tion of her noble life,, this memorial be inscribed in our minutes and a copy be sent to our .Church paper for pub lication. . ? ? - Mrs. Eugene Blakeney;; t ?. Mrs. W. L. DePass, Miss Agnes D. Corbett, June 12, 19?3. Sandy Grove News. T ' ' There has just closed a protracted meeting here which seemed to have done a great deal of good, but few new members were added to the> church roll. ' ? Cotton in this-section is very small but is fruited fairly good ; corn and other food crops are fine. Mrs. B. W. Marshall and son, Jacjc, of Camden are visiting the#fqrmer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Hall, and other relatives* ? i- ? ? : r? Misses Ruth Gardner and Margaret Fields of Bethune are visiting, the former's grandfather, Mr. D. WT Barnes. ? Mrs. Charles Nicholson of George town is visiting relatives in this sec tion. ,* Fire destroyed a big department store on South Pack square, Ashe ville, N. C., Wednesday, entailing a property loss of $250,000. r'-t-r- . ? T. u ; s President Harding and party can celled a visit to Yellowstone park Saturday on account of the presMent suffering from an attack of ptomaine "poisoning. . Majestic Theatre ? ; : ~ - Programme Today, Friday, August 3rd. . liebe Daniels and Nita Ndtdi in "GLIMPSES OF THE MOON." And a Rolin Comedy.. _ Admission 35c ? 15c Saturday, August 4th, Agnes Ayres with TTheodore Rob erts in . "RACING HfeXRTg." And Pearl Whjte in the list epi sode of "PLUNDER^. . * Admission 25c? 15c ^ Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, NO SHOW. . . * ? ? " Mfik moW in "CAMILLE." Admission 35c? !5c - And a Rolin Comedy. Admission 35c ?1&C LOCAL HAPPENINGS Mr. and Mrs. \V. \V. Bates and son have returned to tlu'ir Home In Or angehurg, after spending sometime her? with Mrs, Bates' parents, Judge and Mrs. Mendel L. Smith. Miss Margaret Jenkins left Tuesday for Suinn\erViUe> where she will visit friends. . . ? Miss Maty Emma Hough left this week for Hendersonville where she will visit friends. Mrs. W. K. Hough, Mrs. M. W. Hough and Mias Blanche Hough spent \Vvsl:u-;;day in Columbia. , Mr. Frank Mo.ore, of Fort Mill, is on a visit to relatives here. Miss Lou Young has been taking a two weeks vacation. Most of tin time was spent with her mother at West ville, Mhy Louise Nettles left Sunday for Richmond, Va^ where she will spend ,a two weeks vacation with friends. Miss Cora Ritchie, who is connected with Thornwell Orphanage at Clinton, S. -C,, is spending her vacation in Camden. Mrs. Hughejr Tindal and Mrs. Al fred Mcl^eod have returned from An niston, Ala., where they accompanied their husbands on the encampment. They remained in Annistson during the encampment Captain Ben Wiley Gettys was another Kershaw "County man to attend the encampment. \ Mr. N. Roland Go'odale, Jr.,, is spending two weeks with friends in Hendersonville, N. C. Mr. Bennie Smith left Sunday, for Hendersonville, N. C., where he will spend several weeks. . Miss Alberta Team, who has been attending summer school- at the Uni-_ versity of Virginia, has returned home. Miss Margaret Hogue, who has been spending several weeks in Ohio with friends has returned to Camden. Mrs. J. G. Richards and children are on a visit to the former's parents in Kershaw. # Mr. and Mrs. John T. Netles and Mr. and Mrs. Frank 'Williams are spending sometime in Hendersonville N. C. . * Mrs. C. W. Birchmore and daugh ter, 'Miss Ethel Bkchmore, spent Wednesday in Columbia. Mr. W. R. Gardner left Wednesday for Asheville, N. C., where he. will sfrend several weeks. Mr. J. S. Rhame is on a visit to his son, Dr. J. S. Rhame in Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. W, F. Nettles and family spent several days last week in North Carolina. Messrs. .Charlie fcemp and L. R. Broker of Charlotte, N. C., were visi tors in Camden the past week. Messrs. J. Feitris McDowell and J. C. Bethel of Raleigh, N. C., were visitors here last ?week end. Miss Mildred Gardner left Sunday far a two weeks stay with relatives and friends in Charleston.' Dr. and Mrs. R. E. Stevenson and children left this week for Moorehead, City, N. C., to sp6nd a month with relatives. The trip was made in their car. ^ -- Miss Elizabeth Lewis, who has been spend ing JWMnetime in Atlanta at the home of her brother, Mr. C. R. Lewia, has returned home. -Mr. C. R. Lewis, of Atlanta, was a visitor in Camden the past week. Misses Mary Alice and Kathleen Younts of High Point.^Nv X1/., are the attractive guests of - Miss Beatrice Goodale. Mr. Johh T. Mackey, Jr. who has been with the Lancaster Department Store for some time, hias accepted a position with Scott-Charnley & Co., C. P.* A. of Charlotte, N. C., and was in Camden for a short vacation before going to his new work. Rev. J. Jeter Johnson, of the Cam den Baptist Church, jpineti his family this week at Ridge Crest, N. C., where they are spending the summer. Mim Willie Belle Mackey id visiting in NWfolk, Virginia. Mr. Christopher Vaughn spend ing his vacation with friends at Ridge Crest, N. C. Mrs. Henry Haile, of Winter Park, Fla., ahd Miss Gladys ^ Twitty, of Heath Springs; are visiting Mrs. John T. Mackey. Mrs. Lilliaii H. McDowell is visiting relatives in Greenville, S. C. 'Mrs. George A. Brasington and daughter, Miss Loma of Macon, Ga., are the guests of Mrs. B. F. Haile. 'l'he many friends of Mr . A. C. Brown (Uno) will be pleased to know that after an illness of several months he is much improved. Mrs. James Covirjgton, ctf Bennetts villo, is visiting Mrs. M. S. Howell. Mrs. Hunter Wiggins and son of Roanoke, Va., are hera on a visit to the ^former's 'mother, Mrs. Fred Ma this on Mil) street. Miss Mary Alice Galloway of Bish opville is visiting friends hens' this -- I -? II ?? !? ? I | ... M | | u/aa1c. rt - T ? ^ ^ ? ~ ? ?*_? Mr. Lenox Kirkland is %pending sometime here with his parents, Mr. and }!rs. T. J. Kirkland. V -i ' rr " ? f. ?/ Mi** Sarah Bostiek, of Columbia, Is the guest of Miss Daisy Lang. , * Misses Eleanor Mitchell, of Green ville, apd Minnie Glass Whitaker of Orangeburg mh* visiting Miss Nancy Lindsay, ?Mr. and Mrs. JJ. K. llallett and lit lU- daughter, Mi's. J. S, Lindsay and Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Kirklanvd are spending several days at Myrtle Bench. jar. uiul Mr.s. L* son are visiting relatives/in Alle?? dale. # Mr. and Mrs. Leo CI y burn left Wed' nesday morning for Lake Summitt, N. C. Miss Nancy Lindsay leaves Monday to spend the week in , Darlington. Mrs. S. B. Latham was the guest of Mrs. S. W. VanLandingham this Week.' Messrs. Norman Huckabee, Albert and Joe (ioodale are at Henderson villi- for Un days. Mrs. Sophronia Folsom, of Harts ville, has been visiting her daughter Mrs. W * ?L Sowell, near Camden. Mr. and Mrsj D. K. llingon, Muuk Nina Waddy and Mr. Arnold Hinsimf of Columbia, were visitors in Camden last week. "Mr. Chapman Barrett has gone to Pittsburg', Pa., where he will be with the U. S, Steel Corporation. Miss Etta Livingston after a visit of several we efcs to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Evans has returned to Summerton. Friends throughout the city and county will regret to know that Mrs. James Team, of LugofT, is critically ill at the CamdeVi hospital. Misses Oveda, Vernell and Lois Bobbins of Rock Hill were the guests of Miss Annie Moore last week. TRIPLETS BORN AT SEA. t \ < , ? ?? _ Captain of Vessel Finds Himself in Unusual Predicament. Gulf port, Miss., July 26.? -When Captain John Ethelbert of Cornwall, England, skipper, of the ship Helena, from New Chstle, South Wales, to Gulfpoft, with nitrate reached here yesterday, he told a story of his un usual and distressing predicament du ring the voyage. \ The Helena wAs just rounding the Island of New Caledonia and was heaving heavily in the mountainous seas kicked up by a sou'wester which had been blowing for three days when triplets were born to his wife who had accompanied him on the*trip. The captain's efforts to signal. other ships for medical aid were unavailing he said. r Tragedy had come to the vessel two days before when the ship's physic ian, Dr. A. N. Fowler, died of acute indigestion and was buried at sea. The gale blew itself out soon after arrival of the babies and Mrs. Eth elbert, despite the unusual conditions attending her illness, is now strtrng with* three healthy and happy babies beside her. The mother is spending a few days in port replenishing the wardrobe of the youngsters, which had only been prepared for one^Iona, the only other child of the couple was born at sea. Mrs. Ethelbert has accompanied her , husband on seven sea voyages which has taken her to all parts of the world. * -x.y Facta About South Caroling. ? (By. the Associated Press.) The average date of the first killing frost in Dillon county is No vember 15. School teachers in Anderson coun ty received an average annual salary of $67.6.7 in 1922, . With a total of $905,272.78 Char leston county led all South' Carolina counties in school revenues for 1922. The railroad distance between Co lumbia and Laurens is seventy-five miles. The highest temperature on record for Camden is 105 degrees vFaren heit. It cost the State of South Carolina 72.18 cents per day for each patient in the State Hospital in 1922. ' The uplands of Chesterfield county vary from 500 to 750 feet above sea "level in altitude. Edgefield county had ?the fewest miles of railroad trackage in South .Carolina in 1922 with a total of 24.2 miles. Street raflway companies in Char leston county were assessed at $0 93>: 170 in 1922 for taxation purposes. In 1920 the density of rural popu lation in Lexington county was 42,3 per square mile. The per capita expenditures of Marlboro county for the school chil dren of both races in ^>22 was $21.45. The average annual pay of a school teacher in Beaufort county last year was $442.84. Tha density of rural population In Orangeburg county in 1920 was 57.4 per square mile% The mean annual temperature of Lexington county is 63.1 degrees raimilielL ? J ? county were 'received at the South Carolina State Hospital laai year. ' * * . .i . At Bethune Today. Citizens of Kershaw County: Co6]>erAting whh the Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce, the Bethune Schtwl Improvement Association, -the Bethune Home Demonstration Club and the Var mei'K ami other hu*ines* men of Bethune ami vicinity will hold a gtt togother between city, ,to\vjj and country/ meeting ami agricultural t.iily a! Bethune at 7:80 o'clock the evening of Fyiday, August frit I. Du N. B? Winters, lUrei-tor of the Government Laboratory anri Experi ment Station at Florence, S. C., will deliver an address on "Bract ical Farming Methods under Boll Weevil CpndUionA." Mr. Winters is known u.i "Ti.v- Bill) Sunday of Agricultuie" and you ran well afford to make a long (rip lo hear him. Mr. Leon L>, Rice of Anderson, prom inent farmer and attorney, one of the State's best speakers will explain in short talk th<* operations of the South Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association. 9 There. will he a splendid community pinging program by ladies and gen tlemen from Caindun, Bethune and other sections of Kershaw county. The ladies of Bethune will serve ?"? de lightful menu of light refreshments. Will you not kindly be present and do your best to advertise^ and induce your friends and neighbors to attend, Spread the news and help to get out a bitr crowd for cooperative purposes ?an evening of pleasure and instruc tion Yours truly, Jennie V. Boyd, Home Demonstration Agent. J. W. Sanders, > County Agent.. Eighteen thousand immigrants from European nations are exepeeted to reach Ellis Island, N. Y., in an effort to tret into the United suites under the present quotas allowed by the im migration laws. NOTICE. Paving Assessment for street pav ing, abutting property on DeKalb street, from Southern Railroad to Seaboard RaMroad, and on Broad street from York street to La Fayette avenue, are now due *nd payable *~at the office of City Clerk. AH assessments paid prior to August 15th, 1923, will be. accepted without interest. H. C. SINGLETON, City Clerk. Wants? For Sale CHARLOTTE TO COLUMBIA ? Bus Line. Leavers Camden Southbound at 10:80 a. m. and at 4:46 p. m., Northbound at 9:15 a. m. and at _ 3:1,6 p. m. One way, fare to ?olum ? bia, $1.50. One way fare to Chnr lotte, $3.00. H. Pi Moore, High Point, N. C. 21pd y LOST ? on Camden-Columbia high Way, one brown leather suitcase, . with initials C. H. M. on side. Finder pleas*; notify H. L. Calhoun, Clio, S. <C. \ v ' 18pd REAL ESTATE LOANS? 6 per cent. Loans under Reserve System on city or farm ? property. Reser^ Deposit Company, Keith Buildipg, Cincinnati, Ohio. - Nov. 2 " "*? 1 11 1 . ? ? FOR SALE? Round steel stack, al most new, three feet in diameter and seventy feet high. Address Kirkwood Hotel, Camden, S. C. - 18-20 sb. \ MAN WANTED ? by an old estab lished wholesale coal corporation to solicit carload orders" Tor finest quality hard and soft coals from combined consumers for shipment direct from mine. Save3 Uyers 25 per cent or more. Stores, factories, schools, institutions, hbmes are easily sold. Our men making $6,000 to $10,000 yearly. Some working capital necessary in the beginning. No experience required. Our field representative will be in .Camden in the near future for per sonal interview. Boylston Coal Co., 3679 So. Racine Ave., Chicago. . 18pd. ' 4 1 PERSONAL ? D.o you wish to know how to obtain r divorce as provided by laws of Georgia, Florida or North Carolina? If* so, write P. O. Box 56, Augusta, Georgia. 17-18pd LOST ? Large bunch of keys, Sunday night. Return to Chronicle office and receive reward. ltpd FOR SALE ? Household furniture for sale. Apply to 1517 Lyttleton St., Camden, S. C. 17sb WANTED ? An automobile mechanic, must be an experienced man. Smith's Garage. 16pd FOR SALE ? Two. ^very desirable building lots on DeKalb street, be tween the residences of H. L. Richey and T. T. Truesdale. This property is offered at a bargain, to make quick sale. D?n't let the other man get it ahead of you, as prop erty in this section is advancing rapidly, thereby making this a good sound investment. Apply Thomas Ancrum, Camden, S. C. 16tf F ARM FOR SALR? One hundred and forty acre farm, eight miles ?QMthaatt of ? Camdei, between Bmhopville and Sumter road. One mile from new public road. Eighty five acres under cultivation, plenty of wood and timber; two fcpod well* FLOUR PER SACK Every Sack Guaranteed Springs & Sh annon (Inoorporntod.) Corn Oats Hay of water, good stream of water, (wo settlements on place. Good vow ami hog pasture under wire. Apply to J. B. Burgess, Route 1, Camden, S. C. lCsb FOR SALE OR RENT? Sovcn ro?m . house on Lyttleton street, facing Kershaw Park; ? known as the Tran tham or Boykin House. House wired for lights and water in kitch en and bath. Very desirable loca tion. Three rooms in basement that can be utilized. Will sell for $5,000. One-fourth cash. Enterprise Build ing and Loan Association, Camden, S. C. * FOR KENT ? One eightj-room hodse on North Lyttleton street for rent. Apply to L, I,. Block, Camden, S. C. 17-tf Notice to Debtors and Creditors. All parties indebted to the estate of James L. Chestnut, deceased, are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and pll parties, if any, having claims against th? said estate Vvill present them duly attested within the time prescribed by law. GEORGE A. RHAME, Executor Estate of James L. Chest nut. Camden, 8. C.f July 31st, 1923.. NEW FALL LINES STERN BROS. AND HOPKINS? Come Lodk Them Over. PRESSING, DYEING and CLEANING ' Work Guaranteed * CASH ONLY City Pressing Club ' E. C. BRUTON/Prop. 523 DeKalb St. - - Ph6ne 145 ./ . Cadillac Cars F. V. A 1. 1. E N - 405 EAST DeJCALB STREET Camden - - - Soutb Carolina * ~ ' NO DIRTY ICE TO OFFER - 5 . / Our customers at reduced prices. We have only CLEAN, CLEAR, HARD CRYSTAL ICE for sale, made from Pure Deep Well Artesian Water, and passed by the State Board of Health. . SERVICE, QUALITY, and ' Honest Weights. Watch for the Green Wagons. A. K. BLAKENEY ICE COMPANY Phone 241 DeKalb St. CHRYSANTHEMUM PLANTS All Colors of Best Large Varieties $1.20 per dozen Hanging Basket, filled with Plants $2.50, up COME AND SE? US. THE CAMDEN FLORAL COMPANY Telephone 193 ? ? ? J