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I'HF. CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. I) NILKS K4it?)r and Publisher Pi>bli.;hta ? w y Friday at No. .1100 Hroit'l street ;4!lt> ?t th<t* Caitn< deu. ^uuth Lu.uUnii PQ^tcfffiw as aecoritl vIh-h i n u i i matter. IVice per annum Cam&'n, I' ridt>i Auk. 31, IMS. i ocojftijtion of the. Mex ican k ''.?'V?n?K'nt was i econuriended to i*i < > .<J# i?t CopUdge Tuesday by Comini' u(/rn r Charle* Beechef Warren and John ttarton I'ayne. Prior to X jnjg j tithe White House the rollimi - ? delivered their report to Sec retary of State Hughes. This report consiMtd of a voluminous document containing the approved minutes of a . mi ? ? 1 1 ; , i helU h> the motfnltion tommiKKioners. After the two confer ernes, it was ?aid at the White House t]>a? President Coolidgi* and Secret a-, r.. Hughe:; were highly gratified owr' the OUT'-'ODl^. of the negotiations. Upon leaving th - secretary of Uate'> <>f-. h e, both. epmiwis?!ohejH . expiesHtd. tfce'ir ent-i? c <?tisfa? ti'ort with the re au'ii& oi jybc.tr missions. C'ytnnw.ssioniT Warrtn "The Mexican govern: rr.cnt hah expressed itself as satisfj" I with the i e* u 1 1 of the conference. We oqr.sclw s are sat is lied, and y/e hope this govei MR'iit will lx? satisfied.". Mi'. Hughes, standing nearby, nodded smiling approval of the commiHrtion cos' work. Asked Jthe' direct question whether hi> report to the president arid M"Cft:t!?.ry of at ate recommends the rt Mgui) ion of Pie.sident Obregon's. govern im u T , Mr. Warren replied: "Well, that's what we went down Here for." He added, that the final (lPCWnniir-*. to recognition ?most lest vv.th i'rjrtiX?.*ut ( 'uoiidiic. Mu>h merest u as created in Sum t,-. wiu n uii announcement was mjirte !>., the .ocal board -.1 examiiuus that t.'.ere v^oind he m> examination on Au uu ;t L'i, a 4 had pieviously been an nounced, lor applicants for appoint ment as postmaster. It is not known here why the examination was called off. and interest in the next step which will he taken by the department i.-? great. It has been currently re ported on the streets that the ap point m? ft1 would be secured by Maj. J. V. firadiord, at present acting post master, but this is only hearsay, and is only given as rumor. It is further rumored that an offer of an appoint ment was made to a local negro, hut he declined the offer. These offers, the rumor ha> it, were made by one who was representing Joseph W. Tolbert, an i act. rig as a go-between. The French reparations note, though courteous in tone, according to >- London dispatch, does not reveal that any appreciable progress has been made toward a settlement of pending d imputes <>t problems. Pre mier J'oincare maintains that the in vasion of the Kuhr is not the cause of Germany'* financial plight which, he insists, - occasioned by Germany's determination not to pay. He rejects the plan foi an international commis sion to inquire into Germany's capac ity io pay and refuses to entei any n. tfijtiiiiion--. with Germain until p.aa-. si. ve resistance cea: es in the Kuhr. 1 1 ? declare-* France will not evacuate 1 1 . * Kuh,-' until t fie last gold mark is paid on t><* reparations account. He cf nc'.ude- v saying that the debts of i iari"- '?> America an*. I Britain are ifi a "??jiff*, int category. both from tl .? point f view of justice and nun - a! ? {'? rn lho.se of Germain and ea: not l-t* . a i I until Geiman\ ivim bu -es K?a-..-e. I'he W' : ' 'i "f ( l. i .? le.st >!i haw pre .sc . ' ed (i< *:>.: V. 1 < i I \\:t!i a siher se ? ice i' aain le' a'? ion (>t their ap ?? e '.at ?< >' ?' h:- action m e-f al>! i sh - iii^' : i'l.i * *. ? >r; uniei' *,\huh a fair ? i.'. ii. i : .i ii ' i ?> i.t ;>? < pie of t 1 ?. * i r ; > j i ? ? . ? t ? * t ?.<. i ' i>< accept ? ' ' \ lh- ? ; : r ; ? , . i - ? <?* Mence , . . a ! . ; ? v v. I . 1' < ? . (1 . :ni W ha* t ? .ptio: . * . . n ? i i i : : - i a. I ). ' < r Yo:; ! 1> ?j - r i l?? r - - i! ; i i . \\ e no not i ? >i : o< ? n - < ? : ? *? i > >? <>\ - j );cc,ai, but < '.me i.Ke a k "? 1 j ?? a ,.o * ? t * *y f ? r*f> . < tion or you- honesty, but simply a mat'er of business ?? our part, for we (annot publish a paper without the funds to r.:*hllsh it with. Game* of chance a re forbidden by j law, ami yet pedestrians must cross the street a occasionally, says the Car* 1 ...li.i, ( it i l < n. Tribute* Mu?( H?' I'aid I Dr. For a loriK while it has been the policy of Th?- CbH>'nte)<* not t?> charge; for tributes cf respect or long obitu- | . aiiei, but Vve have had so much de- , jnand upon our. apace ff>r such notices in tljepaat few weeks that we are forced to make a charge of ten cents a Ime for ail notice* of obituaries or tubules oi' respect. Count six ordi nary words to a line and include the amount when mailing an obituary or mcmoriam to this paper, otherwise it wit! not be published, and the manu script will not be returned unless necessary postage is included to pay return charges. t ? We will continue to publish cards of thank ur church notices where they M?- not. over six or seven lines in h-ngth. pi'ovidt-<l the> are written with pencil or ink on one side of the j paper and not written, with a nail. Murk* Took a Slump. liamlnug Herald: When German mark* til t became so cheap a citizen of Baml>eig purchased 400,000 marks 'of German currency, paving therefor about $-,100. He still owns the marks and receives good interest on the in vestment, which is on deposit in a German bank -but the interest also is in German marks? -hence of not much value to the investor. A recent quotation on German marks gave the rate of exchange at 2,000,000 marks for one American dollar. According to this rate of exchange, the Ham be ! g investor in marks is the proud pulses '-or of the munificent sum of 20 cents. GENERAL NBW's NOTES" Items of Interest Gathered From Many Sources. The newest of .Japan's submarines, just returned from a short trip, sunk at the dock at Kobe, Japan, Tuesday. The los.s of life is reported at H.r>, the captain, chief officers and nine others escaping. The U. S. S. Gopher, a gunboat, built of wood, and obsolete, was sunk in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Tuesday ? during a gale. No lives are reported i lost. New York's police force and hun dreds of newspaper reporters and oth ers are aeaching for the whereabouts of Lillian McKenzie, three months old, kidnaped Monday. The police believe that the baby was kidnapped by a du mented mother to satisfy the mother craving of her diseased mind. Captain Fred Walters, 68, interna tionally known as the "blue man" ex hibited for years by P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill, died in a New York hos pital Monday. An autopsy showed that all his internal organs were blue as well as his skin. Surgeons say that this condition wa* caused by inhaling nitrate of silver fumes many years when Walters was working in a mine in Australia. Five masked men held up and looted the express and mail car of a Mis souri, Kansas and Texas train near Okesa, Okla., early Tuesday morning. The losses are not known. Albert Mitchell, HO years old, sur rendered to the police at Northeast, Md.. Tuesday and confessed that he h?d stolen ?5,000 from a bank at Ha;\v de (irate, thirty-five years ago. while the driver of an express wagon. Instead of taking the money to .the hank fie i an away with it. i'r.'.dent (,'oolidge formally moved into the White House on last Tuesday, j \Vade H. Baliew, Pickens county :c'. in! to the penitentiary to M'iu s.\ \eais for manslaughter, made his esrap" from that institution M otida \ night This i> his second > having gotten away on .lanu a . l'J. last. oi:\ to be raptured, later. Hyn.g -?? ho'.ar >hip^ for men and u .i.. , .. i:. ; h? I.oon l;i sgeM t : t i ? - of . u- : \ l?rn offered by t ?:? ,:r \ e association to j ? ?? ? ? ; i * ? i ? - ? ?? aeronautic*'. ' ,*u* j .11 i iji -vi.. be awarded for l ac': j . ? . j i i ' ? ? r ' * " i ' 1 1 1 e - . ' . i ! l i: . ' l>. ???? i i ' \ ea : >?:' ' 'i .; - * be .< a . ' > ' j : Hp' .1 ? ' h'- ^ i . , ! ; : . n ? . ( , ? ; j . ? .. r.., IV: - . \) ? : ? ? ? ? < ?/. 4 ?..? -Slovakia w .? a ?n.rr: : ' ! * ? ::*_-? l S'.ir'n;. v. r '* ! 1 i ! I.v T.-.'ar a N:koi?>T. j yv.: g Hur-ganan aged L'-v N:k*?joff! " i :: r : t f7*f*rT>r7 T'irrrt rvr ^ Suuth I'akota. on Friday reduce*! the price of gas to 15 1-2 cents a gallon, to meet the <ut of the Standard Oil Company. Four pvr?ons kilW, Iwa. fit ] them women>*hen* sjfce^din* auto-, mobile hit h telegraph jjple nrat I'hilipsbuig. N. J., Thu.^u\ night. Four other persons in the car escaped j with nut. or injuries- 1 Fifteen thousa mi ton - of Welsh com! i )?-fl WaUi* ittai week on its way 4o Uo.itofi, the. fit st >>t a number of such | shipment* In contemplation of the expected v^al sink*.*. It id announced that diver* recovered practically all of the gold bullion on board the I^aurrnttc when that vessel was sunk bjr a German submarine off the Irish count during the war, amounting to several millions of dol lars. In addition to the gold some $o, 000,000 worth of silver bullion has also been salvaged. Three confessed members of the Ku Klux Klan are facing prison sen tences of not less than two years each a.i the result of Governor Walton's ftght against nob whipping? in Okla homa. . Six persons were killed and a sev enth was probably fatally -injured when their automobile was struck by an Krie railroad train near Iiinghamp ton, N\ Y., last Sunday. Louis Allen, formerly of Chester, was killed at Halethorpe, Md., Sunday morning while trying to force his way into a room ocupied by James M. Haynes and his wife. The story is that when Allen knocked at the door, Haynes challenged and wounded him from the inside. Allen broke the door down arid Haynes shot him six times. The facts and circumstances are not exactly clear. It was suggested by the police that Allan, had gone to the apartment looking for a girl who had previously moved away, and that the apartment had beerr^ubsequently oc cupied by the Haynes's. Hearing a man's voicc answer his efforts to get in, he became, enraged and broke in. Mrs. Haynes stated to the police that she did not know Allen. Haynes was held witout bail for the inquest, which is to be held tomorrow. The full facts are not yet clear. Home Mark Twain Loved Is Destroyed by Fire Redding, Conn. ? Storinfleld, the home of Sumuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) In the cloning years of his life, a picturesque villa on % ridge In h this town, wan hurried. Tiie property was bought last December by Mrs.^ Margaret E. Givens of New Yprk. In this home Mark Tw?in spent his last yettrs, and as he had expressed^ it, experienced some of the deepest "sorrows of his life, as well ss some of his happiest days. Here his younger daughter, Janet, met a tragic death, and here there was a burglary which aroused widespread Interest. Mr. Clemens lay ill in Stonnfleld for a long time, and from it his body was borne to its last resting: place. The house contained 18 roo-ns, with fire bathrooms and a large loggia. It had Its own lighting plant, water supply from springs and Ice house. Mrs. Glvens, her daughter Thelma, and her son, Eben, were in the house when Kben discovered the fire in the laundry on the main floor. All were obliged to leave in their night gar ments. Neighbors saved some of the furnishings. The property was originally offered at $173,000 apd was insured. The fire is thought to have started from spon taneous combustion of painting mate rials in the laundry. 300,000 Greek Peasants to Get Seized Farms New York. ? It is estimated that In all some 3,000,000 acres will be taken [ from owners and given to peasants by [ Greece under the new laws. The val i lie of This land Is said to be between $22,000,000 and $33,000,000. The number of peasants to be bene fited It* estimated at 300.000, a large number in a country with a population of G, 000,000. The number of estates to be expropriated is about 1,200. Some of those embrac# whole vil lages. Owners who are thus seeing their land taken from them are for the most part wealthy person*, though a few are monasteries and municipalities, and some <>f the land is owner! by the national government. .Many monaster ies in Gn-eee have clung tenaciously to Isrge estates from the middle ages. Among the owner* are many wealthy ?? n ? 1 influent i.il Greeks. They have d-ine .i I ! thf\ could to pre\int the sxyr J riat ion. Seek to Ease Rules on Night Life in London London- Kngland n?< d- a new law i r ecu! at Inv publle h>>u*es n n f ! places ; of entertainment, say the owners of j Ty?n !.?n'* hotels an ! dance ha!!*, who ha\e han-h'd tosr>-?hor r<> obtain !css ! ,iw? in ti e mnver of closing their p! o-e? The present law, u!. <h ,?.|t.#.red to ; %..;or us' \ ' y the aut horit;f?, was : jm *??*?.! in the reign of rjonr^-e II |p j 1 7." 1 , . ? n < 1 require* that the dance | plftc?-s of ali rhiSse* c! se at t!.e stroke j of m!dn!ght. The h'-tef and i-jtfe proprietors will ask the London county council to draw up n new law to he presented to parlia ment, and thoy havm obtained the hacking of the 'Brighter London" movement committee which Is seeking to mak* London a rival of gay Paris* , JUST TWO more; WEEKS BEFORE SCHOOL OPENS Start the boy right? give him an OREGON all wool suit with extra pants? the suit that carries a full guarantee. Camden Clothing Company CAMDEN, S. C. A LETTER AND REPLY. From Road Superintendent and Road Foreman of County. ft - ? (Advertisement. Bethune, S. C., Aug. 11, 1923. .Mr. I. B. Alexander, Camden, S. C. Dear Mr. Alexander: Since seeing you this morning I have been inform ed that during yesterday or the day before while you were at work on the fill at Beaver Creek, you allowed your men at work there to cover up rsopne property which belongs to Ker shaw County, such as hammers and a quantity of nails in a keg. stating that it was not your place to move them. If this be true, this is suf ficient to prove to me that you do not have the interest of Kershaw County at heart as you should have, and I now feel it my duty to inform you that you are discharged. Yours very truly, D. T. Yarbrough. Camden, S. C., Aug. 25, 1923. Mr. D. T. Yarbrough, ^ Road Superintendent of Kershaw County, ^Bethune, S. C. Dear Sir: The writer would have re plied to your letter of discharge, of date the 11th, inst., sooner, but for the fact that I went to another position directly after receiving it and have not had the time. I was not at all diconcerted at your peremptory action, but I cannot allow your unwarranted and unjust accusa tions to go unanswered. I have been engaged in work for others for the ' past twenty-five years and this is the first time that I have ever had my loy alty to my employer questioned. I can furnish references lrom all over South Carolina and parts of other States and 1 assure you that I am not at all dependent upon you or upon : any position that you may control. [ Now, getting down to the reasons: given foT your letter. The hammer you mentioned is a j twenty-four hundred pound hammer ; borrowed by the county, I under-! stand, from the Hermitage Cotton ; Mill, and used in driving piling, while! the nails you mentioned are not nails at all but a keg of bolts belonging to a j pile driver which had been abandoned and left lying ""by the side of the fill in the water, along with valuable fix tures, all of this having been done, along with the leaving of the hammer in the building of the bridge, with I which as you know I had nothing to do, and which was done before I ever began constructing the fill. The hammer was left in the path way of the fill and I had not suffi cient force to move it. You had told me that in my work I should follow the instructions of Mr. Jones, one of the County Commissioners and on two occasions I called his attention to the hammer, and on each occasion he in structed me to cover it up when I reached it. I did this, being careful to turn it around and leaving it so that it could be as easily removed as it could have been before. As to the bolts, or nails, as you call them, they were not covered up but removed and placed on a pile of lumber nearby. 1 am constrained to believe that the information you received was used by you as an excuse, and that your letter was written in a spirit of pique for what I told y.ou when you informed Rie that (Saturday) morning that after I had finished my work there my ser vices would no longer be required. I . informed you that it was my belief that after eighteen months some one else would be in your place and that I could get the job back if I wanted it. I have been working for the coun ty for the past eighteen months, and I know that if J. D. Gregory or (J. W. Turner had occupied your position at the time the hammer, the pile driver and the bolts left there, they would ; have been removed and put in their i proper place. Without the force or equipment to move this hammer and j with the instructions from my supe- f rior no fair minded man can blam sj me. i I dislike to write such a lengthy let ter, but after a quarter of a century of honest and earnest endeavor to serve ( my superiors faithfully and well I am 1 not going to stand for aspersions from i you or any one else. In conclusion, this discharge came without warning and without cause aftei the month s work had been ? begun and 1 feel it my right and shall . expect my .-'alary m lull tor the month of August for which claim will be dulv filed. I am giving a copy' of this letter, along with your letter to the press 1 ' I for publication. I don't want to get into any newspaper controversy, but I don't know what misconstruction might have been put on your action and I am determined that matters shall appear in their true light to the taxpayers of Kershaw County, to whom I have felt myself answerable sifice I have been in their employ. Yours truly, I. B. Alexander. In a race across the Atlantic last week the leviathan reached South hampton about twelve hours ahead of the Olympic. The two ships left New Yory about the same time on the pre* vious Saturday, reaching the English port Thursday afternoon and night. Kate D. Wiggin, famous American novelist and pioneer kindergarten teacher, died in Harrow, England, last Thursday, after an extended illness. Broken Rib Kills Man. Mobile, Ala., Aug. 26. ? Matthew Keith, electrical engineer, met death in a peculiar manner today. He was a passenger in a taxicab that went into a hole on a country road and was thioWn up against the front seat. He rolled out of the cab exclaiming that he was dyin^. He was rushed to a hospital, but died as the ambu lance passed thorough the gate of the institution. Physicians reported that a broken rib penetrated his lunge.# ~ ~ NOTICE. We the undersigned forbid anyone hunting fox, qr trespassing in any way on our lands in Kershaw County, South Carolina. C. A. Johnson, H. T. Mangum, J. W. Joyner, W. B. Joyner, George Dunham, J.' E. Mangum, J. S. Munn, W. B. Mangum, C. O. Stogner, Mrs. Alice Horton, R. B. Baker, A. J. Smith, Alex Brown. A u?. 28, 1923. The New Hupmobilo Touring Car NOW SOLD IN CAMDEN AND KERSHAW COUNTY BY GEORGE T. LITTLE