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The Pinto! in The Car The finding of a pistol tU0k?4 away in the aide pocket of the Kord auto mobile in which W. W. Ormand sat when he was shot^and kille^ by W. B. COle k' n circumstance thaftg doubt tow will >play a part in the trial of the ? Jtockingham manufacturer. Certain-, ly the defense may expected to make all possible use of the fact that a deadly weapon was carried in tho* cat-, a fact which usually suggest* that .one is "looking for trouble." Two days following the homicide . a dispatch sent out from Rockingham to the daily papers of the state, con tained this unqualified statement: j VNo weapon of any description was found on Ormand or in his car." * The statement was sent out by ui correspondent on the scene, a man who hat lived in Rockingham for years and wasjas familiar with the circumstances of the homicide as any man could be who had no connection with it or with the parties thereto. Now' the question naturally arises, why has the discovery of the pistol in the automobile been kept from the public so long, for two weeks? The homicide was the talk of the town for* days, and doubtless is the chief topic of comment down there even yet, more than two weeks after the tragic afternoon. Every bit of information that could have any bear ing of much discussion, once it came to the knowledge of the people in tho streets or the stores and offices. Why was the discovery of the pistol never talked so that any newspaper man, of the several who spent much time trying to get information bearing on the homicide, might chronicle the cir cumstance? What motive could one have for concealing the facts? Was it regarded as an incident of no par ticular interest or significance? tfhe case is one of the most inter esting in modern North Carolina criminal annals. It is the more in teresting because of the peculiarities involved. Keen interest has been aug mented, if possible, by the silence of tho-dofensc. Tho trial will be one of the most interesting in -r^cuut years in North Carolina. If one may credit the inti mations that are frequently heard with reference to the plans and pur poses of the defense, some real sen sations are likely to he sprung during the trial.? Charlotte Observer. Ask your grocer for IClectrik-Maid Bread? linked in Camden fresh daily. I Klit d?1 . N. V - Mis# .Fntip I'heuix. writes: ? "I h hi from tin W<>ki. for luaii.r yours I MitY'Tfl from ?ui?MPi.o\ iiHtlon ? ?lm- I torpid liur .(ic! roi:M Ipiu .?>:>. tn> svkJi lu. H;is m> |?nivihc<i I ll K I HIV was wu ?t(i> ii id iwtc< it- rmfurrtl *ize. I w < "ti tiui;oi:"l> i in ?i. w??fi k .slid ? I *? l?roKho?l. had no upi?oi!r<' I reml your Tutt's Li?er Pill advert in ineuf and tried them. Aft?-r ? few doses 1 began to improve. Tutt's PilN have ke|H me free from h return of Hie illneaa. and 1 f<-el like a now per ?on. Am iwver without theiu." At ?)) drucfTit* WE'LL MEET ANY PRICE If low price is your first con sideration. wo can meet any body's price ? and we'll do it with a genuine (.oodyear lire. That'.* why you .sec so many (ioodyears around town, \sk anyone who han ever really tried them out, what he think* aHout ('.oodyear tiroH. r / 5t V' BROAD STREET FILLING STATION I*. N. MYERS, Proprietor NO-MO-KORN FOR CORNS AND CALLOUSES 1 ??? Made in Cam den mod For Sate By DcKalb Pharmacy-Photic 95 - J WOMAN IS KILLED Ttmpcranco Worker Thought to Jlitve Hr? ? Shot By Liquor Men Vinton, Iowa, Bftpt. 8.? Shot down TTs she wax writing ft p*pt'r~she in tended U? r?itd today before thq Ben ton County W. C, T. U., of which she wan president, Mrs. C. U. Cook wu:* killed in her home last night. Her friends believe hor the victim of oiw of it number of liquor law violators against whom she had been active. A shot fired through a rear win dow as she sal writing her paper, 'entitled "Looking Forward," caused Jjer death aqhour and a half latcy. She was'uncousCioUs most of the tim^ until her death and unable to supply any information that would aid au thorities in their search for her as sailant. "Oh, save me, save me," were the only words she uttered to her aged mother, Mr?? Underwood, when the latter hurried, 'downstairs upon hear, ing her daughter scream following the shooting. Testimony to this effect was giyun by Mrs. Underwood at the coroner's inquest this afternoon. She also ex pressed .the belief that "some of tbpse drunks who hang around the stroets near our home" were responsible. Belief that Mrs. Cook was killed by a liquor law violator was strength ened by word from Cedar Kapids that Mrs. Cook had made two trips to the city to consult Roy C, Slade, a pro hibition enforcement officer, relative to conditions in Vinton. Mr. Slade said that on her last visit she furnished the names of sev eral persons suspected of being en g?gud in rum-running and illegal sale of liquors. Later, Slade said, he re ceived a letter from her in which she spoke of going before the Benton County grand jury. Mrs. Cook charged, Slade said, that Benton County civil authorities were not doing their duty, though he de clined to make public the corres pondence. From another source it was learned that Mrs. Cook had a list of names of all of the bootleggers she intended to submit to the grand juries. Marks on the screen of the window through which the bullet passed are believed to have been caused by burn ! I'd powder, leading to the opinion , | tha;^ Mrs. Cook was .-> h < > t. "A martyr to the cause of prohibi tion," was the way Mrs. Cook's friends viewed the crime. Her mother-in-law and co-worker, Mrs. S. W. Cook, declared that "this das tardly murder ? the shooting down of a Cod-fearing woman in her own house ? only arouses us to new ef forts to crush, the illicit liquor traffic in this community." Mrs. Cook, born in Benton County forty-one years sigo, had been active in work in the Christian church here. Several months ago her residence was smeared with rotten eggs shortly after she had returned from a meet ing of SiiWday school leaders. Her husband has been employed by the Sioux City Gas aiHl Klectric com pany. When It Rains When it rains, and undoubtedly it will some day, it should be remember ed that the most important thing be fore the farmer is to do something to provide feed for his farm animals. The outlook now is most gloomy. No feed has been made nor can it be made now in time to support stock through tlft- winter unless some 01 tin- cane crops eome in for those who have put in cane. Feed will have to !><? bought for next year's nop and that is very dis tressing. Hut thr handicap may in part be offset, hv sowing oats now. We may have a hard winter, and sonic of the weather men are predicting a hard winter, drain is likely to be killed unle.*> it is in time, and sown just a* soon as the rain come?. And there should be lots of it to put in thi? y (f. r. - ( ? reenwood Indi-x .Journal. A 1'ii r was fined $25 for flying under t^e 2.000-foot altitude when he flew '.?) Siis airplane over the stands on Yale Field, New Haven, Conn. Heieagu? i <-d garrisons hereafter will be provide*! with provisions and ammunitions from airplanes equipped with special canisters attached to parachutes. A metal dome or cap at end absorbs the shock of landing. A "d. your grocer for Kleetnk-Maid Hread Raked in Camden fresh daily. ?\ our Subscription In Due The Chronicle is mailing this week a card to all subscribers whose sub scription account* expired in July and August. We have .run the ac counts over a short while owing to the dull season. Hut now that a good deal of money is bcing*4>ut into cir culation, those in arrear* should call or send the amotirft to us before J another week a* onr mailing list will corrected apd *H in arrears win he taken from our list. feflfes: ; J A NuUance 'Phis ttoing of solicitor# traveling around the couutry selling everything from pins to steam engines i S getting to be a nuisance.' Nothing tire* m<? than to have J^a|j^n* fice when you are busy a* a eat with a tin van ti?4 to to UU 14,1(1 lu elucidate in glawlog mw* hi? selling the beat typewriter ribbon in the world, guaranteed not to rip or ravel no matter with what speed you may operate your typewriter. You tell him you do not need a i-bbon and . furthermore you buy them only one at a trme and still further-, more you can get them right in town and get them when you want them, lie proceeds to ^nravel his type writer ribbon, still elucidating, and goes on to say that you just simply sign an order for a dozen ribbons and order thom out one at a time as you need them. This *ink takes up your valued time and Irritates you to the extreme, yet one does not like to be discourteous to people who call m your office, but such agents are get ting so plentiful and call so often until I am beginning to give them the eold shoulder and to let them know in no uncertain terms that, when I say I do not want a thing that the argument is settled. I may be different from most people, butj can tell a salesman in tvto minutes whether 1 want what he has to sell or not. These "bell ringers" must be quite a nuisance to the housewives through out the country. Just think o-f having to get up early and get the. children off to school and then (be sailing around tho house in your kimona, cleaning up and getting things straight before time to start dinner and have one of these elucidating ??bell ringers" step down on the door bell and want to take up your time trying to demonstrate that he has the best hose or the best mop in the world. If 1 were a housewife I think I would want to pick my o\vn time to buy ' my household articles ? and wearing apparel and that 1 would visit the local stores at a time chosen by me. I would then also have the satisfaction of knowing that if the articles "were not f'up to snuff that I would know who to call on to. have the matter adjusted. Yes these .peddlers are getting to be a nuisance. I went into an office Sfere in Chester recently and there was a gink in there trying to sell the local citizen stuff (or which he had no earthly use. The man told him he had >10 use for the stuff, yet that Kink proceeded to tell him what f?ne^ stuff he had? the best in the world - used by all the largest firms in the country artd absolutely guaranteed. Then he would start over with the ( same line of chatter. I went in that office 011 business and hung around for possibly fifteen minutes, got tired and irritated and went some where else to get a matter attended to. That darn salesman took up that man's valuable time, sold him nothing and caused the local man to lose about $5 worth of business that 1 intended giving him but did not feel disposed to wait on that wind-ja/mmer to get through with his elucidation. And the sad part of it is that tbe*e ??traveling salesmen" are becoming more plentiful every month. If the people keep encouraging these agents the time will soon arrive when a man who has anything to do will have to hire a secretary to listen to the elucidations of the traveling wind-jammers, -W. W. TVgram in Chest n News. Accepting a Position Then* art' some phrases lhat irri tate you more than others, and the one. "accepted# a position" is the one that makes u.s feel like throwing a brick at some one more than any other. It is used 100 per cent, by newspaper correspondents, and also largely by newspapers themselves. The editor of the Daily Mail has been working a long time, and has held a number of jobs, all of which were secured by going after them. So it is with 1>'J per cent other peo ple. It is the exception when the job seeks the man. Ministers arc about the only class of people who "accept" calls but in a whole lot of cases the acceptance comes 'after considerable effort on the part of thi* minister to secure it. Of course a feilow "accept*" a job after he has secured it, but the gen eral use of the term implies that the employe has been hunted up and begged to take a job. Wo hardly know of a suitable word to u-?e instead of "accept," but we dont' :t at ;i?i. Anderson Daily .John Muir, natuiaiiM and poet, and largely ro*pons?ble for the set ting aside of the Yoscmite Valley as a national park, called sheep "hoofed locusts," because of their ruthles* raids upon forest vegetation. \tu, They Ar* High; But? A beloved old county officer Qf the kind that the boys like to drop in and h^ve a talk with listened quietly while his visitor railed at the high tax*s. The angry tax payer was a poor man, "STVrt rraturatiy one ^cottM understand how he would rebel at having a large portion of his income taken from him by the rapacious hand of the public authority. ' The old man heard him through. Then he said: "Bill, you have a pretty good road by your house, now, don't you?" "Yes, Mr. Heath, we have a fine road both ways, across the county and north and south." "And it seems to me, s Bill, that 1 noticed a mighty, gdod jbrick school building last time I was down there." "Yes, we've got a fine school build ing and a fine principal and a good, set of teachers." "What were your taxes last year, Bill? if you don't remember exact* ly I can look here on the book. Here it is: a dollar and eighty-nine cents. How many children have you, Bill?" "I'vo got four children in school, Mr. Heath." "All right, Bill; I've got you right Avhe*;e I want you. When you were a boy, your daddy drove to town over a road that almost tore his wagon to pieces. You drive to town today as smoothly and as fiuit- as railroad trains used to run then. I remember when the schoolhouse near your home was a log cabin with a dirt floor, and you know what kind of school you've got now. You've got four children in a good school and you and your family have all the benefits of good roads, and all it costs you is a dollar and eighty-nine cents a year/ Say, Bill, what do you think about 1 your kicking?" "I think I'm a damn fool, Mr. ? Heath." ^ . "Well, 1 wouldn't say that about j you Bill. Probably you just hadn't I thought." "That's so, Mr. Heath. I just heard some other feller kicking, and 1 just j began to kick too." - j There is not any fiction in this. We have told the whole story just as it happened, except the naTne nf the county. ? Newberry Observer. ; U. S. Department of Agriculture explorers have brought from the Andes Mountains some rare v&rietiei of potatoes that^re said ttt have flesh as yellow as butter and n rich, nutty ( flavor. A suprenVe court justice in Brook lyn refused to approve a certificate j of incorporation for the' first Ilwer chnedneprowsker Progressive Society on the ground that the name -was un American. , From a total of 40,000 children and young men who have been before Judge Ben B. Linclsey in the past twenty-five yeaTs, only one case has t been graduated to the capital criminal class. The Bermudas may be said to be a land of perpetual springtime, for their monthly temperatures average between 02 and 70 degrees Fahren- ; heit. ! Fire early last Monday morning caused $5,000 damage to the saw mill of the G. E. Miller lumber company at Hartsville. The plant will be re built as quickly qs possible it is said. From the Saturday Evening I'oit of September 12 j /? ?.y ' '? J1*'- .? '* - v. - . . ? What suit so warms a man's heart as a blue! You should have a blue ? the all around indis pensable suit. Do you know the Styleplus York Blue Silk Lined? It is easy fitting, comfortable, stylish? -and a quality suit throughout. Silk-Lined ! The quality of the silk gives it the feel of luxury. Come in and see the York Blue this week? nationally famous for its style and quality* and the price is moderate.' Other special Fall features in Styleplus which we will gladly show you: Fieldbrook Cheviots, Windsor Cheviots and Supermixtures, Hol b rooks, Sahara Tans, Platinum Stripes, Tuxedos, Glade Toppers, Dunberry Overcoats, Enterprise Mercantile ' Company CAMDEN, S. CI ? Deposits and total resources of the banks of the United States were never as large a s now, according to R. N. Sims, secretary-treafcurer Tjf thu National Association of Supervisors ?f State Banks. In 1024 the Methodist. Episcopal church paid in excess of $25,000;00d in ministerial salaries. At that, there were only 21K churches that paid $5,000 a year or over. The eaYly advertiser was humble .and obsequious in attracting atten tion, he often wording his appeal by stlfh <*XfWQK<innK ng, "anluMts, a call," "has the honor to announce," et cetera. ?? Michael Faraday discovered ben-: line in 1825, giving to the world the knowledge of that discovery on June 16 of that year, but it remained for others to show its value. USED FORDS . - ?? - ? - tssg Touring Cars . . ; . Two Coupes . . . 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