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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE Published Kvcry t/iday W. L MtDOWWJ Proprietor H U. NII.K3 ?.id K. N. McDOWkJLi. PuU.?l,.r. laliM u M<?a<i <Um hi) miIIm il lb r**lvlfx* *1 C??4m, S*alk C?r*lia?. Caincien, S. C., June 23, 191 I All home print. The Linotype Way, A poor advertising policy in bet ter than no advertising policy at all. Don't forget thai. Darlington Ih preparing for the biggont home tthow and flnoHt racos ever hold In that ??!Iy on July 4th. Thanks to tint esteemed Laurens; AdverlUer for lt? advice lam week regarding the make up of 'J'hu Chronicle.' 11m remarks were well put and wu are taking Its advice, i "ow do you like the make-up thin week ? The Chronicle upprcclatOM the many ooinpllmenlary remarks on thu recent improvement!* made In the paper. It Ih our aim to con- i tinue Improving It until we have i one of the bent weekly papert* In ! thin section. Three charred volumeH of the He- j volutlonary records of South Caro lina, which escaped the capltol fire at Albany, N. Y., worn received on ' Friday last by the South Carolina hiHtorical commission. The rocordH, which comprlHe three volumes of the inlnnt?h uf the comuilHHlon In charge of the navy of South Caiollna du ring the revolution, were returned under a special act of the New York legislature. Said Senator Tilliiian at CleinKon last week "Now, young men, I had the good sense and the good luck to find a Kood woman who , waH willing to hitch up with me and who has trotted down the road of life with me ever since, I con-j Hl<|V*r my marriage the greatest j piece of luck I ever had. 1 want to say to you that If you will go and do likewise, you ought to be successful, for there is nothing in the world so Inspiring as th6 love of a good pure woman." The C'hronlcle reproduces in an other place a recent editorial of the Manufacturers' Record, making notable comment upon the marvel-I ous progress of Southern newspa pers. That article Is exceedinly In teresting, but Ih even more valua ble. It not only tells the wonder ful story of newspaper evolution In Dixie, but It a deep significance lies in a suggestion to the citizens of a town that every subscriber of a newspaper can do publicity work for his town by reading his paper and then sending I taway off to be read somewhere else. Don't over look the article. It is good in ev ery line. We take pleasure In announcing that we have been fortunate in se curing the services of Miss Louise Nettles as society editor and she has entered upon the discharge of her duties, as will bo noticed by re ference to the society page In this issue. Miss Nettles Is well known to our people and needs no introduc tion. We bespeak for her the co operation of everyone. If you have any visitor or any item of news, phono it to Miss Nettles and it win be appreciated both by her and The Chronicle. We want to put out a newspaper in every sense of the word and to litis end we want every person to give us every news item they can lirlug, send, or tel ephone it in and we will appreciate 1'. and it will be helping The Chronicle. N?? K\cuso f?>r mi I'gly Farm Home. Tbere was n little Ho in hid away In an obscure corner In our last is sue that Is so suggestive and so timely that we call not refrain from ro-publlshing It herewith In a more conspicuous position "The most ugly backyard may be transformed Into a veritable Kden by the planting of hollyhocks, cas tor beans or morning glories near the fence or shed to hide its un sightly spaces. These grow to use fulness and beauty before the sum mer heat makes us long for a green #pot where the caroB and weariness of the day may bo forgotten. Rut he 1b a neighborhood benofactor who makes his home premises a source of envy, the gratification of which Insures health and happiness and beauty." Why not read this aloud to your family at the supper table to-night - and all of you set about getlng for your household the beauty and Joy that Is possible by acting upon th*s? suggestions? Doesn't a beau tiful sunshiny day males you feel ViWW. ttfclM fN i?\ thtt lift to .\Immii Ad vert lulog. Wind would you think of a merchant In this up-to date modern commercial age who never"changed Itls win dow display from onu w??k'H end to another, and oven if ho did, continued lo use the same plan of dlspiuy. You would no doubt Huy thut man never had anything new to show, hut watt a fossil, out of date, back numher, or some equally an uncompli mentary conclusion would he arrived ut. Homo merchants wonder why they don't gel returns from their advertising, they contend that the'people do not reud advertising. The whole truth Is Just her?, the advortiseincnts are not made attractive. You can count on it that the people, will no tice and read every line that Is up to date and attractive. Jf you, Mr. Merchant, con tinue day hy day to run your ude in the name Htyle, us ing the Haine type, Haine space and particularly #dy i 11K the aamo thing, you've nwhody to hlame hut your self for not getting proper returns from your advertis ing. The people don't have to read it, hecauHe they all know "hy heart" what you are telling them. ThlH same ness in advertising grows .1 u h f an monotonoiiH as the HameneHH iu window dress ing, or any other display Of your merchandise. Your adH should bo gotten tip 'Attract ively, they Hhould be Illus trated, they should not con tain too much wording, to be short and to the point, and give the newspaper man iiM opportunity to display his skill In the arrangement of your ads. You will find that people read advertise ments. and you will get re sults. In Camden, The Chronicle, the paper that goes home, that prints all the news that is fit to print. Is the best medium for advertising your wares. sweeter, than a raw, murkey mix ture of clouds and slush? And whether your home shall havo the in?pirlng atmosphere of the sun Hhiny day or (lie dismal suggestive ness mud underfoot and clouds over head, depends upon what you do or full to do for beautifying It. Nor need the process of beauti fying be expensive. Morning-glo ries, hollyhocks, sunflowers, poppies castor-beans any of the common old fashioned flowers may be used. There is no excuse for an ugly home in the country. If you can't paint your buildings, you can at least whitewash them; and /ho beauty of vine and shrub and blos som will glorify even a log-cabin. ? Raltogh IN. C.) Progressive Far tilVI'. Little Miss Lois Williams ontor talned a few of her little friends on last Wednesday evening. About sixteen little tots were present and all had a merry time. SI X I)A V SCHOOL I'HOOKAM For Buffalo Township Convention at Sand (ill) Baptist Church. The Buffalo Township Sunday School Convention will meet with the Sand Hill Haptlst Church on the 1st day of Jul> at 10:30 a. m. Devotional services conducted by the superintendent. 10:45. Welcome address by the pastor, Response by Rev. E. O. Thompson. 11. Enrollment of delegates. 11:30. Reports from schools. 12 Discussion What benefit arc Sunday Schools to the Church? To be opened by Mr. A. Brown and Mr. E. J. Jones. 12:45. Dinner on the grounds. 1 45. How could Sunday Schools be run successfully without the at tendance of the parents. To be open ed by Mr. D M. Klrkley, Mr W. D. Seegars and Rev. E. O. Thomp son, 2:30. What Is the Church's duty to the man who does not realize his dutv to the Church? Opened by Rev. E. A Thompson, Mr D. L. Catoe, Rev. W. F. Estrldge. Each subject will be open for gen eral discussion. 3. Adjournment until time and place of next mooting. Brethren, come to the convention and represent your Sunday School and let us have a good and Inter esting meeting, trying to learn how and in what way we might build up our Sunday Schools at home. Come praying Ood's blessings on our ef forts to advance His cause. _ M. A. Shaw, W. P. RodgerB, E. A. Thompson, Committee. Most pleasures have their draw baeka and most promlaM' hat* ?trial* tUd U tMtt. L FUiMKIlH UNION HCItMAl?. (Written by J. (5, Strlbllng, Union Hureau, Pendleton, H. C.) There la no doubt now about the fact tbui (be Hea 1 hIiiik! Cotton Growers Association Joining the Farmers Union in u body. This is merging u good body of the best organized cotton grower** " in the South lino the farmer*' Union. The Fanner* Union huving ab sorbed or survived the Kouthern Cot ton Growers AasoclatIon, and about all 4he farm demonstration workers from tbui grand und good muu, Dr. Kuupp, down the whole line of deui oiiHtratlon workers, the State Com munion of Agricultural workerH, thl begin* to look like merging the whole farm family Into the Union in earnest. When we get all the Boys Corn Clubs, the Hoys Hog and Hominy Clubs, the Olrls Frying Chicken ClUbs, and the Sunshine Club, we will then have, about ull the family except the dog, and Hiuce our Furmer* Union people have not acquired a taste for "puppy aau aagea" we don't need eltiier the two lugged or four legged canine in our business? but our Farm era Union people do love the home-grown four lagged hog about us well uh they dotest Imported corporation hogs. ? ?*?** Co-operate with farm demonstra tlon workers, and go out to meet the Agricultural truln when it cornea your way. Thla train for demonatratlou la part of the Farm era' Union work. This farmer*' train Is not loaded with speculative theorlats, there certainly la u great deal to be learned by all who vlalt thla train and examine the exhlblta anj hear the lectureu. The day la tnsi pausing for the farmera to re ceive everything with dlatruat ex cepting it cornea from those who hold the handles of the plow. Cheap, witty, criticism learns no man anything about farming or pays any bills or taxea. ****** The moat Interesting and* amus ing debate to. Farmers' Union peo ple of late, was the sharp dlscus aion of the report of the commlttce on New York Cotton Exchange me thods al the recent meeting of the American Cotton Manufacturers Aa aociatlon, when Lewis Parker and other cotton spinners, claimed that the New York Cotton Exchange was run more in thy Interest of gamb ling than as a medium in the legi timate interest of cotton trading. It came out In the debate that these New York Cotton Exchnage gambled by the use of wires and lies, backed up by a few hundred thousand .bales of dog-tall cotton In New York warehouses could run cotton futures either up or down, taking profits from either side, Ir respective of prices for spot cotton and cotton mill men are now about of the same opinion about the New York cotton exchange question as the Farmers Union has been for the last five years, at which time cot ton growers through a kind of de tective committee made their report to the Union that sounds very like cotton mill men report on the gam bling features of this New York Cotton Exchange, which is beyond doubt the biggest humbug that has anything to do with the cotton mar ket. Since our mill men have made this new (. ?) discovery for their own benefit, that cotton grow ers round out over five years back. Farmers Union men should be more patient with the cotton mills as they are gradually coming to ward thft cotton growers for their cotton and the Southern mills, It appears, may, after atlme find out that there Is no reason for going to New York to get cotton grown at their own door, if the mills are now about five years behind time In finding out the amount of rotten cotton there Is In the New ^ ork Cotton Exchange. First Week Juihith, The following Jurors were drawn Monday morning for the first week of Court which convenes Monday, July 3rd, Judge Robt. Aldrlch, pre siding: J. G. Ferrll, II. K. Williams, W. C. King, E. J. McLeod, J. B. I'urker. T. B. Lowry, A. C. Gregory, B. F. Haile, W .11. Ooff, J. C. Rlackwell J. J. Rush, E. L. Outlaw, J. E. Hough, Belton Owens, J. D. McLendon, H, Nettles, Jr., ' J. A. Sheorn, C. M. Marsh, W. I.. Rush, W. C. Raley, A. M. Brallsford, H. C. McLendon, J. E. Rhame, T. W. Watts, - J. L. Williams. W. F. Bird, J. O. Horton, John R. Falie, A. C. Brown, J. W. Jordan , W. A. McDowell. D. A. Ooff, Z. Z. Barfleld, W. T. McCaskill, L. W. Bowers, Alex. Brown. Administratrix's Notice. All par:los Indebted to the efttate of Mrs. Nannie T. Watte are hereby notified to make Immediate pay* ment to me. and all parties, tf any, having claims against the said es tate will preeent the eame duly at tected. MRS* J. D. HUOKABEE, OU, V j-f"- 7' . . Marriage License Law. Notice U hereby given that the marriage license law euacted ut the U?t session of the legislature goe? Into effect July 1, 1911, and in hh follow*: Section 1. He it enucted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: That from and af ter thu first day of July, 1911, it shall he unlawful for any persons to contract matrimony within this State without first procuring a II* cenae, aa la hereinafter provided; and it ahali likewiae be unlawful for uny one, whomsoever, to per form the marriage ceremony for any such persons without aaid puraoua firat delivering to the party purforiu lug aaid marriage ceremony a li cense, aa ia hereinafter provided, duly authorising the aaid peraoua to contract matrimony. Any officer or peraon performing the marriage ceremony without the production of audi licenae ahali, on conviction thereof, he punished hy a fine of not more tlian $100 and nof less than $25 ,or Imprisonment not more than thirty daya nor loaa than ten. Sec. 2. For tlie purpoae of car ryiiiK out tlie foregoing provisions, lite Judge of Probate ahali iHaue a licenue for the marriage of any pen Hona upon the payment of a fee of one ($1.00) dollar therefor, and a atatement under oath, or affirma tion, to the effect that the persons seeking to contract matrimony are legally capacitated to marry, togeth er with the full numea of the per sons, their ages and places of resi dence. Of the fee of one ($1.00) dollar the Judge of Probate shall re-j tain twenty-five cents as his com-) penaatlon; the remaining seventy-1 five cents shall be paid Into the | county treasury and go to the school fund of said county: Pro vided, No such license shall be Is sued when the woman or woman child is under the age of fourteen or the man or male Is under the age of eighteen. Provided .further, That when elth er party to the proposed marriage shall bo under eighteen years t?f age mid shall reside with father or mother, or other relative or guar dian ,the Probate Judge shall not Issue a license for such marriage until the consent of such relative or guardian in writing shall first ho delivered to him: Provided, That such licenae shall be issued in the counties of Beaufort, Colleton, Dar lington, Georgetown ,Horry, Oconee, and Sumter by the Clerks of Court. Sec. 3. That upon the back of each llconse so issued there shall ho a blank to bo filled out by the par ty performing tho marriage cere mony, and shall be signed by both contracting parties, and the form of license and certificate shall bo as follows: "Marriage License. Stato of South Carolina. County of.... Whereas, It has been made to appear to nie, Judge of Probate for County, upon oath, that of and of . ,^... . are legally ca pacitated to contract matrimony, and that their ages are respectively ..... years and months, and their race is and their na tionality is These arc, therefore, to authorize any person qualified to perforin the marriage ceremony for the persons above named, and for the so doing this shall bo sufficient warrant. Given under my hand and seal this day of A. D Judge of Probate for County." "Certificate. This is to certify that I did this day perform the marriage ceremony for the within named persons at S. C day of A. D Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the party performing tho marriage ceremony to take the marriage li cense and fill out certificate of marriage and within fifteen days turn the same over to the Judge of Probate who Issued it. and it Bhall be tho duty of the Judge of Probate to record and index same in a book kept for that purpose; and It shall be the duty of the Judge of Probate to issue a certified copy of said license and certificate to any porson upon such person paying him the Bum of twenty-flvo cents as a fee therefor. Sec. 6. That all fines imposed and recovered for any violation of this Act shall be paid to the County Treasurer and credited by him to the School Fund of the county In which the violation occurs. Sec. 6. Nothing herein contain ed shall render any marrlge ille gal without the issuance of a li cense. Sec. 7. Tho production of such certificate or a copy thereof with the blanks on the back thereof properly fileld out and signed by the porson performing such cere mony and certified by the Clerk of Court or Judge of Probate, if is sued by that officer, shall bo re ceived as sufficient evidence in proof of the contract of marrlago betweon the parties thereon nam ed in any of the courts of this State: Provided, That nothing In this Act shall prevent proof of mar riage in any way now allowed by law In this State. Sec. 8. That only ministers of the gospel or accepted Jewish Rab bi and officers authorized to admin ister oaths In this State are au thorised to administer a marriage ceremony in this State. Approved the 16th day of Febru ary, A. D. 1911. W. L. McDOWELTi, Judge of Probate. Kershaw County. Final Discharge Notice la hereby given that onl Saturday, July 22, 1011, I will ap ply to the Judge of Probate for Kershaw County for a final dis charge as Administratrix of the B?-j tate of Redlc Moseley. the same havlag been fully adm(ttistar?d. MM M, Mil, --I Hot cadre1* Talk Some things below that are essential to your comfort in hot weather: What is cooler than a Dress made of our white or colored Flaxon. 1 he 20c goods we have cut to 1 5c per yard. Beautiful line of white goods, sheer and coo,l in plaids ond stripes, at only 10c the yard. i PRIDE OF THE WES T. T he prettiest sheer plain white goods on the market at I 0c the yard. 40 inch White Lawn at only 10c per yard. / A few pieces mereerized Oxfords. 1 hese goods sold at 25c the yard. Special cut price 1 5c per yard. Splendid for skirts. White and Colored Linene at 10 and 15c yard. Brown Dress Linen from 12 Vj to 25c yard. 1 lot Colored Batistes and Lawns 10 to 15c qual ity cut to B' jc yard. ? ? Big bargains in Ribbons. Show case full at 10c yard, widths up to 100, values up to 25c yard. CHILDREN'S DRESSES. These are great; prices from 25c to $2.00. White and colored. New goods, latest styles. Just ready to put on the little ones. Ladies and Childrens Straw Hats. Big variety in shapes and colors at popular prices. Big lot silks going at 25c yard. White, black and colors. These are right new and sell everywhere at 35c yard. Special cut prices on Furniture coverings. Another shipment of those "Grass" Rugs just in, from the smallest size to the 9x12. These are the best floor coverings on the market. LADIES' NECKWEAR. All the new things for hot weather in Dutch Collars and Jabots. Ladies and Childrens Oxfords and strap sandals, velvets, patents, tans and white canvas, at prices to please. The J W. Carter line "Solid Oak" Shoes for men The shoe with the flexible sole. Pumps and Oxfords. Agents for the Ladies Home Pattern Company. Full stock patterns on hand. Come and get a free style sheet. Come and see us. We have bargains for you all over the store. Your? respectfully, The Gilt Edge Store P. T. VllLEPIGUE, Proprietor, Camden, S. C, - 'wLv~: ' .j.-ag-iik -:x . - ?- ?v ysfmBft1? )