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Ki; I * I / \ NT in, OI'DK \T|0\, yuMic StUlit t o, and Jiouid of ||<alili Still*' Difference*. Atj was stated in The Chronicle jjtbi wt-' K the < 'urollna Public Ker t'w. closet} <1owi? Km plain in thin ( it > " '<,w <l?y? last wwk, bill ih%> plant vvaH again put In operation liihi Friday afternoon after a confer en,t> between the parties concerned. The following correspondence took place which explains the cause of i he dirierenceB: I'roni Manager < 'amphelf. "Dr. HrHBlngton, Mayor of the Cl ly 0f Camden. Camden, H. July :j], l'.'IH. Dear Sir: Wo have just wired you an follows: ?? \Ve have J lint consulted with our attorneys and will submit prop osition on operation of ice plant, mailed special delivery today. Give matter earliest possible attention as we have not sufficient Ice to supply the ('it in den territory during the shut down.' "After going over the matter with our attorney here, we beg to submit you the following proposition: If you will provide the Power Plant with ii permanent outlet for Its overflow water to which we can con nect in such manner as Is indicated in paragraph 4 of the report ad dressed . to U8 by the Hoard of Health of your city, dated July 23, we will immediately intake arrange ments to comply with the other reg ulations set out in this report wit it the exception that we do not feel that it is equitable to ask or require that we drain the no-called swamp on the Kennedy- property. Aside from i lie fact that this h^nd does not belong to us, our best information i& to ijn' effect that thin property was in its present condition for ful ly fifty .wars previous to the con struction of the Power Plant, and that its present condition Ik in 110 wise iiitrihutablo to the operation of the Plant. "The writer bas,rto appropriation available to defray the cost of this Mraiuau- work , and exceedingly doubtful <>r his ability to obtain any such appropriation, in view of the circumstances above outlined. - "We stand ready to start the ice plain within ten minutes after your Board of Health is willing to rescind their report of July 23rd, which we feel does us a great injustice. "As stated, personally, we advised members of the Hoard of Health we would cheerfully comply with any suggestions they would make with out the necessity of their taking of ficial action, but this privilege was not extended to us, nor was any op- , portunity given us to explain our methods of operating at the time the inspection was made of , our property. It Is not clear to us why the Board of Health did not Inspect . the property at the time we began operations, in the spring, instead of waiting until the middle of the ice season, and at a time when they must fully realize that there is not a pound of surplus Ice In the state, their action causing us to lose prac tically all of our profits for the . 1913 season and subjecting the cit- ; izens of your community to an in terrupted ice service. "Hoping to receive notification of ? your acceptance of this proposition at the earliest possible date, we beg to remain, "Very truly, yours, "C. S. Campbell, "General Manager." From Hourtl of Health. To the Public: Realizing . the right of the public to know what their officials do, and the reasons governing their acts, I deem it pro per to briefly narrate the history of the controversy between the Carolin Public Service Corporation and the City Hoard of Health. "Sometime in June the Council pe niittea this Corporation to build a sanitary cess-pool at their plant the sanie to be constructed under the di rection of Health Officer, no sewer connection being within reach of 'his building. The said cess-pool was properly built with all necessary (trainee pipes as an outlet, under direction of said Health Officer. "On July 2nd it was discovered 'hat the overflow from the cess-pool was boiling to the surface and over flowing and saturating the soil be tween the stables situated at the Plant and the ice plant itself, j^e Board of Health instructed Jno. W. Wilson to request Manager L. S. oaxtor to correct the same, which Mr. Baxter did. Later on July 16, Mf- Wilson reported to the Secreta ry of the Board, Mr. R. T. Goodale, "at the piping from the cess-pool was again overflowing and saturat ing the top soil. Mr. Goodale and ' inspected the same immediately. Ve then addressed a communication 0 Health Officer John W. Wilson, ftstructing him to have the Carolina utdir Service Corporation, through eir Manager, Mr. Baxter to con tact the overflow from the cess Pool l,y means of an irqn pipe with c'orkori joints behind the stables ptyiiij; in the swamp below, with 1 norvf.^ary care that said cess Pool water could not in any way sat ate or stand on the ground around e stables- or ice plant or driveways same, desiring absolutely to j otd any possible contamination ^of ? , * 5f'? Plant by this infectious mat- i ihr '"'"'K carried on the shoes of ] Plant 'n anc* ahuuL Uia- ie.4* j ?he n^xt day, the 18th instant, aith Officer John W. Wilson re ? Secretary of the Hoard , ed Baxter, the manager, atat '? upon his request that, the don. ' 1,0 inK,aHed. that he had and** work he proposed to do, <W |: . Tl,? city wanted more tfork tjj *'OUld have to do it at ' ow? expense. Not caring to atitv r "rbit?y exercising the 0r"y which under the law we nave, ij :i l forcing Mr l?a\( ^ U>( v? put in tuu |)ip<. |f?0( |>ul r**ali*inH" Hie ! gi'itvit> oi tlu? HHuntiou, and iii t Iic? j Suggestion of Mr, C. |{, 1 4v wis, a member of our hoard, Mr. tjrfodale telephoned to Dr. Hayue. State Health < ? 1 1 i <??? i* , and rail uest ed Oiui he ('i)Hid over ??ii Monday, the it2nd, and inspect. the cess-pool at plant <>t I Ik* Carolina corporation. Tills 1M\ Hayue did <?n July 22nd, accom panied by the Hoard i>t Health, the Mayor and Manager Maxtor, and tin* Health Officer, Wilson. !)?% Haync endorsed the position taken hy the local Board of Health and in letter dated July 12 hi a ted that plant of Carolina Public Service Corporation was then in an unsanitary condition, and made the following recommend ations: First. Thu t the surface closets shall be torn down and done away with immediately. 2. That the stables shall lie screen ed with wire screens and shall be each morning cleaned of manure, which shall be removed from prem ises each day. The pile of stable manure, now upon the outside, shall be Immediately removed and the site Irom which It is removed, shall be disinfected with lime. 3. That the effluence from septic tank be disposed of thru a glazed pipe with sealed joints into a ditch situated back of the plant. The exit of (lie said pipe shall be at a distance of not less than fifty feet to the nearest point of the plant. 4. That all overflow of waste wa ters from your plant shall be con ducted thru piping to distance of 50 i 1'eet from the plant in order, to keep I t lie ground ROiI dry in the immediate' vicinity. f>. That the swamp, situated in j rear of Ice I'lant shall have all veg- i etation cut off and be properly drain led and disinfected with I line ?ro no 1 gmfcrntiii water sh&fi remain. | "it is also ordered that each op erative employed in the freezing and cutting of your ice, shall be re- i I quired io wear rubber boots while j | performing such duties. :nwl that the , said boot s only to be worn while i I performing theso duties and n.ot ..Jo i be removed from the building. j "it is also ordered that no one, [other than employees for this spe- | icific work, shall be allowed to walk on the cover of your freezing plant, for fear of contamination from out side Infection." These recommendations and de- i | mands we communicated to Manager Baxter on July 24 requesting him I to complete same within 15 days. I We received no reply until July 28 when Mr. Campbell, general mana 1 ger, wired Secretary Good ale from Columbia : "We have ordered Ice plant shut down. Manifestly we cannot oper ate same under restrictions contain ed in your letter of July 23. Kind ly call your Board together. Mr. Baxter and 1 will be over on even ing Seaboard and would like to con sult with you." The Board was called together at 8:30 when Mr. Campbell stated that the principal reason for their shut ting down was upon the advice of j their attorney based upon tfhe state I ment that their plan was In an un sanitary condition, and therefore if ' t lvoy continued to manufacture and .sell ice, that any patron of theirs i being made ill by the use of said | i^e they would be liable for damages A further reason for shutting flown was that Mr. A. D. Kennedy, owner of the swamp referred to, had ordered them to cease turning their over-flow water on his prem ises. We saw immediately that Mr. Campbell's position was well taken on these two points. He made.no objection to any of theother recom mendations contained in our letter, except that rubber shoes be worn instead of rubber boots. Tn . ^ conceded. And that the surface well used in connection with cooling the ice plant was in no wise connected with the city water. This we conceded. We then stated to- Mr. Campbell the recommendations contained .in our letter were not a hardship on his company and would not involve any great expenditure in their fulfillment and in order to facillitate the open ing of the ice plant we agreed to get Mr. Kennedy's consent for him to use said swamp for his overflow. This consent we obtained form Mr. Kennedy immediately. We then ask ed Mr. Campbell if he would not comply with the other provisionn of our letter immediately, when we would write him a letter stating that his ice plant and its surroundings were sankary, and it is our opinion that he could have done so by 12 o'clock the following day. His re ply was jpiat he had no appropria toin for making these improvements. We then stated that we could not j withdraw our demands, that we re- j gretted that his company was denied I the privilege of having ice at the heighth of the season, and that his company likewise, should suffer fi nancial loss in closing of their plant, j We further stated to Mr. Cnnip- ; bell that we were at his service at | j.ty moment and would do anything possible to assist him in re-opening i his plant. *The next morning, July 30th. the I same situation was gone over in a: joint, meeting of the City Council ! and the Hoard of Health made the; same statement to Mr. Campbell re- [ lalivo to the opening of hi* pla.uU-i He replied to us, "1 have no appro- ? priation to do this work."' This morning we received a let- j ter from Mayor Hrasington stating that they had granted a permanent outlet for the Carolina Public Ser vice Corporation overflow at their, plant thru Mr. Kennedy's swamp. a?nd tha-t they would put the same in a sanitary condition. We like- j wise received a letter from the' Carolina Public Service Corporation ? stating that they had complied with <?I'K\S i:\IU-V ? II IK VKAIt. 1 1 4 ? Use Begin* K?^?MU? Willi laughable "Mill S: J off." The management of the Camdep i opera House has been in correapopd ! enco for iho.piikit few weeks look- I ing i<> t )i ?? booking of attraction# for the coming season. A number of the very 1>uk( shows traveling the Koulh have been promised the thea tre-moving public of thin city, and from the number the public can real augured they will #ee Home good shows here thin season. The ipanagement in pleased to an nounce that the season will open this year in September with the laughable fun makera, "Mut and Jeff," who pleased a record break ing house Here last season. Some of the prominent attractions promised for this* season are; Paul Gilmore in "Captain Alvarez" Bert Leigh In "The Little Mil lionaire." Win. A. Brady's "Bought and Paid For." Herald Square Comic Opera (V>. "The Girl Who Dared" ? "-musical comedy. Billy Clifford and his musical com edy company. Shepherd of The Hills. Tlie Girl In The Taxi Mary's Lamb The Girl of My Dreams Kosemaid New Pastor Here. . The Rev. Dr. John A. Davison, the new pastor of the Camden Bap tist Church, preached to large con gregations both morning and night at the Sunday services. lie is a young man of only 20 years, but a , man of strong personality and an earnest worker and made a most fa vora bic imprefisioii. aii his hcarcra.. [He has the happy faculty of mak ing friends with everyone and says lie is delighted with Camden and its people. Dr. Davison Is a native of Comer, _G:t-- ""(1 lifter n:i t 1 11 :H th?? I'll! versity of Georgia, began a law course at .Harvard University,* and [While the decided 'to enter the ministry. lie took a full Seminary I course at the Southern Baptist Theo-j logical Seminary, of Louisville, Ky., ! after which he returned for another year and took' the post graduate course, and received the Doctors de Igree with honors. Kershaw Guards Return. The members and officers of the Kershaw Guards who have been at Camp Wilie Jones for the past eight days returned to Camden Tuesday. The boys all report an enjoyable trip. They are all tanned by the hot sunshine, and are still battling with chigoes. ' \ The officers and men are all well pleased with the camp and they exr pect it to be better fitted up next year. The health of the soldiers on the trip was fine and nothing hap pened to mar the pleasure of the trip, unless it was a severe rain and electrical storm Sunday afternoon wh&n many of the tents were blown about and flooded. i A New Advertiser. In another part of this paper to day will be seen an advertisement of the Wolfe-Eichel Co., who have incorporated under this nam? and have already begun business. Mr. Eichol has long been associated with several of the prominent dry goods establishments of Camden and he | knows well the needs of the people j In the different lines. Mr. Wolfev the senior member of the company, j is one of Camden's oldest merchants j and has been in business here too j long to need an introduction. They j intend to dispose of the' old stock now on hand and fit the store up with the latest to be found in the dry goods line. The Credit <?uide Here. The Credit Experience Guide has been completed and has been deliv ered to subscribers in. this city. The ; book is as near complete as could j be and deals with persons in all I walks of life ? both races. Prom a | hurried glance over the work it iaj seen that there are a great raaur people in Camden and the county ! who- have anything but creditable ratings ? people who are fully able ! to pay their debts and meet their obligations promptly. The book is j not based on mere guess work, but j is a compilation of actual experience ? of credit men. This laxity of debt paying should not be? so. The rider : or deadbeat in a community makes it hard on all business men. It is j hoped that this hook will be of great benefit to the merchants and busi- ' ness men in extending credit and j that the non-payers will finally be' forced to pay cash or driven from ! thene parts. the recommendations of our letter! of July 2 3rd requesting our Board to inspect their plant. This the! Board did immediately, finding the same in a sanitary condition, and all their requirements fulfilled. They j immediately wrote a letter to Mr. < L?. S. Baxter, Manager, declaring the ; plant to be in a sanitary condition, 1 and we arc informed this afternoon I Uiiit l<>* in being manufactured and * sold as usual. The majority of City Council have j unofficially expressed their approv al of our course. All correspondence covering the i a lH?ve tMHfed facts is on file with the' secretary of the Board, Mr. R. T (?oodale, and we invite any citizen who cares to do so, to inspect th<? ? same. We submit the above without j comment. W. L. Del'ass, Chairman City Board of Health. Camden, S. C., Aug. 1, 1913. > hi; i ii iu in i?i< \m , K, <iUiK "i ring. TiV'l" V "rlu '">l* k'nquirer, Aug I I Kllliiri'1' iB ot ^'"P'" ?? Hiej fro in ! , ,0<lny- Tbt,> jrom all parts 0f t,?. cmiihv and I oiii all over the state, and their ! ? r Variously otCilmuiad from "I* 10 7,000. i? ,,.e opinion nil! the representative of Tlu. ^muhv, 6 0I0 wa? 7;r,u,n,>' ".o1 '????? ( into formal . more or less In 2 i,,e"pfp differed In their Judg. men , ? M.OIIlK falr |t> ' *??'? ( th, '1,?' ?' WHS (Ml Hi I y 1 ever hud P ,k' lh|M KJI,i?rt has UirouKiioui "m K<m?rHl expectation W()iiiii ii ? HtwU' ,hat Dim oon n.L "i !n' fol,,i^Hl devel-i Th e v ri, t nob,,lK br"ke IOOH6. ca dldili r H,u'uk"rB- ??' presumed! SJjnaidaiea for governor, extern Gov 1 llnl? h' ^h? a candidate for the) iJSiea tS W" 8,ena,^' dGV"??d "lem liTL ,* e 8lng,e <>bJect mak !?! .1 OHt favorable impression out8 rifAUPW" the blK "Whence, with out reference to other candidates w h a!i! fn0e; nearly half of which gavV E1 . women andchildren. Thrt un, Intereated attention > re wH nbgolutwly no (ljHon;?; ! by e very body . Kener?">' ""Joyed POBBj'hhf t n?(i Veen 8ome bln,? of a rh. 1 between Senator Mel.au but nnlht,! , ,?rgti Kv Hemhert; Sen-it or mh ? ? k',l(l dev#'oped: scnatoi -Mci.aurln, the first regular tion o7h<,eV?tfid himso,f t(> explana-i "oil Of the real meaning of i'rogres- 1 nruiioJhi 1 "lHl" w?rehoimo' pi 1 ton In connection Willi ciir Z'!> 'I" ?<??,. I HP Willi ? W "n ll'h'i rhaltenm. to nnybortv; p, i"i M' [,?"!!' ?" i"1" p??,. inn : ?1 1 1 '? Heinbert reviewed and ' att ickw/1 ii'1'8 rC?rd* and i into d,. ?. e ???d went j " 'o .Mails as to the trouble be StVu(n' ' ne. Columbia i Llt' ; 1,6 n,;u,r 110 personal allu- 1 8km any, of <he other candidates, to i,i . ,lli < dwvdted himself mainly rai ro\ II S,rUV?n ol l,u> offl? of Go vmrfr/?') ( ' 1 ' '7 ? . Woutenant it ? Smith dlscufined AI I ^,iVhUK,U principles, and H" !" made a hit with tho 011 h 'rnWt,?by 1,r6,,liKir^ (o take up. onl> ten minutes, during which he nmtle a capital talk after which he whoi,/nw t0 afvernor Sleaae, for Jot s K 1 Vrowd ,seene<l to be anx i ?i waitijigr. The governor was in good form and keen to make, a 1 speech to an audience that he could i him yS?t WH.B ?V ful1 8y,nPat by with ' ? cut his remarks short 011 acount of a threatening rain-cloud. ' The Albert people and the people! ol the neighborhood generally did everyth ng in their power t ocontrib ute to the comfort find convenience of the tremendous throng of visitors everybody R 8p,0nc,,d lr"Prea8ion on bv ^L"1 reUng, wus cu,le(1 <0 order } y H?n- John K. Carroll, and after1 praye. by Hev Hay ttklUW. Ih.? ' wus weIc?med ^o Filbert and York county in behfdf oT" the - local camp of the W. o. W., by Senator * oeamguard, of Clover. 11 r*r Bcamguard was followed by Hon. D K. Flnley, who further wel snvle?v audience, and went on to Hay that as the representative 'of the district he had stood for the in h^eahn?t thH p,eople to the be?t of his abi 1 y having as a guide only that which he thought waa right. He said that he had helped to form hLP,KrCel8 po8t b111' and d?clared hat the senate had no right to in terfere with Postmaster General Burleson s administration of the law biM /?infU8|8ed .the Pending tariff bill declaring that it was In accord with Democratic promises, and de scribed the curi*ncy bill as calculat nnnl k? ,a 8top to the conditions under which combined capital would 1 be able to lock the money of the country up in the bank vaults, etc - He said that in point of service he was the oldest legislator in the state. Chairman Carroll announced that gnimmt nr8 ha? arran8ed the pro SlSIi C themselves in alphebetical order and under this arrangement he first speaker was Hon. John L visiVor W?? th? not a "Previous visitor, was known from one side of the state to the other ivlr. MaLaurin said that he did not intend to discuss politics further than was in accord with the views of every mau who had the right kin of a feeling toward his "fellow man. He briefly mentioned his efforts In behalf of the state warehouse bill, now pending in the senate, and then went into a discussion of progressive principles, which he said were as old as the history of man, and their best demonstration is to be found in the j old theocracy established by God | among the Jews, and to which ev- j ery subjugation of the present day j is struggling along to higher per- i feet Ion; and every government of tt_>-: day in perfect only in proportion to j the interest to which one realizes i and practices those eternal prlnei- 1 pies. Taking all the financial his- ; tory and statutes of the country, he j showed how all the tremendous' wealth of country had been origi- ! nally produced from the soil, and) now the producers had been deprive j of a- tair share of the proceeds of I their labor by manipulation abroad, j He explained in detail the financing i and marketing of the cotton crop I to the disadvantage of the producer. | He asked why the people of South j Carolina In 1 1 k sovereign capacity as j a state should not establsh a state I warehouse system, whose receipts j would pass all over the world as so, much money. He said that even dollar that can be saved between the I gin and the spinner is a dollar in I the pocket of <he producer. Speak- | lug oi the currency Dill. In* said that it the nnicndinoiK that Kagpdale aim Henry a re working on, Is |1<,I accept - i?(i m pre*wnt, U will be soojier or j later, for as mood hh < l??? cotton pro ducers fully understand t lie mat^r, thin are going 1? demand that tneti product he made it basis ? ? ' ? Mr-' rcncy Issue. *. j hi conclusion Mi*.' Mcl.aorln said thtU he would have liked to talk some politic* had It uot I for the caution of the chairman; i?u< if you want ho me politics, and anyl>od> opens the door, and you call upon mo. and I do not give you something then 1 ant a Dutchman. 4 beers and laughter. . ! Hon. Oeo. )i. Konibert" wan the next speaker and opened hi* re marks with reference to the admonl tlon of the chairman an to the poll tics and he said that those people who did not want to hear politics (liBi'MBBoU, hIioii Id bftok off Hlld kIn?* way to otherB, for he wan going <o talk politics firm, last and all the time. He Bald the people used to make governors at Tlrzah; and het they were going to make a governor here today. He said he started hb a baggage man, whh then n mall clerk, and later a soldier In the Spanish-American war and then a legislator and a lawyer, and two yearB from now he was going to e governor. (Cheers.) He took up personal matters and said that the Columbia State had been fighting him since he defended Jim 1 lllman for gkilllng Gonzales. He said the Columbia State had been trying to drive him from the state. \V hen the Columbia State opened a sub scription for the San Mranclsco suf ferers, he sent them a five, tlollui bill and they sent it back to him. j lie told how In i be old days people were persecuted by physical torture, uJ-JU-.- buL now it its by the ttewHpa pers holding up those they do not like to public obloquy, etc.. -They try to ruin a man's character by mlsn.'p resent at ion and ause. He gave this circumstance as ! jnstll'lcat Ion fov ? his npw;ipa-per hi I h whU li , hT1 Ha id , was in the Interest of the lib erty of the people. lie said t lie | enemy was trying to defeat him by j misrepresenting the attitude ol Governor Mease. He bad fought side by side with lllease and was still with him; but he was not ask ing for the endorsement of (iover nor Please, because he understood that 131 ease has his own fight to make. The corporations owned all the little newspapers, and that the Columbia State managed them byl having their editor# as correspond ents, and that when the big dog in Columbia growled the little fellows yelped, and thus every one of them were owned by the corporations. "Not The Enquirer," spoke up a voice from the crowd; but 4he speak er did not seem to hear, as he did noV reply. <.H*?'i spoke of the owner- , ship pf the state's natural resources by the big corporations, and com plained particularly against South ern Power company. Told of the ti* of twenty cents per horse? power he was seeking to levy on water power and explained the reason. Told bow he got his bill thru the house and how it was killed in the senate, and charged its death to the horde of corporations lobylsts hired by the Southern Power company to fight it and kill it. Said that he could prove that Ed. Robinson of Co lumbia had been robbing the state of South Carolina out of $20,000 a year for twenty yet^rs by paying taxes on$340,000 a year out of$700, 000 of assets. He said that Robin son owned the Columbia Record, andi that the State was afraid 6f him because he held a mortgage on it. Ho had compelled the equalization j board to raise ' Robinson's street car assessment to$ 1,000,000, costing Ro bjnson $1 7,000 additional; but the Bpeaker would not be satisfied un til he got a raise of $20,000 more. Hq argued that the taxes of farmerB were too high, only because of the big corporations did not pay their full share. He said that at the next session of the general assem bly he would Introduce a bill to abolish the title of all the undevel oped water power sites that, the Southern Power company owned In the state. He told how the rileasites had won last year notwithstanding the fact that the opposition claimed to have all the brains, all the intelli gence, all the preachers, all the wo men and all. the decency in the Htate. He knew the antis had all the money but could not understand ho the Hleasites could have won a gainst all the other powerful in fluences mentioned. He said that I he purposed to introduce a hill to j put u 011 the Statute books thai a man who attempts to buy a vote be imprisoned one year and fined $5 00, giving half the money to the inform er. In conclusion he said that he had other matters to talk about the! next time he would take up a dif- | ferent Hue that would not he. Sun- j day school talk. Mr. Ueniberts was I applauded when he closed. Dinner. At the conclusion of Mr. ItemberlV' address there was an intermission; of an hour for dinner It looked \ like almost everybody was prepar- j ed -to extend hospitality. and they ! circulated among the vast crowd all hunting out strangers especially, j and few wont away hungry. After 1 the intermission the corwd gathered around the str^d and the chairman j announced thai, he had received let - 1 ters from Senator E. 1). Smith, I Ton. ; R. 1. Manning, .And Dr. Clinkscales, I expressing their rgercts at their in- ! ability to be pre?ent. and asking to be pleasantly remembered. He then ' introduced as the next speaker. lion. 4?dm (j. lliclinrdH. Mr. Richards opened his remarks ! by a general review of the object. | Continude on Last Page. CITY AND COUNTY NEWS PUT IN CONDENSED FORM mattkkh or <a:NKit.\i/ itftun i:sr siH i^ii i) itv oim ItUl'OltTP.ltH, MIhk Hives I, alia js visiting III Win upbore, Mr. James A. (jrlgsby, ?.? t" Hlanoy, wuh here, Monday. Mr?. .J. M. Kir yen, of Darlington, is v 1 h i 1 1 1 ) k in Camden, Dr. W. I). (irlgsby, of Hluuoy, was in Camden last Monday. . Mr. T. I). Ancrum is at (ho Isle of I'aliiib for his vacation. NoMIoh and Nanoey Lindsay are visit ing friends in Lancaster. Mrs. Klvers Alexander and baby are visiting relatives at Florence. Mr. Dave Chirk left Monday for a stay at Charlotte and Ocean View. MIbb Salllo Alexander left Tuesday to spend a month at, Wilmington, N. C. Mr. William Heattie, of Florence, was the guest of friends hero last Sunday. Mrs. 10. K. Sill has gone t <> the mountains of North Carolina for a month's stay. Mr. and Mrs. C. c. ? Nal>ors have returned from a three weeks ntay at Clinton, S. C. Miss Wreiinie Jloykin, of Stockton, was the week-end guest of Miss Eli zabeth Wallace. Miss Luetic Crawley has returned to Columbia after a visit to Mrs A, JJ. Sal ley, Jr. Miss A) arte Edgeworlh. of Mcliee, was tlie guest of Miss liettle llam mond last. week. Mr. and Mrs. T. <\ (Jladdcn are spend Ing several days in 1 )arliiigton cotlhty fills w?M>k. ' , " Miss Doesdle Adair, of Clinton, Is visiting her sisters, Mrs. (1. C. Na hors and Mrs. (!. F. Cooicy. Mr. Jesso Sowelh, of ? J lartsvllle, was the guest of his brother here for' several days last week. Mrs. I). >10. Ilinson and daughter. Miss Nina, are on a visit to Mrs. Da vid Wltherspobn In Columbia. Mr. Lewis Clyburn and family, of Clyhurn's, were the guests of Dr. and Mrri. W. It. Clyburn Sunday. Mr. II. A. liOng, the efficient fore man of the Lancaster News, was in Camden a short while Monday. Mrs. (rambrell, of Charleston, Is visiting the family of her. brother, i Mr. C. L. Legge, on LaFayette ave. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Wittkowsky and children have returned after a pleasant stay at the Isle of I'alms. , . Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Schlosburg and family have returned from their stay of several weeks at Mt. Pleas ant. Miss Nell McLeese, of Orange burg, was the charming guest 1 of Miss Jean Lindsay during the past week. vP Mru. F. M. Zenip, Miss Katherin? Zemp and Miss Harriett Shannon have, returned from WrlghtsvlUe Beach. Mr. S. W. VanLantUngham, of the First National Bank, Is spending his vacation at Heath Springs and Nor folk, Va. Mr. and Mrs. J. K.jLang and chil dren; Mrs. W. H. Clyhnrn and Miss Wilbur McCallum spent Thursday at Big Springs. Mr. T. M. Honeycutt, of DeKalb, is taking a ten days vacation, dur ing which time he will visit Char lotte. Salisbury, Concord and other North Carolina cities. Mr. 1j. T. Baker, of the University of South Carolina, who hap^been in Virginia for the past two months, has joined his family In Camden for the remaining holidays. Mr. T. W. Hanson and family, of Monroe, Ga., were here this week* visiting the family of Mr. T. R. Hanson. They made the trip from Monroe (o Camden in a Ford auto. Miss Mary Norris has resigned" her position as telephone operator, with the Southern Bell Co., at this pl^tee to accept a positton at the store of Hirsch Bros. & Co. One of the prettiest show win dows and one which has attracted a great deal of attention is the unique one now on display In the G. L. Blackwell show window. It is a miniature building of the South Bend Watch Co's factory. When a light 1h placed in it at night makes i! very attractive. Mr. Blackwell handles the product of this plant, Woman nHiI. ' * ' Carrie Nelson, a negro woman who was placed in jallTuesday on the charge of making way with an infant was released on $200. bail Wednes day and allowed to return to her home near Cool Spring. There was no speciru- charge against tho ne gro as it is not known whether the child is dead or alive. From what Carrie tells it wan not her child, ?mt an infant of her unmarried sis ter and that she not having the means to support the child decided to kive i' away. This she did to a negro woman living near the Sea board depot and whose name she had forgotten. The foster niothor of the child left soon after and fs said to be in Jacksonville. Carrie's neighbors claimed that she had killed the (Mid and this talk be came so Reneral that herarrest fol lowed. In the meantime a search will be made for the infant, and if a^ve, this wil settle the matter.