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THE CAPEN CHRONICLE M. J>. gltec w > h m ( l'ubllaher?. - (I1C4?uVi vll>> ... | Published every Friday at ltd) No. Iroad Street, ami entered at the Cam fen poatoXtlce aa second class uiail mat tor, Price per annum fl.oo. ;i We are glad to revive communica tions of a reasonable length, but uu Important condition of their puhllca ?on Is that they shall tu all cases be accompanied by the full name and exact address of the sender. Obitu ari?Mt resolutions of resiH?et, and church ?otlees will not be charged for. Mat ters of purely a jstrsoual nature will fee charged for at tfae rate of live cents a line. Whiskey or patent medicine advertisement* will not be acceptcd at any price, Kates for display adver tising made known on application. Caimleij, 8. C? Jan. 22, 1915. (Governor Manning In li Ih Inaugural address naltl : "I have faith In our people; I believe that they want tbe Iiiwh enforce<l, and their conscience Im awakened on thin subject. lAit me add another word, not an a threat, but ax a warning: If In any community the lawful authorities fail to enforeo the laws, It will then ho my duty to hcc that the lawn are ol>eyed. This I In tend to do." We know of no county that needs the laws euforced more than hi Kershaw county. The police and uonstables have been very active in Ihe pant few weeks and have been successful In catching a number of criminals without much help from the county authorities ? They are t.<> he (tommcmled for their g<M>d work. It Is said that In many sections of this ?ounty blind tigers have been doing a rushing business without being molest ed, and it seems now is a good time to get rid of this class of law breakers. The second annual meeting of the Sheriff's association of South Carolina wan held in Columbia last Thursday. J. C. McCain Is president of the asso ciation and Hondrlx Hector Is secre tary and treasurer. Kershaw county was not. represented. Anderson Mail: "The principal rea son why I resigned was because I wanted to." asserted ex-(iovernor Cole L. lilease, during a conversation over telephone Saturday night. He was ?sk?sl to state some reason for his ac tion, which has not been explained definitely. Immediately after he had resigned, Covernor Please was asked why he took this action, and he re plied "there Is no reason." The former chief executive declared he would nev er accept a position as corporation counsel. He denied In emphatic lan guage a report that he hal been ap pointed assistant ceneral counsel for Ihe Southern railway. "1 will act as general, counsel for the people when ever they ask It." he asserted. COUNTRY HAS 24,724 PAPERS. New Directory Shows Gain of 197 During Past Year. The 1915 of N. W. Aver & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory lists "J I, 724 publications of all sorts. The new publications arc 1,088, but against this number must be set off suspensions and consolida tions suillclent to bring the net gain for the year down to 11*7. of which 7 belong to Canada. Canada's total num ber is 1,557. The number of daily newspapers in tiie Cntted States is now placed at ?2,502. of weeklies 10.323 and monthlies 2, 981. an Increase in each instance. The only classes to lose are in fort ?ightlies and semimonthlies, which now stand at 57 and 291. res|x*ctively. The number of dailies by sections is us follows: Middle western states, 035 ; western states, 450; southern states, 405; middle Atlantic, 291 ; Pacific slope, 283; New York, 211; New England. 1K2; outlying territories, 4">. The mid dle Atlantic states were the only sec tions to lose in number. The loss was slight. In the field of the weeklies the west crn states have 5.250. the middle west ern states .'{..'{111, the southern states a, 15-1, Pacific slope. 1.414. middle At lantic 1,258. New York 1.117, New England 759. and outlying territories 4??. New York made i he considerable gain of 43. and there were small gains or losses in the other sections. The middle Atlantic states, which lost in the number of dailies and weeklies, made the largest gains. 49. 1 in the number of monthlies, which to tal 800. New York has G2K monthlies. ' western .stales .'12.'!, Pacific kIu|ki 227, . New England 195, and-outlylng terri- I fortes IS. The number of towns in which news papers are published now reaches 11. N17. The classified lists number 222 and include such up to date divisions us aeronautics, moving pictures, Espe ranto. woman suffrage and anti-suf frage. ?American l'ress. Members of the iJreenville county delegation in the legislature have been petitioned t<> place an annual license; of $1,000 on near beer saloons in that t county. Fire at St. diaries P Sumter coun ty last Wednesday destroyed three; stores and property amounting to sev eral thousand dollars M. T. Mathls j and T. E. Cooper were the principal k?sers. Among the last official n< K of Please , as Governor was his action in the case of Clements, who murdered his baby. Please reduced tho life sentence to ten i years In the penitentiary or <>n the Spartanburg chain gang. Many iiersons will remember former Governor Blease's statement on the. stand (hiring the senatorial campaign meeting here last summer, that Man ning would not be the next governor . of South Carolina. Mr. Blease was correct In his statement, C. A. Smith was the next governor. We do not ; think the governor had any idea of resigning when he made that state ment, but maybe he did. ? Anderson Mail. BLEASE IS BOOSTING BURGLAR INSURANCE. America Trust Co. of Charlotte L C. People to Protect Themtefve*. Charlotte, N, C!., Jan. 10. The unine of <%>leman MvinR*ton Mease, Kx-Oov ernor of South Carolina, has t>eeii used Iii connection with many sensational stories by newHy*t>ers throughout the 1 Tiitt?sl Htat'es, hut never has a hank or trust company usihI it in an ad vertisement warning jieople against the l.ftOO criminals he has set free, and urging thrin to secure burglary Insurance j>olleies, until today. The .Vincrhan Trust Company, of this city, carried the following In a large iIIh play advertisement In thlH morning's Observer : KX'dovcrnor llleaNe pardoned and set free something over l.ROO criminals from the State ]>ciilteiitiary at Coluiii hla, S. C. These crliulnalH are free to travel In any direction they choose. Home of them are sure to he headed this way. Mow h re you prepared to i receive them? Ordinary precautions ? locking up valuahleH, barring the doora, etc., are not sutllctent for professional crooks? you had hotter or write us today about our Iturglary lnsur ance Policies. And another thing ? in moat instances a burglar sets lire after pillaging SK('ONI) "(iOVKKNOR SMITH." 22 I Yearn Between the Two of the Name in South Carolina. Charles Aurelius Siulth 1h the hw ond Smith to liecome governor o t South Ca ruliua, says the Columbia State. Between the going out of the tirst and the coming into ofllce of the second there elapsed 221 yearn. The first Cov. Smith was ThOmas (Landgrave) Smith', appointed by the Palatine, under the proprietary gov^ eminent. His term covered the years 1(?)3 and 101)4. Following is a list of the governors of South Carolina, In the order of their service: William Kayle ( liSTC) ) , Jos. West, Sir John Yeainans, Joseph West, Jo seph Morton. Sir Richard Kyrle, Rob ert Quary, .Joseph West, Joseph Mor ton, James Colleton, Seth Sothell, Phil ip Ludwell. Thomas Smith. Joseph Blake, John Arehdale, Jos. Blnke, Jus. ) Moore, Sir Nathaniel Johnson, Edward Tynte, Hoht. Gibbf^ Charles Craven, Robert. Daniel, Robt. Johnson, James Moore, Sir Francis Nlcholsou, Robert Johnson, Thomas llroughtou, William Bull, Jas. don, William Henry Lyt tleton, William Bull, Thomas Boone, William Bull, Lord Charles (Jrenville Montague, William Bull, Lord William Campbell. Henry Laurens, John Rut ledge. Kawlins Lowndes, John Rut ledge, John Mathewes, Benjamin Guer (trci. Win. Moultrie. Thomas Plncknoy, Charles Plncknoy, William Moultrie, Arnoldus Vander Horst, Charles Plnek j ney, Fdward Hu fled go, John Drayton, : Jas. Burchell Richardson, Paul Hara j llton, Charles Plnckney, John Drayton, ; Henry Middloton, Jos. Alston, David R. Williams, Andrew Pickens. John j Geddes, Thos. Bennett, John Lyde Wll ! son. Richard Irvine Manning, John j Taylor. Stephen D. Miller. James Ham | llton. Jr., Robert Y. Hayne, Ceo. Mc ? Dutlle. Pierce M. Butler. Patrick Noble, I rC K. Henegan, John Peter Richardson, ' James H. Hammond, William Aiken, i David Johnson, Whltemarsh B. Sea ; brook, John Hugh Means, J no. Law rence Manning. James Hopkins Adams, i Robert F. W. Allston, Win. II. Cist., j Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Milledge L. | Bonhain, Andrew (J. Magrath, Benja t mill Franklin Perry. Jas. Lawrence j ( >rr, Robert K. Scott, Franklin J. ! Moses, Jr.. Daniel 11. Chamberlain. ; Wade Hampton. William Dunlap Slmp j son. Thomas B. Jeter. Johnson Ha good, Hugh Smith Thompson. John C. Shep : pard. John Peter Richardson. Benja ! inin R. Tillman. John Gary Kvans, : William H. Filer be. Miles B. Mo ' Sweeney, Duncan C. Heyward, Martin I-'. Ansel. C. L. Blease. Charles A. j Smith. (Jan. 1-1, 11)15). Richard Irvine ' Manning Inaugurated Tuesday, Jan. ! i ??. wis. Japanese to Aid Allies. j Toklo, Jan. 1.r>. ? Promoters in Japan ! ??f what has been railed the volunteer ! movi-ment have aniinuncnl their in dention of dispatching an army corps to Europe. To that end they are ap ; pealing to Japanese and foreigners for ' funds. The manifesto says tlmt as LaFay ? otte helped the T'nifed States and | (Garibaldi hel|>ed France, so the Japa nese wished to assist the allies to ter minate the misery of war. To Sell Newspaper. Chester. Jan. 14. ? Owing to the stress of the times John E. Nunnery, owner of the Semi-Weekly News, for merly the Chester Lantern, has turned the paper over to the mortgagees, C. C. Edwards and Samuel E. MeFadden. and it will he offered for sale the first of February. The imper will he issued twice a week as formerly and will not he Stopped. \V. E. Austell, manager of the In surance Trust company of Gaffney, had the misfortune to have his right foot badly mangled while attempting to hoard No. .'?) Thursday morning while the train was in motion. The young man was late in coming to the train and attempted to hoard it from the wrong side and in attempting to at tract the attention of some of the crew in order that the door might l>e open ed lost his footing. Four persons were burned to death In a lire which destroyed their home in Philadelphia, Sunday. There were two homicides in Iiarn well county last week, one negro kill ing another as the result of a quarrel, and another being killed by the Barn well county sheriff while he was raid ing a gambling place. M1D W1NTKK ADVERTISING. ^ Janimry and February are a period w i it* 1 1 the 1 11 1 i?i if looks through the newsiwtper advertising with keen at* tentlou. v A great many people have formed a regular habit of delaying purchases until *hla time of the year. They, know that moat merchants wll\ give unus* ually good bargains In midwinter, to savo carrying goods over until another year. A merchant that doeti not get Into line and tell the public through the newspapers what he 1m dojug at this time of year will And bla trade very slack. Hut a simple statement of the gopd values that c?u now he found in almost any euterprlalug at ore will la* read with eager lntereat. The ntore will hud that It la doing an ex cellent bUHlneaa even at u dull period. ( JooiIh can't be moved , unless the public is told al>out them. A custo iner may go by the store everyday in the week. Hut If she does not know that Inside, hack ou thorn* shelves, is just the bargain that would appeal to her, the goods might Just as well bo in Jericho. She goes home, picks up the newspai>er, reads about the gpeelal value offered in some other store, and on her next trip hunts out the plate that had the enterprise to seek her patronage. 'the merchant who does not adver tise pays u high price for the money siivcd, Goods grow more uuseaspna hie the longer they stay In u store. The proprietor In getting no profit on them to pay hlH tlxed charges. Kent IntereHt, taxes, light, and heat, and clerk hire expenses are running along every day, and must be paid. The only way to pay Is to keep the good h moving. Good* held over until another sea Hon are apt t^> become so shop-worn or out of style that they have to he sold for a song. Ooods well adver tised and wold during the season for which they are bought go at a fairly good price, and help the merchant close his season without loss. ? Florence Times. Must Fay for Paper. S Judge C cargo Thoma? ??f Columbus, Ohio, recently decided that if ft man accepts a pui>er that in sent him he must pay for it. The decision was rendered in the case brought by the Columbus Telegram against a man for $2.35. The Telegram had been sent to the man's home an<l he accepted the pajK?r. When called upon to pay for it he refused, and suit was brought. When Judge Tlionias heard tlie evi dence he instructed the Jury to bring in a verdict for the Telegram. Judge Thomas rules- that the old common law principle that what a man received and used he was bound to pay for applied in this instance. THINK IT OVER. The weekly newspaper promotes the Interests of the town in which it is published to such an extent that it he comes impossible t<? place an estimate upon its worth. There is no enter prise that does so much for the cor poration or the individual citizen as the pa i km\ It stands opposed to the town knocker, the town kicker, the town fanatic and the town drones." It stands for action as against dry rot. It stands for progress as against stag.-, nation. It is ever ready to combat the schemes of visionaries and as rea dy to aid the constructive plans of tiie wise and level-headed citizens. It is for the upbuilding of the communi ty. The pa|K'r lias not yet come into its own, however, because"' it is never appreciated to the extent of Its worth by the people at largo. Yet when bat tles are to l>e fought for town or coun ty a rush is made to the newspaper otlice always to lind the loyal editor ready, frequently, without hoj>e of re ward. Many other enterprises are en couraged by a bonus, but rarely is the newspaper offered any such help and still more often not given the support it is entitled to. Communities fre quently lose sight of their real bene factor when they fail to recognize the J weekly journal as such. The editor and bis paper stand as the bulwarks of defense against the attacks of evil or designing schemes affecting the good of the individual or the town. l*'or these and other reasons the news papers of the town and county should receive the supjiort of the public at large in a very liberal degree, for it is really the most ini|>ort?int business enterprise of the community. The Paxtuent Rod and Gun dub ut Meyers Station, Md., was milled last \v?H?k by police and 14, S people were brought to Haltlmore on a sj>eelnl train t lie police seize*!. All the prisoners are charged with gambling, betting on horse races, etr. George Torrance, owner of the Tor rance plantation, one of the largest in Macon count Ala., was shot and kill ed early Saturday morning by an un known man. Edward It. Scott, of Raymond, Wash, has l>een sentenced to serve six months Imprisonment for sending threatening letters to Count von IiernstorfT. Ger man ambassador to the United States. The first anniversary of the installa tion of the $5 a day minimum wage by the Ford Motor company of Detroit, Mich., has juat passed, and during the twelve months of the year the company shared profit* of $10,000,000 with its l&jOOO employee. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. ~ ~ ^ TT* ? ~ ? ~~ Ottawa, Kan.? Mm * Mollis Stewart, life prtamer Uer?, make* enough mo ney doing fancy work to Huppoirt and educate tter two dMlWfi: ? ~^T7 Portions of France are being inun dated by flood*. The river Heine at Paris la rapidly lining and tu some part** of the country passenger boat nervice ban been suspeuded. Palmernton, Out. ? A penny in the slot gun machine standing innocently outside of a business houno in thia city, baa arouaed tbo Ire of tbe Lord's Day Alliance, tbe secretary stating that "lt? removal will l>e approval by tbe heat oltiaeaabtp." Tbe machine baa been removed, not ouly for Hiiudayn, but for all time. Two uiHNked men armed wth pistols, forced tw# ctyrfct* of a ^ Jacksonville, Fla., bank into the aafb 6f me instltu tion, Saturday, secured $'J,000 in cash and made their escape. Pasadena, Cal.? Mrs. Oeo. 10. ltow man, aged MO, has eleven children and two grandcblldreb. She was married wben fourteen and t>ecamo a grand mother at H'J. M. T. Morris, a retired business man, was murdered near his home in linl oIkIi, N. ('., Saturday. Taeoma, Wash. ? Miss Nelda Jaeger Is now police judge at this place. President Wilson last week instruct ed the attorney gtgierai to investigate whether or not there has been any violation of the law In the rise of wheat and Hour. Chicago, 111. ? Chicago received it# supply of Christmas trees this year on a boat captained by a woman, Mrs. Harhara Schnneiuan. Her two daugh ters acted as her crpw. According to a Paris dispatch, Kou nianian students In Swedish universi ties have been ordered to rej>ort home iiniuediately for army service. The Atlantic Coast Line Limited, n fast train runninK between Jackson ville and Tampa, Fla*. was wrecked Saturday, when the flyer ran into a cow which was on the track. The Are man was killed and several pasqen gers were more cr less seriously injur ed. The French submarine Saphir, was sunk by the Turks last week while the vessel was trying to enter the Dardeneiles. Milan Holt/Jiouser, an aged farmer, was burned to death last, week when a barn near .Salisbury, N. in which he was sleeping, caught fire. One child is dead and four others are <lesi>erately 111 of .typhoid fever in the home of James Shank, near Mount Crawford, Va. Lieut. It. G. Jones, U. S. A., broke the world's record for continuous fly ing last week, by remaining in the air eight hours and thirty-five minutes. ?Five persons are (lend as the result of the destruction by lire of the private yacht Julia, hi Pamlico Sound, off Iteaufort. N. C., last Friday. Lieut. (ieneral Stoessel, defender of Port Arthur during the Itusso-Japan ese war, died last week, following sev eral months' suffering with paralysis. A son was born in the White House at Washington. Sunday, to Mrs. Fran cis Powers Sayrc, daughter of Presi dent Wilson. Charles Henderson, of Troy, was in 4 augu rated govfcrnor of Alabama, Tues day <>m the balcony <xf the eapltol i where Jefferson. Davis was inaugurated president <>f the Confederate .States. Mrs. Susan Buckles dte<l at Edln burg, 111.. Sunday, aged 92 years. She never rode on a train in her life. Through the testimony of A1 Jen- J uiugs. former train and hank robber of Oklahoma, who reformed, ran for governor and is now district attorney of Oklahoma, the charge of violation of the White Slave law, against Dr. J. j W. <i. Martin, was dropped by Federal authorities nf San Francisco, Cal., last week. William E. Richards, for many years a j>olitical intimate of 'the late Vice President Sherman, committed suicide at I'tica, N. Y., Saturday. The cause of the act is unknown, James Slankard and Iiec Trout,, charged with the murder of two guards during rioting in Arkansas coal mines last July, were acquitted at Greenwood, Ark., last week. The torpedo boat destroyer Cashing, named for Lieut William Cushlng, the was launched at Quincy, Mass., Sat urday. ' Nebraska, western Iowa and the Da kota* felt the grip of the first blizzard of the winter last Saturday. Hear Admiral Morris R. S. MacKen zie, retired, died at Morrlstown, N. J., last \\?>?"k, aged 00 years. Fire in Charlotte, N. C., Saturday night destroyed the five and ten cent store of S. H. Kress and Co. The loss Is estimated at j&OQ^OOO. Governor Smith has appointed J. Herbert Lightsey as sheriff of Hamp ton County. Eugene K. Goodwyn has announced himself as a candidate for Mayor of the city of Greenwood. There are three candidates now In the race. Mrs. Ann W. Caughman, aged 88,' died at her home In Columbia on Sun day. Eugenia, 15. months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Gregory, who live near lx>wryville, was painfully burned Thursday, while standing before the Are. She will probably recover. JL Earns excellent water supply from wells A no s^ringsT splendidly developed water power ON WHICH IS LOCATED THE ONLY ROLL. FH^LOUR MILL IN KERSHAW COUNTY. ABOUT MMM WIiT pUT THIS MILL IN BEST WORKING ORDER THE MILL AND WATER POWER ARE wfii WORTH THE PRICE OF THE PLACE, AS WHEAT IS BEING PLANTED IN LARGER QUANTI TIES THIS YEAR THAN EVER BEFORE. ALSO RUN ry SAME POWER ON PLACE IS SITUATED ONE OF TIIE BEST GINNERIES AND GRIST MILLS IN THE COUNTY. ENOUGH LONG LEAF TIMBER ON PLANTATION TO KEEP UP THE PLACE. ; ' ANNUAL RENTAL $1,000.00. I^RICE REASONA BLE. TERMS EASY. v > r ? ji Hi Kennedy & Shaw REAL ESTATE AGENTS Valuable Plantattoa f at Sale J. w. MeCORMICK, ^ E' W- ???? 1 'I ? -'i . I , '7; :i.l v K,m * ! *..t ,...-. At . ' V? . i-> r i "?'/?_ . , 'r ? Furfural Directors and Embalmers CO. NigHt Phone 232-L 't y S < xV^. ' -S- ; . ??? ' .338 iw': v -M -- & L ' - - ?? e m Day Phone 70 AMBULANCE SERVICE From January to December.you will find at this place a select line of Candies, Fruits and Vegetables to help put the finishing to any meal. Hot Drinks in coM weather, Cold Drinks in hot weather~or as you like it We are ready and anxious to serve yon any day in the year, i =1 * -'.?iS Camden Candy. Kitchen ? ?* ... f '? ~ . . Spero Beleos, Proprietor. P|ione 78. Canidoikrlk , .< ?- i. IBj Camden Undertaking Co. C. W. EVANS, Manager '?'"""vj" ' - ;?! i. ' . : : y ? Wrty FUNERAL DIRECTORS and LICENSED EMBALMERS 7 . ' City and Country Call* Attended Promptly DAY OR NldHT || Office and Show Rooms at 1103 Broad Street Office Phone 91 Residence Phone 283-L >?-- V . ___ ? "HK Funerals Directed v v We supply the best of burial foods, con duct / funerals and relieve families and friends of. many unpleasant duties inci dent to daatiw We are fWays prepared to serve those who neeo our service Trrlt .J.'.. J .. ._.II,-II.J R. McCREiGHT, Icamden, s. a tr ^ y f^\ m ? > -?- j" r~ ? -' 3m