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convnownevr .J ktti -frfSi wiu |": Uo Higher. ?? ? One ioiiUI sniitrly be blamed for lumping tiw .onrUikioii untl wgr ..,??<? < I is( I itcUsI holl.sCWlfo lllfH lost hot* shoplng list," upon tliukiiijf on ,|M. sUlDWHlk a scrap of |Ki|HT Oil w lllrll VVHM suIwciUhhI,* ^blankets, felt, iclyver* in. rubber blanket. Hp ami Ink. muslin." Nevertheless the Under might Ixi altogether wrong- iHMrhapH the shop ping lUt In-longed to Uie boss buyer* for tlte iioM'lurtiloHl department of a now * paper. Most newsj?ai>er reader* um.v wou* ,ter what blanket*, muslin, felt, ruly, her shoots and other items that aiv iutndy things to have about tiio house Jruvo ti> do with tlu> mechanical end ,.f a iu>WtfpftR?r? UiK ,iu?t at thin time I lie i ' 1 1 \ or Who dfOppod his Shopping list hOH more serious things to* won . 1,-1 about. As the cost of the arti cles listed aiul other iteiUs too mauy to mention continues to ellmp day hy day be is devoting what little time lie has for subjective exercise* to won derlng when tho boosting of news |ta|K>r expenses is going to stop. Ever since tho momentous August of i!M4 ? especially during the i*ast six months?the skyrocketing of tho prices of necessities around a newspui>er plant has gone on with a beauty of consistency which arouses absolutely no enthusiasm among publishers tbru out the country who have to f<?ot tho hills. Product# essential to tho publi cation of newspapers have jumped In price all the way from 10 or tft to A1 A ? . 7t,(W) and more per cent. rrices Oobig Still Higher. War, directly or lrtdlrgtfo; 1? given as the vreason for th? enormous in crease in the pubJW*?rV bills. And as war seems , likely to. continue for some time, so too the marlfot sky rocketing promises to go to heights even beyond the present; astounding prices. Nowadays It is next to im possible to obtain market quotations for even so short a time ahead as "next week." It should be remembered also that concrete instances of the high cost of -publishing given here are. th<j lowest prices obtainable, because' the publish er buys in large built. He cannot cut in quantity ? in fact, war and rumors of more war mean the printing of lwipers far in excess of the output of normal times, which is one, merely one. item of war-time increase in ex penses that the thoughtless and unin formed overlook when uttering the fal laejr wo often lieard, "the newspapers want And the publisher does not cut in quality of material. Before the war. to begin with, the important item of tons uiH>n tons oi uivtul Ui wd by the sterotyplng'aud liuotyplug detriments in h g^|| met ropolitan dally newspaper plant, the fW^Uf which is a composition or load, tin and antimony, cost 8 1*4 'cents a pound. a welt ago today it cott r_' l *.' cents during the forenoon. In the af ternoon the (tqgj win 19 ceii til, A few days later last week it was boosted t O 18 s m pounil And so m kit Ii?k goes on, the increase in cost alone amounted to thousand^ of doj tars a vear. ?, 't lw \ailtniM edition* of n??ws|miH?rs cannot, to us*' a shop expression, he "put to bed" without blanket any more than humans can. And the new# pa|>er press** must have the blankets In au miner, as well as winter ? rubber blankets that are \v rapped around the press rollers first, felt blankets wound around on top of the rublier blankets and clean muslin bandaging covering rublaa1 and felt, this padding .being necessary directly under the fast mov ing pajH'i- If clean-cut printing l? to be obtained. Also quantities of the ordinary anuy blankets must l>e bought and eu| Into given sisses for tin? stereo typers' use. Rubber Blanket n oil the Jump.'' The Increase In the cost of mus lin, which the newspapers buy by the pound, has been comparatively slight ?only about half a cent a i>ound more since the ante-bellum day* of 1914. The rubber and heavy felt blanket lug, however/ has been jumped at least lf? i>er cent. The cost of thfc army blanket^? fyis gone up 20 pe# cent, the (quality of the army blanket* at the same time, going down. Press rollers, which are made larger ly of glue, glycerine and molasses* liave gone up, so manufacturer* no ticed the consumers Inst week, 18 per cent Olycerine ? and the quality used In newspaper plant# is not the pure white glycerine one buys In drug stores, but a quality less refined ? has. taken one flying leap from ante-bellum price of 19 cents a pound to 54 cents, Only last week also the paper such as is used in the rotogravure, section of the Sunday Sun, which then was 8 per cent higher than it was a year or so ago, was jumped to a 10 per cent increase. No pulp is coming into the manufacturers. Mills that not so long ago Were selling by the tons are now filling orders- for pounds. Rags, which are being bought up by the powder manufacturers eagerly and are needed *l*o hy paper a?*tro?BrtnreT* In i cleaned Mini more or less sterilis ed form, are a ueewHlty In the me chanical detriments o f newspaper The prUyg of nuw Uuh Jumped tftO ikt cent. or fr<*?n 8 cents a ikmiiuI to (l <vnts. Writing |u?iH?r Is an lilt portent lUw in a lyttitehw'ti paper hill, and it is worth Opting that this Iteu* has gone up ~f? |?er tvnt | Hut it | ? when the consumer of hii,v tiling having to do w ith dyes or | any other deportment ??f the chemical section of printing ami photographic reproduction goes out with his shop ping list that his hair turns - 1 ; ? % Metal, which tin* art department of u pa|*>r emmot got along without, cost a jKiUiid before he war JKow it costs a pound. Increase* of 1,000 t<? Jl.tKK) per cent ami more loom up all oyer the chemical !<??? of the printing plant. KnormouN Increase in Ink. As an Ink manufacturer explained a day or two ago, the nobis ami dyes ?aitrt everything else used in the col ored inks cis|>eclully have exploded from ;UMi to per cent in a jiil'y, ' once tho imi>ortS from (Jermany had j been blocked. lllues tluit e<>st oN cent* ; before the war now cost $14 and $1,5 a pound, with Increases iu yellows at HO all the way up to 3,000 per cent. And, what is more of moment, the man ufactunus of Inks fear that prospect* of tilling demands In tho future look doubtful. Inks for Sunday lithograph sections have more than doubled In price, with an iucreaae on every Rotation for tu? tagllo section inks are affected because the rubber manufacturers aro corral ling as much of the carbon as they can and using It in pla<>e of *lne and lead, a detail which wilt -account for the preponderance of rubber gooda luivlng a, black cast, which shoppers soon will find on the market In place of the white-cast rubber they've been accus tomed to see in the sliops. Type founders have increased prices 20 per cent, and no let up on the boosting in sight. Gum arable, nec essary. iu the making of matrices In printing plants, has jumped 100 per cent. And wrapping |>aper, used iu the circulation departments by the tons, costs twice a? much as it did before the war, with wrapping roi>e or sisal from Yucatan, and Jute, wrap ping ropes and twines from Calcutta, now, selling at an increase almost as great.? -New York Sun. Augusta suffffered a ^100,000 fire in the 700 block Sunday night in the Har rison building. -J&rT ^ ^ ^ 'llTjJi ilT^i* ni'T I I \( KI? ON THIAI ?j ; : ? U ? wwii.'i'. ' ?*;? ? ; . . Kdwfcrd Teiper U ClwrfMl With KIU > iiik lib Motiwr^ ;; .. j; huiralu, \ v., April 17 J. Kdwurd T^ht, prominent young business manV; of Orchard r?rk, w :i h pHt<*d on trial U'fore 3\)>ttlc0 lVl\)Wl) t?t I ho opening ??f the criminal term of the Huprewo .iH?urt Ivere today, charged with . tho murder of Mm mother, a wcalth.v \Vld ow.' u Tim crime \v?s committed at mid night January while the mother, Mix. A (flu* M. Wpor, her sou, Fred erick, and daughter, tJraee, were re turning to IhilYalo In their aiUomohllo after a \lslt to the a<vused man's homo in Orchard Park. Bd Toll hi- accompanied tlio party a few miles down tho country road to a | k >1 1 1 1 whole his own a utomohUe had Uvn stalled and nl>audoned lato that day. Whllo wprklnjt on his own machine under the glare of the IvcadllghtM of the el,t,y-houml motor car. Twlper claims, a negro haiullt appeared and knocked him senseless with a hlow on the head. Wheu he recovered consciousness. Teip er swears. he found Ids UK?ther and Inother dead, their skulls crushed. Teller's sister (J pace was still alive, although suffering from tlve separate fractures of the skull. Miss Tel|H?r has recovered ami luis been pronounced surgically cured. Hhe Is under $15,000 bond to api>ewr as a witness against her brother, hut phy sicians believe she will neVer bo able to recall any of the Incidents connect ed with the tragedy. However, . much iutere??t centers on i her nppearattce In court. If her inem ory should suddenly liecome clear to j the. o<*curronees of the mid night -auto mobile ride the destiny of her brother probably 1? In her iKxwmprion. Tho prosecution will make every ef fort to fasten the crime of matricide upon the jiecuned. It has woven a chain of evidence, mostly circumstiui tlal, ? round Tel|?er and expect to prove the murders were planned and execut ed by liSm. ^ I District Attorney Dudley claims Teiper was in lluanclal straits; that mortgage* and notes held against him totaled over $10,000. Telper's mother held $150,000 loft by. the father to l?e divided upon her death among the remaining children. TCiper today a pi wared cheerful ami confident of acquittal. He is 28 years old, a college graduate and a man of intelligence. Up to tho time of fit} arrest, he lived with his wife and three VIKLKN II0LMK8 the Pea rims Film Star In tHo Great Knllroad Film Novel, "The Girl and the Games" Ht The MiHjwtlc every Thurmhiy , Stiirtlnff ?Thurwtay, April 27th, small children In a handsome home at Orchard lNirk. Troy Brown Dead. Blnney. April IS.?' Troy Hrown, hoii of Mrs. Kunlew Brown and tho Uit? Wil liam II. Browu. o t Marlon county, <11 (Hi 1 April 8th, In his 22ml year. Never having been of a robust nature, ho con tracted tuberculosis ?lH>ut a your ago anil had been confined to his room ever since. Mr. Brown wuh a young man of exceptionally good habits and a sweet tinsvlflsh disposition, ho WOH hold 111 tho highest esteem by his associates and his devotion and thonghtf illness towards M? whtowed mother wis his most on via bio characteristic. Ho is survived by his mothor and two sisters, Miss Lavlnla and Eva Brown and and grand parent, Dr. A. H. Bo wen. His remains wore interred In Smyrna Methodist Church cemetery. % CAMDEN DEMOCRATIC CLUB. In accordance with the party rule*, the member* of the Camden Democrat ic Club are hereby not tfled to meet art. the 0|?era lloiiHe In Camden. ?< S Jk in., on Haturdny. April 22nd, for pur ]kwc of re-ortfamaliiK ami electing del* ciffttes to the Ooiinty Convention. Tho?. J. Klrkland, <\ Wv ltlrchmore, . Prealdent Secretary. .. . i ? ????,!? r i h. * i. .i ii w.i :? Belk HUl Club to Meet. All members of Itelk HUl Demo cratic Clnb nro Ivereby notttlcd to mfcet at Trapp'H Mill on the 4tli Satur day ivvt?fil fig In Afc>rll at four o'clock the 22nd lnat, for the pujAoho of re organising and electing mHegatea to tlie County-Convention, which will meet at the Court House on tlio Hr?t Mon day in May next 0, W. Shiver, President. AS THE TIME HAS COME WHENNfiACH AND EVERY ONE HAS THE GREATEST DESIRE OF BEING NEATLY DRESSED FOR EASTER SUNDAY, WITH SUCH AS A NEW SUIT, A STRAW HAT, A NEW PAIR OF OXFORDS, OR A REAL DRESS SHIRT, A FANCY TIE. ' IN FACT EV ERY THING THAT IS NEEDED FOR A NEAT AND DRESSY APPEARANCE vnn MAN, - LADY OR ^HILD, THEREFORE, WE OFFER TO ALL EASTER BUYERS THE GREATEST FIELD ,C)F BARGAINS IN EVERY LINE OF THE NEWEST AND MOST UP-TO-DATE MERCHANDISE. ? v WE HE?^^gg|gj TO ECONOMIZE V > ??, We have just received ten dozen of Ladies' ' Panama Hate in many different shapes, all . $2.00 sellers. We will sell tijeto now at ohly 98c I each, s ' - Get' them while they are here." . i - - . - - - ? r rr -A' REMEMBER. THE PLACE *. a L. SCHtOSBURG The Unders?iSns Merchant WE WOULD LIKE FOE YOU TO CALL AT OUR STORE i AND SEE WITH YOUR OWN BYES THE INCOMPARA BLE BARGAINS WE ARE OFFERING TO OUR EASTER TRADE. YOU WILL FIND HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES, WHICH AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. ? .4..< uh-hw JUST A FEW OF OUR SPECIALS, AS THE SPACE DOES NOT ALLOW US TO STATE THEM ALL. '.'2 v'. / ; i. y > ... I 7 . " *. ? . ? ? w ' WE STRIVE TO PLEASE YOU f . v ^ ? .. J Vi' " & 4 , J In addition to our complete Spring line, we. have just- re ceived two cases of Ladies' White Canvas Leather Trim med Oxfords, regular $2.00 values. We will offer them now at only 98c per pair. ? i .. . i . - REMEMBER. tHE PLACE - -r*?,' - . , ? < mm , , | CAMDEN, & C. THE UNDERSELLING MERCHANT