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IMMKNMK PROPgiflY IjONH BUporial Krw Trrrit?r> Along The Kitwrfi Kroxd Kim. .\ - t>t?v ji& ? Jyfr .jyl^yiik ii?x )? toll of tt v?r biuuau Hvon. wllh a |?n>i? i ty I?mvh cMliiiiH tol from NM?,4MM? to 9tO.1MMt.iHHt, and with IihiuImmIh of fHH> j?le reii<1?*rv<l huniilpM l?y llu* ilmlruc ttoit of u u?iv thill huiiilnil tMlttWM, <b<* wont! fliHNt In the tii^tory of the ntutf river >*?<-( ton ??r A<.lie vUW uuU 1W fc'itOMii ItrooJ V*1W> 1 v Iht* morula*. Ml * oVIiM-k (u ni^ht tlu' wtt ler* of S^vMimuiiuM mihI FrujH'll l*r?x<?l rhm wwt? fifteen fwl ?Im>vc their l?aukH, nUIkmikIi to Ik* r?Nv<Iliifr from fotvim tn tin* Krwu'h Valley. cworing a territory frtnu tin* Ike Toxa.way aee t l?>ii to Ilo! Spring*, near the Teimen h?h- 111 te. put the property l?**ew at tifi(rl\ fHMMMUKiO. ICeporU from flu**** *4*4 ti?>jtM ar**<lltlk*ult to (>btatii tm iiik^m |*tioiu* (-ouiiuuuii-utiiHi. nia-n Ih'Iiij4 (Iovvii everywhere. At 1 o'ckKfc Unlay tin* Western I* it low TeltKraph foiuimiiy ' KUcureUetl In I?*o|jI"K Up ? telepliooe J %vlr<? (o Atlanta. tbO* getting tbe only I l?u? of oouuiiiMiitcat Ion to the oiitMt?U? world at ttiat llin*\ Tlie ilead so far known, art* Capt. J. ('. I4|M% Nwllie l?t|Ma, anuiiiiiarrhHt (luu|t)t?r; Mr*. I.*t? r\hil|M?imitl. a war The Williams Fire Insurance Agency represents 1 the leading Insurance Companies doing business in the State. We will insure your property against Fire, Tornado, Lightning or Burglary Country property whether mortgaged or unincumbered. Automobile owners against Fire, Acci dent or Damages. Live Stock against death from any cause. Plate Glass, Bonds of all kinds, Health and Accident. Williams Fire Ins. Agency Camden, South Carolina ' j pKIMlIf A TOBACCO IS PREPARED ! FQR SMOKERS UNOERTHE PROCESS DISCOVERED IN | MAKING EXPERIMENTS TO PRODUCE THE MOSTj D? V 1I6HTFUL ANDWHOLEr SOME TOBACCO FORCIG; \SETTf: AND PIPE SHOWERS. PROCESS PATENTED, - JULY 30 Tr 1907 lij i (W.ReyNolosTobaccoCohpaiiy j.ijjji Winston Saleh.N.C.US.A. NOT BITE THE TONGUE P. A. puts new joy into the sport of smoking ! YOU may live to be 110 and never feel old enough to vote, but it's cer tain -sure you'll not know the joy and contentment of a friendly old jimmy pipe or a hand rolled cigarette unless you get on talking-terms with Prince Albert tobacco! a P. A. comes to you with a real reason for all the goodness and satisfaction it offers. It is made by a patented process that removes bite and porch! You can smoke it long and hard without a come back! Prince Albert has always been sold without coupons or premiums. We prefer to give quality! Prince Albert affords the keenest pipe and cigarette enjoyment I And that flavor and fragrance and i coolness is as good as that sounds. P. A. just answers the universal demand for tobacco without bite , parch or kick- back! Introduction to Prince Albert isn't any harder than to walk into the nearest place that sells tobacco and ask for "a supply of P. A." You pay out a little change, to be sure, but it's the cheer fullest investment you ever madel Primtt Albert U m/W *?tr/MiA?r? im (a#M> r?W i???, 5c ; #?Wv r?^ r/n*. Ifc/ A??W??w? mound and Kmlf-ptmnd tin humidor a ? mud- - thmt cUmmr eryrtml-slmat txtmnd humidor witb tponmm ? moittanot top thot k**m? tho tobacco im atfcA ?ol*ndid eomditiom. the national R. J. Reynold* T Coprriffkt l?l#byK.J.K?y?Ui TiMin fa T . tied < lit uk Utcr. hII of M'txKU wt'it U^owu hI In the ^'wih'Ii llruAtl HhVf .ill B}U' more Hi) lit" effort* HVI* being wmle to DMcuc them f * ? ???? their tJ?H?dcd hoiiic iMwrtlii' rlt*T Imuk. T*'<' uU>W*? l.ou nit* l>e*j*|\ a whit* laborer. aud l.uth er KritWf, a urn- Qfow'ttHl this evening while a I tempt. lug to ? f?*?d t<i iua fuolied gue>t* a! the Olefin K?* k Hotel. At noon today the witer had reached t l??t HNtMitl tl?*?r of. the hotel, driving ii N guests to the third ami fourth floors. The A ait hern im^n K?y railway station o|"|*?*Hp the ??ienu Il<?ck Hole', hail eight tVet of water lu It Alt train mtvIu' Iii and out of the < It \ I tit >? l,>eeu ? Au estimated rainfall of from six to eight inches throughout t|?e French llroad Valley during the last week was the ''primary <taus??.nf the floods which readied their highest |?olnt shortly af ter daylight I his imbuing. Ti)we con tilt ions were further aggravated when the ilauis holding ba<:k the waters of l4ik?- Osceola a' Henderson villi* and Kanu^a Ijiko, hi Kanuga. were carried away, the tides thus liberated sweep ing down through thr French Mroad Valley, through Henderson county, on luist Aslievllle and into the adjoining county of .Madison. Communication with the latter section l.?\ either tele phone or telegraph lias not yet been established, hut it is feared that thr entire town <>f Marshall has hecn wip ed oft" the map.' , At 1 o'clock this afternoon fears were entertained foi the hlg dam at I^jikc Toxawa.v. the hursiiul; of which, it is said, would send the waters sweep ing through South Carolina and would create conditions worse than those of the Johnstown tlood. Hundreds of children from the cot-J ton mill section of the city, wlmse homes were swept awa.V early this iiinrulug, crowded the City Hall this afternoon. Hastily formed relief com mittees are making every arrange ment for I lie sheltering and feed inn of the city's homeless. i The town of ltlltnio.rc, In |? | nut twen-, t.v-flve years ago. hy the late (Jeorge -Yaudcrhilt. is almost entirely under water, ranging in depth from three to five feet., and is completely cut otY from the city of Aslievllle hy a raging torrent of water, the Swanannoa. wlilcll at some points is now a mile wide. 1 1 was here the first loss of !|fe fio far re|?orted was recorded. when Oapt. I.ipe and two daughters were drowned in an effort t?? esca|H* hy l>oat from their home, which was swept from its foundations hy the vapidly rising water*. Three women, who reached the tree tops from the second f<s?r of their house across the road from the i,i|H* home, were rescued tills afternoon hy boatmen. The property, losses of lumber and iuuusirial plants throughout the sec tion will reach an appalling total. WcmhIm orking plants along t lie French Bron 1 1 were washed away* thousands of dollars* worth of lumber l?ei?g dash ed MgaiiKt the abutments of concrete and bridges which span the French Mroad at this |*>iut. The municipal ?as and electric light plant- are half under water and the City tonight Is without gas and elec tric power. All plants depending U|w?i> ebvtie motive power. including the newspaper oftices of tile Aslievllle Citi seen and the Ashcville Times, are out of <-0111111 isslon and the city streets will be in darkness tonight. Tomorrow mornings four pace issue of the Citi zen Is being made up in a local job plant, wlierr the press is ru 1 1 by a gas Olllie engine. Karly thi~ ii?? ?I'liiiiir a two-story holism was ~ w f| ?t down tin* river with two men on it-. roof frantically waving ? t ? ? otritiokers st mi ?-;i i i inir for help. As they piysscd tin* Hiltmore road the men ! leaped from tin- house and were pick: ; ed up f?y boats Two minutes later the house Wib smashed t?? pieces against the concrete pier* of Itiltmore bridge. itself entirely under water. The Southern Railway is the heav iest sufferer <>f of am corporation in this section. The tunnels at old Fort are blocked with a mass of wreckage ; f-ai^ed dow n hy the flood. ami slides ! I roiu Saluda Mountain are still coni i Rig.* The railway Wlielals here ean irive no definite information as to when (rattle in and out of the eit.y will he resumed. If Hood conditions improve it is thought that trains will he in op eration hy- Tuesday or Wednesday, i I '.ridges ami culverts arc reported to have heen washed out in several places t hough confirmation is lacking. At 1<> o'clock tonight it was report" t-d that the big dam at Lake ToXaway was still holding. No auttiontic re port* have Iwn received as to t Vic ex tent of the catastrophe in Henderson \ille and Madison counties. The city of Ashcvillc proper is jn no danger from the flood, the waters bc iiili_canHned to tin* cotton mill district and railway sin-thuis of the city. Res idents of this city, who have Ihhmi made homeless, are being housed and fed hy relief coiuiiiit tees in the city high school. Thi^lotal damage to cotton mills, w oodwork inir plants mid lumber , mills ;i long the- French Hroad and l^wan uanot rivers is estimated from a mil lion and a half to two million dollars. This does not include Josses sustained hy plaids outside the county, whence . defltrtte re|H?rt? have not heen received, lu and around the village of Hiltmore i lie property loss, including woodwork ing plants a"d lumber yards, is esti mated at $.'100,000. The damage sus tained hy the hig Vaiulerhllt estate arouutl Biltmore cannot l?e ascertained until the waters recede, hut it is be lieved that the Hiltmore nurseries have suffered much damage. The worst suf ferers, from the flooded district of this city are the Hanx Reis tannery, hav ing an office at New York city: the Ashevllle Power and Light Company, the Graham County Lumber Company, the National Casket Company. the Azalea Woodworking Company, the : MV?|5wen Xumber Company, the Caro lina Machine Company, W. M. Jones ; woodworking Company. J. M. West all Company, the Citizens* Lumber Company: the American Feed Milling the BfRrtiore Sawmills. W. M. Westall ic Co., the Champion Man ufacturing Company, the Oassina Coal (Vuppany, the rblagah I/urober Com i Pan/, the Standard Oil Company, the . Southern Railway shops. the French Hroad MafiufactDring Company, the latter having branches at New York l The William M Jones Woodwork ing Company was practical^ an en t|re l???. the ?r.-i? r part of tl?? plant ttelug swcirt down Ihe river. Ow* Iiuii <1 ivif biniiMW ru* "Hit waf mm msmrt m-ro HUNhtti uway, A refiort rwelvwl fr< ?m Henderson villi* Nt 11 oVIork toiiluht statist tllMt the tlimd luul wrocuctlf {.'rent havoe there and that tin- |Mi?|?erty h?s IhrU ??ut (lciiil<'rsi?u nniiity w<?uW reaeh al ui?wt a million dollar*. Tin* Header nomiUe r.k'l.t and I'owi r Company 1s out of rouiinUvion and I km- elty rv#*f voir. liHvltiK Inh-ii Hllisl liy muddy tor rents to tlw overflowing i*?lnts, ha* rendered till' 1-ltvV supply of pier until for diinkliiK purjMi*e*. Many i?eopii> haw iss-ii driven from r!ii?t ?? homos hy tin- rising water* and Jtevurai woodeit hnlhlliuf* liaii- Utu earrled away, duly the hltf railway hclil^e south of llendiM'soiivllli' temaltiH lu tart. No train lias rea<'h<?l Hender sonvlllr lii tln? last t weiifV-fluiir hotfts. '* Ml ss MmIm-I fr 'ulster and Miss < 'liar lot tv Walker, two nurses at the Hlltt more Hospital, who were tir*| re|Mirted as liavlnu lieeu rescued from the home al Hlltmpre. are still missing and unaeootiuted for,. neeordiiiK to a r<f|M?rt reeelvvd from litltmore Hospital nt II o'eloek tonight. It is?feared that iht* I w<? yotititf women lost their lives vslu u rap*. U|* ami Mb two tlTH lnTlhlWtJ. TfiU1*r Mini MW NV?lkerr-l?^24 |a4 20. re>iH< tU**l>. Kyt-ut last ul^t | |\c M|H; ?????"' ?>"1 *'*?* 0& fc. 1 umiuu'ii w?rl> tUlH iuv/iiIuic. Thewl (tvertt>nuM?. Cai^ l.l|* two ?lauiiht**i> M?* ilnmiiwl. uud tt, \n" f?arvti tbnl the nurse* w?y t 1 o'clock litis morning Ku*?.n mniouiK^l tliut Mb the Kwan'uBMi himI French Bmad rivers \\ *-iy rauiX wcedliMf ???! m? further a? wmSTk 'r:iS:rr NOTIC'K. if, lln? ?lti> of l?\u, ^ twu djiinjrttt^r*,. Nwno.v Truewfcll ?m Sarah Triu^Wfc 15 ami H years <* n-4?-. rMHttwtMy. without ???>* ? provocation. U?ft ui^Jjjiuw near Wm VHlf: -Ht ^rlttTa all m warned not to eu?t?lo> or in any vuy. Iiurltor m.v wild children. Au> o* dlsreuardlux this nothv will W ^ iwtwl ,1KSSi; TltVKSliKI.U Father of Nancy *mj Surah Truewtol Camden. S. C.. JUly 15th, liMii. HUt*l With several hundred makers of automobiles in America, the Ford factory turns out more than one half of the entire finished product. Because the worth Of Ford cars as dependable, money - saving utilities has been demonstrated beyond all ques tion, the demand is constantly increasing. Order yours NOW. Runabout $390; Touring: Car $440; Coupelet $590 ; Town Car $640; Sedan $740. All prices f. o. b. Detroit. On sale at Kershaw Motor Co. Phone 140 Camden, S. C. J. W. McCORMICK, Prop. E. W. BOND; Mu?fer McCORMICK & COMPANY ? . * ? t.?Y *- 'r.y. Funeral Directors and Embalmers. Night Phone 2.i. AMBULANCE SERVICE. D*y Phone Country Calls Answered Promptly Day or Night. IT WILL "BEAR" THE TEST Wherever the sign of the "Ice Cream" is, there is the average girl's interest cen tered. And who can blame her? What is so cooling and delicious this hot weath er as a heaping plate of our matchless Ice Cream? Old and young alike find it pleas ant and palatable. Ours is pure, fresh made and deli cious, and we have it in all the popular flavors. Stand ard prices. Best quality. K< CAMDEN GANDY Spera fiebeos, Proprietor. Camden, 5. Phone 78. WOFFORD COLLEGE SPARTANBURG, S. C. Founded in 1854. AChriigian College with high standards and ideals. Located in the foothills of .the Blue Ridge Mountains. Offers full and thorough courses. Strong faculty. Well equipped Laboratories and Library* Next session opens September 20th, 1916. For catalogue and special information address Henry N. Snyder , Pre* Wofford College Fitting School A high_grade preparatory school for bojrs. Individ ual attention. Careful moral training. Expenses low. Next Session opens September 20th. For catalogue *** special information Address IKAD MASTER, SpirtM^i. S. C