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LKK COUNTY NKW8 jypg Uiiereat W.hwwl From liisli OpvWe VindtrMior. ^l, Winchester Fitch, of Now York. l?, is spending tho winter In Camden *11 u> a pleasant oh 11 last Monday. Ill' whs *o pleased with Blshopvlllo nJ tlx* surrounding ooiHttrj (ho oaiue jiri'Ok'ii ,l14' oountry in his n.uto) tliat J. is miii prised :it I ho people not bulld> I', |, in cist hotels as Oh union has done I ut,| a share <?f tho tourist travel. II,. was parlieiilnrh' struck with (lie (iriU,(l ,,|HMiiim? of fanning lands which offer jjr?'at opportunities fur divers^ d,.(| farinii>)X and raising c?f live s'ook. He >ii>^ farmers in Now York state! have i" ,,14''r *toek six months out )f Uu> yonr ami still thoy make money. *lille lioro In tho south ihoy ooulcl iiavf liiK* pastures tho yoar round. Wo Mijoyod Mr. Fitch's short visit very Hiti.ii and ho|M? ho will call again. \ number of farmors In Lot* county Iihvo organized ft>r tin* purpose of ,>?i|iln>iiiix co-operatively a man to col loot tliolr cream for siiipiuont to the orisunery in I>arllliglon. Tho cream i roiitr has been In oporiitlon since tho! ,irsi (.f March and during this tlmol die weekly collodions have Increased i froiu ten gallons to more than thirty. \Vile> Cook, an industrious colored' man living on Miss .lanlo Peebles' place. got his stahlo and barn burned ?n last Thursday night about 12 o'clock Ht> lost about l-"> bushels corn, l,(KH> bundles of fodder,-olio horse val-j uimI ai $-00. Two mules wore also fondly burned but will recover. His I total loss was about $(MH) with n?> In iU rni ice. The origin of fire Is a mys , (pry I>ut there Is strong suspicion as being the work of an incendiary* The tramp foreigner who has been hu in in i i ik around hero for two or three ?ninths rolling a wheelbarrow accom panied by a largo bull dog. was ar rested yesterday as a suspicious char acter and bulged in jail. When search ed map drawings of various places were found among his possessions. Supf. .1. T. Muiinoiiyn went to Held fille, N. ('. last woelyto see his hrotlicr In-law. Mr Hubert' Butler, who was taken with blood poison caused froiu a tfiiall particle of steel that pricked the end of his linger. lie Is an employee nf the American Tobacco Co.,, who had liiin taken lo the hospital at (Jreens hero ami had his arm amputated, lie is in a very critical conditl<ui but tho lateM telegram says he is still con ?rieiis and that there is a ray of hope. .Mr. <Hto Mathis, who was a member uf I lie Second 'Heglmont. N. got '?ack In rue last week. He was delighted to get back, but said- while army life wa* ii"t altogether a picnic, there was a favrinat ion about it that tempered ilie rough atmosphere uf camp life "hai made il bearable. While a little i burnt, he looks the picture' of health and says he never felt better. II" h:e. gone to work alreadv with Mr. 0<>kor at HurUvlllo, (iov. Manning litis tip|M?iuted tho lltUi. Thus. Ci. Mvl^snl ??f UlHhopvUle trustee fur WTnthrop College, vlcti W111 tii in l,. tilazo, of Orangeburg, de 0011 Sedr ?\lr. JhiKone Ui-aroji last week took to Washington it car load of *t?>ck eon* sIstliiK of I'j.'i lut^s, 'J,*l ii?\ss, 17 goats ami s sheep, w lii?'li lu1 gathered fitnu tlit' farmers of l.i'v County. lie got a good price fur overy one and made ? nice Hide profit for himself. \\ INNSHOHO'S NKW MILL Output to hi> Consumed in Maniifu<>(ur<> of .Auto Tires. VYliuishoro, March l'P According to a statement issued today for put. Hon - tion, liy Mostou capitalists, uwnrr.'. of tli?> Winnshoro Mills, tin* big annex now Milldiny I" the ?>1 < 1 structure will aggregate a cost of $1 Ml. Tho o|H'i'atlun of iIn* now plant will begin July I 11117. Tho output of tho mill will ho consumed h\ tlio 1'idted States Rubber Company in tlio manufacture of autoiuoltilo tiros. A large foroo of workmen is rushing tho joh to com plotiou to lusuro tho starting of tho machinery oil cant rati timo. Loral business mon aro olatoil o?er tho prosiHM-ts of a new industry noar tho outskirts of tlio town as a con oroto ovldonoo of tho hulldors' oontl donoo of tlio Industrial futuro of tho town, l'lans. it Is known, liavo hoon submitted for tho orootlon of a hotol on tho nil 11 proporty for tho quarter inn of tho office employees and otliors, hut no ilollnito. Information as to tho si/.o ami cost has hoon roportod. Ended in u Kiot. A mass-mooting hold in Baltimore last Sunday night untlor tho auspices of tho Aniorloiin league against Mili tarism, ?'ii<lt'tl in a riot. A* countor donioiistration was organized on tho pavoniont of tho aoadoiny of Musio. in which l>r. Ihivid Starr .Ionian was speaking. Finally tho crowd t<n?k tho mattor into its own hands and led hy sonio liillitIninoii hroko Into the theater and marched down tho aisles, waving a large A morion u flag. There was an audience of about L'.tHK) inside, and about that number tried to enter. Several lights started. The police de partment had soumled a riot call and Im>1 lee frojn every section of the city soon arrived. Kjeclions started, the lights wore dinimod and the meeting broke up just as l>octor Jordou was reaching an impassioned climax in his address. Mon socially prominent led the throng of College professors, students, bankers and lawyers wore tlionv Carter (!. Osburn. .Ir.. a banker, was- at the head waving a flag. A policeman oluhbed him into uiiconscious ness and a crowd which ?*aw I In* flan disapj>ear from his hand, leaped for ward. swept tho police aside and not Into the theater. Twenty men were clubbed and four of them were taken to a hospital. A dozen others wore ar rested; Al'TOMOKIlK CAN HK TAKKN Ity Vnriy Injured Ity It, Na Mutter Who Owiih It. j , ????i" <- H A cHHt' of considerable moment uiul i Interest to all automobile owfiora has Just Ihmmi ?I?mI l?y ll(<* supremo court. The cast' had Its Inception In IMIIon county ami was carried to the ?u preuic coui't from Uillon county, the title of the cast' being Merchants and Planters Hank of Mulllus, S (V, against S. I .a no, Sheriff of IMIIon county. The en He arose under the statute of South Carolina, giving to any i>orsou damaged hy an automobile the right t?> seine such autoniohlle hy attach' ment. In the Instant case, Y. II. Hyatt was Injured hy an automobile of II. \V. Hrlgmuu. llyutt aciJted the auto mobile through Sheriff Lane, and the Merchants and Planters ltank of MuL tins, hav ing a chattel mortgage past | due on the automobile, brought action 1 to take the automobile from the Hherlff. The sheriff resisted the action, hut the lower court gave Judgment against the' sheriff and awaldcd the automobile to the Merchants and Planters Hunk on the ground that the act of the legLsIa- . ture giving tjie right to seize an auto mobile was unconstitutional. I The sheriff appealed to the supreme; court and the judgment of the lower court was reversed In a recent opinion by Associate Justice Watts, and the su preme court awarded the automobile to the sheriff holding (hat the act is con stitutional. Sheriff Lane was represented by Joe' P. Lane and <!. (J. Mclaiurin. The owner* of automobiles m:t,\, therefore, take cognl/atice of this case and be very careful with their machines a.v the automobile may be taken. c\eu I when driven by a stranger, the same las when it is driven by the owner, i and should a stranger take your auto mobile oli the street and run over any lone with It. the automobile would be liable for the damage.?I>llloii llcrald. Mr. Fumlerburli'H Family. Mr. T. A. Fumlcrhurk has moved from ("In-raw, S. where he has been living for several years, back to Ills old home near Liberty Hill church In Lancaster Coi^nty, S. where he says he will live until he ceases to live. Mr. Fuuderburk was here Inst Monday. He says he has sixteen child ren. I>?it that is not a large family as families are counted down on Hill's Creek in Lancaster county. And then Mr. Fuuderburk said: "My gramlfath. ers each had sixteen children : my cousin Henry Fuuderburk had sixteen and :ny relative J. T Fuuderburk had sixteen I don't think sixteen cliild i>"i are ?? > many after all."Monroe Kn <|iiii,er. I v. M. Lucas has bought TOO at res of land i:i Orangeburg county and will go into stock raising. He moved from Ma rlbon >. IvFICSIIVW NEWS NOTKS. Inl?>rw(hf lln|n?ri?ii?K^ <iHthrml FYom TI?o Kra of That riac?\ Tho lands advertised by (J. (I Welsh, administrator, were sold at Camden Monday. The homo plans containing llvo acres of land and fail Mine's, brought $d,5tH>; and tho I a to ton t In one aoro, ^ituaUsI hotvvwii I ho lnaaos of t\ N. Houser and U. I.. Hilton brought $.'100, Itoth of these woix bought by Hold. S. Floyd, Mas. W. C. Moore and Mrs. (!. F. lilt liner. Tho four foot strip lying along tin rigid of way at the Southern Itatlway passenger station, was bought by Mr. Welsh. Mrs. FU/.a Peach died at the boiao of her daughter, Mrs. W. L. (iasklns, at \Yi\stvlllo. last Wednesday after mam at tho ago of sovonty-foitr years. She had hoon In III hoalth for about four years, but was confined to hor bed only ahout four weeka. Mrs. Pouch, before hor marriage, was Miss Wllsta West. Hor husband pmvded hor to tho gravo about forty yoars. She leaves survlv iiik' three daughters, Mrs. Sarah Itruco, <>f Camden ; Mrs. W. h. (iasklns and Mrs, W, H. Owon, of NVostvlllo: and f(?ur sons, Summit' and l.cnimie Peach, i f Cassatt ; Willie Poach, of itethunc; aia| Kobert lVach, of WoNtvlllo. An pffuN is now being mado to huvc a special train run front Heath Spring to Camden on Friday, April Tilth to ac comodate the crowils from bilwrty Hill, Kershaw and WoHtvllIo who will attend the Fiold Hay exorcises at Camden on thai date, Prof. Seott and his assist ants are anxious for Kershaw jteople to attend tho event on masse and to this end they ijsk all merchants to close their places of business and go holp Kershaw win. Miss Theresa McDonald, who is teaching ill Chestellleld-couuty, Visited her parents. Mr. and Mrs. I *. Mcl.)oii ahl. last week. It was mcntione<l in the Era st'Vrral months ago thai the Presbyterian con gregation had decided to build a new church. They have been moving along quietly in the matter, securing subscript 11 on s and laying plans. Within t la past ton days, however, new activities have been instituted and the prosjioots are now* good for a very early begin ning *?f real work. The present build ing has been bought by tho Second ltaptlst ehurcht nnd will Ik* moved to the site donatort to them by the Ker shaw Cotton Mill. In the neighbor hood of ten thousand dollars in sub scriptions have Ikh'H secured already, and il is the purpose.of the Presbyter ians to build a church that will be a credit to tin? denomination and serve their needs for years to come. Kev. John II. <?raves, pastor of the Camden Melh<*dlst church, delivered an Interesting address in the Kershaw Methodist church Sunday morning orr the subject of Christian education. in< the interest of the statewide movement I to raise a fund of J?I100.(mk? in aid of J the MethodM colleges in South Caro lina. Mr. < I raves spoke also at t he two ether churches on the Kershaw charge I Damascus and Shiloh. Uev. \V. S. Hough, who has just com pleted a course of study at the South ' T7W4rS THE POLISH"' ' SHOE POLISHES ICK -BLACK-WHITE~TAN~ |(X F.F Dulm Cttol'New^brk.litf, Bu^la,NY ern Itaptisl Tlusdotflcal Seminary :it Louisville, Ky., pmiched ill Pleasant Plains church Sunday. Mr llou^h was formerly manager of the Lancaster New s. Hev .1. I*. Tucker and lte\ I. A Mititioll. who is temi?orurlly serving flu- Camden Itaptisl church as pastor, exchanged pulpits Sunday, tIn* former preaching in t h#% Camden Itaptisl ehurch nt tin' morning service, and the latter in I lie Kershaw' Itaptisl church lit the morning servh-e. Mesdanies \\\ A. Itryson and K. II. Williams, of A: hcvllle, N. aro visit iuu in Kershaw al the home of Mr. 1 >. li. rielchvr A lU,dit occurred In the ciuirl of common pleas Friday morning between A. Phelps who ?'iis undertfoinK cross examination hy .1. II. < Mi ft on, when the former left the witness stand and made an attack on the hitter. Sev eral severe bruise* were ilitlieted u|h?ii Mr. Clifton's forehead hy blows .struck J by Mr. l'helps before I he two men were separated. The diUlculty follow ed questions hy Mr. Clifton, which Mr. Phelps stated were an imputation u|kui Ids jrood name and which be resented. In response to Mr. I'helps' statement. Mr. Clifton offered to meet him outside nt tin\ lime. Mr. I'helps step|>ed down frtVin the witness stand and advanced townrd Mr. Clifton who started out I from behind the table whei'e lie was I stamliuL'. Froiu statements heard of | the affair it seems that Mr. I'helps I was not hit by Mr. Clifton while he J landed several olows on the lat'ter's face, A sea 1 rin^ on Mr. I'helps' hand lidded to* the severity of the blows. Sumter Item. Charlotte Uo>e. a nej^ro woman of Clarendon county killed herself lasi week by euttinjr her throat. Lexington Folks I'lotest. At a small meeting ?? f cithM'iis of I o .Vinson < ?iu11I s held Monday after iii >i hi it resolutions a^alict wtir willi (?cruoiny were adopted ami Coventor .Millining was censured for his deela ration in favor of war. When Cov eenor Mautilnu was shown a copy of 11n ? resolutions he issued tli?' following statement : "1 inn nut in the least disturbed l>\ the ulteiancos of a handful of mi patriotic citizens with uiimls which do not sit iho attitude of Americans, 1 have too much res|icet. for ami confldomv in the patriotism and lion or of the people of IjcxiilKton County, or of the people generally la- South Carolina, to hellevo tluit this reso lution represents the true sentiment of South ("aroliniaus. Any man or set of men anions us who would forsake the American llnK when it is helnu' insulted and American lives destroyed hy an enemy already at war auaiust us, is not true and 1<>>uI to his Stat?< ami country. We demand war. not for conquest, hut h> protect American lives and the honor of our country. To do this is the only |>osition that tin* true citizen cyn fake?to do less would he eowanlly and unmanly. "When I 1m* time conies for action South Carolina will do her part, whether these citizens of Ijcxinufou county do their part or i m > t. Tlio heroic records of our ancestors, win* fought for liberty and humanity. \j*i 11 bo upheld." Coventor Manning has anuouiM'cd the following appointments for the qua roriuast >r corps of the National (Tuard: Major !?'. W. ?Hen. Major A. C. Movie. 4'api. Andrew Aiicruin and ('apt. 1> II. ('otter all of Columbia. Major Doyle was supply captain of the Second South Carolina rem men t on i the border, and Capt. Colter ! ? i retired regular army sergeant. .4 f I /^JL J?i THE SEVERAL WEEKS OF OUR SALE ARE GETTING NEAR THE END, WHICH WAS HIGHLY APPRECIAT ED BY OUR PATRONS, RE ALIZING THE GREAT BAR GAINS WHICH WERE OB TAINED IN OUR STORE DURING THIS SALE, THERE FORE OWING TO THE THOUSANDS OF PLEASED CUSTOMERS WHICH AT TENDED OUR SALE FROM THE OPENING DAY AND UP UNTIL TODAY THE SAI^ WAS OF GREAT SUCCESS. ' H. L. SCHLOSBURG The Man Who Undersells Then All THE GREAT ADVANCE ON ALL MERCHANDISE IS PRETTY WELL KNOWN TO EACH AND EVERY ONE, THOUGH WE ARE WILLING TO SHARE OUR PROFITS WITH YOU AT ANY TIME JUST BEAR IN MIND WHEN IN NEED OF FIRST CLASS MERCHANDISE AT THE LOWEST PRICES H. L. SCHLOSBURG'S STORE IS THE PLACE TO FIND IT. HARRY L. 944 MAIN STREET THE UNDERSELLING MERCHANT CAMDEN, S. C.