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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE h. n. asm iwi f R. N. MrDovvell s P?iIiIImU?mI ??vt.?ry Friday at 11(H) No. HrunW Sfun't, and timrM at the 4'nm den poatotiice a* neeond elans mall mat- ' (ir, Prltu per annum 9IM We ?ire Kind to reeelve counounlca1 (Ioiih of tt reasonable length, but an , Importune condition of their puhllcd , don in that they shall In alt cane* he accompanied hy the full limine and exact addrex# of the Header. Ohltu- j (tries, reauliitloiiH of rea|HK*t, ami church notices will not be charged for. Mat tern of purely a personal nature will charged for at the rate of five cent* k line. WhlHkey or patent medicine ?d\oitlaemeitiH v?'.MI upt he accepted At, any prlee. Half's for display adver-' tlnloK made known on application. Camden, 8, Aujcu*t 17, 1917. ?DIFFKRKNCK" OR SHORTAUK? weeks Chronolle In reference to the va rious urniul Jui'Les of Kershaw County. Mr. K. T; Rstridge. Mir present fore iiiunVeuuests us t" stab* tliat slu<*e he has been foreman there lias been iio of ficial audit of any of Hit* county i?f tices. with t lit' CXCCpt loll of course of the cilice of si it'riff. ? This we ilo in Jliistice r<> Mr. Kst,ridge ami his asso ?'inl?'v on tlie grand Jur.v. We !iti?nded no i.'T. i.i e to any |mr? tli'iilar Jurors, but were speaking of the Juries in tbe past. What gave rise to i?>o ;? commCift M will be foUiid fiiithei oil in Mils article. i )n .November 111. Ihlo. \\ hi*u Mr. I!. .1. I .owls was tin- foreman of tin- urand Jury, wo luaih' tho following comments: "It seems to us that the' grand Jury in their last presentment won* a little inconsistent. In tin* beginning of the present men t wc read: "We find the variolic comity ofliees well kept. and the hooks in good shape. We. through niir foreman. cheeked the hooks and voucher* of the county treasurer, su perintendent 'of education ami sn|H?r visor and found same correct. We also Itey t<> say that the clerk from the ('oinpt roller (lenerar- ottice wax very <-<>1111?)i 11 m*ut:tt*\ in hi* remarks as to the hooks of (he various oftiecrs. as T<> the l>ookkco|tjii<: We through our foreman witnessed the settlement of the county otlicers. and everything seemed. as he-'t we could tell, to he .correct " < in top of this, the grand .iur.\ in the latter part of the present ment recommends that live hundred dollars rff the county's funds he used to audit the sumo hooks that they had already found to ho in such l'oimI shape. The latter part of the presentment rends: "We recommend that the hooks of all the county officers he audited hy a certified accountant from June :u?th. mil. to June :u>th. mi.". That same he given to <\ I. Yann. certi fied public accountant of Columbia. S. C.. for the viun of $.~oo. said audit to he approved hy the grand Jury, before said accountant snail receive said sum of As far as we know all of Nie comity oH'cers have no objection to their hooks ??,?!:itr audited and have nodi ie. to fear from this report. It looks 1 ? us P'ke a useless e\|M>iiditure ?'f the c<ei:i?\ funds." Mr. Vann. the acwiuitnut. In Id* re port filed on March -I. mit? made some comment on our criticism and says; "It is unfortunate that the county has never had a thorough investigation be fore" and recommends miving tile work done vearlv in the future. The following extracts from his re 1'ort on flie office of county Treasur er! "I submit on pages ."<! and ."7. .?iatements of State. <'otiiity, ami School funds ha ml left by tlm Treasurer for the ??nr ended .June .'{<>. 101 J. and similar Mrtti'inents r?S. ~>0. ami ftO year ? ?mlfil June 1*0. 101.S. 1 >rtjtes 01. 02. and ?Kl. year ended June 30. 1014, and mitres <>I. ami 0<i. year ended June .'?0. 101.1. respivt\vely ,iml balances. Page 117 slum . 1 ?:?laikt< to lip ac counted for iii .lime 101.". ami how iKH'iHintoil f.n Thi' ha la nop to In* ;i??<??>!!nf?m 1 f": imm <???ttlenient sheets wore $.'57.I .'12 <">. m\ rorreeted figures *;ift.n-m..aui. different $i.r?n;.r?i. which difference is made up as follows; Year ended Jum* .in. 1012. State funds; No change. County Funds : Nov. 1H. 11111. Willi.- Wil liams fined $100.00 1 ? \ tin' (Viiirt ivliich-wft" reduced by the rjovemor to $.%0.00 SKKI.atl was eh:ircred up b\ the Tre a ?nrer Instead <>f $50Jk> Cr *."io.on TVT.. mi 2. .T. Tt Wat kins Medl?-a! Co.. license *100.00 i'(dle<-ted hv Clerk of Court ai'd turned over. left out of settlement in error Pi' I'lO.OO Jan. 17. 1012. payment bv Treasurer to Sinking Fund ? ommission <?n account Court House Hond*. $1,000.00. tflk vn credM for ff*- $2000.00. which t't-ror f prt**uiuo wh? caused by tin* fae-i I bat |2, (nmi.oo whh li?rho pro vlouM Si&i ('II Ihe same uc count. u lilrli . oveiert two ye?ar*. Mini 11 it-" Treamuror re< uii'iulK-riiUt it simply cu(orv<l tl|? (he jjiJ.OOOIHt i||M(?*at| Of , v i(mh11hi I>r. l.ooo.oo Not difference County fund f 1,050.00 Si-IiihiI Funds: Not differemv lit taxes % t'bu rued against Ttvamiror li> iIn* County Auditor, Dr. |9.'40 Total ii?*t UlltoivimfH for ill*' >04)1* 1012 Dr. *1,055.20 Then follows Itemized statements of "differences" fur the yen I'M 1918, 11114 n Od 1015: v Hceapltnlatiou of DlttWence*. state* Fuml: Your oialwl 0-80 11115 Dr. $1M1.40 Ye?ar cialoil 0 80 ll>1|i Dr. 1050.00 Year ended 0-80-1018 Dr. 9.80 Year ended 0^80-1914 Dr. 24.00 Year ended 0-80-1015 Cr. 02.98 Not difference County Dr. 1020.82 School Fund : Year oneled 0-80 1012 I>r.. 5.20 Your ended 0 .*10-11)18 Cr. 450.02 Year ended 0-80-11)14 Cr. 10.50 Year ended 0-80-1015 Dr. 801.05 Net difference School Dr. $.890.78 < ? rii i id 'IN >t a I I Mffereiiros Dr. $1510.01 The above Is printed for Ibo Infor mation of the (nx-puycrs and the gen leral public. The report shows very I clearly thnt there Is a shortage of $1,510.01, whh'h Mr. Vartn calls h ("difference". Whether this shortage or 1 "dlffere?nce" was intentional we do not know, hnt there has never been any showing where tills "dlflWi'iieo" Jtian been made good. The c ounty paid out $500.00 to have this audit made, and we believe the public is entitled to know of his find ings. The pnblc would, also like to know tin* difference between a "difference" and a shortage*. A mlsllt?an American flap at tho masthead of the Charleston Ameri can. In one of the count It's a young man was exempted from military duty be-i . cause the doctors couldn't find his heart. An exchange wants to know if they looked for it in his mouth. Sumo married men wo know are not dreading this conscription one tdt. They will probably prove valuable in the trenches, too, ns most of them arc >ea-oiit'd fighters.? Lancaster News. Some one has suggested the slogan: "To gi\e until it hurts" to replace 1 the one "do your hit*' and an exchange 1 says that it won't work with some peo ple. for ihey are too easily hurt. Anioie.r other thins*, the city council might pas< an ordinance prohibiting the sale of .lamacia singer a* a bev era ire. Since we can't set the genuine arth-le. we don't' need the substitutes. You will have to hand it to the Columbia Heeord for putting at least one "scoop" over the newspapers. As .arl\ a< la*t- week it's readers were ; advised to "do your (^hristmas shop ' iiil' early." Ii i? said 'Coventor Manning has lieen offered a place on t'he Inter-State Commerce Commission. If he accept Andrew Jackson Methea will succeed him as (iovernor. Sparc u* good Lord! York News. < >ue way to heat the high cost of, , living, is to huv your summer clothing about the tirst of September. <>f ' 'oursf it may he out of style next reason but that will make little dif I fereuce -with the married men. Several of our county friends have mailed us the names of visitors at ?hcii te me within the past few weeks. We appreciate this thought fulness and hope that others will let us know of their visitors. A citizen was heard to remark the other day that this was becoming a county of "stops". The law-makers have stopped the sale of whiskey, the new Sheriff has stopped the Sunday j -ales, and the city officials have stop ped the faithful old town clock. F.?r twenfv vear* or more we have plead with the |?eoplc of this county | to patronize the merchants in this town, but if the merchants don't show more appreciation of our efforts along thi* line we will he tempted to ipiit boosting for them, and go to work i for the mail order houses. i The seventeen countries now in the i war on the side of the Kntente are | Croat Britain, France. Russia. United, States. Belgium. Italy. Japan. Human-j ia. Serbia. Montenegro. Creece. Cuba. I Portugal San Marino. Siam, I.Iberia ; and China. China Is the la*t to de-! dare war agaiu*t Cermanv and the | Central Powers. She has a pnpula- J tion estimated at around five hundred, million. There will be more money sjtent In 1 ?ii- count) the coining season than 'H r before, and our home merchant*: * an keep all of if at home if thc.v in. We want to continue to work for the home merchant?, but advertising *| ?ce it! these columns Is for *ale, and we a re going to sell if. If the II merchant* don't want if w e wilt have no difficulty in securing contract* with the mail order houses in the larg er place*. Come in and let u* talk the pro|K?sltion over with you. Mr. Camden Merchant. Tin* ninety-ninth wonder of the world -^-Ihe woman wfoo refuse* to talk. _ lt'ji.iuu uncommon *lglu net* - a unui with a Murk eye how- or ml one* either, ! > ( ^ , ?'"**> I 'Tls sail, hill the little Kljlh ineet [ hc?'s which we I overt so well, have j lost 1 heir "punch". As* And what has iveconie of Hie t?l?l* fashioned uutorooblte horn which was 1 Unrated with a bulb? Jf a Jong face was cause fur re jection we know one young u?an who wouldn't go to France^ An automobile has to "play second llddle to ft long-tongued woiimHiu lien it comes to running i?eopl? doh n. One of the food ways of getting even with a |K?rson Is to pay him what you owe him, says the (irej'nwood Index. No. we don't have to print the 'sfuv' that appears Ip this column each week. We do It because we want to. "The fellow who stopi>ed on third hase to congratulate himself never made a home run" says an exchange. Keep your eye on the man who say* advertising doesn't pay. The chances are he's scheming to get sotue free. We want someone who knows to tell us If Palm Itcach suits were in tended to lit. We have not neen one that did. We are told that there was very little enthusiasm for Itleasy at Filbert. The day dawns, the night Is breaking. ?York News. "Drive to the right" applies to driv ing a nail as well' as. an automobile. If you don't believe It try injsslng a nail on the left. < >f course we know the weather is hot and these are strenous times. hut isn't it abort time for the county polit ical pot to begin boiling. Some day Camden will be a real city, but it won't be until we have more residences and fewer "farms" within the corporate limits. An cieclrician states that it takes times as nuich power to produce llgnt as it does to make noise. The same can be said of some of our poli tic! a ns. I'M l?e('amp can say more in throe lines than anyone we know: Here's hi* latest: "When you take fhjnirs easy be sure that they do not follong to other j>eoplp." The Judge who sentenced a Cana dian i???lyjr?imi^t to service ?t I? the frout line when 'his regiment next goes into action evidently wanted tt^ give the poor devil a rest. j There is much more 'happiness In ihi- world thun most of us suspect. I hut if we gel our share of it. avo I must eontrive to contribute some hap j pluess to others.?(iaflfney T/edger. We heard a man say last week that ( lie had three quarts of whiskey at j his home. No. Hud. he doesn't live i in Camden, hut we ex|wet to have, oc casion to visit his home pretty soon. \}"e can't yet sick enough to go he fore the Probate Judge, hut the law 'allows us to make a little wine. and. j 'i\ golly, we're going to do our level I liest to corner the seuppemong market I this season. One of the most pathetic eases among the young men who were drafted Is the fellow who practically starved himself for about three weeks in or der to reduce his weight, only to find when he appeared for examination that his weight bad increased. A hee. once having lost its temper and used Its stinger, becomes useless nnd soon dies. So it is wit.h human beings. Once they are no longer able to control their temper and l>e cool aim! calm under trying circumstances* ju-t so soon they begin to slip and los?> their grip and usefulness.?Select ed. "What has l>ecome of the <.'d-fash loned fellow who used t<i wear his Itearri so long that he could tuck the end of it under the wal*' 1 and ' of hl< trousers ?fJaffney Ledger. His eugenic grand-children have probably convliMtil the obi fellow that this method of conveying germs was too old-fashioned, and persuaded him to <-Ut It off. We saw a couple of passenger^ oars go through CJaffney on the Southern the ortier day from Texas that were ladened with recruits for the army and navv. On the side of both ears was written In large letters the Inele gant hut expressive sentiment r "To hell with the Kaiser."?Oaffnev ledg er. A little rough perhaps, but which expresses our xentlment* exactly. And He Was Drawn on Friday. "Talk about a harfj luck combinn-i Hon." says the Brunswick News, "In the draft li?t Mr. Will T>le was X. . l"l.t at Marshall. Texas. Pests. ??f all pests we |iellerc the worst i* the religious crank who will stop a man in the broiling sun to prattle about his hobby.?Camden Chronicle. And the fellow who atops you when' you are very busy, and proceeds to tell yon about all toe great deed he has done, when you know he Is lyincJ faster than an^automotdlr can speed. ?<"5reenwood Index. w Treason. Article !J. section 3, of flic* emistfiU' t Ion of tlx- United Slab's read* : 'Tiva won against the I'nttrd State* ?h?H consist only In levying war against them. or In adhcrlug to their eucuiiC*, 2T\ lug them at hi and comfort. No per | mid filial I be convicted of (fva*on un less on tln? testimony of two witnesses to the Mttiue overt act. or on cuuftata ton iii eourl." We would wonder If-the kuiser In reading saute t?f the stuff reproduced in certain American l>a|H'is or spoken hy certain Individ mils in this nation. State and County, If lie would not thick it comforting ti? have such staunch friends. To look with friendliness toward the ner mann Is to say you approve of the savage method yf warfare of the Kaiser a ml his ally, the unspeakable Turk ? 1? ? ?r Some Ijnvyer and Some Jury. In mentioning an arrest made hy Sheriff I. C. Hough of a merchant near Boy kin, whom lie caught In the act ? f selling merchandise on Sunday the Camden Chronicle makes' the follow ing comment following the irial and acquittal of the accused: "Barnes admitted me sale of the I H#ur and the evidence printed hy. the Sheriff wax uncontradicted. A Jury, however, brought it a verdict of not guilty. Barnes was represent-1 ed by Attorney G, G. Alexaiuler." It's some la wye, sure enough, who , ? in make a jury refuse to beMeve his; client's udmissi m of ^,1111 *, notwith-! standing his'confession is corroborated j by tin* Sheriff's ? esUmony that lie was 1 jan eye witness to the fuct. We can* iiot help wo.nlenng if the tiial inagls lu.te forgot to p?: th.it Jury under 0:1 tii??Kershaw Era. Typical of Southern Kent intent. Last Sunday the i?eople of Spartan burg took the members of Company 1 >. Twenty-Second New York Engi neers. into Mielr homes, and the Her ald says of the experiment that "tin* pleasure was mutual." The Herald sa.vs tills was done "not only for the sake of extending an appropriate wel come to the young men as our guests. !>ut as an expression of the friendly feeling the whole community has for the entire New York (luard." If It were possible to have *tlit' entire 40. ihh? td dinner, says The Herald, '.'that would be done" This is typical of the sentiment of Southern towns to ward the troops which are soon to come. They are going to lie looked upon largely the nature of the guests of these Southern communities.?Char lotte Observer. II. S. Hyrd. a well known citizen ? if Darlington County whose home was (about three utiles from Darlington. ! was instivntly killed at Mars Bluff. | Florence County. Saturday morning i when a freight train on the Atlantic Coast Line ran'into the automobile in which he was riding. Wright Brown, a negro, was put in jail in Augusta. Ga.. Tuesday charged by Cnited States officers with having offered money to a member of the Burke county. Ga.. exemption board-to b i*111 ir about his disqualification for tin- army on the ground of physical defect. "I'm a full blooded German, but I want to help lick the kaiser. I don't like 'his way of doing business." With tlii-. Henry C. Gemsjager a prosper ?hi* young German farmer, applied f<>r enlistment in the army at Clarks burg. W. Vrt.. Monday. He will be ac cepted. Kev. ,J. A. Sliglt. SI, u well known Lutheran minister died at his home near Columbia, early Tuesday morning. Kev. Sligh served three terms a a rep resentative in the legislature /-from Newberry county 'and later served as railroad commissioner. He was close ly associated with the Farmers' Al liance and the Reform movement led by B. U. Tillman. Alexander Quick...a marlboro <-ounty \ negro asked exemption from army ser vice last week on the ground that he belongs to 11 church opposed to war. Mrs Mattle Adams, acquitted of killing Cap J. Edgar Spratling of the Fifth Georgia Infantry at Macon, sev eral months ago. has been adjudged Insane. BUCKEYK Hulls have *>??n fed by farmers, dairy. men and stock rocn through' out the South .for the p,? m ?year. Kcporu from these feeders indicate that these Unties* hulla when properly fed, are a great improvement over the old style By actual use, these feeders have found the following advantages of using V?AN RlJC^tYF W ? COTTONSKKO ? ? V HULLS V LINTIIAI , Every pound of the Buckeye Hull* contains much more food vshie because the lint on the old style hulls has no food value. The price per pound of real roughage in the form of Buckeye Hulk is very much lets than in the form of the old ttyle hull*. Buckeye Hulls do not clog or flux the digestive tract. Other foods mixed with them are readily assimilated. # / They are free of trash and dust. They are sacked and easy to handle. They tal$e half as much space in the barn. If you have not tried Buckeye Hulls, please remember that thousand* of feeders are using them and will use no other roughage. If you have not given Buckeye Hulla a fair trial, let the experience of thtise - successful feeders guide you in using them as they fchould be used. Mr. Oiwmy Yarber, BoonaviB*, Ark., has fad a carload of Buckeye Hulls to cows and calm to gat them ready for tha ranqe. He had been feed ing hay and ha find* that theu dld much hatter on Buck / ?ye Hulls as roughage. He has another car of Buckeye Hulls bought. Ta secure tha hast rssuhs and ta devalep the ensilage edar, wet the Mb thoroughly twelve hours before feeding. It laeasy to da this by waiting than dawn night and marnia* far tha Part faadtog. lt at say tfw this cannot ha don., wet down at laast ttorty minutas. If yau prefer ts | faad tha hulla dry, use anly half** much by hulk as af eld sty la hugs. ? ) Book of Mixetf Feeds Free Gives the right formula for 'every, combination of feeds used In the South. Tells how much to feed fqr pnaintenance, for milk, for fat. tening, for work. Def$ribea Buckeye Hulla and glvea directions for using them properly. Send for y?|T copy to the nearest mill. tups, i The Buckmye Cotton Oil Co. o*#. Atlanta Wnshgtow , - ~ Chariot*s v WILL HONOR I)K. BARUCH Exercise to Mark Naming of The Riv ington Street Bath. A civic celebration will be held in August at the Klvington street pub lic bath to commemorate the official naming of Hie building its the I>r. Simon llaruch Public Hath. As a trib ute to l?r. Baruch's persistency in working for public bath facilities, the hoard of Aldermen a few days ago passed a resolution to give his name to the Hivington street structure the first of the series of municipal bath houses to be opened. The Itivington street building was opened in 1910. The hath demonstrated its usefulness at once, and of the thir teen1 ha Mi houses now maintainel by the city on Manhattan Island it is one of the most crowded. J>r. Haruch began his campaign for public baths in New York city in 1880. shortly after his investigation of the public baths in (Jermany. He was ehairman at the time of the committee of hygiene of the New York County Medical Society.?New York Times. The number of deaths caused by flic heat wave for the week ending August 4th. is estimated at 055 by the department health bulletin. * * NOTICE. A meeting of the Stock-holders of Kershaw Motor Company will be held at the office of D. C,. Shaw in the Ctfy of Sumter. S. on September' tins 14th. 1017 at eleven o'clock in. the fore^ noon, for the purpose of considering a resolution to decrease the capital stock of said corporation. . >V The minimum amount to which ?!?> is proposed that the capital shall reduced is two thousand dollars,. I>. C. SfiAW, 18-21 President... ? j Major Julius J. Wagetter, 11 known citizen of Charleston, died his home In that city :fburwlaj\ n 71 years. He served throughout War Between the .section* and Major of the First Infantry, 8ra M- (luring the Spanish American i Lost Certificate. This is to certify that Certificate) i 96, three shares of Series No. 9 of 1 ' terprlse Building & Loan Associitl of Camden. S. C., dated January 1011, has been lost and that after j* llcntlou of this notice required na her of tlipes I will apply for aootii certificate of said shares. Said ert Urate was transferred from Tayi Ifywell to (Mrs.) T. J. Boykbt (Mrs.) T. .T. Boykln. Camden, C., Aug. 9, 1917. NOTICE OF ELECTION ?A pet it ion having been filed ?rl the County Board of Education dpi l>y one-third or faore of the reside! electors and a like proportion of ti resident freeholders of the *#e of! years of Gumbei;ry Sohool District H 'I; asking for an election to be M to determine whether or aot ? 8p?* lfejkry of 4 mills shall , be made^P1 the property in the District for acf"* purposes and the County Board Education having granted salfl I t)^n, notice is hereby given that elation for said purpose will be Gumberry School House, on ? gust 24th laat. At said >h elector must before he ean w feibit his tax receipts and ?f .tion certificate and reside in ' itrict. Polls will opea at 8 ?? 1 close at 4 p. m. H. C. McLendon, I. J. Sinclair . t . 8. B. Kelvin. Bdard of Trustees 'or School Bwn . 15o. 3. m8-* FARM i ' ' teisatitt < V ??, i ??*-.-<.?? ?-???? V f ? t 356 acres of land near Boykin, S. C., known as the Ancrum Hill tract-, ?J ,$12.00 per acre. 472 acres of land 4 miles fro Lugoff, S. C. on National Highway, one 4 room dwelling, 2 barns, 4 tenant houses. Premises now occupied by W. W, Fnce. , per acre $17.50. % 68 acres of land 3 miles from Cassatt, S. C., 30 acres under - cultivation 4 room dwelling, one barn. Pric e$l,600.00 * -o? : 165 acres 7 miles South of Camden of Charleston public road. Two ? ? ; houses, rents this year $1>75.00. Price per acre $30.00r~ C. P. DuBOSE & REAL ESTATE INSURANCE pHONB CROCKER BUILDING