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TIIK HVOAH MITUATION f Hoovrr Kt^lirM to Hptvrbfx on CuVPe ! of Sugar Kami a*. I l (I(M/v(ir. UiiltfMl State* K?hm| l>H n IkwimmI H HtHti'IUflll. from WftHhUwton ,rt?plytli# to tlio char^r* of Oliuw M|>iwJ<Umi, iiult*jM>inl flit HUuar Ilefluer. to the effect that the Kikm) Administration In rtwpo^dbh* for the uliortajfe of sutfar lu thl* eoun try. The cluif|M of Mr. Hi>re<'kle*w*>rc marie nt h htsrliuc before thu K*iiaU? < Vniimltlw In WiiMhlutthqi I tut 'week.! Mr. Iloover makes thu following dear cut statement an to the alius anil pur Imjjws of the F<mhI AiliulnUt ratioji : A Club Plan Resort near the Sarsfielil Coif Course. Buying and Cooking Jess YVillard says: "Good food isn't ho much a mutter of money as of buying and cooking*" That is exactly what we seek to impress upon the people of this town. You should know how to buy. And you^ should know where to buy. That's the im portant knowledge. WE STUDY FOOD VALUES We know how to buy to the best advantage We pass the knowledge on to the selling. You get. the benefit. Your kitchen is the most important room in the house Our business is furnishing your kitchen. Consult your interest by bringing us your orders WATCH OUR WINDOW LATEST WAR NEWS IN PICTURES m ?If* ft *? PHONE 28 - CAMDEN, S. C. Farm Property For Sale l*<i jn,r?kw. - ? - miloK Northwos! from lllaimy, f < *n a 1 1 1 houses, burn* Mud ?t 1 1 hn I hi i ii^'n luN-cssn ry . 1 ? H? ihtim umlrr win in sul?l i \ iilod pas til ;v J'rHv jirr Men*. 1 J^l Mrixti about I miles North of Ounilcii Sandy loam wilh fla.v snli M?il Trier $.'{0.<>O j>t>r aero. N. C. BOYKiN, Keal Estate TOWN AM) COt'NTKY PROPKRTY FOR SALK. TOYS-TOYS Christmas Cards, Games, Books, Stationery, Fountain Pens, Candies, Pipes, Leather Goods, Toilet Goods, Ci Kars and lots of other goods for Christmas at W. Robin Zemp's Drug Store Telephone 30. "Anything I have to my to Mr., Hpreckle*' Htatemrut' will be t?*ld 111 line 1 1 1 1 ? to the fommHtw, it today | requires no proof from mv to wdabj 11, h il. mi KpreaWe#. a leadlug sugar re-j In I'- 1 ^ sore at the Food Adiulnistra n. -i. hihI would Ukc to wet? It destroy f*A. I ttiili*' that Mr. Hj?ree$le*' bal ance sheet will ?i<>t look ho good next year a* last, for refiners' profit* have bwu regulated. Further wore, hi* l?al a.nce sheet would have looked better thla year If the price ?>f l**t August liiul not been mlticeil him! held fast tn the fa<*e of a partial shortage that promised a fair ?>HHirl unity for thirty cent sugar and much Increased profit*. Mr. Spreckies therefore Iimm reason to feel badly, Then* are other citizen* who will feel the aame way and no doubt can entertain the public by as saulting tlu> l<'ood Administration. While many f?n?l badly, ?tlll the vast majority of men and women of our business community and of our farm er* are sacrificing their profits dully to tin* Natiou'H nccesslt lew without com plaint. for many are sacrificing more than their money ? their sons. "We have had two month* of |iar l ia I Miliar shortage. October and No vember, and will iiIho have I)eceml?cr before relief from the new crojv The Ameriean |*H?ple have bad live hun dred thousand tons of sugar In these two months. This i* seventy per cent of their normal suppiicK in each month ami If ears are available they will have seventy is?r cent, in Decem ber. Owing to car shortages the short age has been most acute in the north east and about two hundred ears are today blocked from that region. This seventy per cent. Is twice the French ration. In the m?*itrlme. we have given France a good part of the thir ty t??*r cent, and we are proud of It. This .supply given to Franco was given deliberately and the American l?eople were told of It at the time. We have also agreed to draw ten thousand tons for our friends in Canada. I have yet to meet the American citizen who would have It otherwise. "As to the Food Administration stop ping the sources of supply, the fact tiiat all available supplies have l>een brought here that shl|>s and cars could bring and that it has already been eaten is sulticlciit answe'*. Mr. Spreckies i knows the, bitterness of the ten year's tight between producers and retiners1 and between different retiners, and If 1 he looks bavk over it he last, three months he will observe a desire of many of these elements to use the Food Administration as a club to set tle their long standing bitterness. If Mr. Spreckies will tell us where there is any sugar today that ships can be obtained to carry or cars can be . obtained !??? deliver," If Will "lie "deliv ered at once with the same resolu tion that we have requisitioned or dis tributed over sixty million pounds of embargoed sugar since October' lirst. In the meantime, the nine hundred thousand tons of sugar in .lava is COLUMBIA LUMBER & MANUFACTURING CO. MILL WORK SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AND LUMBER PL AIN & HUGER STS. Phone 71 COLUMBIA, S. C. COLLECTIONS Carolina Credit Corporation Camden, S. C. LOANS Made on approved country and city real estate. Long terms, low interest. M. M. JOHNSON, Atty., Camden, S C. FOR Bargains in SALE City Property Laurens T. Mill's house ....Laurens Street $7,000.00 Stokes House .. Mill Street 2,850.00 McLeod House LaFayette Avenue ? 1,350.00 2 Adamson Lots Near Power Plant Each 150. 0C Terms easy on the above property. C. P. DuBOSE & COMPANY REAL ESTATE INSURANCE CROCKER BUILDING PHONE 48 mk remote hh ehee>*e out of the luoon unit'MM we wUdi to take hread ahixw from our MtldWrH and the Allien to provide otiiM'lvcH with CMWly." Vorlt Mmi Kilfb Srlf. York. l>ec-. ia.~ A?? tue reault of n luiitf iierlod of III lioilttl. Mi", CI. K. Urlal. one t?f tin- puhlixU?rn of the Yorkvllle Kn<|Ulrei, tt>ok hi* life this inoruliitf shortly after 1) oVloek by rfhoot Iiik hlmwlf in the left temple with hii automatle platol. Death whh? liotantaneoii*. There wan no one ttlw In the home hi the time of the trauedy. Mr. (Jrlnt Is survived by hU whlow, who wan Ml*. Itelle Carroll, ami two son* and one daughter, A. Carroll, C). K. Jr.. and Sarah <irlsi ; also by three brother*, Sain M (Jrlat, the latter l>e Iiik Joint owner of the Kmjnlrer with I ln> detvaned ; tnnl h(v one slute* .Mrs. JoH.wlc Simmons, of (Joffney. Mr. < ? i* 1 h t was in his forty-eighth year, and p<w tccssed a wide elrele of frieiulu. riace of Dentil (iuardnl. San Autoutoi Texan, Dee. UL?lle ("H list* of the throng* of the morbidly cnrliais and souvenler hunters who have Mocked to the wene of the hang 'ng nea r here Tuesday of the thirteen negro enlisted men of the Twenty fiairtli r fitted State* Infantry for eom I ? M ? ? I r n In tin* Houston, riot of last An yn.-l. an armed v'timd of eight soldier* luis 1h'?mi stationed at the plaee of ex ecution and burial of the negroex. No one |s allowed to approch within lOO feet of the spot when* the men were banned. His .Money I turned. Inning the past week a negro who had wold his cotton. at u high price had his home completely destroyed by tirc and anion# the things burned was his trunk in which he xifid hidden over in cash. If tiro should destroy your home t ? in i^cti t what would he your loss? Don't keep much cash around. t it in fcome hank. \^here it will Ite safe from r.re and robbers. ? I'll Ion Progress. Mississippi Very Low. St. I .on Ik. I ?ec. III. ? The Mississippi river at St- Ixmls today was the low est it has been since I860. !iMie -gauge recorded :M) inches ??clow low water mark The h>w stage was due to the i'i hi weatlu?r. which has frozen the 'ribntarlos of the Mississippi. At St. loseph. Mo., the Missouri river was frozen solid. (Jen. 1). It. Brooks Dead. Columbia. J >ec. 1(1. ? (.'en U. It. Hrooks. aged 71. clerk of the South Carolina Supreme Court since Decern - her <!. 1K04. died at his residence at Slutndom ii ?s\iliurb of Columbia, this morning at 8.45 o'elock after an ill ness of several 'months. He was sur rounded by the members of his fam ily. with the except io nof his eldest soil, who is sick in a local hospital. ltnilroad Commissioner Richards has a pi >ealed to all the railroads operating in this State to exert themselves to prevent a salt famine in the State. Noted Wrestler Dead. I >es Moines. Iowa. Dee. 10 ? Frank A. (Jot eh, retired champion heavyweight ."f tiif5 World, died at noon today at his home. Humboldt. Iowa, of uracmie |?oi><>ning. His death resulted from falling health for several years. ("iotch was forty-one years old. The record books, detailing the events of his life give his age as thirty-nine but these are inaecuratc. He was born on April i.'T. 1Mb. on a farm three miles south of Humboldt. He is survived by his widow, a four year-old son. Robert Goteh ; a brother, Fred Gotch : a sister and his mother. (iotch built up a fortune In wrestling and by investing his earnings in Iowa farm lands. His estate is variously es timated at between $200, (KM) and $400, 00<f all of which represents money made through his ability as a wrestler. Asks Schools and Churches to Help. Anderson. Dee. 14. ? Characterizing tile coal condition throughout Sooth Carolina as being "most acute, with only fair chances of securing relief un M1 after the Christmas holidays, "* It. B. Gosset. State fuel administrator, today called upon all colleges, schools, and other Institutions of learning, where wood cannot be substituted for eoal, to suspend during the holidays" for a period of not less than two weeks, or longer If practicable. He also called ujmui t.ie churches of the towns and cities heated by coal to hold united services for the present. The action is taken by the adminis trator tor the purpose of conserving he present small supply of coal, and to bridge over the holidays until more diipmcnts of coal for South Carolina points can be secured. He points out ! that very few shipments of coal can I be expected from the mines during the j holiday season, and says that It is lm ) iterative, in order to meet conditions j squarely, that every i*>und of coal be j conserved and distributed property | among the people to prevent suffering. A Strange Phophecy. While razing the old Monastery of ! the Holy Ghost in Wlsmar, Mecklen ; burg, two months ago, an old Bible | was found which contained a r"n> ? | able prophecy regarding th ? j world war. It was written in 1701 by j one of the monks on parchment i t j Is now yellow and sen red with age. | It is now on exhibition In a glass case j In the City Hull of Wlsinar. So much publicity has been given to the pr t-h eey in the papers of German v that thousands have flocked to Wisinar to see It The prophecy not <mly gives the cause of tho war. but al?o ind'eates the countries engaged. Up to the present It has been amazingly accu rate. It does not exactly state that <iermany will be victorious, but states how long the war will last, when the divisive battle will be fought, and w here and when peace will coiue.' and; adds that (ierinany wlU continue to citut aw a pow*r for ninny your*. A translation of the yrltlug on the parch nient Is ?? follow*: hu\e mercy on Thy people despite the fact that they are turning more and more away from The*; that they are destroying Thy monastariee and clolators and forgetting The*. A time will conic In Ktirope when thc?e (t*M.p|.* will feci the weight of Thy [hand when mallKidty and liutred will rule. It; wll be at a time when the |mi<a) seat will l>e vacant, and the '-cntlagration will come an the result of the murder of a prince# Seven na- J tlons will rise against the eagle with one head and the eagle with two luafN. The birds will defend them selves furloualy ami viciously with their talons, and their wings wtU prp i eel t lie it i>eoples. A nrlnce from their M?ry i.ildnt, a sovereign who mounts hh lu> I'M from the wrong aide, will be encompassed , hy a wall of enemies. Ills slogan will he "Onward with <Jod!" The Almighty (Jod will lead hint from victory to victory and many will meet their death." * "There will he wagons without Imrses and llery dragons will fly through the air ami sulphur and de stroying cities and villages. The peo ple will* turn to (Jod. This terrible war will last three years and live months^ The time will come when food can neither ho sold nur bought, and hrcad will l?c carefully distribute ed. The cast \vlll l>p tinged with hlood, and men will lie In wait under the waves for their prey." follow* a t*t*Tuvu lo which wuh lu tluww time uftwi tfaZ to ?h the tlu* H^rn JHJ? "Thf IXMplo of, tin- Neven :ittui-k the rUitf of Stivl ami MttUei,k M lull U|K>n the 1?*m rded nation uTSvJ reaf uiut reiiil it In twain, The %h<Z 9 ?( the lower Khlue win nev rrthelesa will endure to the U? 'The land 1m th?> wwt win be uL vast desolation, mnl the Unui |? jP (Ki'uu wtll, with Us Kin#, be vru*2 and Milter all the mng* of him*? The liWN of the bearded iH'ouieffi si ill endure for a long time to ctlT 1 1 ml following tin? war the world %ui In' United lu one great hrothi'rhoof "The vkrtora will carry ? <-ruM, hetwceu four small cities mid f<* tM sici'pli's of equal height ihv battle wtll l?e fought, lk't wixui two linden trees the Victor will f?n Upt>u his kneeb before his army, 'lift hi* hand* to heaven ami thank <h>d. lowing thl? all ungoUllne.sx !wlll ui* uppoar; the linleeent dances that 1*1* vailed before tin* war will I* uo wore, ami (lod will roluii In ohurd state and family. The war will coipuienee when the grain Ik ripening ami will roach tfc height when the cherries bloom for the third. time. Peace will he cotnu* mated by the -Prince In time for tht Christmas nuo?s." All German newspapers have wm mental on this auiazlnu prophecy. -It Is -remarkable," says one txiper. "how accurately this monk ha* pre dieted events as they have thux far ? occurred. We sincerely hn|H? thal^U* J longed for peace will come as he 111 order that we all may lueath freely again."1? N. X. Herald. BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS Flood the room with mellow, usable Rayo light. Strong enough to illuminate a large room ? yqt en tirely free from uncomfortable glare. RAYO LAMPS light like a gas jet. Just raise the gallery and touch a match. Simple and attract ive in design, they are an ornament in any room. No cheap filigree work to keep you busy cleaning. If your dealer doesn't have theto, write to our nearest station. _ ? ? ^ ? Aladdin Security Oil is a guarantee of most satisfactory results from lamps, stoves and heaters. STANDARD OIL COMPANY Washington, D. C. (New Jeffrey) Norlolk.V*. BALT1MORB.MD Riohcmond. V*. Ckarleeton. 8. U M r AJN 1 Charleston. W. ;Oh?r!ott?.N.C. too. 8. C. ^ v?. Ability to Give Gifts ?IS SECURED BY? Economy in Buying a, "x ?? * And economical buyers throughout this entire colli munity are fast finding* out that this store is the econoi center. Handling as we do everything for the home an r? - '33 <? ym the person, we can make it very to trade with us. Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, , ? ? - ? -? ? .j<* ?* When you begin to reckon up the wants of the U ily, consider all the lines, then come to the econt store and we will supply you at econo And when you finish filling your own needs, yc find you have some money left for ffifta ? and thea* too, we want to sell you