The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 21, 1917, Image 6
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?
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<? 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