The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 16, 1920, Image 3
i'II if??cTaAiMrtr,
" When the tien*us'enumerator s?kft the
sex and ooK>r of tthu housewife she wlH
kindly refrain from expression* of aur
prUe at the imagined iguontiice of the
interrogator.v
it *^8' T'. wy. M : ?i'-: ?^ ?v: ? fv
Rut the enumerator )? required by
atatnte to awk that question and many
others. Ajnong ? many other personal
quei*tlt??M hi* those respecting ug<>, con
nubia 1 condition*. place of birth aud
phtce oC ibode and nationality.
It in evident, from the blank furuis re
ceived that the government t iutemb to
|, oollect a v??t volume of datfc. especially
concerning foreigners and aarleulure.
Farmer* wilfl be fcsksd to give the acreage
of their fai\m property, the ralue of the
[|;tand and Improvement* upon it and the
nynlibw "of live stock and other, products
on December 81, 1010.
. i
The ratio of maJea to feumlea in the
t country at lange and in varloua locali
ties, the degree of literaoy and the dis
tribution of negroes and other no-white
population wlU be sought. The number
and distribution ? of foreigner* in the
United State* and the distribution of
tho people an regards occupations and
lntemtate migration will be ?ouglit
The number, composition and charac
teristics of the population are wanted^ a*
' well as the eitisenahlp, literacy, occu
pation tenure ol home aud' incubrancea
thereon of all foreigners. The industrial
survey will include the location and kind
of good* manufactured, tho amount of
capital invested and the cost of materials,
? ? _T
the uuuihM of proprietory poorer and
machinery and the v*Au?> of the products,
v y AM porMftW wW he enumerated at
the places where they regularly deep
and n<?t where thy are employed. Kuum
eiator* are required to vtdt aH homea
and o?her dwelling place" aud protfii*
data from the head of the household if
possible. "Floater*" arty,designated as
(hose who have uo Axed abode aud will
be enumerated ?s mddeuts of the local- j
Ity Jd which th<y are found by the enuui.
orator. i
Kverf County Gets Army Kitchen.
Mvery oouuty In the State Is to be
the recipient of another gift fix>m Uncle
Santa Glaus, TJrfa time K is an army
kHdhen en wheefa. The State Highway
Department has ordered forty-six army
kiu-h?Mis. oue for each county, aud theas
wlW he used by the oountlea for the
H'hulugangs. ^ . > '
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You've Heard 'em.
'T/ook here," said the city editor to
th<* i-itb reporter, "you sboukl write ev
i>r> thing as briefly aa possible. Instead
of *a$li)g ">tiho middle-agtd bald-headed
performer in ttye hired aggregation of
followers of Onpjtous who nightly pro
vided tile harmony at one of our lead
In* tomples of mirth, seised his trom
bone ttrm/ly lu his bands, placed hit
feverish lips <0 the mouthpiece and
mounded thereon an unearthly tone 4lke
the w<ailiug of * lost soul on the main
tk> the ret*>rter merely wrote : "The ;
U^"
Ho the re.porter trorely write: "The
blip-horn player in the orchestra' blew
?1 heluva uote." 1
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Attention!
Qur shops are better equipped than ever fo*
handling your business. We have several high^class
mechanics and every kind of modern shop device.
Mr. Earnest Frietag is at its head and personally
looks after every job. We also carry a small stock
of parts for a few ,of the more popular cars. Our
line Of accessories are of the best make that can be
bought.
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W. 0. Hay's Garage
South Main Street Camden, S. C.
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5? No. 9083.
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
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FIRST
^'-ni a I if ir\i a i
OF CAMDEN
at Camden, in the State of South Carolina, at the Close of
Business on Dec. 31, 1919
*?-"? ?'? :?; % ? M ;?; ?
Resources
^oaraeraim discomfits : $550,873.01
Customers' liability account ? 2,780.00
Total loan* * ^ 559,623.91 659,623.91
Overdrafts, unsecured ?? 2,374 23. , 2,374.23
tT. S. bonds deposited to secure circulation (par value) ? 50,000.00
U. 8. Bonds Owned and Unpledged ? 35,500.00
War Savings Certificates aftd Thrift Stamps actually owned _ 24.40 85,524.40
Bonds other than U. S. bonds pledged to secure postal
savings deposits 2.000.00
Securities, other than U. 8. Bonds (unpledged) 7,000.00 9,000.00
Stock of Federal Reserve Bank 2,850.00
Value of banking house ~ 29,783.78 29,783.78
Furniture and fixtures 3,641.52
Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank 84,825.40
Cash lu vault and net amounts due from National Banks 89,488.18
Net amount due from banks and bankers 7.77S.08
Checks on banks in the same city or town -.- -?--1,766.01
Total of last three Items .. 48,977.87
Outside checks and ether cash Items, ' ???-1???.. 16,886.90
I Redemption fund with u. S? Treasurer--??? ?? 2,500.00
tier assets: customer's Bond Account 299.48
Total 1* ,r___ ? |790,287.49
Liabilities.
Capital stock paid In L- 75,000.00
Surplus fund - 20,000.00
Undivided profits ... i! 19,716.77
' Less current expenses, interest, and taxes paid 12,799.86 ,6,916.91
Amount reserved for taxes accrued '?a ? 2,000.00
Circulating notes oatstanding ....- 50,000.00
Certified cheeks outstanding " 818.52
Cashier's cheeks on own' bank outstanding 3,825.82
Total of last three items 4,138.84
Demand
iB.ua oepositfl ?
Individual deposits aublcot to check .. 377, R14.lt.
Dividends unpaid IT- 8,048.00
Total demand deposits ? 380,562.17
Time deposits: ?' *>' ? ? " ."
Postal Savings Deposits ? 581.19
Other time deposits . ? 251,012.24
^ Total of time deposits 251,593.43
United States Deposits
"Acceptances" executed by this bank - 2,750.00
Less acceptances of this bask purchased 2,750.00
Other liabilities ? 76.14
Total - $790,287.49
OTthe 4?Ul loans and discounts shown above, the amount on which interest
J&A charged At fiUt In itriiri a| Ikaaa. nsstnUl&A Kw law. aTflwriTt ftf nntoi
upoa which total charge not to exessd 89 cents wss made was $327.00.
number of such loans wss 5.
Ststs of Sooth Carolina, Ooontj of Kershaw.
W. VanLandinfcham, Cashier of the -*bove nisjljl Bank do
?nd"^^^*6*' t,Ult *** r**0** HlH^giHpi Jh- true to the best o?$ny knowlsdgs
?. W. VanLANpINOHAM,
-- - -.r j' if-V Csshlse.
and sworn to bsfors m* this 10th .day of jTsnuary, IMP.
I. C. Hough, Notary Public.
O, J. Shannon, Jr. && [ '? , , 5 " * " - "
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WORLD'S BIGGEST.
NITRATE PLANT
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Mammoth Explosives Factory
in Alabama Built in
Eight Months.
ALL SPEED RECORDS BROKEN
Could Supply 13 Per Cent of
Allies' Needs Had War
Continued.
By GARRET SMITH.
Lifting the ban of war secrecy hat
just now brought to light for the Brat
time one of the moat stupendous feata
of construction In history?the plan
ning and building In leas than one year
of the largest ammonium nitrate plant
In the world and of a city around It
fbr the housing of Ita 25,000 workmen
and their famlllea. At the aame time
!? revealed on# of the ctyef reason?
why Germany suddenly aurrendered a
year ago. The- German hlg|? command
knew that the United States was
ready at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to
manufacture 18 per cent of all the
high explosive* needed by all the Al
Ued armies on all fronts in the expect
ed drive of the following Spring.
The first person on construction
wort reached Muscle Shoals ou No
Yember 20, 1017. On February 18,
1918, ground was first broken forjjl
permanent plant building. On Oc$||l
ber 20, 1018, eight months and eight
days later, the manufacturing plant
had begun the production of ammo*
niurn nitrate.
When America entered the world
war In April, 1017, she had no means
of producing the enormous quantities
of high explosives necessary to pro
vide the huge army she planned to
raise. Th% very fact that our Indus
tries were already worked to capacity
providing ammunition to the allies
seemed to make further production for
our own use impossible. '
Fertilizer Process Turned to War Use.
At this juncture the ^Ordnance De
partment turned to cyanamld, a com
mercial fertiliser, which had for some
years been produced successfully at
Niagara Falls, by a process the Ameri
can rights of which were obtained In
1007 from Germany by Frank Sher
man Washburn, head of the American
OyftD&mld Comnanv
By thl8 process cyanamld was pro
duced by extracting nitrogen from the
air and combining It with calcium ob
tained from limestone rock and carbon
from coke. By putting cyanamld
through three more processes both am
monia and nitric acid can be extracted
from it and combined into the explo
itive, ammonium nitrate. Mr. Wash
burn was invited to present plana and
estimates -for the construction in the
shortest possible time of an ammonium
'nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, Ala f
bam a, and a contract between his com
pany and the United Statea was enter
ed Into under date of November 16,
1017. ? ?
To havet#general supervision of plan
ning and carrying outthe work an or
ganisation known as the Air Nitrates
Corporation was - formed to act as
ageht of the Ordnance Department
This corporation provided the general
designs, supervised all the work, and
operated town and the
plant. It also installed all equipment
in the chemical plant. The varioua
other sections of the work were sub
let to organizations that were special
ists In the directions In which they
were asked to help.
New City Built From the Ground.
It was necessary to build a new
town to house the laborers. For this
job Westinghouse Church Kerr Com
pany was called In aa contractor.. This
company also built the buildings of the
chemical plant Within four months
12.000 workmen had been assembled
and a city capable of accommodating
25,000 inhabitants.had "been completed,
RJVtth lodging, restaurants, stores, of
fices, police headquarters, schools, fire
departments, hospitals, motion picture
.Maters, electric light and sewerage
systems. .> .
The construction of the plant proper
was begun on February 10, 1018. Just
eight months and eight days later the
big plant began a steady output of am
monium nitrate. 'The plant contains
rUS permanent buildings, with a rtof
area of over 26 acres.
To provide the electric current It
was necessary to build a steam power
electric plant, tor it would have taken
three ycaA er mere to complote the
dam and hydro-electric station now un
der way. This plant, built by the 1. G.
White Corporation, Is one of the larg
est steam plants for developing elec
trical energy In the world.
Th' output of the plant la 800 tons of
ammonium nitrate a day, and thta can
be produced at Muscle Shoals at a cost
I less than one-half the atandard fixed
price paid by the Government for am
-ionium nitrate produced by other
methods nnd one fourth ftp one-fifth the
cost of other high aoq^oalvea of equal
strength.Com pa rear with the older
process of making ammonium nitrate,
the Mtvlngs made by this plant would
; hare paid the $6O.Op$0OO cost of the
satire plant In about one and ims half
yeave of operation.
As a military weapon it i*4ne of the
s-pi ma mint wionmrnwi ewdi
tasaa that the Ordnance Deportment
haa undertaken. Aa an agent In stop
ping 1L^ war and as a futurs. protec
tion to the country its value >? incalew
T? Um RImp Over.
gtyHKS&T biw immr*Uw vu bits arkY
Ilow ?uauy >voo(Jj>rck?iH wltb rubber
bilie will it -take to bor* a byU* In a
t vvxt iiH*b i?h*uk? /? t#
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WIh? wiU be the uvrt tu?u to t?k?
? ooLltiu aud tr,v to ooutjuer the uul
vvr*e? " -T . ? '? '?* ? -?* -r'
Wiuit wuuhl bo ? real iub?tltute tut
liquor? j
.
I Mil \ In a ham OV?r 14*^ ft CfittftUft
hii . hil<li. ii V
What toe ?h* VCM iMftf to go
vvi?, ?>lno? k<ll(V skirts *ml price#
Diamond Construction Makes
This Bridge Strong
Like
the
The bridge it strong became it it supported in
every direction by tturdy diagonal braces that form
diamondt everywhere.
The battery it ttrong because its plates, like the
bridge, are built on the Diamond principle.
That it why the platet do not buckle nor lote
their active material. That it why the battery it
Guaranteed for Eighteen Months
That is why we are the official Phila
; delphia Service Station.
Expert battery re-charging and repairing.
Free inspection-?-any battery i?any make,
any car, any time. Drop in today and~let~
ut look at the condition of your battery.
W. 0. Hay's Garage
South Main Street
Camden, ? South Carolina
CLEVELAND.
Hearty Praise froin
Cleveland Six Owners
. -r~.
The Cleveland Six will dominate the light car field because it is
so much better. It will lead because it gives so much more in smooth
flowing power, in ease of riding, in style and quality, than other light
cars. Thousands of* Cleveland Sixes are on the road right now, per
forming iii every sense and in the last degree right up to expectations.
Dealers demanding much have
driven ('level a wis thousands r,Smiles
across country, over every kind, of
roads, ptitting the car to every con
ceivable test, Anil they sav there is no
other light car like it. No other that
will do so much and do it so well and
so economically.
?' Cleveland owners are enthusiastic
about Its ease of driving. "It handles
like a feather." "X911 c*11 drive it with
one finger." "It just almost steers It
self." These and hundreds of other
ph rase* of praise come from enthusias- 7
tic Cleveland owners.
"It stepsout as fast aa any car that,
was ever built." 'The speedometer
flips around to. forty or fifty before you "
know it." "There s practically no vi
bration?' "It fairly glides over long
mountain climbs." Cleveland owners
tell us all these things and they will
tell you if you ask them.
To really know and appreciate the
Cleveland, to understand all that we 3
mean wHfen we say It is so much better,
you must ride in it and drive it.
Come In andJtiee. ike Cleveland Now
?) J1385 Roadster (Thr?? Pamma***> il J*5
$219? Uiupn (Poor P???e??geri; %11*5
(a:i PtU*? F. O. B. Factory)
CAMDEN MOTOR COMPANY c^j?j.c
CLEVW.XND AUYOMOBILK CO.,. CLEVELAND, OHIO
$1385