Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SJJJUUJ..H...! -i unit 1 ... J. ... M- .-n ? -? NowfOwmlUmf^r* an- .h?I?I to b*v<? lilt) tiacHt phjr*riiiUc of any Kujrll?h-*iM>uklufl pflu?rfr . -I-JUL IIULU-J.lt 1 Four hundred tbouna ml diamond* are rut *?v<iry y*ar in on^ AUMttfctah factory Children Cry for Fletcher's wk?J 1 The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over thirty years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per* sonal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children?Experience against Experiment* What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It it pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years It has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids s the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea?The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of In Dse For Over 30 Years Thd Kind You Hive Always Bought TH* C?NTAUH OOM .ANV, M K W YOWK OITV, We Not Only Pay Interest But Show Interest YVv believe in co-operation. We are interested in your success. We want to help you. Come in and "talk it over" with us. We invite the consideration of those contemplating a change in their Banking Relations or establishing new accounts. The design of this bank is to meet the requirements of the community as well as to serve the individual depositor. WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS STRONG SAFE CONSERVATIVE Loan & Savings Bank OF CAMDEN, S. C. v Chevrolet "4-90" TOURING CARS AND SEDANS For Immediate Delivery < 'levi-r phrases do not m ike serviceable automobiles. Beautiful pictures do not always make tfood-look ni? cars. We claim tfood looks for the bodies and mechani cal elliciency for the ch.i>sis, but these claims we want you to confirm by such examinations and tots as >hnll be satisfactory to you. Power, Durability, Convenience, Beauty, Comfort, Easy Riding, Safety, and Simplicity of Design are all embodied in the "CHEVROLET 4-90" With your order placed now, we can make immediate delivery George T. Little HANDLE READY-MADE HOUSES Norwegian Company Anticipates Good 6u<tincaa In 8el[ing Thorn f9f Br?ctlon In England. Many house* are for sale In Norway, th? present jwner? of which are h?p$* ful of Helling them to Kngllshmen. Not that they expect Iho Kngllsh to emi grate for NofWMlal) boinea, but that they hop# to porsuaiTe them to import homes from Norway. The ready-to juhahlt house, like the ready to-wear suit of clothes, la a mpderp Invoutlon, which has developed with marked aue eess in Norway since the first rcady^ to-inhablt houses were made some 30 odd years ago, The ready-to-lnhablt. house, to he sure, is less Immediately usable than the ready?to-wear suit, for It must be put up and fastened to gether. The chief fuctory "for the man ufacture and export of Norwegian ready-made housea la near Chrlatlanla, and the houses are usually of six rooms with variations that Include a considerable range of stylea and priced and they have all the modern conveniences. Naturally the factory la just now hoping to contribute a good many houses to the solution of the housing problem tn other coun tries. "As regards 'durability." says a Norwegian correspondent, "wooden houses can be fairly said, aifter a century's experience In Norway, to last as long as brick', If kept prop erly In repair. The wooden house In dostry In Norway after 33 yeura' ex perience has now developed to great perfection, and the wooden dwelling offers a satisfactory solution of the housing problem." The factory will deliver a house In six weeks nfler It has been ordered, but one of the recognized elements In the British housing situation is that your real Brltwi wants at leuvt part of his house made with bricks. OWES LIFE TO BAD SERVICE Englishman Willing to Die, but Re fused to Wait for Starvation to Do the Work. Owen Wlster, the author, was talk ing 4n Philadelphia about England's disorganized train service. "They told me a strange tale In Bir mingham," he said. "It seems that a young Birmingham broker was disap pointed In love, und wept out on the railroad and laid Jits head ou a rail, intending to end It all. "The London express was due In three minutes, and the broker closed hla eyes. "Ho waited, very pale, eyes closed. Now and then he gulped. The three minutes seemed a long time passing A long, long time. The rail got very uncomfortable. The broker twisted and turned his neck a little. Finally he looked at his watch. The train was late??10 minutes late. With a sigh he laid his head down on the rail again. "Well, to make u long story short, the broker waited and waited for that infernal London express till?if lie hadn't gone away ?t Irtst for a bite to eat?he'd surely have died of starva tion." Kindergarten in Smaller Towns. Statistics just compiled by the kin dergarten division of the bureau of education show ? that approximately 21,08ft children were enrolled in kin dergartens In towns under 2,500 popu lation during the yAur 19l8r In charge of 500 kindergarten teachers. The banner states for kindergartens In snifiller places appear to be Michi gan and Wisconsin,. the former state with 110 kindergarten teachers and 4,015 pupils, and the latter state* with 78 teachers and 2,900 children In at tendance Rt kindergartens In smaller towns. California has 57 kindergarten tochers and 2,037 pupils In cities nnr der 2,500 population; Iowa, 50 teach ers and 1,750 children; New Jersey. 49 teachers and 1,912 pupils; nnd Ne braska. 02 teachers and 1.740 children. The Nebraska figures Indicate a spe cial effort to reach the smaller towns with kindergarten facilities. Mexican Kiddies "Shoot High." Geometry, zoology, meteorology and botany are taught as early as the first grade In the schools of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. The,study of these sciences Is simplified in the early stages. but there Is little attempt to "sugar coat" the hard facts. A visitor to a second grade classroom recently found the pupils?none more than rl^rht years old?glibly discussing rhombussos. rhomboids, trapezoids and parallelograms. Whenever their teach er asked a question a thicket of litffe. waving arms went upward. ?Wlifii the history pcilnd mis culled. considerable emphasis was placed on the various kings that ruled the Tol fecs, the aboriginal inhabitants of this purt of Mexico. -The children handled the ancient Indian proper names with surprising ease. French Academy in Quandary. What thp French academy Is to de cide in connection with the national di rectory concerning the introduction of current slang terms created by and during the war is disturbing the ^>eace of Its honorable members. Should such words as "polln" be recognized? Opin ion varies. Is "boche" to be academic? "Polio," literally "hairy one." Is gen erally considered not to be a worthy synonym for the heroic French sol dier. In regard to "boche." M. Brlenx writes: "In the next edition of the dictionary of the academy oar suc cessor# will decidedly be obilgad to In scribe tfc* Mrord "boche* as a term of contempt earned by the Germans dur in* the last war." Just Received A Car Load of THORNHILL WAGONS *? * t WE HAVE just received a shipment of a car load of Thornhill Wagons ?the wagon made in the heayt of the hardwoocl region of tough highland oak and hickory. These are the long wear wagons with many patented features. Made with the old standard track. Not the lowest priced wagons but the best and in the end the cheapest* ten^i o . Camden, S. C. LEE COINTY NEWS Items Of Interest Gathered From The Vindicator of BlshopvIUe. The ??lection for bonds to pave the greets -went overwhelmingly for voting the boifds. Out of 14*8 votes cast oiily ?>ne vote was against it. The thing to do ?low is to go at it in a business like way iixl see that the money be put to good use ??ud the work done properly and quickly. On January IS, 1020, Mr. George Johu :<ni and Miss Estell Stokes were united in marriage at the parsonage near Luck now, at ?"> p. nj.. Hev/ J. C. Hoinerset't, nastor-of Concord station performed the - ir ceremony. The groom is /he son of Mr. lud Mis. Daniel Johnson near Luck now Hid is a prosperous farmer. Mr. John son is a favorite young business man. The bride is a highly aitximplished young 'jidyr-danighter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Stokes. Her father is a prosperous far mer and merehant. Our old friend, Mr. J. I). Christmas, ?mid us his annual call io^t Monday. lie ;ays the boll weevil coming does not worry him ?ny for he believed in letting '?otton tie the surplus crop long before inyono ever thought of them reaching hero. . Mr. T. J. McI,endon is able to take a doily walk down town and says he. has no recollection .of passing thru that sick period. To wind the great clock in the tower >f the I'ritish house of commons it for merly tot.k two men working three af ternoon* ? wcj'k. An electric motor now completes the ta?k in 20 minutes. The Elongated African. J. A. Oofourn is taking n great deal of prided in telling the publiel this sea: son that he has secured.Charley Vermont known as the Elongated African, as one oi his coinediifins for tho season of 1010 and 1020. Mr. Vermont is one of those long dangly loose jointed hurnc.-n beings, whose, every movement has a laugh in it. and he has some mighty funny say ings as well as some mighty funny acts. Ho is doing a specialty this season which he built himself. It is entirely original full of keen negro wit and at the same time includes a whtfle lot of genuine in formation. Mr. Vermont is a very lit erary man and w'hen he is not telling what he knows he is reading what other people know, That is where he gets his fund of talk which he dispenses to his audience nightly. Coburn's Min strels will appear at the Opera House Saturday night January 31st. A Novel Metltod. "Ah," said the head clerk. "I'm glad to notice that you are arriving punctual ly now, Mr. Slo4?omlx\" "Yes, sir, I've bought a parrot." "A parrot? What for? I told you to an alarm clock." "Yes, I did. but after a day or two I used to it and it failed to waken me. J So I got. the parrot, and now when I go to bi'd I fix the alarm clock just above the parrot's cage. It wakes the parrot up, and what that bird says would stir up anybody."?Houston Post. There are SI.'J languages and diulect* sp<?k<>u among the blaoks of Africa, but' only a few of them are written. FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER ' :Tra Young I,ad Shot In Back Shortly Aft Leaving Home. Lexington, Jan. 2-L?Jack Su was convicted of murder- in the sessions court -today for the shooting to death of 11-year-old Hi* Suber, son of W. H. Suber, a prfonSi Merchant of Peak. The murder done some two or three months ago. lad loft his father's home one afUn on horsi^aek, carrying a gun with! .Later in the afternoon the how edhome without the rider and ?.i was instituted. Tracking the tinioilf sparehers found tjie dead body of child fn the woods. A full cbaift shot in the back of the head will only wound. Tho gun was raiMiDfi no trace of this has ever bc^Eiill After working on the ease for oral days, Sheriff Miflcr placed Sua under nrrest. The arrest of Swmtwri followed by the arretft of two other groes, both of whom are now to be tried. The evidence, it"1 u|>on which Summer was convicted purely circumstantial. It had bcel < ncctod 1iuk by link until the bo* pointed toward Summer/ Summer is a young ncjjno srrviee in the late war with w! It is said that he escaped froa. n;m y camp before going to Frtott captured amf sent right >croff "pond." The mcoamits <>f th<' Malay IWMi sometimes produce pearls that w< prized by the natives. Flooring. Oiling, Siding, Casing. Plaster, Mouldings, Fire Brick. Lumber Building ??? Hardware, Material Paints* Oik I Framing Lumber, Fire Clay. ' ? * Saws, J 2^0 K?l Cfdur Shingles. Sewer Pipe, .... Ihminfr*, - Pine aud Cypress Shingles, Store Flue, ? - - -?? Door Hiing^rs, Metal and Composition Shingles. Terra Cotta ThinMat, Carpenter's Tools, i _-.. Door*. Sash and Blinds. Mortar Colors and stains, Paint Brushes, - J Poreh Column and Bsllaster*. Water Proofing Mineral, Paints and OB#* Beaver Itoard, Corrugated Metal Roofing, Inside Decorations, r/Z i ? Valley Tin and Ridgr Roll, Asbestos and Composition Roofing, Calsomltfes tad Cold Water PwWl WIRE FENCING. IRON AND WOOD POSTS. ,:M EVERYTHING FOR THE HOUSI BOOTH & MCLEOD, INC SUMTER, \ ^ SOUTH CAROI \ ? -? ' - ? ? ? . ',f nr ?mrTpiffiOSyaB" 1 -i *