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OAS PtWft DEFICIENT. Ofldn Found of Measure ?t Inspection of gaaoitne pumps at An derson have revealed that out) of 10 of the M|?i?ar<4t?iH flvjb bad to-be WP* ?damned for repairs ^y officer* of tk* Mouth Carolina department of agricul ture. Reports of the lrisi>eetloh reach ed Commissioner HarrLV office fMtff' day and they bfiflf to light that It I* poaslble that many gaaollne buyers over the state arc being given short measure. The rtpofh says that the largest shortage found was one half gallon to cacb five gallon delivery, Milch niiOi a good dual in this day of high prices. Approximately one third of the pump* inspected were in Iwd order, giving ?hort measure to the customers, One pump was found to be giving <me pint extra on each five gallon delivery, The department <*f agriculture ban men traveling over the state to matte inspections and to condemn all appa ratus not giving the oorroot amounts to the customer*. Scales and various kinds of measures are also given the "once over" and If they do not fine* tlon properly they are condemned. Many thousands of dollars ffre belpg saved yearly to the people of the state by this work. The Anderson investigation where 10 i>uinps were inspected, five being con demned for repairs, one adjusted and the remainder found correct Is merely one instance of where such incorrect measures are given, ofiloers of the de partment of agriculture say. -Friday's State. ? . . .. i . . Wouldn't Tell Age. Woman suffrage and women's club leaders generally rallied Friday to the support of the (position taken by Mrs. Margara Mill McCarter, of Kansas (Tiry, Kaunas, Thursday In refusing to give her age when she went to regis A iti. as a voter. Mrs. McCarter declares *he will com test the ruling which was ! based on a decision of the attorney general that a woman can not register i unless she give her age more definite ly than "over 21." "It's a club the men hold over the womtn to prevent them from voting." declared Mrs. Llli Day Monroe, woman 1 laifyer, and well Icnown suffragfct. ffxnils I). Brandies, associate Jus- ; 11c? of the United States supreme | court, was elected president of the In-! j ternational Zlon conference, which convened )n London last Tuesday. WOMAN IULL8 HINBAND. v Letter* and Picture of Another Womwi Hold To Bo Tk* ( ao?r. ? .< - .4? ; ? r Special to the New* mid < 'ourler. >' , Florence, S. OJ .Inly JJU.? (Sir*. Kdna ' ilturgew, aged fvH.v Nhot *iid kill ed lior husband, Ouy Burgess, super vtsor of the Atlantic oo**t Line signal system, In their room near the Atlantic Mix* dejsd, about (J o'clock this afternoon. letters 'and a~|VftttfFe <rf u womao In Knoxvillc, Tcnn., found In possession of Iter husband, Mrs. Bur den-. stated to the chief of police, wa? the cause of her action. Mrt, Burgess Is In the city Jail tonight. Nine times did Mr*. Burgess shoot her husband. She reloa<led the weapon once and emptied It into her husband's b<M|y. Death, it la declared, was almost instantaneous. After the shooting Mrs. Burgess ran from the house and into the street,, where she fell. .She talked freely with the chief of "police, it is -laird, but refused to say ?DjrtJiiui to a rejsirter tonight. she appeared to be lu a hysterica) coudl thai at times. Mr. and Mr*. H urges* were married July 15, 1019. in Jacksonville, Fla.J Where the latter, it Is understood, wasj employed for about seven yeirrs iu a j beauty parlor. They moved to Flor ence only a f?nv weeks ago from Char leston. Before marriage Mrs. Burgess was a Miss Hanson and her home was In At lanta, where her mother now Wildes. Mr. Burgess was from Atkinson, Kan sas. where his relatives are livlqg. , Oowit Got Drunk. Two drunken cows that romped abont their pasture nntll exhausted and then fell to the' ground In a stupor led to the discovery of a large still on the farm of John King, about 15 miles northwest of this city last night, relates a Durham, N. O., dispatch of Thursday. Dr. Petty, a local vetertnr a r Ian who was called to treat the ani mals found they were Intoxicated and after a long search the still was lo cated by the farmer. It proved to be one of the largest In the history of the county. The cows had eaten some of the niash prepared by the moon shiners. . <Bllas <Trant, a lad of ten years was I instantly killed by a bolt of lightning at his home near Anderson Monday af ternoon. The boy went Into the yard to remove something from the rain whein .the bolt struck him. MTH WlUb'lUITIHK^ KrrecnUed '** One of OrmM N*eH* tt?m of A ?grim. .With ivfvrwK* lo tl?e retirement bf (*hrl*t> Mathewfton, tin* Kau ami New York Herald my * editorially: ""Chriaty Mathewson has occupied too Ih r^f h place in the lutiidM and emotion* of Now Yorker* to parinit hi* announcement of 9)1* retirement from professional ltaseball to be treat ed a* an incident of merely casual IMTHOlliil illt<T<*st. "If any follower of the national ?port were asked to name offhand the man who moat thoroughly represented Ita beat tradition* and it* beet prac tices the chance* are he would reapond with the name of Mathewson. 'To score* of thousand* the once great plt<*her iH-rsonitirs all the qualities which are sought In thoae who play the garnq for Kbe game'* sake, regard leas af the reward they receive for their servloea. "Of Mathewson It 1* true that he oarrled the standard* of ameteUr *i>ort regulating conduct on the diamond in to professional baseball. Indeed, many amateurs might study hi* beliavlor with profit He observed the rules, he accepted decisions of the umpires promptly ami without kicking, he re frained from that kind of *rlding' his opponent* wbloto is offensive, He nev er failed through pique _qj*. (llflappoint ment or jealousy to give hi* best &>r his team, though, of course, he never had reasou to feel Jealous of any of his contemporaries. He never tried to *hog* tihe game. i "The Qualities of character Mathew ?K?n displayed outside of hi* profes sional skill were widely recognized. They built for him a reputation, and imposed 011 him duties not commonly associated with the professional ath letes. He was called on ' to address s<<hool?, club* of boys, amateur smart ing organisations. He acquitted 4itm self of these obligations with credit. The simplicity and genuineness of his dlsiKMltion, his unaffected' candor, his natural devotion to clean living and hla high conception oi rlgftt conduct enabled him to Impress the desirability i of manly virtues find fine ideals on ( mapy youngsters who might otherwise have been misled by another concep tion of Slfe.' man with a record of his kind has been a useful citlzep apd will have the good wishes of all for his future prosperity." ?" 1 W ' 1 UNCAKTKK OOIJNTV NKW8. lttm* ot Inters CU^mI l^? NHfflh Nr Ttwa Paper*. Mr. W. it. Uwoud showed tbe nil sen ttils week, a very interesting let ter writteu by bla father from Oaloma, California September 7tb, 1850. Mr. Lemknopd went to California In tM geld ruwb of *40 a mi hit letted contains a graphic description of tbe hardship* that were undergone by tbe settlers af ter they arrived, Tbe letter, though wrltteu 70 year* ago, Is weU presort ed, tbe quality of tbe paper excellent and tbe ink faded but little. Some of tbe prices mentioned for provisions in tbls letter, make tbe present high prices seem insignificant. It took tbe letter three months to come from Cali fornia to I.ancaster. * Misses Perry Belle Bennett and Mary Klliott Carnes joined a party $f Wtntbrop Juniors at Rock Bill last week under Dr. Garltek of the "Win-" tbrop. faculty and win take an educa tional trip through the west, the itin erary including stops at Denver, Col orado Springs, Pike's Peak, Yellow stone Park, Salt Lake City and on into Montana. The party will be away about three weeks. C. S. uml R. 1. Bryant, the two brothers who were brought to Lancas ter from keath Springs Thursday and lodged in Jail by Sheriff Hunter on suspicion they were connected with tie Jobberies that took place in that town last week, were released from custody ?< Friday, after having paid a fine of |20. each fcuj carrying concealed wea pons, no evidence being found to im plicate them in these robberies. Rim Sapp, of the New Bethel sec tion of the county, missed his Ford car Wednesday morning, ? the thief having left somebody else's car which had "gone dead" near Mr. Sapp's home. With Sheriff Hunter, Mr. Sapp took a trip to Camden in search of the cat a?d returning met it- Ja the road being driven by some negroes. The sheriff and his party quickly turned around and ran the negroes a close race, but whan abont to be caught, the negroes deserted the car and took to the woods. A hail storm in the New Bethel com munity in the upper edge of the cbunty, did considerable damage last Friday afternooix Crops am two farms belong ing to Dr. W. H. Sapp and also on the farms of Robert McManus pd Dr. D. . R. Sapp were badly damaged. John Snipes, who lives on the J. W. A. Porter place In the Dixie section, HAVE YOU SEJEN THE NEW Call Clarence Dunn for Demonstration. ? ? Can make immediate delivery. Phone 35. I ? V FOR SALE--Immediate Possessi# ? ' "? ' . v y ' \4 Five room GctUgc on Haile Street is ofier?4 Im ink. Owner k?vil| tikj, aid posseuion tu be givei obont Aug u?t first. . V V" . - ? ? It A. McDowell, ?amden, S; C had two nice cows killed by a bolt ot lightning from an electric storm that passed through that section Saturday" aftennoon about six o'clock. . < (Miss Margaret Taylor, of Camden, spent the week-end with her sister, Mrs. Ira B. Jones. v Wall street has started the betting! of Ob qc at 2 U> 1 with no takers, ami even money that Cox will carry Ohio. Hermitage Was The Winner. (From Sunday's Columbia Record) /Despite a heavy field which made the fielding a bit slow and which ac^ counts largely for the number of er rors, Hermitage Mills Co., and -the Pa cific Community Association of Colum bia put up a sjnai^py game on the grounds of the latter Saturday after noon with the' visiting team winning the game, 9 to 2. The work of* Herbert at bat and afield was a big feature. This lad Her tofert look* like mighty good for some professional leqga&-j_ dbe lad may n^d soma tralnlii 9 time bis' friends believe that be 1 make a big name for himself i, professional Tajiks. Morris pitched for the losers was *k> ii| eitape but the fleldltig which w eeesarily not as fast as it Wooldj been on a perfect (Maiuoud and ? good weather conditions helped bis defeat. . V Jordan's fielding and battiag Hermitage Mills crowd was alaoi part of the game. Jordan is i baseman who works on the and defensive in great style. Thej initage Mills' have a crack are furnishing some good *>ort Thet score : Hermitage P. O. A ? 2 A. Horton and McPherson ; Morr| and Hawkins. . A. ..'Ji&JM I We wish to announce to the Automobile owners of Camden and vicinity that beginning August 1st, we will commence to operate all transactions and sales of Gasoline, Oils, Tires, Accessories and Repair Parts and Work on a STRICTLY CASH BASIS. This action has become absolutely necessary on account bf disastrous month after month due to failure to collect a considerable percentage of bills. This together With the s percentage of profit derived from the sale of Gasoline and similar accessories make it impossible to contnrtfel business on a credit basis without cutting the quality of service rendered. This we do nofMre Co do and it ill therefore to protect our good customers that this action is taken. For the information Qjf all concerned, wel publish herewith an agreement signed by all members of the ?i \ " .J Camden Automotive Associatkw T~%-~ ?rpm ' 5 ? I which will be strictly enforced in every instance. ?' ^ n; "We, the undersigned Garages and Filling Stations, hereby agree and pledge fturtelv^ that, commencing August 1st, 1920, we will operate our sales of Gasoline, Oil, Tires* Accessories and all Repair Parts and Work on a strictly CASH BASIS, making no exception whatever to anyone. In other words, nothing included in the above mentioned lines will be sold or Allowed -fliB to leave our places of business until it has been fully paid for in advance/' v- s> I By selling for Cash Gasoline will now be sold at 34c the Gallon instead of 35c, the former \ 1 CAROLINA MOTOR CO. BEARD'S GARAGE LIBERTY MOTOR SALES CO. CAMDEN MOTOR CO. GEO. T. LITTLE J. F. JENKINS W. O. HAY C. B. SPRADLEY # r CONSOLIDATE!) AUTO CO. KERSHAW MOTOR CO. CAMDEN SERVICE STATION