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W8H0PVIUJE NEWS NOTKH Happening* of InUmt M Wd by The Vindicator Mr. J. It. Parrot t, olfy ??!??<?< r)?-l? 11, hud a narrow {-inapt* laat from ebvt locution. II** whs Ntt? titling <>n a totalling h jh'w motor, witu his lift arm rolling on au oleotrloal '/-on dnit, that wa* *pppo*Od to J 4-* Insula l?*d but the high voltage had iM-iiv tiHtcd thf Insulation, am} -Mr. Parrott roeelvod n ?*?vor#> ahoek burning hit* ?iiih deeply and kuoektng him from tlx !i<'\ Ho iiiiwltlt- to do any' nmrc work that day. but wfth the ox- J reption of a ??*arrr<! ar?n4wa* all right . uaoxt day. Thi/jfe uo ouo working, w ill hini w iliv ?<?? hlrnl .m/ureilj and hi* helng kmnkod from tin* Im?,\ And a wa.V Jtfoiu the wlro .saved M?V? from furthor JnJur.v. ; . Marry T. Sflit t li-r ? ?f lbt ii iinore, but for the l)i v? three weeks a r#*- 1 < l?*y t of Iti*liopvllhv was drowned shortly, after I o'cl^'k yoslot'day afternoon in, I'aoghman's porfu fpat ft* hi* tb<* water for a swim., Mr NehiHer arrived at I ho pond shortly l>ofpre I p'fioek In eornpaUy with several frU'ruJa from HUhopvllle ujam his fi?? dlvo wont ?h?u it, aeeonji.ng to rye \v itnc'sses. i Mr. Nehiller wh* a inulyo of J*nlti< more. lie had iioeu in Hi*hopviij|e a 1 >?h<.| (iiuo.. .ht'JUig OHiji'oyO.d by A. M. ' Krflixsoff. wcrohant. ifo ea'me to Co huubln yo.s'torday. with < 'barlow l,ovln >ion. II arty l.evinson and two othor frlemis. The parly arrived here about 'J lilt .n'ohn'k, Harry Levlnson snhl la,?>, night. They look donor about '{ o'eloek and then wont t<> ('nughman's pond. The unfortunate young man \vj|* about LTi yOa i's of, age and a youim jnan of exemplary ''hataeter. ' Uev ,J r < 'o?is? r left last Saturday jifteriioon for h>?W?irk as missionary in the far ejjst Iliv field will he In Japan and awording I" mission </u.s t< in will lie jjono ahoiil eight years be loft* lie will ije t a vaentloii to visit hS ? r j ?? FLORIDA <><M)I> KAItM ? HIGH. KOIJINd AM) HKALTHV. (Jooil I (uii ils. (iiMul S? ) t? m ? 1 j i ml Xriuhlmrsl in ilfd Clii\ >*?*?! Ion of Nor I h KlorWln, ?nlnj>t ??< I to ?<MH'rnI farmfnir. fvUHo ulul -liuu rulsdnu^any size farm from $L*'i in $."?<> |M-r wrV. For 1 nfor million \v i i t ? ? JOHN PASCO, Monticelo, Fla. ukJ lunuc The fa rewejl reception glv<jo him a ( ti>? Pr*?by tPrmu utuiMtr ou Fri day ?Tenin| b*or? b* left in wbicb aJI tht* denominations of the town wfiv i?i vlted waf a birge gttth^tnjj ui friw|?lH and iu ODt' ^'iiae * a " iuo*t eujoyabo iim^oii, yet win q the parting i'">" Ci: tut' Jt Wa* oue of tbc -?addest. Ko* many knew whlwJ OAty ?!?!*? I ? a i < ? I wit. * | Mil ili ji gt*?|i. thttt V.is ! Ilkelv they, would never gra*p In t?> Hit* heartfelt u ml k'nd ward* of parting and the uiany i-d bleaa, guide uud keep you," he rece'vcd many substantial tokens that will eVfr Im* to hi|^ a reminder of the ipye and affection \>f dear one* he I* leavng kv hind will h' In* g?>es ?n a servant labor* I iil' tot It ?' ? Mn'li r''i kllig.loiu. AI'I'KAI-S FOR DOI.UK DK1VK Sft'Oug it ) <|M'M I for 'every Democratic V&Lfet i" South Carolina r<> got Iwhtnd III.' Doll.il I ?<-m. Ml )l< V 111. ?\ eilieilt lliml*' by John <lj| try RyauM, national commit tecman from this slate I ?? Joe Sparks, dli ;u<tur of t lit; campaign. JUt h.ia letter Mr1 I " V II 11.^ j > < < 1 1 1 1 "> oifrt (lull "Ohio is jilst a* aufo as South Carolina, The opinion of Mr. I'ivans Is baaed on hi* ohservat h>n? ? while on a nip through ttre f ?'? ?' west ||?> de.-lare.l that It Is the duly "f every Democrat to give ?* inm-h a* "ii" dollar to help the party elect t'?.V\ Mild Koohevelt. A part of hi* letter follow*. ?. "We must Ki t up a good fund this year to show our faith. Our |>coplo ilpQ plei.lv .if money and there Is HO reason why they should not respond. "('u\ is going to lie elected and we CrtniTot fall l?ehln.l as our eoii-t flbii tions u the only way we ?-an help. "Kver> 1 1.? 1 ??k hx?ks bright and the p?*Op|e ? . T (he West are enthusiastic. ' Ud'o Is it- -h fc al South i 'a rolina . .Next Tuesday at the Majestic, .lack I, ou. ion's masterplenee "Hurnintf Day fight," the world's aupreme novel of I he t'ro/.eii \orth where strong lyen toll lor noid and might .lietates tlie law. T.i a united to the sereen in a mighty production iluvt nuitves a tromemlous l.ook live again iu a tremendous pic ture. Good Positions Are available for any young man or woman who receives a business training at our college. We give you I lie posi tion or refund your moiiev. Our em ployment bureau receives calls from all the large towns throughout Soutli Car olina every week, and we are aide to fill bid 25 per cent of the positions, We gi\e you this opportunity; it's up to you t <> taUe advantage of it. For full particulars, write Draugon's Columbia, S. C. , 1 AS OtUMNAM fc To Hiiii# XuppHen for the City of Cam den, S. C.. for (he Year lit# (k> it ordained Uy thw MmTCT and Al dermen Of i he 0ft of Camden. S. p., ,t jut by ?>ii Im.i iiy of the mw??, that the following ta*c? t>4?; and the wlue art* hereby levied for the current year frow Mi.- M day of Jm mi l i v JD20 to the 8UI ?lay 'of IHjwiuber , |H2#K, Section 1. A tax of 20 w?H|* on t ;i ii u mi every | dollar of rM! and ' iht ?onai property within incorporate jliu Km o f ?he 4 *ity of Camden. ?. C. from (he ffrtt day of January. M&K Section '1 That all able bodied male l?ntons between the ?k?* of twenty opt and Hjxty \hii>, retiring wtihin the cor porate limits of 1 1 ??? 0*1 t,v limit*. Of ttW City of Cawdeu. s. c. not exempt from road ddt.v under the lawn of the Htafe -ha'l work street*. way* and brldgex under tin? direction <?f such overseer* a* may be appointed for suctl suae*' of time, not exceeding *.'x (iij < lays 111 one y?wr ; l'roynliug that at the time of r+* (?4*ivl??n tHkoU notice any ' person may J?aj" t<> tin- poraot} giving such not Ice Five 1 5.) ItolljiV*. CoiuajUtatlotl, which shall be received in utju of the work aud that person refu*fntt to work op -aid street,* or to pay *ald commutation shall We fined not le*s than Ten ($10.) dollar*, nor more than Fifty ($.*>()) Dollars, or la- imprisoned nut Icsh than l< n 0^1 nor more than ( li<? ? days, in the dReretlon of tin* city lleeoroer. Section U. The tax hooks for the col lection of city taxes will tie open tn Comi/ili Chamber, CamcH'ii. s. C.. on tl.c l*i day of September IWJO and re main open eftCh day, except Sunday, from ft a. m. to I p.m. and from 3 p. m. ? to 4 :;?0 p. m. until the 1 at day of October. 10&Q inelu-'ve. Section I. That wheh/lie taxes and assessments or any portion.- thereof charged against any pro|*?rty or party on the duplicate for the current fiscal year, alia 1 1 pot he paid on or before the 1st day Jof Octol>er. the City clerk and Treasurer shall proceed to add a penalty of one centum on said dupli cate and the said Clerk and Treasurer shall collect same and If the said taxes and assessments ami penalties are uot paid on or .before the 1st day of Noveitt ?her thereafter an additional penalty of one | mm- centum shall he added by the City- Clerk and Treasurer on the said duplicate and collected by the City Clerk V 1 1 1 ? I Treasurer: That if said taxes, penalties ami assessment s are not paid op or before .loth of Novem ber. next tbreaCter, an additional jien alty of five |H*r ee.ntun^t hereon fchall he added by the City Ca?rk and Trea- " surer on said duplicate and collected by (he City Clerk ami Treasurer., "And if <aid Imxi'x, penalties ami assessments are not paid on or before the 1st of I tef einber. next thereafter the City Clerk and Treasurer shall issue his tax executions, for all taxes, assessments and penalties against the property of the defaulting taxpayer according -to - law. - Ratified by the Mayor ami Aldermen of the City of Camden, S. ('.. in cniiueil assembled this 7th dav ??f June. 10'JH. \\\ I. iirx.N Mayor. M. -C. SI N( i I.KT< IN. ( 'jty Clerk and Treasurer. An OldUFaahioned Democrat and a Man of the People, u i*. dicated by the enthu?ia?tit re i ception with which he i? meet ing throughout South Carolina. ?v ' .... - ? ? - ask any o^e who knows HIM He believes in jthe doctrines of CalTiouV is opposed to any further centralization of power' in the federal government, is an advocate of tax reform and governmental economy and de nounces as a traitor anyone who does not have at heart the best interest of farmers and laboring men. The Columbia Record Editor ially Says: "Among those \vh<> aiv candidate* for the senate in the Primary Campaign, The Record beiiffces that in the person of < J^orge Warren, of Hampton Coun ty, the State of South Carolina, will have as a representative in the United States Senate a'ltfan who has the cour age o t hU eorivletloaiK, who wilt re sist the dangerous tondeuoy of ?Viitral izlng encroaehments, .who will, even in the faee of lobbies and outside in fluences of every sort, hohl once agaitf aloft the standard of States Rights, which the weaklings aind partizans of Congress have permitted to'.be trailed in the dust. . . . Young, aggressive, indeptndent, of clean and honorable re cord, capable and ambitious of dili gent effort to attain the larger growth w hich the responsible and honorable ' office of Senator would obtain to him, we commend him to the careful sera tiiiy of the voters of South Carolina." Graduate of Clemson College in Class of 1908 - Membei\House of Representatives 1913 to 1916. Elected* and Resigned as Circuit Judge in 1916. Endorsed for United States Senator by the Democratic Conventions of Allendale, Jasper and Hampton Counties in May, 1920. A Vote For Warren Is a Vote for State's Rights M. M. JOHNSON'S RECORD IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES To the Democratic Voters of Kershaw County: Since a large number of the citizens of the county did not have an opportunity of attending the campaign meetings ! am taking this means of acquainting you briefly with some of the work done by your delegation with which you are most concerned. We were able to get through a bill raising the pay ol jur ors from two to three dollars per day. We wanted to make the pay four dollars per day. but were unable to do so. Citizens are called away from their business and required to. sit upon the jury, paying their own expenses and' they should be com pensated. I was out* of the authors <>1 the act which created the State Ware house Board, the objects and purposes of which is the protection of the interests of the cotton producers, regulating the supply to the demand, with the power to negotiate for and arrange the sale and transportation of cot.ton to the larger mar kets, eliminating the speculator who has waxed rich from the fruits of the toil of the farmers of the South. I was also with others, instrumental in the passing of an act authorizing the State Warehouse System to insure the cot t <*n. stored in the different warehouses over the State. The farmers know that the cost of insuring the cotton lias hereto fore been so great^that in many instances the storage and insur ance charges have amounted to more than the saving to them. We sought?by this act to remedy this and 1 believe that by the passage of this act the insurance charges will be greatly lessen ed and that the farmer will he relieved of the heavy burden heretofore imposed by the high insurance rates. Kver\ >"easure coming before the Legislature in the inter ? -l <>f the farmer received my hearty and enthusiastic support. I did everything in my power for the betterment of condi tions in the common schools, ami ! am glad, to say that by far the largest appropriation ever made by the (leneral Assembly for the < ommon schools was made during the last session. For the caiiM' of education it is necessary that our State Colleges be gem*r? m-1y supported, but I have always believed that our lirst care -houM In- f ? ? r the boys and girl> who tomorrow must take up the battle ot lit*1 and the duties of citizenship, and I shall never V"U' against a reasonable appropriation for the edu < at ion i)i the youth of i-nr state. 1 did all that I < <?uld to secure a constitutional convention '.or the purpose ot revising and rewriting our state constitution ? specially w ith * iew of clearing the way for a more equitable system of taxation. The burden now fall- on t lie poor man and upon the man ot moderate mean- while the extremely wealthy f a 1 1 h o 1 1 o t pit \ ing their > u - 1 p ro po rt io ns of t h e t a x es . \V e na\e in Kershaw ( ounty a \ cry large corporat ion. with an in e.-tment o! approximately eleven million dollars and it's prop erty i> leturned upon the tax books at li\e hundred thousand .! dlars. about 'me twentieth of the true \alue. This concern doe- r.t p fovicie any of the citizen- ot thi- < ?> unty with it'* pro duct; no industry in our county is helped by it, yet.it escapes paying anything like it's proper share of the taxes. If this one concern were required to bear the burden proportionately your taxes and mine would be materially lessened. This is not the fault of our officers but the fault of the system. AVe must have relief and I shall continue to do everything in my power to that end. | An income tax upon the corporations and wealthier indf~ viduals would relieve matters considerably and I propose to in troduce a bill at the next session of the legislature (provided I am elected) providing for such a tax and providing the machin ery of putting it into effect. ? ? I am very much interested in good roads; if we are to keep pace with other states of the Union we will have to give this matter more attention. I do not think that we can afford hard surface roads now and I do not favor them, but I dt> favor the expenditure of money to, better traveling conditions, espe^ dally do 1 favor the giving of more attention to the roads over which the farmer has to travel when he hauls his supplies and fertilizers home and carries his cotton to market. At the last session of the General Assembly, your delegation passed an Act giviag the people~~of Kershaw county the right to pass upon the issue of bonds for the building and maintenance of roads. We did this at the request of a large number of people over the County. We did not desire to put this bond issue over without tfTFronsent of the people and had no intention whatever of* do ing so. We believe that upon so vital an issue the people should pass. Those who had charge of the matter saw fit to set the bond issue election upon the same day that the primary is to be held. This certainly should not have been done. It is not a political question, it could just as easily have been set for the same day as the general election and the people of the county would have had an opportunity of getting their registration certificates, whereas large numbers of them are disfranchised, and however the election goes it will not be the expressed will of the people.' It is apparent to me that it was set for the same date as the primary in order to try to make it an issue in this campaign to turn the people against me and to Hring about if possible my defeat. It is not and cannot be an issue in this campaign. , The question will be settled by the qualified elec tors of Kershaw County long before the next legislature meets and it can have no bearing upon the qualification of the gentle men who are seeking to represent you. The real antagonism to me comes from disgruntled parties on account of some other legislation. Our system of county government had become al most autocratic in its working. The people were demanding ;t change. The people throughout the state had seen the nec i essity of a change and a large number of counties had already adopted practically the same system that was inaugurated by the last legislature, and I believe .that I am safe in saying that within the next five years not one county in South Carolina will retain the old system. (And right here I would like to call ymr attention to the fact that not one of the other gentlemen asking for election to the Legislature has told you that he would - put matters back as they were.) They talk about defects in the law. I admit that there might be some defects in it, but (hey - can be cured. Very few acts are allowed to stand as they were first passed. Nearly all* of~them have to be amended before the ~ machinery set in motion thereby can be made to function prop- ~ c-ily. They say ilml under the provisions of the act the voters 1 will have no voice in the selection of the Commissioners. I tell, you that this is untrue. The democratic voters of I^eHjhaw - County may, if they so desire pass upon the qualifications of tbfc gentlemen desiring to fill the office as the terms of those composing the present board expire. The present board was appointed so <that they might work with th6 old board until the first of the year in order to become accustomed to the duties (if their office. To have put in new men without experience to jnanage the affairs of the county would not have been proper. 1 hose who have fought me on this ' ground should have ~i shown their consistency by advocating t^e election by the people of the State Warehouse Commissioner, the State Insur ance Commissioner, the State Tax Commissioner, the Superin tendent of the penitentary, the judges and the trustees of dif ferent state colleges, all of whom are elected by the legisla* ; ture. Your Board of Registration and your Boards of Equal ization are not voted upon by the people, yet they have said nothing of that. Another act which we passed was to require the County Board of Commissioners to make an itemized statement of the receipts and disbursements of the funds collected from the toll ferry operated by them across the Wateree river from the fall of 1916 until 1920, and to turn the funds remaining if their hands over to the county treasurer who is the proper cus todian of the people's money. They operated the ferry, lected the tolls and fiad never made any showing to the p^0",, pie of the county of what had been taken in or of what was be ing done with money, hence this act. I can see no good reason w hy the provisions of the act should not have been compli^ with, yet it was approved by the Governor on the day ol March 1920 and the monev has not been turned over or ^ thr htafement published as required thereby. i .. , a\? 8erved you for 2 years and am seeking re-election, t an e o vastly more use to you in the next two years than' a\e in the past two. I had no personal motive in any of the eg is ation enacted through my efforts, but only a desire to be. sen ice to all the people. I probably made some mistake >ut they were honest ones, and any man who goes th ere and < ? o ( o something for the people will make them. If 1 ^ 1 ne nothing they would have had nothing to fight me ab oiit- i am le-elected I promise to wofk as I have in the for J he- good of all the people. Before you cast your* ballot M ourself if those who have followed me around from mcetW| omeemg trying to bring abftut my defeat are workingin^J *res o <ershaw County or *eje king private revenge. J M. M. Johnlon. |