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IfANKBK NUICIDKN a, id U?vf? Life Iiu?ur?iiw> Kor ftteii 4-1 it of ^felled Hank. Dunn. N. V" l>oc. O.?TellliiM ttu elo -ueutly |ro?lc 8tory of hl* valn n*M to utavo off the closing of IiIh bank, (l,e dt'Ad body of H. T. Patterson, pr(*|(ient of the Hank of Coats, was Liud hi a barn bohlnd his home this uornli'fJ ,lu eiiled himself, according f *? the eowafr'# verdict, by firing a revolver Millet thruilgh hi 8 heart. \ young H0n engaged til tln? morn U,g chores about tho'home found the N?lv shortly after 8 o'clock. It wan r^tW i" a Uttfe pool of blood with ,he weapon lyl?K hetvvou bin foot, It is not known what time the trag p^v occurred. ; .Ur. Patterson arose early this ,, Hint loft thd house. tint his Ujfc (Ud !}(.'! tfUfPOOt anything wrong Q?lll Ills failtiro to roint' to l.rcnk fast ,'1'ho Hank of Coats wan closed Satur day afternoon whon It was learned that II \\i\h insolvent. Mr. Patterson sacri ficed lit^ Qntlro private fortune In an! flffori io .wive the Institution; and is jirtld to have assigned all his life Insur ance for the same purpose. The Insur ance I* Mieved ti> be at least $(15, (KM). There'- ho* been no intimation of i shortage in the dc?ad man's accounts. Vorriod over the condition of hi* in *4UuUtui and the loss the failure would tirirti; to those who had trusted their funds to his keeping. Is assigned fts iju> reason for bis action. Mr Talterson was one of the most active and successful business men of eastern Carolina. Besides controlling the llaak of Coats, he was the princi pal owner of the -Coats Hosiery mills, vhiHi were burned about two weeks uK<?. He was also an officer in banks it l?iijos Creek and I,llllngton. II,. | *?11^ :< .'{I'd degree Mason. , The wet, flat lands of Ecuador pro duce a vin<> yielding a fruit which Then dried, forms a sponge superior to luhiuil sponges. HELL CATS AND lliTS Kdltor riilloKopher Ktaten a K??w Sim pit* ami Solemn Truths. There are, two people who should ner*r be allowed to trick a victim in. to the bonds of wedlock, writer Uoh* iert QuMen, editor of the Fountain Inn Tribune. The first is a wolfish man, the other Is a gel fish woman. |L Contrary t<> the . usual idea, a fellow" may. he one hundred per cent selfish. A good fellow Is usually a clmp Who spends his money freely - hut always spends It on his own pleus ures. lie buys the drinks and the el-, gars when his turn comes, hut he buys because that Is part of his sellish en joyment. Ilv dosen'i give any of his money to the needy, "lie hardlx n-ali /es that there arc any needy. Ue is the ehap who forgets to cut up stove wood for his wife before go ln(? to work In the morning, After he has been married for five years his wife is a faded sort of trained slave who fetches and carries for him, meekly submits to his incessant growls, and worries about the weight of his underwear. She seldom has time to do up her hair, and she no longer feels ashamed at the roughness of her hands, sin* has become a plow horse working for fodder. ? Hut If a selfish "good fellow" sort of a man con make life a burden for n wife, he hasn't anything on the IS karat selfishness of a she cat thai has been petted and spoiled hy parents with more ambition than sense. A girl is much like ;? filly, A little Wire In the raising ami troiulAg and they moke good running mates, but a fool driver can > t m ? i 1 'em for all time to come. When you see a j?rivl whose clothes are finer than mother's whose hands are softer' than mother's, who bangs the piano while mother scrubs the haek piazza, who nets "cultured" at a little one horse .college while old dad sits up at night trying to devise means to keep the banker from foreclosing on an overdue mortgage who uses a broad "a" and blushes a fiery red when MAKE YOUR BUILDING A LANDMARK To do so if must be permanent and beautiful Use the Palmetto Brick ? they are the best and prices are right. See Leroy S. Davidson & Company A_ Camden, South Carolina Life Insurance Protects mortgaged real estate. A "Life" Policy pays the mortgage if the bor rower dies. It gives him time to discharge the obligation if he dies. An "Endowment" Policy pays off the mortgage whether the borrower lives or dies. Southeastern Life Insurance Co., L. A. McDowell, Agent Service and Quality We established our business on the principle of being fair with our customers, giving them full value for the money they leave with us. We have continued that policy throughout the years we have been serving you, and we are pursuing it more persistently than ever in this era of price in flation today." Rut we never lower the standard of our goods. On this high plane of commercially we solicit your patronage. Braces Pure Food Store PHONE 66 dad sa,\|* "I knowed" lioforo company ? Well, she may bttvo u form to shame Aphrodite. m voice that Jenny I .hid WWW hrtVO been proud of. an?l a T(HV as fa r A* d June mornliur. but ilu i>' are 1<Mi|E brls(h\s'on her soul, and she will bo a typical hellcat for a wife. She uniy ho a sharp ton>:uod cat who spits fife, or she tuny ho one of the nasi lor hrood that feign "tioor ho#lthV iihd iu*in> annHid Ih^iwtrHo In neglige* yoar in ami year <fut., groVsMug fatter and la/lor as tho limit of the abuse gets grayer at tho business <?f bo'"*' lady's nuiUI. Ill olthor case (ho gouVral result In tho same. The world in full of selfish |KH>ple. uid nutlds and bachelors are usually selfish, hut that's ' nobody's business. It's tho sol fish married folk that ttiako homes hideous, and run up batting ii vertigo of old Colonel Qulctdiv World War Echoes There aro 22,000 Americans who art* permanent residents of Paris. French armies crossed the lthlno more than 'JO tlmOs In the last 1120 i> years. More than .V> 1,000 Victory medals have thus far heen Issued by the War l Apartment. American infant i'.v regiments of tho future will have three machine gun companies, One to eaoh battalion. Immediate stops will ho taken by New Jersey to arrange for the pay menf of the ho nun to former service men. All peace-time records' for I he month | wore broken when V7,(52fi men enlisted ii t lie 1'nltod States army during Oc tober. From TO to S5 per cent of factories and workshop of llie devastated dls , I riots of Prance luive been rebuilt and are In operation. Thomas A. Kdison received tho Dis tinguished Service Modal for raeiito | rions and distinguished , service as pros blent of the navel consulting hoard. Nearly half the cost of the war to the T'nited States in actual dollars has been paid. This, however, Is exclu sive of the $10,000,000,000 loaned the Allies. Field Marshal von tlindeuburg, in an address to Ktudouts on the occa sion of his 73rd blrtfbday, appealed to them t<? cling to tl?o Fatherland re garding party division. Abbot Angel, of Paradise, Kan., re cently enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, in Kansas City, Carey T*aek and Nixon Hikes I?ot 1* from Mis souri. also a pplied for enlistment. Tin* oldest battle flag in the muse u in of the Missouri State capital was given by the women of Columbia. It was e.'inied by a regiment of that State under ({en. Centry In the Senii Dole war In 1S37. In Portugal it is planned to bring the bodies of two unknown soldiers from the Flanders battlefields and from Africa for interment in the ehureh of Helcm. In Lisbon, where many Portugese monnrehs are entomb ed. ? - - Infant ryineu in tin- Japanese army arc to have a rifle of larger caliber. At present a rifle of ,2'J.r? caliber is used, compared with tin* brillsh ,30.1; and i ti?' .French .31 -I. The gun barrel of the machine gnu is aNo to be shortened. .. Contributions ? ?f $l-42.Go7.3f? have thus far been made by American |>eo j?le for (be restoration of the Culver sify of T.ouvain, fri Belgium. The money will be used to build a new library to roplaee t*lic historic struc ture destroyed by thoAi.orinans. NOTICE OF ELECTION. - State of South Carolina ?County of Kershaw A petition signed by ' one-third or wore of tlio qualified resident electors and a liko proportion of flu- resident free-holders of the age of twenty-one years of the helow mentioned School District, having been fih*l with the ; County Hoard of Eduncation of Ker Uhinv County, asking for an election in Flat Kock School District, No. "7, of Kershaw County, in said State, to de termine whether a tnx of six (tl) mills, additional. shall he levied in said School District for school purposes, and tin* said position having been heard and granted I ?> the said County TVtard of Mdueatlon. an election will be held :il the residence of Joseph Fletcher, in the said School District. No. .'17 of ? Kersluw County, in said County and Slate, on Fridi\. December 31st. 1020, to pass upon the said question. The ; polls will Open :t I S :i. m., Illtd Will .close at 1 p. in., and Me election will be held under the rules governing gen eral elect ion*. 'Milv tliose electors who reside in the District ami who return real or personal property f? ? r tnxatlon. and who exhibit their tax receipts and registration certificates shall be ullow erl to vote. Not Ice of this election iv 'also ported In three public places in '.said S< hool District, in said County and State In accordance with law. The undersigned Trustee* ><t the said School District will ,i-t ;i> Managers of the syid F.lection IV A McDuWKI.I. T I A MOORF, .IOSKP1I FLETCHER Tni-ifi's of M?<h?w?| I >istri?i No. 37. Fit Rock District. Kershaw County. 1 : \ order of the Ci.iinfv 1 i t t ?>f Education I .1 McKensde \. P. Cettys Laurrns T. MilU County Hoard of Education Kershaw Connty i ii ci-iiiImt 1 ."> WAS A QKRMAN SI?Y Had Nerved as ('apt tan lit t 'idled Stale* Armj al Sevier, New York. De<Yinhcr 7. Sensation h! disclosures of Ills mission t<i this country an It spy for the (lertuiin kov ernmcnt wore given In an alleged con fession l?y John Wilier*, formerly rip tain In Compahy I. Iforty eighth I'ldt ed States infantry. alleged thief ami deserter, after his arrest here tonight charged with nh:*M>inllntf wlth^S, 000 of., his coiupiiiis funds <>ii l>t-cmhcr 11). lUlx ills regiment * v u * f )t<f ii sta Honed a i t 'limit Sevier, <>recuvlllc. . S s. o. Ills CTl |>tU re was accidental. Ilo was crossing Fifth avenue at Forty ? second street1 near the puhlle library when Hugh IlalYfiTgan. formerly a first nontenant In .Wilier*' company, recognized htm. Ilannlgau called a policeman ami Wilier* was arrested. At police sin Hon the prisoner was further Identified hy two other for mer lieutenants In Company I. Sid ney 1\ llowell ami Francis Hatch. Wilier* was then taken t ? ? t.iovornor's Island, headquarters of the Second army corps. and placed in confimiiient at Fe.jt ,lay. Wilier# the police said, redlcd in i hra/en. fashion how he was sent 10 I he I'niteil Stales lis one of 8<H> c?plets trained In the ads di* esplon rsjce (<? enlist !n the Aniorloan a nny, Wlliers went to Albany where he en listed lie said, as a private. His mil itary aptitnd ? won hint rapid promo tion and his knowledge of Rngllsh and his ahllii.v to "speak like an \n?erelan" e--: ah ted hhn to obtain a commission. Wiilers said that he had never heen sent across tin? ocean and while In this eonntr.v ? his Instructions were "to net the part of a loyal American," and to take no acth n untir'ho readied tin1 war /.one. "What was your plan after reach ing the other side?" he was asked. "1 could lead the company to shuiuh ter," the police say he replied. ? "You also would he killed," he was reminded. "What of that? Thousands- of )??*t - 1 1? r matt died that way." While being questioned at the po lice station, he decided to lH'eome a deserter reran rk<nl that they woultl be surprised If they knew "the number of officials at Washington during the war who were employed by Germany ?S spies. |r "Are t'te.v still there?" he wax aslo-d. "TV ;lt I don't know," .he 1- said to have answered. "But there Were many ef them during the war." The Forty-eigh^ Infantry was still nt Camp Sevier when the armistice was signed, and his usefulness as a spy at an end, Willers told the isMice he decided to become a deserter and to take, they alleged. the finals of his company. The deserter then went to Chicago where, about a year ngo, he married ~n young American woman named Crawford. From Chicago Willers roamed about the country, nt various times in his travels trying unsuccessfully to get a passport t?> Germany. . lie disguised himself and waited an opportunity to quit the country. A pair of heavy eye glasses. he said, was an important part of his disguise. When questioned In military au thorities nt Governor's Island Wil |ers declined t f ? amplify his alleged confession to the police. The Forty -eighth ln*intry was sta tioijed :? t Oa in p Jackson for more than a 3*car, coming here from Camp Se vier curly in The regiment is pow on fhc- Mexican border. The second division has been se lected jis Die one division of the I ttm t?*?l States army to lie kepi nt full nfronglh The division which is stationed a t Camp Travis Texas. In muter the comma nd of Major Gen. James (I. llarbord. who was General T'er-hina's chief of staff in Fram-e Mef With Mrs. llough. The December meet I UK of Hie < 'a n tev 1 1 on it * demonstration Club was liehl at the home of Mrs. M. \V. Hough. The members had ? 1 11 i t < > a nnmher <>f visitor* including some of Camden's winter tourists were present to enjoy and profit hy tiiis meeting. Miss Tar rant demonstrated the making of ehoeola te | ?i< - which proved to be both tempting and The members placed report ?? in the new record book. and to stimulate jn tere?i in tlie home garden each incm her was given a calendar of jiemfhlv ?rperations in < - 1 1 1 1 ? gardens The were invlU'd into the diliing room where steaming coffee and delightful *<h ndwlchcs were passed hy Miss Mary Km ma Hough and Mrs. Trnesdeil Then followed the pleasant social hour which with t lie sweet music banished for the time all feeling of depression no prevalent ninofig ??nr jwople Th?- tJiCt-ting adjourned and tlie clnh \%a? invited to hold its next meeting with Mr* W It Hough ttecretn ry. Builders Attention Lumber has about hit bottom and if you anticipate build ing in the near future now is a good time. We have a nice stock of high grade building material on hand and prices are right. Come or phone u? your orders tor anything for the house *. .?H ^ ' ' . - * & Kershaw Lumber Co. Phone 340 D. H. BELK, Mgr. Camden, S. C. NOTICE It's the sole of a man we keep in view For we are Doctor* of Boots tind Shoes; We serve the living and not the dead, With the hest of leather, wax, nails and thread We can sew you a sole or nail it fast We can do you a job and make it last. We can give you a lift also in life, Not only you, but your family and wife. We do not use porous plasters or pills, But cure the sick shoes, no matter how ill. T. A. BELTON ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP Attractive Winter Resorts in the South Beat Reached By The SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM ? _ _ THROUGH PULLMAN SERVICE TO THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND RESORTS OF THE SOUTH. Winter Tourist* Tickets on Sale Oct. 1st, 1920 to April 30, 1921. Final Limit May 31st, 1921. Southern Railway System Dining Car Service Information as to fares and schedules may be ?e-' cured upon application to nearest Ticket Agent. S. H. McLean, District Passenger Agt., Columbia, S. C. B39 E. DeKalb St. PKon? 53 .Camden, S. CJ JUST RECEIVED CAR LOAD OF CHEVROLET 0 Touring Cars George T. Little