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Your Banking Business A Banking connection with us will give you the confident feeling that back of your business ia a strong financial institution, guarding your interests and ready to give its co-operHion in every phase of banking and financing. We invito you to consider us as your business asso ciate,, and to make use of the strength and experience we have gained through 'long ?? nd varied contact with commercial problems. You wiil find -here a congenial atmosphere ?f per sonal interest in your affairs ? an earaeat desire to , give something more than ordinary banking service. This desire to serve is the same, whether your account it? large or sumV. Loan & Savings Bank OF CAMDEN, 9. C. STRONG SAFE CONSERVATIVE Double - Barreled Service "\17HEN you buy i H C machines, you * * also buy the Service (hat goes wi th them? th e co-operation that exists bet ween us and the International Harvester Com pany, and which we intend to continue with you. We expect to hold your con fidence in the I H C 1 ine by furnishing thejoest implements, .machines and farm operating equipment on the market. We render to you a cloutale-barrfcleci Service in not only supplying you with first-class goods, but in seeing that these goods are kept in perfect running order long after the original sale is for gotten. Genuine Repairs Our moral obligation does not stop with the original salf*, but you can hardly expect us to assume any responsibility for the successful operation of I H C machines if you buy imita tion repairs of inferior quality instead of buying ? genuine 1 I 1 C Repairs. We sell only genuine I I I C Repairs made by the Harvester Company, and which are made of the same materials as used for the original machines. No imitation equals the genuine. Play safe! * SPRINGS & SHANNON Camden, S. C. The First National Bank OF CAMDEN, S. C. We have taken care of our customers in the usual wpy, almost as in normal times and at the same time, have been able to pay off every dollar that we borrow^. - - - We do not owe a dollar. Our liabilities are in keepinsr with our resources which shows a healthy condition. This is a reflec tion of good, conservative management; the kind of management that our depositors are entitled to. With these facts before us we feel at liberty to ask you to bank with us. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $100,000.00 The First National Bank OF CAMDEN, S. C INVKNTION Of THK MOVIM C. Knnela JMfcioa, Treasury Clerk Hold Invention for ft. WW. Ilomer Troy in I ho New York Tribune. Thore are now tdxlyelght thousand persona In the United H la tea engaged In tlio motion picture bualrio**, ninny of whom arn not prow* agents. Were you ever one of those utt* happy wights who WOIit to a motion pictnve ball ex pee ling to dance with fl film favorite? Then you. too |?a %?? suffered. ; STou i i i \ ? ? $<>gLQ '"if pt (I morning with Hh* world brtgtit before ' you nn?t <*01110 back of an oVouing nnfl crawled Into boil knowing that all j*l 'W.lllst. That gang around llabe Twokness w a h not an a<|iniring throng? fighting foi; a ?mll<i anil dying for an autograph. No, ibdocd. They wore merely her pros# agents, and instead of dying they were making a pretty good living. She is completely In fhelr power Thoy dictate where she shall be mar- j ried and when she shall be arrested for speed tug. Thus it, is for tlie people of the movies They ?U have their press agouta except one man, and he is the mun who Invented them. Almost any day lie may ho seen walking down Pennsylvania avenue. Washington, and yet nobody knows him, All the attention, people pay t<? him is to push hltu out of jhe way lie has nob addressed a mothers' cluh in sixteen year*. He goes ..iogtllng on down the- street, hut if some movie queen eouies along she blocks, traffic. Thus life runs away. Ten million people a day -go to tin movies ill ( In- I ' it 1 1 t>i I States, but how many of them know who made the fir-t movie? The "Noes" 'have it. The man who made , t he first vjnolion picture. a - we Know it today. is <?', Francis .lenK ' nv Many yirK who have n<?t -been "ijr piet ii res" a month are better known (' l-'ra neis js too much iriven t?? bidi-e*i i hi- lijlu .under a bushel. If a yA < motion pi'ture actress cfulea v-urs ie hide lie r lijrlu under any kind of 'pro toot iort her address at present is u : i known. Instead. she crawls up on top of the measure and calls for the spot light ina n If he does not give it t" her ? pi lek >he w ill kick the four pe ? to kingdom eonie. * ' Francis Jenkins wa? a clcrk in the life?.-t\in^ division of the treasury <ic partincut at Washington. but he \va n"t eon t en i with putting on his sleeve protectors of a morning and taking tliein off al I o'clock. He did not want to spend his life heating the clo- k of a morning am) of an evening watch ing to see if the b'*s^1iad yet goiiQ trnriK' He whs hipped on photography, and in the yard of his hoarding house made many experiments. He was wufk in? wiin a mau'T lantern. whh?h was then considered about the furthest 1 1 < ir 1 1 1 >'t 1 1 1 1 1 n y m ingenuity. Youlig Jenkin- w.t^ .seized with extravn 4 1 1 nt. iili ji of making pictures timvp by means of i lie lantern. ami to work he sot . In Ik* called a vaudeville dancer named Anuabello w }???-?? }?i r? i?-tt !:? r hit of enterta : n in <*) 1 1 w as a sooalled hut terlh diiiioe. of her .lenkins made pic tures. .Many men in rtic I " 1 1 i t ? I States and Kuropo had been working ??n the 'idea of "animal loeoimd ion." a- il was then called. hnt as irhi plate* hint to ho nsiil tii** result was not any be wildering sticcvss. The heavy. cumber* sum pla t?-s could not bo progressed lit front <'f a light source last enough to make any aniuiil look like an\ thing hnt a ih -a t ii struggle. Then tin- ? ???! I n loiil film was announced It \\a- light ami flexible 'I'hi' in\eiitor?? wi-r?- off It was a r : 1 1 -i ? The -nmtliei nation . a Hit- aiong after a while a it always d??e*. and (' Kratn-ts asked for an extra week. He sulit a mysterious bo\ b\ e\prev?. and wen' home t" Kichmond. Ind To t jewelry >tore run hy hi- eotisin lie to,,k the mysterious box and a^ked if tin* curtains in i irh t l>e drawn down for a brief hit Huslm >*, was lu vcr so hri-.lv in I." hmond that the sacrifice v o?: ,i be absolutely dKn ?.fer "ii- The otdy electricity w i- a t r ? > 1 1 3- wire pass ing the door, an I using a pail of water as a rheostat, (' Francis made hi- con nections. Invited in were hi- father and mother, the editor of tin- local pa|x r and .a feu others. Not a word had the young man said nf what they were to see To them if was Just another of Francis's time killers. The room was darkened; there was a sputtering, a grinding and t groaning of moving machinery, and out on the wal'. before the astonished eyes of the good citizens stepped n young and more or iess beautiful giri They gasped ? there was some triek to it. be cause there wasn't any trapdoor in tho wall People were getting so slick with them shadowgraph* anyway! J iha other night there had been a feller down to the ( >prv House who would wrap a handkerchief around h:s hands and make pictures of almost any animal, especially n rnbldt And he could make them move! INp< iaMv the ears Tliey looked .it C'. Fran* is. but his tiundkerehief was in his pocket. Nor did ho hive hits sleoves rolled up. And then they no longer turned to watch C. Francis, for the girl wis try lug to tmltftte ft butterfly. In but I baud itbe belli si irk s nnd to were fastened the draperies ot ber gowu Higher n iid higher slu* begun to lift b(<r sticks in 1 in 1 tn 1 1 < >n of 1 'butterfly tbul Midden I. \ feels itself 'e.iUeil on to dUlli'l*. Higher unit higher the gjtlfU went us the (roll tori Ions of the/ icpidopet rul creature grew more purfervld. The men b?st ull Interest in 0 Fran cis. while the good women turned to look ut ?? teh other What hud ('. Finn ?*ls been d'Jog '?ti U 'he tittle tlti* wicked < i \ i<t Wa htngtou? That t aint* from Jetting l>o.\-i get away from home. 1 Km the toon tlid tod care. They wanted ' (.o see the rfcu t?f that dance. I /i'ho J. 'it w ? ? u i hrgiii?r And then two or three of tin* good | woirt\>n<; nudging eaeh other significant I I .VI g?t n|? mid ma rOhed out ? thus leaving the fir.-t motion picture show in the history of the world. The date w ? s June #?. ISO I. Pictures loot ijee i projected on u wall before f rouU&^MUtorn slides, but never from a^sftip of intermittently moving film.- Thy inaibine which pro jected the ph-tyro 1* on -exhibition at the National-, In Washington The machine ds crunner of all iuommii day p\ojoet6rs,? The first time ?i<Ymission was ehnrg ed Was in At'.a'uTa. Oa., in 1KJI5, The show was a failure. 1'eople could not believe that- y??u chuld show pictures of pep, pie moving about and would not surrender their .money 'on an?y more "f the catch pennies. The term motion (\ picture had not been invented There w 's not hi nu P> describe what was to be .seen. The project was abandoned and r.he young inventor came homo |0'ett\ down ? i ? the month Later he -old his interest in the Invention !'?? SV ."?(>! i. Til vt is 1 1 lie g >t for the M-ennd most wonderful invention in i be | wni'ut. 'J he first was .printing.' Tin* total >nni he got wouldn't pay IJobe Tuoknees' salary for a month And. I again, thus life runs away. Lee County News. Mi'*- I ,0w is Cook, :i slater of Mr j Julius Hancock. died Saturday morn ing :unl hurled at ^a.leiu church Sun day morning. Mrs. Cook had heeti in declining Ilea 1th for several years Again has one of the homos in ihis commiiiii ty been visited hy the death | :i nirrf ;i ml another of the few remain I uu' oM mothers in Israel luis hwn lak .1 in in i- i ? i ? ? r ? 1 1 1' homo. I. "ist Friday. April at :t t 1.1 o'elock Mrs. Mar tha .lam; Sfuekey. the widow of the late 1 ? r Henry Stuckey. departed llii lit'i while many of her loved ones I<? ?! > t sad vigil hy her bedside in the last moments as t he soul left its tenement of ehrv and rook Its place in the realms of the greal heyond. I " l? t'> a f? v. week-? he fore her ? 1 1 ?: 1 1 1 1 M !'->.? Stuckey was ri'iiia rk:i hiy active for one of her aire, hut ? h.cn her last illness eaine she w .s confined to her bed only about two weeks when her frail body succumbed quickly to The infirmatb^ of ape. Mrs. St in key was a daughter of Mr .tames Mct'owii and Harriet Myers McCown. and was horn in Florence count v Aug ust o, 1S3-I. She had many relatives throughout the Pee I >ee section ot the state. Mr. . .lames Mcintosh McCutchcn -died in a Columbia hospital lasr Thurs day following an operation for which he \Vas taken there several days he fore. After the operation Mr. Me Outehen seemed to be getting oil nicely hut that condition proved to be only temporary and in three flays after he was operated on he died. Mr. Mc Cutchcn was 03 years of ago and fol lowed the occupation of a farmer. Ib was horn ii I.ce county only a few hundrcil \ in!-* from the place where he has sji c made his home. lbing a man of even te fnper.i nient he number ed his friends hy his anpia intances and will be missed by them as well as hy a devoted family In 11K)7 Mr. Me Cutehen was married to Miss Julia Dixon, who proceeded him to the grave about two years ago. To this union there were born three children, two sons and one daughter, who survive him. as does one sj<ter. Mrs Laura McOaskill. Mr. (Icorgc lYllis outlaw and Miss Viola Hoone. both of the Tiller's Ferry section, were married by Magistrate J IV Mnnn at Lucknow on the night of April 25th. According to news reaching liitdiop ville Thomas Howard James, of this city, ha* been awarded the oppoint incut to \\ est Foint from this district by the war department who last Sat urday notified Congressman Fulmer to this effect. Young Mr. James, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. James, .stood the examination for this appoint ment some time ago and his many friends here arc congratulating him ui*m his success He is now a student at the Citadel, ar.d will remain there until the end of this term it being ne ressary for him to successfully corn plete the first year's work in order b> be admitted to West Point. So far an in known this is the first appointment to We?t Point ever awarded to a I county boy. Miss Florence K. Spend Iff, of Forest , IIilLs, I. I . la known a? "The Steel 1 Princess.'' beoau?> of her prominence j as an authority on bi*h steels ASaagffi 5?5SSSjgK BESS ^^Sismtfeaa] JPumptin t*nf*m ' AhdSui^g^e.' fg$?S|f ! reailiinUwElIS^"^ "aSS? ?MSS" Exact Copy of Wrapper. For Infants and Children Mothers Know Tht Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THC CtHTAOR COMPANY. NtA( VOAK CITY. isn't ?r a ( BEAUTY thi r sioar SAT/jrACTOKY G/rr- / ?.\/e.*i BOOG/iT 1<>l \\ I ! . i . IIND st IT.Vlll.K ?iIFT.S^tX A1J. l.l.N ? If Il'wt'l 1M *\l> VOVKI.TV AT THIS STORK. WB Alii". 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