The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 06, 1921, Image 6
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
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