Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Our farmers kuve made wouU** rfu \) development and strides lu the lasi few year# ia -?iptte **t the lJo'J Weevil. This brings us to the con elusion tnut we haw r>t the brst farming sections anywhere iu the ' ? ~j( 8o?tbland. With a little effort aud good fertiUfccra wo can produce any thing. We havr the world heat lu raiding CO^fQO, sweet potatoes, corn. We ean raise many other crops, namely, tobaoeo, hay and anykiud of i:t-j ...... garden truck for market. Springs & Shannon has catered to the wants Of Mir farmer* tor over iW year* and we are iu Just as good a position to do it today as *ve ever have bctn. We at atl times carry a full stock of Kami Implements., Fertilisers, Groceries, Hay, Grain and everything e.'se the farmer neinftj, Our stOiHk is just us complete hi bard times as It is in flush times* We feel con fident that we can save the public money on their purchases. Get our prices before buying. - DONT FORGET LARRO COW FEED. Springs & Shannon ? / "The Store That Carries the Stock." CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA HERE ONE WILL FIND A VARIED STOCK OF SILVERWARE . ? ' ? "? ?: *;v C ' - - * -r ? LASTING RIDMEMBRA Ntl'ES AND SUITABLE FOR ALL OCCASIONS, BUT REMEMM'.K, WHETHER YOUR DEMANDS MAY BE SILVER OR DIAMONDS OR ANY OTHER LINE OF JEWELRY, YOU ARE ASSURED SATISFACTION AT THIS UP TO DATE HSTABLIS HMKN T. JEWELER ft OPTOMETRIST SOUTH CAROLINA 1 GOOD PRINTING ? is now at your command. The old printers' rule, "follow copy if it goes out of the win dow" will be followed for all who have their definite plans. There are many possibilities as yet untouched, however, in the methods of producing new and business-building printed mat ter. To those who are desirous of getting the most from their printing bills, we offer special facilities. ' * . . ; Although our shop is generally filled with orders, our facilities and workmen make it possible to get your orders out on time and you don't have to wait long after placing your order. *10? FLOOD OF RUM INTO SOUTH Prohibition Officials in Washing* ton Have Determined to Put Stop on Smuggling. TRADE IS BRISK; PRICES LOW Most Efficient Special Agent* in Ser*? ice Arc Ordeieu Into Southern States ? Liquor Shipped in Various Di?<julses. New York.?* -Finding that Florid* Mini other Southern state* have now become the chief ' territory through which liquor* a re smuggled iu?to this rouuiry, uiucli of It ?vfiituKlly ap posing on the Eastern hooting mar kets, prohibition officials In Washing foil have decided upotF An intensive campaign in those state*. Already several genera) agents who were engaged with K. i\ Y'ellowley Im (he investigations In this city the lat ter part ? i year have g??no to Florida, and others, Including Saul (Jrlll, "'the silent uian," wfth a record ot* having trapped hundreds of i>er sons, from hanker* down to plain bar tender*, In bootleg scheme*, will leavo shortly for duty In that mate. Ilalpli A. t>ay, federal prohibition director for New York atute. who has declared that next to the "home stills"; the big prohlqpi In the enforcement of prohibition I* smuggling, has received information that a considerable i>Co portion of New York's present supply of the beat grade of liquors, iiwliul Ing hundreds of varieties of Scotch, first hi nds in one of the Southern states, and then Is reshlpped to this city by rail or boat. ? Shipped In Disguis*. Some come by express, disguised us other commodities, and even some have been kuowu, it was said, to com*) through safely by parcel post. 011 the staff of Director Day ha#e sei^*! liquor* arriving here from Southern ports by boat, and also liquors coming in from the South by rail. In all instances the liquors were shipped an some liquid or food com modity, and perhpps would have es caped detection i?t this end of the line but for the observation made by the government a gent 8 at the shipping point. In line with the information Direc tor Day has received on the situation in Southern states Is the story told by Frederick JB. Walker, who has, re turned from a visit to New Orleans, Miami and points in Georgia and the Carolina*. "I never thought it possible for* smugglers to get so much liquor Into' l he South as it appears they are now doing," said Mr. Walker, "Take New Orleans, for instance.' "Thousands of cases of liquor ur? being brought into that port,, according to all. reports, and utter studying the i*>ap a little I could appreciate the ease with which It could be done. S4ial low-draft boats can come mound from Qulfport into Misslsfeippt Sound and intothe canal, aloiig which there la a wide area suitably adapted for unloading the contraband goods. "While the hotels in New Orleans are, for the most part, strictly observ ing the law, there are thousands of other places where liquors can be sold. The general agents under Mr. Yellow ley who spent several weeks in New Orleans found the probletn there much more difficult than In N?w York city, and It Is quite certain that their ef forts did not diminish by one drop the supply of 'wet' goods. Even Bell Hops Solicit. "Hut over in Miami," Fie., it is an other story as regards the hotels. As you are being taken to your room In the elevator the bell hop gives you the 'once over.' Kven before you nre well out of the elevator he is solicit ing your liquor orders. Tuke me, for Instance. I have been told that I even have the apiwaram-e of a government secret service man, yet the bell hops in the hotels 1A which I .have stopped there approached me for liquor or ders before I had reached my room. "Competition is so keen In Miami and In many other places In the South that the prices are less than half what they are In New York city. (Jood Scotch can be had at retail at S6 a quart, while In the city the price Is $13 to $20. except In the ultra-fa?hIonable places, where you pay as much as $40 a quart. By the case you can buy the best brands of Scotch whiskies for $50 to $GO, and I suppose In large' quantities you can Ret it even cheaper, 'ilie ??'<?d liquor < o;nes from Cuba and the Bahama Islands. "The conditions In Miami obtain to A large extent in many other places In Florida, Georgia and the Carolines. All along the Atlantic coast the smug glers nre operating freely, bringing In large quantities of liquors, according to the genernl talk sl| along the line. "Not only are large quantities of liquors coming In by boots, bnt It would appear that .'moonst/lnlng' Is on the Increase." P*ng* of Quilt. Columbus, Iml ? Hating ?been con verted at a re?i\at meeting in progress at Edlnbnrg. a yflung woman of t$iat town found the pang* g""t st hav ing "beat* her way into the county filr here in 1920 too great to endure. Bbe therefore inclosed a qnsrter sad ? dime, tk ? price of the admission. In i a lett r uuu mailed it to Francis Ov i?Met, Mtiffcij of tke r?lr BACKERS ARE KEPT GUE-SSU. . ? . ? - V ' IHE . ? . ? " , w--,'1 About One of till Moit Uncertain Spotting llvents Imaginable la a Cook roach Race. HUMltitl ret'ugers In t Viim.u: linopje turn their hand* to nil aorts ot nton?> making (twice*. The luteal and moat successful are twk roach lines, These Uro held <u ifni dm which the HuksIuub hire along the tlraud itne de,lVra. The story* an told l?y Kenneth !*? ltob? eris hi tlio Saturday Kvenlng (*0M, la 1 1 mi i In flit center <Mf each room is a large table with a miniature race trrttfk biil.lt on it, Tiie owner placea a box at Mitf end <?r i in- inuL anil walla until his patrons lutve made their beta on five eonteulunts. Therf he opens the buy nuil dludosea Ave enormous cockroaches attm'hvd to diminutive sulkies. Ac the box la opened four of the contestant* may start briskly around the track, while the fifth ma> turn abruptly and canter In the wrong direction amid beurt-breaklug groans froui tho?? who ure hacking his eoler*. Then the leader of the four raeere who are headed in the right direction may atop abort ami twiddle Ida- I?**n al*ely, aud the otiier three* may alao stop find cluster around hltn to inves tigate the <aune of the delay. While the conference la In progress the cock roach thm Marled the wrong way may change Ida mind. 1 111*11 aud come dash ing pa hi i.he four Idlers with his eyes flushing and his tall up. Then the four Idlers may recover from their mo mentary ennui. shift briskly up the track again and pass the 111*4 h contest ant. who ban probably fallen Into a brown aiutly and leaned up axnlnat the race-track wall wlllt crossed legs and weakly waving feelers. And so It goes. .unlit one of flie eoekrouchcs Anal ly pulls himself together and sent ties across ihe finish line. SEES POSSIBLE FALL OF MAN Scientist Points Out Hovv tie Race May Sink to the ,Level of Lower Savages. "Souie millions of yours from now an entirely new and more highly or ganized animal may spring from some ahcestral stock now relatively ob scure and rise. at first slowly ami then more rapidly, to even * greater height* of achievement than anything which lies within Hie capacity of the humnii spevles." After tracing Hie geologic evolution of the earth so fur tin mini knows It, Dr. KUot Black w ?? I tier of Harvard unl versLly, at the .meeting of the geolog leal societies of (lie American Associa tion for the Advancement of Science, in Toronto, l 'a lift* In. In these words suggested tire possibility of a future usurper of man's pic-eminent plaVe on earth. "As o\ir modern civilization becomes more and more spelful I y.ed and1 'diver* . si fled*-, our w^atlbrts to our environ ment become more mid more complex and our adjustments more delicate, '? Doctor Blackwehlcr said. "Eventually, after all the latest pos sibilities for advancement possessed by the human species have been ex hausted, (lie riK-o may conceivably sink back to the general level of the lower savages, wlileh are but little above the other nnwnmals." ? Kansas City Star. When Ingenuity Triumphed. Caught short on time with a New York opening date booked, and fac ing a huge loss for each day's delay, a moving-picture producer made ar rangements to edit, title, and cut the play en route between Los Angeles and the. eastern metropolis recently. With a special car uqulppcd as a lab oratory ami atlaelied to a limited train, the work was foupd entirely practical even while speeding east ward at a mile u minute or more. Twenty-eight heavy steel containers carried the original film, which re mained in the "eon" all the time It was not actually in use. Editors und cutters worked continually, stopping only for meals ami for a few hours' sleep at nlghl, and on those occasions every sc*rap of film was returned to Its proper container. The work was entirely successful; and by the time the train arrived in New York the film was finished and ready for delivery. ? Popular Mechanic* Magazine. On the Jump. "I reckon you had a right lively time lu Kansas I'ltyV Insinuated an acquaintance. "Tolable," replied (Jabe (Josncll of Grudge, "but nothing like what I prob ably would have had if I vyasn't con siderably lively on my feet. You see, up In Kay See. If you meet a respect able-looking man after four o'elook in the afternoon anywhere the least bit off to one side, he's a holdup and robs you. "And If you meet one that don't look respectable, he"* a plain- clothes polioemnn, and pound* you because he thinks you're a holdup. So I was prac tically on the keen Jump all the tliue X was there, dodging one or t lie other." ? Kansas City Star. (* Would Have Helped Some! Nick Slick, the latest scqntsltlon to tli* town, had done tlie 'hoary" hi no half-hearted fashion. giaart, and glll> of Mpeech, he had found the townspeople of I.lttle 1st t vllle very simple folk aud essy game. Be ha^ obtained credit rlgjrt and left, and then he lord flown gentty; away, without ever disturbing lbs dn*t or'tfio pile of unpaid bills In his lfel#-'': tngs. "By Eowfi:" mutfr?rvd Wilkin*.' tb#, -XT*-* r. %i n r;a? hshl l.lt hy the de fault t ft I d kmmji he dUfw't i? tMd ;? Jin*. I'd Mavi 4?nN lit* 4~tK J SMtfr-MN TUJUUl one- eleven cigarettes Throe FHendfy Gentlemen TURKISH VIRGINIA 1H1RLKY pFIFTl At ? VZ the pocKet ** " Price thai fits the pockei-book r^L *?*"e"nmafcf*e<I blend of TVftKfSii, Virginia and Bubzey Tobaccos ~ - ? 1 vHtt- j. j.-i1yrvy^^v ; J Guaranteed by in Don't He u Crepe Hauger Hard times are mostly brought (about -by hard time talk. There is as ranch money in the eouuty to- day, perhaps more, certainly more gold, than ever before. It is simply loafing, anU it is doing tt be* rnuMi the people are doing pretty much the same thing loafing and talking" hard times. <2et busy - do something The Quitman Free Press, wide awake and alert, and as a result pro*, poroua, in its "It Takes ('outage' editorial, puts it this way : Stop talking hard times. Quit gathering iu knots on the street .corners and telliug everybody you nev er saw anything like it. Don't bo a crepe hanger. Any-cheap skate can be a good win ner, but it takes courage and faith to be a good loser. - Hare we got grit or will w'e lie down? When we talk hard times we ab solutely destroy tOltMlS. Wo destroy confidence and courage. -f.he UlUe. and eriergy speut ib waiting could be used to advantage In trying to find a mar ket for tbo furui products or in doing something else to -help the situation. Let's be good loseM. Let's have oourago and cheerfulness ? sign man ual -of a manly *o?| ? Datton Oitixen. Hhoes Repaired on Short Notice I'm-oiu for tabic <oet inuko 'hours long, distance long and patience short. Let\s help the feet. You enn get lhut goo<t Korry Kromc, good White Oak taat.her, IHinoo 44olea, Neoiin .Soles and Turn Solos. UuUber boots soled and heeded. We inac.bfne stitch. band stitch und lead stitvli. We have O'flullivan, (Jood Year and other makes of rubber heels. Wc stand I cick of nil our work. 'Oive us a trial. TI1E RED BOOT SHOP. Ull* Kutlcdgo $tre<M., Next Door to Ex press Office. j .... ' :: . 4 ? .. . . . , . _Z\ ^ , I 'J rtf ? - ..J . tu4 Abram M. Jones, Proprietor. Itf. Desirable Residence For Sale Property of Mrs. W. B. Gordon, opposite the Catholic Church, on Lyttleton Street. We offer thisfatjan attractive price. AppIy(to C. P.gDuBOSE & COMPANY Phone 43 Crocker Building BUY A .FORD CAR* ON EASY TERMS HERE'S HOW WE WILL SELL YOU A FORD TOURING CAR WITH STARTER Touring, with Starter $497.50 Thief-Proof Lock $7.50 Recording $1.00 Carrying Charge, including Interest and Fire and Theft Insurance $50.50 $556.50 This is payable one-third, or $185.17 cash, and $30.87 per month for twelve months. Coupes, Sedans, Roadsters and Trucks sold on similar plans. KERSHAW MOTOR COMPANY Dealers CAMDEN, SOUTI^CAROLINA *3 WITTE GASOLINE AND KEROSENE ENGINES 3 Horse Power Gasoline Engine $76.00 4 Horse Power Gasoline Engine ...$95.00 6 Horse PoVer Gasoline Engine .. .$140.00 8 Horse Power Gasoline Engine $175.00 4 Horse Power Kerosene Engine $109.00 6 Horse Power Kerosene Engine $160.00 4 Horse Power Portable Saw Rig $175.00 6 Howe Power Portable Saw Rlgfr-...:.... $115.00 !*>g Saw .with . Gasoline Engine $45.00 Add to above prices $11.95 for Bosch Magneto Equipment. WITTE ENGINE WORKM - - eOfc&MMA, S. C.