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Ill cai?Mn chronicle It. D, NII-KH Editor and Publisher Published every l'ri. Iny at N<?. 1100 tiro* (J street nod ontortd at the Camden, Houth Carolina |K>?tofflcP mm second elans mail matter Price |-or annum 12.00. _____ Camden, H. April 2 1st. 1932. W K Sense, who. for a number of .votes 1 1 1 1 prominent In (\duin l>ta tnHurft'fW'W circles, as agent of tl?e lVnln*ular Klp<? Insurance company <?f Grand Itaplds ; tluj Liberty Fire Ii**ur unco company of St. Louis, and tf?o <Gfil?r<Han Flro insurance company o t Salt Lake City, lias disappeared ac cording l<? a statement Issued lust wcok . l?y State Insurance (k?nmIssh*ii>ervMn* I ' ...I.!., ...... ,> .Malum. Mr has gone vv<*t and a letter to one of Miw dlerk* In his Aiflec, writ I on on Chicago hotel slat lottery. and mailed on a wegMtound train, stated that an ho wum ?o heavily Involved, he would no! return to t/olunibla, ( >fficers of the * Insurance ctmipaarles ami representa* tlvos of tin' 'bonding company that had him bonded, arc in Columbia cheeking ii]i Ids office. It is stated by the Insur ance commissioner that numerous polices have 'been f.>und In . Mr Sense's office >vlil?h had not Ixxmi forwarded to the. Inane offices of the companies lie represented. Ilowuver, it Is stated ?that the companies \VlM protect all losses under policies whlcth Mr Sease liail not sen) to headquarter*. , The whereabout# of Mr Mea**e are unknown. What final action will be taken by (he lnsurnu<>c nun jinnies \yiih regard to li I in will depend on the report of the of flelals who are at work cheeking Ills office. A policy to save every possible shade tree in fJreenwood was adopted at a recent mediate of the paving com -mission. In several cases .street pav ing to be done in the near future will be narrowisl slightly to prevent the taking up of 'trees. In some ease*, where 1re?t< are on the edge of the streets, pavements will be placed around trees. The commission pointed out that trees were one of the city's ?most valuable assets and eyery |?ossl ble moans would be iukett In protect them The state (ax commission is now cn^ancd 'ii mailing out blanks to oltl* ?/.en* who llH-hle for Income tux un der tin.' recent act of the general lis semhly. I'ln' Planks arc licinK itta 1 li*<1 only t<? tlio*!' who paid Income tax to I lie Federal uovei nmcirt . Tlipy consist mainly of affidavits showing the amount of t'ii x ps already paid. The state 1 -? i laiinii, n < ? i n ?-?! hi rd of that atnoMMt Thi' tax i- tint' May 1 Fertilizer sales in South Carolina aic eun-ldvl ahly ??ff t h i ^ sprilitf ns euinpai od with la-.* sprln;;. according In i 1 1 ? ? privilege tax tidleetions or St n 1 1' Treasurer < ait*i For .lannary, February nod Mar-h of thi- year tin* ta\ < ?1 h c l i on was $ 1 1 >T> I IP ;is eoin pai.d wi!1i r.,r the ^nmo t h r< i' months m I '. )? 1 . The fert ilizer sca>f*?t i v ? I f:? w i I liS !?> a e|i>se, lilosl farm r- puitPm in t h?? i r supplies dur iiiL' tin'" fii ?' M i i'i'i1 months However, a ginxl deal of piirehasi .u is done in April and early May. The figure* fn in the tax ( i>!]eet ions ;i< reeciveo l>\ Mr ? '.trier show that less frrtilt y.V (-< Pe'rig U?-*3V| T!)t> Veal' tliail I H !?> ! lie ?".! fillers ( ; , >\ . i i ,i >r < , .i i I n m la y ??< ?u i mute! t ? ? 1 i fe i 'II i ! - ?' nil 'it t lie da 1 1) -eiite!,. . in i'v.1 ih-i Abraham \\ i i ! IIIs*. in :i^ed i ?ra imeSiiri; ni-itro, i e: \ i ' ' < -i i ? I ? i mi i ii- ? ! a - - a 1 1 t a I id who \\ ;i v J i i ill'.. 1 ff e|. II I ed 1 :l - 1 ( h lL-t" !'. Tli'.- I- a ' -I ? f pa i d ?!!> i - In el II d ' ' : he e; i that tin- .:ii. ts It : i 4 1 y ! . ? ? ? L. 1 1 ! t > SjM?.*iKiiUJ "f lhllsions A ft i i i . . i . I i : 1 ? ? - ? \ i 1 \ : i i '< 1 1 it < ( ' 1 1,!. > ( ' i : ? ? ?; i i -t ye. i ;? ? ; i :?!?'??? *!; '? ?? ? in ' :> I ? '111 1 .1 1 1 1 f ? . ' * I . f.M'i: 't.s 1 1 ' 1 lie .1 . ? . . : i i. I ! '? < ? inn.! . - ' -k " I | . , l ; i ? :< : i . w !t.i t d ? > ' 1 ' ! : I . . k ? ? ' ' ' <? ' i * ? i ? - 1 - in \? ? ^i" '? ?' 1 i *.,? - - 1 1 ,i ' ' ! ; _? ? i . ? i w ? 1 ? ? ? t ? i i"> \ . ii ?' \ ? 111.1 I k I III I d ? li'l h-l '? ? < 'f ? " ' . - -:v It:- k ... !l ? J " ' I-- p :i n - 1 ? ' ? ? 'ii \ ? I-. . ? U a i . < .etn'i.in ..f - -<?id:e-- de t'< Ml . 'i ? i rid S- ? : i ; li la lid ? d 'i ' - I a :n 1 Pf.ld !(> 1 ? ?- r ? ? 1 ? \ j PK Pa ti !. COLUMBIA LUMBER & MANUFACTURING CO. ? MILL WORK SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AND LUMBER PLAIN Sc. HUCER STS. PWn? 71 COLUMBIA, S. C. Letters From Thj> People !M!l< r ( 'hronlele : Two very Interesting loiters have recently a ppen red In tin* of t Ik* Ohroulclo. One from fur off <Wt fornla touehfcntf ui>on' life In t !?<? "old town" fifty year.-* #go. The" otbor from a rcccM filitOf thai, written It win lii an ?? pprtH-i a 1 1 vc spirit, murks, to some extent, tftip progrew* Camden has made during the <perh>d elapfced l?e|weeii "live residency of Mr Itohlnson and the sojurn of the recent visitor, If Mr |(< ha.H beon ho fortunate n* to road * h<* letter signed ."Itecent V Iviror" h?- must have caught a gfiiuiisc of I ho- progressive' strides our UM.,.iatuh' (lui'ijiK the fifty yoa.rt. ?attaftf which we ai^ justly proud, Yet, \tfhllc we take a Just pride in tlu* inater'al progress that fifty years have brought to our city nu<l its life, there giro Houie thiols of l lie "(UmwI and burled 'past" that we. miss from our present day makeup,' hut which. nevertheless, occupy a very coiisplclous v'iuy> In our affections and memories. 1 cannot go as far Into (he past as Mr lM.dnson, but I earn eall to mind much of the Camdeh life and envlroai- j nienl of thirty fjve years ago which Is separated from Mr Itohlusou's tlibo by only ,flfleen years. My first recol leutlons ol' life in the town of my hli'Mi and curly boyhood have their origin in the period that we si>eak of as the 'KOs. Especially the middle 'SOs. TlioAe were the days when Joss Chestnut was always "gwlne bring yo'dat rabbit tomorrow. "And when A he Arthur, under the supervision of Mr lOdd I tpy kin, pulled the beHeord on the 'yprcss tfngon that plyed be I'wwn the 'spress office, which was domiciled in a little cubbyhole oil 'law* range," and the S C & U depot. l>ot not the younger i>eople of our fair it nil far-famed oity think that those were the old ami pokey days noted chiefly for their monotony anu a lack of ttomcMiing t < > do and talk ahout. Not so. Nay, not by any means. True, we didn't have pioture theatres and automobiles. Our chief means of geMiug about the community consisted of old I >ol<bln and l)exter and IJie "one bij; one little wheel" bicycle. Safety bicycles in tide their first appearance in Cumdcin. in those ? lays, and everybod^ male and female, who could afford them had one. Vp to the completion of the "oi>era" house, which in itself was a notable achieve ment of those days, we dupended on the "old market" building for housing such theatrical entertainments jjs the "Mia rn st??rtners" brought our way from time to time. No, we didn't haw as many eoui veiiioneo* and helpful muehanei-il apl 1 ?l iii ii?M>s f 4 ? r tljt* promotion of health and i d i s i - u i ? * ? as wo now on Joy . Hut wo had a tfo<'>d time anil always had in a lunula n< o i>r things to look toward and |o keep itiii' inltnls and speech oc ewpled. Why, aloii-n with I ho halanec j of t liti^ ureal e>>nntry of oui\ we had (Iitmt Cleveland for president. And the immortal John I. Sullivan for our puis i I ist'ie champion. .Aim! wo eiiju.vodj Mhli prlviltMlKi'N as tin* si Hiring and w in a lin_r i:i>k Kdd Lewis about the \\ 1 1 1 - 1 i i 1 1 i of ".lissi' .laini'.s'' "After 'I'ho Mali" and "Sweet Mario." Wore I ln?.?o I ho jcreat days when we played ?'lau'" with marbles. shot robins with >liiiK^hot> ami "polkxtoeks," and went f i ?? 1 1 1 1 1 and "hi washing" in the I?oi>o' Civi k, while our fathers and uncle* and I > i tr brother*. built "oj?era Iioum^, laid flagstone pavements. talked a bone the wnr. and marched in "torcldijrh" I >t < >i *<??* ?<ioii - in oidobi at ion of tin* I'be li'ii of d< lie ?< in I - to offieeV Were I hex u'lo.'iiV Just ;i^U s,?ine of the u ho bad a part i : i them and xxateh i|m> i>\ pri-svidii of their faces us thex make answer Truly they Wele t he w i Older fill days. AiTioiiu other act ivi tii*s of the folks ? tiio?i. days for ]lhysjire and profit I !"(???. iii ttre sUatiiii: rink that \\a^ "ear I !? -d on" III the "lip- -t .1 i r^ " of the wooden building that stood on the site that K now oeenpiod by Urine's cro. . I \ Aid till re W;l> the oilier "f i. ???<1 r.-inplars that usod to meet fn tin" prove:;! <it> Hall, and whieh i* . !v\.iv- at to ded a tit I intei"o>( iu-^ i : , the !? i Miuiiiei.: d a f ford i d What w . di ? I :t !,i|.ia ke. the la\ in;: of the fl.u;. 1 ' ? ? ? " M X i III- " . t iii . Ill I i II street ! lie ? 'ha; ? 1 1 1 1 1 about at ri^n..if ? I i " < - - ! e ? I ?U; . 1 , It.' ? ? f the ? ?pe|\t" . ? :i\L. f tie.- ! :. li.lt! v a \ a :.e ftoiu the old town hiill i .teep 1 1 . .... ?? ? ' ? ? ? f ? -x : - i k . - -he '? ; . M < ? K A < ' "I |-o;|d. ' df ! ? - -J' - ? ; k ? - a ' ' . - iii><, ? _ ? i ?! I ? ''ii I ! he ! Ml- . ! he dispiii x of W e.. ?, ? of tl e fa!.: V . ' ' : ? ? P.w : d fr . ? .. u ? itx l.a'l i u?l a \ : ! . of \ of ? ?:!.< r things i 'ha' were ?????? I ! : M -t \ llp'e; )| v. f !)?>??* Vf!l is Were It..: -o eUlptX after ,'lli. And tie ii ,f tint..* did .|iii? t down a little We toilld ;i!w.i\n depend on Hilt i'ra:.ei> to releiv.- monotony by painting the nld town a ! arid rod I retni'TTifwr the ??fory was t ?!d that PdH. bein^ ?>?nfin*sl in the ivi il"?>v whieh was lmatetl 1m hind the -dd town hall, findiior himself in one of his Samson* j ! , k e mo.nN bartered the d'??r from its fasteidii?M and oirrbsl it away with, hini ' rf ft ?ivrs?- I i-nn't \ otieh fop the j verarit\ of t h Ia story, but it wi* a no | f..riou>, frtet that it t????k ipiite ft K->od | ?h>nl of brawn to handle Hill when he ! wn* nx'V^H] by the "spirits" of l^M. There is Just another f>*trulon ii?#<tt* ; tuMon those days that I wixh r<? re fer to It is? tlie ?ehool that was r?n tlnrted t?y professor I^enlie MrOnndlfsa. Aji I rom<,'ml>er rtie nehool the ?fudent boily wft* iruule \rp of Jim and <"'lrt?um. Albert?w and f^alr4> kl<w>re. \ ei-dare Duuhtp. lV**b tMttrk, l.auivn* Mill- l>nlton lira*lugton. Saul Por kliiH, J a men and Cliaillo Dunlap, John Singleton, Thorny "Walker, Willie and junuw Latham ami myself. The fetKHj* a part of Which was used aw a n I tk>uco by our teacher, was located ou or near the site of the Kenrtmw Motor foiiiinn.v. It Wl? ? out* room build in- one end of which was fitted up tor M'hool ami tlw other for residential purposes. It was hero that "ua boys" would recite, ami airfff, autl parse, and conjugate, while "old Mac", aa wc drib tied 'Win, ?a r, listening, as ho rocked, with cloited eyes, lu bin MtUe cushion <nl <-h?lr. Oftentimes our mistakes and I. hinders would ell<-it a resouudlng yell or, HOiiiofinW'H, a liead-tf!>li King box on i ho oars from our sometlwea Sorely \? v<xl teacher,, and 1 havo.no doubt that many ft UottrU beside my u\m lias at Mines ltanbored muderous feelings toward the man who was really our friend. Many of the scholars of that school are flllllikg active and im|H>rtaut places lu the affairs of our tity, county and ? -Muutry. They are doing their part in the great lalM>i?H of humanity aad, so far as 1 am able to discover^ they are doing It woll. Some of them, to gather with "obi Mac" and others wlio contributed to tfic pleasure awd hap piness of those days, are gone on the long trek from which there Is ho re turn. May they us peacefully and securely In the sluidowless land as the memory* of them does with. Yours rend nl scent ly, J. H. Sill VIIU. Camden. S. April lli. 1022. : . - ' ? ? V.N Bird Wandered Afar Selma, Ala., Apr. ft. ? A letter re ceived by H F Boss, of Selma, fi;om the United States department of agricul ture, bureau of biological survey, at Washington, D. O., In adsnowlcdgc ment of the receipt of a tag, No. 53, 050, found on the leg of h bird of the ?Thrasher ?i>eelos on the farm of B It Rudulph, near Benton, solves the In* t crest lug mystery of the Jittle feather ed wanderer. E W Nelson, chief of the bureau writes, "In reply to your fjomiunntea- j tlon of recojvt date, the bird carrying J baud number 5.1,050 was a brown j thf&sher, banded at Cleveland, Ohio, on June 28, 1011), by S I1 Baldwin, of that city. "By means of these numbered alum inum bauds an Important Investigation ? relative to the migration of the birds and their life histories is lM?hng advanc ed. The Information furnished us by you 1s therefore of value, and your In terest in the matter Is^afipreelated/' The bird was caught in a trap by a negro woman living otv-t lie farm of Mv Hudulph. Unit the little messenger had ]>Ciished from hunger before it was found. The traip bad been set for ra?> ldts, and as several days had elapsed between the visits of the trapper, life was extinct an id only the mute message 50,050, on the band fastened around its * leg, told the story of its wanderings amj that it was a visitor to this section of more than usual interest. The town of Lebanon, Texas, was damage to extend of $220.0<>0 T>y a tornado last Saturday. NOTICE Atteiuion is < j? ! 1 * m 1 to the following seetif?rv^of City Ordinance tfoverninp | ? ? i I y commutation tax : Section 2. That nil alde.hodied male persons l>elw<>en tlio atfos of twenty-one Mini sixty yrnrs. residinjr within- tlio : corpora to limits of tin- City limits .of tlic City of Camden, S. C.. not ex<?m\)t from road duty under tlio laws of tlV> State shall work streets, ways a ml | bridges under the direction of stfrjr overseers as ma\ lh? appointed for Mieh <s|Mi4'e <>f time, not fxcoodhijr six (fl) days in one year. Providing that at the time of receiving such notice any j person may pay to tin- per.<on givtng such notice Five (."?.? Dollars Com limitation, which shall be received in 1 lien of the work and that i>orson re fusing to work on said streets or to pay said commutation .stint!! he fined not los> than Ten ($10 .) Dollars nor more than Fifty Cf in.) Dollars or he imprisoned not less than ten days 1 1 or more thPR days, in the discretion "i' j he City Recorder. All persons who have not y>aid this commutation tax for the year arc notified that the above ordinanv> will '??e ell foreed H C SIN<;r.FT< >N City Recorder, c.i m '( i ?. S C. April JO. HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS LAW me ' DOCTUM C HAH G E ME TE N DO! l_AH5 WF VI ME X-K'AY MAW VOOT - - 'JH-Ho'H AM SEf: S NOW W HUT DAT 'AR X" 5 T'A M FUR ;H PA T x- RAY f! ! ' MlVi. >? * ?Om i I1KKK AND THKHK Short News Stork* Gathered From All Sources. .J 1) Kriwt Meyer has been nouii hated by r root (1e lit Harding to bo tll? trict. attorney for the Eastern district of South OifOl|AI? i?| Samuel J | I/capliart ban been nominated to bo I'nlted State* marshal. Meyer Is a citizen of Charle.ston and I^aphart Is- a citizen of l(lchm<?ml. Meyer will miccced F U Westoi) and Leapluut will succeed James L Sims. John Hoambree was shot ami killed, about 1?"S miles from Greenville on the nui^SonritQ' road Tuegday^ a itd Claude MeCuen has been arreted as. hi* slay-] or. A party of four had 1? I i?h1 a cal ami gone Into ithe country after whisky, and the killing occurred on rho way haok. Hembrec wanted to got In a front seat on the ground that bo bad paid for the car and bad a right to lido. where he 'pleased. The other members of the party were Charles Ilolcomb and Palmar Hart on aM of the Orr nilW section. Marten Is being held as an accessory*. Captain G S Little '.and Sergeauit Janios L Johnson, army flyers from *-Kelly FleHl, San Antonio, Texas, were killed at Dallas, Texas, last Sunday when the plane in which they were fly lnfc crashed to earth. The Mississippi love? at Grand Tower, Illinois, broke Saturday morn ing and flooded nioro than 75,000 acres. Crop damage is estimated at over a million dollar?. One man was killed and another was perhaps fatally injured when a Sea board train struck an automobile near KaHolgh last Saturday. The automo bile was bound -north from Florida. * Mrs Alice Ayer of Traverse City, Miehlgan, \?as on Saturday sentenced to twenty years Imprisonment for bank robbery. James S Fischel lias bought 71 acres of land near Chester on which be pro poses to start a poultry fai*m. It T Brown, chief field engineer of the state highway department has tendered his resignation In order to be come associated in contracting work with .1 T l*lott of Greensboro, N. C. Capt. Sir Ross Smith and Lieutenan; Ilennett were kille<i .near London a few days ago in a nose dive of an airplane In which they were 'preparing to fly a round the "world. |. Hereafter government employes in Panama Canal zone must pay for ' houses that they have previously been j getting rent free. Desirable Residence Foe Sale Properly of Mrs. W. B. Gordon, opposite the Catholic Church, on Lyttleton Street. We offer this at an attractive price, Ajpplyjto C. P. DuBOSE & COMPANY ? ' ' . ? , ? -.'???* ' ? V ' ? : ' Phone 43 Crocker Building William J Dry ai)' has made posi tive announcement that he will not l>e a candidate for i ho United States sen ate from Florida. He does not want to go to the senate at all. j A Moscow dispatch says that the spring sowings in the field? of the ; southern Ukraine are belpff destroyed |by' swarjns of rats and that officers and Soldiers who served in the Russian poison gas Squads are being pressed into service ito fight the pests. The F W Woolworth chain of ten cent stores has declared an extra dividend on its common stock in ad dition to the quarterly dividend of $2 a share. \ (Jeorge Nleholls, who was arrested at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for murder connnitteed in, Rome, Ga., 51 years ago was released without a trial. Cotton consumed in the United States during March amounted to SiaOOO hales of lint; against 438,218 bafles of lint last year and 4(1, (>00 more hales than wore consumed during Feb ruary notwithstanding there were ?, 000.000 'levs spindles in operation in March. Theodore Autrey, salesman, Kliot. and killed Xialas A Gladden, transfer driver, In Columbia Saturday after noon. The two men were living with their wives In the same house. The An t reys were moving. There was a Quarrel over a dish and a table which had been borrowed from each other. The Gladdens refused to give up the table unless the Autreys gave up the dish. Autrey cursed Mrs Gladden and when Gladden took it up Autrey shot him. The plant of the Reaufort Gazette. Neils Christensen proprietor, was de stroyed by fire Wednesday night. The loss is estimated at about .$15,000. Headed by Miss Jan? Sands, a treasure hunting expedit'lon recently left Costa Kiea In an attempt to re cover the gold supposed to have been buried on Cocas Island by the pirate Morgan In 1820. . A group of New York society women have started a movement to provide l?i thing stations in New York nud other cities so that men temporarily out of work can keep clean and retain their thoiviM >vhUo. hunting jobs. 8 8 Farrnr, a prominent citizen of Mountvllle, Laurens couwty, was found' dead in his barnyard Wednesday morn iivg with a bullet in his temple, a pis tol by his side, telling a story of sui cide. Cotton on hand in American consum ing establishments on March .31 amounted ito 1,553,901 bales of lint against 1,330,542 (boles last year. The ?iQ>reme , court has refused a reheating In the case of Edinnud Blg hairt, convicted and sentenced to death for the wholesale murder of members <>f bin ijainily. i i ??????? Oiie {of the few branches of stage work that is not overcrowded arid one of the best paid professions for women is that of ballet dancing. Massachusetts 22,000 saleswomen have been granted a minimum pay of $14 a week. ** "" FOR SHERIFF Editor Chronicle. Please announce the name of Mr. M C West as a candidate for the of fice of Sheriff. Mr West is well and favorably known. Ileflias beem (faithful to every trust committed to him and If L elected will discharge liis duty with credit to the office, and satisfaction to all he comes in contact with. The friends of Mr West take iprlde In plac ing him before the people in the coming primary election. Voters. THE AMERICAN LEGION ? e WILL PUT ON AT THE CAMDEN OPERA HOUSE Monday, April 24th AT 8:30 P. M. The "SELDOM SEEN" MINSTRELS < Which Has Made Such a Hit Where Ever Shown / The Special Scenery is Very Elaborate. The Cos tumes Most Attractive and the Music, Singing and Jokes are New and Sidesplitting. Come Out, Help The Legion and Have a Rousing Good Time. _ Big Street Parade Monday Afternoon at 4 o'clock