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The offlco in the new grammar school will be open ou Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before the opening of school and pu pils may enroll for high school and grammar school work on these daya; Only such children who are six years of age or within a month of that age will be allowed to enter the first grades and no pupil will be taken Into these gnadeflf* after the first day of the second month. All pupils above, the fourth grade in the Mill villages will be expected to attend the city schools ?s no pu pils above that grade will be accepted in the Mill school. A music department has been added to the school but only a limited'Hiini ber of pupils in piano will be talcen *o that those wishing to take music should give their names to the Super intendent at once. ^ J, G. Richards, Jr., Supt. To Open Grocery. The Standard Grocery Co.. incorpo rate, ds the name of a new grocery to be opened next door to the post office on or al>out September 1st, It will Ik4 in one of the three buildings recently erected by Mr. B. G. Sanders and will be uptodate in every partic ular?catering oo the fancy grocery trade. Mr. ,T. 11. Moeeley and A. 0. Drawdy are the corporators. It will . lie under the management of Mr. Draw dy, who is well known In Camden, h(J having been connected with the Kle<* trik Maid Rake Shop. Married, Mr. William Benton King and Miss Mari?> Waters, l?otli of Bethtfne,' wore married in Camden 011 July 29th, tho Rev. W? II. Hodges, of tlie Methodist vliurch performing the ceremony. Catholic Church Services. Services at the Catholic Church. on Sunday. August 20th, will he as fol lows: Twelfth Sunday after IVntl ??o*t. Confessions at 7 a. in.. Mass nt a. in. Sermon on "The contrasr between 1 lie Divine and Human Stan ?lard." All are cordially invited. First Bale ot Cot toh. Mr .1 T,.. Mosoley, a Camden cotton ?hn.ver. purchased the first haje of cot ton ,,f the 1022 crop on Saturday, An -'n^t 10th. It came from the farrni of W. Ilahon, In West Watereo, and lie price paid was 21 3-4 cents. Change of Date. 'I'll" time of holding the County rJimp?ij;n meeting at the cotton mills Mas u-en changed to Saturday even :njr, iit six o'clock, Instead of Monday '?veuine. This was done so that all "f t'.ie operatives mltrht have a chnnc? to he present. rI'lic meeting nt Carted en wifl he held Mo-day, at ten o'clock. NOTICE TO MANAGERS. Next Tuesday night The Chron icle will, as usual, try to give the election returns*from the various county precincts, just as quickly as it will he possible to handle same. In order to do this we will have to have the cooperation of the manager* *or some one Interested at each of the polling precincts, and we ask that some one of the managers get to a telephone or send to this office just an soon a* the votes are counted a correct report of both state and county results. Tins will be highly appreciated by The Chronicle as well as the large crowd who will be In wait ing to hear the results. The d*1Iy papers have promised us to give us reports during the night as to the results in the state contests and the public is invited to The Oiron iele of flee Tuesday night. We will show the results in front of The Chroniele office. IMrRKSONATINQ OFFICERS. MfBef and liettuuie Men to Face Fed" eral Court Chlrte. The Florence Dally Times, of a re cent date, carried the following story regardlug Bethune ami MeBee fitI ?ens: . "Federal warrants were ss&ued liere this nmrjjjjug.for the arrest of Tillman Fields, Ed Hall, Ashley Liles and Willie McDonald, of the vicinity of MeBefc and Bethune, charging then) with "falsely impersonating federal officers," by which means they are alleged to have obtained -$100 from W. H. Gardner, of jJfrBee, who has made affidavit that These men get the money out of him by making him think they had arrested him for distilling whiskey.; The warrants were t a kern out before United States Com missioner McDonald uj>on an investi gation made by Federal Agents ,T. L. Youmans, Q P Stacey, and State Tro hlbltlon Constable W. C. Eichelberger. They were handed to a deputy United States marshal at once for service. According to the results which the Investigation is understood to have developed, these four men are alleged to have caught Mr. Gardner and his son, E. E. Gardner, and ah old negro, Bill Mitchell, in the process of mak ing a little whiskey about May 11, of thin year. The of fibers do not seem to believe that the Gardners were making whiskey for commercial pur poses but, like some of the old timers ?the senior Gardner being more than 00 years of age, wanted a little alco hol for home use. The four defend ants are alleged to have represented themselves as United States revenue officers, the alleged leader, Tillman Fields, giving his name as R. J. Rey nolds. "Mr. Gardner has made the follow ing affidavit in the case: "T, W. H. Gardner, state on oat'.i that on or about the 11th day of May, 1022, Tillman Fields, Ed Hall, Ashley Liles and Willie McDonald oarae to me between midnight and daylight about one half or three quarters of a mile from my house, met us in 'the road and when these men were seen, my son, E. R. Gardner spoke to Ash ley Liles and asked what he was do ing there at this time of night. Llles said, "the United States revenue offi cers." I said to Tillman Fields that I did not believe it. ? Then Tillman Fields threw back his eoftt open and showed some kind of a badge and then pulled a pistol and said 'I will +>h??w you what I -am.' And said 'go to the still.' I went to the still place. The still was not there but the still was found near the (place, brought, it to my house and then carried it away with him. On our way to the house Fields said to me. if you don't j>ay mo $150 I will carry you to the Dar lington jail, all three of you tonight. I told Fields thaf I only had about $35 in the house. I gave Fields the I had and drew a check for $155 F*lHds then told Liles to take the still and go aliead with it. "Signed W. H. Cardner." "Tlic officers have tho olieck men tioned In theaffidavit", which was drawn on (ho Rank of Bethune and wns paid as tho record of the cheek by tho bank shows. If wns for $100 made to It. .T. Reynolds and Iwars tho ondnrsomont nf thar name. "Only a couple of days i;io, the authorities got a rej>ort of the. framo il p. Inmmediatoly the investigating of ficers commenced work, spending all of yesterday in the vicinity. The war rants this morning wore tho result. "Rojjus revenue officers and fake officers of all other "kinds, are the style in the cities, where bootlegging is rife. Bnt this is the first ea<*? of alleged fake officers working on moon shiners. It may add to the terrors of the moonshiners life lmt at the same time may handicap further the oper ations of the real prohibition officers. "In addition to the charges of Im {?ersonatirrg fedoral officers, tho qnnr tft are *iM to be liable for carrying concealed deadly weapon*. '"I'l^on arrest, the four men will bo brought here for a preliminary hear ing before Commissioner McDonald.'* Change of Voting IMaoc. The election In Camden next Tues day will l>e held at the vacant etore recently occupied hy the Camden I>mg Co.. instead of at the opera house lob; by. This was decided upon In order to have more room for the added en rollment. A double set of managers hare been appointed for Camdefo thla year, bnt wittf a double force It will take the entire day fo rote all tho?e enrolled and It la the duty of every voter to VOTR KARLY. (iKANTH FIRST PAROLK. Chief Executive Iimhkh Parole to 15 J Itatr OM Boy.?-??-? Ooveruor Harvey Saturday t>a ruled Ltenule Carlo#, youug negro boy, con victed of involuntary manslaughter in Kershaw county for th? killing of Ed ward Brown, a eousiu, the governor having announced last Monday that he would extend chemeney to the young negro yesterday. The parole* was durttig good be havior and was the first to be granted by the governor ; since he was inau gurated May U0. The governor ari nouneed his imteution early in the week to parole Carlos in order that any one having objections might voice them. Several letters were received by the chief executive in reference to the ease, but all were favorable to the Cause of Carlow. Charles \V. Birch more, editor, wrote that he thought clemency was deserved as the killing was supposed to have been accidental. (Virion and his cousin, Edward Brown, were playing about the home of the former when a gun was dls? charged and Brown killed. At the time several members of the Brown family said the killing was accidental and Brown is said to have made a dying stateihent that it was aceiden tal. % The conviction and sentence were based largely on circumstantial evi dence and were In a measure to punish Carlos for carelessly handling a gun. The Carlos family is said to be one of respectable and law abiding ne groes. The petition for a parole was nq$,, presented by a lawyer, but was indorsed by the pardon hoard, Judge Bowman and Solicitor Spigner. Carlos is a 15 year old negro boy and Edward Brown was about the same age at the time of the killing, November of last year. According to the statements of all persons familiar with the <*ase no criminality was ap parent.?Sunday's State. Notice to Democratic Clubs. The roll booka. boxes. tickets, etc., for the election on the 2flth Inst, will be ready on Saturday and Monday of this week. Kach club will arrange to have Its 1*>x called for. The man agers over the county are each ear nestly requested to bring or* send the boxes in immediately after the polls have closed. Wherever this is impos sible kindly phone the vote at your precinct and suoli other precincts as yon may have heard from as early an you ran on the evening of the elec tion, to the Chairman, the Secretary or The Camden Chronicle. In turn, we/will give you 11?<? returns that wt may have. M. M. Johnson, County Char'm. 0. V. Dixon. Secretary. TOOK HIS OWN LIFE, Mr. J. H. Player Shoots Self in Head With Shotgun. Mr. Joseph 11. Player, 47 years of ago. and a carpenter, a resident of the Hermitage Mill village, took his own life here Thursday night last about eight o'clock, shooting himself in the head while in the woods near the home of J. F. Christmas, with whom he was residing. Mr. PlayerVs wife (Med a few months ago, other members of his family are now under treatment in hospitals, and one of his young sons took j>art in an unfortunate tragody alwnit a year ago In which he took the life of a play mate. lie had been brooding over these troubles for some time and 1* said to have told friends that he In tended to take his own life, Mr. Player used a shotgun, practically blowing the top of his head off. An inquest was held and- a verdict that he had taken bis own life was brought in. lie Is survived by six children, three married daughters and one son re siding at Rockingham, N. C. Highway Bridge Now Open. The bridge over Rip Lynches river, n few mllns north <>f "Refhnne, connect ing Kershaw and Chesterfield counties, lins been completed with the excejrtion of n few days work nnd makes possible the crossing of this river In time of high wnter The bridge bus l?e?>n built by the county at a saving of something over eighteen hundred dollars?the low bid being S11.600.24 and the bid of the county wns $l0.?7l.tt1, ftiwl It I* said the county ha* made something over one tlKHiAftnd dollars profit. Mrs. C. B. ftpradley and children have returned after spending sometime In Gust on!*, N. O., a?d IViaoTW#, Ot. TO t.O TO NK\V ORLK.WS. ?2? World War Heroes Afre|?t InvlwlOB fo l/glpn funv<|i(tew. New OrloaM, An*. li3.-\Vlien mem bers of the American legion gathe^ in Now OrJeaus next tictolw for their annual national Convention they will mingle with the greatest Ijeruls of. tho World War, Convention officials hrtvo announced that all 4rt*arer# of tho con gressional modal of honor, the highest American decoration for bravery, have boon Invited as distinguished guests to the convention auid that twenty-two heroes luivo already accepted tho Invi tation. The modal of honor men will recolvo all honors accorded to the most distin guishes guests during the five days of th?i convention." Their pijpeusote to the convention and return will ho jiftld by tho legion. They will be housed in the best hotels and will review tho convention parade in the stand re served for distinguished guests, Only combat soldiers oau receive the medal of honor and It is not granted for i*(Iliiary bravery displayed in "sticking It out" through a heavy bar rage jor the storming of an enemy trenon. The soldier who obtains this honed is i*lted Mfor conspicuous gallan try afcove and beyond the call of duty in acilon with the enemy." Thousands of American soldierrf performed feats of heroism which would have won tho highest medals from a-ny other Allied powef, but the Anierioan congressional medal Is reserved for super-heroes. Mefla I of honor men who have ac cepted the convention invitation in i t , elude, all ranks from "buck private" to fitfct lieutenant. There are five pri vates* four corporals, ten sergeants and three lieutenants. Their homes are in all parts of the country. , Thtj honor men who have accepted the Orleans Invitation to date fol low: 1 Sylney t?. (lumportz, New York; Clayton K. Slack. Colon. Mieh:; Rleh uiond H. Hilton, Westvillc, S. C.; Ed ward K. Talloy, AppalaeJiia, Va.; Ra lyn fUll, Oregon, 111.; Harold A. Fur long, Ann Arbor, Mieh.; Alafli.L. Kg gers, New York; John I>. Barkloy, Blalrstown, Mo.; Oarey E. Foster, In man, S. C.; Philip C. Katr. San Fran cisco; John C. Villepigue, Camden, S. C.; X. Whldo lla.tler, Neosho, Mo.; James C. Dozier, Hock Hill, S. C.; Thomas C. Neibaur. Logan, Utah; Arthur J. Forrest, Hannibal, Mo.; Ceorge S. Robb, Salinn, Kan.; Thomas A. Pope, Chicago; Samuel Wood fill. Fort Thomas. Ky.; Willie Sandlin, Lawrenceburg, Ky.: Frank J. Bart, West Hoboken, N. J.; Archie A. Peek, Rochester, N. Y.; Joseph B. Adkison. Memphis, Toiln. Former Resident Dies. The remains of Mrs. Mary Lo-.? Workman, who died at the home of her son at DeKalb, wore brought hero Saturday for burial. She was about S.'l years of ago and before marriage was Miss Mary. Loo. daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ilenry Loo, who lived near Harmony Church, south of this city. Mrs. Workman bad many friends and relatives in this fit.v.? Roek Hill Record. Cashier of Paving Company Here. Mr. J. II. Dickson, cashier of the Southern Paving Construction Co., of Chattanooga, whose company lias boon awarded the contract for paviqg in Camden, arrived here la*t week to take up this work. He tells us that he I >t the first on the J oh ami the last one to leave. They will have offices in the old building of the Carolina Ice Co., near the -Hon!horn passenger station, and the asphalt mixing plant will !>e located there also where they have a spur traek to u>e for material" being unloaded. ' ^ The railway strike has retarded the beginning of operations, hut it will not he long before the work is commenced. During the past week many places on Main street have been dug tip where permanent water and sewerage con nections have been put down In front of business house#*. Mwh Highway Maintained. The state highway department now has a total of 1.049.0 miles of roadway! in South Carolina under state main tenance, aceording to the latest figures compiled by the department. The eon*] ditiqn of all these roads is rej?ortcd as generally satisfactory, although a few complaints have been received and these are being attended to. Since the department began taking over the main roads for maintenance a great Improvement has been noted and th<* demand for more maintenance is con stantly torreaainf.?Friday** State. I v- J / KNKOLUIKNT FOR STATE. . J Secretary Edwards (ilvw Figure* by Counties Tor Two TeSiir The total enrollment for South Car ollna, as reoOived from tho different Counties by H. N. Fduiunds, aeo rotary of the shite Democratic executive com rolttoe. Is 220,581. Secretary Edmunds has not totaled tho figures himself ami then- may lw> a slight change, Inrt the total Is very nearly correct. This gives an Increase owr tho 1920 enrollment of 74,540 as tlie total then whs 152,035. Women arc believed t?? number at this increase itud i>osslbIy more ami the* indications aiv tj}t ovev 75. txjo women wiUpartloiiinto in the pri mary this year for tho first time. ' Oconee cAuntyls the only county in tho state showing a' decreased enrolls incut from 10120. according to the fig ures received by Mr. Edmunds, In 1020 this county enrolled 4,101 voter* and this year only 3,700 have l?een on* rolled. Creeuvllle loads tho state with 10, 131, with Spartanburg second with 14, 787. Charleston is third with 12,841. Tho enrollment by'/eouirtlcs this year and In 1020 is as follows: 1022 '1020 Abbeville 3,204 2.401 AI ken 5,412 -1,404 Allendale 1,587 70S Anderson .. 11,250 8,080 Haiiiberg 2,060 1.174 Barnwell ... 2,706 1.8H2 Beaufort 1,172 * 763 Berkeley 2.2TO 1,356 Calhoun 1.400 1,045 Charleston .12,841 7,318 Cherokee 5,430 2,524 Chester 3,472 2,407 (Chesterfield 5,383 .'1,880 Clarendon 2,000 2,071 Colleton 3/800 2,8*>3 Darlington ... 5;421 3,003 Dillon 3,250 2,140 DorrhOstor 2,750 1,708 Edgefield ? 2.W3 1,080 Fairfield 2,225 1,458 Florence ,. 7,087 4,431 Ueorgetown 2,303 1,850 droenville .10.131 11,4001 (troomvood 5,134 3,710 Hampton 2,704 2,025 Horry 0.505 4,447 Jawper 715 025 Kershaw 4,130 2,440 Lancaster 4,021 3,123 Laurens 7,100 4,227 Ixm* ; 2,032 2,132 Lexington 5,517 4,000 McCormlok 1,303 1.190 Marion- 3,230 2,142 Marlboro i. 3.807 2,456 Newberry 4 . 5,874 3,308 Oconee 3.700 4.104 Orangeburg 7,001 4.401 IMckons 5,041 3,033 Ktchlamd 12,000 7.172 Saluda 3.201 2,303 I Spartanburg .14,787 10.584 Snmter .'{.331 1.050 } Fnlon r;.::../..5,551 3.400 Williainsburg ? 3,0-18 2,704 York 0.772 3,878 Total .220.581 152.035 To (i!o to Camp Perry. Adjutant General Grant T';iy | announced that (lu* selection of the South Carolina XatJonal Guard rifle team U> .participate in the national matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. The team will attend flic small arms firing school and participate in the matched. The dates for the shooting are Septem ber 2 to September 28. Capt. Witt S. Pore of I'nioii. Com manding the Johnson rifles, will cap tain tiic guard team while Lieut. J. B. K. DcT/nfleh of Camden will be the coach. Lieut. Gary I*'. Byrd of Harts ville will lie the <|ita rterma4?r for the t?iim. , Twtjve men will make the trip. *>fhe team was fleeted from the best allots dut'ilijf lilt1 rciitriiai vOcrtliip nient held at Camp Jackson the latter part of July. During the encampment much practice was engaged in and some fin** --scores made.?Wednesday's State. To .Meet Monday, August 28th. A meeting of the Kershaw County Council will be held Monday, August 2Kth. at the office of the Home Dem onstration Agent. This Is a very im portant meeting and anybody that is interested in the council, market and community fair i* urged to meet with us. The Secretary. Death of Mr. If. F. Boykin. Mr. IT. Prank Boykin, a well known planter of the west. Wateree section, died at his home Thursday afternoon, death being due to heart trouble. Mr. Boykin was 77 years of age and was one of (Ik- substantial men of his section. He wa* fwi'* ion tried, five children surviving by his first wife. They are Mr?. T/Hfra Bris<w of Knot ville. Tenn.: Mrs. Nellie Pfx>Ie of Greenville; Mrs J. K. Smith, Herbert Boykln and Alex Boy kin, all of Lo goff. By his second -wife, .who also survives him ho leave* three young children: Irvin Boykin, Clyde Boykln ? ml Martha Cloud Boykln. MR. lll SH BADLY HURT. Struck In lif?d by Negro Driver of Tflimleii TpV r?n?i?ii,T. In a dispute over ice weights, Mr. Alva Rush, who is employed toy tho Thomas Toe Cream Parlor, was quite badly Injured yesterday morning when he was .struck twice with Iro tongs In tho hands of S. (\ Thompson, a negro driver for the Camden Ice Co. The difficulty oame about when Mr*. Thomas requested the negro to weigh a hloek of ice and Mr. Rush <lltl not like the manner In which tho negro spoke to Mrs. Thomas. Mr. Hush at tempted to put tho negro out of tho building when ho struck Mr. Hush in the hark of tho he#d cutting an ugly v*ash. He also throw tho tongs at Mr. Hush when ho hroko away and ran out of (ho building. Tho Injured man was earrlod lo lho ?Oaniifo'i ' llot-piiitl where he was treated, hut was la tor removed to the home of his father on Fair strict. It Is not known how badly Mr. Hush Is Injured, hut physlchup* stnto that they do not thliik he Is in a se rious condition. The negro ran but was later captured and looked up in the police station. Truesdnle Reelected Cotton Weigher. In I In* election held Tuesday for the selection of a cottoii Jtv'U^!uuv?Vt:t>J^erv. shaw, OSJl votes were oa^tM?<f whli\\? ,1. S. Truosdale, 1 nouuitx1 nr.^rr'colveil ; John K. Outen, liftt; and Charles \\\ Minson, 'J41. Notwithstanding Uuv& very large crowd in town and the in tense Interest in the election the best order and j;ood feelin^'prevailcd and nothing whatever occurred to mar the' orderliness of the election, A large -itumbor of women cast their ballots in the election for the first time.?Kert shaw Era. ' Soli Survey of County. Senator K/ 1>. Smith writes us from Washington, 1>. O., that he has a number of copies of a soil survey of Kerfihaw County recently complied by the-government and will send one to anyone writing to film for same, it contains valuable Information relative to the various kinds of soil of this county, also a valuable map. showing every road and schojpl house In the county. Mt. Crogan Hank Kobbed. The Bnnk of Mt. Orogau wus broken into liifit Thursday morning at 2 o'clock and $150.00 In sin.'ill change taken to gether with about $500 in War Savings Hlnmiw and Liherly BondM; Access to the building was gained by the front door. The lock to the vnut, It poems, was In bad repair and was easily opened. The linrglrtr did not *neceod in open ing the safe. He had taken the .pre caution to cut the telephone wires be tween Mt. C-rogaih and Pngeland. officers iM'iieved they trailed the thief to ten miles above Monroe, where j)!l definite truck of him was lost. A large bundle of paipers, including note*, mortgages, etc., that could be of no value to.ii thief were found ne*i r the road going into Monroe. It i* believed the trail w?i? again .picked np J?eyond Monroe, where a strange man drove into the wood* about daylight Thursday morning and pro ceeded to take ji imp. lie was watched liy a IociiI citizen, who saw him later ? ?ll a large pistol that fit *h<* de scription of one of the two revolver* taken from the bank. This citizen described the Granger's actions ?jr suspicious and 'phoned the police of Monroe to that effect. Sheriff f>rant arrived on the scene soon after the Idrd bad flown.?Ches terfield Advertiser. YOTK EARLY. t Next Tuesday, .August 29tli, is the day of the Democratic primary election held all over the state. Due to the fart that the enroll ment this year Is nearly double and no provision has l?een made for cvlra managers, the managers re* quest that the voters rome to the polls as early as possible so as to avoid congestion at the last hours. Tills applies to every precinct in the county and especially are they urged to vote early at the Camden box. because it will bo no small job to vote the large number of vo ters registered at this precinct. IX>VT FORGET TO VOTE EAR LY! Formerly the election at Cam den has been held In the lobby of the Opera House, but this year It will be held In the vacant *tore room on Main Street reeently oc cupied by the Camden Dreg C*m putj.