The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 18, 1923, Image 7
Children Cry for Fletcher's
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and whi<& has been
in use for qver thirty years, has borne the signature of
on the wrapper all these years
^W8t t0 protect the coming
/-cccc*44< ^generations. Do not be deceived.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
infants and Children ? Experience against Experiment.
Never attempt to relieve your baby with a
remedy that you, would use for yourself.
What is CASTOR! A
Cast or ia is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
p.ge is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food ; giving healthy and natural 6leep.
The Children's Comfort ? The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTOR! A ALWAYS
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
TMI CINTAUR COMPANY. NKW <A> Mfk CITY.
DIRECTORS HELD MEETING.
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Matters Discussed at Chamber of
Commerce on Tuesday.
At the meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce held Tuesday the follow
ing directors were present: . J. B.
Zenip. R. B. Pitts, ,J. M. Villepigue,
K. (i. Sanders, L. C.' Shaw, C. P. I)u
Bose. H. K. Hallett, F. H. Harding,
Mrs. D. R. Williams, Mrs. E. C.
Ritchie. The minutes of the last
meeting read and approved. The fol
v lowing matters came before the meet
ing:
The Secretary presentd the rc
que.M of the Civic League Committer
that the directors endorse a move
ment for weekly half-holiday among
the business establishments of Cam
den, during the months of July and
August. Moved and adopted that the
directors indorse this suggestion;
that there be half holiday on Thurs
days, and that an agreement be cir
culated to be signed by business
houses of Camden to this effect, pro
vided, however, that the day of the
week and the hour of closing be left
with the merchants and other busi
ness and professional establishments
for their decision, petition to be cir
cuited by committee Appointed by
the merchants, it being the opinion of
some of the directors on which n:>
PUT YOUR MONEY IN A SAFE PLACE
USE OUR RANK AND DRAW
INTEREST.
A boarding house keeper of Greenwood did her
banking in a suit case only to discover a few days ago
that her small boy had put some of her boarders on to
Iter "bank," so they looted that suit case of $928.00.
which illustrates the fact that a suit case is a very poor
banking establishment even though the boarding bus
iness is good.
When the cabin home of old Sam Bryant, a negro
tenant residing in the county of Laurens, was burned
ome days ago the sum of $240.00, the chief item of
'he old negro's possessions, was lost in the flames. ?
MORAL:
U S E O U R RAN K
Loan & Savings Bank
TESTING OF GEARS,
pistons, tarns. lylimiMs. val\v>.
and ;i!l of t hi' many t <>nnecti<>n
in a car i> daily chili}'"' piny to
our exports. Let u- look over your
car's mechanism and toll you what
is needed to be done.
Barrier's Garage
Broad Street I'hone 26
WE ARE SAVING MONEY
for thousands of others in cleaning and dyeing Win
ter Garments, Carpets, Rugs, Blankets, Comforts,
Curtains, etc. We will be glad to serve you.
FOOTER'S DYE WORKS ,
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Cleaners- Dyers. - *1 Cumberland, Maryland.
vote was taken, that it would be ?
good idea if flu* holiday was grunted
during' Juno, July and August, in
stead of beginning JtUy 1st.
Indorsing the recommendation of
the Civic Improvement and Sanita
tion Bureau of this organization, it
was. moved and adopted that the pres
ident appoint a committtee from the
board of directors, the merchants and
the Civic League, and that this joint
committee appear before City Coun
cil to discuss the question ?>t cooper
ation and maintenance jointly of the
Rest Room, and that the merchants
and other business and professional
establishments are. peculiarly and vi
tally interested in the keeping, open
of the Rest Room for their customers
and patrons. President Harding ap
pointed from the Hoard of Directors
Messrs. \V. R. Zemp, J. H. Burns, and
W. F. Nettles. Mrs. Ritchie, chair
juan of the Civic Improvement and
Sanitation Bureau appointed from the
Civic League. Mrs. M. Baruuh and
Miss Minnie Clyburn. President
(larding also appointed to represent
the merchants, M. Baruch, Leonard
Schenk and Sam Karesh. Mrs. R. C.
Ritchie and Secretary Reardon to be
ex officio members of the joint com
mittee,
Secretary Reardon presented re
commendation of the Civiy Improve
ment and Sanitation Bureau that a
committee be appointed to appear be
fore the City Council requesting that
necessary legislation be enacted re
garding the rapid removal of all de
composing disease and fly-breeding
refuse and garbage and to take up
with City Council the question of pro
viding the necessary fund to purchase
snfficient equipment for the frequent
removal from the City of such refuse.
Moved and seconded that the above
named committee on Rest Room
take this matter up while they are
discussing Rest Room proposition
with City Council.
Mr. L. C. Shaw reported on visit
to Sumter of Sumter Committee re
garding project No. 2(> State Highway
System and maintenance of 10 miles
of the State Highway in Kershaw
and Sumter Counties, at meeting of
the County Commissioners of Sumter
County on May 1st. Secretary Rear
don instructed to keep in touch with
the officials of Sumter County until
this matter is settled.
Moved and seconded that the Board
of Directors convoy, through Secre
tary Reardon, to Mr. John Stevens,
their thanks for his interest" in, and
the splendid talk made in, the interest
of committee who appeared before the
Sumter County Commissioners.
.Chairman C. P. DuBose of Special
Y. M. C. A. Committee reported pro
gress at one meeting held of interest
ed citizens at which Mr. ' Lanham,
State Y. M. C. A. Secretary furnish
ed information and that this commit
tee would call another meeting of the
citizens within the next two weeks.*
This committee was requested to con
tinue its activities.
Mr. B. G. Sanders asked that he
and Mr. Kennedy he granted more
time as members of the Membership
Committee.
The suggestion of the Agricultural
Bureau that community canneries be
established through the county in
such sections as may be deemed ad-*
visable and necessary was endorsed.
The secretary presented the matter
of encouraging the planting of tobac
co in Kershaw County and the supply
ing of suitable warehouse selling fa
cilities. It was stated that Mr. H. G.
Carrison, Sr., was n)ttch interested
and had offered to subscribe $1,000 in
stock for a warehouse, plant ten acres
of tobacco, and to take the lead in
this movement. Moved and -adopted
that Mr. Carrison with the Secretary
be requested to invite such farmers
as Mr. Carrison may name who might
be interested and to have them, with
Mr. Carrison, meet with the Board of
Directors at such time as Mr. Carri
son might designate.
The Board of Directors heartily
approved of the recommendation of
the chairman of the Relationship Be
tween City, County and the business
and professional men and women of
Camden put on a series of Booster
trips and Get -Together meetings in
jural sections this summer for the
purpose of uniting town and country,
and to inaugurate the triple alliance
of Hog, Hen and Cow feature of
Farm diversification. Plans for these
nreet ing*-to be shaped up by this com
niitttee.
The Secretary was requested to col
lect $10.00 to help pay for two page
advertisement of Camden and Ker
shftw County in the official program
of South Carolina Convention of th^
American legion.
K. I. Rearilon.
Managing Secretary.
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More Stills Captured.
Acting upon information contain
ed in a letter received last week from
a woman Magistrate A. I.. Cook ard
his constable, I). F. Phillips, made a
raid on Friday afternoon upon the
home of Ike Richardson and Rov
Griffin both colored on lands of .las.
Burns iri the UeKatb" .section and
caught them redhanded in the very
act of making their liquor, their outfit
being a washpot with a disc from :i
harrow for a cap and the pipe running
through a trough set upon trestle
bcnches in the kitchen of their home.
The two violators were placed under
arrest and taken to Camden and
lodged in jail. Their outfit was des
poiled.
On the day previous the Magistrate
and his constable captured a .'i0-gallon
?^tiil and a 50-gallon barrel of mash
and other paraphernalia in the West
villc* community on the William
Peach place, near Clyburn's old mill.
They did not succeed in making a 1
arrest in this case. ? Kershaw Kra.
Mrs. Tom Watson Dead.
Augusta, (?a.T May 14 ? Mrs Geor
gia Durham Watson, widow of Thom
as F. Watson, died at 11 o'clock* to
night at the WAtsor. home* "Hickory
Hill", at Thomson, Ga. Mrs. Watson
had been in feeble health for the past
year and had steadily grown worse
since Senator Watson's d?ath in Oc
tober, 1922. UremU- poison result
ing form acute diabetea warn given by
| physicians as the cause Her death.
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ANCRKAN TOMCCO CQ
GKNKItAL NKWS NOTES.
Items of Interest (lathered From
Munv Sources.
The Pennsylvania legislature has
passsed a law that makes lynching
murder ami provides for the forfei
ture of $10,000 by the .county in
which a lynching might occur.
Tom Gibbons and Jack Dempsey
have matched for a championship
light at Shelby, Monty on July 4th.
Three hundred and forty-eight per
sons were executed at the Butyrsky
prison during the first two weeks of
April, sa>s a Moscow dispatch. This
method was used instead of ritles so
that folks On the outside of the prison
might not be disturbed by the execu
tions.
A little girl of Philadelphia, Lillian
Robinson, started out Tuesday to
walk to the North Pole. She was
stopped by a policeman after she had
traveled eight miles.
A mother and four children were
burned to death at Derry, Pa., Tues
day by the explosion of an oil stove.
The . general strike called by the
I. W. W. in California and Washing-'1
ton, April UT> of longshoremen and
loggers, has about run its course on
the threat of importing laborers.
Howard W. Jackson, Democrat, was
elected mayor of Baltimore;' Tuesday,
over William V. Broening, Republi
can, and James 1L Preston, Independ
ent. Jackson's plurality was 23,901
aver-Broening, who ran second.
By being a girl instead of a boy,
the nineteenth child of Mr. and Mrs.
Alexander McGuire, missed being
named John Howard Payne, author of
"Home Sweet Home/' whose 100th
birthday was celebrated Tuesday, the
day of the girl's birth.
While the Weather in the east was
close to the frost line on Wednesday
night, the mercury registered OH de
grees in the shade in Los Angeles,
Cal.
At least thirteen people lost their
j lives "near Ojrsieana, Texas, Wcdnes
[ day, on account of an explosion of the
G. K. Hughes Developing company's
oil well No. 1. The explosion was
caused by .sparks from a hammer that
was being used in changing a control
valve.
William J. Lovett, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
gang leader, is under arrest charged
with his fifth rnurden He has been
tried four times for his ^ife and ac
quitted by juries.
The trustees of Columbia university
New YorBj have decided to" postpone
for the present, a $10,000 building
program because of the high cost of.
materials and labor.
Federal Prohibition Commissioner
Haynes has issued an order to the
effect that any agent whose name ap
pears in the newspapers in connec
tion with prohibition raids will be sus
pended. He says the agents have had
too much notoriety for effective work.
A New York firm has posted a
standing bonus to its 700 male em
ployes of $10 for each baby arriving
in the family; $20 for twins and $50
for triplets. A special extra bonus
will be given in case quadruplets
should arrive.
Two to fourteen years in state
prison is the sentence imposed on Dr.
John J. Kashkevick of Newark, N. J.,
on conviction of performing illegal
operations.
William D. IJaywood's so-called
ideal colony, Kuzbas, in western Si
beria. under the soviet government,
has collapsed, according to advices re
ceived in Washington. Haywood is ;t
fugitive from the justice ?>f the I'm
ted States.
Weak, Ailing
WOMEN
should take
CARDUI
The Woman's Tonic
Sold Everywhere
PROFESSIONAL NOTICE.
Colored Attorney Open* Law Office
in Camden.
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Attorney Herbert K. McGirt takes
pleasure in announcing to the public
that h?* has opened his law office, and
is located at 927 Main Street, up
stairs, and that he is prepared tc
serve the public in all matters rela
tive to Real Estate, Insurance, Wills,
Negotiation of Loans, Collection and
Settlement of Claims Mid Accounts,
Notarial Service, and <Jeneral r^egal
Pmel ?ee>.
Sailio Marmot , twonty-fivo year.-:
aj{0, a Hrottdwtty star of tho y I'u'at
mnjfnitudi', <1 icxi Tuoaday at the Now
York stale ituuuu' asylum at Ogdctis
burg. Her friend it didn't know what
had biH-onio of her. .
Take This Tip
From Experts
Cookery experts agree that
the best and most healthful
baking powder is made from
cream of tartar, derived
from grapes.
That is why they insist on ,
Baileing Fbwdcr
The ONL Y nationally distributed
Crearp of Tartar Baking Powder
Contains No Alum? Leaves No Bitter Taste
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