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"Well! Strong!" Mrs. Anna Clover, of R. F. D, 5, Winfleld, Kans., says: "1 began to suffer some months ago with. womanly troubles, and 1 was afraid I was going to get in bed. Each month I suffered with my head, back andsides? a weak, aching, nervous feeling, f began to try medicines as 1 knew I was. netting worse. I did not seem to find the right remedy until someone told me of CARDUI The Woman's Tonic I used two bottles before I could see any great change, but after that It was remarkably how much better I got. i am now welt and strong. 1 can recom mend Cardui, for it certainly benefited me." if you have been experiment ing on yourself with all kinds of different remedies, better get back to good, old, reliable Cardui, the medicine for women, about which you have always heard, which has helped many thousands of others, and which should help you. too. Ask your neighbor about it; she has probably used it. hor sale everywhere. n M Walter I.filcnswi, -grammar school I'Upil. dropped dead at Salt1 mi, Mass., Monday, immediately after being hit ir ?be chest with a pitched baseball while he was at the bat. ( r . A . CREED Genera! Contractor Estimates Furnished ;; 1 ! l)"K ilb St Phone 1 92J \ CAMDEN, S. C. T. B. BRUCE Veterinarian l.yttlrfon St., Phone II* CAMDEN, S. C. DR. G. C. TRANTHAM DENTIST First Floor, Crocker Building PHONE 450 Dr. C. F. Sowell DENTIST (Office Oyer Brace's Store) CAMDEN, S. C. COLUMBIA LUMBER & MANUFACTURING CO. MILL WORK SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AND LUMBER PLAIN A HULXR STS. Phonr 71 COLUMBIA, S. C. DR. R E. STEVENSON DENTIST ( rocker ftiiilriL'ig Camden, S C. CIVIC NECESSITY, The Ctaunter of Commerce i? the I'uwt1 r House ??f Progress. The Cam den and Kershaw County Chamber of Oomwori'ii is un institution, not un experiment in Camden and KcvshuvV County. It represents ?very legitimate line of human eYiid?avor. It is a dem ocratic organization with (IfmocKi^jr nig ideals and influences it is work ing to'' every one. every legitimate and wholesome profession, trade, oc cupation and feature of a worth while, (lean, and progressive environ^* went. ii ? . Mr. Charles M. Haswett in Assets of the Ideal City", Thomas Y. Crowell Company, publishers,' says of the Chamber of Commerce the following, whieh every progressive citizen should read and think about: "No in titut ion serves ho efficiently in crystallizing public opinion in civic matters ?s the modern, well-organized Chamber of Commerce. Its program is based upuh a consideration of pub* .lie needs by a selective group of 4,1,4 /.ens who are voluntarily associated III t.he interest of civic progress. This groiip represents the best thought of the community, those*who have ideas and ideals and are willing to give time and money to bring about their realization. If the local Cham ber of Commerce has succeeded in getting the active co-operation of all the various groups of the community, the labor element, the churches, the women's "organizations, as well as the business and professional men, there is no limit fu /what it may do for the benefit of its home city. "The relation between the Chamber of Commerce and the city .government must be close and friendly if good re sults are to be expected. The city 'officials are the legally constituted authority; the Chamber is advisory. The city officials have the responsi bility and must stand or fall as they must exercise their authority for the good of all. If they believe that the Chamber of Commerce is a ' high brow" organization which does not represent nor seriously consider the common run of people, it will have little influence with them. Hut if they know that it fairly represents , the average members of the principal groups, they will consider its recom mendations seriously and try to merit its confidence and support. The faith ful official is always glad of con structive advice and criticism the Chamber oi l omnierce .must be cafe ful that its proposals are constructive and. its attitude broad, intelligent and unselfish. No city can afford to be without a Chamber of Commerce, nor can any citizen, who really desires i 'v i<- progress, alTord to be outside its membership. Ii<?y I >. Sherrill. notorious bandit and an 1 scaped convict, arrested at MrAlester. Okla.. a few days ago, was declared by officials of the Leaven worth. Kan., Federal prison on Tues day. to have been the "brains ' of the bandit gang which staged the holdup of the Federal reserve hank at Den ver, Col., several months ago, when the gang got away with several hun dred thousand dollars in new Federal reserve bank notes from in front of the mint. Sherrill. according to the Leavenworth officials, when arrested by a posse following a train robbery in 191K, confessed that he and fellow gangsters had committed to memory plans for the robbery of -the Denver mint. His confession at the time was regarded by the officials as just a bad dream and most too fanciful to be be lieved; but the later events at the mint and the get away of the gang with the large amount of money re called Sherill's confession of 1918. Sherrill escaped .from the Leaven worth prison on June 22, 1921, where be was serving a sentence of forty years for train robbery. Protect Your Potatoes and Other ? Vegetables from destructive insects and bugs. We can sup ply most of the insecti cides that are known to be good, for both your Vegetable and Flow?r Gardens. Stonecyphers Potato Bug Killer, Pari# Greeh, Lime-Sul phur, Bordeaux, Calcium Ar senate, Black Leaf No. 40, Sulpho-Tobacco, etc. W. Robin Zemp's Drug Store PHONE 30 DELIVERY dra(t saws: drag savvsii Witte Gasoline I.n^inc Di'a Saw equipped with Bosch Magneto at Factory Price. Has Clutch attachment can stop saw without stopping engine. Simplest and best on the market. Columbia Supply Co. 823 W. Geruais St. Columbia, S. C. Year Honk Uvady. Washington, D. Juno 4. -Sena tor N. 1$. Dial flnaOttQCOd today that he had secured wverui copies of the new 1922 Y*ar Book ipf tnu Depart ment u* Aarri'calture and that ho \% < >u U1 he Kind to send a ropy to any of his const it went., who would write h i iu lor it. The new Usue contains much mutter of a varied kind of in "teres! to farmers throughout the country rojfardlntf * the growing of Croptly harvest ing, marketing, etc. Viseount Chaplain of St. Oswald, Kngiand, in dead. lie first attained prominence in 18(17 by winning a for tune on a horse race, muking a large bot at lot) to 1. CA.MDKN ? PAST AND PRESENT Interesting Story Sent to News and Courier by William Hanks. The following belated story of Caui den appearing in the Charleston Sun day News, written by Mr. William Hanks, will be read with interest by Camden people: Columbia, April 28, ? Camden is the haven of tourists of quality* and tou rists for 'many years was the main erop of Camden. Sometimes it was a bountiful harvest when all others failed. Hut Camden is not a ope-, erop to\ln any more. Ther? are many, signs of %*new or renewed substan t lability, prosperity and promise. One of the surest evidences of a de termination to make a modern city is the street paving that is going on. Broad street for a p\ile and a quarter is paved with bithulithic and the pav ing contractor is at work in other sections of the city and will be until the bond issue of $350,000 is all ap plied to this work. Then Camden will have the most beautiful streets in the State ? wide, bordered with beautiful oaks, with eye-resting vistas of pine at the numerous intersections caused by the beautiful parkways. Camden is a thriving city of 5,000 population in the heart of the long leaf pine ridge of the sand hills. In consequence of its location the climate is mild, and at the same time invigo rating; the air saturated with the soothing balsamic odors of the pines. This is health-giving, but for some reason Camden has not been singled out; as a winter resort by thatdatfs of semi -invalids who seek a climate that will aid theni to throw otf tuberculo sis. Some have come here and found a cure, but Camden is the home of the tourists wh" sepk rest and relaxation rather than a sanatoria! retrea^ Historic Camden. Camden is the "second city" in the State that is to say, it is the second in order to have received a charter from the king. Charleston being the first. The original charter, datpd 1 70S, signed by George 11, long hung on the walls of the city hall, but forty years ago, 1 S S : i . it disappeared. His toiv, romance, patriotism, the memo ry of :i glorious past ? these all, of "course, make Camd<en great. Hut Camden is now seeking sonic distinc tion on account of the present and not merely by inheritance. Camden was laid out with great care, under orders of the king, for he wished to have eleven principal cities in South Carolina, as he expected this to become .a populous and wealthy colony. Camden has th? gentle, calm and queenly poise of a city that has had deep experiences, that has known great men and magnificent women. Three cities have flourished upon this spot. First was Fredericksburg, deeded under George II, in 173.3. Next came Pine Tree, said to have derived its naruo from the fact. that a large pine log spanned the creek where it was crossed by the Catawba trail, Broad - street, in Camden. Pine Tree Hill gave way to Magazine Hill, and this in 1708 to Camden, named by Jo seph Kershaw for the Karl qf Camden who was a defender of the rights of the colonists. Sherman's army destroyed a wealth of history apd record but fugitive bits have been preserved through the un tiring efforts Of, T. J. Kirkland and R. M. Kennedy, who issued the vol ume, "Historic Camden," in 11)02. They are preparing volume II, I have been told. On page 22 of their first vol ume is this .record : "1792, Joseph Brevard Kershaw, recorder and legal adviser, salary $10. Zach Cantey, treasurer. Town lottery instituted, profits to be used in build ing a church in Camden, Number of tickets 1,780 at $0 each. Prizes 394, aggregating $9,850. Town to receive 15 per cent of prizes, total profit $2, 307.50." Real Tourists for Camden. rIrHs is not to he a regulation cham ber of commerce "write-up", but just a disconnected, discursive jumble of observations by a casual traveler who long has 1ov?nI old Camden. Now as to the tourists ? this has been a good year for them. Not the "tin can tou rists' who clutter our roads with their tin lizzies and litter our parks with the evidences of their overnight camp, but real tourists de luxe. , Their num ber has been larger, their pastimes have been more interesting, their stay has been longer, and they have found Camden more charming. What they delight in is po'.o. golf and riding in the pine woods redolent of sweet aromas of balsam and jessa mine and the wood violet. Tourists have been coming to Camden >" long that they are no lunger annoyed by rubber necks or by an undes.red pub licity. The winter visitors in < .linden are more like < amden to.k ?and t hat's handing them a whole Jo: n the v ;i v of a ? i >in } . i men t . \ p r 1 1 25. ? he day I vi-i'.d tl ? city was the .v' '!i\< ' ? the Ha' tie of Hobkirk 11 H.i n !,!(?:' ot 'lie battle was* about at 'he. intersection ?f i Hroad st re. : h> th? lane connecting K i r k wood a: -d the Hobkirk Inn These and Court I r . ? ar. ? he famous .vinter hotels of the j la. - . although t hi re are a dozen <>r ir.e< winter h"ni"S for visitors tha' have a ilarm of their own. The Americans were defeated in this tight And then dead are said to be buried in the little clump of cedars near the street. For a Ion? trmr Camden was in possession of the Rritish and part of their old breast works is yet to be seen in the * southwestern part of the city. After the revolution Camden be came the center of much wealth and of great social activity -a mo*t de lightful per rod of the history of the state. The spacious if round# and magiticent homes of those days were kept up on the princely incomes from the grejfct cotton plantations on the rivers, with their fertile lands. Some (,f the.se old manors in the Country are yet standing, among them might ho mentioned the home of D. U- " >? liams, jr., "Mulberry." The administrative center of Ker shaw county for nearly a century was the courthouse, a building of simple beauty, in whose. hulls ha>io resound* i the voices of some of the choicest sons of South Cafolina. Within the last score of years it has been used as a court house, but Camden a new temple of justice, a bunding lacking perhaps the classic lines and the impressive appearance 01 mc great Doric columns, hut a modern, convenient and commodious bnildmg, one of the really line court buildings in the state, Camden is not one of the back ward towns in the state. It has been going along in its quiet, steady way, doing things and not heralding them. The city a few years ago, being un able to get the kimi of trade it de sired from any of the great power companies, built its own electric light plant and water distribution. lnuj cost $175,000, but is worth much more than that on present day values. The great freshet of 1016 washed away bridges and changed courses of streams. Camden decided to re store the bridge, and this was a big undertaking, as the bridge destroyed had but recently been paid for. I he new bridge was built quite a distance upstream. It must be a half mile in length and cost $1)8,000. A toll of 50 cents a rouiVd trip is charged every vehicle that passes. In two years and a half the bridge has been paid for. The toll charge is kept up and the in come will be used to keep the bridge in repair and to build' road*. That is Cafnden's way of handling a dilemma. Camden has two flourishing cotton mills, both well managed and each with a beautiful mill village, showing care in the grouping of the cottages and in the style of architecture. 1 hi banking facilities of the city are ex cellent and the banks have made money ?in the last year. The interests of the people of Kei shaw county are almost wholly agri cultural and there is grear opportun itv here for the development of truck farms, as Camden is only twenty hours ?flm New York. Camden has the main line of ?he Seaboard and local lines of the Southern and; the Coast line, in addition to the great Capital to Capital highway and it is one of the most accessible towns m the United States. Hydro-Electric Power. The Wateree river, one mile east of Camden, has always been ed navigable, and Col, SenfT (the great engineer, who first came South with Gen. Greenland planned the bat fie of Camden In a way which would have resulted in victory over Cornwallis if his advice had been fol lowed,) built a navigation canal around the rapids eight miles north west of Camden and other canals twenty-five miles away on the ( ataw ba, around the Great I* alls. Thereby cotton, was boated from North (aio lina to GeorgetoW. y . A These canals nave fallen into dis use, but the scene of their former usefulness is today the scene of the most marvelous activity, for where Inhere were fapids going to waste there are today vast hydro-electric plants. Fishing Creek, Dearborn, Rocky Creek, and this last great one, Wateroe, near Camden. The burden of the wires that traverse Kershaw county is the motive power for great enterprises in this and in neighboring States. The Southern Power Com pany has sp6nt in the construction of these plants a sum of money so large^ that I would not care to state the amount ? not while we have such an observant Tax Commission. ? _ The pondage of the Wateree devel opment carries the bacfc watei almost to the spillway of Rocky creek. It is a red, red mileage of water. Perhaps fish might live in it. In the good old days, according to my friend, Major Higgins, who came hore from Great Falls, and has lived in Camden forty seven vears, through eighteen dynas ties of hotel keepers, there was a time in his recollection when a buck shad could be bought for ten cents, and a roe for a quarter. But all the shad that ever get this far inland nowadays come on the bill of 'are' of the Seaboard-diners as they sail through the sandhills of South ( aro Itna. The chief pride of Camden, is her city schools. There is a fine system here, under the management of one of the best equipped superintendents in the State, J. G. RichardsjlJr. A new grammar school building was opened last fall, one of the most modern plants and most attractive in appear ance in the State. Camden has * ! school system of which to be proud. Camden's Fascination. What is the fascination about Cam-, den 0 Well, its inherent charm c an- ( not be defined. But there are some , things that may be mentioned. First of all, the rambles in the streets and' in the near-by pine wood*, and then there are the drives to points of inter est and physical chafni. There are in Camden many gardens that will vie with the superb area of japonicas and azaleas around Charleston, al though the Camden gardens are nec essarily restricted, though intensively lovely* in every setting and angle. Tourist Hotels. The three tourist hotels of Cam-, den have their regular clientele ? ? not the naveau rn h. Hit elegant peo ple from 'he North, who crime year after year. The Court Inn, built by John McRae and called "Lausanne," after the na tive place of his wife's family. It was later known as Upton Court.. The De Saussures lived there later. They were unable to keep up the place: it was abandoned and left to deteriorate. But .Mrs. Perkins, niece of the builder, boyght, rt.paiivd and ihangcd . W ancestral homo to a charming place for guests. She was therefore, a pio neer in making Camden a pjae? J>{ winter resort. The \vonderful ol< gardens are unchanged since original ly laid out. They are spacious and charming, with a maxe, long arbors, bowling greens and formal flower pot hi iangement*. AH this in the time of flowers is exquisite, and it ha* an unusual backing u. a grove t.l pittj .'aiviu'.iy preserved Birds flii$ ?h. an ideal sanctuary. The Hobktrk hin, originally the home of (Lionel Shannon. I he c.oA* ter pan of the hotel is the old house, practically Unchanged save for the divisions in the too large W rooms on the second door. When clearing the ground for the house Col. Shan non sai<,l that he found 'Hevolutton arv bullet a embedded in nearly every tree. Two Revolutionary cannon now guard the entrance to Hobkirk Inn, one decorated with the lleur de lys of France - taken by. the British, it re said, at Louisburg. The gardens were laid out by an English land scape architect. ? The Kirkwood Hotel was the ( an toy. home. ? One of the? battles bf tho Revolutionary was fought on its site and trees that have been cut down there have shown bullets deeply em bedded. The high situation of the house gives a wide view today ot its golf course and back of it pine woods and the polo grounds The front door is unchanged since the (/untoy- own ership; also the center of the house. The Baruch Hospital. Among the recent structures of a public nature which adorn the town are a Carnegie library and an "up to-date" hospital, given to the city _by Mr. Bernard BarUch, of New York, as a memorial to his father, Di. Si mon Baruch, who spent his early pro fessional life in Camden. Tho sup port of the hospital is assured through the generosity of, the late Mr. John Burdell, of Kershaw coun ty. Dr. Baruch was a surgeon in the Confederate army! He attended Col. Shannon as a second in the fatal duelling encounter with Col. ( ash. Mis. Baruch had a great love for Camden and. its people, which should be, and is, reciprocated. When ji del egation of Southern State officials waited upon Bernard Baruch during the World War to ask him for a rulr ing that Would help the South in 'a certain emergency, he did so. After wards he told the two South Carolin ians present, "My mother told me to stand by her people." Cool Spring, four miles north of Camden. An attractive hon%. In the pine woods adjoining is the spring from jyhhi'ch the place is named, and from which the water is bottled 'and sold. Southern Power House, on the Wateree river, eight miles north west of Camden. There is an artifi cial lake and waterfall, surrounded by pine woods. Sometimes the watev, instead of being blue, is almost pink, because of the red clay which makes it opaque, thereby giving the land scape a 'most strange aspect. The Terrace, nine 'miles from Cam den. An old dwelling, and remains of a beautiful garden. The place has recently been sold for a school. Near by is an older house, known as the Old Boykin Place. Statesburg. This dear old place came within one vote of Columbia in being chosen. at one time for the State capital; It has a very old church and a beautiful home and gar den, dating from colonial days. Statesburg is the capital of the High Hills of Santce and many old houses are scattered on the hills. Knight's Hill, site of an old home of the Chestnut family. The house was burned and nothing now remains of the estate but the old cemetery. Mulberry, built in 1820 by James C h e s t n u tan owner ofvas t estates in the vTcTnity and several hundred slaves. He managed his vast inter ests ably and was also a public-spir ited and important citizen. He spent the winters rn this house, but because it was near malarial swamp lands, in the summer removed to- his^ place 3 miles away on the hills. He kept his private road between the two places in perfect order and traveled over it frequently in his coach with outriders. Mulberry is an excellent example of the way of living of an ante-bellum South'ern planter. The house is now occupied by Mr. David Williams and his family. Liberty Hill, twenty-two miles north of Camden. The site of many dwellings of distinguished families of the vicinity, although almost deserv ed now. The view is superb form the hill. Paint Hill, three miles from Cam den, ho called from the brilliant col orings of the clay there. It is known that one English patter wonked suc cessfully at his trade in this vicin ity, making use of the excellent ma terial found in the hills. No other county in the State is traversed in every direction by as thoroughly good roads. The road from Columbia is b^injr paved for eight eon miles and from the Kershaw county line to Camden will be top soiled for seventeen miles, making a speedway connecting t h?* two cities by less than an hour ? against half a day m the old stage Coach flays. There is an unending lot of anec dotes that mitfht he related, but with! the consent of The New- and Courier | these will be revived f < . r another Sunday. 1 mitfh1 t. :he mysti cal grave .?f A ltd. - ,.f ? 'asgow ; I mi^'ht tel.* of the ?!??:?* h 1 f the brave Baron de Kaih 1 r-.igh' tell of the; hurta! of .lame- K Po.k Dickinson.) killed a' 'h'- head -f Palmetto] Regim<^'.t .n r.' ? > f < erubusco; [ : Wight Tel! of the drowi r.tf of some fifty persons in an old m i pond when ! the bottom of a flat boa' fell out and iet them sink tn?o vory deep water. , I might teii of sunie o: the famous trials in the old court hi jse; 1 might tell of Richard Kirkiand the Confed erate soldier -who carried water to h? thirsting wounded merry; I might tell of Camden's hix^ Confederate general*, two rrf -whom* had grand sons that were heroes in the World War." But that's good for another time, and this is a goo<} place to stop. A correspondent wants to know the difference between a jounuiliat and a newspaper worker. Well, a journalist has to nave an income from some ather source: - . , ' The Columbia recorder i^ sticking autoistfi $2 each, as the traftc law pre scribes, for failure to dim their lights in the t it > . Monday morning he ftn?J and WVdm-sday morning ]s. Two liquor cases were heard Mon. day morning Ua the Columbia record. oryn cyUrt; a negro fined $;,t) for transporting six gallons qf hoo&$, u white man ^50 for having Knllons. ' i .1 ? - . . Aftw Every Meal Chew .your food well, then use WRIGLEY'S to aid digestion. It also keeps the teeth clean, breath sweet, appetite keen. Thm Grmat American Swmmtmmat t Mi S*?tWl Wrtpfm] Always the SAME nti?i ho novn , P&trJ ~~ ' ? X r>??f ruwwMCTuntO bv Ij Wttmu HIUIHCi BJSKOPYlU.t. S.C. J m Pee Dec ttlZ-OJIIXC Always GOOD Notice of Final Discharge. Robert Reynolds and Perry D. Stokes, surviving executors of the last Will and Testament of R. B. Rollins, deceased, have this day filed with me their final accounting- and have made application unto me for a final dis charge as said executors. Therefore notice is hereby given to all concern ed that one month from this date, on Monday, July 2nd, 1923, at 11 o'clock, A. M., at the Probate office of Ker shaw County, I will hear the petition. w. l. Mcdowell, Judge of Probate, Kershaw County. Camden, S. C., May 29th, 1923. Thedford's BUCK DRAUGHT Liver Medicine (Vegetable) , Time to Re-tire? ) (Buy F>A> ruti ? MU ? For Sale By CAROLINA MOTOR CO. ' Camden, S. C.