The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 22, 1923, Image 4
fil CAP'EN CHRONICLE
II. D. MI.KS editor and Publisher
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to ; "u' '? 1 wrol.it i po t office as
Hccond cla^a mail unifier. IfTte p or
a ft ft. urn
faindtn, S. Friday. June 22, WW.
That wa* .? i?it of had publicity Ker
shaw County received in the press of
the utaU this week, when u magis
trate and his deputy (?f thin county
' Wfiv locked up in another town and
heavily fined on a charge of drunk and
transporting whisKty, We know
nothing of tj^e affair except. ,the news
paper accounts. Enemies of pfohi
billon make tine eupital out of such
affairs and it is to be regretted that1
tfu> State has such officers in its em
ploy. Hoth have been summoned be
for# the Governor to show cause why
they should not be deprived of office,
and we feel sure that the Governor
will do his duty.
City Council hus an advertisement
ia thU week's paper calling attention
to the fact that another bond issue
will have to be voted in order to carry
on the program of paving now out
lined and we feel sure that it will be
heartily supported. Camden Js ex
ceedingly fortunate in being able to
have this additional work done at the
name figures contracted for in the
first- instance, while cities and towns
around us are having to pay a much
higher rate for, the same class of
w->rk. The benefits already arising
from the partial paving is so marked
and all so well ipleased with the added
beauty to our streets that the whole
citizenship ha* caught the spirit of
thV times and we feel sure the ad
ditional amount asked for on both
projects will be? readily petitioned for
and thus show' the Council the entire
city is behind them in their effort# at
giving us the long wished for im
provements.
in the mad race to get t he re in a
hu'rry it is nearly always the case
where the innocent have to suffer in*
tlr- auto, mi>haps. Several weeks ago
a g-ntleman tame near killing his
eni. in- family, si-me of them - being
, maimed and scarred for life. In an
account of the unfortunate affair we
rea l in neighboring paper whore the
man doing the dri\ing admitted that
In \TT?s driving to<? fast and blame<l
th.it as the cause. lie stated that
on the Sunday before he had - made
11:,- -ame distance m two hours and
ten minutes and that he had left, home
that morning with the intention of
making it in two hours or less. He
admitted that he was making' fifty
miles per hour at the time of the ac
cident and members of the party
slated that they begged him all the
way to drive more safely, but their
pl-'n* were unavailing. The pity is
that the innocent have to suffer.
.0 easiest thing on earth to lose
is a good reputation, remarks the
Sumter Item, and the hardest to lose
is a bad reputation. t
DOES IT !?AY?
Columbus, (la., Sun.
Advertising made the Victrola dog
famous.
I' has made the cash register a big
hi >'her to retailers all over the
wu: td.
has introduced .the world to a
substitute i'ii *ole leather.
'? displacing the truck horse with
?10 horse power trucks.
I* has helped you to in apprecia
tion of Stetson hats, Walk-Over Shoes
Houglas and Krnerson shoes.
!? has made the hand-written letter
an oddity it) bu -mess.
It has put ban oil on heads where
ti i hair oil would do an> good and
on heads where no hair oil was need
ed
ha? put < a ,ton:i down your
t|;- Kit. left hrisfle.> in umr gums, and
tl n come along with .? llubberset
ai. f taken ? hem >m t .
: mhs pu' Sn.'otluiit . IYI>*o> . t r"T? I
1 \ , nji-nt ot \ i?u r (eet h
Jt has put :t (inlete aifaiH-t >?-nt
ha. I.
"its put Mi: rim* in youi eye. sold
y<>\. < utuura t'??i pimples, Pears for
tl hath arul \ for t h ** ( h I ?
; * has put Arrow' collar> arouml
yu-.* tu*i k an t I } ??r<<u!vi your
w: r <?
(. .:a,\uheu >ii .\arit. I?? anv
il ax ><>u wi.-h. ami a.h er!ij>injr has
H ! > ? I ? i t i IK it uh iJiilu 1\ .
? yet -virv- o^np'r1 n?fc_ "I'nr*
A ? -.'tsir.e IV -?
nry 1' j:d f i a- nr.irlt rn??n?*y
j * i i*i?* !<ank as i> : e:>or!e<i, it dot-*
i 'hnt he mi^H ? i ?mi-tlur.c
atn*j * 'hat Hjfht " ffionl <ftmr of his
Mt ?>???. -ayi th<- C^f-olina Citizen.
'?^Trtrrtmr rnrrrT+y ?rt.
va! Jp of taxable* property in 1920 with
$8i?. t64,800.
In 1020 2&.H per cent of the arc* of
Ofangebtrr? rrmnty W9* r1an*i#M
Wfrodlaml, ncr+Hge being 213.184.
NOAII WKIIHTKK.
Frank A. Muiwey, owner of a
chain of newspapers, has udded the
Now York Evening Globe to his
string., The Globe was founded by
Noah Webster in 171M. Fie wrote <Ju?
ring his editorship t hat the paper
distressed his soul and harassed hiit
notV4tM every day, oying to th?- fr?-.
tjoeney of typographical error#. We
cannot imagine work less congenial
to the sensitive precision who writes
spelling books and dictionaries than
newspaper work. Newspapers are
made so hurriedly that errors creep in
uvory issue which are of sty-h a na
ture an tO spoil the day for the philo
logist.
It is a coincidence that the same
week which brought news of the
(I lobe's -sale also marked the 8Mb an
niversary Of Noah Webster's death.
'On the occasion of this anniversary,
George MarcelluH Bailey writes the
following' appreciation of Webster in
the Houston Post;
'Gome with uh, JetTersonian Philos
ophy, aud lot us bow together at tho
>grave of one of the dearest frlertd# we
ever had ? old Noah Webster, who
died just eighty years ago today in
his 85th year. We lay aside the
''Unabridged" and reca f the old Blue
Hack Speller he gave us, which was
the school book of fir Jit magnitude
during the first hundred years of the
life of tho Great Kepublic. The mod
erns have banished it, as they have
banished , MeGutTey's Readers, but
they n evvhr produced a textbook that
gave us n#ny good spellers. The old
Bluu^Bacfe opened tho~<loor of knowl
edge for fcome of the greatest men
the country ever knew, and many of
'them found between its> covers all the
book larnln' they ever had. Even
now wo visualize the Lincolns and
Crocketts and a host frT their contem
poraries poring over the contents of
the old Blue- Hack in the flickering
light of pine knot fires out there in
the great arboreal silence of the un
fettered West, lator to emerge from
their solitude into the white light of
llama and glory. Who shall deny old
Noah his rightful niche in the Hall of
Fame, and who shall say that there
ever has boon or ever can be a
school book that played such a part in
the moulding of a nation as the old
Blue- Back Speller that he gave us."
We do not think it an exaggera
tion to say that Webster ' made the
most notable and important contribu
tion to American literature ever made
by any person.
lli.s dictionary and his Blue-Back
Speller -long since took their places
on the shelves of the classics. The
speller is now out of use, but his
dictionary grows richer and more pop
ular with the passing of years for it
has had the good fortune to continue
ill the h'ands of editors worthy of the
great master. Today Webster's "In
ternational" is the biggest and most
important reference book in the fam
ily or office library.
The Blue- Back Speller was the
moat printed of all the American <
book*. At the very least 100,000,000
copies of it must have been sold- We j
have no recent statistics at hand, but
an old* encyclopedia says that by 1880
no less than 80,000,000 copies of it
had been sold. The speller had . a V.
marked influence upon the education
and culture of Americans up to the
beginning of the 20th century when
other spellers and other systems sup
erceded it. '
Webster's claim to fame rests pri
marily upon his authorship of the
speller arid the dictionary and his his
tory <>X words. But he was a man of ;
distinctly^ in other fields. Webster J
was an able political , essayist at a f
tim#? when the controversial political J
paper carried weight. He was the au- 1
thor ot' a^iistory of the United States '
a history of France, and other similar [
works. He was one of the founders of ;
Amherst college and a member of its i
faculty. He was a lawyer, a newspa
per editor, a school teacher, and serv
ed in the State Legislature of Massa- j
chu*etts. Incidentally he was* a des
cendant on his mother's side of Gover
nor Bradford. -Montgomery Adver
t i.ser.
A tremendous sen monster of a
rae species, was captured in. Florida
waters otf the coast of Miami, a few
<lays It is known as Indo-Pa
cifio hask:ng shark. Its length is '<.r>
feet and its weight is estimate*! at
10.000 pounds. These fish arc said to
l>?- .tv!! nut infrequently in tropical
wj.'e.s, hut are seldom attracted be
i ail e of their great strength. They
are inoffensive ??xc??pt when aroused.'
Th.*- > !?? W..I-- ha r punned several times
Uut r,t>i :ina!i> killed until
ii l>oii . m steel bullets had been
filvd at ion, high-powered ntles.
If s.n ?<! the monster i- feeing
.- ripped f"i the American Museum of
N a rural History in New York.
Governor Smith of New York says
he will not be a candidate for the
nomination in. the Ucmo
era tic national convention next year. ;
Dr. George T. Harding, father of
Preakient - Harding, celebrated his *
TOfti BlrthAff TtfWday at Marion, ^
Ohio. _ .?
GRNBRAL NEWS *otks
of Inherent (lathered From
#an> 8ource?>
Prohibition officers on Saturday ar
rested Dorothy Swarthout, 22, as the
driver of u booze carrying truck, one
of a train of ? fifteen earrying liquor
from* (Canada to New York. The ar
rest was made near Schroon Lake,
The Ki?l was held in $ 1.6(H) bail. Of
ficers also got a {300- gal Ion still near
the same place.
Knauth, Nachodjfe Kuhne, a 70-year
old Wall, street banking house, went
into involuntary bankruptey Saturday
with liabilities of $11,000,000. This is
the fourth big Wall street concern
to fail within the past three weeks.
George Victor de Hrodes, 85, law
student of New Y^rk, on Saturday
shot his mother to death in a Wash
ington boarding house just a few
hours after they had arrived in the
capital. De Brodes was arrested im
mediately, and the police believe he
had lost Ms mind brooding over the
ill healDf of his mother and also a
sister ytvho is in a Washington hospi
tal. y
The Croker will case which was in
progress in a Dublin court for ten
days or more, ended Saturday in favor
of the widow* Mrs. Bula Croker. The
.children of Croker sought to break
the will of their father on the ground
that he was of unsound mind at the
time of making the will in which he
left practically his entire estate to
his second wife. 4
Joseph Jacobs, New ? York- ? hotel
waiter, who saved $40,000 during a
period of. eighteen years, working
seventeen hours a day, has lost his
fortune through a Wall street broker
I ago house, where he was promised
big returns for his investments. ...
J Undent he urging of Mayor Ilylan,
| New York bricklayers havij signed
j contracts to work for a period of two
' yeafB on city school building at ft
i rate of $12 a day. Under the agree
I ment, if the bricklayers stick, $60,
000,000 will be spent on school build
ings during the next two years.
Lieut. Oakley (?. Kelly, one of the
two aviators who recently crossed the
United States in twenty-six hours,
was married in Washington Friday to
Miss Mary M. Watson..
Frederick Upham, treasurer of the
Republican national committee, in a
London interview on Saturday, pre
dicted the re- nomination of President
Harding by the Republicans, and the
nomination of Henry Ford for the
Presidency on a third ticket.
The Story of
Our States
Br JONATHAN BRACE
XL1I. ? -IDAHO
TI'IK year
* 18?9 saw!
the stare in
our flog In
crease from
thirty-eight to
forty-two. for
four states
were added to the Union in tnai
yenr. In 3890 two more states
were admitted, the first of which
wan Idaho, so that during these
two years, the manufacturer
must have been kept busy turn- *
Ing out new flags with the prop
er number of stars.
Idaho Is very tnontalnous and
the name Is derived from the
Shoshone Indian word meaning
"gem of mountains."
The first white explorers were
undoubtedly Lewis and Clark on
their memorable trip In 1804-5.
Idaho was a part of Oregon
territory, which was Jointly oc
cupied by British and Americans
until the Treaty of 1840 definite
ly turned over to the United
States; the country south of the
49th " parallel. In 186:* Idaho
was organized as a territory,
with an -area three times the size
V)f the present state, as it in
cluded Montana and part of
Wyoming. The next year Mon
tana was set off for a territory
by Itself, and In 18(V3 Wyoming
was organized so that in 189U
when Idaho was admitted as
the forty-third state of the Un
ion, its area was reduced to 8.'*.
888 square miles. Even so It
ranks as the eleventh stute in
size.
The rapid settlement of Idaho
was due to the discovery of geld,
the same cause which so rapidly
built up t^e adjacent states. It
u as in lSflB that gold was found
at i'oeur d'Alene In th?* northern
part of the state, and minors Im
mediately tlocked to the state
In great numtfer*.
There was serious labor trou
ble in tho (,'oeur d'Alene sec
tion in 1892 and again in 1899
when martial law was estab
lished until peace between the
miners and mine owners was
effected.
ldeh?> is ti * t h from the end In
the list of Mate* according to
?**?! AWAollfiffly has -
but four presidential elector*.
But the state is developing rap
Idly. ' '
(OfcrtteCtvr* Si**p?p?> Byndtcat*.)
HAYS MIXTURE EFFECTIVE. ?
V
Wftd<Sbaro Man Claims 100 Per Cent
For Weevil Poison.
*
Mr., K. U. Thurman, forroe/ly of
this county, but who is now residing
at Cheraw, sends the* following letter
under date of May 28th, to Mr. J. L.
Moseley. who is also agent for Hill's
Mixture in Kijfshaw County:
"Mr. J. J. Little, my sub agent at
Wadesboro, N. Co h4s just completed
the following experiment with Hill's
Mixture and met with the following
rertults ;
"Under a wire screen made of fly
netting he placed twelve weevils on
the same stalks of cotton on which
he found the weevils in the fleld. On
th4se fctalks of totton he placed Hill's
Mixture at the rpte of one gallon
per acre. He got 100 per cent kill
with the Hill's Mixture. He tried
the same experiment with the "Home
Hrtfw" mixture (that is, Cal. Arsenate
and Molasses, mixed as follows: 2 lbs.
of Cal. Arsenate, lgal. of water)
and out of twelve weevils he got a
kill of three. It is the same old story
'IIlll's Mixture' again goes over the
top and wins the tight against all
odds.
"Thought it might interest you to
know that Hill's Mixture is just as ef
fective in South Carolina and North
Carolina as it is in Georgia."
"I. -IT ' I
Five-year-old John Leman was
trampled to death by a flock of stam
peded sheep at Rockyford, Colorado, a
few days ago.
HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS
AH HEAHP A <3 ENTMAM
5 AY HE SPEC' TIMES'
6WIWE 61 T BETTUH,BUT
Law/ Times ain' make no
D IFFUNCB Wlt> Mf, NO-HOW,
CASE AHS "BIN 'BROKE
ALL MAH .UFEl f*-N? -
Copyright, 1921 by McClure Ne wtp?p?r Syndic**,
We cordially, invite our friend* and the public gen
erally to Visit us in our new store ^ $he Corner of Broad
and DeKalb streets, where we are better prepared to
serve the wants of the ladies in th* ready-to-wear line.
* 0
Ex-Senator Fall of New Mexico, in
a London interview on 'Saturday, pre-'
dieted a return to light ? wines and
beer in the United States.
MORE ROAD PAVING WORK.
At a meeting of the Permanent
Road Commission which was held
yesterday, contracts were awarded
for four miles of asphaltic concrete
to be laid on the Sumter-Camden
road, and for one and eighty-five hun
dredths miles of the same construc
tion on the Sumter-Mayesvill^ road.
The Harllee-Thrash Construction
Company of Florence secured the con
tract for the Sumter-Camden road
and the work on the Sumter-Mayes
villo road wont to the Powell Con
struction Company. The Powell con
striction Company are now engaged
in construction work in the county,
but the Harllee-Thrash company is a
now one fop Sumter eounty work. ,
The price set for the Camden road
work was $96,054. 9ft For Mayes
ville road, $65,110.45.
The South Carolina Construction
Company, Columbia, was awarded the
contract for four bridges of creoso
ted timbers on the Mayesville road
at a cost of $8,912.81. W. B. Boyle
Company of Sjumter, and the Austin
Bridge Company, Atlanta, also bid. ?
Sumter Herald.
y t-r f ' '
There is no good reason why anyone in this
' ' r ^ V'
County should not make a crop of cotton this VX.
year so far as the Boll Weevil is concerned, be
:f t ^ ? . *? * ^ 0 ? * *
cause I have a poison that is 100 per; cent effic
ient. . ; i
Don't take my word for it, but ask any of the
following gentlemen who have already used it
this season: Messrs. Henry Savage, F. M. Woo- .
ten, Charley McCaskill, Ben Wylie Gettys, C. M.
Shiver, or W. H. Shiver.
If you want Hill's Mixture and it is inconven
ient to pay cash I can use an approved paper in
settlement. Now is the time to start to.using it
? bon't wait until the weevil has your bottom
crop. I will be glad to make a test for you, if you -
are in doubt, and show you that Hifl's Mixture ,
will kill all the weevils as we claim.
7 . V
J. L Moseky, Camc^n, S.C.
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