Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LYLE GIVEN NEW TRIAL. Alleged Forger .Was .Convicted at Aiken Term of Court. Milton A. Lyle of Chattanooga, Tenn , a young whito man convicted in Ai ken, May 1922, of uttering a forged chock, was allowed a new trial by tho South Carolina supreme court in a decision filed, yesterday morning re versing tho circuit court. Lyle, accused with Mr. and Mrs. gam II. Padgett and J.. C. Westbury, was tried and convicted of forgery May 14, at Aiken and was sentenced by Judge Hayne F. Kiee to serve four years at hard labor. The forged chock for $790.32 on the Farmers and Mer chants bank of Aiken was deposited in another Aiken bank by a young man, identified as Lyle, After making tho deposit tlui man who had given his name as "E. P. Gaines," withdrew $292.30 on tho account created by the deposit of tho forged chock and then disappeared. Lyle was identified by various Aiken and Georgia bankers as having cashed forged check*?, his handwriting also being held by ex perts to be identical with that on the CITATION. The State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. By W. L. McDowell, Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas, John T. Nettles made Suit to me to grant him letters of admin istration of the estate of and effects of Laura B, Nettles. These are therefore, to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Laura B. Nettles, deceased, that they be and ap pear before me, in the Court of Pro bate, to be held at Camden, South Carolina, on September 7th next, after publication theroof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administra tion should not be granted. ~ Given under my Hand, this 24th day of August Anno Domini 1923. w. l. Mcdowell, Judge of Probate for Kershaw County Published on the 31st day of August and the 7th day of September, 1923, in the Camden Chronicle, and posted at the Court House door for the time prescribed by law. Week-End Fares To Mountain and Seashore Resorts. Southern Railway now have week end tickets on sale to the various mountain and seashore resort points. Tickets are good for all trains Satur days and Sundays, and return trip must be completed prior to midnight Tuesdays following date of sale. These week-end fares will continue in effect until Sunday, September 2nd. The following fares will apply from Camden: Walhalla, S. C $9.15 Tryon, N. C . 6.9C Saiuda, N. C 7.30 Flat Rock, N. C . . . . 7.65 Hendersonville, . N. C. .1 7.80 Asheville, N. C. . . ...... 8.75 Brevard, N. C... 8.75 Lake Toxaway, N. C 9.60 Lake Junaluska, N. C -9.90 Waynesville, N. C 10.00 Black Mountain, N. C 9.45 Charleston, S. C ?. 6.20 Tybee, Ga 8.80 Hardeeville, S. C ^-10 Tickets for Charleston, S. C., and Tybee, Ga., and Hardeeville, are good for all trains Fridays and Saturdays, with final return limit Tuesdays fol lowing date of sale. Also Attractive Summer Excursion Fares. Tickets on sale daily until Septem ber 30th, allowing stopover privileges at any point in either or both direc tions, with final return limit October 31st, For further information, tickets, etc apply to local ticket agents. Got a cold *> MENTHOLATUM Clears it out. one * tu" k .k. the uttering hv wMei tried. Ilia defense wa? an alibi, various witnesses being introduced to testify that at the time of the alleged crime he was working at ^phtipit, G?.? where he was employed as a member of a COiiat liutnn t\nve. The case against Mrs.. Padgett was nolle press ed, while Wesibury ami Padgett were released on bond and have returned to work with the construction company. The supreme court in its opinion held that Judge Rice had erred in admitting certain testimony tending UMhow that the defendant had com mitted similar crimes in Georgia and also in limiting the number of wit nesses the defense was allowed to call, to support the alibi offered. Seventy nine exceptions to the hand'ing of the C4H0 were raised by the defense in its appeal.? rKriday's State. It is est imatcd " that fully three thousand people attended the funeial of Samuel M. Rogers and his three sons at Tabernacle church, about 12 miles from Spartanburg, la*t Sunday. In the funeral procession proper there were more than three hundred auto mobile* and they required more than an hour to pass a given point. 00 sides those in the procession proper, there were many other cars that came from various directions. The four bodies were buried in two caskets and in the sanie grave. Just how the tiag edy of the father and three sons came about is not known. Post mortem ex amination showed no water in the lungs of the father, while the lungs of the children were full of water. There are different theories as to the tragedy. Some think possibly the father died of apoplexy and that the sons, who were in a boat, drowned in the effoit to get to him, or possibly the father died of shock at seeing his three sons struggling in the water from an overturned boat. But the real facts nobody knows. Mr. Rogers was a popular man in the neighborhood in which he was raised and the great crowd at the funeral ?is accounted for by this fact and the further fact of the stunning nature of the tragedy. A Limit to Her Faith. During the progress of a big /'pro tracted meetin" for which the south is famous, an ardent sister of .the church who usually came in an old-fashioned buckboard drawn by the family horse was late for a particularly important service and was being severely cen sured by the pastor. Explaining the reason for being late, the good sister said that- the horse had taken fright at a passing train and bolted and that the wreck of the rig had prevented her from be ing on time. "My dear sister,, such little things should not make you late for divine services. You should trust in the Lord." , , "Well, brother," she replied, and there was a look of calm peacefulness on her face, "I did trust in the Lord till the bellyband busted and then I had to jump." Hammer Uninjured. Florence, Aug. 25. ? Although he received the full force of a blow from a sledge hammer as it descended upon a rock pile here yesterday, Wal ter EviVis, a convict who accidentally got his head in the way, is not seri ously hurt, it was stated by his phy sician this afternoon. Evans is a negro. Governor McLeod on Tuesday is sued a pardon to Eugene Scott, a ne gro, sentenced to one year and rnne months imprisonment in Calhoun county, on a charge of larceny of live stock. Scott is an o.x-serviro man and had served one year of his term. The pardon was recommended by the par don board. SPECIAL SUMMER SALE EXTRAORDINARY VALUES! O N Kelley - Springfield and Diamond TIRES (Clincher Rim) Cord Casing $12.50 (Straight Side) Cord Casing 20.00 (Straight Side) Cord Casing 25.00 (Straight Side) Cord Casing 26.25 (Straight Side) Cord Casing 27.75 (Straight Side) Cord Casing 35.00 (Straight Side) Cord Casing 36.00 (Straight Side) Cord Casing 37.50 (Straight Side) Cord Casing 40.00 Folly Guaranteed Standard Cord Casings hare never been quoted at sach prices. If you are going to need tire* soon it wifl be your advantage to bay while these prices are In effect, which will be for 10 day*: Starting July 13th. WE ALSO HAVE A SPECIAL PRICE ON The fully guarantee-?- trouble proof battery. LITTLE'S GARAGE 30x3Va 32x31/2 32x4 33x4 34x4 32x41/2 33x41/2 34x41/2 35x5 IS GOOD PROVERB Wig? Advice From Persia as to Choosing Friends. Two to Avoid Are the "Candid" Pereon ? nd the One Who l? Too Easily Offended. if' An old Persian proverb runs, "Think twice before you make an ciu'iny, and thrice before you make a friend." True ?~-even If we think that "twice" and "thrice" should he transposed. As a matter of fact, however, they are In their right places. Most of \is, before experience tea oh oh us wisdom, take to* ourselves friends far too easily. We continue the friendship because wo don't quite know how to end It ; but In our heart* we wish certain of our "friends" A thousand miles away ? permanently ! There's the painfully "candid friend," for a start, lie? or she ? tells us of our faults, our flefectit our shortcomings, and rubs In hard all the things wo know, but would like to for get I ?'I'm sure no one would tell you but myself, old man. but do you know you are getting fat?" Or when a now hat appears ? "My dear,- I know you don't mind what I say, but It doesn't suit you a bit I It would be all right for a girl of six teen, but ? " Had I my time over again I would never have one of these candid friends, says a writer In London An swers. I've searched my memory and \ cannot remember when candid praise was given. It Is always criticism. Candid friends are llfe-spollers. Keep them out of your lite. Then there's the easily offended friend ! Never have a friend of that type. Or If you have any, seize the first opportunity of letting them go out of your life. They will age you, worry you, and make a slave of you If they remain. You will always be apol ogizing, explaining, smoothing them dowu, begging their pardons. Your soul will be free to do what you like. They might he "offended !" They are tyrants, and their tyranny grows worse the more you pander to their "touchiness." (kit rid of them ! Buy ? as I did ? a new hat, and tell them nothing about it. They are sure to be "offended," and then let them remain so, Finally, there's the "friend" who use.^ you when her real friend isn't available. "Uses" Is the right word ! You are In reserve ? to be used as re quired. That type should bo barred, too. Choose your.frlends carefully I Book Agents' Best Field. When Mrs. Smith moved out Into a sparsely settled tJectlon of Brooklyn she thought one advantage of her lo cation would be freedom from agents. But .she was mistaken; they |amo thicker than ever. First appeared the milk company solicitors, then book and magazine agents, mop and brush men, charity solicitors and then the vacuum cleaner agents. The vacuum men seemed to come in relays or waves. Mrs. Smith already had a patent sweeper, but she was always forced to answer the door bell and say no to the agents, says the New York Sun and Globe. Seeing her hopes of quiet and iso lation of life in the suburbs blasted, Mrs. Smith the other day asked one of the agents why she was visited by so many salesmen. "Oh," said he, "agents always make a specialty of thinly populated dis tricts. We figure you folks out here don't have many of the latest things. It's our best field." Eyes Only on One Side of Head. Both eyes on the same side of the head is the "freak" distinction of flounders and soles. In these species of fish the head is unsymmetrlcally formed, the cranium being badly twist ed In form. The body is strongly, com pressed, and the side In which the eyes are located Is uppermost in all the ac tions of the fish. This upper side, be It right or left, is colored, while the eyeless side is white, or nearly so. The body of the real young flounder rests upright in the water, a fact well known to students of the finny tribes. As the flounder grows older there is a ten dency to tufn to one side, and the lower eye begins its migration to the other side. The movement of the eye In the tropical species is easily fol lowed, as this genus reached a larger size than do most flounders before this change takes place. The larva Is sym metrical, and in all rases transparent. Selecting Talent. The director went out on the lot and bawled for a fat actress. They sent him a fat actress. "Have you a fur coat?" he asked. "Yes," she replied. "1^11 rent it from you for $10 a day," said the director. He then bawled for a fatter actress and went through thf* same line of conversation with her. "What in heck are you driving at T demanded the general manager. **We're (filming a big Alaska scene tomorrow. Our lovely heroine will wear thre<* fur coats ? her own, which fits her, and two on top of that." Hard Luck. Oar pet peeve Is this: After having spent one dull, lonesome week of our ??cation at a farmhouse, to have two "peaches" arrive there on the very same train we are taking back honje. Boston Transcript. GAT F. WAY TO NOI-iTH AMERICA Neolithic M*n Used Columbia River Q^p, in tho Opinion of Unlveretty of Oregon Professor. Neolithic man used the natural high way of tho Columbia river gap In spreading tanlike over tluV North Amor loan continent from the uorth Pacific slopes, ly tho opinion of Di\ KdVVln T. Hodge* professor of urology at-the Uni versity of Oregon. Doctor Hodge's theory was expressed following an In vestigation of tho Albany, Ore., mounds ami tho human remains discovered there. After crossing tho Iterlng straits from Asia, the first races In North America movo<| southward tVoin Alaska explained Doctor lloilge. Those tribes of hunters follow Oil the fertile coastal regions as far south 'as tho Klamath mountains In Oregon. Tho high Sl*kly otis prevented further movement south ward. Following the tasteful salmon, and pressed onward by growing numbers and tho "eastward urge," the ancestors of the Indians found In America by the oxplorers entered the plateaus of Ore gon and Washington, said tho geologist. Then, enticed by the roving herds of hlson which dwelt on tho plateaus, tho Neolithic man gradually moved east ward along the Snake river country of Idaho, thence through the open ranges of Wyoming to the Or oat plains. ICroin here they deployed eastward to all parts of the American continent, Doctor Hodge pictures the paleonto loglCal events which led up to the moot lug of tho white man and Indian In Oregon. "The white man who began to arrive front Europe on the Pacific coast In 1741 had the same origin as the Oregon Indian, but along a differ ent line of descent," he said. "They are brothers, and like brothers they have so treated each other ? one with hospitality and the other with a sensa of superiority and greed." Writing about tho Albany mounds, Doctor Hodge made this statement: "There, Interred, lies the mute evidence of the Story of kindred brothers, separated by a half million years, who finally, In their last sleep, laid down ? lu peace ? together." How to Eat One's Hat. Edgar Homer, whoso death is much regretted In the house, was a great statistician. Some years ago ho pre dicted a 7 per cent dividend In Buenos Aires and Pacific ordinary stock, and when something unexpected led the di rectors to declare a lower rate a num ber of brokers chaffed him unmerci fully as they reminded him of his frequently reiterated promise to eat his hat If 7 i>er cent was not declared* One day he came Into the market and they started to pulling his leg again about eating his hat. Mr. Hom er mounted the bench (where Lord Kitchener stood some twety years be ? fore) and, placing on his head a straw hat, announced he was prepared to eat it. He took a large bite out of the crown. Another jobber made a grab at the hat, which crumbled In his hand. Amid the shouts of laughter there was a scramble for bits of this hat. Mr. Itomer had had It made of some biscuit preparation, the band be ing also edible. ? London Financial Times. New Car Confuses Him. A federal official who is the own er of a new automobile, had the laugh turned on him by his associates when he took his wife for a ride In the new car the other day. Turning on to Boston boulevard from Woodward avenue, he stopped the car In the mid dle of the block to talk with a friend. When he attempted to start the car, he became confused and the cpr wouldn't start. His wife eyed hlrn coldly as a crowd began to gather. A four-year-old girl ran to. the car, and shouted to the peiylexed official : "Take your foot off th(%clutch, mister." The government officer did so, and the car started. Ills wife told the storj, ? Detroit News. News Poacher Out of Luck. McSnoodle never spends a cent un necessarily and prides himself that he has usually been ablo to evolve a way to cut down expenses ai}d In som? cases, do away with them all together, lie has one extravagance. Every evening ? almost every evening ? he buys a paper. McSnoodles's a commuter and ht complains that while in the morning the city bound passengers almost in variably discard their papers, giving him a chance to acquire them, in the evening the reverse prevails. Hence he has to do his own buying. ? New York Sun and Globe. The Latest. A dispatch from Paris, describing the fashion displays at the Auteull races, says : "A one-piece chiffon gown that folds about the body like a cape, leaving one shoulder bare to the sec ond rib and fastened by a single but ton below the waist is popular. It never loses its shape, and can be put on and taken off in twenty seconds." But could the wearer be quick enough to hold it on IB twenty sec onds if that single button suddenly should go out of commission? Safety (pins) first I Cycling in the Society Island*. Civilization on motorcycles is stead ily but slowly penetrating the back Mocks of the Society islands, In ths lower Pacific. g6 far Jho number of motorcycle* employed is rat her small, hut It is Increasing, and despite the tariff preferential. American cycles outnumber all others. Prices snd abili ty to get spars parts fa an import**! factor In tba traOa. ^ J. K. Smoak, who lives seven miles from liamberg, was bitten Sunday night by a small rattlesnake ami re ceived quite a painful injury, though quick work on tin* part of Mr. Smoak possibly saved him from very serious consequences. While handling wood at his wood pile, Mr. Smoak accidentally placed his hand on the snake, which quickly sank its fan^s into his left wrist. The reptile was small, but Mr. Smoak re* sorted to an old time remedy ami im mediately had a chicken killed artd administered the warm flesh to the wound, and after this remained a few minutes 'he repeated the operation with another chickem In each instance Mr, Smoak says, the flesh of the chicken was immediately turned green evidently by the snake's wnom.^llo then came to town and had the wound dressed by a physician. Monday tho arm was severely swollen, but. Mr. SmoaR wstt suffering very little pain, and the worst appeared to have pass ed. The snake was killed.? -liamberg Herald. As the result of a tidal' wave which swept oyer four provinces of Corea, it-It) persons are known to he dead and 1,000 others are missing. Killed Chicken for Snttkc Hit o. After Every Meal Have a packet in your pockot for ever-ready refreshment. Aids digestion. Allays thirst. Soothes the throat. For Quality, Flavor and the Sealed Packagt, get Two fnvnu h wore killed and forty Keven injured by the falling walls of an old brick danoe hall ImildJug i'i Hrooklyn, N. \ early Tuesday mom iU|T> _/v.'.v. A DISCIPLE of Bad Luck is generally a convert to Bad Management. Loan & Savings Bank CAPITAL $100,000.00 4 Per Cent. Paid on Savings Deposits Don't Only Wish to Save But? DO IT! i Building castles in the air ? dreaming of riches, power and affluence is only wast ing time. To accomplish anything worth while, i requires action, and lots of it. Success ia not attained by procrastination, but by dil-j igence and determination. ' The only way to have money, is to $ave money. The time to start is now. No better place can' you make your first de posit than in the First National Bank,^ where every courtesy, assistance and ad vice will be gladly accorded you. NOTICE! I have on hand an ample stock of Nitrate of Soda at an attractive price. F. M. WOOTEN t" Kf-n- 'k -T