The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 31, 1923, Image 8

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BOOKS TO BE I'SKD. By Pupil* of Charlotte Ihoinpson School in Dixtrirt T*o. The Charlotte Thomp?<m School \y!!l begin at K:4?> a. m. Monday,' Sept em her 1 7th. Pupil* of the grades below the h^if h school are expected to bring ' their text books, pencils ah<| piper to j school the first day. Pupil* of the high ' ?Chool must be sure of their classifica- j tion before buying their text books. I The office of the superintendent of the ! aehool will open Friday, Septem ber 1 4th, from 9 *?? m. to nooh, And from <J p. m to 4 p. m. for the purpose of 'classification of high school pupils. All . pupils who will U: in h.igH ?0l thin session must report on this day to be classified according to grades. All pupils, whether grammar or high school, who failed yn one subject in their grade last year must present ^satisfactory evidence to Jhe Mjiwrin tendent oh Friday, September 1 1th, of having successfully made-op^he work during the .summer, otherwise they will have to take an examination in that subject on the opening day of school. Pupils who failed on two. sub jects must take their grade over. Promotion cards must l>e brought to school on the opening day. Attention in called to the fact that every pupil must be vaccinated before entering school. This is absolutely necessary for the health of the others. Those. who enter the high school from outside the school district must brinj: a statement of the work com-; pleted by them in the high school which they last attended when they come for classification on the 14th. First Grade?The pupils entering this grade will wait until first day of school and get list from teachers. Second Grade? Child's World Sec ond Header; Arnold's Mastery of Words Book 1; Morey's Little Folks Number Book; Industrial Arts Text books; Shorter Course Book 1. Third Grade ? ^Child's World Third Reader; Arnold's Mastery of Words Book 1; Bobbins and Bow's Work and Play with Language; Smith's Modern Primary Arithmetic; Industrial Arts Textbooks; Shorter Course Book 2. Fourth Header; Arnold's Mastery of Fourth Grades-Child's World Fourth Header; Arnold's Mastery of Words Book 1; Studies in English, Book 1 ; Smith's Modern Primary Arithmetic; Brigham and McFar lane's Essentials of Geography, Bo'ok 1; Emerson and Betts Hygiene and Health Book 1; Industrial Arts Text books, Shorter Course, Book 2. Fifth Grade ? Child's World Fifth Reader; Arnold's Mastery of Words, Book 1; Studies in English, Book 1; Smith's Modern Advanced Arithma tic; Estill's Beginners History of. Our Country; Brigham and McFarlane's Essentials of Geography, Book 1; In dustrial Arts Te.xtbooks, Shorter Course Book U. Ssxth Gradt ? New El son Header, Book Six; Arnold's Mastery of Word's, Book 2\ K ina rd and Withers English language Hook f] Smith's Modern Advanced Arithmetic; Simm*' History of South Carolina, Revised Kditicm of 1922; Hrigham and Mc Failane'* Essentials of Geography, j Hook 2: Industrial Arts Textbooka, Shorter Course, Hook 3. Seventh Grade? New Elson Reader, ! Book Seven; Arnold's Mastery of} WOrds, Hook 2; Kinard and Withers , English Language Hook 2; Smith's. M<*iern Advanced Arithmetic;' Thompson's History of United State*; Hrighanri A: McFarlane's Essentials of j Geography, Hook 2; McCarthy, Swan McMullin's Elementary Civics; In*j dust i ril Arts Textbooks, Shorter ; Course, Hook J, IIIGH SCHOOL. Eighth Grade. ? West's Short His | tory of Early Peoples; Hughes' Com- i nrcwnity (?ivics; Ward's Sentence and lli' ini ; Stone's Mills' Arithmetic, i High School; Wells' Algebra (Com* I plete > :? ?< 'aid well & Eikenberry's Ele ments of General Science, Revised. Ninth Grade. ? Lewis & Hosic'i Practical English for High Schools; Wells' Algebra for Secondary Schools, (comple'te) ; ' Smallwood, Revely & Haily's Hiology for High Schools; Chamberlain's Physical, Economic, Regional Geography. Tenth Grade. ? -Wells' New Plane Geometry; Chardenal's Complete Course in French j 'Lewis . & Hosic's Practical English for High Schools; West's Modern World, Eleventh Grade, ? Ward's Theme Huilding; Stephenson's American His tory; Chardenal's Complete Course in French; Wells' Algebra for Secondary Schools (complete). Note: Those entering the eleventh grade who have a copy of Wells' Al gebra, Part I, can purchase Wells' Al gebra Part 11. Pupils entering the eighth oV ninth grades must get Wells' Algebra for Secondary Schools, com plete.;, X. M. Huckabee, Supt. Benefit Haseball Game. The Hermitage baseball team will play the Darlington team at the local ball park Saturday afternoon at -i o'clock. This game will be for the benefit of the Camden Hospital; the Hermitage team having agreed to turn over to the Hospital the entire receipts from the game. The adver tising, selling of tickets, etc., will be in the hands of committee of the hos pital.. This contest will be between two of the strongest mill teams in this sec tion. On previous occasion Hermi tage has defeated Darlington by :? score of 7 to 0, but it is Understood that both teams are strengthening for the coming game. The season has been most successful for the Hermit age team, as they have lost only two \ games the entire season, one of them being the first game played and before their team was organized, and the second game lost having been called on account of rain before the game was completed. A most interesting game of base ball is promised, and thuee attending will not only contribute to a very [ worthy cause of the Camden Hospital but will hIJso see a most interesting and exciting game of baseball. Some of Hermitage champion team several j years ago will be in the line up, in cluding Crolley, Dodgin, Munn, Sul livan and others. E. 1. Keurdon, secretary of the Cam- j den and Kershaw County Chamber of J I Commerce., lias been appointed by I W. K. Timmons, president of the .'..tali ( ' i* i olina Commercial Secreta ins' Association to be in charge of the Fifth Congressional District of j South Carolina in the matter of attendance of commercial secretaries} an<l other delegates to the big state- \ wide meeting in' Columbia on Septem ber 13th to discuss plans for raiding ; one hundred thousand dollars to ad- j vertlse South Carolina throughout the j world. The Fifth Congressional l>is- j trict is composed of the counties of j Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Fair- j field, Kershaw, Lancaster and York. j The annual meeting of the South | Carolina Commercial Secretaries As- ? sociation will convene in Columbia, at 0:30 the evening of September the eleventh, and the secretaries will re main in Columbia until after the State- wide meeting of September the thirteenth as Governor McLeod put it squarely up to the commercial sec retaries to get the crowd out and "stepping on the gas" for this big meeting. Secretary Reardon has mailed out hundreds of letters today? to secreta ries, mayors, county supervisors and county commissioners and the president? of commercial organisa tions asking their cooperation in get ting out delegations from their coun ties. County legislative de, legations are urged to give their cooperation also. Gasoline bootleggers are operating on the outskirts of Los Angeles, Cali fornia. The bootlegger buys casing head gasoline at the oil fields close by at nine and ten cents a gallon. It is then either blended with benzine oi kerosene or sold straight. The result is a wild and dangerous fuel, causing 'the motor to back fire and overheat. Trout are dynamited in Alaskan | waters in an effort to rid the streams i of them as they destroy salmon eggs, j SIX PKOPLK DROWNED. When Auto Goci Through Open Draw On Waccaniu* River. j Conway, S. C., Aug. 2#.? Six pir- j sons were drowned shortly after mid night last night when an automobik* in which they were returning from Myrtle Reach, where they ha<i been '? pi-miin;; the divy, -plunged through a partly opened drawbridge over thuj Waccamaw river, near her*. One! member of the party o f aaVen ea- ! caped. The bodies of Ave of the drowned had been recovered today. The dead are: Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Culipper, of Conway, and their th^ee children, Elizabeth, eight years old; Gertrude, four; and. J. G... two, and Mrs. Marvin Conner, of Conway. Mar vin Conner, wlio also was in the car, managed to extricate himself after it I struck the water' and .swam to gafety. j A (Coroner's jury wax empaneled j this afternoon; and after hearing evi dence indicating that the bridge might ? have been opened mnliciously, ad- j journed until September 6th. Evidence j <^t the inquest today was that an au- j itomobile that passed the Culliper car | shortly before it reached the bridge ! had speeded up. It wps indicated that i officials wanted to investigate a the- 1 orv that the bridge had been opened , by persons in the escaping car to pre- 1 Vent or delay pursuit. Marvin Conner, who escaped, was ! driving the car at the time. Divers were sent to the scene im- j mediately after the accident. They ; son recovered the bodies of the mehi- ' bers of the Culipper family, but late j today had not recovered that of Mrs. j Conner. The search was being con tinued in eighteen feet of water this, afternoon! Grappling hooks also were used. The manner in which the bridge was opened still was. unexplained today. Perry Quattlebaum who has charge of J opening and closing the bridge, testi- < tied at the inquest today that the drawbridge had not been opened since 1 last Monday morning, when the ? steamer Malone passed through it. ! He also testified that the bridge usual- j ly is fastened with a chain at one end i but that the chain had no lock on it. ? Movie picture operators of New York city have notified their employes that they jvill not renew their present contracts on September 1st unless they are granted an increase of 25 per cent in wages. Four hundred and fifty movie theatres are facing a close down unless the advance is agreed to. Service# at Methodist Church.' Kev, W, H. H has retuurned from his vacation and there will be the usual morning and evening ser vices at the Methodist church Sunday ? morning at 11:15 o'clock, and even ing at 8:30 o'clock. j ? ' ? ' ? ^ * Humphries-!j>tuhbs. Dillon, Aug. 26. ? A marriage of in terest to many friends and relatives both in Dillon and Suirtter was that of Miss Ethel Humphries and Dewey Stubbs, which took place Tuesday evening, August 14. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Nlrs. J, C. Hum phries of Sumter and has been ste nographer in the law office of Col. G. G. McLaurin for the psist year. The bridegroom is a .son of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Stubbs of Dillon and is in the real estate business with his father. The happy couple left immediately after the ceremony for a short trip und on their return Will be at' home in Dillon. The bride was born and reared in Kershaw county, her parents having moved to Sumter when she was quite young, and the above announcement will be of interest to friends and rel atives in this county. AN ORDINANCE Declaring the Result of an Election on the Question of a Bond Issue of the City of Camden, South Carolina, for the Purpose of Paving Streets and Sidewalks of the City of Cam den, South Carolina. * State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, City Council of Camden. Be it ordained by the City Council of Camden. South Carolina, and by the authority of the same, that the election held in the City of Camden, South Carolina, on Tuesday, the 14th day of August, 1923, on the question of issuing. coupon bonds of the City of Camden, South Carolina , to the amount of Eighty-five Thousand Dol lars ($85,000.00), bearing- interest at the r$te {lot exceeding five per per annum, payable semi-annually; uny legal tender of -the United Sti forty (40) years after date, with! privilege of redemption twenty (1 years after date, for the purpouj paving streets and sidewalks of I City of Camden, South Carolina, * duly held with the result that * bond issue was carried. The maj?j| of electors at said election voting the said issue of bonds, there bn seventy-eight votes for said bond | sue, and twenty-one votes against 4 bond issue. ^ Ratified in Council assembled i 16th day of August, li?l!3. H. G. CARRISON, JR., >iaJ Attest 1 H. C. Singleton, Clerk. i AN ORDINANCE Declaring the Result of an Eltttj on the Question of a Bond I&iiki the City of Camden, South Carofc for the Purpose of Extending tl Sewerage of the City of CaaU South Carolfna. 1 State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, City Council of Camden. Be it ordained by the City Cota of Camden, South Carolina, and the authority of the same, that j election held in the City of Camj South Carolina, on Tuesday, the U day of August, 1923, on the querii of issuing coupon bonds of the City Camden, South Carolina , to j amount of Ten Thousand DoH ($10,000.00), bearing interest at I rate not exceeding five per ca per annum, payable semi-annually any legal tender of the United Sty forty (40) years after date, with! privilege of redemption twenty (j years after date, for the purpose extending the sewerage of the City Camden.* South Carolina, was di held with the result that said bondi sue was carried. The majority! electors at said election voting fori said issue of bonds, there being nisi votes for said bond issue, and sen votes against said bond issue. Ratified in Council assembled tH 16th dav of August, 1923. H.'G. GARRISON, JR., Mayer Attest | II. C. Singleton, Clerk. bathing caps N r\v Rubber, many shaped, attractive colors, 50e each. Baih Sprays for' the tub shower, Mosquitone, relieves the stin# from mosqujtoes im. mediately ???? 25c. Sweet Dreams, keeps mosquitoes away, per bottle 35c. Mcntholatum. relieves sunburn, 25c, in handy tubes! G. E. FANS, k cep comfortable. $15,00 to $30.00 W. ROBIN ZEMP*S DRUG STORE PHONE 30 COME TO SUMTER To Sell Your Farm Products - To Do Your Trading - To Do Your Banking ATTRACTIONS WERE NEVER MORE INTERESTING! INDUCEMENTS WERE NEVER SO GREAT! ' oc Uj H D CO 2 > D CQ PAVED HIGHWAYS Ten paved highways lead into Sumter from al! direction*. A business or pleasure trip to the (ianip Cock City now means a pleasant and comfortable ride at all time* of the year. These fi n?.? roads are a big saving in your time as well as your comfort and bring Sumter much nearer to you. READY MARKET FOR FARM PRODUCTS 'l?o dairies and a large ice cream manufacturing plant pay highest cash pricen and will take care of all milk products. The Sumter Canning Company has brought pros perity to the truck growers of this section. We have a progressive tobacco market,, operating both independent and co-operative warehouses. Sumter offers a ready market for all kinds of farm products. STRONG BANKS Sumjer is noted for the progressiveness and strength of its banking institutions. Their position has never e>en been threatened during the past three years of depression. Yoar money is always safe in Sumter banks. You will receive the most efficient financial service at all times. HIGH CLASS RETAIL STORES Sumter is the mercantile heart of a wide trading tt?rritory. Complete stocks, 'quality merchandise, courteous service and biggest values are always to be found among these live retail store*. Sumter merchants are leaders in their lines. This fall stocks are bigger and better than ever before. You will find shopping here a real treat. FARM MACHINERY The farmer will find in Sumter everything he might want in farm equipment. This is headquarters for farm and lumber mill machinery, buggies, wagons, harness and everything needed on the farm. Well equipped repair shops can take care of your work on short notice. AMUSEMENT IN PLENTY Sumter has (wo modern high class moving picture theatres and has the distinction of showing first run pictures before any other city in the State. All the big feature pictures come to Sumter and all Sumter praises the two moving picture theatres. During the season, the best road shows on tour make this city a stopping place. A WHOLESALE CENTER Sumter has seven large wholesale houses that supply all surrounding territory. Pay them a visit and give them your order while in town. Retail merchants anywhere will find it profitable to buy from Sumter. FAMOUS COTTON MARKET Sumter has always been noted as a cotton market and a cotton center, and it is still building its reputation in this respect. FTere, King Cotton reigns supreme. Bring your cotton to the best market and receive best prices. EVERYTHING FOR THE MOTORIST If its service the car owner wants he will find it in Sumter, at the many up-to-date stations, the modern (.aragcs, the live car dealers and accessory stores. Everything from a nut to a seven passenger car. Large stock of parts and accessories will save your time. FINE HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, REFRESHMENTS X Sumter has two modern Hotels that would be a cr?3it to any city. You will enjoy being a guest at either one. Sumter has six well managed restaurants, supplying good things to eat, cooked right and served right at |he most moderate prices. Elaborate fountains serving delicious drinks will be found here a plenty. ? C/3 P F 2 H S All Sumter Welcomes You! The Gamecock City Invites You to Visit it Early and Often The Sumter Board of Trade, two farm agents and a home demonstration agent are at your service. Information and assistance of every possible nature will k cheerfully given. Offices at the Board of Trade Rooms, City Hall, Second Floor. BANK I N S U M T E R