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Paroled Man Shot. fjurena, Dec. 31. ? Eva Jones, negro recently paroled by the governor, waa Ihia afternoon shot by Jaaon A. Davis, deputy sheriff, at the Watta mil) vifc ligv. JciJRp realatad arrest, it ia al leged. aftlr cursing the officer whom the negro had accosted on the street it the mill town and waa attempting to use a pocket knife, when Davis fired, according to the officer'* state ment to the sheriff, to whom he sur rendered. Jones was shot through tho ibdomen and is in a serious condition tonight at the county jail. * - ? ' A. R. COLLINS Undertaker and Embalmer AMBULANCE NISKVICK < ? i '".r" .. ? / .J Camden, S. C. Telephone ? Day 41; Night 380 Dr. C. F. Sowell DENTIST (Office. Over Bract's Store) CAMDEN, S. C. DR. G. C. TRANTHAM DENTIST v. . ' i. ? First Floor, Crocker Building PHONE -450 PIANO TUNING Lewis L. Moore 242W PHONE or 156 CAMDEN, S. C. T. B. BRUCE Veterinarian Lyttleton St., Phone 114. CAMDEN, S. C. ... ... . .... DR. R. E. STEVENSON DENTIST Crocker Building Camden, 8. C. COLUMBIA LUMBER & manufacturing co. ? MILL WORK SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AND LUMBER 1 - ! " PLAIN A HUUER STS. Phone 71 COLUMBIA, &.C. ? ROOFING 1 - We have just" received car load of LOCK-TOP ? And SUPER-GIANT ASPHALT SHINGLES ~ *?? V* ? ? - Mako? & Better ' Roof ''T" ' J ~?f- i for Lmi Cost. Mackey Mercantile Company Frequent Headaches "I euffered with chronic that would bring on * ? ?' mm "S . Va did not get relief. The bead tobes became very frequent I Thetiford's BLACK-DRAUGHT and took it for a headache, and, the relief wn very quick, mud it was so long before I had aaother headache. Now I Just keep the Black-Draught, and don t let myself got in that condition/1 Tbedford's Black - Draught Srely vegetable) Has been td to relieve constipation, by stimulating tha action of the liver, when it & torpid, helps to drive many poisons out of your system. BiUoutnc**. Indigestion, headache, and similar troubles art oltaa rettevad in this way. It |s the qyMarsl way. Be natural! Try Kadc-Draught. Sold everywhere. Hermitage Community News. : v Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Cargill and fam ily motored, to Gastonia Saturday and spent the week end. Miss Louise Car gill returned hojne with them after -spendwg? several- daye~there~~with % friend. Mrs. a. J. ftvans spent the Christ mas ? holidays with her mother in Co lumbia. Miss Dessie McLendon is visiting friends in Columbia^ Mr. and Mrs. J. C. David spent the Christmas holidays with the latter's parents ixi Lamar, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Crolley motored up from Jacksonville, Florida, and spent last Friday at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Crolley. Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Trull spent the Christmas holidays with relatives in Columbia. Mr, and Mrs. J. D. Crolley and fam ily spent the Christmas holidays with the former's mother, Mrs. J. A. Crol ley. On Monday night, December 24th, the Hermitage Community association entertained the people of the commun ity with a Christmas tree and open air exercise just outside of the Com munity Rouse. Every child under fourteen years of agg received a pres ent, and each family was presented with a nice basket of luscious fruits and candies. An interesting talk was Xnade by Mr. Rv B; Pitts. ?The- over? seers and office force of the mill pre sented Mr. R.. B. Pitts with a nice suit $ase. They also gave Mr. W. P. Cargill, superintendent of the mill, a nice smoking stand. Mr. Cargill pte sented to each of his overseers a neck tie. The employees of each depart ment of the rfrtill presented their over seer with a nicfe gift. ? Mr: M; R. Reev??,. head of hvm New York Selling Agents, visited Mr. R. B. Pitts during the Christtnas holi-* days. ; Miss Maud Botts spent the Christ mas holidays iat her home" in Abbe ville. Mr. C. H. Zemp spent Christmas with relatives in Charlotte. TAX RETURNS. Office of Auditor Kershaw Oounty v' Camden, S. C., DecembetLlOtJv 1923. Notice is hereby -giveji -thA the Auditor's office will bo opeh for re ceiving Tax Returns from January 1st, 1024, to February 20th, L92*. All persons owning real estate or personal property must make returns of the same within said period, as required by law, or be subject to a penalty of 50 per cent. The Auditor will attend in person or by deputy at the following places in the county on tl\e dates indicated for receiving returns. Bethune, January 14th and loth. Raley's Mill, January 16th. Ned's Creek School House, January 17th. Kirkley'a Store, January 18th. Kershaw, January 21at and 22n<t Weatville, January 23rd. Liberty Hill, January 24th. Lugoff, January 25th. , Rabon's Cross Roads, January 28th. Blaney, Janu^iy. 20th. ? All persons between ?he ages of 21 and 60 years, inclusive, are required to pay roll tax; and all persons be tween, the ages of 21 and SO years in clusive are required to pay a road ta*, unless excused by law. AU Trustees, Guardians, Executors, Administrators or Agents holding property in charge, must return same. Parties sending tax returns by mail must make enrth to sane before seme officer and fid oat Mime in proper manner or they V B. E. SPARROW, County, EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION. Colored I'fopl* K?memb?r Anniver of Their Freedom. On Tuesday, January 1st, ll>24, the United Fraternal, Social and Religious organizations and the colored citizens of Camden and Kershaw County, cel ebrated the sixtieth anniversary of the Emancipation of the American Negro. A large crowd of colored citizens of the county and adjoining counties sembled in the city to witnoss and Barth-ipate in the celebration. The lorris College Band of Sumter, S, C.? had been secured to furnish music for the occasion. The opening feature of the celebration was the grand parade in which all the colored schools were represented as well as different trades and enterprises. The line of parade expended from DeK^lb street to York street as the procession marched down Ma<n street. The manner in which the colored 'peo ple responded to the call was surpris ing as well as commendable. Through the kindness of the Mayor, Hon. H. G. Carrison, and the Members of the City Council, tho Opera House was obtained for the purpose of the piain program. Immediately after the parade tne procession assembled in tho Opera House, which since a long time was packed to its utmost capac ity. The Emancipation Address was delivered by Prof. Edward D. Mickle, of Durham. N. C., who without the aid of manuscript, and without selecting any particular title, delivered one of the motft timely, most practical and most magnificent speeches that a col ored audience of that size has ever had the privilege of hearing in Cam den. The address was so broad in its application that there was not a man, woman or child present who could riot understand and who was not touched by one or more of the, timely illustra tions of which the speaker seemed to possess an Unlimited store. More pleasing than all else, it is remember ed that the speaker is a product of Kershaw county, and of the old Pal metto State. The entire occasion was a grand success, and those who were present could ngt but return to their, homes with hearls filled with thanksgiving, with renewed hope in the future, and with a more resolute determination to make themselves a profitable and in dispensable factor in the Great Nation of which they form a part. The Committee hnd all those who were interested, take this opportunity to thank His Honor the Mayor and the members of the City Council, and the Chief of the Police ajid the other City Officials for the many courtesies extended and for their generous as sistance in maintaining order and pre venting any undue embarassment to the occasion. Respectfully, H. F. McGIRT, Secretary Emancipation Organization. Rev. G. W. McGirt, Chairman of Emancipation Organizatipn. R. H. Haile, Master of Ceremonies. Dr. J: P. Pickett, Marshal of Parade ^Rev. J. W.. Boykin, Chairman Com mittee on Organization. - H A. G. Vfughn. I": :'j J T^ jTft'ihes Alexander. '? / His Life For His Safe. New York, Dec. 81. ? Shot four times by the leader of a bandit trio he defied Bernardo B. Brown, a jew eler here today sacrificed his life to save the contents of his safe. The bandits' automobile, pursued by a fleet of taxicabs and pleasure cars dodged out of a traffic jam and escap ed i r ~~~ ~ Brown told the police he had just opened his shop and thrown open his vault when the men appeared and de manded everythUi^i. .. The jeweler slammed the door of the safe, twirled the dial and confronted the trio. . T$o of them- fled to their automo bile at the curb. Brown struggled with the third crowding toward the door when the bandit got his gun free, pressed it against Brown's stomach and pulled four times. Brown died a fe^r hours Ifcter. . . Carol Dempster a Griffith Product. Misa Carol Dempster, featured plaver in D. W. Griffith productions and to be hqm in a principal rote in the forthcoming presentation of the "White Rose," a United Artists pro duction coming to the Majestic Thea tre today, is a California girl. Al though but a short time in motion picture work she has climbed quickly "to the forefronts MUs Dempster was attending school near Los Angeles and at the time studying the art of classic danc ing under Ruth St. Denis when she HCCUred-tartrfTt p*rt with Mr. Grif fith. She appeared in a small way in s^iherai screen productions and then resumed her schooT work and made no further attempt at motion picture TUNNEL Til KIR WAY OUT. Atlanta Federal Prisoner* Kscape By Underground Channel. Atlanta, Dec. 30, ? Four inmates |>f the United States penitentiary, one tho partner of Gerald Chapman, mil lion dollar mail bandit, who has been at liberty since his escape last March, tunneled thbir way to freedom from the big prison here late today, the i prison warden's office announced. The fugitives are George Anderson, serving a 2f> year sentence for parties ipation in the New York City mail tnu k hold up, for which Chapman was convicted; Hiram Lopper serving 15 years for a federal offense commit ted in Maryland and who recently figured in a sensational escape only to be recaptured in Minneapolis, N. Y., liudwijf Schmidt of Tonawanda, N. Y., sentenced at Rochester, N. Y., to serve1 ten years for mail robbery, and Frank Haynes, sentenced at Knoxvillle, Tcnn., for counterfeiting, Haynes would have completed his term in Feb ruary, but was to be held for Ten nessee authorities on a state charge. The tunnel, barely large enough to admit n ' human body was found to lead from one of the prison tubercu losis tents to a point 60 feet beyond the stone walls surrounding the pris on. Haynes and Lepper, tubercular pa tients, had occupied the tent for some time and Anderson and Schmidt, prison officials said, had no opportun ity to assist in the excavation. It was estimated by officials that three weeks were required for completion of the passage. Anderson, and Schmidt were in > mates of a cell house, but had free dom of tho grounds inside the walls on Sunday. , * Prison officials expressed the belief that -the men were aided- by persons ^outside. Anderson and Chapmqn were lead ers of what postal authorities say was one of the most daring gang of rob bers known to the postal service. Chapman was said to have been the man "who engineered the Leonard street mail robbery in New York, in which more than $1,000,000 in secur ities were taken from a mail truck. Not Quite. ' The Press Man (interviewing noto rious personage recently released from prison) ? "And then shall I say that you walked forth from the grim gates of prison a free man?" The Notoriety ? "No, no, you can't say that. I had the wife with me!" ? London Humorist, The postofflce department is inves tigating the feasibility of delivering mails from Nenane, Alaska, terminus of the government railway, to Fair banks, by airplane instead of dog teams. The dogs cover the distance in twenty days. The estimates are that the flying machines will cover the distiancq with the mails in four : ?' *0 .?'? - ? ? hours. . li . . ~ Lieutenant Osborne C. Wood, son of 'Governor General Wood of the Phili pines, is said to have gotten between $700,000 ipid $?00,000 recently through oil Speculation in Wall street. It is said that tips were furnished to him by WJall street brokers. Over the Hills to The I*oe House. Oncc upon a midnight dreary, as I ? *<ftta?dered, weak and weary. Many jingling, hard earned dollais in pursuit of poker lore-*? As I drew them, always staying, fondly hoping, vainly praying, All the boys to me kept saying, "It won't help you to get sore." "Such infernal luck," I muttered, "is enough to make me sore; ? I don't mean, perhaps or maybe, for such luck's a frightful bore ? I will try it just once more." I was dealt four lovely aces, and I scanncd those players' faces With a wild, exultant feeling I had never known before. High and higher yet I raised 'em; not a whit my betting "fazed" 'em Till at last I loudly praised 'em, though I thought their judgment poor. They have lots of nerve, I granted, but their judgment's mighty poor, Or they have the combination to sonic banker's secret door. This I thought and nothing more. Hut at last they sadly quit me, all but one who then. did twit me As a mercenary gambler of the saintly days of yore. They all quit except this slicker ? him whose wits and speech were thicker - Than a prohi in his liquor? liquor from his hidden store. 'Tis a mysto|y, I pondered, why they cannot find that stor^ ? - Why the law enforcement brothers do not look the prohis o'er. But they do and "take one more." Here I bet my bottom dollar, my cra vat and then my collar, If it's tree tfie poor are blesaed, tfcen I'm btest far<?vennore. Ah, I painfully remember it was in this same December That the gusxling, crafty member of the party drtltd my four ? That the- nwmbcr from Atlanta g&ltefr my torely set of four, And then showed.. * 111 straight. Hush as I swooned upon the floor. 111 play poker ? Nevermore! - ... : J ' '* ? ? ? ?*. ?? JIJIMJK 18 UNUU'K MAN, Jud|(e II. H. Wntkinn 1h (iiven To I'lain Speech. . ? _ ? Judge H. II. Watkins of the United ? """ S) State# district court, is one of the most intorcatiiig men who ever nut on the bench in South Carolina.1 If his % ork culled him to New York or Chi cago where reporters of the great daily papers could watch him, he would soon become famous as was over Judge Koimesaw Mountain Lan dis, but in a vastly different way, for there. )? nothing eccentric in J iuIk*" Watkin's mako-up. He >s interesting because he is original, and because he is very human, Me does not attempt to mask his feeling#, ami to sit in t\ court room and watch hit* emotions play over his countenance and hear him express his convictions in his own striking way is as good on going to any moving picture show, lie can be stern and just and again merciful, and again sarcastic or riotously funny, us may suit the occasion. Kor instance: One day, during the term of his court in Spartanburg last week, a man plead guflty to the charge of violating the national prohibition laws and asked for mercy. "Well, you deserve some credit for telling the truth about it," he Baid, "but isn't this about the third time you have been before me?" "But I wasn't convicted before," replied the man. "That's true," said the Judge. "Hut juries sometimes do strange things. Ndw, how long has it been since you havo been drinking?" "Why, a long time," said the man, "maybe two or three months." "Um," mused Judge Watkins. once heard a man at Kock Hill say that a woman could smell mean corn whiskey liquor for forty-eight hours, but 1 had. no idea that a man could smell two or three months. I had no idea such moan liquor was made in Spartanburg county. It .is a wicked breath you have this morning, and if the stuff smells so loud i?fter two or three months I wonder what it smelled like at the time you wore drinking it. Turn your head the other way." Another defendant, lihowistt plml inu guilty to violating the prohibition laws, asked for mercy on the ground thut he whs needed at home. "I doubt that statement," said Judge Watkins severely. "I believe yuur home would be better off without you. Hut I'm going to let you pay a tine, rather than' send you to prison,, us 1 probably should do, but for a ple? thut your young won mude to me this momitvg.'k The boy, a lad apparently 16 or 10 years old, was sitting in the court room, and Judge Watklna called him to the bench and put hia arm around him. vtThis boy came to me this morning before court opened and made a plea in your behalf ," he said. "Thtd is a fine boy. He has the p^ak ings of a tine man in him. He deserves to have a good home and a good fa ther. And 1 am going to let you off without a prison sentence, not on your account but on account of this boy. (Jo home with him and behave your solf, and be a good father to him. You may pay a fine this time, but I warn you, that if you ever como bo-* fore me again on a liquor charge 1 will give you the limit of a prison sentence, which is five years. And don't you forget it." One day, while court was in session he saw a newspaper man in the court room and beckoned to him. "You are connected with tho Carolina Citizen, are you not?" he asked, and when the newspaper man entered a plea of guilty, he continued, "Well, I have seen several copies of that paper and 1 like it. I want you to have it aent to "me." And he dug down beneath his judicial robe and into his breeches pocket and fished up twp dollars. ? Carolina Citizen. Miss Virginia Hooter, absent from Columbia since November 2, returned i-cr-ffohrmbin rarly Monday morning and, went direct to the home of her parents in Wales Gardens, The par ents had no advance word that she was returning, being taken entirely by surprise when the door bell rang. Miss Boozer came from Jacksonville where she had worked in a department store since her departure from Columbia. SHOES REPAIRED r ? ? 0 ??? ;? ' WE HAVE A COMPLETE SHOE REPAIRING OUT FIT IN REAR OF OUR STORE, WHERE WORK IS DONE PROMPTLY AND" SATISFACTORILY. LOMANSKY BROS. .. > *. * j .? We will sell you new shoe* or' fix your old ones. Our regular member* are getting their cleaning, re pairing and altering all for $1.50 per month ? a suit a week. We want only ten more. Who will be the first? All Clothes Sterilized and Pressed By Steam. CITY PRESSING CLUB Phone 145 E. C. BRUTON, Prop. 833 DeKalb HUDSON ESSEX F. V. ALLEN SALES Phone 298 SERVICE s ** DeKalb Street . Camden , S. C. B. G. SANDERS T. K. TROTTER NOTWITHSTANDING THE BIG ADVANCE IN CAMDEN REAL ESTATE, WE ARE OFFERING SOME FANCY LOTS ON NORTH MAIN STREET, NEAR GOLF LINKS, FOR LESS THAN LAST YEAR'S PRICES, AND ON EASY TERMS.