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lilt CAMDEN CHRONICLE It. I). NIlsKS Kditor and 1'ulilUher Published every Friday at No. 1100 15m. it. I .-.t l i e ? .Hid t m 1 1 1 i i * i at tho Cam den, South Carolina poato&iea as second class mail matter. Price per annum $2,00.' Camden, 8. Friday, Jan. 11, 1924. Virginia, Minnesota, wher? (he ther mo meter rejpatarod 39 <)<>:? < ? ? ? -i below *?ro Saturday night, was probably the coldest place in I lit* United States. Mankato, Minnesota, inputted ?'18 de grees I). It. v. , hmiI (Jordon, Nebraska, reported 8# degrceK below, and Gor (Ion, Nebraska, reported .'17 degrees. More than a doy.en deal lis we re re ported from different pa lis aX?^Ho country Sunday morning from wnat is the coldcHt .?nap thai has .occurred since the winier of 1918. The ndrth central part of the country nuffertd most from the cold; but it extended pi act u ally I ?? all paYU* Of tho country down, through Texan to. Mexico, to the Gulf, along Hie whole coast and far down into Florida. The weather bu rcau on .Saturday night predicted a continuance of the cold, with some moderation during the early part of the week. The Croat take's ronton 11 cjovert'd with deep snow*. ljangor, Maine, January 1: ShcrfifF Kdmund. NV. Grant, of A roustook coun ty and VV il h? ?<1 S I, cum, a Houlton . attorney, wore convicted by a federal jury to<lay of conspiracy to defeat the enforcement of the national prohibi tion laws and wore sentenced to .serve two years uhch in the federal prison at Atlanta. Molli filed exceptions and provided i.aU. CharlCs K. Calvin of Ho.u!t<>n test ? i ! '* i that h<\ in partner ship with Kicha.d Vcreker of Iloulton, had paid (Jtaiu . and Luwin a oionih mm nt*-i?oee ttH>nop"ly of the liquor trade in 1 ioulion. In ndditioh I ll ( A' W'J 11 . 7 ' ? i ?/ CC&wWC* 1 1 cl-i C A ? I nfs" he said. Dying the life of the agreement he testified the sheriff was to notify hi;;: in advance when a raid was contemplate!. Finally the two. fell that- the prk^ svhm becoming " hu enson. v than the tra/fic would bear" and r< -pud. in ted it, he said. Cak :n' testified he had once served a revni n HouPon jail, "jwst in oblige the Kherilf" v.iio hud told him t hai people We.'c king" In .an e he Cal vin) War. not in ja'd. " i \n.3thl . ?x.t ii?ji aii.i: a tUoilg the movie peepie of l,v- Angeles. 11. A. Crier, alia- Ju.- Kellev, chauffeur for Mil hoi Nor man d , shot ('ourtland Dines an oil operator, while Dines was en - tt running Mi-.,. N'o.rmand and Miss Kdna Puisiapr" in (he apartment <>f I"> ? ? . i ? H u i i . Now Vi'Jti party and ?he '? i there was gome whed.ey, bu? r.a'.hing like. .an orgie. Kelh y ?>> (J riot i nru al ter Mis:# Nor maml. J-T.e was hesitating about go ing . Minos was persuading lur to -ta.v an.?i (irier was insisting that she J70 It wns then that finer pulled his pistol and shot Dines thiee times, striking him in the lungs one time, (irier drove to the police station and surrendered He said that Dines had theati uod to hit him with a bottle and fired to save himself from serious bodily I. a: i.i. At the hospital Dines said that he made no motion to as -atilt Kelly;' that Kelly fired without warnmg. Dine.- has developed a mild ? ase of pneumonia; but his rase is not rvgardid as iiitiial. The police havo suggested t hiit (.irier was jealous. Miss Normaiid .says that Cirier was only a ser\ it:' and had no cause to think of ifalit; \ Miss I'nrviniKo, Mis> Nuiiuaiui's friend. claims to be * nvjatf?*d t<? marrj Dines Dines has not ennt1 '??n"d the < 'aim. Miss Nor mand i.- ii. a ho. p.tai ; him nervous brcakdt un. fh" ph>>t?iMO> -?mv. it is also said that .she had l>>?d ;> ;>p pointrrent to go to the hospital Wed nesday to undergo an <.p?iation for appendant ? ? Miss Nni ivan.l was the last prison to be seen at the home of J William Desmond Tayho, the night before his dead bod\ w.tv found in h;^ heme Mime time ago. t Sam Shap.ro, naturalized Aim-man citizen, who came here from Russia ten year* ago, was arraigned in .? N'rw *i ork court Friday for "pan handling." Hi* said lu- had not hit a tap of work >incr arriving and had made a ^ood living begging from (food natured Amcnianx Hi- w;t; k'iven U-n days in the workhouse Thi- jfovoi nment ol' i'oiand is de manding an apology from the United States government a*. t result of j interference with diplomatic immuni- : tics growing out of the raids of pro- ! hiblMon officers when the residence of I)r Venceslaa 8okolow.sk i. sec- rotary of | tho Polish legAtlon. was searched by [ officers in Washington last week and ! some whiskey found. Six persona, one a woman, were killed near Franklyn, Pa., Tuesday by the premature explosion of nitrogly cerine being prepared for the shooting of an oil well. CiBNKKAI. NKWS N<yfKS During thd wick of Christmas to Nuw Year's there were eleven deaths in New York city from pois6n liquor. During the same period there were l&H admissions to ISclleview hospital of alcoholics and of thin number 30 were women* A. H. (Jleason, noted war corres pondent <luring the World war and for a number of years associate editor of Collier's Weekly, died in Washington Monday, feged yvift The lynching of a man who looted a church near Ayc/zano, is reported from the Cel'anp district of Italy. The thief carried away a cjuftnllt y of the sacred relics y6f the church* The sh< rill' of Fayette county, l'a., on Monday destroyed 100 illicit, stills that had tasen seized hy him during the past year, A steam roller was n ed for -mashing the hootch mills, Five survivojs of Norwegian steam ship Kuna, wrecked olf the coast of North Carolina on December U>, were landed at Philadelphia last Sunday by die steamship W. W. Mills. During December government pro hibit ion enforcement officials seized and destroyed property worth more than $<'17,000. The seizures included 10 automobiles. Five negro children of one family died i?i KeW Orleans from tetanus (lockjaw) during the holidays. The poison was contracted from a pistol cap. William Cameron and three of his children were burned to death when fire destroyed their home near Abse con, N. J.. Tuesday morning, West morela nil county, Fa., had 10 murders itt 1023. There were 25 suicides hi the county during the year and 71 others died in mine accidents. Alcohol was responsible for 15 deaths, an^nmotTitr.T-TiTnk n toll of T>", victim^ and the railroads 48. More than $00,000,000 worth of dia monds, pearls, 'rubies and other prec ious stones have been shipped to Am erica by Lor Ion dealers within the past four yea .s, due to the high aver aK;" of American pj osperitj* during thai period Sayings From Carolina Citizen. Yes,, a ..v. lf: made man is usually very crude. The government teaching thrift, V?u.t doesn't. practice it. Many a man has started something which has finished him. if nations liail to pay rash for their wars/there would he enduring peace. A woman may talk like a book, but you can't shut her up when you want to. Isn't it a b le?s in# that we don't, l ave to exchange ^iTtr on New Year's i >ay ? . 'Sjfunn.v, but some children are 'never still unless they are at the movies. There is hope for a boy until he begins to comment on his father's' ig norance. Another sign of returning sanity is the big cut in the salaries of moving picture actors. Ami now the west is astonished at fhe things that happen in the wild and wooly east. There is no place like home ? when the neighbor's children come over to spend the. afternoon. Here is something else to laugh about. A Britisher says Americans have nt> sense of humor. Some people who have nothing else U> do are trying to keep up with the newest revolution in Mexico. There is a man here in town who has had the same cook for more than t!iu ty years. He married her. Another aid to longevity is to rec ognize the fact that a train has the ught of way at a grade crossing. A roviTmnent roper! says it costs more to live now than ten years ago. Hut we are living so much faster. A - my engineers announced two months ago that the White House is unsafe but Coolidge hasn't resigned. It won't be long now until some ? hap will be telling you how his f'i*. nd.- are urging h:m to run for of !i . Tin* saxophone wa> imented by a ; IV:^;nn And yet most of us sympa | thized with Helium during thi* World ! War. Another mean man we know keeps j ins safety razor locked up, and his wife has nothing to sharpen a pencil with. There ale said to be 1 l,lO0,000 tele phones in the United States, and at last accounts most of the lines were busy. Another trouble with the fashion able world is that it thinks that a man who eats with his knife cannot t>e a Christian. There was once a man who Kot the last word in an argument with a wo man. He waited until she had gone to sleep An angry woman told her husband the other day, 'If it wasn't for mc you would be the biggest fool in town." And she couldn't understand I why he laughed. " . NKCKO BARHEK LEAVES "ESTATE Whitener, of Laurena, by Frugility < Accumulated Much Property. Laurens, Jan. 2. ? Will Whiten*;)'., negro, barber, why recently died at hi* home in Laurens, left an estate variously estimated at $20,000 to $35, 000 This is not a large fortune, but when it is considered that Whitener, through industry and sheer frugality, ?AV?4 out of his daily fees as a pro prietor of a barber shop in a town the ?i'/p of Laurens, more than $18,000 in msh, now on deposit in the different I/auks here, and from the name sou rcr of revenue had accumulated realty and other property values of an equal v aim , the story of hif success takes on added interest. And it is under stood thut there are no claims against the estate, \vhieh is another point somewhat out o fthe ordinary, com pared with the average estate that cornea up for settlement these days. Whitoner came to Laurens U8 years ago from Newberry and formed a partnership with another negro bar ber and opened a shop. Those who were familiar with his system of run ning bin shop say that Whitener ai the end of each week set aside the rent money, paid other expenses and if any thing remained out of the week's revenue it was deposited in the bank. It was the saving habit that made Whitener independent. Meantime, he educated two of his own children and sent two other members of his race to college, ^it is related. In addition to his savings, it is understood that a daughter carried a policy for $5,000 on the life of Whitener. The board of appraisers, named by the executor of the will, has not fin ished its work. A Remarkable Coincidence. A five ye nr old white bov was rnn over and killed by a car driven by a negro in Florence on Christmas day. It is a coincidence that the little boy's nanie was Joe Dens; his -father is Joe Deas, and the negro who killed him is .Joe Deas. The verdict of tin- coroner's jury was that *M?e Deas, Jr., came to his de.^.th -a:; h result pf reckless, careless :.m<! unlawfu driving oil llie part of one Joe Dcajs, colored." 'J lit L:?gro escaped. While officers were trying to catch him their car collided with another car and several t?: ? >p'e v.e.e painfully injured. One little boy, Will Byrd, Jr., of Augusta, <; 5 Tvs 1< g hrokuu The negro was later captured in FiQieme county, whej'e he was in h lei - :ng. He tfnve as. his reason for not su i !"? nde ring that he feared he would f?e lynched. Kiiw.'ird Cole and Jimmy Clark, con . i-iv, r '.'nic their escape from the Ne ? ada - ate prison Monday in one of Ihc prison automobiles. HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS PE NEW PAH50N STAHTED OUT T' CREASE t>E MEMBUH5HIP O' NEW Z.IOM CHO'<CH , EN HE SHO STARTED RIGHT-* HE M At>E t>ENA 'LtBEN HA~lt> O' CHILLUM O' H15N JIN E PE Fu $' THING.1.' ?C??yF,|ht J91X Oy McClu'? N???o?W SyrvJInHl Editor of The Chronicle: Your last issue, contained a lettr^ from aonio motor driver mating that it was not necessary to indicate a right hand turn with the hand. I cannot agree with him. ? The following Mignal.s are in com mon use: The hand extended, all fingers show ing marks a right hand turn, slow down or stop. The hand extended) in dex finger only showing, indicates a left hand turn. The hand extended with the palm held backward means that the driver intends to back. These signals are used whether the car has a left or right hand drive. The left hand in the former case and th^ right hand in the latter. The object ft* in dicating a right turn is to warn the j following car that the one ahead is about to slow down so as to make the i turn. There is also another thing to re- | au'M her. All vchielcs shall give the ] right of way to other vehicles ap preaching at intersecting highways : from the right and shall have the right of way over those approaching from the left, Also that whenever traffic officers are stationed, they shall have full power to . regulate traffic irrespective of the foregoing. Another Driver. * The government closed its financial books for the year on December 31, with a record of having received $1,164,905,600, almost half a billion dollars more than was paid into the I *> -V treasury in the calendar year 1922. Its expenditures were $3,888,0611,082, leaving a net balance of $270,842,518. Wants-For Sale FOR KENT? A good four horse farm, j eight miles north of Camden. Plen ty of good buildings, wood and pas i ture. Near school. Apply to Mrs. R. W. White, Camden, S. C. 41sb You need good Ham and Breakfast i Hacon. We have it for you, fresh and , I fine. Prices reasonable. Standard | Grocery Co., 538 DeKalb St. 40-41 FOR RENT? Two rooms furnished or unfurnished. Apply 50(5 Chestnut !. street, Camden, S. C. llsb How about your fresh , vegetables ? We can supply you. The more you use, the better you'll like them. Stan dard Grocery Co., 538 DeKalb St. 40-41 - CALL The Ever Ready Pressing Club for cleaning, pressing, altering and repairs. Phone 159-J. Prompt ser | vice, reasonable price. J. S. Gam 1 ble, Proprietor, 859 Broad Street, Camden. S. C. 38tf When in need of anything in the line of groceries, Call 137. There you'll get the best. We want your business. Standard Grocery Co., '538 'DeKalb St.. 40-41 FOR SALE ? Or. will trade for Ford one ton truck, Ford touring ear in good mechanical shape. Address C. B. Spradley, J 218 Broad Street, Camden, S. C. 11 pd Nv ANTED ? To hire a lady's bicycle for season. Apply care of Mrs. R. Gault. North Broad Street, Cam den, S. C. 40-41pd WANTED ? One competent lady book keeper and cashier, single or mar ried. Apply to Karesh's Grocery Store, Camden, S. C. WANTED ? Men or women to take orders for genuine guaranteed hos iery for men, women and children; eliminates darning. Salary, $75 a week full time; $1.50 an hour spare time. Cottons, heathers, silks. In ternational Stocking Mills, Norri's town, Pa. 1 41-50at> .Yes, we have nice goods for lunch- | eon. Cream cheese, native and import- | ed, Saltines, Beach Nut Gingerale. ! Standard Giocery Co., 538 DeKalb St. I 40-11 ! We have a large variety of soup. You'll find what you want here at price to suit. Standard Grocery Co., 538 DeKalb St. 40-41 j KARESH'S GU?S^ Specials This Week 25 lb. Sk. Granulated Sugar $2 fin 10 lb. Sk. Granulated Sugar j'qa 5 lb. Sk. Granulated Sugar 'g/* 7 lbs. Choice Green Coffey j qq 6 lbs. Choice Green Coffee 100 5Va lbs. Best Green Coffee |"qq 1 lb. can Tomatoes 7C 2 lb. can Tomatoes ,, 3 lb. cab Tomatoes ie 24 lb. Sk. Good S. R. Flour 24 lb. Sk. Choice S. R. Flour 24 lb. Sk. Best Made Flour 90 12 lb. Sk. Best Made Flour 4^ Try our Tiny Green Lima Beans. They'll please you. 35e par can, 3 for $r.GO. Standard Grocery Co., f>38 De Kalb St. 40-41 ? FOR S\I,K ? Wood for sale, $4.00 per truck load, mixed oak and fat light wood, Address Harry Elliott, Cam don, S. 0. 39-41 pd FOK KENT ? A double room, well exposed, with bath. Meals served. Address The Green Parrott, 1421 Gervais street, Columbia, S. C. ; 39-4 lpd. We rire in position to wholesale to you in quantity of 12 or more cans of any high grade can goods in our store. Standard Grocery Co., 538 DeKalb St., 40-11 FOR SALE.? Trar.t. of land, in . Ker shaw County near Liberty Hill, con taining r>6 1 acres, more or less, r or information in regard to terms apply to Mrs. S. K. Winkler or L. A. Wittkowsky, Camden, S. C. 38-tf. I WANTED ? Poplar, Ash, and Cypress standing timber. Will figure with you on any size tract. Give full details in first letter. Hoffman L_ Lumher CumpanyT-C^umbia, S. C. i 35t f For your dinner we have Premier Tiny Tot Peas. They are line, 35c per oai), 8 for $1.00. Standard Grocery (X, 5$ PeKalb St. 10-41 .. '? ' i i '* How about your fresh vegetables? We can supply you. The more you use the better you'll liko them. Stan dard Grocery Co., 638 DeKalb St. BACKACHES can be quickly relieved with Sloan's. Stroke it on gently. You don't have to rub it in. Tense J muscles relax. The pain eases off ?then stops. Get a bottle from your <druggist today ? 35 cents. It will not stain. Sloan's Liniment? Plant Early ? Work Fast and Use -the Best fertilizer moiiey can buy. There is nothing bet ter than PERUVIAN HIGH- :q GRADE MIXTURES. Let us quote you on our 10-4-4 Cotton Special. Peruvian Guano Corporation E. L. WOOTEN, Agent for Kershaw County. COAL and WOOD - y. For Immediate or Future Delivery CAMDEN FUEL TELEPHONE 326 NITRATE SODA ii . ? We are booking orders for W. R. GRACE & CO., also carry liberal local stock iof Nitrate and all Fertilizer materials. J See Me For Quick Service F ft/I and Low Prices ? ? W V/v/ 1 *