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Gamed Ten Pounds Mrs. George 8, Hunter, of Columbus, Ga.t auyu she suf fered severely with female troubles. "I bad to go to bed and stay sometime* two weeks at a time," says Mrs. Hunter. "I could not work. My . . , were Irregular and I got very thin. I went from lMgounds down to lass than 100.. My mother had been a user of CARDUI t ?' :l ' li-. '.&*?** ' * Hm Woman's Tonic and aha know what a good medicine it waa far this troub le, so sha told ma to get some and take it. I sent te the store after it and before I had taken the first bottle up I began to improve. My side hurt less and I began to mend in health. I took four bottles in all during the last ten months.^^Cardui acted as a fine tonic. . . i am well now. T have gained ten pounds and ora' still gaining. My sides do not trouble me at all and my . . . are quite regular. I know that Cardui will help, others suffering from the same trouble." Take Cardui. B-101 JACKSON GIVEN VERDICT. Hut Judge Sets It Aside and Orders Arrest of Former Player. Milwaukee, Feb. 15. ? Joe Jackson, former outfielder of the Chicago Am e'ice.n League club, today was given a verdict for $16,711.04 against the club for salary under a contract sign ed in 1920, but the court set aside the verdict and dismissed the case. Whether an appeal "will be taken will bo decided tomorrow, Raymond J. Cannon, counsel for Jackson said to night. Judge J. J. Gregory, trial judge, bitterly criticised the jury, declaring the case was based on perjury, and act aside the verdict and dismissed the action. During tho trial Judge Greg ory ordered the arrest of Oscar "Happy" Felsch, a former team mate of the plaintiff, and a witness for him, for alleged perjury. Jackson was ar rested on a like charge at the con clusion of the trial. The former players are at liberty J under bond. Home Demonstration Notes. The County Council of Farm Wo men will hold their regular meeting on March 15, in Camden. All the county women are urged to make plans to attend this fneeting. Mrs. S. O. Plowden will be present and will address the Council. There willl be ? ? 4 V ?*' ? ' ? M ' M an interesting program arranged, re freshments served, and a?happy good time for all who attend. ' * The Community Market, with Mrs. B. R. Truesdale in charge, is attract ing much attention at this season. The sales are good and the market means much to the county women as well as an opportunity for the town women. The Club work throughout the county is most encouraging. New clubs are being organized and the girls and women are ,most enthusias tic in the work. The Chamber of Commerce kindly offered to tho girls an inducement to become interested in poultry work. A fine setting of eggs will be given to sixteen girls in different parts of the county with tho agreement to pass on to another girl a setting next year. The poultry club members are willing to work and do their best and this means better poultry in our county. Poultry is a fine product for tho mar ket and always a sale for it. The girls of the Mill School organ ized a Home Demonstration Cooking Club Friday, February 8th. In this class the girls wil be taught the prin ciples of good cookery, economy in preparing a well balanced meal, pre paring school lunches, etc. Tho object of all Home Demonstration Clubs is to make tho best better. The mem bers are: Irene Taylor, Nellie Terry, Nannie Ruth, Willie Blanche, Willie Allis, Mattie Pate, Edna Dority, Ruby Krepts, Clara Wclch, Mamie Ruth, Ervin Brown, Annie Bell Christmas, Mary Sue Christmas, Vir ginia Christmas, Ruby Lee Braddock, Ludie May, Arlever Russell, Lillian Dodgin, Ida May Robinson, and Vera Dennis, Vera Dority. Miss Ernestine Bateman, principal of the school and her efficient teach ers are to be congratulated on the fine Bchool and community spirit you realise when you visit the school. JENNIE BOYD, Home Demonstration Agent. MIm Elaaiwe Hutxsl has been I ro*de deputy police ooramhsftmsr ?11 Syracuse, N. Hermitage Community Neva. ?>, Cataden, 8, C., Feb. 20. ? A party consisting of Miasoa Kdith Kddings, Bessie Bothune,, Carrie and Bessj<i Crolley, and N. C. Crolley motored to Columbia Sunday. Miss Bessie Bethuno of Hamlet, N. CM was the guest of Misses Carrie and Bessie Crolley the past week end. We are glad to know that little. I'ithol Smith who has ben ill with measles is improving nicely. Miss Dessie McLendon was called away Sunday to Darlington on ac count of the illnesa of her cousin. On last Thursday evening Mrs. G. E. Crolley entertained the members of her Sunday School claaa at a valen tine party at the home of Mra. Henry Anderson. Refreshments were served at the close of the evening by Mrs. G, E. Crolley, assisted by Mrs. Q. B. Player and Mrs. Henry Anderson. Misd Ruth Hatfield acted as post mis | tress in several of the games. The boys of the Hermitage Com munity Association gavo tho S. O. D. H. Club Girls an oyster supper at tho Community House on Saturday even ing. JEveryone reported a nice time. The Board of Directors of the -Her mitage Community Assdciation met last Monday evening at th,o home of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Crolley. Refresh ments were served at the close of tho evening by Mrs. Crolley. We are glad , to have Mr. and Mrs, D. L. Jones and family back with us again. Mr. R. B. Pitts spent Monday in Washington on business. Mr. C. H. Zemp motored to Char lotte Saturday and spent the woek^ end with relatives. Mr. L. D. Pitta of Rock Hill spent Wednesday at the mill, and also am ended the meeting of the stockhold-. era held the same day. GENERAL NEWS NOtES .. I Frank L. Greene, senior Senator from Vermont, was the innocent vic tim of a pistol battle between boot leggers and dry enforcement officers in Washington last Saturday night, The senator and his wife whose home was in a nearby hotel were strolling along the street as enforcement offi cers came upon some men unloading a still in a nearby alley. One of the first shots fired struck the senator in the forehead and he fell. He was at once hurried to a hospital. The boot leggers got away and one of the en forcement officers was arrested. It is understood that Senator .Greene will recover from the wound. Kittie M. Spear, ten year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Spear of Lowndesville, was severely burned several years ago and lias had a dreadful fear of fire since. During the conflagration at Lowndesville Friday she became panic stricken and in the confusion ran wildly down the Cal houn Falls road in an effort to get away from the sight of the- flames. She was picked up by an automobile party about Bix miles frbm liOwndes ville and taken to Calhoun Falls, where she was left with friends. Her parents were notified of her safety by wiry'. ""the large warehouse of the Cooper ative Tobacco association at Manning was destroyed by fire last Saturday. The building was valued at $40,000, and was insured for $22,000. Bound to th^ posts of her bed, and with her mouth gaged, Miss Louise Larsen, a 24-year-old motion picture actress^ was found dead in her room in a fashionablo apartment in New York city last Friday. The actress' hands had been "spread-eagled" and tied tp the bed post with p dog leash. Her Belgian * police dog was found lashed to a chair in another room of her apartment. Her apartment was looted of valuable jewelry. Morris B. Diamond, one of four men to be tried in New York on a charge of murder in connection with the killing of two bank messengers in a holdup and robbery in Brooklyn several weeks ago, on trial last week, was convicted and will be sentenced . to the chair. Henry Ford's employes in the United States and throughout the world now total 162,792 persons. CDI this number 121, 2P1 work in manu facturing plants in Detroit and throughout the United States. Present plans are for the dirigible Shenandoah to start on its flight to the north pole on May 1st. Lieutenant Commander Zachary Landsdowno will be in charge of the airship on its polar trip. Three masked bandits robbed the First National bank of Gracemont, Okla., of $6,500 in cash and Liberty bonds Tuesday, after slugging a bookkeeper with an automatic pistol and lacking him in a vault. After being on a strike since Janu ary 15, 12,00 coal miner* of Nova Scotia havo been granted an , increase in wages that will total $1,000,000 a year. The miners went on a strike when it was announced that their pay was to be reduced. rhiaf Justice Taft ha* so tar re covered from hip recent indisposition aa to be able to returns Ma dotes on KOLL *>F HONOR , , fc. Charlotte Thompson High School For Two Mont ha. The following is. the roll of hynor for Charlotte Thompson High School for the fourth and fifth months: Fourth Mouth. ^ First Grade ? Margaret Hay Boy kin, Mary Brown. Sfecond Grade? Charles James, Troy Godwin, Third Grade? Mary Lindsay Pearce, Elizabeth Gillis. Fourth Grade ? Louise James, Mar guerite Croft. Fifth Grade ? ? Klizabeth Workman, Need ham Pittman. Sixth Graded?Maureen Sowoll, Hen rietta Irby, Elizabeth James, Robert Clarkson. Seventh Grade ? Eva Irby, Thelma Pearce, Thomas McLeod, Nellie Dixon, Mae James. Eighth Grade ? Lillian James. Ninth Grade? I<eNoir Sanders, Lau rie Workman. Tenth Grade ? Virginia Owens. Eleventh Grade ? -Hawkins Watson, Kate Dixon, J. G. Brown, T. J. Mc Leod. Fifth Month. First Grade ? Sam Boykin, William Rush. Second Grade ? -Charles James, Troy Godwin, Claytor Arrants. Third Grade ? Mary Lindsay Poarce, Elizabeth Gillis, Eunice Brown1, Dor ithy McLeod, John Sowell. Fourth Grade ? Louise James, Mar guerite Croft, Clarence McLeod. u Fifth* Grade ? Estelle Anderson, Klizabeth Workman. Sixth Grade ? Maureen Sowell, Hen rietta Irby, Elizabeth James, Robert Clarkaon, Seventh Grade ? Eva Irby, Thelma Pearce, Mae James, Nellie Dixon, Thomas McLeod. Eighth Grade ? Sara Bruce, Alex ander Clarkson, Lillian James. Ninth Grade ? Ellen Boykin, Laurie Workman, Allan Norris, Chapman Pearce, Le Noir Sanders. Tenth Grade ? Virginia Owens. ? Eleventh Grade? Hawkins Watson, T. J. Brown, J. T. McLeod, Bertha Johnson,' Kate Dixon. BROTHERS IN PISTOL DUEL. Meet on Mountain Trail After Dispute Over Estate. Whitesburg, Ky., Feb. 16. ? Bob and Sam Bates, brothers, residents of the Troublesome Creek section, invoked .45 calibre law to settle their quarrel and today both are dead. Enmity between the brothers was said to have resulted from a dis agreement concerning settlement of an estate, including; some valuabk coal and timber land* left by the'r father. Finally, after friends pre vented gun play on more than one oc casion, Sam ja .boy of. 17, waa said to have sent wo?d to Bob that he would give him $100 to iJCTHe lnto the vi cinity of the younger brother's resi dence. Bob accepted the offer. The brothers met on a laurel fringed mountain trail ^yesterday. They drew and fired ? and missed Now the sights wer'e perfectly align ed. A second roar from the heavy weapons and both duelists dropped, fatally wounded. A third Bates brother, Uriah, is serving a life sentence in state, prison for the murder of Elijah Sergeant, who was slain near hia home on In dian Creek": In 1921. " Bob was under indictment in connection with the Sergeant slaying and was to have been tried in April. Branham-Boykixu Mr. Langley Branham, a highly esteemed young man who resides near Camden, and Miss Ppra Boykin, a -popular young lady of palzeU, Sumter county, were married on Sunday af ternoon last at the home of Probate Judge W. L. McDowell, Judge . Mc Dowell performing the ceremony. 4 REALTY TRANSFER*. CIvanKeii of Real KtUute as Recorded in County Auditor'* Office. Nellie S. Moseley to L. A. Kirkland, 1 lot Laurens street, Camden, $360. Mrs. Sallie Ration, to John S. Ra bon, 47 acres, West Watoree, $ 1,800. Mrs, F. A. McCaskill to Anna U Schlosburg, 1 lot and building, Mill street, Camden, $5.00, etc. C. I,?. Dixon to Mamie McCaskill, 61 acres, near Beulah church, $4,600. W. B. Threqtt to l4iwronco Richard son, 1 acre, Buffalo townahip, $15. Camilla and Scott Huntor to Julia and Joe Chavers, 1 lot, lUth Street, Camden, $55. W. L. Blackmon to Geo. W. Bowers, 60 acres, Buffalo township, $450. H. G. Carrison, Sr., to Carlos Brown Jr., 116 acres noar Adams Mill, $16, 000.00. I J. C. Parker, to I* O. Funderburke, 150 acres near Cassatt, assumption mortgage. Mrs. H. R. Jordon to Violet Funder burke, 1 lot and 1 building, broad at., Camden, $7,750. William Kelley to Ella Mickle and John Kelley, 1 lot and building, Cam den, on Gordon st., $1.00, love and af fection. ? Nellie S. Moseley to C. C. Whitaker, 1 lot Laurens st., Camden, $325. Kirkland & Kirkland, Trustees, to North and South Land Co., 1*28 acres, north of City of Camden, $1.00, etc. Mattie E. Hinson and Ida ltabon to Annie Watts, 20 acres near Lugoff, $ 1 ,000. D. W. Horton to B. F. Bolton, 122 acres near Bethune, $25.00, etc. B. B. Clark, Master, to Southern Land Sales Co., 80 acres West Wa teree, $100. Robert M. Cooper to James Stokes, 1 lot Cassatt, $30. James A. McCaskill to R. B. Mc Caskill, 15 acres near Bethune, $5.00. W. E. Davis to R. B. McCaskill, 25 acres near Bethune, $800. Janie B. Gardner to G. C. Welsh, interest in 650 acres Buffalo town ship, Virginia Owens to W. L. Gaskins, 10 acres near Westville, $5.00. Kelurielta Baiiard, to ifennio Carlos, acre near Camden, $150. ? J.' 11. and W. R. Zemn to Mack Din kins, 1 acre, Curoton Park, Camden, $180, R. M. West to Hunk of Camden, 100 acres near Cassatt, $10. L. U. Funderhurke, to M. S. Rosier and H. E. Gardner, 75 acres near Cas Htttt, $1,000. Bank of Camdentto W. J. Davis, 100 acres near Cassut\, $8,200. T. A. Folsom to *E. Z. Truosdell, 1 lot and 1 building town of Bethune, $1,600. A. B. McLaurin to John MeCaskill, 25 acres near Bethune, $100. Greenville Piedmont, Saturday:-i Bond for Holland Pittman, of upper Greenville county , held in connection with the recent slaying of State Con stable Howard in Jhe Glassy Mountain aoction was denied by Circuit Judge K. C. Dennis here today. The father, of the young man, Pittman, who is also held in connection with the tragedy, however, was granted bail in the sum of $0,000. The petition for bail made by the firm of Bonham & Price, coun sel for the two men, was resisted by Solicitor David W. Smoak. The younger Pittman will now be forced to remain in jail until tho next term of sessions court when tho caso will likely come to trial. Though the cor oner's jury failed to place the respon sibility for the shooting on either of the Pittman men, both are being held until a complete investigation can bo made and both Will probably be tried on charges in connection with the kill ng, it was said. John Fesperman," 21, son of Victor Fesperman, deputy sheriff for Meck lenburg, ^vas killed Saturday night while making, a liquor raid on ho Wakefield farm on tho Providence road, nea^ Charlotte. IIo was after several negroes, and was holding one Tregro by the belt when fli'Gd on aftd killed by another negro, Sam Cun iuiighuui. Cunningham got away and has not been captured. Colored Teachers Hold Merlin*. The Kershaw County Teachers' Ajb sociation mot Saturday, February (6, 1924, tit the Jarkson (iraded $choS, With Prof. P. U. M'dodana presulinfl;. This meeting was well attended Us' the teachers of the county. Fees (to the State Teachers' Association wOXV collected; also the fees for tin- i'out^Ly Teachers' Association. We then pe? fee ted our plans for the Field I>rty e* ercises in the various comnuinitifMJ. Owing to the congested cortdiuon <p the Jackson (traded School we decide? that we would not hold a Field I,>uy O^rciaO there, hut we cordially invK Prof, P. 11. M'dodana and his corps m teachers to take part in the oxftrciejB* held in the nearest community, whTh is at the new County Training sctkttl; located in the Charlotte ThomMpi district eight miles east of CamtLpt, S. C. This exorcise will l>e Held March 6th, 1924. . The following is the order in wtljrh the schools are grouped; I No. 1, February 21st ? Bethel No. Bethune, Mill Creek, Mt. Olive, Oi?k Ridge, Cedar Creek. No. 2, February 27th Bethel Rock Spring, Red Hill, Liberty mil, Prince Edward, Ebcnoaer, White OjOi. No. March 6th? -St. Matthews, l>r County Training School, Wesley Chl? pel, Broom llill, Hoykin, Zioi\ Hill,' Emanuel. No. 4, March 21.- t Knights Hill. Cool Spring, Sweet Homo, G(W< Hope. No. 5, April 3. ? Sutton Branch, W Joshua, Shiloh, Mickle, Barker PlaflJ, Johnson School, Hopewell. No. 0, March 2Htli ? Hickman, Cu? satt, Miller's Chapel, lx>ng Branch Zion Thirty-Six. Schools that are not grouped classed or will be before we cart reaCn them. We are asking our teachers and trons to help us make these days sft? . (*. siul. (Signed) P. B* M,DODA>J A, President. E. V. MeLESTER, County Indastrial Teacher. E. S. C A It ROLL, Sec. D. H. T.rinoy, Jr., cf CIiesterrioM, was arrested at Sumter Saturday Jw* the charge of forgery. THE UNIVERSAL CAR ? % ? Buy Your Ford Now \A 7TTH spring almost here thousands o^uxulies, antici W paring the demand that is certain to ei for Ford Cars and Trucks are placing their orders for immediate delivery. Sales now are far ahead of sales at this time last year. Advance orders calling for delivery under the Ford Weekly / Purchase Plan have already reached a total of 255,758 Cars and Trucks. The prospect of securing prompt delivery is daily becom ing more uncertain. We cannot urge too strongly, there Sore, the necessity for placing your order immediately, if you are planning to drive a Ford Car this spring. ! / See the nearest Authorized Ford Dealer b la doc Bicmwry to pay lor your car in full in order to eecure delivery. You ceo gat on the preferred liet lor early delivery by waking a< email payment down. Or, if you wteh, you can arrange for delivery under the (itmi of the Ford Weekly Purchase Plan NITRATE SODA We are booking orders for W. R. GRACE & CO., also carry liberal local stock of Nitrate and all Fertilizer ?A : ? t See Me For Quick Service taterials. ;>-*?*