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Anderson, Wk 18.? Fire late this
jftirnoon nearly destroyed the entire
l^tro of Ix>wndesville, one of the old
and most picturesque settlements
the Southland, and located about
iwenty-flve miles south of this place,
fhe fire originated in dry #*ass near
the railroad tracks and spread to the
til niiH an<l tf'n house of the Lowndes
fjlle Ginning Company,, leaving it a
total loss. Seven dwellings were to
(ally destroyed, ono freight car on the
jailrond track and fifty-eight bales of
lotton. The estimated Iosh will ex
$75,000, much of which is covered
|T insurance.
Practically all the carpets of Persia
arc woven by women.
A. R. COLLINS
Undertaker and Erabalmer
AMBULANCE SERVICE
Camden, S. C.
Telephone-J-Diy 41; Nifht 380
Dr. C. F. Sewell
DENTiST
(Office Orer Brace'* Store)
CAMDEN, S. C.
DR. G. G. TRANTHAM
DENTIST
First Floor, Crocker Building
PHONE 450
PIANO TUNING
Lewis L. Moore
242W PHONE" or 166
CAMDEN, S. C.
T. B. BRUCE
Veterinarian
Lyttleton St., Phone 114.
CAMDEN, 5. C.
DR. R. E. STEVENSON
DENTIST
Crocker Building
Camden. 8. C. ?
COLUMBIA LUMBER &
MANUFACTURING CO.
? MILL WORK
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS
AND LUMBER
PLAIN & HUCER ST S. Phone 71
c COLUMBIA, S. C. <
ROOFING
V. o have just received
car load of
LOCK-TOP
and
SUPER-GIANT
ASPHALT
SHINGLES
Makei a Better Roof
for Less Coat.
Mackey
Mercantile
Company
Baby Woke Up
Laughing And
Full of Play
"When my bhby was teething she
vyas so fretful \ could hardly do
anything with her," wrltou Mrs. A.
C. Brown, Columbus. Oa.
"1 Kavo her overy medicine 'adver
tised for alok babies but they didn't
atop he.r fr -tlnsr and orylntf. ^
frit nd advised Teethina and after
the second doae ?uy little will "wont
to Bleep and woke up Immhlnf; and
full of piny. Teethina :.an ;lven per
fect f-tlsfactlon at all ?Iuum.(" ( ... ,
Te< thin A contains no oplatea or
other dangerous dru&a. It reduce*
Inflammation of tho sums. relhivoa
colic, ..tdi^fst^lon. htoroaoi pains and
bowel troubles. It soothes' tho* ;reU ,
ful child, Inducing rest, quiet and
refr^RhlnS sieop. Tl\ou sands of
| Krataful mother? praise It to tho
ij-kh-s. * , - ? . , .
Teethina Is *old by all drutf?l*ts,
or send 3?e to tho MotTott Uu>ora
torles, Columbus, Ga., for a pa>kav{o
and a free booklet about babies.
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BETHUNE NEWg NOTES.
Happenings of Interest As Told By
Our Correspondent,
Bethune, S. C., Feb. 20.? At a mass
meeting of the residents and patrons
of this community held in the school
auditorium Friday evening, it was
voted to erect a high school building.
This step has becom^-a necessity since
the consolidation of the outlying dis
tricts.
Friends of Miss Dana McSween will
be pleased to know that she is recov
ering from a short illness. Miss Mc
Sween is one of the most remarkable
women of our day. In spite of her
age, 91 years, her mentality is as
keen as a young person nnd she wears
no glasses. She makes the most ex
quisite tatting and dainty crocheting,
together with other hand work. She
lives with. Jier - nlecty Mrs. -Dana. Cly
burn.
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Truesdell,
daughter, Edna, and son, Roy, and
Mr. Karl Koseborough, of Lugotf,
V/ere visitors of Dr. E. Z. Truesdell
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. McCaskill are
receiving congratulations over tho ar
rival of a little son, Sunday morning.
Of interest to the Bethune folks is
the following clipping taken from the
Jonesville items of Sunday's State:
"Miss Helen Smith of McCormick re
signed her position as teacher in the
graded school here and left I* riday for
her home, where she is soon to be
married." Miss Smith is soon to be
come the bride of Mr. B. W. Best.
Mrs. Burke and Eldon Severance
of Columbia spent Sunday in town
with friends and relatives.
Misses Mary Bethune and Elizabeth
Gay of Hartsville were the week-end
guests of Mrs. L. D. Robertson.
Misses' Mamie Lou McDonald and'
Fannie Lee Baker spent the week end
in Columbia with the latter^ sister.
The Aid and Missionary Society of
the Methodist church met with Mrs.
W. H. Hearon Monday afternoon.
Misses Margaret Hearon and Kitty
Best spirit the week-end with the
former's parents at Clyde.
Mrs. 3. L. Norwood and children of
McBee were guests at the home of Mr.
N. A. Bethune Saturday.
Mrs. L. D. Robertson was at home
Friday evening in honor of Misses
Bethune and Gay of Hartsville. Music
and games were enjoyed throughout
the evening, after which a
course was served. .
Dorothy Parrott entertained about
a dozen of her little friends Friday af
ternoon in honor of her 13th birthday.
After an interesting contest, games
and music, the mother of the hostess
served fruited jello, whipped cream
and cake.
John Steen, a white tenant living on
J. A. McCaskill's place was thrown
from a Ford Monday afternoon and
sustained injuries from which he died
at the Camden hospital the following
morning. The unfortunate man com
monly known as "Preacher Steen,"
was returning from Columbia when
the accident occurred on the W.-A.
highway, a few miles east of Camden.
A wheel came off of the machine,
pitching Steen on his head and render
ing him unconscious, from which he
never revived. He is survived by his
wife and three small children. ,
Rev. W. H. Joyner Dead
The Rev. W. II. Joyner, 91 year old
veteran of the Confederate war, who
died at the Confederate home Sunday
morning after a brief illness, was laid
to rest yesterday morning in Elm
wood cemetery at 11 o'clock. The
Rev. W. R. Bouknight conducted the
funeral services which were held at
the grave.
The Rev. Mr. Joyner entered the
Confederate service in 1862 with Com
pany D, Twentieth South Carolina vol
unteers, and served as a gallant sol
dier throughout the war. He was for
40 years a Baptist minister and came
to the Confederate home from Or
angeburg county about seven years
,ago. ? Tuesday's State.
Miss Mary Doyle packs two heavy
sacks of mail orer a ten-mile route
Wiy diy In East Syracuse, N. Y.
DIVERS PERFORM
UNUSUAL TASKS
Engineering Problems Arm
Solved With Their Aid.
Diver* uie somttUme* called upou te
perform unusual lunko, as ihelr at
tempts hi reacue work lu the tlooded
Ut'iUUng pit show.
Not long ago the police bud to culi
iu the at? rv lev* of u diver to search for
stolen Jewelry iu tlio muddy bottom of
(lie Uegent'a canal, tuul, occasionally
they 'a re asked to look for rings uud
other valuables that huve fallen from
piers and yachts.
Winchester cathedral owes us pro*
ent stability to the work of a diver iu
the employment of a firm of w reek
salvors and treasure-raiser*, lie had
to work In a pit below the foundations,
placing bags of cement in the dark by
sense of touch. Though the tdeu of
employing a diver to restore the solid
ity of the building was a last resource,
It wus a complete success, and oue of
the "silffest propositions that a diver
has ever been called upon to tackle"
was brought to a satisfactory conclu
sion.
The divert employed in the Iteddlng
pit are using the pipe-line type of dlv
Ing dress, but the self-contained type
is frequently used for uausual work.
It was only owing to the existence of
the self-contained type that the Severn
tunnel was freed from water after It
was thought that this great under-.*
taking would hAve to be ^andoued.
After the water had broken Into the
workings of the tunnel, It was found
that the slulees at the face were
opened. Diver Lambert and Mr.
Fleuss, the Inventor of the special div
ing-dress employed, investigated, going
1,200 feet along the tunnel In the dark,
constantly meeting with obstrqctlons
and stumbling over sleepers and rails.
At last Lambert closed the sluices, or
rather thought he bad closed them,
btpt not knowing that one of them
worked on a left hand, screw, he shut
one only, to open the other. He there
fore, had to retrace his steps and cor
rect the error.
In Canada some years ago divers
were used In connection with the po
lice to nnravel a dlsnppearanoe mya
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1UU IlKtllUf^VI \J A U 11IIUV IIUU VVM
stantly bee^i threatened by "bad hats,"
and one day he disappeared.
Divers went down, and there among
a litter of old machinery they found
the body. The man had been bound
with wire, weighted, and dropped to
his death In the shaft.
After grim work like this, laying
dock foundations rind cleaning ships'
bottoms are prosaic tasks.? London
Tit-Bits.
Then He Shut Up
. It Is annoying when one goes to the
theater and has one's view obstructed j
by the hat of a woman seated In front.
Nobody has much sympathy for
those of the fair sex who choose to
wear tbeLr largest hats while seeking
amusement; but, on the other harid,
there is the crusty old man who finds
fault with everything and ' pretends
that he 14 unable to see the stage even
when the hat In front of him Is of th^
smallest variety.
One of these wtos at the theater
when, after fidgeting for some time,
he growled In a loud voice to the girl
In front of tilm : "Do you mind remov
ing your hat? I can't see through
wood."
The girl turned and looked at him
quietly for a moment, and then said,
dfclmly: "Very well, change $eats; I
can."
Farm Boy's Pig Rise
About eight years ago a farm boy
In a remote section of Rowan county,
N. C., joined a pig club which the coun
' ty agricultural extension agent was
organizing, and, as pig club members
do under tho guidance of the coufity
agent, he fed and cared for ? a pig,
In this case a Poland China gilt. Dur
ing the next year the county lost Its
extension agent. Recently when a new
agent came to the county he found, ac
cording to sports to the United Statos
Department of Agriculture, that the
club member, J. H. Morgan, now grown
and on his own farm, had kept up his
club practices, developed a herd of
Poland China hogs of excellent type,
and was regarded as the best hog
grower In his community.
Followed Instructions
Teacher glanced at (lie clock nnd
saw thnt the hands pointed to five min
utes before ten o'clock. looking
round the class, she noticed that Fred
die Franks, the bad boy, was late
again, lis usual.
"ftas anybody seen Freddie this
morning?" she inquired, and at that
j moment tho truant, looking rather Mus
tered, entered the room.
! "Why are you late again, Freddie?"
asked the teacher in stern tones.
"Well, ma'am," replied Freddie, the
ingenious, "just as 1 was coming along
to school at half-past eight ? police
man shouted out to me: Til, sonsy,
mind the steamroller!' So, of course,
I stayed there and did as he told me."
Great Head ?
Mr. Gaxsam ? Yes, I suppose I can
claim n financial success, and just
think. I started business with a shoe
string.
Miss Green ? Mercy! It's genius! A
man who could get anybody to buy
one shoestring couldn't help hut sne
eeed? -Boston Transcript.
Many Thermometerg Unfit
So thorough Is ?he Inspection to
?rhich clinical thermometer tubes are
Wfijecffd thnt nb->ui 73 per cent are
rejected as unfit for use
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BOY FORCED TO DIG
CRAVE BY MANIAC
Youth Escape* Burial Aliv *
by Attacking Madman.
l>anl el sou. Coon,? Kdwarxl t'lnkhaiu,
six I or n years Old, saved himself from
burin) alive by turning on 10<l wart) Har
rington, an escaped patient from the
Norwich Asylum for the Insane, and
felling him with the shovel with which
he wan being forced to dig his own
grave.
The blow knocked Harfln&toh uncon
scious, add before he recovered the hoy
had fled to safety. Harrington later
took to his heels, but was captured in
Webster, Mass., to la* taken back to the
asylum,
Harrington escaped from the Institu
tion during the night. He mot the
l*inkhfttn' boy, who was on his way to
school, Under the pretext of oft'oring
him a job, he lured the lad Into tlie
woods and then pulled him into the
cemetery, where he procured a shovel
from a vault, which he opeuod with a
skeleton key, and compelled his young
victim to begin digging his own grave.
After the IMnkhnm lad bad excavated
two fset of earth he saw his chance
and suddenly struck down th^ escaped
lunatic. /
Police at Webster were led to believe
that their prisoner might be Frank
Weeden, who was Incarcerated in
Rhode Island for the murder of a boy,
but escaped. An envelope bearing the
napie of Weeden was found In the
man's pocket.
Superintendent Hoe of the State hop*
pltal at Oranstoh, R. I., said that Wee
den, who after his escape from custody
wa# believed to have made his way to
thjR section last summer, was supposed
to have died. Harrington, It la be
lieved, Imagines that he is "Weeden.
Girit Say 3,800-Mile
Hike Cured Their Nerves
New York. ? After an absenco of
seven months, during which they trav
eled 9,000 miles, including a 8, 800-mile
Jaunt ou foot to Los Angeles, the
Misses Sarah Shannock and Sophie
Kdell, each twenty-three year* old, re
turned to this city recently on thn
Panama-Pacific liner Manchuria from
San Francisco. Miss Shanuock, who
lives at 1387 Wilkin's avenue, Brook?
lyn, Is a graduate nurse and Miss Edel
of 125 West One Hundred and Fif
teenth street. Is a typist.
Finding the dally routine of thei"r
tasks wearing on their nerves, the
two girls decided upon the hike across
the continent. Dressed In knickers,
flannel shirts, caps and lumberman's
Jackets and heavy shoes, they started
from Broadway and Forty-second
street on June 4.
"We wore khakl all the way," said
Miss Shaunock. "Every one was more
than kind to us. We accepted some
rides from motorist*, but not all that
were offered to us. We paid our way
wherever we went, but the total ex
penditures amounted to only $850. We
would advise every office worker, who
Is dissatisfied, to walk n little as we j
did. It's great."
France to Use Soldiers
to Guard Art Treasures
Paris. ? The recent theft of two rare
Gobelin tapestrlee from the Versailles
palace has alarmed government au
thorities. The curators have not funds
enough to police In really efficient
fashion the palaces and museums in
which art treasures worth billions of
francs are kept, but several short cuts
to safety have been proposed.
The first precaution was an order
forbidding guards and guides to tell
, visitors of the great value of the treas
ures exhibited. "That would be tempt-;
^trxg the devil," the curator at Ver*
'sallies said.
The difficulty of guarding the pal
aces becomes apparent when It Is real
ised that Fontalnebleau has 2,000
rooms to be patroled by a few guards,
* who much prefer to sleep.
The plans before the authorities call
for an electric burglar alarm sys
tem ; flooding the outside* of the
buildings With light, and providing the
guards with police dogs. Another
project Is to use soldiers In guarding
the art treasures.
Seeks Gold Hidden in
Ancient German House
Blngen on-the-Rhine. ? The oldest
dwelling In Germany, one of the oldest
in all Europe, is attracting almost as
much attention Just now as do the re
ports from Egypt of the excavations
of the tomb of Tutankhamen.
This house Is in the little hamlet ol
Wlnkel, in the valley of the Rhine, and
in known to have been built more thaa
1,200 years ago. Arrheologisf s are en
deavoring to obtain more exact data.
The first owner, so far as record*
show, was the archbishop of Mainz,
Rhabanus Maurus, who died In 8f>0.
The present owner, Count Matuschke
Greiffenknlu, of a curious turn of mind,
believes there are many secrets and
possibly much gold bidden away be
tween the walls and under the base
ment floors, and he has sought the aid
of scientists to determine the house's
sge and to assist him In his ?**arch for
hidden treasure.
Two Hurled to Death
Fresuo. Cal. ? Bushing water from
the burst of an 84-inch water pipe llnr
htirled Mr*. Charles Berry and her sl?
ter. Miss Linda Btetter, 200 feet down
over the edge of a canyon to Instan*
death, according to meager advice* re
celved h*refro*$L CSJBD 33 of Uh
Southern California Kdiaoa companj
la the Sierra Mountain* district,
b
We want our customers to
get the most in tires for
their money* So we recom
mend Silvertowns, and we
are selling them at the
price you formerly paid for
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Camden Service Station *
"BEST III tH? CONC run"
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FINAL DISCHARGE.
NoMce is hereby given that one
month from this date, on Saturday,
March 1st, 1924, I will make to the
Probate Court of Kershaw County,
my final return as Guardian of the
estate of Metta Baxley, arid Willie B.
Baxley, minors, and on the same date
I wilt apply to thf. said Court ior a
final discharge as said Guardian.
?NEAL D. BAXLEY.
Camden, S. C., Jan. 31st, 1024.
FINAL DISCHARGE.
Notice- 'is hereby given that one
month from this date, on Saturday,
March 8th, 1924, I will make to the
F^robate Court of Kershaw County my
final return as Administrator of the
est&fce.pf John Benjamin Porter, and
on the same date I will apply to the
said Court for a final discharge as said
Administrator.
J. M. PORTER.
Camden, S. C., February 8th, 1924.
DOG TAX.
I wish to cail special attention to
the dog license tax, which- C^n be paid
from October 16th, 1923, to February
1st, 1924. (February 1st, 1924, is the
last day for the payment of this tax.)
The license tax on each dog to #1.80.
ami I now have the license tags U
supply ownerH of dogs when paying
their license tax. A dog is liable to
I this tax if six months old or older oh
January 1st. (A dog born June 30th,
1923, is liable to the tax January 1st,
1924.)
This is in lieu of all other taxes
or licenses on dogs, either county, mu
nicipal or otherwise
l>og license tux issued by ? the
Treasurer should bear the inscription
M0og License 1024," also show the
serial number and county. This is not
charged on the. Auditor's Duplicate,
nor carried on the odinary tax re
ceipt. Separate receipt necessary. \
1). M. McCASKILL,
County Treasurer.
TAX NOTICE
Offlcp of Treasurer Kershaw (bounty.
Cuimlon, % Srpl. I':.'., lit.';:.
Notice is hereby tfiveh that the
hooks will be opened for the eollee- '
tibn of State, County and School
taxes from Oetobyr 16th, 1923, to
March 16th, 10^4. A penalty of I per
cent, will be added to all taxes un
paid January 1st, 19211, ? per cent
February 1st, 1923, aiid 7 per cunt
March 15th, 1924.
The rate per centum for Kershaw
county is as follows:
Mills.
State Taxe^ 0
County Taxes
Hospital M
School Taxes 3
I DeKalb Township Koad Bonds.. 2V4
1 21
Dog tux |1.25. All dog owners are
required to make a return of their
dogs to the County Treasurer who if*
required to furnish a license tag. All
dogs caught without the license tag
the owners will be subject to a fine
of Twenty (20.00) Dollars.
The following School Districts have
special levies:
School District No. 1 . . 23
School District No. 2 19
School District No. 3 16
School District No. 4 16
School District No. 6 8
School District No. .... 16
School District No. 7 15
.SctlQol .District No. 8 . It
School District No:. 9 . . 4
School District No. 11 , . . 15.
School District No. 12 18
School District No. 13 . . . 8
School District No. 14 ... 16
School District No. 15 . . : 8
Schooi District xso. 1U ..... . . . 4
School District No. 17 8
School District No. 18 .......... 15
School District No. 19 8
School District No. 20 . . 8
School District No. 21 ^ . ... . ? - 8
School District No. 22 18
I School District No. 23 11
School District No. 24 15
School District No. 26 8
School District No. 27 8
School District No. 28 8
School District No. 2U ?
School District No. 30 8
School District No. 31 . 8
School District No. 32 .... . 8
School District No. 33 8
School District No. 34 16
School District No. 35 .......... 15
School District No. 3G 15
School District No. 87 8
School District No. 88 8
School District No. 39 8
School District No. 40 . ?5
School District No. 41 8
School District No. 42 '8
School District No. 43 8
School District No. 44 15
School District No. 46 8
School District No. 47 8
?The poll tax is $1.00.
7 All ablebodfed male persons from
the age of twenty-one (21) to fifty
(50) years, both jpclusive, except res
idents in incopo'fited towns shall
pay $4.00 a.s u r<: '1 tax except minis
ters of the G actually in charge
of a congr egt^.yh, teachers employed
in public schools, school trustees, and
persons permanently disabled in the
military- service of this State and per
sons who served in the War Between
thp States; and^all quarantine service
of this State and all residents who
may be attending school or college at
tho time when said road tax shall be
come due. Persons claiming disabil
ities must present certificate from
two reputable physicians of this
county.
All information >with reference to
taxes will be furnished upon applica
tion. D. M. McCASKILL,
County Treasurer.
NOTICE
We are now carrying* in stock a full line of
May bank9 8 High Grade Fish Guano , Nitrate of
Soda , Cotton Seed Meal , and other materials.
We are also in the market for cotton seed; will
buy or give fertilizer in exchange.
CAMPBELL & SMYRL
SHOES REPAIRED
< WE HAVE A COMPLETE SHOE REPAIRING OUT
FIT IN REAR OF OUR STORE, WHERE WORK IS
DONE PROMPTLY AND SATISFACTORILY.
LQMANSKY BROS.
We will m)I you new shoes or fix yoxir old omu. '
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