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The Pennsylvania railroad has p|?ns uinder w|y to mrt a bt^g^r station at Wept Philadelphia than is th? Pennsylvania station in Now York city. Dr. C. F. Sow ell DENTIST (Office Over Bruce's Store)'! CAMDEN, S. C. DR. G. C. TRANTHAM DENTIST First Floor, Crocker Building PHONE 450 PIANO TUNING Lewis L. Moore 242- W PHONE or 46 CAMDEN, S. C. T. B. BRUCE Veterinarian Lyttleton St., Phone 114. CAMDEN, $? C. DR. R. E, STEVENSON DENTIST Crocker isuikiihe Camden, S. C. COLUMBIA LUMBER & MANUFACTURING CO. MILL WORK ? SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AND LUMBER PLAIN & HULER STS. Phone 71 COLUMBIA, S. C. GREAT KEl'ORTEH IS DEAD Hill lilodgctt W;is For Many Years* | With Indianapolis News. ' . * ?--- I I otv rnational New.< Service. Indianapolis, April 5. Death has I written "thirty" actors the spectacu lar career of- picturesque "BjUl" Blod gett,. veteran assignment man en the stall" of the Indianapolis News, and at the age of, 07 years he has gone Saftor the "low down" <>M his greatest story. - The squat figure- and black cigar of William Henry Blodgett "was his press badge throughout the middle west. His sudden appearance in any community presaged sensation. Tho cry went out: "What's happened now, Bill Bdogett is here?" Nation-wide attention was turned to Blodgett as the man who ? discovered the Gocbel murder in Kentucky years ago, when he chalked up a record breaking "scoop." Blodgett's work at the trial of thfi iron workers in San Francisco several years ago was so thorough and ex cellent that a New York newspaper stationed a man in Indianapolis to rewrite his copy. Friendship with the "Ukulele Kid," whose real name Blodgett never re- 1 vealed, gained for him any informa- [ tion he desired from the underworld's forbidden zone of crime. His study of criminology was so complete that he was often called upon by federal agencies. Working on big stories, Blodgett never failed to establish what he called his "pipelines." He stationed individuals where they could give hiqt all "inside tips" on new developments and always worked ahead of the story, wiring a "release" when the case caught up with him. ~ When Marvin Kuhns, a desperate criminal, escaped from the Ohio peni tentiary 24 years ago and made his way to an obscure cabin in Indiana by holding officers at bay with his guns, Blodgett went to tho hiding place detectives dared not enter, raised his hands above his head and walked straight to the door. He got an interview with the fugitive' and left unharmed, to .write a story that startled the country. i Back in the day when Blodgett was striving for success on a newspaper in Anderson, Ind., a traveling sales man leaned across his desk and told him a murder about to be committed. For weeks the man had been trying to get coui't action against a farmer near Alexandria who seriously wounded him with a knife in a fight that followed slight ing remarks the salesman made about the town. [ Angered because of frequent ap peals and continuances of the case, the salesman declared. he \v?? going to take justice into his own hands. "When he comes opt of the court - hou e, I ant going to till his full of holt s!" the enraged man insisted, de spite Blodgett's protests, Ready for the worst, Blodgett wrote a story of the murder, together with a detailed account of the trouble leading up to it and a life history of the participants. He hurried to the .sheriff with the information and was laughed at. He warned the farmer, who declared the joke was on Blodgett. But as the farmer stepped through the court house door, the salesman drilled five bullet holes in him with a pistol. Blodgett flashed word to His foreman to start the press, ami before the body of the dead man could ke re moved from thtv street copied of the paper containing the murder "scoop" were being sold. Assigned to "cover" a pitched bat tle between two women's organiza tions, Blodgett called on the city edi tor of a local newspaper. "Get out of here quick!" the editor screamed at him. "If anyone sees you here he'll think I am taking sides. I'll give you the whole story at the hotel tonight." True to his word, the editor entered Blodgett's room with a manuscript, written in long- hand, giving every detail of the battle. It' was imme diately telephoned to the Indianapolis paper. The next day the editor clipped the story and and printed it verbatim, headlining ;t, "The Infamous Bill Blodgett in Town!" In other- head lines, he told indignantly how tho fair name of the city had been besmirched, but all the while his heart danced a little jig, for "Bad Bill" had given him an opportunity to use the story he dared not print as his own. At an important function he was reporting, Blodgett's paper sent him an order to appear in a dress suit. Unable to find one in the town, he wired his dilemma to the boss. A message came back, "Get a dress suit!" Always resourceful, Blodgett called on an undertaker friend and per suaded him to part with his official sad array for a few hours. He was warned that a very sick woman was cNI'o tnl to die, and if she did ho would have to surrender (ho suit ov cause tin* undertaker the embarrass ment of appearing out of form. Thb meeting was well under way whe^i Rlodgott saw his friend making for him on a i\un. "She's dead!'* he shouted. Wodgett swapped clothes without missing a detail of, the affair. in hectic days, Blodgott's passion to tell the truth, lot the lash fall where it might, often jeopardized his life. He walked the middle of the streets at night accompanied by a bodyguard Of close friends and ad mirers. Taken unaware, after a J^t light with a real estate agent in Anderson, Blodgett turned in time to see liis adversary reach for a revolver, lie acted quicker and sent a bullet through his foe's hat, tiring from a distance of six feet. After that he practiced pistol shooting until he could pitch a hat into the air and put thro#., holes in it before it reached the ground. Full support of the people swung to him when, as an uncompromising foe of political crookedness, he broke the town bully's nose with the butt of his revolver during a stre.et battle. All through the Mexican trouble that preceded the world war Blodgett was on the border with the United States forces. When the call to the colors came in 1017 he was assigned to various training' camps in this I count ry. As a stafT correspondent and fea ture man of the Indianapolis News for 'M years, Blodgett wrote stinging sarcasm, deep pathos or gems of rhetoric with equal skill. No political convention was complete without him, no " ? k u ! !du ggery " hnd he*'*'' tnld until his story appeared, and nothing had been praised that his remarks did not crystallize. "JBilly was a go-getter.^ He never i kicked on an assignment, and he ; never failed to deliver the goods." Henry Corbin and Fred Corbin, natives of Oconee county, have been ! arrested at Fairfield, Ala., charged with the robbery of a bank at WaJ | halla several weeks ago. The ca.se was worked up by a detective who j found out the number on the torch : used to open the safe. He cor j responded with the manufacturers ? and the sale was made to the Corbin ? brothers who operated a shop near j Walhalla. ? No. HIK _ STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK LOCATKD AT CAMDKN, S. (\, AT Til K CLOSN ()K HUSINKSS MARCH in st, 1024. Resources. I ,oaus and Discount s . , !'/<?, 144.38 Ovvrdrafii 8,120.28 Bonds ami Stocks Owned by t ho Hank.. . . ... 22^U9.80. Furniture and Fixtures . ? ? ? . .. 5,902.1*1 Due from Hanks and Bankers . . . . U5.2T5.44 Currency v, . ., 4,843.00 CioW ?;??? .. ., ... ,/ 1,030.00 Silver and Othyr Minor Coin. . , . ... . * (,741.05 Chocks and Cash Items ; 40,41 1,0 L Total . ? *,7. V. ? ; ? '. ? . $(502, 302.78 Liabilities. Capital Stock I'aid In ....$ 00,100.00 Surplus Fund. . . 20,000.00 Undivided Profits, less Current Kxpenses and Taxes Paid...... 8^331,12 Individual Deposits Subject to Check. ........... 305,747.30 Savings Deposits 100,8.'t8.W> Time Certificates of Deposit 24,080.03 Certified Checks . 1.212.H4 Cashier's Checks . 3,445.73 11 4,031.00 Dills Payable,. including Certificates for Money Borrowed.... 30,000. 0t) Total ........ $602,302.78 State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. lleforo me came John 8. Lindsay, Cashier of the ul>ove named bank, Who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a trua condition of said hank, as shown by the hooks of said bank. JOHN S. LINDSAY. . Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th day of April, 1024. Corroet ? Attest: John Whltaker, J.r,, Notary Public. Thos. J. Kirkland F. M. Wooten, i ? s J. H. Clyburn, Directors. ' Highway Tragedy ^Near McBee. A young negro wan mot with a fatal accident early Sunday morning on the highway between McBee and Middendorf when his car ran into Black Creek at the approach to a bridge. The boy's identity and the .cause of the accident remained a Siriyctcry for ?#>vpral duvs after the finding of the .submerged car. It later developed that his name was Sams, the son of D. S. Sams, of Hoffman, N. C*, lately moved from Bethune. On his fatal trip the boy was return ing to Bethune for his wife and child. From the condition of the car it is believed the steering wheel came off as he was approaching the bridge and the car veered suddenly to the right and making a complete summersault, sunk in twelve or fifteen feet of water. The body was not found for several days. It was identified by the boy's father, who had accompanied him as far as Cheraw and was to return with him and his family to IIofTman. ? Chesterfield Advertiser. Charlotte Thompson Honor Roll. Following js the honor roll of Char lotte Thompson High- School for month of March: First Grade ? Sam Roy kin, William Rush. Fourth Oracle ? Louise James, .Mar guerite Croft. Fifth Grade ? Virginia Yming, Eii&tiuclu Sixth Grade ? Maureen Sowejl, Elizabeth James. Seventh Grade ? Thelma__ Pearce, Mae James. ~ Kighth Grtide ? Mae Burgess, Sara ,, Bruce, Frank Sowell. Ninth Grade ? Chapman Pearce. .Tenth Grade ? Mary Pittman. Hie vent h Grade ? J. T. McLeod. A Chicago dispatch says that by an agreement of 31 railroads west of Chicago and representatives of the Order of Railroad Conductors and Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, 500,000 railway workers are to re- * ceive an increase of pay that will aggregate $50,000,000 annually. A FURTHER WORD OF ANNOUNCEMENT OF OUR We wish to thank our many customers, incidentally they will thank themselves, for giving us the op portunity of serving them since our sale was put on, and right here let us correct the impression about ^ this removal sale: we do not intend to go to Europe or live anywhere else" except Camden. So when we told you this was to be an honest-to-goodness sale, we meant every word of it. Ask those who have 4 0 j t visited our store and made purchases. They are our attestors. From now until we move to our new ? place at the corner of Broad and DeKalb streets all of our stock of Jewelry, Silverware, Watches, Dia monds, etc., will be specially priced. It will pay you to call. ? ? / * Our line of engraved wedding and school invitations and engraved cards are reasonably priced. M. H. Heyman & Company JEWELERS AND OPTOMETRISTS 1026 BROAD STREET _ TELEPHONE 316-W - ? ?