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/dciety By Mit?H Louiite Nettle* ' MAY. How gracious Is the light that gleams Across the dancing billows, ' Or with a chastened splendor bourne Above the drooping willows! How fair are May's benignant feet O'er rugged vales and mountains And how her magic pulses beat Beside the brooks and fountains. What month so magical and bright, So rife with vernal glory, AH garmented in ato and fight, ? - ? Like some Arcadian story? Oh! fragrant is the breath of May In tranquil garden closes And soft yet regal is her sway Among the springtime roses. Visitors Complimented. Mr. and Mrs. C. O. YVhitaker en tertained at an enjoyable bridge par ty Tuesday evening, honoring Miss Mary Coogan, of New Jersey, Mr. ttmi' Mrti. Burnet-Whitakei', of -- K-t-r? shaw and Mr. John Heath, who is a student at the United States Naval Academy and at home on a vlsi*. Spring (lowers filled the rooms and before the games a buffet supper was served. Mrs. Kirkland Was Hogtess. Complimenting Mrs. Bradshaw, of Orlando, Fla., and Mrs. Henry De Sa^ssure, of Charleston, Mrs. T. J. Kirklarid was hostess at a bridge party Tuesday mprning. \ The tables were attractively ar ranged in the airy, cool and pleasant rooms. The score prize went to Mrs. John W. Corbett, who presented it to Mrs. Henry 4)eSaussure. The honor guests were also remembered. At noon a tempting course lunch eon was served. Services at Grace Church. Services at Grace Episcopal church on Sunday, May 4th, will be at. lltOO o'clock a. m., conducted by Mr. J. Nelson Frierson, of Columbia. There will be an important meeting after the service and members of Grace church are requested to attend. Clean Up Cemetery Lots. All persons owning lots at Ceme: tery are requested to put them in or der before Memorial Day, May 9th. On Tuesday and Wednesday, May 6th and 7th, Mr. William Whitaker will have the city carts there to haul out trash. Cemetery Association. The annual meeting, of the Ceme tery Association was held Monday afternoon. It was quite an encour aging1 fact that more members than usual were present at this meeting. Several important matters of busi-j ness were brought up and discussed, it was decided to increase the price of lots at cemetery from 10 cents per square foot to 20 cents. The former price being much lower than lots in cemeteries in other, cities or towns. Election of officers followed and resulted in present ones being re tained. The Association wishes to make an earnest appeal for a larger member . ship. Each family owning a lot at the cemetery should have one repre sentative in this organization. It is only by membership dues, $1.00 per year, sale of lots, and a small appro priation from City Council that funds are raised to pay the keeper. Surely the people of Camden will come to the aid of the Association and by a large increase of membership help to keen -the grounds in this City of our Dead, a spot dear to all hearts, in good order. Many of the present membership are persons who live elsewhere but have loved oiies sleep ing here in this old Quaker Cemetery. Will not many of our citizens help this good cause by joining the Cem etery Association and payjng the an nual dues of $1.00 per year? Who will be the first to send in their name ? Majestic Theatre Programme TODAY, FRIDAY, MAY 2 Jackie Coogan in "DADDY'' With Mildred the pig as his leading lady.. Also Our .Gang in "Big Business" and a Jackie Coogan Contest SATURDAY, MAY 3 Charles (Buck) Jones in "THE VAGABOND TRAIL" And a Christie Comedy "Stay Single" And "Fighting Blood" MONDAY, MAY 5 Starting Pathe Serial "THE WAY OF A MAN" By Emerson Hough Also Jack Pickford in "The Hillbilly" TUESDAY, MAY 6 Pathe Presents Florence Vidor in "CONQUERING THE WOMAN" A romance of a wilful woman and a willing cowboy. WEDNESDAY. MAY 7 Richard Barthelmess in THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE" Something in this you'll never forget. Also a Rolin Comedy THURSDAY. MAY 8 Irene Rich and Monte Blue in "FLAMING PASSIONS" Just different enough to be interesting. ( Also Psthe News PERSONAL MENTION. Mrs. Henry DeSaussure, who has been visiting relatives and friends hen\ left Wednesday afternoon for her home in Charleston. Mrs, liradshaw, of Orlando, Fla., is visiting her lister*, Mrs. T. J. Kirkland and Mrs. Henry Savage.* Mrs. W, J. Maylield and Miss Ethel Yates were visitors in Columbia on Tuesday. Miss Mary Rlackwell, a popular teacher in the Camden High School, visited in Winston-Salem last week. She attended the annual Moravian Musical Festival in that city. Miss Marion. Watkins, who is in training at Maker Sanitarium in Charleston spent the week end with homeft?lk?, r - -?-w ? ? Mrs. John Singleton, of Greenville, was a visitor in Camden last week. Mr. and Mrs. Aiken Hull and Mrs. E. S. Nettles, of Cheraw, spent last Sunday in Camden. Mrs. T, K. Krumbholz and daugh ter, Miss Klara Krumbholz, left Wed nesday by automobile for Washing ton, D. C., where they will spend some time, later going to Albany, N. Y. Miss Jennie Smith Hpent the past -weed end in -Sum tor with hn1 parents. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Ambler, who have been spending the winter here in their home on Fair street have re turned to Cannondale, Conn. Mr. C. J. Anketell and family left Wednesday for the north, after spending several months here. Miss Emmie Alexander was the week-end guest of friends in Sumter. The many* friends of Judge W. L. McDowell, the popular judge of pro bate, are glad to know that he is able to be at his office again after a severe illness. ? Mrs. J. Y. Reese, of Congaree, was a visitor in Camden last Saturday. Mrs. Robert E. Allen and little daughter, Ellen Douglas, who have been spending several weeks here, left Wednesday for Greenville, where they will visit Mr. Allen's parents before returning to their home in New York. M rs. William King, Mrs. S. W. van Landingham and Mrs. Lee Little were visitors in Columbia this week. Woman's Auxiliary to Meet. There will be a business meeting of the Woman's Auxilliary, Branch B, at Grace Episcopal Church on Fri day afternoon at five o'clock. All members are urged to attend. Services at Synagogue. Services at the Jewish Synagogue on Sunday, May 4th, will be at 3:30 in the afternoon, conducted by Rabbi F. K. Hirsch, of Sumter. The public is cordially invited to attend these services. Memorial Day Exercises. This year Memorial Day is to be celebrated in Camden Friday May 9th as the 10th falls on Saturday. The usual dinner will be given the Vet erans and the Girls of the Sixtjes and will be served at 12:30 in the new Presbyterian Sunday school room. The chapter president, Mrs. W. .7. Dunn, extends a cordial invitation to all to make her house their home for that day. The rooms and verandas will be cool and inviting and con ducive to chats of by-gone years. In vitations are out, have Jieen mailed to the Veterans, their wives and widows, but if for arty reason one has been delayed or misplaced we hope they will not stand back on ceremony, but come right along. A warm welcome awaits everyone. An interesting program will be given at 5 o'clock in the afternoon at the cemetery. ? , ^ John D. Kennedy Chapter to Meet. The above chapter will meet Mon day, May 5th, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon with Mrs. D. D. Parish. Mrs. Frank L. Zemp and Mrs. James B. Wallace will be assistant hostesses. This will be the last meeting before Memorial Day and will only leave a few days to perfect arrangements for that occasion. Every member is urged to come. An important meet ing; do not forget it. Things Worth Knowing. Petroleum Reserve No. 4 in Alaska is being surveyed by a party of geol ogists who depend for transportation on 140 Eskimo dogs. The reserve in cludes an area of about 35,000 square miles in the extreme northwestern part of the North American conti- 1 nent. For more than eighty years Maiden ! Lane in New York city has suggest ed the jewelry trade. Now firms i which have been established in this street for years have made arrange- j ments to move to a new center on i 47th 3treet. This is due to the grad- j ual trend northward of both whole- I sale and retail trade that has been j taking place for some time. The amount of electricity used in Italy has more than doubled during the past ten years, rising from 1,961,000 kilowatt hours to 4,281,000 ! kilowatt hours. Most of tfiis elec- j tricity is produced by water power. The larva of the California pe troleum fly lives in petroleum pools and dies when removed from them. The adult fly, resembling any small black fly, is poisoned by the very ele ment in which it hat passed its earlier lifa. files ok camdkn papbr Presented to University By Mr. l>. K. Williams. (Froju Wednesday S StatoV Kleven volumes of the old Camden Journal, covering the years 1822-1841 and 1848-1849, have been presented to the University of South Carolina library by David Rogerson Williams of Camden. Mr. Williams is a great-grandson of Gov. David Rogerson Williams, and a grandson of Senator Stephen I). Miller. He is a great nephrw of (Jen. James Chestnut and from the nW?a?w'nt> he , jjthorUg^ "Ww? [herry," the old family home, built about 1820 by James Chestnut, father of General Chestnut. "It ?s very probable," said . Robert M. Kennedy, librarian at the university, "that Mulberry was built by Robert Mil s, who buiit the Washington monument. Mulberry was built at the same time the Presbyterian church in- Camden ?nr,i Min^-J^uUt--Xb^-vhurav--iV- ^ thought that be built the house av the Same time.'; "The Williams and tho Chestnuts were great savers," Mr. Kennedy said. "They saved lots of things that other people would have thrown away, consequently Mulberry has a splendid library and great many val uable papers." Mr. Williams has almost a .com plete file of the old Journal, but he has given the university only eleven volumes, which fill in gaps in then flies. Several Western universities and libraries have offered Mr. Wil liams his own price for these valuable old volumes, but he would not sell them. On the suggestion of Mr. Ken nedy, Dr. W. D. Melton, president of the university, asked Mr. Williams to give some of the volumes to the library. The name of the paper ^ changed three times during the years covered by the files now at the university. At first it was called the Southern Chronicle and was published by George Waller Tarbox. In 1824 the name was changed to the Southern Chronicle and Camden Aegis, and in February, 1825, it became the South ern Chronicle and Camden Literary and Political Register. x January 21, 1826, the first number of the Camden Journal appeared and by that name it was known as long as it lasted. The Journal had a longer life than any other Camden paper. Mr. Kennedy could not iff all exactly when publication ceased, but ; he said that it was certainly within ; his memory and he thought *since 1000. The volume for 1848-1849 is of larger size than the ten earlier ones. The makeup of this paper would be considered' decidedly conservative to day. Of course, at that time, no glar ing headlines or large display type were used. Most of the advertise ments were about two or three inches square, while a few important ones were longer. Advertisements for runaway slaves were numerous and notices of lot teries, one to be held for the benefit of the South Carolina Academy of Fine Arts. Each advertisement for , a fugitive slave carried a stock cut of a slave with his trousers rolled up and a stick with a bundle of clothes slung over one shoulder. One slave holder was 'trying to trace a runaway negro woman. The notice of the t ine Arts lottery was carried at great length on the front page, > lere, many advertise ments were alw lys printed. Mr. Ken nedy said that very likely there were advertisements of lotteries for the benefit of churches. Charles A. Bullard was editor of the paper at one time, while it was still the Southern Chronicle, and then tfte slogan of the paper was "Our Country, Our Whole Country." The news carried in the paper at that time was of course not very "live" news, by present* standards. It con sisted largely of communications sent in by outsiders, and long reports of speeches. There is a letter in one of the later issues praising the bravery I of tho Palmetto regiment in the Mex- | ican war. These papers cover very important and interesting periods of the history of South Carolina and the United States and with them the files of CamdeA newspapers in the library are almost complete. Baptist Church Services. Regular services are held at the Camden Baptist Church every Sun day and prayer service every Wed nesday night. We are making great progress under the leadership of Dr. J. H. Boldridge who is supplying for us. Sunday May 4th, Mr. John P. Graham will preach at both service^. Every member is urged to attend these services and visitors are wel come. Though she is only thirteen years of age, Katherine Jones, of Harrlsburg, Pa.f p'ayt full back on a boys' foot ball team. Irttcrt'stiiiK Talk by Missionary. Under the auspices of the Women's Auxiliary of Grace Church, Camden, tho Kev. Mr. Haines, missionary to Liberia, who is now on u furlough in this country, gave a splendid lecture at the Episcopal church he^e on Mon- 1 day night. He stressed the necessity of mere help from the home church the American chjurch at huge, to the nor of the cross to those who live in men she sends out to carry the ban darkness. Not only is a missionary expected to preach but to teach, to minister to mind,, body and soul and to give them mort1 than an idea of industrial ' pursuits. Ho likened the Missionary to a pIumber HeiU oj^l by an organization to do a grrot pUve* of work and when he gets to the place finds himself without the tools to accomplish that for which he was sent and has to borrow anything that he can find to help. him. The missionary societies from the other churches were especially in vited to be with us and it gave us ' great pleasure to welcome thaw. After the services were over the congregation adjourned to tho Ex change tea room to an informal re ception to Mr. Haines, Mrs. W. P. Cornell and Miss Kamsaur, a mis sionary to our mission at Granites villc. Cakes and punch were served and u pleasant hour was enjoyed. It is hoped that the different mis sionary societies will bo brought closer together in the work that we are all engaged in and a spirit of mutual helpfulness will be prevalent in our midst. Publicity Chairman. M ss Herbert Was Hostess. An enjoyable btydge party was given by Miss Mazie Herbert on Thursday evening, complimentary to her'house guests, Mrs. T. J. Clyburn, of Asheville, N. C., and Mrs. Eugene Edsterling of Barnwell. The parlors of the Commercial Hotel had a pleas May narcissus were used in profusion ing decoration of white and green, and the dainty color scheme was carried out in detail. The score prize was won by Mrs. Cecil Brasington and each of the honor guests received a pretty and useful reminder of the pleasant eve ning. After the game the hostess served a salad course with iced tea. To make a new hole in a sewing machine belt, heat a hatpin very hot and |t will pierce the belt like magic. Catholic Church Services. Services at the Catholic church on the second Sunday after Easter, May 4th, will be as follows: Sunday school at 10 a.m.; mass at 1 1 a.m., sermon on "The Good Shepherd." All ure cordially invited to attend these ser vices. ? , Teachers' Examination. The State Board of Education has ordered that the. next teachers' ex amination. be held in Camden on May 9th and 10th. All applicants are ex pected to be present at the Co'wt House at nine o'clock. ALLEN B. MURCHISON, Sec. County Board Education. /ETNA IZE" WHEN ? "your accident comes" and a person ia injured, would it not be a com forting feeling to have an AETNA - AUTO LIABILITY POLICY standing between you and the heavy claim for damages that is almost sure to result? Phone now CAMDEN LOAN & REALTY CO. AETNA-IZERS Phone 62 C?mden, S. C. ANNOUNCEMENT ? . .. - . ? ? " ffc' ? - \ We have purchased the business and equipment of the Camden Ice Company and expect to give that will be unexcelled. Ice Books on sale at office. If anyone has any complaints please call phone 18 CAMDEN ICE COMPANY, Inc. ALFRED M. McLEOD, Manager Cyclone Insurance The rates in this class of insurance are so low that nobody should be without it. The aw ful calamity in our neighboring county brings us face to face with the fact that these storms are not confined to any area and that at any time a like devastation may strike us. Windstorm in surance covers damage due directly to wind, whether falling trees across buildings, total or. partial destruction, water damage resulting from openings made by wind, or in fact any loss sustained over twenty - five dollars caused by windstorm, tornado or cyclone. The rates for dwellings and outbuildings and contents in Camden range from 15c to 30c per $100 a year; 3 year policies written for 2 1-2 annual premiums. Five year policies at 4 annual premiums. Hail insurance on buildings and con tents at 10c additional. DO NOT DELAY PROTECTING YOUR PROPERTY, as the clearing of wooded lands is making these storms more and more frequent. The Williams Insurance Agency f- " Telephone 52 77U