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l,Al> KILLS TEACH EH Horrible Crime Committed' by Over grown Maine School Boy. Klh.worth, Mi'., May l.'S. I'ltUcn Yiat'-olti Ronald McDonald u in jail on a murder charge after having, with stolid indifference, told detec tives how ho shot down nineteen year-old Louise Gerrish, a school teacher, *nd burled the body in a shallow grave. - ' Ronald's brother, thirteen, is held as a material wit ness. The boy overgrown and 0/ .sub normal mental development but cun ning, acted, the detectives said, as if he were pointing out a good fishing place or a likely place from which a deer might be stalked. He pointed out where he stood as he watched the approach of the girl teacher down the roadway where she was going to the postoflTice to meet girl chums. As calmly, as if recounting details of a visit to the general store, he told the officers of shooting her from the side of the road, lifting her body and carrying it into the pasture, where ho permitted it to remain in the open during the night, and of returning to the scene of his crime the next morn ing, hardly an hour ahead of the searching party which found the body, and of making the grave. He directed the authorities to his home and pointed out to them a cache be neath the sill of the woodshed where he had hidden the teacher's watch and rings. He told them it was his twelve-gauge shot-jgun with which he killed the young woman. Then, he went with them to the George Wil liams home, where the teacher lodged and at which he did chores, and showed them the longhandled, snub nosed spade he stole and with which he dug the grave. , . 1 ? ? I A new petrified fofest has been found in the Mojave Desert in Cali fornia. I Telephone h In America. The number of telephones in use in each of the fifteen largest cities in the United States is evidence of the important place that the tele i>hi>iu> tills in American life. New York City, with ovt-r 1,186,000 trio phoius, Chicago with over 090,000, Huston with over "370, DIM), enjoy tele phone facilities far in advance of those in foreign cities of comparable size. In fact, great nations oven wholo Continents? have fewer telephones than some American cities. There are more telephones in New York City, for example, than in the entire King dom of Croat Britain ? more than in the whole continents of Asia, Africa and Australia, combined. Chicago ;has more telephones than France; antt the telephone exchange area of Boston contains more telephones than are in operation in the entire continent of South America. The American round-the-world flyers witnessed the fatal fall of a Japapese aviator at the naval base, Kasaumiguara, Japan, Friday. Thff fatality was the result of the ex plosion of the piano's gasoline tank when high in the air. Probating Wills. The following is the law regarding the probating of wills: > Section 5362. That every person having in his possession any last will and testament of any person here after dying, within thirty days after notice or knowledge of the death of the testator, deliver such last will or testament to the Judge of the Probate Court having jurisdiction to admit the same to probate, 'and thereupon the such Judge of Probate shall file the same in his Court, and if pro ceedings for the probate thereof are not begun within thirty days he shall publish a notice of such delivery and filing in one of the newspapers in his county for fifteen days. Sec. 53G3. That in case it shall be known or brought to the knowledge of the Judge of the Probate Court I'" ?' -? ? ??"' vr.' " ' J ? Im'U '.Mil. ;.A'J ji in I mm., .w.j, ? n . ? ? , to whom any last will and testameht may ho delivered, as hereinbefore provided, that any of the devices or legatees named in such last will and testament lahors under any disability, thou it *hall be the duty of such Judge of 1' rebate to require the koii eial guardian, committee or trustee of any of the devisees or legatees so laboring under disability, to institute and prosecute proceedings for the probate of &uch last will and testa ment, where such proceedings have not been instituted by some other person within ? reasonable time after the delivery to and tiling l>y him of vSUdh last will and testament. In the event there be no such general guard ian, committee Or trustee, or if such proceedings are not instituted by such guardian, committee or ' trustee, within reasonable time, the Judge of Probate shall appoint some fit and proper person as guardian ad litem to institute and prosecute such pro-* ceedings. | Sec. 5364. That any last will and testament, including any codicil or codicils thereto hereafter becoming effective, shall be null find void as to subsequent purchases for value with out notice of property included in said will unless the same be filed for probate, in one of the modes allowed by law, within six years after the death of the testator. Sec. 6365. That any executor or other person who shall fail to deliver any last will and testament, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as a misdemeanor. Sec. 5365. That any executor, de visee, legatee, guardian, attorney or other person who shall fail to deliver any last will and testament, including any codicil or codicils thereto, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as for a misdemeanor. Sec. 6366. That any person who shall intentionally pr fraudulently de stroy, suppress, conceal or fail to file with the Judge of the Probate Court having jurisdiction to admit it to probate any Jast will and testa ment, including any codicil or codicils thereto, for the purpose and with the intent to prevent the institution of proceedings for its probate shall upon conviction ^hereof, be -punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not more than one year, or both, in the dis cretion of the Court. If you happened to count the gasoline pumps, as we chave done, over miles of city streets and country roads, we know you would be impressed by the lirg e shewing ol 41 Standard" pumps. In a popularity contest on gasoline a count of pumpe will prove our leadership. Made in South Carolina As you go bowling along country roads you can't help noticing how much the "Standard" pumps outnum ber others. If you are engaged in man ufacturing or in sales you know what ceaseless effort it takes to get such universal distribution, to hold the public's approval year after year as "Standard" Gasoline has done. . The "Standard" pump at every turn in the road is a monument to the in dustry, skill and optimism of the thousands of engineers, chemists and organizers who keep "Standard" Gas oline the recognized leader in its field. There is only one way we keep that leadership. That is to keep quality up to the highest possible notch and ta be constantly on the lookout for ways of raising it still higher. We have done this since the earliest days of motoring. o STANDARD OIL COMPANY {New Jersey ] ** STANDARD GASOLINE The wonderful new fuel? "Standard" Ethyl Gasoline ? now avail able at many "Standard" pumps, completely eliminates "gas knock". Jtfore power on the hills! Less gear shifting! Less vibration! Ask ?. the man at the pump about iL ^ ^ V - V ? _ ^ "Standard" it the trade mark of the Standard Oil Co. (If . J.), registered in the Umtt4 State* and many foreign country*,. CEMENT USED BY ROMANS AGES AGO Carlhagcnians Made Aque duct of Volcanic Ash . Out* hundred jout* a*o. when Abru hum Lincoln, a lad ot lift eon wu? working on a ferry *?n the V*hlo for $*'? i otolith, an Koj?Msb bilck mason named J ono|>lt Abpdln, poking uu InqulaUlvw finger luro the realm ot ?cientlllc rosea rcU. brought out uu Idea (hut revolutionized (he building world. In i lie tlk'ti of the English pateut oftlce Aapdln* Idea la listed aa putvut No. {H>S2, aud the record shows that It wo* issued by His Majesty King Qvorge the jKourth in 1824. The patent cover? "uu Improvement in the modes of pro dudng ?n urtlflclal stone." What li really mount was that the bricklayer hud Invented port laud cement, for be guve to his material tbe naiue "port land" because when It hardened It re seiubled u popular building atone foun?l on the Island of Portland. Tbe name hM ituck ever since. and Cr?ui Asp dln's til sco very the modern portland cement Industry has been developed. Although Aspdln was the original dlecoverer of portland cement he lacked a score of centuries of being the first user of ce/nonttng materials. The Romans and Egyptian# were past masters In the art of constructing wlth^ ' natural cements. Long before the Holy Roman empire was even thought of, the Carthagenlans had constructed a 70-mlle aqueduct In northern Africa, using natural cement In the course of their work- The Romans were espe cially familiar with the use of this material, and the dome of the Pan theon Is probably one of the beet exist ing specimens of their concrete work. On many of these old structures the marks left by the wooden in* are still visible. The cement used by the ancients was really a gift of the gods. It was prepared for them by nature, and they, were not aware of the chemical changes the raw materials went through that gave them their cement ing qualities. What they did was to mix slacked lime with volcanic osh. There were large quantities of this lat ter material In southern Italy. The volcanoes did for the Romans what the giant kilns do In modern cement manufacture. They burned the rock, forming volcanic ash, and when this burned material was mixed with slacked lime It made a natural cement. Vltruvltis, architect for Augustus, speaks of this material In a number of bis writings, while 1'llny discourses at length on tbe use of cement. During the Dark Ages the secret of the Romans was lost, along with so many other priceless treasures. In the United States deposits of rock suitable for the manufacture of nat ural cement were discovered about 1818 in Ne\y York state. The building of the Erie canal, which wns com pleted the year after Aspdln's discov ery, uncovered further doposits and natural cement was soon being used In various ways. Another pioneer. Thomas Mil Jen of South Bend, Ind., was In the cement sewer pipe business when he de cided to attempt to make portland ce ment. At the time he was Importing -his cement from TCngTand. He would drive Into the country with his horse and buggy and dig a few palls of marl from the lake region near Notre Dame. A pall of blue clay would be secured from the bed of the St. Joseph river, and Mlllen would drive back to his pipe plant with this material and mix It by hand. He would then burn It In a plefce of sewer pipe? probably the first embryo use of a rotary kiln. Later hei would grind the burned product In a coffee mill. John K. Shlnn, Investi gating In Pennsylvania, used a bent car axle, suspended from a spring pole, to hammer and crush his raw materials. A crude grinding maclflne, but It served Its purpose for tbe time being. Care of Teeth Taught Here are the rules of the British Dents! association for the care of chil dren's teeth: Be sure the child Bleeps | with the mouth shut. and when swake breathes through the nose. From the age of two let each meal contain some food thst needs grinding. Begin the child's education In hard foods at nlns I montbs^.by giving It a bone, prefer ably a chop bone, with a little meat on, to exercise Its gums. Do not let children drink until the end of the meal. Avoid many sweets and sweet biscuits, and only give them as part of a meal. Finish each meal with a piece of fresh fruit or crisp naiad, or, If these are not obtainable, a stale crust of bread, with butter If pre ferred, but not with Jam. Rubber Pavement Rubber pavement, which has been In experimental use in England for sev eral yenys, has now appeared in Ameri ca. One railway has payed one of its busy highway Crossings with rub ber In the belief that In the end It will save money l*y It. even though the first co*t be higher. Because the distance between the tracks Is so smsll, ordinary pavement soon breaks op under the Jolts of keavy and so causes frequent expensive repairs. Eekimoe and Indian* Same The Norwegian Arctic explorer, Christian fcMtt, fall returned from Greenland bringing' back s remarkable entographic and sootoglcsl collection for the Pea body museum In Brooklyn, N. T. Leden believes that ho has conclusively provarff that Eskimos and rodlsns are- an Identical race, He ? r r1 v nt rlila conrhnton tKromfh fhs rtmllarlty of music. ANNOUNCEMENT. For Clerk of Court. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for re-election to the office of Ch'ik of ('miit for Kershaw County, subject to the rules and regulations of the democratic primary. J. H. CI/YBURN FOR H SI* R BS B N T ATI V IS To the Democratic Voters of Kershaw County : I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the House of Representative* from Kershaw County, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. ? Very respectfully. NORMAN S, RICHARDS. For Superintendent of Education. I hereby announce that I am a candidate for the office of Superin tendent of Education of Kershaw County subject to the rules and regu lations of the Democratic Party. J. TEAM GETTYS. I hereby announco myself a candi date for the office of superintendent of Education of Kershaw County, subject to the rules of the democratic primary. My life work as a teacher in the public schools of the s, tat o, I think, should qualify me for this im portant office. Respectfully, T. M. McCASKILL. I wish to thank my friends for an nouncing* me for County Superin tendent of Eddcation for Kershaw County. After considering the mat ter I will make the race and will appreciate the support of the people. I have disposed of my business interests and therefore I am in posi tion to devote my time to the Super intendent's wvrk, which I will do if elected. 1 need no introduction to the people of Kershaw County; niy work and record is known, I. J. McKENZIE. FOR M AGISTRATE AT BETH UN E The many friends of O. E. Mangum hereby announce him as a candidate for Magistrate at Bethune in the coming primary. Mr. Mangum is fully competent and if elected will fill the office fearlessly and fairly, and he will be found in his office six days in the week. VOTERS. FOR ROAD SUPERINTENDENT At the solicitation of my many friends throughout the county, I here by announce myself as a candidate for the office of Road Superintendent of Kershaw County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic primary. D. T. YAIiBROUGH. I Hereby announce myself a candi date for Road Superintendent of Ker sha\\P County, at., the approaching primary election, and pledge myself if elected to faithful and efficient ser vice. G. W. TURNER, The many friends of Mr. Alex A. West announce him as a candidate for Road Superintendent of Kershaw County, subject to the rules of the Democratic Primary. MANY FRIENDS. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for Road ' Superintendent for Kershaw County, subject to the rulej^ <.?. of the Democratic primary, S. H. MIOKLE. > ~FOR CORONER I hereby announce myself as a can didal fur the office <>r Coroner for Kershaw County, subject to the rules Of the Democrat ie primary. ?* W. F. RUSSELL. The friends of Mr. Amos West hereby announce him as a candidate for Coroner of Kershaw Covlnty at the approaching primary 1 election. Mv. W'esv i,s quirk, alert and is fully capable of filling the position. MANY 'FUIENDS. TDK M AC IS I K V I F, I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-nominatfon for the office of Magistrate for lOeKglb Township, Kershaw County, South Carolina, subject to the rules of the Demo cratie primary. SAMUEL N. NICHOLSON, At the solicitation of my many friends in and around Bethune, I hereby announce myself as a candi date for re-election to the offico of Magistrate, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic Pri* mary. ,1. E. COPELAND. We ,the friends of K. T. Estridge. announce his name for the office of Magistrate of Bethune District of Korshaw County ami pledge that he will abide by the rules and regula tions oT the Democratic primary, FRIEND'S, FOR COUNTY DIRECTOR I hereby announce myself as a can didate for County Board of Director for DeKalb Township, subject to the rules and regulations of the primary. J. N. McLKOD. To the Voters of Dekalb Township. I hereby offer my name for re election to the office of Director on the Board of County Directors ? sub ject to the rules of the Democratic primary. H; G. GARRISON, SR.. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for the office of County Direc tor from West Wateree Township, subject to the rules of the Demo cratic primary. J. L. HINSON. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for the office of County Director from Wateree Township, subject to the rules of the Demo cratic Primary." EARL II. BO WEN. <. We hereby announce Victor Ward as a candidate for County Board of Directors from Wateree Township, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. Friends of West Wateree. FOR CONGRESS I hereby announce that I am a can didate in the Democratic primaries of South Carolina, for the nomination of Representative of the 5th Congres sional District for the 69th Congress and I take this opportunity to thank the people of the District for their loyal support in the past and to say that I shall endeavor to deserve their support and confidence in the future.. W. F. STEVENSON. SOUTHEASTERN School of PRINTING 508 8 u n"onE STR EEnr", * * ?. , This great kchool, established by the printers and publishers of the South, offers great opportunities to young men and women to learn some branch of the printing industry, Linotyping, Monotyping, Hand Composition, Proofreading and Platen Press work. $80,000 equipment. Intensive train ing methods. A good education is essential. Printing pays good wages ? $25 to $50 per week. Send for free eatalog. It is fully illustrated and will give you detailed information. A good trade is a great asset for any young man or woman. SOUTHEASTERN SCHOOL of PRINTING, ?08 Union St., Nashville, Tenn. Fearing the Worst THEonerchant who has no sinking fund tucked away in bank is turning his de livery wagon into a hearse Loan & Savings Bank CAPITAL $100,000.00 4 Per Cent Paid on Savings Deposits WRITE US ? , . For prices on the following .... ? -f- > ? Shafting, Couplings and Hangers, Flat Shaft Boxes and Pillow Blocks, American Steel Split Pulleys, Wood and Cast Iron Pulleys, Pipe, Valves and Fittings, Injectors, Lubricators, Steam Gauges. ? Everything for Boilers and Engines. Iron, Machine Bolts, Cap and Set Screws. .We handle everything needed by a sawmill man or arty one operating any kind of machinery. COLUMBIA SUPPLY COMPANY : *23 W?t Cwnb St. gg. Mtnakit, $. C