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VsKNTKK VOTING LAW In Act to Provide for Voting by W ffraons Absent From Their Voting - ? During Any Primary Section -The WI?wi?K act was passed at k last session of the General As *hlv of South Carolina, and was ' ted as a rule of the Tarty at the r.X t)?moci'Mtio Convention: Jet-lion 1. Voting by Absentees at Elections; Cause of Absence. Be it enacted by the General As rnhlv oft lie State of South Caro L- W vomn being a qualified mter of this State when absent on |'"?unt of his or her business or on E-count < ' ' sukness^from bis OP her uiin>r pieoinct during any primary lection may vote as hereinafter pro T'seO Application for Ballot. ? He shall make application iu writing ,01 a ballot to the Co.mmittee on En rolment or Club Secretary, of his arecinct, not less than Ave (5) days [or more than sixiy (f>0) days prior w the primary in which he desires to vote, if he be within the confines 0( the United States, The application ' ,??y be handed to the Enrollment Confmittee or Club Secretary and the applicant shall deposit the necessary postage, or the correct amount in legal tender, necessary for register ing the ballot and full directions for [ mailing the same. But the failure to deposit necessary postage shall not 'render void a vote otherwise legally cast. Sec. ?'*. Forwarding of Ballot, etc. -The Committee on Enrollment or Club Secretary, shall, upon receipts of the application for ballot, if the applicant is duly registered, in that precinct, enroll the name and address of the applicant on a li^t to be kept by them for that purpose and deliver to applicant in person, or forward to the applicant, by registered mail the following: (A). An envelope con taining the folded ballot, sealed and marked "Ballot within. Do not open except in presence of postmaster" (or other person mentioned in Section 6); (B). An envelope for resealing the marked ballot, on which is printed the J "vcsucher," form of which is herein after provided; (C). A properly ad dressed envelope for the I'eturn of aaid ballot; (I)). A printed slip giv ing full instructions regarding the manner of marking of the ballot, in order that the same may be counted, and how prepared and returned; (E). A "coupon," the form of which is hereinafter given. Sec. 4. Form of "Voucher." ? The "voucher" called for in Section 3 and printed on the envelope in which the ballot is to be sealed up after the same has been marked shall be in the following form: Voucher, This is to certify that the enclosed ballot was received by me as per my application to the Committee on Enrollment or Club Secretary of . . . . precinct County (or City,) South Carolina. The envelope marked "ballot within," was opened by me in the presence of postmaster (or other per son mentioned in Section 0), of, . , . marked while in his presence and office without assistance or knowl edge on the part of anyone as to the manner in which same was prepared, and then and there sealed as provided by law. I further certify that l have not voU^t -4*Uowh*re in this elect iottr and Agree to support the nominee of the party. Signed Attest Postmaster (Or pri son designated in .Seetion (5). Sec. 5. Form of "Coupoh."- The "coupon" called for in Section 3 shall be in the following form: Coupon. Name (given by voter)... color ........ height age (given j by voter) .seolor of hair j color of eyes weight (estimated) birth place (given by voter) State and precinct where voter claimed to have last voted ........ To the best of my knowledge, the above information is correct and the applicant has complied with the re quirements of the law as above pro vided. > I have no knowledge Whatever I of the marking, erasure or intent of the ballot enclosed. Signed . ... ? Postmaster (or other person mentioned in Sec tion G.) See. C. Marking and Mailing Bal 16t- ? Upon receipt of the registered letter, forwarded by the Commifteo on Enrollment or Club Secretary, the voter thall not open the sealed en velope, marked "ballott within/' ex cept in the presence of the postmas ter, or his assistant, postal clerk, or rural letter carrier, or anyone author ized^ to adminster oaths, and shall then and there mark and refold the , ballot without assistance and without making known the manner of mark ing sam^ He shall then and there place the ballot in the envelope pro vided for the dame, seal the samu, and till in and sign the voucher print ed on the back of the envelope, in the presonce of the po&tmaster or other person hereinabove provided, who shall witness the same in writing. The envelope, together with the cou pon, which must be filleed out and signed by the postmaster, or other person as herein provided, shall be enclosed within the envelope, direct I ed to the Committee on Enrollment | or Club Secretary, which shall then j and there be sealed, registered, and mailed to the Committee on Enroll ! ment or Club Secretary. j Sec. 7. Receipt and Custody of i Ballot?Upon the receipt of the bal ' lot from the voter, the Enrollment Committee or Club Secretary, shall on the list kept by them, write in ink i "received ballot on date," : and shall file the coupon enclosed j with the sealed ballot with the letter of application and deposit the envel ! ope containing the ballot unopened, : in a scaled box to be provided for i the purpose and there it shall remain ; until the day of election. Sec. 8. Delivery to Managers ? On i the day of election the Enrollment | Committee or Club Secretary, shall deliver the box containing the sealed I ballot, together with application and other accompanying coupon enclosed in the envelope, to the Managers of Election at his precinct, taking their receipt therefor. Sec, 9. Counting of Ballot. ? At the close of* the Iwlloiing the box shall be opened by the managers of ?election and the ballot therein be counted along with the other ballots, ?the same being kept on a seperate list, ami the name of the voter enter ed by the Clerk <>n the poll I ? -> t . Sec. ? 10,-~-Provisions of Act to bo Liberally Construed ? Decision of the Club Secretary Final. ? The provis ions of this Act shall be liberally con strued in favor of the absent voter, and the decision of the Enrollment Committee or Club Secretary as to the necessity of any particular voter being allowed to vote by mail shall be final. See. 11. Violation of Act or Mak, ing False Statement a Misdemeanor ? Penalty ? Any person violating the provisions of this Act or making any false statement in voucher herein re quited to be made shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined not more than three hundred ($300.00) dollars or imprisoned not more than ninety (90) days on the chain gang. Sec. 12. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby re pealed. Sec. 13. This Act shall take effect immediately upon its approval by the Governor. Approved the 4th day of March, A, D. 1924. The necessary forms are being placed in the hands of the secretaries of the different clubs. The attention of the Secretaries and enrollment committees of all of the clubs, and of Voters desiring to avail themselves of the privilege given is directed to the provisions of the Act. M. M. JOHNSON, Chairman Kershaw County Demo cratic Executive Committee. | M. L. SMITH, JR., Secretary. NOTICE OF SALE Whereas, one Ford Automobile Touring Car, Model 1923, motor num ber 8315787, used in the illegal trans portation of alcoholic liquors, as for bidden by the Statute laws in this State, was seized and taken posses sion of and confiscated by me in the County of Kershaw* this State under ""and by virtue of Section 885, of the Criminal Code of South Carolina, the same being used by Fed Nelson in the illegal transportation of liquor. Therefore, notice is hereby given that I will sell said Ford Touring Car No. A31-168, under and by virtue of the law in such cases made and provided, at public outcry to highest bidder for cash in front of the Court House door at Camden, S. C., at 12 o'clock M. on Saturday, July 12, 1924; the proceeds of sale will be disposed ef according to law. W. L. STOKES, State Constable for Kershaw County. June 18, 1924. ~TT J <;knki<al nkws notks Harry Wills, New Orleans negro heavyweight, got a decision over Hartley Madden Irish lighter, at the end of a fifteen round tight in Lo.ug Island City, N. Y., Monday night. AH of the predictions were that Wills had a soft Snap before the tight, hut the Irishman guye him the battle of his life and the negro, while getting the decision had little on Madden. Alonzd Smith, negro boy, 14, died at Jamaica, N. Y., Monday as the result of being hit. on the head by a foul tij) while he was playing base ball and eatehiiig behind the .bat,1 President Ooolidgo listened to the proceedings of the Cleveland conven tion with a specially constructed radio outfit that was constructed by the navy department experts. Forest tires have been sweeping over an area of . 250 square miles in Maine during the past few days. Many logging camps bud storehouses ?have been destroyed by the lire. Forty-four persons are on trial at Kbensburg, Pa., on charges of rioting and murder growing out of the Ku KluJc Klan raid at Lilly, Cambrai county, several months ago. * Mrs. Anna Buzzi, Bronx county, N. Y., woman who has been in the death house in Sing Sing prison for sevoral months, where she had been sent following her conviction for the murder of Frederick Schneider, a contractor has been granted a new trial and been transferred to the Bronx jail to await retrial of her case. William Lebish, who vanished from New York on June 2 with $45,000 in securities belonging to a brokerage house, is being held by the police of Morgan City, La., to whom he sur rendered. He claims that he was kidnapped. He had the bonds with him when he surrendered and says he is innocent and anxious to get back to New York. Mrs. Rebecca Bean, the grand daughter of John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, died at Petersburg, Colorado, ? Wed nesday, aged 102 years. A nation-wide search is in progress for James T. Rush, expert book keeper, who has disappeared from New York with $130,000 belonging to the ,, Farmers Loan and Trust Com pany of that city. Rum runners off the New Jersey coast are demanding a dollar per case rise in the price of liquor on account of the increasing danger of being shot by coast guards who are becoming more active in trying to stop the runners, and indulging in frequent shootings to stop them. People of McCormick have voted bonds ill the sum of $35,000 for the erection of an additional high school building. Governor McLeod on Wednesday paroled Henry Scrivens and Phillip Hilliard, both negro lifers at the peni tentiary. Mrs. Mary E. Dantzler, widow of Laurence K. Dantzler, engineer who was killed in a collision at- Stilton last January, has filed suit for $100, 000 damages against the Southern railway in the court of Orangeburg county. - Luther Hosea 19, of Panalo Mill Village, Greenwood, is in jail charged with contracting marriage with a girl under 16 years of age without the consent of her parents. Hosea recently married Miss Maude Sum mers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed ward Summers cut the Salvation Army corps of Gi*eenwood. Cornelius Otts has withdrawn his candidacy for the solicitorship in the Seventh Circuit saying that he would not have entered except that he has been hoping that the supreme court would act favorably on a petition ask ing it to reconsider its previous order suspending him from practice for two years. Mauk Parks, negress, 25, of Green ville was shot and killed Sunday by Perry Pool, negro who is in jail. The body of a woman believed to be t]?it of Mrs. Nora Doyle who dis appeared Tuesday night of last week was found Saturday morning in Noisette's Creek, Charleston. Work is to begin at once on the house for babies at*Thornwe!l Or phanage, Clinton. The money is be ing provided by the synodicals of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. ( ? Claud D. Gandy, 30, agent of the Seaboard Air Line railway at Kol- a locks, Chesterfield county, committed I suicide Monday by shooting himself. I He leaves a widow and four children. I Herman John*on member of this I year's graduating class of Sumter I High school and one of the best ath- I letes in the school died in a Florence I hospital Monday following an opera- I tion for appendicitis. I W. C. Burnett, a farmer of Inman, I Spartanburg county was rendered un- I conscious Monday afternoon when he I was struck by a bolt of lightning. I Mrs. Burnett received barns from the I effects of a stroke of lightning which I straek a large oak tree la the ffoatjl yard of their home. J' You want "I THAT^ the good of a scientific lubricating chart," says the experienced Fleet Boss," when you don't take the trouble to follow it* You ought to use medium in Winter and heavy in Summer, watch your transmission grease and use a real flushing oil when you drain your crank case. Car and oil engineers together have figured out the chart. I use it for every model in the fleet ? you ought to be just as careful." Fifty^four years of experience in studying lubricating prob lems and specifying the right lubricants are back of the "Stand ard" Polarine Chart. For car, truck or tractor ? motor, trans mission, differential ? the chart is your one reliable guide. Learn what the chart says and stick to it. Most good dealers carry all the "Standard" Polarine Motor oils and greases you need and urge you to accept only what the chart recommends. t STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey ) Buy the best oil but buy it by name, and the name is "Standard'* Polarine. Three comfaxwdf * om ciixt (or your nmpf. Cbatlilt your 4??ltr't PolifiM 1 1 IJ" " ? ? ? ? ? ? - - Federal Judge Kunyon of New Jersey, has ordered the foreclosure of the trust mortgage of the Y'iis ginia-Carolina , Chemical company, covering the $24,oOO,(HH> bond issue, to insure the payment of the default ed June 'interest. Federal officers raided the apart ments ?? f l)r. Osamo Teroda , J a panes' in New York, Monday, and seized a formula for high explosives and de signs for hig|^ explosive bombs, ANNOUNCEMENT. For Clerk of Court. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for re-election to the office of Clerk of Court for Kershaw County, subject to the rules and ?regulations of the democratic primarv. j. h. clyburn FOR REI'UESKN TAT1VE To the Democratic Voters of Kershaw County: I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the House of Representatives' from Kershaw County, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. Very respect full v, NORMAN S. RICH A RDS. To the Democratic Voters of Kershaw County: In accordance with the wishes of my friends from every section of the county 1 htffeby annouce myself as a candidate for re-election to the House of Representatives, subject to the rules governing the Democratic Primary. JAMES li. MUNN. I desire to announce myself as a candidate for the House of Repre sentatives in the ensiling Democratic primary subject to the rules?*t hereof. MENDEL L. SMITH. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for the House of Representa tives, pledging to abide the result of the Democratic primary. ' ALLEN B. MURCHISON. For Superintendent of Education. I hereby announce that 1 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 GETTVS. I hereby announce 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 state, I think, should qualify me for this im portant yffiee. Respectfully, T. M. McCASKILL. ; I wish to thank my friends for an nouncing me for County Superin tendent of Education 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 work, which I will do if eleetcd. I need no introduction to the people of Kershaw County; my work and record is known. I. J. McKENZIE. FOR MAGISTRATE AT BETH UN E The many friends of (). 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 fairly7 and he will be f^und 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 f<jr the office of Road Superintendent of Kershaw County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demo - era tie primary, ? J). T. YARHROUGI1. I hereby announce myself a candi ? date for Road Superintendent of Ker shaw County, at the appvoachitiii primary election, and pledge myself it' elected to faithful and etfieient set Vio.. G, w. Tl ' kn kk. The many friends of Mr. Alex A. West anhoX'inee him as ? candidal for Road Superintendent of Kersha'w County, >u>>jeet to the ?u'es of t.he Democratic Primary. MANY FRlKNlVS. I -hereby announce myself as a can didate foi Road Superintendent for Kershaw County,, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. S. 11, Mit :k\M, FOR CORONER *1 hereby announce myself as a can didate for the otYiee of Coroner fot Kershaw County, subject to the rules of the Democrat ie primary. W 1'. K I ' SS K I ,L. The friends of Mr. Amos West hereby announce him us it- candidate for Coroner of Kershaw County a*, the approaching primary election. Mr. West is quick, alert ami is fully capable of tilling tin- position. MANY FIJI i:\DS. FOR MAGISTRATE 1 hereby announce myself a candi date for re-nomination for the otYiee of Magistrate Jo r DeKalb Township. Kershaw County, South . Carolina, subject to the rules of the Denuj cratic primary. ? SAMUEL N. NICHOLSON. At the solicitation of my man\ friends in and around Bethunc, J hereby announce myself as a candi date for re-election to the office of Magistrate, subject to tlie rules and regulations of the Democratic Pri mary. J. E. COI'liLAND. We ,the friends of K. T. Estridge, | announce his name for the otFlee of Magistrate of Bethune District of i Kerwhaw County and pledge that he will abide by the rules and regula tions of the Democratic primary. FRIENDS FOR COl' NT V 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. McLEOD." 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 or the Democratic primarv . H. G. CARRJSON, 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 H. 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. F riends 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 pa;st and to say that I shall endeavor to deserve then* support and confidence in the future. W. F. STEV&NSON. IT IS impossible to talk about bread to a hungry man without getting him in terested, or to a poor man about money without at tracting his attention. Loan & Savings Bank CAPITAL $100,000.00 4 Per Cent. Paid on Savings Deposits Garden Hose ? HOSE? Water Hose We do not ciaim to sell cheap hose, but the best at the lowest price, least can be sold at and make a legitimate profit, which we always try to make. With every order for 50 feet of Hose we will give you the best and Biggest Little Saucer Sprinkler you ever saw. COLUMBIA' SUPPLY COMPANY 92&-Wm |* Qarvitt St Columbia, S. C.