Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ociety Alter Many Years. The *vi)K that once I dreamed about, The tender touching thing, radiant as the rose without ' The love of wind and wing; The perfect verses to the tune Of woodland music set, As beautiful as afternoon, Remain unwritten yet. jt is too late to write them now The ancient Are is cold; I No ardent lights illumine the brow As in the days of old, 1 cannot dream the dream again; But when the happy birds Are singing in the sunny rain . I think I hear its words. No longer doth the earth reveal Her gracious green and gold; 1 ?it where Youth was once and feel That I am growing old. The lust rip from the face of things .j Is wearing all away; 1 Like one who halts Vrith tired wings, I sit and muse today; Mrs. McLeod Entertains. A lovely party of the week was given Monday afternoon with Mrs. Alfred* McLeod as hostess. The cheery brightness of the rooms was in strik ing contrast to the dismal rainy af ternoon outside. Eight tables were attractively arranged for bridgi. Mrs. Frank Hopkins won the score prize, Mrs. Robert Marye cut the consolation. - After cards a salad course with sandwiches and coffee was served. kirkwood Book Club Meets. The first meeting of the season for the Kirkwood book club was held at the hospitable home of the retiring president, Mrs. T. Lee Little on Thursday at 11 o'clock in the morn ing. Officers for the ' coming year were elected and committees forpied. Mrs. John T. Mackey was chosen president and Mrs. Robert M. Kenne dy, Jr., secretary and treasurer* The book committee consists of Mrs. C. P. DuBose, chairman, Mrs. W. R. De Loache, Mrs. E. D. Blakeney and Mrs. J. S. Lindsay. After business a delightful social hour was spent, the hostess serving delicious refreshments. Mrs. E. D. Blakeney will be the next hostess and will entertain the club yext Thursday morning at Sars Hield. ? ? John I). Kennedy Chapter To Meet. The above chapter will meet next Monday afternoon, October 6th, with the president, Mrs. W. J. Dunn. This will be an important meeting and members are urged to attend. Officers for the coming year are to be elected, committees appointed and work planned. The meeting will be called promptly at 4 o'clock, thus giving oat' of town members time to get home before dark. The ladies are requested to remember this and be on time. ? *? 1 ? Majestic Theatre Programme Today, Friday, October 3rd. THE ENEMY SEX." I* a brilliant love-comedy of Broadway made by James "Cov ered Wagon" Cruze. Also a Mack Sennett Comedy "Wall Street Blues." SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4th. "Aiiiiam Fox Presents Charles "Muck" Jones in ?AGAINST ALL ODDS." Also the first episode of "THE FORTIETH DOOR." A Pathe Serial. And "Grandpa's Girl." A Christie Comedy. MONDAY, OCTOBER 6th. Metro-Goldwyn Presents Klinor Glyn's "HIS HOUR." Aileen Pringle and John Gil bert. Also Path^ News. < ' r.:s picture suitable for adult ..d ii- nee 8 only.) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7th. A F irst National Picture ' he Woman on The Jury." ^ ; r. Sylvia Breamer, Frank M.tv-i. Lew Cody and Bessie Love, nledly worth while picture. Also a Rolin Comedy. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8th. A_Gasnier Production "MAYTIME." "?'h Harrison Ford, Ethel Shan Clara Bow and Hollywood's most beautiful girls. time was lovetime when moth ? ? was a girl. Mr.ytime means a gay time in to dy's Mad Whirl. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9th. A Metro GoldWyn Pieture WINE OF YOUTH." h Creighton Hale, Pauline Ga ^n, Eleanor Boardman, William Haines and William Collier, Jr. The story of mad youth laughing through carmine-stained lips at yesterday's conventions. PERSONAL MENTION Mr. Betton Kennedy ,is visiting rel atives in Camden. Miss Leola Dunlap is spending $omc time in Columbia with friends, j Mrs. K?. J?\ Miller and *on, of Wil liamston; are "visiting relatives in and near Camden. Mrs. A. A. Shank has returned to Camden after spending the summer at Atlantic City. Mr. H. S. Green, of Utica, New York. a visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. LeSure this week. Miss Lena Lineberger, who has been spending a month in Charlotte with relatives has returned to Cam den, Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Muller have returned from a delightful vacation at Atlantic. City i New York and other potnts of Interest, Mr. and> M,rs. W. L. Goodale have ibeen away; f6r a week spending the time in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Messrs. George Wittkowsky and Gepi\ Wittkowsky, students at the UftWersity of South Carolina, spent several days this week at home. t ? Mrhand'Mrs. N. C. Boykin, and children and Mrs. E. Miller Boykin have returned from Ventnor, N. J., where they spent the summer. Mr. Hollis Cobb has returned from an extended trip to Boston, New ' York and at his old home In Ver mont. Ho combined business with pleasure and has been away about l,f our weeks, and Mrs. D. R. Williams and daughter, Miss Ellen Williams, have returned from Jamestown, Rhode Is land, where they spent the summer. They will occupy their Mulberry [?'hoifte near Camden. Mr. Williams ? tells us that we did not catch all of the big fish this summer as he exhib ited a kodak picture of himself and a large bass captured by him this summer. It weighed eighteen pounds. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. LeSeur, of Dart's Camp, New York, arrived in Camden this- week to take charge of the property on North Broad street recently purchased from Mrs. K. G. Whistler. They will continue' to op erate the residence as a tourist boarding place. Camden extends a hearty welcome to these new people. Mrs. Whistler will operate the Studio Tea Room near the Hobkirk Inn. Mrs. M. S. Sowell will leave this week to make her home in Shreve port with her son, Mr. Sidney Smith. Mrs, Sowell and Mrs. Smith will make the trip to Shreveport by auto mobile. Mrs. Sowell is q.ne of Cam den's estimable women and has a large circle of friends both in town and county who will regret to learn that she is to make her home else where. , , , Mr. I. J. McKenzie left Camden last week for a business trip to Bonanza, Oklahoma, where he has some land holdings. It has been rumored on the streets that Mr. McKenzie had sold | his holdings in that state for quite a fortune. The report doubtless orig inated from the fact that it was re ported that quite a strata of ^ ^d. hppn found on lands immediately ad Sing That of Mr. McKenzie and that he had been offered quite a neat - for his land. Noth.ng deflmte SX HMreports ^"e hu'S will rejoice with him in his good foi tilfie. A black beetle, which has all the destructive characteristics of the red potato bug, has appeared in cons.d erablc numbers in Cherokee town ship in Cherokee county and .s caus ing much concern among potato growers in that vicinity. When exam ined by County Demonstrat.on Agent, Stribling, he pronounced it to .be the blister bug, which some years ago made its appearance in this ' ^cUon, but which, according to Mr. Stribling, burg,' sayTthat the pests ^ dc?troved his potatoes. Stribl ? went on to say that Pans Green or arsenate of lead would kill the pes . HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS MISS LUCY V/ANTER KNOW W HUT MAKE PE OLE bMAN THOW PAT FLAT [ 'ON AT ME PIS MAWNIN' BUT 5HE AlN' THbvv IT AT ME -- SHE NE. AM BOUT THOWEt? )T THU ME.'! ? To Krect Office Building. Mr. Cieorge T. Little is having ma terial placed on the ground prepara tory fto erecting an office building just west of his residence on DeKalb struct. The building will have a frontage of eighteen feet with a depth of eighty-live teet. and will eontain six rooihc, Work will com mence in a few days and the building is expected to be completed within six weeks. Two rooms will be occupied by Dr. Clarence Dunn as a dental parlor. One room will be used for an x-ray machine. Dr. W. J. Dunn of Camden, and Dr. Ralph Dunn, of Sumter, will occupy rooms in the building and two rooms will be used as reception rooms with a ladies' waiting room. All of fices will be outfitted with entire new equipments. Dr. Ralph Dunn will have regular days each week for vis iting Camden. Sunshfne Welcomed Again. Sunshine greeted Camden and all South Carolina folks again Tuesday morning after nineteen days o^ con tinuous rain, The rainfall is said to have broken all previous records for South Carolina and great , damage was done to nearly all highways throughout South Carolina ? many of them being noted as impassable and many motorists have been tied up at various places. All rivers including the Wateree at Camden have been above flood stage. With the coming of the bright sunshine, the roads aro rapidly being opened up and it will not be long before they are all in good condition again. Bought Broad Street Residence. Mrs. Henry Truesdale has recently purchased the former Smyrl resi dence on North Broad street, just north of Miss Minnie Clyburn's resi dence and has moved into same. Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Arnett and Miss Wil bur McCallum will make their homes with Mrs. Truesdale. .The building has recently been completely re modelled and makes a most hand some residence in a desirable part of the city. Requests for Clothing. Many of our needy children and adults are without necessary warm clothing for the coming cold weather. They really need your cast off sweat er ,eoat, dress, underwear or other clothing, Anything in the way of clothing, for women, met), children or babies, will help someone to be more comfortable this winter and prevent sickness. Please communi cate with Mrs. W. J. Mayfield or Mrs. Louise Brown, Public Health Nurse, who will be glad to call for any con tributions. Catholic Church Services. Services at the Catholic church for Sunday, October 5th, will be as fol lows: Seventeenth Sunday after Pen tecost. Sunday school at 9 a. m.t Mass at 10 a. m., Sermon "The Fourth Degree Oath of the Knights of Columbus." Rev. Reddin will pub lish the oath and then explain. All are cordially invited. f)ied in New York. News has been received by friends in Camden that Adam Lee, a highly resepected cojored . man, died recent ly in . New York city. Lee left here a number of years ago to make his home in New York and at the time of his death was employed in the Penn sylvania railroad station in New York city. Lee "pulled" the old Washington hand press in The Chronicle office in the days before the power presses came into use, and was always a most respectful and relia ble man. He leaves quite a number of relatives in Camden. TO 1TBIJSH NAMKS. Of Those Who Fail To Sot |le For Their Taxes. | T,h? number of delinquent tu* pay ers will be published this year. Sheriff Welsh has mailed out Anal state ments of all taxes in arrears and If you fail to settle don't blame the shoriff if your name is published us a delinquent, for the South Carolina I law which makes it is compulsory that they -be published reads as fol lows: Sec. 527: The Sheriffs in the sev eral counties in the state, in making | levies and sales, in making returns, 1 and in paying over money collectod under tax warrants, and executions placed in their hands by county treas urers, shall be subject to the direction and under the control of tho comp troller general of the state, as th<#* are now in like manner to plaintiffs in general in execution; and the comptroller general is hereby invest ed with all the rights and privileges of a plaintiff in execution, to invoke j and obtain the aid of the court and {compel refractory sheriffs to dis I charge their duties in the enforce j ment of tax executions; and it is hereby made the duty of the said sheriffs, respectively, to make return of all tax executions to the treasurer of their respective counties, within six months after the date of issue thereof, designating such as may bo J nulla bona and such as may have been collected by distress or other wise, and within the same time to pay over to the said treasurer all taxes and penalties collected by them; and | the several county treasurers shall, at the% last term of the circuit court in each county for their respective counties, deliver to the foreman of grand jury a complete list of all tax executions delivered to the sheriff for collection and which have not been collected, and the grand jury shall examine the said list and present the J sheriff for any default or neglect in the performance of his duties relative to the enforcement of such execu tions. And in case any Sheriff shall make default in paying over within the time aforesaid any money coJlect ed on said executions it shall be the ' duty of the county treasurer and he is I hereby required, immediately to . bring suit against such defaulting Sheriff in any court of competent jurisdiction, in which suit such sheriff shall be liable to treble the amount for which he has defaulted: and in case of any loss resulting by reason of the; failure of the county treasurer to perform the duties, herein set forth, such treasurer shall be liable therefor: "Provided, that said sheriff shall make a report and turn over all monies collected every thirty days to said treasurer and not later than six months after the tax executions have been placed in his hands he shall make a complete return, that said treasurer shall, within ten days thereafter, publish in a newspaper within the county the names and amounts of all delinquents and taxes; the cost of such publication to be taxed against said delinquent as costs in such proportion as said delin quent's taxes bear to the total cost of such advertising: Provided, fur ther, in cases of nulla bonas or double entries the cost of advertising shall be paid from the county's ordinary fund: and, Provided, That all sheriffs and treasurers shall be liable on their official bonds for any violations of this act." Howell W. St. John, aged 90 years, actuary of the Aetna Life Insurance company, was killed by a train at Hartford," Connecticut, Saturday. W. Robin Zemp's Drug Store MEDICINES AND PRESCRIPTIONS AT ALL TIMES i OTHER THINGS IN SEASON FLOWER BULBS and FLOWER SEED and J.AWN GRASS SEED JUST IN | HYACINTHS, TULIPS, LILIES, NARCISSI, Etc. ? Kodaks ? Films ? Developing 1 Phone 30 Delivery Former State Officer Dead. Columbia, September 27. ? Adol phus W. Jones, 67, for 12 years state comptroller general and the ?' first | chairman of the state tax commission ' rdied here late today after an illness of about 10* days. Mr. Jones, who for merly resided in Abbeville, was audi tor of Abbeville county during early young manhood. For nine years h> -served as phosphate inspector and was in charge of state fisheries. Af ter service as comptroller general, he was named chairman of the first tax commission in 1915, during the ad ministration of Gov. Richard I. Man ning. He was said to have been first to advocate amendment of the consti tution so as to permit more eflfectivo tax equalization. Besides his widow, 1 who resides here, he is survived by his only daughter, Mrs. J. K. Me 1 David of Columbia, aiid five sons, Koy .X and_W. T. Jones,1 both of Charleston; Robert M. and Karle M. Jones of Columbia and Frank P. 1 Jones of Abbeville. I . , i J. 13. Veal, of Spartanburg, claims to be the possessor of a dog jthat has j the instincts of a homing pigeon. \ month ago Mr. Veal bought a fine ' possum dog in Royston, Ga. ,and had ' the animal shipped to Spartanburg by express. There was a change of ! tiains only at Toccoa. A few days after the canine arrived Mr. Veal j took him out in the woods and tried , him out. The dog got away and Mr. I Veal feared that he was gone for ! good when a letter came from Roys ' ton, that, the dog had returned there. ' How the canine found his way back to ^ his old home, a distance of t50 miles j j is unexplained, but Mr. Veal says he 1 intends to "exercise all due precau tions to curb the animal's homing j proclivities when he returns to Spar- 1 tanburg. The foot and mouth disease- has been discovered amongst cattle in the vicinity of Houston, Texas. More than 1,100. head of cattle have been ^condemned for destruction. Betting odds on A1 Smith that he will beat Theodore Roosevelt for gov- 1 ernor of New York were quoted in i Wall Street Saturday at 7 to 5. Mrs. Ruby Herington Tate has con- , fessed to officials at Marion, Illinois, that she put a teaspoonful and a half, of poison in buttermilk drunk by her husband, Joseph Herrington, on Sep-( ?ember 1, that she might be free to' marry. ?>. MANY TOURISTS PASS CAMDRN Big Fleet of Motor Busses Florida Bound to be Seen Here Today. The greatest single movement of tourists by, motor bus ever attempted got under way the morning of Sep tember 20 when the first contingent of a fleet of seventeen do luxe motor combos loft Chicago bound for Holly < wood, ^lorida. On "succeeding day* other busses carrying tourists de parted from New oYik. Philadelphia, Atlantic City, Indianapolis and Cleveland, the entire floet of coaches with their 350 passengers assembling at Washington, D. C., on the after noon of September 29th. After spending a day in sightseo ing in the Capital City the big motor cade started its 1,280 mile trip to Florida. The tourists will be \>n th<* road eight days, being scheduled t>> arrive at Hollywood on the afternoon of October 8. Extra busses, being I used as baggage carriers, accompany j ilie caravan. A feature of the trip and one that is being thoroughly en joyed by the tourists as well as by the people of the cities enroute, is the Hollywood Marimba band accom panying the motorcade in a specially built bus to accommodate their in | struments. The band entertains the I tourists during the clay and gives free , concerts each evening in the cities where overnight stops are made. The motorcade is attracting an un ! usual amount of interest, not only j because of it s, size, but due to the | exceptionally line equipment being I used. The busses, all of the de luxe touring type are brand new and just out of the White Company factory, I being placed in service for the first j time on the present trip. They are j the property of the Hollywood Land and Water Company, of Hollywood. Fin., and will be placed in interurban j service throughout Florida on the I completion of the tour. The motor cade is in charge of H. B. Long. After leaving Washington the motorcade will make night stops at Richmond, ltaleigh, Columbia, Macon, Jacksonville and Cocoa. The tourists will be greeted at Jacksonville by Governor John W. Martin of Florida and October 6 will be spent in sightseeing. The motor 1 cade will move on to Cocoa for a night stop on October 7 and arrive at Hollywood by the Sea the next afternoon. On the evening of Octo ber 8, at the completion of the trip, the tourist# will be entertained with a ball at the Hollywood Hotel. The navy dirigible Shenandoah is scheduled to leave Lakehurst, N. J.,* October 3rd for a flight to Seattle, Washington, and return by way of Fort Worth, Texas and San Diego, California. She will keep in touch with the 'earth by radio stations across the country. ? ; - WE WILL BE PLEASED TO SHOW YOU EXQUISITE SAMPLES OF EN GRAVING FROM SAMPLE BOOKS RECENTLY ARRIVED. COME IN AND LOOK THEM OVER. E. B. Buddin's Book Store TELEPHONE 316-J Annual Statement of The Camden Building & Loan Asaociation SERIES No. 2 Ending September 30, 1924. ASSETS Bonds and Mortgages $ 90,068.43 Due from Series No. 3 27,000.00 Real Estate Owned 2,167.69 Interest Uncollected 600.00 Loan and Savings Bank 281.81 120,1 17. 9J r LIABILITIES 1395 Shares less Delinquents $ 79,453.00 Profits ?. 21,209.43 Less Expenses 2,848.84 18,360.59 Bills Payable 22,304.34 Payments per share $60.00 Profits per share 13.16 120,117.93 / Book Value per share 73.16 Average Profits per annum 8.77 per cent. Correct Attest: R. E. Stevenson. H, D. Niles, J. Whitaker, Jr. SERIES No. 3. Ending September 30, 1924. ASSETS Bonds and Mortgages $ 76,822.10 Loan and Savings Bank : 2,912.90 79.735.1') LIABILITIES 1561 Shares, less delinquents 36,438.00 Profits 3,859.73 Less Expenses 499.21 3,360.52 Due Series No. 2 f: 27,000.00 Bills Payable 12,936.63 79,735.15 Payments per share $24.00 Profits per share 2.16 Book Value per share 26.16 Avrage Profits 9 per cent, per4 annum. Correct Attest: R. E. Stevenson, H. D. Niles, J. Whitaker, Jr.