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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE a. I). SILKS Editor and Publisher l'ybli.slu .l cry Friday at No. 110# I i road street and entered at the Cam Jen, South ( arolina postoffice as second Haa;< mail matter. Price per annum ( imden 8 C,, Friday, Oft. 17, 1924, The Mate fair opens in Columbia next Monday. Certain papers and certain 'citizens Hasf begun a movement in In-half of Frank Harrell, sentenced to death in (Onn^'C'tlon with the (loath of Major MoLeary, to ha\e his .sentence com muted. Harrell did not interest him self in behalf of Major KieLoary and ?tool: good care to put several states between' him and the scene of his prime in an eft'ort to get away, and it war. ' i>ly , through the diligence of office** tftiit he ever capture t}. He :? equally as guilty ijs King and should, nay the same penalty. The Sumte r Daily Item, oc'ehratM i.Lh anniversary.. Wednesday. It i- onc>^of the. best small dailie . in South Carolina and en.ioys a liberal, support ? f rom th'tr Sn.tnrrr merchants. It is one of (he few papers.- in the ?tate that luH been under the same management for a UKe number <?f years. N. ( J. ( >Kteon. now s I years Old, is the oldest pew spaper man in t he state still in actiVa, fcervire, 'l?here aic iiow three, gem-rations of this family iti the company: N. ( ? . Osteon, II. it. Ostein, and II. I). ()4wn, lit Greenville News i^ nut at all ?-?n!T~'rir>rt wil h 'HI*' ' praV-'iee that the ? v hai :iv, oi propos iti). < -!?<!- 1 1 * 1 1 1 1 ? 1 1 it ! -t ?i*<- m 1 tm-ii t- ti? hr I 'V'.ci en in t lit* gem ral t iiu tii.it with ? i any . pievioij-. diseussion in the primary campaign. There Hit* a 1 a ?'K - num.bet of pi opo.-a-d amendments to t!f constitution, -ome of them al ii n"' jit revoluhonai > hi their character an I the people are being asked to pa "s* on *honi virtually without infor mation. It dors seem that .some way h >u!d la provided t<? give the people a fit tli* light. :? t least, lu'foi vTHey are a- ki d to hotid themselves tor $10, mio.om to He >penl. nobody knows ex actly how. Hie seeond conviction of Kdmund h Migham,. notoii ai. alh-^rd slayer of live, and tlH-d^T'oi tJuXmurder of hi-. brother- Sm^ey. meets with geti e : al . approval- Hicham has been making mur.keys nut of the law since Ins I'frst eonviction several years ago; hut now that his resources- must be about exhausted he will probably pay the' penalty. Yorkville Krujuirer. I he Ih^ham Case. Two South ('arolina juries have de flated K. |). Hicham guilty of mur der. After each of the convict ions lie ha- appealed to (he supreme eoui t and secured a new tria*. W ill this procedure lie repeated? The Hicham ia-c has he ome a rc ar.dal in South < 'arolina. The rec to d i-- a leproaeh to the court? and t<> e\ety lawyer in the "tute. It is i lepiuaili t<? evei y citizen. 1: ha- s aleil, :'*i i h : s that a man t on ?> ved <>1 mur der need Kit lea: punishment in South ('aioJ.i.a long a In- has iiinnej with which t > pa\ lawyer.-. I i.i ( o;n !? ,ti" \\ ill.ry t. en.ourage h; i t! ?.i t .- ., de!a ;. . The i et m il pian > written :n the Hicham ease, and v...! hi- foolish !??. intelligent ma:; ' > attempt to mislead i' "i di-'t-:' tf --Spartan bui*: Sun Speak i: g ah \\ a -king t >:t'* vMo;\, eves > h<MU v. .o ; intei es'ed in ba-rb.i!!. and piaitaakv ?\er\ bod\ is. i r ;oa e> tl.a* t I.i ^tcat \\ a i (??! .lohdMin. pi:*hir? ??:.!. r\t:ai>t dinar y. who had I..- fir-t t wo . if. at ?- :i ? kc l?. \ '..in big (.and in ? he (h la ) > ? i Nil -. A . ! . : . i; a.- ba - o ha ! ! s I: a ! 1 i ? t . ?..( '? *i , tiv w I . ;t f ? J in* ! .1 ":.'u e :.v t "e ba-iha'. haii ol ?> ? \ dm: \\ > < a " - 1 a ; . :< tin- t ? . .? .... . ! >? e.gnt ? ? :i:. i tiiki h.- r g.i'.t t n ? i m * mi- i>-\. and a ma.-- i \\ i 1 1 ! ? i\* ag< . though ha*, krd i:a : t!. - ti -. i pool team. :.u i . ??.!..? I'here bill o.'.e p a'l.iti .r. . ' ! ' k.r - i bit i ' ; u i ha i art er i ? Is <? ,i " * f < ?? ri men . :i 1 - 1 I <.I 'u ; : ; . ' .. ? ' ? .i I ii.i tn i.i' g ft- a- li?hn t . ' I ;k ke> ! t. 1 1 i 1 r , a rvl ' ittmg . :: nation t : t: ^ . .a .i ... . t >: .. ? : . ? ei -u:-k ! ?. h i r>a ' ' ' ; n-1 The man u !? srrrar 4 ^ the juii. i|> ? ^ he LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE That Ton Million Dollar Bond I##ue. Kditor Camden < ?)?? onit-U* 1 1 icems to m? tho attention* of the people should be called to the fact thai at the ensuing election <m Nov ember 1 1 }i they will have to vote upon the question, of authorising the- State to i ut: ton million in bonds for im provement of the .State institutions. This appears to me as a very extrava gant proposition under the conditions tlvic confront the State, and fraught with afloat danger of ubuse. It is far more important that such a sum bo expended on the highways and bridges of the State, and the local schools, than that .more Corinthian columns decorate its- public building.".. It is true tho Joint Resolution pro vides that two of the ton millions bo applied to high schools -leaving the lion's share of eight millions t'or tho statu institution*; Thfck. bait looks very' much like sugar coating to the p;lh While' of.<our:?e all -U?o~*Lat*?-in .??' t\i : tons could doubtless use a groat a i\ount;of inftijuj towards their* on !;tigon;ents, with exception of the Ji<??.|o4kI for -thtr insctnc, nnd an office building, there would seem to be no ut!'( ti< y for Huch rapid expansion and "tnT.riviVve 'oultiiy '??while. flic State' is wri.tliing under sh6rl crops, ami heavy laves. Thus. .J. kirk land* \ Statement From C * ? % it* League. A> seen b\ | > i o^ rani- distributed in town this week a very entertaining Iv'.i:' !esijue entitled "Uanger" under tlui .ttliUi. direction of Mrs. J . J. (in'r i.Mui of A limit.* i- to be presented ui vke school auditorium on Friday < vi ?! mg. As this is a Civic League luti i, wv " ; i ? expecting ' 'generous .-.up'ooi t hut regret to note 11 sort of | cumpcUt ivc entertainment is to be K.ven at the .Majestic Theatre. A 4 u,? ;tll know the town is too small to n-->urc financial success to either where there is a division of patronage consequently n request has been made ! o tin management of the Majestic to postpone their entertainment w/.i? I) \\e hope will he complied with. !i:ivii;;; the monopoly here a post TTtt. -.v.i-rit would riot hurt them materially hut assist the League in ? : 4 i - . i : i_ a substantial fund for work in our niiiiiDUtiity. I 'i e > ident of the Civic League. From Mr. Little. Lditoi The Chronicle: ? Regarding | a request from an official of the local ; C:\ic League and ^ Mrs. tiarland, id Atlanta, a promoter of a Home Taicnt Affair which is scheduled i*i tl?e School Auditorium Friday night, October 17th, that I postpone a con test which I have advertised in the "Ma-.'estic Theatre on the same nfght. I declined to postpone this contest of mine, and for a number of reasons: Firs',, with me. this is a legitimate business and as much- so as there is in Camden. It's a business tlnut 1 run myself, and in which I have around $.".5,000 invested. 1 have a heavy daily expense, and this expense I must try to overcome. My money is spent in Camden with (<amde,n merchants and Taimlen enterprises and Camden banks. 1 take no stock >n foreign promoters or schemers, enmprtition with nie is competition ? m\ business .iiits me. The Majestic Ti:?aiie keeps Camden money m Cemden and i^ a Camden enterpii-e. Yours very truly, T. Le< Little, Manager, Majest ic Theat t e. < :i!M.:. S ( ( )( t. 1?>. 1l>24. Mi"- Anna Van Skite, for thirty > e;i . < a school teacher, and for ten . ? . i ' - i sun < s>fnl ?srfeteria proprie :.t I'ntMdW, I'a., is a candidate ?'oi i nii^rt > -> from the Ninth district ? I I 'enr - \ I \ a n ;a She >a\ > to the v. mil !., "( ??me out of the kitchen ? it \ h??ut> topptnl with fur atv in - : ?"! i! in I'm n HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS ra ol. t 'oma n bin hm> l<? picture too ke-.n j BUT PE LAvO HLP Mt - --! T wawT NO TROUBLE ? -i M f- T HlCOLLlC -UT ; HE LAK, J ~ , V f 4 I i . V? M-.. f i Zeppelin Crosse* Atlantic. \ II ili ulilr, I.ltkcluli -t , N, J., (>i j 15, The giant Zeppelin ZH-3. reposed m her berth at the riuval air station airdrome, l.akehurst, at 10:45 a. m. today. Dr. Hugo Kckeuer, commander or' the airship and president of the Zep pelin Company, jubilantly declared as his foot touched the concrete floor of the airdrome: "Gentlemen, a new world's record ? 5,008 miles of con tinuous flight. ?' "The first part of our voyage was fine," Dr. Kckenor continued. "The last part was full of heavy weather. From 6 a.m.. Tuesday to 5 a.m. today, we battled against the weather with a velocity of 55 to 60 miles per hour.'" "A favoring wind pushed its to ward Lakchurst, past Boston and on to New York, at a rate of 90 miles an hour. So, gentlemen, we ate hei.." NOTICE OK TRUSTEE'S i ? LAN I) SAI.K State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. ? ' ? . 1 1.'pon the written direction of B. i'.j (Jeer, president of the American Bank j & Trust Company, successors to Atn- 1 erican Hank, of (iroenville, S. C., and pursuant to power granted the undet signed by deed of trust of \V. \V. Smith, dated December .3, 1021, ti> me as Trustee, said deed recorded in the Office of Register of Mesne Convey ance, County and Suite aforesaid, Book B K, page 57, and by reason my ownership of an undivided fourths, interest in the last tract land herein described, 1 will sjell to the highest bidder Ht public -outcry i before the court house door at Cam- ! den. s. c., on salesdav in November., ? 1.U24, to wif? November next. ;.t li j o'clock a.m., or as soon thereafte. , as convenient, all the real estate do j se'ribed in said deedi of trust by t?v! m i<i \V. \Y. Smith us follows.: "All that tract containing six hun- j died and thirty (M0) acres, more j les;>, being tracts numbers 1-2-3- 1-5. (> I of tract 1') of the estate of J. N. Nicholson more fully described in pint of T. M. Belle, dated May 1, 1:H1, adjoining lands now or lately belong- I ing to lluggins, l'atts, Hilton, N\-u-| man, Clyburii and others, refererv" j being here, made for full description j of said si.\, hundn d and thirty (GliO) j acres to my mortgage to American ! "KlXTik, February i, iwJl, recorded ?n j office of R.M.C. t'<.r Kershaw Count , j S. C., in- Vol. AY, page 400, ana : j the deeds therein referred to: and j "All those two other lots or ti,a, ,. | of land in Kershaw County, Sou til Carolina, containing two hundred thirty-four and one-third (234 1 "i > acres, more or less, and two hundred thirty-five and two-fifths (235 2-n) acres, more or less, more fully de scribed in my. mortgage to said Bank February 4, 1P21, as lollows: (1) A.I that tract or lot of land in Kershaw County, State of South Carolina, con taining two hundred thirty-four and) one-third (2M4 1-3) .acres, more or j less, conveyed to me by W. K. Hough, by deed dffted .January 8, 101P, re corded in the office of R. M. ( '. or Clerk of Court of "Common Pleas for said County in Book AV, page (50.'}, and more fully described in plat by R. \V. Mitcham, Surveyor, said land known as the estate lands of Moses Hough, deceased, and now or lately bounded by \V. B. Mangum orf* the North; R. F. Hough tract No. 3 on the Fast; Rod Oak Camp Creek on the South; lands of Oscar Stogner on the West. 2. "Also all that certain tract in said County containing two hundred thirty-five and two-fifths (235 2-.")) acres more or less, as shown by plat of R. \V. Mitcham, Surveyor; same being conveyed to me by deed of R. F. Hough, dated ? I December 23, l'JIS. vc corded in said office in Book AV at Historical ! Educational! Thrilling! Powder River Official War Department Films TAKEN IN ACTION BY THE SIGNAL t OR,PS OF TrtE U. S. ARMY AND COM P!I.EDr. IN ONE STUPENDOUS PICTURp SHOWING THE HISTORY OF AMER ICA'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR ? ? ? Official U. S. War Department Motion Pictures taken by the U. S. Army Signal Corps, covering the activities of every division that saw Actual Action in France. Camera men defied death to take these pictures. Nine reels of hair-raising thrills ? preceded by 1500 feet of Confiscated German Submarine pictures, that clearly show the bar barous methods used by the Germans during their unrestricted submarine warfare. BEING SHOWN AT THE MAJESTIC THEATRE T uesday and Wednesday, ' October 21st and 22nd SHOWN BY LEROY BELK POST, AMERICAN LEGION, OF CAMDEN Admission 50c Children 25c page'iJO-l; ami also by deed of W. II. jb.ugh and others December 2'J, HMO. i recorded in said office in Rook AC at I O.'lfi. known as estate lands of Moses Hough, deceased. and now or lately bounded by lands owned a.> fol lows: No:th by Tract No. 2 of same survey, owned by M. A. Horton; East by Mixes Hough lands, now Owned by \Y. F. 'Kastridge and others; ! South by Red Oak Camp Creek; and West by tract No. 4* now or lately owned by \V. H. Hough; and "A!! that tract of land in Kershaw County, South Carolina, containing eight hundred and forty-seven (^17) acres, more nr loss, formerly belong ing to Gardner and Truesdale, said tract being in ore fully described in a of Greenville Trust Company to I.. T. Simpson and W. \Y. Smith, d:;Ud Augu'i 18, 11*1 1 , recorded in otVa t ol' II. M. C. for Kershaw county ~iH Vol. AC*, page 8.10, and also iti a deed by G. V. Stoeber to E. \V. Car i pouter, recorded in said office in Hook RHR, page 490, said land being hounded on the N'ort^h by land Oi j Queen Hough (formerly Moses i Hough) ; on the Kast by lands of j. W. I). Hilton (formerly lands of < I). R. Hilton); on the South by lands i of W. U. Clyburn (formerly Angue '.Johnson and Charles Nickelson), on the West by lands of Ezekiel Batts, and having the following metes and bounds aecording to plat of N. A. Bethune, Surveyor, bearing date October 25th and 26th, 1909, to wit: Beginning at a stake* 3x0 at corner o* land of W. U. Clyburn and the Nickelson land and running thence N. H7 W. 128 chains to a stake on Jones' land; thence in 3 E 17 chains to a stake in the run of Red Oak i Camp Creek; thence along the run of J said Creek in an easterly direction, ? th'.' run of the Creek the line., to a ; stake or. W . I). Hilton's land; thence j S. f>2 E. IK stake in the run of Red i Oak Camp Creek; thenee along the run of said Creek in an easterly direction, the run of the. .Creek the line, to a stake on W. D. Hilton's land; thence S. 62 E. 18 chains to a stake 3x0; thence S. 26 3-4 W. 59.60 chains to the beginning corner. Terms: One-third cash, balance one and two years. Interest on deferred payments 7 per cent per annum pay able annually until paid in full; in* terest on unpaid interest to be 8 per cent with 10 per cent attorney's fees on all deferred payments, same to bo secured by first mortgage on the land referred to. Upon failure of bidder to pay cash at the sale as required in said trust deed, the land to be again offered at auction until a sale is effected: Purchaser to pay for stamps and paper. W. L. GASSAWAY, Individually and as Trustee under the deed aforesaid. October 14, 1924. The Will To Help The will to help is the test of cearacter, not only of men, but of institutions. This bank has ? the unqualified will to be of help to everyone of its cutom ers and to the community in which we live. The First National Bank