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Children Killed In Peculiar Mu_ Three children were electrocuted *' high-power electric transmissh wire which broke and fell a? the suit of a rifle1 shot, at Hoberdell a small town four miles from here about 0 o'clock this evening. ~'tt - 7 TAX NOTICK OfTicb of Treasurer, Kershaw County, cCamdeft, S. C? Sept. 12, 1924. Notice ia hereby given that the books will be opened for the collection ?f State, County and School tajue from October 15th, 1924, to March 15th, 1925. A penalty of 1 per cent will be added to all taxes unpaid Jan uary 1st, 1925, 2 per cent February 1st, 1925, and 7 per cent March 15th, , rato per centum, for Kershaw County is as follows: Mill* State Taxes 6 0-0-1 School 4 County Taxes 1) Vi Hospital ..... % School Taxes 3H Total 23 DeKalb Township Road Bonds, for DeKalb Township only... 3 Vi Dog Tax $1.25. All dog owners are required to make a return of their dogs to the County Treasurer, who in required to furnish a license tag. All dogs caught without tho license tag the owners will be subject to a lino of Twenty ($20.00) Dollars. The following School Districts have special levieu: School District No. 123 School District No. 2.......... I9i School District No. :i 23 j School District No. 4 15; School District No. 5... 8 School District No. 7.. \. .. . .. . 8 School District No, 8.. . \ . . . .. . 8 ?School District No. 9.../ 4 Scnool District Nq. 10.. J. ..... . 5 School District No?*N,l+r^. 15 School1 District No. J 2 18 School District No. 13 8 School District No. 15. ........ . 8 School District No. 10 8 School District No. 19 8 School District No. 20.. 4 School District No. 22 23 "School District No. 23.. ... 11 School District No. 25. 8 School District No. 27 8 School District No. 28... 8 School District No. 29. . . 8 School District No. 30 8 School District No* 31 . . 8 School District No. 33. 8 School District No. 35 15 School District No. 37. . . 8 School District No. 38. ........ . 8 School District No. 39 14 School District No. 40 25 School District No. *11 8 School District No. 12 8 School District No. -1(5 8 School District No. 47 ... 8 Tho poll tax is $1.00. All able-bodied male persons from tho age of twenty-one (21) to fifty (50) years, both inclusive, except res idents in incorporated towns of tho county less than 2,500 inhabitants, shall pay $3.00 as a road tax except ministers of tho gospel actually in charge of a congregation, teachers employed iii public schools, 'school ( trustee*?, and persons permanently disabled in the military service of this State and persons who nerved in the War Between the States, and all per sons actually employed in tho quaran tine service of this state and all resi dents who may be attending school or college at the time when said road tax shall become due. Persons claim ' ing disabilities must * present certifi cate from two reputable plrysicians of this county. All information with reference to taxes will bo furnished upon applica tion. I). M. McCASKlLL, County Treasurer. fed 16; .ie, aged 9. IVarl M?i'? ?&ro are that Ar AIN INDlCTJat targets with a id that one of the Accutttd <j pyvver wire under Grand I standing. >f the bullet was suf ?ficier^ to break the wire which fell upon the boy, entailing him and hol<l 4ng him helpless. Kthol and Willie; seeing his plight, rushed in to extricate him and were themselves caught. It is supposed that they,were killed almost mstant -ly. Neighbor? discovered the three dead children, according to reports, within a few moments after tin- last shot of the rifle. Information here js thnt there were no eye-witnesses to the accident. The brothers and sister left home early this morning to upend the day with their grandparents in Hoberdell. The mother and father supposed them to be in safety until the news of their sudden death was borne to them here. The county coroner was notified but on a brief investigatiiw^ decided an inquest was not neccsnflry and re leased the bodies to the relatives. The occurrence caused a sensation in Hamlet, where the children lived and went to school. It is not recalled that such an accident with its pecu liar circumstances,' has ever happen ed in this section before.? .Monroe Kriquirer. Lookout Hoot blacks! A London dispatch says thai the possibility of many Greeks, Italians, and negroes being out of employment in the near future is_Jiie_Jinn ounce ment of the invention of an* auto matic electric bootblack. Guaranteed to clean and polish ninety pairs of shoes an hour, the machine is sai.l to be infallible, except that it will not clean, black and brown shoes at the same time. The shoes are placed in line on a kind of flat chute at one end of the macluiTTT-^the operator presses a switch, and the shoes begin to move along the chute into an opening where each shoe in turn is cocked up on end, sent into the in ternal parts, and emerges in about forty-ffve seconds at the other end spick and span, MAKES AUTOS GO 49 MILES ON ONE GALLON OF GAS SIOUX S. Dak.?.James A. May of *147 Laeotah Bldg., has perfected an amazing new device that cuts down gas consumption, rer moves all carbon, prevents spark plug trouble and overhauling. Many cars have made over 4i> miles on a gallon. Any one can install it in five min utes. Mr. May wants agents, and is offering to send^-cne free to one auto owner in each locality. Write him today. HERMITAGE WAREHOUSE CO. CAMDEN, S. C. The above Company is now prepared to receive Cotton for Storage. They will be licensed by the United States Govern ment and under Bond, thus assuring* the Highest Care and Protection. The offi cers will gladly give all information as to charges, etc. C. H. YATES, F. M. ZEMP, ? Presdent Vice-President <i. A. RH A ME, Secretary R. W. KIRK LAND, Warehouseman MADAME CAMILLE PALMIST Tells Past, Present and Future Tell? just what you want to know, without asking a single quea tion. Tho veil of mystery removed. If in trouble, call and consult thi? gifted woman. Tolls business affairs, love affairs and in fact, everything pertaining to your welfare. The Bible speaks in many places of the power of the palmist to predict the future things and give warning*. She removes all evil influences, tell? you how to ffftln success in Business, Ix>ve, Marriage, Health, Law Suit.', Spec ulation. >nd in fact everything. She has helped thousands. She 1 Satisfaction guaranteed. Opn day and nisrht. AU fldential. IN PARLOR TENT Motor Co. CAMDEN, S. C. I McdKE'S COTTON LETTER [(iiven Comprehensive Explanation of j Fluctuation* of Cotton Market Anderson, S. C., Dec. 29.~*On ac count of cold weather in the cotton belt during the past few days, which probubly killed off many boll weevil* cotton advanced about 50 point* Sat. i urday in sympathy with coca cola. The short* were caught betwixt the Imrn and tho back door by the long* [ who hold spot cotton last week, and naturally calicoes and apron check* and Mah Jonng seta will bo cheaper after i o'clock next week. Dog tail cotton is too weak to wiggle, but middling averages are ?clling on basis and basis is low. Wheat and trAc tors are strong, while oats (wild ones) are being sowed all over tho country. Wo advise further holding and (,\l(f8er watching and advise that you lock your Ford. i Liverpool opened this morning with a jerk while New York followed suit with a decline of 10 points on account of th?' Balkan war balk-in. Spots are weak to unchanged, but basis has been lowered 50 points so that tho cotton mills can make 25-cent outings out <>f 22-cent cotton et cetera, ad litem, doc sciatica et tu Brute. Ex ports were off bales from Hester's estimate, and that effected low mid dlings at Gulveston ami Bolton. Tho farmers are planning to make a 15 million bales next year so that they can to the poorhouse in 1926. Texas holds the record of. electing Ma Ferguson as her governor and mak ing about two-fifths all the cotton produced this year; that's what a woman governor will do for a state. Let's tfet one 2 years htnee. -Ander son Daily Mail. Mother of Leo Frank Dead . New York, Jan. 2".?Mrs. Ray Franks, mother of Leo Frank, who was lynched near Marietta, (la., in 11H I is dead here from heart disease. Frank was convicted of murder of a 11 year old ^girl in a pencil factory and was sentenced to death. His lynching followed announcement thai the governor of Georgia had commuted his sentence to life im prisonment. ? Mrs. Frank had never recovered from the effects of her son's. con viction of the murder of Mary Pha gan, a girl employed in the pencil factory, at Atlanta, of which he was the manager. Since his arrest his mother had been broken in health and spirit and for some time has been under the care of a physician. She and many others believed her son to be innocent. Last night a relative tailed on th^ telephone and when the switchboard opereported there was no an swer, a belj boy was sent to her room and found her 'dead on the floor. An ambulance surgeon said death was due to a heart attack. The Mohawk Destroyed Lewes, Dela., Jan. 3.?The Clyd6 liner Mohawk, whose crew Thursday night fought a losing battle against flames in the hold while the shin fought ihe winter's worst storm lies today in forty feet of water near th.* Delaware breakwater, the scuttling of the vessel having been forced by the steady sweep of the fire, mean time, the more than two hundred pas sengers and the crew of eighty had been taken off and were on the way to Charleston. Jacksonville and New York by spe. al trains. The Mohawk, which cost #1.000,000. and its cariv i are believed to he a total loss. Woman Hank President Mrs. Mayde M. Andrew* has hit elected president ..f th. \ndr.w 1 Bank and Trust comparv. .? a h.u.k j organized at Andrews. The ' fetock is $2o,000. _ Mrs. Andrews probably the first worr.a:: in Suit Carolina to hold the position of pr. . ident of a bank. She i< a former 15. n nettsville girl, being, U-f.?:?* }>,?: fn.i riage, Miss Mayde Mathesor. nur.g est daughter f the 1 at* \ .! M ? son. ? Pee Dee Advorn?< <e.| The house Frida\ of Representative .1 K. Hyrno pro. viding for the payment of $2,000 to the estate of Filer MeCloud "in full compensation for property .?r. Paris Island, which was destroyed h\ the United States marine corps for mil tary reasons." MeCloud was a negr<>. At the beginning of the war the go\ ernment, taking over Paris Island for military purposes, confiscated the real estate of a great number of ne groes, it is understood, The claim of MeCloud is the firift acted upon. It is anticipated that in lieu of other set tlements, which does not appoar cei ? tain other bills will soon be intro duced. Mrs. to have p??rt, IndiM^nsiderably but his ihu chaijJBported as slight. bers t&r as is known, build it i really deserves the eing the largest building 1 fe the . elfht-fttory Unit* klyn. oor at BqpHal GENERAL NEWS NOTES / . ' Officers of the inter-allisd control commission found in Berlin the other day ft secret arms depot in which there were 100,000 machine gun bar rels. Fourteen people lost their lives at Saltville, Va>, on Wednesday of last \yeek when the mountain gorge in which they lived was flooded by the bursting of. a flood of muck from its pocket in the hills above. The secretary of the treasury is trying to get silver dollars into cir culation again. He is asking the as sistance of the banks. His plan is to put'40,000,000 silver dollars into the hands of the people. The Allied Council of Ambassadors has notified Germany that the Co logne bridgehead will not bo evaCUv, a ted on January 10 because of num erous evidences of Germany's failure to live up to the provisions of the treaty requiring disarmament. The worst storm of a hundred years swept over Great Britain on last Saturday, doing damage to the ag gregate of millions of dollars and killing hundreds of .people both on land and sea. Joseph, M. Adams, for forty-five years editor of 4he St. Louis l'ost Dispatch, died at his home in St. Louis last Sunday, The thermometer registered (fifty degrees below zero at Marquette, Michigan, Sunday. The orange crop sustained serious damage in a number of California counties during the recent cold snap. William Green, newly elected pres ident of the American Federation of Labor to succeed the late Samuel Gompers, was formally inducted into office last Tuesday. The senate has passed and sent to the house a bill that will allow Mrs. Edith Boiling Wilson, widow of the late president, a pension of $5,000 a year. Mecca Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of New York, on Monday af ternoon opened its new mosque, re cently completed at a cost of $2,500, 000. Mecca temple is the mother tem ple of the world and has more than .12,0(h) members. Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler, vet eran epic poet of Berne, Switzerland, artd winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1010, died Monday, aged 80 years. Major General Robert Lee Bullard, native of Youngsboro, Ala., and for forty-three years in the United States army, will be retired from active service on January 14, when he will be given a testimonial banquet in New York by high army and state officials. He was one of the leading American officers in the World war in France. One hundred persons were killed, twenty injured and several thousand rendered homeless by an explosion of gunpowder at Otaru, Japan, a fish ing town, Saturday night. Mrs. Florence Prag Kahn, widow of the late Representative Kahn of California, is seeking appointment a3 congressman to succeed her late hus ba nd. W. B. Green, Fairburn, Ga., banker who has been serving a five year sentence for trying to burn the bank's books to cover up an embez zlement of $-10,000, has been pardon ed by Governor Walker. Gre^n had served all of his sentence except 23 days. Tin- Federal coast guard captured (iff the coast of New York on Decem ber 24, a British schooner, three mo tor boats, and a quantity of liquor, the whole thing valued at $500,000. At Mount Vernon, Illinois on De cember 24, Mrs. Elsie Sweeten was sentenced to 35 years and Rev. Law rence Hight for life for the murder r,f Mrs. Sweeten's husband, Wilford Sweeten. Fifty armed men held up ami rob bed a passenger train near El Cobr:i, Mexico, on the day after Christmas. A woman and six soldiers were killed in the fight that followed. William M. Ritter, founder of the Kitter lumber company, of Colum bia-, Ohio, on Christmas day announc ed the distribution of quarter of tus capital stock, amounting to $2,000,000 to employes of his com pan Thr?M< dead and 31 seriously ill fttom poisoned liquors was an an nouncement from Relvue hospital in New York on the day after Christ mas. Wheat prices reac hed $2.00 a bush el at Portland, Oregon, on December 2f>. W. ( . Hcnnies, inspector of the city of Columbia's engineering depart I ment, was fatally injured Christmas ; day when a machine in which he '?was driving had a headon collision tt* ith a car driven by J. I). Hast of the Rast Furniture company of An derson. The average unemployment in the United States, year in and year out, is 10 to 12 per cent. In numbers, American unemployment affects from AM ta tx numon peraom. - ' - USB TOO FEW STA'MPS Many Business1 Houa*a Are Reported (iuilty of the Practice Insufficient postage on *lrst cla?s mull h?8 assumed such large propor tions that it is presenting a serious problem to the postal authorities, ac cording to P. K. 1). Nagle of the transportation division of the depart ment of commerce. Writing in Commerce Reports, Mr. Nagle says that the records of post offices all ov^r the country show that the volume of first class mail mat ter on which there is postage due is now so great that the deficiency in prepayment of postage* must bo caus ed by something other than prdlnary errors in weighing. "The fat't th<*t first clas mail de livered to certain firms and com panies carries only one 2 cent stamp on letters obviously weighing more than one ounce," he continues, indi cates clearly that these firms are making it a practice to have their salesmen and field representatives prepay only the first ounce of any letter, regardless of its weight. This method may facilitate the keeping of accounts and9 the handling of funds, but it forms a serious detriment to the postal service. The United States postal laws and regulations require ,tho delivery to the addresses of any first class mail mat ter on which oue full rate of postage ?that is, two cents?has been pre paid. The deficiency on such matter is collected on delivery to the ad dressee. The purpose of this provis ion, of course, is to expediate the handling of mail matter and to pre vent the holding up of underpaid first class mail at the office of origin or of delivery. The law, of course, ? is not intended to encourage the prac tice of^tM^iling underpaid letters. "The actual effect of such a prac tice is to delay delivery of the mail, since this underpaid matter requires special treatment at the office of orU gin and at the office of delivery, and any saving that might be affected through the establishment of such a practice is usually offset by the loss entailed through delays in delivery. In addition, however, to any slowing up in the delivery of underpaid mail to the addressee, the practice is de cidedly unfair to the postoffice de partment and to users of the mails in general, since it puts an added bur den on the postal service, imposes an extra cost on the operation , of the department and slows up the delivery of all classes of first class mail j through the extra work placed oh the postal employees. "Business houses having the inter ests of the general business public at heart should realize that full payment on first class matter at the time of ?mailing is a duty of every one using the service.?New York Times. Change of Brand ( Ambitious' canvasser, to browzy housewife?"Good morning, madam; could I interest you in Dr. Bing's j marvelou* new. hair restorer ? Its j high alcoholic content is a wonderful stimulant for the scalp and " "Nope; we don't want any. My hus- j band's off the stuff. He's drinking perfume now." getting up nights Can be stopped often in 24 hours. To prove that you can be rid of this j strength sapping ailment, have more pep, be free from burning sensation, pain in'groins, backachre and weak ness I'll send you Walker's Prostate Specific free and postpaid under plain wrapper. No obligation. No cost. If it cures your prostate gland trou ble, you can. repay the favor by tell ing your friends?if not, the loss is mine. Simply send me your name and prove that you can feel 10 years younger and be rid of prostate trou ble. I. B. Walker, 2488 Gateway Sta tion, Kansas City, Mo. Weakening Night Coughing Banished Very Simple Way It to really astonishing how a per sistent, exaggerating couuh that hag kept you awake night after night, and i rapidly wearing you down in usually stopped ?hurt by a Very simpio method. llundieda have found that they can ?!?*:? the whole nlghUhrough undisturbed often the first time fte method la based on a reiunrkabic pre script ion known as Di. King's New Discovery for Coughs. You simply take a teaspoonfui at night beloie retiring mid hold it in yourthro.it for 15 or to seconds before swallowing, with put following with watej;. The prescription has s double actipn. It not only soothes ana heals soreness snd Irritation, but it quickly loosens and removes the phlegm und con^ s tion which srethe direct eeusa of thecoughmg. Getting at thn cause like this, in a perfectly _ ^ ^e spells almost instantly* ?t night's rent perhaps in This simple treatment is splendid not only for coughs and chest colds, but also for bron chitis, bronchial asthma. hoarsene*9 and al most every kind of throat irritation, including children's spasmodic croup. Very economical too. as the dose is only one teaspoonfui. On sale at all good druggists. Aakfor FOUL MURDER CLEARED Three Men Charged Witlr Killing Greenville County Merchant Greenville, Jan. 6.?A signed con fossion obtained by Governor Mo Legd's detective, ^V. W. Rogers, Sher iff Hendricks Rector and Officer T. P. Williams of the Pinkerton Detective agcncy, from,John C. Floyd, made public early this, morning, asserts that Jerry Hester and his two sons, Claud and Charlie killed and robbed J. E. Thackston, 57, Montague .merchant, December 21, five miles from Green ville on the Hendersonville highway. Floyd, according to the confession, was a party to a plot early last mont'i to waylay and whip Mr. Thackston because, as a member of a federal court jury, Mr. Thackston voted for conviction .of Charlie Hester on a charge of transporting whiskey. Young Hester was. convicted. ? A trap was laid carefully to lure Mr. Thackston from his store, Floyd's confession says, Floyd to act as the decoy and the Hesters to administer the beating. Instead of carrying out the whipping plan, Floyd continued, the Hesters at the last moment sur prised him by shooting, Thackston down in cold blood. The confession goes into the case at great length. Floyd was an em ployee op Mr. Thackston's farnir~ which he conducted in connection with his store. Floyd and the three Hesters are lodged in the Greenville county jail, having been placed there by Sheriff Rector. Officials will not permit them to be seen by any one. Clemson Student Killed Edgefield, Jan. 2.?Robert Strom, 19, years of age, son of E; L. Strom, of this place and a student at Clem son, died this morning from the ef fects of an automobile accident which occurred last night between here and Johnston! Hfc, in company with Burt McManus, were traveling in a Ford, the latter driving, and while descend ing a hill the car began to skid and McManys, who became alarmed, threw on the emergency brake, caus ing the car to turn over three time;?. The deceased was caught under the car and suffered a fractured skull, McManus escaped without injury. This is the second fatal injury that has occurred in the family within the last month, the grandfather of the deceased, Reas Reaput Strom, Sr., having been gored to death by a bull at his home in Greenwood county about three weeks ago. Governor Alfred E. Smith has been inaugurated governor of New York for the third time. Don't Carry a Grouch? Carry a Bank Account It pays better to carry an ac count here, than it does to carry a grouch. Loan & Savings Bank CAPITAL $1100,600.00 4 Per Cent