The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 09, 1925, Image 2
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
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Tell? just what you want to know, without asking a single quea
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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.
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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