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PUNTERS GIVEN SOUND ADVICE Mistake to Chang* Brand* of Ferti liser Kach Year?Stick to One Beat Suited far Growing Need Hy J. G. McOORMlGK Secretary and Treasurer Acme Manu facturing- Company. Kvery year at this time, you arc beget by a score of bidders for your fertilizer business. All sing more or Jess the same song, praising their own piodiu t. You don't know which 111<I to buy. Now it's a mistake to change from brand to brand every season. When you find the fertiliser suited to your need?one that brings the results you want, stick to it. Never be influenced by any slight iiliVrenee in price. What you arc after is not hopes or promises, but CROPS. You want quality and high grading too. A fall-down in either quantity' or quality will soon wipe out any small difference in fertilizer cost. Then- isn't any need to guess about Acme. This company has been mak ing fertilizers for 42 years. It is light here in North Carolina, at Wil mington, a home institution, owned and operated by North Carolinians, with a newly-rebuilt factory equipped with the most modern machinery at Acme, N. C. You are invited to in spect this plant. The formulae are open to all. You can see the in gredients, the best obtainable in the world, kept in perfect condition, and always properly manipulated. In dealing with the Acme Com pany, you are dealing directly with Mr. Gilchrist and myself. There is nobody "higher-up." If there's ever any trouble, you can get right to us, without addressing or talking to any one "in-between." You are deal ing with neighbors. You can find out all about Acme from your own local growers. Now, for goodness' sal?e, if you have been using other fertilizers and ought to get better -lesults, settle on Acme for this year; and if you are using Acme, don't let anybody talk you into substituting something else unless he will back up his talk wittr a cash bond to cover any ^amount you may lose through an inferior crop! Old reliable Acme will always "come clean" with you. Remember that when anybody tries to shove a substitute on you. II. L. Boon, a well-known tobacco planter of Stokesville, N. C.,..wrote this last fall about Acme fertilizers: "I have been raising tobacco for 25 years, using many different brands of fertilizer. Last year I used Aci^p fertilizers and had tho best crop I nave ever growti.' This year I used Acme fertilizers and have a fine crop ??k curing bright and smooth. ^Arn well pleased with results of Acme." Acme fertilizers will give you good resu.lt*, too. If you want any specialized or technical advice, write me, care of Acme Manufacturing Co., Wilming ton, N. f!?r? ? ARE SURJECT TO FINES Tardy Executors of Estates Should Take Notice Copies of a rule to show cause why they should not be removed as executors of estates for delay in fil ing reports on administration, are be ing sent out to such tardy persons by Judge of Probate G. Duncan Bellin ger. Judge Bellinger estimates there ;ire several hundred delinquent execu tors listed on the special sheet. Some of the executors will receive such formal notices requesting their ap pearance in the probate court, who have not sent a return showing ex penditures and rendering an account ing, as required by law to Judge Bel linger in three or four years. The jargest number on the list are, of ourse, not so negligent. A judge of probate is empowered to administer a fine on executors who procrastinate with their re turns. The penalty is a matter in the discretion of a judge of probate. Judge Bellinger in the past has im posed many penalties as high as $25. Mvst fines have been $20. In one instance he fined a delinquent execu tor $25 which served to stir him to promptness, but this year the same iXticutor is again listed among the delinquents. If the persons interested fail to need the order of the probate court, Sheriff Heise will get into action and Judge Bellinger is preparing to turn over the names of a group of executors who have so far failed to heed his summons. He dislikes to take a step calling on the sheriff for action, but he is required by law to got a return from all executors who have business, or should have business pending in his court. The above is from the Columbia Record of January 21st. Practically the same conditions exist here in Kershaw county, and while I have not yet imposed the fine upon any executor, administrator or guardian, unless I hear from those in arrears at an early date I will be compelled io take the same action as did the Richland county judge. w. l. Mcdowell, ? Judge of Probate K. C. When a dead seal'is brought home by an Eskimo hunter the body is cere moniously treated to a drink of fresh water in the belief that all his lif? the seal has been craving a draft of sweet water. The hunter who satisfies this ionging, puts himself on good terms with the seal's spirit and through it with the spirit* of seals still living; This, he thinks, makes for Juct ift hunting. m +? "" ' ' xy-v? V FATHER AND SONS TO DIE Heaters Convicted of Killing Green \ VjJIe County Merchant Greenville, Jan. 24, Jerry lli'.'-ln, fifty-seven, and his sons, Charlie, twenty-six, and Claude, twenty-four, this afternoon at 5:45 o'clock were found guilty of murder in connection with the murder, on the night of IK' cembter 10, of J. Ed. Thackston, prom inent farmer of the Montague sec tion of C.reenville eounty. After re fusing a motion for a new trial, Judge Hayne F. Kice sentenced tin three to die in the electric chair be tween 10 ;i. m. and 1 p. m. wn l-\ 1 > ruary 27. The conviction and sentence brought to a close a five-day trial, distinguished by record-breaking court. attendance for the county and by the fact that the case, was the first in which dictaphone evidence, had been-"admitted by a South Caro lina couVt. Too, it was the first time also, so far as local officials coull learn, that three members of a fam ily had been sentenced to die in this state. Notice of intention to. appeal the case was served upon Solicitor J. G. Leathcrwood, who assumed office Just as the trial began. Former Solicitor David W. .Smoak directed the prosecution, Another trial in the most shocking murdev case Greenville eounty has had in years remains to bo held. J. G. Floyd, forty-seven, whose signed con fession led to the arrest of the Hes ters, is under a charge of murder for his connection with it. ^Floyd con fessed that he decoyed Thackston from his store with the intention of permitting the Hesters to whip him because of Thackston's action in vot ing to convict one of the Hester - boys when Thackston was a juror in federal court trying the young man for a whiskey law violation. Floyd said his fir^t intimation that any thing except a flogging for Thack ston was to result from the episode came when Jerry Hector ordered him off, and shortly after, F<k>yd said, Thackston was killed and robbed. Thackston's widow and eleven chil dren sat through the trial. The eldest Hester betrayed his nervousness as he shifted his posi tions in his chair before he was or dered to stand for sentence, but the sons were calm. Charlie, the older, seemed to feel the weight of his troubles, but Claude gazed around the court room and steadfastly chew ed gum until the white-haired jurist began the passing of the sen tehee. Jerry Hester's wife, clad in -black and with pale, grave countenance, ?sat by his side. The court chamber -was packed to overflowing, the crowd remaining during the two hours and four minutes the jury de liberated. Before passing sentence Judge Rice spoke briefly to the men, though he disclaimed any effort at "lecturing" the men for the crime or upon the awful solemnity of their impending fate. "Now I am not going to under take to lecture you, or any one of you about this matter in one way or the other," began Judge Rice. "I want to say this, that I do not feel anything but the greatest pity for you, and it is a great trial for any judge to have to sentence three men to death at once, father and two sons. I cannot recall a similar instance of that in this state. I can not recall a similar instance any where in the state. And I want to say this, if you are not guilty I hope the truth will come out before you are ever executed." "The jury, upon the evidence which was submitted here, have said that you are guilty. If you are not guilty of killing Mr. Thackston I cer tainly hope that the truth will come to light before any one of you suf fers the penalty. If you are guilty of course it was a horrible deed, no question about that, and if you are guilty every one of you ought to be put to death. If you are not guilty, -why I say again, I hope the truth will be found out before the penalty of the law is ever visited on you. There is nothing but pity in my heart for you, but of course if you did the deed it was a horrible deed, and un questionably if you did it you deserve death. "Now, I am going to give you un til February 27. The sentence of the court is that you be taken from here to the county jail, there to be kept in safe and close confinement until such later time as you may be taken to the state penitentiary at Columbia, where you will be kept in close and safe confinement until Feb ruary 27, when you will be put to death by electrocution sometime be tween the hours of 10 o'clock in the morning and 4 o'clock in the after noon, and may the Lord have mercy upon your souls." Wyoming is known as the Equality State on account of having been the proneer in wotnsn trxxTraffe. j? * TI(>KKS MUKDKK JUKOK Decoyed From Hid Store, Wayluid and Shot III QMMVlUe ? ?.y. ? ' . I J. E. Thackston, 67, prominent fur j mor-merchant of the Montague ?sec- | tlort, whose body was found lying on ih?: tracks of the (ireenville atul Northern railroad on the early morn ing of December 21, was killed 'and robbed by Jerry Heater and his two .sons, (Maude and Charlie Hester, out of malice which they bore against Mr. Thaekaton for having sat on aj federal court jury some time pre- j viously which convicted Charlie Hes ter of transporting whiskey, accord ing to a signed confession which has just'been made by John C. Floyd, a former employe on the Thackston farm. The confession was secured by Sheriff Carlos A. Rector, Detective m W. Rogers representing dovenuu' T. (i. Mclaod, and Detect ive T. 11. Williams, of the Pfnkorton National Detective Agency. Floyd, according to his confession, was a member of a frattie?up laid by the Hesters early last month to whip Mr, Thackston for his work on the jury. A trap was laid to carefully lure him from his store, late at night, Floyd acting as the decoy, after which the Hesters were to adminis ter the beating. Instead- of carrying out the whipping plan, Floyd's con fession says, the Hesters surprised him at the last moment and shot the merchant down in cold blood. The confession goes into the case at groat length and relates how at Hesters, soon after Charlie had re turned from his federal court sen tence, early in December, laid out their plans to whip Mr. Thackston. Floyd agreed to go to the store late at night just at closing time on the evening of December 21 and de coy the merchant away. He was expecting the stork at his home and so had previously arranged with Mr. Thackston to frail a physician nt any moment. Floyd, he states in the .signed af fidavit-confession, went to the store ?on the evening of December 20 just about dark but found that Mr. Thackston had gone and was then nearly home. He called to him and the merchant returned, thinking that he would call the physician for his employe's wife. Arriving baCk at the store, Mr. Thakcston was told by Floyd that he did not want the doctor, but only camc-for a box of matches. He got the matches and paftl 5 cents for them. The two started to leave, and Mr. Thackston asked Floyd to go home with him as the latter had a satchel of money. They started off. On arriving some little distance away along the railroad tracks, Floyd swears in the confession, he saw Jerry Hester step up with a shotgun on his shoulder. Hester told him (Floyd) to run* and he did so. * Here Flpyd says he got the first! intimation that it was to be a case1 of killing and not whipping. He | ran home. Later in the night he! couldn't sleep, and finally learned! that Mr. Thackston had been horribly murdered. On running to his home from the scene, Floyd swears he saw j Cldude Hester running from the scene ' of the shooting. Soon after the killing, Floyd says in his confession, the Hesters threat ened him with death if he told any thing of the event. ' The confession declares that he had no idea that the merchant was to be killed, and that he thought ail the while that he was lending- the man into the trap only to be beaten by the Hesters. The signed and sworn confession is witnessed by Detective Rogers, and by W. K. Thackton, a brother of the murdered man. Sheriff Rector, and Detectives Rogers and Williams, mopped their brows so to speak at a late hour last night, and voiced their united belief that what had promised to be one of the greatest murder mysteries in the country's history had been fully solved. The confession, which has been in the hands of the officers for some time, has been checked up in every detail and affidavits have been secured to strengthen all points made by Floyd.?Greenville News. An unusual operation was perform ed on the throat of Edward Harrell, 5 year old lad of Tampa, Fla., who is a visitor in Columbia with his parents. He swallowed an orange seed and it lodged in his wind pipe. His life was in the balance, his breath being cut off. A doctor, who is not a' surgeon, was at hand. He rushed for a knife, cut the boy's throat, revived respiration and the youngster is doing weil at a Colum bia hospital. Men are changed to coyotes after death, the Indians of the Klamath tribe in Oregon believe, and they hav? so opposed the work of the govern ment trappers that there are more coyote* on the Klamath Reservation ?tkin in any part of the Northwest. ~' r ?.? . . ... .< .... * - - -' l?1* - 4 i J M. ? SOME TOKKKK THIS North Carolina Man kills Hog Net* ting 1,020 Pounds Saoford.?Many people were pres ent 'PuesdaO. C. Cotton, of iSanford, North Carolina's champion pork raiser, butchered his big hog. Thy hoy was three yearn old and weighed when dressed 1,020 pound*. The hog weighed 1,225 pounds before being dressed and measured hanging hn the scaffold eight feet from the tip of nose to the end of his feet. The hams weighed over 100 pound* each and the liver weighed 20 pounds. It took two horses to pull \ thjs porker from the pen to the cotton mill scales to he weighed, lOstimates ran all the way from 800 pounds to 1,000, but J. \V. IJiaki , evicted the exact weight, 1,020 pounds, . j^lr. Cotton has killed six? ? hog* Within the past six years, weighing 4,OKI pounds, or an average of 080 pounds to each hog. Other measure ments of this mammoth hog were 27 inches across his back at the shoul ders ;.nd seven feet, two inches fropi one front foot to the other after lu* was cut open. Porter l>id Not Return The city detectives have thrown out a net for Ernest Patton, colored por ter of the Jefferson, hotel, who on Tuesday disappeared after leaving the hotel with $000 in cash, which he had been entrusted to bank for his employer, Kobert W. Cain, man ager of the hotel. The negro had not been apprehended at 1:80 o'clock, and the officers are naturally silent on the progress they have made in the case. Patton has been a resident of Co lumbia for many years and had been employed by the hotel for seven ;or eight years. iJe had always "come clean" with his superiors, hence the confidnce that had been imposed in him when he was entrusted with the prospective deposit. The negro's failure to report back did not occasion any notice at fij'st, because it was assumed he had made an honest transaction; but at night when he still failed to show up, Mr. Cain called on the detective depart mint to locate Patton* Chief of? De "tceiivcs Shorter took tip the case,?? Columbia Record. paniel G. Reed, known internation ally as the Tin Plate King, died in New York last week. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS. All parties indebted to the estate of G; S. Wiggins, deceased,.are here by notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all parties having claims against the said estate will present them duly attested within the time prescribed by Jaw. ? H. S. H1GGINS, Administrator Est. G. S. Higgins. Camden, S. C., January 27th, 1925. CITATION State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. (In the Probate Court) By W. L. McDowell, Esquire, Pro bate Judge. Whereas, H. G. Carrison, Jr., made suite to me to grant him Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of Mrs. Harriet R. Jordan. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Mrs. Har riet II. Jordan, deceased, that they be and appear before, me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Cam den, South Carolina, on Saturday, February 7th next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 23rd day of January, A. D. 1925. w. l. McDowell, Judge of Probate for Kershaw County Published on the 30th day of Janu ary and the 6th day of February, 1925, in the Camden Chronicle and published at the Court Bouse door for the time prescribed by law. TAX EXECUTIONS Under and by virtue of sundry tax executions to me directed by Treas urer of Kershaw County, I have levied upon and will sell in front of the Court House door at Camden, S. C., between the legal hours of sale on the first Monday in February, 1925, being the second day thereof, the following described property, towit: 260 acres in Buffalo township, for merly school district No. 14, now No. 3, bounded north by the water of Buffalo Creek, east by W. M. Catoe, south by J. I. Bowers, west by lands of Shaw. Levied upon and to be sold as the property of estate of M. A. Shaw for taxes year of 1923. Also 55 acres Buffalo township, school district No. 34, now district 22, bound ed as follows: North by J. J. and A. T. McCaskill, south by lands now or formerly of A. A. Murchison, east by G. W. and J. S. A. McCaskill, west by lands of Estredge. Levied upon and to be sold as the property of Marth Mayo, for taxes for vear 1923. I AUo 215 acres in Flat Rock township, | school dUtrict No. 19 and bounded north by lands of Hall and Lewis, by L. Schenk A Co., eovth by I Shannon, west by public ggfo ?- "*<!>. -i?J road. levied upon and to bo sold as ttn> property of Kd Bolton for taxes of 1928. Also lOt) acres in Flat Koek township, school district No, 10, bounded north by Angiline Ohlidors, south by Sam lie 1 ton, west by public ifoad. Levied upon and to bo sold as the property of W. 1*. Childors for taxes of 1023. Also One aero school district No. 1, DeKftlb township, bounded north by Mrs, ('. W. Arthur, oast by John Ficklen, south by Win. I'orry, woU by Mrs, Ik S. Nelson. Levied upon and to' bo sold as .the property of Henrietta Mallard for taxes year 1023. Also Twu lots designated as lots 0 and io, block i>. subdivision UuJ&oao l'atk prdporty, l.c\iiil upon and to bo sola as the property of V. A. Urnnctt, for taxes year 1 ??3. Also Fifty acres of land In l)eKalb town ship, school district No. bounded north by .Joe' Katrliff. ra->t by Hlark Kivor mad, south and ' west by Nomiah. Levied upon and to be sold as the property of L. D. Jennings for taxes year 1023. Also Ninety acres DeKalb township, school district No. 2, bounded north and cast by J. 11. Moseley, south by Arrants, west by Barnes and Burgess, and levied upon and to bo sold as the property of Estate of W. B.' Boyle for laxo3, year it>23. Also 260 acres in DeKalb township, school district No; 18, Kershaw coun ty. Bounded north by J. H. Burn?, east and south by Big: Pino branch, west by Jim Lawhorn and public road. Levied upon and to be sold as the property of Emma Lawhorn for taxes year 1923. / Also *10 acres in formerly district No. 35 now district No. (5, DeKalb town ship Kershaw county, and bounded as follows towit: North by lands of McKenzie, east by Sutton lands, south by J. T. Croft and west by W .K. S. Trapp, Levied upon anil to be sold as the property of Eliza beth Sutton for taxes for year 192-3. Also One lot and building in city of Camden, Kershaw county, S. (\, De Kalb township, school district No. I, and bounded as follows towit: North by property of K, E. Watkins, east by C?. T. Little, south by Arthur Smith, west by Broad street eity of Camden, Levied upon and to be sold as The property of Jennie M. English for:taxes year 1928. Also One acre in DeKalb township, Ker shaw county, bounded as follows to wit: North, east and west by G. T. Little, south by II. G. Carrison. Levied upon and to be sold as the property of Jim James for taxes years, 192'* and 1923. Also One lot and building in city of Camden, S. lying and being in DeKalb township, school district No. 1, and bounded as follows towit: North by lot No. l.V east by prop erty of Team, south by lot No. 15 of tile subdivision of the Team prop erty, and west by Campbell street, city of Camden. Levied upon and to be Hold as the property of Wells Doas for taxes year 1923. Also " One lot with building thereon, ly ing and being situated in the city of Camden> DeKalb township, school district No. 1 and bounded as follows i towit: North by York street, east by Ed. Carolina, south and west by J. A. "Pettigrew, Levied upon and to be sold as the property of A. C. BroWn for taxes year 1923. Also Two lots with buildings thereon, lying and being in city of Camden, DeKalb township, school district No. 1, and bounded as follows towit: North by property of Mrs. D. D. Parish, and Mrs. Charlotte R. Mar shall, east by Northwestern Railroad Co., south J>y Northwestern Railroad Co., west by Mill street city of Cam den, Levied -upon and to be sold as the property of Camden Ice & Cold Storage plant for taxes year 1923. One tract of land lying and beinjf situated In DeKalb township, Kei shaw county, school district No. 1, containing 820 acres more or lettf, and bounded as follows towit: North ii> proj^rty now or formerly of Young and Holland, cast and soutk by property of G. T. Little, west by property of Collins & McKenzie. Levied upon and to bo sold as tho property of I. H. Knjjlish for taxes year 1923, Also i;>0 ai u s Flat Rock town-hip. school district No. 30, bounded north by lands-of Sanda Fletcher, east by Poller .Mcl.ure, south by Brewer es tate, west. l>y lands of C. L. Dye. Levied upon and to bo sold as the property of T. II. McLure for taxes for yiai pf l A Iso 12a acres Wateree township, school district No. 11 bounded north by T. C. Sessions, east by the waters of Twenty Creek, south by Flat Branch, \v? si |>y piopcri\ <>I A. B. Josey. Levied upon ah-d to bo sold as. the property of J. IK Sessions for taxes year of 1923. Also 30'acres Watoree "township, -school district No. 11, bounded north by the estate of J. K. Grigsby, east by Har rison Williams, south by J. M. Grigs by, west by J, (J. Kelly. Levied upou and to be sold as the property of A. Kr (Jrigsby for taxes year 11)28. Alao ' 159 acres Wateree. township, school district No. 12, bounded north by Jist Simons, cast by lands of Baum, south by S. A. L. Railway, weat by landa of Branham. Iyevied upon and to be sold as the property of S. B. Bran ham for taxes year 1023. Also f> acres Watereo township, school district No. 12 bounded north, east ?and Houth by Carolina Taylor, west by Jocksoy Rod gee Helton. Levied upon and to be sold as the property of W. M. Taylor for taxes year 192#. Also One lot and buildings in the town of ?Blaney. Wateree township, school district No. 12, boundpd north by S. A. L. Railway, east and south by street, west by Blaney Mercantile Ce. Levied upon and to In? sold as the property of the Knights of Pythias for taxes years 1922 and 1923. ? Also 7H acres Wateree township, school district f^o. UN, bounded north and east by Simmons and Mason, south by Samuel Chaves, west by Annie McLauchlin. Levied upon and to be sold as the property of L. L. Clif ton for taxes year 1923. Also 200 acres Wateree township, school district No. 39, bounded north by land of Mis. Sallie Bowen, east by Bowen, south by J. L. Iyirkland, west by land Johnson. Levieu upon and to be sold as the property of the estate Sam Mitchell for taxes year 1923. Also i . 230 acres Wateree township, school district No. .39, bounded north by ! Nancy Mitchell, south by Daniel and j John Mitchell, west by lands of es J^te_j2jLSJL_B. Branham. Levied upou and to be sold as the property of AVt M- Mitchell for taxes year'1023. Also 14 acres Wateree township, school district No. 39, bounded north land of Mitchell, east, south and west by land of Mitchell. Levied upon and to be sold as the property of Daniel Mitchell for taxes year ef 1923. Also 40 acres Wateree township,, school district No. 16, bounded north Ratdhell Jeffers and Lillie Jackson, east by Travis Reynolds and. EL JL Rotan, south by estate of Maddlea*.,. west by Roddea Mitchell. Levicgl upon and to be sold as the property of Fleming Rotan for taxes years of 1921, 1922 and 1923. Also One No. 409 right hand ball bear ing saw mill complete; , one Moore dry kiln outfit complete; one engine and boiler; one planing mill complete. Levied upon and to be sold as tke prope ft* of Beam Lumber Co., for taxes year 1923. G. C. WELSH, Sheriff Kershaw County. This Trade Marlc PROTEUS LOOK FOR IT <lA LL genuine OLIVER plow shares are care fully stamped wfth trademark shown fere. These shares and repair parts are made in the same factpry wifch-OLIVER plows. 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