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in The owner of a Ford is never in doubt /ft as to what lie can expect in service. Hd si*in/> knows what his car will do and how re/jo/mantv sturdily it wm do ?t. When bad weather and roads put other cars out of The Coupe commission, the I;ord car will stay on the job. It gft fm* will carry through slush and snow, over frozen ruts, Om V-r newly constructed roads'?anywhere. Runabout - S260 mr r-.11 r? 1 * t i i Z?*i?,t?ar ? Vin Yet rord benelits can be yours lor the lowest prices tuaor !scdtin ? #N(? , r ' . . ?- (T> ? Fordvr Aw?? - 660 ever ottered. 1 his is made possible by the elhciency On oiv n care demount' ? ' f T"? 1 V ^11 f , 1 ?6termuuiui-tancrure oi rord manu racture,- the volume ot output and AUprice* ?Ti. ihtr*u practically limitless resources. ? KERSHAW MOTOR CO. Camden, S. C. VISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME AT ALL FORD PLANTS 6 ? R COM.INS' HOin KlU \ I) fl.id Hern Trapped In (live For St'M'nlwn I>ays ('iivc <;!y. Kv.. F*-l>. Mi. ( K> I a* Associated I'lTsh.) The -'! u j.:le iwied. Mo*hcr Farth. ;11"11 ; clinging yinily and in death' U> Floyd ("oliir > for more than .M-Ven-. teen day ., finally -ui rend* 1? d at 2:hr> oYlm k ? I hi* :tf trinmm and with out waininu opened ? iu\ h.*ie Im tWeill a resr'ue >lial; tend the nature! toirih el the rave explorer. t Peeri'T d'>*.vn tii:v s inv !Y?-ure* tnl..t Sand ' ;t\>. tin- brave worker** who had wajifit m lci'ipi i' * >mb:U with the natural t"?v fit Jfn- enrtrt, saw that what ;he\ :: ad lounh'. '<>* hat.I lor had Iv**r? !<>-t I'ollins u;b dead. i'.:' ? hvy will reclaim?b+s-body, *.;i;\ ' > I. s'.iiU' it again to the rug i h !''< iu' ioamed a- a ; ?uth and 0 plore i as a man " i liai:k they've foun i him." 1 hi- \vu ? Lcr 1. oilins' -ingle ?taK*-> iim! 11 r his boy had been found. A >!atemcnt. signed by the h.yv nu n v. ho had led scores of ?s t > in tin.' long fight, told of. and paid tribute t-.? their :h>' --{ant After desci ibinu tin break' through the root* of Sand Cum- and the preliminary investigation of it by Albir; Marshal', the statement said: "II:-. game little partner* Kd. l!:i nner, of Cincinnati, whose work has been very conspicuous and of uniold value by reason of his small ?:Muic and great strength and iron nerve, wi nt down head foremost i I into this hazardous pit, and with a IiKrht closely examined the face, and position of the man who wc under stood is Floyd Collins, and called up U? Mr. Carmichne!, five feet abow . him, that- the man was culi and ap parently dead." Dr. William Tfazlctt, of Chicago, and -Dr. C. 1*. Francis, of Howling Green, Ky., announced later that Cullins had been dead more than t wenty-four . hours. Fioyd * uilins had Detn a cave c.splojer siia'e he Was a boy. He .va< li trn on a farm five miles from Sand Cave, where the Collins family live.*, and as nearly as his father . an remember, Floyd has seldom b'. i n away from the cave country. When just big enough to handle a plow, the mule one day sank to his knees in what has since been. known as Mule Cave* and Floyd's cave enthusiasm whs started. Mule Cave never developed into anything which would attract tourists hut Floyd wa? determined to find a cavern wliieh would. Three times before this experienc*?, Collins was caught in cave. Once while exploring new crevices, in Crystal Cave, he .was wedged in, a crevice and Johnnie Gerald pulled Him cut. When he w'as first explor ing Crystal Cave/ an earth slide cut him off from the -Outside but he dug his \lay through. Ivarlier in hte <'r,vc explorations he was held half the niuht in a c.'evicc in a cliff, .ah Ordien river, but managed to i Work: him.sclf loose. A fe w years afte r -Mule < ave wa < i <;?:. ovcied Ed. Turner, a civil engi n, r. lyom New Vork,w spent eight to i U n months .exploring the cave coun ; ;tv,r.'nd taught Floyd the eli?meiWur\ ;;-,uoiogy he found Useful.< Ik-twt'vii them .they located an onyx caVe, which also was inconsequential, and in Salt Cave, they found an* Indian moccasin, one of the prized souvenirs of the region. Hy this time, he had started spend ?114; his. spare time after farm duties in cave hunting. Lee Collins, his father, had taken up trapping and in the hitter winter of ID 17, Floyd saw a groundhog disappear into a "sink" 011 his father's farm. This led to the discovery of Crystal Cave, one of the lesser caves of the region. Floyd spent many days working in the snow enlarging the opening down which the groundhog disap peared and finally opened the tun nel sufficiently to permit access in comfort in the main cavern. "Floyd k-ept me reared stiff all the time," his father sai<l. "I told him that some day he would be. buried deeper than ever 1 could bury him, but Ik; kept on exploring." For three weeks Floyd had been working 011 Sand Cave, his father said. Evidences oi lires built in Sand Cave by Floyd were found by the first rescue parties, showing he ? had jried to. dry it out as he worked. The knowledge that he was work ing on Sand Cave led to his dis covery about twenty-four hours aftei lie was trapped by the fall of a boul der on his foot. Otherwise buried sixty feet under ground, he might have remained hidden forever. On his last trip down Sand Cave he had taktn along seventy-two feet of rope with which to lower himself into the huge cavern- he said lay behind him. Some' of those among the earlier rescuers who talked with Floyd said he described his ' new found cavern as "the most beautiful I have, evet seen." Geological experts and old resi dents say Floyd's Sand Cave tunnel is the remnant of ft greater cavern which once occupied the spot where the little ravine leads down to the mouth of Sand Cave. Many years Scene at Kentucky'** 'orea* Cavg Drama ^ Civilians and militia at work at the mouth of Spnd Cave, Ky., in the elfort to rescue or recover the body of Floyd Collins, trapped first in a narrow cavern by a Slid ing boulder for a full week, then sealed in by a cave-m as rescue seemed certain.? Insert is a recent picture of Floyd Collins, made dur ing one of this previous explora tions. More than 5000 people visited the scene the second Sun day of his imprisonment, finally going into a great hillside meeting. singing and prayinj for .us rev.. .-, t ago ^ r >? .apsed. Al:i-. u;,rh the nut'st for Collins had cmkd in locating his body, the tired miners, saddened by the realization that the man they tried so hard to save was dead turned, heavy-hearted, l.' the still dangerous task of recov ering hi?; body. IIwi; - of digging remain ahead of ' !\m before they can remove Col iin.s f'.om his tightly wedged posi t i<m iii t he narrow passage to Sand Cave. W hen, finally, they have brought him from his tomb. Collins* body will be consigned to a grave in the cave, after funeral services under *ne high dome of Crystal Cave, which itself stands as a monument to the man. The "monument" to the rescue workers, however, will be torn down by the hands that built it. The rescue shaft will be dynamited aj'tei Collins' body has been removed. "It is dangerous place and we j do not want any one else trapped :n there," said Mr. Carmichael, in charge of the excavation. Collins was trapped by a falling boulder, in Sand Cave at 10 o'clock Friday morning, January 30. His plight was discovered twenty-four hours later and there then began a great fight against nature to rescue him. Heart breaking disappointment was encountered repeatedly by the work ers as nature dumped one hazard yfter another into their paths. At last, however, man's perserver anee won and the limestone, roof of Sand Cave collapsed today under the weight of the .miners and dropped them into the natural passage, be tween where Collins was trapped and a "squeeze" which closed the nat ura! passage some ten days ago Hut their indomitable struggle to sink a shaft to save him was in vain. There, his eyes sunken, Collins lay. The man the rescuers had worked so hard and so long to save had paid with his life for his search for the earth's underground treasures. I h?.' continuously dripping water was not sufficient to keep Collins alive, the physicians said. His jaw was in a state of tension when found. ( armichael, who had been in com mand of the heroic volunteers ex pressed his admiration of the unsel fish and unceasing labor of the men "from the lowliest water boy to the man who was about to receive his A. H. degree," he said this experi em v ha* ?t lengthened his faith in human nature and that he had found the men were "09 per cent pure gold." "After twenty odd years of con struction work, 1 have never seen a trroup :,f unorganized men do work *? well and quickly," sa.d Mr. Car michael. Late tonight miners continued to timbir up the lateral tunnel and en.arge the passageway to Collins, - > thai, his body could he removed. Officials said it might take thirty six hours as the work would lack the firry energy which has driven the rescue crew constantly for eleven days. Preliminary plans to hold an in quest at the mouth of Sand Cave were made this evening. It probably will be six hours, however, before! til# i ? r ? - s IT NoT HAVE vol' CONSIDERED TH K REASON'S FOR VOUR FAILURE? HID VOL I'SF THE I!EST FERTILIZERS OR JUST THOSE VOU COULD BUY i.'!! E A I'EST? Farmers who used Congaree Fertilizers made away above the average crop last year Tins KER'i'l LIZKl; IS SCIENT1FICAI.lv MADE OF THE VERY BEST MA TERIALS AND Wil l. MAKE A CROP IF ANYTHING WILL. ASK ANY FAR MER \VfI?> HAS USED IT. HAD Vol" NOT BETTER I i I' V IT THIS YEAR? WE ;i:ee \el <;raim:s <-f conc.akee ferth.i/.ers and will make vol ('[.I >SE I'RICES. SPRINGS & SHANNON (INCORPORATED) enlarged sufficiently to permit u fir.st hand medical examination. Physician-, then will crawl to Colling and deter mine if possible when he died. As soon as the body can be brought to the shaft, T. C. Turner, magistrate for District No. 0 will assume charge of it. The. body will be brought to the surface and another, examination will be held for record purposes. Turner said a jury might be em paneled at the cave, and the inquest completed on the scene of the fa tality. A local committee will take charge of the body after the inquest and it will lie in state in the gymnasium of the Cave City High School for. one day. ~ Stdve Rogers, former jailor of An derson county, trie J and convicted oil charges of assault and battery with intent to kill, has been sentenced to serve four years on the county works. Poison mixed with medicines at the ? free dispensary of the Ohio state university at Columbus, Ohio, prob- . ably -by some "crank" is given a.s the cause of,the death of two students at that institution the first of last week. ? COLUMBIA LUMBER & MANUFACTURING CO. MILL WORK SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AND LUMBER PLAIN & HUGER STS. Phone 71 COLUMBIA. S.C. Hayes Bus Line CAMDEN TO Columbia, Bishopville, Hartsville, Kershaw, Lancaster, Charlotte. For information Phone 181, Camden Hotel A. R. COLLINS Undertaker and Embalmef AMBULANCE SERVICE Camden, S. C. Telephone?Day 41; Nifcht 380 T. B. BRUCE Veterinarian Day Phorw 30?Night Phone il4 CAMDEN, S. C. DR. G. C. 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