Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Parents encotira&e the children to cart for their teeth/ Give them Wrlglcy's. It remove* food particles from the teeth, gtrrngt hen* the gum* Combat* acid mourn. Refreshing and beneficial ! SEALED TIGHT KEPT MOHT Il'att In ( hi'Hlerfii'W Ohestei field, July M. Ot'U* of the worst hail, storm*. that has visited this county in a number < ? f years made itH appearance yesterday afternoon. Around Ruby the crop is practically stripped of all i t ^ fruit, -only the stalk standing in both the corn and cotton fields, Around Mount Croghan the hail also made its presence felt and, helped with the wind to a certain extent; the crops are all but ruined. The storm was general in the upper section of the county, going from I'ageland over to near Jeffer son. where considerable damage was done. A report has not been receiv ed from McHee in the peach section but it i-i thought that the damage was light. OH! YES THEY DO! Balloon* give trouble free service for thousands of miles. If they're made with Supertwist ? extra elastic, extra tough. The only balloon tires made with Supertwist art? Good years. You get the point ? buy Good years ! BROAD STREET FILLING STATION l . N ^l \ KKS. IVopriflor KugagenieilV* Announced Mr*. BurtyftH J. Truesdale \yas hos tess at an unusually pretty party last Wednesday afternoon. The living room where table* were arranged for bndge was radiant with a profusion of mid-summer garden flowers, Uite in the afternoon the guest* were invited into the dining room, which was lovelv in its decoration* of white and yej|ow. Shasta daisies formed the eenterpiece of the table, which was spread with a cut work cloth, and at the four <?oi*nt>rs burned yellow tapers in silver candle stick*, rriim the chandelier white and yellow ribbons alternating wero suspended, each fastened to a minia'ure corsage of daisies which formed a lovely dec oration for the outer edge of the table. Ices and sweet.-? in thi pro vaulting ji'oloi were then served, the individ ual cakes being topped with a yellow daisy. > ? Just before leaving the quests wore told t<> take the daisy corsages which wire suspended from the chandclier 'lU favors. At the Other end of the? tibbons were, little scrolls, tied with Kvhite and yellow, announcing the ap proaching marriage of Miss Margar et Reese, formerly a very j>opular Kershaw girl> now living in Columbia, to W. Uoyt Cook, of Kershaw. The twelve guests included the most inti mate friends of Miss ReesO, two of them being Miss Ruth Shaw, of . Co* lumbia, and Miss Helen tJeiseriheimet'j of Camden. Miss Reese was present ed with a lovely piece of lingerie. ? Kershaw Kra. John M. Player Dead N'onvs of the death of John YV" Player, which occurred at hi* home near Elliott about 1 o'clock Tuesday morning was received in Bishopville 1md throughout bee county as a dis tinct shock. Death was due to an attack of acute Heart failure. Mr. Player was C>4 years of age, and had heen in splendid health up to the time of his death. .John Whitworth Player was horn near Klliott, in Lee county, March 2(>, I SOI, the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Player. All of his life had been spent in the county of his jrb-t h. He wa- twice married, fj.r st to Miss Susan Scarborough, daughter of the lutt- William Scarborough, who died about f i v ?* years ago. About two yertrs ago lu* was married the second time to Mrs. Isabel Heck Al len of Florence, who, with the follow ing children by his first marriage sur vive him: Mrs. W. J. Hammond. Mrs. M. 10. Carter. Mrs. X. C DuBose, Mrs. ('. M. Mimm.s Misses Johnnie and Frances Player of Klliott; Mrs. R. L. Carter of Leo; Mr>. I), U. Lemmon of Corning. N. Y.: and one son, J. Whitworth Player, Jr;, of Klliott. Also 'vr: gi andchildren. He is also hiirvived by tw.? brothers and four >i<ter> as follows: Mrs. John M. Smjth and Mrs. S. O. Mathis of Bish opville; Mr?. lizzie Thomas of Man ning and Mr-. -J. Manley Bradham of Pinewood; W \V. Player and Sig mond Player ?>!* Klliott, ? Bishopville MessL-ngo Henry ( iri - wo' !. one of Wisconsin's linM :!'.usti u-u- retired farmers, got j :?>, D.M) t-gg> from l'? pullets confined; a ;h"' 'i\ f l Wide, eight fee* J a\i tigh'. f -et high ia-t year, j u l.a ? . >?" ?. :7?? women to l.'V'n ]>: ? ' ! Protect Your Crops Kershaw Count v with the healthiest crops seen in many \ears may yet be forced to ask the Legislature to remit tts farmers taxes if hail visits as in the past ? and finds you uninsured. 1 he only way in vyhich you can gain protection from loss of your crop from hail is by insurance. Insure before you need help. 1 he rates are figured on the growing season and the cost per acre is the same whether taken now or later. LET US WRITE YOUR POLICY TODAY Williams Insurance Agency R. M. Kennedy, Jr., Pre?. Jt?. DeLoache, Jr., Mgr* \ ? - v H, . ? . ' ? ' . HKI.l. KIN(;iN<; AT ITS PKAK ? ... '4 Sumo < 'it i<*H Driving I'eddlfnt A* ay li> Kftii Competition ? (From (Vmnifi'ce and Finance) . "Bell-ringing" call it peddling, or house to hou.se helling of merchan dise by manufacture, iV agents if you prefer-*-ha? made such astounding strides in the United States during the past four years that retailers everywhere have elevated it to a M menace." It sells in the United States every year, according to one of the chief bell-ringers, $300,000,000 worth of merchandise. It has re-, cently wfln an important legal victory in the Supreme Court of the United States in the decision in favor of the Heal Silk Hosiery Mills. Inc., against the City of Portland, Ore. Portland had an ordinance taxing salesmen \vh ? were employed in making a house to house canvas* selling products made in other cities The; Supreme Court found this a burden on interstate commerce. The ordinance was declar ed invalid. The same decision also demolished ordinances in 480 other cities. ' ' ? ? Hut despite its superficial Jugger naut appearance, and despite this' im portant legal victory, .one who watches merchandising trends closely eaiinot escape the conclusion that plans of competition are now being put into effect and one or two pre viously neglected elements in the sit uation are beginning to work to re strict the further .spy&d of bell ringing. Peddling, KOuiner words, i> at its peak. The legal victory is not of much importance in this con nection. It is- just as well that the courts have destroyed ,the mistaken belief of a good many retailers that the proper way to deal with this bell ringing competition was to pass a law to check it. While bell-ringing economically justifies itself by per forming a service or cheapening dis tribution the retailer has no right in any system of society -or ethics to try to suppress it. How ill-advised and futile, for example, was the ef fort of a hosiery manufacturer some time ago to persuade the advertising manager of a national magazine to bar Heal Silk Hosiery advertising from its pages, rather thnn try to compete with it by producing better advertising of his own.. But where bell-ringing offers no economic* service that the retailer can not offer, and exists only because oT~ his backwardness, his laziness or his ignorance of proper methods of com peting, it can exist only as long as the retailer permits it. And what justifies the deduction that bell-ring ing is at its peak is the steadily mounting evidence that retailors are meeting it successfully on. economic grounds, devising new ways to com pote with it and circulating the news of their discoveries through their trade journals so that within a fairly short time, we .can justifiably as sume, the bell-ringer will be meeting far more efficient competition. For cr v thing, retailers are using advertising. In Topeka, Kansas, and Little Rock, Arkansas, and probably in other cities they have taken co operative space to set forth concrete reasons why women should buy hosr iery from the home store rather than house to house salesman; they point -<ut that the retailer can offer guar anteed satisfaction, delivery service, privileges of approval and exchange, standard brands and complete stocks, ard that no payment in advance of do ivt ry of the goods is required. The advt-r* <ements have brought a no titrable increase :n hosiery business .t nd a- i?'iig as the -tores ? ompete with the factory sellers in -tock a t : incnts and exchange piivileges they will hold the busine-- ? f 'heir respective coin mu ni t ies. In other towns individual ietailers have met tin- compet it uyn\\\ hosiery by advertising the sam<Jtype of hose .it the same price and placing em phasis on their store service ir. ad dition. When the bell-ringer i- in tour: the store concentrate* on hos ,er\ too. Other ietailers -end out eanvas.-ers themselves. Other- use t he telephone more extensively with good results. In another field, paren thetically, the retail grocers are try ing to aecent their service advantage uvcr their competitors, the chain ? tores, h\ putting on a "Rhone for K i" campaign. Some towns try to capitalize local patriotism by "Buy at -Home" movements; in a few places a card is supplied the housewife read ing somewhat as follows: Notice to peddlers, agents and order I takers ?We don't need your goods. Our merchants carry complete stocks and we trade at home Ry all accounts these cards dampen I the operations of the bell-ringers I considerably. Since local patriotism ! is usually subordinated to the needs of the pocketbook, however. some other motive frequently influences the housewife who tacks one of the cards on her door. What that mo tive is is suggested by Harrrf R. Wellman, professor of marketing in the Amos Tuck School, at Dartmouth, - . in the July issue of Nation's Busi ness, Profetsor Wellman says: Right now, it is necessary for even successful house-to-house manufac* titters to make appointments before their representative culls. A brush company uses postcards and also promises a "fret* gift." In fact, $o intense has the soliciting become that the housewife is not over-keen to open the door* to anyone that attempts to g i*t in without an appointment. In the old day?, th*f bi-yearly visit of the peddler was a social event. Until recently, the occasional visits of t he kitchen utensil men were eagerly awaited. In the meantime, the tele phone, magazines, newspapers and, more recently, mechanical music, | radio and the Ford car, have usurped much of the former idle time of the housewife. So, with the influx of all of tilese new salesmen, the doorbell became an irritation and the visit an interruption. Professor Wellman has other grounds for believing that bell- ring ing is past its peak. He believes that it is an outgrowth of a fairly constant over-production in too many commodities and specialty lines since the big boom broke. For three years, he 'says, this surplus merchandise has had to be scrapped through sales and hast nunt3 in the cities, and through the bell-ringers in' the country. In addition there has been a surplus of styles and models. He concludes: Just as long as this lack of stand ardization is allowed to continue and just as long as great merchandise surpluses are allowed to accumulate, just as long will selling costs per unit remain too high. And just as long as they do remain too high, the house to-house method, "to cut selling costs" will flourish like the green bay tree. Moreover, the manufacturer who has tried this method of selling house tu-house to "taky care of his sur plus," is encountering a very proper jesentment from his regular trade arid is finding his regular distribu tors unresponsive. But, he says, this period is pass ing, and with it goes canvassing. When manufacturers plan more sen sibly it will again be confined to home service items. ? The world map by Hans RuM in the Pierpont Morgan library is said to be the earliest known printed map. TRESPASSING FORBIDDEN Notice is hereby given that hunting on my lands, bordering Sanders Creek, near Shepard, or trespassing for any other purposes whatsoever is posi tively forbidden. Parties caught vio-j lating this warning will be dealt with according to law. J. D. McLESTER. July 15, 1925. , lB-18-pd NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS All parties indebted to the estate of Margaret Wylie, deceased, are hereby notified to make payment to^ the undersigned, and all parties hav ing claims against the said estate will present them duly attested with-, in the time prescribed by law. \V. L. Mc DOW ELI., Judge of Probate, Administrator Estate Margaret Wylie Camden, S. C., July 1 4th, 1925. One l>e?d; Other* Injured Greenwood", July Evo&n Ride-j ! ner, aged I M, was killed, her mother, Mr*. Adeline Ridener, was serioualy injured and four other members of, ao autonn>bi)r party en route ff(|n Lake riupateouffi N. J., to Lake Wales Kla., wer$ today *haktn up when the Studebaker ear in ? which tm y \m u- riding plunged oyef a twelve-foot embankment on the Dixie highway, in Kdgefield county, about two miles below the Green \v90d county line this afternoon. The girl was caught uiuler the , front of the ear and was badly crush ed, dying instantly, while her mother had several ribs broken and may be internally injured. Other members of the party, F. N. R. Ridener, aged I9j driver; Kleanor Ridener, 10; Robert Ridener, an in fant, IH months old, and Leslie Mat thews, a friend of tin-, family, suf fered from nervous shock. A divorced Moslem woman can marry again only if her previous husband permits. No one can tell where the chim ney swift stays from November to 'March. CITATION State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, By W. L. McDowell, Ksquire, Pro bate Judge. Whereas, W. B, Rhoden made suit to me to grant him Letters of Admin istration of the estate of and effects of Grace Rhoden. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kin dred and creditors of the said Grace Rhoden deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate to be held at Camden, South Carolina, on Saturday, July 25th, next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said admin istration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this llt'n day of July A. D. 1925. vv. l. McDowell, Judge of Probate for Kershaw County Published on the 17th and 24th days of July, 1925, in the Camden Chronicle and posted at ? the Court House door for the time prescribed by law. I 1. 1\ 3 SUte of South Carolina, I ,iint> <>f Kershaw. (Court pf Common Pleas) ,:-*j ' - Camden Wholesale Grocery, IMaintiff against \V. I.. M. Stokes, et al, Defendant! Under an order of his Honor, W. R Town^-nd, judge of Fifth Judicial < cult, dated July 17th, 1025, I win sell to the highest bidder at public auction for cash before the Kershaw - County Court House door, in (Vnden in said state, during the legal hours of sale on %he first Monday, being the third day of August, 1925, the following described real estate: All that cortain piece, parcel or tract of land, lying,, being and situ ate. in the county of Kershaw and state aforesaid, containing five and one-half acres and bounded as fol low*: North by lands of L. L. Cly burn, east by lands of Southern Kail way, south by lands of Southern Railway and estate of Levi Kir khmd and west by lands of estate of Levi Kirkland. Anyone desiring to bid at <?ai4 sale shall first deposit with the un* dersigned- Special Master a certified check for cash for the sum of one hundred $100.00) dollars as evidence of good faith which deposit shall be returned to the unsuccessful bidder at the conclusion of the sale. B, B. CLARKE, Special Master. July 10, 1025. 16-17 18 FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on Monday, August 3rd, 1025, I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Giiajrdian of ihe estate of flizabeth Brisbahe Work man, and on the same date I will apply to the said Courjl for a final discharge from my trust as said Guardian. D. A. BOYK1N. Camden, S. C., J[uly 1st, 1925. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS AH parties indebted to the estate of H. C. Hall, deceased, are notified * to make payment to the undersigned, and all parties, if any, having claims against the said estate will present them duly attested with in the time prescribed by law, . S. B. HALL, Administrator. Camden, S. C., July 11th, 1925. GRAYS VACATION TOUR All Expense, Personally Conducted TO NIAGARA FALLS, TORONTO, CANADA, NEW YORK 9ITY AND WASHINGTON August 5th to August 16th From # ? Various South Carolina Points Most economical. A . wonderful vacation tour without worry. Everything pre-arranged. Splendid chance for parents to give their children an educational trip during this vacation period. Write for descriptive folder, showing cost, etc. s. h. Mclean D. P. Aff Southern Railway Company ; Columbia, S. C. Never Before a Value Like This The Super-Six principle exclu sive to Hudson and Essex, is responsible for the largest sell ing 6-cy Under cars in the world, because it gives results in smooth, brilliant action, reli ability and ecohomy never attained by any other type. This Essex, in all ways, is the finest ever built. Easier riding and driving, more flexible in performance, handsomer in line and finish, it is also lower in price than ever before. ESSEX COACH $850 Freight and Tax Extra HUDSON. ESSEX WORLD'S LARGEST SEALING 6-CTLINDER CARS o LITTLE MOTOR CO. T. Lm Little, Mgr. Camden, S. C.