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AN ORDINANCE To Raise Supplier for the City of S. ( for th?? Year 1U- it iii dained 'l>y t tu- Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Ca melon, S, C., and by authority of tHf* name, that the following taxes be, and the same are hereby levied for the current yyar from the 1st day of January, 1 025, to the ".i.t day of p^c^mbor, 1026 Section I. -A tax of 25 mills on t-acli and ewry dollar of real and personal property within the corpor ate limit* of the City of Camden, 8. (\, from the 1st day of January, 1925, See. 'J. ? That all able-bodied male persona between the ages of twenty one and .sixty yeafy residing within the corporate limits of? Jhe city limits of the City o? Camden, S. C., not exempt from road duty under the laws of the state shall rwork streets, ways and bridges under the direction of such overseers as may be ap pointed for such space of time, not exceeding six (?) days in one year; Providing that at the time of receiv ing "such notice any jn-rson may pay to the person giving .such notice Three ($8) lk>llars, Commutation, which shall be received in lieu of the work ,and that person refusing to work on said .streets or to pay said commutation shall be fined not less than Ten ($10) Dollars, nor more thtin Fifty ($00) Dollars, or be im prisoned not less than tun tlays nor mor^than twenty (20) days, in the discretibn of the City Recorder. Sec. U.~-The <ax books for the col lection of city taxes will bo open in Councjl Chamber, Camden, S. C., on the 1st day of -September, 11*25, and remain open each day, except Sunday, from 0 ami. to 1 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.-m., until the 1st day of October, 1025, inclusive. Sec. 4. ? That when the taxes and assessments or any portion therepf charged against ' any property or party on the duplicate for the current fiscal year, shall not be paid on or before' the 1st day of October, tho "City Clerk and Treasurer shall collect same and if the said taxes and assess ments and penalties nre not paid on or before tho 1st day of November there after ii n additional penalty of one per centum shall be added by tho City Clerk and Treasurer on the said du plicate and collected by the City Clerk and Treasurer; that if said taxes, penalties ami .assessments are not paid on oi: before the 15th day of November, next thereafter, an addi tional penalty of five per centum thereon shall be added by the City Clerk and Treasurer on said duplicate and collected <by the City -Clerk and Treasurer. And if said taxes, penal ties and assessments are not pyid on Women Battle With Knives Atlanta, (la., Aug* 27.? Homowanl bound theatre crowds were treated to 4 rather spectacular fencing feast here when two young1 women fought a dm I with knives apd finger n.ul in a manner to indicate that talk of a weaker sex i* all The bunk. The feminine . duelists were Mrs. Ethel Holcombe, 2G, and Mrs. HUlii) Stephen** 21 i, both of Atlanta. The young women, disheveled and bleeding, were taken to a hospital, Mrs. Holcombe with a deep cut in her left arm, having parried a thrust at her heart, and Mm. Stephen a scratched and badly battered. About all the police could learn was that the fight was the cliarta# of a feud. What engendered the fetid they did not know. I' ??,>?<?? .i ?? im, ? ? ...v**-,. i , I,, CJoats are sometimes driven over the. plowed fields in the Nile Valley I to help break the clods. ? or before the 1st of December, next thereafter, the City 'Clerk and Treas urer shall issue in the name of the City of Camden, a warrant or execu tion in duplicate against said default ing taxpayer in tho City of Camden, ^signed by him in hi? official capacity, directed to the chief of police of the City of Camden or some member of the police force of the City of Cam den, requiring and commanding him to levy the same by distress and sell ?ho much of the defaulting taxpayer's estnte, real or ?personal, or both, as may be sufficient to satisfy the city taxes of said defaulter, and specify ing therein the aggregate amount of all his taxes. The City Clerk and Treasurer for every such warrant tissued shall have from such defaulter One ($1) Dollar and the chief of police shall collect from such default er the following fees in the execution of his office, to wit: For serving each 'warrant, One ($1) Dollar;. lfor ad vertising sale, twenty-five (25c) cents; for making sale and executing deed of conveyance and putting pur chaser in possession, Three Dollars *j($8.66.) ; for all sums levied as afore said, five (5) per cent; and the chief of police is prohibited from demand ing or collecting any greater sum therefor than is hereby allowed; neither the chief of police nor the City Clerk and Treasurer shall re ceive fees upon nulla bona returns. Ratified by the Mayor and Alder men of the City of Camden, in Coun cil assembled this 26th day of August, 1925. H. C. GARRISON, JR., W. H. MAILK, Mayor City Clerk and Treasurer. COMING TO CAMDEN TUESDAY Sept. 29 The Newest Big Shew lit AIS Ths Wcfjfid 5 Continent Menagerie 1250 People ? 500 Horses ? 50 Caf.es Animals 30 Lions ? 2 Cms of Elephants and Camels 5 Bands ? 2 Calliopes ? 2 Complete Electric Light Systems ? 30 Double Length Steel Cars 6 -Pole T op ? 5 Mammoth Kings ? 2 Steel Arenas ? Wild - Beast Hippodrome 1000 Character Bible Spectacle Noah and the Ark TIm Longest, Costliest and Most Magnificent Open Den Free Street Parade at 1* O'Clock Noon Daily S C H O O L () r E N I A' G I hi > wm will receive tin* sanw polite, efficient, service 1 r >.?u r children'.- school needs, that we gave v (i t; la. a yt a". Wf k?-< p our Shop and Stock in a neat, orderly n;.innir. and up to the mark in quantity and quality. We are giving every School-child customer a good No. 2 pencil in the school colors, and also a pocket note book, Absolutely Free as long as they last and we have -, lots of them. Complete line of Textbooks furnished us by the State Depository, also full accessories. REALTY TRANSFERS. Changes of Real Estate as Recorded in County Auditor's Qffice J. M. Hull to Perry p. Hull, 185 acres near Camden, It .00 and love and affection. Thomas Anerum to If. O. Burns, 1 lot, 1 1 n I >i > i Park, near Camden, $270. If. Oi Burns to if. f). Ouinn, 1 lot DuBow Park, near ( 'unulen, $120. Clara P, Carver et al., >to Charles \V. Godfrey, I lot, Broad Street, Cam den, $8,250. . Nathaniel Gay to Kershaw Building and lx>un Association, 1 lot and build* jug, town of Kershaw, $1,600. John M, lx>wry to Kershuw Build igg ?'?<! Loan Association, I lot town of Kershaw, $800. m C. 1'. DuBose et al., to H. R? ^Be*nl et aj., 1 lot DeKalb .Street,, Camden, $.1,000. L. K. Yarborough to . O. L. Wil liums Company, 48 acres near Be thune, $1,645. Mrs, J., S. K, deLoach to John K. deLoach, 1 lot Monument Square, Camden, $5 and love. R. H. Hilton, Mag|er, to L. E. Mc Lester, 1 lot and building West DeKalb Street, $600. R. I). Dibble to Warren H. Harris, 1 lot Campbell Street, Camden, $1,000. . E. H. Dibbltf to Mary R. Vaughn, 1 lot Church Street, Camden, $150. Flora H. Johnson to H. T. John son, 50 acres near Bethune, $5 and low. and affeetion. Miss M. A. Team to Odessa An thony, 1 lot and building, Campbell Street, Camden* . L. A. Kirkland to John Whltaker, Jr., 7 1-2 acres, near Camden, $50, etc. Mary E. Bell to Samuel Branham, 74 acres West Wateree, timber rights, $375. K. L. Bell to Eliza Wright, 1 acre at WesJtville, $125. James W. Outlaw to J. P. -Lewis, 1 lot and .'1 buildings near Camden, $100., etc. Bank of Bethune to Rush Lumber Company, 1 lot town of Bethune, $500. Enterprise Building and Loan As sociation to Jennie K, Me Mullen, 1 lot. and building corner I^aurens and Fair streets, Camden, $6,300. (i. K. Clements to M?ckey Jones Co., acres at Liberty Hill, $200. Kstelle A. Smith to Henry Savage, 1 lot Walnut Street, Camden, $5., etc. Nina J. Jones to Luther Jones, 1 lot and building at Lugoff, $100. J P. M. Melton et al., to Add Pat^P 1-2 acre at Sheppard, $50. WEALTHY NEGRO KILLED Shot To Death By l/nknown People While Asleep on Bench St. Matthews, Aug-. 30. ? A*. T. Whalcy, a wealthy, negro of Chis. town was shot to death aho <j^lock last night by unknown persons. Ap parently he was asleep on a bench in front of C. F. Wise's store near the Southern depot when he was shot. A load of buckshot entered his throat and death must have been instantan eous. A crowd assembled at the scene as the ne*ws of the slaying spread. It is the belief of officers here that' he was shot from arv automobile and that the car immediately was driven off, leaving no trace of its occupants. This morning certain citizens re ported having seen a Ford automobile containing three men and having no license number in town near the hour of the killing and that such a car left town about that ?time going towards Columbia. Coroner W. II. Gaskin empanelled a jury but the inquest was adjourned until a Jator date, \'o arrests have been made but Sheriff F. F. Mill is at work on the case. Whalcy was a notorious character in the community for a number of years. In the early summer of last year he was wat'hfd tu leave town and was given 1?0 days to get his. affairs in order and clear out. He left and went to Orangeburg, where he stayed till two or three weeks ago, when he returned to this town. Baptism Must Wait. While Lancaster and surrounding lnwns aro enjoying1 a surplus of pure water, Asheville people who desire to hi> baptised must wait until after the water shortage is over in that section. The city authorities of Asheville have prohibited the use of city water for "baptism or sprink ling" so long as the shoitage con tinues. and Dr. Willis (i. Clark, rec to: ot'Trinity Kpiacopal church has f.vpr e-sed his views of the action of I he city authorities. "The person who wrote that bulletin has no con eeption of the sanctity of baptism as a divine rue," Dr. Clark declares. "If that is not the case," Dr. Clark con tinued, "then he is Kuilt> of blas phemy." In ttye former case. Dr. Clark concludes that "ho i s mentally deficient and his placing the use of water for t>aptUm on the same, plana as the use of water for automatic toilets cleaning floors, etc., is a clear index of such deficient v." ? Lancaster News. On the holders of , Swansea Bay, Wales, in the heart of a great sand hill, lies buried a city "fcnee known as Kettfig. Chronicles of Margam Ab bey make it plain that the aand en croacfeoitTX* | and the burial was a alow one. ^3 . jji'? i Cotton Wanted We have contracted this year to furnish a large part of the Cotton used by the Mills with which we are connected and expect to buy <a ' ' ??? ? ' T' ' r ' ' ? 10,000 to 12,000 bales of it .on the Caiwfen Market. Show us your samples, both lots an4 % ' ' ' ' ? 4 * . ? ? . . single bales. . . . ? ***? Y" . ; ?' . -.>> ' .v: ??? WE ARE IN A POSITION TO PAY YOU VERY FULL PRICES SPRINGS & SHANNON, Inc. CAMDEN, S. C - . . # ?, *v- ? ; .? '"?* if ?. v r PAYS DEATH PENALTY. Negro Blames Bad Women and Bad Whiskey. * Draper Jeffries, 81 year did Spar tanburg negro, went yesterday morn ing to his death in the electric chair at the state penitentiary ? a death occasioned, he said, by bad women and bad whiskey. "Boys, I am paying for bad wo men and bad whiskey," he said, after taking his place in the death chair, outwardly composed. lie was ready to go, Jeffries said, for he thougt God had forgiven him. The negro caitie in the death room and entered the .-^air unsupported. He madift a brief statement, the Rev. J. Dean Crain, penitentiary chaplain, offered a prayer and shook hands with the negro, and the current was turn ed on, 1,000 volts at first coursing through the body of the negro, before the voltage was momentarily reduced/ The current was kept on for a minute and a minute and 40 seconds after it had been turned off, the penitentiary physician pronounced .Jeffries dead. H is body-was taken te the prison cemetery for burial. Jeffries was convicted last year of' the murder ofiiSffte 'Mitchell, negreas, whom he pursued on the streets of Spartanburg, firing: as he went . Jle had been drinking at the time, accord ing to his own confession in the chair yesterday morningf. ' Alter his con viction, an appeal to the supreme court was dismissed, and he was brought August 17 to the penitentiary there to await in his death cell the day of "his electrocution. About 900 Presbyterian relies refrained from joining the United Church of Canada. LABOR 14 Labor Day serves to call to ymind< that this whole country rests upon labor . We are a nation of laborers , laborers with hand and brain . The %nfA