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?inc. KRAI!!) IN LAND Federal Inveatifcatora Say Polish In ventors Victims of Scheme W .. \ Chicago, Aug. 28. - -Federal wur rant* charging use of the United State* ma it it with intent to defraud woro issued tonight for .Jacob Factor, president of tb?* Florida Land Com pany, and several associate*, after a two months' investigation by postal authorities. The company is alleged to have done a business of between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000 in Florida real estate since its corporation in Springfield last March. Besides Factor and others named in the warrants are Maurice E. Drucker, M. Heinsus, H. J. Mimmelstein and Newton Feld man, all officials of tho concern. Factor, according to reports of postal inspectors, before becoming connected with the Florida Land com pany, put over ? $600,000 fraudulent land deal in England and in wanted there. The scheme included tho buying of largo tracts of land In Orange County Florida which was later .sold in Chi cago and other Middle Western cities at an average price of about $1#0 a lot. The land was represented, it is charged, with being a suburb of Oralnado, Fla., termed the second largest city in the state. Besides an extensive advertising eampnign in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin the company ajso sent out a boosters' committee, which in cluded a Chicago alderman and police captain, and which brought back glowing accounts of the land, The lots, it is alleged, were repre sented as being improved property, with water, gas and electricity in stalled, with part of it on the Dixie Highway. Many investors here are- of thej Polish descent. They were also at tracted by stories of a mythical hotel costing $1,000,000, and more than 2,000 lots have been sold, investigat ors said. Koss-Knapp. Mr. (ieorge Gregory Knapp and Miss Lillie Thehna Ross, both of Blaney, were married on August 21 by Rev. J. B. Shiver. WE'LL MEET AJSY PRICE It low price in your first con sideration, wo can meet any body's pricr ? and we'll do i! with a genuine (ioodyear tire. That's why you s?*e so many (Joodyears around town. Ask anyone who has ever really tried them out, what he thinks about tJoodyear tiros. BROAD STREET FILLING STATION l'. N. MYERS, Proprietor NO-MO-KORN FOR CORNS AND CALLOUSES Made in Camden and For Sale By DeKnlb Pharmacy? Phone 95 Water Low in Crit'k>: On account of the drought many of the creeks, particularly in the southern and western part of the county, are becoming1 very low in water. Stream* that have netfer been known to go dry in the last 45 years have < cased to run place* and aa a consequence farmers along the watercourses are betng greatly In convenienced for lack of purr water for livestock. In the Rocky Creek sec tion of tin- county wbeu** the Wateree Power Company has under way the building of another power house at Rocky Creek and the ?<>n struction of a railroad trace from Nitrolee to that place, the work is being badly handicapped for vh * lack of water for livestock usod about the saw mills and other plants in, '.hut section. The work around the saw mills will very probably have to be closed down until the stream* are re plenished by rains? said a gentleman from that section in Lancaster a /e w days ago, as the owners cannot al low their livestock to drink impure or stagnant water. Wells ap a.'Bo becoming short in flow, and in Home cases springs that have always fur nished a surplus are either on the wane or have ceased to run. Tho sit" uation is not considered alarming, but a good rain just at this time would bring a welcome relief to the districts so badly in need pf It. ? ? Lancaster News. 4 ? ? ' ' " * 1 J "? " * l)issc Sentenced to Die Richmond, Va., Aug. 28.' ? Rudolph. Disse, twenty-year-old slayer of his Sweetheart, his rival and a police de tective, was sentenced today t>o die an the electric chair at the state peni tentiary here on Wednesday, October 7, The yout'hful triple slayer wiis sentenced by Judge Frederick W. Coleman in Hustings court after the court had overruled a motion by the prisoner's counsel for more time in which to prepare their argument on a motion that the verdict of the jury be set aside and they refused to argue the latter motion today. Disse's law yers said they would appear in court soon to ask for more time to appeal to the State Supreme Court for a writ of error. Under the law they are given sixty days to perfect such an appeal. Majestic Theatre WAKE UP! ITS 1 mmM k mm 1925 SEPTEMBER. 1925 " <un j > v.j ?? r~T7^~ ? LZJ8 9;lpjll!l2 .Monday, September 7 Florence Vidor and Matt Moore in (i'ROI NI)S FOR DIVORCE" I'athe-Newtu Tuesday und Wednesday Kdward Horton and Esther Ralston in BEGGARS ON HORSEBACK" And a Comedy "Hot Sheiks" Thursday, September 10 Ricardo Cortez and Greta Nissen in "IN THE NAME OF LOVE" Pathc News Friday, September J I Richard Dix in THE LUCKY DEVIL" And a Sennett Comedy "Honeymoon Hardships" Saturday, September 12 Bebe Daniels in "WILD, WILD, SUSAN" And the Pacemakers "Don Coo Coo" Sally Costello, formerly one of the famous Venice California haired beauties, is seen here with one of the perform in* P.Iks which ?s coming with the Christy Bros, trained wild animal ibwr -attjTuefHlay, jveotambar 29. Cferffty Brot. claim to har$ the only troop* of afki trained Elks in ti?e world and Sally is the clever girl who puts them through their trkVs. . d- &F3&BK iili :?/ ? 'A Zlfr M THIS WEEK By Arthur Bwwiiw Mr. Brisbane'* editoriaU are pub' lished as expressions of opinions of tho world's highest-salaried editor and The Chronicle dpesf not necessarily endorse all of his views and conclusions. When Is Man Old? When is a man old? A Civil War veteran of Illinois, acred 88, is told by the judffe that a man 8& "has no business to yet mar* ried." A Pennsylvania man o t ninety-one settles property on his children, then marries a woman of 45, -who says her new husband is "old in years only.", Jacob Wettler, Swiss embroider, only seventy-four years old, shot him self saying, rtbat IJfe wasn't worth While afTthat age. "When he is forsaken, withered and shaken, what can an old man do bu* die?" Some men are as old at fifty as anybody can be. Moltke at ninety was younger than many of the junior officers that stood in stiff respect about him. A man is old when his mind stops working along new lines. The people of America have about doubled their incomes in a few ^ears. The cash that Americans earn, or re ceive from investments, rents, from inherited property, etc., is not fay from one hundred million dollars a year, almost a thousand dollars for every man, woman and child. Washing Machine Progrewa. For every 100 homes in the United States there are 20 washing machines. That shows progress, and room for more progress. The family without a washing ma chine, unless the washing be "sent out", proves that some woman is con demned to needless slavery. An electric washing machine and wringer, costing a few cents a day for* current, makes of washing an amuse ment, instead of hard. work. It makes it possible in a large fam ily, with a busy mother, for the grow ing boys and girls to do the greater part of the week's washing and re lieve the mother. Moiling Them Down. ? American ladies, it appears, enter tain Parisians by wearing their stock ings rolled down, showing all of the knee and part of the leg bare, below a short skirt. Such women would represent the United States more usefully at home in froht of American washtubs with their sleeves rolled up instead of 'hav ing their stockings rolled down in Paris. " - . . But there is a hygienic value in bare knees. All Esquimaux women, even in coldest Arctic weather, ar range for an opening at -about the knee to let the air in. If they didn't do that, they would die for lack of oxygon. Weak fish will find it hard to sur vive in the automobile endurance con test. One big company announced another cut in prices yesterday, mak ing the fourth cut in a year. The highest engineering skill and busines.1 ability are devoted to giving the public high grade automobile^ at the lowest prices. That's valuable work. ' Wh en will commercial genius show the same eneigy in cutting the price of food "delivered." A scientist says that the young peo ple of today have become "motor car wise." By instinct they avoid auto mobiles and adapt themselves to traf fic. Older people seem unable to learn. , Even chickens and dogs have learn ed something.- They stay out of the road and are killed less frequently than they once were. It would be good news if the young people of the generation would be "whiskey wise" in addition to ' being motor ear wise. During the next few years there will be more young people killed by whiskey than old people killed by automobiles. A plague of butterflies, causing motor engines to become overheated, by clogging the radiators, suggests a gruesome possibility. If the insect tribes with their hor rible fertility, should get out of con trol, they could till the air, destroy all vog< tation, s;arvo suffoc.ato and devour the human race and all other animalsi Nature fortunately attends to these things. Even the insect plagues of Egypt sent to punish "in did not kill ali Egyptians. New York to Cheraw in a Day Che raw, Aug. 29<? Ephriam Her long, of St. Mn-tthew*, madv: a record 1 on a motorcycle today. He left New : York, he <mid, ot 1 o'clock this morn ing and at 2 o'clock he was talking to - acquaintances in Cheraw. 11* frequently made ninety mile* an hour with spe^d cops- after him, whom he left behind. He intends to spend the night in Columbia. He left here iff groat apirtt* *rwl in glee ovr hi* tKjqompHthment, ~ r WE EXTEND A CORDIAL INVITATION TO YOU TO VISIT OUR STORE AND BUY YOUR NEW FALL DRESSES AND COATS IN THE LATEST Sty ART STYLES. WE HAVE A BIG VARIETY OF DRESSES AND COATS OF EXCLUSIVE AND DIS TINCTIVE STYLES, AND PRICED IN MODERA TION. YOU MUST SEE THEM +N ORDER TO APPRECIATE THEM. WE ALSO CARRY A FULL LINE OF NOVELTtES. -? ? - ? ? ^ LL* ? '? ? J - ' . CAMDEN'S EXCLUSIVE LADIES' READY-TO WEAR AND MILLINERY i ? ? # ' v- f- \ ? % . V> (Next Door to Schlosburg's Department Stofe) FLOOD RECALLED. Ruin Did Havoc in 1908; Drought Damages This Year. Laurens, August 28. ? Today is the anniversary of the big downpour of rain that caused the record destruc tive flood in the Piedmont section "of the State August 28th, 1808. The in cident is recalled more forcibly per haps by reason of the devastating drought that now grips the same ter ritory. The rain fell that day for almost 2<1 hours with no abatement until late Tuesday afternoon and all bridges were swept away, the Tumb ling Shoals mill house, saw mill and ginnery, owned by Capt'. W. D. Sulli ! van, and the Reedy River Power House, all went down before the ava lanche of water. ? The property loss, including the damage to crop!*, ran up into the thousands of dollar#;; ,^and there was wreck and ruin throughout the section. It was election day and the vote was cut something like 400 ballots because of the inability of the men to get to the polls.. Col. iTohn H. Wharton and John M. Cannon, both now deceased, were the candidates for state senator. Cblonel Wharton v^as elected by a majority of 12 ballots, this number behig his guess before the votes we|e finally tabulated. One man swam Rabun creek at McDaniel's mill in order to bring the returns to the- court house that Evening. A nepro laborer went down with a railroad trestle in the city, and was drowned in Little river. With other railroad 'employees the was trying to keep raft frqm collecting against the bridge benches wheh; suddenly the wooden supports were swept from under the trestle, precipitating the men into the rushing waters. The ? others swam ashore o:* were rescued; Catholic Church Services. 4 - 9 Services will be held at the Catho lic Church here Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock. Rev. Quinn, Sumter, will be in charge of- the services, the Rev. M. J. Reddin being away on a. vacation in Boston. ? .? At' Your Service in At Your Service