The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 04, 1925, Image 8
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Federal Inveatifcatora Say Polish In
ventors Victims of Scheme
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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.
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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
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.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. .
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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.
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CAMDEN'S EXCLUSIVE LADIES' READY-TO
WEAR AND MILLINERY
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(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.
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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.
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