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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE $. I>. Miles . . Kditor and Publisher Published everv Friday at No. 1109 1 Broad Street and entered at the Cim 4?n, South Carolina, pos toff ice as second class mail matter. Price per annum $2,00. Camden. S. C., Friday, Sept. 25, IM-'V Endorses "King's Highway" The active part assumed by tho Camden and Kershaw County Cham-] ber oi Commerce to direct attention to and crysUlllifce interest in a high' way route; following the , one-time] King's Highway, as used in pre Revolution time* will doubtless bear fruit. ???? The plan to secure the re-establish ment of this old .stage coach route has not been revealed. Finance* must ! cut an impoitant figure, but it may j be assumed as. cer tain that any route from populous center.* to populous centers, and passing through a pro ductive and populous country with few if any water course* to cross, i and that , saves 30 miles in distance, haft such strong arguments in its | favor that it mutl finally come a,s a.nj economic necessity. Kershaw County is by no means the j Only 'section interested it) this rouste; much, was being' said about the /old King's Highway in the Pee Oee coun try this past summer, and the action of the Camden Chamber of <'ommercej will la- stimulating to its advocates. The big truth to be considered in i connection with highway building i<: that transportation facilities?roads that open Up territory and bring com- j munities close together ? are a fun damental necessity for the develop*! ment ;of 'urge section.* of our state.? ! Thursday's State. . Sumter Kndorse* Highway Lancaster and Camden ha vt a' J hist awakened to the importance of, the public road fiom ("charlotte to1 Charleston via. Lancaster, Camden, Sumter, Manning and the San. tee Riv er bridge, as one of the major high ways for interstate and tourist tJitvel. This highway, Route 20 of the stat-j highway system, is one of the oldest public roads in Soulh Carolina and was in existence and commonly used before the Revolutionary war, being the shortest route between Charlotte and Charleston, then as now. The distance between Charlotte and I Charleston by this highway is 25 to 30 miles shorter tlhan any other route and the road conditions throughout 111 totter condition than another alter ant i v<? route. Thy road frotn Char to the state line in mOstly paved and the un paved nee t ion in excellent. From the State line through Lancas ter and Kershaw counties, t ht* road is unpaved but in excellent condition. From the Kershaw line through Sum It r c.uinty to Clarendon county lino the road is paved a distance of about 112 miles. The remainder of the road tluuuyh Clarendon, Williamsburg, llcrkeley and Charleston is excellent and partly paved in Charleston coun ty. Thi* highway if already an es tablished |nt?r-*tate thQ^ttjfbfw* iftt) is not yet tp be reviewed or establisfy ed. All that needs to be dope is to have it designated As the maj6r routs between Charlotte and Charleston, have it properly marked and tlhen ad vertised So that the traveling public may be informed as to the shortest and best route between North and South Carolina.^-Sumter Item. STATE NKWS. i The limb of a tree falling on him j while he wax cutting timber, Hal [ Karley, 22, was killed near Cross Hill | last Thursday. His mind temporarily derauged, W. | S. Swinton, , 79, of Winona, Florence county, took poKon last week, dying a few hours late r. I The invmberS of the lloard of Coun I ty Directors of Barnwell county have j resigned on the demand of the county I delegation. ' Mrs. Huth Whitehead and Mrs. Ma I jiiic Trammel!, whose houses, near Grcenvilje, are on the highway, have1 been arrested, charged with haVing i placed a number of boards containing! nails in the road, their purpose being j | to injure automobile tires. Corporations may not, even though ! j the employee contracts to waive his j [right under the law, withhold fromj ^discharged laborers accumulated pay, j the Supreme Court of South Carolina! j holds in its decision handed down in j the case of ?i. "M. Sato versus the j Grendel cogon mills of Greenwood. The Southern Power company will begin at once the construction of a huge steam electric plant with a capacity of 80,000 horsepower on the Catawba River. A special presentment has been re turned by the Lexington County grand jury against Julius E. Sharpe, former county superintendent of edu cation charging ihim with official mis conduct, forgery and obtaining money under false .pretenses while in office. POLICE CHIBF KILLED ; Watfner Officer Shot To Death Hy | "Kabbitt" Gantt Augyxta, Ga., Sept. ?Michael Knott.. ?. h it- f of polio* , Wagner, S. C., in Aiken county, ahot and instantly killed thin aftavucon by El liott "Kabbitt" Gantt. Knotts me; his death in a piatoMuel between the two men in fr6nt of the Shull build ing. Tin? fatal shot entered the chief's heart and he fell to the pavement <k'$d. Gantt, who eacaped without wounds, after he had shot the Wag ner chief, drove to Aiken in an auto mobile with two friends, George Mil ler and Julian G. Gantt, and aurren dered at the county jail. Sheriff Nol lie Kobinson of Aiken county passed the party en route to Aiken and al lowed Gantt to drive the machine to Aiken and deliver himself to' the jailer. Gantt and Knotts have bOeii on un friendly. terms frt'r several weeks, it is .said, and about ten days ago the chief of police arretted Gantt and placed him in the guardhouse of the littJe town. When they met on tb treet this afternoon both men op*v fire with i their pistols, the chiof ? ing first, I Gantt claims. In the r ;n county ?jail laat night Gantt >ai-r? ...at he had; left his home to go to the house of Julian G. Gantt. no relation of his. When he left the Gantt residence in ? company with Julian Gantt, he stated, to purchase some cigars he saw Chief Knotts crossing the street in front of the Shull building, pistol 'drawn. "1 turned to face him," Gantt said, "and ho at once started shooting at mc. I pulled my -pistol and fired at him; ! I don't know how many times. I just kept shooting until the five balls in my gun were discharged. Chief Knott* fell, I think, about the last shot. He had six cartridges in! his pistol. I re gret the taking of human life but I killed Chief Knotts to save my own." Chief Knotts was married- and had five children. Gantt also is married. Jesse Durst, young white boy, was shot in the thigh during the duel be tween Gantt and Chief Knotts. , Wh at is said to be the largest school building in South Carolina was opened last week at Laurens. The completed new building consists of, Ho class rooms, an auditorium with seating capacity of 1,022, gymnasium, laboratory, lunch voorr, dressing room, etc. | THIS WEEK By Arthur Brisbam: Mi . lit l- bane's editorials are pub lished as expressions of opinions of thr- world's highest-salaried editor and The Chronicle does not necessarily endorse all of his views and conclusions. A Washington correspondent says "President Coolidge will keep out of tin- Mitchell fight," referring to Col* one! Mitchell'4 charges a* to general incompetency of United States a?* ! forces and the suggestion that Col 1 onel Mitchell, lowered in rank for telling the truth once, should now be arrested for telling the truth twice. How could the Prr lent, who i* head of the %rmy anc ivy, keep out of the Mitchell mat* ! It is not conceivable that h: subordinate?, knowing of the PieJr it's readiness to hear both sides of any question, would undertake any action without his approval. -The people do not believe that the President will permit any action against Colonel Mitchell until the en tire aviation question shall have been fully thrashed out, including the fiasco in the effort to fly to Hawaii, and the catastrophe of the Shenan doah. It is to be hoped that the inquiry when rt comes, will not be a white washing enterprise, but a real investi gation. The President will want to know why the protest of Commander Lans downe. an experienced airman who had flown the Atlantic in a dirigible, svas ignored. The President will not want any whitewashing or any off hand suppression of Colonel Mitchell, who isn't easily suppressed, by (the way. He will want the facts, and will see that he gets them. The most disquieting thing in, our so-called defense program is this statement attributed to Judge Wilbur, secretary of the nav/: "In riew of the ecperience of the DECOYS MEN TO DEATH Alleged Hank Kobber Slain in Fight With Officer* Clifton Forge, Vs., Sept. 17.? A, ruse by which Leonard C.ozier, al leged robber, hoped to escape from I officer* who had effected his capturv led today to hi* own death, the death of Special Agent J. W. Hall and th* ?epiout wounding of I). C. Campbe!!, I local policeman. . ? . Arrested following the robbery of a safe at the Chesapeake and Ohi.. j ticket office at Covington last Tue> day night, Gozier apd a companion were brought to Clifton Forge this | meriting where they were charged j with the crime. After money, thought j to have been a part of their loot, wiji found on the person of the two men, Goasielr offered to take officers to x {spot where the rest of the money had. ' been hidden. Accordingly, Hall ac companied the prisoner in an auto j mobile followed by Officer Campbell, I Sheriff Diche and another special | agent in a second car, to a spot out. tide the city. j At a signal from Qozier the party .stopped. The prisoner stepped be 1 hind a rock by the side of the road jthe officers report picked up a re ' vblver and immediately opened fire. ! At the first shot Hall fell, mortally j -wounded. The officers in the second i car sprang to the road as the firing continued. Chief Campbell was i struck in the face by a bullet, bur. I continued to advance and it is thought that it was a shot from his pistol that struck Gozier, causing his in stant death. Hall died in a hospital two hours after the shooting. Campbell's condition tonight was reported as serious. At Antioch Tonight j An evening of much fun is prom , ised to all who attend the Fiddlers' Convention at Antioch Friday night, September 25. Quite a large number of noted Kershaw fiddlers have en tered the congest and several other numbers to the program have been promised by musicians other than the contestants. A small admission fee of ten and twenty-five cents will be charged. Catholic Church Services. Services at the Catholic church on' Sunday, September 27th, -will be at 9 a. m. The public is cordially invited to attend these services. Subscribe for The Chronicle. navy plane* in the Arctic expedition, tlu failure of the Hawaiian flight And the Shenandoah disaster, we have come to the conclusion that the At Untie tod the Pacific are still our best defenses, We have nothing to fear from enemy aircraft that is not on this continent." The experience in the Afrctic; the failure of the Hawaiian flight, tihe dreadful Shenandoah disaster had nothing to do with capable air navi gation, but a great deal to do with incompetent management of our air force* We should have, indeed, nothing to fear from foreign aircraft if we could give to foreigners such management as our aircraft has. Mr. Wilbur's statement that our oceans are our best defense sounds like the state ment of some ostrich saying, "I have nothing to fear, the sand is my best defense, I can stick -my head into it.' It is suggested that railroads be forced to combine in great transporta tion units, and that they make their own selections "rather than have the Government do the choosing for them." Why not have a selection of well informed men, railroad men of course, acquainted with traffic conditions, make a survey of railroads, and let the Government know which combina tion should be made in the interest of economy and of efficiency? President Ooolidge wjll certainly not think it wise to leave these com binations to selfish interests based on opportunites for stock jobbing, combining broken down roads with good roads for the sake of immediate profit, rather than more efficiency. Perhaps for the sake of unloading unprofitable railroads on the stock holders that own railroads. Pauperism is dying out in United States thanks to better wages* wid ows' pensions, more enlightened med ical ,carc, and especially campaigns of health advertising, carried on by the great life insurance companies. Of 100,000 in our population,- only 71.5 are in poorhouses now. And that is exactly 71.5 too many. In 11*14 there were 91.5 out of 100, 000 in the poorhouses. Things have improved since the war forced up wages. A trick cave in the San Isabel National Forest in Colorado is so con stituted that when you drop a straw hat into it a strong boomerang cur rent of intermittent wind forces i: from the ghostly cavern to the sur face. Barbers are not responsible for the hats of their customers, in a decision ?handed doyw by a New York judge who held that "the barber is a crafts man laboring for wages, not a cap italist conducting a business of trade and trust." On October 1st, 1925 The Camden Building and loan Association Will retire its Second Series which is Six years old, at $91.00 PER SHARE, showing a Profit of 8 3-4 PER CENT PER ANNUM. SERIES NO. 2 ASSETS Bonds and Mortgages $ 104,477.10 Loan & Savings Bank 24204.62 Interest uncollected but secured 2 ?18.68 Real Estate . . . 2,735.60 $1 34236 M LIABILITIES 1395 Shares less delinquents $ 92,731.00 Prof its $27 J 17. 46 Less Expenses 3,431.14 $2308632 Interest uncollected 2J818S8 26?05.00 Bills payable 15JOOOM $134236.00 Payments per share $72JOO Profits per share 19D0 Retires at $91.00 Average profits 8.75 per cent. y R. E. Stevenson Correct ? Attest: H. D. Nile* ( J. Whitaker, Jr. Statement t September 15th 1825 SERIES NO. 3 ASSETS Bonds and Mortgages 80, 7 84 JO Loan & Savings Bank . . 907 jOI ? jj $ 81JS9U1 LIABILITIES ">j1 , ; 1555 Shares less delinquents I . . .$ 53,897.00 Profits ? \yj%i43tT& .??? ?: Less Expenses jL . 7J53J4 Bills payable . 20J&40J97 '?'# W#?u ' ' -i ?;>$ 81 J$91J1 Payments per share $36 M Profits per share 4.60 Book value $40.60 Average prof its 8J>0 per cent. C R. E. Stevenson Correct ? Attest : ] H. D. Nile. ( J. Whit?k|r, Jr. The Association will aiso begin another series on that date. All those wishing stock in this new series please see John S. Lindsay or John Whitaker, Jr. at Loan & Savings Bank. A Gilt Edge Stock With a Good Earning Power j t* - ? 4 ,1 v f y ^ niDcrTAR<; John T. Nettles John S. Lindsay P. D. Stokes J. H. Clybum H. D. Niles J. Whitfcfcir.Jr. UIKtL,UW' J. H. Osborne J. P. Lewis H. L. Schlosburg L. C. Shaw R. E. Stevenson a L. A. Kirkland