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Ify Mfaa Loillae Ntttlei viirH Shannon Honored in Columbia Mi's* Agne* Shannon, who*e mar iagc t<? John Nettles Lindsay on November li-lth, is one of the out landing social events of the autumn . pi'ut th?- past several days in Colum bia where she was the recipient of ?nany social courtesies, several beau tiful parties being given in her honor. She was aUo ? joint honoree with her .ousin, Miss Janie Shannon, whose narriago on November 18th to John Kershaw deLoach, of Camden holds i prominent place on the capital city's -ocial calenda?> Both of those young] ?oupk'3 will make their home irt Cam len and will no doubt be quite an ad dition to the civic and social life of ,he old town. Met With Mrs. DePaas ? . 'v. ' The Kirkwood Book Club had an ^reeable hostess in Mrs. W. L, De Pass, on Thursday morning. The spacious rooms of The Oaks were at tractive and inviting for an enjoyable nformal morning. After the ex .ha'nge of books the. hostess served telightful refreshments. T Death of Mr a. Mary W. Kirkland In the death of Mrs. Mary Withers Kirkland which occurred at her home n Kirkwood last Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock, Camden lodfcs one of her hest loved and greatly admired 6iti rens. From infancy, chfldh^bd to glorious vomanhood affection .and devotion avishly showered upon Mrs. Kirkland ill that was realized in the rich larvest of a ripe old age. True to <very reJation and obligation of her full life she passed through the fiery furnace of the great war Between the States in which she lost the hus band of her youth and lived to pass ?trough the furnace again when she grave up hor splendid young grand son, Lieutenant Massenburg Trotter, n the World War. Like perfect -?earls strung upon a golden thread vere the virtues of Mrs. Kirkland. One by one they /night be told. She valked in paths of righteousness and ^eace. Her feet trod the straight ?vay of the Christian. Kindness and charity clothed her as with a shining garment. Intellect, talent and beauty crowned her like i queen. Her great personal beauty "hat tradition says was. nation-wide n her youth' faded not in the passing years. A typical daughter of South Carolina ? dainty, courteous, cultured; fragile with her more than four score years, ever as we think of her there drifts into our hearts the promise: At eventide it shall be light!" Mrs. Kirkland is survived by two hildren, Mr. T. J. Kirkland and Miss Marie Kirkand of this city and a num ber of grandchildren and great-grand children. The funeral services were -olemnized at her late residence Sun lay afternoon, the Rev. Edwin Muller, D. D.y pastor of the Presbyterian hurch officiating and she was laid o rest in the old Quaker cemetery vhere generations of her forebears ire sleeping. PRIVATE SCHOOL Conducted by MRS. W. J. JONES 1502 North Lyttleton Street Majestic Theatre Today, Friday, Nov. 13 Betty Branson in THE GOLDEN PRINCESS" A Paramount Picture And a Sennett Comedy "The Lion's Whisker#" Saturday, Nov. 4 "Hoot" Gibson in THE CALGARY STAMPEDE" Two- Pictures-in-One And a Sennett Comedy "Good Morning Norse" And "Play Ball" Monday, Nov. 16 Douglas MacLean in "SEVEN KEYS To BALDPLATE" A Paramount Picture ' And Pathe News Tuesday, Nov. 17 House Peters in "THE STORM BREAKER" A Universal Picture And a Christie Comedy Wednesday, Nov. 18 Richard Barthelmess With Dorothy Gish in ?THE BEAUTIFUL CITY" A First National Picture Thursday, Nov. 19 Vilma Banky, the new star of Filmdom in "THE DARK ANGEI/' With Ronald Coleman And Pathe Newa PERSONAL MENTION Dr. ami Mrs. J. T. Hay spent Sat* urday here as the guests of Dr. and Mre. L. S. Hay. They were en route to their home at Boykin, after vitit in# relatives in Spartanburg,? Rock Hill Record. Mrs. J. H. Osborne and daughter, Margaret Osborne, left Thursday for Charleston to visit relatives. Cadets ^Jack Nettles, Elihu Schlos burg, Sidney Zemp, David Blackwell, Goudine Kershaw, James McCoy, and John I.?ee from ttye Citadel, spent Armistice Day ^itblrelativ^s. Mr. and Mrs. J(;.,'jL,tj6hard Graham and children, who have been spending the summer months in Paris, have re turned to Camden for the winter. Their friends here welcome them back home. Rev. James J. May, rector of St. John's Cathedral, Charleston and Rev. William Mulvihill, rector of the^Cath olic church at Rock Hill were guests at St. Mary's rectory on Lyttleton street this week. Miss Annie Long, of Meridian, Miss., who is spending the autumn >vith her aunt, Mrs. W. J. Jones, spent last week with friends in Cheraw, but returned Saturday and pleased a large audience at the Baptist church Sunday night with her lovely voice. Cars Named For Southern Leaders Charlotte, N. C.. Nov. 3.? The Crescent Limited, do luxe Southern train between New York and New Orleans had new equipment when ic passed through Charlotte Monday morning at 11:20 o'clock on its way South. Thirty-five news sleeping cars were built especially for the Crescent Limited and named in memory of prominent men of states served by the Southern in its North-to-South route. The North Carolinians for whom some of the Limited's new cars are named General Robert F. Hoke, Gov ernor Zebulon Baird Vance, Thomas Ruffin, John M. Moorehead and Wil littm Davidson. South Carolina names are those of William Moultrie, Fsancis Marion, John Rutledge, Andrew Pickens and Wade Hampton. Virginia ? George Wythe, Robert E. Lee, Patrick Henry, John Marshall and Stonewall Jackson. The list includes many other names from Southern states. "SUNSET" FOR SUN Spartanburg Daily Quits Field After Short Life Spartanburg, Nov. 9. ? Under the caption, "The Sunset," the Spartan burg Sun, afternoon daily newspaper which has been published since March, 1924, today announced its suspension. The Sun was started first as an af ternoon and Sunday morning news paper, but after a few months the Sunday morning issue was suspended and the paper continued strictly as an afternoon paper. A. M. Carpenter, who was editor, resigned several weeks ago and moved to Fayetteville, N. C. George Koester, formerly with the Columbia Record and later with the Greenville Piedmont became pub lisher of The Sun a few months ago and upon Carpenter's retirement took over the duties of editor. In announc ing its suspension The Sun carried the following: "There is much that might be said in this statement, but, what's the I use ? The business of The Sun will not meet its expenses. I have been unsuccessful in efforts to raise funds to continue operation of The Sun until its receipts should pass its expense'?. Therefore, nothing was left bat to stop publication of The Sun. This is its last issue. I have done the best I could, but the struggle against insur mountable handicaps was futile and I ?will leave Spartanburg broken in health and fortune by my vain efforts to do the impossible. The directors believe Spartanburg should have an independent paper, but they do not believe the burden of establishing such paper should fall on their pock ets alone. They have made tremen dous sacrifices, purely because of public spirit, but did not feel they should go further as individuals to carry the burden of what should be a public enterprise." It is said that the invention of the Marconi loud speaker will improve the quality of "orations," by making it possible for a man with a weak voice to be heard better. George T. Moore, of St. Louis, says that the average city dweller would gain from 25 to 35 pounds a year if the body retained all the soot and dust breathed in. In some parts of Norway people look up the telephone number after taking down the receiver. - The cemetery wlfich contains the burial plot of Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln, in Spencer County, Indiana, has been closed to motor vehicles. COST MUCH MONKY Acquittal or Cole Will Cost $100,000 or More The Coio trial is going to leave 4*40 marks of bitterness in Rocking ham for years , to come. While the "better people" have generally sup ported Cole, there have been violent differences of opinion in Rockingham. Somo ol Cole's cousins were friends of young Ormond. Frank Steele, Cole's cousin, testified against him. A split has developed that will by years in healing. Under Judge Fin-ley's charge the trial did not settle the most unfor tunate issue raised in the case ? the virtue of Miss Klizabcth Cole. The fight over Ormond's war record was not settled. Whether the propttition that a rich man can be convicted in the courts of North Carolina or not was settled, depends on how you look at it. Judge Finley stated as a fact in his charge that rich and poor are alike before the law. The trial will certainly go down as one of the most notable in the history pf North Carolina. Richmond county will learn that it cost a tremendous amount to try Colo for shooting young Ormond to death. As a mere phrase, it cost the ordinary court's expenses of eleven days. Richmond county must pay the per diem and mileage of 200 Union county citizens who came as a special venire. Twelve members of this spec ial venire must be paid for ten days and all the expenses of their food and lodging and care must be paid. Witnesses of the state must also be paid under the law. During the trial the entire year's supply of sanitary drinking cups for the court house, which was recently purchased, was exhausted. Other ex penses will send the total mounting. This naturally does not include the tremendous expense on Cole in pay ing his lawyers or the Ormond family and their friends for paying the pri vate prosecution. It is reported that A. L. Brooks of Greensboro, received a $21,000 fee for helping save the hide of Cole and that James' H. Pou, who is sometimes re ferred to as the "Clarence Darrow of North Carolina," also received a fee of between $15,000 and $20,000 from the slayer. Jim Lockhart, who turned his back on his war comrade, probably received $10,000; but is done for politically in North Carolina as the American Legion will have nothing further to do with him on account of his aggressive tactics in slandering their dead buddy. All told, Mr. Cole is doubtless out something like $100,- ? 000 in lawyer's fees alone, to say nothing of the ghostly shadow of Bill Ormond that will forever be haunting him in the deep shadows of the night all during the coYning years. ? Union Republican. "Always Too Late" His personal appearance spoke plainer than words and told the story of his all-night ride in an empty freight car, His tk>nes were still ach ing from the chilling drafts that fil tered through crack and crevice as the long train lumbered on its journey through the night. Entering the of fice he made a straight line for the stove and as his stiffened muscles be gan to respond to the warmth radiat ed by the glowing anthracite he un burdened himself of his mission. He was a tramp printer who drifted into The Herald office Tuesday morn ing. 1 "Sorry," replied the foreman, "but we filled our last vacancy three days ago. We have been short-handed for several weeks. If you had been a few days earlier we could have taken you on for a while." A shadow crossed his weatherbeat en, unshaven face, as his deeply lined chin fell at rest upon his sunken ?chest* He sighed a deep sigh. "It's the same old story," he mut tered half aloud. "Always a few days too late. That has been my Nemesis. Those fatal words seems to have pursued me through life." Lost in reverie he jingled the eight bits the office boys had contributed to send him along on life's journey. In that moment his mind must have traveled back over fifty years of mis takes and blunders. He came back tj himself. "Thank you, sir," were his parting words as his weatherbeaten hulk slouched out of the door. It is from the great army of always-too?late meti that we get the human flotsam and jetsam of life's restless tides. They are more to be pitied than censured. We sometimes i think they were perhaps born out of 1 harmony with the universe. It is the always-on-time man ? the man who keeps in tune with life's radio ? upon whom fortune bestows her richest gifts. I There is a sermon in the life-story of thi* unfortunate printer. ? Dillon Herald. C-. Catholic Church Service* l,yttletou and Pine Streets-~*Twen ty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday school for children at 11 a.m. Celebration of the Holy KucharU.t and sermon at 10 a.m.; no evening serv ices scheduled. Non-Catholics are al ways welcome at all services in this church. AH are welcome to enter the church any day for rest and prayer, The church is open, y very day from 7:30 a.m. to nightfall,, According to the last census (1020) of the United States there were l, 020,220 more women in this country than men. In CJ feat Britain the cen? sus of 1021 shows that the predomi nance of women over men is 1,720,802. The Lawyer ? When Hilly Hawkins hung nut his shingle and oeg&h the practice of law the -people of his town united in the prediction that he would starve to death by reason of his uncompro mising honesty. His friends did not advise rascality, but in their several ways and in accordance with the de gree of their intimacy with hira they intimated that a young lawyer might be too honest for hits own good. To the surprise of himself and the community Billy got his first client within a week. The man was ac cused of stealing a mule, and he pro tested his innocence. Billy defend ed him shrewdly, but the state's evi dence was overwhelming, and when Billy got to his feet to address the ?jury he said: "Gentlemen, when I be gan the practice of lnw I determined to defend the innocent, however poor they might be, and have no dealings with the guilty regardless of their wealth. This man is my first client. He assured me of his innocence. The( evidence introduced by the state has established his guilt, however,, and J_ ask you in the name of justice to re Qtyr lHartlia Hauli umt mt On Broad Street Pacing Bank of Camden Fruit Store ? /TEA SHOP ? 4>elicateft?en Gratefully acknowledge* your liberal response to its opening yesterday and bids welcome to your return; bo it today ? tomorrow or any day to come! turn a verdict against him," Tfoo story got into the newspapers uiui became a nine-day sensation. A groat many people comm&nded Billy's honesty, but the more conservative element leaned to the opinion, ex pressed by' an elderly lawyer, that he had violated a trust; and even those who spoke in his praise conceded that he would soon perish and join that Diogenes who had sought his in vain. He did not perish, however. Num erous people who were wrongfully accused enlisted his services and were acquitted, and one who was guilty asked him to name his own price and was kicked down a flight of stairs. This happening Billy related to a friend, who embellished the tale and gave it to |the public, and the man was found guilty ? -largely, as the community declared, on the strength of Billy's reputation. f . I Other lawyers, who made a special .ty_of defending criminals, circulated inan\' shrewd tales to discredit Billy, and succeeded in persuading an ele ment in the community that his hon esty no more held before a cynical jury, sent one of Billy's clients to the electric chair; hut un other month brought vindication in the form of a death-bed confession by the real murderer, and thereafter Billy entered into hi* estate as law yer, jurist and judgv. Those who have need of his"1 services agree that it is more difficult to con vince him than to convince a jury, but once he had agreed to defend tho accused, everybody in the community knows that the case is settled. The action of the jury is no more than * formality. The guilty give Billy a wide berth. They know that if they fail to con vince him of their innocence he wtll make no secret of his refusal to x>ep reaent them, and thoir refusal will damn them in the eyes of any jury that may be impaneled. . And they know that if they do win his support, and the progress of the trial proves unworthy of it, he will mako them wish they had been with Dante on his pilgrimage and remained to colonize the nether regions. So quick is man to appreciate hon esty, so eager to follow one worthy of-trust. ? Fountain Inn Tribune. When good dressers get together AS you step into your club ? the theatre lobby ? or any place where well dressed men gather ? note the smart touch of style that sets off their attire. That's Clothcraft 4 'Style" this Fall ? it commands an approving eye ? style that stamps you as a well dressed man. More than "Style"? Yes, there's wear? the guarantee is in the pocket. CLOTHCRAFT Tailored Clothes $25 to $45 WOLFE-EICHEL CO. .CAMDEN, S. C.