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If Y?u Knew If you Know a note from, tau Had a wealth of comfort in It, Or for just one fleetingnninute Would make bright a colorless room Darkened now by pain and gloom Where a frlond of yours is lying, WnuK and helpless, maybe dying, N Would you not with love indite it? Well, it would. Why don't you write it? ?' V . ? If you knew a wo I'd from, you Had a charm sad eyes to brighten Hope* to raise and care to lighten Strength to send a friend or neighbor Braver to his daily labor, PoWer to seatter every doubt, Every dismal thought to rout, Would you not with pleasure say Well, it has. So why delayyjt? ? If you knew today that you Were an influence widely spreading That wherever you go treading You're a power for good or bad, That within yourself you had Both the means and talents ample. To become a high example, , Would you sullenly refuse them? Well, you havfe. So why not use them? ? E^gar A. Guest. Engagement Announced An occasion of interest to a host of friends, was^ the bridge party given Friday afternoon, January 1, by Mrs. Rrnest Patton arid Mrs. E. E. Stone at the home of Mrs. Patton io announce th? engagement of their sister, Miss Eleanor T. Mitchell, and F. I-. Witsell of Tolodo, Ohip,-^ k Greenville News. 1 * Miss Mitchell is the daughter of the Rev. Alexander Mitchell of Green ville but for the past two years hps< been making her home in Camden as an efficient and popular tdacher in the city schools, Charming* in per son and pleasing in manner 'she has also been socially popular and much admired aijd this announcement will be of cordial interest to friends >ere and elsewhere. Marriage of Interest "j Of cordial interest to a wide circle of friends will be the announcement of the marriage of Mrs. Clara McLeod Latham to Mr. W. B. Rhoden, which was solemnized 'at the Methodist par sonage Saturday afternoon, the Rev. J. T. Peeler officiating. Mrs. Rfioden has lived in Camden since early child hood and is well known and popular in business and social circles. Mr. Rhoden is also favorably known and has won many staunch friends during his several years' stay in Camden. They are at home to their friends in their cottage on Walnut street. Visitor Complimented Mrs. Ernest Wooten, who once lived in Camden, but is now making her home in Sanford, N. C.? is visiting here and on Tuesday morning Mrs. Frank Wooten complimented her with a lovely bridge party, r There were four tables, the score prize going to Mrs. C. P. DuBose, while Mrs. Ralph Stevenson cut the consolation. The honor guest was also generously re membored. After cards delicious re freshments were serve*!. Majestic Theatre i ? Today, Friday, January 15th. Botty Bronson with Tom* Moore in A KISS FOR CINDERELLA.** A Paramount Picture. Tho "Morning World" says: "Aj much better pifcture than was Peter Pan. Utterly beautiful. One of the lovliest things ever seen in | a motion picture house. . Saturday, January 16th. . Richard Talmadge in "THE FIGHTING DEMON" Startling, Thrilling, Sensational, ? I'uthlfSs. , Ai.d a Sennett Comedy, 'Tee For. Two." " ^ And "Wild Westf^Serial.) Monday, January 18th. Joseph Conrad's ^ " LORD JIM. ** U:'.h Percy Marmont, Shirley Ma -on, Noah Berry and Raymond Hatton. The story of a man who conquered d' nnpers, evils, enemies without t rv< ? and, finally himself. Tuesday, January 19th.' A picture made for the fellows who think they know all about >ve. WHAT FOOLS MEN." n I.rowis Stone,-. Shirley Mason, T)avid Torrence and Barbara I?<dford. A P'i.-st National Picture. ^ edneRday, January ? 20th, and ThurHday, Janu$ry~21st. Zano Grey Presents "THK VANISHING AMERICAN" A Paramount Picture h Richard Dix, Lois Wilspn and" ^*f>ah Berry. story of the R?d Man's stand ?itfainst civilization. Without a <ioubt the greatest picture of fered the American public today.' Admission 50 Cents. Children under twelve, 25c. PERSONAL MENTION Mis* Dorothy Burns of Sumter was a visitor in Camden last Sunday. Cormier of Charleston is gu^st of Dr. and Mrs. H. T. Coocfale this week. ty^jAVithers Trotter is on a visit to relatives here before going to Tamp* to make his home. Mrs. J. M. Kirvftn of Darlington ii the guest *of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Rhame and Miss Mattie Gerald. Miss Belle Hope, Mrs. G. H, Keut- 1 gen and Miss B. Keutgen, of ,Allen hurst, N. J., are guests at the home of Hrs. R. W. White. Mrs. G. G. Alexander left Sunday night for Gainesville, Fla., where she will spend sometime with her daugh ter, Mrs. ,R. G. Zetrouer. v Miss Alma Botts, ojT Abbeville, ar rived in Cam4eu this week. She will be connected with th*? Wnteree Mills organisation as $ st , pher. - Mr. Robert Stone of feoston is oc cupying his home on North Lyttleton street for a few weeks. He "has as his guest Mr. Benjamin C. Tower also of Boston. Miss Annie Long, who. has been spending the winter with her aunt. Mrs. W. J. Jones, has gone to Dalton, Ga., where she will teach music. Miss Long is the fortunate possessor of wonderful ipusical talent and a lovely voice which she graciously and gen erously contributed to the public's pleasure while in Camden whore a warm welcome awaits her on a re turn visit. ;? Library Notes. The library is open daily except Sunday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3:80 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Visitors are welcome and the stranger within our gates is cordially invited fto make use of the library. We need books as readers are in creasing _and^ may we urge the resi dent reader's to return tlje library^ books they may have in their homes; they are charged against you at the desk but tfie librarian cannot go around and collect them. We feel sure that the people who keep the books out overtime do not realise what an injustice they are doing the institution ? one that is bound to react to the disappointment of?the* individual for we fail to get subscriptions to put in new- books be cause the ones that' are being asked for are in your homes. Then will you listen to this plea: search your book shelves and return the library books you find thereon. Surely this is not an unreasonable request. Give the library a chance. Born ? to Mr. and Mrs. J\ W. Thompson, January 12, a son. Bull-Zeigler ? A wedding of interest to a wide circle of friends in this and other states was that of Miss Ellen Bull tp T. J. Zeigler Saturday afternoon at the home of M*. and Mrs. Lewis Lee Clyburn, where Miss Boll had been a visitor for the past week. The Rev; John P. Graham of the Baptist church performed the ceremony. The bride is the -daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bull of Miami, Fla., who with her parents, formerly re sided .at ,Cheraw. The bridegroom is a native of Orangeburg but is now a commercial traveler with head quarters at DaVlas, Texas, at which place they will make their future home. Meeting of the Civic League The above organization held its' regular monthly meeting in one of the class rooms of the school as the audi torium was in use. It .was an inter esting meeting and many important things came up for discussion, chief among them, the coming pf the executive board, or committee vo& the South ? Carolina Federation ''*of Women's clubs, which is composed of tiie officers and heads jpf departments and numbers around twelve or four teen women. The meetings will be the 19th a Ad 20th of January, and are to be held at Hobkirk Inn. The luncheons, tendered by the club women of the city are also to be given at the Hobkirk. Mr. Thompson of the Kirkwood, was also most gracious in extending an ? invitation to the special musical concert on the evening of the nineteenth, and otherwise ex tending* cordial hospitality to Cam den's guests. Our little city will fesl honored in having these representa tive women within its gates nnd the ! doors of the homes in home-like Cam den will swirig wide to receive them. Gardner? Berry Mr. J. C. Berry and Miss Mary C. Gardner, both of Camden, were mar ried ?in this city on January 11th, the cerefnony being performed bv Judf?e 1 W. L. McDowell. " Window Dinplay and Sale of Hat* ? 'Be aure to see the wonderful dis play in Miss M. E. Gerald's Shop windows tomorrow, Saturday and Monday. Hata on sale for 68 cents and for $1.98, many' of which sold for $10.00 and $12.00. A quick -sale to make room for Spring stock. Don't mit* this uppoitwaHyr ' Adv. MEMORIAL COIN SALE Going Good and. South Carolina Will Soil Her Share Bays Gibbee. Columbia, 8. C., January 13th. ? Special to The Chronicle. ? Just ten day* remain before the Confederate Memorial Coin Campaign closes througout the South* Two weeks ago it appeared as if South Carolina would fail to absorb its allottmont of one hundred thousand coins, thereby slapping her governor fp the face for having dared to make such a pledge for the State that fired the first and the last shot of the Confederate Way. Ten days ago representative men and women from all over the State met here in the capitol and united in the determination not only to dispose of the entire quota but that South Carolina, should lead all others and be th^ first State to go over the top. Jt was reported to the confer ence that a Piedmont editor had writ ten that "No one could enthuse South Carolina people over this proposi tion." A vigorous and unmistakable answer was given to this in, the reso lutions adopted declaring that these conferees would go back to their homes and unite their people in a tre mendous effort to sell eveTy coin by the time the shadows fall on Lee's Birthday, Tuesday, January nine teenth. "The reaction to this has been wonderful," stfid Campaign Director, J. Wilson Gibbon, tonight. "Thirty seven men and women in towns where ho campaign had been secured wired enthusiastically that they would lead the Canvass to victory. Our head quarters has been overwhelmed with telegrams, phone messages and letters ?from persons and places that had been silent heretofore. Mayor Stoney per sonally leads the Charleston cam paign for a whirlwind drive on Thurs day with all organizations enlisted for ^rhoupe to liuuse canvass. In Ander son, President Mattison and Secretary Fant, of the Chamber of Commerce, wire that they will put it over. Spar tanburg is making splendid progress under Mrs. A. E. Woody and Mayor Brown, Sumter, Florence and Rock Hill arc humming- with their drives, while in Greenville today Mrs. W. L. Gassaway, the chairman, held the biggest organization meeting of the campaign, with addresses by Dr. D.I W. Daniel of Cleinson, Professor j Reaves of Wofford, while Dr. David j Ramsey pledged all the girls of the j Greenville Woman's College for coins. The Executive Committee of the Stone Mountain Association has just passed an irrevocable resolution ordering that a complete record of quotas and coin sales for each town be placed in the historic collection in Memorial Hall. " Every banking town in South Carolina has been given a quota and will have written on its page in this booklet the story of its campaign. If it sells one half its quota then it is only fifty cent, for the old soldier and hisv meiTlory. Governor McLeod, who is ex-officio chairman of the cam paign,* sends greetings to Camden, with an expression of his confidence in its patriotic performance. ' ? Elections at Grace Church /The annual congregational meeting of Grace chtfrch was held Wednesday evening. At this meeting the reports from the various organizations for the year just past were read. The wardens and vestrymen for the year 1926 were elected and the Relegates fo the annual convention of the dio cese. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Senior warden, B. H. Boykin, Sr., junior warden, C. J. Shannon, Jr.; vestrymen, C. H. Yates, D. A. Boy kin, J. T. Hay, E. N. McDowell, J. S. H. Clarkson, R. N. Shannon, L.?.I. Guion, Jack Whitaker, Jr., James De Loache> Jr. J. M. Villepigue was elected treasurer and W. S. Burnet, secretary. ' ? The delegates to the Diocesan Con vention are: B. H. Boykin, Sr., C. J. Shannoh, Jr., J. S. H. Clarkson and J. W. Cantey. Alternates: C. C. Whit aker, J. M. Villepigue, E. N. Mc Dowell and James 'DeLoache, Jr. The^ reports indicated a very suc cessful year. The fourth annual con vention of the diocese of Upper South Carolina will meet in the church of the Nativity, Union, Jan. 26. When Bullets Were Slow Two colored gentlemen who had just reduced the population in a farm er's hen rpost were making: & get away. "Laws* .Hose," gasped Sam, "why you s'^OJte dem flies follows us so, close ?" "Keep gallopin r.igger," said Mose. "Th$m ain't flics. Them's buckshot." Capsized A man couldn't read, but he wanteJ people to think he could. One day he had a newspaper upside down. A friend walked up to him and asked: "What's the news, Sam?" "Terrible wreck at sea," wa* the : jyjUjyr. "Here's a ship upside down." ? ^ BUS1NBS8 TO GOOD New Year Begiaii With Hi*** Point ing Upward Says Report New York, Jan. 8.? Upon the heels of one of the ijnost prosperous busi ness yearn -in history, the new year is ushervd'in with all signs pointing to, a continuation of prosperity, at Ira *t for the first half of 1026. Fare casts by financial and industrial lead ers revealed almost complete unani mity of opinion regarding the trend of business during this period, but many 6f them were tempered with caution in taking a long range view of tho entire year. Seldom has the cheerful predic tions which were issued for 1925 been more abundantly fulfilled. Tan gible evidence of improvement was noted in all lines of trade and indus try; throughout the year, embracing! such important measured of prosper ity as recoftl-breaking railway' car loadings, unprecedented holiday trade, substantial gains in the earnings of railroad and industrial corporations which were passed on their stockhold ers in tho form of higher dividends, decided progress in the restoration of European political and economic stab ility and indication? that there would bo little restrictive legislation affect ing financial or railroad enterprises from the present session of Congress. As a barometer of trade, the stock market functioned throughout the year witfy undeniable precision. The businoss prosperity of 1925 was fore told ? in the fall boom of 1924, and the sustained strength of stock trad ing up to the close of the year, in dicated that the time had yet arrived to discount a reversal of trade ten dencies. Underlying easy money con ditions stimulated stock market oper ations most of the year, but 1926 be gins with firmer conditions prevail ing. extraordinary year in the history, ac cording to Dun's Review of Trade, with operations in many basic lines running elose to capacity. In some instances a tendency toward higher prices was reported. For the first time in history rail way freight traffic has been main tained throughout the year, at an average of more than a million car loadings weekly. GENERAL NEWS NOTES Mary Jones, aged 122, according to rocords,!and Thomas Epps, 105,- both negroesi jiied at the State Colored Folks' nonic at Charleston W. Va., last week. L. C. SHayjies, Arkansas negro, aged 30, has confessed to the authorities of Rutherford county, N. C., that pn the night of December 23, he shot one Johnny Johnson, negro, to death, and theft burned the- body to hide the crime, } Both negroes Were road lab orers. ? ,.ii "Poor \Fool," a 14-year-old horse, bought by a jockey in 1923, when he fell an<) broke, his leg in a steeple chase race at Leipsic, Germany, for $4, has' since being nursed back to health and strength won for his owner a total of $26,000 in steeple-chase racing purses.! 1 At Durham, N. C., Saturday, John James, 29, was killed instantly when his six-year-old nephew fired a loaded shotgun into the man's abdomen. The' gun was discharged when the boy picked it up at play. The Farmers and Merchants Bank of Walterboro closed the year with resources of nearly three-quarters of ] a million dollars. All the Walterboro banks show healthy condition. A man claiming to be a descendant of Alexander the Great is now a post master in the Sarikol Valley in India. <" V NVpfjor Randolph, Ma.v., i-io.. .i?rl a chicken and a turkey <vi r?\hH>itril the spf-c.cs called ?Tuiken" at the N'e^ Kngland poultry show !a<-t week. Poultry men say it i.? . a very ?oothsome fc-vJ for the dinner table. MEXICANS SHOOT AND LOOT I Number Of Pentonii Dw4 May Rweh Fifty ?*y* American Mexico Ciiy^Jan. UjC?**' N- Wym k?op. of Berryville, Pa., representa tive of the Bulck Motor Company, and oiH- of the two American* on board ihr train attacked by bandits Satur day, gave the Associated Press a graphic account of the ghastly affair, lie was the first aurvivor to reach Mexico City. "I saw nine soldier guards dead, I he said. 4,I believe all the guards and most of the crew were killed. The number of murdered Mexican pas- 1 sengers l# do 'not know, but some of I my companions estimated them ail the way from twenty to fifty. "About dark Saturday I noticed I twenty suspicious-appearing men carrying rifles concealed, who boarded the train as passengers at a small station near Guadalajara. Presently I they stationed themselves at the doors of each coach, and without I warning opened fire upon tho pas- 1 sengers in the second and third 1 coaches. They continued firing with- 1 out mercy killing many of the pas-j sengers and all the soldier guards. "I saw several dead Mexican wo- 1 men and children in addition to tho ones I could not see. It was a ruth less massacre and a most terriblo sight. Even now I can hardly be lieve that such nn awful thing hap pened. "I doubt if anybody will ever ac curately know the number of dead and wounded. I saw wounded men die and others killed instantly. I saw one aged woman, writhing in horrible agony, her body shot open. I saw a little baby shot through the heart. I saw bodies so burned as to be al most "indistinguishable from the charred timber? of the coaches. Al together it wni^ a perfect nightmare "The sole and only mercy, which I cannot explain, was shown to for eigners. Not a foreigner was killed. A number of Ge^rnans in the Pull man, together with passengers of other nationalities, were unhurt. "We are all busted, but, thank C?od, we got away nlive. " "Although the bandits did not harm any foreigners in the "Pullman, they took all valuables from the men, but ? did not rob the foreign women. After they had done their work of massacre ! and robbery the bandits, who had I with them an expert engineer, ran ! the train to Yurecuare Station,1 looted the town, wrecked the depot, destroy ed telegraph wires, shot more Mexi cans, disembarked all the foreigner, and ran the train fo'r a short distance. There they burned and wrecked every coach, stripping the express car of all valuables. "Some of the bodies of the murder ed victims were cremated. "The bandits > next boarded the en gine after loading it with the loot and made their escape. Not a slhglfc allot was fired at them, for the soldier guards were killed on the first attack, and the passengers were too fearful to attempt resistance. "I heard the bandits say 'We are not bandits; we are Revolutionists.' I asked one of them, are you rebelling against?' He answered, 'Calles'." ? ' He said all male passengers in the Pullman were lined up outside the train and robbed, but were not hurt physically. The women passengers in the Pullman, were not molested. Mr. Wymkoop repeated that nearly all the train crew were murdered, but the ,conductor was spared.' He was unable to estimate the number of Mexican passengers killed because of the dark ness in which the attack was made. He described the situation during the robbery -fes terrifying. The rob I bors were shooting mercilessly while they looted the train and set fire to the coaches. Above the noise of the shots and fire could be heard shrieks and shouts. The Pullman passengers saw the second and third-class coaches" burning but were unable to intervene or investigate. Mr. and Mrs! Wymkoop walked all Saturday night and most of Sunday before they reachcd a station, from which they wert' able to make a cir cuitous railway- journey to Mexico City. ^ Bandit Hand Wiped Out Mcxico City, Jan. 12. ? Federal troops today continued a ruthless campaign of extermination against the bandits who hold up the Guadala jara-Mexico City passenger train Sat urday night and murdered an esti mated total of fifty persons including passengers, train crew and train guards. Death is being dealt without mercy to the bandits and their accom plices alike. The War Department iRftued a laconic communique today, saying that an unknown number of the ban dits have been killed in a fight and eight prisoners executed, but behind this, according to dispatches from other sources there Is a story of swift r" IP " ' ' " ** ? r Mothers Treat Colds The New "Direct" Way No Longer N?c???ary to mO?km Chil* dr?n With Internal M?4icin?* to ' Brook Coldt. Children's diges tions arc easily v?p sot by too mucU "dosing." Vickn VapoRub tx'iuK eoc* ternaliy applied^ docs not upset little stomachs. At tht liist cuirnof > ? ? croup, sore throat, or any' other cold trouble, apply Vicks freely. There is nothing 10 swullow ? you just "rul> it ou." VL po Rub Owk2IMhuo*Jaiu t/sto Ymam ?r uiid uncompromising retribution by tho Federal soldiery. A detachment of troopers belong ing to tho Fiftieth cavalry trailed the main group, including about twenty hand its, in a northwesterly direction from Los Reyes, in Micho acan into the State o^ Jalisco- The bandits wero surrounded at a ranch called Quitupan. Thore the corner outlay was fought desperately and most of them died fighting. Eight who were taken prisoners are said to have confessed participation in the jobbery and were summarily execut ed. Loot from the train was found nn fivnry nnft nf the bodies. Federal troops are still pursuing a straggling group of the marauders and appear to be executing all who are shoWn to have boen accomplices in the robbery whether they partici pated activoly or not. It is said that the government is determined to give such a stern lesson that outlaws will fear to attempt any repetition of the Outrage. Car Was Wrecked A-Uuick- roadster, said, .to have heo.r the property of Henry Norris, struck a guy wire and later struck a "CetiT phone pole when making a turn at the corner of DeKalb and Mill streets, headed north. The accident happened about ton o'clock Sunday night and parties saw the drivpr walk away, but it is not kncJwn who was driving. The car Was pretty badly wrecked but it is not known whether the man in tho car waS injured or not. Some Heavy Fronts The old saying goes that "three heavy frosts and then a rain," but this precedent has been broken during the past week, for live heavy frosts have occurred in succession. This promises | to be broken Friday for the weather forecast Thursday read as follows: "For South Carolina, partly cloudy Thursday, Friday; increasing cloudi ness jvith rising temperatures follow ed by rain; moderate to fresh north west winds." Tidwell-.Connell Mr. L. Mf. Cqimell and Miss Willie Mae Tidwell both of Camden, .were married in Camden on January 9th, by Probate Judge W. L. McDowell. Ray-Ray. Mr. Arthur Ray and Miss Mamie Ray, both of Lugoff, were married in Camden'on January 11th, the probate judge officiating; Dangerous Cough ?How to End it To quickly end a dangerous cough there is a very simple treatment which gives almost instsnt relief and often breaks the cough entirely in 24 hours. This treatment is based on the famous Dr. King's New Discovery for Coughs. You take just one teaspoonful and hold it in your throat for 15 or 20 sec onds before swallowing it. The prescription has a double action. It not only soothes and heals soreness and irritation, but also loosens and removes the phlegm and congestion which are the real cause of the coughing. So the worst cough usually disappears quickly. Dr. King's New Discovery is for coughs, chest colds, bronchitis, spas modic croup, etc. Fine for children, too ?no harmful drugs. Very economical, as the dose is only one teaspoonful. At all good druggists. Ask for NEW DISCOVERY FOR PRIVATE SCHOOL Conducted by MRS. W. J. 1602 North