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T1IK "CAMDBNS" INVITED To Bridge Celebration Connecting;. New Jersey and Pennsylvania City Camden, N. J., Keb. H>. Twenty OiX* mayors of twenty one Camden* scattered 4>ver Twenty one static have )>ecft invited to attend the celebra tion which will mark the opening: of the bridge over the Delaware connect ing Camden, New Jersey, with Phila delphia. There are twenty-one cities in the country bearing tho name "Camden." There art) many designation* com roon to various numbers of communi ties hut this is thy first time the executive heads of every community having the same name have been asked to join a "family gathering." Invitations to the unique group were sent out tpday from the office of Mayor Victor King of Camden, N. J. They were addressed to Cam - dens in the following states; Alabama, Arkanas, Delaware, (ieorgiu, . Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Miss issippi, New York,s North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Washington. New Jersey's Camden with a popu lation of 180,000 is the largest of the group of namesakes. Camden, Wash ington, is the smallest having a popti' lation of less than three hundred. The letters from Mayor King ask the recipients to join Camden, New Jersey, in the bridge celebration and suggest that fitting honor be done to the name which has been so frequent ly chosen by the founders of the com munities. The Camden, New Jersey, mayor sots forth in the invitations a sug gestion for placing on tho exposition grounds a memorial to the name Camden. He asks each of the twenty executive heads to present to Camden, N. J., a young tree from his home town. Those treen would be planted on each Hide of one of tho boulevards which will permanently traverse the civic center where the exposition will be held. This highway would be named the the Avenue of Camdens and the trees would be planted in the presence of the twnty-ono mayors, each sapling hearing the name of the town from which it came. With twenty gift trees and one from Camden, N. .J., there will he one in memory of LorJ Camden. Records show that Camden, N. .1 , was the first of the twenty-one com munities to adopt the name. The New Jersey member of the group had the name bestowed in 177.'l. Contrary to some claims the name was not applied after the city of Camden in England. All the Camdens in the United1 States take their names from the Karl of Camden, who had- been | Charles Pratt and afterward became' Lord Camden. The Karl <if Camden wa- a disting uished Knglish jurist <?!' h:? day. Many eases came before* him at thai] time growing out of tin* persecution bring administered the Whigs. It was bccauso of his fearless ju?tic?? on the bench that )i< endeared him self t<? the abject. Whig.; wh . wcr * fleeing to the new colonics in great numbers. A large numhe> til' thv- vic tims of tin* | km ft u ! :tni emigrated t?i Philadelphia and h?ns acr i>- the Delaware. Among the nine pio>perou-> of the settlers of that time were the mem bers of tlx- Cooper family who had settled what still is known as Pyne Poynt, a spot where a small stream, Cooper Kiver, enters the Delaware, in the city of Camden. i Jacob Cooper was a Whig. He had prospered, and when additional num bera of his people kept arriving in their flight from persecutions, he de cided to set aside for them a tract they could call home. Accordingly Jacob Cooper had a tract of forty acres laid out on the wooded banks of the Dataware, one mile below Pyno Point, so named because of the pine tracts which studded its shore lands. * The new settlement was named by the donor, as Camden in memory of [the fairness of the beloved Karl of! Camden. Incidentally, search shows that only two names are used by more separate (communities in this country than 'thai! 1 of Camden. Twenty-four communities bear the name Springfield and an equal num ber boasts of the appelation Warren, But there is no record of tin* execu tive heads of these groups of twenty four ever having been invited by one j of their number to join in a family gathering to honor the joint name. ! An effort is being made to have the; mayors of the twenty one Camdens joint in the celebration to mark the j opening of the Camden-Philadelphia bridge on the^Fourth of July. Two new 14-inch rifles are to be sent to the Panama canal zone to) supplement (be 16-inch guns already mounted along the canal. The new guns are to be mounted on railway trucks and to bo moveable from one point to another at will. NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING OF CAMDEN ICE CO. Notice is hetreby given that there will be a special meeting of tho stock holders of the Camden Ice company, incorporated, to be held at Twelve o'clock on Monday, March 8th, 1920, at the office of Messrs. Kirkland and Kirkland, Camden, S. C., for the pur pose of considering resolutions of the board of directors of the said com pany, to increase the capital stock of the ? said company to Twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00), to au thorize tho execution of a mortgage or deed of trust, covering property of the company, to secure proposed issue of bonds of the said company and to consider any other business that may j properly come before said meeting. J. H. OSBORNE, ! President, JVO. M. VILLEPIGUE, I Secy, and Treasurer] | Camden. S. Feb. 5?, 1920. CHAPMAN AGAIN LOSBS Federal Judge Denies Him Writ of Habeas Corpus New York, Feb. 15. ? Gerald Chap* mail, convicted bafidit and murderer, tb'day lost his appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeal* for a writ of habeas corpus. The appellate court sustained the order of Federal Judge Thomas, of Connecticut, in dia- 1 missing Chapman's application fori the writ. Chapman is under sentence to hang( on March 23 for the murder of a New Hritain, Conn., policeman, nought by the habeas corpus proceedings to be returned to Atlanta penitentiary from which he escaped after serving only a short part of his twenty-five-year sentence for the million-dolldir mail] robbery in New York City. The opinion handed down today, written by Fderal Judge Manton, de clined to go into tho question of the validity of the president's commuta tion of Chapman's * sentence. The j court held that only the United States government would have the r.ight to enter an objection in this connection and pointed out that the government through Assistant United States At torney Cohen had urged thrit the ^sen tence of the Connecticut state court be carried out. "A prisoner may not with impu nity commit another and more serious crime and srty he is protected from trial and punishment. "The alleged disability of his first sentence will mark no such handicap to law enforcement. Convicts like others are amenable to the law and its penalties," the court ruled. "Pun ishment for crime is general and ap plies to all. "The prisoner has no right to de mand which sentence shall be satis ! fied first. The law will not recognize any such interests as this. It is the United States Government only which may object. It makes no objection to the carrying out of the sentence of the state court here. ? "It urges that the sentence of the state be carried out. "And execution of the sentence is the representation made to society to Idoter others from such crime. A con vict has no greater interest in its en forcement than any other citizen. "It appears that there was juris ! diction in the state of Connecticut and that the prisoner submitted to the jurisdiction and has been found guilty and sentenced within that state, hence the sentence of the court of ' that state may be legally carried out with due regard for any an'd all con stitutional rights the prisoner may have." Card of Thanks We take this method of thanking our many friends for their kindness shown during the recent- illness and death of our wife and mother. Also for the many floral offerings. Our sympathizing friends have offered as sistance in every way. May God's richest blessings rest with you all. S. F. Bradley and Family. Too Great a Risk! The laruuT, depending on the results of his crops must plan in such a way that they will be as large as possible. He risks his all every season when he plants his crops ? his means of living during' the year, his ability to plant again next year, everything he owns and the happiness and welfare of his family. He chooses his seed with care before planting, making sure th#t it' other conditions are agreeable, his crop will be sure to make a profit. But, often, he overlooks the most important essential in the success of his crops ? FERTILIZER. In an effort to save a few dollars on the season's purchase of fertilizers, he often overlooks quality ? the verv thing that produces bigger crops earlier. He overlooks one of the most im portant things. HE MUST USE THE BEST FERTILIZERS. He must me fertilizer^ that will produce a big crop at the earliest date. /POQ. fMC&EASED Y/ELDS USE, / O PCN - FORMULA F?&TIL/2?RS :ki.- -??'!>? in,:! - o .rii; tit ??! superior qualu> t<? priMiiuv the largest ot" crops at Lhr ? arliest, date. .IOSKVS may be a few doll ars .higher in tin* season's purchases than :rf?*rior fertili'/rr-. iui' r 'aim p r- >? i u ** *? la/gi-r crops with the use of less per pound. v '? : !!-. ? p. : r.rv a salesman /n S. See our nearest dealer or write direct to N. B. Josey Guano Company Wilmington, N. C. Tarboro, N. C. Scotland Neck, N. C. WWGLEYS NEW HANDY PACK Fits hand ^ packet and purse More for your money and the best Peppermint Chewing Sweet for any money ? Look (or Wrigley's P. K. Handy Pack oa your Dealer*# Counter q7 Ifr Sunday School Workers Meeting. A meeting of the Sunday School workers and pastors of Kershaw As sociation was held at the First Hap tist church of Camden, February 10th., loan, for the purpose of building up the Sunday Schools. J. L. Corzine, Supt. of Rural Sunday Schdols and Daily Vacation Bible Schools, was present and made a very impressive address on the work. Some definite work was laid out for Kershaw As sociation. 1st. Our Aim ? To increase the en rollment 25 per cent, of the present membership. 2nd. Methods.^ ? (a) Take census. (,b) Graded. (c) Interesting programs. With these before us every Sunday we hope to improve our schools. A general discussion was heard from pastors and visitors.' All enjoyed this enthusiastic meeting. M rs. Geo. Creed, For Pres. of S. S. Convention. Bigham to Florence Columbia, Feb. 15. ? Edmund D. Bighain, who was recently granted a new trial by the supreme court will shortly "be moved from the death house at the penitentiary to the Flor ence county jail to await his third trial in connection with the alleged murder of five members of the Big ham household in 1921. The Illogical Mr. Harrow Clarence Darrow tells a Congres sional committee that the death pen alty does not deter men from crime, but only makes them more crafty in seeking to avoid detection. To admit that is to give up the whole case against capital punishment. The argument has been that the criminal is impelled by such forces of heredity or other powers beyond the control of his own will that he kills just as a fish swims. But if he has the volition to employ more craft with the view of avoiding execution, he is capable of | employing self-control in another way, that is not committing the crime at all. The materialistic interpretation of cyme, which is the theory always presented by Mr. Darrow, destruc tive of all character. 2 he idea of a man's eainestly struggling against wicked impulses and conquering them is foreign to his philosophy. He even goes so far as to say: " We're all killers at heart. Of course, I have never taken anybody's life, but 1 have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction. It just happens that circumstances have favored me." He lays no claim to character and , seems not to consider that such a thing either exists or is to be sought, cultivated or desired. Mr. Darrow cites tlu- example of England's haiharous pra tice of past centuries of hanging pickpockets. | But he does not cite the example of { England today. No who denies J the efficacy < f capital punishment for ? causing nil n t > restrain ;hrir angry pass ion -i ha> > ?*t explain^ 1 why F.ng land, wn?? hang- aimos: it. assassins, ha.i tew. k;!.:ng-'. whiie America, who hang- \c:> U\y has m-rt n propor tion ? p :> ipu'a ' than any other civ ilized count r> ' 'he w r .d. New her > ()b?? ?! v < " A.tn.'jg-. uj\.:ig the mayo: - office hikfdiy > \ weeks, Mayor W a.k ? r <>f New Yo:k City, is facing a com plete r.??rv breakdown and the nee-1 ess it y of tak.i.g a Complett reU in ..rder to ega:\ hi ?? health. President Coondge had a nar- { row escape from being rur. down by a truck on the streets of Washington,: Tuesday. Only the quickness of a secret .service man who was his es cort, saved th?* prewiont from serious injury. JIf Present Prices THE BETTER BUICK i'm No other car offer* to much of quality and luxury* such fine per* formance, such durability and such distinctiqifi, at any comparable cost. Comparison will convince you. 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BUICK MOTOR COMPANY, FLINT, MICHIGAN Division of Qeneral Motor* Corporation THE BETTER BUICK LITTLE MOTOR COMPANY ? T. LEE LITTLE, MANAGER, CAMDEN, S. C. Woman Found Frozen in Cake of Ice Paulboro, N. J., Feb. 11. ? County authorities were trying today to es-, tablish the identity of a young woman clad in a union suit, and one stocking, was found encased in a cake of ice in the Delaware river yesterday. A post morem examination, CV>roner Adams said, showed that the young woman, who was between 25 and 35 years old, was murdered". Her fore head was gashed and her skull frac tured. Other evidence tended to show that the woman was dead before the body was thrown into the water. The coroner suggested that perhaps she had been thrown overboard from a vessel, after a severe beating. ? It was necessary ta.use axes to free the body from the ice. A religious emblem hung around the neck but no other mark of ^identification \^as found. Coroner Adams said it was diffi cult to tell how long the body had been in the water, particularly siftce it had been well preserved in the ic?. He believed, however, that the woman had been dead from two to four weeks. ? Mrs. Stevens Improving The friends of Mrs. Anna Stevens, of Cheraw will be glad to learn that this beloved lady is very much im , proved, after a very severe attack of pneumonia, and is now considered as having passed the danger point. Dr. W G. Stevens, of this city, went to Cheraw Monday to be with his mother. He returned here yesterday with the cheerful news of this mother'e improvement. ? Rock Hill Record. OATMEAL COOKIES? Thirty cents a dozen at The Martha Washington. Wishing and Working / People do not lack strength , they lack will . This applies to the matter of sav ing. If you want to learn the difference between wishing and working stop wish - ing for money and work harder to save some of it. CAPITAL $100,000.00 Loan & Savings Bank . 4 Per Cent. Paid on Savings Deposits ?.& _ ICE WOOD COAL On the "SQUARE" we want j'our business. Our prices are right; Service is prompt and courteous. Good Ice, Cal and Wood at all times. Be convinced. Call tele phone 69 and give us the chance to prove it. Respectfully, Dixie Ice and Fuel Co. (he.) R. L. Moseley, Jr., Pfei, uid Treats. ? v . . " - . j * V*