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SMWBH CONFESSES Frank Carter Admits He in Wanted On Many Charge* at Omaha Onirthu, Fob. 22. ^ Frank Carter, . > f u-k!ey, Iowa, captured at Hart lt t? , Iowa, and brought here today, ad ,rti;Ud that ho U, the "maniac i|Kj ? ?" v,h> lias be0)i terrorizing Omaha f 1 ;t week. Authorities said he c<?n tossed two slaying* and one possibly futal shooting! Ho carried a .22 cal iber automatic pistol. Carter said the motive for t he first slaying, that of William McDevitr, dairy employe on the street a week ago last night, was robbery. The second, that of Dr. A. I). Scarles in His office Tuesday nighj? NVtn for the same reason. Robbery of ?%f < Uevitt'a body was thwarted by up. pear a nee of a pedestrian. Only u watch was taken' from the physician. A .22 caliber pistol was used, Carter said, and it was easily silenced and "effective." The capture was made by C. C. Bruce-, railroad section foreman, who said he recognized the man from newspaper descriptions, the Bartlett marshal and two citizens. Carter also admitted shooting Ross Johnston, railroad detective, in Council Bluffs vii Friday nighty saying )\ feared aVi.'st was near.' Authorities said Carter's confession clears up a series of mysterious shootings which has held this city -fenr-bound for eight days. v 1 Scattering of windows by a 22 cal iber pellets in the neighborhood of McDeyitt's death was done to keep officers searching in that district, Carter said. He admitted firing into a drug store window last Tuesday night, narrowly missing a girl clerk. Carter said he had been in Omaha most of the time since January 1. He said he worked on a farm only a the summer time and never had been able to make Enough to "tide me over the winter. I started out to ob in Omaha and I decided that no men would get away from me to tell the story. "That's why I shot to Kill," Advices from Acklye, Iowa, said Carter was not known there. (Jeorge Dodson and Hud Jackson, police officers of Pulaski, Tenn., were shot to death by three white men Monday night. The killers escaped in a car. . NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING OF CAMDEN ICE CO. .Notice is hereby given that there will be a special meeting of the stock holders of the Camden Ice company, incorporated, to be held at Twelve o'clock on Monday, March 8th, 1926, at the office of Messrs. Kirkland aid 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 Twearty-five thousand dollars ($26,000.00), to au thorize the execution of a mortgage or deed of trust;, covering property of the company, to secure proposed issu'.: of bonds of the said company and to consider any other business that may proper! v come before said meeting. J. H. OSBORNE, President. JNO. M. VILLEPIGUE, Secy, and Treasurer Canidjwi, S. C,, Feb. 9, 1926. SCRAPS AND FACTS Interesting Note* Gathered From Many Sources. A nuinbe? of ivonh'.i in New Yovk m. Jwv,:/b*\y- ^ujt- j? V>. I t" l;u:m \hx; V> ,.)k ill .i-. ioaivi I oi:- v ? \' I i <x , ^ ; ' ; . fc?J .. i I>V t)f ? u. i ty ; < u v.- )>; ?; in Washington, I). ,:0? j - >>\ >-l 7,000 persons present. la j fartj theatres on the same day 50,000 ( persons were found. I he United States ami Russia are now the two foremost. Jewish eoun tries in the world; they contain about three-fourths of the world's Jews. Near Alhambra, 'California,-' is a r^sv Bush 50 years old, more than (oyr leet jri circumference at the bottom with vines 125 feet in length. "Noise can be kept out of a room jpst as well as a snow storm can," says l)r. Paul S. Heyl, chief of Bu reau of Standards laboratory. "The main difference is that to keep out snow the stouter the wall the better, while to ward off noise the flimsier the wall the better." A aprag is a piece of wood which is ih ro wn between the spokes of a wheel on a coal mining car to bring it to a stop mi a grade, acting as a brake. Over three million feet of timber is required annually for mak ing sprags in Pennsylv,\Miy The last six-master on the seven seas, the Kd,ward J. Lawrence, went to her^death j(..?i a crackling roar of . fla^u\ while) lying at anchor in Port land harb.Tr, Maine. "Cycles^ and motor-driven vehicles must light their lamps thirty minutes before sunset, the exact hour of whic'i will be fixed by the mayor." So de crees the mayor of Koege, a small town in Denmark. About one hundred years ago the Presbyterian church council passed a resolution forbidding its clergy to appear in public when intoxicated. Never make an important decision or enter into a big business deal on an empty stomach. Your mind isn't working and you'll probably get the worst of it, according to a professor of the psychological department of the University of Chicago. > At the suggestion of C. A. Daw son Scott, many noted writers of different nations have formed an in ternational club, the first in the world. It is called the P. PL N., these letters standing for editors, essayists, novelets, poets and playwrights. "I . don't like the American girls because they wear their skirts too short and paint too much," says *i real sheik from Cairo. He is Sheik Tolba Fabdalla Abdallah Kantab, who recently spent a vacation in Hollywood. Erman Higdon, 22, his father and mother, arc under arrest at Wewoka, Okla., for investigation in connection with the mysterious killing of Rita May Gosa, Erman's fiancee, just two hours before the time they were to be married. Erman is alleged to haw confessed the killing. Harry Cowan, 54, totally blind, was arraigned in a Brooklyn, N. ^ ., couit on Tuesday, charged with having murdered Miss Edith Burton, ? by shooting. CAMDEN OFFERS THE BEST VALUES IN REAL ESTATE IN THE SOUTH WE ARE NOT ACQUAINTED WITH THE MAN WHO HAS - LOST A DOLLAR BUT WE KNOW QUITE A NUMBER WHO HAVE MADE MANY DOLLARS IN BOTH RESIDENCE AND BUSINESS PROPERTIES ?i-room cottagt, lot 180x200 feet, Lalteview S 5,000.00 ^?room new renidence, corner lot facing park 9,500.00 ? ?room brick bungalow, beautiful outlook 9,000.00 s-rooms, on park, large lot . ? ? I4.006.f0 '?-rooms, adjoins school property (needs some repairs but there is a good profit in it) at {,.>00. 00 ' '?rooms, 4 acres, wonderful setting, one ol the l>esl small hotel propositions in the South, worth $50,000, ran. be bought on good terms for 10,000.00 ^ e have close-in acreage at very attractive prices and building lots that soon must double in prices. Let s talk it oxer before fhe inevitable advance. C. P. DuBOSE & CO. First Floor Loan^fc Savings Bank Hldg., IfeKalb Street Phone 43 Night Ptfone 32I-:-N. C. Arnctt, Realty Dept. "Don't forget us when you need Fire Insurance GENERAL NEWS NOTES Paulino Armitage, well known ami popular actress of New ^ ork, u>m niittol suicide on TU?J(|Hy j n > ? * i ? i > > . l\. [jumping From a w ndow on the tout' UvnUi floor of the 1k>ic.I* ^ei> .5 , . My . ? Ci<> ) 1 h; ? HttOU (xllU'd over ; t-!HvV'li?;?homy . M'is.^ Hilv:? Wills, America** tennU ! champion, was defeated by Mine. I,onKlen, French champion, at Cannes, France, Tuesday. The American gi<l gave the French woman a real run for her honors. The Buffalo Evening Post, formerly the Buffalo Commercial, of Buffalo, N. Y., suspended publication Tuesday, after having been continually pub lished for 1M years. The first issue of the Gazette, ptfhtfecessor of the Commercial, appeared on October 8, ?1811. The 12,000 workofs in the 15,000 fur vshops of New York, members of the furriers' union, went on a strike Tuesday. Lieut. Leigh Wade,, one of the United States army round-the-world flyers, announced Tuesday night that he would soon resign from the army and with Lieut. H. H. Ogden, another round-the-world flyer, who resigned some time ago, will join a flying ex pedition to the North pole. Fire of undetermined origin dam aged the building and plant ot the Commercial Printing company of Raleigh, N. (\, to the extent of $100, 000 Wednesday morning. Jesse Vandyke, Chef ryviile bad man, who killed Chief of Police I aint ev at Cherryville, N. C., while in a drunken frenzy a few weeks ago, will face a charge of first degree murder when his ease is called at C>astonia, on March 9, according tu Solicitor John G. Carpenter. A McBuie, 70, and J. M. Matthews, 79, both Confederate veterans, who enlisted in a Confederate regiment before reaching the age of 18, died at Fayetteville, N. C., Tuesday. Mrs. Cleveland Dell, daughter of the late President G rover Cleveland, has been granted a divorce from her husband, William Stanley Dell, by h J Paris court. Harry Ferneckes, "midget bandit," John Flannery and Daniel McGeohe gan, under sentence to hang i:i Chicago for murder, were on Tues day granted writs of supersedes by the Illinois supreme 'court, and the cases will be reviewed by the court. Mrs. Elizabeth B. Tearle and six children were burned to death in thei*" apartment over a barbershop at Cen tral Bridge, N. Y., Wednesday. Roger Brannon and R. C. Davis were sentenced to the electric qbair at Lexington, Ky., Wednesday on charges of murder growing out of the killing of W. N. Fant, In December last. After five months and seventeen days the hard coal miners of Penn sylvania were to begin work again in the mines Monday. Mrs.. Louis K. Theirs, aged 111 years, died Wednesday at Milwaukee, Wis. ANNOUNCEMENT. Subject to the rules governing the Democratic Primary, I hereby an nounce myself a candidate for Mayor of the City of Camdeh in the ap proaching election. If elected, I shall advocate a progressive Administra tion Consistent with good business. C. P. DuBOSE. FOR MAGISTRATE I hereby announce myself as a can didate for Magistrate for DeKalb Township, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. W. L. DePASS, .Jr. FOR ALDERMAN I hereby announce myself as a can didate for alderman of the City of Camden Jrom Ward Four, subject to the Citv Democratic primary. C. C. WHITAKER, SR. For Alderman Ward Four I hereby announce myself as a can didate for the office of Alderman from Ward Four for the city of Cawi den in the coming Democratic primary subject to the rules and regulation? of the primarv. LEON H. SCHLOSBURG. FOR TREASURER I hereby announce myself as a can didate for the office of Treasurer of Kershaw County in the coming prim ary. subject to the rules and regula tions of the Democratic party. S. W. HOGUE. For Judge of Probate I hereby announce myself as can didate for the office of Judge of Probate for Kershaw County, subject to the rules of Democratic primary. SAMUEL N. NICHOLSON. For Alderman Ward Three. I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election as Alderman from W ard .'i of City of Camden, subject rules of Democratic primary. .1. H. OSBORNE FOR ALDERMAN WARD ONE I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election to tho< office of Alderman of the City of Camden from Ward One, subject to the rules of the City Democratic primary. W. L. JACKSON FOR ALDERMAN WARI) TWO I hereby announce myself as a can didate from Ward Two in the ap proaching primary subject to the rules and regulations' of the Demo cratic primary. LANE C. SHAW. Mr * ? ?_ a . ? , Tragedy in North State Raleigh, N. Feb. 20. ? Tragedy stalked across S'orth Carolina today from the mountains to the sea and ',oi> iiV vrn' lives. Three deaths wer?? ;i" .< u h of train and automobile o ? :? - h two \v. murders, one a suU ei<!o i^jid tin m-y< nth was a ship acci dent. At (Vnconl. John (iooile, a tex ,i!e woiker, was killed by a Southern, train when he stepped onto the track and evidently failed to see the train approaching. At. Newton, N. C., J. S. Bolick and Colo Williams of Maiden, N, C., wefo instantly killed when a freight train struck and demolished a wagon in which they were riding, At Leesville, in Wake county, C; MLJack son die^ as the result of what ed to be a self-inflicted shotgun wound, his brain being blown out. In the same room was found the body of his wife, hewed to death with an axe, and his daughter, Dora, died in a Ral eigh hospital tonight from wounds caused by aii axe. Authorities ex pressed the 'belief th?| Jackson had killed his wife and wounded his daughter and then committed suicide. At the Coinjock bridge, over the in land waterway, 40 miles from Eliza beth City, a tramp freighter smashed into the drawbridge and a member of the crew, named (Jibb , a white man, was Hilled in the crash. Mas Killed Ten llawks ? - ? j Kev. A.. K. Whitesides, popular pastor of Pleasant. Hill A. it: P. church, we believe, holds the recordl for killing hawks. Within the last several months , he has killed ten of the chicken eaters, the last one of which was killed Thursday. Kev. Whitesides says he finds it a very easy matter to shoot a hawk from his automobile, but quite u job to ease upon one in the woods or fields. He and a number of friends also killed a hooting owl Thursday that measured four and one-half feet from tip to tip. ? Lancaster News. The 1925 world's hay baleing cham pionship was won by five men from Nebraska who baled two tons of loose hay pi a little less than seventeen minutes. NbTlCE To the Creditors of Kershaw Motor Company: Notice is hereby given to all cred itors to file claims within ten days from February 26th, duly itemized and attested, with L. A. Wittkowsky, Trustee, Camden, S. C. 48-sb .. . . ".'me.' ? The steamship President Roosevelt, hero ship of the sea, arrived at New York yesterday for the first time since her gallant rescue of thp crew of the sinking freighter Antinoe on January 27. The ship and her crew was given a great reception by city and naval officials. Two men wer p seriously injured, one perhaps fatally, on Trade street, in Charlotte, Saturday night by be ing struck by a heavy automobile which was buing driven by a drunken driver named P, H^Alexander, a trav-. eling salesman. 'Alexander is alleged to have been helplessly drunk. 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