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FINAL DISCHARGE Noti'ie is hereby given that one sooth from this datou? on Monday, July 26th, 1926, I will make to the PrObate Judge of Kershaw County my Anal return as Administrator of the Estate of Horace Lot harm, deceased, and on the same date I will apply to the said Court fort a final discharge AM said Administrator. PAUL G. WALKER, Camden, 8. C., June 24, 1926. 13-pd * t ' ' ' ' . " ' ' ' . FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on Monday, Angust 2, 1926, I will make to the .-Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Administrator of the estate of Edward Brooks, deceased, and on the same date I will apply to the said Court for a final discharge an said Administrator. ' THOS. J. WILLIAMS. Camden, S. C? July 2, 1926. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on Tuesday, July 20, 1926, I will make to the Probate Judge of Kershaw County my final return as Administratrix of the estate of J. F. Bateman, deceased, and en the name date I will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as i said Administratrix. -c . .\ ?? ? MRS. JANIE R. BATEMAN. Camden, S. C., June^l?, 1928. KERSHAW LODGE No. 29 JK A. F. M. ^rQ^LaRegular communication of lodges is held on tlio first Tuesday in each month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. FRANK D. CAMPBELL, M. BILLINGS, Worshipful Master Secretary. 3-6-26-tf 666 ;:;;j in a prescription for Malaria, Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bilious Fever. It kills the germs. PIANO TUNING LEWIS L. MOORE j All Work Guaranteed l , Telephone 242-W Camden, South Carolina It's Easy to Kill Mosquitoes Z?xingl Slap! But In a few seconds he*? Uck again. Slapping at moaquitoM worriee you more than it doaa them. And you could be entirely fid of them BO atnlyl Simply cloae doora and window* and blow Be* Brand about 1 Be* Brand Inaect Powder wImV-1 w'" kill every one and it'e VaNHI eaay and safe to uae. It'a a powder. It can't explode. It can't atain. It'a harm less to every thing except I Sneects. You can uae it in a puffer gun. or , Mow it in the air irom a piece of paper. You can butn it in the room. It aleo killa Ante, Fleas, Flies. Roacbee. "WaterB ugs,lied Dugs, Moths, l.ieeon Fowl, and many other house and garden inaecte. Oat Bee Brand in red silting top cans at your grocer's or druggists. ... Ill II Will i Id sixes. 10c and iVc. Other aires. 50c and JaS^ SI .00. Puffer gun. 10c. IJ your dealer can't tupply SegMBB you, send us Jfc Jot larf iitsirVf-1 lit*. Cive dealer's ' mm and ask lor free booklet. "It Killa Them." a guide lor killing house and garden peats. McCoRMICK & Co.. Baltimore. Md. INSECT POWDER ( AUGHT IN H!8 OWN TRAP In*trad of bring a Hero Baker Waa a Firebug Says Report j Raleigh, N. C, June 18.?Two weeks ago B. B. Baker was hailed as a man who gave his life in an attempt to rescue others in a burning boarding house. Today he is branded not as a hero, but a fire-bug caught in his own trap. From the fall of inspiring heroics comes the sordid anticlimax4 which was gjveu today by Fire Chief Scotf?, The report was made to the insurance commissioners- and made public by them. The report indicated [that the investigation showed that Baker fanned to kill and rob l/>uis Oscar Engeleka, one of the victims, just before the fire and made an attempt in advance to place the blame upon the brother of the man whom he is alleged to have killed before coming to North Carolina and that his trips back into the house were made to encourage the fire and push along the flames as a motive for the alleged crimes. Baker admittedly had killed one man and was alleged to have killed others, the report says. It adds that he had had fire losses In South Carolina and .had collected heavy insur-, ance. The lodging house is characterized as haying been a "tough jOint." Two persons are qdoted aB Baying that they heard shots in the vicinity of the house at some time during the night, and the report comments: "Lousi 0. Engeleka was a man known to have a good deal of money. One of Engaleka's closest friends informed me he had Liberty bonSls that, he always carried in his pocket, and this man says that he knows Engeleka had at the time of thO"flrb anywhere from $200 to $400 in bills in his pocket. liTis thought by some that Baker might have killed 'him and rbobed him. Engeleka also had $13,900 in the Diamond National bank, Pittsburgh, Ph., and he had ordered this money sent to him to be deposited with the Page Trust company, Hamlet. It is a known fact i that he had told Baker he would have this money by the first of June, but as a matter of fact this money was in the post office. It came about the time the fire happened and was in the post office at the time I was making the investigation. "Engeleka lived in a bask room in the building. His body was found direetly under the head of the steps, where he had fallep to the ground. His hands and feet were burned off and they have never been able to find his head. Baker's pistol was found by Engcleka's body." L In some of the affidavits attached to the report is the statement that Engeleka, who had made Baker's daughter gifts of an automobile and other things, had told her he expected to will her all of his money. "I find that B. B. Baker killed a man by the name of Clarke in Cheraw, S. C., a few years ago, and he told different ones <in Hamlet that he had killed two white men and one nagro. This man Clark that was killed has a brother by the name of Mack Clark, who lives in Cheraw. Mack Clark is a married man, " but he and his wife do not live together, and it was his wife, Mrs. Mary Clark, who escaped from the building. She informs me that Baker knew it, and Mrs. Clark said that about 11 o'clock that night Baker came to her room and told her that he saw, Clark get out of a S^th Carolina car near the railroad crossing, and asked her if she thought he would give them any trouble that night. She informs ine that she was not worried about the matter and turned over and went to sletfp. Baker saw two policemen passing. He called them and said that he saw Mack Clark get out of a car near his house and that he had killed Clark's brother; that Mrs. Clark was in his house and he was expecting1 trouble, but at the time he told the officers that they need nut remain about there, that he could take care of the situation." The reports say that careful investigation, both in Hamlet and in Cheraw, show that Clark was in Cheraw at the time of the fire. "It is believed that Baker expected to pull off this fire and ho was bridging the way to place the responsibility on Clark. "The firemen, in talking about this fire, used their own language. They said that 'this fire had somethihg pushing it.' They saifl that they could turn the nozzles on it and drive the fire hack out of the hallway and out of certain rooms, and I when they would change the stream of water this fire would tun back where they had driven it away from." In building up the chain of evidence which led him to his conclusion that Baker was "not a hero, but a fire bug caught in his own trap," Captain Scott first shows that Baker, Who came to Hamlat from Cheraw, secured $1,800 insurance onnbe furniture he had purchased for $300. This was on April 26. A month later he took out $750 insurance on -a player piano and endeavored to secure further insurance, but was discouraged by the agent. He later moved his aged mother and her furniture into the house., "This, of course, made it appeur that they had a good deal of furniture." Two days before the fire Haker rented a cottage and moved his mother and fcer furniture into it. The day before the fire Mrs. Rachel Baker, wife of B. B. Baker, left for Columbia, 8. C., taking with her her children. Before leaving she ar- j runged at a garage to have her hus- j band called to the telephone should i she call from Columbia. Bhe called j at 5:30 on the morning.of the fire. This was a half hour before a telegram telling her of her. husband's death was sent from Hamlet. "Prior to. this fire," the report reads, "Baker was engaged in automobile repairing. A little later Baker complained that business was dull and that they were not making any mone^and suggested to Brown that the orfly way they could make any money out of it would be to take out some insurance, and intimated that they would burn it pp. Brown cut hiin off very short on this proposition, and Brown pulled out and 1 11 r left his place." Brown ?u the partner in business. He later engaged in the similar business with a Mr. Cassidy, and "Cassidy informs me that Baker came to him and told him that they were losing money and that the only way they could make anything out of it would be for him, Cassidy, to take out $3,000 insurance and, that he Baker, would take out $3,000 and suggested that they could burn It up and collect the insurance. Mr. Cassidy would not agree to it, and remarked that ifxhe attempted anything of that kind he would be caught. Baker said, 'You could be at home and I will do the balance/" ' The report tells of Baker's having warned Tom Petroplee that he ought I to have insurance on a stack of lum! ber which stood near Baker's house. Ho went back to Petroplee a second time to learn if he had taken the insurance, it says. It also declares that on June 2, two days before the fire, Baker bought 40 gallons of kerosene and gasoline, mixed, and carried it away in a drum. He wanted it "for a special purpose," he is quoted as say* ing. Although a young man who worked with Baker ttatpd that none of this mixture had been used in the garage^ business, it -was found by the investigator to be "short 12 or 15 gallon#," ^ jLiJii i i in ' i Three Florida Banks Fall Miami, Fla., July 2.?Tbrw Miami financial institutions, the Bank of Coooanut Grove, the Bank of Buena Vista and the Bank of Little River suspended operations here today. Outstanding loans on which they could not deliver werp given by directors as reason# for suspension of activities. Both the bank of Cocoanut Grove and the Hank of Bueiya Vista failed to open their <foors, while the Bank of Little River opened for business at nine o'clock but was , forced to. close an hour later due Jto a somewhat spectacular run. Uneasiness was felt by residents of that community regarding the failure of the Buena Vista bank nearby and at the opening hour an Increasing erowd poured in to withdraw deposits. Two squads of police were dispatched to maintain order and an armored money truck from a large down town bank was sent with a large amount, but directors chose to suspend operations. -Officials of the Buena Vista and Cocoanut Grove institutions, both of limited capital and resources decided to suspend' operations temporarily in order to readjust affairs and reorganize the bank on more extended and stable foundations, augmented possibly by Miami capital. Firt Hi TWi Hill CMi?iii(y *0. L. Catoe, $f the Thorn Hill section, lost one of his, tarns by firc Sunday afternoon. He had ju?t started to Thorn Hill for attendant upon tbtf B. Y. P. U. meeting, when a child at the home of Lemuel Falkenberry near by called attention to the fact that the barn was on fire. The fire made such rapid headway, however, that it could not be extinguished. A dog shut in the barn, three sacks of nitrate of soda and some cotton seed were in the building and were destroyed with it. Mr. Catoe's feedstuffs were. In another barn some distance away. The fire was accidental, it is supposed.?Kershaw Era. . j'.'.'.'.'j.. IIIIWII I I. Barfleld-Davis I . i't ' . ? . " / -V-VVj iPhfe friends \>f Miss Etama Barfield, , daughter of Mrs. L., E. Barfield, of near Kershaw, and J. Henry Davis, of 'the Casatt section, were greatly surprised when the announcement was made to them that the ymijig couple rawe married at Bennettsyille January 10 by Probate Judge J. G. McI'Hui in. Their reason for not making announcement of the marriage at the time was that the mother of Mrs. Davis was very seriously ill. Their ' I friends' wish them mfich happiness and success.?Kershaw Era. Pi:'yl <* '^':-? Left to right?Miss Rosa Michablis. Now OtIm**; Mrs. Sarah Tyson korhr. miodoipkia; Miss Lucy g. Allbn. B*?to?? Mrs. bbllb dbgraf, Sam Francisco; MlSS MARGARET AI.LKN Hall. Battlo Crook; and MRS. KATB B. VAUGHN. Loo Angola*. Six famous cooking experts agree Pacific Coast, Gulf of Mexico, New England, and Lake Michigan! 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