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T. BURDKLL UK AD Camden Mm Pimm Away at Lake CRy, Florida T. Burdell, formerly of Columbia but for the past three years a resident of EJorida, died in a government hospital In Lake City, Florida, Tuesday afternoon. His body will be brought to Columbia for the /uneral services whicu wili,be held at Mccormick's mortuary on Hampton street this afternoon upon arrival of the train bearing the body, at 4:45 o'clock. Services will be conducted by the Rov. Lewis N. Taylor, recfor of the Good Shepherd Episcopal church. Interment will be in Klmwood cemetery and Mr. Burdell being a Spanish war veteran, military honors will be given at the grave. A firing squad in command of Captain H. W. MoCreight Will fire the final volley, and taps will be sounded at the end of the committal service. Mr, Burdell during the Spanish war was a member, serving as sergeant in Captain Anderson's battery, South, Carolina volunteer artillery, in and around lieaufort and Charleston. He is survived by his widow, wh j before marriage was Miss Emily Legnick of lieaufort. A son was killed while m service in France during the World war,. w ' ' \J Pallbearers at the services have been selected from the David I>uBose Gaillard chapter, Camp No. 4, United Spanish war veterans, as follows: L. O. Gilmore, S. C. Sessions, Zed Hope, T. E. Lightfoot, W. H. Atterbery and William L. Alien.?Thursday's Columbia State. - V Mr, liurdel! for a number of years resided in this county and city, where he followed the profession of a eivil engineer and surveyor. He was a clever, genial fellow and had a large number of friends In Camden* where he. was well known. Queens of some species of ants live fifteen years and longer, the workers living four or five years. Wants-For Sale I WANTED?To buy a well located home, preferably on Lyttleton or Fair, around $7,000 or $8,000. Must have three bed rooms and two baths or adapted to adding second bath. (Jive exact location and lowest price. Address "Business,'' Care of Chronicle, Camden, S. C. 30-pd HELP \\ A^TKD Straight salary: $35.00 per week and expenses. Man or woman with rig to introduce egg producer. Eureka Mfg. Co., East St. Louis, 111. 30-pd LOST.?Disappeared from Camden high school grounds Monday, October 11th. one male German -jpolice dog. four months old, blind in one eye.. Liberal <-reward paid for his recovery. Notify R. E. Barnes, P. <). Box 85, Camden, S. C., or telephone 300. 30]>d LOST?One pointer dog, liver and white, tip of tail bobbed. Reward for return to .1. J. Tolbert, Cam r- 30-sb-jtn I' OR SALE?Typewriter desk, Y. & E. flat top desk, several office chairs at a bargain. E. N. McDowell, Camden, S. C. MONEI, I O LOAN?--On city real estate. Henry Savage, Jr., Atty. Camden, S. C. 28-30-st HATS cleaned and rehlocked at Canr den Dry Cleanery. FOR RENT?Two bedrooms, bath and kitchenette; all furnished. Apply 1002 Fair street or telephone 182-J 29-31-pd WE CLEAN?Anything from neck ties to art squares. Camden Dry Cleanery, Phone 17 or 555. WANTED?-Experienced saleslady al once. Apply The Outlook, Camden 29-st OYSTER SHELL LIMK.?The very best for agricultural purpoaes, is now on sale in Camden by The Rush Lumber Company. 26tl WE CLEAN?Anything from neckties to art squares. Camden Dry Cleanery, Phone 17 or 565. WANTED?No. 1 pine logs. Highest cash prices paid; year round demand. Sumter Planing Mills and Lumber Co., Attention K. S. Booth i-tf-sb WE CLEAN ?Anything from neckties to art squares. Camden Dry tjeanery, Phone 17 or 665. F?RS AND FUR CoY'lTTleanedTt Camden Dry Cleanery. FOR SHOE R EC A\RI N~(f\ aftin Re<l Boot Shop next door to Fx press office. A. M. JONES. Prop. 24tf FURS'AN rr Puff CO A TS~~ 'i''T 'a I Camden Dry Cleanery. pTtOTW.RAPHY?T'ha ve recen'lj rebuilt my home at 1340 Hai\ stfeet and built an up-to-date home studio \yhcre I am prepared to d, any kind or style of photograpl and at a reasonable price. I have some of the latest equipment anc can make picture# regard lees oi leather P'UmHtMia.?Joe B. hr? kins, Camden, S. C. 14-U ' ' " "J I ' ? ' ? GENERAL NEWS NOTES Eitrven per?o?i* lost their live* in the lower St. Lawrence rjver Friday) night when the ateamer Guide found ! erod and sunk in the waters of the river. Hog cholera has become epidemic in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. The recent high waters in streams of the three states have spread the germs over wide territories and the veterinarians confess their inability to cope with the situation. William Skelley, alleged Ku Klux Klansinun, has been found guilty at Barrie, Ontario, on a charge of dynamiting a Roman Catholic church on June 10. A Pafts dispatch of Saturday stated thut Harry Hassett, president of the Buick Motor company, died on Sunday in a hospital in that city. 'X. It. Bennett, state superintendent of bunks in Georgia, announced Saturday that he would resign within ninety days on account of ill health. A Fulton county grand jury had charged that Bennett was inefficient. K. Everts, professional diver, on Saturday walked across the bottom of Hampton Itoads, a distance of six [ miles, in two hours und fifty minutes, I Miss Harriett Dewey, in her 83rd year, is on her way to her home in Chicago from Glasgow, Scotland, after completing a six mobths tour of European countries. D. P. Davis, one of the bpst known of b lorida s real estate developers, fell off or jumped off the steamer Majestic while on route from New York to Europe, some time Tuesday morning. Earl Bromley, 29, in jail at Elmira, New York, confessed slayer of his wife, committed suicide Saturday by hanging himself with a sheet from a cell door. George McFadden, 79, nationally known cotton factor, died suddenly at his home, Kosemont, Philadelphia, Saturday. He started his cotton business in 18(>8, and had branches in Liver pool, England, and in several American cities. The Brotherhood Savings and Trust company of Pittsburg, Pa., has been forced to close its doors on account of a theft of $-125,000 of the bank's funds General John J. Pershing and Marshall Foeh of France, were last week made honorary members for life of the American I.egion by the convention in Philadelphia. A newspaper of Paris has proposed i that the French government put the same restriction on American tourists entering France as the United States now puts on French tourists entering the United States as tourists, as a retaliatory measure. \ / Julian S. Starr, editor, and R. K. Fowler, assistant editor of the Carolina Magazine, published by the student body of the University of North Carolina, have been asked to resign by the student body, because of the publication of a story alleged to be "indecent ami immoral." The more than $1(X).000 stolen by bandits from a mail wagon at Elizabeth, N. J., last week, was insured for only $100 by the senders. In case the .i> n.y :s not recovered then the own: ??f it tun lecover only $100 from ' the post offiee ilepai tment. The chemistry building of the University of Texas was wrecked by an I explosion and fire Saturday. The prop| city loss is estimated at $300,000. B]and Buckner, 9-year old Asheville, N. C\, boy, died Saturday night following an attack of hydrophobia. I Fire at Dothan, Alabama, on Sun' day destroyed 2,000 bales of cotton, a stable and ten mules and a saddle t horse, with an aggregate loss of $125,000. Origin of the fire was not stated. Wilbur Hall, aged 4 years, of Whitl mire, was run over and killed by an . automobile driven by R. L. Yarbor ough, Friday afternoon. The accident r wasi unavoidable. ' Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, under \ indictment for the murder of her hus! band, Edward Wheeler Hall, an nounced Sunday that she will take the stand in her own defense when hor case is called for trial at New Bruns wick, N. J., on November 3. j One person was killed and thirty . injured during the'celebration attend, ant on the return of the St. Louis bast ball team to thAt city on Monday. Six prisoners were shot, none seriously, when the prisoners in the jail of Delaware county, Pa., mutinied \\ t-tlnesdav. The row was a protest over a cutting down of food supplies. ] One man was killed and another j man and two women were seriously ;finjured when they drove their autoL j mobile at high speed into a freight j ..rain standing on a grade crossing [I near Charlotte early Wednesday morning. , A meeting of stockholders of the i Southern railway is to be held at j Richmond, \ a., on November IX, foj p purpose of voting on a proposed * tyiHf ,J>I JW.0,000,000 par value additional common atodc. THINGS WORTH KNOWING. Interesting Note*' Gathered Prem Miij Sources. Charles II was probably the first king ever to use the clasifted columns of a newspaper. The Mercturius Posticus, published in 1600, regularly carried the king's advertisements for the return of lost dogs, hawks .and falcons.. The head of a London art school has evolved a plan for the relief of young artists unable to sell their pictures by having them rent their works. A charge of $6 a year is made for a picture valued at $250. [ In various English schools pupils are sent in grops to historical places of Europe to study history first hand. The groups are in charge of teachers and .children pay their.own expenses. Early Saxon pennies had four grooves in them so that they could be easily broken. Each section was called a fourthing, the word later being corrupted to farthing. An-explorer in Africa tells of a beauty show held in the heart of the jungle. Five hundred young women entered, and the winner was judged by the perfection of her feet. Holidays by air have become a recognized feature now In London and special tourist tickets have proved a great incentive to travelers. The Sultan of Morocco was shpcked. at the exhibition of the Charlestoh he witnessed in Paris He declared: "It is very curious. I don't understand how men can allow their wives and daughters to join in it." Iit the belief .that outside radio aerials were drawing thunderstorms, irate Hungarian farmers tried to $yreck them. They were stopped only by arrival of the police. Of the 3,000,000 miles of highway in the United States, approximately 500,000 are reported as improved roads.. e> A giant cauliflower in Australia grows four feet high. Pegs are driven into the stejns to retard growth which when too rapid leads to rankness. ?Animal nhrinco in Japfln have been ordered destroyed as a detriment to progress. Thousands of the shrines, relics of former worship of foxes, snakes and other animals, exist. Nearly 150,000 persons in Austria are receiving government unemploy| ment aid. ' A knife from which peas would not roll, invented by an Englishman, is now preserved in the British museum. It has a spoon shaped depression at the end of the blade. Bagdad has been designated by the United States Geographic Board as the correct spelling for the famous Arabian?Nights?city;?rather?than Baghdad. Bobbed hair has been the fashion among Albanian women for 2,000 years. A favorite weapon of the ancient cave man was a club made from the mammoth's foreleg. ; wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmrn i : . pa ----- > ? * Prayed With Eye Opert. Frank Fant was locked up in the Spartanburg jail and Bob Anderson nursing bruises on his hand, sus-1 tained when it is alleged he winked at Fant's wife during religious services at a negro church near Spartanburg. Fant, it was stated, was called upon to pray. As he knelt down he saw Anderson, of whom he had had suspicion for some time, wink at his wife from over in the "Amen" corner. Prepared for such in emergency, Fant pulled a rock out of his pocket and 1 hurled it at Anderson. The rock struck Anderson on the head and laid -i him out and ended the prayer meeting in a turmoil, Negro Woman Lawyer. ' Washington, Oct, 14,?The first negro woman to be admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia is Ollie M. Cooper, 26, a clerk in the Howard university law school. She was admitted today. Contrary to popular belief the beaver is far from extinct in this country. There are 62,000 in Colorado and Montanh alone, and the number is increasing. I NOTICE! | . % ' !> '.' -'' -"v % "*]' } "' "' '^ ' .;> The firm heretofore doing a jewelry and optical business as M.H.Heyman & Co., has been dissolved. The undersigned will carry on the business in all its branches at the same ?tand in his own name. * An experienced engraver, watchmaker and Doctor of Optometry has been secured, and the best service to the public in all lines is assured. ' The continued patronage of the community is respectfully solicited. M. H. HEYMAN _ ___ . . 1: L^ _ ?- ? ? ? I I It ? | Reduced Prices on Fisk Tires! I X." / : - *' :^'t^ ^r ^ , - "" h?-' |( On account of the low price of cotton and the tendency of our competi 1 . > '~ ' - 0 -i * tors to cut the price of Tires, we are offering FISK TIRES at practically ) I ? wholesale prices. For the month of October we are offering the folloj^- % ? ing extremely low prices: . li I j? 30x31 Tube . $1.50 ~ | 29x4.40 Tube . 2.25 Y ~ . X 29x4.40 Balloon ^ Cord Tire . . 9.95 30x3 Fabric - ^ 30x31 Fabric f 30x31 Regular | Cord . . . 7k95 $ r ^ Tim* to Ro-4ir* o*t * risK V r?t 999, j* These are all tires and tubes made by the FISK TIRE COMPANY aiid % fresh stock. We have many other bargains to offer you. We |stry a i v j* complete stock of both Pneumatic and Balloon Tires and Tub?.'^l\T ff ? "1 I CAROLINA MOTOR COMPANY I __ INCORPORATED ? ? Gasoline and Oil Tires and Tubes Batteries Repairs i| WESTINGHOUSE BATTfpifc^^^^W