The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 22, 1926, Image 2
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.
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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.
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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
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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. ;
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* 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! |
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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
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