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" ; * j . 1. . . **' ' .. ? ' y . ' . * ' ' ? 'J: ^ |,v. ' . 1 * ** The Camden Chronicle ? VOLUME XXXVUL " ' " |, ' . * CAMPfeN, SOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER B, 1926. " N,,MRF^^' ^ I. I ?II . I . ,. i??B-J..U?i~i. m a-i?- .. .-x j . I m. J House Furnishings For Gotton is Offer of Smith ' ' ' ' Local Dealer Makes Unique Preposition For Fair Week j>V' ^ V>7- --H"rnr;. rj' i 1 - - - - . 1 . The Camden Furniture Company, through it? martager, Arthur Smith, announces one of the most unusual sales ever staged in this city when, beginning tomorrow, it will offer its entire stock of house furnishings in exchange for cotton at a price allowance above the local market This proposition, according to Mr. Smith, will last throughout the week of Kershaw County s Greatest Fair or until he has traded for two hundred fifty bales of cotton raised in this county. [nq aennite statement could be given for publication as to the exact premium allowed above the local market, as this, Mr. Smith explained, would be governed entirely by local market conditions. He says he knows, however, that Kershaw County cotton is actually worth more, than eleyen or ttoelkg cents and as long as it stays around: these figures, during this sale, he 3 willing to offer a premium of two cents per pound when traded for furniture. The Camden Furniture Company is one of the largest business houses in this county and has been under the supervision bf Mr. Cfolth for fourteen' years; During' the past supuner contracts, as usual, were let in anticipation of an extensive fall business, but owing to the stagnant cotton market, Mr. Smith claims he has a surplus of furniture and really lacks room, for storing additional shipments that will come in this season. This week eight; pages of the Chronicle will give an idea of the scope of this showing of furnishings to make the home more comfortable and attractive and during fair .week in particular an invitation is extended all to attend./ t . Aviators Forced To Land* Two aviators, Lieutenant E. B. Xcwkirk and W. D. Ford, of WinstonSalem, N. C., while flying from their home town to Sum'tfer, where they were to do some exhibition flying, were forced down about three miles southeast of Kershaw Tuesday afternoon by heavy clouds and rain. Oh acount of the condition of the ^.aoil they were unable to lhake a safe landc, ing and^their plane was slightly damaged, which will necessitate its being detained here until the p&rtS' needed for its repair cah be sent here. The plane landed on iB. D. ,Qjardner's-i)lacej burned only a few weeks agio. The flyers went on to Sumter Wednesday and will return to repdir their plane when the parts arrive.?Kershaw Era. ? ' ^ " ' 1 1 " u Mountaineers who qond their chiL. dren to Mountain .Home College of Evening Shade,c(Arkansas, often pay a portion of their tuition in buckets of sorghum molasses, slabs of ? homecured, hickory-smoked bacon, ham, butter and eggs. I I l . . _ i COST OF SUNBURN ' ' Noted Specialist &ays Proper Care . Would Save Many Millions. * According to Dr. Chas. F. Pabst, specialist of skin diseases in Brooklyn, there would be nearly $1,000,000,000 saved to industry if the practice of overexposure to the sun of the desire to acquire a coat of tan could rbe successfully discouraged. On this poiiit Dr. Pabst said recently: "Bathers should be warned that lying sun for hours at a time is a dangerous practice which results frequently in serious harm. The skin cannot manufacure pigments quickly enough I to protect one from injury unless the first exposure is of short duration and are lengthened only gradually. The sun emits more ultraviolet rays at this time of year than at-any other time tyid overexposure may permanently damage'the skin cells and even result in death." . From the calculations rqade Jby this. physician it is found that 10,000 working days are lost every week of the 1 summer and' early- atttumn period [merely as a result of sunburn. This, at the average of $7 for an average \^age, would* result in $1,000,000 loss for employers every year. There still remains a.goocf many employes who have yet to take their annu&l vacation. Th6re is an even larger number of people who are laying plans for the coming Labor Day week-end which they hope "to stTetch into five or six days or which they intend to crowd full of outdoor activity. A word of ^i?niqg on this pojnt, thumb-tacked "to the^'bulletin hoard, would perhaps save both discomfort and loss of time. N. Y. Commercial. * Smiths "Expense Account. Washington, October 27.?Senator South, Democrat, of South Carolina, who\ was renominated in the primaries reported thtftl he had spent $4,969.48 in the first primary, and $3,202.69 in the second. Hugh L., Black, Democrat, of Alabama, who was nominated for the seat now hfeld by Senator Underwood, reported that he had^made no expenditures and hacT received no contributions. r\: i ' Modern Home of the Camden Wniturt Company | WOMAN BEARS TITLE OF NEBRASKA'S BEST FARMER Western Farm Has Never Experienced Crop Failure ' . . . They call hay "Nebraska's Best Farmer." Truly a compliment, because Nebraska is noted for its good farmers. YetA she is considered the "best," because, well, because she has managed through 27 years of widowhood to assume and pay for more than 400 acres <pf the 'best land in Cedar County; because she never had a "bad cr<5p;'.' and because she has been, first and always, a mother. Her name is Mrs. N. F. Lydon. Her farm is the pride of Cedar County, Nebraska. She has won her battle with thd world. A few days ago she said she was going to retire, not because she is tired and bent and worn, but only because she conquered odds that would make strong men cower and is now entitled to a few years of ease. ! Twenty-seven years of farming would take its toll from the average woman. Not so with Mrs. Lydon* Sixty-four years of age, there's virile youth in her step, her eyes, her figure. Anything but "an old woman." In 1896 Mrs. Lydon,'with her husband and two sons, went to Cedar County and bought for $3,200 the 160 acre farm which is *still the home place. They paid $1,800 cash and gave a mortgage of $2,000 for the balance. Their "house" was two "rooms at one end of a~huge barn. 7" But they had courage, and faith, and perseverance. Three years later lilr. Lydon was killed by a runaway team. Hia young widow, with three si^ll sons, seven, three and one years old, faced the great crisis. * ' Relatives back east begged herr to sell the farm and movfe to town. That couldn't be done, Mrs. Lydon replied, because the farm wouW have to be sold at a sacrifice. And there was the? mortgage, too! . "I won't give up,"n she safd. "I must carry on?alone. I have youth, health, and my three sons to live for. Soon the boys will be able to help.";: So she threw herself into her teak. Although tiny of stature, delicately molded, she asked no one for help. She decided to work out her own ^3he rented all the plowed land on her place *on shares and with the feea from her share of the crops she raised hogs anVl cattle, She marketed her produce and -shipped her hogs and cattle. - ?x She never asked a cent more than her things were worth. She always demanded- a square deal. And always ; * ... k<>) it! Her growing boys were taken care of always. She never let them work too hard. They went through country achool, but learned more from their mother. Mrs. Lydon was able in 1905 to abandon the barn-home and build a comfortable hodse. Two years later she quit renting the land and with her oldest son, Tom, managed the entire farm, planting and harvesting with their own handa.7 " Of course, success came. In 1915 Mrs. Lydon bought another section of land. Six years later she bought still more. Today her land?- 400 acres ?is worth $200 an acre. She has turned 3 tj* " ' the farms over to her sons, and she has finally taken the advice of her re* latives and "retired to- town." Two Murderers To Hapg. Chicago, Oct. 80.?Two murderers who plead guilty tfc the slaying of three persons today were' sentenced to death on the gallows, the secoud time that such a sentence had been meted out here on a guilty plea. The men, James Gricius and Thomas McWayne,%ho ^hot two men and a woman during iU\ orgy of robberies in Ceeero, a suburb, last July, wer$ sentenced by Judge Harry Miller, after attorneys had entered the guilty pleas in hope of saving? their clients' necks. Gricius is 24 and McWayne is only 19. In Jail Over Half Century. Old Lill Maxwell has rounded out his 64th year at the State prison at Waupont Wis. He is 86 years old and is spending his last days in the inflrmary awaiting death. Maxwell is a man of mystery. He has never spoken < unless spoken to. He was convicted of killing a man iu a quarrel over a woman and a sheriff saved him from being lynched by a crowd that had hung him to a tree. He has refused to ask for a pardon and has expressed a wish to did, in prison. He has not seen the outside ' world for more than half a century, haa never seen a prison ball game or a movie and has never attended chapel. V wtpoa?T ?S* 1 i lira. H. F. Lydon, LiilU. Nab? is called fllbraska's Best Fanner. After 27 years of struggle she is the owner of 400 acres of Cedar- ? County's best farm land. At her husband's death in 18t9> she assumed all debts and with her three little bols went to work. Below, : is shew* the combined hooee^.harn ' I jmd grrib^^thetr firsO^roa. She , As . h '-n Vy jj/T^ '? ' * 1 SPACE-MAKING I ^B- ' ^B yjj), i maw I The inactive summer season generally experienced throughout this section did n^t,in any measure deter our h&pes for an advanced ! fall trade and what at times gave promise of being an overwhelming I \ business in every line and thus it happens that we have more Furniture I arriving daily than, we have facilities for handling tor storing. In order I to make space in our store and warehouses we are placing our entire! I I stock of house furnishings a^d musical instruments on sale at prices I U ^ that airei sur<| to giye the desired results. ? I I PLEASE SEE NEXT PAGE ~| I In spite 6f the Tow price of cotton you are enabled through our J} \ plan to completely furnish your house with highest quality ~ goods at greatty reduced prices and, for a limited time, in ex- - j change for good middling cotton at a price allowance well in I excess of the daily market offering. I We have taken an entire eight-pa^e section of The Chronicle in I order to present our Selected, offerings td the people of this section and the visitors from adjoining communities to Kershaw County's Greatest I Fair. Within the pages to follow you will.find a wealth of opportunity1 ' for dressing up your house and when you visit our store?whether it be | to make lengthy purchase or just to hear the latest Victor Recordings? a cordial Reception will be yours and to us bring satisfaction and an appreciation very jkeen. * | CAMDEN FMW COMPANY) | Telephone 156 1056 Broad