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_ > Coea To Oxford ' Columbia, Dec. 12.?J. M. Stoken, IWipfcer of the cl??? ?f 1926, Presbyjyy College, has been awarded the TVMm acholarahlp from South Caro^mtrom a field of fifteen applicants, Irvine F. Belter, secretary of the , iWtodos acholaxship committee, au|pminced here tonight. * who is 2X years old, was graduated from college with a general average for his four years' work ,pt W>.2 per cent. He is now a graduate * tudent in English at Yale University, New Haven, Conn. < t- In his under-gradual* days, he was on the staff of the college weekly newspaper, monthly magazine, and was editor-in-chief of the 1926 annual, in addition tp (being valedictorian, historian, and vice president of the graduating class. The Rhodes scholar designate was also adjutant pf the Reserve Officers' fraiuing Corps unit at Presbyterian College, and though he devoted little time to athletics, played tennis. Stokes, who was born in Bainbridge, Ga., has lived for the last five years in Clinton. Horses and Mules Dying A disuse diagnosed by Dr. J. K. Mollis, local veterinarian, as blind taggers, has become cjuite prevalent among horses and mules in Lancaster county within the past two or three weeks, as many as 20 to 26 deuths having been reported. Among those who have lost animals are: R. A. Blackmon, Rich Hill, three; W. R. Hegler and son, four; Dustin Snipes, f about two miles northwest of the city, __one; Hal Beckham, Belltown, one; Roy Cunningham, West Lancaster, oner O. H. Bell, northwest Lancaster, fine saddle mare; S. J. Funderburk, Buford township, one; John Stogncr, Klgin, one; Frank White, colored, south of the city, one; Doc Laney, colored, East Lancaster, three; R. A. North Lancaster, one; W. M. IIaye3, Williams, nice marc; James Dunlap, New Bethel, one. There are probably others that have not been reported. A number of others ure suid to be sick and are being vaccinated against the disease.?Lancaster News. NOTICE OF SALE BY MASTER State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. Under and by virtue of a decretal order in the case of Julius Cahn and Ellis Cahn, plaintiffs, vs. Henderson Perkins, Laura Palmer and Molcy Davis, defendants, in the Court of Common Pleas for Kershaw County, South Carolina, I will sell, at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, in front of the Court House door at Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina, on the sales' day in .January, 1927. during the usual hours of sale, the following described real estate, to wit: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land lying, being and situate in Kershaw County, South Carolina, being bounded on the North by lands of K. T. hstard; on the East by land of K. T. Estard; .on the South by land of K. T. Estard, and on the West by land of Cicero Blackmon and by the Dick McClusters estate. Said tract of land oontnining~one hundred acres, more or less, and being the same land the said Henderson Perkins, Laura Palmer and Molcy Davis inherited from their father, Joshua Perkins, Also, all that certain piece, parcel or tract of land containing thirty (30) acres, more or less, situate, lying and being in Kershaw County, South Carolina, being bounded * on the North hy land of K. T. Estard; on the East by lands of K. T. Estard; on the South by lands of K. T. Estard, and on the West by lands of Richard McClusters and E. Huckleberry. Being the same tract of land conveyed to Molcy Davis by Mary Campbell. Terms of sale, cash. Purchaser to pay for papers and revenue stamps. It. II. HILTON, Master Kershaw County, S. C. Dated at Camden,. S. C? this 14th day of December, A. D. 1926. KKi'OKT ON COUNTY JAIL Mrs. M. T. Coleman, of tho xtatu board of public welfare, ha# issued ^ following report relative to a recent inspection of the Kershaw county Jail: "No changes or additions have bean made at the Kershaw county jail-i since the last inspection. The contract has been lets and material bought to paint the jail building inside and out. This will improve the looks of the jail, help preserve the hygienic condition of the institution. "Score for permanent plant is 256 out i>f a possible 400 points. Under tho new management the conditions of the juil have been greatly improved. The jailer is keeping the place remarkably clean under the handicap of lack of facilities. "Stoic for management is 302 out! df a possible 400 points. "The equipment of the jail is satis- j factory with the exception that no! private bathing facilities are provided for the jailer's family. The shower in the compartment designed for the use of women prisoners is used by the jailer's family and when not occupied by women, by men prisoners of both races. "Score for equipment, repair and ! personnel is 130 out of a possible' 200 points. "The total score of this year for Kershaw county jail is 088 out of a | possible 1000 points. The total scorei for 1025 was 058." Mrs. Coleman offers as recommendations the serious consideration of building a new jail at the earliest possible financial moment; to provide a private bath for the family of the jailer, and to accellerate the plans for [ painting the jail. REPORT ON COUNTY GANG. Mrs. M. T. Coleman of the state board of public welfare has issued the following report relative to her' recent inspection of the county chain- i gang: The Kershaw county chaingang is at present located convenient to the work of builAing roads. The jite is well selected on a well drained hillside. The gang is provided with one cage cell cur for white prisoners, and a cage cell , car for the colored prisoners. A new adequate tent is used for the trusties. A tent is furnished for guard quarters, and the kitchen and dining room combined is a house on wheels. Ample provision is made for stoves, lanterns, tubs, basins and other camp equipment. A good army stove is used to cook with. The county provides well for their chaingang. Scoco for camp and equipment is 370 out of a possible 500 points. Conditions due to foreman's management are satisfactory with the exception of the source of water supply. Branch water is used for cooking purposes, and a spring furnishes drinking water. Branch tvnter may be used is properly and thoroughly boiled. This gang is building excellent roads and is moving vapidly. Camp is changed frequently. The total score of this year for the Kershaw county chaingang is 762 out of a possible 1000 points. The total score for 1025 was 763. Mrs. Coleman's recommendations are that the next selection of camp be nearer an adequate and unsuspicious source of water, and that until the camp is changed every precaution be taken to thoroughly boil all water used. Mother of Nine Killed Hendersonville, Dec. 9.? Mrs. Florence Corn, 40, the wife of Dock Corn, was instantly killed early today when a shotgun being carried by a 17-ycaruid son was accidentally discharged. The accident occurred at the home of the family on the Edneyville road about six miles from Hendersonville. The son had taken the shotgun to go hunting, it was reported, and had started out a door, with his mother close behind him. As he threw the gun over his shoulder, it was accidentally discharged. The charge struck Mrs. Corn squarely in the face, killing her instantly. There arc eight children besides the son in the family, the youngest being lcs< than a year old. Several of the children were present when the life of their mother was snuffed out without warning. The son in whose hands the gun was held is almost prostrated with grief. l,eg of Man Is Found Kingstree, Dec. 13.? Wood cutters working in Black river swamp in the vicinity of the A. C. L. trestle discovered the right leg of O. V. Gilbert, who was murdored Thanksgiving week at his camp near Kingstree. Several days after the disappearance ?f Gilbert the severed upper portion of Gilbert's head was found in the river near the scene of the crime and a search of the river bottom continued for more than a week in an effort to locate the hiding place of the re mainder of the body. I Denmark It in Sunday night in a little town of 4,0 )0 inhabitants and I am lulleu to sloop by strains of music floating from the dance hall on the roof of my hotel. The dance halls, I am told, close at 12 o'clock. Social standards vary with the accepted customs of nations. The Dane says Sunday dancing is a harmless diversion but he condemns in unqualified terms our Sunday baseball games and prize fights. The Englishman drinks with impunity at sidewalk bars while church bells across the street are calling people to worship, but laughs at our Puritanical ideas on civic virtue. Hut moral standards among both Dane and Englishman &re "high and Sunday dancing and Sabbath drinking may not be quite so bad as some of the moral lapses in the social life of the America of today. t Small Town Life in Denmark I was aroused from my slumbers curly this morning by the pattep of wooden shoes on the pavement be-1 low my hotel window. Looking oui I saw streams of laborers?both male and female?pouring toward factory and field. The little town of Odder is a perfect type of the average small town in Denmark, and so let's get the setting for the background to the story about small town life in Denmark. The. town is more than 1,000 years old, but long before it became a political unit the Vikings used it as a base of operations. Its cobbled streets run in serpentine courses in many directions. Its public square is flanked on all sides by business houses, one and two stories high. Some are modern, others carry the lines of ancient architecture. It has its hardware stores, its groceries, its cigar and tobacco stores and its general merchandise stores. Strange to say I found in it only one drug store and that dispensed nothing but drugs. In a small place twenty by forty feet only two clerks were employed?a man and a young girl. The stone flagged sidewalks are narrow and irregular. Through the residence sec: tion the streets are narrow and crooked. The miniature homes are built close to the sidewalk and on the window ledge of each you invariably find a box of flowers. Beautiful flowers of many varieties also flourish in the tiny front yards. In lieu of house numbers the name of the home owner is found on a porcelain plate attached to the front entrance. The summer sun sets late and 'following the evening meal family groups fill the promenades. Here is heard the gossip of the village. Automobiles are so scarce that a new Ford attracts attention, but bicycle brigades you find everywhere. Bicycles are ridden by young girls and b6ys, middle-aged men and women, grandmothers with fly bonnets and grandfathers with flowing beards. it is small town America forty years ago. And about it all there is an atmosphere that acts as an opiate on the nerves of the tired American. Forming a Triple Contact The object of my visit to Odder was to form a contact with the small townbanker, merchant and farmer so that I might study the business attitude of each toward the other and thus analyze the Danish system of co-operative farming and marketing which has given this nation a seat on the top of the agricultural world. I began at the Older Landbobank where I was most cordially received by the president, Mr. Ad. Muchitsch. The Landbobank (note the prefix "Land" which means agriculture) has a capital of 500,000 kroner or $125,000, with deposits aggregating- 1,900,000 kroner or $475,000. Its rediscounts were only $5,000.00. The bank's total resources ran to nearly $1,000,000. Very little of the money is borrowed by the farmer. The farmer doesn't need it. He is the depositor. The borrowers are the merchants and small manufacturers. More than two-thirds of the hank's stock i> owned by farmers and the hank i? controlled by farmers. Last year its net profits wore 3(1 per cent. "How is this?" I enquired. "In my country the merchants and small manufacturers are the depositors and the farmers are the borrowers. Here I find conditions reversed." A frown crossed Mr. Muchitsch's face. He did not understand and I explained. Ii was with difficulty that he grasped the banking situation in America. He did not comment but he wondered. He was feeling his vray~ T*Over here i?rr 11 ? 1 w? could not exiat under such condition*/' he countered. "The farmer* are our moat valuable customer*. It la from them we get the money we lend to the merchant and manufacr turer. Oh, yes, land value* slumped in 11*20. Land that sold a* high as $176 an acre ?old, when deflation came, a* low a* $100. Men who sold at high price* on deferred payments pledged their mortgage* und when they had to redeem or protect those mortgage* they found themselves in financial difficulties. Hank* that rediscounted many of these mortgages found themselves in deep water. Thirty out of the 300 hank* in Denmark *u*|>cnded bflbiness; ten were completely wiped out and the remaining 20 merged with other bank*. If it had not been for the farmer in thi* crisis condition,* might have been much worse." Mr. Muchitsch leaned back in hi* heavily upholstered chuir and hit viciously at the end of a big black cigar a* if recollections of the deflation days had revived hi* fighting spirit. "What part did cooperation play in thi* crisis?" Mr. Muehitsch shot me a quick glance, leaned over the table and assumed an aggressive attitude, then his expression changed and he laughed a goodnatured la^igh. "Why, it saved us. We could not get along without cooperation. It is the life-blood of business in Denmark. What does the merchant think of co-operative marketing? He thinks enough of it to hack it to the limit. His prosperity depends on the prosperity of the farmer and the Danish farmer could not prosper without co-operative marketing. Oh, yes,' you can talk freely to the merchant about co-dperativc marketing. No danger of offending him. He doe* not look with much favor on co-operative buying, but he is 100 percent co-operative when it comes to selling." Interest rates in Denmark are low. The rate is five parcent on first-class collateral. As the value of the collateral decreases the interest rate increases. Americans in Odder are as rare as Eskimos at the equator. The news of my day in the bank, I think, had been broadcasted. People on the streets turned and stared at us. In our room at the hotel that night I turned to my traveling companion and remarked: "Say, old top, if that banK should happen to be robbed tonight we would have to lie here in jail for . nil II I the rest of our days.*' My companion paled to Oie gill*. The Yankee's Footprints The Danish system of farming and marketing is fifty years ahead pf America's but American, farm machincry forms u vital part of the agricultural life of this little nation. On every farm is found improved American farm machinery. Asked why he does not buy the cheaper farm machinery made in England and Germany the Dane will tell you that he wants the best and it is more economical to buy the higher-priced American machinery and pay the freight across the Atlantic. He uses American plow stocks, American plow points and American harvesters, reapers and binders. In out of the way places one discovers many interesting objects. Once while roaming around rural England I dug up out of an old ironJbound chest, in a modeBt little church in an isolated town shunned by tourists, the marriage record of Captain Jones, commander of the Mayflower, to Mary Everett. The Englishman did not attach much importance to it. The other day while plundering through the attic of an agricultural building I came across one of the first reapers and binders made in America. Manufactured in 1850 it was a crude, clumsy looking machine ' built entirely of wood. The. machine was bougKt by an Englishman who soon became disgusted with it and sold it to a Dane. What the Dane did with it history does not record, but it must have tuken the patience of a Dutchman to operate it. He Had His Say A couple of ?ity men who were oui on .tHe links when they saw an old man watching their play. They asked him to join in the game, which he did with alacrity. He was mild in speech and manner and played well. But once when he had made a foozle he ejaculated vehemently the Word "Assouan!" A few moments later, when he had made .another bad i shot, he repeated "Assouan!" i The fourth time he said this, one of | his new-made friends remarked, "I do j not wish to be inquisitive, but will you tell me why you say 'Assouan' so | often ?" "Well" answered the old man, "isn't, that the biggest 'dam' in the world?" He was a Presbyterian minister. TRB8PA88ING FORBIDDEN ... All parties tw hereby warned net to trespass upon my Undo five mils* south of Camden, for hunting or fcr any purpose whatsoever. Anyone found violating this warning will be Kosecuted to the full extent of the w. W. C. SEAGLE. Nov. 19, 1926. " 34-37-pd TltKfcO*A88 NOTICE. Trespassing, bunting or shooting, day or night, cutting or hauling wood or straw, cattle or hogs running at large, on lands owned ?nd posted by Mr Ralph Ellis, will be dealt with to the full extent of the law. L. A. Kirkland, Attorney. R. Storey, Agent. 27-37"pd FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that ene month from this date, on Tuesday, December 14,% 1020, at 12 m., I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Bxecutor of the estate of B. G. McLeod, deceased, and on the same date I will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as said Executor. E. M. WORK-MAN, Executer. I Camden, S. C., Nov. 15, 1026. j .1, . - , i. | I . Notice To Debtors and Creditors ! 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