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THE CAMDEN CHR0N1CIE . Ii. D. Nile* . . Kditor and l'ubU?h?r I WW?W??nmi ? - < I I I : > - II 1 VI Vs". Published every Friday at No. 11091 Broad Street and entered at the Cam-1 den. South Carolina, postoffice atj eecond class mail matter. Price per t annum $2.00. T" ' * ' Camden. S. C? Friday, Dec. 24 1920. ( 4 1 To Improve Pont Itoudn. Congressman Stevenson has introduced a bill in congress which would apportion certain Federal road funds to the betterment of post or cross country roads, instead of allowing all this Federal aid fund go into the'state highway system for the building of hard roads, us most of it is now used. Discussing the bill on Saturday in Washington, Mr. Stevenson is quoted its follows: "The constitutional warrant for Federal appropriations to roads was found in the power to establish and maintain post offices and post roads, and the funds in South Carolina are being largely used on through highways, while the post roads, commonly known as cross country roads, many more miles of which arc used by mail carriers than (of the through highways, an riot be^ iJ. _ ing adequately maintained, i propose Py. ' to have 20 per cent of the Federal funds expended on them and hope the South Carolina legislature will act along the same line. The funds would be used under the administration of the state and county road authorities. i iV ^ About one milliion dollars a year goes r. to South Carolina and $200,000 a'year properly used, would benefit vastly the mail carrier.-, and people who live on those erorts-coiintry postal roads." ? Vorkville Knquirer. Over 40,000 Vehicles Registered Over forty thousand automobiles, trucks, motorcycles and dealers were registered from Novoml>or 1 to November .'10, according to figures submitted by officials of the Soulh Carolina highway department Wednesday. In addition to automobiles registered, there were OH dealers registered during the month. There were 82 trailers and 2,070 trucks registered. Lancaster county up to November 20, showed a regisfr.'ttion of 00b cars and trucks; Kershaw county, 020; Chest< rficld, 077; Fairfield. 210; Chester, Oil, ami Y<>il. county. 1,2.22. making an actual total from the Nate I f 20.001. Neat Half Million tor I'lalcs - Nearly half a million dollar.-, has been collected h.. the motor vehicle division <>f th-> Smith t'aroli-na highway depart men! for motor licenses from November I tinough November ||C ;;0t according to figures submitted by ??L-- J. Wes-ev Wilkes, .-ecretai y of the aC- highway department. t'olumbia, on W<id nesday. The largest collection for motor liiriui - during the month of N ovi mlier w is from Richland eflunty with a total collected of $50,H.'y, and the smallest sum eqlloctcd ; f for motor licenses was from Jasper uountv with a total of $l,52t>. lTp to Ey' the above date Lancaster county had P sent in $(">,027 fe Ideiise tags; Kershaw county, $8,0.17; (.'hostel field, j i $8,125; Chester. $8,222; Fairfield,, J $2,070. and York, $1(1,210. The actual j ' amount recidve I from the entire state war $177,048. Hanks To Close The three hanks of Camden will be closed Saturday and Monday, December 25th and 27th for the Christ& ma* holidays. Loan & Savings Hank. First National Hank, . ... Hank of Camden. The Negro as Financier About 25 year sago Cen. Julian S. Carr, Mrs. James B. Duke and sevHpL?Mi2eral pther Durham "captains of industry" set up a group of negro eit'terrs in the insurance business, and xercised a friendly supervision over hem until the business was well un,*r way. That was the beginning of i^ie North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, now grown to pru* portions of $2,000,000 in assets with insurance policies to the amount of , $44,000,000 in existence. The sury cess of this negro venfuriwin business has encourage I .similar ventures of the kind in Durhaio. the ;atest enter J* iniuimif ii i, i^i ipiwii GENERAL NEWS NOTES I I C, N. Whitehead, president of the' M. K, and T. railroad, died in a St J Louis, Mo,, hospital on Friday, following a nervous breakdown. Mr. Whitehead FOse to the presidency of the railroad from a job as messenger in ttie oporatinK department. iJoaeph li. Steinhardt, know i aiAong produce dealers u? the "Apple King of America," died at his home in New York on Friday. lie came to America 4'J years ago, and his first job was rolling a bartel of apples and his pay for tin job wa > a bag of apples or a swift ki k. Hetook the apples and ate three of ihcrn and sold the remainder for 52 cents. I* lorn this capita he lur.lt h;s fortune. [ l'y ' ohb, I> -! i ?11, \1 n r; , naseha., | piayer, a naL.e of (iioigia. has ann.alined that In- and his lain .y wi 1 m i in have I or I* r a m e Janus iirandt and W < . .Vlobray, pi ohih;ti< a ager.t , \v< re h ?' to death m< .ir I'erry. Fin., la.-.; I'liur-day after tio. n while 1hey wen- .-eaiihing the home of J. \Y. Rwhanan for illicit liquor. Iliuhanan surrendered to the si.? r'ff of the c. cut y. The farmer.- of ( i.t -u-l field last week shipped three cailottds of pou!II \, ira uding chickens, g.-e.se, tu key-, duck and gunn a to tin- markets. The car- averaged 15,000 pounds ouch in weight, and totaled over .$15,000 to tin- sellers. < hinose newspapeis declare that scores of people have heel) frozen to death :i and around tin- city of Pekin during the cold wiatlu-i prevailing th.- pas', few days. I nve ligation of a "h >pel? ss erippl " beggar, a:n.-Ud by the police of Philadelphia last week, developed the fact that the bcggai is the owner ol a limousine tar and -ix houses in his home city, Syimuse. N. Y.. and that in Philadelphia he was living in a $4 a day h?>tel room. ,P i- (- t.mated that the life insurance comp,'Hires ??! the l ured Sfhtes have this year written and i sued approximately $ 1 >,ion.000.000 <if new irisu: a rice, a gam f about $('00,000,j 000 ovt-r the new hu-inc-- written in IOl'5. The n o department. which handles p.- n funds, i- asking con-I g-n - i .)' a tota' of $222.70S,000 for' pen .."ii- foi t he next current fiscal! year. Mm*. <.f this -un for pension on aceotint of the <".\ 11 War | j nr 1 Snanish-A met i.aii war-. '.'he I' i res! one Tin at:.! Rubber company have begun operations to J ide.rlop 1.000,000 m e.s of land a- aj rubber growing farm n Liberia. Africa. ami the proposition has bean ratI ifn-d by the l.iberian congress. The j co-t of cleaning up and planting themillion aires will be around $100,-' 000.000 and it i- estimated that when the robber trees get in full bearing! they will produce 200,000 ton- of rub-j bei per war. (Iovertu.r Vic Donahey. of Ohio, is! being boomed for the democratic nonai at ion for the presidency ir. ! " | | M:-. Suiiu- Rayanka, of luiiker<,j j N. "t .. wa- on Monday awarded a vet.i.c' of $ ldi.000 again.-t tile Pee.n- ! syhaaia railroad a! White Plains, foci thi death of he! nushand in a wreck, just a few minutes after she had given nirt. i to a child in a Whit;*' Plains hospital. Harmon Hay. S|n * and S.:n. n P.) Hay . 7.'!. brothers are dead at Con-j ne!l-\:l!e. Pa., as the result of being; stria k by an automobile Sunday at - j ter: oom A son of Harmon Hay, was j als injured at the same time, the < automobile skidding on a hill. Tr.e I'rated States navy now has 12-1 submarine boats, SO of which are j ready for immediate use in case of i nee '. Phil ipe Worth, one of ..he most I fan-ou- producers of women's <iothes I in Paris, died Tuesday, aged 70 years. During the last year of his life ho' established a home for wounded and blip I soldiers of France and saw to it that :hey received every consolation and nifort which was their due. S- v.-n while prisoner.- made their i sea; frmu the jail at Rii mingham, Ala.. < arly Saturday morning, aftor overpowering two jail guards and taking their key.-. They seriously wounded a garage r 1 gh -v ;chman at a garage where thi y went for a car ! to further the::' g< ' away. ! The Larking T ve: building is he; ir:g --.r-ned f<W "cn 'i--n In New Yoik at a co-; ,.f S1 - .UOU.iHhh The pre;?-eri 1 i- llo -;.. r. v , . a c. .o ., !.-?*. .>.a . I he > in: wo: -*a? n ?.? ? value ! t- i Ol" ?i > i a ca ( < it-r . ? 5. At a: ta. CI a.. a i .n.iii'iid ..: . i '"v i' r- r . i f j 2-- \ i . IS of whom hi* i:\-i: *. j was i? v.? i v i by President t "vdaigr in I Wasmr.g'.o.. m, Frid o, .-- ! wnrrt *^ M is , HIGH SCHOOL HONOR ROLL ! Pupil* Making Average of Ninety or Above During 'third Month j Grade 8?Elizabeth Zeinp. Fmil> j Pitte, \Villit Hailv, Leitorn Rhnme,' IVarley Welch. Grade 'J? Duncan Lang, Kochelle : Slieoin, Marlhu Benson, (!arolyn Bur- ; net, Batty Curcton, Nell Goodalc,' , Maud>' MeTeer, Caroline Rii hardhon. i Grade 10 Kvelyn Bruce, Virginia, Haile, Mary Boykin, 'Molly Bluekweil.j Klien Stewart, Dotty Zemp, Kvelyn I Mo-eley, Mary Brown. Grade II Kobert Davis, frains B's.scll, ThomuAia Guthrie, Carolyn j Heyman, Louise Jennings, Louis, i Lang, Willie I'orler, Margaret Kast, | l ; John Kichardsop, Faith deLoarh,' Loin a Gladden, Cora Williams. __ ... i Clemson Student Killed Slaninore Watson, young Clemsoii . i cadet, from Columbia, was killed I Wednesday while returning to his 1 home in Columbia. The accident hap j petted near Chapiii while y oung Wa j son was riding on the running boai It j of an automobile. The auto atteinp* I td to dodge another car that had jtiC come into the road and side-swiped an embankment causing the fatal injury to Watson. The lad was the yi of the late Dr. J. J. Watson of Columbia and is survived by his mother an 1 three brothers. KI UK WOOD GIFT SHOP OPEN ! We are pleased to announce the ! opening of the Kirkvvood Gift Shop 'at The Kirkvvood for the 11126-27 season. K very one is cordially invited to visit this little shop and see the worj derful assortment of new and attrac1 live gifts and novelties in domestic 'and imported leather, silver and jew-I ielry. We have added to our stock | an unusual selection of children/s novelties which include items for the ! baby from Krueger; the famous ! Horsman Hebee-Shebee Dolls; Borg| feldt's distinct imports and Margaret ! i Steiff importations. We also have a | ! very large assortment of new and ' ! practical place-cards. You will al- | | ways find at The Kirkvvood Gift Shop I your favorite candies, papers, period' icals, new books and a complete line | of smoker's accessories.?>\dv. j 't Supply Minister Killed Georgetown, Dec. IS,?The Rev. j W. A. Youngblood, a supply minister I f , * of the Methodist church, who was} ( employed about a month ago as a ' vvachrnan by the Atlantic Coast Line I Lumber corporation, was killed almost instantly at 5:40 o'clock Wed-j nesday" afternoon, when hit by a lum-J her train <>n the trestle between the corporation'- wharf and the main plant. Commissioner Kennesavv M. Lan?<!is, baseball's highest priced star, has "been signed up to continue as czar of the baseball world for a period of seven years at a salary of $65,000 a year. Representative Reed, Republican, of New York, has introduced a bill for the appropriation of $100,000,000 as a public building fund for construction throughout the country. This is in addition to a like sum provided for by congress in the session of last winter. , Four couples, whose aggregated wedding life is 400 years, celebrated their golden wedding anniversaries at Hilton, N. Y., last Friday night, i The whole town turned out to pay tribute to the four aged groomsmen and brides. John W. Langlcy, ex-congressman j of Kentucky, sent to the Atlanta fed- | eral prison following conviction #f j conspiracy 'to violate the Volstead law, for a period of two years, has been paroled after serving one year of his term. A bofler explosion, in a lumber plant at Rocky Mount, N. Saturday, did considerable damage to suri rounding property; killed an uniden: tified negro, and injured several other persons, including the owner and the manager of the plant. The damage is estimated at $100,000. Mt. Airy, N. C., was visited by a , fire which did $200,000 damage Sat- ' : unlay night. The origin of the fire j i< unknown, but is ascribed to an unexplained dynamite explosion in a' hardware store at 7:20 Saturday*! night. The Iowa Loan and Trust company,; one of the largest banking institu- ; tions of Des Moines, fa led to open i its doors yesterday. Courtney (i 1 i->? " ;:;g bank :t 1 . r of Merr.ph -. 1 . . v\ h*? disappeared several <?k- . when a shortage <>f n? a . .. m d ar 1m i'V art? -:? t | Kitzahe*- W u; J K ' a rv.'f - K v.. r. -ah , j vecen - a cr.r' ' ha-ki * 1....'. . ..nv Ff>H SAI.F? R xwa.id shrubbery, 1 hunP. re?! year* eld, eas'lv rv..ved. ^ ( amden on Stateburg road: al-o , I antiques for sale. . Address Mr.,. i V^wl F 8ACk?n' B X 361 !U?' ^ an oi l) printer dead Captain Neutherr) Die* ut Confederulc 11 oiiu- in Columbia (<" / am hi a Si alt*, Dot". 17) i api \ K. I'. Neatheiiy, who M?-t liic h.?t -'or, of l>|'f nn The Stall-, ,)ii-<i at * U'" la ' iw^ht at the Confederate home, w iii'M' in* hud Lved rnoi e t han a > t ar. So far as i* kiiuv. i., < aotain Neathcrry via.*, the of hn? nana, ami had no n< nr relat i ve-. II> had, how evi l*, an abundance <>t friend.* ami to t)ii*irt hi- death c au.-e- <lc*t*|> sorrow, lit- will In laid away in Klin wood i? iiicti'ry, toilownig si*rvn i'.- at the Chui'eh of the (iood Shl'phl'ifI, ol which if Wit- i o i, j.' a delated nam he i. In hi* i,w 11 qua nl way. ' aptaiu Ni*at he i i \ . b\ request, told ill- llie story in the South < ai dina ^ )ii<l Fei low, of wiih h he wa- then edtloi and proprietor. Idle *.!;. !. i. wa- ore-elite.1 It. the thiid person. "He wa* ho Mi :ear!;. life in Franklin county. North < aroiina. Graduated in a log cabin tnl't^e and t< >k post-gi aduutc i.tuiM n the University of Hani Knocks. Kntercd a -pt intin^ office av 'devil' at the age ol l:; years; enlisted n. Company C, Kighth North Carolina troops, ('onfederate States ai my, in I Mi I, at the age of is years ai d <"> months, ;tn?l became known a.- the smallest in the company and the higgi -t devil in the regiment. Filled all the appointive offices and at the . lose of the war in hi i was in command of his company. Saw service in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia aim Virginia. Furnished passage for a nunnie ball through his earca-. ami tried to stop a few other.-, but failed. Was 'stung by a hum' hut still lives to tell the tale. Twice married, hut i- now the last of the family and name, with but one relative in the world. An Odd Fellow for mote than 00 years and a member of the typographical union for OS years. Loves God. fellow-man. women, ehi'dren. poetry, flowers and dogs, a.nl keeps happy on the way. His Initial- -ta'nd for James Knox Folk, and Neatherry ispplled with two R' . He i- row 7* years of age. Thats all. '"It was four >ea:- ago that l.'ie captain printed Lhl_ unique autor > )>*''M'raphy. bringing date, he ? wa- *2 years of age month before la-*., he was an Odd Fellow for 54 y?ir- and n member of the Internaj*. ional Typographical union for G2 yea i s. i Until very recently tile captain had j la en ip. excellent health despite his j advanced years. It was hard for his ] frie ds to persuade him to make his jiiu at the Confederate home, but I me i .-tahlishcd there with the com| rades of the GO-, he was happy, like his whole life, wa- -pent in contentment. Captain Neatherry came u> Columbia in November. 1890, in company with ("apt. John J. Cormack, the. veteran foreman of The State's composing room. Together they worked in a printing plant operated by Dr. James Woodrow, and when The State was established in February, 1891, the two became members of its composing room. One of Captain N'eathj erry's treasured possessions was the i imposing stick with which he set the first type on The State. i An accident, in which he suffered a broken arm. took Captain Neathes r\ from his trade for several years, and consequently he established the South Carolina Odd Fellow, which he published until very recently. A man of rich memory, a delightful conversationalist with fine flow of descriptive language and keen wit; a person of merry disposition, big heart, and gentleness, he was a wplcomed visitor wherever he went, and his friends were legion. John Aikman Stewart, 104, Wall street financier and once secretary of the United States treasury, died in New \ ork early Friday morning from an attack of pneumonia. This organization has been extending Christmas Greetings to the good citizens of Camden and Kershaw County for twenty years?but never more heartily or sincerely than now?to you. BARUCH-NETTLES CO. 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Naxiie ...v .flftnti i P.O State Kd R-F-D Mail orders add 5c for post-jP*80^ H1RSCH BROS. & CO. ? CAMDEN, S. C. Kg: MONEY TO LOAN v i*4th On improved city real estatc^^T J Apply to Henry Savage, Jr Camden, S. C. r' ^ ^esl We have enjoyed a boun* g|| tiful Christmas trade we know to whom^ve are I indebted. Our friends, we thank you! BUDDIN'S BOOK STORE Ri i. WmW^-M-' Iliistnrir (eambett i volume ii i By 1! SOMAS J. K1RKLAND I ' . ROBERT M. KENNEDY {4 H jK s6.00 the copy jf1 c gg For Sale in Camden by m^g^EE THE CORNER SH<T*~X . - -* t > Cv.' Next to reihyterian Ch-rck fTJVl 414 DeKalb St. CawA. ' j-*11 . L /laBHHHHBWHfc ? ^jnrt