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No. 9083. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE r FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CAMDEN At CAMDEN. IN THE HTATK OF HOIJTH CAROLINA AT THE CLOSE OK BUSINESS ON DECEMBER HI, tim. ? j. Resource* Loans and discounts, including rediscounts $444,268.84 Overdraft*, secured, none; unsecured. $1,139.01 1,138.01 IJ. H. Bonds deposited to secure circulation (pur value).r>0,000.00 All other United Htutes Oovernment Securities 20,861.13 (0,861.1.1 Other bonds, stocks, securities, etc Jib,038.60 Banking House $20,858.20; Furniture arid Fixtures $3,002.02. 33,820.28 lawful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank 34,206,02 <fewh In vuult mid amount duo from national hanks 30,000.40 Net sirioutit due from Htute hanks and hanker# . 46,675.00 Checks on banks in the same city or town 6,240.02 Total of last three items $00,482.20 Miscellaneous cash items 3,610.20 3,510.20 Redemption fund with U. H. Treasurer 2,500.00 Total "... $710,826.27 Liabilities. Capital stock paid in 76,000.00 Hurplus fund 26,000.00. Undivided profits $27,634.26 lyess current expenses, Interest, and taxes paid . .16,264.00 11,370.06 Circulating notes outstanding 50,000.00 Certified checks outstanding 373.44 Cashiers checks outstanding 554.70 Total of last two itcrtis $028.23 Demand Deposits: Individual deposits subject to check 218,800.61 .State, county or municipal deposits secured by pledge of assets of this hank 26,000.00 Dividends unpaid 3,016.00 Total demand deposits $246,816.61 Time Deposits: Certificates of deposit (other than for money borrowed .... 36,236.84 Other time deposits 270,278.43 Postal savings deposits 1,810.08 Total of time deposits $308,326.26 Bills Payable NONE Liabilities other than those above stated 2,375.63 Total $710,826.27 Htute of Month Carolina. County of Kershaw. I S W \ :iii I.n I nifhain t'n-ii r i.f I he :?h"V'- iiuiui'il 1111 ilk, d" Milrtnnly ?w?-:ir i'mI -1..1 u-n,- i 11 in In the Im-m \>f :ny It now.edge and belief. * S. \\ . \ u n 1 .A M ?1 N li 11A M. , Ca^liior. Subscribed and \\<<in in |,< lore me :nis lib day of January, l'J27. Correct?Attest: W. ,S. BURNET, C. J. SHANNON', JR. Notary Public for S. C. L. A. WTTTKOWSKY Directors. JOHN T. MACKEY, BANK NO. 235 STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE BANK OF BETHUNE LOCATED AT HETIIUNE, S. O., A'i THE CLOSE OP BUSINESS ON DECEMBER.1!!. 1026. Resources Loans and Dhtcounts $64,354.80 Overdrafts, Secured . . . 6,061,65 Furniture and Fixtures 2,465.45 Hanking House 1,482.00 Other Real Estate Owned 16,015.32 Due from Banks and Bankers 15,122.08 Currency 3.176.00 Gold 222.60 Silver and other minor coin . 345.04 Checks and Cash Items 1,176.43 Other He sources, viz: Collection Account . 1,204.60 Total $115.2 ".-.TO Liabilities Capital Stock Paid in $15,000.00 Surplus Fun< 1 5,000.00 Undivided Profits, less Current Expenses and Taxes Paid 2,107.98 Individual Deposits subject to check 58,029.81 Savings Deposits 3,363.20 Time Certificates of Deposit 31,485.27 Cashier's Checks 233.60 93,111.78 Notes and Bills Kediscountod NONE Bills Payable, including Certificates for money borrowed NONE Reserve Fund Carried on General, Individual or Savings Ledger NONE Total $115,219.76 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Kersliaw Before me came (J. E. Parrott, Cashier of the above named bank, \vh > be* tng duly sworn, sn>s that the above and foregoing statement Is a true condition of said bunk, ss shown by the books of said hank. 'G. E. Parrott, Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of December, 1927. Correct Attest: LORING DAVIS, D. T. Yarbrough. Notary Public for S. C. A. B. McLauri , A. K. McLaurin Directors. T * No. ISO STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE MERCHANTS ANI) FARMERS BANK LOCATED AT BETIIUNE, S. C.. AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS DECEMBER 31, 1926. Resources Loans and Discounts $34,586.17 Overdrafts ?.... NONE Bonds and Stocks owned by the Bank ? 12,648.75 Furniture and Fixtures 2,186.73 Ranking House 1,068.75 l>ue from Banks and Bankers 63,985.21 Currency , , 6,794.00 Sold 613.00 ilver and Other Minor Coin 486.60 - Exchanges for the Clearing House 157.80 Other resources, viz: Stock Cotton Finance Corp 120.00 Cutton Account 2,809.77 Total $125,454.78 Liabilities Capital Stock Paid In $20,000.00 Surplus Fund ; 5,000.00 Undivided Profits less Current Expenses and Taxes Paid 5,426.15 Individual Deposits Subject to Check $54,781.24 Savings Deposits 8,134.66 Time Certificates of Deposit 30,887.77 Cashier's Checks 108lo5 93,861.72 Notes and Bills Rediscoutned . NONE Bills Payable including certificates for Money Borrowed .....'. NONE Reaervo Fund f 1,166.91 Total $126,454.78 State of South Carolina. County of Kershaw Before me came J. I). Latlitte, C?drier of the above named hank, who being duly sworn, says that the above ami foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. _ ...... ,T 11 Lafitte. Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of January. 1927 Correct Attest Loring Davis, N.V'Notary Public for South Carolina. J. M. CIyburn C. C. Gardner _ Directors. IIAKl LOSES APPOINTMENT ^ 4 McLeod OniitH Name of Edgefield Man in laauing Coimninalon* J. P. Hart of Edgefield, state con-! . *l*bU, yesterday lujjt bu mnroiaoionj UH a member of the state constabulary, (Governor Thomas G. Mcl/eoi acting yesterday morning to omit Hurt's name in reappointing his state constables for the new year. The 11 remaining members of the constabulary received commissions for only the month of January and will, therefore, be in office January 1H when John NcTNKjcharda becomes chief executive Yrf the yitate. The commission* dW revokabld by the governor for any reason on no reason at any time. j Hurt waa one of several officers accused by inmates of the Aiken jail of complicity in the lynching October 8 of Bertha, Demon and Clarence Cowman at Aiken. Governor McLeod yesterday would not say, however, thut these charges, denied by Hart, had actuated him in his decision to dispense with Hart's services* for the remaining 17 days of his term. The absence of Hart's name from the list of appointments for the qew year was, the governor admitted, due to the fact that beginning with January 1 the Edgefield man is no longer to be a member of the state constabulary. "I huvc," he said, "decided for good j and sufficient reasons not to reap; point Hart.". The nature of these "reasons" he j did not care to reveal. The charges against Hart, pre-! fcrred by Mrs. Lucy Mooney, who was) being held in the Aiken jail, as a ' witness for the state in a liquor case, i never tried, were published by the i New York World in its issue of No| i vember r>, a month after the lynching, and while Governor McLeod was himself engaged in directing a "thorough inquiry" into the lynching. Hart, his attention called to the allegations published by The World, denied the charge brought against him, declaring that he spent the night of the lynching at Edgefield, his home, and not at Aiken. Since the publication of the charges and his denial Hart has continued in the state service and yesterday as a ' state constable participated in a | series of liquor raids. Hart had been a member of the j state constabulary for something over four years,' having first been appointed by Governor WiUon G. Harvey and k then reappointed by Governor McJ Leod. v The governor's order reappointing the 11 constables and omitting the name of Hart, was delivered yester; day morning to the office of the see; retary of state. The commissions are "to enforce the laws of the state during the month of January, 1927," the 11 reappointed being: , T. J. Smyrl of Columbia, T. A. Berley of Columbia, J. L. Poppenheim of Charleston, H. L. Bell of Greenville, W. W. Rogers of Columbia, J. W, Sanders of Ulmer, T. J. Coleman of .Columbia, S. M. Henry of Spar* tanburg, L. A. Lown of New Brookland, D. I. Young of Navy Yard and J. B. Munn of Bethune. M rs. Berry Dead at Great Age Homo, tin., Dec. 31.?Mrs. Francis Rhea Berry, 89, mother of Miss Martha Berry, of the Berry School at Mt. Berry, Ga., is dead here, following a brief illness. Mrs. Berry was a daughter of Lewis and Martha Holloway Rhea and was born at Cherokee, Ala. She was married to Capt. Thomas Berry in 1860. While her husband was in the Confederate army she took charge of their plantation, directing the work of the slaves in cultivating crops, and distributing the proceeds to families of soldiers in her -husband's company. Mrs. Berry is survived by eight children, $11 of .whom were with her at the time of her death. They included Princess Eugenia Rusholi, Rome, Italy. Mill Executive I)ead. Greenville, Jan. 3.?Thomas F. Parker, 66, former cotton mill executive and well known civic leader of Greenville, died suddenly on a highway near the city late Friday. Mr. Parker had gone out motoring with a friend and when wet roads were encountered they attempted put tire chains on the car. While working at this task, Mr. Parker dropped dead, apparently from heart failure. Mr. Parker was born in Charleston, later rrtoved' to Philadelphia and settled in Greenville some twenty years ago. Biel From lockjaw. Concord, dan. 1.?J. Alex Caton, Jr. 14, died in a local hospital Friday from lockjaw. He received a slight powder burn Christmas day when shooting a toy pistol, but did not complain until Thursday, when doctors found it too late to save him. - ".- .4^ est - . ^~*' v~rc? ? Lt-*i wfVi.'i it NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION Stat* of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, Town of Bethune. Notice la hereby given that, ourauant to written petition signed by a majority of the resident freeholders of the Town of Bethune, South Carolina, and heretofore presented to and filed with the Town Council of the Haiti Town, and purauant to ^resqjutions adopted by the Town Council of the Haid Town, upon filing of the said petition, an election will be held at The Bank of Bethune, in the said Town of Bethune, South Carolina, on the Hth day of February, 1927, for the purpose of aubmittihg to the qualified registered electors of the said Town ttye question whether or not it shall enter into an agreement with Carolina Power & Light Company, a North Carolina, corporation, and its successors and assigns, to pay to it the sum of One Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($1,200.00) annually, for a period not to exceed ten (10) years, in consideration of the extension of< its transmission line to said Town and supplying service thereover at its standard rates, upon certain terms, conditions and stipulations set forth in the aforesaid agreement. The polls will be opened for said election at 8 o'clock in the forenoon, and will be closed at 4 o'eock in the afternoon, on the day and at the place aforesaid. The managers of said election arc: J\ II. Hester, J. M. McLaurin, Frank Lee. M.C.KING, / G. E. PARROTT, Intendant. Clerk. 41-45-sb # NOTICE OF OPENING OF BOOKS OF REGISTRATION FOR SPECIAL ELECTION, j State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, Town of Bethune. Notice is hereby given that a special election has been ordered by the Town Council of ithe Town of Bethune, South Carolina, to be held in 1 said To\vn on the 8th day of February, 1927, to determine whether the Town of Bethune shall enter into a contract with Carolina Power & Light Company, a North Carolina corporation, and its successors and assigns, to pay to it the sum of One Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($1,200.00) annually, for a period not to exceed ten (10) years, ii\ consideration of the extension of its transmission line to I said Town and supplying service thereover at its standard rates, upon certain terms, conditions and stipulations set forth in an agreement be-| tween the said Town and the said Company on file in the office of the Clerk of the said Town; and that the books of registration of the said Town of Bethune will be opened at The Farmers & Merchants Bank on the 18th day of January, 1927, and will there remain open for a period of ten (10) days, for the registration of qualified electors, and that all persons qualified to register should make application to J. D. Lafitte, Supervisor of Registration of the Town of Bethune, at the aforesaid time and place. M. G. KING, J. D. LAFITTE, Intendant. Supervisor of Registration. LYNCHING8 IN THE SOUTH Twenty-Nine Persons Met Death At Hands yf Mob y " p. j Tuskegee, Ala., Dec. .81.?Twentynine persons, including two women, I were lynched in the United States in 1926, an increase of thirteen over the previous year, the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute announced today. Florida, with eight, had the largest number, figures compiled by the institute showed. Texas had seven, Mississippi four, South Carolina three; Arkansas two and Georgia, Kentucky, New Mexico, Tennessee and Virginia one eacli. Of those lynched, twenty-two were negroes, six white and one an Indian. There were thirty-three instances in which officers prevented lynchings, twenty-nine of these being in Southern states. Thirty-four persons were indicted in connection with lynchings, the institute's report said, nine receiving prison sentences, eight for terms ranging from four to twenty years and one for life. One of the mob victims had been acquitted by the courts^ the report set out. Twenty of those lynched were taken from the hands of the law, eight from jails and twelve from I officers outside of jails. Tobacco House* Sold. Timmonsville, Jan, 8,?Thp Cooperative Tobacco Association sold a,t auction Friday their three warehouses and a vacant lot where 'fornrterly tHeM Farmers' Warehouse stood a J. W, Glen for $18,200 bid in Palmetto; Ray Smith and Dr. Houck Banner and Liberty Houses for $23,000, and J. R. ' Pepper the vacant lot for $0,100. Large crowds were present. Competition was keen, indicating Timmons- _ ville is' recognized as a prominent tobacco market with safe and progres- 'J> sive future. -* ? Covict Comes Clean. ^ Atlanta, Jan. 3.?"To get straight with the state of Georgia," Ben L. j Phillips, Fulton county convict,* walk- 1 ed into a Washington county convict camp Christmas day and surrendered 1 after being at liberty more than six 'J years, the state prison commission'. ; announced today. Offenses charged against those lynched, thO institute's report said, were: Murder, eight; attack, two; attempted attack, 3; killing officer of the law, 5; wounding officer, 2; at- > tacking woman, 1; insulting womau,... 1; frightening woman, 1; burglary, ,i 1; charge not reported, 5. ?? ?i n?. am I STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF - *m LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK M LOCATED At CAMDEN, S. C., AT THE CLOSE OF BUS1NK8S ^ DECEMBER 81, 1926. J lUlOlirCM. || Loans and discounts $295,048/nfl . Overdrafts Bonds Hnd Stocks Owned by the Hank , .<?*. ,, &b.020j^K Furniture and Fixture, ....:. MWjfl I>ue from Banks and Bankers K3,505.C9 Currency Gold l>xo Silver and Other Minor Coin l,870.x<?$ j Checks and ('ash Items, ?. * 8,807.96 1 Total 1470,096.41# {. Liabilities. Capital Stock Paid In $ -100,000.01 Surplus Fund 2,000.00 Undivided Proiits, less Current Expenses and Taxes Paid ... 1,871.39 Dividends Unpaid 3,006.00 Individual Deposits Subject* to Check $243,620.68 Savings Deposits ' 83,030.42 Time Certificates of Deposit 26,449.34 Certified Checks 366.34 Cashier's Checks 1,862.82 863,718.10 Bills payable including certificates for Money Borrowed 10,000.00 Total ^ $470,096.49 State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. Before me came John S. Lindsay, Cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworu, says tb t the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the hooks of said bank. JOHN S. LINDSAY, Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day of January, 1927. Correct?Attest: JOHN WHITAKER, JR., Thos. J. 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