Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FINAL OTCTAKKM Notice s hereby given that one Jlth from this dale o? Monday,. jffSiary Slst, 19W, I will make lo the Until return * admtaJetrator of the St,.. 0f Tillman N. *UPp?r, d?ce?3 ,nd on the ."?? ! will apply ih* Mid Court for a final dla. * ,.id administrator,. charge as A NAj>PEU> Administrator. 'thimden, S. C., Pec, *1, WM. ' TAX NOTICE. rwhct of Ircasurer Kerahew Couuty, ? < alien. 8. C., Sept, 12, 1926. Notice hereby given that the .,?! he opened ?or the cellectlon Lli nmh county and achool taxes from >Mh, 1?M} to March Wtb. To'in A penalty of 1 per cent will be j,m,.,! ,o ?H ??-ja2"r?swi# 1927. 2 l'('r ce^ u^ ,nW ' and 7 per cent March 1, 1*87. The rate per centum for Kerahaw county is as followas ^ State Taxes .>v.?... .. 5% 6-0-1 School 4 .School Taxqa * !* 7 County Taxes ? * eonsUtuUonai School Tax ... 3 Deficiency School Tax ........... % ToUl ....... *ej?% DeKalb Township Koad Bonds, for DeKalb Townahip only 2% Dog tax $1.26. All dog owner# are required t^make a returrt.. of -lhelr dogs to tn County Treasurer, who U required to furnish a lincense tag AH doga caught without the ficeuae tag the owners will be subject to a fine of -Twenty ($20.00) Dollars. The following School Districts have special levies: Wis.* * ?... School District No. 18% School District No., 2 18% School District No. 3 19 School District No. 18% School District No. 6 1 School District No. 6 ......... 25 School District No. 7 10 School District No. 8 1 School. District No. 9 .'. 1 School District No. 10 .. v 1 School District No. 11 - 8 School District No. 12 19 Achool District No. 13 1 School District No. 16 1 School District, No. 16 1 School District No. 19 1 School District No. 20 .... 1 School District No. 22 ........ 19 School District No. 23. ........ 1 School District No. 28. ...... School District No. 27 1 School District No. 28 1 School District No. 20 7 School District No. 30 1 School District No. 31 8 School District No. 33 11 School District No. 37 1 School District No. 88 '... 1 School District No. 39 5 School District No. 40 ........ 18 School District No. 41 . w,x,.. 1 School iNatricrt No.,42 l.:\... .^ 1 N School District No. 43 1 School District No. 40 1 School District No. 47 1 The Poll Tax is $1.00. All able bodied male persons from the age of twenty-one (21) to fifty (60) years, both inclusive, except residents in incorporated towns, shall pay $3.00 as a road tax except ministers of the Gospel actually in charge I of a congregation teachers employed in public schools ,school trustees, and I persons permanently disabled in the I military service of the State and p$rI sons who served in the War "Between she States ,and all quarantine service of this State and all residents who may be attending school or college at B the time when said road tax shall be come due. Persons claiming disabili ties must present certificate from two reputable physicians of this county^ J All information with reference to B taxes will be furnished upon *t>pltca?H B tion. O. J. SMYRL, County Treasurer. . f -rr I . , B g-7 M v V I J. K. GOODALE ^B ( PAINTING, PAPBRHANGING AND KALSOMINING ALL WORK GUARANTEED |H Estimates Furnished Free 409 Rutledge St. ^ Ppone 433-J CAMDEN, S. C. B ^ B Ambulance Service Day or Night Witor Equipment ef the Beet I ('.W.EVANS MORTICIAN . * 7 \ 'v ** Telephone. 535 DeKalb fit. -M Camden. 8. C. I HA VB YOUR I PIANO TUNED I j11 Work Guaranteed ' ?? - t ' LEWIS L. MOORE I Telephone 242-W I Camden, 800111 Carolina I S Beautiful Mali Flowers WfA F W- fmu for HMtUnp' Cutftlofl Jou can have 6 packet,, of Wds of i differ* it t uhH very beautiful floWf>riJ rpp IfaallUKb' 1927 ,Sucd (?UfttloK ?H? yoh all #bout It P I Hastings' Heeds ur? 'The si?, . I >f the Monti. " tw , ouindaid hou^- rhoy Klve the best remits In our Southern garden* u,ul on 2? Hastings' ii?w 1927 Cut*. !?,* , I)UKe8 1,1 *" full of nir Jovera in full colors, truthful, accurate leKrtPUona and valuable culture d ! 'ections. ' I ^)V*tWUUl you lo httVc ,hiH c*talog in our home, lutell* u|| about IIhhlIiikh ^ V' fl?Wer a,t<i fltj|d Plants Writ ^ f,noKl ,n America Write for It today,. ,A poat-card rolueat brings It tovyou by return mall H. G. ^ASTINGb CO., HEF.DbfVi EN ATLANTA. GA. TAX RETURNS j Office of Auditor Kerahaw County, Camden, S, C? December 10, 1926 * hereby given that the Auditor g Office will be open for jreceiv-1 1927 r* fr0rn JanUH1'y 1st, 1027, to February 2&th, 1927. All persona owning real estate or personal property must make returns of the name within said period, as required 50 pet^'cent j * * PCnaIty ?U w h >udjtor w,? att?nd in person , or by deputy at the following places in the county on the dates indicated for receiving returns: j Liberty Hill?-January 21st. Westville?January 22nd. I Blaney?January 26th. I j1iP*ri0ns between, the ages of 21 and 60 years, ihcluslve are reuired to pay a poll tax and all persons between I the ages of 21 and 50 years, inclusive 1 are required to pay a Road (ax, unless excused by law. AH Tmstees, Guardians, Executors, AVctailnistrators or Agents holding property in charge must return same. Patties sending tax returns by mail must make oath to same before some officer and fill out the same In proper manner or rejected. ^ _ B. Ev SPARROW- - J Auditor Kerahaw" Countyla NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, Town of Bethune. Notice is hereby given that, purauant to.-written petition' lighed by a majority of 4he resident freeholders of the Town of Bethune, Sobfh Carolina, and heretofore presented-to and filed with the Town Council of the *aid Town, and pursuant to resolutions adopted by the Town Council of the said 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 8th day of February, 1927, for the purpose of submitting to the qualified registered electors of the said Town the question whether or not it shall enter into an agreement with Carolina Power & Light Company, a North Carolina corporation, and its successors ant}- 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 transmissipn line to said Town and supplyingL.service thereover at.its standard rates, upon certain terms, conditions and stipulations set forth U? the aforesaid agreement. ; T{\e polls will be opened for said election at 8 o'clock ip the forenoon, and will be closed at 4 o'cock in the afternoon, on the day and at the place aforesaid. The managers of said election are: P. H. Hester, J. M. McLaurin, Frank Lee. M.G.KING, G. E. ARROTT, Intendant. -.?Clerk. 41-45-ab 'NOTICE OF OPENING OF BOOKS OF REGISTRATION FOR SPECIAL ELECTION. State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, Town Qf Bethune. Notice is hereby given that a special election has been ordered by the Town 'Council of the Town of~B?= thune, South Carolina, to .be held lh said Town on the 8th day of- February,?1997, U) determine whether th? 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, -vfdr a period not to exceed ten (10) years, in consideration of the extension of its transmission line - to said Town and supplying service thereoyer at its standard rates, upon certain terms, conditions and stipuatlons set forth in an agreement bertflaen the said Town and the said Company on file in the office of the Clerk of the said Town; and that the l>ooks of registration of the said Town of Bethune will be opened at The Farmers & Merchants Bank on the 18th day of Janbary, 1927, and will there .remain open for a period of ten (id) days, for the registration of qualified electors, and that all | persons qualified to register?should 1 make application, tf 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^mgistration. < 7 m' v l -: _ by w c?B vlHI'.WN Curia The journey from Copenhagen to Hamburg is tedious and lire some If you have near at hand a map of Hem mark you will observe at a glance ,l iakt}s a i-xprns* aix hours to run from Copenhagen to the German border -a distance of only 100 miles. lhe southern end of Denmark '? cut into several islands and the ains are ferried frum Ulan<| to ^ and. lhe ferry boats will take the train of ten coaches. The train runs onto the boat without a pause. I? ? few minutes the wheels are jacked clear of the tracks, the front and rear ends are braced and the boat slides away from the dock. ()? the other s?de the train is underway a few minutes after the ferry touches the dock. I he passengers do not leave the 1/* 'S " ,lne system and ?n fair weather. I do not know what happens when the weather n f, cThe bays form * of the u .^c>a- The longest stretch of water is between Denmark and Germany where the ferry crosses the ower end of the Baltic Sea. It is three hours across this body of water and you lose sight of land. Half of the lower end of the Baltic belongs to Denmark and the other half to Germany. When the ferry boat reaches the half-way "post" the Dan-' Jsh flag comes down and up goes the jerman flag. Densely populated European nations are jealous of every J foot of space they own either on land or water. It is Sunday and the passenger list is heavy. The ferry boat dining room down stairs is crowded to capacity. Both Duties and Germans are voluptuous holiday eaters? ahd drinkers. Orders are being shouted in several different languages ?waiters are dashing around like men gone wild and bedlam reigns. The moment a seat is vacated it is filled by a hungry and thirsty passenger. The scene wearies and I climb the stairway to the promenade deck at the top of the ship. It is quiet here. A few passengers sit or stand at various places and look at caeh other in a dull, listless sort of way. I speak to my girl friend in English. A young girl not -more than 18 years of age smiles and with a blush says: That sounds good to me. I haven't heard it in several weeks." She is from Massachusetts and Is traveling alone from Sweden to Italy by way of Berlin and Vienna. Home-sickness is written on every feature. She has been over six months and has six more before she can return to America. She is a student. The boat lands and our trains go in different directions. When I told her good-bye tears rolled down her cheeks. Home-sickness is a terrible disease. It is an aching void that nothing can fill. ! have seen strong men give way under it. _ J Oceans of Holstein Cattle Germany and Denmark are as much .alike as two drops of water. Until 1864 that part of northern Germany j known ^s the Holstein and Schleswieg sections belonged tf> Denmark. They were traded to Germany by a foolish Danish king for empty titles. The king spent the rest of his days in prison for the unequal trade. Our train is whirling through the Holstein section the home of the famous cow. It is Sunday and I think the Holsteins are having a family reunion. The land is covered \vith oceans and oceans of Holsteins. In the two hours >ride before dark I have seen half the Holsteins in the world. The sight is not new but it is interesting. Three years ago I spent several days in this delightful section and I am passing familiar ground. Here, as in Denmark, dairying is the ^ main type ol agriculture. The German is a cooperative. It was in Germany the co-operative idea was born,'but it was in Denmark that the system came intOo. full flower. The old countries are slow tp chaifge an<f I do not note improvements or changes as my train dashes through the little towns or by the small farm settlements where the houses are grouped end tc end irfVeircfe. The group settlement idea originated before history was written?-when men lived close 'together for feudal-protection. Grotrji settlements arc found jn all foreign countries. -? The German Sawing Wood ? Qermany is making a quick recovery from the World War. It will be the first country in Europe to reach the top again. It is because the German. is sawing wood and saying nothing. He is at work. German industries are running almost tc capacity. It has been three years since I was here, but in that time there has been a marked improvement r: -. ||E5i^rHZT.Z Tt1! in the cities. My lest visit was made i at the most critical period in the ] hiator> of the new republic.. The day ? 1 entered Germany 1 bought F?00 i murk* for a dollar. The pre-war I value >{ the mark wua 24 cents. I < remaned. here four weeks, and so \ rapid!\ did the mark decline Jhat the I day I eft I was buying seven and a 1 I halt million marks for the-"dollar. H Fur ?> ice in my life I was a pluto- i erat. For once in my life I ha?i more 1 iponev than I could spend. Upon . leaving my hotel in the morning* 1 < would buy five or six million marks < for an American dollar. I lived in i the best apartments in fashionable 1 hotel.- I dined at the most expensive * restai tants; 1 usually wound up the i day L. taking a box at the most ex-j 1 pen sue theatre and when I returned I to my hotel at bedtime it seemed j < that I hud more money than 1 started * out vith. Hut the nation was pa?s-U ing through a gruelling period?ail period without a purrallcl in the history of the world. Farmers, in a desperate effort to beat the fall of the mark, were eating up all thuy produced und feeding their milk to pigs while city babies were starving. Dread lines atretehed out in every direction. In those lines stood culI tured women, half-clothed in shredded silks, and men, used to the luxuries of tW world, with bare toes sticking through tattered shoes. Bread riots were breaking out every hour and , armed clashes between rioters and police, which often resulted in the death of several men, were frequent in the most prominent streets. Pedestrians became so hardened to these frequent clashes that when the rifles cracked they instinctively edged to the shelter of a doorway. The rioterH attacked taxis in the streets and overturned trolley cars. I was lunching in a cafe in the heart of Berlin. The rifles cracked near the doorway. The waiter hastily pulled the curtaini to the street windows. When I attempted to look out he warned me that the sight of people dining in the cafes angered the mobs. The last night I spent in Germany the rat-a-tat of machine guns was heard throughout the night. The police were unable to control the rioters. One Senses a Peaceful Atmosphere But now all this has changed. Germany is once rftore at peace with itself and the world. The mark finally went the way of Confederate ' currency following the close of the Civil war in the states. Germany has a new currency called the "Renten1 1 " i ?; i L i, mark." It has the value of the old l>re-war mark?24 cents. The "Rentmmark" is backed by a first mortgage on all the property and rents of the republic?hence its name. With the disappearance of the old mark ayd '.he introduction of tho "Rentcnmark" the coat of living which had been very low under the old mark whippet! back to the other extreme and for beveriVJ months Germany had rough sledding Hut its economic affairs have been ud justeti to a common gense basis, and while wages ate still low us comuurpd with American wages, yet they are not out of proportion to the cost of living and the German is getting ttlong fairly well. His shipyards are Active and lie is replacing the ships he lost at the close of the war. It lias been charged unofficially that one L)f the causey of the world wui was Germany's rapidly expanding sea trade. Tin* may or may not be true, hut anyway there is no doubting the fact that Germany is making a determined effort to. regain the prestige she formerly enjoyed on the seven seas. Travel Still at the I'eak Germany is a nution of travelers and railway travel has not diminished since I was here in 1923. The stations ami railway trains are packed and jammed night and day. Three days before I left Germany 1 wired for a sleeping reservation on a Paris express. The hour of departure was 11 o'clock. The train had been sold out. I got aboard and took a chance. The sleeping car conductor waved his hands unll shrugged his shoulders. He looked lung and hungrily at the liberal tip 1 offered him, but he was helpless. He offered me a berth in a third-class sleeping ear. I had never seen, u third-class sleeper and I went with him and looked. .The little rooms ran at right angles with the coach aisle, the same us in the first class sleeping cars. There were threu berths on each side of the room. The berths had no mattresses, no pillows, no covering. The sleeper merelystretched out on hard boards und pulled his top coat over his body. There was no door to the room. I have crossed rough spots in my travels but this was the roughest 1 had ever seen. There stretched in front of me the prospect of an all night journey in a stuffy compartment with three Germans and two Frenchmen already asleep with mouths ugape. In my despair I strolled to the rear of the train where I found a first-class couch with empty compartments. The lightf burned low. 1 placed my luggage In | one of tho compartments, pulled the j curtain* ami strvtei^'d at full length J on the long cushioned bench. At two | o'clock I wax awakened by a roar that Hounded like a small tornado. A huge German train conductor stood over me bellowing like a bull. "Out! Out!" was all he could guy. lie woub' I not urguc, but. when 1 otV^red htm $2.60 m American money hi* frown* I turned to smiles I kept tho com ' part.ment on the dO hoUi journey to I Pari*. However, the paying process bad to be repealed each time conductors were changed at tin Itelgian and French frontiers. Sign* of \\ 41 Disappearing Our express dashes by Cologne ami is enteiing the territory where ouly u few years ago contending armies surged back and forth in a deadly struggle for supremacy. The country I was laid waste. Mighty shells ground towns and cities- to powder. When the armies had swept onward the only sign* of life were vultures pore bed on shell-shattered tree Dunks like sentinels keeping vigil over u city of the dead. Now ull this is changed. Shell- furrowed lands have been level ed and are once more producing the food that will perhaps make bono and sinew for future urmies. Towns nre - . Iniing rebuilt and in u few years all | signs of war will have disappeared. "" Hut our train has entered the station in Paris and gray-coated, red-cappedl" porters havo Hung up the wide tourist windows and are screamipg for lugguge. The Station of the North (Gar du Nord) is a human bee-hive. It will take Ave minutes to reach the exits where you will plunge into another mob of travelers?pushing, shoving, quarreling and laughing like men gone wild. * An oaken gibbett from which meu were hanged ?n public for sheep stealing as lute as the year 1600, is preserved over th% main entrance of a hank at Ruthin, Wales. 4 ? - j GOITRE REDUCED Two Inches. Choking and Smothering Relieved. A Liniment Did It. V- I '.IM. ' Mrs. Geo. Baldwin, College Plner, Columbia, S. C., snyH she will gladly tell or write her full experience to any one about Sorbol-Quadruple, it colorless liniment. Get more inforw mation from Sorbol Company, Moi chanicsburg, Ohio, all drug stores or 1 locally at W. Robin Zompfs drug 1 store. Your Home Town I B THIS BANK IS. A HOME TOWN INSTITUTION. I WITH OUR DEPOSITORS' MONEY WE EXPECT I TO PROMOTE PROGRESS IN YOUR HOME TOWN. I WHY INVEST YOUR MONEY ABROAD? HELP | t US WORK FOR THIS COMMlfNlTY^ ' * I ???i 111 ^ . I ii i j The First National Bank I I Of Camden, South Carolina I