Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I final discharge Notice i? hereby given thet one -..nth from thie dole on Monday, 7* .ry 31?t, im- 1 th? irebate Court of Kereh.w County my , filial return .? odmiol.tr.tor of the estate lm,n N- NupOer decoaa-; Id arid on th* aame daU 1 wl11 L the **id Court for ? final <fi. ehuruc ?? ?ald administrator. tlu g r. a. napper, Administrator. Cgmd,n. S. C.t D.c. 21, 1926. tax notice. arte*- ol Treasurer Kershaw County, Camden, ? C, Sept. 12, 1926. 'a l Notice in hereby given that the books will be opened for the collection f qlutt. county and school taxes from October 16th, 1926, to March 16th, 1927. A penalty of 1 per cent will be added to all taxes unpaid January 1st, 1927, 2 per cent February 1st, 1927. and 7 per cent March 1, 1927. The rate per centum for Kerjihuw county is a* follows: atate Tuxes &V4 6-0-1 School 4 School Taxes " bounty Taxes ? At Hospital ... * Constitutional School Tax d deficiency School Tax % l Total DeKalb Township.Itoad Bonds, for DeKalb Township only 2% Hog tax $1.26. All dog owners are required to make a return of their dogs to the County Treasurer, who is required to furnish a lincenae tag.All dogs caught without the license tag the owners will be subject to a fine of Twenty ($20.00) Dollars. The following School Districts have special levies: School District No. 1 18Mi I School District No. 2 16 Va School District No. 3 19 School District No. 4 13Ms School District No. 6 1 School District No. 6 25 School District No. 7 10 School District No, 8 1 School District No. 9 1 School District No. 10 1 School District No. 11 . .y 8 School District No. 12 .: 19 * School District No. 13 1 School District No. 15 1 School District No. 16 1 School District No. 19 1 School District No. 20 1 School District No. 22 19 School District No. 23 1 School District No. 25 1 School District No. 27 1 School District No. 28 1 School District No. 29 7 School District No. 30 1 School District No. 31 ' 8 School District No. 83 11 School District No. 37 1 School District No. 38 1 School District No. 39 5 School District No. 40 18 School District No. 41 1 School District No. 42 . 1 School District No. 43 1 School District No 46 1 School District no.Nw ........ _1 The Poll Tax is-$l\Qfip All able bodied maB.persons from the age of twenty-one^"T$0 to fifty (50) years, both inclusive, except reI sidents in incorporated towns, shall pay $3.00 as a road tax except ministers of the Gospel actually in charge of a congregation teachers employed in public schools ,school trustees* and B persons permanently disabled in the B military service of the State and per sons who served in the War Between the States ,and all quarantine service of this State and all residents who B may be attending school or college at B the time when said road tax shall beB come due. Persons claiming disabiliB ties must present certificate from two reputable physicians of this county. All information with reference to B ?taxes will be furnished upon application. O. J. SMYRL, County Treasurer. -1 J. K. GOODALE I PAINTING, PAPRRHANGING AhfD KALSOMINING K * all WORK GUARANTEED i i. **'. .* _*'r." W ' ^ *;iEstimates Furnished Free 409 Rutledge St. Phone 4S3-J CAMDEN, 8. C. - . " t . v Ambulance Service Day or Night Motor Bq.lpmeat of the Bat I C. W. EVANS ; HAVE YOUR PIANO TUNED I All Work Guaranteed LEWIS L MOORE B I ToUphon. 242-W " Hastings'Seeds Catalog/ I Free / ,?rto Flower Seeds for You You cun have & packvtH of ?<*?<!? (,f 6 different and very beautiful flowers free. I lust lugs' 1927 Seed Catalog oils you ull about It Hustings Hevdn ure "lb- Standurd c> the South " They give Giu best result >i lu our Southern KurdeiiH and on our farms. Hastings' new is?27 Catalog has 112 pages iu all. full of pic tures from photographs, handsome covers in full colors, truthful, accurate descriptions and valuable culture directions. We want you to have this catalog in your home. It tells all about lla^tiUKs* garden, flower utid field seeds, plants and bulbs "t he finest In America Writs for it tod^y.- A post-card reQuest brings It to you by return mall H. Q. HASTINGS CO., SJEEDSM EN, ATLANTA, GA. Thousands 1'ardom-d Austin, Texas, Jan. 20.?Proclamations filed in the secretary of stale's office showed today that during he last four days she "was governor. Milium A. Ferguson granted approximately .'30-i clemency acts, boosting her total for two years to approximately 3,596. For the past few days clerks were employed night and day in writing proclamations. The full pardons will approximate 1,360. Mrs. Frances Mary Wright, aged 106 years, 7 months, died at the home of her daughter at Patchogue, Long Island, last Friday. Thirty-Eight Year Goitre Relieved Norlh Carolina Lady Successful With , Colorless Liniment. Wants Others To Know. Mrs. J. W. Finch, Littleton, N. C., says: "I never had any relief until I tried Sorbol-Quadruple. My Goitre is nearly gone. I can sleep good and feel good every way. Will be glad to answer letters about my experience." Get more information from Sorbol Co., Mechanicsburg, Ohio. Drug stores everywhere, or locally at W. Robin Zemp'a drug store. NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, Town of Bethune. Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to written petition signed by a majority of the resident freeholders of the Town of Bethune, South Carolina, and heretofore presented.to and filed /Awith the Town Council of the said 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 and assigps, 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'cock in the afternoon, on the day and at the place aforesaid. The managers of said election are: P. -Hv Hester, J. JH. McLaurin, Frank Lee.* _ Wr - M.G.KING, G. E. PARROTT, Intendant. Clerk, v 41-45-sb ' ' ' *? : NOTICE OF, OPENING OF BOOKS OF REGISTRATJON FOR SPEC| Srfifcfc ELECTION. State of South Carolina, * . ... County of Kershaw, Town of BethurtCv Notice is hereby_giy?n_that a special election has been ordered by the Town Council of the Town of Bethune, South Carolina, to be held iti said Town on the 8th day of February,' 1027, to* determine whether the Town of Bethune shall enter -into) a contract with Carolina Power A Light Company, a -North Carolina corporation, and its successors and assigns, to pay to it the sum of One Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($1,200.00) annually, for a period not to exceed ter (LO) year8, in consideration of. the extension of its transmission line' tc said Town and supplying ' service thereover at Its standard-rates, uyor certain terms^T conditions and stipulations: set forth in an agreement be tween the said Town and the said Company on .file in the office of th< Clerk OJTthe said Town; and that th? books of registration of the sale Town of Bethune will be opened at The Farmers A Merchants Bank oi the 18th day of January, 1927," TWk will there remain open for a period of ten <10) day*, for the registra tion of qualified; electors, and that at persons qualified to register shouU make application to J. D. Lafitte Supervisor of Registration of thi Town of Bethune,. at the aforesak time and plac? . * Lk. ?$?-. M. G. KING, J. D. LAFITTE, J" Intendant ; g^^Sfapervisgr M Registration. ^ i rntmm 'A )\ JottUAN I Paris Pierre, the live red dorman, uinu?>t fell on my auck h? 1 alighted i>,>m the taxi thut brought me from the station to rny hotel on the Kivoh The greeting from the clerk and head porter was none the less cordial, hour times .since 1923 1 had been a guest at the hotel and the Frenchman' does not forget. I had heard before reaching Paris that Anruj^ans were not welcome?that the^Frenchinun was sore over the wwT'flebt und hostile to American visitors. I could not ha\e asked for a morf? cordial re eption. It was like the return of the prodigal. 1 he trouble in France .? cheap money. Before the war the franc was worth about 20 cents. Today I am buying 32 francs for the dollar. On a pre-war basis this would be the equivalent of $5.40. The law of economics works in strange ways. When money goes down commodity prices go up. You recall 1918-19 in Amen ica when the purchasing power of our 'dollar went down to 50 cents. That was the,.,tro of high prices and inflated values. Values have risen in France but the rise in commodity prices has not been in proportion to the decline of one franc. It is difficult to adjust railroad tariffs to the full of the franc and railroad fares are very cheap. It is the first time in my life that I have felt sorry for the taxi driver. Taxi meters can not be adjusted to the cheap franc and taxi fares are at a starvation level. You can taxi half way across Pnris for a franc and a franc i& worth about 3 1-8 cents American money. The taxis are old and dilapidated. The drivers are badly clothed and undernourished. You can not .resist the impulse ato pay several times the amounf the meter calls for. Prices in many of the fashionable places are ridiculously low. Y'ou can buy an excellent dinner for 50 cents, but in terms of French money that is $3.25. The Americans who make o. vulgar display ?of the cheap French money they buy with high American dollars are the trouble breeders. It stings the Frenchman to see his money scorned and ridiculed. The Frenchman is economical and it angers him to see waste and extravagance when so many of his people are suffering for necessities. If our dositions were reversed we might show our resentmen't in a more violent manner. The gentleman at homo who is a gentleman abroad receives a cordial welcome anywhere in Paris. The half-tipsy fellow who stuffs his pockets with cheap French money and makes a scene is not welcome evil in the semi-respectable places. Our time is limited and we must hit Paris in high spots. It is late in the season and very few American* are seen in the public places or oti the promenades. In the fall when American tourists are leaving tourists from other countries are pouring in. Paris is no longer French. Th? promenades are gay with costumes representing many nationalities? Nordics, Alpines and Mediterraneans ?with here and there a scattering Frenchman. Take a seat at a table on the Rue de la Pais near the Grand Opera house and you see the world i pass every 15" Minutes. It is the I Times Square'of Paris. Professional ' beggars, confidence men, hijackers and every character known to the underworld brushes elbows with you. Here an unsophisticated man would be as help]es*-jo-a- baby in a lion's deri. It is the world in panorama? good and evil, mixed and unmixed, , the bad and indifferent. As night falls a^ bedraggled beggar woman L takes her stand at a corner on the Rivoli?a -fashionable promenade:?a | block from the hotel. Beauty line? ; are still seen in her face?now hard and pinched -probably from the use of drugs and alcohol. I saw her there ' ni&ht. after night in 1923. 1 saw Kei , there in 1924 aS'She dtood in the chill . irfgl&'-sir with an infant held elose > to her anemic breast. She is at the I same spot this year, but now she ' holds another infant# at her breast while a second child tugs at her skirts I with one hand and holds out the othei s in an appealing way ^or alms. Thai j is PaTis. The woman may be a pro[ fessional beggar or she may be wor? , thy of charity. She reaps a rich hari vest from Americans. She is one ol I thousands. : It is 7:80 in the morning and I-an | gulping down a hasty breakfast oi coffee, eggs and rolls while suller i looking scrub women are mopping thi I dining room floor. Paris sleeps late The boat train leaves at 8:15th< lit awn up at the curb. Luggage in tossed in, goodbys are shouted and \\t> dash off U> Um Htation whore we find another mass of humanity struggling through the gates to the boat tni n. There is talk ami laughter. ' F\crybody ?s happy because every-' body is homeward bound. You would t think that you were in an Amernun railway station. The crowd is so American that "all aboard" is shouted down the line in English. The shrill little whistle shrieks, carriage iloois are closed with a hung and in a few minutes Paris is left behind tad the train is dashing over hill and meadow toward Cherbourg whcrq the Majestic now crossing the channel ftotn .Southampton will meet us at f> o\ lock this afternoon. The 200 miles fr.?m Paris to Cherbourg is covered with only one stop. The boat train draws up beside the customs house, passengers disembark, bagguge is examined, tickets and embarking cards aie stamped and the crowds pass 011 to bhti waiting tenders which quickly steam ijut to flu* mighty Majestic which floats at anchor beyond the breakwater. Dinner is waiting and as soon as luggage is stored in the stateroom you are ushered by your steward to the massive diping room. At 9:-15 o'clock a long blast of the whistle announces the hour of departure, winches begin to rattle drawing in the anchors, and in a few minutes the mighty ship is ploughing through the murky night on its 34()0 mile journey to New York. Faces are radiant. The pleasantcst part of a foreign journey is when you walk up the gangplank on the homeward bound ship. Ocms have double-track ship lunea. Euiopean bound shipa take the southcm route and American bound ships take the northern route. Until a few years ago ambitious skippers "cut corners" by taking the shortest route both ways. The government put a stop to it. The ship on which we 1 are returning?the Majestic, said to be the world's largest ship?is the last word in ship-building and so let's pass away the six days of fog and water that stretch before us learning something about this floating palace. The Olympic, on which we went to Europe?Rritish built?was 150 feet lunger than any ship ever launched. At that time sea competition between the British and Germans was keen and the Germans built the Vaterland, 1 now the Leviathan, which was 12 feet longer than the Olympic. Then came the Imperator, now the Rerengnrin, ' . . "I ' I followed by the Ma jets tic which was CO feet longer than the Olympic. The Majestic waa known ha the libmurk. Her ket'l was laid in the Yulkun ship yards, Hamburg, in 191.1, but she was not finished until 1022. The Ameri cans look ?>ver the Leviathan aa a prize of war and the Hritish took over the Impcrator uiui tin- Majestic. Hut it is the Majestic in which wo are in-j terested. This huge floating palace is 95(5 feet long or a little longer than three average elty blocks, and regis- 1 ters 511,000 tons. Let us make a visit to the chief steward's store I'ooiihc Here are found 100,000 piece* of linen made up of 77,000 towels, 1.'1,000 pillow cases, 8,000 lied spreuds, 11,000 sheets, 10,500 hlankets, 10,000 table clut'hs, -if).000 napkins and 5,500 ap rons. If stretched <Hlt end to end on t a clothes line the ship's linen would reach from New York City to Miami, i Lla. On each journey nre consumed ' ' ( 7f? tons of meats, 10 tons of bucoti, 28 tons of fish, 2 tons of coffee, 1 ton of tea, 8 tons of sugar, .'1,500 ions of water und 18 tons of poultry or 72,000 chickens weighing two pounds each. Stored in lockers in the chief .steward's quarters are 55,500 pieces of table silver weighing 7 tons, or more than all the coined silver in circulation in the original thirteen slates, i The pusaenger capacity is 4,100,! which combined with a crew of 1,100, makes a population larger than that] of an average American town. In the; Majes'.ic's 100,000 horsepower engines is combined the strength of 200 of the largest American locomotives, while 100 horsepower alone is used indiiving the machinery that controls the ship's rudder. The mighty engines diink up on a single journej | 9,000 tons of fuel oil which develops \ enough power to drive 100 Ford auto-1 mobiles around the world thirteen f times or run one Ford continuously j for 128 years at the rule of .'10 miles j an hour. A ship's passengers are restless and six electrie elevators i unning all day and far into the night whiz up and down between the nine steel decks. On nearly every deck are dining rooms, and restaurants or buffets nitfd on che main decks are found beautiful palm gardens, gymnasiums for children and j adults, reading rooms, libraries, writing rooms and lounges. One of 'he " most popular places is the tiled swimming pool which carries .'17,000 gal' Ions of water. The passengers amuse themselves in various ways. There is dock golf and tennis, shuffle-board, quoit pitching and bridge. Panloi mimes for children and concerts and social KHtms for grown up* are ar-? ranged I y the ship's professional entertainers. Bouillon iumI cra? U?*rs are soi v*d at l l o'clock ainl tea and crackers at 4 o\ lock Some form of amusement i- alwoy- nn?lei way ami if you tin- of one it i* ca?y to fuel another. Ik' gloat ship m a sUtU enclosed wonder woild. Its entile mechanism from the smallest push button to the huge anginas that drive it through the sean nt 2d knots an hour is so finely adjusted that it is more like a live, throbbing, pulsat itig human body than a groat mass of steel and iron. It is not even guided hy human hands There is no lug steering wheel. Die commander sets the eourse and a deli eatc needle nestling between two small, glass-covered magnetic poles holds this hfi.OOO ten* of steel and Iron true to its couim. At the slightest variation this delicate little steering instrument sets in motion the 100 horse-power engines fiOO feet to the rcur of the bridge that eontrol the huge rudder. Electric devices for shallow water soundings flash warnings to diul faces on the bridge while other delicate electric devices fastened to the prow, far under the water line^. flush on the bridge warnings of the approach of other ships in a dense fog. The mechanism that controls this great leviathan ia so perfect that one loses all sense of danger, But our journey is over. It is early Tuesday morning and our shin is anchm VI at quarantine waiting for the government officiuls who will ;nrke a casual examination of the passengers as they file down the stairways in puirs. So expert are tin so officers that they make an ac curate appraisal of a passenger at a glance. The Journey back home has ? been very pleasant. We left Cherbourg at 0:46 Wednesday night and at H o'clock last night (Tuesday) we passed Nantucket Shoals lighthouse. My home is 700 miles from New York. 1 ate breakfast in I'uris last Wednesday morning and tomorrow, or the following Wednesday morning, 1 will eat breakfast with my family at home. It i* a wonderful age. A n 1 now ends our thiixi "Tour M?ioad." It is with reluctance that 1 part with the thousands of readers j who have accompanied me on the. I journey, but the touch of sadness I feel at the parting is softened by tho , reflection that perhaps we shall meet 1 again on some other side of the world. ! ?A. B. JORDAN. The Beginning of Fortune I ALL PEOPLE WANT TO BE SUCCESSFUL SOME I r DAY. THE ROAD TO SUCCESS STARTS FROM RIGHT WHERE YOU ARB! BEGIN SAVING NOW AND SUCCESS WILL COME IN THE FUTURE. I v 3 The First National Bank 1 Of Camden, South Carolina II I / II