The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 18, 1927, Image 3
PRIZES FOR K88AY8
Oil Why reran Trae# Should Be
I Planted on the Home Grounds
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Foi the beet on the hubjt < t,
why Pe<?i' Trees Should be Planted
the Home Grounds," the South
Rirolina Pecan Growers Society,
Bluicncc. offers u cash prise of $10.
<>r the seiotui beet essay, a prise of
KVe ihoue pecan trees of the value
Bf $*). For third boat essay, from
111 h ? f three extension districts
Bf tin >tste, two choice pecan trees
If t,? value of $2, a total of five
Kl/c
'I |l(. loiiipetition is open to any
Bu.!<nt it! the state, boy or girl, in
Ki> grade up to and including last
Bar in High school. The essays must
Bit exceed 500 words in length, must
Be wiitten plainly on one side of
Baper only, and mailed to reach the
Bffjre of the society at Florence by
H o'clock p.m. Tuesday, Margh 15,
I The society will be glad to furnish
Biformation about pecan trees. Each
Student will receive copies of same
Spiders and circulars, whether request
Somr. through teachers oi from
udent direct from the South Oaro na
Pecan Growers' Society at FlorFINAL
DISCHARGE
I Notice is hereby given that one
B>onth from this date, oh Monday,
arch 14th, 1927, I will make to the
rebate Court of Kershaw County my
Rial return as Guardian of the esRtcs
of Arthur Lee Herron and MarBret
Theresa Herron, minors, and
i the same date I will apply to the
kid Court for a final discharge as
^Rtid Guardian.
MRS. C. F. JAMES, formerly
Mrs. Nannie M. Herron.
Camden, S. C., Feb. 10, 1027.
FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice is hereby given that one
Rionth from this date, on Tuesday,
larch 15th, 1927, I will make to the
Pkm.ji'c Court of Kershaw County my
inn! return as Exedutor of the Es tatc
of Mrs. Isabelle Seotta SalmondK
Rand on the same date I will apply to
the said Court for a final discharge
from my trust as said Executor.
W. D. McDOWALL.
Camden, S. C., Feb. 10, 1927.
TAX NOTICE.
Office of Treasurer Kershaw County,
Camden, S. C., Sept. 12, 1926.
B Notice is hereby given that the
books will be opened for the collection
Bf State county and school taxes from
October 15th, 19*26, to March 15th,
1927. A penalty of 1 per cent will be
added to all taxes unpaid January 1st,
927, 2 per cent February 1st, 1927.
md 7 per cent March 1, 1927.
I The rate per centum for Kershaw
^Bounty is as follows:
Mills.
^fctatc Taxes 5%
-0-1 School 4
School Taxes 7
Bounty Taxes 8 Ms
Hospital %
Konstitutional School Tax 3
eficiency School Tax %
Botal 29 ^
eKalb Township Road Bonds,
for DeKalb Township only 2%
Dog tax $1.25. All dog owners are
^ <i'i '.'.l to make a return of their
p to the County Treasurer, who is
juired to furnish a lincense tag.AU
gs caught without the license tag
b owners will he subject to a fine of rcnty
($20.00) Dollars.
The following School Districts have
ecial levies:
hool District No. 1 v.. 18%
hool District No* 2 16%
hool District No. 3 ...... t.. 19
hool District No."4 13%
District No. 5 1
hool District No. 6 26
hool District No. 7 . 10
fhool District No. 8 .......V. 1
hool District No. 9 1
hool District No. 10 ........ 1?
^ hool District No. 11 8
hool District No. 12 19
hool District No. 13 .. 1
hool District No. 16 1
hool District No. 10 .... 1 x
hool District No. 19 ,. .1
hool District No. 20 ? 1
hool District No. 22 ........19
hodl District No. 28 .....77T" 1.
hool District No. 26 1
hool District No. .271,...... j.. 1
hool District No. 28' .... 1
hool District No. IB . .."... 7
^Rhool District No. 30 1
hool District No. 81 8
hool District No, 88 11
hool District No. 87 1
hool District No. 88 . 1
^hool District No. 89 5
fhool District No. 40 18
hool District No. 41 1
hool District No. , 42 1 >H
v00 5istrict No* 43 - 1
hool District No. 46 1
Rhool District No. 47 1
i hc Poll Tax i8 $1>00
All ahic bodied male persons from
age of twenty-one (21) to ftfty
) years, botTTnpIusive, exceFi^~
?n#o Jn incorporated towns, shall
$3 oo as a road tax except minisB"S
0 the Gospel actually in charge
R a ^"krregation teachers employed
public schools ,schbol trustees, and
rsons permanently disabled In the
'.Ury service of the State and parens
who served in the War Between
thi^U^ndar^l^u* wh!
B?y be attending schooTtr collegT at
tune when said road tax shall befme
TO. -Person* claiming disabili M
must present certtoeatTfrOin two
potable physicians of this eonnty.
.J,1 reference to
wilt be fornU^sd ujgn^ agplkaI
* * ? -7.1.
CERTIFIED POTATO 8KKI)
Experiment Station Reports ou Tests
Covering Several Years
Clems on College, Feb. 12.?Certified
Irish jwtato seed avorugt- 7. J
bushels per acre more than noncertified
seed in tests made by the
Horticultural Division of the South
Caiolina Experiment station over a
pei tod of four yeaih including wet,
dry, and favorable seasons. The certified
seed came up to better stand
and produced greater percentages of
No. J grade potatoes.
These facts are brought out in Experiment
Station Bulletin 2U2, Experiments
With Certified Irish Cobbler
Potatoes, just issued by the
South Carolina Experiment Station
and now ready for free distribution
to thoHe who desire it.
In the same publication is a progress
report of source-of-seed tests in
which it is shown thut Wisconsin ami
Vermont potato seed produced the
highest average yield at the three Experiment
Stations located at Clemson
College, Florence and Summerville.
Qf those seed tested five years at
Florence and Clemson College, Wisconsin
seed ranked third, and at Summerville,
first. Of those tested four
years, Michigan seed produced the
highest average yield, ranking first
at Summerville and Florence, and
second at Clemson College.
MAN CLEARS SELF
"Wild Hill" Howell Conducts Own Defense
In Chesterfield
Chesterfield, Feb. 14.?The spring
term of criminal count adjourned here
Thursday after being held four days.
A considerable volume of business
was transacted. Judge Henry F.
Rice was on the bench and Solicitor
M. J. Hough was in charge of the
prosecution. Three homicide cases
were tried, one being found guilty of
manslaughter and the other two acquitted.
The case that Nittracted most attention
throughout the entire county
since the slaying of Major McLeary
three years ago, was that of Will
Howell, bettor known as "Wild Bill,"
who was charged with having shot
and seriously wounded Himar Linton
of near Society Hill. The alleged
shooting is said to have occurred over
.dpmestjc affairs. "Wild Bill" has
been in jail here since the shooting
several months ago, and through his
sense of humor has gained quite a
reputation as a jester.
When the trial was called it was
found that "Wild Bill" did not hav#
any lawyer defending him and as he
did not have the necessary finances
he acted as his own attorney. The
case was quite pathetic ami at the
same time had a humorous side to it,
and so far as any one connected with
court affairs here knows it is the
first time that any one has ever conducted
his own defense in Chesterfield
county. He was clever at crossexamining
the witnesses and his plea
to the jury was fine, and after about
two hours' deliberation a verdict of
not guilty was returned by the jury.'
Several cases were brought up for
violation of the prohibition law and
also grand and petit larceny. Most
of these cases drew sentences on the
i chain gang.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
A cave, reached by *a winding passage
from a cellar under a padlocked
roadhou^e in Chicago, and with the
entrance hidden, raided by prohibition
officers Saturday, was found to house
a brewery that was supplying eighty
barrels of beer per day to Chicago
bootleggers.
v'A dynamite bomb exploded under
the Mayberry home at Pittsburgh,
Kan.j early Monday morning, wrecked
the house and killed several of the
inmates.
The United 'States mint at Philadelphia
is minting a special coin in
commemoration of the forthcoming
sesqui"centennial of Vermont.
^Twenty-nine years ago Tuesday at
d:40 p.m. the "United States ship
Maine wjas Jblown up in Havana harbor;
J. G. Carter of Georgia, negro, has
been named as resident minister and
counsel general to Liberia, by President
Coolidge.
Rev. Percy Stickney Grant, D.D.,
former rector of the church of the
Ascension (Episcopal) New York,
who. has been much in the limelight
the past few years on account of his
modernist views, died in u-hospital atMt.
Risks, N. fY., Sunday, following
an operation for appendicitis.
Elliott Parnell and Ray Robinson,
Lake City, Fla.? youths, are under
arrest for the death of G. D. Conley,;
Spartanburg man, whose body was
foinftl in LaK? I)e Soto Sunday. Con-!
ley's body fcore no signs of violence,
but money that he is known to have
had was missing. He was seen with
the two youths a short_ time before
his disappearance. .
Fifteen rebels have been killed and
several prisoners taken by Mexican
Federal troops this week, says a dispatch
from Mexico City.
KYK FOR AN EYK
Florida Seminole# Will Enforce Old
lime Regulation#
the inexorable law of the Semir.olv>,
"hii eye for an eye, a tooth for
a tooth, ha.1) taken it# course and
l>oet, r John, venerable member of
the tiiU, ban paid with his !tfe for
the flaying of Little Billie, #ny* u
Miami, l* la., pre*# distptiich.
j 1 or year# Doctor John had been
1 known u.i a hunter with few equal# in
the F.vor glade# of Florida, where the
Sein.nole# live, and an Indian with4I
out an enemy. When the September
hurricane destroyed the Mu*a lilv
camp of the Seminole# he wu# one of
the first to volunteer help in rebuildj
">K It.
I hen came a Seminole celebration
near Deep lake wi Big Cypres# swamp
in ( oilier county. Liquor ran freely
and Doctoi John became quarrelsome.
Suddenly he became enraged over
some incident and struck Little BillUi
over the head with a club and killed
him. This was on October 25.
Awaiting trial, Doctor John sat
I alone for weeks on a palmetto mat
in an isolated Kverglade# camp. A
verdict was not expected until June
when the brave# will assemble at a
former camp of Old John Billie,
fnthei of Little Billie, after the
spring hunt and pjunting season; but
later it was decided that the delay
would be too long.
Lldcrs of the tribe, including relative#
of both Little Billie and Doctor
John, were called to decide upon the
punishment. Only two penalties for
murder aie provided, according to
Seminole tradition, and death is regarded
a# prp/erable to the alternative,
ordered, in rare case#, of exile
for 53 moons, or four years. In the
ease of Doctor John, almost as old'
as his victim, the 80-year-old Cor-napat-chee,
a# Little Billie was known to
the Seminole#, exile wan regarded as
slow death and execution was ordered.
Rumors were afloat that Charlie
Tigertail, designated as executioner,
had shot Doctor John. The report,
however, was denied at Musa Isle
camp, when the verdict was revealed
for the first time Friday by authorized
spokesmen for the Seminoles.
Death was by hanging, the braveB
say. The names of the judges and
the time and place of execution are
never told, according to tribal custom.
"We like Doctor John, yes," one of
the braver said, "but we like Little
Billie, too. He kill Little Billie. We
kill him."
Cobb (Joes to Athletics
Ty Cobb will play baseball this year
i with the Philadelphia Athletics. The
former manager of the Detroit Tig
ers, whose home is at Augusta, (la.,
announced Tuesday night at a dinner
of the Philadelph ia sports writers
that he had accepted the offer of
Manager Connie Mack. Financial
provisions of the contract were not
revealed, but unofficially it was reported
"that the "Georgia Peach" was
to receive $00,000 for the 1927 season,
the largest salary ever paid a
baseball player.
Who Fell Off The Building?
A story is going the rounds of 1-jgai
circles concerning he ^wind-up between
a lawyer and client of a damage
suit, based-on the fall of the
plaintiff, an Irish iron-worker, from
the roof of a four-story building.
After several months of negotia
tions, the lawyer sent word to his
client th^t a settlement had been affected
and requested him to call at
lhis office for the money due him. The
lawyer, after detailing the myriad difficulties
he had overcome, the long
hours he had daily given to the claim
and the miraculous resourcefulness he
had to employ, stated that he had
finally accepted a settlement of
$4,800.
"I have deducted my fee for the
work I have done and I desire to
give you my check for the remainder
due you/' remarked the lawyer as
he handed over his check for $800.
Dizzily, the ironworker studied the
check.
"Well, well!" spokfrstthe lawyer.
"Isn't everything all^jftjflit. Is th*Ve
anything more you'cPWte to know?"
"There's just one little point I'd
like to know," remarked . the halfdazed
client, "and that is, who the
Helenmaria fell off that building?"
* 'Uncle Henry" .Smith, aged negro
janitor of a Methodist church at Little
Rock, Ark., lost his life last
Thursday night when attempting to
rescue members of his family from
his burning home. His funeral took
place from the Methodist church
which he served as janitor.
FINAL'DISCHARGE i
Notice is hereby; given that /one
month from this date, on Monday j
March 21st, 1927, I will make to the
Probate Court of Kershaw County my
final return as Guardian of the estate
of Arthur L. Jones, minor, and on the
same date I will apply to the said
Court for U final discharge aa said
Guardian.
PAUL K. JONES.
Camden, S. C., Feb. I?, 1927.
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Motor Title Law Killed
Columbia, Feb. 10.?The motor
.vehicle title law became a dead letter
in South Carolina today when Goyernor
Richards affixed his signature
to the repeal act recently passed by
the legislature. The measure was introduced
in the senate by Messrs.
Grenekor of Edgefield, Odom of Spartanburg,
and Murtin of Orangeburg.
A traffic policeman of wood clothed
in lull uniform and helmet directs
tiaffic twenty-four hours each day on
a corner of a highway of Brandenburg
Province.
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I Tha First National Bank
I Of Camden, South Carolina