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i THE CAMDEN CHRONICLJE II. D. Nllca . Editor and Publisher Published every Friday at No. 1109 Broad Street and entered at tUe Cam den, South Carolina, potitofflee as second class mail matter. Price per annum $2.00. Camden, 8. Friday, Feb. 23, 1927. 1 1927 IFBKUAKY 1^27^ Sun . ii'tn, fu-. Wed. _Thu. Kfi ' Sal. UiT 1 2 3 4*T 5 (. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 M 15 16 17 18 19 20! 21 ' 22 23 24 25 26 2; 28 i m w U! ii' m v . " '.M I UJ , . I. ? 7 (Jovcrnor Richards' announced intention of enforcing the Sunday laws has ciealed a great deal of discussion throughout the state and has brought forth many expressions from the press outside of the state. Most of the expressions of tin press think that the law should he modified so ar to conform to present day living, but in the towns where the orders have been received tin officers will most undoubtedly carry out the governor's wishes in the matter. Up to yesterday She) iff McLcod had received no instructions from the governor, but he stated that should he receive instructions lie would notify all places of business to cease . operations on Sunday. However, as far us this city is concerned, it will affect nothing except cafes, drug stores and filling stations. The drug stores observe only Sunday holt's. The filling stations of their own accord had an agreement to remain closed during pi caching hours. Of course if the order is carried out it will effect Sunday golf on the numerous courses around Cauulijii.. Mayor DuHose, speuking for the city government, says that he will carry out the governor's orders. Along this line The Sumter Hails Item thinks "the enforcement of the ancient 'blue laws' to the very letter may piove extremely uncomfortable for a great many people but it will probably be productive of better conditions in tin- <nd. Unquestionably there is too great disregard of the Sabbath and the day is needlessly desecrated, but the old laws are obsolete and not applicable to present conditions, manners and customs ih humorous particulars. The serious- -attempt to enforce tile laws to tile letter will, or should, result in the etfacfment of a law suited to existing conditions' that can be enforced. If the legislature has the -backbone to meet the issue a reasonable law can be adopted and the situation clarified." The Spartanburg Herald takes the strict legal viewpoint that "it is the duty of the authorities to enforce the laws as they are wiittcn, but where public opinion has cease/I to sustain them,they should be amended to cotiturm to modern methods of life." 1 he Asheville Citizen spoofs the whole idea. "If Ciovernor Richards needs our assistance let him call on lis freely, and if necessary wc will < heei fully go dow n there and help him tar and feather the guilty wretch who dares to so much as turn over in bed Sunday without the permission of the law," says The Citizen. i he Montgomery Advertiser does not know what the governor's motive is, but says that "if it is his purpose to show how odious government can be made when administered by a tyrannical hypocrite, then for a moment we la> down the burden, stand erect and come to a full salute in honor of a champion." If, however, the governor is trying to induce a repeal or modification of the ancient laws?the Alabama newspaper sees little reason for "serious protest," I'av Days Changed At a recent nnv'ing of city council the city clerk was direeted^to make payment to all city employees on the lirst and fifteenth of each month, instead of having only one pay day on the first of the month. The new arrangement is*laid to be much more satisfactory to all employees and they are glad of the change. Bronze thimbles, open at the top, were in use 2,000 years ago. Notice of Application for Charter Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will on February 28, 1027, apply to the Secretary of State for Charter for the American Legion Club. The proposed corporation will have a capital stock of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) divided into twenty-five shares preferred stock of a par value of One hundred dollars ($100.00) each, one hundred fifty shares common stock at a par value of fifty dollars ($50.00) each and will he empowered to buy,, own, hold, rent, lease, sell and improve real estate, , and to buy, sell and own stocks and bonds in other corporations. <? HUOHEY TIN DAI*, K. H. HTLTON, JOHN WHITAKER, JR. Board of Corporators. 81X TO HANG 8AMK DAY Illinois Will Kxccute Half Dozen to Avenge Slaying For one murder, the killing of Dtipuiy Warden Peter Klein, of Jol- . iet Prison, at, Joliet, 111., when he stood between them and the outside world in a?^ attempted prison break, six men will be handed in Illinois' biggest "rope party." An expert hangman, whose identity is kept secret, will conduct the six execution. He will be paid $.'500 $f>0 a man. The men who must die are Charles , Shader, Charles Duehswski, Walter Stulesky, Bernardo itoa, Robert Torrex, and Cregorio Kizo. All had been serving long terms, some for previous murders, when they made their break. Shader appears a mere boy. .Judge Frederick A. Hill, the "kindest man in the county," sent the half dozen to the gallows. Up to the day he sentenced them he had never been called upon to doom a man to death, lb said that wh' ii he pronounced the six sentences he thought the parade ol doomed men would never end. Hut he thinks the verdict and sentences were deserved. Fill up your gas buggy on Saturday night and buy your bottled drinks for Sunday should be the cry Saturday. Sunday fishermen are also admonished to seek a secluded spot or else you will get i*n trouble. 4 Quite a number of the tourists who are spending the winter months in Caiqden have found out about the hard sulfated roads in Sumter county and are enjoying trips from Cumden to Sumter and return. They should be made acquainted with the fact that there are more hard surfaced roads leaning from Sumter than from Camden, hence more enjoyment in autoing - Sumter Herald. THINGS WORTH KNOWING. Interesting Notes Gathered From Many Sources. I he almost unknown phenomenon of snow for Christmas was experienced by the people of Lisbon, Portugal, last Chiistmas. A Philadelphia policeman asked that lie he demoted when he learned that his promotion to a lieutenancy would mean parting with his horse, Dick. He had lidden the horse for nine years and he would rather ve11)8in a sergeant and keep, the horse than have all the honors of the force. The origin of Talking Rock, in Pickens county, (la., was as follows: A rock was found with the words, I urn me over" painted on one side and on the other side was painted, "Now tui n me back and let me fool somebody else." In Hohemia the willow is said to l>o the tree on which Judas hanged himself, and it is supposed to have a special attraction for suicides. In Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming bears climbing poles in search ol honey or for the purpose of a view, arc a continual cause of trouble on electric transmission lines. The Hindus think it brings a person ill luck to be openly admired or praised, and a child admired too openly will ho hastily* withdrawn, the mother often beating it to counteract the ill-omened admiration. It is the belief along certain parts of the New England coast that a sick man cannot die until the ebb tide begins to flow. Primitive Russians place a certifi cate of character in a dead person's hand, to be given to Saint Peter at the gates of'Heaven. When Robert Lockhart of Dunfermline, Scotland, tried to pla} golf in Central Park, New York, in 1888, he was arrested. The nickname "Quakers" was originally applied to the Friends by Justice Bennett, a Derby, England, magistrate, in derision of George Fox, the founder, because he admonished the magistrate to "quake at the word of the Lord." The name midshipmen for cadets originated in the British navy about 200 years ago. The men who were going through a course of training to become officers were assigned quarters amidships on the lower deck. Hence they came to bo called midshipmen. Mussolini's private barber, who has done tonsorial work for the Duce for fcur years, has never talked to him during that entire period. The famous West India Regiment, the oldest negro fighting unit in the British Empire, has been disbanded at Kingston, Jamaica. A cypress tiee growing in a churchyard near Milta, in Oaraca, Mexico, is thought by some authorities to he the oldest living thing in the world. Its age is estimated at more than 8,000 years. The "lung" of the gas meter that breathes in and out and measures the use of gas is made from sheepskin 1 that has been especially treated to make it impervious to the corrosive elements in gas. 4e2?^5iBL^' ' V.' : ' ?~ -r*ft i 1 1 ?-? . HANK FOR GEORGETOWN li<*rnurd Harwich Goer* To Kencue of Financial Hituutiuu (Jeorgetown, Feb. 19,?Georgetown, a little city of 5,000 on the count of South Carolina, trot along for three week* without a local bank. When the Hank of Georgetown, i with <h poaita of more than $1,000,000 cloned January 2 J;j it left the town without a financial Institution. The People's First National Hank of Charleston, however, stepped into the broach by opening an office here and continuing its operation until Georgetown's bank was reorganized. A native South Caroliniarf, Bernard M. Baruch, New York capitalist, who still speftda part of his time in the Palmetto state, is credited with a large part in making the reorganization possible, it being understood that he contributed approximately onethird of the amount necessary for the financing. The Charleston office in Georgetown leceived deposits urxi cashed checks, enabling the merchants to "carry on" and Georgetown weathered the storm with all its business establishments intact. VS^hile business was carried on as usual, the closing of the city's lone hank was not without financial embarrassment to some who ha<j^ only a small amount of money on hand. However, with payrolls being dispensed with Saturday night regularly, they suffered no serious inconveniences und the crisis passed without any of the grim forebodings experienced by a Georgetown lawyer and business man, the day after the bank closed having come to pass. The bank was closed following the alleged discovery that -three trusted employes, one a woman, were short .$15,000 in their accounts. The woman has been released on $15,000 bond but the two men are still in jail. Confidence in banks, however, was | not shaken. Instead reorganization plans were started immediately and on February 14 the Bank of Georgetown opened with a paid in capital of $50,000 and $10,000 surplus. W. D. Morgan, who for- many years has been an influential citizen and who was president of the defunct institution, was made head of the new bank as evidence of the community's confidence in his integrity. The old bank's officers are serving in a similar ca pacity. Mr. Baruch owns a large hunting preserve and maintains a winter home near Georgetown, and there he has been host to many notables, including the late President Cleveland who used to shoot ducks on the vast piesurve. Storm Takes Human Toll New Orleans, beb. 18.?Thirty-two persons were known dead, ninety injured, several fatally, and an unestimated amount of property damage today lay in the wake of a tornado i which struck at three widely separated sections of Louisiana and M ssissippi late yesterday. Many of the dead were negroes residing in plantation shacks. Eleven persons were killed and 25 injured, several fatally at Pleasant Hill, La. Eight were killed and four hurt a.t Rose Hill, Miss. > Thirteen were killed and six iujured, several fatally, at Newellton, La , on the Mississippi river. A cold wave moved upon the storm stricken sections today as rescue workers searched the ruins of farm homes for other fatalities. Another Sumter Bank Closed Sumter, Feb. 17.?The Sumter Trust company failed to open its doors today. A notice posted on the door stated that due to an unusual run and heavy withdrawals from the bank the last two days the institution would not be able to withstand further withdrawals and the directors had turned over its affairs to the State Bank Examiner. The hank was capitalized at $100,000. On December 31, it had deposits of nearly $000,000 on hand. I. C. Strauss is president and R. L. Edmundsorr, treasurer. The Peoples Bank with capital of $100,000 and deposits of $320,000 was fclosed here Tuesday morning. Masons to Confer Degrees b The regular monthly meeting of Kershaw Lodge No. 29, A. F. M., will bo held on Tuesday evening, March 1. In addition to regular business the lodge will at this time confer the Fellowcraft degree upon a class of candidates. Visiting Masons are invited to be present at this communication.' KKRSHAW LODGE No. 29 A. F. M. Regular communication of /xN^^^^this lodge is held on Ihe nt first Tuesday in each month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. T. V. WALSH, J. JE. ROSS, Worshipful Master, Secretary. 1-14-27-tf v "* - . I. " . '%. ~ - -38! CHARLOTTE THOMPSON W1NH ? i ~ !(<i nt u inh of I'rofwwor ffuck'it School Make Brilliant Showing Tuesday The girls of Charlotte Thompson high school, playing brilliant basket-1 ball, Tuesday afternoon became girl champions of the Klfth district of the South Carolina high school league when Camden was defeated 18 to 16. The g ume was played on the Columbia college eouit at Columbia. The girls of Charlotte Thompson took the lead a few secorxls after the game started and held it all the way, though in the final moments a rally by Camden seriously threatened the leaders. The Buntarns were in good form. The work of the two forwards, Workman and Sowell, was as pretty as hud been shown in Columbiu this season by high school players. The couple worked beuutifully together, passed accurately, and shot well. Workman, diminutive in size but a brilliant, basketball player, led the afternoon's scoring with 11 joints. Howell rang seven. Kvery girl on the winning team played good ball. Charlotte Thomn-1 son is one of the smallest high schools in the state to put out an athletic , team, both boys and girls basketball teams being sponsored by the school which has a total enrollment of- 38, 24 being girls and 14 boys. For the Bulldogs the work of G. M oseley, Myers and Nicholson was best. Meyers was sent in the game in the second half as a substitute and her presence seemed to inspire the Camden sextet. The Bantams were leading 18 to 8 at the end of the third period. In short order in the first minutes of the last period Meyers rang jt^o baskets and then G. Moseley got two and with a minute to play the gap had closed to two points. With close guarding the Charlotte Thompson girls \ept their lead and the contest ended 18 to 16. Charlotte Thompson will meet the winners of the Seventh district either Friday or Saturday. The line-up: C.T.H.S.(IH) Camden (16) Workman (ll)..f.... (8) Mosley, G. Sowell (7) . . ..f (8) Zemp Lby c Lang Wheeler c Nettles Pcarce g E. Bruce Bruce, S g Nicholson Score by periods: Charlotte Thompson 5 5 8 0?18 Camden 2 4 2 8?16 Substitutions: Charlotte Thompson, none; Camden, L. Moseley for Lang, Meyers for Zemp, Shaw for E. Bruce. Referee: L. Godbold (Winthrop). Time of periods, eight-minuto quarters. I)r. Condole To Address Class Dr. R. T. Goodale has accepted an I invitation to address the Men's Bible Class Sunday morning at 10:30 at Watcrec Baptist church upon the subject, "Stewardship." This is a livewire class and their regular teacher and the officers of the class are doing all within their power to make it one of the greatest in the state. Dr. Goodale is an attractive speaker and the class is looking forward to a good time. T. L. Willingham, Teacher. I When a child dies in some parts of Greenland, the natives bury a live: dog with it to guide the child in the other world, as it is claimed dogs can find their way anywhere. TO Ol'KN GRAVE lIoidH Secret of Man or Goat Bones in Seneca Cemetery Anderson, Feb. 22.?The now famous Sligh grave in the Moun-! tain View cemetery in Seneca, Oconee ; county, will soon give up its secrets. | With the ussurance this morning of an order in court here providing that the proper authorities of Georgia and South Carolina open the grave, whi?h was thought to have been the final resting place of Ilarry K. Sligh, it was indicated that the doubt as to the contents of the grave would soon be swept aside and that it would be definitely known very soon whether the remains are those of an animal or a human being. The order was issued by Judge C. C. Featherstone in general sessions court here in response to a petition submitted to the court by Solicitor General R. S. Foy of the Tifton circuit of Georgia, who set forth in the petition that Sligh was arrested on charges of arson and intent to defraud and that it was important that the state of Georgia in the prosecution of the case against Sligh be accurately informed of the contents of the Oconee county grave. Not Near So Dangerous "Girls were harder to kiss in your day, \yeren't they, grandpa?" asked the bright young college freshman. "Mebbe,' was the response. "But it wasn't so blame dangerous in them days?the old parlor sofa wouldn't smash into a treer. just about that time." Lightning Strikes Three Spartanburg, Feb. 23.?During ;i thunder storm here this morning lightning.struck the residence of J. (j, Lowe, at Beaumont badly injuring Lowe and his wife and their five-year- .7 old son, Cecil. All three were render- > ed unconscious by the force of the '% bolt. Mrs. Lowe suffered front a 1$ number of burns. The youth was un- i conscious for almost an hour when 'efforts to resuscitate him resulted successfully. Lowe was only slightly hurt. The badly injured are expected " to recover. The bolt struck an elec- 4j trie light pole in the street, entered the house, passed through the build- 7 ing and emerged through the- back ^ wall. Two windows were wrecked und "the rear wall of the building torn out?! What was believed to be the oldest horse in the world died in ltushville, I Illinois, recently at the age of forty years. '! KIRKWOOD GIFT SHOP OPEN .Everyone is cordially invited to j visit the Kirkwood Gift Shop and set ^ the wonderful assortment of new and j attractive gifts and novelties in do- j mestic and imported leather, silver j and jewelry. We have added to our 1 stock an unusual selection of children's ndVelties which include items j for the baby from Krueger; the i famous Horsman Hebee-Shebee Dolls; j Borgfeldt's distinct imports and Ma*- I garet Steiff importations. We also 1 have a very large assortment of new .1 and practical place-cards. You will always find at The Kirkwood Gift >1 Shop your favorite candies, papers, -7 periodicals, new bobks and a complete ^3 line of smoker's accessories.?Adv. { 1 . *" * ;; ? - ' .?' -! ON HAND vV WE HA VE READY FOR DELIVERY MEAL, ACID AND KAINIT 8-4-4 8-3-3 7-5-5 [Special for Truck] I Other mixtures ordered as needed CAMDEN OIL MILL * * Irt *28 When in need of FIRST AID SUPPLIES ] Bandages, Cotton, Gauze, Plasters, Applicators, ' Germicides, (Mercurochfome is a good one) Lotions, Liniments, Salves or what not j and want immediate service call W. Robin Zemp's Drug Store 41 * "' I Prescriptions Called for and Delivered j Telephone 30 Kodak Developing | [If Cotton was 30c. to 40c. 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