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IF YOUR MORTGAGE WORRIES YOU See me about a plan whereby you can repay the loan in in convenient monthly instalments over a 10-Year Period. No commission is charged for securing* the money. No renewal costs. Six per cent simple interest. Life insurance liquidates loan in event of your death. For full details see: W. R. HOUGH, Agent Camden, S. C. A. _ _ * Hastings1 Seeds \|?|ji\ Catalogi Wftl Free f \ Free flower Seeds for You You run huvo 5 packets of seeds of : f j L different and very beautiful fiowrrs | free. IlttHtinKw' 1927 Seed Catalog | tells you all about it. Hastings' Seeds are "The Standard j (.f the South " They give the host re- , suits in our Southern gardens and on | our farms. Hustings' new 1927 Catalog has 112 pages in all. full of pieLures from photographs, handsome corers In full colors, truthful, accurate descriptions and valuable culture directions. We want you to have this catalog in your home. It tells all about Hastings' garden, flower and field seeds, plants end bulbs ?the finest In America Write for It today. A post-card request brings It to you by return mall H. O. HASTINGS CO., SEEDSMEN. ATLANTA. GA. The Doctor (Iot Away One day a well-known physician was hurrying to an urgent case when a lady of his rather vague acquaintance stopped him. "1 know your time is valuable, doctor," she said, "hut I won't keep you a moment. Just a little consultation, please." The man of medicine stopped. "Certainly, madam"?this with n grave how?"will you be so kind as to undress?" Weekly Telegraph (London.) Following their queen a swarm of bees alighted on the bumper of an automobile parked on a busy Ohio city street. Matrimonial ('aterhisni What is marriage? Mai i iii^f is an institution for the i I'lilul. Why do some people never marry? Because they <1o not believe in divorce. When ;i man thinks seriously of i marriage, what happens? He remain^ single. Should a man marry a girl for her money ? No. Hut he should not let her be an old maid just because she's rich. When a girl refers to a "sad courtship," what does she mean? She means that the man got away. Is an engagement us good as a marriage ? It's better. In selecting a husband, why does a girl prefer a fat man? Because a fat man finds it hard to stoop to anything low. When asking papa, how should a young man act? He should face papa manfully and never give him a chance at his buck. When the minister says, "I)o you take this woman for better or for worse?" what does he mean? The bridegroom's people construe it < no way. and the bride's family interpret it another. It is very sad. When a man says Jie can manage his wife, what does he mean? He means he can make her do anything she wants to. When a child is smart and good, to i whose family is it due? ! To its mother's. When a child is bad and stupid, to whose family is it due? We refuse to answer. Is it possible for a married man to 1 be a fool without knowing it? I Not if his wife is alive.? United > Presbyterian. BUfCK sets a value for the dollar that always is the Standard of Comparison LITTLE MOTOR COMPANY V T. LEE LITTLE, MANAGER, CAMDEN, S. C. \| ^- .. . rj.il-a* ? J Thoittau Is Iftld in $1,000 liond Columbia, March 2.?H. Thomas, former secretary of the state highway department, wan held in $1,000 bond Friday by a local magistrate to aiihwer to charges of embezzlement in connection with an alleged 5$IV,000 shortage, of Savannah Itiver Bridge Commission funds, it was learned to day. Thomas was brought back to Soutn Carolina from another state recently on orders of Governor Richards, who had made a cumpaign to have charges preferred against the former highway secretary. The alleged shortage was reported more than a year ago but it had been made good before being discovered and no action was taken against Thomas until Governor Richards moved to carry out his pledge. Case of "Unwritten Law" Sylvania, Ga., March 4.?Robert Lovett, well known merchant and self-confessed slayer of Paul Patrick, young farmer, who wasv killed iri the Lovett home, remained m jail today. No charges had been preferred against him. Lovett is said to have returned home last night and finding Patrick in his wife's room shot him twice. He later surrendered to the sheriff. ' Officials said today it was doubtful ! that I.ovett would be prosecuted. Midway Holds Play. J The Midway School Improvement! Association met March 4th. The pro- i gram was given by the fourth and ' fifth grades under the direction of; Miss Dinkins. The following program was rendered: Song, Carry me Back to Ole Vir-j ginny, fourth and fifth grades; The! Story of the Month of March, Vivian , Stokes; Duet, I Don't want to Play in 1 Your Yard, Reath Bowman and Susie Bowman; Play, The Wise Jackal, the fourth grade; Song, Ruben and Rachel, Kula Parker, Neely Elliott, Raceine Davis and Lewis Lee Anderson; Recitation, March, Willie Hunnicutt; Song, The Birds Return, fourth and fifth grades. At the conclusion of the program business was taken up. The ladies decided to have a Fiddlers Convention, March 18th, at the school building for the benefit of auditorium seats. After the business the meeting adjourned to meet the first Wednesday in April. TAX NOTICE. Office of Treasurer Kershaw County, I Camden, S. C., Sept. 12, 192fi. ; Notice is hereby given that the j books will be opened for the collection 1 State county and school taxes from ; October 15th, 1926, to March 15th, j 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 Kershaw county is as follows: Mills. State Taxes 514 6-0-1 School 4 School Taxes 7 County Taxes 814 Hospital % Constitutional School Tax 3 1 Deficiency School Tax % Total 2914 j DeKalb Township Road Bonds, for DeKalb Township only 214 j Dog tax $1.25. All dog owners are required to make a return of their dogs to the County Treasurer, who is required to furnish a lincense tag.All dogs caught without th& license tag the owners will bo subject to a fine of Twenty ($2U.Ut>) Dollars. The following School Districts have special levies: School Distri t No. 1 1814 School Disti l-t No. 2 16Vis School District No. .'! 19 School Distri: t No. 1 . . . .' 1814 J School District No. f> 1 . ! School District No. 6 ., 25 ! School District N >. 7 10 School DDt.r.ct N... S 1 School District No. 9 1 School District No. 10 1 School District No. 11 . 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. 33 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. 47 1 The Poll Tax is $1.00. All able bodied male persons from the age of twenty-one (21) to fifty (50) years, both inclusive, except residents in incorporated (owns, 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 persons permanently disabled In the military service of the State and persons who served in the War Between the .States ,and all quarantine service of this State and all residents who may he attending school or college at the time when said road tax shall become due. Person* elaiming disabilities must present certificate from two reputable physicians of this county. All information with reference to taxes will be furnished upon application - O. J. AMYRL, Ceuaty Treasurer. * ** 3^.*??T Bank Men Out on Bond Louis McConnell and James Philen, of Georgetown, who were brought here Tuesday on warrants sworn out by United States District Attorney J. D. Ernest Meyer in connection with the alleged shortage in the accounts of the former Bank of Georgetown, were released yesterday under bond. The two men had been placed in the Charleston county jail Tuesday after waiving a preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner Arthur M. Huger, being unable at that time to make atisfactory bonds, which were set at $22,000 for McConnell and $5,000 for Philen. The men were brought here under i a charge of violating the national | banking laws, Bank of Georgetown being a member of the Federal Reserve system. The bank was closed on January 21, following the discovery of the alleged shortage, which is said to he approximately $70,000. The trial of the two defendartts, with Miss Willie McConnell, who is also named in the charge but whose release was effected Tuesday, will come up on March 21, at the term of court scheduled for Columbia.?Saturday's News and Courier. Not a Blue Law Bible "Please sir, I want a Bible," said a bright youth. The Bible was handed to the boy, ! who had been sent for it and was r about to carry it away. But he stopped a moment and inquired? "Is it this year's?" That bov had heard something ( about the revision of the New Testa- j ment, but couldn't tell exactly what | it was. Two archbishops and twenty-four ! bishops have seats in the British house of lords. ,, i . 1. . 100 Per Cent Dividend Atlanta, March 3.?'The Cota-? company cut the richest melon fl hirty years' history when (he fl ;ors declared a 100 per cent?; lividend giving the company < capital stock of 1,000,000 rhere is no preferred stock outfl ng, it having been retired ofl urrent earnings from time t^fttfl GOITRE REDUCM two Inches. Choking and Snfl ing Relieved. A Liniment Difl Mrs. Geo. Baldwin, Colle&fl Columbia, S. C., says she wiljflv ell or write her full expehifl iny one about Sorbol-Qud||H colorless liniment. Get ;nJ^H mation from Sorbol Cooip*^! hanicsbyrg, Ohio, all-dutf. Jf'llW locally at W. Robin [Ajny oil compa- I ny would be ? I proud to turn I out a product I of the uniform 1 excellence of I "STANDARD" I GASOLINE 1 # 9 I l If Cotton was 30c. t? 40c| >er pound you could clear expenses! flaking a half crop . BUT?at present prices anything less than a full crop . will show a big loss. You cannot make a full crop ||j. with poor fertilizers. So why take chances? Congaree Company Soil Builder Fertilizers are a sure thing. They are carefully made, all plant food, and have stood the test of years. Ask the hundreds of sat- jB isfied farmers who have usbd them. Every one of them will tell you that they are superior to other fertilizers and will make a crop whert most ?1B other fertilizers fail. See us before buying. / Springs & Shannon, Inc. I Representing 1 Congaree Fertilizer CompanyJ