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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE li. D. Nile* . . Kditor and PublUhar Published every Friday at No. llOtt Broad Street and entered at the Caniden, South Carolina, po*tofflc? M aecond class mail matter. .Price per annum $2.00. Camden. H. C., Friday, May 13, 1927. I ^ I 1 1927 MAY _ 1927 , M(j? LTasJJ^Li-ft*4-M.1.J* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 H 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Ul UJ III U1 Ul W Ui ' i The governor's blue law program was satisfactorily settled in about five Sabbath* and there'* yet ho|>e for the welfare board if they can just stand the pressure for a little while longer. Ruth Brown Snyder has expressed belief that they~#TlT never eleOtrocubft *a "womufl'" Doubtful we must admit, but treating her under the category of a common female of the specie, there's no telling what sort of reprimand may he administered. Time and a little temperance will provide a cure for many ailments. In the meanwhile just think how much less desirable it would be if the Wateree toll gates were guiltleSu of< their prevailing air of courtesy; utmost consideration and genuine friendliness. The fact that .South Carolina imposes a tax of forty percent on the smoker of Bull Durham while the two-bits cigar gets by '-with- a four percenf^toll is just one more point in argument that the present system of taxation is this - stat?'.V greatest crusher-out of progress. Col. Robert Bingham, pioneer educator and headmaster of Bingham Military school, died at his home ,noar Asheville Sunday. He was 89 year# of age and had been ill several weeks. He was a native of Hillsboro, N- C-. and was the third generation ,of the Binghnnis to head the famous school. The school was founded by his grandfather at Mebane, N. C., in 1793. Owing to a cut of $7,000 in appropriations by the (ieneral Assembly, there will he no short course at Winthrop this summer for farm girls and women. It has heretofore been held in June. This course has been fpr the benefit of the club girls in the vaiious* counties of the state. The State Farm Woman's Council will meet, however, on June 2 and 3 at Winth i op College. * South Carolina's champion git! poultry raiser. Miss Mary Sue Holcolm, a pretty sixteen-year-old girl, will represent the Palmetto state and he given a week's stay in Washington in June as the guest of the United States department of agriculture Miss Holeolm is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Y. K. Holeolm of the West Sp: rigs community of Union coifnty and in a student of the eleventh grade. Misses Bunkley and Hail?, under whose direction "Rings in the Saw> dust," found l'avor before one of Camden's most enthusiastic audiences, have contributed more than mere delight ful entertainment. They hn\e exploded the theory that it takes an alien to put over such an undertaking tfnd kept the entire monetary reward where it belong*?-without having to give a lion's share to the itenerant coach as has largely-' been the custom heretofore. Theo T. Martin, serving a year's sentence for violating the state bnnking laws and Henry Thorn a son, serving n sentence of one to two yp^rs from Greenville for forging a . check on his sister, were beneficiaries of pat dons from Governor Richards Friday. Martin plead guilty and was given a sentence at Marion of not less than four years nor more than eight. Govet nor Mclasnl commuted this sentence l<> one year in January, 1927, and now Martin goes free. Hudson Maxim, author, inventor and explosives expert, who ylied Saturday night at his home at. Krtke Hopatcong, N. J., wh- huriod Monday at Newark. N. J. His Ixjdy was cremated according to his wish. There were no pallbearers and no religious services. Three of his friends delivered eulogies: Garrett P. Serviss, astronomer and scientist; Francis I. DuPont, powder manufacturer, and l>r. M Reese Hutchinson, inventor. The family requested that no flqral offerings he sent. It was Maxim's hram that conceived of inventions to make war more terrible, and it was h s brain thnt invented the silencer that made crime e?*si*f|jF Th? latter weapon was barred *a*< in many * ates. He bad ~no religious beliefs i..i.i died as he- had lived. Two maaked bandit* held up and robbed a bank at Cowarda a few daya ago of $6,1)00, and at that they are polished gentlemen aa compared with aome higher-up citizena who are today walking free after paying a amall *tUu' for their part on an "inaide" Job. Press dispatches a few daya ago ftvm Long laland, N. Y., aUte that Mra. Ruth .Snyder, recently convicted jointly with Judd Gray for killing her husband, had received 104 propottala of marriage in caae she was acquitted of the crime. Sp it seema I that aome men like to take a chance and that all foola are not dead yet. I W. S. Lee, Jr., a farmer of Orangeburg eounty, waa given a aentence of three month? .on the chain gang for violating ttfce tfftc fl?h laws. Lee and E. L. llrunton were indicted for netting nine net* In North Edit to river April 12, during the closed season. Brunson drew the same aentence but the aentence waa suspended during good behavior. The Chronicle ia thia week carrying' a amall advertisement aignod by A. W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury'' VL is a unique advertisement?unique in the fact that it ia for the United States government, and alao unique iu the fact that almost simultaneously thia little advertisement is being carried by every daily, semi-weekly and weekly newspaper using the English language in the United States. [ Macarda will also be placed in every j poatoffice and bank and trust company in the nation. Another illuatration of the fact that printers' ink pays when Uncle Sam calls it into service. To an outsider it looks as if conditions might be rather rotten down in Dorchester county. Apropos these conditions The Greenwood Indexlioip-nal has this to say: "In view of the fact that Governor Richard? seems to want to pose as a regular bear cat on law enforcement, despite such incidents of a more or less trivial nature such as the iynchings at Aiken and a few others not important enough to mention, why not take a little more time off and look into the situution in Dorchester county? If things there are as alleged by The Dorchester Eagle they might be good game for a little regulating by the state constabulary and some others. How did Sheriff Limehouse of Dorchester county get his nickname Bossy and why, and who was he "bossing" for in the last state election anyway ?Chester Reporter. Several letters have been received by Secretary Sanders of the chamber >f commerce, and also Mr. C. P. DuBose. mayor, from Mr. J. A. Roundree. director general of the United States Good Roads Association, and also from A. R. l.awton, president of the Savannah Board of Trade urging that ( amden send delegates to the fifteenth annual convention of th-> U. S. Good Roads association which meets in Savannah, June ?> to June 11. 1 his convention promises to be one >f the most interesting and important good roads conventions ever held in he South, and will be attended by the governors of Alabama Georgia, Kansas, West Virginia, Kentucky, Monana. and Senator Taskie L. Oddie of Reno, Nevada, as well as Mr. George B. Dickerson of California and;J. A. Crook of C oiorado. The chamber of commerce has advised Mr. Roundtree hat Camden will be represented and it is to be hoped that several of our eading citizens will attend this very important meeting. In a High-Speed Car 1 herb is yet no word as to when they are going to try W. W. Bradley, former state hunk examiner, for his alleged complicity in the beachof the American Bank and Trust compuny. It will be recalled that \\ hen Pope Matthew*, formerly cashier of the wreck, pleaded guilty a few days ago and was lot off by Judge John S. Wilson with a paltry tine of $.'>,000, which was promptly paid (his lawyers, including Senator Cole Blease, Clint Graydon, Claude N, Sapp, et ah, getting $10,000, maybe rnpre), the case against Mr. Bradley was continued. Solicitor Spignor getting by with a story to the effect that he would have to draw up a new indictment. etc. The Chester Reporter n a recent editorial said it thought it was mighty kind to Mr. Bradley since it would give him more time tc raise the fine that will be placed or hin*. The Marion Star said editorially it saw no use in trying him at all The Columbia papers, where the gen tlemen live, have had nothing to say P'o or con. in their editorial columns Neither havo_ any of the other socalled leading "daily newspapers." Ir the meantime, hundreds of women an?j little children who had money in th< American Bank & Trust company, ar< reported to be having a hard tirm of it. Mr. Matthews, it is reported despite the payment of $6,000. stii | rides around Columbia town in i I ^pwdy automobile; and is still hold ir . hl*h esteem in the so-called "highes social circles" in the capital city o South Carolina. GENERALHEWS NOTES u Richard Gary, negro, Is in Jail U Sumter, charged with the fatal a hoot ing of Louie Dicks, another negro. Trouble over a woman wae the cauae of the killing, < The body of Mabel Stuckey, 28, who committal at*icicle J* Richmoud, Va., Sunday by taking embolic acid, waa carried Ut' Sumter, H?r former home for burial, L>r. and Mrs. George Will^m Dick, oi Sumter, have issued invitations-$A the marriage of their daughter, Miaa Caroline Virginia Dick, to ? Jaraea Kion McKissick,: Wednesday, May 18, at 8:80 In the evening at the Firat Presbyterian church of Sumter. Mrs. A. T. Thompson, middle-aged lady of Washington, D. C., bad bar foot torn off when her car skidded and rolled over for thirty feet n^jur Spartanburg, 8. C., Monday afternoon She and two companions were aoroute from Tampa to Washington. * Mys. Hat tie Rteadings, 64-year qfliV' vendor of alcohol^ liquor, went fk^ the circuit court roc hi (if ^partan$B( county a few days ago to aesVe days of hjh dwindling JJfe Iflg a law of the aUttdt1' The woman was sentenced by Judge W. H. Townsend. ? ? Funeral services for Miss Florence MarJlee, who died In Florence orn Friday, was held in Florence Saturday while stores closed for the ftinbtal hour. Thft burial was in the cemetery at Mars Bluff besides the grave .of her father, the late General William Wallace Harllee. The city of Florence was named for Miss Harllee."^ G. Brewster Huggin died in a hospital at Lake City on Saturday as the result of kh automobile collision. His death was caused by the loss of blood from the cut of an artery. He is survived by a widow and an infant a few months old. A coroner's inquest gave* it as their opinion that Huggins came to his death by his own chheless driving. ^ . THINGS WORTH KNOWING Miscellaneous Items of Interest Gathered From Many Sources . A stranger in a western city noticed an odd crank on the meter of the taxicab in which he was riding. Becoming curious he turned this crank a wee bit to see what would happen. The meter immediately added fifty cents to his fare. Statistics show that each time the London House of Commons takes a vote on a measure it costs the tax* payer $'30, and every question asked during the daily question time costs $5.25. By asking 469 questions, one' member cost the country $2,867.50 for six months, besides his salary. The discovery that cod and haddock are found in the greatest numbers in waters where the temperature is be.ween 40 and 50 degrees Fahrenheit has led to the extensive use of thermometers by fishing fleets. The old Neff house in Montgomery county, Illinois, in Which Abraham . -Lincoln lived while debating in that district against Stephen A. Douglas, will be razed to make room for^ a gasoline filling 'station. ' i Alaska, bought by the ifntled States from Russia in 1867, has in he last sixty years yielded 183 times he amount paid for the territory. Salmon, gold, copper, fuvs, halibut, hetring and cod art the principal products in the order of their importance. Cotton and Corn Yields Increased By Top Dressing * ** ? Nature is a tolerant mistress She funds a l?rt of."hl?use- and quick wo 1 espond to kind treatment... Thg farm r who year after year takes nourishment from the soil without doing anything to replace U can farm after k fashion Nature will do her heat to ring 'he crop to a healthy maturity, ?tit every effort leave* her a Utile more exhausted Plant food at]ministered at the pn.p if time and iti proper amounts te ,u mportaut step towards profit.una farming In former years fertilizer was tpulied to cotton almost exclusively tofore or at planting time. Test* .-.-nIttcted by a number of Experiment Stations however, show that two if , our major crops, cotton and com. i thrive belter If a major portion of one , element?nitrogen -is reserved foi a tide or top dressing According to the Auburn Method." developed by the Experiment Station at Auburn. Alabetna. all kcid phoaphate and potash used on codftn -hould' he applied at planting time, btrt inly one-fourth of the nitrate used i -hould go Milder the crop. ' The fe1 malnlng three-foot ths should he ap? plied at chopp.ug time. The expert; enee of many farmers indicates that ^ the yield of seed cotton can be increased 4DO or inn pounds per acre by the use of 2ou poinds of nitrate of soda p.jr acre In the above way ,\t l chopping time cotton plants have dol veloped a root system able to take up I readily available nitrogen wlthtn a f few days Delay tn application of tn? side dressing nutans diminished yield. w . f ' ill President Coolidge buy*: "Familiarity with the Scriptures brings culture." I Head the Psalms, Isaiah, Job, the j>?rmon on the Mount, ten or twenty J|?nos and you will write better poetry, prose or advertising copy. Two are indicted for fraud through Ahe mails, In a "how %o get thin" swindle. Fraud is not the worst of such enterprises. Many women, who think they are too fat, ruin their vitality seeking to be thin. The way to "reduce" is by regular sleep, deep breathing, reasonable exercise, moderate wise eating. It i* not necessary to be fat or to faint. New York to Chicago air service is let .td the able Coffin-Henderson concern at $1.24 a pound. A lower bid at $1.23 was rejected because pi jots flying the machines owned stock in the company. That should be a reason for giving the contract, instead of refusing it. Pilots!; owning stock in machines wouldj take care of them and the mail. J If any law forbids pilots owning slock jn a flying company, that law should be changed. A famous boar named Colonel Hioadcaster and fourteen other pedigreed American swine were sent to Greece last week. The mountains that look on Marathon will soon see finer pigs rooting along the beach than they ever saw before. Poetry is above pigs, but pigs that America sent to Greece will do Greece more good than the poetry that Byron wrote. Greece has won for herself the [freedom that Byron wished her. She couldn t win without foreign help such a pedigreed pig as Broadcaster. The Bolshevik i are certainly uncouth. They convict three taigh Russian officials of taking bribes in connection with a big German lumber tiust; and what do you suppose happened? The three officials did not employ good lawyers, express righteous indignation and go to Palm Beach or the Riviera. They stayed at home, were sentenced to death, all their property confiscated, and they will really be executed. Russia would be a poor place to steal a naval oil reserve. Miss Pankhurst has lost interest in votes for women, "because voting women make the same mistakes that men make. 1 hey do, of course, being human, and sometimes influenced by men. Nobody expected that votes for women would bring on the millennium over night. But women voting have made men in office ask themsekes, What do the women want? What do the children need?" That's the important thing about votes for women. In old whiskey days, as soon as women got the vote, district leaders in the great city sent out the order, "Don't get the boys drunk around election time, or their wives and daughters will vote against you." Civilization s problem is cheap dis-1 tribution of life's necessities, giving citizens full value for their dollars. This doesn t mean business men shouldn't make the profit to which they are entitled. It means modern business tends more and more to "low profit, big volume." The quart of milk that a farmer sells for four cents, the city mother buys for fifteen cents. If General Motors were run on that basis, a Chevrolet would cost $4,000. Italy is to bo made pure, and beards among other things are to be abolished. Mussolini calls . them masks for solemn humbugs and nests for disease germs. Alexander the Great shaved his face and made his soldiers do it, that .the enemy, fighting with the short sword, might not seize the beard as a handle, to help in cutting off the head. Mussolini objects to beards as nests for germs, another and worse enemy. Mussolini says he refuses to he assassinated, will live to be i?inot>. and then retire, leaving instructions for Italy's guidance. Itaban* believe in him ar.d no wonder. He believes in himself. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that A. L. McLepd, administrator of the estate of Mrs.. Sallie J. Nunnery, deceased* has this day filed with the Probate Court of Kershaw County his final accounting as said administrator, and has al&o filed with the said Court a petition for discharge as said administrator, and that Tuesday, June 14th, 1927, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, has been appointed for the hearing of said petition. - w. l. Mcdowell,.;. Judge of Probate. Camden, S. C., May 7, 1927. . CITATION State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. By W. 'L. McDowell, Esquire, Pro&ate Judge. Whereas, Minnie Louise McLain made suit to me to grant her Letters of Administration de bonis non of the estate of and effects of George W. McLain, Sr. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said George ^W. McLain, Sr., deceased, that Chey be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Camden, South Carolina on Wednesday, May 25th, next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 11th day I of May Anno Domini 1927. w. l. Mcdowell, I Judge of Probate for Kershaw Cottnty Published on the 13th and 20th days of May, 1927, in The Camden Chronicle, and posted at the Court House door for the time prescribed by law. Wants--For Sale TAKEN UP?I have taken up at my' place setter dog. Owner can get him by paying for advertisement and keeping expenses. Shelby Truesdale, Westville, S. C. 7-sb LOST?One strand of yellow Chinese beads. Finder please return to The Chronicle office and receive reward. 7-pd WE CLEAN?Anything from neckties to art squares. ? Camden Dry Cleanery, Phone 17 or 556. FOR RENT OR^XLR^OnThousTon Laurens Street. Also two n houses for rent on Broad Street. Afcply I L. A. Wittkowsky, Camden, S. C. FOR RENT?New brick bungalpw in Lakeview section. Apply J. B. Mickle, Camden, S. C. 5-0-7-pd FOR SALS?Genuine Beans, pure, sound and KenZI Countv raised. Price |3.&0 uM bushel. McG'abkiU ft LollU, r?M den, ff. C. FOR 8ALB?We are ready to orders for Porto Rico potato pU*JB in ftjw^<mantity, The pUntTtafl government inspected. MoCuiSB ft LollU, Camden, S. C. j 7 FOR 9BOK REPAIRING?atjfl Red Boot Shop next door .to Ed press office. A. M. JONES, PropS FOR RENT?Nicely furnished eiftfl room house on Chesnut straH known as the Burner home, is fS rent and possession can be givl immediately. For further inforal j^.tiou^ address Drawer 267, CanjB' WANTED?No. 1 pine logs. Highetfl cash prices paid; year round AB mand. Sumter Planing Billi ftjfl Lumber Co., Attention E. 8. Booth fl Sumter, S. C. ' MfSfl , CAByia^TBIlWG?For any titf# I carpenter won see. jphn Vfren, I at 812 Church. St?**t,wpWl 268. 1 will be glad to urn tA'.fl public. All work will be io*' S promptly and guaranteed ?i U ,1 workmanship. 1 specialize inVsAi 1 building. First class finishing, oA'fl inet making, mantles and scresiftiffiB L? I solicit your patronage and cm I furnish best of references. 48-UB FINAL D18GBA8GJB **29 - Notice in herelar^ven that otjfl month from thp^date, on t&ondsuH June 6th, 1921^1" wfil make to Probate Court of Kershaw County UjH final return as administrator oj tfcjH estate of Mrs. Margaret N. Bauskett* deceased, and on the same date 1 ifl apply to the said Court for a finilB discharge as said Administrator. H W. D. TRANTHAM. Camden, S. C., May 5th, 1927v NOTICE OF SALE "9 Notice is hereby given that Monday, May 16th, I will offer jH sale the following property listed ifl low, game to be sold to satisfy*^| mortgage and rent. Sale will o?B at corner of 'Broadband RutlwM streets, and terms of sale wilLfl One McCray refrigerator One wooden meat block One meat hatchet One Dayton computing meat *P? One paper cutter One three-tier meat rack '* . _ Four meat knives B One Hobart electric sausage A" One Dayton cash register I L. J. WHITAKI** Camden, S. C., May 5, 1927. v." THIS WEEK I .1 ' ' . " . ^ Mr. Brisbane's editorials are published as expressions of opinions of the world's highest-salaried editor and The Chronicle does not necessarily endorse all of his views and conclusions. ! in . " i?MB?^?? B ' H WHY PAY MORE ^B -r->*. I for USED FORDS elsewhere when I I you can buy them from us for less. 8 I Our down payment is very small, II I our interest charge is very reason. is I able. Eight per cent interest on 11 1 unpaid balance. a II /_" ' "1 _ / i redfearn motor compan? 1 " ''' ?? ? Ill I I I WEEK-END EXCURSION TICKETS NOW ON SALE Fridays and Saturdays To MOUNTAIN AND SEASHORE RESORTS Good returning Tuesdays following. Economical Recreation for week-ends. Enquire of Ticket Agents SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM - I . * .A ' f . . - ?i-'? ? Free Shawl Beginning Saturday, May hW we will give a shave free ^B [ every patron who tikei fl treatment of Boncilla Ms*l age. This is a Aation<^5[B known massage treatoie?B that makes your face w*| j like innocent youth. 'i Let us'serve yoMjyjfrM Eureka Barber Shop I 1. a Ea?lUh, Prop- j i? ~~ -- "i * ;/? * '* ' 1 Hot Weather Items I " t~{~~ BATHING CAPS?BELTS?BATHING SHOES I ELECTRIC PANS M ^ ;> 7? ? Delicious Refreshing Sod* Drinks and Ice Cream -.9 t " i W. 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