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I THE C AMDEN CHRONICLE >. D.NUM . . Miter and FubttolMv f Published every Friday at No, 1109 Broad Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina, postolfiee aa second class mail matter. Price per annum $2.00. Camden, H. C., Friday, June 24, 1927. 1927 JUNK 192 7^ S?. [ HfLl Tik. f W?4. | ffiit. f 9ti. W W W 1 2 J 4 f', 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1H 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 W W WWW K /. - - 1>anit'l L, Si/iklfi huo announced his candidacy for the mayorship of Charleston, in opposition to Mayor Stoney, the announcement coming after John I*. Mayhank, cotton exporter, declined to run as a representative of the John 1*. Grace faction in Charleston's municipal politics. Ed and Howard Gardner, negro1 boys, were convicted in the .Spartanburg court of general sessions last week on u charge of killing George Williams, white youth, near Landrum in January last. The hoys were hunting together, and the evidence presented by the state wum largely of a circumstantial character. The negroea were sentenced to life imprisonment. Under terms of an order issued last *0 hy Judge William H, Townsend, James E. Peurifoy, receiver of the American Hank & Trust company of Columbia, is authorized to pay over to himself $26,000 in commission*. It is set forth in Judge Townsend's order that Judge Peurifoy has been signally successful in liquidation of the affairs of the hank. He has reBceived and collected approximately $1,400,000 and hy adjustments has offset u total <,f about $000,000. Two dividends of 26 per cent each, totaling r?0 per cent', or about $700,000, have been paid the depositors of the institution. ( reditors holding securit es have been paid in full, amounting to about $000,000. Judge Peurifoy took over the affairs of the hank less than a year ago and iri that time through handling of affairs has earned tor the bank more than $20,000, (A' r ??d above collections made in ' * I he [no ess of liquidation. n ~ ~ ~ u *' ^ W ishart, prominent Charlotte physician, and .J. Marion Smith, AUiontohile salesman, were ac<|uitted b\ a jury in .Mecklenburg superioi couit Friday afternoon on a charge of performing a viinuna! operation up'.r a Newton gin. ^ Ja -k Demp.sey, former heavy we:g it pugilistic < hampion, is on his way to New York to talk over u proposed fight with Tex Ru-kard. with Jack Sharkey as bis opponent. Dempsey claims to hu physically fit. i things worth knowing Beethoven's famous "Ninth Symphony." dedicated to King Frederick Wii'.am 111 of Prussia, brought the composer a letter of praise and a . diamond ring as evidence of the king's pUns\re. Later, on the point of starvation, Beethoven was forced to offir his cherished ring for sale. He was stunned to learn that it contained . only glass stones. Shepherd s pipes, long used for fy ra|,'Ng flocks togelhe r, are seldom heard in Queensland, Australia, Sheep now being fed fiont autos, the sound of the motor is the welcome signal for the hungry animals. The C anadian parliament believes it has the oldest and youngest members of . any legislative body. George Casimir Dessaules, senator, is ninetynine years of age, while Louis M. c ^ Augtr, member of the house of commons, is but twenty-throe. Mangrove trees Cornish in sea water, which is deadly to most flowering plants. A stick of long-leaf pine, 10 by 10, which formed a part of the old roo! of the \\ hite House, was found to be M sound as the day it was put in '7 127 years ago. A Bay State hunter ahot a nobli stag in the deer-shooting season only to find lpter that it was an abandoned piece of ornamental lawn statuary \atel, a Frenchman and a temperamental artist in cookery, killed himself in 1671, during a banquet giver Xv. by the Prince de Conde to the Kinq at Chantilly, because the lobsters for > > ,h<> tu?*bot sauce did not arrive in -/ time. Part of the land flooded in the St Bernard and Plaquemine parishes, Louisiana, was trapping land. In or der thnt the musk rats might be saved rafts fully provisioned were floated and conservation agents reported thai as many as lot) muskrats wore seer i on a single raft. The Swedish government is finaneing a < anadian hockey team's trip tc Europe to demonstrate the game, ir an effort to establish hockey in Sweden as a winter s|>ort. k .V f 15 J " - SCHOLAKHHIPh OFFERED \ ' , r Knight* of I'ythiaa Showing Inter**! In Education in the Htate Walterboro, Juno 14.?The Grand Lodge of the Knight* of Pythias of South Carolina, recently held in Hart*ville, S. C., determined upon a course of benevolence* nevjv before heard of in the order in this state, and an m re*ult of thi* action, eight scholarship* will be awarded to needyi boy* and girl* from Pythian farailie* within thi* *tate, the *cholar*hip* to pay $ 100.00 in cash to a**i*t with the education of the winners. Scholar*hip* will be awarded thi* Hummer in time for college entry this fall. The eight scholarship* will be divided between the eight Pythian districts in the state, and may be competed for by boyij or girl*. The winners may select any standard college within the state. For years, the Pythian Order has stood for various forms of benevolences but recently these have been sought to be reduced to concrete form. At Hartsville, the retiring grand chancellor, John G. Dinkins of Manning, recommended in his annual report that a part of the per capita tax charged by the grand lodge be set aside for practical -benevolences, especially for scholarships. The grand lodge passed his recommendations, and left it to the Pythian Service commission to disburse the funds. This commission, consisting of Past Grand Chancellor John G. Dinkins, of Manning, Grand Chancellor R. M. Jefferies, of Walterboro; Grand Vice Chancellor G. W. Speer of Anderson; Grand Prelate C. A. Edwards of Columbia; Grand Keeper of Records and Heals C. I). Brown of Abbeville; J. H. Heinsohn, Jr., of Charleston, and Dr. W. A. Tripp of Easley, assisted by many loyal Past Grand Chancellors, Supreme Representatives, and members of the Grand Lodge met "in Charleston on June 2 and decided among other benevolent purposes to offer eight Pythian scholarships. Past Grand Chancellor O. J. Bond, superintendent of the Citadel; Dr. J. C. Guilds, president of Columbia college and Prof. A. G. Rembert of Wofford College will prepare questions tor a competitive examination to be held by the county boards of education on the day of the Winthrop examinations. Applications to take the examinations will he in the hands >1 the keeper (if records and seal of each subordinate lodge and these should he secured at once and filled out. The examinations wilf he returned for grading and the results certified to a special committee of the grand lodge, who will investigate same, and make the final award, based on scholarship, merit and need. None will he considered fur the M-holarships except children from Pythian families, and if a brother or father be dead, and was a member of the order at the time of death, this will entitle a child or brother or sis'.e: of such member to consideration. No scholarship will be awarded to r.e whose parents are financially able to send him or her to college. The scholarship is worth $100.00 and will be payable in installments throughout the collegiate year. The winners may select the colleges to which they wish to go, the only restriction being that they be standard colleges within South CaroI nn. Only one scholarship will be awarden to each Pythian district unless some district fails to qualify in which event the scholarship will be awarded miscellaneously over the state. Applicants may be either boys or girls. In making final awards, not only the financial ability and scholarship of the applicant will be considered but also the general merit of the applicant. The examinations will be conducted by county boards of education in the various counties on the day of the Winthrop examinations. Papers will be returned to the Cen tral Committee for grading. Application blanks to take the ex aminations must be secured from the . keeper of records and seals and filled out prior to the date of the examina tions. Only one scholarship can be award ed to each Pythian district. A pyth inn district consists of several coun ties, the following being a list of the districts and the counties embraced i within the same: ' First District?bounties of Beaufort. Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton i Dorchester and Jasper. Second District?Counties qf Flor ence, Horry. Marion, Williamsburg . -Dillon, Marlboro, Chesterfield and Darlington. Third District?Counties of Aiken . Bamberg. Barnwell. Calhoun, Hampton, Orangeburg, i Fourth District?Counties of Edgefield. I^xington, Newberry. Richland and Saluda. Fifth District?Counties of Clarcn "iop., Kershaw, Lee, Sumter and Georgetown. Sixth District?-Counties of Cheto ?"?tr - j1 . I f The president will call a special session of Congress for October, to take up the Mississippi flood disaster and the prevention question. The sooner prevention is discussed and arranged the better. The American congress and people have a great faculty for forgetting?even a two billion calamity and 700,000 people being made homeless. 4 Twice in succession, American fliers have crossed the Atlantic at one "hop," Lindbergh flying to Paris, Chamberlin, with Levine, almost to j Berlin. | What will military and naval gentlemen say now about their theory that "The airplane is no real menace to this country?" Out of two attempts to fly across the ocean by American fliers, both succeed. VV'bat would be the probable pericentage of success if five thousand i foreign aviators, with full government backing and unlimited expenditure of money, should fly the' other way on a hostile errand ? Americans should take to heart the lesson that Lindbergh and Chamberlin have taught us and get ready to keep hostile fliers away from this j continent. I Five or ten thousand first-class planes, carrying mail parcels and passengers in peace, ready to take on machine guns in war, would be the best investment this rich nation could make. Golf, according to accident insurance companies, comes third among "dangerous sports." Victims of 451 golf accidents collected insurance last year. Twelve for "cuts with sharp instruments." The instruments were bottles, on the "19th hole." However. for one man injured at golf, one hundred die for lack of exercise, >o play golf. A German scientist says your heart is less important than the billions of cells that make up your body. The heart is important, of course, but the cells, eating, drinking, digesting, each living a separate life are more impoi tant than the heart even in blood circulation. I he human body is like a nation. Brain and heart are the government. The cells are the citizens, and most important. Dr. Mendelssohn of .Jlerlin University says "The secret of life is the ability of living cells to effect change of matter and absorb and eject fluids. I his change of fluids seems to be the principal cause of blood circulation." The secret of making life worth while is the ability of the living brain to accept and absorb new ideas. That is the principal cause of human progress. Students at Oxford worry because women are to teach there. "Isis," read by the Oxford young gentlemen, says that will eventually lead to a sex war, and is "a social revolution of the utmost significance." Women are natural teachers; teaching has been their business from the beginning; teaching children, teaching husbands. Hypatia, a better mathematician and philosopher than her father, Theon, was one of the greatest teach, ers that ever lived, until fanatical I earl>' Christian monks tore her from her chariot, as she was going to hei school, and murdered her, more thar 1500 years ago. The college boy or adult citizer lacking respect for women or confldence in their power, judgment and j goodness, pays a poor compliment tc his own mother. C? , Amazing results in plant produc tion by means of electroculture an being obtained by Henry Surbei? f j Swiss. The apparatus used puHa ele;, ments from the air and feeds their | to the plant roots, making fertiliaei i unnecessary. Maximum strength '\ cached at the end of the fifth year remains at that point indefinitely. i kee. Chester, Fairfield, Lancaster, am I j York. I Seventh District?Counties of Lau rens, Spartanburg, and Union. II F'ghth District?Counties of Abbe. \illo, Anderson. Greenwood, GreenM.Corm..k, Oconee and Pickens > ? .. ^ CAN MARRY DAD-IN-LAW Mother-in-Law Uivorcei Him and Uia Hon Divorce* Her New York, June 16.-r-Mrs. Isabelle Keyew Burch, until three months ago wife of the grandson of the late Protectant Episcopal Bishop Charles , Sumner Burch, now can carry out her expressed desire to marr/ her former father-in-law, Capt. Arnaldo Marson, with whom she eloped late last year. The last barrier which stood in itheir way was lowered today whan I certificates of final divorce were filed in the Westchester County clerk's office by the counsel for Mrs. Grace Burch of Marson, daughter of the late Bishop, and Lyndon W. Burch. Mrs. Marson and Burch, her son, were granted divorces from the elopers in February. The interlocutory decrees, each to run ninety days, were not signed by Supreme Court Justice Seegre, however, until March 15. Marson, an officer in the engineering corps of the Italian army during the wur, is thirty-eight. Mrs. Burch is twenty-six. Marson met the bishop's daughter, then Mrs. Walkup, in Salonika, where he was attached to an Italian military commission and she was working for the AmericanSerbian relief committee. They were married in 1920. Meanwhile, Lyndon W. Burch, after serving with the British Royal air force, married Miss Isabelle Keyes of Hastings-on-Hudson soon after the war. She and Marson eloped to California last September and were arrested on Mann act charges. Mother and son immediately brought suits J for divorce, naming the wife of one and the husband of the other as corespondents. When the interlocutory decrees were granted, both Marson and Mrs. Burch said they hoped to be married as soon as legal restrictions were removed. As a result of thirty years' effort by the simplified spelling board of America, twelve of the 30,000 respelled words contained in the handbook of this society have been entered in some English dictionaries. They are: tho, altho, thru, thruout, thoro, thorofare, thoroly, program, catalog, decalog, pedagog and prolog. Study of metals used b,y the ancient I Egyptians indicates that the lost art of hardening copper and bronze to steel-like strength was not known to them at all. CITATION State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. By W. L. McDowell, Esquire Judge of Probate. Whereas. Rachel C. Brown made suit to me to grant her Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of Janie Cook. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Janie Cook, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Camden South Carolina, on Tuesday, July 5th, 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 20th day of June, Anno Domini 1927. w. l. Mcdowell, Judge of Probate for Kershaw County Published on the 24th day of June and tho 1st day-of July, 1927, and posted at the Court House door for the time prescribed by law. I THIS WEEK * By Arthur Brisbane Mr. Brisbane's editorials are published as expressions of opinions of the world's hifhest-sakried editor and The Chronicle does not necessarily endorse all of his views and conclusions. PINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on Monday, July 25, 1927, I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Executrix of the eptatfc of Benjamin Doby, deceased, arid on the same date I will apply to the said Court for a final discharge Aram mv trust as said Executrix. LAURA D. SPAULDING. Camden, S. June 22, 1927. i - ;|| Wants-For Sale 1 ' ? t 1 WANTED?By young lady stenogra1 pher, position in Camden, beginning 'now or middle July. No experience, i Willing start with small salary. Address "N.S.," Care The Chronicle, I Camden, S. C. 13-sb > DRESSMAKING?Any kind of dressmaking neatly done. Call on Mrs, Sallie Reynolds, over BaruchNettles Store, Camden, S. C. 18*16-pd > f IF A CITY is worth living in it ia worth trading in. Money . speni away from home never returns tc 1 make your home town prosperous * Electrik Maid Bake Shop. FOR SALE?White leghorn hens at 1 $1.00 each or 25 cents per pound Address Willow Brook Dairy, Lu-j goff, S. C. 13-15-^pc j FOR SALE?Ninety day velvet beaiu | at $2.00 per bushel. Apply Mc* ' ; Caskill & Lollis, Camden, S. C. 13-14-st FOR SALE?Mixed peas at $1.6( bushel. Apply to McLeod-Rush Co., Camden, S. C. 12-13-st _ L. Li i- v* i' - - -- TO SELL FOR CASHl . T * V On and after the first day of Jul^r this store will be operated on a itri^Uy cash basis. Wo are doing this . in order to moot competition in price* .nf*t the ??,? time offer the Mine high cl*M groceries. The trend of the time U to cut out the credit business all over the South and we are merely confearning to modem busi. net# methods. We will most heartily appreciate your cash trade and promise the same good service and the very best merchandise. Very respectfully yours, ' " X; ' . <v": v. V,j; M. M. Evans & Son I CAMDEN, C. \ L .As. FOK HALE?One Enterprise sausage grinder and one Enterprise fruit press. Address P. O. Box 267, Camden, S. C. 18-pd FOR RENT?One five room house on West Hampton avenue. Apply to P'. P. Truesdale, Camden, S. C. 13-pd FOr'rENT^Office 'in^LoarT&'SaVings Bank Building, rates very reasonable; no heat, lights or janitor's bills to pay. Apply N. C. Arnett, Agent, Camden, S. C. t 13-tf CURT a!NS~STRETCHeT)^Any 'one wishing curtains stretched please apply at 904 Campbell* Street. Prices reasonable. 8-tf FOlTsVoEltEI^^the Red Boot Shop next door to Express office. A. M. JONES, Prop. 24tf FOR SALE?Fresh honey in comb. Twenty cents per pound. Just robbed. Mrs. Joseph Sheheen, Cam den, S. C. ' 10-14-pd C^iT^^riN7r-?oT Tiny'kindTl carpenter work see John S. Myers, at 812 Church Street, or phone 268. I will be glad to serve the public. All work will be done promptly and guaranteed as to workmanship. I specialize in house building. First class finishing, cabinet making, mantles and screening. I solicit your patronage and can furnish best of references. 48-tt F'OR RENT OR SALE?One house on Laurens Street. Also two houses for vent on Broad Street. Apply L. A. Wittkowsky, Camden, S. C. FOR SALE?Upright piano in gpfo, did condition; can be bought for tl* unpail balance on easy terms, Foe information address P. 0. Box 41 Columbia, S. C. 13-U-ii WANTED?No. 1 vine logs. Higj^ cash prices paid: year round db> mand. Sumter Planing Mills uj Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Booth Sumter, S. C. 1-tf-d r * *r jr - r- I 1- t- r-f I- *-,*-* , ? ? , , l>#(J PASTURAGE?Ample pasturage tor horses'and cattle. Plenty of gmi and water. Stock will be tag* care of and brought up every nirt W. D. Trantham, Phone 492-W, 10-Uj WANTED?20,000 sawed sap pig ties, 6x8x7 feet; price 35c loadd?;1 Also 50,000 or more mixed standard ties, good inspection JHv: cash when loaded. Burwell Tie ? S to vail, N. C. 0-14-jH Under New Management 1 The DuBose Park Filling Station a is now under the management pf 1 R. D Steen and Son who will con-' 1 tinue to operate it along the akioe lines of courteous and efficient I service An added feature, will 1 motor trucks for hire and these 1 will be ready at all titaes lor any 1 | kind of moving or hauling. 1 I DuBose Park Filling Station!. I TELEPHONE 355-W 1 I v I' I. id?ii ' i 4 CENOL Roach Powder | ! Kills flics, fleas, mosquitoes, roaches aml^pripny other insects. Rid your home of these bothersome pests by H using Cenol. Telephone 95 and give your- order now. i DeKalb Pharmacy m TKHHMI lHltl Jr 1-^? ' /*? ?-/mouth caboab** ??Ck t /? rtiN^v^ / MUUim ALABAMA I ? 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