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tying of Curiosity*? ~ ?> a'L, hZ, I HENRY rORD plan room private I Man Fall Gardens Now on College, Aug. 8.?Many es thrive best in cool weather uld be f planted . late enough it most of the growth before Such are cabbage,' carrots, etfi, spinach, turnips and letcan be planted until six >efore frost. s are the easiest of vege0 grow. Of all salads spinthe most popular, with kale r-up and turnip greens a avorite in the South. cushaw or winter squash ? peas, beets, and rutabaga and transplant collards, toC1TAT10N A South Carolina, unty of Kershaw. L. McDowell, Esquire, Probate Ige. eas, W. O. Croxton made suit to grant him Letters of Adation of the Estate of and ef" W. L. Croxton. are, therefore, to cite and <h all and singular the kindred ditors of the said W. L. Croxcased, that they be and appear me, in the Court of Probate, Id at Camdep, South Carolina, sday, August 16th, next after tion thereof at 11 o'clock in enoon, to show cause, if any ive, why the said Administraould not be granted. 1 under my hand, this 2nd day ust Anno Domini 1927. w. l. Mcdowell >f Probate for Kershaw County shed on the 5th and 12th days :ust, 1927, in the Camden le and posted at the Court door for the time prescribed mato and cabbage now. Good Wakefield cabbage plants set now will form heads before the ' cold weather. Siberian kale seed sown during September will produce an abundance of greens during winter and early * spring. i Big Boston lettuce sown now ' and slightly protected will produce 1 firm heads during fall and winter. < Mustard sown during September 1 will" furnish greens for fall, winterand early spring. i Long white Spanish radish and ; othe^ winter varieties seeded in late! September will remain good through' the winter. I Spinach seed sown in late Sep- ; tember or early October will pro- i duce greens through winter and un-1 til late spring. j Turnip seed sown Sept. 1 to 15 will produce both roots and tops for \ winter and spring use. Seven Top: produces the best salad. The following vegetables require, under normal condition the number of days indicated before they are ready for use: Snap beans. 42 to' 56 days; sugar corn, 56 to 70 days; i Cabbage, 110 to 140 days; tomatoes' 105 to 126 days; beets 40 to 63 days. v i The oldest Christian cnurch in the, world, built during the Third Cen-1 tury, stands within the shadow of I Mount Ararat' at Etchi^iadzin^ in I Soviet Armenia. Gregory the Illuminator, whom the Amenians. believe converted them to Christianity, is supposed to have been its founder, and it is for that reason known as St. Gregory's Cathedral. PAVED HIGHWAY Lancaster County Executes Agreement For Paving No. 26 Columbia, Aug. 5.?Forty miles of state highway No. 26 will be hardsurfaced in Lancaster county in the near future, thp county and the state lighway department yesterday ex?cuting a reimbursement agreement whereby the county agrees to advance..$1,000,000 for the paving of the road and the highway department agrees to reimburse the county for the expenditure over a period of years. The reimbursement money will come from state highway funds. The section to be paved begins at the Kershaw county line at Kershaw, thence by way of Heath Springs and Lancaster and on to the North Carolina line south of Pineville. The section is -approximately 40 miles in length. The survey of the road will soon be under way and contract for the work will be awarded in the fall, according to Ben M. Swayer, chief highway commissioner. The agreement was signed, on the part of Lancaster, county, by the board of commissioners?E. C. Bridges, K. M. Voder, J. F. Caskey, D. S. Wilson. B. Cunningham, W. H. Funderburk J. C. Cork and W. H. Draffin. When this road is constructed and also some .sections in Kershaw county, a paved highway will extend the entire distance from Sumter to Charlotte on Northward. Poetry is fine but it should not be taken seriously. j I Annual Mountain and Seashore Excursions I ?VIA? I SoiMMlM Railway System i 9 I Friday, August 19, 1927. j! Very Low Round Trip Fares I From and to the following principal points: I ' d ' u j ^ ^ ^ ^ i| " ^ ' ? 0 ^ ? u ci ^ i - r';*L * gAl * " u-i i ? |. * .? ? = a s -H z ! ? 5 t? 1 ! - | a-lslil.JiJ 2 S j| * -<* ? _ ? w ? .w * * * ^ - 3 < ? a a x H a g > a /t m- FROR" ^ m Camden * . $7.65 7.30 A75 7.55 6.30 * 6.00* 8.60 8.50 7.00 16.25 12.05 4 13.65 M Columbia . 6.20 6.76 c 6.40 6.15 4.^5 4.65 7.20 7.10 6.10 17.45 13.26 13.65 W Suiter 7.70 8.30 6.90 7.7,Q 6.50 6.15 8.75 8.65 7.65 17.85 13.65 14.35 j Proportionate excursion fares to other nlountain and seashore reports and proportionately low exrursion fares from all intermediate points. Excursion tickets sold for all trains Friday, August 19.' Good returning to reach original starting Point by midnight, Auguts 31, 1927. AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE VACATION and needed recreation. l owing an oppressive sum ner, to prepare fbr ttye approaching busy Fall Season.* Make Pullman reservations early. For further information apply to Ticket Agent or a W. EL MftiBE, Dir. I'im Ajpral. Columbia, C. . J THINGS WORTH KNOWING Mai y l.undvn fnitorW. arid husiness < ffiWb have posted an order forbidding giil employes to powder their noses during bu*tnw?* hour*. Prior, to tl S order the average London1 business girl powdered her nose four -1nre> an hour, taking two imitates to do it each time. ? Horse' is frequent!) used in tin Maine- ?.f plants and fruits to denote a latge, coarse nr strong variety. It is -upposed that 'horse-radish' acquired its name jii this way, being regarded as a coarse kind of radish. Undei an ad of the British Parliament passed in Idtiu, punishment f??i ' . avesdi wpping may still he imposed. A ha d headed bachelor tin the far- ' ulty ? ! the Ohio State University Duyg 1 u.tlOO hairpins every year. He 1 < jses i/i,-m to attach labels t? ears if con n the laboratory. A <! :i s house in a match box, re- ; ' juiin.g thirty-five years' effort on) he par of Charles \V. A If ridge, of batter-u, Kngland, has just been ; finished. 1 he four-room miniature, ompletely furnished in every detail, s presided over by a tiny doll. Hill Jenney, a sixty-two-year-old dock maker who for the last thirtywo years has been winding and feruling the 1,050, clocks of the Savory 1 Hotel. London, claimed many years ago tnat at any hour of the day or night ne could tell the time within half a minute. This uncanny abilitv baffles the British Medical Society,' me hi Ik* is of whieh have tried by n um -' erous tests to dislodge what they call his 'a, ute psychoastral poise.' Blue is the favorite color of Queeu Mary of England. The Queen carries her color preference even to the royal gardens, where plants with blue blossoms of all shades predominate. John Henry G. Pierson of New York ( ity, who was graduated this year from Yale University, broke all scholastic records of that institution by going through four years of work with an average grade of 96. In tropical countries giant fireflies are imprisoned in u perforated gourd, which serves the owner as a lantern. Lewis Wake man, A teacher in a school near Troy, Kansas*, offered a stick of gum to the pupils for each mou-e caught in the schoolhouse. The children responded with seventyflvt* mice. A retired railroad locomotive, with its wheels removed, heats a Norwich, Connecticut, |>assenger station. It performs efficiently, supplying heat tot the train shed, station and cars in the yard as required. As a means of reducing surplus stock, co-operative stores of Lukoyanovsk, Russia, have introduced :i 'safety-pin currency.' returning small! change in saftey pins, one for every kopeck. Made in Kngland in 1751. the bell I which w as to become on July 8,1776,1 our famous Liberty Bell, had to be; twice recast?after its arrival in I America before it could be hung in ' ihe new statehouse in Philadelphia. The United States College of Veterinary Surgeons at Washington, I). C., founded thirty-five years ago. has just graduated its last class. The parsing of the horse has made necessary the closing of the college. pefore the time of the trousers pocket, man carried his valuables in a little bag of cloth tied about his waist. Often, however, a thief would slip up behind, slit the string with a knife and make off with the treasure, A thoughtful Frenchman, 300 years ago, sewed the bag on the lining of his garments, thereby instituting the first trousers pocket. When Caspar Wista*; 182 years ago, gave land for the building of the Trinity Reformed Church at Tulpehocken, Pennsylvania, he stipulated in the deed that one red rose should be the annual rental. Each year the heirs of the donor are presented with a single red rose. Daniel Webster objected1 to taking over the Oregon territory because it was so far away that the terms of office of congressmen might expire before they could reach Washington, Dante Gabriel Rossetti had published none of his poems when his wife's death occurred in February, 1862. So great was his grief that he buried in her coffin the manuscripts of all his verse. They were rescued by Charles Agustus Howell in 1869. According to a recent experiment completed in Finland to estimate the energy consumed in dancing, the fasi mazurka consumes 10.87 calories the polka, 7.56; the fox trot, 4.78; th< schottische, 4.76 and the waltz, 3.99 According "to a record kept by th< editor of the American Medical Jour nal, the average age for a doctor u 62.8 years. A Cape Charles^ Mrgtnia, worn a found a clinker janffoing her furnac* grate. When dislodged it was foum: ta be heavy and yellow in appearance A. jeweler assayed it as twenty-eara . gold, worth eighty cents a penny i weight. . The native pearl divers of th. i South Seas are abl?- lQ_ stay unde t Wfcter as long as two and a quarte minutes. Do \ ou Know? 1. What is the population of South Carolina? 2. W'hal if. the iiO'iu^t length of life in itif State 7 I What ts the MKc of iUoac dy mg of tuberculosis in South Carolina? I How many people dud with tuberculoMs last year? >) How this. ituU; ?. oiupait. s with other -lutes in fuhtreuh-i- mortality'' '? Th*w/lho deaths from tulx-ivu lo.Ms eoinpare Willi those .f eornnion diseases? What an the fou- giiateM causes of death in South ( aioliua ? h What i- the Mat.', capita! wealth ? 'J. What Is the | ii i capita e\ pendlture from public and private soureos foi the fight against tuber ulosis ? 10. What was the economic loss j from tuberculosis deaths in South Carolina last year? 11. How many estimated eases of tuberculoid* are there in the State? 12. What are two outstanding needs in handling these rases? 1-1. What is the South Carolina I uherculosia Association ? Id. What is its program? 15. What progress is being made in the reduction of the tuberculosis death rate in the state? H). Who is responsible for ridding the state of this disease? The Answer 1. 1,826,000. 2. 48 years. d. dd years. 4. One thousand, six bundled and thirty-two. 5. Twelfth in the list of states having the highest tuberculosis death rates in the registration areu. 6. Last year the tuberculosis deaths exceeded the combined totul of deaths from diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, measles, smallpox, meningitis, dysentery and cancer. 7. Heart diseases, pneumonia, kidney diseases and tuberculosis. H. Approximately $1400.00. 0. Approximately ten cents. 10. $8,160,000.00. 11. 14,688. 12. 1* ree clinics for the location and diagnosis of early cases and more sanatorium beds for the care of incipient and advanced cases. ' ?lil.?A voluntary state organization supported by Christmas Seals and memberships. 14. Cooperation with all existing agencies. Kducation of the public on the causes, cure and prevention of tuber-' culosis. Organization and standardization! of county associations. Initiation and demostration of special programs as: Public health nursing services, clinics, sanatoria, child health education, etc. L). From 144.6 per 100,000 population in 1017 to 00.1 in 1026. 16. You and every intelligent citizen of the State. The next session of the South Carolina Teachers' association, 1028, will be held in Greenville, the question having been settled at a meeting of the executive committee of the association held in Columbia on Tuesday. Greenville's committee, headed by A. Foster McKisskk, president of the chamber of commerce, offered $2,500 toward paying the expenses of the association. No Disgrace in Defeat i i i t Another Helen* from Berkeley, Calif.,?this one Helen Jacobs, who is this year causing a stir in Eastern net circles. In the Manchester Mass., finals she was defeated by r| champion Helen Wills?but she r showed great pi. ... < for seasons , ft* come. ?? _p__, Flying Si'hool' Mann 5^ooa? tcun MiU1 it?l Duraii, M u higan school teacher, who flew Iroin Detroit t? California and is now making ready for a flight to Honolulu lor a $dS,(XX) prize The annua) loan from destruction and damage by moths amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars. Yet it is so easy to prevent such loss. Kly-Tox kills the moth, the eggs and the larva. Insist on Kly-Tox. KlyTox is : he scientific insecticide developed at Mellon Institute of Industrial Research by Rex Fellowship. Simple instructions on each bottle (blue label I for killing ALL household insect*. Kly-Tox is safe, stainless, fragrant, sure. Fvery bottle guaranteed. lama wauciDQs i I mosquito! I should be killed! Bee Brand Powder or Liquid kills Plies,Fleas, Mosquitoes, Roaches. Ants, Water Bugs, Bed Bugs, Moths, Crickets, Poultry Lice and many other insects. ^ rmsrtsr \ itiiim _ ioc and asc soc and 73c 50c and Si.00 Si as 30c Spray Oun jsc Write for free bookleton killing houbc and garden lnaecta licCormlck & Co. BalUmore, Md. Bee Brand INSECT Powder ^Liquid I COLUMBIA LUMBER & I MANUFACTURING CO. I MILL WORK I SASH, DOORS, BLINDS U AND LUMBER ! PLAIN & HL* ER STS. Phone 71 I COLUMBIA, S. C. j j aamammmmmmaaammammm ... Ir Renew Y our Health by Purification. Any physic-inn will tell you that "Perfect Purification of the System is Nature's houndation of Perfect Health." .Why not rid yourself of chronic ailments that arc undermining your vitality? Purify your entire system by taking a thorough course of Calotabs,?once or twice a week for several weeks?and see how Nature rewards you with health. Calotabs arc the greatest of all system purifu-rs. Get a family pa^kok<'? containing full directions. Only 35 ct?r. At any drug store. ' ' Jv.) KKKSHAW LODGE No. 29 A. F. M. Regular communication of >this lodge is beld%on the first Tuesday in each month it 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. T. V. WALSH, J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master, Secre'ary. ' 1-14-27-tf T. B. BKUCE " y Ve?*nniif?i?n A I?h> IMcnt ?Nurht Photi* 114 C A MHK.N t C. I _ . 1 I" ' . MONEY TO LOAN At 6% Per cent Interest On improved city real estate. Apply to Henry Savage, Jr. Camden, S. C.