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"BrtfjaTattft Utergpttal iWum Kdited by MRS. W. BRATTON de LOACH . . tbi* page should be telephone to No. 261-J between the hour* of 10 and 12 in the morning. 9 Had Bis Time Boy Scout troop* have uccessful camp at the U pond for the la?t ie?e boys each morning laminations which is cntually become an ii distinction which ie y boy and has been so >nly one Camden boy, . They are taught are restricted by some ?t be obeyed but for hey have much time to ) nature?swimming, ading the simple and 3 under the direction ts. Messrs. Gatewood Moultrie Burns were in the day, the scout sistant going out each ys prepared their meals ill scouts added merit record. Three passed s scout Qests?Julian e Sheorn and Charlie emp gave the boys a aid and Mr. F. W. e to them on scouting, las McArn lectured to si. ;annot be said for an 'hich helps boys to lead lthy lives and teaches rinciples. Those who ie camp possible should >r their interest. Let nber that these boys e her leaders and help n to grow and flourish. etti, sister of Bartelocondemned to death in sailed Saturday from United State to see her Massachusetts prison, irles B. Truesdale of ity, Ky., is facing a slaughter as the result : a little girl, who was senator's automobile. in colonies. If you see w ' there are many, athesome vermin. ProThere are medical declare seventeen difi including cancer are >y roaches. Roaches 1. Spray Fly-Tox into ;s, around water pipes, >ther plumbing. Simple >n each bottle (blue ing roaches and ALL cts. Insist on Fly-Tox ;ific insecticide developInstitute of Industrial ex Fellowship. Fly-Tox nless, fragrant, sure. PERSONAL NEWS NOTES Mrs. G. H. Baum is visiting friends in Kentucky. Mi?? Frances Boykin visited friend* in Lancaster this week. Mr. Howard Hinson has gone to Chester this week to visit friends. Miss Elizabeth Clarke lias gone to Darlington where she will he employed. Mr. C. J. Shannon, Jr., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Nesbit at Pawley's Island. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Lang have returned from a delightful trip to Pawley's Island. Mrs. Walter Rush und Miss Elizabeth McDowell were visitors in Florence' Wednesday. Mrs. Robert Rabin, of The Outlook, has gone to New York for two weeks to do her fall buying. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Sanders left Sunday for White Hall, S. C., where they will spend two weeks. Misses. Nancy and Caroline NeUon, of Bennettsville are here on a visit to their aunt, Miss Cornelia Mickle. Mrs. Leslie Zemp and her daughter, Miss Ellie Zemp, who have been visiting in Asheville are at home again. Mr. and Mrs. E. N. McDowell and little son left Wednesday by auto for a two weeks' stay at Blowing Rock, N. C. Mr. Carl Shannon, of Atlanta is in Camden on a visit to his parents, Mr. and $4rs. J- K. Shannon on Laurens Court. Mr .and Mrs. Louis Mosely, of St. Petersburg, Fla., are here for a visit to the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Moseley. Mr. H. G. Carrison, Jr., was a week-end visitor at Myrtle Beach. He was accompanied home by Mrs. Carrison and children. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Boyd and children have returned home from a trip through the North to New York and other points of interest. Missess. Loree and Cecil Truesdale are visiting friends in Asheville, N. C. and from there will go to New York to spend several weeks. Misses. Millie Duval and Esther Matherson, of Cheraw were guests of Miss Jumele Haile last Friday. They attended the dancb while here. Miss Jumelle Haile has gone to visit friends in Cheraw and from there she will go to Bennettsville to be the guest of Miss May Carlyle Moore. Mrs. Leonx Kirkland and daughter,' who have been visiting relatives here have gone to Charleston to spend sometime before returning to Oallas. Mr. Thomas Ancrum, of Chester, and E. C. Zemp, of Camden, have returned from a motor trip to several towns in South Florida going as far South as Tampa. Miss Katherine DeLoache and her friend, Miss Dolly Hodge, of Atlanta, spent last week end here at the home of Miss LeLoache's parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. P. DeLoache. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hough, who jwere married recently in Georgia are in Camden this week visiting relatives before going to Miami where they will make their home. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Schenk accompanied by Mrs. Leo Schenk lefl last week for New York. Mrs. Lec Schenk will stop in Philadelphia tc spend sometime with her son there Mrs. Henrietta Sill ^as in towr irom Montreat, for a few days las week, having rented her- home or Lyttleton street she was the gues of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Richards, Jr Me. W. R. Hough and son VanCi Hough returned Friday from a week') visit to Mr. Hough's brother, Mr. R F. Hough, at Culloden Ga. Th< trip was made by automobile, an< Mr. Hough tells us that he found croj conditions in that section about th? same as crops of this section. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jones, of Sara sota, Fla., were in Camden this week Mr. Jones was formerly an efficien clerk in the Camden postoffice, bu is now connected with the postoffic* at Sarasota. They have been visitinj relatives at Kershaw and Lake City and last week was spent motoring ii the mountains of Wetern North Caro lina and Tennessee. Private Donald Truesdale, son o Mr. and Mrs. Earl Truesdale o Lugoff, is at home for a ten days stay. Young Truesdale is with th United States Marines, and had bee assigned to the ^battleship Arkansas but is now stationed in the marin barracks at Charleston. This is hi first trip home in thre? years. H took part in the fight In- Nioauragu i5L which ope captain was killed an several privates were wounded. The kilted about thirty-five of the Ni^aui tfBRS before the attack was r< pulsed. He has spent a great pai -ef his tiipe in the" Kjnl-tropfts an ' talkf Interestingly of his experience WSJ rtskajktj.- > ?--?* - v I 7-^ -- - - 1 / - V * '*' - . Iitic Theatre EST SPOT in CAMDEN OW THE CROWD e: Matinee 3:30 P. M. t 8 and 9:30 P. M. , Friday, August 19 HE GENERAL" Buster Keaton in his best comedy of his General brings Buster Camden in the biggest i thrill show he ever >me ride with him, come h Mm, come shake and :h the world's famous ed fun-makter. Also Cured In The Exciteurday, August 20 TRIGGER BAXTER" Bob Custer in his latest vestern picture. See the held an angry mob at an who dared the guard* ne man who defied death, who loved his sweetheart i his life. It's a thunderrn cyclone. Also chapter ie House Without a Key" i nd Tuesday, Aug. 22-23 LOVE OF SUNYA" ' Gloria Swanson in her i best picture. It's her ichievement, as a modern ing romance. ? Dramatic antic love, real love and > enacted against settings uoiis splendor to t$fill, d satisfy the moat disig. Here is the screen's active beauty at her best, is this one. Also Pathe o increase in prices. inesday, August 24 ZE BOULEVARD" aturing Lew Cody J > ursday, August 23 ARE OF WIDOWS" v .^Starring Laura La Plante ' i - T? ****** N * HITE PANT^ WILLIE" featuring Johnny Hines ion?u ^ Coming Soon: Col man and Yilm$t Panky g Wining ofnBarbara Worth" Mr. and Mrs. C, C. Shaw have gone for a motor trip to Ashevillt, N.. (;, Miss I hemasia Guthrie returned home Saturday afU'r spending the summer season in Washington and Richmond. Born, to Mr ,and Mrs. Paul I). Lewis, a daughter, on August 7th, and the little girl has been given the name of Mildred Janet. The many friends of Mrs. M. L. Smith will be pluesed to learn that she has returned from the Columbia hospital greatly improved. Messrs. Brevard Boykin and Ferris McDowell returned Sunday afternoon from an eight-day trip to points in the northeast and Canada. They covered about 2,500 miles by automobile and had a most delightful and interesting trip. By request Mr. McDowell is furnishing a short account of the trip to readers of The Chronicle. Yes, Indeed "Did my father leave an order with you this morning for a load of wood ?" asked u strange but attractive young lady of a well-known planing mill man. I don't know, miss," he replied. "There was a gentleman in who said to deliver a load to a driver who would call and said it was for Mr. Zell." "Yes, thank you," said she, "I'm Gladys Zell." "Eh, what?" gulped the millman. "I'm Gladys Zell," she repeated. "Oh, yes, of course," he replied, so'm I." Champion Dad of Twins Lynn, Mass., Aug. 15.?Longini Billicki, leather worker, believes he | is a champion father of twins. His wife, Agnes, in the last nine years has given birth to four sets of twins Three* pairs are living. On July 12 Mrs. Billicki gave birth to a son and daughter, her seventh and eight children and the fourth set of twins, born to the parents. Her third and fourth children, twin boys, died shortly after birth, but the other twins are healthy. Sophie and Waldyslava Billicki, the first and second born, are nine years old, husky and happy. The father has been too busy to select names for the latest twins. Mere Mention Arthur Allegretti last week roller skated from Buffalo, N. Y., to New York city, 500 miles, on roller skates, in 55 hours. "Ike," the tobacco "chawing" ram that led the White House flock of sheep during the Wilson administration, is dead. The wife of a Hewlett, N. Y., truck driver has been notified that she is hhirers to a $2,500,000 fortune in London. ? Two aviators were killed Sunday when their plane fell into the Ohio river near Legionville, Pa. The plane exploded in midair and caught fire. A passenger in the machine was not identified. Federal authorities are taking steps to return John Early, noted North Carolina leper, to the leprosy colon;1 1 in Louisiana. : Mont Blanc, Airplane mountain, has 1 been renamed "Mount Bonito Mussolini," in honor of Italy's dictator. 1 R. J. Reynolds, Jr., son of the head ! of the Reynolds Tobacco company, Winston-Salem, N. C., has purchased ' Curtiss Field, airplane landing field on Long Island, N. ,Y. The price i> said to have been about $1,000,000. ? The magnificent gold plate used bj >. the king and queen of Great Britiar at state banquets consists of a dinneH i service for one hundred guests, coni t plete with tureens, meat dishes, en t tree fishes and covers, a fruit service t and a coffee service. Golden can - delaftra, from three to four feet hlgl i and branching in all directions, ar< s used as table decorations. e yA can of white lead caused th< i death of seventeen cows in Wisconsin j The cows thought the lead was salt -> Do You Know? t t Question*?6 e 1?Which state raises the most ^ wheat? 2-*-What Englishman sold: "Amer' tea hns a nntuml base for the greatest 1 continuous empire ever established bj " tnon"? 2?What book Is a perpetual best f teller? f 4? Which continent hua the greatest s' Extremes of topography? e 5?For what great English trngedlae did Bulwer Lytton write "lllclielieu" and most of his other dramas, and foi whom Robert Browning attempted ?n e successfully to write? 8 6^? How many tlmea did Tj Cobt e win the batting championship of tb< a American league? d 7?What Is an escalator? , 8?Who Invented the Incnndeseeni r*_ electric lamp? 8? For what king of France wai I/OuIsImmh named? - ? rt IB?.What secretary of war iaiei d became President? * [ Attsweres Found on Opposite Page Dmicr Enjoyed By Many | The dance last Friday night at thei old court house was a splendid suc-j cess. Messrs. Basil Bruce, Charles N illepigue and William Clyburn were! instrumental in getting it up. The| Black Diamonds, of Charleston furnished the music which was unusually good. Dancing began at 10 p. m. and lasted until 2 a.- m. About one hundred young men and thirty-five young ladies attended from nea^-by towns. Mr a. Trantham On Vi?ii Here The many friends of Mrs. William Trantham are delighted to know that she is a visitor to her home once more. Mrs. Trantham as a bride came to Camden in the 70's, the wife of one of Camden's favorite sons, who was said to be the youngest soldier of the Confederacy, being only 14, ? He was a brave soldier and fought throughout the war, coming back to study law and becoming one of our ( prominent professional men. During reconstruction days he did notable service to his town and state. Mrs, Trantham since his death has lived j in Washington. She is now visiting << her so 1} and his family, Mr. and Mrs. 4 W. D. Trantham and children. \ _____ t Treasure Hunt Enjoyed c A treasure hunt given by Miss [ Billy Hancock on Monday night was t greatly enjoyed by about forty of r her friends. Ten points wer^? visit- r ed by the young people among them the grave of Agnes of Glasgow, in its lonely and ghostly setting of tall pines near the Revolutionary breast I works, Springdale Club and other interesting places, finally winding up * at Thomas Coffee Shop, where the treasure was found by Miss Emily Jenkins aifd Mr. Clarkson Rhame. 1 Dancing then became the feature of 1 the affair. Miss Hancock served v punch and cakes to the guests. a i -1? 1 o Party For Miss DeLoache 1' Monday being the birthday of Miss Father DeLoache, her parents compli- 8 mented her ^vvith a delightful party, 8 dancing and cards were enjoyed 8 throughout the evening. The rooms 1 were filled with clematis and Mary- t golds and the color scheme of yellow 8 and white were carried out in all 1 details. Punch and cakes were ser- t v^d. c 8 Mrs. Smith Back From Montreal c Mrs. John Smith, one of CaYnden's progressive music teachers has been \ in attendance at the Music Teachers d Summer Course at Montreat, N.C., s sponsored by Mrs. Crosby Adams one of Am6Hca's celebrated composers i and professional teachers. While there t Mrs. Smith attended Grand Opera in f Asheville several times. Besides the \ lectures and instruction given there were- wonderful concerts by teacherpupils of these celebrated instructors. The Aeolian Choir, from Asheville < conducted by the Adams, visited Mon- I treaf while Mrs. Smith was there, 1 this choir is noted as one of the be3t in America. Another musical treat i enjoyed was an organ recital given on the organ at Grove Park Inn, said to ' be the finest in the world. In the autumn Mrs. Adams will be in Columbia for a short time and Mrs. Smith representing Camden has extended an invitation for her to visit our town which has always enjoyed the best in , music. It will be a wonderful oppor1 tunity for Camden music lovers. [ i Trouble Ahead "Shame on you!" stormed the judge to the colored prisoner. "You come r into this court and state that, because i you believe in signs, you refuse to r go home and live with your wife. I - repeat, shame on you! A man living - in this age shouldn't let superstitU, tion break up his home!" "Jedge," replied the defendant, \ "tain't superstition Ah's afeard on. ? but Ah do believe in signs. Fo'de las' three nights, aftuh Ah'd gone to bed, Ah could heah d#t woman honin' nuMC e razor." U = ! The finest of materials handled with thoroughness and delicacy. A shop of careful Service where 1 experience and courtesy helps to 1 keep you well pleased. ?Mr. Before and After "Cleaning and Dyeing Service at f Your D oor# ji r. V1 v " CAMDEN DRY CLEANERY ' Phone 17 r ^ zz * ... # ? 7 ' WHEN YOIJ NEED SICK-ROOM PLIES, TRY l!S. We Can Usually Supply The Ununual lleniH Our goods art' carefully selected by experienced men?our prices are fair to our selves and to our customers. Our service is as good as we can make it. We want your business and we will appreciate all or any part of it W. ROBIN ZEMP'S DRUG STORE Phone 30 Quick Delivery When Wanted REDUCED RATES FOR GOLF >ne Half Rule To b? Effective from August 15th. The Golf Committee announces that hose desiring to join the Golf Club or the remainder of the season can lo so at half rate. The half rate to jo into effect August 15. The course viII remain open until October 31 and hose joining now will get two and >ne-half months golf at a very nomilal fee. Non-members will not be al? owed on the course without paying he daily green fee of $1.00. This ule will be strictly enforced. The tew rates will be as follows: Man and wife $7.60 Individual 5.00 College student 2.50 MaV checks payable to George T. nttle, Sr., Secretary. lock Hill Banning Drunken Driver Rock Hill, Aug. 11.?Rock Hill's troposed ordinance making mandaory a heavy penalty for persons conicted in recorder's court of driving n automobile while ?under influence f whisky or narcotics became a law ast night. There was no weakening of the harply drawn lines which formed for md against the ordinance and the idoption was by a vote of three to wo. It was placed on the books over he protests of Mayor J. B. Johnson ind Commissioner J,.?B. Patrick who lave previously based their opposiion upon the contention that the reorder should not be bound by such in ordinance but should decide each -use upon its merits. It had the support of Commissioner V. G. Stevens, who introduced the Iraft two weeks ago, and Commisioners J. W. White and J. T. Givens. The ordinance provides for a regilar sentence of $60 or 30 days for he first offense and $100 or 30 days 'or each offense after the first conviction. He Did A young lawyer, pleading his first :ase, had been retained by a farmer to prosecute a railway company for killing 24 hogs. He wanted to impress the jury with the magnitude of the injury. "Twenty-four, hogs, gentlemen. "Twenty-four, twice the number in the jury box." /M butcher Shops took &lik*to \rpjihif/ ^6? I /o* to* 1 "1T^3 "Say! If your wife triea DeKalb Grocery you'll jfet home to dinner oft'ner. I'm yoinif to tip her off." iDeKalb Grocery Co. DeKALt GROCERY PHONE 137 Weevil Infestation Heavy We were shown yesterday u cotton bloom picked from the farm of Wesley Truesdale, near Knight's Hill, that had nine full grown boll weevils on it. It is suid that the entire field , is heavily infested, and reports come from many sources that weevils are plentiful. The home of Chief of Police T. H. Merritt at Rock Hill wus struck Thursday afternoon during a heavy thunderstorm, but owing to the fact that no one was at home none of the family was injured. Mrs. Merritt and one child had just gone to' visit a neighbor when the storm broke. Beyond partially wrecking the chimney and scattering soot about the house, no damage occurred. Riles-Stings Soothed and healed by applying gently VICKS Qv?? 21 M<luon Ja?s U?mVt*?ur ^7 Dropped 3000 Feet?Picked Up Unbroken Parker Duofold with 25 -Tear Point?Non-Breakable Barrel WE have a complete assortment of Parker Duofold Pens with the Non-Breakable Barrels that have withstood every kind of grueling test, such as a 3000foot drop from an aeroplane. Pencila to match are also Non-Breakable. ? Parker Over-size Duofold #7 Duofold Jr. JO Lady Duofold 0 Patter Big Brother Pencil *4 Jr. Ovrr-eiee $ J.50 - Lady Duofold $9 DeKalb Pharmacy Camden, S. C. PIANO BARGAIN^ ?iUWe have in stock a number of highclass pianos which we are offering at most attractive prices and upon terms to suit purchaser. , ; ~ Smith-Elliott Music Company ;.-... ' DelCALB STREET _ i" ' - *- - _ d ^ 1. i r Jl