The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 23, 1927, Image 8

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DeKALB GROCERY Headquarters For Heinz 57 Varieties Saturday, September 24th Will Be "HEINZ DAY" at Oar Store Come and enjoy the delicious samples that will be served. A representative of H. J. HEINZ CORPORATION will be with us all day Saturday to explain how the 57 varieties are made and why they pre so good. * Heinz Tomato Ketchup, Ik .size 3 for 87c; 6 for $1.70 Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup, 10 oz tin, 6 for 57c, 12 for $1.10; regular 2 for 25c. Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup, 17 oz tin, 3 for 44c, G for 85c; regular 2 for 35c. Heinz Cream of Tomato Soups are made from vine ripened tomatoes and rich cream added. ^ Heinz Baked Beans with Tomato Sauce, regular 2 for 25c; per dozen $1.15 (for Saturday only.) Heinz Rice Flakes, something new in the cereal line. 15c per package. Come and get your sample Free. i Free to Children: Heinz kindergarten books and 1 Peanut Butter Fudge Peanut Butter Fudge and Kindergarten Books To Be Given out Between Hours of 9 to 11 o'clock. HORTON PLEAD GUILTY Gets Five To Ten Years For Killing of William Shaw ^Lancaster, Sept. 21.?James R. Morton, charged with the killing of William Shaw in November, 1924, entered a plea of manslaughter in the court of generals sessions Monday and a sentence of not les than five nor more than ten years was given the defendant by Judge John S. Wilson. Before passing sentence, Judge Wilson asked for a copy of the record in a mistrial of the case which occurred at the September, 1926 term, in ruder that he might familiarize himself with the facts. Sentence was passed Tuesday afternoon. The shooting occurred in a dispute between Morton and Shaw over the use of a building on Morton's plantation. Shaw was shot in 1924 ami lingered until the following July. The case was continued from time to time but came up for trial last September, when a mistrial resulted. Morton is connected with one of the prominent families of the county and is 62 years old. He was represented by Williams and Stewart of the Lancaster bar, Claud N. &app of Columbia and J.'C. Massey of Kershaw, the state being assisted by Judge Mendel L. Smith and K. D. Blakeney of Camden and J. P. Richards of Lancaster. Frederick W. Ruekstull has been selected as the sculptor to carve the statue of General Wade Hampton, which is to be placed in the hall of fame at Washington, D. C. Mr. Ruekstull made the equestrian statue of Hampton and the monument to the women of the Confederacy, both of which pow stand on the state house grounds in Columbia. Remembering that there was a motion picture in town that he wished to see and finding his cell unlocked, Henry Laird, a- prisoner at Monessep, Pennsylvania, walked out of jail ami went to the show. After the show, while the police force searched the city, he returned to his cell, and was asleep when found. Affirm* 150.000 Verdict Verdict of the Richland circuit court in the suit-1 of former State Hcnator Thomtt? 4'. ??f Union against The Record Publishing company and Kdwin W. Robertson, Columbia capitalist, wart affirmed in a decision handed down in the state j supreme court Wednesday. In this j case former Senator Duncan brought suit for alleged libel in the -sum of $50,000 and the jury brought in a verdict for the full amount asked for in the complaint. The supreme court in it? decision affirm* this gerdict. In this cane, former Senator Duncan alleged libel for the publication in the Columbia Record in March, 1026, of a letter the former senator wrote to Mr. Robertson regarding a loan of $25,000. GENERAL NEWS NOTES A woman, believed to be about 60 years of age, committed suicide Wednesday morning by jumping from Coat Islanfl bridge into the upper rapids of Niagara falls, and being swept over the falls on the American side. One hundred and eighty-seven persons in the United Statea carry life insurance on their lives in sums of $1,000,000 and upward. The largest amount of insurance carried by any one person, is on the life of Rodman Wannamaker, New York and Philadelphia merchant, who has $7,500,000. Dr. Fredrick G. Banting, discoverer of insulin, the cure for diabetes, has $5,000,000 on his life. Babe Ruth, baseball player1, also is in the $5,000,000 class. A mysterious disease or malady which causes horses to walk themselves to death, and which has been classified as "no name," or "walking disease," has caused a stir among government experts of Colorado. When stricken the animals walk around and around until they drop dead. Mollie Whitt, 65, is again in the poorhouse of Tazewell county, Virginia, after having been acquitted of killing Scott McGruder, 73, by stabbing, when they quarreled six weeks ago over a tattered red cover. Her blind husband, Gus Whitt, will be tried on a murder charge in November. Rev. C. E. Burts, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist church at Newberry, has been called to the pastorate of the First Baptist church of Macon Ga., Dr. Burts has also been offered the presidency of Anderson college. The police authorities of Mexico City have passed a regulation barring burros from the street except very early in the morning and late at night, as their deliberate movements impede the modern kind of traffic. Attacked by a large flock of crows, a pet cat in Jeanette, Pennsylvania, was literally torn to pieces. Within the past year nearly nine thousand pairs of twins were born in England and Wales. One aviator was killed and his companion seriously injured when their plane crashed twenty miles south of St. Louis, Mo., on Saturday. Three rum ships loaded with 17,600 cases of liquors were captured in the vicinity of New York on Friday and Saturday. Piesident ( oolidge and party are spending this week in a pleasure trip through the Yellowstone National park. Mansfield England, recently sent As a token of good will to its hamesake Mansfield, Massachusetts, a twenty-pound gooseberry pie. Sixty choice yearlings were sold at the Saratoga, N. Y., race track hriday for a total of $446,300. One colt changed hands at $70,000. j Bread treated with ultra-violet : rays, made and sold by a Welsh -baker, is being fed, with favorable Jesuits, to children - suffering from rickets. | If the water in not cold an oyster j dnnks about eighty quarts of. water I dally but if the water is below fortyj five degrees he i* believed to go on | a thirst strike. An old circuit rider of Michigan j tells of receiving as his pay hay, oata> ^ socks, mittens, and cash, to the | amount of $59.56 for one year, j Two flyers, brothers, wore killed a \ an Arsdall station, Kentucky, j Stu:day when their plane fell 1,200 , feet because of a broken wing. When the members of Parliament wore swords a law was passed which i foi bade the speaker addressing the i House to step beyond the strip of cloth which runs along the floor in front of the first row of benches, tor as long as a member was behind ; that line his sword's point could not reach an opponent opposite. Unaware of this rule, a recent speaker ; was amaxed at the shouts of 'Order' when he stepped beyond the_4ine | Hawker.",old c.bb.ge, tht cburchy.M of st. p,u|., [y0 ,three hundred year, ,g? untj| w ! ?hcd by the clergy because of the noise they made. ~' i?? ,-ry.?SePL'.i,j~ ~ r. t . THINGS WqRTH KNOWING It is said that 'Anatoli; France, the great Fxfiith writer, would go' to any lejigths to avoid the use of a semiColon. White house news indicates only four official dishes have been broken since 1018. In Canada airplanes are being used j to transfer dynamite to the mining areas. More copper has been produced in i | the world in the past twenty years than in almost 7,000 years previously. Insects considered harmless to plant life may develop a ravenous appetite for some new crop introduced into their surroundings. A savings bank in the form of a ! closed urn of baked clay with a slit in the top has been found in the ruins of Utica, an ancient Phoenician city on the African coast. It is believed to be at least 2,500 years old. An animal breeder of Oly.mpia, Washington, believes that he has developed a species of barkless dogs. On a farm near Miller, South Dakota, a cat adopted six young wolves after her own kittens were killed. Nearly $3,000 in precious metals is reclaimed annually by a jewelry manufacturing company in Kansas City, by filtering the water in which the workers wash their hands. It! is claimed that wood wasps are able to bore through such metal as sheet lead. Japan has developed a cherry tree that produces flowers and leaves the year around. Instead of benches in the 'Church the Rolls,! the poorest section of Berlin, long rows of tables are provided and unfortunates are fed soup and lolls as the pastor delivers his sermon. A telephone which works on the principle of a phonograph and will take the message on a sensitive roller when the owner is out has been invented in Sweden. Waterproof paper is being used to make aprons, raincoats, slip covers, beach slippers and other articles. To prevent their barking and howling, Birmingham England, has a I canine curfew law to keep dogs off the streets after dark. Oil was first utilized as a motive power 230 years ago by an English inventor named Street. b ires have been caused by sun rays passing through goldfish bowls, the globe acting as a magnifying glass. According to the National Dental Technicians, only 20 per cent of the 100,000,000 people of the United States use toothbrushes and there are only twenty sets of perfect natural teeth in the country. The distance between points near Charleston, South Carolina, and San Diego, California, 2,150 miles, is the shortest from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Forty-six inches of rainfall in twenty-four hours is the world record for a rainstorm and was established in July, 1911, at Baguio, Philippine Islands. On the theory that the dinner table is a battle ground which leads to many divorce courts, the French Society of Vegitarians is trying to encourage marriages of people of similar appetite. No man works quite as hard as he would like to have his wife believe. Only a crook can outwit a crook honest man will be beaten every time. No feeling of satisfaction quite equals that of having done a difficult job extremely well. More bellows are run over by men from the rung below on the ladder than slip down the ladder. It's real progress when everybody moves forward, not just a few Individuals, or a few cities, but the whole nation. The cleaning up of the 1,800 tons of waste paper and confetti thrown upon .the streets during the welcome of Colonel Lindbergh cost New York City $16,000. The records of an Ohio court show a man convicted of theft Nyas cured by the sentence that he be divested of his apparel, tied to a tree and .subjected to the bites of mosquitoes for one hour.' Edmund Kean, noted English actor, valued the opinion of . the common people in the pit more highly than that of aristocrats and dramatic critics. - T*,? On all railway journeys, the King of England pays full fare for himself, the queen and every'Member of the royal household in attendance. The use of light in the treatment or sick persons was advocated by a physician early in the 18th Century after noting that sick animals always lie in the sun. Out of 83,019 enlisted men discharged from the Regular Amry during the past three years, 48,125, or 57.8 per cent. reenlUted wdtMn succeeding three months. ? Roads' constructed of . cast-iron plates' with a sllrhtly corrupted faca arc being tested in France. DeKalb News Notes. Mr. and Mrs. Pettes, of Camden spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Broome. Mrs. L. D. Broome entertained on Saturday night in honor of Miss Virginia Owens who leaves on the 21 st for Florence where she will enter the Florence Infirmary for training. The home was beautifully decorated with potted plantB and cut flowers. After enjoying cards and several contests the hostess served ices and assorted cakes. Mr. and Mr. Fred Watts spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Horton. Mr. William Spears, of Charleston, is on a visit tp relatives here. Mr. Clyde Owens spent last* weekend with his cousin, Alva Truesdale in the Truesdale community. Mrs. N. B. Workman was the guest of Mrs. Shelby Truesdale last Thursday. Mr. Boyd Workman spent the week end in Rock Hill with relatives Because court formalities did not permit the guard who kept watch outside the king's door to enter the king's apartment, and though the guard smelled smoke, Stanislaus Leczinski, King of Poland in 1766, burned to death when his dressing gown caught fire. | BU1CK>I928 | AUTOMATIC NIAT COTTUH CNOKI ?UTTOW I AMMITIA itiitounu iQAtoiim oami ! I ?urti riHttMTwu ?*mi | MIllAOl II I Oil CAWtt ?*m? vnilk doui^moci One Qlance tells the story In Buick for 1928, everything you want to know about your car's performance?every indicator and dial?is before you, indirectly lighted under glass. Buick today offers greater beauty, luxury, and comfort than ever before?greater speed and power with quicker getaway. Sec the car that surpasses all others in popularity?and in value. WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT. BUICK. WILL BUILD THEM Sed*m4119) to 1995 ' ? Coupes *1195 to *1850 Sport Models *1195 to *1525 AO prim /. *. k. 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