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For your past favof*~and with I* ' ^ t . a hope for your continued if ^ friendship?we pause to send forth earnest greetings and f i a wish for a Merry Christmas Loan & Savings Bank CAPITAL $1MMNW.?? IN THE CAROLINAS Memb of Interest Glesned from News54i papers of Two Statds. 8, Q. Carlton died at hie home in l|taeksburg Wednesday aged 71 yeftref. The 1927 cotton crop of Cleveland tfufity, N. C., ia the largest ever rals<4 there and 7,000 more bales have Can ginned than ir> 1020. About 50,bales will be the production of the! county this year, -governor Mcl>ean has warmly prais-: d the judge and sheriff who saved f#m lynching the negro now under intcnce of death for assaulting and fting the throat of a- young girl In syne county, Noi*th Carolina. |. B. Kennernore, of Gr^enyilje, 77 srs old, has just completed, the confuction of bis coffin and with a vault the cemetery fixed some time ago, I is now ready for whatever may jfrpen. Homer Strickland is under arrest at Grrro Gordo for shooting, his father in ?left eye after' the father chastised ' for using the automobile without Fnission.' The boy laid in wait for father, who may die. Frank R. Brown, convicted of forgsy and embezzlement which wrecked I Salisbury building and loan association, carried his own commitment pipers and went by himself to the ptmtentiary at Raleigh yesterday to itay there from seven to ten years. 1. A. Winston, a former automobile ataman, of Henderson, N. C., is being obtdited from Dallas, Texas, for itaqpg his father's name to a note I andabo for abandoning his wife, who f iWping a bank to bring him back tor trial. Bids have been opened for the new Myers Park Presbyterian church at Ckariotte which will seat 700 people and have the church and Suhday school units built soon, with a tower liter which will carry a light far ikove the street. James Frank Williams, churchman, ipublic officer and builder, one of the ;nen of most' influence in Cleveland [county, N. C., died from paralysis at his home near Shelby, Tuesday. He was 72 years old, and had been register of deeds six terms.. , Two women and a man will go to trhal for tyheir lives in Buncombe county. N .C., next Wednesday when Alma Green, Gertrude Hensiey and Oscar Deal are arraigned for burglary in the first degree for holding up an old man in his home. The penalty in North Carolina is electrocution. s Both the faculty and the student council are energetically investigating having done at thp'State College pf North Carolina labt Saturday night when three students had parts of their heads shaved by other students. The college authorities seem determined to discover thp haters and give them strong discipline, and the student body. seemB to be helping all in Its power?in sharp contrast to Clemson college occurrences recently. Rev. Raxter F. McLendon, the evangelist, is. preaching to immense congregations in the tabernacle the Lancaster people built for him, and at one meeting recently there were people present from Bishopvflle, Lake Lure and most intermediate points. Audiences of several thousands are not unusual for this most prominent evangelist of the South. The meeting at' Lancaster stops before Christmas. Clem Wren, president of the closed bank of Wilkes, N. C. pleaded guilty to thirteen indictments when the cases were called in court. The indictments include forgery, receiving deposits after knowing the'bank was J insolvent, pbying an illegal dividend, making loans to officers, and false certification of checks. Witnesses testified for the information of the court to tangled condition of the bank accounts when it was closed. Notes bearing the name of the county board of education were forgeries. A construction company owned by Wrenn was fed a large sum. In the face of this testimony, many prominent men, judges, county and city officials and preachers, testified that Wrenn .was a man of high character. He was a bank president at $160 a iponth lately raised to $200 a month. / AST year the heads of many fam* "*> f ilie? who had a flair for Selecting practical Christmas gifts arranged with us to install a second telephone instru' intent forjhe benefit of their respective * ; ' household^, If you are" one who prides yourself on your selection of serviceable gifts with a toiich'of the unusual you would do well to follow their example, * for ho present can exceed an extension w V telephone in daily usefulness. Br- | Wtfh ClirilttMl tot ? A*ft tim? | ' ^ 1 tK lucictt liw( . I your erdtr for ** txUntion uk- X V |>hiu immtiituXy. A w*ri t+ 0ur |^h?4W Office wiU J ^ SOUTHERN BELL T&EPHONE AMD TELEGRAPH COMPANY Br/;V '' 1 ^^ ? ' <u ^ *' \b - fci-H ST i *j -> ?-i- - KKHBH AW NBW8 NOTB8 lntereaUag New# Net#s GaUwrd 1 From The Bra of That Place T. J. Gregory haa purchased from] John P. Cauthen the cottage on Matson street, situated between the re si-1 dencea of Ralph Starling and Ralph I Gregory, at present being used ae the I meeting place of the MenTa Bible Glass I of the First Baptist Sunday school. A letter from Albert Cunningham j to the editor of The Era, inclosing I renewal of his subscription to The Era, states that he had the misfor-1 tune of losiag his sawmill by fire at Merck's Corner, Sunday night, 1 December 4th. Mr< Cunningham's! loss is a complete one, as he had no I insurance and saved nothing. His I friends in this section will regret to I learn of his misfortune. I l - P. Mackey and family have I moved ' from their former home on I East M arion street to the Beaver I paction, now having their residence I in the country. Mr. Mackey is the! efficient carrier on rural route 5, I (emanating from the Kershaw office. 1 Tuesday of last week as I). F. 11 Phillips and his son, William were!, taking a truck load of cotton to Bel-1 mont, N. C., one of the wheels of I the truck ran off on a fill about half way between Pineville and Charlotte 1 and the truck turned completely over!, and plunged down the fill. Very! fortunately neither Mr. Phillips nor I his son were injured beyond a shake-! upJacob Faile, aged and highly re-I spected citizen of the Flat Creek | section, died, at the home of his son-1 in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. 1, Sam Vincent, Tuesday morning of lask week, December 6th. He. had! been in declining health for several j. months and on Sunday morning pre- L ceding his death was completely I , paralyzed and rendered unconscious I i from which he had no relief until I death ended his sufferings. | [.. Mr. Fails, who had just a few days!; before his death celebrated hid 79th lj! birthday was the son of the late Rev. J and Mrs. John Faile of the Flat preek L section, where he was born and spout most of his life. He leaves surviving j, the following children: Lemuel Lewis L and Leonard Faile, Mrs. Sam Vincent! and Mis Leona Faile, all of this, sec* I tion. Also one son, Lee Faile, in Ala- J batiia. Three sisters survive. They I are Mrs. Jeremo Catoe of Kershaw; T Mrs. Sara Faile and Mrs. Mary JaneI Estridge of the Flat Creek section. I Mr. Faile's remains were laid to j rest in the Blackmon cemetery near I Taxahaw on Wednesday morning, af-1 ter funeral services, conducted by J Rev. J. H. Hunter, assisted by Rev. I T. W. N. Faile. I George Remus Acquitted Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 20.?George I Remus, who forsook' a legal practice I in Chicago to become the operator of one of the most extensive bootlegging I businesses in the United States late! today was found not guilty by a jury I here of the murder of his estranged 1 wife, Impgene Holmes Remus. The I verdict was based solely-on the ground j of insanity. \./s Nineteen minutes of deliberation I sufficed for the two women and J ten men of the jury to do all they | possibly could towards freeing the I former "king of bootleggers" two j days less than eleven weeks after he shdt and killed his wife, while she J was enroute to court to divorce him. | Under the charge as given to the j jury by Judge Chester R. Shook, I Remus was denied a verdict of outright acquittal and v his case auto-J matically was certified to the probate court for a sanity hearing. Within thirty minutes after the acquittal, I the papers were laid before Judge I William H. Lueders, but he declined to! act until tomdtrow morning,.*-? The new reptile house of the zoological gardens in London has a snake ! hospital containing comfortable beds, a resident physician, a diet kitchen, a battery of artificial sunlight, and an adjoining space wherb rare bugs k are raised for the patients' food. ? MEN ALIV& IN U-BOAT I Divers Get Respond From Men in Sunken Submarine . J: Provincetown, Mass., Dec. 18.?Ly-I ing tonight beneath . seventeen! fathoms of foam-capped sea, the S-4 I is virtually a steel coffin* housing! (living men; How many no one knows. ! [For the first time, since the 230-foot 1 I submarine was rammed and sunk by | I the coast guard cutter Paulding soon j [after 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, 1 | definite word that saU of the fortyr. j | five, officers pnd men had not perished | I came soon before dusk tonight. Ttj | came frort the floorJof the ocean, j shouted through a diver's speaking[ I tUbe in the one Crisp sentence; "There I is life aboard." v 1 The diver-was Thomas Eadib, onpj j of- a group which arrived here td*- [ | night from Newport under command lof Lieut. F. E. Williams, U. S. N. 1 Eadie took f prominent part in raisling the 5-5l' and he also aided in salI vaging the F-9 which went down with I twenty-two officers and men off I Honolulu in 1925. Taking turns with j William Carr," another diver, Eadie I went down several times this pftef* I noon^ and remained under water aI totaiofbigh^bunutes in spite ei tttje I intense poldl Eadie tapped with a hammer up \ I both the forward and aijfter ' .ends 1 which sent the submarine to Jftb | bottoiq. He ip certaih hp heprd tapp|ing from pinside the submarine fort (Ward *n answer to his signals. J "They've answered my signals and' I they are. alive.' I'm surP of it," he I Coincident wjtbHkM* cheering news, I the-elements seemingly turned again*} I the imprisoned men under the an. iTKh fcfrometer then stood at 29.65, a | drop of only two-tenths but coupled with a Northwest wind which ii* creased steadily, cM-ttmprs among the I Ckpe.Cod floher folk stay thia taearc ]jg?? 8PKNIW MILLION ADVERTISING ' i"* . . .. Five-day Campaign 1m Newspaper* <o*t Manufacturer $1,909,090. New York, With bis n?w car continuing to draw huge crowds, Henry Ford, Monday concluded -at least for pie present?the moat remarkable advertising campaign ever dcfdsed. For five days, at a total tost of $1,300,000, fuH page advertta* worn* were carried in about 2,000 daily newspapers, or virtually every d-dly in the United States and Cartad*. In addition the advertising of local Ford dealers throughout the couninvolved an expenditure various\y estimated at from $250,000 to $000,000. A guess of $400,000 probably would he near the mark, making s total of $1,700,000 in Ford advertising in five days. .fA few larger advertising appropriations may have been made, but none has been used in po brief a period af time. Ford advertising of the new i'*t has been confined to daily newspapers. The above estimates were made by Thomas Moore, associate director of the bureau of advertising of the Atrtericun Newspaper Publishers aslociation and were confirmed by other advertising experts. According to local Ford representatives, thirty-five dailies in the Metropolitian area were used, including four Jewish papers. With the latter exception the advertising appeared in 10 foreign language papers. The to-al cost was said to be in the neighborhood of $150,000, or about 12 per cent of the national total spent by ;he company. The Ford Motor company last year ipent about $400,000 in newspaper advertising and $372,000 in magasine idvertising. Its future advertising ilans, if formulated, are not known, jut its advertising will probably be far heavier than eve* before. In 1926 it spent 2,500,000 for newspaper advertising. There have been .minors it woul<f adopt radio advertising as the General Motors corporadon recently has done. It is not expected to emulate other automobile nanufacturers in billboard advertls- \ fin its record breaking efforts to eaten public attention, the Ford will . lot have the field to itself. General Motors is expected to .present new ! lines of Chevrolet, Pontine and Oldfcmobile cars' at the January AutOrtiotiile Show in this city. The presentation of these models undoubtedly will be accompanied by huge advertising expenditures, for the corporation long has been one of ' the world's largest advertisers. New York's most popular indoor sport c ontinues to be inspection of the new Ford at fifteen display rooms around the city, including Madison Square Garden. The Ford .officials report 460,175 persons saw the car Itfst Friday, the first day of the exhibition, and about 350,000 Saturday. They insist these staggering totalB represent actual count at the doors. Each of the ninety Ford dealers in ' this area has from two to five salesmen?depending upon the size of the dealer's business?taking orders at ' one or another of the exhibits. The salemen are rotated so that all Ford sellers in the area have a fair chance at juicy commission after many lean months while the" company was out of production. Friday's sales, each- with a cash deposit, totaled 1,688 cars, while 1,243 car were sold Saturday. No later figures have been given out. , Eight counties in northwestern South Carolina are producing about one-third of the state's cotton crop, the federal statistician reports. The roupties are Cherokee, Spartanburg, Umpn, Greenville, Laurens, Anderson, Pickens and Oconee. Mrs. Estelle Hutchison Meggs, 19 years old, w;as fatally shot and the side of her face and back of her head torn away at the home of her parents iq Florence county Tuesday night. The shot was fired through a window with a shot gup. Her husband had left her at her former-home for a visit earlier in the day. They had been married six months. The husband held fqp investigation in the absence of any clues to the murder of Mrs. Meggs, but was V*ter discharged upon proving a perfect alibi, and the kiHing is a mystery still. Artillery from . Fori Bragg and bombing planes from Langley and Maxwell fields will destroy the $250,000 bridge across the Peedee river neixt week in- practice operations whl^h will-last six-days. The bridge is'near the Stanley and Montgomery counties line: on State Highway No. 74, and the North Carolina highway department have -completed its tests of leading, the strnctu'te and turnedMt over to Ahe army to use as a target. Eighteen pjarres will bombard it from the air, arid the artillery will shell it from * hill several miles distant. Spectators will be excluded within five miles of the bridge .in all directions when the army maneuvers be-, gin, and those living within that radius will be compelled to move out,. The bridge site will be overflowed by a new water-powder development below, which puts the bridge out. of commission and allows it- to be' used for all **t! *f tests. &v.. ,n ? Ah a part of the celebration for Apple Week in Yakima, Washington, an apple pie weighing more than a ton was baked. It required four bakers, weilding rolling pins fifteen feet long, to roll the dough; a specially constructed oven, and 2,100 pounds of apples. Church Notice For Christmaa Sunday Those who were with the fine crowd at Sunday-School last Sabbath enjoyed a real Spiritual Feast. Sunday School, hegins promptly at 10 o'clock. Preaching services immediately following. Morning Subject: "The Greatest Motive: Text: "The love of Christ constraineth us"?11 Cor. 5:14. Evening Subject: "God's Greatest Christmas Present." Text: "<?od so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." May the good Lord continue to bless you this Christmas and may yoja live to enjoy many more. T. L. WILLINGH AM, Ps*?6r. ' ? Wateree Baptist Church . I MANUFACTURING CO 1 I SASH^DOORS^ BLINDS J PLAIN AHU .CK STS. PI.... 71 , LaMttaaiatiBMaaMMHiK hv_f A. ..1^. ^"v ' -'- < - ... . ->T*. -. -e n GENERAL ? ELECTRIC Refrigerator It appeals at once to every woman Women are quick to recognize the simplicity of this remarkable refrigerator. They like the fact that it never need* oiling. They like its quietness, its roominess, its sturdy handsome cabinet. They like the luscious dishes which it makes possible. They like its gleaming crystal-clear cubes of ice. And they like, above all, the fact that General Electric makes and guarantees it. CAMDEN FURNITURE CO. Camden, S. C. " - , { , TA* KOTUKNH I Office of Auditor Kershaw County Camden, 8. C., December 6, 1927 Notice is hereby given that the Au- 1 ditor's office will be open for receiving Tax Returns from January 1st. 1928, to February 20th, 1928. All persons owning real estate or personsi property must make returns of the same within said period, as required by law, or be subject to a penalty of 50 per cent. The Auditor will attend in person or by deputy at the following places in the county on the dates indicated for receiving returns: Bethune: January 17th and 18th. Raley's Mill: January 19th. Westville: January 20th. Kershaw: January 25th and 26th, Liberty Hill: January 27th. Blaney: February 1st. All persons between the ages of 21 and 60 years, inclusive are required to pay Poll Tax; and all persons between the ages of 21 and 50 years inclusive are required to pay a Road tax, , unless excused by law. All Trustees, Guardians, Executors, Administrators or Agents holding property in charge must return same. Parties sending tax returns by mail must make oath to same before some officer and fill out the same in proper manner or they will be rejected. & E. SPARROW, Auditor Kershaw County. (Uteris tmas Travel by Train ITS . SAFER ' L FASTER -r WARMER AND 1. COST IS LESS 25% r . .. ? Reduction for round trip tickets between any points on the Atlantic Coast Line System. Selling Dec. 28 to Jan. 2-28; good until midnight Jan. 3, and in Pullmans on payment of necessary charges. Baggage cliecked. Tickets and complete information from the nearest Coast Line Ticket Agent or Passenger Representative. > Merry Christmas ' and a ~ i ? * Happy New Year Pa?M>ig?v Truffle Department ATLANTIC COAST LINE ,i i J immmmmmm ? nlm ' . Veterinarian r ?><y ^fhon. -80-r-Nigbt Phone 114 . * : CAMDEN, S. C. i, ' ' . ' . . ' I I Desirable Loans Wanted I H ;/; . I If yop need funds for remodeling I t> I your home; or for buying or building a f I home, see us. Usually we are in position I I to make loans in reasonable amounts on I ; I desirably residence property in Camden. I 1 V ; If you have surplus ifunds you wish I I to lo'ari, see us. At times we require con- I siderable funds and can arrange tifne of I I' payment to suit your convenience. I Wateree Building & Loan Association I I JOH-N T.MACKKY.Treafti^^ |