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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. D. NILES. Editor and Publisher Published every Friday at No. 1109 Broad Htreet and entered at the Camden, South Carolina postoffhe as second class mail matter, Price per annum $2-00, payable in advance. 4927 * DECEMBER * 1927 | 35Z Mtii Jiwul W*d'1 BTfTi)-'| $** ; IU BJ W U1 1' 2 IFVi 4 5 * 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 IS 16 17 ' f- ? > 20 21 22 23 24 '6 WTP 29 30 31 i : * w , , ! y,r* A new year la born and an old year dies. It's time to hang1 up a new calendar, muke good resolutions and be at peace with the world. But, after all, a new year begins every day, even though the calendar may disagree. Every day affords just as great an opportunity to make good resolutions and to keep them as does January 1. If the maker of good resolutions remembers this, it may he easier for hirn to keep them. At any rate, we wish to those who make good resolutions and keep them, to those who make good resolutions and break them and to those who make no resolutions at all an exceedingly Happy New Year's Day and a 1928 filled with days each happier than the day before. Christmas Passes Quietly. Christmas passed off very quietly in Camden, so far as the police department was concerned?not a single arrest was made on ajiy charge, and - - - bo far as the paper has been able to learn, there were no accidents or tragedies of any... kind in Kershaw County. The merchants had a fairly yood trade, but it was not up to the Usual holiday rush. More mail, both incoming and outgoing, wua handled by the Camden postoffice than at any time within its history." It was handled rapidly by putting on night forces and at no time was there any congestion to amount to anything. Young Hickman Captured No man-hunt in the history of crime in this country hus ever interested th6 peoplp of the TJnited States more than* the one ended yesterday afternoon^ when William Edward Hickman, Kansas City youth, wanted as the kidnaper and slayer of a little girl in Los Angeles, was halted and tajkeu.on the Oregon Trail along the Columbia river, not far from the town of Pendleton, Oregon. In the city of the crime so many details of the dreadful deed had beeh developed it became almost certain that Hickman was the youth to be captured and it became almost a matter of time until he should be taken, if he remained alive. He evaded the police of Los Angeles and had driven the length of the Pacific Coast through police nets everywhere, to drop the clue that caught him by spending one of the marked $20 hills he had been given by the father of Marian Parker before the body of the little "-"girl had been thrown in the street before her home, at a store in Seattle. The crime this youth has perpetrated is beyond understanding. There is, of course, no adequate punishment for him. His type is beyond interpre tation. As a criminal he stands alone. lr he thought he could escape alive, he is not only a fiend but a fool, without understanding of the reaction of human emotions and the resourcefuln of society's reach in sue.h a crisis. . .ids man's oxpeticiue there is .'? ?esson that criminals may well learn. The police captured Hickman but some intelligent American citizen in a store in Seattle v.as as well informed as the police as to the character and serial numbers of the bills this lad carried. That same information was before men everywhere Hbd throughout the country, especially on the Pacific coast bills of that Vie- j nomination passed inspection when j presented. The polite was intelligently on guard through information nf- I forded by the press of the country.. Publicity is the nemesis of crooks and murderers.?Spartanburg Herald. Buster Harris, a young man of Newberry of high reputation at his home as a fine youth in every way, was one of the victims of the submarine disaster of the Massachusetts ' coast. His mother, Mrs. Hattie 'Harris, lives at NeM?berry. - >. ? . . Thanks Their Friends The Chronicle is requested by the *. children and grand-children of the ' late Rev. J. W. Brown to thank their r friends who ministered to the old minister during his last illness and 1 to them during their sore bereavet':, ment. _________ I Slrr (S)aka ' r > ANTIQUES AND GIFTS ^ t 1806 FAIR STREET, x -?* jq ?Wk~-ri *** | 1^4 " ^ Hour^lO^^ M. To la^M. SPENDING VAST SUM I m I For CovHtructiom mad Replacements on Southern Bell Hyatem. J* _ .* . -] To care for the continued growth of tho Kouthea*tern states your telephono company plan* a gross expenditure of approximately 127,000,000 dur. big ,1028 for new construction and replacements. The outlay for similar purposes during this year was practically this same amount. The Southern Bell Company operate* In Alabama, Florida, Geonria, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, 8outh Carolina and J*!?!?n<a each of these state* is included in next year's budget. It is expected that the company will make a net gain of 49,000 new telephones in .1928, which is slightly wore than the record for 1927. "' now estimated that mora than $1,120,000 will be required in South i th* maJ?r Items for wh ch large expenditures wijl be made | .,central o1i\ce equiprrtent, $2fio'rXn.' i exch.a.tt^ lin* projects. $250,000, long distance additions and rep atements, $247,000; and the rouine work of installing and removing telephones, $478,000. telephone engineers now estimate that there will be a net gain of 1,810 new telephones In South Carolina during 1928. * The big budget for 1928 ' is regarded as an indication of the continued growth and progress of this section. .Most of the expenditure is planned for the expansion of the local ?nd long distance system Co care for present needs and to meet the anticipated requirements of the near future. During the four years just ended, the Southern Bell Company has expended more than $100,000,000 for gross additions to its plant, and telephone officials are confident that the growth of this section will require an equally large investment during the next five years. SOUTH CAROLINA NEW$ Charley McL^od, negro butler for a prominent family at Sumter took poih overheard a telephone ^ tefween his master andv the sheriff^who had a wkrtant for the arrest of the servant on a charge of shooting to death a negresa the night hut?Hfo i T8 tuaken to a h08P>tHl, but died in a few hours. He shot the woman in her room, . The supreme court holds that the bouth Carolina tax commission can assess the Western Union Telegraph company for income tax on its net earnings in this state, rather than on iionSn *s ,n3i?e the state* A*>out' $10,000 a. year of taxes is involved. I Mrs. Bessie Garner has sued the! Andrews Loom and Harness Works for $213,000 for slander, claiming false charges against her by a corporation ottu-er in connection with wages on ! payday, when one employee did not i get the envelope coming to him. he chief highway commissionec has ruled that motorists may wear the new license plates on and after next luesday, December 27. If new plates are used liefo** that date the owner may be prosecuted, and if he does not apply for 1028 plates by December 31,1 n? is to be prosecuted. I he committee on printing which controls all the public printing of this! state has re-elected W. T. Wtffker its I secretary after ten years' Service bv him in that office. Senator Cyrus L. I Miealy, of Lexington, is chairman of the committee, and the other members are Senator II. H. Gross ,ot Dor-' Chester; Representative W. W. Smoak, V olleton, and Representative D. 1*J. I atterson, of Charleston. Rev. C. \V. Burgess who died at tngoville Tuesday evening, was an old Met nod ist minister who was placed on the superannuate list b\ the ucent conference at Bisbopvilb. His last chaige was the St. Matthews circuit. He died at the hqrne of his daughter, Mrs. C. L. Lawrence, wife of the ^school superintendent at Cotugtville. He leaves a widow and eight children living in Cottageville and Columbia. ' The trustees of Anderson college have made acting president Miss Annie I). Denmark, dean of women vice Prof. R. H. Holliday, who has been acting president since thfc resignation of President John E. White to take a Savannah pastorate. The .trustees decline to discuss the change but say there is no intention of choosing a permanent president soon. Lack ot discipline is believed to be the cause for transferring Professor Holliday back to his department in the faculty. A young Mormon elder named I.avivi Stalling? was-shot through the [nigh in Columbia Tuesday evening by a grocer, W. M. Lewis, who says tin? shot was accidental hut was sent to jail. The wound of the Mormon was not dangerous, it was found at a hospital. He was distributing tracts, and at one house Lewis was deliier:ng groceries and came to the front door, and a pistol in his hand went off. Another elder in the Mormon party says an arm protruded through the door and shot Stalling* whose home is in Idaho. Subiaco abbye, picturesque Benedict ino monastery at Subiaco, Ark., was destroyed by fire Tuesdav night with a property loss of $1,000,000. 4, Three polioMnen, three pedestrians and n tire department captain were injured by a wild bull on the street^ ot Philadelphia on Monday. ,The U* itired went to hospitals; the bull went "weal." >v- ' PP - # " r Hilton Sears, 20, escaped cd)fivlct , fry pi the North CarolinapenitepriAry, Inhere; ho'was held for murder, welk> Into a New tYdrk? police station i Tuesday, and askad to be locke&Un. ?ai$i he waa k*r?d of always tjink* mg that eveity polictrtharTKe-saw^Svps cjifr k; . . :r . -' V FIVE UNDER ARREST ,. i Alleged Stofei Goods Found li Their Posseosionl T - .. j With the apprehension of fivf tnen Wednesday evening for an alleged motor theft and filling station robbery the Camden police department -ilia* apparently scored another ' ace-high play in maintaining an enviable raeord far stopping the Suspected criminal who chooses to pas* along thin wny The quintet applied to number* of I the department for directions ?to a cheap rooming house and under admission that they, were Without funds they consented to put up for ^he flight in city prison. When.; m.ogrung came they continued in confinement because a chain of evidence had J>oen woven around their recent activities which authorities deemed well to more seriously consider. All members of the party with one exception stated to a Chronicle representative yesterday afternoon that they spent Tuesday night in Durham, N. C., leaving there around nine or ten o'clock Wednesday morning and arriving at Bethune in this county the same afternoon atound two o'clock after riding almost the entire distance in a motor truck which had pic ked them up. At Bethune they were put off the truck because its driver was stopping for a meal and they decided to -attempt another lift along their journey southward, according to their ,statement,1 and after walking a 'distance of arpund fourteen miles they succeeded In getting a ride into Camden for which they traded an overcoat. v< | Local officers were persuaded to be lieve, however, that they used a Buick Master Six sedan, now Field for identification, to reach a point near v its breakdown east of Camden and tone member of the party stated yesterday that ^tfiey did use the sedan in question, that he was with the party all day, that at no time were they 'passengers on a truck, and that he was with them when they broke in a filling station near Cheraw to take cigarettes and other goods. The youth who will likely appear against other members of the group at an, early term of criminal court gave officers the name of James Howell of 11 Wythfc street, Peters_burg, Va., and other members of the party are listed at police headquarters as follows: John Murphy, 5424 Avenue M, Brooklyn, N. Y.; J. Walsh, New York City; J. Connorvary, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Buddy Hinson, New York City. The Case Is Not HopelessThe Union Times is not disturbed over the way people are gadding about in automobiles and spending money. "The people talk hard times," says the Times, "but from the way they are spending money times must be pretty good." So far the automobile has failed to bankrupt the nation. It has no doubt started many a man on the road to the poor-house, but the financial collapse of one man out of a hundred does not mean much to a community. "Let 'em ride," adds the 1 imes, and then asks, "What are we going to do about it? Nothing, not a thing." Quite true. South Carolina is not different from other states and South Carolina is spending more than the value of an average cqtton crop on gas and automobiles. *The deficit is made up by denying one's self the comforts and necessities of life. The man who used to weflr a $f>0 suit is wearing overalls and'riding in a $1500 automobile. The woman who used to wear a $100 cloak is satisfied with a $40 eoatsuit and an automobile. The automobile is not adjusting itfeelf to the world but the world is adjusting itself to the automobile. It is a slow and painful process. There 1\as a lapse of 2000 years between the two-wheel cart and the rubber-tired buggy. In less than 15 years the automobile lifted man off his feet and sat him down on pneumatic wheels and soft cushions. It was a terrific change and the world staggered under the blow,, hut everything will come out all right in the end. Somehow the world has always managed to adjust itself to these changes ^and civilization will survive the . present crisis.?Dlllofi Herald. ; 4* Lion cubs, which can be kept \Vith safety until about two years old* are. ^becoming popular as pets in Europe, the price for a cub ranging from $375 to $475. " ' p One hundred men, women and children were marooned in snow ildfta within a hundred miles of Buffalo, N. Y? last. Monday and sent out calls for relief. The people marooned were in automobiles. ? ? ? 3r In various schools in London pupils have been known to range from t)>e age of two in the nursery to seventysix in the night classes. Reports of the Department of'Agriculture indicate that approximately 24,000,000,000 eggs are laid annually in the United States. ^ Visitors to Hawaii go to Kilauea in crowds to gain membership Im. the famous- Holo-in-One club by driving a golf ball into the steaming fire pit 'of the volcano. .?*[,- 7 < The fashion in Ireland centuries ago was to dye horses, wholly or in paryt for ornament. One prince had'fifty white horses with ears dyed red and ' mane* and taHs purple. t The ^Florida Americas Legiop deapartment flaa served notice on .Commander Spafford that it will not take a poll Oh the prohibition questidn. .. w-The% Bahk'jhf ' Great Valta hub dereported Twrf wt^actory^y&ar^ The severe cold weather In the United States this week also swept over most of the countries of Europe, the ^oldest weather of the year being reported from England, Franca, Russia, Switzerland# Germany, Italy and other countries. Joe Dan, Duckabush Indian of the state of Washington, and said to be 108 years of age, is dead after being struck by an automobile. His brother, David, 111, was the chief mourner at the funeral. It is reported that up to Monday more than 7000 executions had taken place in Canton, China, since the Nationalists gained control of that ci> ./ - . NOTICE The' artnual meeting of the ?tock holders of The Hank of Camden will be held at the Bank's office On Tuesday, January 10, 1028 at 11 o'clock. H. G. CARRISON, Jr. Cashier. ..p. PARTITION SALE Slate of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, Court of Common Picas. Mary K. Connors, personally, and as administratrix of the estate of Ben Connors, deceased, and James Edward Connors, by his guardian ad litem, Mary R. Connors, Plaintiffs, against Eunice Wade and Willie Kirklund, Defendants. Under and by virtue of a Decree of His Honor Judge H. F. Rice in the above cause of date December 14, '11)27, I will offer for Hale to the highest bidder for cash before the Court House door in the City of Camden during the legal hours of sale, on the first Monday of January, 1928 (being January 2, 1928) the following described real estate: "All that ^parcel or lot' of land, in the City of Camden, County of Kershaw, and State of South Carolina, fronting one hundred twenty-five (125) feet, more or less, south on Chesnut Street, and extending back west to a depth of one hundred seventy (170) feet, more or less, bounded on the north by property of Andrew Williams; on the east by property herein after described and by property of Marshall; on the south by aaid Chesnut Street and west by property of Fraaier. Also?All that parcel or lot of land lying east of and adjoining the above described property, fronting east on the Street or Road on the western side of the right of way of the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company for a distance of about twenty (20) feet and running back west therefrom of a uniform width to a depth of about forty-five (45) feet, bounded on the north by property now or formerly of Williams; east by the said Road on the western side of the Right of Way of the ^ Seaboard Air Line Railway Company/ south by property of Marshall; and west by the propertv hereinabove described." R. H. HILTON 1 Master for Kershaw County. December 14, 192. WE WISH TO EXTEND TOALL OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS EVERY GOOD WISH FOR THE NEW YEA p. ZEMP & DePASS May 1928 Bring Only 1 Happy Hours 1 That the New Year will hold for you nothing but ji| Health, Happiness and Prosperity. j | This is our wish for you. That we may continue to merit the patronage of all II t our friends?anci make mkny new ones-?this is our II New Year wish for I Mackey Mercantile Co. I .. \ \ - '* ^ Annual Meeting of Stockholders The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Enterprise Building and Loan Association will be held at the office of the treasurer on Rutledge Street at 4 p. m., Wednesday, January 4th, 1928. jT W. P. JOHNSON, Secretary and Treasurer H Meeting of Board of County Directors The January meeting of the Board of County Directors will be held on Thursday the 5th day of January instead of on Tuesday, th* 3rd day. H. G. CARRISON, Jr., Chairman. Wants?For Sale FOUND?On upper Fair street one large cameo brooch, Tuesday. Owner can get same by calling at Chronicle office and describing property. 40sb. FOR RENT?Seven room house with all modern conveniences, corner Fair Street and Hampton Park. Ready for occupancy January first. Apply G. C. Bruce, Camden, S. C. / 40 tf. I BUY AND SELL?All kinds of Hardwood timber, poplar and gum blocks a specialty. Write H. D. Warren, Camden, S. C. for particulars. 40 pd. LOST?White liver and ticked ponter dog, owner's name "Reg Halladay," j on collar. Anyone returning dog I to R. Storey, Camden, S. C\, will ' receive $50 reward 39 pd. : WANTED?Renters, white or colored,! land good and level, located in Kershaw and Richland Counties. Address D. A. Goff, English or, E. L. Propst, P. O. Box 444, Char- i lotte, N. C. 38-45 pd.1 HINTING PRESERVES FOR SALE ?No. 1 tract 2,000 acres land, j Quail shooting and some duck: shooting, thirty minutes run from Camden. Fifteen tenant farms, suitable lodge and stables for attractive game preserve proposi- ! tion. No. 2. tract, 250 acres.' Oldtime plantation house, nine rooms, four tenant houses, good i peach orchard, running water and ; lights in house. Good quail shoot- , ing and deer and turkey shooting on adjoining territory. jUBt tyJ place one likea for% hunting lodA 1 Price very reasonable. T. K. Tot? ter, attorney, Camden, fi. C, 874<hil FOR SALE?-One geod ? Can l>e seen at 1713 Gordon Street? or call 364-J., Camden, 8. q; MONEY TO LOAN?At six and?*:? half cent interest on improve? city real estate. Apply jw?< Savage, Jr., Camden, 3. 0. 841? WANTED?No. 1 nine logi cash prices paid; year roasf 4fr? maud. Sumter Planing Ifon* isd^l Lumber Co%, Attention E. S. Bsei? Sumter, S. C, CURTAINS Sdlt ETCH ED?Any on? wishmg curtains stretched pleue| apety at 9H Campbell^ Street?! Prices reasonable. 8-t? FAR SHOE REPAIRING?call at ft? Red Boot Shop next door to Ex? press office. A. M. JONES, Prop. I : DIXIE BLUE GEM, Egg and Block! Gfcad. Save money by letting us pu? in your winter's supply now. Tei-H ephone 310 for our low. delivew?i prices. Camden. Lumber Company?! Camden, S. C. 27sb I FOR RENT?Office in Loan ft Sav?; ings Bank Building, rates very rea-H sonable; no heat, lights or janitor's? bills to pay. Apply N* C. .Ajrtett,? j Agept' Camden, S. C. lS-fcM Enterprise Building 1 and I loan Association | NEXLSERIES I STARTS I IANUARY1, 1927 I I ( * \ . . '^IH # "L- - ? ; ,^r^ih - >38' , ; '. ;g?H "fjjapjig Hpui ^par!" I I ? r r i7->. 95 w - ?--r-TTGr ^ngsH^H I ? - #VSjS^H __ ^ I ?lip ODffirvra anil lirprtnra ?f the Sauk ' I I I I jl I of (fiamiipn pxtatii a rnriiial Ml I I II Neui Wpar Carpeting I II T |l| I to the ritt^PtiH ?f ttjLiH rotnmututg I I 1| ' | I Mag? I ' I ?k-r I ^ .- r, . . - <r frff* " ' rJV-yl'| I lf?altl|. ^apptnPBH . I II . | || I atth *v Ml I Jtrnaprntii I I II I atienii you hurittg tljr roming ypar I \l I II I THE BANK OF CAMDEN I ! - . a2?; j* _1 - ?i"qt-r-fli?. **c ' " -: ?rr?t*br i - ^. 1 I FORTY YEARS OF SAFE, SOUND SERVI CE Ml II I JI ?1 - - ' ?? - - ?JL?*jr