Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I tax notice lira surer Kert?h*w County, 1# ?. C? H*pt. 12, 1927. b hereby given that the be opened for the collecitate, ponnty and School n October 15fcb, 1927, to h, 1028. a penalty of 1 oill be added to all taxes mary 1st, 1028, 2 per cent 1st, 1028 and 7 'per cent 1028. i per centum for Kerfahaw is fellows: Mills XaxeSt 8% .School, ,....4 W$k9 .... 7 1 Taxes, 8% sal, jf> it tutional School Tax 3 pay- ScboolTax .% oUl ....20 >4 b Township Boad . for Delta lb TownSy : 2% 111.28. au deg owners are t$ make a return ef their e County Treasurer, who is 9 furnish a license tag.'AO ht without the license tag s will he subject to a fine >r imprisonment not more days, llowing School Districts al levies: Mstrict No. 1 18 )istrict NO, 2 16% )istrict No. 3 ...j.. 19 Mstrict No. 4 ...7v. 18% Mstrict No. 6 1 Mstrict No. 6 18 Mstrict No, 7 ... .10 Mstrict No. 8 ...... 1 Mstrict No. 9 TMstrict No. 10 5 Mstrict No. 11 8 Mstrict No. 12 19% Mstrict. No. 13 ...... 1 Mstrict No.-lb 1 )istrict No, 16 2 Mstrict No, 10 ...... ,1 Hetrict No. 20 1 Mstrict No. 22 19% Mstrict No; *06 1 Msjrict No. 25 1 Mstrict No. 27 1 Mstrict No. 28 1 Mstrict No. 29 ...... 7 Mstrict No. 30 1 Mstrict No. 31 ...... 9 Mstrict No. 38 .11 Mstrict No. $7 1 Mstrict No. 38 1 Mstrict No. 39 5 Mstrict No. 40 20% Mstrict No. 41 1 Mstrict No. 42 1 Mstrict No, 43 1 Mstrict No. 46 1 Mstrict No. 47 ...... 1 I Tax is $1.00. bodied male persons from f twenty-one (21) to fifty, , both inclusive,, except resincorpor'ated towns, shall as a road tax except minis5 gospel actually in charge rogation, teachers employtic schools, school trustees, is permanently disabled in y service of the State and ho served in the War BeStates, and all quarantine this state and all resimay be attending school at the time when said road >ecome due. Persons claimlities must present certifitwo reputable physicians unty. rmation with reference to be furnished upon applicaS. W. HOGUE, County Treasurer. KERSHAW LODGE No. 29 Regular communication - of this lodge is held on the first Tuesday in each month Visiting Brethren are welT. V. WALSH, 3, ' .Worshipful Master, etary. ' 1-14-27-tf If In a Bad Fljc fa Indigestion 1 I NI had' suffered with faktt- E I f*tion for 6 years," says Mr. I I H C. Dove, RP.D.4, Chaetgg, B 9 9-C "I had gotten to M. I place where I could hardly E **t a thing?everything hurt I MP* frJjW "mothering apelle I P?nid?. I wee I j "I read of Black-Draught E| "d decided to try it I do B Rot believe that I would have E Keen living today had it not I been for Black-Draught I had I gotten to when 1 only ^3 B crackers, but after M I ? g BUfck I>r*aght I began I H felt better. 1 have I spell erf indigee- I - ?on in tan months." ? ^hadford a Blaok-Draught %i I B| Sal^:^85>OU hdrb* In B v H |r|? llllA||u|| 13 P^Tlow Buried 127 Yeara , Hadley, Mt??, 22.?The strangest of flood stories has Just been told 1 hare. 1 u/uh* /,arw ?J town k?own foiu!^ B ^8^0Whi in the year 1800 a man was plowing in the spring > of the year. In the evening he un- t loosed his ox team and left the plow standing in the field. When he rose in the morning the flood waters had > covered his land, carrying three or j four feet of soil and burying the plow so deep that he never dug it out. And now, 127 years later, another t flood carried away the top soil and ? there was found the plow which was c buried. Die* From Burn*. t Florence, Dec. 19.?Frank Rol- < lings of Cheraw, died at a hospital ? here this morning from burns he received when a stove gasoline tank exploded in his cafe. The body was ? carried to Cheraw today for the fun- J eral. Physicians said that his case i was the worst case of burns that had eome within their experience. Few spots on his body were left untouch- i ed by flames and that he lived 24 ? hours was considered miraculous, i Rollings was conscious through it all I and his sufferings did not appear iniense^tfye physicians said." '* i \ < Only forty-four persons live on St. ? Kllda Island, far off the coast of 1 Scotland, in the Atlantic. These > forty-four speak Gaelic. They are very devout. The men take great risks on the cliffs in search of puffins and other sea fowl, often hanging over the ocean at a height of a thousand feet. MASTER'S SALE State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, Court of Common Pleas. Emily C. McNaughton, et a!, Plaintiffs* against LiHa -Ray nmd O. ?. Mcfhwrghton, et al, Defendants. In pursuance of an Order of the Court of Common Pleas made in the nib mm entitled case and-dated the 16 th day of December, 1927, I will sell to the highest bidder at public auction, for cash, before the Court House door in Camden, S. C., during the legal hours of sale, on the 1st Monday, being the 2nd day of January 1928, the following described real estate: , "Tract No. 1. That tract containing seventy-five and three-fourths (75 3-4) acres, bounded north by tract No. 2 of McNaughton estate lands; East by lands of W. B. Threatt and Estate of J. M. Carson, deceased; South by lands of W. B. Threatt and estate of J. M. Carson, deceased and West by Camden-Oheraw road. Tract No. 2. That certain tract of land containing one hundred sixtyfour (164) acres, bounded on the north by tract No. 3 of the said estate lands; East by lands of W. B. Threatt and estate of J. M. Carson, deceased, and by lands of C. O. Stogner; South by tract No. 1 of the said estate lands and on the west by Camden-Cheraw road. Tract No. 3. That certain tract of land containing eighty and one-fourth (80 1-4) acres bouftded on the north by Arthur lands; East by lands of C. O. Stogner, South by tract No. 2 of said estate lands and on the West by Camden-Cheraw road. Tract No. 4. That certain tract containing one hundred thirty and. one-half (130 1-2) acres, bounded on B the North by tract No. 5 of the saiqte estate land's; East by Camden-Cherav t road; South by Gainey lands and West! by Freshley lands. Tract No. 5. That Certain tract** land containing two hundred sixrjnd one-half (206 1-2) acres, boundfftfbn the North by tract No. 6 of the'Mid estate lands; East by Camden-Claffaw rohd; South by tract No. 4 Jrthe said estate lands and West by Jpreshley lands. v # w.--" Tract No. 6. That certain Aaet-.pl land containing two hundred^ ninetythree an do. one-half (293 1-2) acres, bounded North by lands of tjhe estate of J. M. Carson and Arthtfr lands; East by Arthur lands and/ CamdenCheraw road and on the /South by tract No. 5 of the said estate lands and West by Freshley lands. /That after offering th[e said described lands for sale in tme separate tracts as above ' specified the said lands will, be offered fq/r sale as a whole, as follows: 7 J, \ All that certain pieqe, parcel qr tracts of land situateJ lying . and, being in Kershaw -Criunty, South Carolina, on the Camde/n-Cheraw road (known as Porter Bridge road) containing nine hundred /ifty andh-onehall (950 1-2) acres founded. North by estate land* of 3: DA. Carson and Arthur land*t-45??t b/ Arthur lands, lands of C. O. Stogner and lands of < W. B. Threatt and Astate of J. M. Carson, deceased, ScJuth by Gainey lands and land of Wl'B. Threatt and - estate of J. M. Carson, deceased, and on the West by Freshley lands; said lands having been suHfeyed by J. H. Mobley, Suveyor in /November 1927, as shown by plltts Byii him nude of : the said several plats/;* . That is. case the / #ld : described lands %re bid In for a larger amount ih separate if*cts**Yw(r the- tract ad a whole, that^then ?| Maater fXecute deechrTo Htbe .Miley* or purchasers complying; \ bat should the said describtp tract wbok bring a greater amount tB^fthen the said Master execute a ddfHto the purchaser or purchaserf^Bmplying. R. H.J?TON Master, ?Mh*w County. December 15, 1927. J 1 We have had a coiflHj"0* with officials of federal rjflWfnk and applications of succes.^^Vddcrs for a proportionate loan of a proportionate ?} *?*n ** whole tract will con" sidevation. i?:. : 4- Attorney* IN THE CAROLINA*} Items of iArrMt (ilMiird from News. - ' papers of Two Btate*. * The loss by fires in North Carolina vere a million dollars less in 1927, han in 192C. All policemen and firemen of Cireeu? rille have been granted a flat flQ ncrease in salary. In gpartanburg county, about twohirds of the persons tried for crimes Mid misdemeanors were white and mo-third colored. Rev. I)r. Warren M. Seav has ac:epted a call from the First Baptist hurch at Anderson and resigned his julpit at Atlanta. Virginia Caldwell, a seven-year old rirl of Spartanburg, was unconscious .or sixteen days after being hit by an lUtomobile, but is recovering. W. W. Campbell died suddenly at lis home in AndeNgn county Tuesday svening aged 79 ydttrs. He was born ind reared in that county and was a irominent farmer there. Dr. S. J. Tryon, eminent physician >f Greeuyille, died there _ Tyesday morning after being sick five years. He was 91 years old and an active member of the Episcopal church. The appeal of Will Taylor, negro burgUr convicted at Gastonia, was denied and he must go to the electric chair, the supreme court of North Carolina said in its list of decisions handed down Wednesday. Th?- first portrait of an ex-governor to be sent Governor Richards in response to his request for portraits of ail the governors sinoe Wade Hampton was an oval photograph of Cole L. Hleasc, now United States senator. Sheriff T. C. Swindell, of Hyde county, North Carolina, has resigned under charges that he lived up to his name too well. He is now in court with the esse continued, after being fined for driving an automobile while intoxicated. South Carolina will get 20 out of; lift new textile plants to be built in 1928, with North Carolina getting 17,1 and the other 11going to other states I in tha South. The cost of the now plants in prospect, and enlargements of old one , will be nearly $10,000,000. Miss Mary Barnwell, one of the most prominent and oldest women, of Beaufort, died there the first of,this' week add was buried; from the\ald church of which ahe hadbe^n a lifelong member. wShe had connections in Charleston, Columbia and Savannah. The First Baptist church of Shelby, N. C., unanimously voted to spend 1100,000 during the coming year in constructing.a Urge educational building adjoining the church and remodeling the church itself to give it a larger auditorium. Kov. l)r. Zeno Wall is the pastor. . i Superannuated Methodist preachers aH over North Carolina have received Christinas checks totaling 120,000 from the Duke endowment, under the terms of the will of (he late James B. Duke. Up around Blowing Rock, N. C., U the artic of the Carolines, and the first of thU week the thermometer went to zero with' a alxty mile gale blowing down trees and poles. At Cove Creek the mercury went below aero. Lakes in that section were frozen over for the first time in two years. No deaths were reported, but mountaineers were said to be suffering from lack of sufficient fuel in some places. The trial of the three director* of the bank of Wilkes. N. C., for making false statement which has been going on all week, ended on Thursday evening. The defendants, A. Q. Hendren', W. H. Foster and W. B. iSomers, said they signed the statement published without reading It after the president prepared it. The president under sentence to the penitentiary, Honor Roll For HUney School. Grade 1.?Bertha Nelson. Gfade 2. -Mary Kabon, Susie Mae Miles. Grade 3.- Margie llrunham, Grigsby Gerald, Elizabeth Keith, Edith Nelson, Nina Rose, Corrie Hoss, Minnie 'Grace Watson, Frank Sanders. Grade 4.--<Niek Bowen, John L. Branham, Sarah Gardner. Grade 5,?Agnes Nelson, Jessie Mae Rabon, Stella Ross, Pauline Kirkland, Loin Mason, Clyde Peake. , Grade 6.?Murria MoCoiiibs, Valdora Perry, Ernestine Nelson, Annie Belle Price, Sarah Maud Miles, Char lotte Hawkins, Lizzie Bowen. Grade 7.?Lucy Mae Jeffcrs, Victoria Nelson, Vearl Price, Sadi.j Sessions, A. T. Simpson Jr, Grade 8.?Fannie Monroe, Levi Branham, Elton Ivovett Grade 10.??Mae Belle Moore. Grade lL-~Mildred Evans. Proviacetown, Massachusetts, a keeper of traditiors, is the only town in tne United States that has a town crier. A man in Sussex, England, who had lost his voice ten years 'ago owing to a gas attack during the war recovered it after a nightmare caused by witnessing a startling film. 1111 1 1 false statement end told them they must take his word for it to aave the bank. The directors were acquitted. iHaUtNl II Aa ww" iChevrolet - ? - i - -> When you see it you will. Te oqi^i q ^ Motors could produce such a car at | L, %? ' ' 1 . i i -ijt m- -15?-.. -x r'V- y^ ..., . j*?rp -t . - *- V "' -ritf ~T?"rJr?'" '"''f ft ,f~ T * --"?'? T"*"" ???? ?? jy,.. Welsh Motor Company camden, south carolina jav^u". r?*:r * . . * > ^.s*4y ., .\13bi v : .'/ *; ;. v ... ? __ __ ? 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