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THE C AMDEN CHRONICLE II. I). NII.KS Fditor and 1'ubliaher Published cvi n Friday at No. 110'j Broad Street aim entered at the Camden, .South < aruiina poatoffice as second class mail .matter, Price per annum $2.00, payable in advance. I O 2 H MAKCH 1928 v Mwi Tu* Wed Tku fn : S*i n fn 4 .S 6 7,8 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 i 21 , 22 23 24 J 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 i i 17 1*19 * ( aiiidcii. S. Friday. March 0, 1928. A Snow - White Partridge J in i harleston Museum, !u<- old dest arid one of the fine-t in the 1'luted States, has been recently enriched by the liist <if the -i -w - whit < parti idgc This rare bird is a distinct addition to the natura life col lection of the institution It is the KifI. according to The Charleston News and Courier of \V. K. NoJte, resident of Bnml>erg and formerly a citizen of ('harleston. The bird was killed by a Mr. Brabham near Bamberg, while he was out hunting recently. He turned it over to Mr. Nolle, who prompt I y forwa i ded i' to the Charleston Museum. Alexar.det Sprurit, curator of the museum, is <|Uoted in I he News ami Courier as saying that this snow-white partridge "is a> perfect a specimen if the albino in could la- found. It has' no traces of colored feather and the eyes were pink, an invariable characteristic of the albino." It is alto-I gethir meet and proper that such ai rare find in bird life should be preserved in it- propei die - ili -at ion in America's oldest mu-eum, where; there a i e so many moie mloiosl ing i object* and articles of an educative l va'in Sali-hury, N. <.lournal. \Nrilir* Need Never Be in The Wrong Nothing delights the layman mors* than to break into print with a < ritici-ni of ;t professional writer. If the professional makes a mistake, scores of sharp-eyed, well-mfoi med readers discover it and hasten to jump on him With both feet. He deserves no sympathy, for it is T - hie t.?r 'he writer never to he w ronir ' ' ' ' 1 ' ei|uen' w fnng, both (di'oi- at. i leader- , ontident < in! h.m ai d ru- . III ! e i- , mi, d l'lU- he [ net (1 net er lw wrong. It he wishes always Lu be right.?if 1 tie wr-hrs to establish himself as a wi.ter who never makes mistake* and whose woid may he accepted a* its lace value whatever others may say. 1 be ha* only to routine himself to *u! ' - ? oticern ng vvfiich he know.* ' tin' nee<l* . Im known. 1 he write- what he think-, <>r w rat 'it- be!:, v. - 11 ue, . r wha: j - mebody ha - / ' I him i* t rile, lie u : mg * r I t he t;, ; nl i.ever ' vv rde i ' or in.i k .. .i i men; u h - - h : v - hey. d ,j uj,t . y. ;; be ? a- : to - n: do k. re ' on., vv he- ?!-r:i::t re : V\1 . th. k ' '"e k ro\\ -n r. i r t pr.td : r 1 rr 1 ' "i.. . vv > : , - or talk- vv ?' '" vv : fa - d. : , e' 'o end,: I t - - oent t'r. ,t , n , - ; j 'I 11- n.fallih:. -he' :n; ' 1 x' of keeping - !i; -at a j " l:" 1 t' b' ; , die exc( ; : c s j w ' e c he k w W hat he talking ! a :?ujt. I' ur * a . I: n Tr ihu t . Is I he Family Defunct? I'-" most fundam.e tal <l;f1' r' - ' W , ( : t he y ling peaide :of yesterday :- ? j n : .v :r g * :.-. f mlepctt,!* r., t of ., ;- old of a i mral. Two:-,*-, v. f-tu: y chdtir. seem to fe, 1 a tic v 1 - ti t ivii n c< tot iv own a b;! it v '< ' u - e s.tua'.ii nl , I,- a-,i a t-Mr ; : I '-t.'l'.i'y s, ..j--. ! r c.i-- niavy pat ; I' - tit's* .. o. hecaiist j " P' iy v up - , a-.- o 11 - I ... ........... . .... I k. a I - a . \ A * ' ' \ -'d re. . :t: ' ' . ?r vv . w - . ," ; r -rn, e. , ; ah ?rk N ! V - , mil. h of - f - -ft - r, w i : i < --'ls vvr. a:., hut < e\erc:*:r^? w 1 , ha- it*. ,n a- v r.rdar. , vv . . i radit o-:,: rn-- Forum May: . 7.; no. ( lad Surprise. '3 ru were yjoir.yr sixty niiies ar ht ur, said the traffic cop. "Lead me to the fine," *jud M Chufnrin*, proudly. "I didn't thin* Ihe oid fliv could do it!" South Carolina Policeman, A policeman employed by the town ?>f Woodruff, in South Carolina, had undergone unbearuble taunts from u man hi* had aireMed He wan advised that it wa? againHt the law for an officer to exact private aatisfuction, so fie resigned his office, turned in Ins budge and billy, ami forthwith sought his ailvi i ->ary, gave him u iieai. ny. men, n? some people he had iiriiMi'il, forfeited his bond and skipped The town board, however, stood in admiration of hia respect for tin law and ,s.uid a call for him to o/ne hack for reinstatement. It is to in* assumed that us soon as he ' n he a i s the in.-. he will report for resumed du'v -Charlotte Observer. A Ni'Kro Hotel Jjtjihurn the center of the origination of much of aueceasful adventui< in bu.-inesh by the negro. The start was made in the .insurance field later followed b> hanking and men handising enterprises and now Durham has hu.ilt a hotel of the modern type for the negro. It is perhaps the first of its kind in the South, built by negroes and for ne- { grows. It is called the Biltmore, which is a classy name, to l?e sure, I and cost It had formal) opening last Monday, through the enterprise of Dr. Clyde Donnell, exclusive owner, and Donnell i-^known as medical director of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. It is prsmarijy meant for accomodation of negro "traveling men," but caters to the negro public in general.?Charlotte Observer. The Ancient Oath By The Doctors "I will bring no stain upon the .earning of the medical art. Neither Will I give poison to anybody though a-kid to do so, nor will 1 suggest x u h a plan. Similarly 1 will not give treatment to women to cause i abolition, treatment neither from j abo\e nor below. But I w ill teach | thi> art to those who require to learn ! it, without grudging and without ant indenture. 1 will use treatment to! help the snk according to m\ ability' and judgment. And in purilx and in | holmes- will I guard my art. Int.' whatsoever hou-es I enter. 1 will do so to ! i !ji the !. k, keeping my-cii' free from all wrong-doing,, intentional ' or unintentional, tending to death <> injure, and from fornication w.t-i bpini yr !ne, man m woman. What - n'Vi-r in the course . f practice I see ' r hear (or outside m\ practi-e in -o. ;al intercourse i that ought not to be puhl:v-hrd abroad. I will inn d vulge. but ctisider sir h to be h<dv secrets Now. if 1 keep th s oath a- d break .'. t. may Cud be m\ hi ,* ii- l it and art. and ma\ I be led ami.ng all me f .i* ail tirm. D I keep faith well; hu* if 1 f.,r wia- ir.N-e'.f mat tin -it? be fa i me " SOI Til C \K<)| 1\ V \ K\vs 1 "a sheriff at ('hi -!i-r i- iur * ng w ner ot an automobile wrh .. N\ i: r t %:\>i . i i . , i - -. plat e fouta 1 ::: A "ds i , a \\ : 1 k - bo11 with i t : a ci .--- r - g..n !' N ' r i-. i ga: ^ mar; . - -'1 h - jaw i> ken at, . "<'1 > .'> ! pa t U1 ; I . e s, whin 1 ' ' ' w .- pu-i . ! l' a. burst an i i'ii a e m int.- .;- I*;, 1 vacant Moii -1 Biack-1-utv in- i ("iipit d the <!a\ by i 1 : a: t mi r.t of eommeri i 'eat; work r part of t he i a t ry wh m.t. ,.m Illinois. ia'maiige Tunic-, of Crec-mil'-had his left arm broken aid boii\ burned by a mystei: . am ti explosion under the b : . , a -aw mill in which lie was w :k g 1' rainy. S x men. Sank\ Beasloy, Burl Adam-, two Moore brothers, a? i tw W a!(i'>n brothers, are being held in! .a . -barged w.'h murder of Waiter! I ib. rt. prohibf n agent in ogia. | !l H (arm. the in.. me tax' ' 'h ra man k;.!? i- the Sheib\ het, i i -1' e. w a - a native o! Diri , ami had 1 ' ' r.t err a . n \? ma sen aa r '' r!\ w ,tk hea !: ; - .,t li e, .r?, \ C - ?? - ... \\ B H ,r " M'-i ' '" ? * ' -' t.h? I ' - ... -;ni ! r ' v turn rg >her :V b .,gh d put | eThe \\ .. r a - i *u H a me . . ..0, spec: . -v rev ; oattlc fiei :. a m;i,-s a II atTr.e\ . a* : .. . , the I hi re I - I t ; I a'l.t rkel VI 1 " t ed >' a tt_.\ bund a * ongress. W h;.e i v a. - - -a a- gl.eti! v ci to atihg the -a -e-s of a k r.d . i* the p.-i - 1 ne men bh v ; , v a . i s t le vv n - also the fin aiam ! f the t w- The town had. , r.>u!- j tis f: a. the combination rt hrr a.arm a d ceiebration, and the mil! -ays damage of |20 was dor.i be breaking ,n. Asa Tindali. J T Wdhs and Kzrn Ogiesiby are defendants in ^ court on a charge of malicious mis- ! chief. The unlii - he<i hotel with fifteen stories of framework standing on the highest kouh around Hendersonvilie, in which t oiiunodore i'erry Stoltz, of Miami, l ia., sank money running into tiie m. lions, was offered by an Aahevillc oiirl to be sold for $110,000 to N? v\ York engineers with the purrha-er. to have four months to i accept ai.d j^ay for it. There is noth- I mg in tin order compelling the buyers to ii .-h tiie hotel. The runnel lias pierced Jieaucatciier mountain by which motorists on some of the best state roads will enter Amu vole. The workmen met in I the middli of the bore. The tunnel 'is hid fiit long and will be much | larger than the original tui>e which j is eight feet wide and twelve feet high I ne work has been going on j about a year and is unique in carrying a treet and sidewalk under a mountain, as well as one of the largest tunnels in America. T. (). Cooper, 60 years old, waited until thi* testimony for the state was * all in against Grayson Roddy, aged l'J, accused of criminal assault on his daughter, and then shot Roddy in a magistrate's court at Greenville. One bullet hit Roddy )n the afbdomen at six feet range and the hospital surgeons said he was seriously woundid. On the way to jail Cooper muttered that he feared his soul would he lost b> his shedding blood. Wilson Brown, u lf>-year-old hoy living near North Wilkesboro, N. (', fell .nto a stream above a cascade and was carried over the falls two | hundred feet high At the brink, he * caught and hcfd a rock projection until exhausted and then dropped with the waterfall and swam out of the ' pool below with only a broken arm F anil a bruised shoulder. Then he 8 walked home. ' South Carolina in February this year used a million gallons more gaso~ f line than in the same month last year, h and the difference is not accounted d for by the extra day in the month 'I this year. The state used 2d,000 gal-* t Ions less kerosene this year than last J t 'ear in February. The total gasp- i ilie this last month on which tax was laid was 7,762,HK3 gallons, and kero- ' ene to the amount of 1,403,(546 galons was sold. Robbers blew up the safe of the j 'iggly Wiggly store in Fast More- ( lead street in Charlotte, early Sun- 1 lay morning and escaped with $1,200. i "hey carried the battered up safe to I he bed of a branch fifty yards behind < he store and left there also some i checks and other papt i: 'j'ia. |p^H was the cash of the bigger business the store e>ver Viad. President Ooolidge is asking s l "j appropiiation of ivA^| X)0 to be used in fighting the al bold worm, which is said to bi^| most dangerous and destructWij^H hat has yet been found ?otton. The boll worm is doin(h^| less in Texas. i gari )f.n season is on i I We -re fully .uppbed with every variety for Sp^B olen.ing, both Wood.' end I^ndredth grow,., t?glUk 1 Pee. Been., Corn, Onion Set., etc. AWo f ine v.ri*, I flower .eed. Agent, for Vigoro fertili.er. Phoned* I Zemp &PePass ^lllll?lllllllllllll[?IIIIIIIIIIIIH^IIIIIIIIIIII?llllllllllllWIIIIIIIIIIII?lllllllllllll5]||||||||||IIS;llllll[Slllllllllllffllllllllllll5]IIIIIIIIIIIBSIIIIIIIIIIIIWIIliiiiiiJ J CLOSING OUT i Piano and Edison Departments! | Beginning Friday Morning, March 9th, 1928] ?? Actual discontinuance of both our Piano and Edison departments to ? make room for Waltham goods to arrive in Ten Days. ALL OF OUR GREAT STOCK ?OF? Pianos and Edison's TO GO AT CLOSING OUT PRICES Everybodys Chance !? 'I iii- $20.">.00 KtlTson with 12 EE Thi- $20o.nn Ktiison with 1'2 W\ records cut to $8i..>0. EH m?\ : business. Bivr cut <>n New Ktiison Records: Sl.oo EE Rec" ii-, GOc; $l.">u Records, = $1.1 'J; $2.00 Records. $1.37. g NEVER BEFORE And doubtless never again such an opportunity GRANDS, PLAYERS, AMPICOS?BOTH NEW AND SECOND HAND. ANY GRADE ALMOST AT YOUR OWN PRICE AND TERMS. This $650.00 Player will go to the first caller at $365.00. This is the well-known Schultz Player. 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HOME BUILDER: This opportunity is knocking at your door, why delay' The term 1 ??' r^uirennots. so buy now and save one-half and supply your home no ' th ,h ^ . . , . y me now w,th the present a?e require- V ~ ment, at the le.vat outlay you will perhaps ever rea'ize. I Camden Furniture Company! I 1036 Broad St. CAMDEN, S. C. Telephond 156 I ? riiiiiiniiii i miiii i iwiiniir^ ite . di^^H