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I Notice to Tax Payers] * ^ + -r ^ "r*1!<r* m 0> rjj> f m -9 m jm ^ I r ^ . ' '* " ^"'?jTTr^ZI I ALL PROPERTY- OWNERS OP THE I I CIT\ OF CAMDEN ARE NOTIFIED I I THAT A PENALTY OP 7 PER CENT I I WILL HE ADDED IP CITY TAXES ARF I I NOT PAID BY APRIL 1,1928. .I I BY ORDER OP I I CITY COUNCIL J I W. H. HAILE, CLERK. I ? " ''' .J Nobody's Business .* '.; Bitten for The Chronicle by Gee I McGee, Copyright, 1927. Catching Things When I was a kid I'd catch everyB; that could be caught from Rips to hydryphoby. No disease Ed escape my wariness. I think Rs 8 days old when I caught the Boping-cough from a ittle nigger R passed by home in a gallop on Rll yearling. I coughed for 2 Bj months. I was very liberal Bgh: 1 always gave everybody I R & chance to catch the different Bgs I caught, took the measles from a kid that B had 'em 4 months before I met and got him to let me chew his Bet-gum a little bit. I hadn't chewlit 3 hours till I broke out thick. B 10 of my brothers and sisters B I had 'em at the same time, and I me tell you?sheep were mighty Brce back then, and nearly all of lacked to of? died. We were not Bwed to drink cold water or eat Bthing. We just laid there in the B with red fliinnel cloths soaked "sperse tebemtime" wrapped all But our nedcs, and drank a sip of Bep tea now and then. We got well, B the measles settled in my neck, B every time I jerk axon ad riquX Bk to look at a short 'skirt, toy B. pops. B remember when I was 9 years Butd had started to school, and Blumd how to spell ab, ac, and a B other big words. I went home B>4 friend to spend the night. This Bpened on Tuesday, My mother B to send to town on Saturday afBoon and buy 12 fine tooth combs, Rr me and 1 each for my brothers B sisters. I guess the fine-tooth B^b manufacturers have gone out of Biness, or those varmints that took with me have all disappeared. I Ber S e any combs nowadays like Rse we useter use. U*Bhe girl who sat 8 (benches from me at school couldn't sit still, and seemed busy wiggling her hands all during "-books." I never thought anything atrange of' her peculiar looking Angers ansoforth, but my folks spent nearly 30 cents for sulfur and lard before us 11 children got well. After I caught it, I saw that everybody else could enjoy it with me. I never will forget that school. It had the scratchingest set of younguns I ever saw in one flock. . Things rocked along pretty well for a few weeks, and then chicken pox set in on me. I hadn't touched a chicken in 5 months that I knew of, but I had the chicken pox just the same. Then came sore. eyes. I think every gnat in that township visited my eyes 3 times a day during my affliction. Before I got good and well, my heels broke out with stone bruises. Before I was 11 years old, I had had everything the doctor (we had only 1 doctor in 20 miles of us) had ever heard of, but I gave them all a run for their money, and am now getting along very well, I than you: How are you? Telephones with television-attachments will never -be very popular in offices where the boss works goodlooking stenographers oimer count of I the old lady might call up the office 'some time when business is dull, ausofortb. Short dresses are here to stay. Tho girls with the broom-straw legs and the pot-hook supports and the knockkneed perambulators are all wearing 'em ^hort, and that means they are finally accepted as an essential. I have one of these here automobiles that has a transmission lock attached to the trick-a-dude on the floor board. When I want to unlock it at night, all in the world I've got to do is to stand on my head and hang one foot on top of the top and let the other foot poke out of the left door, and then blow the sand out of the /key-hole with' my mouth ansoforth, and then put the key in the keyhole and turn it and then jet somebody to pull me down to a sitting or standing posture. That's all. Willie Dewitt is a nice boy, but the other day he ran out of cigarettes. He was willing to walk a mile for a Camel, but onner count of them fallen arches which kept him out of the war, he had to smoke something^ else, He will never get over it. Sammie Spotter saw a cake-eater wink at a his wife the other night at the Last Chance Cafe. He got awfully mad, so he went over to the Cashier and bought a package of Chesterfields: they satisfy. Then th^y went on home. Not 80 Much It was a little, newly-arrived sister that nurse held in her arms, and seven-year-old Bobbie stood jealously inspecting her. To his mind she looked smaller and less attractive than any little sister of the other boys that he could remember, and he felt a keen thrill of disappointment. So he put his hands deep in his pockets like papa, wrinkled up "his nose, and regarding the new acquisition savagely, said: "Well I call that pretty near a failure." Rifled By Dynamite Blast Florence, March 23.?FTazer Yarborough, 34, a large farmer of Lynchburg, Sumter county, and his Negro helper were killed Thursday afternoon near Lynchburg by the premature explosion of a dynamite charge. They were blowing up stumps when Hhe accident occurred. Mr. Yarborough's body was badly mangled. The Negro died on the way to a doctor at Timmonsville. Mr. YarVorough leaves a widow and six children. He was the eldest son of Ernetft L. Yarborough of Sardis, Florence county. NOTORIOUS MAN HANGED Wife Got Life Term For Her Part in Murder VaTley Field, Quebec, Mareh 23.? The raising of a' black flag pn the Valley Field jail this morning signified that Geo. .McDonald, notorious confidence man, had paid with bis life for the slaying last July of Adelard Bouchard, taxi driver, for the robbery of $70. : McDonald went to "the gallows without a-farewell note from his 20year-old vfife, Doris Palmer McDonald, Whom in an affidavit he absolved of all blame in the murder, and whose sentence of death was commoted to life imprisonment. - .Sheriff Crip pi an, who Was in charge of the execution, announced at 5 O'clock that the death sentence had been carried out at 4 a. m. The bliack flag was raised later. Meanwhile armed guards kept reporters away as searchlights flared. McDonald, apparently resigned to his fate from the time sentence was pronounced last December 17, spent his fast night quietly. He was attended by a priest of the Roman Catholic church and before his march to the gallows was given i absolution and last communion in the corridor of the 3aiL Officials ,aaid be went to }iis death quietly. During his last night there came a telegram tq the prison from his 20year-old wife, whom he had absolved of all blame in the murder, and whose senten e of death was commuted Wednesday to life imprisonment. Mrs. Bennie Jones was aSpiitted t Greenville yeeterdty of shooting her husband while ha whs sleeping at Piedmont last December. The defense convinced the jury thet the was defending herself from an attack by her husband with a knife sad a gun. She is tt years old and has a young child.j BS& COLORS I radiant as the *R(litlbOf\? c * '- ? Spring beckons! And Buick owners will greet the waaoa in cars which take first piece In rich, alluring beauty* H Glowing colon?colors that rival the exouisite hut* Of the rainbow?colors as distinctsve as the fleet, low unc* of Buick bodies by Ftaher. Not only in beauty, but in performance, too, Bukk the way. Its famous Valve-in-Head six-cylinder engine provides die fKrjlltcig abilities so highly desired on tempting Spring days. y"!,^ffirir1ri1invfMtfMirf Thr rr?" ?1?ft,t ^ Buick haa ever produced. Their beauty will captivate you-^nd a demonstration will make Bukk your choke. SEDANS *1199 to #1*99 r r COUPES #1195 to #1*30 SPORT MODELS #1195 to #1925 ^ I ultle motor company uttle, manager, camoen. a c. Axis You Overdoing? Overwork Throws 4 Heavy Burden on the Kidneys. Overwork, rich food, and Stimulating drinks put extrs burdens on our kidneys. When the kidneys slow up. impurities remain in mo blood and sr. apt to make one langu id, tired and achy, with dull headaches, dixxiness and often nagging backache. A common warning ia scanty or buminn secretions. Use Doan't PiU$. Poan't, a stimulant diuretic, increase the secretion of the kidneys and aid in the elimination of waste impurities. Are endorsed by users everywhere. A*k you* ns/gnksr/ DOAN'S "Of I A STIMULANT DIURETIC & KIDNEYS foswr<HUfcurn Co. MfgClwm Sulfate.N.Y. bssss8sssMmamsassswsnHis>sSMsassMw A Most Liberal Offer Made by This Paper The Chronicle announces with this issue one of the most liberal subscription offers in it:-, history. In order to put the paper into every home in the county, thereby j stimulating our already large sub- j scription list, and to give all, both old and new subscribers, the benefit of the saving, the paper will be sent to any address in the United States i for si^c months for fifty cents, (for- j eign postage extra). This is not a contest. No prUes, no commissions and only the inducement of getting one of the best week- j ly papers in the state for si^c months j for fifty cents. Neither is this a j scheme to raise money. We are not I in the tights financially, and are not i forced to do this. Owing to poor mechanical equipment we have not cared for a large subscription list, j for our antequated equipment could j not handle a larger list. The installation of a new high-speed press ! renders our facilities greater. We simply want to increase our list and hope by this method to add several hundred new names. Tell you neighbors about it and get them on the list (many of them have been borrowing your paper). We do not want a family in the county to be without The Chronicle, and it will not be our fault if you do not get it. To every person handing in five names with fifty cents for each, The Chronicle will be mailed six months free. I A person who has recently renewed his or her subscription to The ( Chronicle can get the same benefit from this offer as a new subscriber, by paying fifty cents and having aix months added to their subscription. Remember, and come in at once, and hand in just fifty cents and get The Chronicle for six months. Our subscription price has not been reduced, it still stands at strictly $2, per year in advance, and after May 5th, no living man will be able to get it for less. Under this offer we should and expect to, in the time mentioned, put several hundred new names on our list. For several weeks The Chronicle will be sent as a sample copy to every rural mail box in Kershaw county. Look for the big page announcement in today's paper. This offer will positively close on May 5th. Merchants might well take advantage of thie unusual offer if they have an advertfsing message to put across, as during the next few weeks The Chronicle will lfeach nearly every rural mail box in the county. Modern Maxims. Make hay while the sun shines, but don't sit in the house all day 'cause it's cloudy. Don't cry over spflt milk. 'Wait'h few minutes on the cow and milk some more. A stitch in time saves 9, but you'd better patch 'em if it's in the seat. The early -bird catches the worm, but what this oountry needs is an early bird that will eat ball weevils. ^ :T _ ? -u.-s.J3Sxt -; /,, LESSON8 OF UNEMPLOYMENT One Is That Everyone Should Live for the Rainy Day. The number of unemployed in the United States today is estimated by ^competent authorities at 4,000,000. This is nearly 10% of the total number of workers in the country. It is of widespread scope geopraphically and includes workmen in many of the leading crafte, particularly builders, textile workers and miners. There are some grim lessons to be learned from this" unhappy situation. In the first place, every family during the bright day* of employment and prosperity, should aee that a certain amount of the family income is put in a bank or safely invested against the proverbial rainy day. It is not for this reason alone that thrift stould be practiced though this is wirely reason enough. Another lesson is the danger which lies to the nation economically if installment buying is carried too far. Those who are dependent on the pay envelope can meet their installment payments only as long as the weekly pay envelope is forthcoming. When wages 8 top, installment payments stop. The installment plan is not to criticized in principle ibut it is not difficult to see how ruinous it would be to the business interests of the country if a considerable portion of the public suddenly should find itself | unable to keep up its payments. Another lesson in the situation is that the public is at times most mightQy fooled by those Pollyannas of- business who continue to make statements of amazing optimism when anyone coversant with the situation knows they are parading false facts with the view of preserving "public confidence." Around the first of the year, the country was lit* erally flooded with such statements from many business leaders and "experts." There is no dqubt that the element of public confidence has much to do with maintaining prosperous business conditions, yet the American people, with their high degTee of intelligence, should nof^be treated as morons by those who affect leadership.?Thrift Magazine. 9 SINCERITY Jo/hn Kellett had many faults, but everybody in two counties respected and liked him. Living fifteen years among people who criticise everybody, I never heard anybody criticise John?except to regret his personal habits. .. .Why? Because John was genuine. There was no put-on about him. Whatever he was, he was openly. Be didn't pretend. I know pious frauds who thought themselves vahtly superior to John. They are openly or secretely despised by everybody in the community. Why? 'Because they aren't real. Their wrong doing might be forgiven if done openly, but they are despised because they pretend to be perfect in righteousness while everybody knows they are guilty of acts John would have scorned. I know a woman who has natural charm and might easily be< popular. She hungers for friendship and tries to make friends, but nobody likes her, , Why? Because she is jio obviously false. She is all pretense. Her very tone of voice is an affectation. She "puts on" when it would be much ' easier to act natural. You simply can't get away<? with it. The popular people everywhere on earth are the sincere people. If you pretend, people will know it qnd despise you for it,. If you aren't genuine, you'll get nowhere. iHiiiiuiiraHiiiiiiiiBQniiiiuuiraiiiitiHiiraiHHuitiraiiiiiiitiiisiittitiiii | SPECIAL EASTER EXCURSION 1 | WASHINGTON, I). C. 1 1 Friday, April 6th, 1928 1 I SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY I Very low round trip fare from Camden $12.00 ? Proportionate reductions from other stations. Tick- 9 H eta on sale for all trains Friday, April 6, 1928. Final jP jgj limit Wednesday, April 11, 1928, by midnight of IZI =s which date return journey must be completed. All tickets good in sleeping and parlor cars upon pay- f|? [Tj ment of Pullman fares. HR g Children five years and under twelve, half fare. as No baggage will be checked. S For information, tickets, and reservations call on S m Ticket Agent or 5] C. W. SMALL. D. P. A., Columbia, S- C. gjiHiiiiiiigMiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiHiiiaimiiimimiiiiiimigiHiHiiiiiigiiHH | Congaree Soil Builder I I CIiDTIT I'ZITDC I r LK 1 ILlZ^LKo I AS USUAI* we are handling: CONGAREE SOIL BUILDER FERTILIZERS. IT is II needless to say anything further to the FARMERS of KERSHAW and adjoining II counties. Yoi^ll know their value, from years of actual crop results* Why take a chance dtt fertilizers that you are a little doubtful about when you can buy those I you sure POSITIVE about at the same price. Figure with us before you buy. I Nitrate of Soda and Sulphate of Ammonia L I also at the Lowest Prices I ^