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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE! ? ? I II. I). MI.KM Kditor nnd Publisher I Published i-v?*ry Friday at No. 1 Ib'J i Broad Struct and entered at the Cam- j dun, Sou'h Carolina pontoff ice us, Boiond class mail matter. I'rice pur j annum fL'.OO, payable in advxncc. ,1 Camden, S. < frnlay, June li>, 1928 JUNK 192H 'two r To? 'Wed ' 1tiir'"^ri. V?i ' i f n * 3 4 > 5 6 1 7 8 V 10 11 12 13 14 15 N> 17 18 19 20 i 21 22 2 3 24 25 26 27 j 28 29 30 <W j <f 4? f Tin* f'hronicl? wants to commend the police department for its efforts in stopping the practice of autos racing to aee who can 1m> first at a rtre when the siren is sounded. They are ( publishing a notice in another place, in this pa|>er to the effect that the regulation will be strictly enforced.. Camden should get out of the hick town class, and this is a mighty good way to stop the racing to fires of fast moving cars. At the sound of every siren cars get in motion and not only I hamper the firemen, hut in their mad I race uru endangering the lives of pedestrians. Making it Unpleasant for Criminals New York State leads the way in taking definite action to reduce crime. Instead of passing new laws and regulations to encroach upon the rights and privileges of law-abiding citizen*, it pussed the Baurnes law ire l'Jlih, which automatically sentences! a man convicted for the fourth time of j committing a felony, to life imprisonment. I Naturally, there have been objec-1 lions to this law because it has "teeth" in it, hut if crime is to ho) reduced the number of criminals ami', potential criminals must also be reduced. There isi no excuse for a man , committing four crimes of a charac-; ter to involve a penitentiary sentence.! Why should the public be subjected to the danger of meeting habitual cri-j initials ? New York has taken a step in the right direction. It should be upheld in its program to catch the crook, keep him caught, hand him a fitting sentence, and see that hu serves it. Sentimental individuals claim thai severe punishment does not deter the riminal, but makes him hate society. 1 his apparently has not bedn the ' ase in New York. The certainty of fo imprisonment foi a fourth felony has stayed the hand of the hardened criminal. He thinks twice before' sentencing himself under such a law.' What New York has done the rest of the country must do if it actually desires to overcome the criminal elements: make crime not only un-i profitable hut highly inconvenient i and dangerous foi the perpetrator. j Ne.iriv a quarter of a million \ were ci.-i in Florida's primary election last Tuesday, approximately !?>o. "<><) more \o(es than were <a- m the election of 1924. GENERAL NEWS NOTES The Massachusetts housa of representatives on Tuesday voted 190 to 18 11) impeach Attorney Genunl Arthur K. Reading on charges of gross mi?i-onduct in office. lie is charged with accepting a retainer of $25,000 from! the Dae into < lob. Inc., when the affairs of the organization were under investigation hy his office. Hurry K. Thaw, killer of Stanford White in New York several years ago, has been refused permission to land in Lnglurui hy Fnglish immigration officials, lie reached Knglund on the Acjuutania on Wednesday. Broadway temple in New York is to la* topped hy a cross 75 x 37 feet, visible 100 miles, as a beacon for aviators and to be known as the Commander Hichard Kvelyn Byrd l>eacon. It is a gift from Charles K. Bob, mining engineer. .Streams of Alabama, Mississippi und I>oui?iann are on a rampage, tjie second in a few weeks, following five days of terrific rainfall. The damage to crops will mount high into the thousands of dollars. Mrs. Nora I>ee, former wife of Andrew Mellon, secretary of the treasury, has been granted a divorce from Harry A. lA?e of Litchfield, Conu., whom she married in 1923. There will be only 84 women delegates participating in the Republican National convention at Kansas City this year, as compared with 120 participating in the Republican convention at Cleveland, Ohio, four years ago. Four and possibly five French airplanes will make tin attempt to Hy from France to the United States within the next thirty to sixty days, according to stories being sent out from Paris. .lames Justin Morris, formerly of Lake City, hut for a dozen years a druggist at Cheraw, died aged 37 years after a long illness. He lived for a few yeurs at Hendersonville, X. C., and has a brother at Brevard. The lifeless body of Miss Delia Welch, 45, with two bullet holes i'i her body, one in her head and the other in her breast and a 32 calibre pistol gripped in her hand told the story of suicide at Newberry Tuesday. Miss Welch has been despondent for some time and when missed at 12 o'clock, the search was begun which resulted in Hading the body at 0 o'clock lying on a slp-et in a bam near the apartment in which she lived. A staled note read, "1 did it with my own hand." Miss Welch is survived by two sist<M s. Misses Lillian and Frn/.ier Welch. Light army airplanes were wrecked at Holing Field near Washington late Saturday evening. The loss, caused hy the heavy wind which took the roof off a hangar, will total $200,000. IN TUB CAROLINA* Hems of InUrrat Gleaned From Tht Papers of Two Htalea A negro tramp h*<l hia head very neatly heverod from his body by a freight tram at Durham, N. C. He was uh'.ut 25 years old and unidentified. The New York-Atlanta air mail was delayed and deranged by fog near Spartanburg several nights last week, and the mail was carried by railroad train on these occasions. Frank Kicks, a farmer near Rocky Mount, N. <J., borrowed a shot gun from a negro tenant, walked a short distance carrying the gun, and then used it to blow his own head off. The Joanna cotton mills of Gold* ville, Laurens county, is to be doubled in size by the addition of 35,112 spindles brought down from New England, the company having recently bought the plant of a Lowell, Mass., mill. II. Lacy Allen was lined $100 at Raleigh for voting in two precincts at the primary election last Saturday, if e recently moved from one precinct | to the other and told friends he voted in both to be sure his vote was counted. North Carolina convicted 713 drunken drivers in the last eleven months, among 2,222 offenders uguinst the traffic laws, speeding and reckless driving with 1,095 persons convicted of these two offenses leading the list of violations. The home economic department of Salem college, at.Winston-Salem, has been given funds for a new buildingon trie campus by un unknown donor, it was announced at the 157th commencement this week. Construction will begin at once. Hughy Lowry, died in the Pleasant Ifill community, near the town of Kings Mountain after a long illness which baffled his physicians. He leaves a wife and five children. He was 30 years old and the son of the ; late Bud Lowry, a prominent citizen jof that county. j George Fleming Moore, of Washing! ton, D. C., for years sovereign grand i commander of the southern jurisdiction of Scottish Kite Masons, and one of the most distinguished Masons in the world, stopped at a Spartanburg - hospital when he took sick on the way I home from a visit to his sister in ; Montgomery, Ala. He was suffering from double pneumonia and his condition was pronounced critical, i Rev. Dan Atkins, whose funeral was held at Asheville Wednesday. J was one of the most prominent Methodist ministers of western North Car-;lii;a. who was superannuated at th-iGa>tonia conference two years ag . ntii-r a half century of service as pas I tor. He was born in Virginia 85 years | ago and joined the Western Nort i |( aro ma conference in 1880. He was jlovet: by all who knew him, and they are legion, Mms Delia Welch, of Newberry, i shot nerself in the head and again jin the heart with a 82-caliher revolver to insure her suicide, and was found jwith the pistol in her hand. She had been melancholy for some time and left a note saying she killed herself. She was 45 years old and her family searched for her from Tuesday noon until 6 o'clock before finding her bodv on a sheet she hud spread in the barn, before killing herself. Jim Hall, a farmer of Pickens county who killed A. C. Bryson there several weeks ago. was found guilty of first degree murder yesterday and sentenced to be electrocuted on August 3 by Judge T. J. Mauldin. The jury was out all night after a trial lasting two days. Hall claimed selfdefense and that he was shooting at another man who was threatening him with a stick, but the state clainiied the killing resulted from an old grouch against the victim. The remaining criminal cases agau.st B. F. P. Leaphart, president of the closed Columbia Savings Bank and Trust company, were dismissed by the solicitor with a statement that | he considered it useless to try them after a verdict of not guilty in one trial and a mistrial in another case, [ in what his office considered the strongest cases against the banker. } 1 he solicitor said that the expression jof the feeling of the people of Rich; land county expressed by its juries makes further prosecution useless. There were five indictments found, iwith the result stated. The comple1 tion of the prosecution opens the ' road through the courts for civil actions for the recovery of money by depositors. The development at Myrtle Beach is being done by a corporation chartered, this week at Columbia with $6,000,000 capital and homo office at Greenville under the name of Myrtle Beach Estates, John T. Woodside is president and treasurer, J. B. Ricketts, secretary and E. F. Woodside, J. D. Woodside and R. I. Woodside arc vice president#. President Coolidge htt? appointed Newton I). Baker, secretary of war iit YViUon'* cabinet, to be u member of the permanent court of arbitration at The Hague. Mr. Baker ha# accepted the appointment. I Two negroes were taken from officers at Alexandria, i-a., on Saturday arid shot t.o death by a mob. The negroes were brothers of another negro, William Blackburn, who had killed a deputy sherilf m-ar L?fr>g Ixiaf three week# ago. L'rey Woodson, eldest member of the Democratic national executive committee, representing Kentucky, lias announced that he will not be a candidate to succeed himself. He has been a member of ,the committee since I89fl. Charles H. Bob, a mining man, has purchased the long-distance Bellanca mo .opdtne built for the Byrd antat tic ex|M?dition and about July 1st vs.ll attempt a non-stop llight from N\w York to Qut-ro, Bolivia, and may set a world's record in distance for continuous flight. Wants?For Sale 1 OK SALE?Fifty bushels iron peas two shunts, several hams, at reasonable prices. Address A. R. Holland, Rt. 1, Camden, S. C. 12 pd FOR RENT?Furnished apartment, at reasonable price. Apply 1305 Lyttleton street, Camden, S. C. 12 pd. FOR RENT?.Six room house on Union street. Apply Chronicle Office, Camden, S. C. 12 sb. FOR SALE?One practically new Bohn syphon refrigerator. One hundred and thirty pounds ice capacity. Porcelain lined inside and out. Will sell at half price. Apply to F. M. Zemp at Zemp & DePass's Drug Store, Camden, S. C. 10-11 sb. FOR RENT?House on East. Walnut I Street, five rooms and bath. Possession June 15th. Apply 1119 Pickens St., Columbia, S. C. 9 tf. FOR WENT?One five room house on Laurens street. Apply to M. H. Heyman, Camden, C. 9tf. CARPENTERING?John S. Myers, phone 2 <38, 812 Church Street, Camden, S. C., will give satisfactory service to all for all kinds of carpenter work. Building, general repairs, screening, cabinet making and repairing furniture. My workmanship is my reference. 1 solicit your patronage. Thanking you in advance. 50 tf. FOR SHOE REPAIRING?call at the Red Boot Shop next door to Express office. A. M. JONES, Prop. 24 tf I' OR RENT?4 room house on Broad Street. L. A. Wittkowsky, Camden, S. C. 2 tf. CURTAINS STRETCHED?Any one wishing curtains stretched please apply at 904 Campbell Street. Prices reasonable. 8-tf WANTED?No. 1 pine logs. Highest cash prices paid; year round demand. Sumter Planing Mills and Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Booth, Sumter, S. C. 1-tf-sb MONEY I() LOAN?At six and oneha.f cent interest on improved city real estate. Apply Henry Savage, Jr., Camden, S. C. 34tf FOR RENT?Room with private bath. Also three rooms with all conveniences. All to be rented at moderate figures. For information address P. O. Box 425, Camden, S. C. 6 tf. FOR SALB*?tF.irst bungalow btdl of Court House, on Lafayette a-J nue, six rooms, all modern ctfl veniences, price all right, Hifl terms. Address D. V. Dixon at on's Grocery, Camden, S. C. 10 Afl ROBT. W. MI TCH KM Architect Crocker Building, Camden, S.-&* BETTER BE SAFE THAN SORRY Be Sure by Insuring With DAVIDSON INSURANCE AGENCY ANNIE S. DAVIDSON Manager We Write Insurance of AH Kinds | Remorse Comes too Late "When Tired" Drop in at our SODA FOUNT Delicious Orangeades, Lemonades, Di xie Cups, Ice Cream Cones Agents For the Famous ttuttercup Ice Cream Under the Supervision of Mr. Frank C. Cureton ZEMP ANDDePASS The Rexall Store Nitrate of Soda We have a large stock on hand and will give you the very best prices. W e also have some SULPHATE OF AMMONIA and MIXED FERTILIZERS for corn. You will notice that the best authorities recommend using SODA At th is time o cotton. See us for any I quantities, from a sack to a car. Springs & Shannon, Inc. M SUGAR??"" $1.00| BUTTER OLD 1 47c J KINGAN HAMS Sugar Cured r^ 20c I LEMONS ao^ l TOMATOES, 3 cans for 25c I PORK & BEANS, 3 cans for 25c | BACON a? 35c) FLOUR SG??.$US| BLUE RIBBON MALT 75c | POTATOES 8?- 25t 1 LETTUCE Head |j|B GREEN CABBAGE, lb SNAP BEANS, lb 10c I CARROTS Bunch 1?? BEETS, Bunch 10c I K> -^B - ..TH. l Want a Try the I RMI Ray tr a? NORRIS VARIETY BOX I ot Landy I J DeKALB PHARMA CM Phone 95 Prompt Seiii .... r.wr.? umi 1IIUV.I1 11111Cage is lost by poor tire application. If your tire is improperly applied it means a pinched tube and a flat tire. You have to pay the cost of tube repair, and suffer annoyance, delay, and lose mileage. Let us put on I. ' ...i.i i ?? your tires and inspect rims and wheels, to assure y?o *Wl imum mileage. We have the experience and equf?"! to do the work right. 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