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SERVICE I Your Fire Insurance Policy is nothing more than a ! contract between you and some insurance company. j When you buy insurance, be sure that the other party I to the contract is anxious to do u little more than the ! right thing. fll v I 1 This agency has had sixty-three years in which to I select the pick of the companies most fair and prompt I in adjustments. No company is permitted to operate through our office who would in any way take ad- I vantage of one of our clients. Our record sustains us in our claim that no insurance agency can render bet* | ter service than that furnished our customers. j Williams Insurance Agency I R. M. KENNEDY, JR., OWNER j ESTABLISHED 1865 I Marriage Mr. Eugene Leon Branham and Miss Almeade Thornton, both of Blaney, were married on June 22nd by Probate Judge, W. L, McDowell. Week End Tickets At very low round trip fares , now on sale to mountain and seashore summer resorts. Travel By Train Comfortable?Economical? Safe Southern Railway System t DeKALB COUNCIL No H8 Junior Order L'. A. M. wfcyC Regular council first and ' * third Mondays <>f each month at H p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. I). J. CKBIOI). L. 11. JONES, Councillor. Recording Secty. Will E, Johnson Electrical Contractor til4 West DeKalb Street Camden, S. C. T. B. BRUCE Veterinarian Day Phone 30?Night Phone 114 CAMDEN, 3. C. R. E. CHEWNING Contractor and Builder Camden, S. C. If sj ou have building to, Uo-4'et me figure ^with you. Sa t i s f a c tio n g u a r a n t e ed. References given on application. ' Says The Kershaw Era J. C. Jenk ins brought to The Em 1 office last week several fine June peaches, but there was a particular jone which was u very fine specimen and weighed one-half pound. This | peach is unnamed, and was brought up to its present size by Mr. Jenkins by experimentation and careful attention. It is a cling and is a co-mWinatSon o1 p'mV anA reA Yn co\ot, and is a firm and highly flavored fruit. Mr. Jenkins states that he has about .'125 trees budded from this peach last year and hopes to have many more budded this year. Mrs. Mary Rebecca Howell, widow of W. B. Howell, who passed to his reward several years ago, died at the home of her son, J. T. Howell, just north of the city limits last Wednesday night at 11 o'clock, following a 1 protracted illness, and was buried in the Laurel Hill cemetery on Thursday afternoon, following funeral services conducted at the home by Rev. J. M. Neal, her former pastor, assisted by Rev. (i. W. Davis, Rev. A. S. Lockee and Rev. Hoyt Blackwell. EXCURSION Washington, D. C. Tuesday, 3, 7528. Round Trip Fares: Camden $12.00 Kershaw 12.00 Lancaster 12.00 Proportionate fares from intermediate points. Final limit Sunday, July 8, 1928. BASER ALL: Washington Senators vs. New York Yankeys, July 4 (double header) Washington Senators vs. Chicago White Sox, July 6 and 7th. Consult Ticket Agents. Southern Railway System Character and Reliability Mercantile ag&ncie* quote the bank's opinion of a man as being the strongest kind of evidence concerning his business character and reliability. Loan & Savings Bank CAPITAL $100,000.00 IN THE CAROLINA8 Items of Interest Gleaned From The r*tHTH of Two 8tate? Charles K. Owens, choieh as Qoq. nee county candidate for Manter Farmer, i* n young man who works long hours every <Jay on his farm on Walhaila mail route. Needhain Ixrftin, a middle aged farmer of near Ayden, N, C., was found raging with rabies in a field and policemen had difficulty in capturing hi in to take him to a Greenville hospital. He was bitten two weeks ago. Charlotte wants to sell the old auditorium building to erect a better one, and Mecklenburg county wants to sell the old court house, but no serious bids have been received for either. I he county also has a second hand jail for sale and no bidders. Ava Lee KUer, the five year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Eller, of I>onoir, N. G., died in a hospital there after being hit by an automobile driven by George Everhart, of Lexington, who is in jail. The Uttle girl was playing with others digging steps in a bank of earth when the speeding car ran into them and pinned the girl to the bank. The contract of the building of the 16-bed infirmary at State Park, near Columbia, was let for $7,045 which cost is contributed by the grand lodge of Masons. It will house incipient cases of tuberculosis, and Masoni,lodges are to furnish the rooms at $100 each. Attorney General Daniel is beginning his investigation of gasoline prices in South Carolina, following an advance of one cent in price last week. Last year similar action by the attorney-general resulted in a {i)rop uf 4 cents in price, from Zi cents. ( Warren L. Moore was sentenced t'? 40 years imprisonment at Wilmington, N. C., for the murder of Thoma< B. Evans last February and says he was lucky. . At the conclusion <jf that trial, he pleaded guilty to killing M. Lomax Hill, of Charlotte, and shooting Pete Kelly. It was a war amon^ j bootleggers. ! Davidson county, North Carolina I which last year led that state in wheat yield, is harvesting this week .? crop which promises to hold the supremacy again, with enough farmyielding 33 to 35 bushels per acre t > make a high average for the countv. Charlotte firemen injured in a coilision of a fire department truck an i a heavy freight truck have filed suits aggregating $32,500 against the receiver of the Withers corporation, the owner of the freight truck, and the estate of Captain R. E. Mendenhal!, who was killed in the accident, is ex'pected to sue later. The temperature of 98 degrees at the Charlotte Weather bureau Thursday broke the station record for the date, being the hottest June 21 in forty years. The Blacksburg-Gaffney highway is closed for the next four months while the new road is beng built. The latter eliminates all curves and will be one of the best in the state. A confederate at Riverside Baptisi church, Anderson, of which Rev. A. S. Loekee, the Indian evangelist is pastor, broke up in a near riot yesterday and S. V. Mills and his son, W. W. Mills, were later arrested for disturbing a religious meeting by drawing knives on other men. Debate over some dispute became so hot that the pastor adjourned the conference, but 200 men remained with a deacon presiding. The real fighting between the two factions came soon after. Minnie Garrison, or near Monroe, N. C., was found in Greensboro in boys clothing after the neighbors had searched for her several days after she disappeared while passing through some woods with her mother. They found all the clothes she wore in the woods and were much alarmed about her disappearance. She is 16 years old and told Greensboro officers that she left home because she had to cook, sew, plow, cut wood and do too nruch work. A committee of leading citizens and churchmen of Charlotte -brought in ?> detective and on Friday night raided the Central hotel, arrested the assistant manager as the keeper of a bawdy house, and later convicted fourteen women as inmates. The women were sentenced to 18 months in the county industrial .home, and the trial of W. T. Lucas, the assistant manager, was set for today. Four negro employes were given 60 days on the chain gang. Four of the women appealed and wer? released on bonds. Two deputy sheriffs arrested E. *W. Sims and Wiley Hook five miles south of Gastonia when they found 30 galIons of hootch in their automobile in half gallon fruit jars under the load of garden truck. The men and car were from Columbia and the officer* laid in wait for them all night on the road from Yorkrillc to Gastonia, I catching them about *un?up, %a Ben Bess Again In Penitentiary Columbia, Juno lift.?Ik*" Be??, Florence county negro, who serve! thirteen years of a 30-year sentence for criminal assault on a Florence county white woman, to l>e pardoned a few weeks ago when the prosecu-1 trix in the case signed a statement j which declared that Bess was not guilty and that her testimony at the trial was false, is behind the bars at State prison again. A Florence county grand jury found "nothing in the evidence or otherwise that would lend color to the truth of the statement" made in a petition for clemency that Bess hud been wrongfully imprisoned. During the grand jury's investigation Bess was placed in the State prison here for safe keeping. In a new affidavit, the prosecutrix who cannot read, stated that she never intended to swear that Bess was not guilty. She merely intended to forgive him and thought that the previous affidavit she signed so stated, she swore in the second statement. Judge S. W. G. Shipp to whom the grand jury report was made, said a "grave injustice" had been done the county by Bess' release and urged that the matter be investigated thoroughly. A detective from the governor's staff aided the grand jury investigation. Bess was seen at the Prison by the correspondent of The Charlotte Observer and to him he declared again J his innocence, despite the fact that .the prosecutrix in the original case i has just signed a second statement, declaring that her first "affidavit" was a fraud and that she never in'ended to sign any statement clearing Bess, reaffirming at the same time the negro's guilt. Boss is to be held at the State penitentiary several days, for his own safety. He agreed to be lodged there, J on the governor's proposal, based on jthe fear that there might be violence ; at Florence, were the negro to remain there. Bess has had other ; troubles in his day, including a fight and cutting scrape with another prisoner on the State farm where he was incarcerated some years ago. It is i intimated that if necessary a warrant ! may be sworn out oh this or some tsimilar charge. It is regarded as improbably that the old ch?rg? against Bass can bo revived. 'The negro was convicted some 13 years and then pardoned, so that this offense, it is regarded, is perged from his record. Jtecently a fund was raised to aid Bess, prompted by the public's feel' ing that the negro had been done a grave injustice. It is understood that more than $600 was raised. Only about $60 of this, however, has yet been turned, over to Bess. Bess says he paid this to a Florence man who helped him with his petition for clemency. Motor Train on Seaboard A forward step along the lines of better train service between Estill and Columbia is to be inaugurated by the Seaboard Air Line Railway, commencing Sunday, July 1st next. Steam trains Nos. 21 and 20 are to be replaced by clean, comfortable, easy riding motor trains and greatly reduced fares, with seasonable limits, will be placed.in effect at the same time. The motor train from points south will arrive in Columbia at 10:30 a. m., leaving Columbia returning at 4:30 in the afternoon, allowing six hours for shopping, attending to business matters and visiting. The schedules .have been very carefully arranged for the convenience of patrons at all stations along the line and the absence of smoke and cinders should result in a cool, and comfortable jourpey. It is believed that the public will make a ready response to this effort to provide improved service; and though the move is somewhat of aij experiment on the part of the Seaboard Management, it is hoped the new service will remain- permanently in effect. i:) I JillfiT PqUON TH^WmW Third Weekly Report Showi Strong Flgii ll'; Clemaon College, June "zo bM both general ?Pre?4 weevil in the Piedmont the reppH for Week ending Tho newly reported art;)l northeastward iucluding and Chester and counties bttZj I The average weevil populttkJ I acre for tho newly infeatad cu^l are u* follows: Edgefield 7,^^H wood 91, Newberry rz, and Lancaster 26. There v,MB marked change in the number o(B ils per acre found in the <ountit, Pee Doe section. There wu8i an increase in the square infa^H in that section. Very good results have betnclM ed from pre-square jKnsoning, l^^B method of control is now becomiml effective, for in many sectioit^B plants are developed to suehaoJ^B that the weevils are feeding <*^1 squares instead of in the bud, J necessarily limits the effectWtoq^H that form of poisoning. The standard dust method dj^B now be used for control. Sqo|2 testation counts should he mak^B quently and dust application lB When the infestation reachee lj^H Cent. In formation concemiq^H method may be obtained, uponijfl for Extension Circular 95, the Boll Weevil," from county^H agents or the Publication Djfl Clemson College, S. . Near Concord, N. ., a bullfl a horse which then kicked thefl death, although hitched wagon. ; I ^ Don't Let Mosquitoes Bite?Kill TilfH ?and keep them away. Bee Brand Insect Powder or Liquid kills Flies, Ants, Roaches, Poultry Lice, Mosquitoes, Fleas, Bed Bogs, and other insects. Won't spot or stain. Uaa powder on plants and pets. 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