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SERVICE . ' A i 4 Your Fire Insurance Policy is nothing more tuai't a contract between you and some insurance company. When you buy insurance, be sure that the other party to the contract is anxious to do a little more than the right thing. This agency has had sixty-three years in which to select the pick of the companies most fair and prompt in adjustments. No company is permitted to operate through our office who would in any way take advantage 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. Williams Insurance Agency R. NL KENNEDY, JR., OWNER ESTABLISHED 1865 Charlotte suffered as much loss by fire in the first half- of 1928 as in the whole year of 1927. Property to the amount of $140,000 was burned there in the six months ending last Sunduy. 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 m I)eK ALU COUNCIL No 88 . k\ . Junior Order U. A. M. Regular coun?ul first and f \ third Mondays of ouch month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. 1). J. OKROD. L. H. JONKS, Councillor. Recording Secty. Will E. Johnson Electrical Contractor 614 Weat DeKuIh Street Camden, S. C. T. B. BRUCE Veterinarian Day Phone 80?Night Phone 114 CAMDEN, 3. C. m.CHEWN1NG Contractor and Builder Camden, S. C. If you have building to, i do let me figure with you. Satisfaction guaranteed. References given on application. MJ . THE FOURTH'S DKAI) Totaled 205 Men, Women And Children With Many Injured Chicago, July 5.?The lives of 205 men, women and children were a nation's sacrifice to ^.he celebration of its 152nd birthday anniversary yes\ terday. I Fireworks claimed their share of I victims, as they always have since the United States first began observing Independence Day with skyrocket, pin-wheel and cannon cracker. 1 There were eleven such deaths in the entire country, according to The Associated Press tabulation. Lakes and rivers, however, evacted I the heaviest tribute to human drowni ings being reported. Motor car deaths i ranked next in number, with 54. Heai claimed twelve lives and linghtning i three, while four were killed in plan" crashes, in addition there were 15 | deaths attributed to other causes di! rectiy connected with America's ob! servance of the Fourth. The airplane accidents were at Jol let, 111., where a pilot and two pass| angers plunged to death when the } wing of their plane snapped^ and at Beaumont, Texas, where one was killed. Three of the motor oar deaths came in races, drivers being killed in Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The number of persons injured, many .probably fatally, ran into the I thousands. Premature explosion of a : truckload of fireworks at Lamar, Mo., injured 25 persons as 5,000 gathered | in the public square to witness the display. In the larger cities the hospital list of persons hurt during ob| servance of the day ran into the hundred'. Chicago, with an ordinance prohibiting the sale of fireworks, i echoecj all day with firecracker explosion'. and reports from police and ; hospitals that the number injured i was probably greater than in recent II yen rs. ( Three undertakers at Chesnee, in j Spartanburg are charged with burning out the business of a rival uti; dertaker. Those under arrest in ! Spartanburg jail are Zeno Bl&ckwell, ! Delay Blackwell, Burley Blnekwell i and two negroes. The building burned was owned by R. F. Wall, who made a private investigation and then left it to the insurance company and legal investigators. KEEPING YOUR MONEY IN THE BANK Benefits Yourself and Others You are helping vourself, the bank and the com* munitv when you keep as large a balance in the bank as possible. Loan & Savings Bank CAPITAL $100,000.90 V*: 1 DR. FRANK CRAYNF HAY# You Can't Hit The High Hpoia All The lime I A young lady complained to me the other day that she had periods of depression. There were times when | life seemed drab and uninteresjapg. And she couldn't see the vision nor envisage the ideal. Life was just plodding. ? * Well, why not? That is the human lot und we had as well accept it. We are fortunate if we get the vision once in a while, if occasionally we stand on the muuntain top, bathed in the sunlight, and look out over the future. Most of the time we have to travel through the valley of the shadow. in most North temperate climates ruin is intermingled with sunshine and as the poet expressed it, "Into each life some rain must fall." Most of our course is to be made by dead reckoning. We cannot have the vision of the stars always, and life is mostly composed of future steps taken by faith in the dark. We are fortunate if once in a while the clouds sweep away and we can glimpse the goal. Life is rhythm. It has its ups and downs and the best thing we can do isHo say in the language of the old ndgyo hymn, "I'm sometimes up and sometimes down, but still my soul is heavenly bound." These moments of darkness, these uninteresting stretches of our life are our real test. Then is shown our staying quality and our ability to pursue a goal by faith and not by sight. We cannot have the glory and the ecstasy every moment. We could not stand it. No man can live in a state of perpetual intoxication. He j must get his feet down to the ground once in a while and just plug along. We have the comfort of knowing that nothing lasts forever and if our mood is depressed after a while it will pass away. You cannot hit the high spots all the time. Converts begin their religious life usually in a blaze of enthusiasm. They are keyed up to high pitch and undergo an emotional ecstasy. It is afterward that the test comes. They are required to take up the affairs of daily life which are perhaps humdrum and uninteresting. The. crave emotion, but emotion is an occasional experience and not permanent. In their daily life there must be steady application of the truths they have learned in those rare moments of ecstasy, so many of them backslide. In quitting a bad habit very often we make a vow or sign a pledge in a moment of enthusiasm which is very hard to keep in the succeeding moments of drabness. The best moral quality is the quality of stick-to-it-ive-ness, the quality of hanging on and doing right when there are no drums beating nor horns blowing. So in the marriage relation, we begin in a burst of ove and violent affection what must be kept up through days of perhaps uninteresting detail. So the Bible tells us that it is the overcomers who shall be given the reward. A great stone monument was dedicated Wednesday at the Bois de St. Cloud, near Yaucresson, France, to the memory of the American heroes of the LaFayette escadrille who died during the World war. The graves of all American flyers who died in the flying service will eventually be buried close by the memorial. The dedicatory address was delivered by Ambassador Myron T. Herrick. The fourth lynching in Mississippi in four days occurred Monday when a negro was hanged for an alleged attack on a white girl. TO HOLDERS OF Third Liberty Loan Bonds The Treasury offers a new per cent. 12-15 year Treasury bond in exchange for Third Liberty Loan Bonds. The new bonds will bear Interest from July 16. 1928. Interest on Third Liberty Loan Bonds surrendered for exdhsnge will be paid in full to September 15, 1928. Holders should consult their banks at once for further details of this offering. TTurd Liberty Loan Bonds mature on September 15, 1928, and will cease to bear interest on that date. A. W. MELLON, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, July 5. 1928. ; ? j("r /" k -yflatfji ~ a, ii T .-i-s&JI Hickman Appeal For Life Lose* S#n Francisco, July 5,?The Caliifornia tupromtf court today uphold the constitutionality of the law u?der which William Kdwurd Hickman was tried und sentenced to hang for the murder of 12-year-oiu Mat Ian Parker, of I>os Angeles. The decision sustained the trial cuuit in 1 .OS Angeles which after ajury trial found Hickman sane when he committed the murder and sentenced hint to death. The opinion held that in pleading "not guilty by reason of insanity," under a recently enacted provision of the state penal code, Hickman had not been denied his rights as a defendant under either the state or federal consitution as his appeal petition alleged and thai hence his sentence must stand. Immediately after the supreme court's ruling Hickman's attorney, Jerome Walsh, announced in Kansas City that the cuse would be appealed to the supreme court of the United States. In the Marian Parker murder case Hickman entered only the one plea. In the murder of C. Ivy Thorns, a druggist, with which Hickman was jointly accused with Welby Hunt, 17, a former pal. Hickman pleaded "not guilty" and "not guilty by reason of insanity." He was convicted, found sane and sentenced to life imprisonment in San Quentin prison, where he has been in condemned row since his two trials. He was sentenced to hang April 27, last, but execution was automatically postponed by his appeal. The supreme court in today's decision, sent the case back to the Los nngeies superior court, wnere niCKman will be resentenced. Under the law, a period of thirty days must elapse before this is done. Hickman kidnaped and murdered Marian Parker, 12-year-old daughter of Perry >1- Parker, Los Angeles banker, last December. After a chase up the coast to Pendleton, Oregon, he was caught and brought to trial. He confessed. Gaston county ranks third in America in cotton spinning with its 1,243,277 spindles in 112 cotton mills, and in addition has 4,lo4 weaving looms, a survey by the Gastonia chamber of commerce given out shows. SIDE DRESSING OF ( OBN WILD FAY HANDSOMELY Clemaon College, July 8.?Corn retjuire* Urge amount* of ammonia and water for. profitable yield*. ?o far this season, however, there has been too much water, and corn has been stunted because the excess water prevented normal root growth and leached out the needed ammonia. Aa % whole the corn crop over the state is very unpromising and if it is not supplied with additional plant food there is a prospect for a very short crop. All corn that has not tnateled should be side dressed with 100 to 200 pounds of nitrate of soda or an equivalent amount of soluble ammonia, advises it. W. Hamilton, extension agronomist. If the heavier amount is used it should be put on in two applications, the first when corn is approaching knee-high and the second when bunching to tassel. Experiments throughout the state have shown that an average yield of 21 bushels per acre can be increased to 40 bushels by the above amounts of soluble ammonia applied at the right time. John Dyer, a former policeman of Rye, N. Y., several months ago found an old violin in his coal bin. A short time ago he is said to have sold tho instrument for $40,000 to an unnamed buyer. John has quit police work. H KERSHAW LODGE No. 29 A. F. M. Regular communication of N^jFAthis lodge is held on the >r first Tuesday in each month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. T. V. WALSH, J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master. Secretary. 1-14-27-tf 1 . yggttj * Police Chief Lester Greenville, was dismissed by council containing four new t]9 men, and Policeman J. L. Whi^| was elevated to the place. 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