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, ,?- , llM . SERVICE Vour Fire Insurance Policy is nothing more than a contract between you and some insurance -company. When you buy inHurance, 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 better service than that furnished our customers. 4 Williams Insurance Agency R. ML KENNEDY, JR., OWNER ESTABLISHED 1865 m DeKALB COUNCIL No 88 Junior Order U. A. M. Regular council first and /^r\ third Motiduys of each month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. I). J. CREED, L. H. JONES, Councillor. Recording Secty. a[ KERBIIAW LODGE No. 29 A. F. M. V G VRegular communication of i y^S^^^this lodge is held on the firgt 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 NOT1CB OF BIDS Bids will be received on Aug. Gth, 1928 ut regular meeting of City Council for Lease of Opera House Store for one yeur. CITY COUNCIL, By YV. H. Haile, City Council Treas. * ROBT. W. MITCH AM Architect Crocker Building, Camden, S. C. r ?> NO-MO-KORN FOR CORNS ANI) CALLOUSES Made in Camden And For Sale By DeKalh Pharmacy?Phone 95 T. B. BRUCE Veterinarian Day Phone 30?Night Phone 114 CAMDEN, 3. C. R/E. CHEWN1NG Contractor and Builder Camden, S. C. H you have building to, do let me figure with you. S a t itd" a c t.io n g u a r ante ed. Uefervnees given on ap( plication. RICHMOND FAMILY LOSES Youth Winn Fiance and $15,000 By Posing as Heir Richmond, Va., July 30,-r-A young man who, the police say, gained entrance to Richmond society by posing ' heir to the Baker Chocolate for' tune, contemplated the matter in the | city juil Saturday as he awaited a | hearing on charges of obtaining $15,000 by false representation from the I mother of his fiancee. Bernard F. Champayne, alias Walter W. Baker Jr., of Ticonderoga, N. Y., was the name he gave police when arrested last night. The name of his Richmond fiancee was not divulged. "The police preferred charges withj out complaint from the woman from , whom he obtained the $15,000, or ' from his fiancee," Chief or Police i Jordan told the Associated Press, i "We do not like to embarrass these I innocent victims by telling their I names." Champayne, police said, aroused ' suspicion by attempting to get $1,000 bills changed in the city. Officers were assigned to the case and communication with New York revealed I that there were n^pBakers now as1 sociated with the chocolate company in a financial way. He engaged rooms with a family in the Ginter Park section a month ago, police said, in telling his story. There for a month he lived a life of ease and luxury, showering gifts upon the , duughter of his landlady and family becoming engaged to the girl. He 1 represented himself as a member of 1 New York Stock Exchange, police j said he told them, and obtained $15 j 000 from the landlady on pretense of I making an investment for her. He is i said to have purchased an expensive ! automobile while here and to have ; made application for memlrership in several fashionable clubs. j f Two Die In Aiken at Dice Game Aiken, July 29.?Harold Drayton] and Tom Daly, negro laborers at the MeNumee Kaolin mines, near Bath were shot to death Friday night, in I a general fight among a number of ' men. There was a gambling game going j on in a house and after it broke up ] the crowd came out. Harold Drayton and Allan Mann got into dispute lover a pair of dice. Grant Garner j got into t'he argument and pulled his gun and started firing. Various memj hers of the crowd pulled guns and Tiring became general. When the ' smoke of battle cleared away Dray! ton and Daly were dead. It is alleged that the ?hooting of Drayton | was intentional, hut Daly was killed i by a stray bullet. The coroner's jury returned u verdict that the dead men came to their I death at the hands of Allan Mann, | Grant Gardner and Harold Drayton. | Mann and Gardner fled. Officers are looking for them and j expect to locate them shortly. Taking Advantage of Opportunities Saving makes a man keener for opportunities ami at the same time it provides him with cash to take advantage of them. Loan & Savings Bank CAPITAL $100,000.00 DAIRY HERD OF 1.000 ? i i . i , O Former Mr*. Vanderbilt ( realm Very Interesting Experiment Asheville, N. C? Aug. 2.-? Jvdith Stuyveagnt Vanderbilt 0#rr>, wife of Senator Peter Goelet Gerry, of Rhode Inland, and society leader, i* tlie creator of an interesting community c Apt; time lit here and the founder of a dairy farm of more than 1,000 cowi, one of the ehow place> of western North Carolina. Her intereat In the work began in 1H?'J when her late husband, George W Vanderbilt, purchased 100,0o0 acres of beautiful mountain country neui Asheville. In the center of this vast estate the Vanderbilta built their home, liiltmore House, a chateau in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. (In the thousands of acres which surrounded the mansion they established u village along feudal lines to house the native mountaineers, who in their homes had preserved many of the cottage industries of old England. Teachers and artists who studied carefully the weaving of Scotland and England were brought in to encourage and improve the bit of it that was preserved among the highlanders of the South. Schools were built and mountain boys and girls were taught old crafts under skilled guidance. This circuit homespun industry grew into a large business, whicn since has been organized into the Biltmore Industries, operated at Grove Park Inn, Asheville. Reforestation methods introduced by the Vanderbilts gave such impetus to forestry in the section and resulted in such a mag nificent sweep of pines and other native trees that the government purchased 86.000 acres and established it as the Pisgah National Forest. After the death of Mr. Vanderbil'., his widow and daughter carried on his projects and passed practically their entire time on the estate. Mra. Vanderbilt turned her particular attention to the agricultural development. Her efforts resulted in a dairy and farm which started with three employes and now has an operating force of ninety trained men and women. Every visitor to the estate, ] which is open to the public twice each week, is served with ice cream and cake at the creamery. Because of her interest in agrieu! tural development Mrs. Vanderbilt was appointed to the North Carolina , I'air Board and became of first woman president of it, during the ad- \ ministration of Governor Cameron , Morrison, 1920-1924. In 1925, after the marriage of her daughter, Cornelia Vanderbilt, to an attache of the , British Embassy, Mrs. Vanderbilt married Senator Gerry. Her daughter, u|wn reaching her twenty-first birthday, took over the estate, but Senator and Mrs. Gerry built their own home, Firth, in Bilt*more Forest. Mrs. Gerry spends much , of her time in Washington, where she and the Senator have opened another home, and here she centers much of her talent on Washington's social life.As president of the Congressional Club she is a leader among the wives . i of Congressmen and she is recognized as a leader in diplomatic social circles. Wood Wins Air Trophy Detroit, August 2.?Eon P. Wood, W ausau, Wis., flying a Wright-engined Waco plane, zoomed across the finish line at the Ford Airport at 2:51 p. m. Saturday, the unofficial , winner of the fourth national air I tour which started from here June 30. Wood, w'ho had amassed enough ! points during the tour to assure him of victory and the Edsel B. Ford ti'ophy, led the fleet of twenty-four planes, to finish on the last leg of the journey from Battle Creek, Mich., from where they hopped off at 2 p. m. I he other planes landed in quick succession. Lee Schoenair, flying a Lockheed i plane, was the second to cross the finishing line; Charles Meyers, flying a W right-i-ngined Waco, was th.rd; Lewis Meister, piloting a Buhl sedan, was fourth, and Eddie Stinson, a inner of the 1927 tour, was the fifth to land. The tour, the purpose of which is to test the reliability and efficiency of planes and pilots, wus scored on the basis of the load carried, >kill displayed in handling the planes and landing and taking off, and the genernl efjgFtnecy of planes and pilots. North Carolina state employees to the number of 290 asked for* an increase of salary from the salary and wage commission. Against Removal of Wilson House Columbia, Aug. 2.?Protests against the proposal to raze the " boyh&od home of Woodrow Wilson at Hampton and Henderson streets here are being filed almost daily with the local newspapers. The old Southern home, starviing on a corner lot surrounded by magnolia and cellar trees, where the World war president spent some years of his boyhood while his father, Dr. Joseph Ruggles Wilson preached in Columbia, is slated to be replaced by a $800,000 citv auditorium. The commission named to select a site and supervise the erection of the auditorium decided on the site ,argely because of the price at which It was offered. The lot was offer?><1 for $28,000. The place known as the Van Metre place is a typical old Southern residence. It stands well back in the lot. a two-story frame structure, and gives the impression from the outside of quietude and being a homely sort of place. On Hampton street, just in front of the gate of the old picket fence that surrounds it, is a huge granitu boulder. On the face of the boulder is a bronze plate recording that Woodrow Wilson spent the years from 1871 to 1874 there with his father and mother. The marker was placed by the Womens Auxiliary of the local post of the American Legion. The protest* are largely In the form of letters to editors of the papers. Thus far there has been no concerted public movement looking to preservation of the place. FIND SON IN MOVIES Long Search By J'arenU Ends In Picture Theatre Providence, R. I., A'ug. 2.?Mr. arid Mr a. Leroy Birmingham went to n theater to see a movie, and found th^u lung lost son, l^roy, smiling d<^^ a' them from the screen. The i>o> i an a way irom home with a cirrus when he wa*- By tho time his parents gut fli,'touch with .rum he had left the circlW. He had;, wanted to be an acrobat tjtid a clown,j but had succeeded only in being anassistant wet-nurse to elephant* and, camels. Not? so good. For months they sought him in vain. Mrs. Birmingham wus certain that eventually they would hear from him or he would return. She made inquires ubout him with every circus that played near here. When Mr. Birmingham's work made it necessary for them to move away from the old home, they hesitated about the change, fearful that Leroy would communicate with them there and not be able to get in touch with them. \ They like the movies and go regularly, but they were hardly prepared for the spector that confronted them on the screen one evening not long ago. As a thin, boyish figure walked on tho scene, Mr. Birmingham grasped her husband's arm. "It's Leroy!" she wanted to shout. The name of the player appeared in the cast as Allan Whitney, but they were certain it was their son. They communicated with the New York office of the producing company, which in turn made inquires at the studio. "Yes," euger parents were told, "Allan Whitney is your long-lost son, Leroy." The Birminghams are now preparing for a visit from the prodigal. He's going to Providence after the completion of the picture in which he is now working. Singularly, bhe picture which found him for his parents, was the first in which "Allan Whitney" had a regular role. For four years he had been a nameless member 01 the movie mobs, living a hand-to-mouth existence. On a chance a casting director had picked him out of a mob for the part. Charged With Burning of Friend Beaufort, S. C., July 30.?Charged with throwing a bucket of gasoline on a friend who held a match, Sherman Washington, negro, was held in jail here to'da^' to await action Of thfe grand jury. James Carter, negro, victim of the burning, died in a hospital yesterday. His wife, who was burned at the same time will recover. According to testimony at the inquest, Washington went to Carter's home with a bucket of gasoline. Finding Carter in bed, Washington is said to have asked him to strike a match and as he did so threw the gasoline on him. The house was destroyed by fire. Washington was captured a few hours later. He also is charged with ; arson. | ASYLUM DESTROYED. Hundreds of Irresponsibles Turned Out of Building As Fire Starts. Nashville, Tenn., July 27.?State . officials tonight concentrated on ob- ( taining a water supply for the central state hospital for the insane, eight miles from Nashville, the ad-' ministration building of which was totally destroyed by fire early this morning. * * Although 15 of the more than 1^00 patients escaped when authorities turned them out of the buildings onto the spacious grounds, only nine remained at large tonight, hospital authorities were not worried over these being at large. Two of them were confined for murder and were described as "bad actors" but ti was not expected they would molest any- body and officers were watching their familiar haunts in hopes of effecting early captures. The fire started, it was believed, by defective wiring in the cnpolil 50 year old central unit oitfcl destroyed all hospital recordfM longings -of the superintejjfira Attendants unlocked all hdfl it nd escorted out men and wotd their night clothes or whiiMjl coqld gather about them, jj them on the lawns where, luitw by cordons of guards, they ?3 the blaze. Most of them weftfl ed inside by <3 o'clock* 9 -, ?Xhe loss, was estimated |M of $2$0,000 but definite fl|ra| nob available. The state ct? own insurance fund which, M is hpt believed to exceed fl2U the jfreqent. a To Clean Piano Keyiij Discolored piano keys duiM instrument and give an appetijfl slipshod house/keeping. Taj them ,cover with a paste of pii chalk and alcohol and when? move, rub keys with alcohol Ml with soft- cloth. ] I SEND IT HERE Think of it! For a few cents you can have your laundry work done here.. It is no trouble at all. We call for and deliver all work promptly. 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