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I I I ! I I. I . I II I I ' ' l"l. 1~1HiMW-'T! J..L. _ 1 ' " I ?T-rTTTTppT^^M SERVICE ?) Your Fire Insurance Policy is nothing more ttfian ft contract between you and Home insurance company. When you buy insurance, be sure that the other party to tiie contract is anxious to do a little more than the right tiling. This agency ha.-, had sixty-three years in which to select tin* pick of tin* 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 belter service than that furnished oitr customers. Williams Insurance Agency R. M KENNEDY, JR., OWNER ? ESTABLISHED 1865 Ten thousand persons are reported as homeless, 200 dead and 1,400 square miles of territory devasted as the result of a hurricane which swept over Haiti last week. X DeKALU COUNCIL No 88 Junior Order U. A. M. Regular counoil first and third Mondays <yf each month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. D. J. CREED, L. H. JONES, Councillor. , Recording Secty. ft KER8HAW LODGE No. 2t i/V, A' F* M* <#H)ARegular communication of ' /^w^this lodge ii held on the 1 v first Tuesday in each month at 8 a.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. T. V. WALSH, J. E. ROSS, Worehipful Master. Secretary. 1-14-27-tf ' 1 ' 1 I ROBT. W.MITCH AM Architect Crocker Building, Camden, S. C. NO-MO-KORN FOR CORNS AND CALLOUSES Made in Camden And For Sale By ' DeKaib Pharmacy?Phone 95 j ____________________________________ \ ?? ? ????? ?1 ( T. B. BRUCE I Veterinarian ^ t Day Phone 30?Night Phone 114 CAMDEN, 1 C ?____J i ?? Y R.'E. CHEWNING 1 Contractor and Builder Camden, S. C. f If you have building to, I t do let me figure with you. r Satisfaction guaranteed. References given on ap- ? plication. Don't Spend More Than You Earn It takes some backbone, some genuine courage, to withstand the temptation to spend more money than youreally effort!. but you'll feel better-to keci* out of debt. Loan & Savings Bank I CAPITAL $100,000.00 GEORGIANS MISSING Among Them Treaaurer of Home Miasion > Board of iBuptiata Atlanta, Aug. 26.?Five Georgians, :wo of them of prominence, who have been missing unexplainedly from Lheir homes for varying periods of Lime, were the objects tonight of urgent inquiries by families and friends seeking to learn their whereabouts. They are: C. S. Carnes, Atlanta business man ind treasurer of the home mission board of the Southern Baptist contention. J. D. Ellington, well known business man of Thomaston. Capt. A. H. Harrington of Thomasville, his wife and their ten-monthsold baby. Anxiety for the safety of all was expressed. Mr. Carnes disappeared the afternoon of August 15 after telephoning his chauffeur to notify his wife that he had been called to Raleigh on a business trip. Authorities of several states have been called on by relatives of Mr. Ellington to assist in finding him. He left his home at Thomaston Monday, ostensibly for a business trip to Atlanta, but diligent inquiries have failed, his family said, to r?veal a trace of him since then. Six weeks have passed without word of Captain Harrington, his -wife and child, who left their home in Thomasville for a motor trip to the jeorgia coast. Harrington, a former )fttcer in the British army and the >wner of a nursery and restaurant >usiness at Thomasville, was known o have carried considerable money I vhen the family left for their outng. Meanwhile, leaders of the Southern laptist convention were gathering lere to lend what aid they could to he search for Mr. Carnes. Dr. George Truitt of Texas, president of the con'ention, who now is in Lynchburg, i'a., has been notified. He was exacted in Atlanta within the next ew days. Auditors now are at work on the reasurer's books and a report is exacted soon. >CISSORS SHARPENED?10 cents per pair; satisfaction guaranteed. George Tidwell, Camden, S. C. 3-ti-sb THE t'lAYVHAM OF THE FLOOD Crmt .Woven Forward Saturday and Waters Subside This Week (Tuesday'* Yorkville Enquirer) The Hood of last week lessened its energies tn tb? Piedmont and moved | southward on Saturday, when its crest wan near Columbia with the rivers there at record stage* and during the following few days gradually subsided, leuving millions of dol, lai? of damage In its wuke. The total loss of life in the two Caro lina.- was 12. \\ i.ilt* Asheville, Spartanburg and (ii ee/iv tile were rebuilding railroads and roads and in general repairing Hood damage as rapidly as possible, und '.he county authorities in a score id countii*8 were replacing wushed out bridges by the hundreds and repair ing damaged roads, on Saturday, the people farther down the rivers were ex|M;riencing a real Hood compar uble to that of l'Jlfl. The Congare went above 36 feet at Columbia, the Broad above 37 feat at Blair, near there, and the Watered at Camden reached a like stage, while the Santee, receiving all the water from above attained 30 feet. But it jvas the Saluda which really gave An exhibition of flood conditions, although some of the other rivers broke all past records for height. The Saluda caught a crack Southern railroad train of two sections at Strothers, 30 miles from Columbia and kept it there surrounded by water for a day or two. The passengers were removed in automobiles after spending the night on the train with no food and little light. The railroad station at Chappels was flowing swiftly a half mile wide. The waters reached the lower sections of Columbia where many streets were flooded, and went over the window sills of some plants there. Hickory, N. C., reported the dangers past but the damage there $1,000,000. Hamburg, S. C., across the river from Augusta, Ga., was under water'Saturday and its inhabitants fled to higher ground, as the Savannah river went to flood stage and higher than ever before in weather bureau records. The floods also reached eastern North Carolina for the first time on Saturday. The rain was not so heavy there, but the Cape Fear rive* went to 35 feet, the Roanoke to 40 feet, the Yadkin, which becomes the Peedec in South Carolina, went, ou; of banks, rising at the rate of two feet an hour. Up near WinstonSalem, the low lands were all flooded and a power plant drowned out of commission. The dam at Lockhart, S. C., has a section washed out, but was previously flooded a dozen feet deep, so the washing out of the structure had no effect on the river below. The crest of the flood moved on toward the ocean over Sunday, and yesterday found the central part of the state experiencing what the Piedmont felt last Friday, with highways broken and closed to traffic, railroads desperately trying to save bridges and with tracks under water for miles, and huge lakes where farms had been. Where the Congaree and Waieree rivers meet to form the Santee, 30 miles south of Columbia, there is td? day a lake 30 miles long and twenty miles wide, and the low lands along the Santee below there will be overflowed in turn tomorrow and the following days. The highway crossing of the Santee river near Kingstroe was protected with sand bags by a j big crew of men sent by the state highway department. The Atlantic Coa9t line railroad bridge across the Santee at Rimini is anchored today by great wire calbles and weighted with loaded box cars to prevent it being swept away. The main highway from Columbia to Florence was closed at the Wateroe river, 18 miles from Sumter, whore the river was miles wide ami Uk# highway covered with the water and being washed under the concrete s ab. There also the railroad was trying to save a trestle across the river whiclf the flood was threatening to take out. At Columbia all five spans of the Broad river bridge, including heavy concrete pier went down in the flood. Over to the east the different sygtem of rivers had their own floods disconnected from those of the Piedmont system, but almost equally rampant. United States highway No. 1, the north and south one nearest the coast, was closed in South Carolina on account of the havoc wrought by the raging Pee Dee river. Over Sunday, the crest of that flood was at Cherarw, and the current wag swifter and more forcible than any in western part of the Carolines. Cattle were caught and drowned on islands, in the bottoms which finally were siibmerged, and 300 mules in one bunch were drowned after bet in* *?<i on a temporary island for O T "ZZ "J| fi ' t??V- - -art n i + , . . j .. 1 . . - . : :?several day#. The Hat boat, propelled by a Ford automobile engine, got out of control of It# pilot twice, and once was swept twenty mile# down u\er and another time several mile# b> the terrific current. After the Piedmont flood had passed on southward, Chester was without water aupply for several day#, because last week its electric motor driving the pumps of the waterworks were flooded ami had to he sent to Charlotte to )iave its wiring dried out. A dozen bridges in Chester county were washed out, but none of con* sequence in Lancaster cou#ty where t ine) are all concrete. The bridge j ivit the Broad river at the Chester| I nion county line had part of its 't r ion county end damaged. Ander n topped the rainfall records with | .">?> inches of rain in a couple of i days last week. All eyes were turned to the I^ake Lure, N. C. dam over the week-end and yesterday. It is 100 feet high arid 800 feet long, of concrete witn earthen ends, in a forge of about the same width for a mile or more below it. Its sudden going out would send and immense quantity of water down the gorge. Last week all inhabitants for miles below the dam were warned out of that section as the earth part of the dam began to disintegrate. Water seeped under it, great slices fell off, and opening the safety gates showed they had been located so that they created an eddy which eat away the dam worse than the Hood itself. The dam slowly disintegrated at the ends orf earth. The gates stuck for a day but finally were repaired, but when wide open they are on sills which keep 80 feet of water behind the dam. By yesterday morning the lake was down to that level,] and the disintegration of the dam was going on gradually but continually. Its builder, who was in charge of the work to save it, said Sunday that his work to prevent it going out quickly and entirely under the flood, pressure was handicapped by lack of funds asked from its owners, a Philadelphia corporation which built it to make a resort lake with incidental production of a little power which is sold to the Duke company in toto. Last night the state of the earthen end of the dam showed that it would continue to slowly disintegrate until all had sloughed off into the stream below and the lake was entirely Members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, on lines west of Chicago, are taking a vote on the question of a strike (because of failure of the railroads to meet wage increase demands recently made. grained. As long as this process continues a slow one of seepage through the earth part of the dam in large quantity, there will be no danger from flood below. But if the earthen dam end that is left ,goes out all at once with the 80 feet of water behind it, a dangerous flood wave will be sent down the gorge below the dam. Five different methods of saving it have failed, including placing 200 tons of rock and a large numlber of trees against the earthen fill, but this reinforcement was washed down like chips in a creek. 1 TootkTaken FroraLwl Spartanburg, Aug. 15.?Littkfl thy Brook, eight-year-old dauftyfl J. T. Brook, of this city, U foil and happy again today afttrfl cessful operation at a loci] kql for the removal of a tooth vffl lodged in her lung after sucked it down her trachea pfl {? The child's father extrticS^ molar but before he could retttfll from her mouth she hud drmfl down into her lungs. RmhadjW hospital, a surgeon removed thehfl by use of a fube and a vacuna <1 The child was taken home i shfl time later. Scotland plans to prohibit tkfl of preservatives in foods, SEND IT HERE Think of it! For a fewcents you can have your laundry work done here. It is no trouble at all. We call for and deliver all i work promptly. Telephone 17 for efficient and economical laundry service. City Laundry PHONE 17 JUST LIKE 1 Our special ch-sOng priJ.l cess completely removed all spots, dirt and sUiwl from your k;u meats, nol matter how soiled theyl might be. Just teleplqS 17 and see how wetll pleased you will b? with! their results. -;M Camden Dry cieand PHONE 17 I (Savings Give Confidence M With a Savings Account in a . stmAJT-b ank like thiayou -know ?M where your money is and what it is earning for you all the time. The First National Bank I Of Camden, South Carolina 1 ONLV NATIONAL BANK IN KERSHAW COUNTY ^