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PREACH BR8 REACH ED Spent Mr lit Marooned on Bridge In HirIi Water liJaniy, JSt'I't; d. -Their cfcr stalled by water in the road as th?*y npproml&l Twenty creek, the Rev, E. V. Heal/ Mr s. Heat ami the Kev Mr. Booth sja-nl last night on the In id|fe of the creek in water that before then rescue at 7:15 this morning had become shoulder high and rosy another foot half un hour aftci their deliverance. The Rev. Mr. Beat and the Kev. Mr. Booth had been conducting revival heiA ices at Smyrna Methodist church in west Kershaw county and they with Mis. Rest were returning home last night about 0:.'10 when they approached the creek and water getting in toe motor caused it to stall. Abandon og the car the jiurty made their way to the bridge which was thdn out of water but could get no farther due to high and swift water, the road being lowev on this side of the stream. Toe shouts of the marooned persons were heard about 4 o'clock this morning at a house about a quarter of a mile from the creek and a movement was started to effect their rescue. At 7:15 this morning, Earl Truesdale, who had been summoned and had procurer! a rowboat, with a companion, went to tho rescue and took the stranded trio from their watery perch. The creek had risen steadily after the car was abandoned and by the time help came was shoulder high. Thirty minutes later it had reached a height that would have been over the heads of the refugees. All three were taken to the home of Mr. Best not far from the creek, six or seven mileo from Blaney, where they are under the care of a physician and are expected to recover without being seriously affected by their experience. t ("apt. Elliott White Springs, ace in the World War, cotton mill owner of Fort Mill, and one of the most widely read of American writers of fiction, whs lost on his way from Rock Hill to Chicago last Friday, - because of compass trouble, and landed at Greenville thinking it was Gastonia, on account of the textile mills in sight, he said. He remained only long enough to refuel and calibrate his compass. GENDARMERIE IN CRASH Car of Returning IUi4arit Strike* Nryroca' Auto With Fatal lUnuIti A?? they wert returning from Berkeley county yeftterday afternoon/ where they4 had been to raid a large still, Stair Constables J. II- Munn of Bethane and L. A. I/own of New Hrookland were hurt in an. automor bile wreck seven mile? thin Hide of St. Matthews, when a light touring car filled with N eg roe* came out from a side road unexpectedly and was hit by the heavy car driven by the officer# before they could stop. The injured men were, brought to the Bupti-t hospital by a parsing car immediately pftor the accident. Ore of the Negroes, Jesse Green, who wan riding in the front seat, was killed in the crash, and several others injured. The young Negro driver was taken to the Jail in St. Matthews, pending further investigation of the accident. The other occupants were taken to houses of relatives neqrby. Neither of the two officers is believed to be hurt seriously, though both are badly bruised, and Mr. Lown received bad cuts on the back of both hands. Nine stitches were taken in his right hand and four were taken in his left. They were accompanied by a Mr. Flowers from Camden, but he was not hurt, and went to his home lakt night. Constable Lown and Munn, with Mr. Flowers, left Columbia about 8 o'clock yesterday morning to raid a Btill in Berkeley county between Pinopolis and Elloree. They found the still with little trouble, getting 850 gallons of beer and a complete 100-gallon capacity copper outfit. They started on the return trip, leaving Elloree about 3:80, and ran into the Negroes' car a little after 4 o'clock. . * Mr. Ixiwn said that the car shot out in front of him so unexpectedly and so quickly that he did not have time to stop and the front of his car struck the front side of the light touring car. Bothk cars were overturned, the heavier car righting itself, but the lighter car threw the Negroes out on both sides and remained upturned. Flying glass was the cause of the cuts received by Mr. , Lown.?Monday's Columbia State. ! I The saw horse has done more for mankind than the race horse. i - BETH I'ME NEW8 NOTES Hapj?rniiiK? of Interest m Told Bf (Mir Regular Correspondent, Bethune. S. C. Sept. 11,-? On lust Sunday September if, the children and grandchildren with other relatives dT Mr. .John McDonald gathered at his home to celebrate with him his 80th birthday anniversary. All of his children, to fee daughters and two sons,' and 21 of his 24 grandchildrvn were present, three grandchildren and the six great grandchildren being unable to attend. An elegat dinner was served to about forty guests. Mr. .McDonald was showered with con-: gratulsa.io.Ns and good wishes and his numero i friends wish for him many return* of this delightful occasion. More nan thirty boys and girls from Ib-thune are leaving for various college* and universities as follows: Misses. Sarah Htammond, Alga Brannon, Sarah Lee Heustiss, Mabel Wktts, Thelma Smith, Lula Lee William*. Ruth and Willene Estridge |.?Winihrop college; Frances Severance. ( lara Hough, Luclle Hilton and Kathcrine Ward?Coker college; Lizzie hate Davis and Mary Louise Mc Laurin?Chicora college; Kathryn Truesdell and Dorothy Parrott?Columbia college; Gladys Baker?Limestone college; Claudia Gardner? Lander college; Willie Kate Clyburjl? Georgia State college. Messrs. bfftMorgan, John Edwin King ami Larine Severance?-Davidson college;. Fred Josey, Heyward Blackmon, Thomas Smith, John Baker, John Neil McLaurin, Kirkland and Gordon Watta?Clemaon college: Neil Trueadell?Presbyterian college; Elma Stogner?Furman; Sedley K i n g? Draughon's Business School. Miss Birdie Bell Smith left Monday for the Columbia hospital where she expects to go in training. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Wallace King September 10, a son. > Miss Maggie Fields has been the guest of friends in Kershaw during the week. Mrs. Mark King and children, have been visiting Mrs. King's father, Mr. N. A. Bethune. during the past week. Gene Tunney, retired heavyweight champion, is spending sometime in Ireland, and is being given ovations wherever he appears. Mrs. Fannie A. Henderson, of St. Johns Island, Charleston county, has been appointed a state constable by Governor Richards at the request of the sheriff, three magistrates and two dozen citizens. She is the wife of a rural policeman and has been helping him in his work for some time. She is to serve without pay. which probably will cause some modern women to ask why a wife is not worth her hire as well as a husband. She is the first woman to be appointed a peace officer in South Carolina. The press ageijtof Gov?|?h>^ Richards has told th? newspapers th<- governor has not confirmed the' Statement of Sheriff Limehouse of' Dorchester county, that the hitter wilh |^. state constable after fie leaves the county office in Jaauary. Hut hii' dies not say that Governor Richards has denied, nor cast any doubt on, the totemerit of the famous sheriff of Hoi Chester. > The newspaper organ of SherifT Limehouse in Dorchester coftnty Otiotes hi in us saying he will be u candidate again in 1932. He leaves the -heriff"s office January 9, hut says he is eady to relinquish it to his succe.-sor January 2. AN ORD1NA N CK To Raise Supplies for 4he City of f ( amdi-n, S. C\, for the year 1928. ' R<- it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Camden, S. r., arul by uuthority of the same, tnut the following taxes be, and the |am<- arc? hereby levied, for the cur-r tent year from the first of January, 1928 to the 31st day of December, 1928, both inclusive. H Section 1. A tax of Thirty (30) Ittillfc On each and every dollar of real gnd personal property within the torporate limits of the City of Camden, S. C., from the first day of January, 1928., Section 2, That all able-bodied male persons between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years, residing within the corporate limits of the City of Camden, S. C., not exempt from road duty under the laws of the State shall work the streets, way and all parks and public places under Ithe direction of the Street Commissioner or others as may be appointed, ' for such space of time, not exceeding six (6) days in one year: Providing that at the time of receiving such notice any person may pay ti the said City of Camden, S. C., three ($3.00) dollars, commutation tax, which shall be received in lieu of the work and that person refusing to work, as aforesaid, on said streets or public places or to pay said commutation tax shall, on conviction before the Recorder of the City of Camden, S. C., be fined not less than ten ($10.00) dollars nor nftore than ftfty ($50.00) dollars, or be imprisoned i not less than ten days nor more than twenty days, and such imprisonment, may, at the discretion of the Recorder of the City of Camden, be accompanied with the additional requirement of hard labor upon the streets or public places of the said City of Camden. Section 3. The tax books for the collection of the City Taxes will be opened in the office of the said City Clerk and Treasurer Camden, S. C-, on the first day of September, 1928, and remain open each day, except Sunday, from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. and from 3 p. m, to 4:30 p. m., until the fly*t day of October, 1928, Inclusive /flection 4. That when the taxes and assessments or any portion there* of charged against any property or party pi) the duplicate for the curCPft/ fiscal yegr, shall not be paid on or 'before the first day of October, 19JIA, the City Clerk and TmtVrtr snail proceed to add a penalty of one per cent on the City duplicate, and the' City Clerk and Treasurer shhll collect the same; and if the said t^xesand assessments and penalties are not paid on or before the 1st day of November thereafter an additional penalty 'of one j>er cent shall be added by the City Clerk and Treasurer on the said duplicate and collected by the said City Clerk and Treasurer: That if said taxes, assessments and penalties are not paid on or before the 1st of December, next thereafter, the City Clerk and Treasurer shall issue in the name of the City of Camden. S. C,, a warrant or execution in duplicate against said defaulting taxpayer in the City of Camden, S. C., signed by him in his official capacity, directed to the Chief of Police of the' said City of Camden or soipe msmi ber of the police force of the City of Camden, S. C., requiring and commanding him to levy the same by distress and sell so much of the defaulting taxpayer's estate, real or personal or both, as may be sufficient to satisfy the city taxes of said defaulter, and specifying therein the aggregate amount of all his or. her taxes. The City Clerk and Treasurer for every such warrant issued shall have from such defaulter, one ($1.00) dollar, and the Chief of Police or other police officer shall collect from such defaulter the following fees in the execution of his office, to wit: For serving such warrant, One ($1.00) dollar; for advertising sale, sale, twenty-five cents; for making sale and executing deed of conveyance and putting purchaser in possession, Three ($3.00) dollars; for all sum levied as aforesaid, five per cent; and the .Chief of Police is prohibited from demanding or collecting any greater sum therefor than is hereby allowed; neither of chief of police nor the City Clerk and Treasurer shall receive fees upon a nulla bona return. Section 5. Under and by virtue of said warrant or execution the chief of police shall seize and take exclusive possession of so much of the defaulting taxpayer's estate, real or personal, or both as may be necessary to raise the sum of money named therein, and said charges thereon; and, after due advertisement, sell the 8a me before the Court House door in the City of Camden, County of Kershaw, on a regular sales day, and within the usual hours for public sales, for cash, give to the purchaser (upon his complying with the terms of the sale) a receipt for the purchase money, but not make title to the purchaser until the expiration of twelve (12) months from the day of sale, if the property sold be not redeemed as hereinafter provided, and annex said receipt to the duplicate warrant with the endorsement .thereon of his action thereuuijpr ~ and shall, after deducting fromn'^l ceed, of ule th.- J ifl of ?mM utU, pay ovim to tiiHsM Clerk and Treasurer th* QM charge# apd penalties <jtt, cur red by said defaulting u* *9 and upon written notice giv,.nW*9 formation gucfirtaiimd fr ' record^, of imy in,,, i K,iyt. 1 'W lien ou said premises so taxes, shall hold the ?-x(, 9 until authorized and dirwi^ **fM proper judicial authority w . ?i> of disposition, pr by written 1*29 of the defaulting taxpayer ik?;*!? said excess be paid over to mon ^9 of lien creditor, and aceorSi^M priority if more than one PHOVnirSB that toe owner or grantee or 59 mortgage creditor may within tJ89 months from date of such *alfe such property by paying to the nS of Police the taxes, cost, penitoS and expenses of said sale tx>?#alfl with eight per cent interest ban? whole amount of the purchsi/J^* Of rsai i<i land ho sold, and the Chief of Police shall pay^3: and refund to the said purchaLJ(9 amount paid on his bid, with est 'as above stated, and the bid tiB the said purchaser shall ?* then >?fl celled uiid revoked, the owner dH grantee remaining in posieuion 9 his said land: Provided further til upon failure of defaulting tainiS or other party interested to retail Huid lund so sold for taxes ?jtuB twelve months as stated, the chie^B police shall make title to the g^B chaser and put the purchaser is >3 session of tne property sold end Cj veyed: Provided further that j9 cose of threatened waste gr age to the premises hy the oivfl er or any other party, during fB 'twelve months, allowed for redtaJ tion, the purchaser at said tax 9' shall have the right to apply toS Court of. Common Pleas or a JukS thereof for injunction against s29 waste and for a receiver to 9 charge of the property until theB of twelve mohtns for redemption!; less sooner redeemed: Provided ^B ther, when any real estate is for taxes in the said City of Cam^H it shall be the duty of the chi?f|H police of the said City of CtngH before delivering title to suchrfB estate to the purchaser at such uk,B to give not less than thirty dayifto9 tice to any mortgagee or assign* |H any mortgage appearing of record uB interested in such real estate ol tntfl sale in order that such said ml tate, as provided by law for the on-9 er thereof. Such notice shall either! be served on such mortgagee or a-l sigtiee in person or forwarded to! his last known post office address vl registered mail, or when his when! abouts may be known it may be hat! by publication upon petition and or- ! der as is required in civil action.'! mons by publication in civil action.! I Ratified by the Mayor and Aider-! I men of the City of Camden, 8. C.I in council assembled this 11th diy i^l f September, 1928. -^'-9 C. P. DUB0SE,9 W. H. HAILE, ,?-*9 City Clerk and Treasurer. I j| THE WATEREE BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION! I This statement, we believe, is perhaps the best ever shown by any Building & Loan Association in Canada M We are liquidating 680 shares Series No. 7 on October 1st, 1928 at 1 $108.25 PER SHARE 1| I PAYMENTS PER SHARE WERE $86.00. PROFITS EARNED IN 80 MONTHS 1 Rooks of Subscription for Shares in Scries No. 10 beginning Oct. 17th Now Open ' See our Treasurer, Mr. Mackey, and subscribe for as many shares as you want. Also see him about the Life Insurance feature we 11 have to offer our shareholders, protecting your loan and maturing your shares at $100 at once*in case of your death. j; SERIES NO. 7 SEVENTH STATEMENT OF SERIES NO 7 FOR 80 MONTHS ENDING AI G 1ST 31ST, 1928 LIABILITIES 680 Shares at $80.00 $54,400.00 Accounts Payable 207.00 Reserve for Liquidating Expanse 171.82 PROFITS: Interest and Fines Accounts $22,890.50 Ix?ss Expenses Paid 3,081.50 19,210.00 $73,988.82 ASSETS Ixians, Mortgages and Bonds $48,268.00 Due by First National Bank 18,139.86 Due by Series No. 9 7,000.00 Accounts Receivable 580.96 $73,988.82 Payments Made Per Share $80.00 Earnings Per Share 28.25 LIQUIDATING AT $108.25 Average Earnings 10.59 per ?ent per annum. j SHARE HOLDERS THIS SERIES MAY EXPECT SETTLEMENT ON OCTOBER 1ST, 1928 SERIES NO, 8 FOURTH STATEMENT Of SERlfcS NO. 8 FOR 44 MONTHS ENPING AUGUST 31ST. 1928 LIABILITIES 1132 Shares at $44.00 $49,808.00 Less Delinquents 342.00 $49,466.00 Bills Payable 7,321.00 Due Series No. 9 , 6,000.00 Due First National Bank 24.93 Accounts Payable 168.67 PROFITS: Interest and Fines Accounts $13,848.60 LESS. Expanses Paid $1,726.73 Res. for Accrued Int. 100.00 1.826.78 12,021.87 $74,999.37 ASSETS Loans, Mortgages and Bonds $74,526.00 Accounts Receivable 574.37 $76,099.37 Less Reserve for Accrued Int. as Above 100.00 $74,999.37 Payments Made Per Share $44.00 Earnings Per Share 10.62 Book Value Per Share $54.62 Average Earnings 13.16 per cent per annum. t SERIES NO. 9 SECOND STATEMENT OF SERIES NO. 9 FOR 23 MONTHS ENDING AUGUST 31ST, 1928 [ LIABILITIES 2093 Shares at $23.00 $48,139.00 Less Delinquents 593.00 $47,546.00 .Due Series No. 7 7,000.00 Bills Payable 108.406.00 Accounts Payable 5,925.18 PROFITS: Interest and Fines Accounts $9,524.86 LESS: F.*nen?e* Pj?id $1,169.85 Res. for Accrued Int. 2,317.15 3,487.00 6,037.86 $169,915.01 ASSETS Loans, Mortgages and Bonds $164,665.00 Due by Series No. 8 6,000.00 Due by First National Bank 1,523.07 Accounts Receivable 44.12 $172,232.19 Less Reserve for Accrued Int. as Above 2,317.15 $169,915.04 Payments Made Per Share $23.00 Earnings Per Share 2.88 Book Value Per Share $25.88 .Average Earnings 13.06 per eent per annum. COMBINED STATEMENT SERIES NOS. 7, 8 AND 9?AUGUST 31ST, 1*# 11 LIABILITIES 1 C API TAL._ STOCK (DuesPiOdV > ' . J Net Undivided Profits to 1' U Bills Payable 110.7W?JB Accounts Payable ^ H Accrued Interest M"' f ASSETS ^; J| Loans, Mortgages and Bonds u\ II Cash in First National Bank lM88, II Accounts Receivable *'r IB Shares Seriefc No. 7 680 || Shares Series No. 8 1, 182 Shares Series No. 9 2,093 Total Shares 3,908 Attest Comet* . IB ~7 L. A. WTTTKOWSTr^ - " ^ OFFICERS I). WOLFE, President 8. W. Van LANDINGHAM. Vice President J. T. MACKKY, Secretary and Treasurer L. A. WITTKOWSKY, Solicitor ui rectors C. J. SHANNON, JR_ I). WOLFE, f L BLOCK ~~"r"" S. W. V?n LAN DING HAM. J. P. LEWIS, M H HEYMAN C W< .^55^!lilS%L PH. C A. DUNN. F. M. WOOTBN. , A.* WlmOFMT, JOHN T J*-*fTLES'