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Nobody's Business Written for Thf Chronicle by Q? McGee, Copyright, li>28. The cost of committing a crime h?*? been advanced recently in Chicago. The gunmen now charge 45 dollars for shooting a policeman, and 82 dollars for murdering a bootleg competitor, and '.>0 dollars for bombing the residence of a judge, but most any of the boys will take the job of shooting an ordinary citizen for 10 dollars and taxi fare. This is purely a bull market. The following "nd" appeared in one of our local newspapers a few days a&o; "Kvcry puir teddies and stepins in our store will l>e onehalf off tomorrow morning at 'J o'clock." 0 men and 2 policemen were smothered to death at the front door at around H:45, yet-- only 21 women worked in the department store in question. Wanted: Some news of Sammie J. Dean, He filled his tank with pure benzine, He took out his pipe to pulf some "Prince.," And poor Sammie J. aint benzine M/ice. flat rock, s. C. nek the 26 1928. deer mr, editor: ? wont you please inform yore readers that i put on a blindfolded beef test at my beef market last nij^it and mrs. lizzie vanderbutt, one of my regular customers, told my beef in .'1 seconds from the beef of 5 of my competitors, and she had 2 towels tied tight around her eyes anspforth. it takes mighty good beef to be picked out blindfolded like cigarettes is, ( and this ought to help mo out a right smart, rite or foam if you hear of annybody wanting to trade with me. (p. s. i sell for cash only and stake is fetching c*12 on my skales). yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. Safety First I read in the paper the other day 1 ?? I nil 11 where a young mart got ?hot in the apple orchard. Goah, X bet that lxurt. A mad dog bit Uncle Joo'a aunt right behind the smoke house which was real do** to the apple orchard, but he took the pasture rabbit treat mom and got all right. Aiut science wonderful? v ? jljJE* Hut accident* happen to all of us in time. The day of the election one of my very beat friend* got his income cut -off. In fact, he tailed the ticket. I had my leg pulled jU8t jftMl week, and am still unable to go out at night if it cpst* anything. During safe.ty week, the follow who drove his car around and distributed those "drive sanely" aig.is ran into 3 Fords and 2 automobiles and 1 truck and 6 women. He claim ?d he had so many "safety stickers" plastered on his windshield he simply couldn't see where he was going. And there's V\ illie Skinner: Ho cut the buck last Saturday night and it died. Folks ought to be more careful, I think. Within an hour after this thing took place, Hirein Quick balled the jack, and neither one of them has been heard of since. It s simply getting dangerous for a person to get outside of her own home. ^ Now, take Jimmie and Buddie Ford: They burnt the wind Friday when the cop tried to see what that stuff was that was leaking out of their rumble seat. And back younder during the freshet, I just did get home in time one night to see the kitchen sink and the wash rag and the flash light and the stove lift her an I the side walk and the door jam and the carpet tack and the nwuing down and the bed spring and the clock run and the coal chute and the cat nip. ( 1 hen I woke up). And just last Sabbath, old Mm. Dominecker laid an egg on the red hot stove and it exploded before she could beat it, and her face was lifted. And her husband stumbled over something in the hall and got badly bunged up between the. corridor ami the air vent on the radiator. So, my dear people?you are never entirely free from misfortune. While reading this very article, it is possible that your wife will s'hoot you fmm l?'l"nd in an effort to collect yur insurance policy which lapsed when you had to pay two back instalment^ ..II her outside aerial an i "i"i-~i'enr\?-t, ;,u; ,MV fu be careful, even though you b ? married, ami new, pay any ntt. : tion " ' rt iircfs it;' ' you or i: x. bus parked. I hanks To Hcaut\ Shops >'hc was Pre11 y, . tort-skirted, an I pir kwhroked. As 'ripped lighfv 'own stairs leading ; . the station. I many admiring glances recast : her direction. "Some girl!" exclaimed one you!n to his companion, as the;, trailed in her wake. "Wonder who the lucky chap is she's going to meet. As she emerged from the station a handsome, broad-shouldered man, fully six feet tall, clasped her in h 13 arms, and kissed her. "Mother!" he exclaimed fondly, "I thought I'd missed you!" The Odd and Unusual A Detroit attorney. John C. Jeniolionis. bet with a friend that under the name of "Jefferson" ln> could poll at least 10,000 votes running against a third term Congressman in the Republican primary. He won his bet with la,7JO votes. W hen Robert Ransford, of Philadelphia. returned with his family from their summer vacation he found wreckage in every room in the hous* Police who were called in found the offender?in a bedroom?it was a pigeon, half starved and suffering from thirst. The bird had apparently entered the house through the ehim ney. "Enclosed find bill for $29.1$ for damage to our locomotive," was all the satisfaction a Chicago autoist got out of his race with a train. The auto was a total wreck. Frank Roscoe, of Wilmington, N. C.. was fined $10 for speeding but the city recorder promised to remit the fine on condition that Roscoe make a home run in a certain baseball game .Roscoe knocked the homer. When flood waters cover.>d an island near Clarksvi.le, Va., a cow which had been marooned there started swimming. It was later found at North Bend. 20 miles away. Four men lost their lives "in the ^?nta Catalir.a mountains of Arizona Tuesday when their airplane crashed and burned the party to death. The four men had started out in search of William Hyatt, a younjr Tucson hunter who had been lost while hunting. TAX NOTICE Office of Treasurer Kershaw County, Camden, S. Sept. 12, 1928. Notice is hereby given thut the hook ; will be opened fur the collection of State. County and School Taxes from October lath, 1928, to March loth, 1929. A penalty of I pes cent will be added to all taxes unpaid r.unry 1st, 1929, 2 per cent l'Vh-uat \ 1-o. I'.rjp and 7 per cent Ma. r. 1 1929. I tw rate nor centum for Kershaw county i-- as follows: Mills State ,Taxos, \ . . . u...... 5 1? t. tt 1 School I Scli.nd faxes 7 i '"Utr v Taxes s > ,. lb. spiral. -->4 < "(U-.-t ituii*?nal f < im.?| Tax ;! I >i'li< mi y Si'houl Tax . . . % T'dal 29'4 1 \ Ka.b Township !l ail Bonds. for DeKalb Township only 2'i Dog tax 1? 1.2a. All dog owners are required to make a return of their dog-, to live County Trea*u:er. who is required to furnish a licence tag. All dogs caught without the license tag the owners will be subject to a fine / of $:,.(>(> or imprisonment not more than five days. The following School Districts have special levies: School District No. 1 18ly School District No. 2 13^8 School District No. :: ......19 School District No. 1 18*j School District No. f> 1 School District No. 6 18 School District No. 7 10 School District No. 8 1 School District No. 9 1 School District No. lo 5 School District No. 11 8 School District No. 12 20% School District No. Id 1 School District No. 15 1 School District No. 16 3 School District No; 19 1 School District No. 20 1 School District No. 22 19% School District No. 23 1 School District No. 25 I School District No. 27 1 School District No. 28 1 School District No. 29 7 School District No. 30 1 School District No. 31 9 School District No. 33 11 School District No. 37 1 School District No. 38 1 School District No. 39 5 School District No. 40 21 School District No. 41 1 School District No. 42 1 School District No. 43 1 School District No. 46 ....... 1 School District No. 47 1 The Poll Tax is $1.00. All able bodied male persons from the ago of twenty-one (21) to fifty (50) years, both inclusive, except resident* in, incorporated town ^ shall pay $3.00 as a road tax except ministers of the gospel actually in charge of a congregation, teachers employed in public schools, school trustees, and persons permanently disabled in the military service of the State and persons who served in the War Between the States, and all quarantine service of this state and all residents who may be attending school or college at the time When said road tax shall become due. Persons claiming disabilities must present certificate from two reputable physicians . of this_ county. All information with reference to taxes will be furnished upon application. When inquiring please state school dtttict or township. : S. W. HOGUE, County Treasurer. jbr^-v. : HEINOUS CRIME OF ARSON Nut Only low?f to Inournnco Co"1* panics, but Danger to Life. Arson is the most heinous rerime, tbe most despicable act conceivable. When someone decides to "sell out to the insurance company'1 by setting fire to his property, it is with the de liberate intent of defrauding the un* ; (let writers. As a matter of fact the j public is robbed as well as the in?u a nee company, for when arson is com , mitted, the expense of the fire must be spread over the entire commun > , in the cost of fire insurance. 1?^ i way, the innocent pay for the m.* dewis of the guilty. Thus it is evident that, financially, the repressem ,of arson is a vital matte* to evcybody, and that as a matter of publicsafety the fire fiend should be combatted at every turn. There is a still more important rea son why the public should be intently interested in curbing this vicious crime?the loss of life from flrerls appalling, thousands being killed every year, particularly in arson fires; The fire-criminal generally does a thorough job, often working in the dead of night. As a result, the fire spreads with terrible rapidity, and his victims awakened, horror stricken, to find themselves surrounded by flames and escape impossible. Then too, this type of bla^e has generally gained such headway before the firemen arrive, that a larger percentage of property is destroyed than in other fires. The arsonist is a very dangerous factor in the fire situation and every citizen should bear down on him and jail of his kind. Leonce Chauvin, 17, of St. .Paul's college, Covington, La., is dead from a blow from an opponent's elbow in a football game last Sunda'y. "S??P II " 11 " " I Cotton Seed To Be Scarce Warm Bute I Clemson College, Oct. 27.-?'"Present indication# point to a scarcity of good cotton aeed for planting In tb? spring," say# T. S, Rule, chief of agronomy. "The unusually heavy rains this season have made many seed unfit for planting. This meatj# that every farmer with dependable seed should be very careful to save them from gin mixing and free from other injury and that everyone else should take particular pains to secure reliable seed at once." Cotton is easily crossed in the held, and has a marked tendency to "run out," unless systematic attempts are made to keep it pure, says ^?rof. Buie. Lack of uniformity is very evident in uny cotton field unless selection has been practised. Length of lint, ?the, one character which practically determines the value of cotton, is likely to be just as Variable as any other. He says that the majority pf farmers are rot in u position to conduct careful breeding work, and therefore the best thing for them to do is to purchase u small quantity of pure seed at frequent intervals from reliable breeders and to make every ef fort to prevent undue field mixing or gin mixing with inferior seed. SAUNDERS COMES BACK Originator of Piggly-Wiggly Stores Again to the Front Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 25.?Clarence Saunders, founder of Piggly Wiggly Corp., who four years ago bucked Wall Street, with a reputed loss of $ -1,000,000 yesterday had beaten back from bankruptcy to head a $50,000,000 chain store corporation. Backing him jn the new enterprise are the men who four years ago were reported to have "ruined" him. The j new firm, to be known as Clarence' -i tt?T-irwrtinmrnrw?nim?1?? i ?ip hi? Saunders -Corp., is said to have backing of more than $250,000,000. The firm, whi<^i will establish a national chain of grocery stores, is backed by Nicholas llrady, New York copper king; Wendell Anderson, Detroit; Joseph Day, Manhattan real estate operator, and other who are said to have figured in Saunders' Wall Street failure. > His "comeback" is Regarded as one of the most remarkable in recent? financial history. "Four years ago I had not a cent and owed $300,000," Saunders said, "Today I could sell out for more than 1 id any previous time." Saunders went iuto biuioetfl after he lost millions incdrofl Piggfy Wiggly market in ffM A suspension of rules bj tfl Exchange resulted in br?^| corner arid breaking since then lit* has i<stab!afc^| ?A() cities. Now this ch^^H expanded into one of, if gigantic retail store cotjfl the world. I * Time was when a girl ? nothing to wear was out ofS Toledo Blade. I FUEL Olf ... '.- , . . -. -'''' "'T''"p''.^'"'" :X: -' FOfl HEATING PURPOSES "". . : .dv ,' "' * " *?;rr ify&ffisf'fc " ? ; We have on hand, high-grade Fuel Oij f heaving purposes. We can supply any demand and makeii mediate deliveries. ? > Camden Gas and 0 Company Telephone 70 ' '*! 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