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I ink Crane pauses Suddenly ^ Nov 6.?The death ft Crane, writer, in Nice, 0 announced in a cableved here Tuesday by his 7 Henry H. Crane, of this .gram said Dr. CranAied onday night. w WHH an inspirational se advices on success in ted writings in the daily [>eoks had made his name his own field. -> torn in Nrbana, 111,, May Before he entered journals a Methodist minister d pulpits in Chicago from 103, From lOOd to 1900 stor of the Union Conchurch in Worcester, editor of "Current Opinluthor of a number of ding "Adventures in Com" "The Crane Classics," lan" and "War World 0 who killed a rural poMarlboro county was capo negroes in North Cftrostarted south with-him. lobile broke down, and vere fixing it, the murdernto some woods ten miles ate line. The captors rence to the sheriff, and a at once encircled the e murderer's name is irthur and he shot Officer hen the latter attempted n on a warrant last week, : into the swamps near - -i - . nville county board of tas recommended to th* ielegation that free text pplied to *11 pupils in ail that county. Greenville / has the free textbook ; kre Way to Itop Coughing ihii Prescription Relieve# I Almost Instantly mushing is usually due to causes Ki famous doctor's prescription re coughing with thcr very ftrstr Bw. It wbrks on an entirely difB> theory, has a double action, Bes the irritation and goes direct B? internal cause. Blike most sough medicines, ThoxH#tains no chloroform, dop6, or Hs harmful drugs. Safe for the family. Also excellent for Btoat. Quick relief guaranteed m money back. 36c.,*. 60c., and Witld by W. Robin Zemp's and Mr good rhrug4&oys. IMI. i ' I ' izzy] t Appetite : \ Fink, of Harrisburg, ? e "It must have been . ty-five yean ago that < taking Black-Dfaught in town on* dayr and king tO ... V friend I * ver to pick op some ben I straightened up, . r. I spoke to him about a ow I had not felt like end told me to take ' k-Draught. I knew my ? ad need it, and so I . package. When I got a took a good, big dose, iext night, another. In 4 s I felt much better, d many times I have ? lizziness and a bad taste ^ 'nth, or headaches, and , ako Black-Draught and ' - I do ndt have to take ten. We buy from five 4 packages a year." "try Hi s-tw . i^S Const! DaUon, 1.J1 . .. - ' r**? SSlxCstion BiliMifMfs ?i>i hit I R. ICHEWNING I ^tractor and Builder l Camden, S. C. n,haae buil(Un? to. fetw ^fiTure with yotu |???actior* , guaranteed. Fiieayoa68 g*Ven on Vheraw Banker Short' Taken Into Custody Chora w, Nov! ld.^Churged wjth embezzling funds of the First National bank of Cheraw, S. G. Godfrey, vice-president and cashier, was taken Into custody today on a warrant sworn out by Thomas H. Davis of Columbia, national bank examiner, Cuter he obtained liberty on $10,000 bond. The First Natioruil bank of ( heraw, which was capitalized at $50,000 vyith deposits of $240,000 closed November 13. Mr. Davis said today that the shortage would probably approximate 155,000. Apparently the decalations, he said, had been going on for several years, Godfrey, brother of the accused cashier, is president of the bank. . < Mr. Godfrey, it is charged, specu. lated in the markets under the name of Ferguson. Following his arrest today, Mr. Godfrey was taken to the bank and there he explained the whole affair. Be had been drawing sheets from the cash ledger and hidingil^hain. The shortage was discovered yesterday by the bank examiner. KERSHAW NEWS NOTES Interesting News Notes Gathered From The Era of That Place Calvin Bowers, young son of Mrs. Eliza Bowers, of the Lockhart section, killed a large rattlesnake last Thursday and brought the serpent to town to exhibit him. The snake was 4 feet 8 inches long and had 6 rattles and a button. On Saturday night, 3rd inst., as John Welsh , and Elliott Mothershed were returning from Westville in Mr. Welsh's oar, the car was discovered to be on fire when they reached the top of the hill where the road' to Hanging Rock church and the road to Camden intersect, just south of Hanging Rock Creek bridge ' on the west side of the railroad trestle. Mr. Welsh had only a small amount of insurance and suffered a right heavy loss in his Chevrolet roadster. Mrs. S. J. Blackmon entertained at bridge Saturday night at her home on East Hilton street, in honor of her guest, Miss Margaret Teague, of Kanrjap^lis, N. C., Three bableB were! set for the players. The score prize waa won by Taylor Mobley and thej hostess presented the honor guest wit ft a prize. Ah ice course" was served after the game. ? Mrs. W. E. Fowler was a charming hostess Wednesday afternoon of last week, at which time announcement was made of the engagement and approaching wedding of her sister, Miss Melita Floyd, to Rev. Thomas C. Bryan of Whitmire, S. C. The wedding will be an interesting event of December. * r*' , - The Old Maid'a Convention | ? The Ladies Missionary Society of Mt. Piagah church will gtv* the play entitled, "The _ 01d Maid's Convenon Friday night, November 23rd, beginning at 7:30 o'clock at Mt. Pisgah High School building. Proceeds for the benefit of the new church. 4-Sasi of Characters: Josephine Jane Green, Mrs. W. F. Byrd; Pricilla Abigail Hodge, Mirfs Mabel Hilton; Calamity Jane Higgips, Miss End Catoe; Rebecca Rachael Sharpe, Miss Juanita Holly; Tiney Short, Mrs. Qilliaip Holley; Rosy Ann Fraddles, Mrs. W. T. Holley; Jerusha Matilda Spriggins, Mrs. Z. A. Catoe; Patience Desire Moore, Mrs. John Clapp; Sfophia Stuckup/Mrs. C. W. Holley; Juliet Long, Mrs. J^S." Mungo; Betsy JBobbett, Miss Nannie Van Catoe; Charity Longface, Mrs. W. Ai Seegfff$ Cleopatta Belle Brown, Mrs. John Byrd; Polly Jane Prij$?. Mrs. 0. B. Funderburk; VlcIct Ann Ruggles, Mrs. Roy Sowell; Belinda Bluegrass, Miss Tincia Rodgers; Frances Beauty Spot Touchmenot, Miss Viola Catoe; Hanna Biggerstaff, "SHss Olive Raleyr -Armie Sucandy Tadlock, Mrs. C. N. Korton;. Profea? spr Makeover, Mr. W. A. Seegars; Professor's, assistant, Mr. .Stanley Lee Byrd. Minor characters: Misses. Margaret Horton, Kathryn Holley, Ellen Seegare, Grace DeFerris Funderburk, Virginia Funderburk, Lola Grace Byrd, Mr. Jack Byrd. Synopsis of the play: These nineteen old maids are desirous to secure husbands, so they give a rollicking comedy, and during the presentation professor Makeover appears with his remodelscope and changes them from old maids to beautiful young girls* District Attorney Aid Key* and seven co-defendants pleaded not guilty at Los Angeles, Cel., Tuesday to ' indictment* charging bribery In connection with the trial of the Julian OR company conspiracy cases in that city tome months ago.# I Negro Fugitive Shot Trying To Escape B?nn*t^ville, S. C., Nov. 17.? Willi? McXltfeur, who last Sunday ( night killed Hwiry Murvin Stanfield, ] I'ural poHce of near of .".iar.bv.'o oun* ty, was himspff slain about il-o'e*?o:k , this mornlfig while attempting to es- . caps-fioirt a house in Scotland couu- ! ty. North Carolina, to which he had been traced by officers und a posse of several hundred citizens. 1 he shots that ended the fugitive's i life were fired by Chief . of Police < Dunlap, of Wagram, N. C,/ who was I i in the yard, Rural Policenjpj) Dudley, of Scotland county haying gone to the door to inquire whether or not McArthur was in the house, when i suddenly the negro sought ran out of the door, past Officer Dudley, only to be greeted by bullets from the pistol of Chief Dunlap, who fired three times. I he first shot hit the negro in the right leg, above the knee, but did not stop him, nor did the second shot, which struck him in the rear of the right shoulder, caused him to halt, but when the third shot' from tho chief's gun penetrated the back of his head McArthur dropped, dying instantly?and the man hunt in pro gress for nearly a week and extending over portions of both Carolinas was over. Not For Sale Now Mrs. J. R. Montgomery of Buford township ownes^a turkey hen which she will not readily part with *now but which she tried to sell four weeks ago. And the hen must think a lot of her home, for she refused to be sold. Last spring this hen hatched thirteen turkeys and the brood grew up and got so bad about scratching things that Mrs. Montgomery decided to sell them. A peddler came along four weeks ago and Mrs. Montgomery sold him all the turkeys she had, but when she tried to deliver them nowhere could she find this hen. It was decided that the old hen had been killed or stolen as the .days went by. But last Sunday up. she cable with a little brood of thirteen turkeys. She (had stolen a nest, laid the eggs, and had brought up the little fellows just as she had always done. Then Mrs. Montgomery got to thinking about that hen's work for the year. She recounted that last spring she " had laid and hatched thirteen eggs. Then she set on a nest of -hen's eggs and hatched them. Then she laid thirteen more _ eggs, and started to set but this was broken up. Then, while her mistress wtas actually in the act! Of selling her,, she was setting on thirteen more eggs which she had laid from which she brought up the little brood last Sunday. She is not for sale now.?Monroe Journal. South Carolina News President Douglas asks the budget committee for $525,391 for the state university during 1929, which is $98,814 more than he asked last year, but $3,512 lean than was asked in 1926,, He also recommended a new,.building for the school of education, this state being the only one without one, for which an appropriation of $60,000 is necessary, the rest of the $125,000 copts coming from fjjes. O, H. Doyle, who retires as police cbnrt judge of Anderson the first of next month, has tried approximately, 16,00d eases during his ineumbency of over six years. In two cases he sentenced negro boys to be whipped by their mamrpys, and he believes In correction rather than punishment for, boys.* He finds one-third the offenders coming before himto be police \ court repeaters, and many of these he believes to be incurable. He is succeeded "by Dean Pearman, ap attorney, because he did not" ask re-elec-t tion by the council. Mrs, jCIara Neal, youngf. and redheadflfl^was'omt of two dozen bitten by a maddog at Greettvilfc ai&t refused to be bothered by Pasteur injst-: tions after the first three were given her, at the home of . her father where she lives. Over her father's objections ehe4eft-#?r WilUflrastoru JRer father promptly gpt out a w^rant iOjc arrest for, disorderly copduot, an/ saw to it that she could not, get bail. She WES locked up in* jail,- where the i. anti-rabies treatment could be given her regularly. After a day in jail she telephoned her father that she would take the 18 remaining Injections gladly to get out of that dump. Hugh Gibson, of Great Falls, in the Chester county chain gang, snatched the pistol of a guard, held him at bay, offered freedom to all the 'prisoners, cursed them all when they refused liberty, marched the whole squad along the road for some distance, ? and then escaped by himself. He was arrested in Columbia recently for robbing a store at Fort Lawn.| poles. Ths driver who hits one usually sees several colon aujjflw^-1 Minneapolis JoMaL ^ (lame Keeper Kills Poachers On Preserve 1 - ' ' ' ' Sunt* Anna, Claif., Nov. 16.A d?-ath battle waged with a rifle aud t.w? shotguns following the warning shots fired at a hunting dog of two u'U'ged game porchers found a sharp shooting gun club's keeper in jail h?re today while authorities investigated' hi* htory. that he killed the two-trespassers after they had fired at hjW. The two hunters who were asserted to have trespassed upon the duck hunting preserve of the California <jun Club were Oili K. Malum, 40, and John D. Callicott 40, residents of Sunset Beach, Calif. J. W. Montgomery, once a deputy sheriff in Oklahoma, was held as their slayer. He surrendered voluntarily to police after having escaped the battle unscathed. Calmly Montgomery told officers his version of the shooting, which occurred in an isolated mursh yesterday. He exhibited a shot punctured hat us evidence of an attack upon him. Kach of his victims died with7 a bullet through the heart. The club keeper said the two men became enraged when he discharged his rifle at their hunting dog as they stalked through the club preserve-*, shotguns beneath their arms. Calli- j cot approached him cursing, Mont-1 gomery said. The keeper said he attempted to "reason" with the trespassers, but that Callicot cut the argument short by firing at him. Death of Mrs. Jencie Mungo 'Mis. Jencie Mungo died at her home in Kershaw last Thursday. The deceased wasdn the 77th year of Jffcr life. She is survived by one daugh-j ter, Mrs. Nellie Hilton of Palestine,! Texas, and by two grandsons, O. BT Miller and J. D, Miller of Kershaw, j The funeral services and interment took place Friday at Charleeboro, Revs. Smith and Faile officiating.?j Lancaster News. Franklin D. Roosevelt, governorelect of New York, has announced that he will seek to bring about a Change in the state's election laws, and also will take up the matter of farm relief in that state. Incidentally Mr. Roosevelt has been mentioned as a possible Democratic candidate for the presidency four years hence. ENGINEER KILLS FIREMAN Shot , Negro After He Had Made Threats In Cafe Columbia, Nov. 15.?-Paul Harmon, negro fireman, was shot and almost instantly killecj by E. M, Addicks, veteran white Southern engineer, near the Southern shops on Blanding street about 11:50 last night. The shooting occurred in front of a small cafe at 1912 Blanding street, but Harmon ran about 50 yards, after he was shot, (falling to the ground almost at the | railroad tracks at the Blanding 'street crossing. ? ; The shooting followed threats of Harmon in the cafe, which U for? whites, that he would kill all the men in the restaurant. He cursed them with vile oaths., He was said by witnesses to have\been under the influence of whiskey at the time, and had been asked out of the cafe by the manager. Officer John Kinder was standing at Gregg and Taylor street* in front of the call box, bavin* lost checked off, when he heard the shots, three of them, and ran around the comer to find the negro lying on the sidewalk. He was still alive but died about a minute later without speaking. ? , ? ' * a Social Oatt is Yaid by 'telephone. FLIENDS and loved ones may be separated from you by many intervening miles, but your telephone enables you to converse with them as though they sat before you. 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' TWO |y blades of grass With the knowledge that it can prosper only M th? people it nerves prosper, the Southern Railway System is working along practical lines for the upbuilding of th^ South's industry and agriculture. The Southern Railway Development Service is maintained for that purpose. It gathers accurate data concerning industrial opportunities throughout the South and is constantly presenting1 the advantages of Southern location to men who control or influence the establishment of manufacturing plants. In the past Ave years 1200 new industrial plants. With a totql capital investment of approximately sevan hundred million dollars, have been located along the lines of _ the Southern, giving em n- .rtj > " ,S<Sf * . " *-' - - ? . . * - .?? .'?rV ?ij? ploy merit to many thousands, adding sub-, dgtantially to Southern wealth. *. 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