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V. B. Edwards, 86, is held In the Spartanburg jail, on a charge of having attempted to rob the safe of thi Montgomery Ward rflore in that cHy a few fights ago. Edwards itp onelegged ihan and walka with a Crotch. He was identified by the fact that a few days previous to the attempted robi>ery he had made an implement in a local machine shop that was "later found in the store in which the robbery was attempted. Rupture Shield Expert Coming o To Sumter and Columbia In Sumter Friday, Mureh 15, at the riuremont Hotel, und in Columbia on Monday and Tuesday, March 181 and 19, Joffetttoti Hotel from 10 a. m., to 1 p. m. Evenings by appointment.; One day in Sumter and two days in , Columbia. No charge for Consult# tion. Mr. C. F. Rediieh, the successful expert suys: The "Perfect Retention STiields,"; hold tlie ruptuii |>erTectly no matter what-position tin- body assumes or j how heavy a weight you lift. They give instant relief, contract the opening on the average case in ten daysj and strengthen thu weak tissues (the ? real cause of rupture) so that they | frequently recover thoir previous natural retaining power needing no! further outside support. Stomach trouble, backache 'und constipation j often caused by Rupture promptly! disnppear. Truly remarkable results have been i obtained with recent, and not yet I fully developed ruptures and many old ones also. No legstraps or elastic belts are used. Can !* worn while bathing and are highly sanitary being impervious to sweat. Letters from highly satisfied clients available. ?.j Advertised mail order contraptions as well us elastic belts with chafing filthy legstraps and all sulves and medicines are absolutely worthless. Call on me ah'd I will show you. Results on children ure 95 percent favorable. Business engagements prevent visiting any other city in-thfs section. C. F. Redlich, Rupture Appliance Expert, Home office, 536 Boston Block, Minneapolis, Minnesota. TIME EXTENDED Notice is hereby given that I have received the following advice from Comptroller General A. J. Beattie, relative to the collection of taxes: "Under the provisions of Section 861, Volume 3, Code of Laws, 1922, and with the approval of the Governor, I. A. J. Beattie, Comptroller General, do hereby extend the time for collection of property tax until Mnrch 15th., with the addition of on? (17r) per cent penalty. On and after March 15th., all taxes to go into execution with the additional penalty as now prescribed by law." S. W. IIOGUE, Treasurer of Kershaw County. Sixteen Mexican* Executed Mexico City.-Sixteen Mexicans have paid with their Uvea for the alleged murder of W. M. Underwood and <i, C. Alcethorpe, American mining officials, in the state of Guanajuato. Two others, held as prisoners, Fridiiy, faced summary action by court martial, and probable execution for their part in the slaylrjygs. Troopa I were in pursuit of the remainder of the band. The military commander of the state of Guanajuato reported .to the chief of the presidential statr here j that federal troops yesterday enj countered the bandit group which | kidnaped and killed the two Americans and in a two hour battle killed u*n of them, capturing two others Six others were killed in a previous, battle. Boy Gets Sentence of 'JVo Years Greenwood, March 5. Leslie M<< onneli, 16-year-old Greenwood High school hoy, was sentenced to tu ? years in the state reformatory f<>. white youths at Florence in Session.court today by Judge Hayne F. Rice in' connection with the killing of Ihirle Jbnes, negro youth, with an j axe ha/tdle on January 14, last. The i scrttefice was imposed upon the.re-! quest of A. M. McConnell, brother and guardian of the young defendant. Revolution In Mexico Mexico City, March 4.?Revolution in a serious form yesterday broke out in widely separated parts of Mexico. General Jesus Maria Aguirre, military commander of the state of Cruz, led the troops stationed there in rebellion against the government of Provisional President Emilio Portes Gili. Almost the entire state ws repast/"1 5v b'i hands^ cuttiv? th<s capital off frpjn the gulf and bringing the revolt within 80 miles of Mexico City. In the northern border state of Sonora, Governor Fausto Topete declared for the uprising and the border point of Nogales received word that six other states were involved. The purpose of the revolution was understood there to be to place in the presidency Gilberto Valenzuela, former minister of M exico to Great Britain. In Mexico] City, Portes Gill summoned a special session of the cabinet and called a war council of the loyal commanders. Former President Plutarco Elias Callcs was called back to active service to lend his aid to the government. Troops were mobilized hurriedly throughout the federal area. Extra Dollars come only from EXTRA 1VW17W n m I ma ma MP I 'TM-IE surest way to make extra cotton is ^Mi X to side-dress every acre you plant with ' Chilean Nitrate of Soda at chopping time. j It sets a large crop and sets it early?ahead of the weevil. | I Midc Dressing Means More Cotton HH. r[ antl More Profit | "Chilean Nitrate of Soda, when applied H J at the proper time to the glowing crop, K9 , se.'is to add fresh life to the plant and |02j . is aiy traced in any growing held. jfcy ! . "Wi:'i any thing like a f.?e o able season Erj the vise of Klo to JdO lbs. ot Chilean Ni- Ptrate of Soda is abo.it the bc.-?t. and at the present tinie. cheap* -u kind of fertilizer." P ? THE C H AS A SMITH CO., , Now is the time to buy'your Chilean Nitrate. | If you don't know how or where to get it, a letter to the address below will have prompt I attention. * iSj ; FREE Fertiliser Rook I Our new 44-page book,"How to Ure Chilean j Nitrate of Soda" tells how to side-dress cot- Hr ton, corn and all other crops. Ask for Book No. 1, or tear out this ad and mail it with your name and address. ^H> Chilean I Nitrate of Soda I EDUCATIONAL BUREAU j j 810 Carolina Llf* Bldg., Columbia, S. C. j 1 1 j ( 'it's soda mot kuck* i In writing ploaae refer to Ad. No . % - m pi' t ? i T A '-L M B . ~T ii fi iiwhtmi timrtfciri: i ... , .??? Seven Men Killed Ten Hurt in Bloat Btone Mountain, 0?? Feb. 28.? Seven men lost their lives and ten otturx were injured, several seriously, late todity in an explosion of an air compressor at the quarries of the Stone Mountain gravity corporation, about a mile north of here. - The explosion occurred as the men were crowded about a time ~ clock near 'the compressor, checking out after the day's work. The dead, all of whom lived here are O. G. Davis, 32, foreman O. Z. Cowan, 26 and John B. Glaze, 45, both drillers and four negroes, Charles Haynos, Will Maddox, Cody Smith and Calm Howard. # The most afrYously injured ineluded John Swimm, Morris Brown, Fugerte Shinn, and Carl Sewell, the last named a negro, Physicians said Swimm and Sewell pto^ably would die. v' " Officials of the cpmpany tonight could not ascribe a definite cause for tin* explosion of the tank of compressed air which measured three feet in diameter and 16 feet in length, but said they be^gyed it was due ither to a defect or over compression. Midway Honor Roll Crude 1.?-Lin ward Champion, AI chic Gordon, Margaret West, Willie!) West. Crude 2.?Kathleen Anderson, Tiulma Brannon, Duncan Corbett, Ma y E. Hunnicutt, Elizabeth McCoy. Willie J. Parker, Roddy Rozier, Dolly Stokes, Gilliam Catoe. Grade 3.? Margarett Anderson, Gene Cooper, Willie Horton, Emily Met o>\ William McCoy, Milton McGuirt, Cliford Threat, Dorqthy West, Laurie West, Mary Laney. Grade 4.?Ruth Walters, Stella Poison. Grade 5.?The]ma Stokes, Oralie Brannon. Ruby Gay West, Margaret Holland. Grade 6.? Annie Mae Hearon. Frances Hyatt. Grade 7.?iCarolyn Tidwell, Vivian Stokes, Ruby Spears, Ruby Horton, William Hunnicutt, Mary McCoy. Grade 9,?iMoneta West. Grade 10.?Janie Brannon, Louise Hunnicutt, Geneva Truesdale. Grade 11.?Leila Tidwell. Farice King Is Guilty . Denver, Col., March 8.? Farice King, the nurse who killed her former lover when he was brought to her by chance as a patient, was found guilty of murder in the first degree today by a jury which had deliberated more than twenty-four hours. The verdict carries a penalty of life imprisonment, Negro Gets Reward ^ Columbia, March 2.?A dozen years of freedom are the rewards of Junius Hopper, negro prisoner, for saving the life of Sheriff J. E. Watkins of j Gatfney. S. C. Junius, sentenced in November, 1921, to serve 20 years for killing another negro, exposed a conspiracy i among prisoners in the Cherokee | county jail to murder the sheriff, it j was revealed yesterday when Governor Richards paroled him. Administrator's Notice All parties indebted to the estate a of Hiram Nettles, deceased, are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned/'and all parties, if any, having claims against the said estate will present them likewise, duly attested, within the time preI scribed by Taw. * JOHN T. NETTLES. Administrator. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given thai one month from this date, on Saturday. | March 2d, 192'.', I will make to the 1 Probate C ju: ' of Kershaw County i my final return as Administratr x of j the eslutt <>1 Wylex I.. Jone^, deceased. a* ! <n the same date i will apply to the -aid (. o'urt for .. final discharge :i> said Adminisfat? \ ALMA BERTH A JONES. ( a mien. S t . February 1 M h. 1929. CITATION The Stale South Carolina, Count\ of Kershaw By W L. M. Howell, Esquire I'rohatc | Judge. | Whereas, Lnl K. Blakeney made | suit to me to grant her Lctte > of I Administration of the Estate ?.f an<i effects of Sallie K. Blakeney. i These are, therefore, to cite anc : admonuh all and singular the -An; died and creditors of the said Salli< i K. Blakeney deceased, that they b< ami a: near before me, in the Courl ?f 1' ate, to be held at Camden ' ^eir i arolina on Monday. Marcl IP .N* after publication :.,.re of ijck in the forenoon. :u ,..ov : any they have, why ?he sab Adm .-tration should not be gt u ted G under my Hand, th - _?5tl da\ February, Anno Domir p.?2fl W. L. Mv I.Ga i U_ -ate Judge for Kershaw < unt| i' I'-h-hed on the 1st and Sth dayi . ?' March, 19^9* in the ( amdef ( h iucle, and posted at the t ?ur H. a-.- tioor lor the time pres,--;^ nw. AS" ^Hr ^ im i John Sheehy, principal keeper of Sing Sing prison, New York, on Friday evening discovered a tunnel, 40 feet long and from which prisoners had removed 640 cubic feet of earth in an effort to make an escape. He was unable to discover the prisoners who had made the tunnel. Mrs. Kstelle Evan* Wilaon 07?J York, has been sentenced to J I six months to three years for uJ ; | shot her husband in his -3 3 several months ego. Shu )4 t J I big game hunter. | , u f 11 SUMMONS FOR State of South Caroline, I County of Kershaw. I (Oourt of Common PUas) 1 The Federal Land Bank of Calami Plaintiff, Karl Hosboro, M.\b Team, Jamj| Clyburn Trustee for James Chfil 1 Team, Cynthia Team, n. <; John W. . Team, Melita ' t3 Stephen C. Team and Susan SH8 and Elbinger Shoe Manufactal ' Company, Southern Bargain h3' ' Batterai Shoe Company, ft 0J Shoe Company, American Agl dual Chemicttl punpany, JD?W national Agricultural CorporaS and George E. Cope and p, <*?[ Gamble Distributing Companyfl the Wateree National Farm ufl Association, Dedendunts. (Complaint Served) T<v the defendants, Karl ftotlBi M. C, Team, James H. ('lybnra, yJ| ,.4 tee for James Clyburn Team,CTttkMTeam, B. G. Team, John W, t?u9 Melita Team, Stephen C. Team 3 Susan Team and Elbinger Manufacturing Company, Souajjl Bargain House, Bfttteral Shoe c2 pany, Beasley Shoe Company, Ami ean Agricultural Chemical CompiS^ International Agricultural CortyB tion and George E. Cope and tfl Wateree National Farm Loan ]fl sociation and Ptoctor-Gamble t8 | tributing Company. I You are hereby summonedyand fl quired to answer the complaint in tfl action, of which a copy is herein served upon you, and to serve a col of your answer to the said CQmpUffl on the subscriber at his office in Cal den, S. C., within twenty days afl the . service hereof, exclusive of tfl day of such service; and if you ffl t.n Answer the, complaint within tl time aforesaid, the plaintiff in action will apply to the Court forfl relief demanded in the complaint? Dated at Camden, S. C., the 9th A of February, 1929. \ L. A. WITTKOWSfcyl Plaintiff's Attornejfl To the defendants above named. 1 Take notice ' that the corophint the above entitled action typtil with the summons, of which tbfl foregoing is a copy, was.filed in tfl office of the Clerk of Court of Coal mon Pleas and General SessioniH the City of Camden, Copnty of K#l shaw, State of South Carolina On fa J 18th day of February, 1929. M L. A. WlTTKOWiSKY* Plaintiff's Attorney. ' :-r*r*r ' A A Continuous March That Keeps A Step Ahead For Yon ......... '.... . zfej-,, . - * - v^.- * " An expenditure of mope tluin $27,000,000 wae required lest Sear to dxpand and Improve the Southern Bell Telephone ystem In the nine southeastern stamps. More than 51,000 new telephone# were added to the ijitom , convincing evidence of the Increasing value of telephone service in every line of business. This activity and growth reflect the progress of the Sputh' east, and the Improvement In the service emphasises the Bell u System effort to provide the beet possible service at the lowest eest to the qper, I At the end of the year there were 900,587 telephones In the Southern Bell System. In addition there were 345,572 tele* J hones owned by other companies and 88^08 telephones in arm homes, connected with the system. The investment in service reached the enormous total of $199,492,700 on December SI, 1928. It represents such per* uncut property as 912 central offices with switchboards and other associated eouipmentt 5,781,857 miles of wire ( 3.9 miles per telephone); 8o,789 miles of pole line and 3,409 miles of underground duct. Te build, operate and manage this great telephone system requires sua army of skilled men and women whose payroll amounted to $25,991,300 last year. The tax bill for the ysar was also the largest in the history of the company, amounting, to $5,235,132. 'I'hls was an in* crease of 224 per cent over the tax bill of 1920. There was a greater number of local and long distance calls and the speed with which they were handled was substantially Increased. Noteworthy ss has been telephone progress during the past ysar, it will net step. The entire telephone organization appreciates the friendly Inferos! and confidence of the public?a spirit of isufMii.lsa which encourages them in their determination te ^gravida the meat efficient ass ilea at the leweat passible cost MORGAN B. SPRIR, Carolina* Manager SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE and Telegraph Company F , - Attention I Cotton Growers! I Clemson College advises us as follows: " I I "Analysis of records six hundred and j 11 thirteen farmers having five-acre plots ; I in cotton contest through three years J j| show that yield of cotton is increased j twenty-two per cent by decreasing width :j of row from average of forty-five inches.., L t to average of thirty-six inches." ? j HI We urge every cotton grower in Kershaw" HI County to follow the recommendation of~ "| II Clemson College in the spacing of your ] III 1929 cotton crop. I The First National Bank HI Of Camden, South Carolina II ONLY NATIONAL BANK IN KERSHA W COUNTY Il| - ' ' ' J _J ' j