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^ ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Police Abandon Search For Aaaailant of Charleston Merchant. Charleston, August 21.?City detectives today abandoned the search for an assailant o< Abraham MendcUhon who was found trfhofc through the left lung in hi* King street store shortly after 8 o'clock Tuesday morning, having discovered apparatus in the store which led them to believe sui cide was attempted, it) the rear of the atore was a narrow closet with a mirror door. In the closet was a false back, extending over six feet from the floor; Behind this, Detectives McNeil and Poole found two bricks, wrapped in homespun, iittached to a stout string about five feet long having a 88 calibre re volver attached to the other end. The bullet was found directly opposite the mirror. _ The theory is that Mendolsyhn, holding the door with his left foot, shot himself. When he released the revolver the weight of the bricks drew' it behind the jfcrtitibn. A strong spring of the door closed it when he removed his foot. Drops of blood on the floor indicated that Mendelsohn walked about twenty-five feet, toward the cash register ahd fell with his feet toward the cash register and his head by a water cooler. He told his physician .that a negro had shot him and detectives worked on tins theory until the discovery of the revolver about 11 o'clock this morning. He is still ir*. a critical condition at the Riverside infirmary. Last Lake Log Drive. The end is seen of the "big timber" boom which brought wealth to Michigan, Minnesota a n<K Wisconsin. The Associated Press reports the "last big drive of logs" in the Great Lakes section with the fioating of some 2,500,000 feet of pine, hemlock and hardwood down the swift waters of the Manistique river. With big timber in the Great Lakes states now gone save in preserves, major lumber operations have been shifted to the Pacific Northwest. Notice To Debtors and Creditors. All parties indebted to the estate of J. Frank West, deceased, are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all parties, if any, having claims against the said estate will present them duly attested within the time prescribed by law. DR. C. A. WEST, Executor. Camden, S. C., August 12, 1929. TAX NOTICE. TREASURER'S OFFICE CAMDEN, S. C. August 14, 1929. . Notice is hereby given that all State, County and School taxes for year 1929 shall be due and payable between September 15th and December 31st, 1929. Any information with reference to taxes will be cheeifully furnished upon application. When making inquiry please state School District or Township. Very respectfully, S. W. IIOGUE, Treasurer, Kershaw County, S. C. CARTER'S SHOE SHOP 927 South Broad Street Let us rebuild your worn down Shoes. Complete shoe repair equipment. The Standard Hydraulic Presser Cementing Machine No Nails. No Stitches. No more tight, stiff Shoes. Finished with appearance of new Ail Work Guaranteed. H. C. CARTER, Proprietor V J MONEY TO LOAN on MODERN-CONSTRUCTED HOMES and CENTRALLY-LOCATED BUSINESS PROPERTY No Appraisal Charge ADDRESS INQUIRIES P.O. Box 164, Camden, S. C. * KERSHAW LODGE No. 2 ^ A. F. M. Regular communication o this lodge is held on th< first Tuesday in each raont] at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are wel corned. T. V. WALSH, J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master Secretary. 1-14-557-1 T. B. BRUCE Vettrigiriin Day Phono 86?Night Phono 114 CAMDEN, S. C 4 - / - - ~ ~~ ! " : ,? "7T-" ' '? WOMAN DOCTOR LEI) THE WAV. Dr. Mary Walker First To Advocate Sensible Dreas For Women. Washington, August 24.?A Washington woman, I>r. Mary Walker, pointed the way to the sensible freedom of dress which women now enjoy. . v ... The only woman ever allowed to appear in masculine attire by act of conRi ca* that waa Dr. Walker, Had she not paraded her trim figure through the at recta of the capital in the late fJO'e, the feminine costume of today probably would consist of much more than two or three pieces. Samuel Hurley Milton, veteran exchange (editor of the Washington Star, who knew Dr. Walker well, characterises her as the "one -glittering personality of her day" in the progress of American women. "Bocuuko Dr. Walker dared to do something original and unique, woman's dress today is the sensible, attractive thing it is," says Mr. Milton. The veteran editor recalls how children hooted at the woniftn who led the fight for dress reform. She would be an inconspicuous figure in Washington today. "Dr. Walker was slender and frail, so her form was admirably adapted to men's clothes of that time," hesays. "In the 60's ami early 70's it was the fashion for young men t-> wear tight-fitting suits. Their trousers were often so tight they had to sit or lie down to pull them on. "Dr. Walker always carried a slender, gold-headed cane. Though a reformer, she was not loud nor provocative. In all her lifetime in Washington she never was involved in an altercation. "Many women who took up causes in later years enjoyed scrap. Dr. Walker eschewed them. She had a fine legal mind, she knew that two wrongs never made a right. She could stand ridicule for the sake of maintaining her ideals, and would have been in thorough sympathy with women's styles of today. "Her fight was not so much for masculine dress as against the preponderant amount of clothing with which women of her day wera burdened. It took an immense amount of courage for this little woman to discard bustle and panniers and appear in trousers, frock coat and' high silk hat." Dr. Walker was a surgeon in the Civil W?r and was awarded a congressional medal of honor. After four years on battlefields her life was spent in fighting for women's rights. An example of how strong her influence was lies in the fact that she was able to obtain special legislation in congress on the matter of what she wore. Sam Brody Begins Sentence. Sam Brody, young Sumter merchant, convicted last year of attempting to burn his own building on the corner of Main street and Hampton Avenue, known as the Reid building, was taken to the State penitentiary in Columbia Thursday to begin service of his sentence of twelve months. Brody's appeal to the state supremo court against the sentence as passed on him was recently denied and he was ordered placed in the penitentiary 1 to begin service of his time. A great deal of interest was nrous1 fd by the Brody case at the time of the young merchant's arrest and all during the trial. Shortly after Brody purchased the Reid block of buildings a tire was discovered in the loft, but was extinguished by the fire department before much damage had been done. A large quantity of kerosene in various kinds of containers was - found by the firemen in the loft. It was brought out at the trial that Brody had the building heavily insured. Circumstantial evidence was reliisl on almost wholly by the state in the trial, which resulted in conviction of Brody on one of the counts.?Saturday's Suniter Item. Babe Abandoned. Columbia, August 24.?Abandoned in an automobile in front of the Colonial hotel tonight, a three-day-old white boy was found shortly before 11 o'clock by the automobile's owner as he started to thrive the car into a . garage. Smartly dressed and well . wrapped in a pink and white" baby 9 blanket, the boy was crying lustily * Capt. Richard Cleaves of the 106tb f observation squadron of Nashville, t Tenn., now in training at Camp Jack^ here, from the hotel, where he and his wife are guest?, to pot hi? car away for the night. The babe was f placed in the city juvenile home. Ool. Walter T. Bradley, wealthy coal mine operator and prominent citizen of Philadelphia, waa kitted Wedneeday when he plunged from a window on the thirteenth floor of the Warwick hotel in that cKy. It i? beltayed that he jumped from the win. dow because of ill-heelth. ' ii 7 Tiir iaiftiftiT r Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Gee McGee, Copyright, 1929. A Tele of Woe by Uncle Joe. Uncle Joe wan down at our houae last Sabbath ruminating about the good old time* of "way back yonder." He deplores the changes that have taken place and finds himself yearning for the night of an aeh-hoppcr and longs to attend one more *>g ! rolling and a corn Chucking. Bui there ain't any loga any more to roll and nobody makes enough corn -to keep a bunch of huskies shucking aamc more than 10 minutes. Uncle Joe remembers when his dad rfy ueeter keep ? Imttle of toddy (Yea, that's what he called it,) sitting on the fire-board all the time, and it wasn't used during those times to get drunk on and raise the dickens; it was just put there for a fellow to take a swallow or two of it when his throat got dry and hie stummlck seemed bordering onto weakness. He seems to think that some refreshments would help the country to appreciate its apparent prosperity. It is true that times have changed hut I didn't know that nature had been so affected ad Uncle Joe claim?. lie and his brother Jack caught a possum over in Georgia once that] weighed 184 pounds and he said it : was nothing unusual to trap a mink in the henhouse that was 6 feet long. 1 He was an expert at squirrel shooting and as "ammernition" was rather ' schcc, he would always line 8 or id! squirrels on a tree and shoot 'em all at one time. The highest he ever) brought down at one shot was 19, So I he said. i Uncle Joe called our attention to | another thing that seemed quite per- < tir.ent. He told us that he and nil his folks wore a little bag of asafoe- j dita (for fear that some folks won't know what I am talking about, I will ; explain that the said- bag contained | assy-fidity, a drug famous for its od- j oriferroueness) around their necks; from the time they learned to crawl j till they graduated in the blue back; spelling book at "in-com-pre-hen-sibil-i-ty," and they never caught any disease of any kind. Now everybody has everything anybody else has two days after they get it. Uncle Joe swore that the cows gave better buttermilk when he was a boy. He recalled that old "Spot" permitted 6 gallons of the finest lacteal fluid ever to be extracted from her udder every morning and every night and this "iveated" from 7 to 9 pounds of butter. (She fed the calf also in the manner provided by nature, .and this took at least an extra gallon.) The bee tree he and his cousin robbed one December contained enough honey to fill 3 washpots and 2 tubs and they gave the neighbors a plenty to last them til Christmas. Uncle Joe quit talking when Aunt Minervy came out and sat near him, and before I knew it he had dozed off to sleep. Uncle Joe Tells How. Uncle Joe says he has a friend who lives in another state who knows how to make whiskey and how to sell whiskey and possibly how to drink whiskey. And from what Uncle Joe says, I believe Uncle Joe knows uh ut as much as his friend knows about the subject now up and before us. It seems that this "friend" .suggests the following plan: Pick out a nice little stream and then follow it far enough to get out of sight of the public road till you come to a place where bushes grow thick and the water shows some speed and thon your still-sight troubles are over. Next you must hunt up the prohibition enforcement officers and tell them where your still is so's they won't ever find it by accident or otherwise. (N. B. The sum of $'J.V00 and a quart a week will fix some of the K)\s so that they can't see out of but o.ne eye, and $60.00 and two 1 quarts a week will put a great many ? of them rtone blind.) i Select a drizzly dark night to f.- ch I down your still and worm and b.ir >els. Most any of jjoux* YHends who i like a tiny snap now end then after l prayer-meeting will assiet you in this work, only don't let anybody know that they helped you. You'll need a i few empty barrel* and a long trough, i and when you get these things propi erly fixed you are all set for business. i I i i * -Take 4 bushels ci pom meal and f 100 pounds sugar and 6 cans of Red Devil lye and 4 wheel baonrowsful of dry stable manure and 10 boxes of sulphur match** and as many old beef bones as you can get ami place them in the aforementioned trough and cover everything with water. Let it set for 4 or day* but come beck ^ - I M ,U1 L ' " p,v - .'?.* and skim off the email house fliee tr?ry few hours, but don't bother the big blue Hies that yet drowned in the mush; they add * kind of bead to the brew. Ah soon a? your conooctment haa turned to beer, notify all of the officers that you will be buey for a day or so, then take the content* of your trough and strain out all solid matter and pour the fluid into your still and flre up. You ought to get at least 75 gallons of "spit.lire" from the ft ret run, not counting backings. It will be no trouble to peddle it out in your community. But to keep things in apple pie order all the time, it is a good idea for the officers to find your still tend cut it up every few weeks. Of course you must ascertain from the officers what night they are coming so'* you can take your worm home with you, as the worm is valuable and the still ain't. Non^T that's the way they do in Uncle Joe's friend's community in another state, so says Uncle Joe. % * Paper Is Sued. ' Florence, August 24.?The Morning News was made the defendant of a libel suit for $25,000 filed here tod&y against the Florence Printing Company, publishers of the paper, by Henry K. Davis, attoriley and member of the board of trustees of the Florence city schools. The complaint alleged that the plaintiff had been damaged in the sum of $25,000 as the result of an editorial in the Morning News in which tain statements were made concerning his actions as a member of the school board. Warns Against Early Ginning. Columbia, Aug. 23.?A warning to farmers against ginning cotton too soon after it 'had been picked has been issu<sl by J. Clifton Rivers, state warehouse commissioner. Due to the fact that so much of the crop is ginned while still too green and damp there is an annual average loss of $10 per bale, Mr. Rivers said. The warehouse commissioner pointed out that green cotton is impossible to seed so as to .get the maximum amount of lint. The seed cannot be cleaned properly and much is lost in poundage. J. B. Chapell, former citizen of Greenwood county, was killed in a sawmill accident at Chipley, Fla., on Monday. Probably Oldest Veteran. Sfcatesboro, Ga., Aug. 23.?A new claim for distinction as being: the oldest living: Confederate veteran was made today by Edward N. Nance, of Statesboro, who gives his age 106, three years more than that of Comrade-in-Arms, William Pearson, of Greenville, S. C., 103, who recently received mention for the honor. Mr. Nance, spry and active, despite weighty years, said that he was bom near Whiteville, Columbus county, N. C., February 26, 1823, and while serving in the 20th North Carolina ?> Cregiment, was wounded three tim^s and finally taken prisoner. His regiment was Stonewall Jackson corps. Recalling early life he said he used tobacco since a boy of six years and had taken stimulants at pleasure until recently. He married three times, and his present wife is 87. Lieut. Nick Mamer and Art Walker, aviators, on Tuesday afternoon completed a round trip non-stop flight from Spokane, Wash., to New York. Their plane was refueled in the air | en Tuote. ? Mayor Harry P. Cooper of Murphy* on Tuesday seriously shot I ax: Sooth.* erland, after the latter had visited th* mayor in hid home in the aftermoS' and threatened the mayor with bo&H ily injury, he being armed withanfctM pick and a knife. Magisrate FaiiM ruled that the shooting was justifii* ? 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