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Getty?F arm Win fin Fee Dee Fair Content Of the ten prize* awarded at the I'ee Dee Fair at Florence Wednesday last in the district contest of the State Five Acre Corn Contest of the Extension department, seven of these prizcB were won by citizens of Humter county, according to information reaching this city. One hundred and eighty-seven persons competed in 'the district corn show, and Sumter came off winner in impressive fashion. Each contestant I exhibited samples of at least 10 cars of corn, and some had more than one ' display at the'contest. This exhibit will la- shown at the (.Jrenter Sumtet ( ounty Fair next week, those in charge of the show having decided to allow it t<? '? shown at the Sumter County Fa:r prior To being exhibited at the S .uth Carolina ,Stnf" Fair at Columbia, where winner- in all three d.-'riots will compete lor state honor- The exhibit will not be. .allowed to eompete, how<'Vei'. Winners of the 10 prizes were: First, C. W. Josey, of St. Charles; I second, .I. It. White of .Sumter county; third, W. It, Wells of Sumter; fourth, It. Floyd, of Florence; fifth, J. It. White, of Sumter; sixth, Adam Keames of Sumter; seventh, S. W. | Allen, of Sumter; eighth, T. J. Low dor of Sumter; ninth, Geltys & Son, of Lugoff; 10th, T. M. Lowder, of Sumter.?Sumter Herald. LIGHTS GOLDEN J CHI I.EE Fair Week to See. Unusual Celebration in Columbia. During the week of October 21st, which is State Fair week in Columbia, the Capital City will celebrate what is known as Lights Golden Jubilee. This celebration is in honor of Thomas A. Edison, great benefactor of mankind, who in 1K70 gave to the world the incandescent lamp or electric lights. Those who during the lust few years have visited Columbia and seen the great Christmas lighting display, will have another opportunity during Fair Week to see the city beautifully lighted this time with lights of golden glow. Electric streamers will be stretched across Main street and together with the regular street lights, will give out a golden glow in commemoration of Golden Jubilee. Fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the electric light. The Electrical League of Columbia, together with the merchants association and the chamber of commerce, are making special efforts to celebrate this occasion which (by the way is being celebrated over the entir country) in such a way to reflect credit in Columbia and South Carolina. 'The state house will be lighted to tit the occasion and also the lights on the beautiful Congaree rivet* bridge will be lighted to carry out the Golden light scheme. Mere-bants of Columbia are also planning to light their windows in golden colors and make appropriate displays. Break Up The Band. A Southern storekeeper, who was also justice of the peace, was sitting in front of his store when a colored man drove up. "Say, squire," the latter announced, "dat woman you married me to las' week has ten chtllun, an' every one of dem plays some kin' ob musical inst'mcnt." W hy, that's a regular band, Mose" replied the justice. "I)o you want me to send off and get vou a horn, too?" "No, sab," was the dismal response "Ah wants to git disbanded." Senator Cole L. Blease celebrated his 61st birthday anniversary in \\ ashington Tuesday of last week. The senator says he is feeling great. TAX EXECUTION SALE * Under and by virtue of sundry tax executions to mo directed by Treasurer of Kershaw County, I have levied upon and will sell in front of the ( ourt House door at Camden. S.C., between the legal hours of sale on the first Monday in November. lt?2i?, being the fourth day thereof, the following described property, towit: All the goods, merchandise and fixtures in the store room in the town ( Bethui e, S. (*., belonging to H. E, Hyatt. or a- much as necessary t>* -atisfy the taxes of H. K. Hyatt fot th? yeai - l'.rJT, 1P2S and l'.rj'd J. H. Me 1 ,EOD. sheriff of Kershaw County OcteheTAX NOTICE. TREASURER'S OFFICE CAMDEN. S. C. August 11, 102U. Notice is hereh\ given that al . tale, ( our.ty ami School taxes fo: year lbJP shall lx- due and pay&bh between September 15th and Decern her .list, iy2!?. Any information wit! reference to taxes will be cheei/ulb furnished upon application. Whei making inquiry please state Schoo District or Township. Very respectfully, S. W, HOGUE, Treasurer, Kershaw County, S. C. Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Geo McGoe, Copyright, 191*8. Fall Farm Ilintw 1. Have your radio gone over carefully by the installment agent and be ready to enjoy the fine Jazz programs that will d>e offered in connection wiwh new washing machines and oil burners. 2. Clean up your old car and get it in shape to trade.in for a longer wheel base and 4-wheel brakes. Sell a!! your mules but 1 and take money and the old ear and make the down payment on the new 1. You will .suvo winter feed by selling your mules and you will be able to buy back you25-<lollur mules next spring-'for only 2 hundred dollars, 3. I,eave all your plows and plow tools and mowers and binders out in the fields. The chickens will roost all over them in the shed-rooms, so it is just as easy .(if you have the money) to d)uy new implements as it is to fix up your old ones, TTon't do any fall plowing: the landbank or insurance company might foreclose on you before the new year, and all that would be a total loss. 1. Turn your chickens and pigs into cash for use in buying gasolin" and oil and balloon tires through the winter months. Sell your old cow, if you have 1, and be prepared to patronize all of the agents and pill peddlers that infest your community as soon as crops ure harvested. Many bargains in lightning rods and liver medicine and hair tonic and books will be offered from day to day, so load up on this stuff, and what you can't pay cash for, why, give notes and mortgages till it hurts. Fakirs must be supported and you ought not Ik* a slacker, but instead?do your bit. 5. As you won't have any stock to "winter," you need not fix up fences and outhouses. See that your old lady lays in a good supply of fire and stovewood." The long-distance forecasters predict a horrible amount of cold weather during the next few months. Don't waste any money on clothes and blankets. It is going to take a heap of gas and oil and tubes betwixt now and April the 1. Beware of preachers. They will ask you for all you've got if you risk going to church, and besides?it's going to be powerful chilly in churches in a few weeks, f>. Write all the mail order houses for catalogs and study them hard every night till bed time. By all means do your trading in Chicago and New York and other far off cities. Don't spend a cent where it will help educate your own younguns and build good roads for you to run your joy buggy over every day. The mail order houses will appreciate your business, and in order to show that they appreciate it. they will make you pay cash for their goods before you see anything hut the pictures. And furthermore, the catalogs will come in handy for starting fires ansoforth. Additional Extravagance When it comes to serving a good purpose, an appendix has it on an investigating committee, especially if politics have anything to do with the appointment of the committee that is to do the investigating. Out of 15.456.HP7 investigating committeemen who have been paid the sum of $876,543,275, w regularities reported in accounts of 'public office holders have amounted to exactly 75 cents. Only about 3 per cent of the investigating committees ever make a report. All the others are lost in the shuffle or are forgotten as time rolls along without information from them. Probing for graft is like fishing for whales in a stand-pipe. Really th?: subject is so ludicrous, it is actually very funny. Does a bootlegger enrr^ his booze around on his shoulder? No? And neither does a man entet in the general ledger or his petty casv book how much his last rake-off wa: on that purchase of machinery anso forth. 1 Draft U'gins and ends in the bad ' r?n.m or in a hotel suite. Mr. E. Z Mark gets elected to office and h' I immediately becomes a power in th _ | world of finaruc and begins to bu; ! stuff for his county or town or state ; Mr. (). I'. Bird meets him by ap pointment where no dictaphones o ear-drums are in evidence. They tak a drink or two. Then Mr. Bird pass 1 es a few hundred or a few thouaan r in beautiful greenbacks under the ta ? _ ble to Mr. Mark and Mr. Mark sign i on the dotted line and within a fe> IT days a nice bunch of machinery roll J into the freight yard and the count or the town or the state forthwit sends its check for about 15 thousan . dollars in settlement of the^jiccounl Oh, no, my dear Mr. Taxpayer, th - j. 8KI.K<JI SKKl) CORN NOW Fyr Nqxt Yearn* Planting Advim-* Clemaou College. Clems?n College, (Jet. 12,?One of j the out-standing nusons for the low average yield of corn in South Care ; Una i? the haphazard method usual 1 ly employed iri selecting or Mteurin Heed for planting, the common practice being to g<? to the crib just before planting time and shuok a sufficient amount to secure enough well developed cars to plant the desired acreage. This practice, ?ayn I)r, TS. Bull*, cider agronomist here, pi. * vents one from knowing anything ' concerning the conditions under whit h the car.1- selected were produced, T" ; may have been produced on undesna bio more or leas diseased plants. A much better method suggested I by Dr. Iiuie Is to go into the field j prior to harvest and with a* defii ideal in mind select from pljr ' which most nearly approach t ideal, with careful attention to t following ppinta: Do not take ears from plants wine', I show evidcacdvpf disease or which for any other icason are undesirable. Do not gather until fully mature Seeure at least twice as much ! will be needed for planting. See that all ears are well .covered I at the tip. Select from plants which approach i one's ideal as to height, appearance, i etc. , In the case of prolific varieties j select only from plants which bear a*. ' least two ears. Store seed corn carefully to prevent damage from heating, insects or rats. * Oldest (Graduate of Wofford The oldest living graduate of Wofford College is Cieorge W. Sullivan of W'illiamstoji, S. C., who graduate-! with the class of 1870. He is now! 82 years old. In the class of 1870 there were six, J. W. Gray, J. R. Ab-1 ney, L. D. Hnmer, S. N. Holland^ the Rev W\ D. Kirkland and George W. Sullivan. Samuel Dibble of Orangeburg wa< the first graduate, receiving the bacheloV of arts degree from the college in 1856. He came from the College of Charleston anil took senoir work at Wofford. He was a member of Congress also. Since that time l.J'47 students have completed their studies to receive the same degree from Wof ford College.?Spartanburg Herald." j r Senator Broussard of Louisiana, proposes an amendment to the tariff bill, so as to provide a tariff on Thi'lippine sugar and other goods import ' ed into the United States, as a protection to Louisiana sugar. Mayor John C. Lodge, of Detroit, Mich., uncle of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, was defeated for renomination in the municipal primaries held last Tuesday. Columbia Physician Suicides Columbia, S. C., Oct. 11.?Dr Meigs C-. Stannard, 25, committed suicide this afternoon at his home here by shooting hipiself in the forehead with a 45 service automatic pistol. His body, eiad in undergarments, was dis, covered by his father, who had just returned .to the home from the station where the dead man's mother had boarded the train for Charleston. No one was at home at the time of the suicide but neighbors reported to the coroner that they had heard the shot. The coroner after an investigation decided that an inquest was not necessary. Dr. Stannard had been in bad health and despondent for some time. He was indisposed yesterday and his father had gone to his room on his return home to inquire as to his condition when he found the body. # cost of the equipment and not th? soft money is entered on the books. When a case has gotten so 1 ad thai the legislature or congress appoints a!-, investigating committee, 'hen 1 hn w the ijjjatter is settled for al ' t ' m . . The usual work of sin a com 5 is to white-wash the . iy ant h - friends who did the stea -g. Fre tly that requires the ... of i ' political white-wash bra- es thn !>e bought for a sonir. rid an <ong or two will pay r hav , the stuff plastered on. \ inve3 o ' ".' ting committee never g- beyoni il y - loaf with its fa.' .. ,d fig All defalcations w arn u] ' me if hooks show then . graf - ;i> liard to trace as a o tail. v.' ! am not in favor of -! eatini < -mm it tees. When any ^ i00fc; ie it ought to be in\-*- . ated, " Hay forget it, and st.nt .,11 ove v again. If your political f- ? nds ar s not honest, you are simply out o y j luck. I do not believe h,.\\, ver th ^ j statement that over 25 p, r cent o d | the taxpayers money is i *hi-r stole' L ! or wasted or squandered: 1 think It i 0 | nearer 24 per cent. Old Macon Woman To Get Death Sentence ,i. I. I IWJM.ll> ? Macon, Ga., Oct. 11.?Mr*. Sarah Powers, 71 year old rooming house proprietress, today was found guilty without recommendation of mercy as f an accessory before the fact in the claying of James Parks, youthful Atlanta printer. The verdict carries the death sentence, The case was given to the jury late last night after a trial lasting four days. The jury deliberated for an hour, and was locked up to resume deliberations this morning. Mrs, Powers went on trial Monday. The state held that she plotted the i. a:h of the youth after luring him" o her rooming house with a newspaper "ad." which specified "a young man wh-? wants home-like surrounding-.." Situ then obtained a $7,000 double indemnity policy on the young man's life, the charge said, and plani ed his death in order to (collect $14,000. Karl Manchester, 10-year-old Rochester, Michigan, youth, wus convicted as the slayer at u trial several months ago and is under a death sentence pending an outcome of his appeal for a new trial. Manchester was called by the state, to testify against Mr-, Powers but when told he was not forced to testify, asked that he be excused and that the court be merciful to her." He had previously confessed that Mrs. Powers promised him $1,000 to kill Parks. ?> . Experience! "Now," said the college man to hi3 dad at the football game, "You'll see more excitement for two dollars than vou ever saw before." * ' c? "I- don't know," replied the old gent, "that's what my marriegc license cost me."?Southern California Hanker. Crooked Banker Dies in Prison. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 12.?James kae (,'larke, who entered the United States prison here August 21 to serve eight years for using the mails to defraud in connection with the failure of the Clark# Brothers private bank in New York $5,000,000, died in his cell at 7:20 a. m. today after being stricken by a chill. He was 71 years of age. NAVY TO TEST NEW PLANE A new type of Naval speed fighting plane which was constructed at Philadelphia, has been delivered to the navy for tests. Although the building of the new plane has been shrouded in secrecy, it is understood the engine employs the new radial cooling system evolved by the Navy some time ago. Officials believe that the ship will prove the fastest military plane yet developed. The ship is a development of the Curtis Hawk. It retains no resemblance to that type, however. The new radial cooling system which uses Pre3tone instead of water, permits a greatly reduced rpdiator frdm that in the orignial Curtis Hawk The ?t J lining has also been changed toj form to the new radiator. Announcement has been maijfl Spartanburg that beginning Ocfl 15, airplanes carrying the maikS tween New York and Atlanty fl Spartanburg, will be increasdjB four planes, two traveling eacklfl each night. | Henry Mason Day, associattB Harry F. Sinclair, released from Washington jail last week, ifl serving a term for contempt of aafl ate committee, was married Fridayl Ballstonr Va., to Miss Dorothy Hail Ridenour. .4 Miss Bettic Edwards, popular leading lady with Milt Tolbert Playerg J pearing in Camden all next week. [ -i SBBB I /iifilbUliTdlali#/ J K~r>-i. | Jbr Econotnioal Tmnifortmtiomj CHEVROLET Slxl ?the Car of Universal Appeal! I SINCE January 1st, over a million one hundred and thirty-five thousand six-cylinder Chevrolets have been produced. 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