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' rH? CAMDEN CHRONIC I H. D. NILJW,. B4itor and PablUbar Published every Friday at No.1109 Broad Street and entered at the Cam* den, South Carolina postoffice as second class mail matter. Price' per annum $2.00, payable in advance. Friday, December 6, 1929^ If you have not contributed to the (ioodfellow's Fund for Christmas cheer of poor of this oity. you cun send or leave at either The Chronicle Office or the Messenger office your donation. This week a party handed in u Santa Ciaus letter to be . published, with the remark "maybe some one will read it and help my babies, because if there is any Santa Chi us played at my house this year, some one else will do it, because I am not able." And that's the way it will be in many homes. Because of the illness of Mrs. Margaret Mayfield, Mr. Warrep H. Harris has agreed to take charge of the funds this year. He puts a lot of energy in everything he undertakes and says he hopes the fund this year will be the largest ever contributed. ASK8 HIM TO KK-CONSIDKU Editor of The Chronicle: 1 for one wus painfully surprised to read the announcement that Mr. W. E. McDowell had decided not to offer for re-election to the office of Probate Judge. I am sure if he had consulted his many friends he would never have come to this decision. I have known Judge McDowell all of my life and since childhood have always regarded him as the sincere Christian gentleman which we all know him to be. He has always stood for the right in every thing, and Kershaw County could not do belter than V insisting that In* change his decision and offer for re-election to the office which he has so faithfully graced for the past years. Mr. McDowell has the gentleness of disposition and strength of character which typifies the old time ^ Southern gentleman," which we in these days delight to remember. Every one I speak to hopes that he will be prevailed on to re-consider and offer for re-election to the office which he has for so many years adorned and has been an honor to; A Warm Supporter. Tillman Memorial Day. I trust that every school in Kershaw county will observe Tillman Memorial Day, Friday, December fi, thus giving tlx1 boys and girls an opportunity of making a contribution to this worthy cause. The monument to be erected to the late Senator B. R. Tillman on the state house grounds will be there for future genorations to see. and It should be some satisfaction to those who will have an opportunity to view it. to knAw that they, too. had a part in its erection. I eachers are requested to re port the result of their collections as early after they are taken as they can make it convenient so that their respective schools may be given credit for it. C. W. Birchmore, Chairman Do We Have Hard Times? A total of 300,000 people attended thirteen football games in this country last Saturday and spent about $2,000,000 for admissions alone. It is estimated that a total of $5,000, 00 was spent last Saturday by the American people for sports alone, mostly football One big circus showed at four different cities in this state last month and took out of North Carolina $200,000. 1 eople have all the new automo ' biles, new clothes, smokes, soft drinks and the like that they want. Thev "tK<- .11. t he trips they desire and haw- no.ney tor everything almost <-\c.pt charity. Uuthorfordton. (X. < i N\-u -. Change Before It Is T?h? I.ate Ma;.\ tanners who have raised ' tac p;wt n o finding the - "V- m -u th.s i rop unprofitable. I Ia ait- adapted t > change arc 1 ^ - t:.i!' ? r?.p<. Some cannot ' 1 ' ' iv.c-on another, adapt l:.cm t !w - to a change. Others let th.rg- dr:!t along until they are unable take up anything else. In tni> :ast instance lies the greatest danger. 1 he cotton season :s now over. It is a good time to check up on the season's results. It* cotton has been unprofitable now is the time to make plans for the future and not let things drift. The county agent wili aid those who desire his assistance. Lancaster News. J. \V . W hiscll, 32, of Charleston, died in a Columbia hospital Friday / morning as the result of injuries received while driving an automobile in a race at the state fair grounds on Thanksgiving day. Jury Convicts Four in Marion Rioting Marion, N. C., Nov. 30.?Four members of the United Textile Workera of America, including Alfred Hoffman, the union's southern org?y?izer,' who led textile strike hefe, which resulted in the charges, were convicted of rioting in McDow-! ell Superior court today and given jail sentences. Hoffman was fined $1,000 and sentenced to 30 days in jail. Judge G. V, Cow per, who imposed sentence, said he did not give the textile union organizer a longer jail sentence because defense attorneys asserted Hoffman was suffering .from heart disease. The other defendants, Lawrence Hogan, Del l^ewls and Wes Fowler, all local strike leaders were sentenced to six months' imprisonment, or at the county's option, on the chain gang. All gave notice of appeal to the state supreme court and appeal bonds were fixed by Judge Cowper at $2,000 each. Hoffman posted his bond several hours after his eonvictjon, but the other defendants had not made theirs late today, it is expected to bo several months before the supreme court can uct upon appeals. The jury acquitted the defendants of resisting officers with which they were also charged. It recommended mercy returning the verdict of guilty of rioting. The specific disorder, one of many during strikes in the two Clinchfield Mills and the Marion Manufacturing Company mill last summer, which caused the charges against the defendants occurred on August 30. The state alleged the four men instigated a riot to prevent officers from restoring the furniture of an alleged strike-breaker to his home after it was charged, it had been removed by strikers.# Many Turkeys From Small Range. Jackson, Mich., Dec. 2.?The world has beaten a path to the Luyher brothers two-acre turkey runge. For seven years they have been raising from 500 to 1,500 turkeys .successfully on the Same small piece of ground. They have been able to show up the orthodox theory of wide range and fresh fields by religiously practicing sanitary measures during the first ten weeks of brooding. Their success has instigated 20 other turkey ranches. Pacific Coast Towns Are Short on Water S:in Francisco, Nov. 30.?The entire Pacific coast, ordinarily so proud of its climate, looked with envy to| day at the rest of the country, although much of it went about its business in sub-freezing temperatures. The coast came to an end today of the driest November in 40 years, with no relief in immediate prospects, while in California water was being sold by the gallon and in Washington entire cities sought means to keep their electric lights burning. Only a qualified prediction that an Alaskan disturbance might reach Washington tomorrow was held out by the weather bureau No hope at all was offered for the rest of the coast states. In the mother lode country of California, cattle were reported dying from lack of water. At Mokelumme Hill and Copperopolis, Calaveras county, drinking water was being solj$ by the gallon, while Angels Camp and San Anderas reported only a month's supply of water remaining. Praycs of Catholic priests and ministers of almost every other denomination from all parts of the Pacific' coast were offered seeking di\ine intercession for the parched dist r it t s. In Tacoma yesterday, mayors of '.hat city anil Seattle met with Govi rnor Roland 11. Hartley to discuss the power question and attempt to find a remedy, for the situation, which was described as critical. Augustus Schilleter, ?>t. known to thousands of Clenison boys as "Shorty." died suddenly Thanksgiving day as he watched the Furman-Clemson football game. lie was steward of the mess hall when the college opened in 1893 and Served in that capacity until 1910. He aided in organizing and financing Clemson's first football team in 1898. C P Hanks. Jr., of Iva, Anderson county, died Thursday afternoon a few hours after his automobile had turned over near the same spot at which his wife was killed In a similar accident two years ago. General News Notes H. K. Anthony, manager of a bank at San Diego, Cal,, has confessed t<> embezzlements aggregating $800,000 John JaniK, with a wife and seven children, broke and jobless, attempt ed to steal a turkey from a Chicago butcher shop Wednesday. He wa* shot by the butcher. "Bearface Al" Capone, Chicago gunman and rackteer, has lost hD sixth effort to secure his release from a Pennsylvania prison where he b serving a year for carrying concealed weapons. Sugar valued at more than $1,200,000 was destroyed by ftre in a warehouse at Torrington, WVo., last Tuesday night. The Are was believed to have been started by spontaneous combustion. "Wild BUI' Anderson, who knocked a 7-year-old boy from a boat into the French Broad river, which resulted in the loss of his life, was on Thurs day sentenced at Marshall, N. Gr; in spend from two to five years in the state prison. Sain 11. Thompson, president of the American Farm Bureau Federn tiou, : i quoted in Chicago as saying th.vt l ie farmer, "broke" a fov^^aars ago, is on his way to the "spender" a, a - class. Figures gathered in Cleveland, O, from industrialists and public officials of 20 counties, show that during the next year that state will benefit by the expenditure of at least $200,000,000 for private and public construction. The Cunflrd liner Mauretania, leaving New York last Wednesday nigh' for Europe, was badly damaged by < collision with a car float and had t<return to her pier for repairs. Clarence Hoitman, 33, connected with a Philadelphia brokerage hous' is held under bail charged with em bezzling $2011,000 from his employers Ile lust the money in speculative gambling. , ...... Former Deputy Constable Sam Jones of Berger, and Jim Hodges, were, indicted at Stinnett, Texas, Sat urday charged with the assassination of District Attorney John A. Holme* on the night of September 13. Juanita Hansen, moving picture a< tress, was given a verdict of $167,, 500 at White Plains, N. Y., Saturday in her suit against the Hotel Lincoln of New York, because of injuries received when she was scalded while taking a bath. A merger of Foremost Dairy Products, Inc., and the Southwest Dairy Products company, has been announced in New York. J. C. Penney, chain store head, will continue as chairman of the board of the consolidated'coin panies. Hunter Frozen to Death Near Aiken Aiken. S. C\. Dec. 2.?Freezing weather was h'eld responsible today for the death of Dick Gantt, Aiken county resident who was found dead in a swamp near his home Saturday afternoon. Gantt. according to relatives, hid' been missing since Friday on a hurft^ ing trip His frozen'body was founa in the mud of an ice-covered streapi in a swamp not a great distance from his "home. No inquest was necessary, officef^ decided, when physicians pronounced death due to exposure. ' \ In Greenville on Thanksgiving day a girl, dressed as a boy, was arreajt-p ed on a charge of drunkenness. She had gotten in a taxicab and forbade the driver to stop under penalty of having a knife stuck in his neck. The cabby finally caught the girl off her guard and wrenched the knife from her hand. She landed at the police headquarters and Friday morning the judge said sixty days. . TAX RETl'RNS Office of Auditor Kershaw County, Camden, S. <\. December 11. Net- is hereby given that tile Auditor* Office will be open for reviving I i\ Returns from Januarv 1st. liKtu. March 1st, 1030. All pors .ns owe. ^ foal estate uv personal pv >p erty 'NU;t make returns of the -.cue with.n said period, as require! by law. i.. hi subject to a penalty of 10 per cut. 1 "< \uditor will attend in pi'son or v ui'puty at the following p ,es in '.:!> .untv on the dates ind 'ed for ner ving returns: Dcthiine. January 13 and 11 Kiev's Mill, January 14. Ki *h,iw, January 16 and 17 ! ' h rt<y Hill, January 22. W e.v.v; lie, January 24. Hbin.-y, January 20 and 30. A . persons between the age ; 21 and di> years, inclusive are r. bred to pay a poll tax and all person* he-' twoon the ages of 21 and ho >.ars. inclusive are required to pay a i. ,ao tax. unless excused by law All Trustees, Guardians, Executors, Administrators or Agents holding . rop-, vrty m charge must return Parties sending tax returns by mail must make oath to same before some officer and fill out the same in proper manner or they will be rejected. B. E. SPARROW ? Auditor Kershaw County. Death at Bethune Bethune, S. C., Dec. 4.?Mr. L. D. Robertson, 75, died at his home here Monday evening about seven o'clock alter a long illness. He had been engaged in farming for a number of yea rs. He possessed an unusually kind and genial disposition and was very optimistic in his outlook on life, seldom having been heard to sound a gloomy note. He was a devoted Mason and also a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. Mr Robertson was born and reared in Fairfield county near Winnsboro and spent a greater part of his life in that section of the state. He was a member of an old and widely connected family, having been the so:; of the late Major Ilawley Rober'scn and Amelia Dixon Robertson. lie was twice married?his first wife as Miss Annie Neal, of Winnsborn. and his widow, Mrs. Sallie Norwood 1 nomas of Bethune. He is also survived by two sons?W. N. Rob erDot.. of Laurinburg N. C., and H. "N. K ' 'crtson, of El Paso. Texas,? two .-tep-sons and several grand-children and a large number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held at his late ie-itlence conducted by the Rev. Mr. W illiams, of the Baptist church. Intermmt was in the McBee cemetery, the impressive Masonic burial rites being used. The affection and esteem in which he was held was manifested by the lovely flowers which banked his grave. Senator Gray of Spartanburg, is said to be planning to introduce a bill in the legislature that will provide*for the payment of taxes in two installments. Also he would have all autor mobiles insured by the state road deI partment when license plates are issued. He would have the regular insurance companies write the insurance. Wants?For Sale LOST OR STOLEN?About ten days ago, one black, white and tan female hound. Extra fine looking. Had collar with my name and address on when lost. Reward for information leading to her recovery. Geo: ge T. Little, Camden, S. C." 37sb FOR SALE?A quantity of syrup barrels. Apply to B. \V. Marshall, Telephone 354-w, Camden, S. C. 35sb FOR SALE?One small Cary safe. Apply to li. \V. Mrashall, Telephone "l.Vl-w, Camden, S. C. 35sb. WANTED?Lemons on Guitar. Any one who can give lessons on the guitar please address postofTLc box eul. Camden, S. C. 37p.l HI NTING LODGE?Fine quail preserve. Large tract of land. One hour's drive from Camden by car. For rent for shooting season. Telephone 4el-.J or write 1815 Fair Street, Camden. S. C., if really interested. 87pd LOST?A signet ring of green gold with white gold where initials S. O. C. are. Lost Sunday night, December 1, somewhere between Seaboard depot und Ilobkirk InnReward if returned to The Camden Chronicle, Camden, S. C. 37pd FOR SALE?At reasonable price one . dining room suite, Frigidaire and T electric stove. Apply to Mr*. C. A. Dunn, 414 DeKalb street, Camden, _ S. C. 37pd. GIVE SHRUBBERY FOITTHRUWMAS?Nandina, Ivoquat, Lauristinies and Haw'thorne bushes with red or yellow berries; Ligustrum, Lucidium, Sweet Olive. Qr give a Conifer. Come to the Nursery on the Camden-Sumter highway, fifteen miles from Camden or see me at the Club Market. Address Mrs. C. M. Emanuel, Borden Nursery, Borden, S. C. 37sb FOR SALE?Delco lighting plant cheap. Apply Airport camp ground, Camden, S. C. 37,-pd. PICTURE FRAMES?Made to order. Prices reasonable. All work guaranteed. F. C. Moseley, at Burns & Barrett, Camden, S. C. 34-6p FOR RENT?My farm adjoining Woodward aviation field, 225 acres cleared land, good for six-mul? farm. Two dwellings, two large barns and other outhouses. Will rent to reliable share-cropper, or will rent straight. Apply to F. M. ?Zemp at Zemp?& DePass drug store. 34-35tf FOR RENT?One hotjse on DeKalb Street, $40.00 per month; one house on Lyttleton street (next to Park View Inn) $40.00. Both are suitable for high class boarding houses. Apply to Henry Savage, Sr.", Camden, S. C. 33sb FOR RENT?Two story residence facing on Monument Square. Five bed rooms'.^" Large Hvmg rooms. Freshly painted inside. Garage, woodhous$, garden^ shade trees. . Enterprise Building & .Loan Association., or W. R, Zemp, Camden. 29sb tWANTED?you to know that th^ the world has gone MAJESTIC. You can not buy a better , radio at any price. The Camden Furniture 20-tf. y CARPENTERING?John S. Myers, phone 268, 812 Church Street, Camden, S. C., will give satisfactory service to all for all kinds of carpenter work. Buildin* general repairs, screening, cabin* making and repairing furnilur* My wnrkmanahip is my r oferencB I solicit your' patronage. Than* ing you in advance. 50 tl FOR RENT?One nine room houS at 1218 Broad Street, suitable fori boarding house or for two apurfl incuts Apply J. B. Zemp, Can* den, S. C. 36sb J WANTBIX?you to hear the New M* jestic Radio. It's truly ' wonderful The Camden Furniture Co. 20-^ WANTED?No. Vpine logs." Highefl cash prices paid: year round dfl mand. Sumter Planing Mills aifl Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Boot* Sumter, S. C. 1-tf* ^ ^ ?*> ^^ CURTAINS STRETCHED? Anyo* wishing curtains stretched plea* apply at 904 Campbell street, ci* prices reasonable. 19fl LET US PLACE a - New Majes* i Radio in your home on Free Tri^| No obligation. The Camden Fuj^H i ture ,po. I CITY TAX NOTICE I ^l *> - :: Notice is hereby given that all property I in the City Limits of Camden upon which I taxes for 1927 have not been paid will be I advertised for sale on January 1,1930. ~ I i B11 ^ %4.. { Also notice is hereby given that all 1928 I I taxes not paid by December 15,1929, a I penalty of seven (7) per cent. ? will be I added to same. J </o .^H ' I ' , By order of City Council of Camden. I y " * ! ' ' W. H. HAILE. City Clerk and Treas. I " * '' l genuine i l wow^fr^n r cos* no mc?k' ! LOOK FOR4EMPIREbrand \ { ON^BAOK^OF^EAOHJ^IECE ^ A Searching 1 Investigation I ) I I A Federal agent when asked* why he raided a certain barbel* shop explained; It struck him* forcibly that so many men should* be buying hair restorer of a bait* headed barber,' It wjTI also stirita* you forcibly thgt Kream Kras* Bread is baked with superior in* gredients. Its toasted,' nutty*ft?? vor makes your ndeals ddubly en* joyable. Try Kream Krust ant^H you will use it regularly. Electrik Maid Bake Sbo* 1 * (CHRISTMAS CARDsl Best Assortment we have ever shown. Fancy Stationery, Fountain Pens, I Ingersoll Watches, Whitman's Candies, B Hudnut's and other Toilet Goods H 1 1 ine Cigars and Cigarettes Guaranteed Pipes, new Shapes? SALUTES FIREWORKS I Many NOVELTIES W. ROBIN ZEMP'S DRUG^STOREj - -