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R. E. CHEWNING Contractor and General Builder 30 Years Experience Let me figure on your next building job, Eloor.s Sanded on Request GUS HAYES Plumbing and Heating Let us figure with you on your next job. New work ; or repair work. PHONE 153 j ? DeKALB COUNCIL No 8H Junior Order I'!. A. M. jlLfllT Roguini; coumojI first and ' third Mondays of each I mmith at K p.(m. Visiting Brethren are w?-leymed IIKYWAKD SMITH.' L. H JONKh, <'uuncillor Recording Secty <' 'CARTER'S SHOE SHOP * 027 South Broad Street Let u.s rebuild yout worn down Shoos. Complete shoe repair equipment. The Standard Hydraulic Preaser Cementing Machine No Nails. No Stitches. No inoro | tight, stitF Shoes. j finished with appearance of new i Ail Work (guaranteed. H. C CARTER, Proprietor i L. M MOSEY TO I A) AN I on MODERN-CONSTRUCTED HOMES and I j CENTRALLY-LOCATED BUSINESS PROPERTY No Appraisal Charge ! ADDRESS INQUIRIES P.O. Box 164, Camden, S. C. KKRSHAW LODOE No. 29; A. F. M. Regular communication of /V -/V this lodge is held on the first Tuesday in each month at H p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. S W. IIOCUK, J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master. Secretary. 1-14-27-tf T. B. BRUCE t Veterinarian I Hay Rhone JO -Night Rhone 114 CAMDEN, 3. C. Automobile Repairing Wr arc now prepared , to do all kinds of automobiie repairing. Good Workmanship and moder- ! j ate priees. DEMPSTER'S ! GARAGE I'm merly Little's Cnrage ELECTROL OIL BURNER SALES AND SERVICE PHONE sir, E. G. BURKE Plumbing and Heating REPAIR WORK AT REASON A BEE PRICES : (.; .< 1 ' K ttl 1 1 . . V ,.( ! > ROUT. W.MITCH AM .1 rchitect Crocker It nil di rip, Camden, S. C. Items Of Interest The school board of Chicago city schools, ban turned to New York foi money with which to pay Chicago school teachers and other employes. A representative <xf the school board has been sent Fast in an effort to sell $540,000,000 in tax anticipation warrants which previously have been refused by Chicago banks. Almost 400 persons, including many public officials, Wednesday were under Federal indictment for ] conspiracy to violate the prohibition j laws in four gigantic "rum rebellions" in western states. Alleged I ltquoj rings in Idaho, Wyoming, Ok- , lahoma and Texas were objects of | tin- governmental drive. Trial of 102 j persons accused of conspiracy was started Wednesday in Federal court in Oklahoma City. Okla., while trial I of 2!i, will be continued later in the ; week. \ J. F. Hurley, member of the Barnwell, S. delegation in the house of representatives, has announced that he will Ire a candidate for lieutenant- ! governor of the state in the democratic primary this summer. Mr. Hurley said that he had decided to liter tile race after many friends in \aiiou- sections of the state ha i in ged him to do so. One map was killed, anoth<o 1 v numb ;? .1 J hird '.ip'oi i d uti:n.in red r at t erupted p : . i. lei r 'l'ui .-<! .y a the state prison at H<?> n i:a!i . N. in Bladen county, about . 10 miles from Lumberloti. F. A. Faggart, of Cabarrus county, serving a five-year sentence, was shot down, j it was said, by a guard a*. he at- : tempted to make a getaway from the ; prison. William (Yoker, another of the trio that is reported to have tried to escape, was shot in the arm and j recaptured. Robert Booth was n p prehendoil without being injured. (iuaid.r at the prison camp reporte 1 tin' three men attempted to escape j atli'v they had In-eii taken from coti Cl ement ill the "dark lloU-e ' lor refilial to work. I > i ah Tuesday night elainu-d two I. gh ranking off; i ts of the Amorian \\ oi Id war military and nav.'.i : .1 r . Ma. < Harry Taylor, the lie !' of < ' .'.r.o I - with till- A. K.oF,, and Kea Mineral Thomas Stmwden, di\ i-e-n and -quadion commander of the Atlantic fleet during the war. Snow dell was 7d years i>f age and had been in ill licalth for some time. Ta\lor was ?is and succumbed after a week's illness with pneumonia. Both will be interred with military honors at Arlington national cemetery. Gilbert Flodyo and James Smith, two young white boys of Lumberton, N. ('., who were tried in Monroe, N. Tuesday in superior court were given sentences, young Smith to Rocky Mount reformatory school for not less than three years and not over five, and Floyde five to eight years in State prisifti. Both boys were charged with assault with a deadly weapon in which serious bodily harm was inflicted and attempt to commit highway robbery. After giving himself up to a jailor's wife. Harry Reisling, .".5. waited in the Miller count.\ jail Tuesday night lor an offii or from Canton. Ohio, to return him then* to foe a foil1year-old inn -del* charge. Sheriff Fleet of M die count.\. Mated that Reisling wa wan'ed at Canton for t h<' killing o | a Ui t ec t l-oVe. I t he to " 1 I'll nigh he -aid he had been arrested tuimetous times on minor cliargcs in various patts of tiu- country, Reisling was able to conceal h> identity. Only a few days tigo he .-aid lie was released by police Shreveport, La., after being detained a short time on a minor charge. He would not explain why lie had decide.; to surrended to Mrs. Everetto Mil!-, wife of the jailer. Florenz Zeigfield, theatrical producer, won a $25,000 damage suit at West Balm Beach. Fin., Tuesday when a jury in circuit court held that the producer owed Mrs. Nellie M Reams nothing on a land deal. It sueing f r $25,000 Mrs. Kearns 'i ie.ed that '/eigfield owed her ap!' ximatolv $l.?,0o0 on property which she had sold ami which finally reached tin- pToducer's hands. Hasty e-mwa! of the wreckage of ('entral \ r Line- pa--, "get- plate \:i:ch eta.-bed late I'm -?ia . in Kan - > > . Kan., ami ir.n ... k ill. n. g -or-, ha- b r .: t h. eat - f : > . . . Ph." : a: . f at' 'i ; k' ' a 1 ad 1.1 I' W-i \ 1. ail lb w . * e * ;1 . .' l > ' ' m -- ' i: i I I,. tit ' . C. ' i >!'..? .1 * ' , ?|*. ' > in < ' . W ; e. k a I . 1 gilt 1. m . .it;.:;; :? . ': y ' . . i * ! ! ! i . i i . \ ;gh w . ' d . - of Cn- ' Rev ! '-..n. \IV" - a\ iatot . an 1 I .1 I*. a ! , . . in he: r - a; n i i, * m c a".', srmw on the T- !. .an m ir , -till lacking, a m>>\< :r.< t.t w.,- hegun on. Tuesday to n.v.-d th< flyera final tribute if the -caivhes -en: out by air and land from North Cape, Siberia, and Telle, Alaska, arc successful in their quest. The demolish j ed piano of the Americans was found i Saturday by Joe Crossen 00 mile? Atlantic Coast Line Awards Corn Prises j J. K. WhlUf, tt- F. L>. 3, Sumter, ' S, C., hitm been awarded the first j prize of $100 offered by the Atlani tic Coast Line Kailroad Company in the five-acre corn contest staged duri ing the past year. Mr. White proI Ouced a total of 504.76 bushels of ' corn on five acres or an average of i 1 IK.05 bushels per acre. K. H. !ley, K. F. I). 3, Mullins, S. C., who I produced an average of 102.3 bushels per acre won the second prize of $75 offered by the Coast Line; ('. W. Josey, of St. Charles, S. C\, was awarded the third prize of $50 for an average yield of 00.23 bushels per acre. The fourth prize of $25 was won by Charles II. Calloway of Hartsville, S. C., who produced 01.5 bushels per acre. The winners of the Coast Line awards were determined by the South Carolina extension Service in connection with its own state-wide five acre corn contest. Prizes oflered by the railroad were limited to persons living in counties served by its rails. The Atlantic Coast Line i- \itull> interested in prosperity oi agriculture in its territory and ,is cooperating in every possible way with the State Kxtension Service. It is (nir. . to. t it an adequate supply of !: *t< i essential to any suecessi u i of farming. The production of ample amounts of corn and other grains, and of hay and pasturage is essential before livestock can be profitably raised. The five acre corn, contests are consequently part (if a lar-reaching program looking to an establishment of a well balanced agrit wlture in Coast Line territory. Similar prizes will he offered by the railroad for t'he coming year. There were 2K7 contestants for the s miored py the Atlantic (Oast Line, and a total .of 500 entries in i he State-wide contest. The possibility of greatly increasing the per acre yields of corn in Kastern South ('arolina is shown by the fact that while the average of the twelve best yields in the entire state wa- '.?<).hi bushels per acre, the winnir ol thr) first Cniet Line prize produced an average of I 1 s.PO bu-hel- per acre and the winner of, the f>ui!h prize had an average yield olVnLJS bushels. Winners of the Atlantic t'n^st Lino prizes showed total profits ranging from $370.bH down t<? $250.03, for the , five acres. Their profits per acre varied 'from $7 1.13 to $51.03. while profits per bushel of corn were from 55.13 cents to 70.7 cents. These figures were arrived at after taking into account all expenses in connection with the production of the crop. While the contest did not result in , breaking any existing records for i corn productioii it proved beyond question that corn can be raised profitably in Kastern South Carolina and ; demonstrated the methods that gave che best results. In addition to the profit from the corn that was produced the winners of the prizes founi the contest decidedly worth while. .1. IL White, winner of the Atlantic Coa>t Line prize of $100 also won tin- first State prize of $200 and the fir-t Lb-rcnce Histrict prize of $10(> offered b\ "he Fxten-inn Service. :: total of $500. IL lb llaxley, in addition to winning the second prizt offered 1>V til" Atlantic Coast Line also won th-third state p: ;ze i f $5n and the see o.d Florence District prize of $75. .1 total of $200. C. W. Josey winner of the Atlantic Coast Line third prize of $50 alsj won the third prize of the Florence District of $">tt, a total of $100. Chas. W. Galloway, who won the Atlantic Coast Line fourth prize of , $25 also won the Florence District fourth prize of $25, a total of $50. southwest of North Cape. The bod1 ies of the aviators are expected to i be found in snowdrifts around the i plane. Three billions of dollars to be s|x>nt annually for the next decade in the ' . instruction and maintenance of highways in the United States, is the opinion >?f W. C. Markham. ex? ?uiive so, rotary of the American Association of Stale Highway offial-. Mr. Markham made the estimate in a address Tuesday before fourteenth annual convention of :Nati.Sand and Gravel a<so(.. ? IL. " ->ate<i Saturday vat . a. . o oonclusion -i- * 1 i fivo mcmlx i - >( !! . . comm:<-:"'i. Th" -a\ o ! i> i i in .do, :' * " . ... be "D h " . . .1 P.< !1 l.i 1 "ii .on the ?! ?"! -'. i-p.. ' g: . . |,.?me ?? I! .t' op 1 . the ice cau- ng ,nd turn o\ i r. x \ n Gastonia ye-*. . . Ml s. W. F. Long. th. i . - i iv. **i rip" Bridge? hold - (bi-i en' 'y grand jury f i .. .eg and ab.'ling in the taibe oi a* h." of \V. F. Long, wh ?Sc > v.?- lb oi v.d o* a highway noai :..a Jar.ua: \ 2Nt. The actio lowed an vves'.igation hegur -hortlv after the bodv was d.s, ov cred. ' Silena Gil more. negro, the firs! woman to be put to death in tin electric chair in Alabama, was electrocuted Friday at Kilbv piison. She I murdered a white cafo pro,u a tor sev1 oral months ago. Methune News Notes Told by Correspondent Bethune, Sv C.f Feb. 4.?The outstanding social event of the oast week was a delightful banuuet given by the boys of the foot-ball team on Friday evening in the home economies rooms at the grammar school building. TJ)? rooms were artistically decorated in the colore of the football squad, black and gold. Gregg King, captain of the team, wus toastmaster and toasts were given by Misses Stroman and Langdale and Messrs. Hums, Parker, and Foster. Miss Edith Clyburn favored the guests with a humorous reading. A delicious three course dinner was served by the girls of the home economics department. The attractive place cards were in the shape of miniature foot balls. The popular captain of the foot ball team, Gregg King, was re-elected captain for another year. The Kev. Robert Sapp of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Atlanta, spent the week end with friends here and on Sunday morning filled the pulpit at the Bqthunu Presbyterian church. Miss Clara Gordon, of the Union school, spent the week end at her home here and had as her guest for the week end Miss Minnie Dow ling, of Swansea. Mr. Lavin Saverance, of Davidson College, was at home last week end. Mis. W. K. Davis and c-htl:!r'*'! | spent the week end with her parent* Mr. and Mrs. John McSween, near Dailington. She was accompanied home by her mother, Mrs. McSween, who will remain with her for sometime. Miss Laura York, of Rock Hill, was the. week end guest at tb* home of Mr. and .Mfs, Lining vD?vis. Miss Geneyn'Pitts, of Columbia, was the reegfit guest of her parents here. T June TruesrfUdl and N'eil Truesdell, of Presbyterian College, were at honjo-. this week end. Mi. aixt .Mrs. .Mark King and children. of Neeccs, were visitors here S u nday. Mr-. Oswald Campbell and little daughter, of Camden, are spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. X. Hrannon. Mr. R. R. Burns and Mr. R. B. Parker, of the Bethune school faculty, -pent the week end at their respective hyjnes, Laurens and Anderson. John Neil McLaurin, of Clemson CnlLge, returned to school Monday after being at home a few days. Miss Mamie Coker, of the Shamrock school, was the week end guest of Mrs. \Y. R. Rozier. Greek Bandit Beheaded Athens, Greece, Feb. 3.?The -notorious brigand, Baibanes, who long has terrorized Thessaly, has been tracked down with the assistance of a police dog and killed. His head was cut off and publicly exhibited at Elassona and Larissa. LOO KING BACKWARD] I Taken From the Filea of The Chronicle Fifteen unU Thirty Yeare Ago J THIRTY YKAKS AUG February 7, 1900 Kershaw Era announces the establishment of a cotton mill at that place with J. M. Heath, K. L. Blackmon, S. W. Heath and E. D, 1M.<I < ney as corporators. Mrs. S. A. Parker leases the Ilurdell building, corner Broad and De Kalb streets, to conduct a boarding house. J. O. Ferguson, of Hock Hill, married to Miss Mattie King, of eastern Kershaw. A. I). Kennedy, Jr., and J. H. Singleton resign as members of Cam-' den fire department. Tom Harfield and Seldon Williams named to fill vacancies. Newberry Handle and Shuttle Co. organized with capital stock of $10,000. Dr. A. A. Moore called to Heath Springs on professional business. William Jennings Jiryan delivers address in Columbia.- Introduced by Lieutenant-Governor Scarborough. it FIFTEEN YEAltS AGO February 12, 1915 t Leroy Blackmon seriously injured I in arm when gun accidentally dis- I charges near Liberty Hill. Squire James T. Truesdale, one of the county's oldest citizens, critically |f| ill at his home neur Westville. George Stinson, colored lad of the Hermitage plantation, loses leg when "fl Southern train caught him on trestle near Camden. j K. L. Bell and several Westville j citizens capture John Truesdale, bold I | bicycle thief. j J. A. Bell, of West Wateree, mar- I ried to Miss Tressa Hough, of Cum- j Henry H. Moore, of Camden, mar- J ried to Miss Bertha Napper, of Ker- J shaw, j Willie Willis, negro, lost an arm , I when he fell in front of a train en- ' I gine of the Meikeljohn Lumber Company near Bethune. J. E. Stokes, of near Bethune, j killed four hogs weighing 200 pounds j Items of Interest , A score of persons were injured in Chicago Wednesday when 10,000 men and women battled madly in a department store for 2,000 jobs. Police reserves were summoned. The crowd gathered in response to an advertisement for extra held. The 10,- J 000 waited with 5,000 customers until | the doors were opened. Then with a j mad?wish?the?mob?rushed?through the store wrecking glass counters, punching holes in partitions, and did damage to merchandise estimated at ; several thousand dollars. Deputy Sheriff Lee Wright, son of Sheriff Charles Wright, of Mesha, | Ariz., died at a hospital at that place early Wednesday of wounds received i in a gun battle with Irene Schroeder, Pennsylvania gunwoman. and her twj male companions at Chandler, Ariz., 1 on January 18th. First degree niur-1 der charges will be preferred against j Mrs. Schroeder, now held at Newcastle, Pa. The tuu'-boat Stone No. 6, reached Southport, a few miles north"of WiL ; -mington, N. C., on Wednesday at noon after battling rough seas for | more than 12 hours. An intensive search had been carried on for the tug and several men believed aboard it since the craft and men had been reported missing since Tuesday. A cancer patient at Beth Israel hos- M pital in New York City Wednesday I tore off one of his dressings and un- ' wittingly threw away 70 miligrams " I of radium, worth $5,000. It was re- I covered after hours of search among the ashes of the incinerator of the fl hospital. Postoffices at Selma and Apex, N. \ C., have been robbed during the past \ two weeks, it was learned at ItaU'igh, Wednesday. At' Apex $850 in stamps and money wnti taken on Jan- I uary 15th, and about $10 was taken f from Selma Tuesday night. j Representative Charles M. Stedman, democrat of Notfth Carolina, j last of Civil War soldiers in Con- j gress celebrated his 89th anniver- j sary of his birth Wednesday. The house paid tribute to Mr. Stedmai. and rhii responded in a brief speech. I He will not stand for re-election buk j will retire to private life at the end : of his present term. March 31st. I Coleman Queen, of Canton, N. C? 08 years of age, was almost instantly killed early Tuesday morning when he was struck and run over by a switch engine of the Champion | Fibre Company. Details of the aci cident could not be learned, but it is understood that Mr. Queen stepped from behind a pile of wood on the railroad track directly in the path of the engine. ? LADIES' ACCOUNTS INVITED We invite the ladies of our community to come in and open an account in our Bank. Then they can pay their bills with a check and have a legal receipt. They will know how much they spend and what it is spent for. We also invite every man, every partnership and corporation to do their banking business with our progressive bank. Make OUR bank YOUR bank The First National Bank Camden, South Carolina