The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 22, 1930, Image 6
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Nobody's Business ;
Written for The Chronicle by Gee
McGee, Copyright, 192#.
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Society Newtt From Flat Itock '
mr, and mrn. jimmio smith dinner- <
ed with their daughter, mm, sunie
green, yesterday. rnr. green is on 1
the chaingang for trans sporting and J
won't be homo for .'10 days more, he
was formerly with the alJ-nite filling '
station. ,
a marriage* of mutch intrust took
place at the manse sadday morning
just bofoar day. the contracting
parties was lqlie white and jerry
black, everything passed off verry
quiet as mr. white left his shot gun
in the ford till after the cerrimony.
tiny won't have no honeymoon as
they went on that about .'I weeks ago.
a big bridge party wi\s hell at
mrs. redd's hutiful home on tin* hills
which is mortgaged for 5,000$ and
the booby prize was winner! by her
daughter sallie lou who has just got
back from the mountains where she
spent 2 weeks and .15$ and give a
check for 0$ and the same was took
up by her daddy last friday when
the man come down for her or it one.
mrs, grate and mrs. small shopped
in punkville last week and as
a result of same, each had on a nice
new dress from the pay-us-you-wear
stoar last sunday til church and the
tag on the former showed the same
to cost 7$ and <*05 with 1$ down and
* the latter the same except the downpayment
wits only i*0M. they was
genrally add mired by the publick
at large who was allso present in
their old clothes.
the ladies aux zillory society of
pisgat church hell a big fish fry at
hat ton's farry last, thursday night
N but onner count that the men who
went on ahead did riot ketch anny
fish the ladies served some sandswitches
which they had along to
eat as a dessert after the fish and
nearly everyboddy got enough except
me and i had to hold the baby
while my wife was waiting on the
table which was a blanket spread
on the ground and it was enjoyed by
all.
miss jennie veeve jones give a big
(lf rauattea Vm < r\ "
v i o u i e ounii vii j ingiit caii ii
mr. long and miss tanna hide found
it. for a while, it was thought thut
mrs. wellers and prof, junkins was
lost as they did not come up when
the others accumulated at the home
where the hunt started, so mr. wellers
got his pistol and went out to
look for- them, hut they finely come
in by them selves shortly after 2 a. m.
(p. s. the society notes for flat
rock this week was rote up by me
as the roglar corry spondent is off
on her vacation in georgy?so the
people will plese rite or foam the
new* till she get< hack.)
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd.
Ashevillo. N*. (\, Aug. 15, ll'UO.
Mr. Mike Clark, RFD,
Flat Rock, S. C.
Dear Sir: ?
My sister and I have just finished
a hig argument. I insist that you
are a real living character while my
sister says that you are a ficticiuos
character and live only in the brain
of Gee McGee. 1 am betting her
a neat sum that you will receive
ind answer this letter, so help me
>ut.
Yours truly,
R. J. Htoney.
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'lat rock, s. C., aug. the 20, 11*30.
leer mr. stoney:?
yore letter received and i will ?n>
ier same, yore sister is wrong, in
the first place, gee rin ged has no j
iirain, therefoar?i could not of been ;
hatched there, and if you think i
urn a fick tiehous charrackter, all you
have got to do is come down here
and see for yore self.
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no doubt, you will bo surprise
when i tell you that i am kurriner
of underson county, s. C. and have
hell this poplur offis for going on
2 yr., and beat 3 cripple men and
2 polly tishigns in the rac?, and when
u man suckseeds in doing that, iie
ain't fick tishious, hut is rale.
onner count of the way gee mcgee
rites about me, ii good rnanny
birds like you have rote in and usked
rne the same fool question, and all
i ask them to do is to come down
for them selves and examine me and
if it takes a little hit of fist boxing
to prove my fissical life, i will go
around or 2 with who ever he might
he.
besides being a public servant of
the corpses who get run over by
pedestrians in ottermobeels who ain't
got sense enuff to drive a nail, and
allso get shot by wives ur take on
too mutch jake, i am a beef peddler
and truck fitrmer and a merchant
every sadday and deel in cows and
call's and hogs in season ansoforth.
so if you don't believe i am a man,
and a good one nt that, just rite or
foam me when y*u will he down for
me to prove same to you by being
felt and watched in action.
yores trulic,
mike Clark, rfd.
1 rttarUt* Attorney KlttS
Hickory, N. C., Aug. XJ.?U? W.
Goodman, Charlotte attorney, w??
killed instantly and three women
companions slightly injured late last
night when their automobile collided
with another near here.
While standing under an electric
light bulb at a filling station two
miles from Marion Friday to get out
of a storm, Louis Truluck, 46, waa
killed when lightning struck a large
pine tree across the Ijogd, ran down
a wire and exploded the bulb.
Plane Forced Down
Georgetown.?Forced down near
Myrtle Beach when one of its two
motors went awry, the naval seaplanu
"PN-12 under the command of
, Lieutenant Comdr. H. T. Bartlett,
was anchored four miles off Georgetown
Thursday undergoing repairs. ,
AN ORDINANCE
T ' ' ' ' '
To Ituiiie Supplies For The City of
Camden, South Carolina, For The
i Year 1930.
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Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Camden,
' S. (*., and by authority of the same,
that the following taxes be, and the
same are hereby levied, for the current
year from the tirst of January,
1930, to the 31st day of December,
1930, both inclusive.
Section One. A tax of thirty (30)
mills on each and every dollar of real
and personal property within the
corporate limits of the City of Camden,
S. C., from the first day of January,
1930.
Section Two. That all able-bodied
male persons between the ages of
twenty-one and fifty years, residing
within the corporate limits of the
City of Camden, S. C., not exempt
from road duty under the laws of the
State shall work the 'streets, ways
and all parks and public places under
the direction of the Street Commissioner
or other as may be appointed,
for such space of time, not exceeding
six (G) days in one year; Providing,
that at the time of receiving such notice
any person may pay to the said
City of Camden, S. C., three ($3.00)
dollars, commutation tax, which shall
be received in lieu of the work and
that person refusing to work, us
aforesaid, on said streets or public
places or to pay said commutation
tax, shall, on conviction before the
Recorder of the City of Camden, 3.
C. bo fined not less than ten ($10.00)
dollars, nor more than fifty ($50.00)
dollars, or be imprisoned ' not leas
than ten days nor more than twenty
days and such imprisonment may at
the discretion of the Recorder of the
City of Camden, be accompanied with
the additional requirement of hard
labor upon the streets or public
places of the said CIty of Camden.
Section Three. The tax books, for
the collection of the City taxea will
be open in the office of the said K'ity
( lcrk and Treasurer, Camden, S. C.,
on the fifteenth day of September,
iy30, and remain open each day, except
Sunday, from 9 a. m, to 1 p. m.,
and from I) p. m. to 4:30 p, m., until
the fifteenth day of October, 1030,
inclusive.
Section Four. That when the taxes
and assessments or any portion
thereof charged against any property
or party on the duplicate for the current
fiscal year, shall not be paid on
or before the fifteenth day of October
1030, the City Clerk and Treasurer
I shall proceed.to add a penalty of one
I per cent on the City duplicate, and
i t'.ie City Clerk and Treasurer shall
collect the same; and if the said
taxes and assessments and penalties
are not paid on or before the fifteenth
day of November ^hereafter,
[ an additional penalty of one per cent
shall be added by the City Clerk and
! Treasurer on the said duplicate and
| collected by the said City Clerk and
| Treasurer; That if said taxes, assessments
and penalties are not paid on
or before the fifteenth day of December,
next thereafter, the City Clerk
and Treasurer shall issue in the
name of the City of Camden, S. C., a
warrant or execution in duplicate
against said" defaulting taxpayer in
the City of Camden, S. C., signed by
him in his official capacity, directed
to the Chief of Police of the said
, City of Camden or some member of
the police force of the City of Cam.
den. S. C., requiring him to levy the
same by distress and sell so much of
1 the defaulting taxpayer's estate, real
| or personal or both, as may be suf.
ficient to satisfy the city taxes of
I said defaulter, and specifying there
jjn the aggregate amount of all his
or her taxes. The City Clerk and
Treasurer for every saicIj, . warrant
issued shall have from atich defaulter,
one ($1.00) dollar, and the Chief
of Police or other police officer shall
collect from such defaulter the following
fees in the execution of his
office, to wit: For serving such warrant,
One ($100) Dollar; for advertising
sale, twenty-five cents; for
makiug sale and executing deed of
conveyance and putting purchaser in
possession, Three ($3.00) Dollars;
for all sums levied as aforesaid, five
per cent; and the Chief of Police is
prohibited from demanding or collecting
any greater sum therefor than
is hereby allowed; neither the Chief
of Police nor the City Clerk and
Treasurer shall receive fees upon a
nulla bona return.
Section Five. Under and by virtue
of said warrant or execution the
Chief of Police shall seize and take
exclusive possession of so much of
the defaulting taxpayer's - estate,
real or personal, or both as may be
necessary to raise the sum of money
named therein, and said charges
thereon; and, after due advertisement,
sell the same before the Court
House door in the City of Camden,
.ppunty of Kershaw on a regular
salesday, and within the usual hours
for public sales, for cash, give the
purchaser (upon his complying with
the terms of the sale) ft receipt for
the purchase money, but not' make
title to the purchaser until the expiration
of twelve (12) months from
the day of sale, if the property sold
be not redeemed as hereinafter provided,
and annex said receipt to the
duplicate warrant with the endorsement
therein fo his action thereunder,
and. shall, after deducting
from the proceeds of sale the cost
and expenses of said sale, pay over
to the City Clerk and Treasurer the
taxes, charges and penalties due
and incurred by said defaulting^taxpayer;
and upon written notice given,
or information ascertained from the
records, of any mortgage or other
lien on said premises so sold for
taxes, shall hold the excess, if any,
until authorized and directed by proper
judicial authority as to mode of
disposition, or by written consent of
the defaulting taxpayer that the said
excess be paid over to mortgage or
lien creditor, and according to priority
if more than one, PROVIDED
that the owner or grantee <*7^ if
mortgage creditor may within tw&H
months from date of such a.u^B
<i. . ... such piopeity by payirur ?,
Chief of Police the t?i?f f I
ties and expenses of aaid Btu rl ]
gether ^yith eight per cent intenB
on the whole amount of the
price of ssid land so sold, and thn?'
upon the Chief of Police shall 31 1
back and refund to the said purchaJP
the amount paid on his bid, with?
terest as above Btated ,an<I the bid lHI
the said purchaser shall be then c*M '
celled ana revoked, the owner
grantee remaining in possesion 3B'
his said lands: Provided, fumJBthat
upon failure of defaulting u?Bp
payer or other party interested uB*
redeem said land so sold for timfe
within twelve months as stated t2IM
Chief of Police shall make tin,.
purchaser and put the purchaser hPi
i possession of tne property gold .^P
conveyed: PROVIDED, further,fill
in case of threatened waste or'tW^l,
age to the premises by the owner orB
any other party, during the tweivtfl1
months, allowed for redemption,
purchaser at said tax sale shall 'haval' i
the right to apply to the CoUrt ,?:]
Common Pleas or a Judge thereof forfl
injunction against such waste aitf |?n
a receiver to take charge of the proaB]
erty until the end of twelve montwRj
for redemption unless sooner nK'
deemed; PROVIDED, further, ?^B|!
any real estate is sold for taxes jsHf!'
the said (City of Camden, before dX;
livering title to such real estate ti^B
the purchaser at such sale, to rjjSf
not less than thirty days hoticeBf;
any mortgagee or assignee of jKf
mortgage appearing of record ukflfii
terested in such real estate of '
sale in order that such said real
tate, as provided by law for theovg.^1
er thereof. Such notice shall either wB. I
served on such mortgagee or auifnetB i
in person or forwarded to his laitB 1
known .post office address by rtgu.^|
tered mail, or when his wherihontiB
may be known it may be had~^B
publication upon petition and ttdtrB !
as is required for service of sumnouB I
by publication in civil actions. i ]
Ratified by the Mayor and AMtr<B
men of the City of Camden, S. C, i/.H
council assembled this 4th day {9
August, 1930. IT
1 R. M. KENNEDY, JR.,
Mayor. I:
J; C. BOYKIN,
, Clerk and Treasurer. i ;
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I Nurse Tells :
How t
CARDUI
Helped Her
Mrs. W. A. Cox, n
j well known proi
fi'Sstonnl nurse, y
< f Unrnside, Ky.t A
w I IU'H; '
"I w ?vh in \i i\ bad health. S|
yI and only \y> 1 d . p unds. Iv
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I I'ardm, and thought 1 wnusd Ji
^ g:vr it a trv tuit Alter 1 h:ul J
Y taken one battle. I c.Aild >ee y
a. that I was nr.prosing. Alter /?
A 1 huii taken it a month or (
T two, I begun to gam. and 1
(> weigh at present 168, and ?
I have weighed that for some <i
( > time. I am now 56 yoars old,
and can do na much work
1 " as the averivge middle-aged '1
i woman can. . i
,, "I would advise any woman,
who is weakly and in a run- j
,k down condition, to try Car- '1
i dui, but not to expect one < i
(h bottle to make her well. 1
take two or three bottles a
1 ' year, now, and 1 feel fine." *1
CARDUI
USED BY WOMEN
" FOR OVER 60 YEARS
Take ThedfonJ'ii Blaek-DrnusM J
I for Constipation. InutKestlon,
and Dillouaiu-ss. t-ta? 1
^m
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7U womb a aaweuje
that u milder and ot
bett?r tmte..
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Chesterfield
JVllLDER, YES?BUT SOMETHING MORE.
Chesterfield offers richness, aroma, satisfying
flavor.
BETTER TASTE ?- that's the answer; and
that's what smokers get in Chesterfield in fullest
measure?the flavor and aroma of mellow
tobaccos; exactly blended and cross-blended.
Better taste, and milder too!
|(C) 1930, Ltoorrr & Mwm T9BAC00 Co.
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