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T' l'? tier son 17, tnedkal stud nt ut Vantiechill Univer?ity Nashville, Tenn., committed ?uicid?' by ahooting h?nw>clf with a <pi*lol ? ? he stood on the -porch of a fraternity houee. ""Tui w I 'w'1' til H "A www year* ago, I found If H that I was very weak and Vjl U nothing I ate seemed to give tM ass any strength,** writes Mrs. M K R. B. Douglas, 704 South Con- ifl IQ gress St., Jackson, Miss. Mfl tM "I suffered intense pain in IJ M my head and back. At times P Al I would have to hold tc some- mm HI thing to steady myself, so as Ift 11 to do my little work. I was VI M worried about my condition. ra Ik "My mother told me that I ! U should take Cardui. After M MM taking two, bottles, I felt kl M Stronger, but I kept on taking ll JK H until my head and back Ik quit hurting. I took about K I six bottles in ail, and have II never quit praising Cardui." IJ | CARDUI Q Ik USED BY WOMEN 4l Ij^FOR OVER 50 YKARS^^jl Ta..o Thedtord'a BlacU-Drnight for | Co*-llpHtion. Indication, Blllouaness. I BAYER ASPIRIN is always SAFE Beware of Imitat yni Gl'.Nl'INK Bayer Aspirin, the kind 1 that doctors prescril >e and million* of t users have proven safe for over thirty y.U-?r .r. e-t-i'y tw idr"Titied ) v the , name Haver ax.d the word genuine as a!>ov e ( a I'.uine Bayer Aspirin i> safe and sun it N always the same. It has the un<(ua'.i!ied endor-t mi nt of phvsieiars and druggists e\erv \v h.ere. It d< h-s not depress the heart, and ia> harmful etleets fulh -w it ^ us' Ba\er Aspirin is the universal antidote for pains of all Minis. Headaches Neuritis Colds Neuralgia 1 Sore Throat- I umUago Rheumatism Tv*?thache Aspirin Ls the trademark of Rayet. < manufacture of nionoaceticaeideater mi I alicylicacid. , WHEN BABIES | mm tmi mm THKRK arc times when * P" W a baby is too fretful or feverish to t>e sun# to sleep. There are some pains a mother c4u\not pat away. Hut there's quirk comfort in Chistoria! 1 1 For diarrhea, and other infantile ills, give this puie vegetable preparation Whenever routed tongues tell of ronstipation; whenever there's any sign of ! sluggishness Castoria has a good t.ivte. children lose to take it. Hun the genuine? with Chas. H. Fletcher's signalure on wrapper. ? ? ? ?? qr?i?- ?Nobody's Business Writter for The Chronicle by Gee McGee, Copyright, lfctifc. But It Could lie VS orw Ye?, Folic i?, time* are really get- I ting hard. 1 now have the proof, arwi come of it i* not hearsay either. I am bothered: the future begin* to look black?because old man D. I'rension i* beginning to Urar down upon UN. ., And here's front w hence my pain emanated: A filling station man told me just yesterday that his gas ami oil sales were already off onefourth of one percent, and he would take an oath that the picture showticket seller said they had 2,33d per-, sons in the show week before last) hut only 2,.'t#2 paid admissions were rung up last week. (Standing room is scarcer than ever.) On top of all this slump, as if these were not the Ia.?t straws, the sale of cigarettes has declined from 1H,HHH (in our little town) j>er day to IK.HHb per day, and folks are considerably off in the use of snuff and cowing tobacco, too. In fact, .i chaw's fewer and > dips lt/Ts were taken one duy last week as compared with one day 3 weeks ago. To top the climax. the bootlegger* report a falling off of 1 pint per >,000 persons in the salt* of Si'hite mule" since cotton and wheat broke (the farmers), ami tne sojf drink u-ir.e-A is one-fifth of one percent lower than it proved to he in September . The silk hosiery stores state that where they averaged -r> hi pairs >f the said hose per week in August, they now ate selling only "> 11 pairs. Ra<! < -ale- have slumped from l')o percent m July to. Pa and 11 one-hundredths percent in lierember, and -o has round steak and pork chop.-. And by the way. 1 per.-on out of every-1-1-1 :n our town has quit eating 'tarn and gg* on account of our fioincial and laborious emergency. I hat w 1. never do. The first thing inybody knows, on?- of our banker mII stop playing golf except on Mo::lays and Tuesdays and Wednesdayin-i Thursdays and Friday- ind Satjrdays and Sundays. Why, even funerals arc fewer and urther betwixt, and the cost of dying ms Ix-en reduced from cx lusive of flowers, to $IGG.<S7, including the flowers an<l a little bit >f soft music. Doctors are busic han ever, and they have cut their trices for riding 1 miles (to help mother little sucker to arrive) from cio.do to .> 10.IH), but a> they d<> not ollecf but one account out of J, hey an* n >t trailing in their avery often. Yep. soft drink- and to '-*??t' 11 <i n-g?t licit -w-s School 1 >a> - and School Wa\s It nappe - that 1 a:n tru-te- 1 ia-uu-v ! in;1 city ,-cMools. It - -<?me trouble t<> be connected w t : cii'i".-. hut I en.a.y it that i-, m >- ^ ou -ee. 1 graduated in about he eighth grade in a country school, md I don't want anybod\ else to trow up a> ignorant a- 1 am. I'L'T: The other day, a lady -called me >n the phone. She first wanted to snow for a fact that she.had the -ight number. I could toll from h< r 'irst -J words that she had not .just rot up from her prayers. The receiver I had to my ixv-t ear fairly sizzled, -lie said -he wanted to talk to me. iad I found that out. as follows; Her Who's that? Me ( ici Met iee. Her V.n't you i trustee the ehool - he* e ' M? Yc.? uni. I - jpp.--e He- We.:. :t;i l'\e got t<> -a\. ' > "'.1 an a - -..! \ a : lisle. a < - \ a :ip -:ar* :i ache .caches -. i t;i.k y.-u ..light ' " ' 1' a ti-.u -d-'W*; t?: ng 1 < 1 ' 1 ' i.a p:>< n ; > me a a "? a a \ -"a * 11 ati -i rv \ Sa ' a .Ian Hi- ! ' ! aaii n.\ u ay. 1 w -uol i'n 'u ' ' ?m-'rro\v and tin h, f : -u n. >:?!..? .laru get- the n.iiiii of berg '.He smartest g;-l :n schoo.. an-i are'- that hu/:-y giving her .u.ly 5b >1" rithmatiek. and Me Hut. j?! Her ?! on t but nu-. 1 know what sa.lie Jain* can ii<>. She rtqvatcd the atty-cism before -he was i> and -he la- read through 3 books, and writes ver et'.e* her du<ib\ e\ er writes t > .is store customers, and fu-thermire Me-Hold on a Her -And -r.o n.y g:\. '?> >n oggei fy la-t a . nth. but I n?\e:* aid a word : no':..b\. but 1 a.i'I - t I'll-tee- t s' ou tj",at a? - ' pa> ' v. - :g : t r . , '*? V * 1 i inc ? . ,i?; : ^ N ' h? a.i;u he. -he si>e!l. but. no 'ho flapper w ulddont '. i**?-'i to he:. and Mr- \\ ? .. ol* - Hf It'- .1 pretty ruiv.r ft when ti tiii i at t vrive hi -eholarm*tter ii'ii'i. :h..t In a:M .*?<?. and ' lhc\ ili-Ul :uake bellei mark- ih-im * he'll, w h 'he t hur.de i .- to bhiuit but ' .! tier. av.<! 1 want > a t k V.i w Mi- W i ' a inin H< M -t teachers ain't teaching to lrarn an\U>dy anything?ail they w int to - get married, ami bosides that -Sallie Jane studdies every night e\ opt Monda\ night ami Tuesday niK'ht and Thursday night and Krid.-u nrght, an<i she comes just aU?ut as near knowing her less ns as some of them yourvguns that that teacher grades up '.n the tHVs. ^he does that to stand in with them '?..btists. and Me?Won't you p.- ? Her?\N hen I went to s,-hoo.. ! od rirrv i ass. and Sallie Jane toes after m.o. e\eryV*-J\ says s.., .. jj she'- as brt-'ht as a pen point. nd ci.ordvr.vr to me ami John, w i <>d I w tt"u.-t'-o- a- we .is n? w ia..? sj, i and if < K i ' nil i-v \ >1 . -t .iK !1k ;e. MANt, . I f. . m . , .it j Irish Potato Growers May Enter Contest ('UiriifrvM College, Jan. 20.?The Extern ion Service of Cleinwon College announces the inauguration of an Iri*h I'otato Cajiylest beginning with tl?e 11131 crop, the content having been made possible through the cooperation of fertilizer manufacturers, banks, agricultural uocietiea, barrel manufacturers, shipping associations, seedsmen and other parties directly interested in this crop and in the advancement of agricultural work in ?x>uth Carolina, 'Which have contributed a fund of >650.00 to be used as prizes in this content. The present plans are for a first prize? of $200.00, a second prize of $150.00, a third of $100.00, a fourth of $75.Op, a fifth of $50.00, sixth of $25.00, and five other prizes of $10.00 each. The contest is to be state-wide and any grower planting as much as one acre of Irish potatoes is eligible to enter provided he is willing to keep a complete record on his crop in a record book furnished him by the Extension Service and turn this record over to the Extension Seruvee upon the completion of the contest, says L. P. Watson, ex'*) * 'V tension horticulturist, who is to supervise the contest. Award* will be on the basis of highest yields of No. 1 potatoes per acre. Application blanks for the contest may be bad from lj. P. Watson, extension horticulturist, Aiken, S. C., or from county farm agents. Lf by following better practices in growing this, our most important truck crop, the yield could be increased by one barrel of No. 1 potatoes per acre, the value of this crop, would lx* increased by $HSf(MJ0.00, using the average price for 102'J as a basis, Mr. Warkins suggests, in speaking of the value of such a'contest Man Dead; Wife Dying Gadget own, Jan. 2b.?David W. Voung. of Georgetown, is dead, his wife is believed dying and Dan VVinstead and "Hun/." Martin, of Conway. arc in the county jail here following a higlryTay tragedy on Route 10 last night. Young and his wife, the latter carrying a two-moiiths-old infant in her arms, were walking along the highway, about two miles from Yuhanah bridge, when an automobile hit them, breaking the man's neck and fracturing Mrs. Young's skull. The in fant miracuRHtglj^rscaped injury. Hit and Run Kills Child Orangeburg. S. C\, Jan. 2b.?James Folder and his wife ^vere walking ' along a highway toward Orangeburg last night, drawing their sleeping baby in a toy wagon. They'-aw two cars approaching from the front and moved to the > ie of the road, A?third car cunm fr u behind, struck the wagon and the three-year old boy in it was killed. 1 he car did nut .-top. Following a co-oner's jury in.--'ligation this morning a warrant wa? ->uc?i ton.ght for John Brandyhei g, negro, charging hi-^i as the drive:, i.ale tonight he hail not been arrest-, cm!. Otis Boilings, giving -Greenville, S. as his home and proclaiming himself as "Young Sampson," died at New K'bany, Miss., where he was taken in an airplane ambulance following *hus pulling of a st.unt in which he allowed an automobile loaded with several persons to run acl'oss hi- body at Holly Springs, Mi--. The hea\y weight reopened an oul wound sustained in another stunt several months ago. Former Governor Commits Suicide Jersey City, N. J., Jan. 26. ?Kdward I. Kdwards, who rose from a two-dollar-a-week bank runner to exalted posts of government a?d finance, and who lost both, together with his health in recent years, committed suicide last night by shooting in the bedroom of hia apartment. He *waa 68 years old. A note, in a sealed envelope, addressed to his daughter and a slip of paper within to Wis son, said "goodbye?-dad," and directed attention to his insurance policies and private papers. The body of the former New Jersey governor and United States senator was found today by . Charles Baumgarten, friend and legal advisor, whose fear for Mr. Kdwards was aroused when he failed to keep an appointment. He knew that Kdwards had removed a revolver from a drawer at his office. In the locker! bedroom, where th*^ body was found, it was found also that Krlwards, intent upon death was mindful of the weH-being of a pet. He had filled to overflowing a water trough and food cup for his parrot. Three groups of Chicago swindlers have been successful in swindling their victims out of $250,000 in the past six months. Rome of their victims have been holders of high public office. * The missing persons bureau of the New York police department, reports that during 10.30. 25,000 persons, including 2,450 girls and 3,500 hoys have been reported us missing from that city. Cordell Smith. lb, of Bessemer City. N. C., was shot Sunday night as he was trying to enter a filling station six miles west of Ch:ir!ott?. The grand jury of Buncombe county is making an investigation into the affairs of the closed Central Bank and Trust company of Asheville, N. t\, which had several million dollars of public funds when it closer! in November. Misunderstanding a telephone conversation a Joliet, 111., physician gave a girl patient a transfusion of "parrot's blood" instead of "parent's blood," as advised over the telephone by a Chicago infantile paralysis , specialist. The child has suffered no < ill-effects from the misunderstanding. James Robinson Dead James Robinson, ag"ed 63 years, d^ed at his home in the Buffolo' section Wednesday, January 21, and was > buried in the eemeetry at Buffalo Baptist church on Friday. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. S. F. Robinson. Mr. Robinson is survived by his widow and one son, Ernest Robinson, of New York. Five full brothers and five half-brothers, one full sister and one half-sister also survive him. Mr. Robinson was a faithful member of Buffalo church. ?Kershaw Era. 666 LIQUID or TABLETS Cure Colds, Headaches, Fever < 6 6 6 SALVE CURES BABY'S COLD i 1 When Your Farm Stock Is J Sick, Look For Rats. Disease among farm animals don't i just happen. Rats are carriers of dan. gerous plagues?hog cholera, foot and mouth disease and that terrible of all scourges?Bubonic plague. Farmers should throw around premises RAT-SNAP. It's sure and safe. ' Three sizes, 35c, 66c, $1.25. Sold and guaranteed by Zemp & DePass, Druggists, Camden, S. C., and Be- j thune Hardware Co., Bethune, S. C. a notice ' The dog bcene? tax of $1.25 on ] each dog six weeks old acrid over doe i January 1, 1980, will have a penalty 1 added to it afiter February 1, 1951. S. W. HOOUE, Treasurer, Kerdbaw County, S. C. ' i ' i ? The lower house of congress on Tuesday passed a bill appropriating $15,000,000 for national park roads and approaches bo resorts. . SUMMONS FOR RBI.1KF 11 ' \-'3 State of South Carolina ^ County of /Cershaw (In the Court oi Common Pleas) '. The First Carolinas Joint 'Stock Land Bank, of Columbia, Plaintiff against Bolivar D. Boykin, F. I. Proctor, as Trustee, Caroline LeConte Boykin, and Carolina Power & Light Company, Defendants. *. To The Defendants above named: You are hereby summoned and required to answer th- complaint in this action, of which x copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers at their offices Nos. .'{05-309 National LoAfl and Exchange Bank Building, Columbia, S. C., within twenty days after the service hereof exclusive of the Jay of' such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in th? complaint. MELTON & BELSKR Plaintiff's Attorneys Columbia, S. C., 25 November, 1930 TO THE DEFENDANT, F. I. Proctor, as Trustee: TAKE NOTICE that the complaint in the above entitled action, together vith the summons, of which the foregoing is a copy, was filed in the ofice of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for Kershaw County, at Camden, S. C., on he 26th day of November, 1930. MELTON & BELSER ^Plaintiff's Attorneys .21 January, 1931. ? _ Bin I ^ "'aggag - ?yy?^? This Woman in 4 Weeks Lost 17 Pounds of Fat Here's a letter written October 21. 1929, by Mrs. Fred Barringer of lewistown, 'Montana, tjiat ought to I>? read by every overweight woman in America. Gentlemen: 1 started taking Kru schen every morning as directed aa I was very much, overweight and wanted to reduce. , I had tried going on a diet 'but would get so hungry that my diet would not last Inog, so J decided to give "Knuchen Salts" a fair trial. The day I started to take them I weighed 266 pounds and at present, which has been just four weeks, I weigh 239 pounds. And I must say, I feel better in every way, besides looking much better. May all large people, both urn women, who want to redwee in u easy way. give Krvacnen Halt* trial. I am sure it wilt eeavince any. tf i * one* A bottle of Krufcchen .Salt* that lasts four we^cs cost* but 80c ?\ DeKalb Pharmacy or any drugstore in America. Ta^ae one half teuspooa in a glass of tvot water before breakfast every morning. To help redoc* swiftly cut out .pastry and fatty meats and go hgjht on potato*, butter, cream abd sugar. The Kruachen way la the safe way to reduce?'Try one bottle and if *4 joyously satisfied?money bark. PA^ 1 BY CHECK I Know where your money goes . . when and ||| for what. A Check gives you a record none i I can deny. It's so much more convenient than II handling cash! ! I The First National Bank i 11 H I Camden, South Carolina " IB