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The Lion* club of Columbia ha* its feelings hurt because the state highway commission will not pay it ' v ; ' buck the $415 it spent for big signs telling motorists they are welcome to the capital and the Lions club say* so. They disregpfttcd the regulations that signs must not l>e placed in roads and the highway department took them down. ?r , . , m. , ,, ? phiuips= ' :l For Tro??W** dur io At?d MID STOMACH I MMOACHI CAStS NAU^^I W When food sours ABOUT two hours after eating, many people suffer fronj sour stomachs. They call it indigestion. It means that the 'stomach nerves have been overstimulated. There is excess acid. The way to correct it is with an alkali, which .neutralizes many times its volume in i neid.? .] The right way is Phillips Milk of Magnesia?just a tasteless dose in water. I It is pleasant, efficient and harmless. It is the quirk method. Hcsults conic ' almost instantly. It is the approved method. You will never use another when you know. Be sure to get the genuine Phillips Milk of Magnet in, the kind physicians prescribe to correct excess acids. '20c and 00c a bottle?any drugstore. "Milk of Magnesia" has been the U. S. Registered Trade Mark of The Charles ,H. Phillips Chemical Company and its predecessor Charles 11. Phillips since 1870. __________ ' from Headaches, Colds and Sore Throat Neuritis, Neuralgia I^on't be a chronic sufferer from head-4 aches, or any other pain. There is hardly an ache or pain Bayer Aspirin tablets cannot relieve; and they are a great comfort to women who suffer periodically. They .?rc always to be relied upon for breaking up colds. It may be only a simple headache, or it may l>e neuralgia or neuritis. Rheumatism. Lumbago. Bayer Aspirin ?? still the sensible thing to take. Just? l>e certain it's Bayer you're taking; it does not hurt the heart. Get the genuine ^ablets, in this familiar package. bewar^oHimitations Getting Up Nights ouanoaa, or Burning-, duo to function 1 Bladder Irritation. In aold conditions, makea you fooTtlred. depressed and discouraged, try the Cystex Test. Works fast. atarta Circulating thru the ayatem In 16 minutes. Praised by thousands for rapid and positive action. Don't Rive up. Try Cystex (pronounced Slss-tex) today, under the Iron-Clad Ouaranteo. Muot quickly allay theae conditions. Improve restful "leep and nergy, or money back. Only COo at Zemp & DePass, Druggists, Camden. KERSHAW LODGE No. 29 A< F* M* Cjf P Regular commuP.fr a tlon of this lodgf is held on the \/ first Tuesday in each month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. W. R. CLYBURN, J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master. Secretary. 1-14-27-tf R. H. HAILE FUNERAL DIRECTOR FOR COLORED PEOPLE 927 Broad St. Camden, 8. C We have secured the services of Ixyvett Proctor, Licensed Rmbahner for S. C., who will be with ms permanently to do our ombaVmiag. Residence Phone 293-J Office Phone 145 > ip.: , . - Knute Kockne Dead ! In Airplane Crash Bazaar, KanHHM, March lil,? Knute Kockne, Notre Dome football geniu.v plunged to bin (leatill with five fellow passenger* and two pilot* on a 1 : Transcontinental & Western Air Inc. < air liner today in the mid-Kansas i grazing country near here. The I plane was California hound from . Kansas City. The crash killed eight occupants instantly. Witnesses ftaid lite craft, ' flying through clouds and fog, lost a 1 wing in the air. 1 l-'ird reports that there had hcen an explosion in the air and that the wreckage burned proved unfounded. The dead' Knute Kockne; li. J. ' hr i sir ri * en, 'Chicago; J. H. Happer, < ?iit ago; W. B. Miller, Hartford, <v,nn.; .Spencer (ioldthwaite, New ^ ??'K; ('. A. Kobrecht, Wheeling, W. \a.; Robert Fry, pilot, Los Angeles; Jc.v- Mathius, pilot, Lo>: Angeles. The Ixxty of Kockne was identl!ie.il b> W. I.. White, ijon of William Allen White of the Lm'poria Gazette. The famous coach boarded the plane just before its departure from Kansas City in t?he mist and rain at 9:16 a. m. He was bound for Hollywood to complete arrangements for making a feature talking picture and several short subjects. By u margin of minutes he missed seeing his sons, Knute. Jr., 14, and Billy, 11, who returned to a Kansas City school from visiting their mother at Coral Gables, Fla. Rockne left the stution 20 minutes before their arrival in order to reach the airport in time for his plane's scheduled departure at H:20. It was then he'd up 45 nrnnutcs by delayed mails. The plane was in radio communi* . cation with the Kansas City airport until it sighted Cassoday, Kansas, southwest of Bazaar. It asked for weather conditions at Wichita. Then communication was interrupted at approximately the scene of the accident. Clarence McCracken and C. Car- , penter, ranch hands, saw the big ship rocket out of a fog bunk and spin t'i earth. Hescribing the tragedy. McCracken said he and Carpenter heard the plane above the clouds and glanced upward from their cattle feeding. A moment later the plane nosed through the clouds, fell into a spin and came roaring earthward. A wing lore away, (Carpenter said, and flu'tered to earth a quarter of a niilo from the wreckage some moments later. Dr. Jacob Hinden. coroner, said four of the bodies were thrown clear of the plane. None, he said, was but ned. The plane hit the soft earth half I 'M !? tv,.m ranch hands, one of the three motor*, burying itself. The eight bodies, m> mutilated t h it , ulciitifn atioii v.h- difficult, were taken l?? Cottonwood Falls. Martha Kennedy, middle-aged u'i married farm woman of Harrisonville. Mo., admitted We(tn^*day in jus'acc court that she put poison in a iur of milk destined fur the children of Khner Vorks. tenant on her farm. A 21 -months-old son. of Vorks, a South Carolina mountaineer, and his wife, 19, an expectant mother, died in convulsions Saturday after drinking the milk. Another child, who merely tasted the milk, became ill, but is expected to recover. Miss Kennedy stated that she just wanted to make them sick so they would not drink so much milk. 'lVo brothers of Miss Kennedy are charge 1 also with murder. SLUGGISH FEELING "I bare used Thadford's BlackDraught off and on for twenty-five yoara," writes Mr. Daru Stewart, f 1912 K. 2nd St., Austin Taxaa. "Thojr used It In my father's home for many years anil It waa our tfeneral family medicine "My health waa food. And that Is about all I ever took. I used It for constipation and bilious alck headachea. It la a fine medicine to take a man arts up in -the morning /eelinR dull and sluggish After a Courts of it I feci fine. It rU,* the systerp of poison which comee from coniltpaUvn." TttEDrORD'9 BlacK-1 Draughts Bold by drufftfits. 25* paok**?v mm IMPORTANT Very Liberal Week End and Sunday EXCURSION FARES Every FYiday, Saturday un<l Sunday Effective March 27 to October 2o. lO.'tl One Fare Plus One-Fifth Round Trip Between all points. Good returning Tuesday's following Extremely lx>w Sunday Tickets Sold for morning trains to all points within radius of 100 miles et One Cent Per Mile Traveled Return limit date of sale (onsult Ticket Agents SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM Travel By Train Economical?Safe?Reliable ' Nation's bad Man I ('aught in Missouri , _ ? ; v # ' St. Joseph, Mo., March 26.--The unprecedtented criminal career of Fred Burke, charged with killing at least ?0 men and obtaining more than $1,[>00,000 in hank robberies in IS dates, ended here tonight 'behind the I>u/h of a northern Misaouri countv jail. Burke, hard-faced and tight-lipped AI Capone henchman, who U believe i by Chicago authorities to have manned the machine gun that killed at.v. en members of the George "Bug.-" Moran gang on St. Valentine's Day, 1 was' arrested !n a farm hou-i mai here shortly after dawn, S;, Joseph officers an<| the StrtJiva.i county sheriff .surrounded Burke' bed while he slept. He awoke It) see police, whom lie burl eluded more than 10 years, about to capture him. With a swift move he reached for a revolver near hi* head. He was overpowered and surrendered without further resistan *. Burke annourfted tonight he would fight extradition to Illinois, The chief of police said Chicago authorities telephoned him they were sending Jive officers to St. Joseph, Mo., in a motor car to return the notorious outlaw. Burke was placed in solitary confinement. Photographers and newspapermen--were barred from his cell. Burke, characterized by authorities of Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana as "the country's most dangerous killer," admitted his identity after being questioned by St. Joseph officials. 1 ut mo in a cell, boys," Burke said. 'I in not talking to anyone almut anything." St. Joseph authorities were besieged tonight with requests from officials of other states for Burke. Aside from his alleged connection with the St. \ alentine's Day massacre, Burke is wanted at St. Joseph, Mich., for murdering Charles Skelly when the small town patrolman sought to question him regarding a minor traffic accident. Burke shot Skelly as the officer placed his foot on the running board of the gangster's car. Although lie escaped, that needless and brutal murder was instrumental in bringing about Burke's capture today. Authorities discovered he had maintained a luxurious home at St. Joseph. Mich., and raided the estah lishment. A verftable arsenal of weapons wus found. One of the gun-, said Dr. Herman X. Bundesen. Chicago coroner, was the machine gun used in wiping out the Moran h .odiums. The search for Burke became more concentrated. Police from IS state*, and the federal government followed his trail. Always, they were a day ?>" <> behind fror the lasd. three months, Burke was known to have been hiding m northern Missouri, said Capt. John I.art), one of the officers instrumental in bringing about his capture. Day and night, police maintained close watch over the farm home >f Mr. and Mrs. Barney Porter, parent: of Burkes \v ift*. Hast flight - came house. Officers here left in the dead of night for the Porter home, near here. They surrounded the house and. shortly after daybreak, entered to find Burke fast asleep. Rewards totaling $101,000 had been offered for Burke's arre?t. He was wanted in 18 states and by the federal government for major crimes. Twenty killings, all of them marked by Burke s technique of deadly aim and fast escape, have beer, charged to him. Burke's criminal career first started as a member of the Egan rats gang in St. LxiuLs. He served a twoyear sentence for forgery m the Missouri state penitentiary in 1021 and 1922. Although bank and jewel robberies have been charged to him, he was especially in demand as a gunman. His latest killing?he was said to have sold h;* services as a murderer as a doctor his skill?was believed to be 'in Kansas City. Col. Charles Edwards, head of the chamber of commerce crime prevention bureau, said he believed Burke was the man who shut and killed Jimmy Howard. bootlegger and racketeer. ,r. Kansas City, February 13. Burke, whose real name was Thomas A. Camp, was born and g-ew to young manhood on a Kansas fa-m, 20 miles northeast of Fort Scott. Burke, who never was in trouble as M young boy, has not been at hi* homo since 1916. Chicago authorities were en route here tonight to return Burke to Chicago. Policeman J. B. Sanders, of the Columbia force, and J. T. Kelly, house detec'ive at the Jefferson hotel, were discharged for collecting hail money from seven bell boy* and not turning it in. MISERS HOLD MILLIONS Treasury Believe $$0,000,000 in Cur-' rency in Their Hands Million* in the old and Urge size currency which was replaced by the smaller bills more than a year ago still are outstanding, and much of it never will be presented for redemption, treasury officials believe. The aggregate gain to the government from this money which is never likely to come back has been estimated all the way from <$10,000,000 to as much as $70,000,000," says Popular Mechanics Magazine. In addition to the currency destroyed of lost, the government believes at least $00,000,000* has been hoarded. Mote than $ht>0,000,000 of the old. bills are outstanding, and one treasure official estimate* that hoarding >?i paper money represents at least '?() cents per capita, or about $01,000,000, and aggregate hoarding cf paper, silver and gold is estimated at $100,000,000. This money is hoarded by an estimated 8,000 misers in the country, in children's banks, by .foreigners an I others who do not trust banks, by those in isolated communities without banks and by .others who keep a certain amount of money always on hand. .Fire and other eatastrophes destroy large amounts of paper i money annually. Flat Creek School Commencement Kershaw, S. C,, April 6.?The Flat Creek consolidated high school will begin its commencement week program with a high school play pji Friday night, April 17th. (in Sunday afternoon, April PJth at 1 o'clock, Rev. J. W. Bradley, pastor of the First Baptist church of Kershaw, will preach the baccalaureate sermon to the senior class in the high school auditorium. Mr. James H. Hope, state superintendent of education, will deliver the commencement address on Wednesday night, April 22nd, at 8:30. The following pupils will receive state diplomas and certificates: James Welsh, Gregory Gardner, William l>abnev, J. A. Hinson, Jr., Rrnest Jones, Jershia Faile, Annie Loutee Mur.go and Rebeknh Catoe. All are cordially invited to attend the exercises. The pupils finishing the seventh - ade will also receive certificates during the commencement program Wednesday night. Embalming fluid being used on the corpse of a traveling evangelist in his boarding house at Orangelburg caught fire. The blaze was extinguished with slight damage to the building, but two hours later fire broke out again in the roof and the house burned down. The corpse was carried out and taken to a mortician's place of business. The home of the evangelist was at Franklinville, N. Y. In Horry county, the chain gang prisoners have been leaving camp at night and stealing .from stores around there. When the sheriff traced some stolen goods to the gang, he saw the stolen articles in plain vipw in a steel cage, but the guard would not unlock it to allow him to handle and identify them thoroughly. While the sheriff was gone to the home of the supervisor for an or.der, the stolen articles were all burned. 'Die greater part of the $100,000,000 fortune left by Miss Ella V. Von Wendel, who died in New York last week, is to go to various charities and religious organizations. l-'i? 1 I '.J U Sf. ...UgAt World War Veteran I Kills Hank Bandits Edna, KanS., March 23.?-Two uni- I dentified men who rdbbed the Firat 9 National Bank of $1,397 here today I were slain in a grin fight with Dr. 1 A. T. Hyde, world war veteran as they 1 I sought to escape with their loot. - .* Hyde, a dentist, stood in the door way of a 'building and opened fire "J with a shot gun as the bandits mi V entering their automobile. One of the robbers was killed in stantly. The other returned the firi^fl. Hyde continued to tpour a stream of fl buckshot at his adversary, who fell '<: fatally wounded. The dentist wis I uninjured. mt _ L. J.. _r 117:11:^^. j m j. uc umi) kji vv iiiicviit i vi^ri, uinvcu ] Press correspondent, who died at I Buenos Aires, Argentine, a few days I ago, was cremated Wednesday. His widow will bring his ashes to the 1 United States, leaving Buenos Aires I in about two weeks. He was a native 1 of South Carolina. S^cWtary Mellon has signed an or- 'iM der banning the*\lumping of matches in the United States by eight coun- y| tries of Europe. i " - 1 11 " 11 I I Lumber I Wholesale and Retail I I "I :jM ' ?* ' ? ' 1 We with to call to the attention of the public that ; we are operating a RETAIL LUMBER YARD in con- I ;| nection with our WHOLESALE MANUFACTURING j ||! PLANT in this city. ij We have on hand at LOWEST PRlCES/a com- I plete stock of Air Dried and Kiln Dried pine lumber I If for all building purposes. Also Cypress fence posts, k-' framing and boards. 1 i ? '-v p i 'VGET OUR PRICES BEFORE PLACING YOUR ORDER JB Guy Planing Mill & Lumber Co. II Phone 241 Camden, S. C. IB The First Three Steps H To Success |] 1. Save a part of all you earn. II 2. Invest these savings so that they will accumulate. 1' 3. Invest the earnings of your savings so that it also will II I < draw interest. |' I The logical place in which to carry on your financial pro- |jj . gram is our savings department. Here your money on de- h I j deposit will earn interest. jj! I The First National Bank I The Only National Bank in KerthaiwCounty !|| I 1 H