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Mrs. Frances Thompson, 2t>, Wellsley college graduate, hat admitted the slayihg of Miss Minnie K. Diiley, 70, -wealthy spinster of Forty Fort, Pa., with a ginger ait- bottle and bread knife "in self defense." The district attorney is of the opinion that the young woman is mentally unsound, fche aofused the dead woman of exertin/^a weird influence over her husband by witchcraft. Buffalo gnats are credited with having already done $100,000 damage to livestock in .Mississippi, I/OUidanu and Arkansas in killing stock. The Ked Cross has been asked for aid in lighting t'he scourge of gnats which are chargeable If) drought conditions of the past year. TAX NOTICE May It. 10')!, las' day of pay J meat htau- r.nd County taxe*. S. W. IKXil'K. Treasurer Kershaw < ounty.j Canidi .i, S. C Notice of Primary Election A Democratic Primary ele tion will le held 1'uesday, Aprd Ltlst. l'Jtfl, to. fill unexpired term of Alderman from Ward Two, Camden, S. C. The en1 > 11 ni< nt book will he at Zemp DePass' Drug Store and will open Tuesday. April 7th, and close Tuesday, April, ldth, nt midnight. The enrollment committee will consist of W. 11. Porter and Mrs. W. 10. Ilendnx an<k no one exeespt a member of the enrollment committee will be permitted to move the enrollment book. The enrollment committee may be changed by the Chairman of the Executive Committee if necessary. All candidates must pay the a<eessment fee of $K'.Oo and file their pledged not later than noon Friday, A 7th. rj'he voting place will be Des Champs Dry 'deanery and the managers will be (i. W. Monroe, Mrs. I W. F. Hendrix and Mrs. C. F. McCoy. The polls will open at H a. m. and close at 4 p. m. J. F. ROSS, Secretary Executive Committee. for ANY BABY : \T 7E can nw? be fure just wIm* ' yV makes an infant restless, but the remedy can always he the same. Good old tlaatorial There's comfort in every drop of this pure vegetable prep- , oration, and not the slightest harm in its frequent u?e. As often as Baby has a fretful spell, is feverish, or cncs and can't sleep, let Gastoria soothe and quiet him. - Sometimes it's a touch of colic. Sometimes constipation. Or diarrhea ? a . condition that should always be checked without delay. Just keep Gastoria handy ! and give it promollv Belief vs ill follow . very pronjptly; if it doesn't you should L can ? j urysirmn. ( BAYER ASPIRIN is always SAFE j B~EWARE OF IMITATIONS j ||illlOKS5SBX?iE!15-i73i33H UNLESS you see the name Bayer and the word genuine on the package as pictured a hove you can never l>e sure that you are taking the genuine Bayer Aspirin that thousands of rwhysiciana prescribe In their daily practice. The name Bayer means genuine Aspirin. It is your guarantee of purity? vour protection against some imitation. Millions of users have proved it is safe. Genuine Bayer Aspirin promptly relieves: Headaches Neuritis Colds Neuralgia Sore Throat Lumbago Rheumatism Toothache No harmful aftereffects follow its use. It does not depress tba heart. " 1 11 ^'u.' _ 5 * 5 5 Sharpshooter Kills Three Bandits Chicago, April 13.?Three robbers made the mistake yesterday of trynig to hold up the L'Aijflon Cafe, a gold coast establishment, where Frank Ahler, who hod three years service with the German Army on the Western front, is the head waiter. As a result two of them are dtwl?victims of the marksmanship of Abler; who specialized in sbarpahooting while serving with the German army, ( hief Justice Charles Evans Hughes of the United States supreme court, i celebrated his ti'.Hh birthday Saturday. Major Maurice Campbell, discharged Federal prohibition agent, has an flounced that,he will begin the publication of an anti-prohibition paper. J he Repeal, dedicated, to the removal of the eighteenth amendment. ' MASTER'S SALE State of i South Carolina County of Kelshaw (Court of Common Pleas) I'idelity Building and l,oan Associa tion, Plaintiff, ugaiinst 1' rant-in Portee. Ih-fcndant Under and by virtue of an Order of Court made in the above entitled action and dated the F2th day of March, J931, the Master for Kershaw < ounty will offer for sale at public auction, before the Kershaw (bounty j Court House Door, 'Camden, South Carolina, during the legal hours of sale on the first Monday, being the 14th day of May, 1931, the following described real estate: "AM that parcel or lot of land :n I?unLy . of Kershaw, State of South Carolina, located just North u \ <?*. of ('?mden, in Monroe Boykin I ark, being known and designated as lot number twenty-eight J, .on PIat of subdivision of Monroe Boykin Park, recorded in the office of the 0f Court for Kershaw County in 1*181 Book number 2, page ^,e said lot havtjng a frontage on Second Avenue of fifty (50) feet and extending back Northward therefrom of a uniform width to a uni!?!?!^ of on(' hundred twenty (120) feet, and bounded North by Jot number forty-two (42). Fast bv lot number twenty-nine (29), South by Second Avenue, and West bv lot number twenty-seven (27). And be1 fig that lot conveyed to me by C (' VWutaker and T. K. Trotter, bv deed which will be found of record in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County in Book B-V at page Terms of sale CASH I will also sell at the same time and place to the highest bidder for cash five (5) shares of the capital Stock of the Fidelity Building and Bonn Association, held as collateral to plaintiflT < mork'TT 1 'l x^ W. L. DePASS. .JR.. Master for Kershaw Countv April 17. 1931 MASTER'S SALE State of South Carolina County of Kershaw (In the Court of Common Pleas) 1'idelity Building ifc Loan -Association. Plaint ifF against Phyllis Brown, et a 1.. oct., Defendants Umlei- and by virtue of an Order ' ( ourt made in the above entitled action and darted the ?">th day of Apr-! 1931. the Master for Kershaw County will offer for sale fft public auction, before the Kershaw County Court South Carolirpj, 7*" """m" R'h"1 """o in ' miic on enc first Monday, being the 1th day of May. 1931, the following described real estate: All tnat piece, parcel ur lot ol land situated in the County of Kershaw, State of South Caroling, near and northeast of the City of Camden, containing one-fourth'( ^ ) of an acre, more or less, having a frontage of 1 (>0 feet with a depth of (>K.f> feet and designated as L*rt No. HB, represented upon a plat made bv A. B. Boykin. Surveyor, of date February 21, 1923, and recorded in tne of hv-c of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County in Plat Book No. ?' . P}'krv 177. Bounded North by Lot No. SA; Last by lands now or formerly of Ella Brevard; South by lands >f tiie estate of Rebecca I/ce; West by Ia>t No. IB and Iving the same lot of land conveyed tw me by Kosa Shields by deed dated February 1 1 192?'?." T trm> ot sale CASH. I \\:.l u.su st-li at lhe >ame time and place to ;he highest bidder for ca&h. 1'ivc to J) shares of the Capital Stock ot the Fidelity Building ami | Loan Association, held a- ? !lap rai i to plaint.fl'N mortgage. \v i. i >< p \ >> up Muste r f.u Ki - a < ' r ?\ April 17. 19.:'! PAINFUL, WEAK CONDITION Mrs H. V Skaggs. of Van, Texas, writes: "A number of years after j I was married, my health was very poor. I suffered so much in my hips and shoulders. Had some pain across uiy body "I read of Cardui, took a bottle, and it did me good. "I wss wrnk before I took Cardut. j I whs yellow as a pumpkin. I" whs hardy able to g.-t around It evire did help me. I felt like a different 1 woman after taking Cardui. It did me more good than Anything I had r taken." fl , CARDUI _ * . General News Notes Dr. W. L. Kingsley, 65, retired phy sician and industrialist of Rome, N. Y., wait found dead in his winter home at Balm Beach, Fla., Monday. A bullet wound in his heitd fndicated suicide. Da Hot a cast in the general ejection in Alabama last November in the senatorial race between Senator Hoflin and John R. Bank he ad, were shipped to Washington this week. The investigating committee of the senate will examine and perhaps count the ballots in the contested election of iieflin and Bankhead. I he District of Columbia supreme court on Monday confirmed the conviction and sentence of former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, 11 connection with the oil scandal* of the Harding administration.' In addition to prison sentence there is a fine of $100,000. Full will hardly appeal to the higher supreme court. Muhuima (iundhi, of India, is reported as contemplating a visit to the United .States. George Darnell, .'J8, railroad section hand, entered a plea of guilty at Jlcnryetta, Ok la., Monday to a murder charge. In August, 102J, Darnell was discharged and to get revenge on his foreman he misplaced a railroad switch. A train was wrecked and thirteen persons were killed. Dr. Dice Robins Anderson, for 11 i years president of Randolph-Macon college, Lynchburg, Va., has been , elected president off Wesleyan college 1 Macon, Ga. C. Julian, California and Oklahoma oil operator, is held under hail bond of $15,000 at Laredo, Texas, on charges of attempted robbery of a former employer. Julian threatens to bring suits against the former employe, Lamar S. Boling. Virgil Kirkland, of Gary, convicted at Valparaiso, Ind., a few weeks ago of* killing his school girl sweetheart, has been granted a new trial. Mrs. Elizabeth Jaynes, native of South Carolina, cashier in a Washington tea shop, died in a hospital in that city last Sunday night as the result of a gunshot wound inflicted by a bandit Saturday night. Her husband, William B. Jaynes, is a Washington attorney. A branch of the national soldiers' home will be built at Biloxi, Miss. The American Cotton Manufacturers association will hold a meeting at Augusta. Ga., April 24 and 25. "The Southern cotton farmer, the producer of our raw material." will furnish the keynote for discussion, it is said. ( hairman Woods of the president's emergency employment committee, is authority for the statement that since December 1st, contracts for more than a billion dollars of construction work have been let in the United States. George Uiw rcnoe Cnssidy. known congressional and Washington police circles as "the man in the green hat," must serve eighteen months for selling liquor 'around the senate and house office buildings in Washington. The District court of appeal- has eon.firmed the sentence of the supreme court. Sir Malcolm Campbell, famous British speed king, had a narrow escape with his life at Broukiand, England, Monday, when driving a car on a race track at more than HK> miles an hour. A tip lod broke and locliecl the wheels of the machine. Only the most skillful handling saved him from death. Amelia E.irhart on Wednesday made an altitude flight in an autog> i o type of airplane and reached an altitude of IP,0(H) feet, the highest, ever attained by a machine of. this type. The test was at Willow Grove. I'm. John Barton Payne, chairman of tlie American Red C ross, has announced that the Red Cross will continue to feed dependents in the drought stricken areas until about June 1-t. In mo add res-* to the Rotary club at Cono id. X. <\. Wednesday." Senator ( am.T..r. Morrison predicted . n early return to normal bu.-inv-s conditions. A pet;: n -a.d t<- ,. r!a:n the nanu - oj loo.(KH) women i- asking for the r. pea. ot the pi"o'".:ht :<>n laws of ' Finland. The proh;bition:-ts are beginning a campaign for a < < -.inter petition, and will especially a s the wom,-n to withdraw their n.nvt- r. m the petition a-king the repea : pro hihition laws. The North Carolina >en.iP Wedtios- ^ day night by a vote of 2?t j j after ' a debate of eight hour- (fused to ( place the Hin?dale "luxury" -ales tax * in the biennial revenue h,', Will Rogers, hum >nst. n Mana- < gue, Nicaragua, and is aptvaling to ' the people mf the United States for 1 uuinediate. help for the earthquake victims. - . I lie iatc Ban J(?hn*or, Pascball ' magnate, who died last week, left the < hulk of his estate, sa.d to approxi- < mate $250,000, to Marietta college at ? Marietta, Ohio. \ C 1 4 ^ J ill i VV\^M . . n < ?. WAR ORPHANS Atx>ve art* the first two war orphans the Iyegion's National ChiU} Welfare Division "adopted." They 1 are sisters. Their father and mother are dead, the father of war disabilities. The Legion caused the two j little girls to be adapted in the a- j bove home. The picture was taken j four years after the adaption. It j is such work as this that the I>e;rion j does with part of the income from the ( $5,000,000 endowment fund raised to < support child welfare and rehabilitation work. A party of 189""women and chil- | dren all under high nervous tension, are returning to the United States ' from Managua, Nicaragua, following the destruction of the city by the earthquake of several weeks ago. John Calloway Walton, once the "Cowboy Governor" of Oklahoma, was overwhelmingly defeated for the mayorship of Oklahoma City on Tuesday, the successful candidate being Clarence J.-Binn, independent. Nellie Tayloe Ross, former governor of Montana, is quoted as saying that "the women of this country seated Herbert Hoover, and they are the ones who will unseat him." She is | starting a spea'king campaign next . week to line up the women against Hoover. Road building contracts made in the United States last moth totaled $52,356,000. The first two of nine negroes to stand trial at Scottsboro, Ala., on a charge of attacking two white girls, were convicted Tuesday and sentenced to death in the electric chair. The girls were "bumming' their way on a freight train when attacked by the negroes March 24. The jury was out 55 minutes. National guardsmen guarded the negroes during the trial. Might thoroughbred horses in training. eight brood mares and six foals were burned to death Tuesday night when fire burned the stables of W. C. Weant at Oakland Kv Commerce department officials, after careful investigation, lay the blame for the airplane crash which m cost the life of Knute Rockne and seven others in Kansas last week to the formation of ice on the wings of the airplane. < Nine brood mares, valued at $100,000, were destroyed .by fire which burned the barns of John K. Dodge, near Lexington, Ky., Tuesday. Robert Maxwell Jenkins,^ prominent merchant and farmer of Lee and Sumter counties, died at Sumter! aged 73 years, after being sick more than a year. He was the father of W. B. Jenkins of Rock Hill, and another son is R. M. Jenkins, Jr., of St, Charles. He %iso leaves three daughters, Miss Susie Jenkins, of Sumter; Mrs. R. Or McOubchen, Bishopville, and Mrs. R. K. Wilson. Anderson, and 10 grandchildren. Mrs. John K Wannamakor died at St. Matthews Tuesday after a long illnes* aged years. Her husband is the only living member of the 5 original board ?.f trustees of Clemson | College. Mr*. Wannamakor leaves three sons and two daughter* besides her husband. The charred remains of a father and seven motherless children were taken from the ruins of their burned log cabin on the banks of tne Ohio river at Swan Creek, Ohio, Tuesday. Only one member of the family escaped the fire. Five unmasked bandits hold up the Central State "bank at Sherman, Tex., Tuesday and escaped in an automobile with $40,000 in cash and bonds. Mrs. Joseph Lepir, of Clinton, Ind., - i ?ave to men in Chicago $8,500 for a money making macHine" that would turn out $5 bills. She has the machine, the sharper* have the money ind the police have a hunt on their bands for the sharpers. ? inir " -T7TTT- ? ? ' - ' ' ' ' U.J ? ' Charles W. A. Scott, former R. A. flyer of England, landed at Port , Jarwin, Australia, Friday, after a , 'light from Lyntpe airdrome, Engand, to Australia, in 9 days, 3 hours, < 50 minutes, breaking the former rec>rd made by Charles Kingftford Imith by 19 hours, 40 minutes. , < The Graf Zeppelin made a week?nd journey from Freidrichshafen to ?airo, Egypt, and the Holy land. 'Mrs. Florence W. Bunch, 38, n9' quitted at Belmont, N. Y., a change of attem<pted murdtr^B sending a box of poisoned candy former friend, Miss Fern Ksrfct^B ' ? <> -~v Red Hancock, prize fighter, ' credited with eating 18 scrarffl i eggs and 42 raw eggs at one tittjflat Waycross, Ga., iSaturday Sunday morning he wanted his wfl breakfast of bacon and eggs. ~B.V' Lumber I ^ 0 * ?ii ? <1; .j&e, ya --. Wholesale and Retail" fi We with to call to the attention of tjhf public th*t | we are operating a RETAIL LUMBER YARD in ctQ,l nection with our WHOLESALE MANUFACTURING Ifl PLANT in this city. jjjj We have on hand at LOWEST PRICES a com. Ill plete stock of Air Dried and Kiln Dried pine lumber M4 for all building purposes. Also Cypress fence posts, framing and boards. GET OUR PRICES BEFORE PLACING YOUR ORDER I Guy Planing Mill & Lumber Co, I Phone 241 Camden, S. C. * # ' ., m - * - -.i, . - - . t* FOR SALE 1 TREES, NORTHERN STOCK I REFORESTING and ORNAMENTAE SHERLOCK & McKINNEY CO J Ellenburg Depot, N. Y. ! I E._v.j ? i i i i i ii i lii ii r i j I Let Us Furnish Your 9 H ?Fertilizers-1! \ ; . Stevenson & Whitakerl R. E. STEVENSON J. WHITAKER, JR- I \ Office at Former Loan & Savings Bank . insurance! I have associated with me Miss Lai K. Blakeney in the writing of all forms'? of Insurance. Located in Camden Build-.J ing & Loan office, Broad street entrance? to Crocker Building. Will be pleased to? handle a share of your insurance. John S. 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