The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 17, 1931, Image 2
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
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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.
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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
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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
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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. \
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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.
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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. ,
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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
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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
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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.
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FOR SALE 1
TREES, NORTHERN STOCK I
REFORESTING and ORNAMENTAE
SHERLOCK & McKINNEY CO J
Ellenburg Depot, N. Y. !
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Let Us Furnish Your 9
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?Fertilizers-1!
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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. Lindsay fl
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Silencing the
FIRE ALARM I
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means avoiding fire hazard* J
Let us tell you how you catfHJ
put the fire out before it start* *
?by using fire-proof building J >
materials. I
I BURNS & BARRETT JB
TELEPHONE 04 CAMDEN, S. C.
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mU concrete work
tufter* time (a wot th* principal
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work that It in aViin^
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