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Veterans Honor Guests at Dinner The annual dinner for the Confederate Veterans of the country was given on last Tuesday in the Sunday school room of Bethesda Presbyterian church at noon, by the John I). Kennedy Chapter, U. 1). C. Rev, Warren G. Ariail asked the blessing and then Commander T. v. Walsh of Leroy Belk Post, American legion, spoke u few words in behalf of the legion to the veteran* of '00. Mrs, iS. C. Zemp, president of the U, I). C. chapter, spoke of the pleasure, it gave the chapter each year to honor the men who fought witji Lee. Mayor K. M. Kennedy, Jr., made an address of welcome that fully expressed his pleas ure at seeing the following Confederate Veterans able to be present: Messrs. 1. F. Holland, 1>. 1*. C. Murchison, G. K. Watts, B. M. Jones, . ; A? S. tMcKoniio and G. S, King. A delicious dinner was served by members of the IJ. I). C. on u table beautifully decorated in the colors of the Confederacy, red und white, in flowers and table,,appointments. Antioch High School Commencement ' ' V Plans have been completed for the finail exercises Friday evening, May 16th at 8:30 p.m., for the commencement exercises of Antioch high school Mr. J. H, Hope, state superintendent of education, will deliver the address to the graduating class, Mrs, Kathleen B. Watts, County superintendent of education, will be present. High school diplomas rwill be delivered to the following: Evelyn Branham, Olive Hall, Grace Marsh, Tom Johnson and Marie Sparrow. Tho ) patrons and friends of the school are cordially invited to attend these sercordially invited to attend these exercies. No Name Signed The Chronicle is in receipt of a marriage announcement of very recent date. The party sending in same did not sign their name to if, so jt will not be used for publicar? 'i0?. iEiPS-'ta* me Jo ilKjifficg and make known their identity. We take no chances on unsigned communications, so our correspondents can s?ve their stationery and postage by not sending them here. Majestic Program Friday, May 16th William Farnum with Tom Santschi in "TEN NIGHTS IN A BARROOM." All talking picture of the world famous play. Mighty, Crashing Melodrama of Truth. Also Comedy and Cartoon. Saturday, May 16th Fun for the whole family?"TOM SAWYER," from Mark Twain's famous story. With Jackie Coogan and Mitzie Green. Starting today, the first chapter of the sensational Fire Department serial, "HEROES OK THE FLAMES." Thrills, thrills, thrills, piling one on another in the wildest rush of excitement. Monday & Tuesday, May 18th-19th The most alluring lady of the screen. Constance Bennett, in "BORN 'i TO LOVE." Thrill to her story, the story of all beautiful women, born to love! A love drama of the perfect hour and the day of reckoning. Together they shared love, alone she faced the penalty. Wednesday, May 20th Here's a real American melodrama with Richard Barthelmess in "THE LASH." It's the kind of picture that makes ydu gasp with astonishment ^ Lugoff Lady Tells of Success With Garden / Showing what can t>e accomplished with a garden when the proper attentibh is given to it, Mrs. B. J. Truesdale, of Iaigoff, Route 2, has written the following interesting letter to County Agent Henry I). Green: "1 saw in the Chronicle that you were advising ]>eople to raise plenty of garden produce. I wish to tell you about -my garden especially my spinach patch. II had W. rows U5 yards long and sold 2,3*5 pounds at, id cents a pound, which brought mfe $238.?0. There was no record kept with what wan used' for two families of 8 in each family, Very little fertilizer, was used also. Js'ow I have a nice English pea patch with a heavy crop on it. I am. only getting 5 cents per pound for them but all these things help. Most of my spinuch was sold to the A. & P. stores., 1 have a variety of garden produce to go along with Ttnnte but not as good u sale for them. I always try to sell enough of everything 1 plant 'to pay for seed und fertilizer, but .1 am planning saving all of my seed this year. My spinach is 2 feet 'high in seed and I notice that all of it is not producing seed." v 1 ' ' To Meet With Ml. Zlon The spring quarterly session of the Kershaw Baptist Union will be held at Mt. Zion Baptist church Saturday, May 30, (beginning at ten otlock. All Baptist churches at the association are urged to send representatives to the Union. Also the pastors and superintendents of Sunday schools are urged to attend this meeting to consider a nerw iplan for our asBOciational Sunday school work as worked, out by Mr. J. L. Corzine and Miss Elizabeth Knucles, leaders of our statewide Sunday school work. Everybody bring lunch. Changes at First National Lewis Lee Olyburn, assistant cashier af jchfr First*'National *Bamrh, has been named as secretary of the Wateree Building and Loan Association, and secretary of the (Camden Loan and Realty Company, to fill the vacancy made blithe death of Mr. John T. Mackey. Mr. Clyburn still retains his status with the bank as assistant cashier. Basil Bruce, who has been clerk in the bank, has been named as assistant cashier of the First National. Mrs. Shiver Dead Mrs. Elizabeth Shiver, aged 55, wife of Mr. C. W. iShiver, died at her home in the Antioeh section Tuesday after a lingering illness. Mrs. Shiver is survived by her husband and one daughter, Mrs. L. A. Shiver. Funeral services were held Wednesday and the burial was at Antioeh, services being conducted by Rev. T. P. Christmas. Shamrock School to Close The closing exercises of Shamrock grammar school will 'be held at the school house Friday evening, May 15. at eight o'clock. The teachers, pupils and patrons invite the public to these exercises. 1 LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the Files of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Years Ago THIRTY YEARS AGO May 17. 1901 Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Witherspoon dead. Mrs. D. W. Jordan, mother of Mrs. H. G. Garrison, dead at home of hor daughter in this city. Kershaw Guards, largest company, numbering 56 members, returns from delightful trip to Chieamauga. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bateman move into new residence on Lafayette avenue. C. B. Smith and Miss M. J. Reasonover married near Camden by Rev. J. M. Knowle. J John L. McLaurin and B. R. Tillman both resign from United States senate as a result of political differences. Kershaw county brings suit against Richland county for pay in case of trial of W. R. Crawford for killing of Mrs. John Stuart in Columbia. Crawford obtained a change of venue from Richland to Kershaw. Lowlands of the state badly washed by recent freshets in rivers and much damage done to crops. Ernest Dutton, colored, who poisoned baked beans which boarderR ate, was sentenced at Wilmington, Delaware, to receive 60 lashes, pay a fine of $5,000 and stand an hour in the pillory. < New laid 35 cents a dozen found few buyers in London recently. V # - l FIFTEEN YEARS AGO May 19, 1916 Mrs. Annie Oliver, of Aiken, comes to Camden as Postal telegraph manager succeeding E. W. Sinoak. Graduation exercises of Camden high school with the following graduates: Marparet McRae I^enoir, Ethel Ihirant Smith, Elizabeth Workman Wallace, Sara Annie Williams, Joseph Clyde McCaskill, John English Nelson. Pine Creek cottor^Jpils at Camden sold to Lockwood, Greene and company, of New York. Melvin J. Truesdale married to Miss Docia Truesdale, of Westville. Mrs. -S. J. Benton, at Kershaw, suffers broken bones in her ankle caused by fall. Samuel Wright, aged 20 years, died at his home near Kershaw. N. C. Arnett having residence bu.lt at corner of Broad and Hampton streets. * Kershaw Guards elect Ebert J. McI>eod as captain; H. H. Birchmore, first lieutenant; and A. M. McLeod, second lieutenant. Judge W. F. Russell attends Confederate Veterans' reunion at Birmingham. H. G. Carrison, Jr., and L. J. Whitaker purchase store on North Broad street from Mrs. Laura Nettles. J. J. Barfield, of Pisgah section, dies from efffcets of shot- gun wound inflicted by a man named Logan. > * " 1111111> y ' District Conference To Meet in Camden The Fifth District Conference *?t South Carolina Congress of PajQgnta and Teachers will meet in Camden, Wednesday, May 20th, 11 a. m., in (he American legion Hail. The fifth /district comprises the following equities: Cherokee,yQhetter, (Chesterfield, York, J/iincaster, Kershaw and Fairfield, and each county is well organized. Mrs. John WiltKm, Sumter, S. ,4C? State President, will be the guest of honor. Mrs. Wilson has just returned from the National Convention at Hot Springs, and her report will be interesting and a cordial invitation is extended to any who may be interested to attend this meeting. Destroys Slot Machines -Sheriff J. H. .McI>eod yesterday destroyed eight slot machines that had been confiscated and carried to his office. A recent act of the general assembly outlawed these gambling devices and instructions were issued fo,r their destruction. A goodly Mm .jjtj money was found in these m*chis&fc. and was turned over to county treasurer Hogue to go into the general county fund. - More Than Half Taxes Collected County Treasurer <S. Wylie Hogue closed his tax booka on May^bth for the final payment of 1930 taxes and says his books show that aroixhd $50,000 of the 1080 taxes have been ipaid in, representing about 66 per cent of the total assessed taxes for the past year. Negro To Die In Chair Bennettsville, May 8.?Hilton Williams, negro, today was sentenced by Judge' E. C. Dennis in general ses*> sions court here to die in the electric chair June 12 for the murder of John L. James. Two Autos Crash Three Are Hurt An automobile owned and driven by MUs Etta L. Robbing, superintendent of the Camden hospital and a car driven by W. S. Collins, auto transfer, driver, crashed at the corner of Eyttleton and Dekalb streets last Friday morning and caused injury to Miss itobbins j^nd two comj^anions ridirtg with her, Miss Kobbins was going south on Lyttleton street and Collins <was go* ing east on DeKalb, and the crash came at the corner after the itobbins car had partly cleared the block.' Miss Itobbins received a broken arm at the wrist, Mrs. iS. C. Zemp received bruises which confined her to ( her home for several days and, Jdiss Laura W. Caden, of Evanjj^lle, Indiana, who was visiting Misc Rpbbins, received a cut on one ear which required several stitches. MiyMV den I has recovered sufficiently td to her home and left Monday. r" / . Mayor E. E. Roberts, liberal leader of Reno, Nev., was re-elected mayor^ Tuesday for a four-year te^m. He is an advocate of a wide-open town. One hundred and fifty gold star mothers sailed from New York Wednesday for a visit to the battlefields of France at the expense of the government. This i* the first contingent of mother* td go to France this year. a \r>Police of New York Wednesday arrested Francis Crowley after a search of two weeks for the murder of Virginia Brannen, hotel dance hostess, whose dead body was found in a <park. Wednesday (morning Crowley shot a policeman to death in Merrick, L. I, when the officer requested him to show bis driver'* license. # Earthquake shocks of sufficient intensity to rattle dishes, etc., was felt in thd Birmingham, Ala., area early Tuesday morning. i i' i How One Horse Thifcf Was Caught i >. \ Dr. Thomas F. MoDow was a phy- \ sician with a practice covering: an im- } mense acope of territory in the two B Carolihas from .Camden to iSaliabury. t His son of the same name deterior^t- t ed into a lawyer, 'but this story Js about the famous doctor. He rode horseback a good deal. Once, while he was in a house attend- I ing to a patient,- some miscreant stole d his horse and went to Camden where t he tried to sell the animal at a livery e stable. " v But somebody at Lancaster, the a home of the doctor had written the o name of the physician on a saddle flap, and when this was found by c ! somebody a the Cathnden -stable a quick i nvestigation- began while the yn,vith the horse was held. The thief vent to the penitentiary, and Dr. doDow got his horse hack?tout so tove up by hard riding: under tbehief that it was not worth much hereafter.?Yorkville Enquirer. . ? H Rafe King Gets Life | Lancaster, S. <?., May *-**1 Cjng tonight was conviclsijj^pf legree murder by a Lancaster jury hat recommended mercy. The allefd slayer of his pretty school teacher rife, Faye Wilson King:, automaticUy will be sentenced to life imprisnment. The jury returned its verdict just i little more than an hour after t received the case at 10:24 o'clock. \ " F ?iv i j 1 JUST RECEIVED 1 Fifty Dozen Cannon and Haynes T o wels Single and Double Terry / % Large Sizes 10c S? 15c t ' 1 J. C. Penney Co. ^ j DlfAlf MINT T OR E 1014 BROAD STREET CAMDE$ S. C. . ? * ? * \ . < *' y t f >,, | - if -;," t> m: ' C> ' ^ . *.! Don't Rasp Your Throat With Harsh Irritants "Reach for a j LUCKY instead" 1 Nowl Please I?Actually put your finger on your Adam's Apple. 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