Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A hitch hiker stopped at a miniature golf course in .Maryland and told the 50 players they would see him kill himself. They laughed, hut he stabbed himself three times with a pen knife and fell dead. He was a Baltimore painter 37 years old. BAYER ASPIRIN is always SAFE Beware of Imitation! GkNT INE Bayer Aspirin, the kind that doctors prescribe and million? of users have proven- safe for over thirty years, can easily lie identified by the name Bayer and the word genuine a? above. Genuine Bayer Aspirin is safe and Hire; it is always the same. It ha? the unqualified endorsement of physician? and druggists everywhere. It does not depress the heart, and no harmful effects follow its UM'. , Bayer Aspirin is the universal antidote for pains of all kinds. Headache? Neuritis Colds Neuralgia s Sore Throat I timbago Rheumatism Toothache Aspirin is the trade-mark of Bayet manufacture of monoaccticacidester o/ alicylicacid. WOMENs watch*your BO.WELS What should women do to keep their bowels "bioving freely? A doctor should know the answer. That is why pure Syrup Pepsin is so good for women. It just suits their delicate organism. It is the prescription of an old family doctor who has treated thousands of women patients, and who made a special study of bowel troubles. It is fine for children, too. They love its taste. Ixt them have it every time their tongues are coated or their skin is sallow. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is made from fresh laxative herbs, pure pensin and other harmless ingredients. When you've a sick headache, can't eat, are bilious or sluggish; and at the tunes when you are most apt to be constipated, take a little of this famous prescription fall drug stores keep it ready m big bottles), and you'll know why Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is the favorite laxative of over a million women! dr. W. s. Caiowelcs t SYRUP PEPSIN A Doctor* Fmrmify Laxative WHEN BABIES mm mm TIIItlRK arc times when J* T a baby is too fretful or feverish to be sung to sleep. There are. some pains a mother rannot pat away. But there's quick comfort in Castona! For diarrhea, and other infantile ills, give this pure vegetable preparation. Whenever coated tongues tell of eoostipntion; ^enever there's any sign of sluggishness. Castona has a good taste; children love to take it. Bu> the genuine?with Ghas. 11. Fletcher's signature on wrapper. < , * < General News Notes A boy 16 yearn old named Varner Corry cooly and boa at fully told Chicago police, and re-anacted for them how he had killed Policeman Kdward Smith when the latter did not raise hie ha ruin when ordered by the boy and wan shot. The boy. and hi* brother and another boy of a'bout the name age had broken into a achool to reach tlx* swimming pool, and the officer told them to come out. The boy'* mother has {aught art in the public Hch<wl* for 2d yearn, and says Varner hit* always been a good boy and in a member of the Soy Scouts ami the V. M. C. A. I General Harry Rerto I^ee, adjutant general of the United .States Confederate Veterans, wa# indignant at a report that the reunion this week at Montgomery, Ala., would be the last one for the Confederate veterans and said the one next year will be ?n Washington. The Rev. Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church at Shelby, I N. <\, celebrated the 25th anniversary of his entering the ministry by preaching in Mi. Pleasant Baptist church where he preached his first sermon in 1906. He has preached over 3,000 sermons and held 126 revivals, has had over 6,000 conversions and ordained 52 preachers, while he travelled over 3,000,000 miles in his work. The general assemblies of the Presbyterian church, both north and south, this week took a stand against birth control and especially the circulation of literature about it. The president of France, Gaston Doumergue, a bachelor for his d8 years, was married this week tQ Mmc, J. Graves, very privately before only the two witnesses, and the wedding was announced in four lines. The president completes his seven year term of office in ten days. When Francis Crowley, with a habit for staging dramatics, was undressed in the death house at Sing Sing, a knife made from a spoon was found in his sock. His requewt to undress himself had been refused. He declined to say whether he meant to attack the guards or himself with j the weapon. North Carolina jmid Uncle Sam $182,814,513 in taxes during th'o nine months ending March 31, it was announced this week, and this is about 56 per cent of the entire tobacco taxes paid in. this country. During the last nine months North Carolina made one and a third billion more cigarettes than in the same period a year ago, and Richmond, Va., made over four billion more. Dr. George Kdward Dee ley, a bachelor, was stabbed to death in hi< Brooklyn home after an attempt to strangle him failed. The police said it was a murder for revenge and detained a Filipino who was formerly cook and chauffeur for the dead man. Davidson college plans the spendI ing of $2,500,000* within five years ; by building now dormitnrlps. n?librnry, an infirmary and other structures. The trustees of Davidson college re -? plied to a petition from the students that dancing be allowed on the campu# that the college ia controlled by 16 preabyteriea of the Presbyterian church which founded it, and since the general assembly of that church has called upon ft* member* to refrain from dancing, the trustees can not take action in contradiction to that pronouncement Of the highest body. l>f. H. H. Bell, of Doyletrtown, Pa., poted alienist, naturalist and author, wan killed at his giAnmer home hy ? trap he set consisting of a gun in a closet with a wire from the trigger to the door. He had formerly planted such traps in his grounds to prevent motorists from destroying flower* and shrubs along the roads. The .'100 candy manufacturers in convention at (JhicagQ this week found their chief problem to be keeping up with the* demand for candy suckers although they use machines that turn out 400 suckers a minute. 192,000 a day and 1,162,000 a week. Old Ironsides, famous man-o'-war of the conflict of 1812, saved from being junked by the dimes of school children of the United States a few years ago, will be commissioned in Boston on July 1, and start on a cruise of the Atlantic coast in tow of a mine sweeper. Duke university has received a rare treasure for its library, a fine manuscript of the entire Greek testament in the twelfth ceptury and perfectly preserved. Only- <4/6 such manuscripts exist today, and this is the first complete testament to be brought to America. It is on vellum. Judge M. V. Barnhill was leaving the court house at Asheville after sentencing Wallace B. Dnyis, bank president, when he heard Frank A. Patti who said he is a retired banker from New York on vacation tell a man that courts officers are a bunch of crooks, and that the court might as well have turned Davis loose. Judge Barnhill hurried back to the bench, had Patti brought before him, and sentenced him to ten days in jail for contempt of court. Mortimer L. Schiff, noted banker and philanthropist, of New York, and president of the Boy Scouts of Amer ica, died suddenly yesterday morning at Oyster Bay, aged 54 yearn, from heart disease. He wan a fpuntmrr in Kuhn, Ixxrb and Ct>? for over thirty years. Hia wife went to Kurppe two weeks ago, and he ia survived also by a won aged 20 years and a daughter, Mrs. Richard B. W. Halt of New York. His gifts to philanthropies were large and varied, and he was [active in international affairs of fi? nance and the Internationa) Boy Mcout movement. Only a few hundred feet above the brink of the American /alls at Niagara, Kdward He Ruscio plunged into the swift water and succeeded in rescuing a woman who was trying to commit suicide. The superintendent of the state park there says it was the most courageous and thrilling thing he ever saw and I>e Ruscio should have a (Carnegie medal for bravery. The young man is 20 years old and with his brother, who helped him get the woman out, livee in j Chicago Heights, 111. The youths were sitting in an automobile when the woman jumped into the rapids, Wednesday. Bishop James Cannon, Jr., filed a suit for a half million dollars against Congressman Tinkhara, of Massachusetts, for damages for libel by charging the bishop ocf violation of the corrupt practices act. What Tinkham said on the floor of the house is not actionable, but he repeated part of it irv a public statement later. <Col. House has been caught at taking an active and efficient, and carefully quiet part in the movement to nominate Governor Roosevelt, of New York, for president. It is the first time he has been active since 1916. He says it is because of his admiration for Roosevelt and bis belief in a Democratic victory next year. , In Anderson county, the tombstone of a very highly* regarded lady of former years developed cracks in the marble, which on being observed from a certain angle by imaginative persons were said to compose the head of the devil. iSuch large crowds visited the country graveyard on Sundays, that it was closed and the tombstone painted over. DUCKS TRAVEL FAR U. S. Biological Survey Finds Thcin Far From Breeding Grounds Suitable breeding grounds for migratory waterfowl are few and far between in this country; but the Biological Survey, of the United States Department of Agriculture has learned from its bird-banding activities that a single breeding ground or con- ; centration area of birds often serves a wide territory. For example, red- ' head and pintail ducks banded on the Bear River marshes at Great ( Salt Lake, Utah, have been recovered in fourteen states and in Mexico. Black ducks and bluewinged teals banded at a feeding ground in Southern Ontario have been recovered in j gjgM??WW?? twenty-nine states and in thwtjfl adinn provinces, "while one blue! was recovered on the Island of dad off the Northern ncoast of |j! America. Ducks of several spiv banded in tlve Oheyenne Bottoai^B Kansas, have been reported tl nineteen states, four Canadian 1 vinces, Alaska and Mexico. i Darlington county staged > hunt after a mad dog had bit a ber of other dogs. Twenty woui! dogs were caught and confined,! the state law that all roaming ! be captured or killed was invol^| The law also requires all dogs t! vaccinated against rabies. Neg! of these laws has caused an epid^f of rabies all over South Caroling! scores of persons bit and underg! Pasteur treatment. Special Excursion TO 1 Asheville.N.C. ACCOUNT Rhododendron Festival TUESDAY, JUNE 23rd Good 5 Days $4.80 ROUND TRIP $4.80 Proportionate Fare* From Other Points Excellent Train Service Through Pullman Cars Consult Ticket Agents Southern Railway CITATION State.of South Carolina County of Kershaw (In the Court of Probate) By I,. R. Jones,. Esquire, Proba'.e Judge. Whereas, Pella B. Small made suit to mo to grunt her letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of Hugh Barfield These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Hugh Barfield, deceased, that they be and appear before me. in the Court of Probate, to be held at Camden, S. C? j on the 22nd day of June next after, publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, Why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 9th day of June Anno Domini 11*31. L. R. J ONtlfi, Judge of Probate for Kershaw County Published on the 12th and 19tn days of June, 1931, in the Camden Chronicle, and posted at the Court Hetoae door' for the time prescribed by law. - L- ' 9 NOTICE P?c"? I"' -!?> assessments and interest remain! unpaid on July 15, 1931, will be I advertised for sale. This is necessary in order for! the City to meet its obligations. I By order of ! City Council 1 BUTTERCUP To Continue SPECIAL SALE Another Week j 1 PINT 25c - - - - 2 PINTS 35c| NOTICE I | ri iTTFprijP irr CPELAM COM PA-NY t #" ; - M MANUFACTURERS OF giimnKUPi I r?CI CHtAM j / * 1 . ;| HAMUET, N. C. I June 10, 1931 ? ?M The Camden Chronicle Camden, S. C. Gentlemen? After putting forth every possible effort to supply tremendous demand for ANNIVERSARY PINTS we have been obliged to disappoint all Deailers. We simply could not produce the Bipedal ? I packages fast enough to give all dealers and their customers their full requirements. Every Buttercup Dealer, every Buttercup Consumer must I have a fair chance at the prizes offered. Every person or group of I persons collecting the coupons in an effort to win the Radio and | Vacuum Cleaner will have another full week in which to compete. All 1 Dealers have been given permission to continue the Special Pint sale ^ H during next week, sale ending at midnight Saturday, June 20th. j The Pint Sale has already exceeded our every expectation j I and will prove the greatest single undertaking in our history. Your iB efforts in getting this information before the public will be greatly appreciated. H Yours very truly, BUTTERCUP ICE CREAM COMPANY ' .^9 "IT'S FAMOUS because ITS GOOD"!