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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. D. NILK8. Kdttor and Publiahar Published every Friday at No. 1109 Broad Street and entered at the Cam* den, South Carolina postoffice aa second class mail matter. Price per annum $2.00, payable in adv.ince. JJ J Friday! April uTmT ' Only Half Ah Had Things are only half as had as we think, and worry only blindfolds the eye that might see the good half. Listen to a story: One Negro was worrying about the chance of his being drafted for the army. The other consoled him by: There's just two thing's can happen, boy. -Yon is either drafted or you ain't; you can forget it. If you is, you've got two chances. You may be , sent to Prance or you may stay here. If you stay here you don't need to worry; if you is sent to France yrtu've got two chances, They may send you tQ the front and they may leave you in Paris. If you stay in Paris, your troubles are over; if you go to the front you've got two chances. You may be shot a,id you may not. If you're not there's no reason to worry; if you are shot you've got two chances. You may die and you may got well?and even if you die you've still got two chances."?Monroe Enquirer. Henry Stevens President Stevens of the American Legion shows a high degree of moral courage in his opposition to the demand of a determined mass of Legionnaires for a cash settlement ofj their bonus claims, instead of ac- i eusing him for his stand, every Am-1 erican who values the qualities of: manhood on which national greatness m.u-t ir-t should pay him the highest honor. Newherrv Observer. I I .it* i?('ool id go home at Plymouth, \: where ( aivin ' oiidge took the o.?th of otli.f iiimi' >< ai s ago, is j being wired f-.r electric lights, dis pla? vig : in; -kf i o-me lamp.- that have done -er\ice all the year* up to the, p recent. Puke N. Perry, New* York new-spa- : per man. is dead, as the result of an attack by a bandit in a robbery at-I tempt in that city. I 5 Wilson Bros. "SUPER SHORTS" l'i rfect comfort from every in every posit ion ? that ! ' i- '.he He\V freedom "Super Sho t-" tfiw. Sizes "J* to J J. ! 50c to $1.00 r I Other good broadcloth Short - at j 25c | | Wilson Bros. i Combed yarn, highly mercer- .< ized, well proportioned ATHLETIC SHIRTS i Sizes ft-l to 10 50c Other combed yarn Athletic Shirts in sizes ."> } to 10 25c I i tnrs "Sampson BacU " ATHLETIC UMONSUITS 59c I'tT Suit Boys' Athletic Shirts Ir. poo! quality combed yarn. Sizes Jm to ;u? 25c Boys' Good Quality BROADCLOTH SHORTS Ir. blue, tan and preen; fast colors. Sizes 26 to 30? 25c W. Sheorn & Son ? . , .... General News Notes About 2,000 ox-nervice men gathered at Greensboro, N. C., Monday night to make a tight for the immediate\ payment by the government of the ca*h bonus. When a Legionnaire from Warsaw undertook to defend the position of National Commander Stevens for his stand against pay- . ment of adjusted compensation and called some of the authors of the attacks against Stevens "liars, he was rushed by some of the advocates of the bonus payment and it took quick work to save him from injuries. Seven children and a.women weie burned to death at Altoona. Ph., when the house of Michael Dillon was destroyed by tire. Mrs. Goldie Krutner, a neighbor, with her two infantswas flaying in the Dillon home while Mrs. Dillon was visiting in a nearby town, and the neighbor was caring for five Dillon children. They were all burned to death before a passing j motorist discovered the tire, and motorists were unable to enter the house. Mrs. Dillon came home a half hour, after the tire was discovered and col-1 lapsed. Mr. Dillon was at work in | the railroad shops. i Fire at Ridgeland threatened the destruction of the whole town yesterday and fire 'departments frdm Savannah, Beaufort and Walterboro were called on for help. The fire started in the large plant of the Ellis and Quartorman Lumber company, filled, with large stacks of pine lumber. dry kilns and sash-and blind factory, ami soon <1 ove residents nearby from their home A large area was buined ovt and the property loss is very large. South < nrolinn is one of nine state j dt-pui I ment* of the American Legion which ha- exceeded it- quota a-.-i^ned in the 1 '.* ?? membership drive. On | o, i hi* enrollment in tins state was X.l.tl. Mrs. .J.ii.c Gary, ol" Kinanls. reavh,., i he a .re of a hundred years the .-.the! day. and is the ulde-t iilumna .(>!' LiinestoMv college at liafTncj. ^hc w a - m tile I'lass of 1811', when she wa< Miss Jane Boyce, of Newberry district. President Granberry, of Limestone, sent her a telegram of congratulation. The funeral was held Monday af- ' tornoon of Chesley G. Boulware, prominent citizen, large land owner, and Confederate veteran of Fairfield county, who died in a Chesbef hospital aged 88 years from asthma. The funeral was at Col Branch church. He leaves two sons and two daughters and a number of their descendants. Circuit judges are not paying much attention to the concurrent resolution of the legislature. asking them not to order any foreclosure! sales until November sales day. The j decrees are being issued exactly as hitherto. But by the new law, the bid-j din-' at the auction will be held open ;;o days by the clerk after, the oral: auction st<>p- at the courthouse steps.; Next Saturday precinct Democratic club- hold their meetings all over South Carolina to select delegates to county conventions to be held May 2, when delegates will be selected to the ^ state convention at Columbia on May IS. This state will have IS delegates J to the national convention, four of J them at large and two from each of the old congressional districts. No j state officers will be elected this j year, but the campaign for nomina- | tion for United States senator to; succeed Senator E. D. Smith will af- ; ford enough political fighting. Blease ; and Harris are the candidates against Smith announced to date. The state banking department of Pennsylvania has had Alexander D. Robinson arretted and charges him, w ith getting away with $7.>0,01)0 of > the fund- of the closed Northwestern Ttu-t t ompan\ of Philadelphia by. crooked financial deals. H?.? >> charged wrh "con-piracy to cheat and def: and." <;u-:a\e \ .< \ander, r: * * < i ear . .. . .* . <- \ . r.a. wa- a--a-- na'ed . . ..* ; Til. - ...> :..v i l.ber'A following hi- ? , ape J_ year- ago. He -a\^'he has. ,**, - religion ami wants to serve the balance ??f his time to clean-c h;? <"ul. Bannigan was sent to pris- ; or. .n l'.'OS for assault and blackmail; ami made his escape two years later, w ith four others all of whom were j soon captured. He was converted in 1 Boland's mission on 42nd street, New York, having been in that city most of the 22 years since making his escape. Rebellious representatives of Arkansas, holding a "rump session" after. Governor Parnell had declared the ; assembly adjourned, threaten to erectj tent? on the state house lawn in order ( to force through an economy program and perhaps start impeachment pro-I readings against the governor. * " ' - . - -T X ur r- .< Lights Are Blamed For Egg Overplus Kansas City, Mo., April 16.?If hens could tell the difference between sunlight and electric lamp*, the egg industry would not be in the midst of a depression, according to Samuel J. Hurst, secretary of the Missouri Poultry Shippers' Association. Farmers have found that electric lights turned on early in the morning, get the chickens "out of bed" and start them at'their appointed job of j laying eggs. For this reason, egg production remains the same in winter as it does in summer, when longer days formerly meant more eggs. And these extra eggs are the ones that send the prices down, Hurst says. liurand Contents Destroyed Mr. Charlie P. Pate of Lucknow had the misfortune of having his barn struck by lightning Friday night, April 8, about 8 o'clock. The family discovered-the tire when the light in the house went out from the stroke.) It was than that the light fro.n the barn was seen. Besides the barn, one mule, one horse, five hundred lushels of corn, twenty tons of hay. and four to five thousand bundles of fodder were destroyed. Mr. Pate had ( no insurance and the loss is considerable.-?Bishopville Messenger. Freeze Them Out. Twice recently we have been approached -,by itinerant clothing peddlers who go from town to town, making personal calls on would-be. customers in an effort to "take their measure" for a suit, of clothes, or a pair of shoes. This sort of business gets next to us, and we promptly' till these free-lancers that we will' buy our clothes and shoes in Toccoawhen we get ready for a hew suit. Mind you. the>o "come-and-go IV1N \vs never pay one cent f?>r the right to -? ij in Toc.oa, and on the other hand Toccoa merchants are compelled to pay a fair and- just tax for the. privilege to do business. If it is right for Toccoa people to pay a tax to sell the itinerant peddler, whose wares are..dotjblful, to say the least, should by all' means pay a tax.?Toccoa liecord. Attorney General Rice, of Mississippi, has declared 217 pardons issued by former Governor Bilbo to have been illegal, and discribed the release of the convicts as "escapes from the penitentiary." Twentyfour such pardons were issued to murderers. Judge E. O. Lewis, of the sessions court of Philadelphia, said Tuesday to the grand jury of his court that bandits are a lot of worthless bums and parasites who should be exterminated like rats and who are not worth even the annual bill to keep them in penitentiaries. The Railway Express Agency and the Southeastern Express company, i.? asking the interstate commerce commission to allow a 10 per cent increase on the shipment of strawhe r ries from a number of southernI and western states. police of Providence, R. I., are guarding the children of prominent families of that eity after several of them had received threatening notes. The grandchildren of .Vice President Curtis are among the number being guarded by the police. Joe F. Little, of Eureka Springs, Ark., has been sentenced to serve five years by the Federal court at Huntsville. 'Ala., following his conviction on a charge of using the mails to defraud in the operation of a short-lived life insurance company. Bandits seized a $12,000 payroll Friday of ;i b:g printing and finish fig p.ant ju-t outside of Providence, Rhode I-land. A ione bandit held up the bank of ( hai ie-t<m. Miss., Wednesday and es* a pvd w it h after having locked up mnirvkecpcr and a neg-o janitor) McKinley's Horse Reaches 40 Years Fort Lyon, Col., April 16,? "01(1 Frank," who used to draw President McKinley's stately carriage up and down Pennslyvania Avenue in Washiuggton, enjoyed a birthday the other day?his fortieth. Frank, now retired from active service, still retains 1A* military bearing, despite the fact^hat his hide is a little "threadbare," and a few of his molars and bicuspids show some wear and tear. He celebrated 1m birthday by roaming about his pasture and sleeping in the warm sunshine. PEACEMAKER KILLED Tragic End to Sunday Fight Near Town of Hartaville. Hartsville, April 18.?A Sunday nighty tight on a plantation near here ended in the shooting to death of Riddle, a farmer, who had essayed the role of peacemaker. Riddle was shot and killed by Clyde Lowrey, a farmer, after Riddle had interceded in a fight between Lowery and Dewey Grantham. The fight and the killing occurred on the pla station of Miss Rosa Lee, near Hartsville. Police wore told that when Lowrey and Gra.ttham began fighting, Miss Iyce sent out a call for assistance. One of the1 neighbors to respond was Riddle. After the two men had been parted, police sai l, Lowery asked for his pistol. When it was handed him, he fired twice at Riddle, One bullet missed. Rut the other entered Riddle's body. He died almost instantly. Sheriff Register's deputies reached the plantation' shortly, after the killin _* and arrested Lowrey. Ho was i u>hcd to Darlington and put in jail. He will he brought here for the inpuest. Tht. arrest of two suspected gunmen in Louisville, Ky., Tuesday cost the lives of two policemen. Card vf Thanks The family and relatives of little Willie Whitaker Cooke wish to express their heartfelt thanks for the kindness, sympathy and floral trib^" utes sent on the occasion of his sickness and death. We wish also to thank our white friends who were so kind to us. Jimmie Cooke, Ethel Cooke, Father, Mother Sisters and Brothers. NOTICE TO THE DEMOCRATIC CLUBS OF KERSHAW COUNTY Pursuant to the rules of the. Democratic party; notice is hereby given that all Democratic Clubs in Kershaw County, South Carolina, are called to meet on Saturday, April 23rd, 1932, for the purpose of re-organization, electing officers and members of county executive committee and delegates to the county convention. Each club is entitled to one delegate for every twenty-five members and one delegate for a majority fraction thereof, based upon the number jof -votes polled in the first primary held August-26; 1930. The clubs will meet at their usual meeting places at 2 o'clock p. m. on said date, unless otherwise notified by their present officers. The county convention will meet in Camden, S. C.t on Monday, May 2, 1932, at 11 o'clock a. m. at the Kershaw County Court House. H. D. NILES, Treasurer County Executive Committee NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETING OF THE CAMDEN DEMOCRATIC CLUB The Camden Democratic Club is called to meet at the Court House at two o'clock p. m. on Saturday, the 23rd day of April, 1932, for the purpose of reorganizing by election of officers and election of delegates' to the County Convention and such other matters as may come before the (Tub. All members of the Club are urged to be present for this meeting. T. K. TROTTER. President of the Camden 1 )em<wr-i t i(Tub ANNOUNCING To the trade that we are back in business again at the same old stand with a full line of staple and fancy groceries. Our same policy, "Quality Groceries; we sell for less." Lewis & Christmas T j"~ GERBER'S | I Strained Vegetables I II I ? ~.mm* 1^1 vegetable soup, green beans, spinach ii prunes, tomatoes, carrots ii I The proper vegetable food, for Babiej, Children ?d I D&lifa'n. anddrefcorgoUedy .*>0 beat. 1 We call for and deliver your PRESCRIPTIONS j| :j PROMPTLY. Call u? for quick .ervice I ZEMP'S DRUG STORE I Broad Street Phone 30 I ' . . H Alabama has a deficit of $5,700,000 in its school and educational budget for the fiscal year 1031-32. NOTICE Tho .City Council of Camden, S. C., will receive up and to May 2nd, 1932, at 5 p. m., applications for the following officers and emplo>ees: 1 Street Commissioner; 1 Chief of Police; 4 Policemen; 1 Fire Truck Driver; Clock Repairer. All officers and positions to be elected at the1 will and pleasure of City Council. The siljW officers and employees to receive the following salaries, subject to change by City Council: Street Commissioner, $130.00; Chief of Police, $115.00; Policeman, $1)0.00; Fire Truck Driver, $90.00; Clock repairer to submit bids. J. (\ BOYK1N, City Clerk and'"Treasurer. Wants?For Sale A P A R T M E N T FOR RENT?On Highland Avenue. Call Wm. L. Goodale, Phone 193.or Night Phone 130, Camden, S. C. 3-5sb NOTICE?.Storting Monday, April18th we will operate our office and i showroom at our Number Two 1 Plant on West Laurens Street. Our ; East Laurens Street office will bo ! closed for the summer. The Cam- J ? den Floral Company. I FOR RENT?High class furnished j apartment, until fall, at $25 per month, to desirable party without children or dogs. Address P. O. Box 390, Camden, S. C. 2-4sb 1 'i * ^^559 FOR RENT?^Five-room house vj battf on North aide of UurJ atreet. "Good sized lot with fu age. Call Wm. L. Coodaie. PK#. 193 or Night Phone, 136, Camdg S. c. ; v m WE HAVE IT ON HAND?For uk kiln dried flooring, ceiling, sidi* roofers, shiitgles and brick. RoJ arid dried framing. Price* l keeping with the times. Water* Lumber Company, Camden, $ c 63-54 ih FOR SALE?Dixie 14 blight-pr^ cotton seed, recleaned. Apply G.l Little, Camden, S. C. 52-54pd' FOR SALEr?Coker's Farm Relief Cotton Seed 60c per bushel. Cofc er's Ellis Prize Winning one at seed corn $1.25 per bushel. bred llampshire pigs 2 months ol at $3.50 each. Mrs. Lee West, Rt 1. Camden, S. C. 52-2pd FOR RENT?The R. W. Coleman ra. idence on North Broad Street. Ajl ply to W. R. Zemp, Camden, S.(S 52-54pd MONUMENTS?I/handle only tfc best grades of marble and granite, Come tn see or write to T- J. 41 Ninch, Camden, S. C. 19tf FOR SALE?Fuignum seed oats, wi crop corn and hav for sale or co* sider exchange for cattle or hop. Will exchange corn for peas bus five bushels corn for four bushtk cow peas. W. P. McGuirt, Mauf er at Guignard's Plantation, Tea phone 148. Camden, S. C. CARPENTEKixsi*?Jonn S. Myerv phone 268, 812 Church Street Camden, S. C., will give stti* factory service to all for all ktni of carpenter work. Buildi* general repairs, screening, cabin* making and repairing furnitat My workmanship is my referesct I solicit yeur patronage. Thssk-' ing you in advance. 50 d Grandmother's ; If&Bi' BREAD 1 j ^ Wrapped j PEAS-CORN? I SAUERKRAUT? t^~ I KRAUT JUICE? can I TOMATO JUICE- 1 ^I' AK I :R maii> I CATSUP a. 10c &E 15c I I ' t ?? I ??? a yl AKEH MAII) i BAKED BEANS ? 4 'S 19" I NUCOA ZrfJr in- 14c I 1 pkg. SHREDDED WHEAT ? yjjr 1: 1 pkg. PREMIUM SODAS 1 lb, II EAGLE MILK can 18c | PANCAKE FLOUR 2 *p.-25f I I cieanswet? BROOMS ? 18c I SUGAR"il 41/2S to t. 45c J SWIITS JEWEL / fl SHORTENING ? 4 25c I BANANAS, 5 lbs 25c I Large Celery, 2 stalks 25c Fancy Carrots, bunch 10c Lettuce, 4 heads 25c II Ripe Tomatoes, 3 lbs. 25c H Cauliflower, lb - | A & P MEAT SPECIALS ^-?| j Pot Koa?t Beef lb. 17c Pork Sausage, lb 15c Pig Liver, 3 lbs. for 25c I Morrill'# Pride H*mi 1*? H Morrell'# Picnic Hwb* ArmodrV Bcccti, Sll | a Atlantic & Pacihc * i