The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 23, 1932, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
Nobody's Business
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Written for The Chronicle by Gee
McGee, Copyright, 1928.
BA1) NEWS FROM FLAT ROCK
a man was found dead on the south
of dot rock last week and he is
' unknown, he was advertised in the
paper, but noboddy claimed his corps,
he looked verry much like a furriner,
hut was possibly, a* yankee, as he
had some money in his pocket which
amounted to c85.
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a big'imiueet was hell over his remains
and the ewidence looked like
he was knocked in the head with a
blunt instrument "and robbed but the
jury said he was not robbed as his
monney was still intact in his pocket
when the diseased was picked up.
the kurriner sent the jury back for
a better verdict and they then decided
that he was struck betwixt the pavement
and the railroad by a fast inovying
object, and come to his death by
being killed with an ottermobeel or
some other swift mowing vehicle unknown
to tho jury.
.he was 6 feet long and had a small
beard and a few whiskers, color,
black, and 2 eyes, color blue, and
some hair, color gray onner* count of
age, as he looked to be 45 years old
and ewidently he worried his hair
gray since hoover prosperity set in.
anyone wishing to claim his remains
can have hame bys?paying for digging
him up and for the coffin which
cost the county 11$.
..he had a mark on hi? inside coat
pocket and the jury kinder thinks his
name was mr. shaffer mark, but no
address was on same, he wore a
blue coat and a white hat and black
britches and a shirt at the time somen
body knocked him in the head with
a fence rail and left him laying dead
on the side of the highway.
..our poleesman says he has 2 fine
clues foji the culprit who killed him.
he wont tell what it is* but the maypr
thinks it is the tracks of a car that
was running on 2 rims and allso a
pair of specs. he was a married
man, you could tell this as none of
his clothes had anny buttons to
amount to annything sowed on them,
and his socks needed darning.
.it was a sad case: getting killed
away from home, and a nice funeral
was givven to him by rehober church
and a collection was took up to pay
for a bunch of flowers which was
sent by the town counsel which met
;n exective sesion after he was found
dead by the eitty? i will rite or foam
you if i find out who he was and
why he got killed.
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd.
corry spondent.
LOVE IS BLIND BUT NOT DUMB
..I went to a picture show last night.
There wasn't anything unusual about
that: I go nearly every time I get
hold to a dime, and that's nearly
once every month. Our picture shows
take half of the time to.explain what
they are going to exploit from now
on. - , ?
After they got thru telling us on
the screen what picture they would
have Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, next week, week
after next, week after that, and sev-erai
more weeks, the main feature
hegan.
..Th is was a talking picture, but the
couple in front of me did the
talking. They were in love. Anybody
could tell that from the way
they leaned on one another. Every
little while she'd look at him and
ifrin like a screech owl and say, "Joe,
>"our hand is just as cool." and he'd
*a>\ "That means a hot heart honey."
This was tho first couple I ever saw ,
H* j wi?^. v
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a picture,' hug, chew gum, bump
-wis, and look at a picture at the
^roe time. He ran a filling station:
I could tell by the gasoline. She
"crked ;n a store: she had 2 lipJvicks
with her. Her head was so
bushy ; looked like a bush. He had
-N head mussed up too. He was a
' "" '"at" typo boy;
TV ? "
1 -*y taiked about the picture oca>
'r.a. ;. . hut they did not seem to
-nder-t :r.,j it very well. Every time
...e would kiss tho shero, they
'-;fi ear. harder and harder against
e anotn.-r. They sat like this oc
as.or.a 11 y (o-o), but most of the time
"!p sa'1 ..kc this <oo). They coulddiacem
the difference between
"tr*"0* furrr -ttreyboth' Tau^heJ
' wrong times.
nli- ^1<ture house ain't a very good ,
,, Ce 10 "lake love. This boy and i
a u''' no ^ea that there was
theatre oxcept |
. the other 750 souls were not
? single thought.., .whose hearts i
** one- .like their souls and W*
TTe bealin*- Tbey had some j
^ 1 a on?- And be had to see by ]
nst watch what time it was .
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Hardware Store In
Dillon Chicken
Captain I. M. Gregorie of the HoM
Wheeler has discovered a hardwai'e
store in a chicken gizzard. The
chicken is a Dillon county product
and was slaughtered for dinner at the
hotel.
There were thirteen pieces of metal
in the gizzard, including a tack, a
whole safety pin, a rivet an inch long,
a brass cap half an inch in diameter,
pieces of metal that resembled whole
teeth and various smaller pieces of
brass and copper.
The chicken weighed about two and
a half pounds and was probably
hatched out in Ap^il. If the chicken
had^dlved^a year it would have
cleaned up-ail tho metal on the premises
on whichHtj^as rai?e<l.?The Dillon
Herald.
Colored Man Tells Of
Reconstruction Days
J. H, Ilouze, colored preacher of
this city, who was iborrl' in slavery
and who has lived here all of his life,
says that the Mount lOarmel camp
grounds in this county where the
negroes congregate in great numbers
each year, is 65 years old as he has a
distinct recollection the grounds were
donated by Irving Clinton two years
after the war between . the states.
Houze, who is 78 years of age, has attended
every camp meeting held at
Mt. Carmel since the opening 65 years
ago. He was eight years of age at
that time and is now 73 years old
although he appears hale and hearty.
This old colored man was the slave
of Littleton Houze, gx-andfather of
Porter and Lon Houze of this county.
He says that he can well remember
the first camp meeting that was ever
held at that place.
This darkey was one of the few
colored men who did not join the
republican party when the carpetbaggers
were in the saddle here back
In the t'econstrubtion era. Houze
says that he never voted anything
but the democratic ticket but there
was a time here when he did not dare
to v^te that ticket because of the
fear of vengeance. He says that on
numerous^occasions' he had to hide
to escape the wrath of the colored
people who sided with the republicans.
When asked if he was in Lancaster
at the time the riot occurred between
the white and colored people,
said that he appeared in town that
day but that he did not tarry and
went back homo faster than he came.
Several negroes were killed in that
riot.
Houze was born just a short distance
from the present site of the
Mt. Carmel camp grounds. He says
that when he was a boy that country
was thickly settled and that
much of the land has since grown up
in timber. He says that in those days
there were five negroes to every
white man in the Carmel section.
Camp meetings in the old days, he
said/ were even better attended than
at present although visitors did not
come for such a great distance. He
says that he remembers long strings
of -wagons making their way to the
camp grounds each year.
Houze says he never regretted his
stand in politics and that he has
always endeavored to bring peacd
nnd harmony between the white an<^
colored races. Prof. Lee, another
negro, and Houze are said to have"
been the only negroes who supported
the democratic ticket although Bishop
Clinton became a democrat after reconstruction.?-Lancaster
News.
about every 5 minutes. He gave her
that watch at her last birthday, so
he told the stranger in front of them.
..I stood them and the show as long
as I could. They were still affectionating
when I left. They were on the
verge of matrimony, it looked like to
me. (She seemed to be about io, but
he was at least 14. May they live
happy ever after, but I hope they
won't pick my nights to go to the
talkies... .to talk.
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R^lV^ll 1 3 f iKlMUtLL I
of NEW VOIIK I
A well known New York newspaper
woumn, who lived on Perry street, owns
n cat by the name of Mollle. Perry
Street la a homelike neighborhood, and
Mollle roamed at large, known and
liked by all. Frequently she would
go out walking In the evening and return
escorted by two or three gentlemen
friends. Hut recently the newspaper
woman ami her family moved
uptown. Not only that, but they moved
to a fifteenth floor apartment, where
there was a doorman and elevator
boys in uniform. The old, care-free atmosphere
was left behind. Mollle
moped. The new surroundings did not
suit her ut all. There were none of
her race with whom to exchange gossiping
miaows. She hud risen fifteen
floors ubove her former udmlrers. But
once a flirt, always a flirt. The other
day, Mollic's mistress found her
perched on the sill of the open living
room window. Five stories below, In
another window, sat a large gentleman
cat, singing to Mollle In a throaty
yowl?a perfect troubadour. Mollle
wus giving him one of those looks.
For the first time since occupying her
new quurters, she appeared to be contented
again.
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Many of those now prominent In the
theatrical and moving picture world
did oth^r things before taking up their
present occupations. Among New
York producers, for example, George,)
Cohan was once a boy violinist; Sam
Harris, before be managed Terry MeGovern,
ran a laundry; Morris Guest
was a ticket speculator; Bill Hrndy
was a manager of pugilists. Winchell
Smith, the playwright, was a
grain salesman. Al Wood was In the
spectacle business. Charles Dillingham
was a hotel clerk, and a boxer.
Joe and Nick Schenck were druggists.
The captain of bellboys In a big
Florida hotel has aspirations as a
dramatist. His name Is Henry Trueheart,
whlell would appear to_,be a
good uame for his hero. At any raVe,evbry
time John Golden goes South.
Henry hns new Ideas for a play. He
tells them all to Mr. Golden' who. If
Henry ever writes the play, undoubtedly
should be his producer.
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One of the extremely few inhabitants
of Andros, that Island of the
western Bahamas where flamingos still
are found In large flocks, is Percy
OivlU. a perfect type of the gentleman
of fortune. He has been nil over the
world but came originally from Australia.
His brother. Tom .Cavill. was
a swimming champion and Is credited
with being the originator of the Australian
crawl stroke. They tell me it
was known originally as the "Cavlll
stroke."
Clark Grifllth. owner of the Washington
baseball club, told me that Sam
West of ltule, Tetfns. not only was his
best outfielder, hut one of the best
he had ever seen. Texas uppears to be
a state which turns out good outfielders.
Witness, for instance, Mr. Trls
"Speaker.
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As a matter of fact, Texas appear?
to turn out major league players for
all positions. There Is Itogers Hornsby
from Winters; C.us Mnncuso from
Galveston; George Wntklns from
Palestine; Art Whitney from San Antonio;
Lloyd Brown from Reeville; Pat
Caraway from Gordon; Tex Carleton
from Comanche; Sam Gray from Van
Alstine; Fred Mnrberry from Streetman,
and several more. Tex Rlckard
always used to take pleasure recounting
to me the number of athletes
Texas had produced.
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New York never will cease to miss
Tex Rlckard. Broadway has seen many
colorful personages, hut no one ever
brought more color with him than Tex.
And, ns a promoter, New York never
will see his equal.
(?. 19S2. Bell 8yndlca.te.)?WNU Service
Wild Goesc Prove to Be
Excellent Movie Actor*
Ithaca, N. Y.?Wild geese make good
movie actors In the opinion m Prof.
A. A. Allen, Cornell university.
Taking a position In a cornfield, Alter
"ovnd mcv'e* a. lock ef
geese feeding nearby.
"They acted Just as If they knew
they were having their pictures taken."
Allen said. "They rose and settled
down right In front of the camera.
One of them even came up and hissed
at the lens."
Birch Grow? From Pine
Ret he', Maine?A large birch tree
grows from the stump of an old pine
tree here.
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SCIENCE FORECASTS
^NEXT GREAT DELUGE
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Melting Polar Ice Caps to
Cause Inundations.
Washington.?We still speult of "the
Ice age" hs If It belonged to the remote
geological past, Geologists have
reached the conclusion that there were
several Ice ages. What Is more, the
last Ice Age, known as the quaternary,
is only about half over, despite our
blistering summers. "Eternal*, lc?" or
eternal snow" are figments of the poetic
imagination. Very slowly the
great lee sheets In the Arctic and Antarctic
regions are melting and pouring
their torrents Into the oceuns. The
earth must Inevitably chunge Its aspect
and its climate.
How the change Is slowly taking
place und what the result will he has
been considered by such able geologists,
physicists and meteorloglsts as
Prof. Sir Edgeworth David of the
University of Sycjney, Australia, Prof'.
W11 helm Melnnrdus of Gottlngen and
a score of others. The latest is Dr.
William J. Humphreys of the United
States weather bureau, who recently
addressed the American Meteorological
society on the subject, summarising
old views and modifying them In
the light of the Information gathered
In the Antarctic regions by the Ryrd
expedition and In Greenland by the illtoted
Prof. Alfred Wegener and his
Vmpanlons.
Glacial Sheets Reduced by Half,
'l^e glacial sheets that now cover
tht^North and South poles were once
12,000,000 square miles In extent? '
more than one-fifth the present total
land area of the globe. In the course
of about 700.000 years they have melted
down to their present area of ,
about 600.000 square miles. The ice
on Greenland ulone is ten times vaster
than the area of the State of New
York. Wegener's echo soundings
showed that It Is over 0,000 feet thick
near the center of the island and .
about 4,000 feet thick near the edges I
of the bowl over which it spills. Here, lb
then, we have enough Ice to provide
a layer of water one mile thick over
700,<>00 of Greenland's 827,275 squnre
miles of surfuce. To this we must add
another layer of mile-deep water which
would be spread over 3.800.000 square .
miles of Antarctica's 5.400,000 square j
miles. !
The earth Is steadily growing warm- j
er. As all the ice ut the two poles i
melts a stupendous volume of water >
will be released. Professor David con- {
servatlvely estimates that the sea lev- .
el will rise 50 feet. Professor Mein- j
nrdus doubles that estimate. Doctor
Humphreys, with the studies of Uyrd ;
and Wegener before 1dm, believes that j
the rise will be 151 feet. Such floods j
are nothing "new, as we see by the'
marine fossils found on the tops of :
the Rockies, Andes'and other mountain
ranges.
The Deluge of the Future.
So, within 30.00J) or 40,000 years !
there will be auQtli?P deluge. Salt wa- \
ter will sweep over the continents, j
Ieuvlng only the higher land dry.
Holland will be Inundated. Fish will
swim in Buckingham palace and Westminster
abbey, for most of England
will lie beneath the waves. The Desert
of Sahnra will be a great Inland
sea. What Is now New York will be
marked by the uppef stories and towers
of the taller skyscrapers as they
Jut out of the watdf.
In nn Inundation which would thus
change geography and which would
he accompanied by a rise In temperature,
the climate would return to what
Is was when dinosaurs roamed the ;
earth and dense Jungles of dank, gl- j
gantic ferns grew In what are now i
Pennsylvania and Canada. Palms and t
alligators would flourish at the poles j
as they did millions of years ago.
What will become of man if climatic
conditions are thus changed? Ice
sheets in high latitudes produce strong'
contrasts in temperatures between the
polar and equatorial regions. Winds,
storms, weather that changes from
day to day are the result. Man flourishes
under such conditions. If the
torrid zone were to become even more
torrid than It Is, and if what are now
frozen tracts around the North and
South poles are to bear sub-tropical
life. man> food suoclv will not he
what It is now.
Prof. G. S. Simpson of the British
meteorological office lias advanced the
theory that Chellean, Mousterlan and (
other races of men that once flour- (
Ished In southern Europe were wiped |
out because the climate changed and .
that Inedible vermin took the place I
of the animals that were hunted. No
one can tell what may happen If a J
new carboniferous era should follow |
the warming of the earth. Man Is
about as old as the present Ice age. It j
Is a question If he will survive It.
Oregon Asks People to
Walk on Capitol Grass
Salem, Ore.?Not only can you walk
on the grass in the Capitol grounds
here, you are Invited to do so.
Secretary of State Hal Hoss de- j i
cTared recenlTjT IhriT. while Hiimc woie
no "Keep ofT the grass" signs on the |
Capitol lawns, visitors carefully kept j
to the walks.
"The state of Oregon wants them to
enjoy the Inwna," l>e said.
"So we nre going to put up signs
reading. 'Please walk on the grass.
Picks 240 Type# of Grass
Durham, N. C.?Though North Carolina
Is not one of the so-called grassy
states. Dr. H. L. RIomqular. Di.lte unlbotanist,
has collected 240
specimens of grasses from this state.
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UPSIDE DOWN LADY
CURED BY DOCTORS
Extraordinary Case Reported
in London Lancet.
London.?The oxtruurdluury case of
a woman who spelled hack ward and
read hooka and drew picture* upside
down Is recorded In the current Lancet,
British medical Journal, by Dr. It.
Eager and Or. J. W, Fisher of the
Devon Mental hospital.
After u cure by hypnosis the woman
found that she was unable to read
passuges which she had written before
her treatment.
The woman, a house servant'In Do
vonshlre, was subject to such trembling
of the hands that she broke
more than the usual nuthber of cups
and saucers. After an Illness she was
committed to the hospital for examination.
Sho had previously beten
classed as a congenial mental defective.
In the hospital, failure of speech necessitated
her writing her wants on
a slate, but the nurses could not understand
the script. Each word was <
written backward, though put down
from left to right In the cutoniary
manner, and with the right hand. The
letters wero correctly oriented, though
In reverse sequence.
Thus, requested to -write "policeman,"
she put down "named lop"; for
' Devon" she spoiled "Moved"; all
words were similarly reversed.
In mathematics, she wrote all the
figures upside down, and did Ihe same (
thing Iti drawing, elementary objects ,
Uko dogs, eats "and houses. In cleaning
up n room she turrfbd pictures and
vases upside down.
(C After certain tests of vision based
on the theory that the psychic shock 1
which had temporarily deprived her
of speech had upset the co-ordination
of other closely related centers of the
brain, the physician put the patient
under light hypnosis.
The cure seems to hav'e been complete,
and the woman has spent a large
part of her time lately writing normal
letters to her friends, ridiculing her
previous eccentricities. ., ;
Gypsy Bands Use Autos
for T^eir Wanderings 1
Jefferson City. Mo.?Modernism Is
invading the ranks of gypsies, who are
heeding the call of spring and the
open road.
Missouri still knows the nomads, and
many of their traditional characterls- i
tics remain. But the picturesque cov , ]
ered wagons and other makeshift ]
modes of travel are yielding to up-to j
date transportation modes.
Many of the roving hands are traveling
the highways this year lit automobiles,
wniie uf them late and expensive
models. Bright colored shawls are
about the only remnant of the Muring
dress of bygone days, as women and
men alike have adopted modish garb
of the day.
These traveling caravans arc already
stirring to action, particularly In the
southern part of the state where the
rugged Ozark country Is fitting setting.
This movement Is regarded In
ninny communities as the first true
sign of spring.
Fortune telling, vending of shawls
and other trinkets and kindred nctlvlty
Is still the foremost Industry In the
communities frequented by gypsies.
Their campfire8 still ^flicker, but for
the most part are reflected In the glistening
surfnee of automobiles instead
of silhouetting the scrawny horses and ,
napping canvns wagon covers of earlier
years.
Pumice Find May Mean
% Riches for Retired Cop
Napa, Calif. ? Pumice deposits
found- on his ranch near here may 1
bring riches, to James Pearl, slxty-slx,
retired San Francisco detective sergeant.
An Oakland firm has agreed to pay
a royalty on all pumice mined. It Is
one of the few heavy pumice deposits ,
ever found In California.
Pearl retired in 1926. after 33 years
of service. He became known as "Million
Dollar Jim" after recovering
$960,000 In stolen automobiles during
the World's fair In 1915.
Hxpioror onip oold
Fort Pierce, Fla.?The Eleanor Bolllug.
Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's _
famous supply ship during his Antarctic
expedition, has been bought by
the Fort Pierce Steamship company
for coastwise service between here and J
New York. ,
Unknown Hand
Hanged /Hack
Cheater, Sept. 10. Coroner W. W.
Smith's inquest jury nt 10:26 tonight
brought in a verdict that Grady
Bluck, member of a well known Chester
family, came to his death the
night of August 80 in a cell at the
city prison "by hands or hand unknown
to jury." A big crowd was
in the court room when Coroner
Smith read the verdict.
Black had been arrested by Officers
John (}, Ijutimer and R. L. Scoggins
the night of August 80 on the...
chargo of disorderly conduct. The
inquest was attended by a crowd es^
timated nt from 1,200 to 1,600 people.
Forty witnesses were summoned
and 22 testified. Testimony taken
showed that Bluck sustained bruises
caused iby blows from a blackjack in
the hands of Policeman Latimer ami
that the officer, while ho had twisters
on Black's arms, placed hia foot
on his throat. Testimony likewise
Bhowod that Bluck had resisted ?p~
reat and had bitten Policeman I^atimer
oh the arm and kicked him several
times in the stomach. Witnesses
tesbttfbt\ that Black had aevernl
wound? about hia hoad and several
bruises on his body. One witness testified
that whilo in jail he threatened
to kill himself. Testimony produced
showed that a prisoner in the next
cell heard him strangling. Black was
found hanging by his neck in his cell
with his feet .on the floor and knees
bent.
Girl Brings Cow# ?
For College Tuition
Baton Rouge, La., Sept. 16.?Miss
Elena Percy, 17, of West Feliciana
parish, arrived at Louisiana state
university today on horsebaok, driving
nine head of cattle which she
turned over to the university to pay
her freshman student enrollment fees.
The young woman's delivery of the
cattle on the hoof followed last night's
announcement by President JameS~^/l.
Smith that the university would accept
farm products in lieu of money
for student fees.
Failure of tho food industry to
comply with tho program laid down
by the five-year plan, shortages of
basic foods and a poor harvest havo
brought a serious food shortage to
Soviet Russia.
How One Woman Lost
20 Pounds of Fat
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Lost Her Prominent Hips?
Double Chin?Sluggishness
Gained Physical Vigor?
A Shapely Figure
If you're fat?first remove the
catlse!
Take one half t<?aspoonful of
Kruschen Salts in a glass of hot water
in the morning?in 3 weeks get
rm -the- scales ami- note- iiow _many ?
pounds of fat have vanished.
Notice also that you have gained in
energy?your skin is clearer?you feel
younger in body?Kruschen will give
any fat person a joyous surprise.
But be sure it's Kruschen?your
health comes first?and SAFETY
first is the Kruschen promise.
Get a bottle of Kruschen Salts from
any leading druggist anywhere in .
America (lasts 4 weeks) and the cost
Is but little. If this first bottle doesn't
comrince you this is the easiest,
9A1PEST and surest way to lost fat
**-ypur money gladly returned.
Circulates Dollar
Hoarded 25 Years
FIndlay, Ohio. ? Hoarded since
1907, a silver dollar whfrh had
lain hidden in a clock in a Find
lay home has heen put hack int<>
circulation. " <
The "hoarded dollar" was given 1
to a Findlay man 2G years ago hy '
his grandmother to buy a t'hrtst 1
uvas present, hut Instead It was
hidden In the cl >ck. At tlie he- 1
hest of the chamner of commerce
In Its antl-hoardlng campaign, the
dollar was started on a round
of business places, appropriately
tagged so it would signify ic what
-..purpose it was put, ,.J
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"Grind*" No Better <
Than Grid H eroe*
Berke ley. Calif.?Big. brawny i
football heroes may carry off more f
of the desirable roods and glory 1
during their college years, but
they don't do it so well as the
"grinds" later nor do they live as I
long.
This was the conclusion reached
recently hy Robert Sibley, execuLive
tnanager of the TTntvwjTty of
California Alumni association, following
study of records of 12 athletes
and 12 members of the Phi
Beta Kappa, scholarship fraternity.
All were graduated from
California 30 years ago.
Of the Phi Beta Kappa*. 10
were still living and all had been
listed in Who's Who. Only one of
the athletes had achieved Who's
Who., and three were dead.
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(alotaos
TRADE MARK REO.
For lazy liver, stomach and
kidneys, biliousness, indigestion,
constipation, hbadache,
colds and fever.
10ff ?nd 35 at dealers*
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NO-MO-KORN
FOR CORNS AND CALLOU8BS
Made is Camden And For Sale By
DeKalb Pharmacy?Phone tl
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W. MITCH AM
Architect \
Crocker Building,
Camden, S. C. j
KERSHAW LODGE No. t*
_ A. F. M.
Regular communication of
this lodge is held on the
' - first Tuesday in each month
it 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed.
W. R. OLYBUfcfrf,
I, E. ROSS, Worshipful Master.
Secretary. 1-14-27-tf
Jjk DeKALB COUNCIL No 88
a Junior Order U. A. M.
mgMT Regular council seoend and
fourth Mondays of dafeh
month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren
?re welcomed. J. W. THOMPSON,
L. H. JONES, Councillor. Recording
Secty.
EYES EXAMINED 3 ~
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