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FORECLOSURE SALE Notice is hereby given that in accordance with the terms ami pruvis- i ions of the Decree of tin* Court of Common Fleas for Kershaw County, South Carolina, in the case of the First Carolina's* Joint Stock Lan<l Hank of Columbia, plaintiff, vs. C. C. Whitaker, defemlant, I will sell to the highest bidder for cash, requiring" of tho successful bidder a deposit in the sum of one hundred twenty-five and no-100 ($125.00) dollars, before the Court House door at Camden, 'South Carolina, during" the legal hours of sale on t'he first Monday in May, 11)33, being tho 1st day thereof, the following" <te?cribcd property: 1. All that piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, about six (6) miles northeast of Camden, on both sides of the Lockhart Road, Containing one hundred two (102) acres, more or less, ami being bounded on tho north by lands of Mackey and Workman and Schenk and .Company; on east by1 lands of Schenk and C-ompany; south by lands of Lewis, formerly of Bel- j ton; on the west by lands of Lewis, I formely of Bolton and by lands of ' Mi..or, formerly of Savage and Lit- J tie. Tho said tract of land was ac-1 quired by the said C. C. Whitaker in two parcels, ome by deed of W. R. J Hough and J. L. Cuy dated January ! 23, 1912, and of record in the office' of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw 1 County in Book "AF", at paw 53, I and the other by deed of G. H. Le- j noir dated July 31, 1912, recorded in said office in Book "AF", at page 58. I The said parcols of land aro more fully dhown on plat by R. W. Mitcham, Surveyor, of date February 25, 1911, and ALSO 2. All that piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in the State of South CaroJina, County of Kcrrihaw, in DeKatb Township, about six (f>) miles north of .Camden on the Liberty Hill road and containing eighty-eight and sixty-six one hundredths (88.66) acres, more or less, as shown, by plat of A. B. Boykin, Surveyor, <kated November 23, 1025. The said tract of land is bounded on the north by John T. Nettles ami of ! Boykin Rhame, on the cast by Liber- 1 ty Hill road and lands of Charles J Holland of by ,la?ds of Sanders Creek j Baptist ChuivK; on the south by lands of Charlotte Mollis, by lands I of Sanders Creek Baptist Church, of T. B. Bruce, of the estate of Mark Anthony and of John T. Xrtllo. and; (. '! the west by lands of John T. NVt- ' tkvs. The said tract of land was acquired by C. C. Whitaker in two parcels, one by deed of Charles Perkins of date January 29, 1919, of record in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County in Book "AZ", pa?o 516. the other by deed of Peter Baskins of date January 3, 1925, recoriled in said Office ii# Book "BM", at pa^e 631. W. L. DePASS. JR., .Master for Kershaw County. Negro Found Guilty in Second Trial Doeatur, Ala., Apiil 1).?-Death in the electric chair confronted Heyvvood Patterson, 19-ye:ir-old Cliattanooga negro, for the second time today as a Morgan county jury in the first TMrial of the "Scottsboro case" found him guilty of attacking a white woman. The verdict was returned at 10:58 n. m. (Central standard-time) after the jury had been out 21, hours. Judge James E. Horton had ordered the reconvening of court at 10 o'clock to receive a report from the jury, but a delay of nearly an hour occurred until he arrived at -the courthouse. A hundred spectators received the verdict in silence. Patterson himself, who once before had been sentenced to death on the same charge, lowered his head and appeared nervous as the jury made its report. Shortly afterward a squad of national guardsmen escorted him from the courtroom to" jail.' Later he was taken under military guard to Birmingham to await formal pronouncement of sentence on April 17. At that time the defense will have opportunity to move for a new trial. If the motion is overruled, the defense then could carry the case to the state court of appeals. Mrs. Elizabeth Cu.ster, widow of Gen. George A. Custer, famous Indian fighter, is dead at her home in New York at the age of 91 years. Her husband was killed with 207 of his men in the massacre by Indians near Little Hig Horn river in Motana nearly 57 years ago. maawl ewawea ?wg -m -- BOW AN EARTHQUAKE FEELS Vivid Pen Picture of Effect on One Man in California Shockit First 'hand descriptions of what they themselves felt and did give the best description of liow an earthquake really feels. One such pen picture whs written to friends of a prominent newspaper man of the Middle West, lately a large orange grower in California, living at Santa Ana where three people were killed by the recent earthquake in Southern California. C. F. Skirvin tells what he saw and feit un<l did during that shaky time, and part, of his account of the thing is as follows: it was a night of terror. Major vibrations were followed with minor quakes with such frequency that it became almost a continuous iwrformance. Adjustment of one's nerves I was out of the question. Timorous isn't the word.' It was a panic. As 1 write this letter out in the yard more than fourteen hours aftor the first shock the gjfeound is crowding itself for a new location, and intermittent disturbances continue. The earth seemed to be heaving in all directions. Of course it wasn't but the impressions were shaky. The > Skirvin household made the move unanimous?the entire population took to the street. And most of it remained there during the night, sleeping in automobiles, rolling in blankets on the ground, sitting in chairs by bonfires. Any expediency was proper. There wasn't any formality. Iti was an effort to find a place of security, and the safest position was in the open, provided you were not in' the tnisinesa area. I have had the experience of going through several slight shocks, but this] '.me "The Old Hoy" ju^t wanted to m'i' one, out if it responded according to my sensations the instrument is still moving. I am not hesitant to admit my fear. The roar and vibrations were too much for my courageous equilibrium, and was my face red??no, it was white. I have the statement of the family for this condition. My first sensation was one of helplessness, and a convincing emphasis that the law of human limitations was at work. I don't like earthquakes; I haven't found any one who does. Even the contractors are opposed to them. Scientists tell us there are rifts and faults in the earth structure which causes "quakes," that new mountains are being formed and in the readjustment some one has got to move. I did. And if the darned things keep it up I'll move again, j For the past fifteen hours I have tried to get some sleep. But the fel' low who is managing these "quakes" 'isn't in favor of it. Just about the time I say "Now I lay me down to sleep," I get up. 1 I'm not so much afraid of the ground opening up three or four inches and allowing me to disappear, as I am that some one will throw a hunch of plaster in my face, or drop a bridge-whist vase on my head. Anything can happen, and I think it will. I wish they would get this earthly budget balanced. If this is one of Roosevelt's new deals he can leave my hand for another player. I don't mind people . talking about "quakes," old ones or new ones, but I haven't made an application for any such an experience. Once is more than plenty. I was just acquiring the habit of going to church again. Now I got an alibi. But 1'jn not going to use it. Just as I write this paragraph along comes another shock to let me know the strain hasn't been relieved. What a case of topographical indigestion it must have. An airplane is just passing over. I am a living witness of having my feet on the ground and being up in the air at the same time. In,:rfaot I've been in the air for more than fifteen ] hours. ifi Earthquakes are terrifying. They take a fellow's nervous system and ; disconnect it. They defy man. They j change the whole mental complex."n ; and set the haughty in the places of the humble. They ileal death and devastation. They provoke a prayer, too long silent, and compel an acknowledgment of an Invisible Power incomparable to human helplessness. Some one wroU^a poem once about "I shall not pa^^His way again," or something like tnac. That's my recessional to earthquakes. A pipe smoker at Fairview, Okla., filled his pipe with loose tobacco from his p?.ekot. An oxplosrion followed after he had lighted the tobacco. There had been a .'2'2 calibre cartridge in the tobacco. Fragments of the wood of the pipe were driven into the I smoker's eyeball. j The new MX> air station at j Sunnyvale. Fal.. is about ready to be pu* ;r comm.'*.: >n by the navy de par: mer.t. It w,l! be headquarters j for the new dirigible, the Macon, si?, tor-ship of the ill-fated Akron, i i. | WHEN WHITE MAN WAS SOLD In Kershaw District Not F? From Yorkvllle, He brought a Dollar (From tho Yorlcville Enquirer) Believe it or not, a white man was once sold in South Carolina. Th? purchase price was $1 and the purchaser his wife. ? ... , The interesting account qf this unusual sale is contuined in a copy of an old newspaper, the Highland Sentinel, which formerly was published in Anderson county. The incident occurred in Camden (Kershaw district) ulmost one hundred years ago, and in connection with his chronicle of the incident, *ihe editor of The Sentinel refers to the* indignation of "The Carolinian," a newspaper then published in Columbia and the people of South Carolina over similar sales in tho state of Indiana during tho 'forties. The Sentinel article which appeared in an issue during the latter part of IS 10, read as follows: "Our Loco Foco friends who have been so much horrified a? the sale of white men in Indiana, have now an opportunity of manufacturing a new supply of indignation upon a subject at home. We imagine in advance that we see the tender-hearted editor of "The Carolinian" struck with speechless horror, his hair standing up like a rumpled hen's feathers, and his eye brows so distended in amazement as completely to burst their gluey fetters. We think we are perfectly safe in promising the readers of "The Carolinian" at least six. columns of indignation in that paper next week, upon this flagrant violation of the rights of white rr^jl, "The following letter from a friend | in Camden, with the subjoined adver| tisement, contains the whole history. ' of the affair: Camden, S. C., Nov. 2, 1810. " 'Dear Sir: "'Enclosed I send you a document which may be of son^e importance to convince the Democrats of South Carolina that white men are sometimes sold in our beloved state, as well as in Indiana. This man was this day sold before the courthouse in this place, in accordance with his sentence, for the sum of one dollar for four years, and bought by his wife, who took a regular bill of sale. The notice I send you was posted at the post office of this place, and the order of sale made by one of the Democratic judges of our state. But this was duty and he could not help it. FALL TERM, 1840 "The State . vs "Reuben Bradley "Conviction of Bastardy. "The sentence of the court is that the services of the defendant be sold on the next sales day for Kershaw district for the space of four years or any shorter time which may com| mend the requisite amount, according to the law in relation to bastardy, unless the defendant shall on or before that date, enter into the requisite recognizance of the bastard child. (Signed) J. S. Richardson. "Agreeable to the foregoing order, I will offer for sale the services of the defendant on Monday next, before the courthouse door in Camden, for four years. "Geo. Q. M'lntosh, C. C. "October 20, 1840." Here's A New Racket Purcell, Okla., March 22.?A "tall dark stranger" <?old several five gallon kegs of liquid here at $5 each. The bargain-hunting customers learned on opening the kegs that they contained quart jars of liquor sealed neatly inside against the bung-holes. Water filled the remaining space. Three hours after a gang of seven bandits had robbed a bank at Kansas City, Mo., of more than $5,000, one suspect was killed and five others arrested, two of them after having been shot by police. A High Point. N. C., man reports killing a i 1-2 foot snake in his yard; and found a hard lump in its middle. Opening it he f<?urwi it was a <loor J knob that had been in a basket of j eggs. Chairman W. F. Stevenson of the home loan bank board, has appointed Ivan Allen, of Atlanta, Ga., to the board of the fourth home loan district with headquarters at WinstonSalem, N\ C. The "William A. MofFett hangar" will stand at the Shushan airport, new aviation field at New Orleans, as a monument to the late Admiral Moffett, who lost bis life in the crash of the Akron at sea la.<*t week. Three British employes of the Metropol;tan-Vickers Electrical company, under arrest in Rus?ria on charges of sabotage and bribery, have boor, granted freedom on posting of bonds in the sum of 55,000 rubles. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt has let it he known that guests at the White Hou-r may have coki beer to drrink when a^d ; f the saie of beer is legalized. Mrs. Rooeevelt doea not drink boor. LOOKING BACKWARD] Takes Frew ike File? * ** Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Ye?r? Aai ? : _ FIFTEEN YEARS AGO April 10, 1003. Schubert Trio to give farewell concert at Kirkwood Hotel. Auditor W. R. McCreight? makes considerable changes in interior of his office. Crmfedei ate^yeterans publish resolutions on deatfti of Gapt. C. C. Huile. Camden still gay with (tourists. Every variety of vehicle from the handsome tally-ho to the cart seen on our streets. Miss t/eila Tiller, a pupil in the Camden graded school dies suddenly. She was the daughter of Mr. and' Mrs. \V. H. Tiller and resided one mile west of Camden. New board of county commissioners, consisting of J. \V. Butler, B. M. Poaroe, A. G. Jones and S. A. West, hold their first meeting. County* officials buy road working outfit, consisting of road machine, traction engine, dump cars, dump carts, wheelers, scrapers and steel phrughs, at a cost of $2,729. Mooting of Camp Angus MoLaurin U. C. V. called to meet at Bethune. The hirty-five fine horses from the Whitney stables at Aiken being shipped back to Northern homes. J. D. M. Cantey is the secretary of tho South Carolina State Fair Association. A two-year-old colored girl killed near DoKalb by Southern passenger train while plhying on track. *' . " i THIRTY YKARS AGO April 12, 1918. People of county witness march of soldiery boy acouta and school chUihen in Liberty l^oap parade. Dr. Edmond M. iBoykin, for^ Camden boy, prouninent physician^Charleston, dies in Hoper hospital John Humphries, of Camden, and Miss IXaisy Davis, of Lucknow, rnarried in Bishopville. W. A. Hinson's residence in vrlle destroyed by Are. Herman Dewey Martin, of Shawmut, Ala., married to Miss Bessie E. DeBruh), of Cassatt. Davis DeWitt Mitcham, of Cam- den, matriod to Miss Eva Mae iihep. pard, of San Bernoixhno, Cal, Tha wedding occurred at the home of'i ltev. J. C. I>awson at Greenville, S. C. Luther Barives Horton, of West-1 ville, married to Miss Ruth Stogner of Bethune. Captain Bedton O. Kennedy promoted to Major at Camp Wheeler, M?con, Georgia. Mrs. Mollie Horton, wife of Doug- 1 las V. Horton, dies at her home near 4 Kershaw. Mrs. Mary Hegler, wife of J. H. Hegler, die? at her home in White Bluff section of Lancaster county, J Major John G. Richards presented i with old gold watch chain ami charm -j by fellow members of railroad commission. W. H. Ellerbee, of Rembert, dies and funeral held at Church of the i Ascension. ??MP?p^? ? M? .. , J? L <3> Mrs. Custer Dies in New York New York, April 5.?* Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon Custer, widow of Gen. George A. Custer, who made his last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn, Montana, in 1876, died in her Park Avenue apartment Tuesday of heart disease. She was 91. Herself a veteran of the prairie schooner trails and the Indian campaigns led by her young soldier husband in the era following the Civil War, Mrs. Custer spent much of her j later life recording the glamor, hardship and romance of thofce stirring days on the western plains. Her first book, "Boots and Saddles," was published nine years after Gen, Custer and bis battalion were annihilated by the Sioux Indians. In it ahe detailed the adventure and tragedy of her campaigning days with "the boy general of the golden locks." i Until stricken Sunday night, Mrs. Custer had been in her usual health and had continued her habit of taking occasional drives and short walks through the Murray Hill section of Park Avenue. ,Two nieces, Mrs. Charles W. Elmer of Brooklyn, and Miss Lula Custer, summoned from her home on the old Custer farm at Monroe, Mich., were,' with her when she died. Burial probably will be at West Point where lies Gen. Custer. Born in Monroe, Mich., the daugh-! tor of Judge Daniel S. Bacon, she j first met Gen. Custer when he visited his sister in Monroe late in 1862. He was then a captan in the Union Army. They were married two years | later, and the young bride followed < her husband until the close of the Civil War. She was near him at i Richmond, Va., when Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox. After the war Gei(. Custer was transferred to the West, and Mrs. Custer remained close to his side as he fought the Indians. She waited at , Bis-marck, N. D., while he joined an expeditionary force in a campaign which Gen. Phil H. Sheridan hoped would be decisive. It wtis not until three weeks aft* Gen. Custer with his entire connmaad of 207 men were massacred that? slow moving- prairie steamer broflfM the news of heir bereavement < While ^he viewed th^ massacre W a terrible tragedy, Mrs: Custer o?* said that "perhaps it was necessary in the scheme of things for the jxAl* I clamor that rose after the battle resulted in better equipment for tit< soldiers everywhere, and very the Indian warfare came to its end. . Old Time Turfman Dies in New York New York, April 10.?Records at 1 Bellevue Hospital last night listed } the death of Robert T. Edwards, 6t>, i dishwasher. But the man who had died in the 1 heart of teeming Manhattan from a cerebral hemorrhage was the same "Boz" Edwards who for ahnost 25 : years was one of the paddock's nota- 1 ble figures at race tracks throughout the country. Once he owned the famous Shenandoah Stable at Richmond, Va. As an order for an autopsy war J issued, a stepson, Burl Jones, explained at his tenement home: "My father rertired from the track ^ about 15 years ago. He lost everything in the depression. Then he op- j erated a little coffee shop around the corner on Elerventh Avenue. He kept it going untiL two weeks ago, but business was bad because in hard times dock workers carry their own lunches." The body, he said, will be shipped to Richmond, 4lltne of the turfman's I brightest days, for burial. The Fox studio at Hollywood, CaL,i closed for 18 months, has reopened -j and reemployed hundrdes of workert > to begin production o<f 26 motion pictures. Mrs. Anna G. Steinfad of Baldwin Park, Cal., corresponded with Daaid -j W. Terry, of iBalcfrvtin, Kan., for M years without seeing him. She mar- 1 ried him the other day. He is now H PACK SIX a ?. . ' . ?s? - -hi?. - Be Sure to Hea^ " I Judge Rutherford's 8 RADIO BROADCAST I Sunday, April 16?7 to 8 P. M. I i Over Station WBT Charlotte # I ? For several years past one evil upon the people- jg has been quickly followed by another and greater $ evil. Now the wohle world is in a state of distress S ? and perplexity. Human remedies have failed to re- jj ' lieve that world distress. In the language of Jeho- * vah's prophet now, "all the foundations of the earth ? are out of course." (Ps. 82:5) The final evil will be fl reached at Armageddon. When vvilljt come? Con- ? cerning that time God by his prophet has said: 'My * deternynation is to gather tw*] nations, that I may fl pour upon them my fierce anger.' (Zeph. 3:8) In m his last prophetic utterance when 011 earth Jesus fore- a told Armageddon, describing it as a time of "tribula- 1 ? tion, such as was not since the beginning o>f the world 8 ? to this time, 110, nor ever shall be." That will be the $ 8 final trouble. (Matt. 24:21^ Is that great cat a c 1 ys m a $ rapidly approaching? * $ V v jp} . ' f What Is The Way of Escape? | * Tune In On Your Radio and Hear $ , jb I 'K' * :*: . -K- . -?Sv ? j For Quality Groceries VISIT I Pate's Cash Grocery Camden, S. C. BROAD STREET Located between Hyman'? Jewelry Store and Hir?ch Bro? CAMPBELL WATER WHEELS]I FOR COUNTRY ESTATES AND FARMS ELECTRIC LIGHT % AND POWER J PHILADELPHIA PUMP WATER jl R EAL ESTATE I RENTS COLLECTED, FARM AND CITY PROPERTY HUNTING PRESERVES Repairing and Care-Taking of Property ALL FORMS OF INSURANCE DeKALB INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE CO. fl Crocker Building ? Telephone 7 . jno. t. nettles m. g. ^??^**^3 * *