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Announcements CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR\ I hereby announce myself a candidate for nomination for Mayor of the City of Camden in the coming Democratic primary election, subject to the rule# governing the vsame, . .... Should I be honored with this nomination and election, I pledge myself to conduct the affairs of th$ City, of Camdert in a progressive manner; at the same time seeing that strict economy is observed. J.. H. OSBORNE, Cumilen, S. C.f January 10th, 1934. For Alderman Ward One. 1 announce myself as A candidate to serve the City of Camden as an alderman from Ward On? and will heartily appreciate the support of the voters in s??d ward in the approaching primary to be held in March. , ' FRANK MAYER. ?</ . y. For Alderman Ward One /, 1 tajjC^thiB method of announcing nwjaclf as a candidate for the office or Alderman from Ward One for the City of Camden, and will appreciate tho support of the voters of this ward. C. V. MA'SSEiBEA'V ?- 1 > -? For Alderman Ward One I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Alderman from Ward One for*the City of Camden, subject to the rules governing the For Alderman Ward Two. There 'being a vacancy as an alderman from Ward Two caused by 'the change of residence of J. C. Gillis to another ward, I hereby announce mynelf.as a Candidate to succeed, him, and will appreciate your vote. GEORGE A. CREED. For Alderman Ward Two I take this method of announcing myself as a candidate for the office of Alderman from Ward Two of the City of Camden. I will appreciate the support of the voters in this ward. W. B. PORTER. For Alderman Ward Three ?? >1 hereby announce my name as a candidate for Alderman from Ward Three for the City of Camden in bhe primary to be held in March and will appreciate the support of the voters.' F. N. McOORKLE. For Alderman Ward Three I hereby announce myself ak a candidate for Alderman in Ward Three for the City Council of Camden and will appreciate the votes of that? Ward. ,,.1 JOfrN T. LANEY. For Alderman Ward Four. Having served two terms as alderman from Ward four of the City of Camden, I am announcing my name as a candidate for re-election. Feeling that I have served the city to the best of my ability, I ask your support in the primary in March. LEON H. ISOHILOSBURG. For Alderman Ward Four Hhving served four years in City Council, we feel that C. C. Whitaker is amply qualified to represent our Ward, and have requested his making the race, which he has agreed to do. Friends. For Alderman Ward Five I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election to the office of Alderman for the City of Camden from Ward Five, ahd will appreciate the support of the voters, HBNRY SAVAGE, JR. For Alderman Ward Five I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Alderman for Ward Five of the City of Camden subject to the rules of the City primary. I will appreciate the support of my friends and the voters of my W,rd' sr. V. WAiiSH. JR. I For Alderman Ward Six. I hereby aimopnce myself a candidate for re-election as. Alderman from Ward six, subject to rules of the City (Primary and! would appreciate the support of the voters. I have served one term, attending all regular meetings of Cpuneil", and promise the same attention in future if reelected. V J* - ROOS. * . , For Alderman Ward Six I hereby announce my name as a candidate for Alderman from Ward Six of the City of Oamden, and will appreciate the support of the voters of my ward. ~~ MENDEL L. SMTTH, JR. BILIOUSNESS | Sour stomach B das and headache 1 1 dur JLO 1 CONSTIPATION jj IfaULl M TRAOC MARK RIOl /' . A Three Days' Cough Is Your Danger Signal Don't let them gei a strangle hold. Fight germs quickly. Creomulsiod combines %\ Pleasant to take. No narcotics. Your own druggist is authorized to refund your money [ ' >our cold is not_ relieved by Creotnulsion. (?b.); Sentence of Death Is Meted To Wiles Gplumbia, Jan, 18.?Robert H. Wiles, South Carolina's first kidnaper-killer in modern years, was sentenced to death today, three weeks after he beat to death a 16-year-old school boy. Judge Dayne F. Rice decreed the 49-year-old bespectacled automobile mochanffc-to ,dio in tho electric chair on March 12^ Ignoring an insanity plea, a Richland county jury in less than a half hour of deliberation found Wiles guilty of murdering the school boy, Hubbard H. Harris* Jr. Wiles admitted on the witness stand he lured' .Hubbard from home on the lad's birthday, two day? before Christmas, to demand u $1,000 ransom. He hammered the boy to death, he said, with an iron bar at a deserted farm house when his "oneman" plot went awry. , Part of 23" minutes the jurymen deliberated the case was spent in prayer asking "divine guidance" in their verdict. As Clerk of Court C. E. Hinnant intoned the fatal word, "guilty," Wiles' three-year-old son, Robert, Jr., could be heard outside the court room door crying, "daddy, daddy." The child had been with his father in the court room but was token outside by his mother and two grown half-sisters before the jury retired. Wiles heard the verdict with the stern composure he had maintained duripg most of the three-day trial. He leaned forward in the prisoner's clock and looked intently at Judge Rice as. the sentence was passed. Hi9 only sign of nervousness was the rapid chewing of a "quid of tobacco in his mouth. "Sob," Judge Rice askdd, "you've got nothing further to say?" "No, your honor," the condemned man r&plied quietly. The judge read the formal sentence, and said, "may God have mercy on your soul." A few minutes earlier, T.' Pugh Taylor, defense attorney, who had argued to the jury the killer was "insane as can be," asked whether Wiles could be condemned to an insane asylum. 0 ........ Judge Rice said he could not issue such an order but would set a future date , for considering the point. Taylor and' Kenneth R. Kreps, Wiles' other lawyer, indicated they would press for a sanity test. General News Notes The state board of health part of the CWA work in Colleton county has a man with a heart for supervisor of construction. He promises in 'the Walterboro paper to salvage and use as much as possible of the material in the old ones in building the new ones, thus lessening the cost for the proprietor. of ' the homestead. Parties of government cruisers are counting and measuring the trees on 3,000,000 acres of South Carolina pine forests, as part of a survey of the forests of half a dozen Southern states to ascertain how much pine wood is available for the manufacture of paper. The work will take at least ten months, and is all done afoot. A little negro deaf mpte boy at Orangeburg waa stooping over/ an automobile when the driver blew strong blast of the horn directly/intc his ear. Matter began to run from the ear, and the boy could hear. When he ran home and told his parents, they were so frightened at hegring him talk, that they fled from theii heme shouting incoherently. ~~ ' Colleton county has been presented the last cocked hat worn by s sheriff there when with sword ami long tailed coat he escorted the judge to the courthouse, and it will be preserved in a glass case in the office oJ the clerk of court. It was given the county by the widow of the last owner, to whom a former sheriff presented it. The committee in charge has announced the names of five men distinguished in South Carolina history, whose portraits will bo painted for the state. They are Yates Snowden, Charleston journalist; Joel R. Poinsett, widely travelled statesman for whom a flower was named; William Wallace, speaker of the house during reconstruction; William Lowndes, congressman; and Vardry McBee, Greenville philanthropist. They will be painted by Charleston and Greenville artists at the f** CWA, which is assisting artists as well al other poor folks. By the same arrangement, there will also be painted some landscapes and pictures of historical sites, including an illuminated map of Charleston by seven artists, these pictures to be painted by. over a dozen artists of this state. The men whose portrai^usr? ^ be pairfted were selected by Col. J. Rion. McTCTssfckr CSlnmbUrr Chief Justice Eugene S. Blease of^he State Supreme Court; and Gen. Charles P. Summer alL Thieves stole a radio patrol car ol the Birmingham, Ala., police from in front of the city hospital there, j The week-end report of Dun and I Bradstreet declares that the trends in I business thus far in Januai*y, forecast I a more favorable first quarter of the I year than was at first estimated. I Business in all lines shows a decidedI ly upward trend. I Thos. A. Buckner, president of the I New York Life Insurance company, I told a large group of officials and I agency managers of his company at j St. Petersburg, Fla., not to worry about the government's monetary I standard. "In any event the American dollur, as it always has been and I is now, will continue to be sound." I (Bandits in Minnesota did not fare I so well id 1933. The head of the ! I state bureau of criminal apprehension 11 reports that bandits robbed 29 banks i I during the year?one every 12 days ij and escaped with loot totaling $116,-1349, as compared with $280,332 in 11 1932. Twenty-two of the participants I in 1933 robberies are under arrest, ; I with some of them 'already serving 11 time. ' ' I iHoratio J. Abbott, Democratic na' I tional committee chairman of MichiI j gan, telegraphed its representatives II in Washington ordering them to fol11 low explicitly the dictates of - Presi-1 dent Roosevelt. The Michigan Dem* I ocratic members at once telegraphed J Abbott in effect to attend to his own ' I business and let theirs alone. k| Chairman Black of the special senJlate committee investigating air mail contracts, declares that the investiga* I tion is "just beginning." Among the ^ j prominent ones who will probably '1 face the committee are Walter F. ' Brown, former postmaster general, " j and Herbert Hoover, Jr... The investiI gation appears to promise some iuter' eating developments in high quarters. I Paul V. Betters, secretary of the > I United States Conference of Mayors, j predicted in Washington, that "riots" ' j and "revolution's" will occur in major 'I American cities this winter unless the ' j CWA employment progrant' is conj tinned well into the spring. J Miss Pearl Fulton, of Kings Moun11 tain, N. C.~, a prominent and popular ?I school teacher, 30 years old, was ' I drowned in a lake at a private resort ' a fart miles south of town, and the > body wsv found. She had risen after 1 going to bed, put on a bathrobe, and : driven her car to the lake, and news I of finding* her body was the first her ' family knew of her absence from the ' home. The water where she drowned > was only two to five feet deep. No motive for her suicide is known. 1 It has been brought out by the sen' ate investigation in Waehington of V the failure of the tw^Jlarge Detroit banks, tha* the Ford Motor company > lost close to $50,000,000, this including $2,000,000 paid in by Edael Ford foi his double stock liability. ?' 1 J.H? . I HI l.. I I. I.I,. , News of Interest In And Near Bethune Bethune, June 1<J.?-Several parties were enjoyed by the young people 9! Bethune last briday evening. Tne^ members of the Christian Endeavor ; society were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. (J. King. Mrs. M. F. Helms was Hostess"at a vanishing party given for the benefit of the Methodist parsonage. Miss Oneida Outlaw gave a party in honor of Miss Josephine iSmith, who expects to leave the first of February for Haitimore to go In training at the Franklin Square hospital. Mr. and Mrs. J. 1). I m fit to of Cope have been visiting friends here this week. t Mrs. A. ft McLaurin, Mrs. J. M. . Olyburn and Miss Edith Clyburn attended the Methodist rally in Columbia during the week and were guests of Mrs. C. M. Wilson while there. Miss Lizzie Kate Davis who teaches at Jefferson spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. L. M. Best. Mr. and Mrs. Neil Triiesdell, Mrs. Hattie Heustiss and Clarence Heustiss were recent visitors to Society Hill. 4 A number of young men from Bethune have accepted, work with the state highway department. Leo Morgan and Alvin Clyburn have been sent to Spartanburg, John Neil M?Laurin has gone to Calhoun Falls; Vance Morgan, Gregg King, Clyde Horton and Frank Hammond are located at Camden. June Truesdell, James King and L. W. Wages, Jr., are located at Anderson. Charlotte Thompson News The Qharlotte Thompson Bantams copped both ends of a double header from Hillcrest school last Thursday afternoon. The "rooster" basketeers outcrowded the boys from the Hills 41) to 17 while the "pullets" are cackling over a 21 to 7 score. Both games were fast an^ snappy. v Mr. and TMrs. J. W. Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Lackey spent Sunday with" Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Baker. Alfred Poarce has joined the boys at Camp Hilton, Blaney. Miss Katherine' Bradley was the guest of Miss Lila Baker recently. The B, Y. P: U. of Mt. Olivet Bap,tist church had a most enjoyable social at the home of Mrs. Lee West on last Friday evening. After the games, refreshments were ser\^l by Mrs. West assisted by Miss May Rush and Ruth Dixon. Death Revels Small Fortune Darlington, Jan. 15.?-Mrs. M, V. Rogers*, 88, was found dead of a heart attack by a neighbor this morning at her home in the Newman Swamp section of Darlington county. Mrs. Rogers is a (laughter ot the jato Miles i Joy, a Methodist minister. She married Abel Rogers, but he preceded her to the grave several years ago. Upon looking into her trunk foi burial garments, frionds found several dollars In paper money wrapped in an old newspaper. Further investigation revealed $5,807.21 wrapped in old papers and tobacco sacks in the trunk. Friends had thought she was of limited means. Although living only two milea [from Lamar, she had not been there J in 25 years. She nfrely ever wont out of her yard. MKRCY, THE MURDERER It is a startling paradox that MerI cy, in pardoning those who murder, is in itself a murderer. It is only I understood when wo realize that a I God all mercy is a God unjust." particularly apropos is this relative to [the verdict some years ago of a certain Durham, N. C? court. Is it Mercy which at this Christmas I season has come, fiendishly to snatch I an innocent115-year-old son from a I loving and unsuspecting father and I mother ? Is this Mercy whic^ has shaken a city and a state and a nation [with, such horror that it reaches its I vileness infcg the hearts of our childI ren who hear recitals' of its unimaginable loathsomeness? Is it Mercy I that so brutalizes tKe air of ''peace I on earth and good will to men ? j Suppose it had been your boy? J Only by such supposition, only by Ian effort at such mental realization, can one reach that desirable level, which binds humanity into a livable community. A livable community wherein all crime must be measured by its injury to society. Reaching this stage, the only conclusion is: | Society should remedy it. * Every murder which goes unpunished lessens the security of every individual s I life. . - " .fir- , I As a by-product of this lifte *of though*, it is not too much tfl'W1 that society js bigger'than law beI cause society makes laws. It has even been stated by eminent authonl ties who have dealt largely wi I crime and criminals that the crime I act should not be dealt with from a | strictly legal standpoint, but from a | sociul standpoint. * Murder is not a crime to be considered with the idea of Mercy in view. Being a crime which affects all society, it must be considered with the idea of justice in yiew. For justice is | "The hope of all who suffer, ^ The dfead of doers of wrong.". The only way whereby America's crime will be eradicated is by making the justice of its punishment certain and swift and terrible. For verily, I punishment for the unjust is the only I justice. I, Truth is, punishment for crime in | America has become so slow .and slack land uncertain that we have thirty murders to England's one. thirty to France's one. To put it realistically and not so correct statistically, we may well say that half the criminals committing primes are not caught, half of those caught are not found guilty, half of those found guilty aT pardoned, and half of those pardoned go out and commit further crimes. la this a decent state of society ot is it a farce? Playing at civilization? Playing at being an intelligent, a decent, a respectable people? Criminals are no# incarcerated U reform them. They are incarcerated to save society from them. We believe they catv ibe shown too xnucr concern. Radios, flowers, home-for ' holidays, turkey dinners?these art the worst forms of a misplaced sympathy. Thousands of poor, honest struggling men and women are deniec such things. Why should they bt showered upon the criminal class? It is this kind of misdirected Mercy that is Veally murder. It is the kind that turns and rends society. kind that encourages one whp has killed0two to kill three and at the -same time to bTeak the hearts and lives of dozens. The kind that will kill any kind of-Ghr??tmas, however ; sweet and beautiful. If one has so much sympathy to bestow, it might better be bestowed upon those nrhom crim ^are . But until we love justice more and evil less, until we become better versed in the art of discrimmatior ' and more polled in honor, Mercy wll continue to^play the role of murderer ?Bditorirft,4>The State. Torrential rains in Argentina am Chile latft week put the famous trana Andean railway out of commissioi and wrecked automobile highMMTs ; The only mail service? between th? two countries whose borders are con : current for 8,000 miles was furni*he< I ^y the Pan-American Airways, - i United States company. ?. % ' * O Social Meeting of Ladies Bible Class The members of the Ladies Bible Class of. the Lyttleton 'Street Meth- j odist church were guests of'honor at ^ a delightful party at the home of Mrs. \ N. C. Arnett last Wednesday after- j noon. The living rooms and hall were f attractive, with pots of blooming ger- j aniums and cactus plants, in shades of rose; the central decoction was ( a Cross of white roses, entwined with { dainty sprays of Cherokee rose vines. , Miss Ellie Zemp, class teacher, and f Mrs. H. E. Graham, class president, were assistant hostesses. Mrs. 6. C. } Zeinp acted as pianist and throughout | the afternoon many interesting fea- j tures were presented by members of , the class. Mrs. James Gandy, a J guest, eontributed a musical number j that was greatly enjoyed by all. Plans were suggested and discussed j for increasing the membership of the class and other work arranged for the coming year. ^ < 1 At five-thirty the guests \yere in- < vited into the dining room, where the i lights from red candles gleamed over 1 a table, especially pretty; long sprays of rose vines were gracefully trailed i over the lace cloth and red berries : were-arranged in combination with J the vines; a basket of white roses ' 1 forftied the centerpiece. A sweet '' course was served the twenty-one < ? guests who were present; The Bible I class officers are as follows: Mies 1 Ellie Zemp, teacher; Mrs. N. C. Ar' nett, assistant teacher; Mrs. H. E. Graham, president;' Mrs. W. P. Mc1 Guirt, vice ^president; Miss Lou Young, secretary; Miss Emily Mayer, treasurer. . Each month a social meeting of. * the class will be held and a year *f ' successful and interesting work is ' anticipated by each member of the ' organization. 5 The Rev. Dr. C. E. Bu-ter, who re turned from Georgia to his home state , to direct the successful campaign I against the repeal of the 18th amend5 ment, has decided to remain and has ' accept^ a call to the pulpit of the r First Baptist church at St. Matthews. I He has been living^jjt Anderson since ! returning from Macon, Georgia. i '' _ : ' BUY A FARM NfXtf Maybo I'm wrong, but it docs ap>oar to mo that now is an opportune ^ ime for many Union county mert: to >uy a farm for themselves and famlies. The present week a number of 'arms have been sold by auction at jrices surprisingly low. ^ Ten dollars an acre for farm land, >ften with dwelling barp, crib, well, >rchard, etc., thrown in for good neasure, is a bargain or else the propjrty. is altogether worthless. Only a few days ago I was in con/ersation with. one of the county's >etter class tenant farmers. He rested that during the past number of rears he had paid ?his landlord in rentals several times the value of the , farm upon which he lived. . '-Y, "Why. .don't you buy yourself a farm instead of renting?" I inquired. 3 "Taxes too high," was the reply.- rh Yet this man h^d paid the taxes, through his landlord, for the past docade or more and ^apparently had / , never realized what he had been doing, One of the principal reasons a ten- , ^ snt farmer should own his own land is that he would be more1- interested in. goU. improvement. All too 'many tenants "skin" the land upon which they live year by year until it be- , comas almost -worthless. No,, you will not see lower land Taluaw in the month* to come unleae land ceases to have any value whatsoever.-? Monroe Inquirer. -What fs a Man Weftth?" Under the instruction of Dr. C. F. Wimberly our ^plaee is growing in Ieepd and bounds- His subject next Sunday will be "What is a Man t Worth?" He is giving us some Hve end interesting addresses. When the men come they want to come again, We expect to reach the seventy-five ?' ? marie soon. Let all the men take S* /,. hold and we will soon go over the top. You men cannot afford to miss these timely talks by- our pastor? Jack Moore, Secretary. 1 The Mississippi senate has a bill before it which would punish as a felony "the practice that is known as ambulance chasing." . ?r ' ^ ' > " ^ LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the Files of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Years Ago FIFTEEN YKAKS AGQ . January 17, 1919 South Carolina lads from oversea* j will land at Charleston. [ < lien ^ndrow Knbpn married to ^ Mi^s Ida Mattio Branham. i Wesley Jacob Boone, of We&tviljgj married to Miss Blanche Boom;. * of < Camden, H. J. Ray, of Kershaw, ma'rried to Miss l.ula Hunter, of Bethune. j Kshio Parker, white woman, sorv- j iilg two years for killing another woman in West Wateree, paroled by Governor. Manning, C. P. DuHosc & Company report that they handled around a quarter of million dollars in real estate during the year of 1018. Mrs. E. W. Smith of the Beulah section dies and is buried at Spring llill. ' 1 John Manning Boykin, aged 0, die,s at his home at Bqykin. Paderewski, famous musician, is slightly wounded at Warsaw by an assassin. A Mr. and Mrs. John H. Clark visit Arthur Clark in a hospital at Camp Greene, Charlotte. M. W. Hough place, four miles to the north of Camden, sells for around $20,000 at public auctioh. Elliott ,Springs officially credited with having b/ought down, nine enemy planes. Harvin Davis of Lucknow section dies of influenza. William E. Ileargn, one of tho oldest citizens of Lee County, dies in Bishopville. Mrs. Mary Outlaw, 82, the Lucknow section dies. Lloyd Threatt of the Wateree mill village dies and his body buried near Taxahaw in LancasterCfcounty. Frank W. Hunter, 36, popular busi4 noas man of Lancaster dies of inr fluenza. THIRTY YEARS AGO January 22, 1904 . Two... Spanish silver dollars bearing late of 1792 dug up in construction work on Camden-Charleston roa<i near city limits. W. t. Smith and J, P. l.owis pur. husi! mercantile business of George *1 A. Urnsington. ;1. C'ity registration books open for Approaching primary. E, J. Lewis leaves U. Schenk & V Company ami forms partnership in shoe business under firm nam? of Mathis and I*>wis. 1). JF. Foreman, of Salisbury, N. Q., ontors livery business in Camden with P. F. Di xon u^ j^unagcr of stables., ? . R. iv, MiL hain in cfyivgo of PoKulb cotton mill under receivership of j Duncan, "from Union. 3. T. FoUom, of Kershaw, killed near Kershaw when his horso dashes on track of Southern railway in front of railway engine. ; b '-r "The Lafayette Club" formed with W. J. P. Weeks, W. Robin Zemp,' W. C. Sal mond and J. T. Nettles as officers. Angus Outlaw dies at Bellahaw Dairy Farm, owned by Major A. S. White. v Miss Met-a Jones, of Lancaster, :U; visiting Mrs. J. M. Heath and Miss Janie Childs, of Columbia, guest of . Mrs. Frank M. Zomp. William E, Johnson, Jr., of Atlanta, returns to Camden to be with the v .'Bank--fii . Cbmden. ^ ?' John S. Lindsay, from Ward 4; '* .. L. L. Block, from Ward-2; aijd J. E. ?? Vaughnn, from Ward 3, announced as candidates for Aldermen. An ANCIENT SIGHT-SEER EIGHT hundred yww an, Alhasen, an Am* bun, wroto the 4m book on optica* Yon don't meed a book to mil yon your eyea' ache, yonr bead pdtu?kat aD . r we hare learned from booka can't aid .yon if yon lot eya trouble go till it'a acute. L" i A modern Eye Examination will : niiiiil whether yon need claaaaa ?our modern prewHpdre fa* eilitiea will iwmaiM yon a -Vg? perfect correction. Check Up On Ytm Sight ? Hnt Aa EYE EXAMINATION v' '**>: '"h ' - : :>! '* THE HOFFER COMPANY M JEWELERS ANft OPTOMETRISTS