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?????? 'Lia?g??"? JTersistenTB ||?? DeKalb Pharmacy Telephone 95 Will ?f Mrw. Cole l<. Hlcaac * Columbia, Feb. l.-~Filing of, tho will of Mrs. Cole L. Ble&se. wife of ho former - governor and United States senator, disclosed today that she left an estate of $17,000 to her husband and two brothers, , The estate as recorded at the probate Judge's office here, consisted of real estate $11,000; jewelry and silver plate $2,$00; cash $2,000; and household goods $1,00(). The real estate included a $-1,000 farm at Pendleton, where the brothers, II. C. and J. C. Summers, make their home, and a house and lot here valued at $7,000 in the will, Mrs. HI ease, the former Miss Lillie Summers, died several weeks ago. Edward CJ. Bremer, 37, wealthy St. ' Paul, Minn., banker, held by kidnap- ' ers for 23 days for $200,000 ransom, | was released by his kidnapers Wed- J nesdjiy night near Rochester, Minn. | He was released by three men in a small sedan, close friends of the Bremer family said after he had returned to St. Paul in a bus and then gone to his father's no me in a taxi. The young man was much exhausted and his eyes had been kept taped during the 23 days he was held by his abductors. The full amount of the ransom demanded was paid, $84,000 of it in $5 bills. STOP GETTING UP NIGHTS THIS 25c TEST FREE If It FqiU Use this bladder laxative. Drive Out the impurities and excess acids j w hich cause the irritation that wakes you up* (let a regular 25 cent box of BURETS, made from buchu leaves, j juniper oils, etc. After four days I test, if not satisfied, go back and get your 25c. They work on the bladder similar to castor oil on the bowel.-. Bladder irregularities is nature's danger signal and may warn you of trouble. You are bound to feel better after this cleansing and you get your I regular sleep. DeKalb Pharmacy j says BURETS is a best seller. TAX NOTICE. After January 31st, 1031, the County Aud.tor will add an additional penalty of one per Cent, on all taxes i uot paid, which were assessed for j year 1P33. When inquiring about taxes please state school district in which you live <>r own property. Yours respectfully, S. W. 1IOGUE, Treasurer Kersh.iW County, S. C. NOTICE To Delinquent Taxpayers on Personal Property, Road and Poll Taxes. I will collect tax executions that I have in Shentf's office if the parties that 1 have executions against will come in anil pay them any time during the next six months, and there will be no Sheriff's and Treasurer's cost added. J. H. Mc.LEOI), Sheriff of Kershaw County. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hare by given that one month from this date, on the 20th day of February 1034, at 11 o'clock a. rr... we will make tr? the Probate < o-.ir* of Kershaw County our final -eturn a- Executor- of the .-tate of I >a. E. S.'.l, deceased, an on the j -ante <iatc we \\ .['. app.y to the said ' ' u' t ' r a ft". i. .:. g. a-aid 1 \ ;t. rs. j U -HI. M\MIE >. HAMILTON : .. >.t .i l; : l\ M 111 >''! I \ Ri. L \ * ^ *'.? i t r i : u.t ry, . . ,, at 11 o i iock a. n i.. I w;.? masc to the Probate i 1 " of Ri- ...w ( our.ty :py Jinal j'return as Aiim.r.istratrix of the esate of B iyk.n "W. Rhamc, deceased, and or. the same date 1 will apply to the said < <mrt for a final discharge a* -aid Administratrix. ANNIE L. R1IAME, Administratrix of the Estate of Boyk;r W. Rhamc. Camden, S. C.. January 10. 1934. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS Ail persons indebted to the Estate of W. L. Jackson, deceased, are hereby required to make payment to the undersigned Executor of the said Estate, and a.! persons to whom the said Est-atc is .r.debted are hereby required wur.n trie time prose--.bed b> i.hw to lYc t.ne.r claims, duly attested, with the undersigned Executor. JOHN' K deLOACH. | Executor of Estate of W. L. Jackson, i ic. ca -od. Jur.ua r\ I, L'dJ. " .. ..'I... 'Ill 11. I -??1? 1 . ! Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Gee McGee, Copyright, ll>28. i MY FIRST JOB ..I learned to telegraph in a small j town 6 miles from my home., to which point 1 walked each day. There ' were no automobiles to pi6k a fellow up back then; if you started anywhere walking, you'd arrive there (still walking, if you got there at alh-j [..After (> months, I had become a I pretty fair "ham," and could also i run a depot, handle freight, sell tickets, and truck stuff in and out of the warehouse. Railroad employees worked when I was growing up; they stay on duty 8 hours now. ..I heard "UI" calling one day while the regular agent-operator was at dinner, 1 finally collected enough courage to open the key and answer him. I took the message. It was addr?>sed to me. .offering me a job in a pfetty large city 2 hundred miles away. I fainted. ..I accepted this offer. I had never been over 15 miles from homo in my life. I grew up on a farm and knew something about plowing mules, milking cows, hoeing corn and living hard generally. I rushed home and .told my folks. Three of them fainted. Six or 8 of my brothers and sisters were anxious for me to go away, but the other 7 objected. ..I had bought me a grass suitcase at the station for G5 cents on credit. 1 dressed up, put on my nice $3.98 suit, donned my $1.2-1 tan shoes, put ! lots of lard on my hair, and off to I the train all of us went in a big 2 ' horse wagon. I rode on a pass to my [ destination. That was something. ..What a trip that was! Mountains 2 miles high; long trains; and big locomotives: 1 arrived at "XN" at ! s o'c lock. I a*hud a man to show mt i the way to a bohfding house. A col| ored man in a policeman's red suit I grabbed at my grip, but I jumped 1 backward and he never got it. | |..I walked to the hotel, about 15 blocks. I .found out that the others all rode in a hack, frep. I went in. (A man motioned to come up. I walked over to the counter and he slid a ' book toward me and handed ruo a pen. I told him I wanted to spend ' the night with him and he said? j'*Well. register then." I wrote down my name and dropped 3 big ink-blots Jon his book. | ..1 told him I was ready to go to i bed. He told me to follow "that ! boy." I did. He stepped into a little i closet and it shot straight up. I al| most died. I wa? shown into a fine room with large bed. and a small side I room on the left. It had a place to ! wash all over in, and another to wash your face in. I felt bigger than anybody else had ever felt before. Me, Gee McGee, sleeping in a room like 'that! 1 went down next morning i an dthe man made me pay him $1.50 i I argued that I hadn't et with him, j only slept; he got my $1.50 just for i that. It was a great start, but I | soon got used to high living. Social News From Flat Rock ! . .our clock fixer who has been anceri ing to the name of bill sukeS Ls not ancering a-tall at present, he pulled j down his shades, shot his door, and i oozed out of town in the night-time last week, owing everyboddy but the cash grocery stoar. anxious credditors would like to find out his whereabouts. I j . . rev. hubbert green, pasture of rehober church, has asked me to infarm ;ho pu-biick at large (who can read) thai no preeching will be hell in his pulipit for the next ensuing 2 >uni days, he has benn ordered olT on a \ a vat lori by his doctor and he will -peril', .-a me recuperating in cedar ,aiu with his mother-in-law. deacon ,vn -a\- : a .'. ' 'tin- back wors:f an a h? .: :.< t ommer.i < i to *.. a a: i t\ n o w > .. e i , i u.n i. l * d? >Vt - s i''*ir.:c vocvc smith, our affip:-'.in.p'.e. and twin sister. saii'.e veeve. who teaches the 1 . and 2 and 3 and I and 5 grades in j our scholl, motored to the c ounty seat by bu-%> last Saturday and returned I back home in time for taking up ; books monday mormn. they reported la nice trip but did not say what they ( done on same. . j . .the monney that our fair citty has ( benn trying to borry from the pwa and the cwa has not yet benn sent to our mayor, our poleosniar told yore iorry spondent, mr. mike Clark, rfd, last night that it mought r.ot come at all. if it do not. that means no watter works and paved sidewalks for us at present, he is hawing the , we!! (leaned out row a> It look like n i- our only wafer supply till the cAft cash comes in. . there has ber.n \er:s few financial l - . T- ' ; %v. Honor Roll Students Bethune City Schools | Honor roll, Bethune public &chool8? for the third period of session; Grade 11.?Mary Ellen Mel^aurin, Mary Alice Baker, Sara Kuth McK union, Marguerite Foster, Keith j Gordon. , '1 ! Grade 10,?Eliza Jacksoh, Arlene AVagea, Clarence Heusteaa, Nannie Kuth Hilton, Mary Alice Helms. | Grade O.?Xlrace Horton, Kachael i Williams. , Grade K. -Robbie Newton Marion, I la It. Munguro, Frankie Heard, Ruby Griffin, l4ivem Jones, Edwin Fa1 tridge. > ' 1 Grade 7.?Margaret MeLaurin, Lorene Hlackmon, Jerry Davis, Kutheri ine Foster, John Dan MeLaurin, Eu-! nice McCaskill, Iris McCaskill, James Howers. I Grade 6.?Margie Jones, Alene Hilton, Clarence Hilton, Loutee Hinson, Myitis Mungo, Ruby Jackson, Alvin Kelley, Grade 5.?Frances Helms, Josie. i Horton, Alvo McCaskill, Grace Jackson, Drucilla Ratcliffe. | Grade 4.-?'Hetty Hest, Doris Dane, Geneva Jackson, Vera Horton, Johnsie Bethune, Louise Griffin, Mary Nancy Mcl>aurin, E. W. Tolbert, Clifton Croft, Myrtis Horton, Doris Hlackmon, Janette Vinson, Annie Mae Sullivan, Nell Horton, Ethel Lee Watkins. * Grade 3.-?Tom Bethune, Sara Margaret King, Sarah Gordon, - Carnell Baker, Evelyn Mangum, Helen Jackson, Roscoe Baker, Betty Hammond, Tres&ie Mae Davis. Grade 2.?Wayne Blaekmon, Nancy Horton, Eva Josie RatclifT, Vera Stewart, Martha Winburn, Dorothy Winburn. John Watts Smith, Ralph McCaskill, Brantley King, Frank Mangum, Violet Williams, Maggie Lee j Catoe. ? I Grade 1.?Carolyn Bethune, Neil Kelley, Wilson Holley, Rose McL?od, I Viola Horton, Ross Horton, Tola .Gardner, Evelyn Hammond, Harvey Croft, June Williams, John Ifenry j Jackson, Edilh Joyce Munn, Evelyn Vincent, Irene Vincent, 1'aul Watkins. fc "Dick Davis and the Devil" TJiis will be the theme of Dr. Wimberley's address next iSunday ; morning before the Men's Bible Class 'of the Methodist church. These Sunday morning addresses are being ; widely spoken of among the men who hear them. We want to boost a big class next Sunday to hear this true story, from a life sketch of a character who lived and was known, j "Dick Davis and the Devil" will be a (gripping story and we urge our men 'to hear it. Remember the time: [Class assembles at 10:20. Jack Moore, Secretary. The above topic was to have- been j given hust Sunday, but held ov'er on ; account of the weather. We want I 100 per cent of the Bible class presJent next Sunday at 10:00 a. m. There 1 are some important matters to be ; brought before us. C. F. Wimberley, Teacher. Gave Shower For Family 1 The teachers of Charlotte Thompson school gave a shower last Friday for Mrs. Carl Baker, whose house was burned recently. She received . many pretty as well as practical i gifts. Light refreshments were sefv.i ed by the hostesses, i The ladies missionary society of j Beulah church held its regular monthly meeting Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Raymond Johnson. Rev. T. W. Godbold led the devotional part of the* program. At the conclusion of the program a social hour was enjoyed, during which the hostess served delightful refresh-' ments. Snow slides affected 13 towns in northern Italy on Monday and the number of lives reported lost totaled 40 or more. failures in flat rock since the dimmercrats come into offis. the peoiples grocery and the tire repair shop i was alreddy busted on martch 4, 11933, when they started out with the |nra, of coarse, they closed up with no , assets excepp what they took off with them in their nice cars. the railroads is asking the i. c. c. reduce fares from nearly c4 a mile i. 1 a mile in the hopes that they will haul a pa.>>engcr ever now and then, the conductor, gets so lonesome or. the train these days by his^-lf, he has threter.cd suiriric on various ar.d Sunday occasions, we hope they will . suckseed so's they can go hack in bizness; all busses stay crowded at cl per mile. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. corry spondent. . . " Oldest Elephant in Land Dies at York Gyp, the oldest elephant in America, died here in Yorkville Wednesday morning, aged 92 years. She forecast her own death several months ago to Tommy Burns, menagerie superintendent for the Barnett Brothers shows. In her professional life of over half a century she had a wide and varied career. She had carried millions of children on her back, children in almost every town and city in the United States big enough to have a postoffice. She was in that epic of showmen tragedies, the big Coney Island fire ; of 35 years ago, and the rest of her | life bore the scars ueceived in that holocaust in which she escaped death by a hair. Among menagerie men, she was known as the Leon Washburn elephant, because she was with the Washburn shows for years and years, touring the whole country. For the ltret eighteen years before Barnett i Brothers bought her in Chester, Pa., last summer, she toured with the Johnny Jones carnival. Back of the Washburn ownership, i nothing is known here certainly a- j bout her. That goes back to the grandparents of the present-day show folks. When and how she, arrived in the. United States from India to travel so extensively in this country ; and finally to die in one of the old J towns in old South Carolina is un- . known now. ! She appears .in animal history, in the midst of a very active life and , with her reputation already made, es- j pecially among children. That she lived so long is also remarkable, j Few elephants live to be over 65 years old in this country, owing to adverse climatic conditions, and 55 to 65 years is the age of the average , elephant here. Careful research and the condition of her tissues make the Barnett Brothers animal men sure ; she was at least 92 years old. * ' Havipg^spent at least 40 years car- j ryinj?children on her back, she re- i mained gentle to the very end. Even j in her Qater years she never had a ( tantrum, as most old elephants do. | Her kindly disposition was a legend , among animal men all over the coun- I try for many years. In "the big Coney Island fire she1 was badly burned, and infection in ! the burns on her trunk caused her j milch distress for a long time. Her i trunk bore scars and a big slit near ! its end, where abscesses had been lanced. Elephants in their native haunts always leave the herd and go off hy chem.selves to die, moving into dense forests or into swamps where their I bodies sink from sight. That is why | the remains of a dead elephant is seldom discovered. Gyp. the gentle elephant the children loved, knew long [ago rha* she was near death.. Tomj my Lurn-^ says, for she told him so by her actions. "Elephants know when they'ro going to die, and she's been wanting to get by herself for several months," he said, "which showed she knew it." "On the lot she would keep away fromf the rest of the elephant herd, and twice last summer on the road she broke loose and wandered off as far as she could get." This elephant died of old age. She became weak Tuesday morning, and within 24 1 hours she simply faded away without any pain and without any effort to do anything?the big machine in the elephant hide slowly stopped, when the motive power was cut off. She weighed a trifle under 6,000; pounds. As her body lay. on 'the ground in winter quarter's here, covered with two tarpaulins, it looked like a big truckload of something piled on the ground after being unloaded. Barnett Brothers were willing to give the mammoth body to science and to any veterinary college thatwanted it for dissection. The hide i and huge skeleton could be used by a taxidermist to mount into a lifelike specimen for a museum. But South Carolina has no veteri-! nary college, and there are only 66 graduate veterinarians in this state so nobody was anxious to take over! this dead elephant, although is was offered to Clemson callege and even to Winthrop, the big woman's college at Rock Hill. (So the funeral of old Gyp will bej held this forenoon with burial a few. miles out of ^orkville. She will bei the only elephant buried in South Caiolina soil among her other distinctions. Yesterday her grave was being dug on the John Benfield farm, four miles southeast of Yorkville, where thej long travel of old Gyp will cease. The grave is ten feet deep and seven by ten feet in dimensions on the ground. In a century or so, when scientists! of that future era find the skeleton of old Gyp here in York county, they will write learned treatises about the elephants who roamed this part c*j the country early in the 20th century, and prove it by bones disinterred here. 3; There will bo no services at the funeral today of old Gyp who gave, delight to a million children when she was alive. It would be appropriate for all the school children of' York county to cover her big graV? with flowers today?and every spring during the coming years.?Yorkville Enquirer, February 9. Jesse H. Jones, head of the RFC> told New York state backers' that immediate extension of credit to worthy enterprises and individuals is necessary to maintain the recovery program of the government and int.mated that if the hanks do not enter this field the government will. "The common cry almost everywhere is that the banks are r.ot lending," he said-i \'ll have 11?'^ ^ With W v.' "1 le sins as much who holJs tfx t\ig as fx nho puts in it." JANUARY iJw 1-^A bountiful New Year to * ^ you, Sir and Madam. 2 Ground is broken for Northv tin Pacific Ky. 1872. 3? Survey shows |0 miles of paved road in U. 1900. 4 ? Renz builds first successful gas automobile 18*5. 5-Zebulon M. Pike, soldierexpk?r?r, born 1779. 6?George Washington marl rics Martha Custis 1759. i/7?First transatlantic tele' phone message 1927. MM&uamG chtt-yi ou^AtdL ie /I 1 Jtxp/'C Cdi^/S/ I K ' "Advice after mischief it like medicine dfter death." JANUARY ">& 0 8?Cherry trees bloom in -Jf winter at Nyatk, N. Y.t 188'i. > 9?First shot of Civil war '* fired at Ft. Moultrie, 1861. '10?Allies abandon the Gullipoll Peninsula, 1*116. J 11?Alexander Hamilton, financier - statesman, born 1757. 12?First meeting of Versailles Peace Conference, 1*719. 13?Pait of Horseshoe Rock at Niagara Falls drops, 1889. 14?Hoover announces candidacy for re nomination, .1932. jaMMswe krjsh 1 t^n, i jm oh w<ii llpi, ((?&>'jp/ihl I mi/ (k->Atr< ^jspm^, ?L'} WwimS "f "I le ? !>o uoulJ i Limb a ladder must begin dt the bottom." JANUARY i? 15- First U. S. built steam 8$ locomotive runs, I8J1. 16? 18th (prohibition) i Amendment noes i'n forte, 1920. '17? Bcinainm Franklin, noted ^ U. S. statesman, born I 700. 16?The German Empire is formally cstablisltc 1,1871. If) - Miller and Wilkes discov. er Antarctic Continent, 1840. 20 ? French start their work on Panama Canal, 1882. 21 ? Henry Miller stars In "The Great Divide," 1906. Ml* ".In angry man ofx-ris his mouth an J shuts his ryes " JANUARY 22 --1 :rst all sftel I\.!!man f C it ; ;t in service 1007. 23 Ha !?o SOS save*. f;rbt life i:i srj <!,s.istcr. I /09. 2? 'v ;d a: K .... : i < 23 : c V\ . -M 2C .? .r\ t..e L'c i .. .-i 9. 27 ? j: . I i cr > . A.V Vv cci.t c e^'.r-.c i:,,' 1 ss ). 2A?-Clucaiio t n t r^the h: st c ibic ^ar, 1 352. At '.he (Ifm.wn co'.'.o^e eomnwncemm: or. June ">, the principal speaker will be pre-ident R C. Clranberry, of Limestone college. at (iaflfney, and Octavus Roy Cohen, famous author, who lives in Atrar.'a an<l was born ir. Sou:h Car*. r.a A T .kv*? <! sp.it* h says that Japan is in\estipra: iijif an allege*! treaty between ' h.r.a and the United States, by the terms of which 'his country is help-.,- <j*\e?.;> awa;.*?n in China. OfT.< .1 - Wa-h if on vigorously dory ar.y secret pac- with "any r.a tion. NOTICE! I AH past due paving assessments II ' : ': I due the City of Camden must be paid ij at once otherwise property will be ad- I j vertised for sale. 11 By Order CITY COUNCIL. I | January 30,1934. I Foot and l^eg Pains n a re warning* of foot trouble. Don't nrclert thorn. Our Foot Comfort T.xiwrt. trained in tbo motho*4f? of I )r Srhofl. noioi foot authority, ran <iuirkl> relieve arid corroot the condition.Seehini now W. Sheorn & Son i TAX NOTICE | Beginning the First of March a 2 per cent, penalty will be added to all unpaid 1933 City Taxes. Q J. C. BOYKIN, Clerk, j