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A CARE FREE I
BY U SI NO M
LONQ D I STAN CI i
While you are on your
vacation,seeking rest and
relaxation, you need not
have your pleasure spoiled
by worries over any unfinished
business or private affairs
back home which require your
personal attention.
Long distance telephone service
will enable you to keep in
touch quickly, effectively and at
low cost.
For information on long dis?
tance telephone service, look in
the front section of your telephone
directory. Or, the "Long
Distance" operator will be gb?d
to tell you the cost of a eall to
i
any city.
K11 joy a carefree vacation.
And remember, the cost is small
wherever you call.
Southern Eell
Telephone and Telegraph (jTj& t) Co.
INCORPORATED
HELPFUL HINT8
To revive wilted cut flowers place
the stems in u deep howl or vuHe und
pour boiling water into the container.
Then reach down into the hot water
with the scissors and cut off each
Htern. Finally run cold water into tlie
container until the boiling water hue
been cooled.
(Jrass stains can be removed with
pure corn moluBses. Hub the inolashcb
well Into the stain, allow it to
stand for several hours and then wash
in lukewarm soap sudB.
Low temperature causes honey to
granulate, but it can be restored to
its desirable texture by placing the
container In a pan of warm water only
as warm as the hand can beur.
To make the coffee grounds settle
to the bottom of the old-fashioned
coffee pot drop a small piece of ice
In when the pot is removed from the
stove.
A mixture of equal parts of oil of
citronella. sweet oil and oil of tar applied
to the legs, neck and arms will
keep mosquitoes away while out of
doors.?Pathfinder.
Two Atlanta bandits robbed an ice
truck of 100 pounds of ice and $12
on the Htreets of that city.
Happiest Age To Marry
Contrary to u common Idea, curly
marriages are ullcgcdly not tin* happlcHt,
at leaat for the American populations.
A new chart showing the
ages at which men and women should
marry if they are to have the greatest
chance of happiness has been prepared
by Dr. llorucll Hart, professor of
Social l-'thics at the Hartford Connecticut
Theological Seminary. According
to this chart the ages at
which the chance of marital happiness
is mathematically greatest are
33 for the man and U7 for the bride.
However, the chart shows a range
of greutest chance of married happiness
corresponding to groom's ages
between 2it and 37 and bride's ages
between 23 and 31. It further shows
that the ideal age difference between
bride, and groom Is about five years.
While there are undoubtedly many
exceptions, the chart shows relatively
little chance of happiness for boys
who marry younger than 20 or for
girls who do so younger than 19.?
Pathfinder.
Joseph Priestly, the discoverer of
oxygen, envisioned the existence of
electrons 150 years ago when science
was in its Infancy.
I DISEASE
."Creeping Upon You"
- The Cause
Is the Spine
Have Your Spine
Examined Today!
-
*w? picture shows how the nerves
in a human being are distributed
from the spinal cord, and the ar^|uii.
rows indicate the vertebrae
that correspond
to organ.
-BRAIN
-EYES
- EARS
"-NOSE
^throat
VAHBS
JVheart
wLUNGS
WLIVER
WSTOMACH
WPANCREAS
\VSPLEEN
\y KIDNEYS
VSMALL BOW El.
LARGE BOWEL
^GENITAL ORGANS
THIGHS AND LEGS
INORMALI
I NWVI I
IriNCHnA
I NKkvEjj^
bf^r c? ^
MAN 1
The chiropractor arijtmta the tptne and
C??d health la the natural cvmactjurnca.
For I inl> ? I i!i> hwtu.in r:u i* h.t-s 1?? ? n d> ;tm ??I"
KFFKl I S. All. i)t llil* titlir NiHHINti \v;i s f1nn?i tor t'AI St'.S
til ii11?1 ? ? 1 :iiifl :f l',.,' s. ii uc'f has hrnnuht
u< to m'i tho lu'lit in la altli Matt' r- \\ know how to hi til
with 111 s a 1 in a ?! 11 * t ainl spri iin wa> tn N VI'IKK'S own
0(><M> \\.i> so th.it tho>. whosiilToi iua> if t w.]| alul ST A Y will.
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Avcidentally. ami providentially it m'ciils, Chiropractic
w as d isco\ ered years ago. proving to us
that the (WI SH of TV," of all disease is in the SPINE,
and to get rid of this "monster of the ages" we must
of necessity yet rid of tho CAUSE instead of being
content to just "Doctor EFFECTS" as had been done
for ages up to that time.
This great discovery proved WHY disease "crept
j upon us" as we thought for ages?it* was because we
did NOT know that a misplaced SPINAL vertebra
! was causing our trouble and we therefore left that
alone and swallowed a pill or took a "swig" of "Bit|
ters" and straightway expected to be whole again.
11 Today millions KNOW better than this. They
have learned the secret of good health and STAY well.
YOU, too, can banish the monster DISEASE if you will.
Have YOUR spine examined for misplacements; have
them corrected if they are there, and you will be sur- 1
prised at the bounteous HEALTH you will enjoy.
Dr. T. W. KNIGHT
I 611 Lafayette Ave. Camden, S. C.
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Interesting Career
Ex-Sheriff Hunter
(Front I /it noisier News)
Bx-fc?heriff John P. Hunter of Lancaster,
S. who retired front office
lit 1U29, had the unique distinction
of nerving uh an officer of the law for
flfty-two years?six of them as deputy
sheriff of J'Sin aster county, four as
l'n)ted States Marshal for the Ids
trict of South Carolina, und fort> two
as sheriff of Lancaster county. That
Ilia record has been paralleled in the
United States Is doubtful; that it haH j
boon unexcelled Is certain,
During his forty-two years as sheriff
tit) prisoner ever escaped from him,
and every felon whom he sought he
eveutuully captured. Yet he never,
killed a man, nor was wounded by
one, nor permitted one to he lynched.
Sheriff Hunter's phenomenal urrests
were the results- of personal
fearlessness and a knowledge of criminal
psychology, und although he gives
due credit to his assistants, It is air
established fact that as a lone worker
he wus most ^successful. On two occasions
he captured murderers who
hud him covered from the moment of
Ids approuch and who reiterated ihelr
determination to shoot to kill. Willi
Ills hand on a smull Smith and Wesson
pistol in his right hand pocket,
Sheriff Hunter stared the murderers
unflinchingly In the eyes, and under
the spell of that stare advanced steudily.
Had he dropped his gaze for a
second or slackened his puce, he bollevcs
he would huve met instant
death. On another occasion the sheriff
entered a negro's cabin In the middle
of the night and put handcuffs
oil him " before he awakened. (This
happened in the Halle Ciold Mine section,
and the negro was later taken
to Abbeville county und hanged for
murder.)
Long before the days of modern
gangsters the country was menaced
by dangerous bands of safe-crackers
and robbers. It was Sheriff Hunter's
lot to arrest and keep in his custody
such notorious public enemies as
Charles O'Day and John Fisher, who,
besides engaging in many other nefarious
exploits, blew up and robbed
a safe at Heath Springs, S. C. Lart ny
was the offense for which the majority
of the sheriff's arrests had tn be
made.
I he tact that Sheriff Hunter never
killed a prisoner nor permitted one
to be lynched was of inestimable value
to the state of South Carolina on
more than one occasion. The case of
John Mcllwain, Lancaster's most elusive
criminal, will Illustrate the point:
Mcllwain, a negro, had cold-bloodedly
killed Ernest Watklns, superintendent
of the Lancaster Cotton Oil
Company. He disappeared In thf
dark, but through the untiring efforts
of Sheriff Hunter was finally
located and imprisoned in Detroit.
Friends there employed a negro lawyer
for him, and when Sheriff Hunter
and Honorable R. S. Stewart appeared
before Michigan's Governor
Slevper, the negro lawyer pointed
to Mcllwaln's wife and children, saying
dramatically: "If you honor this
requisition, that little lady and those
helpless children will be widowed and
orphaned by the ruthless mob which
will be waiting to lynch John Mcllwain
when the sheriff takes him
across the South Carolina stab- line."
Roach Stewart, the Lancaster attorney
who was representing South
Carolina, jumped to his feet: "l do
not know where the attorney got his
information, but 1 do know that he
has been misinformed." Then pointing
His finger towards STiernT Hunter,
lie continued, "That old gentleman'
has been sheriff of Lancaster county:
lor forty years. No prisoner has ever
been taken from him and hmhed.'
and no prisoner will ever be taken
1 fotn him and 1\ nclied."
W 11et*e11110n tbt' negro lawyer sar>
ast tea II ? riled the cases of Hardy
Gill. w ho \va< lynched in Lancaster,
and John Morrison, wb.n was 1> nclied
in Kershaw.
I he governor asked for an \*planation,
and Sheriff Hunter r. plied:
I had resigned as sheriff of Lancaster
count \ and was acting as United
States Marshal in Charleston when
iiill was lynched. As for tin- Morrison
l\ ticliing. I believe I could have
prevented it had it occurred in the
days of automobiles. Refused the
loan of a dime. Morrison, a white
man. had shot another white man In
the back. This happened in Kershaw,
eighteen miles from Lancaster, and
when 1 received news of the tragedy
I paid $27 to the Iaincaster station
ug-nt for the rent of a freight train
which, attached to a cat), carried me
to Kershaw. It was too late; the in- i
couaud mob had lynched Morrison be-,
fore I arrived. During the riot of
September 27, 1SH2. 1 waged a lone'
battle to prevent a lynching, and I !
was successful. I believe 1 would '
hav? been successful in Kershaw."
Needless to say. Governor Sleeper
honored the requisition. (Mcllwain
was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Some time afterwards
the negro escaped from the county
chain gang. (He is still at large.)
The most trying of Sheriff Hunter's
experiences have been occasioned by
court orders for execution. August
1. 181?Q. lie hanged Hoach ('atoe and
Will Clyburn on an enclosed gallows
constructed behind the present jail.
Again on December 20. 1911, ho had
to hang llcury Kee and Mack Hood
negroes who were sentenced for having
murdered men of their own ruee.
It was extremely disagreeable to the
sheriff to have to shed blood?particularly
the blood of men whom he
had heard pruying, singing and crying,
and whom he had watched over
for months?but he considered himself
the man whose duty It was to
carry out the mandates of the law,
After these legal execution ho consoled
himself by reading Genesis 9-C,
"Whose sheddeth man's blood, by man
shall his blood he shed."
That crime Is on the Increase at
the present time, especially among
white people, is the opinion of Hhcriff
Hunter, hut unlike many modern obpectors
he does not feel that prisoners
ure pampered too much- "I always
believed in treuting prisoners
kindly and encouraging them to reform,"
suys tills grand old man after
eighty years of life, fifty-two of which
were spent in enforcing the laws of
Ids beloved country and state.
Written by Request
At the request of many friends
throughout the county, ex-sheriff John
IV Hunter has written the following
sketch of his life:
"The son of James it. and Louise
West Hunter, I was born on a farm
two and half miles south of the court
house in Lancaster county, S. C., on
October 8, 1855, and I lived on a
farm as a laborer in said county until
I was 17 years of age. I had the
opportunity Of going to school only
a little in the winter and in the summer
when our crops were laid by.
When my father was elected sheriff
of Lancaster county in the fall of
1872 I went to school in Lancaster
during the fail and following spring
of that year.
1 have done all kinds of farm work
and domestic work, too, for I have
filled many thousands of quills on an
old time spinning wheel and helped
my dear old mother to weave on an
ol<i time treadle and hand loom, and
helped her to make clothes for my
father and elder brother when they
were in the Confederate army. At
the same time my mother and I were
wearing clothes which my mother
made with the help that I could give
her. Our shoes of home-tanned leather
were made on our farm by a
poor white man who was too old to
go to the war.
1 was a little over 9 years of age
in the spring of 1865 when General
Sherman's rough, ransacking Federal
soldiers came to our home and carried
off our fine mules, corn, llour,
meal, bacon, potatoes, chickens and
turkeys. After these plunderers had
gone with the most of our provisions,
we had a hard time getting something
to eat. We would often go to bed
at night very hungry. My mother
was a wise, energetic woman, however,
and she skillfully planned the
planting and working of a crop in
186.i tbefore my father and brother
returned home after the war.) With
an ox and an old blind horse which
she managed to secure, and with the
help of a few faithful colored servants,
we made very good crops of
everything w,. planted.
After these and many other hard|
ships which I had to endure I began
in ls.4. when hut 18 years of age.
j to ride tor my father as deputy sher:
iff It was a rather difficult service.
The automobile was yet a tiling of
; 'he tuture, and we had to travel on
i horseback. We continued our work
j until my lather retired as sheriff in
j 18S0.
I hat same year I was elected slieritt
of Laneaster county, which office
1 held continuously until April 1, 1894,
wh. n I r< signed to take charge of the
I nit.-.i States Marshal's office in j
Charleston, for the District of South.
( aro'ina I had been appointed loi
'hi- el! i, . l,\ President ('.rover Cloveand
alter holding it tor four!
>' and one month I returned to j
ni\ home in Lancaster in Jsns, :iiiti
tai :iii d lor i wo years.
In 19oo I was again elected sheriff
>:' Lam aster county, and held said;
oft ice this time continuously for j
Var>, : litis making a total of over 41 j
>ears that I was sheriff of Lancaster
county. I was the last I'nited States!
Marshal who occupied the Marshal's!
office in the custom house in Char-|
leston and I was the first I'nited '
States Marshal who occupied thej
marshal's office in the present United I
States Court House inMhe city of j
Charleston I ntn the last sheriff who '
occupied the sheriff's office in ftie I
Lancaster county court house, and 1 j
am the first sheriff who occupied the I
sheriff's office in the present office'
building in the grand old town of
1 Lancaster.
I am only stating these factB for
the information of my young friends,
for many of them are the children
of my loyal supporters who always
cheerfully helped to confer these
honors upon me. Alas, many of these
dear good friends of mine have long since
gone the road which I am now
traveling, the etj^l of which road Is
death. I feel now that I am nearing
the end of the road, as I am begin*
ning to reach the point where 1 can-1
not think quickly ot things which 1
would like to say and cannot always
say what 1 think I would like to say.
But knowing the fact that 1 am in
the hands of a kind, just, and mer
clful Qod who knows my shortcom*
ings, I feel perfectly satisfied."
JOHN P. HUNTER.
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News of Interest In
And Near Bethune
Bethune, Aug. 13.?Mr, aud Mra. L.
M. Best, Mr. and Mrs. Mack Davis,
Miss Katherine Bird and Miss Lizzie
Kute Davis are visiting different
places of interest in Florida, having
motored down last week.
Mrs. J, G. Richards, of Asheville,
N, C., has been spending some time
with her parents, the J. A. McCaskills.
Miss Margie Parrott, of Bishopvllle,
has been the recent guest of
Mrs. C. E, Bras well and Mrs. J. L.
King, Jr.
Mr. L. M. Best entertained a number
of boys and girls last Tuesday
afternoon iij honor of the eleventh
birthday anniversary of her iftpughter,
Betty. Games were played and during
the afternoon, cakes, lemonade
and candy were served. Each individual
cake held a lighted candle.
Mrs. W. R. Rozier and brother,
Keith Gordon have returned from a
visit to Carolina Beach, near Wilmington,
N. C.
Mr. M, F. Helms who has been ill
for several weeks is in Monroe, N C ,
recuperating.
Miss Stella Bethune was hostess to
the Wednesday afternoon bridge club
last week.
Miss Mary Louise McLaurin entertained
her card club Friday evening.
The Bethune Order Eastern Star
entertained the Kershaw and Camden
chapters with a delightful chicken
Pilau supper at Bi% Springs recently.
Mrs. S. C. Smith, of McCormiek, Is
spending some time with her daughter.
Mrs. B. W. Best.
Miss Lottie Outlaw who has a position
in High Point, N. c., is spending
tliis week at home.
Little Miss Rosa McLeod was hostess
to a number of her friends at a
charming tea party. Eugenia Parker
won the prize given for having the
prettiest doll present. Refreshments
were served during the afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lafitte were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McCaskill^
during the week end.
E. L. Black, of Albemiarle, N. ('.,
was a guest at the homo of Mrs. M.
O. Ward Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Noel Johnson, of Florence,
visited the W. A. McDowells
during the week end.
?rC,w,e? one and two of th<* Baptist
W. M. S. met Monday afternoon at
the homes of Mrs. J. E. Copeland and
Mrs. Lee Hilton.
Mr and Mrs. J. M. "Clyburn and
Miss Lois King accompanied Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Parker, of Jacksonville.
fx. on a m?tor trip to the mountains
of North Carolina last Thursday.
Mrs R. E. Parker, who has been
a patient at McLeod's Infirmary for
more than two weeks, was brought
home Tuesday and is now convalesc.
8w homp of her parents. Mr.
an^i^ Charlie Jones, near town.
Lldon Smith, of Chesterfield, spent
Sunday with his parents, the J. W.
oraitbs.
~~america"na
A doctor lecturing on vegetarianism
having a Broadway dancer tempt a
supposedly normal Florida rattlesnake
to apparently strike her to
prove that a vegetable diet or a spinach
bath renders poisonous snakebites
harmless.
Colored men being actually drawn
on a panel for jury duty in Tennessee.
West Point cadets, the future generals
of our armies, being instructed
i" me fine Of uttnrOGili cium-nig.
A bishop joining the campaign for
the repeal of a state's dry amendment.
Education officials claiming summer
school has been made so interest-1
>?K that young boys and girls now
go 011 their own volition. j
0,lIv M Wilson Teachers* I
tollege June graduates applying for!
Jojjs in tiie District of Columbia public
schools being able to pass the exanimation
given applicants.
Board ot examiners of New York
< * s. hools refusing to grant a
' <?( ier weighing ISO pounds a license
t uc h I), cause* she was 3u pounds
o. i'i w eight, and claiming teachers
"ho are overweight are not "acceptahygienic
models for the pupils"
Maryland State Police recovering a
car stolen last February which was
'dually in better condition than when
stolen from its owner.
The chief of police of a New Eng.
and town cracking down on nude
bathers seeking relief from the heat
declaring a fig leaf will do, but It
finder*hat mueh ~"pathA
Texas boy, 18, registered a ternrecenUy
?Vh? f?,,OW,ng * 8"n8tr?ke
foil / temperature dropped
rr*ra,m*n'Rn<i"ts
ne win recover.
Sportsmen Name
Lonnie M'Milla
Dillon, Aug. 7.~Louulo s Mcl|
lan, was elected president 0f 'n
South Carolina Fish and Game 4
uoclatlon at the annual convents
here today, which drew an attend^
of 250 delegates from all parts of tl
state.
He succeeded A. C. Hoyward
Columbia. In his report, Hey*?
told of progress made by the orgai
zatlon during the past year.
Vice presidents were selected
follows: Alexander Sprunt, jr
Charleston; Shepard K. Nash, 8m
ter; K. V. Brookshire, Anderson;
Brice, Clinton; T. K. Trotter, of Cai
den; and D. B. Mclntyre, Marlo
Wes JacockB and George Hyatt h<
over as secretary and treasurer, r<
pectlvely.
Charleston was selected as the ne
meeting place.
Among the visitors were A. A. R(<
ardson, chief game warden and H.
Smith, state forester.
A barbecue and fish dinner w
served and later the delegates to
part in rod and reel contests, casth
from a moving boat for accuracy a
distance, akeet shootiug and golf.
In the akeet shooting contest I
Frank Ell'erbe was winner, crackll
24 out of 25 targets. F. M. Bethul
of Cheraw was second and Joe V
Collins, of Dillon third.
The casting contest for accural
was won by H. C. Beverly with F.|
Wilcox, second, and W. C. Coler, jl
third, in the tall Btory contest, fill
prize went to the Rev. W. C. Arnol
president of the Dillon chapter, Rul
nor-up was Paul Jones, also to Dillol
The first three months of this yel
showed no increase in the number!
deaths caused from cancer. I
NOTICE " 1
To Bondholders of the Cherokeety^f
Pursuant to an order in the easel
John R. Todd and Charles M. Tainl
etc., plaintiff, vs. The Cherokee CB
and The First National Bank 1
Camden, Camden, South Caroli|
Trustee, defendants, notice la hfl
by given that all bondholders of A
Cherokee Club are required to pn|
their claims before the underslgil
Master at his office in the City^f
Camden, on the 4th day of SeptemtA
11935, at 10 o'clock in the forenoA
' and upon failure thereof, the boA
! and records of The Cherokee
shall be accepted as conclusive I
dence of the ownership of the boiH
of the said The Cherokee Club.
W. L. DePASS, JR., I
Master for Kershaw Coui^|
August 13, 1935. 21-23 I
NOTICE TO DEBTORS All
CREDITORS
All parties indebted to the eatate^B
D. F. McLauchlln are hereby notllH
to make payment to the undersignA
and all parties, if any, having clai^^B
against the said estate will presA
them likewise, duly attested. wit^^H
the time prescribed by law.
EMMIE A, McDAUCHLfli
Administratrix.
Camden. S. C.. July 29th. 1935.
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