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$2,000,000 Is Paid By Cannon Kannapoll*. N. C., Dec. 22.?Caunou Mills company paid out approximately $2,000,000 to stockholders iu their final quarterly dividend, for which checks were reelved today hy stockholders. The amount, paid at the rate of $2 u share, brings the total dividends paid during 1936 to approximately $4,? 000.000, an official stated. Printed across the face of the dividend checks k were the words "Golden Jubilee," to *emind stockholders that thp Cannon Mills has been in operation for flfty years. The Golden Jubilee note will' be carried out In advertising for the year, and the words will be Inscribed upon the Cannon Mills stationary. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Ginen, now designates Merle Vandenbush, pul of Harry Brunette, captured in New York on Monday, as "public rat No. 1." \ NOTICE OF MEETING For Dissolution of Corporation Notice is hereby given that at ten o'clock (10) a. m., on Saturday, Jhnuary 9, 1937, a meeting of the stockholders of Carollua Motor Company, a corporation,, will be held at 'the office of the corporation on Broad street in the City of Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina, for the purpose of considering and acting upon a r6SO^ rutlon providing for the dissolution of the corporation, the said Carolina Motor Company, and for winding up its affairs. HUGHBY TINDAL, President Carolina Motor Company. Camden, S. C., December 9, 1936. 89-42 TAX NOTICE The books for the collection of State, County and School Taxes for the fiscal year commencing January 1, 1936, will be open from September 15th, to December 31, 1936, Inclusive without penalty. When making Inquiries regarding taxes, be sure to state the District Number in which you live or own property. The total tax levy for the various districts are as follows: DeKalb Township Mills District No. 1 46 District No. 2 .. 37% District No. 4 *! .. 39% District No. 6 ., 41 % District No. 25 ... .. .. _ 25% District No. 43 j 25% Buffalo .Township District No. 3 .39% District No. 5 23% District No. 7 32% District No. 15 .. # > 23% District No. 20 \ 29% | District No.22 41% i District No. 23 . 29% f District No. 27 '.. .'.34% District No 28 26% ? District No. 31 31 % District No. 40 ' 43% District No. 42 .. " 23% Flat Rock Township District No. 8 34% District No; 9 .. ,. .. '. . '.'.34% District No. 10 27% District No. 13 .. .. .. .. .. \ 26% District No. 19 34% District No. 30 23% District No. 33 / 34% District No. 37 x '.'. *.*.34% District No. 41/.. 84% Distric-t No. 46' 11 27 % District No. 47 ! .. '' 23% Wateree Township District NO. 11 26% District No. 12 .*. 37 District No. 16 .. .... .. .'.* 26% District No. 29 ! 29% District No. 38 .". 23% District No. 39 28% Yours respectfully,^ C. Jt OUTLAW, Weasurer Kershaw County, S. C. SIGNS OF ALL KINDS Camden Sign Shop in Wilson's Lunch Opposite Court House i """ " i > ? r- -"old friends"... THOSE comfortable, old 1 shoes have served you like an "old friend." There's no need of parking company with them just because t their heels are "run down and the soles thin. Have them?Rebuilt Lomansky's ' Shoe Shop Wmmmmmm l I. Iv RIRRTHfl R. IHRIRRS ! ' * j:T 'VE just had a thought,** I said Marcia, "and it's a [ A grand one." They were tucked cosily beneath a bear rug in an old-fashioned sleigh, gliding along under the stars to the silvery jangle of bells. "Tell me at once," commanded Jerry, "I collect grand thoughts as a hobby." .Marcia laughed. "Tonight is New Year's eve, and if," she sat up straighter in her eagerness, "the sun were shining, and we w.ere going with it, just as fast, I mean? we could yell down Happy New Year to the whole world as we rolled along!" Jerry was amused and indulgent. J "Don't you see," continued the girl, "we're all so used to thinking of. events hap pening just where we are, and not following them on and on" . . . The idea rather gets you." "Around the world in 24 hours at New Year's. A zippy travelogue?" 7 But she was serious. "See here, Jerry, you and I are going to be married soon, and -I sort of hope we can, well, keep our thoughts up and off the ground." "What an odd idea. Usually coming bribes are chattering o^ linen and silver." She pressed her hand on his arm. "Stop the horse a minute, please. There?let's both lean back and look up at the sky, and fill our "eyes with stars, and space . . . and time-going-on. Maybe, if we" drink deep enough," her voice was husky with feeling, "we won't get all tangled up with trifles. I'm a little afraid sometimes, of our days ahead, - Jerry."? ---"Afraid?" The man's voice sounded hurt. "Only that I'll get a habit of low-visibility." "You mean," Jerry leaned over to take her hands "you want always to remember that new happiness, new ways of thought, and New Years, go ringing around the wdrld with the sun; that time does not circle around one small set ot people or circumstances?" "Yes, yes, Jerry! Let's make a pact together, now. Not to think little thoughts about little events that haPP^n to ?ur little selves." I'Fine. I'm with you!'' "And to remind each" another now and then, to stop, and get the true sense of time and space and world-bigness going on and on." "Done, darling! New Year's resolution for a happy life: KEEP THE SUN, MOON AND STARS IN YOUR THOUGHTS ... and you'll never be narrow-minded!" Jerry kissed her. "Hear the bells ringing in town? Aren't they far and sweet?" whispered Marcia. "Midnight circling the world. New Year's in a mini ute!" C Western Newspaper Union. ' NEW YEAR'S BELLS CROM the earliest times the "1 ringing ot belle has been cmployed as a method of announcing death, and the use of bells at New Year's eve symbolizes the death of the pld year. In England it #as formerly cuetomary to ring muffled bells just before twelve, and at twelve to remove the wrappings and to allow bells to ring loudly..' ^ . ^ f :.<%gxag * * 1 1 * f HAPPY 1 NEW YEAR I MUSH !' mm !; . By LuelU B. Lyons ttjfT- ^ ^ 1 n n r LEAH MERWIN had been the one elected to stay at home when the others went into town in the old flivver to the morning New Year's service at the church. Someone had to remain at home to watch the stock and, too, Leah hadn't a new or even a decent coat. Jalap Merwin was having tough sleddmg in financial affairs without one more need being voiced, so Leah never told him of her need. "I wouldn't have minded if it hadn't started snowing the minute their backs were turned and now? they won't tackle driving home in li this weather," but Leah's. words stopped at once as she made out in the swirling snow a car that was stopping in the barnyard. The plump figures of a man and a woman were making a wild dash for the protection of the house. "We saw we couldn't go another turn of the wheels," the sweet, . friendly woman told Leah?the lady who introduced the two of them at, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Madison, 11 miles to the east of Borger. "We hoped to spend New Year's and j , visit at our son's, Tom Junior's' over at Borger, but now?well, we J want to buy our dinner here from j you. May we, my dear, without j putting you out?" They were such a jolly pair and : Leah even forgot to be embarrassed, when she had to serve them j the only thing, she had prepared, I a feast of delicious fried mush and1 butter and syrup and plenty of fresh milk and coffee. Supper con- ' sisted of the same fare and so did 1 breakfast the next morning, but J by that time the Merwins were able to break the drifts and reach the farm and the Madisons, via those breaks, went 6n their belated way. "It will be a happy New Year every day for a year for us, Momsy," Leah shouted when the Madisons were out of sight. To a smiling but perplexed family, Leah explained that Mr. Madison owned a small chain of meat markets and small cross road grocery stores and that he had given her sufficient orders for slabs of cornmeal mush just like she had served him and his good wife, for all those stores for one year at least. "The labels on this mush, he said, are to read 'Lady Leah's rtrize Mush'." When tha trio had quieted down a bit she added: "The money end of the contract will settle all our financial difficulties for the year and who knows, maybe forever!" " . e Western Newspaper Union. : v.'l'&SLtC* .-USTSMSSssT-* 't*-' Beginning of the Tear As early as 251 B.C., the Romans accepted January as the beginning of the year. They named the month in honor "of Janus, the two-faced god, as looking both into the past and the future. During the Middle Ages the year was made to begin at various dates. In England, in 1751, January was made the first month by act of Parliament COMMENT8 ON MEN AND TH1NQ8 (by Spectator) KdwurU the Eighth will live an loug as history is read. Perhaps lie was foolish: but who says so? Whej) you boil it all down what is the not result? .Just this. There was a man of forty two years who loved a woman and loved her hotter than all the trappings of royalty; wanted her more than he wanted the greatest empire of all time. Out in the open he came. There was no bucks taks courtship; boldly lie announced that with the woman of his choice ho could he a happy king; but if he must choose between his love and his throne the throne was secondary. It waB a momentous choice and Edward will live as the hero of the world's greatest romance. Had Edward continued King ho might have become known as a respectable ilgure in a round of routine ritualism. He would have worn the uni/ei-niB, saluted the flag and been saluted; he would have been Just another name without significance; hut now! From this time he steps out of the line of ordinary rulers; he stands out as one who wanted something more than ceremonies and honors; something more than pomp and tinsel glitter. To my mind he brushes aside the allurements of place and circumstances in a choice that takes him from the ranks of men and puts him on a pedestal alone. There Is something refreshing in the Kings course. In a world of I make-believe and grasping; of trimming and side-stepping hero stands a niun who renounces an empire. Yes; hut he gains an immortal name, topping all the chlvalric men of all the ages. This is the season of good cheer. It should not be merely a time for gorging on the things of the table. A feast, yes, because a feast so often reflects a radiant mood and sometimes evokes it; but It is the time to remember others, rather than to indulge ourselves, it is tli#bld story of Bethlehem. God the August Creator sent his son to live among us so Jhat mankind might see and know the personality of the Father through | the Son. Our feeble and limited minds could not grasp the fact of the fatherhood of God. He seemed the Great Spirit of Might, not the Father whose ^tenderness surpasses that of an earthly parent. And so He gave His son. ?r God so loved the world that He gave his only Son." And this son, the Ixn-d, moved among the people, the rich and the poor, the halt and the blind, the sick and the suffering and carried the love of God In His life. So we are to get the lesson of giving our substance, but, more, to-give ourselves to sweeten and soften the bitterness and the hardness of ! life * Christmas is becoming so well or[g^nized that I wonder if we are in dallg?? of spoiling the occasion It la an appropriate time for thinking appreciatively of one's friends, but how the people are straining at it' The giving, inhere is to be giving should represent something real' something sincere. Now we have it so that it is a time to be dreaded. And so far do we work at it that we compel the children to buy "presents" J?r c9M8in Henry and Aunt Sara. Uncle Dan and Mary Jane and each or the children far and wide. _ And If a token be received from some one for whom you haven't bought a remembrance. Why Jumping Jehoshaphat. the fat's in the -flre! And so, from a fear that they will fall down socially, the people turn Christmas from a season of quiet, calm meditation of the sound values of life Into a shopping spree for piffles. That is of course, the lAdles do' that. The men, with a noble sense of values, refuse to rush pellmell over one another in search of trinkets for Mary Lous twins. The whole month of December is devoted to ' shopping, uying, packing, addressing, mailing then the bubble bursts and then how let down one feels! Well, well, Christmas means giving, but giving from Jhe heart, not tomfoolery. Our South Carolina Democracy disregards entirely the oconomic condition of the people in committing the State to new-ventures and programs of expansion. Sometimes a legisla^ tor who Is himself a citizen of small means at home and econonittal in expenditures becomes a yictim of the spending atmosphere and the .glamor ous surroundings of the Legislature. Even, a casual study of our spending will .show that expenditures have VeX/ kept on a level with the ln> come, of the people. Year by year taxes have beerf heaviqjxm those who have tried to pay. ;i mean that evefe in those counties-In which the great* est reduction was made, even there the income of the people had fallen ,hl"1 h4d th? ""taction The departments, institutions and services ofthe 8 tats are seeking for 'JY?? U-roo hundred " ? *}*btT ttouunnd d0U.ru more V** ,rt todV. i *9 . , i 1 ' ? ' ir" 1, t- attention to the growing disparity bei whom tho Income of the people and the expenditures of the State. DurtiiK this year It Is estimated that tlte farmer will receive eleven milltona more for IiIh cotton than last year, and two millions less for hia tobacco. The gross receipts of tho tw<j major crops of the atale are about nine million I dollara above lust year. Gross receipts, not net Income or profit. As | in well known, tho farmer does not keep books; he does *not churne for hia aervlcea. Even ho, hia net profit cannot exceed twenty per cent, or about a million, eight hundred thouaund dollara above laat year. Of couruo I don't believe any accouutuut would find a twenty per cent net profit for the farmer, iiut our state services want all the furmera' nut profit and half million more! And, Mark You. we haven't aeon tho county supply bills yet?which will show increases? and we haven't tackled tho old-age pensions yet. This little state of ours is progressive, ut least in spending. If the Hepublicans were in control of our state government wouldn't wo have glorious times pointing out waHto and extravagance! MUTE KILLS SWEETHEART AFTEft WORDLE8S QUARREL New York, Dec. 15.?For three years Valentine Orrigo,.25, a deaf mute, poured out his love on his swiftly moving fingers to Alberta Costello, 26, similarly afflicted. Two months ago they parted. East night, Orrogo, who told police he had beon practicing shooting in the meantime, met Alberta In the hallway of her apartment house. They quarreled wordlessly and then entered an automatic elevator. The building superintendent, hearing sounds of scuffling, pressed tho button to bring the elevator to the basement. As it stopped Alberta rushed out. Valentine followed and fired seven shots at her, three of which Btruck her. When they came they found Valentine bonding otfer his dying Bweetheart, talking to her with his fingers. Alberta died soon after admittance to a hospital. A murder charge was filed against Valentine. . Adams Crow, 26, farmer, crazy drunk at Lexington, Tenn., shot and killed his young wife; shot off the right hand of her grandfather, 71; bit off his father's right hand thumb in a life and death struggle, and then tried to shoot his mother-in-law, as she grabbed the baby of the home and fled. He then committed suicide. Bruce Hildebrand, furniture company official, pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon and was taxed with court costs at Morganton, N. 0., and released. He made a showing that he had paid $5,000 to the estate of Thomas M. Branch, carpenter, who was killed whfen struck by a car driven by Hildebrand on November 25. He was charged with manslaughter and hit-run driving. . M-?? m PAQK THRU Malvern Hill Club Report The Christmas spirit was rampant at the December meetinK of the Malvern Hill Home Demonstration Club. It was hold at.the home of Mrs. Clove Godwin, who hud added to the spirit of the Yuletidu by buying a lovely already decorated Juoie. This was u niglMURieeting aM(l llUH' bands and escorts were guests of honor. Quite a few children were there too. Miss Luetic Robinson had the devotional and Hho read that beautiful age-old story of the Christ child. The roll call and minutes were hulled along for it looked like a big evening ahead and time was fleeting. Miss Fewell read a letter and gave a talk on "Peace." Peace as it really should be In the world- She then told a delghtful Christmas story. The ploture of the month was of course a study of the beautiful Sistine Madonna. Miss Fewell then turned the meeting over to Miss Burah Ingram. And say, did we have fun? Old-timers talk about their quilting boos und house-warmings, but they couldn't have had any more fun than we did. There were all kinds of games and prises . . . and laugh! It was like the old fellow who said "Ah* don laffed myself silly and et myself sick." If there had been a price of admission It would have been worth It Just to see the men in the game where they had to put on und tuke off pillow cases. Honestly, one man tried to put a pillow In tho sewed end of a pillow case. Will Denton captured the top prize?a box of candy. He won this by expertly dropping lead pencils into a milk bottle. Mr. Den* ton cortainnty knows his milk bottles, but then, why shouldn't he? He being In the dairy business. There was a lovely Interlude In which Mrs. H. T. Lovotte presented a group of children In Christmas carols. There are but few countries ~ which do not have an Interpretation of "Silent Night, Holy Night!" And refreshments! You wouldn't believe that there was such a variety of sandwiches. Any kind of cake you wanted?plain, fancy or Just "mlddlln." We all beamed like Dickon's Tiny Tim when he said "God Bless us everyone." In a coal mine near Provok, Czechoslovakia, tho nude bodies of six miners were found1 when a wall was torn down. The wall had been built following an explosion in the mine a year ago. Near the wall was an Iron bar which the miners had used in an endeavor to break through the wall. Arthur Trevino, 25, grocer, hired a plane for a brief flight at San Antonio, Texas. When the plane reached an altitude of 3,600 feet, Trevino deliberately Jumped from the machine, waving to the pilot as he leaped. His body hit a house near hie grocery and narrowly missed Mrs. Frank Padeleckl, her baby and a friend. Bill Morgan of Greenville, S. C.? and Walter Post of Kingston, N. Y., are held by tho police of Waycross, Ga., on suspicion of kidnaping and robbing Dr. T. J. Ferrell. The doctor has. identified the two. men. He wa& carried across a county line and his 4 " ' automobile taken, when he was released. Uncured drug addicts are to be executed wholesale at Peiplng, China, on January 1st, having been officially condemned toTdeath In an effort tp stamp out the\use of drugs, and to "encourage" addicts to take advantage of free treatments. ,ytJ . 1 ^??????; MEET ME AT BROAD STREET LUNCH I I ; ON TOP OF THE HILL ' V " "'>> | The Best Nickel Hamburger Anywhere. j Milk?Bottled Drinks-?Beer?-Ice Cream COURTEOUS 7 OPEN UNTIL ] | CURB 8ERVICE 8 A, M. | | HiHEEHfi3HS2K3N||HMHKflH - - ^ >?m?~??~*i?'*mmmmmm*mmmmmmtm?mummmmmmmm^mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?mmm*mmmmmmmMmmmmmmmm??m SSEStjL ! _L FIRE?AUTOMOBILE?BURGLARY?-BONDS C S DeKALB INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE CO ? 3 "INSURANCE HEADQUARTERS" jS ^ H CROCKER BUILDING?TELEPHONE T ? ~4 -: <? ' " . I 4| J M. G. MULLER ELIZABETH CLARKE, Mgr. gs ALL?FORMS ?OF?INSURANCE * ** -> s g . L^lg^SSSSSSSSSSSSZSSSSSlSSSSSSSSSSSSSCiSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSESSSSSBC ^rnmmiS^S I WARNING! I I Cold Winter Predicted I II A Norge Oil Huter will keep your home "comfortable I^^H. r ~~~' *r5^ ^c . 1'. 4 ^ * in the coldest weather. Eren temperature at all ' I City Electric Company I I pL> 1RangC9 3^ Ra<Ho