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Governor Kump of West Virginia, granted parole* to 7i convicts, in or4?r to let them get home for Christina*. Nine of them were women and eighteen were serving terms for uiauslaughter or second degree murder. \ notice to debtors and creditors All parties Indebted to the estate of Carrie Helnnf are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all parties, tf any, having claims against the said estate will present them likewise, duly attested, within the time prescribed by law. SARA F. WQLFB. ^ KKOcutrU. Camden, 8. C., December 5, 1930. TAX^mtcrns Notice is hereby given that the Auditor's Office will be open for receiving Tax Returns from January 1st, 1937, to March 1st, 1937. AU persons owning real estate or personal properly must make returns of the same within said period, as required by law, or bo- subject to a penalty of 10 per cent. The auditor will be at the places and ou the dates mentioned below lu person for the purpose of taking tax returns: Haley's Mill?January 12th. llethune?January 13th and 14th. Kershaw?January 19th and 30th. Liberty Hill?January 21. Westvllle?January 26. Blaney?January 28th. All persons between the sgea of 21 and 60 years, inclusive, are required to pay a poll tax, and all persons between the t-ages of 21 and 50 years, inclusive, are required to pay a Road tax, unless excused by la#. All Trustees, Guardians, Hxeoutlyes, Administrators or Agents holding property in charge must return same. Parties sending tax returns by mall must make oath to same..before some officer and fill out the same In proper manuer or they will be rejected. B. B. SPARROW, Auditor Kershaw County. 39 8b. 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 ypu 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. .. . y ?ir- .. 37% District No. 4 .. .\ .. '' .. 39% District No. 6 41% District No. 25 26% District No. 43 f? .. [ * 25% Buffalo Township District No. 3 39% District No. 5 23% District No. 7 . i. .32% District No. 15 . .* ># 2o% District No-. 20 " 29% District No!22 41% District No. 23 ; 29% District No. 27 ..34% District No 28 .. . 20% District No. 31 .. 31% District No. 40 .. .*. 43% District No. 42 .. !! 23% Flat Rock Township District No. 8 34% District No. 9 .. .. .. ;.".".*[ ;84% District No. 10 . ..*87% District No. 13 ? .. .[ 26% District No. 19 .. .. .. .34% District No. 30 .. .. *.*. 23% District No. 33 .. .1 ,. 34% District No. 37 V. '.*. '*,34% District No. 41 84% District No. 46 ., .. !! 27% District No. 47 .. \, f,;.. .. 28% ' Wateree Township ' District No. 11. . -~r.: -- r' . gg% District No. 13*.. . . ... ... .. \\ 8V District No. 16 ... tr lT^ri cg% District No. 29 29% District No. 38 .. .. .. .. *23% District No. 39 .. .. [.28% Yours respectfully, C. J. OUTLAW, Treasurer Kershaw County, S. C. SIGNS OF ALL KINDS Camden Sign Shop Opposite Court Houae Opposite Court House - I friends" %.. THOSE comfortable, old I shoes have served W I like an "old friend." There's no need of partI ing company with them just because their heels are run down and the I soles thin. ^ JUre them? 1 ~? Rclwdlt^ x I Lomansky's . .11 Name "AW' Is Derived From en Ancient Mission The Mission San Antonio de Valero stood On the cast bank of the San Antonio river just across the stream from the town of San Antonio, in 1836 a settlement of about 7,000 inhabitants. , The mission, which was founded in 1718, was in a grove of Cottonwood (alamo) trees, hence the name "Alamo." It had been first a refuse of the Franciscan order, then a military popt. The Mexican general Cos had I abandoned it in 1825, and it had stood in a bad state of repair until Pebru^y of ' the following year, when the Americans at San Antonio occupied it as a defense on 1 the approach or the Mexican dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna with three regiments of horse and fourteen battalions of foot, an army estimated at between 7,500 and 8,500 men by Capt. R. M. Potter, U. S. A., observes a correspondent. The old mission stood within the limits of a small village. To the east and \yest of it ran irr" gating ditches, and around it, was a grove of cotton woods. The strongest part of the defenses was the old chapel, standing at the southeastern * corner of the mission premises. This chapel was 75 feet long, 62 feet wide, and 22Vfc feet high. Its walls were four feet thick and of solid masonry. Most of its interior was open to the sky in'1836, only a portion of the west end and the north projection having the covering of a roof. In the east end of the chapel was a platform of earth. Three guns were mounted in the chapel. 1 i "Swing Music" Man Is Allowed Natural Style The origin of the name "swing music" has been " ascribed to a well-known director, who exhorted his band to "swing it," using the word in the sense of "give full swing tp it," or in other words, "have each player indulge his natural bent." According to various leaders of swing bands, it is music in which the musician expresses his personality or his carefree feelings in rhythm, riding away from the original melody but never losing sight of it. The melody is submerged but not discarded. It is total relaxation, playing as you feel the music and not as written by the composer. vWhen an orchestra swings, it plays polyphonidally, with every instrument given an equal voice and complete freedom within its possibilities, in contrast to the symphonic European style in which the emphasis is placed upon strings and tradition. In swing music, equal emphasis is placed upon melody, harmony, counterpoint and rhythm. There is a difference between improvisation < and swing. "Jam is pure improvisation by a group; if their col lective improvisations are rhythmatically integrated, they swing; 1 or in other words, good jam. j swings."?Detroit News. ? ? t Genghis Khan Temuchin, son of Yesukai Bahadur, "w^s born in 1162 near the northern bend of the Hoang - ho : river, in Mongolia. He. was only 13 when he ascended his father's throne and announced with youthful confidence his intention of con- : quering the "entire world. He did in 20 years become master of all Asia and Eastern Europe, destroying?it is estimated?in his wars , and expeditions at least 5,000,000 lives. History knows him by the ( name he gave himself, Genghis : Khan ("greatest of kings"). He was great as administrator as well ( as warrior. He was tolerant in religion, encouraged popular edu- < catipn and established laws against crime so rigid that it was said that. j one might traye/from one end of his vast, domains to the other with- 1 out molestation. Romans Used Legal Seals", | . , The seal played a great part in legal documents in ancient Rome. and our own use of seals in legal ^ documents is derived from the Ro- i man practice. Caesar Augustus i authenticated his - edicts with one or another of his signets, a sphinx, < a head of Alexander or a signet 1 bearing the likeness of his own ' head. Maecenas, the famous pa- * tron.of literature, uqed as his seal j a frog, a device then much dread- 'j ed, as it was associated with fresh taxis. ' ' . 1 1 ~ Tobacco Smoker . t Jean Nicot died in 1600 after hav- l ing won immortality as the man l who made ttobacco-smoking popu- i lar in Europe?under the impression that the leaves had curative 1 qualities. He. made his "dis- ( covery" while French Ambassador 1 to Portugal/ There, when Oviedo 1 brought over the first tobacco . plants from the New World, it was ( regarded as merely a kind of pot- l ted blossom of no practical value. i . ' , ? . . - ... . - ' i Some Drugs Lose Strength j Many drugs, irrespective of how J and where they are'kept, loss their ? strength and efficacy within a few months. Others.' states Robert J. ? Wehrle, Norwood, Ohio, in Collier's < Weekly, ftjfch as Epson salts, soda niter, keep indefinitely in their J original condition; while some, . such as laudanum, actually becomes stronger with age. lubbiaro of mountains Clarksburg, W. Va., Dec. 26.-* pudgy llulu man?"the Bluebeard of the Mountains"?eat In the cantor of a brilliantly lighted stage, the eyea of more than 1,200 spectators upon him. The Aceue was in the opera house at Clarksburg, in the hills of northern WeBt Virginia. lieucath the stage, in the basement, twelve farmers and small town business men deliberated over the evidence in one or the rnokt bUarro murtto1*.. ti'lu|? this state had ever known. U took them one hour aud 60 minutes to decide that the-little man on the stage should go to the gallows for hilling Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lemke of Northboro, Mass. '1 he details still are vivid in the minds of many who attended the trial Ave years ago.. ' i ho state charged Harry P. Powers 44-year-old "Mall Order Koipeo" with perpetrating the murder of Jive persons in a weirdly-built, windowless garage at his farm in lonely quiet dell, ou the outskirts of Clarksburg. The "Bluebeard," as his accusers culled him, was a man of many aliases. In the summer of 1081, Mrs. Asta Eicher, a widow, left her three children in the pare of neighbor^ In Park.1 Ridge, HI., near Chicago, and went away with a man she knew as Cornelius O. Pierson. A few days later Piersou returned alone and disappeared with the children. The neighbors, worried, called police. The officers learned the family had gone with Piersou to Clarksburg. So the police of Park IUdge asked the police of Clarksburg to find Pierson. Nobody knew bim here. But an investigation showed that mail addressed to Pierson was being claimed by owers, the husband of a woman opiating a little neighborhood grocery. Hundreds of letters were being received for Pierson. Officers arrested Powers for quesmnring| h#,B P?ckets they found more letters from many women?i martrjjnonial agency "sweetheart" Z'pZ7onTe- A" were ?dd "d readil>r acknowledged he SLf v were the 8ame ma". and that he had described himself in hiai nJ?r tter8 as a wealthy civil eng?| uGor, hJh,e I)olice wanted to know what bad happened to Mrs. Eicher. 8aW 8he Kad left him in burgh8" W a "man from Pat8' But the officers peered into the strange garage. Beneath it they found contaminterranean rooms' wItk trunks letters maDy m?re matrlmonial , i?4*\ey a,8? discovered clothing Powpr?Wa8 ldentlfled as Mrs. Eicher's! s^.?nipfaV6 *onfllctln& explanations. kiHed th?US Powers.nilght have bmw thl Wwran and burIed her body, the officers called a gang of prisoners from Harrison county jail to tseHffimdeiU/arm and transformed J its solitude Into bustling activity. The prisoners began digging at a W,r9 the *??*<>. ?nd Elrter-abodV ""covered Mrs.) The digging went on. Thirty minHerJatm9.rKthe bodles o' Orethe^d Harry Eicher, the widow's children I were discovered. ; An hour and fl?ty Eichi?8 iTl t?e body of Annabelle rouJd ?f tbe children, was "ound in the same ditch . I Crowds gathered at the county Jail where Powers was a prisoner h,,V there was no violence P,l8?ner' but Powers refused to talk for a time but Anally broke down 9 tln,e' I did It," he said. "Give me a ^oSrAU;"0 861 a Httle re8t Rnd 1,1 tel1 be aext da>r- August 29, the prls. 8 up the bones of a fifth >f Mra r i,Identifled a? the body r> r-^mke. a divorcee. P?1,c? 8aid they had obtained a was fn t rod5?rtl Powers, but it never was introduced ln evidence at his mit'ln* run,tal" Lothario, while ioTi ? trial, spent the time fn I to* tre*lv ^t?a7,S' read,ng and talkhzyth,nK the mITlSteor?,ler0nt"1U^ 10 COme from Jfa" orocr sweethearts," but were too from m??nvhlnl' Im>ulrle? came, ??.of ,he coua,ry ?H? remaIn?d calm until a shontlneiheHff g?.thered outside the Jail. The lomts. tear |rtng. wee tikei thron^a r"ar door' it MomidevIHe ""There'8 Pl?n,tent,arv ?rs shunned htm, :eAt'r,a\a,n"6X ?f tbe destt tte kooden tetce 'at Urn"* b,gh' A ??s burned by a moh <arm'* frected a new fenr?Tr* lessee* >r the mob a few houtaWlate'?A thttS W went up attd ??? rilU 0ften **** la v&udeihowed a' typtcVlmMl M I Chufch was dlUIiSf^ ^_n 8trcetSoZem^S knlwt a change of v7 had ? ThroughonrZtrt 08^ V Mrt' WM ttbwn to have had FACT? ABOUT EEL8 (By L. D. Chapman in Our Dumb Animals) Would you bo surprised to learn that our common fresh water oel goes to the salt water (o lay its egg* and thou dies? The ools, common in all our rivers and streams, spend their whole adult life In fresh water, only returning to their original home in the ocean to lay their eggs, and then to die. The common eol, familiar to all of us, has a remarkably wide distribution, btiug found on the coast and in the rivers of western Murope, und in all parts Of America. In its feeding habits the eel (s a regular glutton, and somewhat of a scavenger besides, Its varied diet including voles, water-birds, small fish, fish spawn and worms. It is owlliko in its habits, committing many of its depredations at night. A quarter of a century ugo practically nothing was known of the breeding habits of the species. The elucidation of the mystery provided one of the most fascinating biological discoveries in recent years. loward autumn a number of aduit llsh cease to fbed, lose their normal I greenish color, and assume a silvery | livery; at the same time the eyes be| come larger and other changes occur. The call of. the sea seems to be ail-1 -powerful, for Individuals living lu remote ponds will wriggle across stretches of grassland, on damp nlghtH, in order to rea^h the nearest sea-going river. Having reached the ocean, they make their way to the nearest spawning grounds, situated two or three thousand miles away in the Western Atlantic, south-east of Bermuda. Having deposited their eggs, the parents die. | The following spring the young hatch out. They are curious little creatures with flattened leaf-like bodies, small heads and Jaws provided with a few long needle-like , teeth. They feed on minute organisms at or near the surface of the ocean, and gradually swim or drift across the Atlantic, finally approaching the coast when a little more than two years old. Having reached the average length of three inches, they are now ready to enter fresh water. They run up the larger rivers by the million, the ascent of the young eels taking place in the late winter or early spring. No obstacle seems too great for the migrating eels once they start on their way to the fresh water, till at last they find some suitable resting Place in some river, pond or stream, where they will remain until they themselves are old enough to set out on the great Journey that will end their ljves. / a large, sum of money, whereas Mrs. HJicher was comparatively poor, anxl?U8 !?i,2bta*n a home ?or herself and her children. Bowers deposited several thousand dollars, which the state claimed was Mrs. Lemke s money. Powers said It at'home" ar?und the kitchen Mr. and Mrs. Charles Flemmlng of Worcester, Mass., brother and sister hi** 8la,n woman. told how they m? ii? a pIcture ot "Pierson" qn the divorcee's dresser. MWe are going to get married," Mrs. said Dg quoted her sIatdr as having ml Hre has aJb,g ranch at Cedar Rapids, Jowa, and he is going to give me everything my heart desires." The couple told how "Pierson" had come and left with Mrs. Lemke. Mrs. lo.ok?d Powers In the eyes hll minute, then spoke: .. That's the man." The prosecution termed Powers the WOf8t mass slayers the world has ever known." Spectators fought for seats in the opera house. They surged into seats imthe orchestra pit and balcony long before proceedings started. Others unable to get In milled behind ropes on the streets outside. ~ #kPoTeZ8'- attorney described him as victim of an "unseen witness, the vengeance, which was claiming that hanging?"lnl?n mU8t b? appeasod *>y . Leroy C. Goff and Dr. Her 5ftynes asserted Mrs. Lemke, hla and two of the children had been strangled, while Harry tr'i Vh,rd cMld- had be?n gagKed and struck on the head with a hammer in the garage that later became known as the "chamber of horror. Powers' attorney introduced' pictures showing his face bruised, an eye blackened, his back injured. The attorney insisted the officers had given iiX S deRree'" hut the polled saW he had fallen down a stairway. Powers himself blamed the killings on' Two other fellows." t .?U0XL days at the trtal the defh2 X u #tar,n* at the steeple of X Ami" pa,nt?d on the backdrop or coolly eyeing the other scenery and . * . electrician, who sat overhead at a switchboard. ? withA.^4 Ue *erd,ct conviction 1931 a murmur on "December 10, ne*t day he was taken back 1?* ? ' of March 18, into thb execution ; An unconcerned smile flickdoor ?*H death dropped to his wI7?8 the little grocery store XT*8' had abe still "? m>rt comM house haT# hlnrrBleased fof iL ii?uul -^geaeg?>iJ?1. Goodfellows Aid In Gift Of Baskets The following la a list of those contributing to the Goodfellows Club during the holidays. Between nluetylive and one hundred bankets of fruits and provisions were distributed to the poor and noody In and around Camden; Mrs. John Whitaker 1.100 John M. VUleplgue .. ,. .. .. .. 1.00 T. Thorney Trueadalo 1.00 Home Furnishing Company .. .. 1.00 Walter Price 100 Dr. T. B. Bruce 100 Boston Store 100 I^awrence Whitaker Jr. .. 100 Allen Norris 1.00 Mrs. W. H. Bonsai! 1.00 J. Bluke Zemp .. 1 00 Rhame Brothers 100 Fred Ogbuvn 100 A. It. Surratt .. .v * 100 Perry I^ungstou 1.00 Mrs. Binning 100 D. M. Mays 1.00 Bill Nelson 100 Sheriff J. R. Mcleod 1.00 J. D. Watson >50 N. C. Arnett 1.00 C. J. Outlaw 1.00 B. K. Sparrow 1.00 Marlon Williams 1.00 H. O. Carrlson Jr 1.00 H, G, Carrlson, Sr 1.00 Mrs. John Devine 1.00 Mrs. "W. J. Mayfleld ,, .. .. .. 1.00 Bill Nettles 1.00 Henry Suvago 1.00 Frank Curetou 1.00 Dr. J. W. Corbett 1.00 W. H. Harris > + t?iaf 1.00 W. L. Goodale 1.00 C. N. Stogner 1.00 Henry Savago, Jr. 1.00 C. C. Whitaker 1.00 E. D. Drakeford .. .. 1.00 Mrs. Owens ,, .. .. 1.00 C. Q. Kornegay 1.00 Mrs. Zemp 1.00 W. Lambert DePass .. .. .. .. 1.00 T. C. Gladden 1.00 Willis Sheorn 1.00 Dr. R. E. Stevenson 1.00 A. J. Eddlngs 1.00 Barringer Hardware Company .. 1.00 Jack Moore 1.00 Major A. M. Brailsford 1.00 R. M. Kennedy 1.00 R. M. Kennedy, Sr 1.00 Lewis Le? Clyburn .. 1.00 C. J. Shannon, Jr 1.00 J. L. Guy 1.00 C. H. Yates 1.00 W. Robin Zemy 1.00 A. S. Llewellyn .. 1.00 J. Team Gettys 1.00 Mr. Stack .. 1.00 Frank Coursen 5.00 Mr. Knight 1.00 Mr. McKee Graham .. .. .. .1.00 Mrs. McKee Graham .. .. \ . .. 1.00 M. H. Heyman 1.00 Mrs. J. L. Weeks 1.00 George Greswold .. .. .. .. ,, 1.00 Mrs. Douglas Boykin 1.00 Jack Whitaker, Jr 1.00 Mrs. Jack Whitaker, Jr 1.00 Mrs. Edward Stout .. .. .. .. 1.00 Mrs. R. M. Kennedy 1.00 Katherlne Kennedy .. ...... 1.00 F. N. McCorkle r.".. 1.00 A. Sheheen 1.00 Austin Sheheen 1.00 Ernest Sheheen 1,00 R. L. McCasklll 1.00 Water and Light Department .. 6.00 T. Hay .. 1.00 John K. Dupose 1.00 * rrsiMm I nwm Mule Goes Mad From Bite Of Fox Bamberg, Dec. 31.?A mule belougli&K to Kugene Humph who farms for N. P. Smoak, near Mldwuy, went mad a few days ago and had to be killed. Some weeks ago Humph was riding the mule, near his home, when a fox , ran out and ti led to bite the negro. He kept his legs out of reach, so the fox took vengeance out on the mute. This was before so much was known ubout mud foxes. A few duys ago the hiule showed signs of hydrophobia, and a veternarian advised that the unimul be killed. Mrs. E, B. Mobley Kershaw, Jan. 2.?Mrs. 1011a 11. Moblay, 69, one of Kershaw's valuable citizens, wus found dead in her bed this morning. Mrs. Mobley had beeu in declining health for the last few months and had recently suffered a heart attack but hud apparently recovered. Mrs. Mobley is survived by two sons, J. G. and J. H. Mobley of Kershaw; one daughter, Mrs. bum Hunter of Heath Springs, and several grandchildren. Her husband preceded her to the grave many yeara ago. The funeral was conducted by the Rev. W. J. Bradley, her pastor, assisted by the He v. Mr. BJlmer from , tjio First Baptist church of which she was a devoted member. . i A motorist at Ansonia, Conn., reported to the police that lut-had knocked down a pedestrian and broken a pint bottle of liquor in the man's hip pocket. The motorist said the man refused to be taken to a physician, but Insisted tbat he be paid full price for the broken pint. Frank Wooten .. 1.00 Dr. Carl A. West 1.00 John K. delxiach 1.00 R. B. Pitts 1.00 Lee Little 1.00 J. H. Osborne 1.00 R. W. Riegor 1.00 N. P. Gettys 1.00 a Dr. D. C. Hlnfion 1.00 Selwyn King 1.00 David Wolfe ; 1.00 Thomas Ancrum 1.00 J. G. Richards, Jr 1.00 A. C. McKain 1.00 Ralph Shannon ,, .. 1.00 A. Douglas McArn 1.00 M. M. Johnson .. .. 1.00 Jerome M. Hoffer .'. ? ? 1.00 :H. G. Carrlson, Sr . r 4.00 Sam Karesh .. ,. 1.00 C. P. DuBoso, Sr 1.00 C. P. DuBose, Jr l.Bd Clarkson Rhame .. .. ?. .. .. 1,00 W. D. McDowell . r .?#... ;. .... 1.00 Miss Lal Blakeney 1.00 Cash (Pittsburgh) 1.00 ^ Mrs. H. Q. Marvin .. .. .. .. 1.00 Mrs. L. 8, Proctor .. ... 1?00; Harry S. Porter o .. .. .. .; 1.00 v H. D. Niles ,, .. ?. .? <? 1.00 Mrs. H, D. Nlle? .. ... .. .. 1,00 ? " mm TOTAL .. .. 9122.00 i ^TTTTT?I I BROAD STREET LUNCH I ON TOP OF THE HILt, , I I | The Beet Nickel Hamburger Anywhere. Milk?Bottled Drinka?Beer?Ice Cream B I I.- COURTEOUS '< ( ' OPEN UNTIt* ^B^lp CURB SERVICE > '--3 A. Mr'' '' ' v^l I j ' >. -v 'W?* Tt . ! ! ???? I I | - ?1 ' ' . - I - .. ,. -. - I - ,. I I. I I r * I I .1, _ ..iC ||M ssmbcsv FIRE?AUTOMOBILE?BURGLARY?BONDS ? . s%~ ?1 {g? ' | DeKALB INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE CO ? 9 "INSURANCE HEADQUARTERS'* jj. . H CROCKER BUILDING?'TELEPHONE 7 s 3 J : . I i -Li - "X 'K ^ 2 M. G. MULLER ELIZABETH CLARKE, Mgr. gj ; ???? I I I????????????fjw ALL?FORMS ?OF?INSURANCE i I 1 " 1 " II ??? ???? mammmmmm - I WARNING! I I Cold Winter Predicted, I I A Norge Oil Heater will keep youlf home comfortable I l~b the coldest whether. Even temperature at all I ? ~~iT ~~; 7 . I time*. Clean. No more coal to carry in. Terms. ^ I City Electric Company I I Radios Ranges Radio Repairs I CAMDBW. 8. C. 'j? \