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Trio Convicted Swindle Chargt Charleston, Jan. 30. Charles i Robinson, alius .Sir Mark YY?-bsU Jenklnsou, and Arthur Happen!*? w<? H t; 111 e 11 (* 4 *< | to hUl'VO MlKhl yeUTS OH C lii thij federal (Mm I tent Jury In J.ewh hi" K. I'a , and Samuel Allen wun h?i touted to serve two years In the sum Institution today when they were cull vI? tod by a jury In tin; United State district court in council ton with tin defrauding of Frederic < Jut tic, ? Cincinnati, of $3o,OU0 lure last Ma; 10. KobliiHon a fid Ha|i|>enio were ton vlcted on the llrst and third counti of the indict no nl, and Allen was con vlcted on the third count only. Judgt Frank K. Myers, at the request oi defense ((/tinsel, directed a verdict ol not guilty on the second cotiut, which was withdrawn hy the goveninajii i- rlday altcrnoon when deienne conn se| entered a deinnrrer to It. A fourth defendant, Flunk <". Davis, did not appear for trial, being out on $.*>,000 bond. On tiio llrst count, Robinson and iiappenle were convicted of transporting more than $0,000 fraudulently obtained, in interstate commerce. All three were convicted of conspiracy to defraud Tattle and transport the money in Interstate commerce. The _ Indictment Is bused on the so-called Lindbergh uci, passed in lb.'M to give the federal government Jurisdiction in cases in which ransom money is handled. Judge Myers llrst sentenced Kohlnson and iiappenle to serve eight years each in the federal penitentiary at Atluntu, on the lirst count and ull three to serve two years each in Atlanta, the second sentence in the case of Kobinuon uud liarpenie to run concurrently with the first, but ut the request of District Attorney Claud N. Sapp, who explained the defendants are wanted on other charges in New lork, Judge Myers placed them in a more convenient institution. As soon as the 11 man Jury brought in its verdict, J. D. E. Meyer of defense counsel, made a motion in arrest of judgment in behalf of Allen, he said thai in as much as the Jury had found Allen not guilty on the lirHt count, in which the only avert act in the Indictment was alleged against him, the Jury could not find him guilty on the third count, which alleged conspiracy to commit tin- same act. Judge Myers, though admitting there was an appearance of inconsistency in the Jury's-verdict, said he I believed the jury was satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt on Allen's connection with the conspiracy, and said he could not grant a motion in arrest of Judgment. He allowed an exception to be noted in behalf of Allen. Fulmer Pushes Cotton Measure (Special to The Camden Chronicle) Washington, Jail. 28.? Expressing belief that a crop Insurance bill now being drafted by the agriculture department would apply only to wheat, Congressman H. P. Fulmer of Orangeburg, K. C., said today that he would not support such a proposal unless It applied to cotton. t ulmer has introduced a crop Insurance bill, applying to cotton and wheat. He said that he did so In an effort to have such a program also include cotton. I am in favor of crop insurance but I can not support any measure that does not take cotton into consideration,' declared the congressman. My bill serves notice of my iutent ions." I he I- uluter MM would levy a premium of one-fourth of one cent on cot ion a pound, and two cents a bushel on wheat to finance crop insurance for the two commodities. It also would appropriate $ 1 o0,uoo.wt?o to set up an initial national crop insurance fund. Ibis bill is not compulsory, but will ui\t- cotton farmers an opportunity to protect themselves from the loss of their ?rops. from druurht, flood, boll wee\il infest at ion. or other causes, .-talis Mr Fulmer. ' $10 MONTHLY RAISE FOR TEACHERS IS APPROVEC Columbia Chairman N't vdle Hen lo t raid Twe>da\ nigh; the ways and means committee had decided to jn corporate a $ 1?? a month raise foi t> at hers in the general approprlut iot bill. The committee felt that teacher: of t he state were entitled to a raisi and the action of the committee In ap proving it for them was practical!; unanimous," Bennett said. 1 he slate, general appropriation bil is scheduled to be introduced in tin legislature this week end. 1 he new United States heavy cruif er, 10,000 tons, Vlncennes, recentl huilt at the Quincy,' Mass., yards c the Bethlehem Steel company at cost of $15,000,000, is to be commit ^ sioned February 23. YE OLD DAYS When Country Publishers Were lr ^ Dire Need of Funde. i Hy Joint Jv King, In llidiU't, < uM 'r font In NtiwH) ? Muyliups times urn different, olid ' tlio Western Newspaper I'lilon In *' more kindly to didfinjlii'iit publishers 1 than were tlin "i>at?'iil inside" ogres u of (Ih* old day. Of this I have no 1 personal knowledge H AIouk in I In* early part of ISV.t I " bought "patents" from flit* Sioux City ' Newspaper ITaoii, and (IiIh coin 'it'll k had ihc disagreeable Iiuhit of waiting only .'10 days for Km money. The llftli shipment, In tin- vent of non-pay* * iniMii, wan sent C. O 1)., and the local express agent seemingly was in J cahoots with the economic royalists, ' sincq neither (earn nor cajolery inude 'ja dent in his Htolid Indifference. 1 In the old days country publishers ^ had at ccHs to little chhIi, and, fortunately, reipiired hut little. Many subs< libers and merchants were oil a "t radW'v basl s, and it wau the general rule to aettle advertising hills quarterly, making a Icing hiatus between collection periods. "After harvest" was the lush time for creditors, and for at least eight months of the year neither farmer nor merchant was over burdened with cash. Thus came the fifth week. The Lurch wood Leader should have apI peured Thursday afternoon, hut the "insides" were still in the careful cusj tolly of Ihc express agent Like Mr. Mlcawher, hopefully waiting for something to turn up, the editor closed j shop Thursday evening and went to ja church fair, investing 25 cents for a ticket on a mustang pony. Two tickets, one held hy the editor, remained in the hat, and as one of them would he awarded the pony, the holder of the other ticket stopped proceedings to announce that he would give $15 for the editor's ticket. The offer was too good to refuse, and it is worth mentioning that when the drawing was concluded the other fellow, a young Englishman, was the winner. With the $15 tightly clasped In his hand the editor rushed to the express office, woke up the agent, paid the $14.GO C. O. I). charges against the ready-prints, walked a mile to get the roller boy out of bed. finished the two runs on the Acorn press (father of the Washington) and had the issue of the Leader in the poatoffice at 8 o'clock Friday morning. The editor required subsequent favors of Providence, since the same situation arose the next month. The outlook for redemption of the readyprints was dismal, yet on the Thursday evening train came a check for $15 from the Louisiana Lottery company, representing payment for three months' advertising. It was as welcome as would have been announcement of the winner of the capital prize. In the third embarrassment the ex-, press agent had a scintillating idea. "Why not borrow $15 from the bank?" he suggested. The editor had never borrowed money from a bank, and it was with fear and trembling he stood, hat in hand, before the president's window and made known his need for money. The banker hesitated, using with devastating effect the famous glass-eye expression, but finally decided he couldn't loan $15, as $25 was the minimum for loans. This amount he was willing to loan, provided a chattel mortgage was given. It seemed to be a satisfactory solution of the difficulty, and after deduction of a charge of $1 for making out a mortgage, $1.25 for recording fees, and interest at the rate of 12 per cent for DO days, approximately $2?i was paid the editor, and the Leader was issued on time. In tin long perspective as a country publisher may be shown the gradual exolution from a system of barter to a business-like operation of the newsI paper. It is not likely that the old plan would work nowadays. The credit man and the sheriff are too active, and the publisher is no longer regarded as an object of charity. Manx may he tin- t'railuies of the country editor, hut in the new day . of business necessity, he usually pa>s his debts or goes the way of other Iinaiu ial delinquents. ' OWENS-PiTTS A marriage of interest to their I i many tre nds was that of Miss Annie i Louise Owens, of Westxiile. to Kos. j coo R Pitts, also of Westville, on ^ t January 27. at 4 o'cloek. The core mony was performed hy Judge of Pro bate N. Arnett. Mrs. Pitts is the attractive duugh ter of Mr and Mrs W. H. Owens of Westville. Mr. Pitts is a suc/essful young busi ^ ness man and the youngest son oi ^ Mr. and Mrs C. U. Pitts, of Westville They will continue to make theii home in Westville. i- __ y A treasury report aays that shoult >f relief be continued at the pace of th< a last six months, President Roosevel will need $700,000,000 for the rest o I the fiscal year ending June 30. TO CAROLINA WOOD8 AND FIELDS i i My (Jrace Hendrlck Fustis In Hull day's New York Times) Tin- worse the wcuther for tin skiers, (lie happier are the sportamei ' Id the Carolina*. Am they -totrldi across billiard-green Kolf courses 01 ' amble through rusl-coloro? woodi they in ill tor happily (hat while lusi VYI liter wan paradise for the hiiow hirdh, iIiIm Im their year to gloat. So the act i vlties that enrich thr pockets of the <'aroliniaiiH und uceu py the time of the wealthy transient* are already In awing. Golf tonruu meiits tit Pinehurst are filling up. Preparations are going on for the two annual Camden hunt race meetings. I'olo ponies are cutting the turf of the twenty-six Aiken polo fields and the Southern Pines Drag Hunt Is anticipating big fields. People who go to the Carolines for the winter montliH differ from (hone who swarm to Florida. The man who inakeH Iduo from bis gasoline station in New England during the summer and wants to take his family in a trailer to where the sun beats on the sand does not stop there. Nor does the broker who wants night-club life und constant contact with the market choose the long wooded hills. Put for the hunter and horse lover the bright air and the hard, gusty wiud, dry and strong with the scent of pines, the great area of forest and swamps, the scrub oak and the lields of tawny broom sedge are ideul. Horse lovers find in the Mid-south centers many variations of their favorite sport?the hunts, the steeplechases, flat, hurdle and brush ruces. [Here that odd mixture of sports called the gymkhana brings enjoyment to many, with its pig races, tilting contests, ribbon and water races. Not far from Asheville, N. C., about 2UU bucks were killed this winter in the deer hunts. Besides romantic Charleston, the major winter resorts in the Carolinias are Aiken and Camden, S. C. p Southern Pines and Pinehurst, N. C. These last two can be bracketed because they are less than ten miles apart and in their sporting opportunities supplement each other. Of the four, Camden is the oldest (it was settled in 1733); Aiken is considered by many the most fashionable; Southern Pines leads in fox hunting; Pinehurst has the most varied golf. One thing all have in common?Northern money and enthusiasm have created or re-created them. In between these resorts lie miles of the finest natural quail-shooting country in the United States. Any one motoring down the flat stretches of road between November and March will see men with bulky hunting jackets and visored caps shouldering their guns and following their dogs through the dust-colored cotton fields. Camden was originally a pinestump village settled by a group of Irish Quakers early in the' eighteenth century. Because it was dry and sunny and fertile, the fine gentlemen of Charleston, who spent much time exploring the back country, settled there. It has had a colorful history. Twelve ravaging fires between 1779 and 1902 destroyed the court house, the market-place, the opera house and the theatre. It was a battleground during the Revolution and in the path of Sherman's march. Until the Civil War, the rich Southern life, with its hunts and balls, slaves and crinoline and glamour, flourished there. Occasional old plantations survived the Civil war, and the town had its gracious houses with tall ceilings, broad and frequent windows, double porches facing the prevailing wind, wide-boarded floors, built on different levels, and high, simple mantels. But there was little life. Then, one winter, Harry Kirkover, of Buffalo, ranie down with his bird dogs. He had raised eleven generations of pointers and setters and wanted a place to train1 them in winter. Soon he was joined by his friend Ernest Woodward, of Deroy, X. V Together they saw the possibilities of this sleeping town and went to work. First they bought property. Then they restored what had been the |t ainden Race Course in Revolutionary days, when the planters bought their ponies Irotn the Chickasaw In diatis. They leveled and fertilized and sowed bushels of bright Bermuda urass They built jumps of chestnut tails and brush and miles of slick white barriers. This development brought horse! and trainers and their retinues Mr Woodward presented a Queen Annt t up to the winner of the Cnrolinf ('up. U?st year more than 100 raet < horses were in training there w!tl 1 some 2..> additional show horses anc J hunters. Now the drag hunt, undet f the mastership of Mrs. IJwight Part . ridge, goes out with big fields Then r are hunter trials and horse shows. Southern Pines and Pinehurst ar< as strange a pair of neighbors at 1 can be found. Pinehurst is a large 3 up-to-date Winter resort, offering ver; t fine golf on several courses, large ho f tels, good shooting, riding and annua field trials for hunting dogs. Foundet Tlmrod Club Met The Tlmrod Home Demonstrat Ion ! club held Ith January uieetliiK on Jan.nary 26, at 2:30 j), in., at the school house, with twelve members beluK present. I The meeting was called to order by I the president, Miss Alma Newman. 1 All Joined in singing, "Ulest He The j Tie." Mro J (J. Squires read the do' I votlonal, followed by the lord's prayer. The roll was culled, minutes read and approved. The meeting was then turned over to Miss Margaret II. Fewell, Home Demonstration 1 Agent, who gave us the picture studied for the month, which was the "Northeaster," by VVinslow Homer, a j beautiful study of a storm tossed I wave. This picture hangs fn the Metropolitan Museum in .New York city. The your books were completed and we also worked on our project cards. Miss Fewell then made a very interesting talk on "Iteflnishing of Furniture." in 1896 by James Tufts, who built a home there for indigent teachers, it has become a commodious transient resort. Southern Fines is unique. It is called a resort in spiCe of an apparent desire not to be discovered. It does not seem to want wealth in the community. It was developed from a small town built along a llat highway. James and Jackson Boyd of Harrisburg, Pa., inherited from their father some 1,300 acres of woodland and pasture. As boys they came down in the winter and hunted with a salty fox-hunting enthusiast called Captain Twiddy from Buffalo. The latter had five couple of hounds and a negro huntsman, "Uncle Nat," who slept in the stall with his pony. Uncle Nat was a real Southern fox hunter. He called in his hounds with a great, carved cow horn. He hunted on foot, except during a hot run, and his pony followed him through the swamps and bogs of the low country. Not only fox-hunting was primitive and lively in those days. This section was cattle country and there used to be bitter feuds between the farmers and the townspeople. The townsfolk would refuse to protect their gardens on the grounds that the cattlemen should keep their stock fenced. The result would be that the cattle would eat the garden produce, the townsmen would impound the cattle and the countrymen wpuld come into town, with blazing shotguns and plenty of corn whisky, while the townspeople fled to their cellars. With this background and a love of sport, the Boyds started about 1914 to build up a sanctioned hunt. They paneled the country with good fences; they put strips of chicken wire across the swamps so horses could cross without bogging down; they bred English harriers to American foxhounds and developed a pack superbly equipped for hunting the native gray foxes. After much experiment they evolved an ingenious form of drag hunt which emulates a run in a fox hunt and eliminates the monotony of the average drag hunt. They encouraged a few persons to buy and build and have succeeded in keeping Southern Pines small, simple and sportloving. There is a hotel and there are pleasant cottages and a golf course, but there are few attractions except hunting. Finally, there is Aiken, the most worldly of the resortB. Since these places have taken on, to a certain extent, the color of those people who built them up, Aiken has the grace and ease of generations of inherited wealth. It was discovered in the Eighteen Seventies by Miss Celestine Eustls of j New Orleans and Washington as a j winter health resort for her delicate, orphaned niece. Louise Eustis, who ! subsequently married Thomas Hitchcock. From a small village surroundI ed by immense pines and red clay, 'Jasmine and magnolias, it was built up, in the beginning, by two families, 'the Eustises and the Whitneys. They bought houses and woodland. Miss , Eustis was determined to keep the . deep woods a refuge from traffic. Consequently. when the Southern Rail. | road wanted to build a line to a neigh(i boring town through . a particularly { attractive spot called "Lover's I^ane," she told a South Carolina court that if this were done she would give all her property to the negroes. The pro? ject was dropped. Today the houses there are com tollable and well furnished. There i are good hotels. There is an excel5 lent and meticulously cared for golf t , course. There are, outdoor and indoor 1 | tennis courts. The riding through r the Hitchcock woods is inviting. The drag hunts have big and safe jumps. 3 , There are schooling tracks for steeplechasers and now thero is a track s for trotting horses. There are good a schools for boys and girls and for i, small children. There Is a court ten7 ni8 court and good shooting. It Is y- a comjfttte resort and draws, during 1 a long and well-filled season, the best i sporting blood In the country. % Charlotte Thompson Honor Roll Grade 1?Tommy Rogers, Herbert Sinclair Grade 2?Bogan Dees, Mary Howard Hancock. Grade 3?Leonard Baker, Evelyn Branham, Thelma Sinclair, J. C. Stokes. Grade 4?Julia B. Arrants, Betty Jean Sowell. Grade 5?John Cannon, Margaret Pearce, James Walker. Grade 6?Martha Dennis. Grade 7?Lillian Shiver. Grade 8?Lila Baker. Grade 10?lx)is Dixon, Margie Shiver. Grade 11?Carrie Baker, Raymond Dennis, Lila Dixon, Mary Moseley. A large seashell does dot make a noise like the sea. We only Imagine that It does. What actually happens Is that the shell acts as a resonator, or loud speaker, which picks up the slight sounds that are constantly going on all around us and amplifies them to an audible pitch. The trial of seventeen persons, charged with conspiracy, began at Moscow on Saturday. Confessions ot guilt by some of the accused, is expected to cut the trial to four or fiT? days, with a number of the defendants facing a firing squad. Sir George Burton Hunter, 91, "the grand old man of the Tyne," builder of the Mauretania, is dead at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. ? i ?>???^?j IHi | Armours FERTILIZERS Of Course We Sell It! ! IV ' S i \ ' i | Use Armour's Under I Your COTTON S I . |:1 \ And you'll soon discover why your neighbors $ have used it for years with success. 1 Armour's not only feed; your u crops, but actually improves your soil. It is non-acid forming. Let us supply you with the fer- u tilizer with the Seven Active Plant Foods. ?>< AGENT'S NAMB AND ft ADDRESS ^ I lW Ui k U, U o, 4 Of 01 k I iS Y I SEVEN ACTIVE PLANT FOODS 8 I McLeod & McLauchlin I Telephone 53 j - I ' " 1 . ' ' ' BICYCLE REPAIRS I We have opened a bicycle repair department \ in connection with our machine shop and are pre- ! pared to handle all work promptly and at reason| able prices. DeKALB MACHINE WORKS M. H. DEAL, Owner | ELECTRIC AND GAS WELDING LATHE WORK BICYCLE AND GENERAL REPAIRS West DeKalb Street Phone 42 . ?IIIIIIIIIIII1SIIIIIIIIIIII111IIIIIIIIIIII?IIIIIIIIIIII?IIIIIIIIIIII?IIIIIIIIIIII?II@ j Important Notice! | f Camden Fertilizer Co. j (Office and Factory Near Seaboard freight Station) M S IS BETTER PREPARED THIS YEAR THAN EVER | y TO MAKE YOUR FERTILIZER FOR YOU WE ALSO SELL ACID PHOSPHATE, NITRATE |fl OF SODA, (both kinds) BLOOD, FISH SCRAP, [ ] TANKAGE, AGRICULTURAL LIME, KAINIT and H MURIATE OF POTASH. mk H WE MANUFACTURE FERTILIZER HERR IN i CAMDEN. SEE US BEFORE YOU BUY. gES I Camden Fertilizer Company I I J. H. GUTHRIE, Manager