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AN ORDINANCE To Raise Supplies For the City of Cfmden, S. C., For the Year 1930. Bo It orduiuod b> the Mayor und Aldermen of the City of Cumdcu. South Carolina, and hy authority of tho same, thut tho followiug taxes ho, and tho tuune aro hereby levied. for the current year from the first of January, 1939, to the 31st duy of Decern ber, 1939. both Inclusive: 8ECXIQN ONE: A tax of twentytwo (22Troflltt on each and every dollar of real and personal property within tho corporate limits of the City of Camden, S. C, from the first day of January, 1939, SECTION TWO: The tax hooks for the collection of the City Taxes will he open in the office of the said City Clerk and Treasurer, Camden. South Carolina, on the first day of September, 1939. and remain open each day, except Sunday, from 9 a m. to 1 p. in., and from 3 p. m. to 4:30 p. m., until tho first day of March, 1940. The following discounts will bo allowed on the payment of taxes 2 per cent during September. Net after September 30, 1939. Twenty-five (25) per cent, or flrty | (50) per cent, portion of taxes, If soi desired by the taxpayer, will bo accepted rather than the payment of the whole thereof In one payment, allowing the discount In affect at the time of the payment. SECTION THREE: That when the taxes and assessments, or any portion thereof, charged against any property or party on the duplicate for the current fiscal year shall not bo paid on or before the first day of January, 1940, the City Clerk and Treasurer shall proceed to add a one (1) per cent, penalty on the City duplicate, and the City Clerk and Treasurer shall collect tho same; If the gald taxes, assessments and penalties are not paid on or before the first day of February, 1940, an additional penalty of one (1) per cent, shall be added by the City Clerk and Treasurer on the said duplicate and collected by the said City Clerk and Treasurer: If the| said taxes, assessments and penalties are not paid on or before the first ciayj of March, 1940, an additional penalty of.one (1) per cent, shall be added by the City Clerk and Treasurer on the aald duplicate and collected by the said City Clerk and Treasurer; if tho Hflld taxes, assessments and penalties are not paid on or before the first day of April, 1940, an additional penalty of one (1) per cent, shall be added by the City Clerk and Treasurer on the said duplicate and collected by the said City Clerk and Treasurer; and If the hhI(1 taxes, assessments and penalties are not paid on or before the first day of May, 1940. an additional ^ penalty of three (3) per cent, shall be added by the City Clerk and Treasurer on said duplicate, making a total penalty of seven (7) per cent, and shall be collected hy the said City Clerk and Treasurer; that If said taxes, assessments and penalties are not paid on ! or?before tho first?day?of June, 1940, the City Clerk and Treasurer shall Issue In the name of tho City of Camden, South Carolina, a warrant or execution In duplicate agulnst said defaulting taxpayer In the City of Camden, South Carolina, signed by her in her official capacity, directed to the Chief of I'ollqe of the said City of Camden, or some member of the police force of the City of Camden. South Carolina, requiring him to levy the same by distress and sell so much of the defaulting taxpayer's estate, real or personal, or both, as may he sufficient to satisfy the City taxes of said defaulting taxpayer, and specify-1 ing therein the aggregate amount of all his. her or Its taxes. I'pon the IsHulng of a warrant or execution against the defaulting taxpayer, the said defaulting taxpayer shall pay to the C it> oi t ,'linden the following costs |.\?, issuing warrant or execution one t$] noi dollar; for serving warrant one dollar; for advertising sale of properi) one (ft int) dollat , for executing deed of conveyance! three ($3.(Mi) dollars; for all sums' levied as aforesaid, tlve < 5 > per cent J which shall he collet ted for the City of Camden, South Carolina, hy the eaid ( I ty ( lei k and 1 reasurer SECTION FOUR: Under and by I virtue of said warrant or execution ' the Chief of I'oli. e shall seize and' take exclusive possession of so much of the defaulting taxpayer's estate, real or personal, or both, as may be necessary to raise the sum of money named therein and said charges thereon; and. after due advertisement, sell the aanie before the Court House door In the City of Camden, County of Kershaw, Statu of South Carolina, on a regular sales day, and within the usual hours of public sale, for cash, aud give the purchaser, (upon his complying with the terms of the sale) a receipt for the purchase money, but not make title to the purchaser until the expiration of twelve (12) mouths from the day of sale, If the property sold be not redeemed aB hereinafter provided, and annex said receipt to the duplicate warrant with the endorsement thereon of his action thereunder and shall, after deducLng from the proceeds of sale the cost and expenses of said sale, pay over to the City Clerk and Treasurer the taxes, charges and penalties due and incurred by said defaulting taxpayer; and upon written notice given, of any mortgage or other Hen on said premises so sold for taxes, shall hold the excess, if any, until authorized, and directed by proper Judicial authority as to mode of disposition, or by written consent of the defaulting taxpayer that the said excess be paid over to mortguge or lien creditor, and according to priority if more than one, provided that the owner or grantee of any mortgage creditor may within twelve months from date of such sale redeem such property by paying to [ the Chief of Police or City Clerk und Treasurer the taxes, cost, penalties and expenses of sale, together with six (6) per cent. Interest on the whole amount of the purchase price of said land so sold, and thereupon the Chief of Police or the City Clerk and TreasI urer shall pay back the refund to the said purchaser the amount paid on hltj j bid, with Interest as above stateik and the bid by the said purchaser shall be then cancelled and. revoked, the owner or grantee remaining In possession of the said land; provided further, that upon failure of defaulting taxpayer or other party interested to redeem said land so sold for taxes within twelve months as stated, the Chief of Police shall make title to the purchaser and put the purchaser In possession of the property sold and conveyed; provided further, that In case of threatened waste or damage to the premises by the owner or any other party, during the twelve months al| lowed for redemption, the purchaser at said tax sale, shall have the right to apply to the Court of Common Pleas or a Judge (hereof for an injunction against such waste and for a receiver to take charge of the property until the end of the twelve months for redemption unless sooner redeemed; provided further, that whenever any real estate Is levied upon for taxes by the Chief of Police. It shall be his duty, before proceeding to ad vert isc >t he same-for sale as now provided by law, to give twenty days written notice of such levy to the ownj er of each mortgage contained on a list that may be filed with him, (giving the name of grantor or mortgagor, kind of instrument, hook of record and page recorded), the said period of twenty days beginning to run from the time the said notice is personally delivered or from the date of Its mailing when delivered by mall, said nothe shall contain a description of the land levied upon, the name of the owner thereof, the year or years for which the taxes were assessed and a statement of the amount thereof with accrued costs, and shall be delivered to such own?-r either personally or by I registered mail with return receipt re! quested at the address given on said j Ph.- Chief of Police shall keep ] ?opy c' said notice, which he shall enter the date the same was delivered, how. when- ami to whom and shall file the same with the City Clerk and T-> a Mirer; provided further. that wh'm tt al estate i< sold for taxes in I said '* ]; y it shall be the duty of the j Chief of P.dice, before delivering title I to such real estate to the purchaser ' a* surh sale to give no' less than thlrI ty days* tudleo to any mortgagee or assignee of any mortgage appearing of record within ten years of such J s- v.ut- as inter ested in such real estate of each sale In order that such mortgagee or assignee may have an ej.portunit> to redeem t+re -said real J estate, as now provided b\ law for the I own?-r thereof Such notice shall elth. er he served on such mortgagee or . assignee In person or forwarded to his last known post office address by regI istered mail or when his w hereabouts may be unknown. It may be bad by publication as in civil actions, the expense of which publication ami petition shall be paid in advance of publication by the purchaser at said sale; provided further, that the City of Cam den shall receive one (Sl.O(') dollar for each notice so given Ratified by the Mayor and Alder men of the City of Camden. South Carolina, in council assembled thlf 31st dav of Julv. 1939 F N. McCORKEE, Mayor City of Camden South Carolina. IX3CISE W BOY KIN, City Clerk and Treasurer. City of Camden. South Carolina | . 21 sb. Methodist To Have Rally The Southern Methodists, t?f Turbovlllu. invite other Southern Methodists of the state to meet with them Sun day afternoon, August lit. at 3 o'clock j In the auditorium of the TurbevUle high school in a rally for the causei of suvlng the M K. Church, South The officers of the Laymen's organization for South Carolina are expected to attend and a constructive program la helng arranged There will be spuclul music by the Holland Twins, ministers of Missouri and Kansas, who ure visiting their sister, Mrs. L. A Manning, Jr., of Luttu, members of the M K. Church, South, at TurbevUle are being sued by the supposed Methodist church and the loyal, southern Methodists of the stale should evidence their moral support to their brethren at TurbevUle by attending this state-wide meeting Sunday afternoon. ?L. A. Manning, Jr. CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OKLAHOMA'8 "BAD LANDS" BECOMES A PLAYGROUND Marble City, Okla., Aug. 12.?The Cookson hills, stronghold of outlawry since the legendary days or Belle Starr and the Dalton boys, have been tamed by the federal government. Today, when you rhotor Into the i "bad lands" of the Ozark region, favorlto rendezvous of gangsters from the deer rifle period to the machine gun era, you find a vacationers' paradise and wildlife refuge. In u pictureque valley which once echoed to the clattering hoof beats and roar of musketry which signalized another foray by Jesse James and his band, a shimmering lake ofTers such pleasures us fishing, swimming and boating. And In the deeper recesses of the hills, where "Pretty Boy" Floyd often lurked In safety from the law, wild turkey, deer and prairie chickens roam In great numbers. Under direction of the G-men, the last of the swaggering killers and robbers who once infested the hills have been annihilated and now the government is completing the Job by us-' ing the hills themselves for a vast reclamation project. Everywhere, there is evidence that crime has been stamped out completely. Marble City, a nest of ruffians in formers years, reported a reformation so complete the town board cut off the salary of the town marshal as "unnecessary expense" and rented out the Jail to an old age pensioner for a home. Oilie Jones, who had been marshal since 1923, swapped his six-guns for a WPA shovel and wields it on a roadbuilding project. "There ain't no crime here no more," the deposed officer commented. "Good folks live here now." In the old rip-roaring days, when a marshal's Job was about as safe as driving a nitro-glycerine truck over Ozark mountain roads. Jones was known as a fearless officer who made life miserable for law breakers. "Ollie only bad to shoot one or two fellows," volunteered Mayor Watie Davault. "but when It was necessary he handled 'em rough. "One fellow that was tough and had been for several years tried to run his bluff over Ollie just after I had hired him for town marshal Ollie hit him on the head so hard I heard the lick in thy store. 1 ran out to see what had happened and Ollie said. 'Watie, I had to knock hell out of him and I guess hi' him a little too hard* "Blood was running out of this bully's nose atul ears but he soon revived. After that he was a good citizen and many have remarked to no. Isn't it too had Ollie didn't hit him on the head several years sooner? The Cookson hills, embracing on" hundred square miles, sprawl across the converging corners of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. They conceal hundreds of hiding i places. Malnmoth secluded caves are plentiful and there are narrow passe.where a well-armed desperado might hold a regiment at bay. Throughout the hectic history of banditry in the Southwest, whenever there was a major prison break, a bank robbery or a train holdup, news papers almost invariably carried thr headline. "Outlaws Believed Headed For | Cookson Hills." Once In the hills they were safe Always It was when they blustered ' out for another fling that the law 1 struck them down. This was true even the days ol ( the Dalton boys, hard-bitten Indiar Territory raiders The Daltons rod* to Coffeyville, Kan., with the ambl tious intention of robbing two bankf at once. A citizens' posse Attacked i s and when the firing ceased eight gangsters lay dead. Jesse James maintained strongholds in the hills. Between the '60s and the '80s they sheltered Belle Starr, straight-shooting woman outlaw. A1 Jennings escaped often, into their secret hideouts. In later years the murderous A1 Spencer gang dominated life in the hills. Frank Nash, who was slaughtered by machine gun fire from his own pals in the Kansas City Union Station massacre, belonged to this gang. When Wilbur Underhill, Harvey Bailey, Bob Brady, Ed Davis and seven other vie ion 8 desperadoes escaped from the Kansas penitentiary Memorial day, 1934, they made a wild dash for the hills and freedom. Some were kHled or captured but Bailey got through. A few weeks later he slipped from bis hideout to Join George 'Machine Gun" Kelly and Albert Bates in the $200,000 kidnaping of Charles Ursehel at Oklahoma City and was captured. "Pretty Boy" Floyd, born and reared in the Cookson hills, made good use of them. The gray-eyed killer could drop from sight at will, retreating to reputed hill arsenals or hiding in the homes of indignent farm families with whom he shared his booty. The last chapter in the gory crime history of the Cooksons was written in 1934 when an army of four hundred federal, state and county officers and three hundred National Guardsmen swept the area in the greatest man hunt in Southwestern history The roundup, inspired by rumors that Floyd had been wounded and once again had gone back to his boyhood home to recuperate, was a flop. The raiders found 125 hideouts and arrested twenty "small fry" but the big fiah. If they were there, escaped. In 1935, the resettlement administration established a reclamation project in the area. Its main purpose was > to rehabilitate 365 impoverished farm families whose average income in 1034 was $44 Seventy-one of three families were ..moved out to fertile farms in WagI oner, Muskogee and Mcintosh coun: ties. Others were given loans to lease i new farms. fj A dam across Qreenleaf river creatt ed a lake five miles long lAst year ? I It was stocked with 110,000 game fish. |The remainder of the pro)ect area Is i devoted to game conservation, forests 1 and grazing lands. 1 : S L . BERKELEY FARMER TELLS OF TORTURE AT LIQUOR 8TILL Moncks Corner, Aug. 10.?A grisly story of torture at a liquor still in the wilds of Berkeley county was told this afternoon by the victim, Nabe Mills, 35-year old farm laborer, of | Macedonia. .< j Speaking from a bed at the home of his father, Press Mills, Nabe related how he was stripped of bis clothes, bound and burned on the lower part of his body with large sack swabs for more than an hour by two [ young men, whom he named in a warrant as Aaron Causey, 25, and Frankle Dupre, 21, both of Berkeley county. Causey and Dupre, meanwhile, have | posted bonds of $500 each pending a preliminary hearing to bo held probj ably before Magistrate D. C. Thornley, of Bonneau. Each has denied the charges. Seriously burned, Mills, who was dismissed from the Berkeley county hospital here last Tuesday, said the burning took place on Sunday, July 30. He walked all night after the burning and reached hia -home the- following morning when he was rushed to the hospital where he was confined for more than a week. His physician reported Mills probably never would recover fully from the burns. *>" " r ?? T PRELIMINARY BOOK U8T OF . CAMDEN CITY 8CHOOL8 1939-1940 First Grade * No books to be provided before opening of school, September 5, 1939. S The first price Is the purchase price aphd the.second price Is rental. 8eoond Grade Reader: Friendly Stories? Trips To Take I .41 .14 Arithmetic: Fun With Num bers 40 .14 Health: Building My House of Health 63 .21 Spelling: Spelling for Everyday Use 21 .07 Work Books: My Word Book Third Grade Reader: Treasure Box 48 .16 Arithmetic: Champion Arithmetic 40 .141 Language: American Language (third year) 45 .15 Health: The Road to Health .66 .22 Spelling: Spelling for Everyday Use 21 .07 Work Books: e My Word Book Essentials of Everyday English. Fourth Grade Arithmetic: Strayer-Upton (fourth grade) 33 .11 Reader: Magic Hour 69 .23 Language: American Language( fourth year) 38 .13 Spelling: Spelling for Every- j day Use .23 .08 Geography: At wood-Thomas j (fourth grade) 56 .19' Health: Health by Doing .. .51 .17 Work Books: My Word Book_ Essentials of Everyday English Other work books to be selected. j Fifth Grade j Reader: Pleasant Lands 76 .25 History: Estill's History ... .60 .20 Arithmetic: Strayer-Upton i (fifth grade) 33 11. Language: American language (fifth grade) 41 .14, Spelling: McCall's Speller (complete) 30 .10 Geography: Atwood-Thomas (fifth grade) 73 .25 Work Books: My Word Book Essentials of Everyday English Other work books to be selected. Sixth Grade Reader: Golden Leaves 75 .25 Arithmetic: Strayer-Upton (sixth grade) 33 .11 Language: American Language (sixth grade) 41 .14 Geography: Atwood-Thomas (sixth grade) 76 .26 History: Simms' S. C. History 87 .29 Spelling: McCall's (complete) 30 .10 Work Books: My Word Book Essentials of Everyday ! English Arithmetic (to be selected) Other work books to be se * ? ** ; "1 '1 ' 1 I lected. Seventh Grade Readers: Studies in Reading .74 .25 History ,of American Progress 1.00 .34 New Day Arithmetic ...... .37 .13 Our English (seventh grade) .48 Atwood-Thomaa Geography (seventh grade) 73 .25 McCall's ' Speller (complete) .30 .10 Work Books: I Arithmetic: Lennes Drills ! My Word Book j English Work Book. Eighth Grade I Payne's Speller 38 .13 Wdst: Short History of Early People 1.38 .46 New Day Arithmetic 37 .13 McKitrlck West: English Composition 92 .31 Literature and Life (Blue) 1.55 .62 C. & C.: Introduction to Science 1.45 .49 Ulman & Henry: Elementary Latin 1.05 .35 Gregg: General Business Science, Pts. 1 & 2 1.29 .43 W$lls-.Hart: Modern Algebra 1.18 .40 Ninth Grade Payne's Speller .38 .13 Webster: History of Mankind 1.83 .61 Wells-Hart: Modern Algebra 1.18 ,40 McKitrlck - West: English Composition 92 .31 Literature and Life (Book II) Blue 1.66 .66 Arnold: Cooperative Citizenship 98 .33 Baker-Mills: Dynamic Biology 1.48 .60 ogy 1.48 .5.... 11... .s. .2..; Ulman & HenrySecondYear Latin .............. 1.20 .40 Gregg: General Business Science, Part 3 87 .29 Tenth Grade 4 Chew: Speller 43 .16 Webster: History of Mankind 183 .61 Bruce: Plane Geometry 69 .23 Tanner: Correct English .. 1.21 .41 Literature and Life (Book III) Blue ; 1.73 .58 20th Century Bookkeeping, Introductory Course 90 .30 20th Century Typewriting, 1 Year Course 96 .32 Gregg: Shorthand Manual .. 1.29 .43 Gregg: Speed Studies 1.04 .35 The New Chardenal 1.55 .52 Vermont: La Belle Prance .. 1.04 .35 , Eleventh Grade Chew: Spener 43 .15" Latane: History of American People l."2 .68 1 Wells-Hart: Modern Algebra, Second 107 .36 Literature and Life (Blue) 1.90 .64 * L., F. & S.: Introduction to Economics ,.... 1.25 .42 Hessler: First Year Chemistry 1.32 .44 La Voyage de M. Perrichon . .69 .23 . 20th Century Bookkeeping, Two Years 1.25 .42 20th Century Typewriting, Two Years 1.25 .42 ^ [Tanner: Correct English ... 1.21 .41 The New Chardenal 1.55 .62 Vermont: La Belle Franco .. 104 .36 Gregg: Shorthand Manual .. 129 .48 Gregg: Speed Studies 1.04 .35 STATE THEATRE KERSHAW, S. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18 "THE KID FROM TEXAS" w i t h o Ki t ir a!i.I Flur- iu t* Kice SATURDAY, AUGUST 19 "FRONTIER PONY EXPRESS" wfh K ami Mary Hart LATE SHOW, 10:30 P. M. "SWEEPSTAKES WINNER" \\ i: h Man.- WiNi-n a11'I a;:. !i .tonkin* MONDAY and TUESDAY, AUGUST 21 and 22 "THE LADY'S FROM KENTUCKY" \v i t h George Fiaf* and Kllen Drew WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23 j "WOMEN IN THE WIND" with Kay Francis and William Gnrgan THURSDAY, AUGUST 24 "NEVER SAY DIE" with Martha Raye and Rob Hope ADMISSION: Matin**, 20?; NlgHt, 26c. CHIIdfw 10c any tlma. NORFOLK Portsmouth Virginia Beach Saturday thru <5bConday Aug. 19-21 $3.00 Ticket* good going on Friday nnd Saturday train*, ?c?ot Number* 10. 44.108. Returning leave Portamouth a* late ?? 9;0S P. M-i Monday evening. Ticket# good la ?oachea only. No baggar? checked. Conault yoer Seaboard agent for other detail*. _ ...round trip adult fare to Portsmouth. Fares to Virginia Beach 75c higher. Children 5 and under 12 half fare. Plan a glorious weekend fit the ea"V??-* - via Seaboard - at these drastically cut fares. Sale of Estate Property IN ORDER TO PARTIALLY SETTLE AN ESTATE, WE ARE OBLIGED TO DISPOSE OF THE FOLLOWING: ONE LARGE LOT WITH SIX ROOM DWELLING ON MILL STREET, NORTH OF DeKALB STREET. EXCELLENT CONDITION. NOW RENTED. BARGAIN. ANOTHER BARGAIN ? LOT AND DWELLING ON YORK STREET, BETWEEN MILL. AND FAIR STREETS. RENTED. GOOD CONDITION. FIVE (5) ROOMS, BATH, RUNNING WATER, ELECTRIC LIGHTS, METAL ROOF. HOUSE AND LOT, FORMERLY HAROLD PROP- 1 * ERTY, COLORED OCCUPANCY. NOW RENT- J EEL CHEAP. t TWO (2) BUILDING LOTS, COLORED SECTION, AT GIVE AWAY PRICE, NEAR ABOVE. ] WE INVITE INQUIRIES AND BIDS. SALES MUST BE FOR CASH. " ~ | KIRKLAND ft d+LOACH, ,, 1 Attorneys.