The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 18, 1939, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
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 :
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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.