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Wings Over Camden (Uy The Skliynir) The Camden Flyers Club, with a charter membership of eight embryo pilots has been organised here, and are to learn the rudluienta of the mysteries of uviatiou under the -tutelage of Earl J. Frledell, manager of the Woodward airport. The charter members of the club are John Langford, Jr., Sonny Sow?II, Kalph "Stevenson, Jr., Mr. Cauady, Sell Jackson, Hilly Mlckle, Tex Wallace, who has already soloed, and Karl Frledell. Sonny Howell has been elected the club secretary an# John I,angford, Jr. the club treasurer. The club will meet again on October 9, at which' tlmeva president and vice president will be named and a name for the club selected. Manager Frledell has announced that the club membership Is open to all boys Interested in aviation. A general Invitation has been extended to the boys to meet with the present club members at the October 9 mooting which will be held at the airport. Dexter Martin Visits Airport Dexter Martin/ state areonautlcal commissioner, visited the airport 011 Tuesday and arranged for the state mowers to go over the entire airport the middle of the month. Mr. Martin, while here, stressed the fact thai persons who seek to, ride In pianos, should llrst ascertain if the pilot of the plane Is a licensed aviator. Manager Frledell of the air-( port is fully licensed to carry passengers with him 011 flight. Mr. Martin also stressed the fact that the avlutlon affairs at the airport here wore| I11 full charge of Manager Frledell. 1 While In the city Mr. Martin distributed copies of tli'o last Issue of^ American Aviation, the leading mag-| azlne of its kind in America. One entire page of the current issue Is, given over to pictures of the South. Carolina Flyers Club In Camden. The] story accompanying the pictures pays tribute to the flue welcome Camden) extended the flyers. Mr. Martin stutes, that the advertising Camden will so-( cure through this issue of American Aviation cannot bo estimated In doi-| lurs and cents, for the reason that money could not buy It. Smith is Pleased With Golf Course Milton C. Smith, manager of The Klrkwood Hotel, who has been managing a New York summer resort hostelry this season, was in Camden over the week end Inspecting the work that has been done on the new Klrkwood gold course. j Mr. Smith was enthusiastic over the progress of the Bermuda surface 011 the new greens and declared that play over the new course would be possible by November 15. By that time the rye grass planted with the Bermuda will have come out and when mowed will give the greens a' moss like surface. j The relocation of some of the tees and several fairway changes have! contributed greatly to the sportlness of the course, while old man par has been given a big break through the building of more bunkers and traps, j Mr. Smith states that he knows definitely of three major golf events to be played over the new course dur-1 lug the season. i In speaking of the 1939-1940 winter season. Mr. Smith staled that European travel is "out" for the present and therefore travel In America will he definitely In the limelight. With the onset of the winter travel period, markets for travel prospects become important. In that connection air. Smith pointed out that If there was ever a time' when Camden needed to exploit its advantages as a winter resort community through advertising, booklets and billboard display, now Is the ' time. Mr. Smith is of the opinion that Camden will have a good season, one of the best in years. Ho plans 011 renovating the Klrkwood In an extensive way. Already reservations indicate that there will be many guests and plenty of activity around the big hotel. Singing Convention The Kershaw County Singing Convention meets with the Lancaster County Singing Convention Sunday, October S. at J o'clock This convention will be held at Oharlesboro Baptist church just over the county line In Igincaster county Everyone is invited ami especially the singers, as we want our county well represented says W. T Holley. the president. i Undergoes Operation Friends throughout the city and county of .1 Blakeney Zemp will he glad to learn that he Is recuperating nicely from an operatoln Tuesday and is now In the Columbia hospital. Mrs. Marlon Baxley was a visitor In Camden last week end. Class I railroads and the Pullman company had 175 passenger cars on order on July 1, 1939. compared with 139 on the same day the preceding jrear. I ANNUAL RIFOIIT OF CAMDiN QAHDEN CLUB JMOV. TO. OCT. I Following 1* tho report of tl?u Camden Garden Club from November 'l938 to October 1939: During the past year the Camden Garden Club has functioned normally and progressively. Ton regular meetings have beeu hold at which ^Interesting and Instructive programs wei'o presented. Two outstanding programs were, first, a "Qui/, on Plant Life," dealing with subjects horticultural, botanical and historical. Second, Heels secured from the University of South Carolina showing "Plant Growth and Clr cuiatlon of Sap in Loaf aud Tree." A flower show was held early in Ute spring with satisfactory results. Children's miniature gardens made in small,baking pans were particularly pleasing and aroused great interest for the children. An exhibition of mor? t$u?n one hundred specimens of evergreens collected from a garden . of Camden will be Invaluable for f ture planting and 'landscaping. Participation In the Columbia Flowbr show proved of great pleasure and benefit. I Efforts along tho lines of consorvaI lion were put forth chiefly during tho ' week set aside for that purpose In I the fall. Instruction and information | through the schools was stressed. Es! pedal Instruction in the careful cuti ting und use of holly was given during tho month before Christmas. ' A prize for the best exterior Christmas decoration was offered to the general public as well as to club members. The beautiful old trees of Camden have always been a subject of deep concern for the members of the Garden Club. New plantings and replacements have been made constantly. During the summer arrangements wore made for tho spraying and feeding <Jf tho I^afayetto Cedar, (tho origin of the name Is obvious.) A gradual Improvement has taken place In what was once a neglected wooded spot In the town, now known as Kirkwood Common. Dogwoods and pines In large numbers have been planted, undergrowth cleared out, rustic fences built to control use of roads, grass planted along the roadside. Tho natural beauty of this spot has been enhanced by careful planning und planting. After much correspondence with Washington and consultation with the postmaster, final blue prints have been received for the planting of the postofflce grounds. Some bids have been sent in and the planting will take place this fall. A major undertaking by the club was the landscaping of the approach to the new Seaboard station. A blue print was made by a member of the club for a doublo roadway with central planting area and lighting system, accepted by the city council, and tho work is practically completed. The planting connected with this project will go forward this fall; The aim vor the Camdeii^Garden Club lias been to increase in the knowledge of flowers and to participate in tho beautlflcation of the surroundings both specific and general. Cotton Weigher's Office At Kershaw Puzzles Council With bales of cotton rolling Into Kershaw the legal situation as to a cotton weigher at that place since the death of John E. Hegler has become somewhat complicated. The law does not provide for the appointment of a cotton weigher so that a special election will probably be called. In the meantitme the weighing of cotton will probably be done by mutual agreement between the buyers and sellers of cotton so that no difficulty Is expected to arise in the sale of cotton at that place. The law provides that a deputy cotton weigher can be appointed by the duly elected weigher but previous to his death no deputy had been appointed by Mr. Hegler. The town council will probably call an election to elect a cotton weigher at that place in the near future. Much cotton has been sold in Kershaw recently as Mr. Hegler was kept rather busy for several days previous to his death.?Lancaster \ e \v s John Hegler Passed Away Saturday John E. Hegler. cotton weigher at Kershaw, died early Saturday morning at his home in the White BlufT section. He suffered a heart attack Friday evening while eating supper and passed away early tho following morning. Mr. Hegler had not been in good health for the pa^t two years, but he had been able to attend to his duties as cotton weigher and he had weighed several hundred bales on Thursday and Friday of last week, i Funeral services were held Sunday at Kershaw. Surviving are two sons, J. E. Hegler. Jr.. of Kershaw and Waldo Hegler of Camden; two daughters. Mrs. Ed Robinson of Kershaw and Mrs. R. A. Corbett of Wagoner; the father. J. H. Hegler of Kershaw; three , brothers, Oscar Hegler. William Hegler, both of Kershaw, and Ervin Hegler of Oreer: and a sister. Mrs. Robert Htnaon of Kershaw.?Lancaster News. I KILLED NEAR ROCK HILL SATURDAY This community was ^ddened Saturday to hear of the death of Ed Laughrtdge. 18 year old, son of K*v. and Mr*. B. H. Laughridge of this city, who waa killed outright the automobile truck on which he was riding craahed Into a wagon a Jhort dtaUnS. south of Hook Hill on the Chester road Saturday about 130 P* Frank Steele, brother-in-law of the deceased, waa driving the kerosene truck at the time and he eacap? with mlhor injuries. This truck was badly damaged as the engine and cab was smashed in the wreck. It appeared as though the full force of the Impact waa on the right hand aide of the fore part of thei?*r. . According to information here young laughridge was looping down to tie his shoe string and looking up saw the wagon in front of him and a car coming fro ^ opposlte direction so that, thinking a pass could not be made, caught the steering wheel causing the r1 ght hand side of the truck to strjlCe the wAffon \ * When the crash occurred the truck was thrown into the field adjoining the road and It turned over. The body of the Laughridge boy was badly mangled as he had been hui led from the cab as the door came open. It Is not clear as to whether the truck struck his body as it tprned oyer. It is said that the impact caused the two mules, carrying the wagon, to be hurled to their knees for a distance of twenty feet or more along the pavement. Twelve negroes in the wagon who were on their way to town were thrown into the ditch and upon the highway. One is said to have suffered a broken arm and some others painful injuries. None of them were critically injured. Deceased is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Frank Steele, Misses Blanche and Lillle Mae Laughridge, and three brothers. Bennie and Jimmle Laughridge, all of this city. A coroner's inquest will be held some time this week, it was reported. Funeral services for the deceased were held at the Holland-Parr eral home at 12:30 Sunday apd the body was carried to the Abees Qrove church cemetery near Hickory, N. C., for burial. This young man was held in high regard by all those who knew him and the family has the deepest sympathy of tho community?'Lancaster News. General News Notes Donald W. Lovott, 23, of Maiden, Mass., punched and kicked Herman Dearborn, a motor vehicle Inspector, who stopped him and asked to see his driver's license. Pleading guilty, bovett explained to the court: "He didn't say please." Lovett went to the house of correction for three months. Herbert Knight Cruikshank, fortyeight, magazine writer, former American consul In Ireland and one-time secretary to Senator Cullum, of Washington, died of heart disease on Wednesday in New York. He was former motion picture editor of Motion Picture World and the New York Morning Telegraph. John W. Norman and J. E. Ashcraft. Kansas City filling station owners, drove 260 miles to ^St. Louis to see the pennant deciding National league game between Cincinnati and I the Cardinals. Buying a newspaper to learn the probable lineups they got a shock?the games were being played In Cincinnati. Abruptly ending his stay In Moscow, after less than 15 hours, Estonia's foreign minister rushed home Monday on what was reported reliably to be urgent business. Diplomatic circles said Russia might be making demands upon her little Baltic neighbor, whose territory was Russian-ruled before the World war. Charles H. Foster of New York who is known to his friends at Cla. Oa, almost shattered his $2,000 gem-studded sunglasses while taking 113 strokes to negotiate the 14th hole on the old White golf course, at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Then he slammed his tee shot 168 yards off number 15 tee across a creek and into the cup for a hole In one. Two negro gunmen escaped with $40,000 worth of diamond rings Monday in New York, after kidnaping the chauffeur of Leonard M. Heinle, salesman for the gem house of B. & B. J. Gross Co., on upper Fifth avenue. The chauffeur, John Ennle, negro, was forced to drive a block distant where he was locked In a house. Heinle Wa* i calling on a customer when his car and chauffeur waa seized. Five Jersey City children, who received gubernatorial approval in lteu of a license to operate a sidewalk lemonade stand during the summer, have sent Gov. Harry A. Moore $2.50 of their profit to aid crippled chlldron. Moore assured Sol Bernstein. Erwln Jaffer. Sanford Obalsky, Judl'h Yelleff and Helen Caren they did not need a license to sell lemonade when they asked him If the police would Interfere with their enterprise. Because of Herr Hitler, I^eelle L Merrick, former actress, divorced J. Walling Merrick, wealthy broker. 8he charged Merrick kept her awsk* at ; -hfghtS extolling Der Fuehrer's Nail doctrines and continually upbraided 'her because she did not accept Hitler's ideas. . j "ONE LICK AND MOVE ON" NEW WAY TO FIGHT FIRE8 Adapting factory assembly Hue methods to forest-fire fighting has resulted In the "one-lick" method v of clearing tire lanes about thrqe times as fast as any other hand method. It Is hard and exhausting work but It clears the line fast, the Forest Service finds. ^ In "one-lick" clearing, each man is a specialist and works with only one tool. He does not hold up the worker behind him. lustead of dividing a line into seotora with each man equipped with axe, rake and shovel, the fighting force Is divided Into crews of axemen, rakers and shovelers. The axemen advance hlpng the line and each takes Just one lick at any tree or brush In the way. If that doe# not clear It, the man behiud takes the second lick. If the pleaders get too far ahead, they may take two or three I "licks" until their followers catoh up, but at no time do they retard the progress of those following by taking too many licks. No worker Is ever held up because those ahead are doing too much . * After the axemen comes the hoe and rake squad with the same "one lick and move on" In clearing away grasH, leaves or pine needles. A shovel crew follows to clear Inflamable material or cover It with moist mineral soil. Then patrolmen guard the line to prevent flames add sparks crossing the barrier. Working at the pace set In onelick Are fighting. Is exhausting and one-Uck Are fighters get a 10 or 20mtnute rest in each hour. The work Is so strenuous that a crew is replaced every 3 or 4 hours and the men are set to less violent work, such us patrolling the line. The Forest Service leaders expect to make further refinements and Improvements in the method, as It already has proved to be a great advance in forest-fire fighting. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS All parties Indebted to the estate of Molly Doby, deceased, are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all parties, if any, having claims against the said estate will present them likewise, duly attested, within the time prescribed by law. JAMBS COOK, Executor Camden, S. C., Sept. 15, 1939. Notices posted in the plant of the U. S. Gauge company at Sellersville, Pa., which manufactures gauges for aircraft and naval construction, has wanrned employes that membership in the German-American bund would result In dismissal. A Texas and Pacific train bearing Texas Christian university football fans to Los Angeles was wrecked near Mlllsap, Texas, Tuesday night, killing the engineer and conductor and Injuring the fireman. None of the passengers was reported injured seriously. Phil Brunner of Sabetha, Kas., has a new scheme for ridding his produce plant of rats. Bnlnner has set traps. As soon as he catches a few rats, he's going to dip them in white paint and release them. The painted rats, he vows, will frighten the others away. Rosanner Speights, 66, has taken 70 year old Ulysses Grant Slsney as her seventh husband. The beaming bride said five of her former husbafids were dead. "A preacher asked me once why 1 got married so much?" She laughed. "I told him the good Lord kept taking 'em, and I did too." Most of the 14 ships tied up in New York port by the seven-day strike of seamen affiliated with the CIO National Maritime union were at sea on Friday after the crews wero granted extra compensation and benefits for travel in war zones. Two inches of snow covered the ground of northern New York Tuesday. Temperatures dropped overnight from 74 degrees to 32. Telephones are used for transmission of orders for trains operating over 148,211 miles of railroad In this country, compared with 86,709 miles over which the telegraph Is used. The body of Prof. Sigmund Freud, originator of psycho-analysis, was cremated Tuesday at Golders Green in ^ondon, after a non-religious ceremony. Approximately 150 persons, most-| ly Austrian refugees, attended the ceremony at which tributes were paid by the Austrian author, Stefan Zweig, i and others. TAX NOtlCE 1 The tax books for the collection of County and School Taxes for the fiscal year commencing January 1, 1939, will be open from September 15', 1939, to December 31st inclusive without penalty. When making .inquiry about! taxes, please state the school district number in which you live or own property. i The following is a list of the total levies for the various school districts: , Sincerely yours, C. J. OUTLAW, Treasurer Kershaw County, S. C. DeKalb Township Mills School District No. 1 45% School District No. 2 41 School District No. 4 39 School District No. 6 41 School District No. 25 25 . School District No. 43 25 Buffalo Township School District No. 3 39 School Distirct No. 5 23 School District No. 7 25 School District No. 15 23 School District No. 20 31%, School District No. 22 43% School District No. 23 31% School District .No. 27 37 School District No. 28 25 School District No. 31 31 School District No. 40 48 School District No. 42 23 Flat Rock Township School District No. 8 37 School District No. 9 37 School District No. 10 ..22 Sckool District No. 13 26 School District No. 19 37 School District No. 30 25 School District No. 33 ....37 School.District No. 37 37 School District No. 41 37 School District No. 46 29 School District No. 47 23 Wateree Township School District No. 11 28 School District No. 12 39 School District No. 16 . .24 8chool District No. 29 . . .7.34 School District No. 38 23 School District No. 39 32 Railroads of the United States 1 1938 paid $364,767,565 In taxes, o approximately one million dollars p? day. SUMMONS FOR RELIEF State of South Carolina County of Kershaw (In the Court of Common Pleas) Hattle Kelly, Plaintiff, against Johnnie Kelly, Maggie Harris, Ros Chatten, Andy Kelly, Laura Coo) and Pearl Kelly, a minor of th age of fourteen years, Defendants. To the defendants Above Named: I You, and each of you, are herebB summoned and required to answel the Complaint in this action, a copB of which is herewith served upofl you, and to serve a copy of youB Answer on the undersigned plaiifl tiff's attorney at his office In thfl Crocker Building, in Camden, SontH Carolina, within twenty days alteB the service hereof upon you, exc? sive of the day of such servicertnB if you f&ll or refuse to dp. so Mini your Answer within the time tfortH said, the plaintiff herein will apply? the Court for the relief demanded tfl the Complaint. MURDOCH M. JOHNSON, I Plaintiff's Attorney B Camden, South Carolina I September 27th, 1939 I To the Absent Defendants, Rosa Chtifl ten and Andy Kelly: You will please take notice, ThiB the Summons in this action (of whidl the foregoing is a copy,) togetbej with the Complaint, has been filed tfl the office of the Clerk of Court fofl Kershaw County at Camden, S. C. B - MURDOCH ki. JOHNSON, Plaintiff's Attorney fl To the Minor Defendant, Pearl KelljB and her Mother, Laura Cook, wltfl whom she resides: You Will Take Notice, That unle? you apply and have some person a? pointed as Guardian ad Litem f? you In the above entitled action wit* in twenty days after the servl? hereof, exclusive of the day of su<? service, the plaintiff will apply ai? have some suitable person appoints? MURDOCH M. JOHNSON, Plaintiff's Attorney I Camden, South Carolina - ? September 27th, 1939 FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that o? month from this d<ate, on October 1939, I will make to the Proba? Court of Kershaw County my "i? return as Executor of the estate ? Harriett Jane Wright, deceased, a^B on the same date I will apply to t?, said court for a final discharge ! Executor of said estate. . H J. W. BOYKIN.? Executor? Camden, S. C., Sept 29, 1939. Ginning and Fertilizers | ."'Va, _ . AFTER SEPTEMBER WE WILDftOT OPERATE OUR GINNERY ALL NIGHT, BUT FROM EARLY , MORNING UNTIL, DARK OR AFTERWARDS, IF NECESSARY. ' ' YOUR NEIGHBOR WILL TELL YOU OF THE FINE SAMPLE AND SPLENDID SERVICE YOU CAN GET AT OUR GINNERY. SELL US YOUR COTTON SEED, AIGLET US FURNISH YOU WITH MEAL, HULLS AND FERTILIZERS. v v The Southern Cotton Oil Company TELEPHONE 54 CAMDEN, S. C. ; \ WHY suffer from Colds? I For quick relief from cold symptoms 1II f If take 666 Liquid Tablets Salve Nose Drops ANNOUNCING'!' J This is to inform my friends that I am again with the H New York Cafe, giving it my personal attention. You are cordially invited to my Cafe, recaotly remod^ Bl eled, where you will find the best in Food and Service. I - NEW YOBKXAFE11 II