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Weekly News Letter From Liberty Hill , LiWty Hill, Oct. 17.?At the Prea bytorlau church morning services wore conducted by Wider L. P. Thompson. At tho close of the service h congregational meeting was held and a letter was read from Kov. J. A. McIntlro to whom a call was extended some weeks ago to become pastor of this charge?Liberty Hill and Heath Mprlnga?thanking the churches for the call, but declining to accept. Wider* K. C. Jones and N. 8. Richards, who were appointed to try and secure a pustor for the charge, are anxious to gut In communication with ministers who aro not locAtod, or desire a change. The two churches comprising the group have been without a pastor since 111 health caused the retirement of Rev. F. A. Drennan last winter. Sunday school Is held every Sun-| duy mornlng~aT~tO o'clock, with quperIntendent R. C. Jones In charge. Roys Christian Endeavor Society every Sunday evening at 7:30, sponsored by Mrs. C. K. Richards. Quite a number of our people attended the cotton festival on Thursday. R. C. Jones rode In the parade as a member of the Farmers Day council. Stephen McCrae was also) representing a character In the parade. The various features of the long procession were quite Interesting?the cotton and other decorated floats, together with the queen and other fair ladles, made a very pleaB-| lng sight to behold. The county fair had some very creditable exhibits In the agricultural and live stock departments. Mr. Taylor of Kershaw had some nice cattle and J. W. Dunn had a fine display of hogs. The ladles department of canned goods and fancy work, was of course, good, but we think th<^ Red Cross booth and the forestry display were especially noticeable. We think, however, that taken all together, the fair was not up to Its usual high standard. We consider It, for several reasons, quite a worthwhile Institution for Kershaw county people, and hope that it will continue to enjoy the support and interest of ouT Kershaw county citizens as a whole, and enlarge and widen its scope of usefulness as the years go by. Ex govNernor and Mrs. J. (1 Richards and Mrs. T. I\ McCrae and daughter. Miss Virginia, went to Colunib a to hear James Melton sing. M r and Mrs R M Kennedy, of Columbia. and Sherrard Kennedy, of Atlanta, were visitors last week with Mr and Mrs, L. IV Thompson. Miss Ann K Thompson spent several days last week with her sister. Mrs. A M Mat Dauchlin. near Chester. Mrs John C Richards spent Saturday in Sumter with her daughter, Mrs A M Frances She was accompanied on the trip by Misses Clara and Louise Johnston, who visited Mrs . Hayne E. J Cunningham, of Spartanburg, spent several days last week with his brother, postmaster C I) Cunningham. Miss Annie Mae I'ureton. of Iflsh j opvllle, spent the week end with her I parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Cureton. j Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Richards had as recent guests In their home their sons XotmreHfrmitii and-Mrs. J. P. Richards and family, and Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Richards and family, Mrs. R. E. Wylie, all of Lancaster and Mrs. E. M. Seabrook, of Edlsto Island and Florida. and Miss Phoebe Richards, of I Greensboro. N. C. i Dr. and Mrs. T. G. Hall and children. Rohitie?e-nd-Louise, of WOslmThT stor, were week end visitors In the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Jones. Dr. Hall has been suffering with an ; Infected foot and for several weeks was a hospital patient, but is now much better. Miss Annie Jones, who has been i taking treatment for effects of infantile paralysis when quite young, went to Columbia last week to consult her surgeon, who was well pleased with] her continued improvement. She wqffl accompanied on the trip by her mother. Mrs. R C Jones and sisters. Misses lajuiso and Jennie Jones. Magistrate Terry, of Kershaw, on the Lancaster side, was in our village on last Friday. Miss Sophie Richards, engaged in government work, now located in Columbia. spent Sunday tit home with her mother, Mrs. C. E. Richards. The cold weather of Saturday and Sunday put winter clothing and fire places and heaters in use. It also brought liwhi fr"*r on lowlands about hero. ????????^ j Camden Winner ! Over Newberry Displaying a superior team, Cam > den High school ran up three touch (Iowuh In the first hulf and counted tc victory a. oarer a flKhtliiK Newberry High sCnotW IlulldoK team Thursday night in tho municipal stadium here, The score was, Camden 19, Newberry 0. Neither team wan able to score In the last two periods as the llulldogs played Coach VUlepigue's squad on more or leBs even terms. Newberry threatened to score in the last of the third quarter. Ah tho whistle blew for the final period the Newberry boys had the ball on the Camden twelve yard line on the third down. Two desperate passes wore Incomplete and tho ball wont to Camden. For Nowberry, Connelly displayed vicious tackling ability, while Culbertson carried the ball for nice gains to star in the backfield. Robertson, Newberry end, showed up well. The defeat was tho third of the season for the Newberry team who have lost to Greenwood and Orangeburg by close margins. In the season's opener, Coach lledgepath's charges defeated the strong Thornwell Orphanage eleven. The largest crowd of the season was on hand to witness the contest. ?Newberry Observer. In Palestine, gasoline costs oO cents a gallon, with half of the amount being government tax. Insurance against twins, and even triplets. Is becoming quite common in England. Youth Arrested Has Long Record After being arrested in luncaster, September 13, following the theK of an automobile In Camden, finger prints of Jack Wlllard; and James P. Simpson were forwarded to Washington. A report was recently received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation which showed that both had been in trouble previously but It was the record of Simpson which made the officers sit up and take notice. This young man who gave his age as only 22 years had been ii} trouble every year since 1934. When arrested here Simpson admitted that he had broken into a Jewelry store at Spartanburg. However, he did not voluntarily give the remainder of his record. The first record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on this young man was In 1934 when he was but sixteen years of uge and It shows that he was arrested for breaking a store window In u Jewerly store at Spartanburg. The notation on the record stated that l\e was sentenced to serve fifteen months but evidently the sentence was suspended for that crime was committed In August of 1934 and In September he was arreHted for house breaking and larceny and receiving stolen goods In Columbia. Again it was recorded that he received a fifteen months sentence. The next notation on the record was In August, 1939 when he was arrested In Columbia and held for investigation. In October, 1937 he was arrested In Montgomery, Ala., for unlawful train riding. He was sentenced U> Jail for five days of this offense and a few days later he was arrested in Augusta, Ga., and held for Investigation on suspicion of theft. Just a few days after this arrest he was taken in custody in Hock Hill on a charge of house breaking and larceny. However, he was released and on the following day he was arrested and held In Columbus, Gr., for Investigation. Two weeks later he was back in South Carojjna_and arrested in TnTa~charge of house breaking and larceny. Nothing more was reported as to his activities until September of 1938 when he was arrested for larceny in Raleigh, N. C.. and sentenced to serve a four months term. Again on January 14 of 1939 he was again arrested In Raleigh on another charge of larceny and he was once more sentenced to serve four months. No more charges were placed against him until he was arrested here on the night of September 13 by Patrolman Charlie Caskey as he and Willard were driving a car which had been stolen but an hour before in Cam den. This young man said that his home was in Concord. Jack Willard who was with him had been arrested and sentenced to &erve nine months for larceny in Washington, I). C . and tinrecord showed that he had been placed under observation as to his sa nltv. Moth Simpson ami Willard are being held in the county jail,at Camden awaiting trial at the next term ot court in that city.?Lancaster News. Another Hog Shipment The Kershaw County Farmers' Lx-j change will ship hogs on Monday. Oc j totier 23. from x mi a. ni. through i 12 no noon We will have f. o. b. bid-; .is we have had in the past. Pleas- ( tell your neighbors about this ship-men:. sa>s W C. McCarley. Counts : Agent. Auxiliary To Meet The American Legion Auxiliary will hold its October meeting at th. *? home of Mrs Hughev Tindal, Friday October 20 at 4 o'clock. All member-; are urged to attend and to come pre pared to pay annual dues. Tri Gamma Club Meets 1 The Tri GR'tiVma Club met with Mis* Frances rftrnme on Wednesday afternoon The meeting was called to order and the roll called. Club business was discussed and the meeting adjourned to the dining room win-re refreshments were served. Canadian Revenue Minister J L.' Ilsley has authorized temporary re- ^ moval of the dumping duty on refined sugars The action was on recommendation of the wartime prices and trade board to relieve the existing' shortage. The regulation remains in effect until November 15, the an-' nouncement said. I Many Clubs to Train In South Carolina The appearance of the Syracuse club of the International league in Camden for spring training last March and April served to awaken much interest on the part of other Class A A clubs in South Carolina as a olimatic natural for conditioning of, ball players. Acoording to a statement made last Friday by Frank H. Heath, publicist and sport promotlonlat of Camden, there will be at least Ave International league teams?one or more teams from the American association in South Carolina next March and April. Mr. Heath states that Syracuse is arranging to return to Camden J Rochester will establish {raining quarI ters at Sumter; Baltimore goes to I Aiken while two other clubs from the International league are seeking to find suitable parks in other cities. One of these teams will probably locate at Newberry, and the other at Florence. Cheraw is expected to make a bid for a Class AA team. Orangeburg has definitely arranged to have the Columbus club of the American association train at the Orangeburg park. While in the mid-west laBt July the Camden publicist contacted representatives of four American association clubs and pointed out th<f advantages of South Carolina over Florida and other Southern communities as the ideal place for spring training. He stressed the fact that the temperature never reached a degree whereby the players reacted unfavorably when taken north to start the league schedules in April. The appearance of the Class A league teams in South Carolina next year will increase Interest in baseball In the cities wherein the teams | will train. This means that all of J these cities will be ripe for organized baseball next summer. Madman In Despair Spokane, Oct. 17. ? Reichfuehrer Adolf Hitler is a "madman in despair". Klaus -fr0Tir-^tThany^^ of the Nobel Peace Prize winner. Thomas Mann, said here last night. Speaking to a Spokane dinner club, Mann added "Hitler is not going to win this war, and he knows it. "Otherwise, why should he be so anxious for acceptance of his so-called peace proposals. Hitler is not only a madman, but a madman in despair. ^ . The Soviet Russians-German pact mav bo historically significant but for Hitler it was the beginning of the end. Hitler finds himself dependent on Stalin and Is his prisoner." A single Czech airman brought death to 67 German technicians, aviators, soldiers and policemen by setting oft a mine as his victims inspected an airport at Koelby, near Parague, at Zurich, Switzerland, press dispatch said Monday. The Czech, leading the Germans over the explosive laden field, suddenly detonated the mine, killing the entire party and presumably dying himself, the report stated. Fire and police officials in Savanhah, Ga , are Investigating two mysterious fires at warehouses where 100.000 bales of government-owned cotton await shipment to Great Britain. Forty bales were burned slightly Sunday and several hundred bales were damaged last Thursday at buildings of the Southeastern Compressand Warehouse company. The warehouses are located at Port Wentworth. ten miles north of Savannah. Chicago police blame rivalry among slot machine racketeers for the shotgun murder of Amerigo Bertiliui, described hv authorities as an ex-convict and former bootlegger. Bertilini's body riddled with shotgun slugs, was found Monday night beside his, automobile. In the car was a slot, machine. A shortage of skilled workers for^ the biggest peace-time naval building program in \Jne I nited States history is disclosed in a gp^rnment civil service bulletin Jobs paying from to $; daily are available at the Brooklyn. Washington, and Charlestun. navy yards, for loftsmen. flange turners, gas welders, shlpfitters and pipe c-overers. the bulletin stated. The navy department has reported that 28 more old destroyers of the World war period had been ordered reconditioned, bringing the total to 28. Plans for recommlsslonlng old destroyers, announced recently, called for a total of forty. The destroyers, now In the navy yards at Philadelphia and San Pedro. Cai., eventually will Join the neutrality patrol. England OnceWaged War For 116 Years New York, Oct. 14?How long the war will last is an eugima?Winston Churchill has mentioned three years and Hitler seven?but It might go on ( for a century. England has fought that long before. 8he once waged a war with Prance for one hundred sixteen years. j It was probably the longest war in history?and the strangest. It lasted ( through the reigns of five English Kings. While the war was in . progress, two of them married French princesses. The English held one ( French King a prisoner for four( years. And the French lost an lm-( portant batfle of chivalry?and two others to thunderstorms: King Edward III of England started the war of 1837 after his French' mother was maneuvered out of succession to the French throne. * He began with a propaganda campaign?at home, to rally national support. Considering the primitive facilities, he did very well; he had the war cause glorified by the ministers | in Parliament, the sheriffs in the county courts, and the ministers in all the churches, and soon had the country behind him. At the first big land engagement, in Normandy in 1346. the French were massacred, because they neglected to( keep their bow strings covered andj a storm shrank them out of sh^e. j The next big clash produced the modern "keys to the city" ceremony. When the channel city of Calais was captured. King Edward ordered that the keys be presented by the six leading citizens, bareheaded*and barefooted, with ropes around their necks. His original idea was to hang them by the ropes afterward, but he relented. The French maneuvered the English army into a virtual death trap at Poiters in 1356. but the ancient code of chlvarly called for . hand-to-hand cainbat, and when the French moved in for that, the English overwhelmed! them, They also captured the King of France, and it was four years before he was able to buy back hiB freedom' While the war was still going on, in 1436, Edward's son and successor,J Richard II. visited Paris and married the French King's daughter. The French outnumbered the English 6 to 1 at the battle of Agincourt in 1414?and lost. The English held a position on a slope, and when the French started across a plain toward them, it began to rain; the English just waited until the French were floundering in the mud, and moved I down with arrows. j a historical paradox followed. Having beaten the French in battle, the English King, Henry V, wangled the I French throne by diplomacy. I Learning that the French were split, he played one side against the other and negotiated a deal that gave him the throne?and a French princess?but he died soon afterward.? His son's succession was challenged by the French prince, the famous Dauphlne, and England resumed active warfare. France's cause seemed lost but for the timely appearance of Joan of Arc. Then the English captured her. And having done which, at the Battle of Bordeaux in 1453 after 116 ywars' fighting?lost the w'ffr. Registered Guernsey Sold Camden. S. C. ? A registered Guernsey cow has recently been sold j by W. T. Redfearn to B. L. Stevenson. Jr. of Columbia. This^nnimal Is Fair\\;old Butterfat Fairy 664934, according to the American Guernsey Cattle Club. Peterborough. N. H. Prime Minister R. G. Menzlefi of Australia has announced that he wil. go to London early in 1940 to attend a special war council of British dominion premiers, called by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. . News Of Interest In And near Bethune Bethune, Oct. 18.?The Bethune U. D, C. met with Mrs. J. N. McLaurhi Wednesday ' afternoon. The meeting was opened by the president, MrB. K. Z. Trueadell. iMrs. D. M. Mays was elected aa delegate to the state IJ. I). *' C. meeting In ColurablaCVftNgs Cella King was elected as delegate to the general U. D. C. convention which will meet in Charleston in November. The following members had part on the program: Mrs. L. D. Barr, Mrs. D. M. Mays and Mfss Stella Bethune. Cake and Jello were served during the social hour. Mr. and Mrs. .P. H. Hester, of Asheville, were visitors in town Wednesday. Sunday visitors of the S. B. Padgetts were Mr. and Mrs. Claude Oregon, of Columbia; Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Padgett, of Camden and Bonnie Mclaughlin; of Klngstree. . Martha Jane,, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cy Mitchell, of Chicago, became ill at the home of ber grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. McLaurin Thursday night. Her parents were summoned and they arrived Saturday afternoon. The little patient is doing nicely. > Neil E. Truesdell has returned to pecatur, Oeorgla, after spending several days with his family here. Miss Mary Melton, of Bennettsvflle, was a week end visitor In the home of the E. Z. Truesdell's. Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Bethune and son, Tom, of Hartsville, were visitors here Sunday. Mrs. Jake Beam, who has been visiting relatives In Ellenboro, N. C., and Mr. and Mrs. Ira Gordon, of Ashevllle, were week end guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Z. P. Gordon. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Richards and little daughter, of Florence were Sunday gu081s of the M. G. King's. Rev. and Mrs. Lindler, of Centenary, were visitors in Bethune on Wednesday. Mrs. C. M. Mason and little daughter, Katherlne, of Hartsville, spent Tuesday with Mrs. J. B. Crawford. The J. H. A. and F. FVA. clubs of the high school, sponsored by MIbs Louise Ortman and M. N. Harmon, spent Tuesday in Columbia at the state fair. Mrs. N. E. Truesdell and children and Mrs. E. Z. Truesdell spent Tuefr day in Rock Hill with Mrs. R. E. Sims. ? Miss Elizabeth Beach spent the week end with friends in Greenville. ?An all dayTSeeHng^oTgroup conference of the Presbyterian church met at Cassatt Friday. Mrs. F. R. Morse, district chairman, was in charge. Mr. and Mrs. P. N. Mays have moved into the home formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Truesdell. Circles number one and two of tho Methodist church met with Mrs. Clara Davis and Mrs. B. W. Best on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Daisy McLaurin was called to Florence Tuesday to see her brother, John McDonald, of Hartsville, who is critically ill. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Clure and Miss Dorothy Faircloth, enroute to their home in Homestead, Fla., spent several days with the D. M. Mays'. NEW CROP?Flower Seed an & Gr^Seed 1 ALL VARIETIES for FALL and WINTER PLANTING I Zemp's Drug Store both prescription stores City Drug Company I BROAD STREET ? PHONE 30 MOST ANYTHING YOU NEED ' DoKALB STREET ? PHONE 130 I - Ann on it rin f/ "ftoad-jfctionized' Your Car Greased Under Actual Road Conditions We hm fxni irut atl?d a Olobe Rock-A-Car, tha modan, patented , lubrieatioa derlce that rock* cart J pntlj up and down during habrica- I Hon. Thb gentle action ? actually [ that of a car out on tha open road ?permita the fccbricanta to penetrate completely, tinea tha weight la lifted off tpddia. ahacklaa, knee action beertngi. king pin end itrerinc Imockaa. ~ Road-Act iooiafng" eltmlnataa dry-apota that cauec aqucaka ?en ahaa your car iMa like new again. Come In ? let explain the detafla of thia new kibriaetfca aerrioa. I \ City Filling Station I Ih If la I I I OffHny Telephone 70 I V^^yy/ w 1 r i Camden Theatre THURSDAY and FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19?20 Robert Taylor?Hedy Lamarr "LADY OF THE TROPICS" " SATURDAY, OCT. 21. ! Jean Rogers?William Frawley "STOP, LOOK AND LOVE" Added: Oregon Trail and , Comedies SATURDAY, OCT. 21 10:30 Show Jean Parker?Johnny Downs "PARENTS ON TRIAL" MONDAY and TUESDAY OCTOBER 23?24 Gary Cooper?Andrea Leeds David Niven?Reginald Owen "THE REAL GLORY" WEDNESDAY, OCT. 25. Chester Morris?Lucille Ball Wendy Barrie?Allan Jenkins "FIVE CAME BACK" -000000000^^ THURSDAY and FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26?27 " Ginger Rogers "BACHELOR MOTHER" j I Sanitary Plumbing and Heating I TELEPHONE 433-J . . ' Estimates Furnished on Short Notfce ? I ELECTROL OIL BURNERS ' ^-^T~nSSB