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Distinctive Christmas Gifts HOLGATE TOYS * Phonograph Albums for {Children, Adults and Christmas Favorites Zippo ^Cigarette Lighters Sportsmen knives from Finland w? , at CORNER BOGK STORE All gifta in Christmas wrapper and packed for mailing. ? ' i V- .. -.1 * Ml- I <Vf>5 ! > 3S SOCIETY NEWS I % $ *? # Telephone 100 ^^gg^mmmmmmmmmmmm^mmmrnwmmmmmmmmammmmm^ Was Club Hostess Mrs. Hughey Tindal entertained for i ho members of her club Wednesday afternoon at her home on Pajr street. Only members of the club were present and the liighost score wus made by Mrs. S. W. VanLandinghani. Hostess at Tea .V" Mrfl. Samuel Russell gave a delightfully Informal tea Sunday afternoon after the polo game. Mrs. Russell entertained at her lovely, new home on North Mill street and thirty-ftve guests wore Invited. Mrs. Henry Savage. Jr.. presided at the tea table. Prize For Best Decoration The Camden Garden Club Is offering a prize of a berried holly tree for the best exterior Christinas decoration of a residence. In order to com' pete for this prize enter your residence with Mrs. Llewellyn. To be judged December 26. Miss Blakeney Hostess Tho past week in Camden was a busy one for the bridge players with one or two parties being given every afternoon. Thursday Miss Lai Blakenev was hostess and she Invited Mrs. P A Boykin and Mrs. Prank Armstrong. of Greenville, to play with the members of her club. Mrs. Armstrong was visiting her sister, Mrs. Blakeney Zemp. Complimented on Anniversary In honor of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Nettles. Sr., who were celebrating their Thirty-fourth wedding anniversary, Mr and Mrs. William Nettles, Jr., entertained with a dinner party at th^ir home Thursday evening. Centering the prettily appointed table was a bowl of white narcissi and gladioli and green candles In sliver candlesticks, and covers were laid for the following guests: Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mackey. Mrs. and Mrs. Bryce Herbert and Mr. and Mrs. B. P. DeLoache. - - , r . Entertains at Bridge Mrs. Degs Goodale gave a delightful party Monday afternoon for her bridge clob and the additional guests at this party were Mrs. B. G Sanders, Mrs. John Stover, and Mrs. J. L. Wliliford. Mrs. Willlford and Mrs. Sanders were the score winners and Individual prizes were won by each of the players by drawing cards for a tray of gifts beautifully tied with Christmas wrappings. 4 The hostess served refreshments before* the card game. Met With Mrs. Gandy Thursday afternoon the Park. View Inn was the scene of a lovely brldK? party given by Mrs. James Gandy and her guests, in addition to her club were the following: Mrs. B. O. Boykin, Mrs John Rauch, Mrs Ben Team, Mrs Wylie Sheorn, Mrs. J. L. WllliMrs. A. C. McKain, Mrs. Wylie flfkue. Mrs. W. F, Nettles Mrs. John Stbver and Mrs. Irving Pierce. The Inn was pretty with Christmas greens and the score prizes were won by Mrs. Stover, who won the guest s high score prize and Mrs. Davis Green for club members. ______ Hosts at Dinner Party One of tho prettiest parties of the week was the dinner party given by Mr. and Mrs. Marlon Williarns at thelr home Wednesday evening. The house was decorated entirely with ho ly. red berries, mistletoe and red candles and the dining room table had a very effective centerpiece of red berries an red candles burning In three-branch candelabra. A turkey dinner buffet style and covers were laid for twenty four guests at individual tables, each having as a centerpiece, a red candle in the center of a small wreath of holly The hostess was assisted in entertaining by Mrs; James Gandy. The Camden Garden Club' requests holly trees. Do not mutilate these pretty trees for holiday decorations. Engagement Announoed Rev. and1 Mrs. Joseph Barnwell Canton, of Camden, announce thejVmgagement of their daughter, Jaue, to Henry Dennis Anderson, of Clover, Virginia, and Greenville, South Carolina. The wedding will take place late in January. Met With Mrs. Hunns Members of tho Indies Bible Class of the Methodist church met Thursday at the home of Mrs. George Hunns. Potted plants and. flowers were arranged about the reception hall und sitting room and the program was presented by Mrs. Bryee Herbert and Mrs. H. E. Graham. When serving refreshments after the meeting Mrs. Hunns was assisted by Mrs. James Gaudy and Mrs. Marlon WllI'ams. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Hosts Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Wilson were hosts at a delightful party given at their home on Hampton avenue. The decorations were Chrlstmasy as.-were the place cards, tallies and Christmas greens and red j candles formed a centerpiece for the I dining room table. Supper was served j before the bridge game. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Schlosburg and Mr. and Mrs. Marion Williams played with regular players of the club ai\d winning the prizes were Mrs. Davis Green, Mrs. Leon Tobin and Dess Goodale. High School Set Entertained Twenty members of the high school set were guests at a party given on '' Friday evening by Miss Beth Wilson : and Miss Rhetta Halsall at tho home I of the former. The house decorations featured greens and colors of the Christmas season and during the eve-; ning refreshments were served in the ; dining room by the hostesses moth-, era, Mrs. George Wilson and ^ Mrs. Rhetta Halsall. In the treasure hunt, the treasure was found by Billy VanLandingham and ii> the movie contest, the prizes were won by Miss Betty Jane Sarratt and Billy Mullen. i . I Celebrated Fifth Birthday Mrs. Benjamin Hinckley, of Mansett, Maine, honored her young son, John Ferguson, with a birthday party, which she gave Tuesday afternoon at the home of her parents, Mr. and I Mrs. W. U DePass, Sr. John was I celebrating his fifth birthday anniversary. After games and a pleasant hunt, in which Joe Williams was the prize winner, refreshments were Berved in the dining room, where the table had a centerpiece of holly and mistletoe, and red candles. At one end of the table at the place of the honor"~luie8t was the beautifully decorated birthday cake. I Juniors To 8tage Play ' With an excellent cast, the Junior I class play, "Here Comes Charlie", is {to be presented Friday, December 15, 'at 7:30 in the high school auditorium at Kershaw, j Romantic interest is supplied by Larry Eliot, played by Herbert Gregory who has to make a choice between the haughty Vivian Smyth-Ker1 sey, played by Willye Jones and the , naive Charlotte Hopps, portrayed by Ivouiso McLane. Comedy, which Is prominent throughout the play is furnished by Uncle Alec, played by Bill Jones and Mortimer, by Everette Coats. Oth'ers In the cast are Azalea Roberts as ^Aunt Fanny., Johnnie Turner as Ted, 5 Dorcas Mackey as Nora,f and Elbert Gregory as Tim. Personal Mention 1 Mr*. J. L Wright, of Anderson. Is il}e guest of her daughter. Miss Margaret Wright. * Mis* Jessie L. Campbell, of lktrllng- i ton, spent last week end In Camden ' with relatives. 1 Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Callahan, of i ' I'hlladelphia, are visltlug relatives ' her.e for. Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. C. II. Zeiup had asl ( their guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. F J W. Luchlcotte, of Charlotte. j, Mrs. 10. J. Melamd has as her guests' I for Christmas holidays, Mr. and Mri. i Wllllaiu Rogers, of Norfolk. Mrs. II. K.i?Hallett, of Charlotte, ' was a week end guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Nettles Lindsay. 1 Mrs. Robert Tuft and her daugh- 1 tor, Joyce, of Charleston, are visiting Mrs. Taft's mother, Mrs. H. 8. 8tqed- j man. Mrs. J. 8. Rlackwell and Miss Faith , del,each spent the week end in Columbia with Mr. and Mrs. 8erro deLoach. Miss Gertrude Gillls, Mrs, I). C. Hinson and G. F. Cooloy motored to LowndoBville Sunday whore they vis-1 ited relatives. Mr. and Mrs, John Lindsay are at' home again after a visit of several weeks to their daughter, Mrs. H. K. Hallett. In Charlotte. Mrs. Henry P. Bolte and son, Sterne Evans, of High Point, N. C., are on a visit to Mrs. Dolte's mother, Mrs. J. A. Sterne, at Hotel Camden. Mrs. Woods Robinson and daughter, Miss Rosemay Robinson, have returned to Camden, after a six month's stay In Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Mrs. B. H. Marshal and Miss Suale Petit, both of Camden, spent several days last week with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wilson.?Bishopvllle Messongor. Julian B. Culvern and Herbert Richey, of N. C. State College, Raleigh, arrived Tuesday to spend the Christmas holidays with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Richardson, of Bryu Mawr, are spending a fortnight with the former's mother, Mrs. Robert Marye, and his grandfather, Dr. John W. Corbett. Miss Betty Whitaker. a student at the University of South Carolina, Is recuperating from a case of flu at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Whitaker, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Block, of St. Louis, Mo.,, are guests at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Simon Eichel and Mr. Eichel. Mrs. Eichel recently underwent an operation at the Camden hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Lennox Kirkland and their daughter, Miss Mary Louise Kirkland, of Boston, arrived in Camden Thursday and will be the guests of Mr. Kirkland's mother, Mrs. T. J. Kirkland through the Christmas holidays. J. Cooled Oil lis, D. J. Creed, Perry Lang8ton, M. G. Muller and Julian B. Sanders, Jr., of Hagood, have returned from a hunting trip to Lake Mattamuskeet, N. C. They brought back a number of Canadian wild geese and mallards. Entertains Board of 8tewards Rev. and Mrs. Bryce Herbert entertained members of the board of ate-. , wards of the Lyttleton Street Methodist church with a dinner given on Wednesday evening at their home. < Holly, nandlna berries and red candles furnished a pretty centerpiece for the dining room table. Dear Santa: I am a little boy six years old. This Is my first year in, school and I like It fine. Please bring me a football und harness for my little dog, Dusty. Some fruits, nuts and candy and remember the other little boys and girls. Ixjve as ever Cleatus Godwin ????? i Complete Plans For Big Concert Definite assurance of tho appearmce on Friday. February 10. of the Southern Symphony Orchestra, a mudeal group now in process of organtcAtion in Columbia, was given at a neetiug held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Llewellyn this week. ! The concert by a sixty-piece musical unit will bo held in the Halglar Theatre with reserve seats listed In | lefinttely located areas in the audi* ] torlum. These reserve seat areas will > j be determined by a proper committee. Reserved seat tickets will be sold at; H.80 each. I Mrs. IxjuIs I. Oulon, chairman of the) Community Club, named the following j committees: Program: Dr. Maurice Clarke and Mrs. A. l>. McArn; floorj plana, seating arrangements and; printing, Miss Alberta Team, chair-1 man, Mrs. L. H. Schenk. R. 13. Pitts.! T. Lee Little, and Oliver Rice. Committee on solicitation of pledges and sale of tickets: District north of Chesnut Street. Mrs. Samuel Russell, Mrs. R. 13. Pitta and Mrs. H. O. Marvin; district south oT Chesnut Street. Mrs. Charles Salmond. chair-1 man, Mrs. James Gaudy. Mrs. Not-| ties Lindsay, Mrs. Leon Schlosburg, Mrs. llaucho, and Mrs. A. C. McKaln; Business district, Mrs. A. Stanley Llewellyn, Mrs. A. Douglas McArn. Committee on publicity. J. L. Stewart, Mrs. F. N. MeCorkle, Mrs. Kathleen Watts, Dr. Maurice Clarke and Oliver Rice; Supper arrangements. Mrs. Henry Savage, Jr. and -Mrs. H. G. Carrison. The committee on Ways and Means submitted a program which was, adopted and will provide for the printing of pledge cards which will entitle the purchaser to three tickets for $5.00. This peldge card will be | exchanged ^or officials tickets at the Corner Book Store before Feruary 1. There will be eighty such cards issued and when that many are sold the holders will have first choice of seats. Join The Goodf ellows The Chronicle Is again this year starting a Goodfellows Club to raise money for Christmas baskets to be presented to the needy on Christmas Eve. As usual this year?thg money and purchase of tho baskets will be in charge of Mrs. W .J. May field. Contributors can give one dollar or more as they feel inclined. Your contributions can be sent to Tho Chronicle office or given to Mrs. Mayfleld. They should reach this office not later than Thursday, December 21, and acknowledgement of the donations will be made in this paper on Friday, December 22. The Hat Is headed by E. T. Start, who never fails to contribute. Others listed this week who voluntarily came in are: E. T. Start Carl Schlosburg 1-00 Mrs. W. J. Mayfleld 2.00 Miss Sarah Crawford --j. 100 Mrs. H. G. Marvin 2 00 H. D. Nlles V 100 Mrs. H. D. Niles I-00 C. J.> Shannon, 4th 1-0? """ All Are Improving Friends and relatives of four of Camden's most popular citizens will be pleased to learn that they are all reported as Improving. Blake Zemp Is improving at his home. Murdoch M. Johnson is also Improving at his home. "Foot" Alfred McLeod Is recovering from a serious Injury received when hit by an automobile. He is still a patient in the Camden hospital Bob Kennedy is recovering in a Columbia hospital from serious Injuries received when both knee caps were dislocated. At last reports he was still able to crack Jokes. One Hour Parking To Christmas Day Notice was issued this week by the Camden police department that a onehour parking period would be in force in the down-town business area beginning at once and continuing until Christmas. t The usual one-hour period for parking on Saturdays will be extended to Include all days of the week with the exception u$ Sunday The police notice. published in this issue, stipulates that no guest tickets will be Issued during the period to Christmas. Violators of this parking limit order will be arrested and fined. The city suggests that shoppers from outside of the city who plan to remain here for several hours or longer can find ample parking space for their cars In the city lot Just south of the J. It. Zomp dray line office on south Broad street. The police have also served notice on speedsters that this dangerous practice will have to stop, all offenders to he taken to police headquarters, booked and placed In Jail until released on bond. Tuesday night a driver for a well known white man, was arrested on a reckless driving and speeding charge and had to post a bond of $22 before reloaded. The police state he was doing 60 miles an hour with a truck and almost overturned hi making a corner. Several nights ago a negro driver cut the corner of Broad and DeKalb streets and crashed Into a car owned by N. R. Goodale, Sr. The police haled the driver to police headquarters where ho was booked on a reckless driving charge. Airport Manager Joins U. S. Flyers Karl Frledell, who has been manager of the Woodward airport here! since last June, will leave Sunday for] Fort Bragg, where he will report to the army air corps. Mr. Frledell received word of Ills appointment with the air corps on Wednesday and immediately contacted Dexter C. Martin, state aeronautical commissioner, who Informed him that he would take Immediate steps to secure a successor to Mr. Fridell at the local airport. Following notice by Mr. Frledell to the city of his contemplated departure, the mayor instructed the chamber of commerce to communicate with Mr. Martin, of the state commission, and stress to him the need of securing a new manager for the airport. Mr.. Martin, in reply, stated that he was making every effort to secure a competent man, one who..Q9.Uld carry on the same constructive program that Mr. Frledell haa been doing. ? During the administration of Mr. Frledell as airport manager, the air held has been host to a number of large alrcades. Including two visits by the Florida Goodwill Group and one by the South Carolina Flying Club. In addition Mr. Frledell has conducted a large class in flying and ground work. The Woodward aviation club, with a group of juveniles. Is one of his successful projects. Eighteen alleged plotters against Slam's 14-year-old King Adanda were executed Wednesday. They were charged with conspiracy to overthrow the boy monarch. Advice as To Your Christmas Mail Postoftlcea will make ovary offert to handle tho Christmas mails without congestion and delay, hut owing to the enormous volume this can bo done only with tho cooperation of tho public. Compliance with tho following suggestion will greatly aid tho postoflice and Insure the prompt handling of your mull:^, Wrapping and PackiiOt* All parcels must he securely packed and wrapled Cse strong paper and hoavy t wine. Fragile Articles: Articles easily broken or crushed must he securely packed and crated or boxed All articles easily broken or damaged must be plainly marked "Fragile." Perishable Matter: Parcels containing perishable articles shall bo marked "Perishable" and packed In suitable container, according to contents. Addresses: Addresses should be complete, with house uumber and the name of street, postotTice box, or ruj nil route number, and typed or plainly written In Ink. A return card should lx> placed In tho upper left corner of every piece of mall Postage: Postage must be fully prepaid on all mall. Affix tho required amount of postage in the upper right corner. Limit of Weight and Size: No parcel may be more than 100 Inchos In length and girth combined nor oxeeod 70 pounds In weight Air-Mall Service: Use air mail for speed. First in arrival, tirst delivered. first opened. The domestic airmail rate of postage Is six cents for each ounce or fraction thereof oi\ tho mainland of tho United States. Special Delivery Service: 'Hie use of a special delivery stamp will assure delivery on Christmas day, If mailed at the proper time. Special j delivery service means Immediate delivery at office of uddress. Matter not mailable at Parcel Post Kates: Written matter in the naturo of personal correspondence cannot bo enclosed In parcels. For your protection,, all gift packages should be registered or Insured. Camden Boy Promoted. _____ Of Interest to Camden friends will be the promotion of Adlckes Klrkland, who recently was made superintendent of the United States Rubber company's mills at Wlnnsboro. He Is being transferred from'the same company's mill at Hogansvllle, Qa. His wife and daughter wlli join him in January. Had Birthday Party Donald Campbell was host to ten of his .. frlonds . Tuesday afternoon when his mother,;^frs. Donald Camp-, bell gave a party for him In honor of his twelfth birthday. Oames were enjoyed in the early part of the afternoon and later a delicious supper was Berved. Grace Episcopal Church The services for Sunday at Grace Episcopal church will be early communion service at 8 o'clock, church school at 9;4o a. m.; morning prayer and sermon by the rector, Dr. Maurice Clarke at 11:15; Junior communicant's league at 7:00 p. m. I ** f . ?( r ..a (4i?utm lutty CS#MIL GIFT I SHIPPING ' * 'Headquarters for CHRISTMAS WEDDINGS ANNIVERSARIES BIRTHDAYS ll 'J V raiu BRIDGE I1! Ca|herine Goodale's Shop Ian fair rr*i*T CAMDEN, S. C. Beauty for Christmas i We will make you look lovelier than ever for Christmas. Artistic beauty care at thrift prices. I Telephone 149 CAMDEN BEAUTY PARLOR ? isTmns A ^ THE CAMDEN !$?)?& ! Telephone 193 tu J' ;i