Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Notice of AueMmenU For Street Improvements Sot loo is hereby given to all per0jlrf owning property abutting on the jtrtH'tH in the City of Camden, Hated at the end of this notice, thut an assessment has been levied against property for an amount not oxfeeding one-half (1-2) of the coat of tret t improvements on said atroota within the limits mentioned. Said aaso-smoutH havo been levied pursuant to the applicable Statutory authority and Constitutional provlaty,,rt of tho Stute of tjouth Curqllua, and Oidinuhcoa'duly adoptod by the pity Council of the City of Camden. pit,. Assessment ltoll showing the amount to bo assessed against each particular piece of property on tlio ' streets hereinafter set forth for street improvements in the City of Camden. S t\. is on file in my office and will remain on ille for a period of one week from the date of this publication, ' (luring which time any person concerned may inspect the same and flle in writing with me exceptions or objections to such assessments. The 'streets abovo referred to are as fol. lows: ' 1. Jordan Avenue, from Eighteenth Street, Chesnut on the North to Hampton Street on the South; 2. Carrison Street, from Sixth Avenue, Broad on the West to Jordan Avenue on the East; 3. East Hampton Street, from Second Avenue, Mill on the West to the right of way of the Southorn Railroad on tho East; ' 4, Second Avenue, Mill, from Eighteenth Street, Union on 0H9T' North to Fourteenth Street, Laurens on tho Soutji. LOUISE W. BOYKIN, City Clerk and Treasurer, City of Camden, S. C. October 24, 1941. NOTICE OF TAX LEVY I The books for the collection of State, County and School Taxes for the fiscal year commencing January 1, 1941, will be open from September 15 to December) 81, 1941, inclusive with- i out penalty. When making Inquiries regarding taxes, be Bure to state the school district number {n whiph you live or own property. \ The total tax levy for Jthe various school districts , are aa .follows: DeKalb Township -> Mills School District No. 1 48 School District No. 2 88 School District No. 4 87 School District No. 6....* it School District No. 25 24 School District No. 43 34 Buffalo Township School District No. 8 42 School District No. 5 '. 24 School District No. 7 26 School District No. 15 24 School District No. 20 82 School District No. 22 43 School District No. 23 82 School District No. 27 85 School District No. 28.. 26 School District No. 31. . 34 - &hool District No. .40 47 fcthool District No. 42 24 Flat Rock Township School District No. 8 35 School District No. 9.* 35 School District No. 10 26 School District No. 13 27 School District No. 19 35 School District No. 30 26 School District No. 83 35 School District No. 37 35 School District No. 41 35 School District No. 46 28 JSchool District No. 47 24 Wateree Township School District No. 11 29 School District No. 12 42 School District No. 16 25 School District No. 29 34 School District No. 38 .....24 School District No. 39 28 C. J. OUTLAW, Treasurer Kershaw County, S. C. Notice of Sale of Real Estate Take Notice. That the heirs of N. Jones, deceased, will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, at twelve (12) o'clock, Noon, December Sth, 1941, at the home place of the said N. C. Jones, the following described tract of land, to wit, "All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land lying, being and situate just South of the rn>wn of Kershaw, lying and being on paved Highway leading from Kershaw, S. C. to Camden. S. C., Kershaw County South Carolina, containing one hundred twenty (120) acres, more or less, and being bounded as follows, North by lands of T. S. Bell and estate lands of E. V. Truesdale, South by lands formerly of Serena Faulkenberry, Estate lands of H. E. Williams and Conley Horton, Blast by lands of Wiley Faulkenberry and West by lands of the estate of H. E. Williams, P. E. Jones and Loma Crow". All persons bidding will be required to deposit the sum of one hundred dollars as a pledge of good faith, and should the succeseful bidder fail and refuse to pay within fifteen days, the amount bid, then and in such event It shall be forfeited to saia heirs to cover the expense of another sale thereof. Tho said sale is being held in order to dispose of the said lands and distribute the proceeds thereof among 'ho lawful heirs. All persons are ask- i <1 to come and bid thereon. 1 The Heirs of N. C. Jones, Deceased. November 7, 1941 34-37sb. Relief At Last For Your Cough Creomulsion relieves promptly be- 1 cause it goes right to the seat of the 3 trouble to help loosen and expel germ 3 laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe 3 and heal raw, tender Inflamed bronchial , mucous membranes. Tell your druggist ' to sell you a bottle of Oreomulalon with the understanding you must like the ( *ay it quickly allays the cough or you ^ to have your money back. 1 creomulsion For Coodii, Qm* Colds, IwddHi < -jv ' \ 1 - . . 1 NOTICE OF SALE Statu of South Carol hi a County of Kurshuw Under and by virtue of sundry'city paving assessments and city tax executions directed to me by Louise W. lioyHin, City Clerk and Treasurer, 1 have levied upon the following property and will sell aame the first Monthly in December, 1941, beiig the first day thereof, during the legal hours of aalo. in front of the Court House, rnmrien, , South Carolina. Terms of sale: Cash: All that lot of land, In the City of Cauiduu, county of Kershaw, Stato of South Carolina, fronting 75 feet 10aat on HrOftd Street an dextending back to a depth of iyu feet, bounded North by property formerly of ti. C. Bruce; Mast by Hroud street; South by property now or formerly of Sarah Mlckle; and West by a ten foot lane running from Hampton Street to Chesnut street. Levied upon and to be sold as the property of tho Estate of Mary N. Boyd for unpaid paving assesments. . . Also All that lot of land, In the City of Camden, County of Kershaw, State of South Carolina, fronting North on Chesnut street 80 feet, more or less, and extending back to a depth of 157 feet, bounded North by Chesnut street; East by Ldt No. 5 of the Carrison property; South by lots 14 and 15 of the Carrison property; and West by remaining portion of I^ot No. 3 of the Carrison property, formerly Carrie I. Goodale. Levied upon and to bo sold us the property of the Estate of Mary N. Boyd for unpaid paving assessments. N Also All that lot of land, in the City of Camden, County of Kershaw, State of South Carolina; fronting 66 feet, more or less, South on DeKalb street, and extending back to a depth of 333 feet; bounded North by property formerly of J. D. Dunlap; East by property formerly of Witte Brothers; South by DeKalb Street and West by property formerly occupied by Adam Halthcock. Levied upon and to be sold as the property of M. E. Scott for unpaid paving assessments. ? Also All that lot of land in the City of Camden, County of Kershaw, State of South Carolina, beginning at the corner of the intersection of the south side of Chesnut Street and the east side of Campbell street, running south on Campbell Street 50 "feet and running back East on Chesnut street 146 1-8 feet and being formerly a part of the "Team Property" in Block "C". Levied upon and to be sold as the property of Martha E. Hudson for unpaid paving assessments. Also All that lot of land in the City of ( Camden, County of Kershaw, State of South Carolina; fronting West 100 feet, more or less, on Campbell street and extending back to a.depth of 320 feet, more or less, bounded North by Cyla Kelly and property now or formerly of Highland Avenue Company; East and South by property now or formerly of Estate of Warren Harris, and West by Campbell Street. Levied upon and to be sold as the property of Peter Baskln for unpaid oity 'taxes for the years 1939 and 1940. Also All that lot of land, In the City of Camden, County of Kershaw. State of South Carolina, on thd west side of Gordon Street and fronting thereon 47 feet, more or less,- and extending back to a depth of 90 feet more or less; bounded North by property of Dinah Carlos; East by Gordon Street; South by Lucinda Beattle; and West by right of way of the Seaboard Air Line Railway. Levied .upon and to be sold as the property of Joseph Jones, et. al., for unpaid City Taxes for the years 1939 and 1940. Also All that lot of land, in the City of Camden, County of Kershaw. State of South Carolina, fronting 52 1-2 feet East on extension of Campbell street, and extending back to a depth of 210 feet; bounded North by property now or formerly of the Estate of Lizzie Ralney; "East by conHjmation of Campbell Street; SouHr by property -ttdW* or formerly of Sam Ralney; and West by property now or formerly of B. F. Haile. Levied upon and to be sold as the property of the Estate of Lizzie Ralney for unpaid City taxes for the yars 1939 and 1940. ALVAH RUSH Chief of Police LOUISE W. BOYKIN City Clerk and Treasurer NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS All parties Indebted to the estate of Newton Kelly 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. EZELL KELLY, j Executor. Camden, S. C., November 10, 1941. ( FINAL DISCHARGE ; Notice is hereby given that cne month from this date, on December 2, 1941, we will "make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County our final return as Administrators of the estate of N. C. Jones, deceased and on the Bame date we will apply to the paid Court for a final discharge as said Administrators. F. K. JONES, S. H. CROW, 4 Admlnlstators. Camden, S. C. November 1st, 1941. c FINAL DISCHARGE Notice Is hereby given that cne month from this date, on December 6. 1941, Cecil Wittson and George H. WIttkowsky, will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County :helr final return a* Administrator* >f the estate of L. A. WIttkowsky, deceased, and on the'same date they, rill apply to the said Court for a Inal discharge as said Administrators. N. C. ARNETT, Judge of Probate. Damden, S. G.. November t 194J. Richards Fights Step Toward MAl!-Out War" (ConiliiutHi Irom first pagei "Sweaters and hoiKh stmt by the good women ot our country?(iod bless them are not ull thut the meu i at the front need In a war. They need moat of all the united unselfish support of every activity of their country. Including labor, capital, and Induatry. There muat be sacrifice somewhere else buaidu the buttle line, and we will never get that necessary spirit of sacrlflco \m the front or elsewhere by plunging this nation Into war by a cowardly policy hero in (*Ongross. To wage war as . war is wagod today, every one must sacrifice and the Ainercian people haven't the slightest Idea of the extent of the sacrifices they must be called upon to hear. "If wo are going to go Into this war by means of these amendments or otherwise, we should first strip our decks for action, not during the battle but boforo it. Are we going blindly forward to win a victory for the world and at the same time confess by inaction at homo that we are unable to handle traitors here, bo they labor leaders or industrial giants? I say this country Is not yeudy for war and will never be ready until we cuur c ur deekB at home. | "In this solemn hour I r.xn thinking about what Is best for my country. I am thinking of the mothers of this [country; I am thinking of the thous-> lands and thousands of mothers sons who may be sent to foreign soil and foreign seas and never come back; I am thinking of the wounded and the broken who may come back In future years to plead to auother Congress for a just verdict on their cause, for a miserable pittance, known as a ptnBion, to help keep broken bones and shattered spirit together; I am thinking of how Congress, in a moment of grand sentimentality, without realizing mockery of it all, will direct the gathering up of a handful of dust and bonee from Dakar, or Alexandria, or Leningrad, or Singapore - and have them brought here to be encased In another monument to the Unknown Soldier with the inscription "Here lies in honored glory an American soldier known only to God." "To that beautiful Inscription thvre should, but will not, be added these words, "sent to his death In a foreign land, through the back door, by Congress before he was properly armed or properly trained and without theundlvided support of the people back home." I have no son old enough to go. Mjfr oldest is only 18 years, I have always tried to teach my sons to believe in the immortal words of Commodore Decatur, "My country In her Intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be right, but, right or wrong, my country." NOTICE State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, City of Camden. To the property owners on the streets set forth herein: You are hereby notified that the assessments against abutting property for street' improvements have been entered in the Assessment'Liens Hook and are now a lien upon this property. The "Assessment Liens Book Is open to your inspection. These assessments are payable as follows: In five (5) equal successive annual installments, the first of which Is due' and payable on November 14, 1941. and the remaining four (4) installments on the same? annual recurring date thereafter; or, at the option of the* property owner, may be paid all cash on or before said 14th day of November, 1941. All deferred installments bear interest at the rate of six per centum (6) per annum from the date thO first installment Is due, payable at the same time the annual installment is due and payable. The streets aboVe referred to are as follows: 1. Jordan Avenue, frorn^ Eighteenth Street, CheBnut On the North to Hampton Street on the South. 2. Carrlson Street, from Sixth Avenue, Broad on the West to Jordan Avenue on the East. 3. East Hampton Street, from Second Avenue, Mill on the West to right of way of the Southern Railroad on the East. 4. Second Avenue, Mill. from Eighteenth Street, Union on the North to Fourteenth Street, Laurens on the South. LOUISE W. BOYKIN, City Clerk and Treasurer, City of Camden, S. C. TELLS HOW MAKE FARM MACHINERY LAST LONGER Probable shortages of farm machinery next year as a result of the National Defense Program, make li all the more important t Hat Kershaw county farmers extend the iite ot their ntaehinery ami tools by ordering repair parts now, according to County Agent \V. C McL'ttrky. The Uovurnineiit bus Indicated that there will he no shortage of parts if needs aro lUUMiU iU4lMS, Mr. MeCarloy offers these tions for getting longer ser\iee out of farm machinery: Store machinery under cover. Many machines deteriorate more by exposure out-doors during non-use periods than through aciuul operation. When storing the mowing machine, remove the sickle, grease it, and order now sections if any are broken or missing. Repair or replace guards, lodger plates, wearing plates, and knife holders. Rloek up mower, and support the long tongue on a block to kgep it straight. After harvest, take off and clean and. store binder and combine cmvases in dry place safe from rat damage. Repair or replace torn or worn slots, and canvus straps, (live Hick I o same care as that given to mower. Grease and oil knotter, straighten bent or sprung parts, and replace broken parts and worn parts that look as though they may not last through next harvest. Clean plow, grease wearing parts or cover them with old crankcase oil. Sharpen shares and have some extra shares on hand. Remove, sharpen, and grease the cultivator shovels. Tighten or replace loose or defective parts of the frame. When cold weather arrives, either drain water from cooling system of tractor when it is not in use, or add antifreeze mixture. Check every element of the tractor and adjust for winter operation. In ail cases, order repair parts now. Boy Bitten By 8nake Elloree, Nov. 6?Laurie Lee Browning, eight years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Browning, was bitten by a rattle snake yesterday while hunting in the wood near his home with his father. With a presence of miftd that probably saved the life of his child, Mr. Browning immediately sucked the venom for the wound and applied a tourniquet before carrying him to the Tri-County hospital, Orangeburg, where serum was gvien. The hoy wns brought back home after receiving treatment he is doing nicely. Circus Elephants Become Nervous Charleston. Nov. 14 Tho\ suv that elephants never forgot. Ami It st'cins that the 36 survivors among the ureal herd of Klngltng Brothers and Barnum and Bailey's elrcUH are having a hard time not remembering that some strange thing has happened to eleven of their namJiciLon Llie last. wuck. Arsenic poisoning, presumably Some poison might have he-en led to them of the trainer's assistants sugges the in apples. The trouhle started, in Atlanta. Yesterday Peggy, a lead elephant in the performunee, died. She died in a railway ear. enronto from Augusta, tin., and in the n?\t car to the one in whleh she died there is another pachyderm-?ill. too, in tl>e same manner. Tito death of the elephants means a loss of $110,000 to the circus. The elephants are nervous. They trumphet, mournfully or vvrathfuily. Yesterday three of them got In a tight on the circus grounds. Phillip Conker ?f Hartford, Conn,, a 28-year-old teamster, intervened and was crushed between two of them. Several bones In his face were broken. Walter McClain. the trainer of the herd, was reported in a highly nervous state as the result of the mysterious poisonings. The teamsters, the trainers and the keepers?they were on edge too. Sojnetimes they screamed menacingly at the circus-goers who approached the elephants with hnndfuls of peanuts. ' You see, they don't want to take any more chances. StolfUphoids $10,000 Verdict Laurens, Nov. 6?Judge Phillip H. Stoll overruled a motion by defense counsel to set aside a $10,000 verdict for Mrs. Marguerite Johnson of NcWbery, in her $26,000 suit against the Belk-McKnight company, now the Belk-Beard Co., Inc.., of Newberry. I The plaintiff charged that she nad been wrongfully accused, arrested and i maliciously prosecuted by the defendant company in connection with the passing of a check In November, 1936. The case was transferred here from Newberry county and consumed three I days. * Great Britain consumes approximately 40,000;000 gallons of ice cream annually, -4n normal times. Smallest Cotton Crop Since 1879 Columbia, Nov 0 Crank O Black, federal crop statistician, announced today no change in bis prediction of a month ago of 400,000 luK h of cotton front South Citrolina farms. Tito sighted product ion wottld bo the smallest for the state sinee 1S79, and ill per cent ol last year's !> ???.POO bates. lllaek said best \ it KIs have been realized along the state's northern border front Attilerson t?> York coupties, while central iind eastern sec.(ion cotton acreage has suffered most front weevil Infestation and uufa\orable weather condtions. The httrean of the census lots reported 36N.OOO bales ol cot lop ginned in the state prior to N'ovetnher 1, compared to SIS,000 ginned in tlto same 1940 period. Power Wire Kills Greenwood Girls \ - . T ~~ C.roenwood, Nov. 16.?Misses Frances Edwards, 17, and Ruth Edwards, if), slstera, were electrocuted when they came in contact with u broken high-powered wire near tlieir homo at Codar Springs, below Verdery, at 11:30 o'clock this morning. As nearly as the tragedy could bo reconstructed by authorities, the older girl, Frances Edwards, saw a small * tire in the woods about a hundred yards in the rear of her home. She went to extinguish the blaze, and encountered an electric wire which had broken and fallen to the ground. Sparks from the pbwer wire supposedly caused the fire. The younger Bister, Ruth Edwards was nearby and seeing her sister struggling with the wire ran to her assistance and tried to get her free. Both were killed. Teachers Exchange Places Rock Hill, Nov. 14?Carolyn Gable, a Winthrop college senior, will spend the week of November 23-28 in Camden teaching In the Antloch school. She will take the place of MIbs Nancy Watts who is to spend that week at Winthrop for the teacher-student "Exchange Week" program. Miss Gable 1h from Gramling, S. C., and Is majoring In commerce at Winthrop. There are more than 200,000 maps, one of the most valuable collections of maps in the world, in the possesion of the British war office. WOMEN! speak for . . 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This great demonstration, . over all kinds of roads and in all sorts of weather, offers dramatic proof of the economy 'i of the 1942 Dodge. 1 All drivers were non-profes- I sionals and were accompanied / by an impartial local observer 1 who verified, by affidavit, the | number of mil? covered and the amount of gasoline used. .........ilT - 1 DODGE MARCHES I I WITH THE NATION! 1 The great Dodce manuftc- 1 I turing structure continue* I 1 ( to abeorb ell of it* defense M uilffnmcnti and to make delivery to your Govern ment promptly on schedule I ...Your decision to buy a I new Dodge motorcar actu- I I ally assists in the raainte- # I nance of this vast produc- k tlon system, so valuable W V and efficient in meeting I ? I your defense and civilian 1 1 requirements in time of I 1 National Emergency. M HA Y M O T Q,R S SOUTH BROAD STREET - . ^||| gMPEW, S. C