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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE i i?j i ??? ? ? i ? i > u i H, I). NII.KH -KdltOf and Publinhcr Published every Friduy at No. 1IOO Broad Btreofc and entered at thy Cum^ den, South Carolina post off ley as second- class mail matter. Price per annum $2.00. fc Camden, S, <J? 'December 15, 1922. That the city is proud of its new pavements anil intend* to preserve them an far as possible is shown by the publication of ap ordinance in an other place in ' this paper today. They have provided for a fine Of ioi prisonment for any one driving a Ve hicle calculated to cut up the pave ments and the public hrtd hotter learn this in time. It is a wise move on the part of Council and we hope this ordinance will, be strictly enforced. Camden will have" the prettiest street* to be found wvywner# when the program is completed and we- do not want the'm marred. We are publishing in another place in this paper today a lengthy article from Mr. ' Christopher Atkinson, of Columbia, addressed to The Chronicle, relative to the Welfare Hoard's crit icism of the handling of the state penitentiary convicts. What Mr. At kinson has to say is well said and to the point. A penal institution cannot be run as a place of amusement. It is a place where wrong doers are deprived of their liberties and are sup posed to be run as a deterrment of crime, and any other policy would not have the effect. We do not believe that the general public Uike the rec* ommendations of this board seriously however. Jeffords, the murderer, Sentenced to electrocution on December 22nd, for the killing of Arnette, having ex hausted every legal technicality to escape the chair, as a last resort makes a pathetic anpeal to the gover nor to commute his sentence. fie did~TR5t show mercy to Arnette and none ' should be shown him. Nelson R. Green, former sheriff of Anderson county, took the oath of of fice as United States marshal for the Western district of South Carolina at Anderson at U o'clock Wednesday aft ernoon and immediately assumed his duties of office., succeeding Joseph W^Tojbert.' ^he term of Mr. Tolbert, who was not confirmed at the recent special session of congress, expired with the closing of the extra session and Mr. Green was appointed by 'Federal Judge If. II. Watkins, who was advised by District Attorney -Cochran that the United States at torney general had informed him that the judge had the power to make an appointment to fill such a vacancy. Mr. Green will hold office until his successor is appointed by President Harding. .ludtfe frank H. Gary, of the eighth circuit, died at the home of his sis ter. Mr?-. Mary Kason, in Charleston yesterday afternoon, following an illness <>f several weeks. Ho was taken ti> Charleston from Allendale. Kuff'-rinK' with what was supposed to he malaria, and was thought to be getting alontf \ery well until a few <lays hk'". when his condition became suddeniy worse. Judge Gary was elected to the circuit bench in 1010. He seryed two years in tho United States senate filling out the unex pired term of A. C. I.atinu r. who died in 100S. He was a brother of i hi* f .iustiie Kugcno H. Gary and the late Hon. Krnest Gary, also a cir cuit judtfe. He was commonly re garded as an able, high-minded ju list and was much beloved and ad mired t In ooifhout the state. \tt<>rne> General Daugherty t>n M ? ? n d ; i \ '<-M Sena tot' Walsh, of Mas ?;it ha-' it- that tin federal govern mi nt. without jurisdiction in the alleged il'-^ il .nt s of the Ku KlUX K!an an! v.cix unable to find a case of \io!. < ? f th- federal laws. As .- \ NvK<fiie.\, of Hickman. k\ brought I ? i automobile to a .stop it I""- nt of l? ih home, on his return l'i ont i h i'.!i S u ' i < i . i \ . he fell forward dead. l?r innu'.i- lati! h.-> wife, win was with him if 'ha a?. died as *h< result of shock I t,.i v e handled a lo* ? .f n ;. I ( o nihi l folks and 1 ou . miiiv m\ e ; i id a prominent 1??? al attor ?(irru\ e li-'daj, "and there an \e?y fe.l r. ? !>? ??- while the bo 1 I ? <W I I pay;:.;. a;; , thing 1 i interest, and often ? ' ? i i that Hut onci ; n a \\h. . . ! 'e nt conn- along Jo prose ?ha* ' C- um It i boll \\ee\il conditions la ; v. . .if. I h gh priie*. tile fel .?'? v \c . mal'i - an eff,,:' van pay h s li bt 1 * ? I a a negro i nt came ,nto n . ..ffu? . voluntarily. and paid >? lainl ?(?>!?? of h ho n i $r,oo Must of ?his was pa. (I ou* of 1 is ( fop, as he had v ' nti adt d \ei\ mail debt** for lanstng if. and in- h.?d hi.s cotton nn?n ? \ " This a go wj sV>r\ I' h a .* al: ? !.' i ]? rr i : " or and rg\ . de ' <? r n : . r,*i : oi'. }om^t\ . t ? r ! th.e other ? el a . f i< a ' ,oi i if ?> . . < - . ail we would m t ? g i t hi name- l?ut w? \Aer?* -trictl.N i harmed by the at 'orr.i y not to divulge these names, as "pr?>fe-.- lonat ethics" forbade the at Irtry i?>y Arybfrw, *? t* a trrrf ?t^rr The pity i? auch stories are too earro. -!j?ne*?ter Citizen 1 1 ' ? A ON If. MAN TOWN One Man font*. to Every Citi/en and I'aya All the Taxea. (Orangeburg Sun.) Wilson, in Mississippi county, Ark., i? # oru<-man town. It has no court house or city jail, no ordinance*, no police force. .When taxes fall due, the collector has only to go to Robert E. Lee Wilson and say: "Mr. Wilson, give me a check for taxes on every thing in sight." Wilson writeH the check, covering all of the land and physical assets in u town of 1,800 population and enough of the surrounding fat'P* and timber country to total more than 10,000 acres of territory, an id' to be rivaled in productiveness only by the valley of the Nile. The town of Wilson has only one law and that is unwritten. It iy that everybody must work. There are no idle men in the town and vagrants are not tolerated. There can be no undesirable citizens because Wilson, who owns all the houses, >vil 1 not rent homes to undesirables. Everybody in Wilpon is a renter. Even the one man who owns and runs the* town, writes a check pay able to himself, every month for $45. That is thoY highest rent paid, and only two other citizens pay that much. Other tenants spay $12.50 to $27.50 a month, with a few excep tions, where the rentals are $30 to $10. Every home in Wilson, whether it is it three-room cottage or h mansion, IS 't?q\rtf>pcd with electric lights, tub and shower baths, hot and cold wat er, telephone, hedge, flower garden, truck patch, and chicken yard. Wilson has industries that repre sent a total investment of $1,000,000. These produce annually nearly $2, 000,000 worth of manufactured hard wood lumber, ginned cotton, flour meal, and mixed feed. The raw ma terial for these products come from a 40,000-iicre tract of cultivated and timbered land, all owned by Wilson. The principal agricultural products are cotton, corn, wheat and alfalfa. Wilson's IK cotton plantations, with a total area of 8,000 acres, will produce this year 0,600 bales of cot ton. Corn i was harvested from t),000 acres, wheat from 1,200 acres, and alfalfa from 800 acres. The farm is so big that Wilson employes his own agricultural expert and a general plantation manager who has super vision over 18 zone managers. There is no reason of idleness in the town. Whvn the harvest is over, the farm hands are put to clearing land or working in the logging and timber- industry. Wilson i.s now re puted to have a fortune of more than $10,000,000. He began opera tions with h small sawmill on- the site of the town which bears his name. With the profits from the saw- j mill he bought up land a parcel at a time. Now, at f?7 years old, he owns timbered and cultivated land enough to make a fair sized county. Ilia territory is 27 miles long and H miles wide. In this section of the country Wil son was one of the first to take up diversified farming. When his man agers suggested that it would be hard to find a market for his wheat, Wilson asked tlu-m to obtain an es timate on the" eost of building and installing a flour mill. A little la ter the mill was built at a cost of $100,000. It is mow running full capacity and .turning out M00 barrels of flour and meal daily. The. sawmill is the one-man town's Ivggest plant. It represents an in vestment of $250,000. Manufactured hardwoods from this mill are sold all over the United States and in for eign countries. Another Wilson in dustry is a box factory which cost 25.000 and lias a big output. Wil son also operate* a big cotton gin ning plant and an ice cream factory and ,< prc-i?i< i:' of the only bank in t ow n. He al-o ? priale> .? department store with a -.lock \alued at more than $l."0,ooo. He buys his goods for t h i v store in carload lots. The town's filling drug store, and hole! are a:?o h.s Work will soon 1 ?< unde? u.i\ >:. i tombinalion hotel, ib -prti't m? i.t store, and office build ing. ?'< > ")0. OOt \ rhen. too. Ui?he! * 1 I i 'i \\'i!>on ha.* a hobby eiiur.it ion. He has sent man\ young ni< n and womin to col lege He paid a!, the.r bills, iru lud .ng i iothir.g, boai'l book-. initio!) an ! spending mo:;. ?, In >no*t i a e * '.to- graduat* are em; ? .yed by W.! ^uii w) h..^ 111.111*11 ?*-*s and !**??? initted to pay back '.he fund- j"! 'araed n -.mail ir. .-.la! I men; - With Our Advertisers. The Chronicle is this week ? ! n g ( ] u i t e a list of n < w advert.-'-, asking your patronage during t h ? Christmas holidays, and the buyin ; public should consult these ads be. fore making their purchases. The illustrations used in the advertise ments were made in The Chronicle office. We are now equipped for making most any kind of illustrated cut for advertisers and merchant arc invited to cosult us along this line. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of Interest Gathered From > v Many Sources. Sunday was win 'meat December '> in history of the Columbia weather observatory. The mercury reached 76. John Wannamaker, former pustr munU't general, has been very ill at his home in Philadelphia for 10 days, bat 1? reported as improving. Davis Turner, shot and killed II .B. Me A fee at Buffalo, Union county, about 1 :30 o'clock Monday. The trouble between the two men \va? of old standing, it is fcaid. The dead man was about 25 years of age, The tragedy occurred at the crossing at Fast Buffalo. A northbound Atlantic Coast Line express train crashed into the rear of the Charleston-Columbia local, eleven miles north of Charleston, Saturday morning.* I. R. Edwards, a traveling salesman of Sumter was killed and about 36 persons were injured, some of thom very seriously. It has been announced that $200, 000 of 7 per cent preferred stock of the Wiiliamston mills will be retired on December 31. A meeting of the stockholders of the organization has been called to consider the question of increasing tho capital stock of the mill from $500,000 to $1,000,000. First setting fire to the business district, pandits robbed the postoffice at Brownsfield, Terry county, Texas, of currency, silver and stamps, last Friday. . While the fire spread, the bandits battered their way into the postoffice, , smashed the cash drawer and then fled as citizens assembled to fight the flames. Later a posse overtook the bandits and captured two of them. Much of the money was recovered. This is the second time recently in which the business district of tho town has been set on fire by, bandits. The fire loss will be small. Sales of tobacco on the floors of independent tobacco warhoiises throughout the state this year to talled 26,932,532 pounds, according to figures compiled from reports made by warehouse managers. The total money realized was $5,531,570. Tobacco delivered to the South Caro lina Tobacco Growers' Association is not included. The I>akc City market led tho state with a total of 8,822,008 pounds sold for a total of $1,349, 633.31, or an average of $21.28 a hun dred pounds and Mullins was next with 7,095,617 pounds Which brought a total of $1,627,753.00. A largo barn and eight hordes,, be longing to Red Tolbert, owner of ex tensive lands in Abbeville county, were destroyed by fire Wednesday night at Mr. Tolbert's home a few miles from Abbeville, on the Abbe ville-Greenwood road. The barn was one of the largest in Abbeville coun ty, and was completely destroyed with no insurance. In addition to the eight horses burned to death, large quantities of feed stuffs were de stroyed. Two horses that had been borrowed by laborers on the place, were out of the barn and escaped. Origin of the fifre is unknown. The sliver service which formerly decorated the battleship?South Caro lina would be given by the govern ment to the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution of South Carolina under the provisions of a bill intro duced in congress by Representative James F. Byrnes. The service has been loaned by Secretary Denby to Governor Harvey, according to Mr. Byrnes and by Governor Harvey to the Daughters of the American Rev olution. Without authority of law, the Kilt would have to I*- recalled on the complaint of a single individ ual, according to Mr. Byrnes. For that reason t h f bill was introduced. Harrison Blanton, 21 years old, shot and killed I'aul Herron on the courthouse steps at Grayson. Ky., Saturday e\ening, n few minutes aft ei Herron had been acquitted of killing tin* former's father. William Blanton. The slaying of Herron was witnessed 1\\ a crowd of men and women most of \,hom had attended the trial. According to the specta tors, Blanton fired three shot*. Two pierced Hcrron's body and he died almost instantly. One of the bullets wounded I^aai Hough, a farm* ! forty yenr> old. Blanton ran a few yards and surrendered to the town marshal. He rushed to the jail. A few minutes later, the grand jur> which wa< in .-ess ion, returned an indict ment charging f;rj.t degree murder. Blanton'* father was shot at WiNon's Crci In, ?-n July 15. A croud of men d iM.vder iy and WnrT.fr Blan ton. a dt-puty sheriff, attempted to make an arrest. The prisoner re sisted. and, according to Jevtinony offered at the trial. Herron arvj oth ers t ,?>k h : -i part. William Blanton <nrre to the assistance of hiv son, 'lie d?puty, and several shots were fired, causing his death. Herron and three other men were tried for the killing. Ml wen* acquitted Saturday. Amcrnr n mnrrhcr^htp of th^ American Institute of Mo?~hariJc* ! Rn srinoerinjr rccport" onlr two women. TfiKM OK THE COVEKNtttt* ~ It Should be Four Yearn ? Two Years Too S|tort. < The New York Commercial snys; "One thing the recent campaign In New York state brought to the sur face wus that the term for which tho governor <>f the state is elected t two years- -is too short. It is not in the I interest of the state that we should go through the turmoil of an olec- 1 tion and a possible change of gowrn mental policy every two years. It' takes a full year to become seasoned. , to the work and by the time the' work is well under way the governor must begin to think of re-election or re- i tiring from office. The interests of the state are far too great for per- ! functory administration of a mere j politician. The argument against it is th<?.-4f we get a bad governor in office we have to endure him for , four years. The possibility of put ting a poor man in and having to keep him there for four years is not ; so serious a menace to the welfare of ! the state as is the continued unsel tlement of administration." This reasoning applies, with equal; force to the ?governorship of South ; Carolina, As The Piedmont has long contended, the term of the chief ex ecutive of this state ought to be four years, with the provision that the governor shall not be eligible to a second term. By custom every gov- j ernor of South Carolina who seeks ! it is invariably given a second term. ; Why not recognize the fact by law ? For the reasons stated by The Com mercial and for others, the four year term for the governorship^ is . in the interest of good government, j The Piedmont hopes that at the next j session of the legislature a proposed j amendment to tho State Constitu tion embodying this change will be J submitted to the people who, in our ; judgment would vote in favor of it. i ?Greenville Piedmont. Two hundred and eighty-one per- ; sons found guilty of violations of ? traffic laws at Los Angeles, Cal., dur ing the past two weeks have served or are serving jail terms of from one to 100 days, as a result of a cam- j paign to curtail accidents inaugu-t rated by Police Judge Joseph E. ' Chambers and backed by other mag istrates. The drive was stared fol lowing the publication in newspapers : of figures showing that in proportion j to population Los Angeles led the j nation in the number of automobile ' fatalities. It soon spread to Sartj Children Cry for .Fletcher's The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over thirty years, has home the signature of ^ on the wrapper all these years /J* . just to protect the coming generations. Do not be deceived. All Counterfeits, Imitations and ltJ^?WtHC00d,f are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children? Experience against Experiment. 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Charlie Leo, a negro, was burned near Perry, Fla., last Friday for the murder of Miss Ruby Hendry, rt young school teacher on the previous Saturday. Very little is known about the murder except that the dead body of the young woman was j discovered along the side of the rail O ? ? J road by a passing train crew. In- > vestigation fixed suspicion on Leo ! and another negro named Albert 1 Young. The shorif took the two ne- 1 groes into custody; but a large mob j that had already gathered, seized ' them as hv was about to put them in "f ? . ?? jaiL' The .negroes were .taken to tli* scene of, the murder and put through a searching examination. Lee is said to' have confessed to the murder, but .denied having robbed the body, claiming that the robbery was corti mltted by another negro that he did not' name; but he said that Young llad- nothing to do with the matter. After having satisfied itself as to tho facts in the case as far as the same could be- obtained, the mob built a great pile of brush, fastened Lee with cbnfns and threw him in after start ing the fire. The negro's body was burned to a crisp. The negro Young was taken to jail for further inves tigation, the mob not being alto gether satisfied of his innocence. - CLOTHING For Men and Boys Clothing serves further than as a mere covering for the body and a protection against wintry winds. It staixls as an index to the public of personality. More than that it furnishes a "look the part" feeling. Dad and the boys should dre>> up for Christmas season. An unusually broad choice of fabrics and models ar>' to he had here ? Kemi-ronsrrvative models with iust the proper dash of style. Men's Suits and Overcoats in worsteds, series, cheviots and tweeds, $20, $25, $35. Suits with 2 pair pants as low as $20. 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