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The Camden Chronicle VOLUME XXXVII. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1925. i NUMBER 31. HKM) ON MtRPBR CHARGB For Crime Said To Hive Been Com mitted in Florida Year? Ago ( I tu uf Mason, alias Odell Hous ton in b*H* held in the county jail here awaiting tho arrival of* officer* from Jacksonville, Fla., being (barged With a murder committed m Puvall County about twenty year* ago. Mason, who was going under the liame of Houston, is being hold in the Kershaw County jail under a charge of grand larceny. He and another negro entered tho Enterprise Mercantile company's store here, and ;v;.re captured with the stolen goods in Columbia. He had already served thirty days .on the chain gang in this i-ounty for vagrancy. It was while :rlned in jail that Sheriff Welsh, Deputy McLeod and Jailer Boone learned that he was wanted on the murder charge in Jacksonville. Of ficers in Jacksonville were wired for a description of the negro whkfo tal lied with the one held here. Later Deputy J. A. McLeod, of the Florida titv came to Camden and had photo graphs made of the negro, and a later telegram from Charles M. Durrance, prosecuting attorney, of Jacksonville, , guested that the negro be held, that identification was complete and an of ficer would be sent for his return. In relating the circumstances of the killing the Jacksonville deputy sari that the crime was committed on *et> mary 24, 1905, and shocked the com > MWV a*gedtaxm vr together with his daughter, Lizzie Baer, resided ort his farm on Six^ Mile creek, west of Jacksonville, clarence Mason, who was a youth of about seventeen, worked for Baer and slept in a shed room of the house. The negro fancied that the old man had hoarded treasures in the house, and one night called Baer to the lot telling him that the horse had stuck a pitchfork in his leg. Baer lit a torchlight and went to the stable anl while examining the horse the negro youth brutally murdered him with a ?hot gun. He then shot a > the young lady who ran to the house and barri caded the door, where the negro for more than an hour tried to break into her room, finally giving it up as use less and escaped on the horse belong ing to Baer. Frank Jones, who was ? deputy sheriff at the time and is still deputy , he riff at Jacksonville trailed Mason through South Georgia where / the trail was lost and nothing has ever been heard of him until his arrest n Camden. Miss Lizzie Baer later married a man named Billington, a river follow er of South Jacksonville, r-and the photos taken of the negni* <here were , a t ried to her for identification. Local officers would not tell how they secured the information and n is said, unofficially, that rewards totalling around $S00 were offered for Mason's capture. Baer's slayer was indicted jor first degree murder in Duvall County on May 1905. Federal Judge R. M. i 'all was circuit judge at the time and P. 1). Cassidy was clerk of cour*. Name Was Omitted. Through an unintentional oversight the name of Clarkson Rhame was emitted from the first month's honor roll of the Camden High SchooL Young Rhame has also the honor o. being president of the Senior class .i?id fills the place most efficiently. ?>*?* I . >' ? Died in Philadelphia. "> *" **4 1* - /J1, '? | ] Alice Simmons, a very worthy and well known colored woman, died in 1 Philadelphia last Saturday morning,' October 24th. Her body was brought here Wednesday and her funeral was lu'ld at the Mt. Moriah Baptist church Wednesday afternoon at 3:30. She; was a good Christian woman and loved by all who knew her. She was J about 6X years old and leaves one son, j two grandchildren, one sister and | many other relatives and friends. j j Boy Charged With Patricide Chesterfield, Oct. 28. ? Charged with murder of his own father, James Newman, 17-year-old white boy of < hesterfield county has been arrested, ^ . W. Rogers, state detective has been advised. The warrant, upon which the arrest was made Monday by Sheriff J. T. ( i rant of Chesterfield, was sworn out b>" Mr. Roger*. ?<, F. C. Newman, the boy's father, was found dead September 25, having been shot twice with a shot gun as he sat grading tobacco in the door of tobacco barn, about three miles from Chttterfiek). - - ' < jf.1 v 5 . ? ' KKRSIIAW COUNTY FAIR Interest Now Center* In Local Annaul County 'Wide Affuir With the passing of the gre atesi State Fair interest in Kershaw Coun ty and surrounding communities is turniug to the local County Fair which is only ? about three weeks off. For the past several years the K^w? shaw County Fair has been stn^ \1 during tho month of November and the people of the county have learned to look forward to it as an annual ovont. Interest in the fair has been grow ing from year to year, and each year tho management has seen fit to make the Fair a bigger and better one in every department. This year will be : no exception to this rule, as the J premiums which are being offered are substantially higher than heretofore, and numerous items have been added including cattle, swine and slfeep. Interest is being shown by numbers of the schools which will exhibit their work to compete for prizes in the various departments as well as for j the school prizes which will be given in the school parades on Friday, No vember 20th, which has been declared school day at the county fair. The Home Demonstration booths and the various. community booths as 1 well as the general exhibits are al ways worthy pieces of work and the . fact that this has been an adverse j season for diversified farming should ""j Mti cverv^"''"j^?) put forth effort to bring .the best they the county fair in order to show the people that Kershaw County does not necessarily show any weaknesses dur ing ftdverse conditions whether it be due to drouth or to excessive rain falls. Special entertainment for. the crowds will be provided by free acts | in the fair grounds and also by the Nat Reiss Shows, wl\o will exhibit on the fair grounds during the entire week of November 26th to 21st. | COURT ADJOURNED TUESDAY ! | Sam While Drawn Sentence SeVen To Fourteen Years | v ' ? ? ? j The second week of court of general sessions came to a close here Tuesday I leaving several cases to be tried at the December term. The first week of court of common pleas convenes Monday morning with* Judge *W. H. ! Townsend, presiding. ? Lulah Jenkins, a negro woman of the Flat Rock section, was tried on u charge of murdering Ned Catoe, an other negro of the same community* The jury brought in a verdict of man slaughter and Judge Sease, on his own motion, ordered .the verdict set aside and ordered a new trial for the woman, The woman was released on her own recognizance, t The woman was represented by Attorney J. Cope land Massey, of Kershaw. Sam White, a negro, who killed an other negro by the name of Elmore English, at Cedar Rock church near Stoneboro, was found guilty of man slaughter and was sentenced to serve from seven to fourteen years. The killing was the outcome of a diffi culty over a woman. (). B. McNaughton, a white man, of j the Buffalo section, plead guilty to | a charge of assault and battery and j was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 1 or serve $ixty days. The fine was j paid. { I^ewis Sease, a negro, plead guilty to a charge of larceny and receiving stolen goods and Judge Sease sen tenced him lo serve one year. The cases against Charlie McGee, a Columbia barber and H. F. McGiri, an attorney of Camden, both negroes, charged with arson, was continued to the December term. The case against Albert Melton, white man, charged with murder, was also continued. ; i Dr. Pitts' Condition Grave IjHurens, Oct. 25. ? The people cf Laurens arc anxious over the condi- . tion of the Rev. John D. Pitts, D.D., retired Baptist minister, who is suf fering from a broken thigh at his home in Greenwood. He fell Thurs day and fractured one of his thigh bones, it is understood, and his con- [ dition is critcal as a result of the shock and the injury itself. Dr. Pitts is one of the most beloved men and ministers of the state. For 29 years he was pastor of the First Baptist church of Laurens. He is a veteran of the Confederate war and served with a command of cavalry in Hamp ton's legion. He is 84 years of age. Rev. Pitta U the father of Mr. R. B. Pitta, of Camden, president of the Hermitage Cotton Mills. ujtf*... - m <w.i v"> -* . SIJMTEK PLAYS CAMDEN Gamecocks Hope to Spring Surprint Here Friday Sumter, Oct. 20. -Sumter High is stiu'ting out this week for a pevlod of intensive training in perfecting plays which they have been using heretofore this season and in new plays whirlmre beting planned for tho game with Camden next Friday after noon at Camden. The locals are not over-confident, but they believe that they can win this game with the proper amount of fight, if the break* of the game will be anything like equal betweon the two teams. The past two years the Camdenites have won honors in football, but it was be cause of breaks in their favor. This year tho Sumter team was slow in starting off. It was green and needed experience. The team has shown decided improvement in every game played both in the line and in the smoothness in tho back field, and it is expected that the eleven will be just about at the top of its game Fri* day when it meets Camden, and the j men from that town will know they j have been in a fight before the final whistle blows. Last Friday the locals' found the i Hyutt Park team unexpectedly easy and after the first quarter with Col umbia and Caanden High school coaches and players on the sidelines they were content to play safe and not to open up, being content wi|h "untimr and only line plays. jTo'win IronTVatrnfcn on next Friday they will turn loose all they have to offer. A* big crowd of .Sumter sup porters of the team will go over to Camden to witness the contest and* are hoping for a reversal over game* of the past two seasons. COTTON ESTIMATE HIGH Government Sa.va Will He Probable Crop of 15,226,000 Riles Washington, Oct. 26.? A probable cotton crop of 15,226,000 bit Ion, .an I increase of 467,000 bales, compared with the production forecast October 1, was indicated in the crop report issued today by the department of agriculture, based on October 18 prospect. Although sonio cotton has been lost through storms and de layed picking, the department said in a statement, prospects have improved and growers in most states are find ing more cotton than they expected two weeks ago. The ginnings prior to October 1$ by states follow: Alabama 1,064,222 Arizona 30,67*> Arkansas .* 708,116 California 16,803 Florida 35,900 Georgia .1,051,785 >Louisiafia 683,485 Missouri ' ? ? . 72,983 New Mexico 16,536 North Carolina ^ .. 709, 90J Oklahoma 549,272 South Carolina 731,690 Tennessee 234,672 Texas 2,104,460 Virginia 21,952 All othe .states 5,113 South Carolina Cotton Report "No change in the indicated cotton production for South Caolina occurred from October 1 to 18, according to the government report released today through the office of Frank Hlack. agricultural statistician for the state. "An acreage of 2,740,000 was esti mated to he under cultivation .June 25, but 2 1-2 per cent, of this has since been abandoned, according t <f correspondents, which gives 2,671,500 as the harvested acreage. An indi cated yield of 152 pounds lint per acre on this picked area is the basis of the forecast for 850,000 bales of 500 pounds gross, which is equiva lent to about 885,000 running bales," his report states. "Most of the abandoned acreage i< found in the northern and western counties where the drought was very severe during the growing, season.) Ginnings in the state prior to October 18 were 731,690 running bales, ac cording to. the census report. "Last year South Carolina produced 807,000 equivalent 500 pound bale>-, two years ago 770,000, three years ago 492,000, four years ago 755,000, and a four year average (since the arrival of the weevil) of 706,000 bales." Watermelons, which were enjoyed long before the Christian Era, an 1 originally were produced only in warm climates, are now raised in every state in the Union except Maine an4 New Hampshire. BETH UN K NKWS NOTES ' I Items of Interest as Gathered by Our , Regular Correspondent, Ucthuno, S. C., Oct. 2H. ?Circle No. One of the. -Presbyterian church was entertained by Mrs. C. C. Pate Wed nesday afternoon. A good attendance was had and delicious refreshments were served during the . social hour, following the study of foreign mis sions. Circle Nufrtber Two mot with Misses Kmma and Tysio Bradley Wednesday afternoon. .The subject, "Ming: Kwong," under discussion was led sby Mrs. Kva Morgan. At the close of the social hour, little Misses Frances Bethune, . Nancy Tompkins and Frances Hnllford served the guests with jello, whipped cream and cake. Mrs. B. F. Bolton was hostess to the Home Demonstration Club Friday afternoon. Margaret Truesdell .was hostess to a few pf her little friends Friday af ternoon at a Halloween, party. On arriving the little guests were blind folded and taken into a tent where Miss Stella Bethune told their for tunes. After whicli the litt^> lassies disported themselves by biting apples suspended from the ceiling. On being invited into the dining room the oc casion of- the party was revealed by the birthday cake gleaming with elev en candles. Miniatu/'e Halloween baskets filled with candies were given as favors. Refreshments consisting of pound cake and ice cream weiV served. ' Among those attending the State Fair from here were Mr. and Mrs. A. B. McLaurin; Mrs. A. K. Mo Laurin, W. M. Best, 1). J. Clyburn,^., * A? Djtourn Jtnb jW P Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Fost^pattended a musical at Coker College Friday evening. Mrs. C. M. Wilson and daughter, Ruth Louise, of Columbia were week end guests of Mrs. Wilson's mother, Mrs. Louise Kelly. Mr. Wilson came over to spend Sunday and was ac companied home by Mrs. Wilsoit and their little daughter. M iss Klise Hook spent the week end with her parents in Irmo. Miss Ollie Farr was the week-end guest of her parents in Chapin. Mr. I). T. Yurbrough left Friday for a business trip to Florida. Mrs. Ruby Shaw and little son, who were called here from Youngs town on account of the death of Mrs. Shaw's mother, Mrs. A. J. Smith, left Monday for other parts of the state, where she will visit relatives before returning to her home in Ohio. Miss Kva Mae Caston spent the week-end in Heath Springs as the guest of her parents. Rev. J. M. Forbis and Mr. J. N. McLaurin attented a meeting of Con garee Presbytery held l'at Kau Claire Church in Columbia Monday and Tuesday. An entertainment will be given in the high school auditorium Friday evening under the auspices of the Woman's Aid Society of the Metho dist church. Little Emory Parker 'has returned from the Florence Infirmary where he recently underwent an operation. He is doing nicely and will probably walk again in About two weeks. His mother, Mrs. L. C. Parker, has been in attendance upon him all the time. Mrs. W. E. Davis and chjldren are spending this week at Darlington with Mrs. Davis' parents, Mr. and Mrs. John McSween. Mrs. C. L. Mayes was called Mon day to the bedside of her daughter, Mrs. Johnson, at Kollock. Mrs. J. N. McLaurin entertained about a dozen little boys and girls Tuesday afternoon complimentary to her little daughter Margaret's fourth birthday anniversary. The party table was centered with the snowy white, birthday cake bearing four pink can dle*. Ice -cr-oam aud cake were served. Strike Promoter Died Suddenly Wilmington, Oct. 24. ? J. W. Ander son, of St. Louis, vice-president of the Order of Railway Telegrapher.-, died suddenly in his room at a local hotel here at 7:30 tonight. Mr. An derson was in Wilmington directing the strike of telegraph operators on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. County Farm Women to Meet The regular fall meeting of the County Council of Farm Women wil! be held on Saturday, November 7th, at 10:30 a.m. at the home of Mrs. Kdward C. DuBose, 1709 Fair street. An interesting program has been ar ranged, and it is hoped that every member will be present. Mrs. S. O. Plowden of Statesburg will be at this meeting and the work of the Council for the coming year will be discussed. ' Fire Destroys Residence . Fire thought to have originated from a kerosene .Uove destroyed the five- room cottage located on east Haile street early Sunday morning. The building was the property of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gaskins. It was just inside the city limits and by the time the fire department reached the place the building was too far gone to be saved. Mr. Catkins follows the pro fession of a photographer. He had partial insurance on his property. WINS AT 8TATK FA IB i.ugotf Community Club C?ot n Award of Second Prlte at K\ posit ion It is hoped that no one from Ker shaw County Attending the State Fair misled- seeing the spWudid exhibit en tered by the Kxi^co^f Community. This was the first time that any com munity in Kerfthaw County "has as* sui^en mi* undertaking of this kind, and its success far exceeded the moat sanguine hopes of thu Lugoff Home Demonstration Club, by wlioat it w?? sponsored, under the leadership of their capable president, Mrs. 1!. 1\ Oglesby. Mrs. Oglesby was ably as sisted by practically every person in the entire community aud three -hun dred varieties of products were listed in the exhibit. An attractive back ground was made of dark green wall paper, decorated with sheaves of grain. The canned products were par ticularly attractive all being displayed in standard containers, and marked with the 4-11 Cjub labels. There was a fine exhibit of farm and dairy products, and cooked foods, including roast duck, fried chicken, potato chips, and ail kinds of breads and cakes wen found in abundance. The excellence of the I.ugoff ladies j as needlewomen was shown by a Jis-j play of tailored garments, children's.; clothes, quilts, and . fancy work. B.e- 1 J sides these there were baskets, homo woven rugs and draperies, homo ? dipped candles, and silk, spun at home from home raised silk worms. These were not relics of the past, but tall recently made. This exhibit shows what a Com ! munity can <io when everybody is willing to work hard and work to j gether and all the Lugoff people will tell you that they enjoyed the work j and had a fine time at the fair. The 'exhibit won second prize of $ir>0 in ! cash, the first prize being won by the j Midway Community in Lexington j County'. a Kershaw 'County was also repre sented at the fair in the biscuit con test, which is always the center of much interest. Nellie Barfield of the .Pine Grove Girls' llome Demonstra tion Club won the first place in the District Biscuit Contest, and as a prize was given a trip to tho sta4o fair, where she entered the State Bis cuit Contest, in which she won second place. Each contestant is required to make biscuits in a booth fitted up as a kitchen, giving a talk about her club work and explaining the intrica cies of biscuit making as she work 4. , This is quite a difficult thing for ; even an experienced person to do, and Nellie reflected great credit- on .her self and her club. While in Columbia Nellie was entertained at the Jeffcr-. j son Hotel, where with a party of other i girls, she was chaperoned by M?r Harriet Johnson of Winthrop College. CAMDEN MEN HONORED 1 * Mr. Yates and Mr. (joodale Received Deserved Recognition At a meeting of the American j Hikers' Association held at Atlantic City September 28 to October 1, at tended by bankers from all part^ of the United States, Mr. C. H. Yate% of the Hapk of Camden, was named as a member of the Federal legisla tive council, and wft? also appoints! on the inner circle committee of the State Legislative council. Only one other man of the Southern states, R. S. Hecht, president of the Ilibernia Rank and Trust company of New Or leans. wa? appointed on this council. It is quite a compliment to Mr. Yates, to Cainden and the fine old banking institution he represents. At a recent meeting of the South eastern Floral association held in At lanta on October 13th, Mr. William L. Goodale, manager of the Camden Floral company, was named as secre tary' of this association which had representatives there from the entire Southern states, and this, too, is quite an honor bestowed upon a most excellent young" Camden busi ness man. Progress of Farmers. Re^nt statistics show something of the progress of farmers. Nearly one fourth of the telephones in the United States are in the homes of farmers. About thirty per cent, of the ..-motor trucks and tractors in this country are owned by farmer#. The propor tion of farmer-owned automobiles is large and in a great many farmer*' homes radio sots are being installed. ? Kind Words. ?ft. Salvation Army has 3,000 offi cers in Indttr. SKI.I.INti IIRK'K IN Ff.OHUM. Camden |iri?k Plant Operated To Full Capacity To Take fare of Orders. \\ .hin the past month the Camden r.iivk t *?f>?uy, a locally owned and operated plant, has shipped many car loads of ft ne. brick to the various boom center# of Florida, where build ings are being eroctt-ed daily, Quite an assignment has been sent to Tam pa, Miami, Jacksonville and several other towns. The mill is now being Vun at full capacity, turning: out something: like 45,000 brick daily, for which they are finding1 ready sale. In fact the man agvment informs u? that they have had to turn down several immense orders on account of not being able to till thenn and at the sam# time tjike care of the local trade. A recent Improvement installed at this mill Is a dry kiln operated from heat obtained from the burned kilns when they Are closed ' down to cool. Terra eolta pipes run underground i i om the brick kilns to the drying house. The heat is drawn through these pipes by means of a huge suc tion fank and through this method the green brick just out of the mill are dried out in far less time than by the old proce/s of nature drying, Another advantage of t h*j drying kiln is the ' fact that the mill can bo operated in the colde.-'t weather without the green brick freezing. Around thirty-ftve men are em ployed in the different crews and the payroll amounts to around $r>00 ly? the greater portion of which finds J its way back into the channels of [trade around Camden. It is quite an ! interesting and valuable industry for i Camden and quite a number ol' houses have been built and are now- , under construction of home-mad > brick. TOl'IUST CAR WRECKED i Family Enroute To Florida in I'itiahle IMight on Ilighwa> I Motorists returning from Columbia . to Camden Tuesday afternoon were "telling of an unfortunate wreck which occurred near Rollins Mill, about nine miles south of Camden on the Cam den-Columbia highway. The party telling of the accident said they had just passed a rickety Ford laden with , passengers . when they looked around j in time to see the old Vehicle turn over at the embankment near the- bridge that spans the creek. ' There were seven passengers in the car? the father, mother and five children. Fortunately none were, hurt except for minor bruises, and the only dam age done to the old Ford was the de struction of a front wheel and the top. All occupants were pinned under neath, and wtth tftir assistance or' passing motorUts the car was righted and put back in the road. The c#r bore a New Jersey license tag and inquiry developed the fact that the head of the family was a painter and carpenter by trade and that they were making their way to Florida to escape the rigors of? the Northern winters. Hard luck had overtaken them all along the road and the small capital they had started with had given out. They stated that they had not eaten since reaching a point in North Caro lina. iind. there they had. 'been given a meal of potatoes by fellow travelers at a camp site. The father stated that the escape of the children from injury was probably due to the fact that they were securely packed and tucked away in the ear with blankets and this protected them from injury."' Quite a crowd of motorists congre gated from both ends of the road while the car was being righted and touched by a sense of pity from the erics of the mother and children a collection was started in the small crowd and a sum of $11.50 was raised ?a second hand wheel was purchased at Tilaney and the unfortunate party was again started on their journey to Florida, where the father stated he i would meet a friend and acquaintance who would hold them up until he ! could find work enough to get his family on their feet again. | The highways leading to and from | Florida are full of such travelers ' these days. The print shops, garages and other placcs in this city almost every day have calls for "enough to get a meal." Mother of Fiftwn Dead. .< - Rock Hill, S. C., Oct. 21. ? Mr*. John Andrew Hayes, mother of 16 living children, died Sunday room ing at 10 o'clock followhg a lingering illness over a period of five years due to heart attacks and complications. ' .. .. v _ v ~ ; . ,