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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hunter, f Pitts burg, Pa., have arrived in Camden for the winter season and are occupy ing the W. E. Johnson cottage in Kirkwood. Mr. Henry E. Beard, city clerk of Hartsville, spent Wednesday in Cam den with the families of his two sons who reside here. Sidney Zemp, Jack Nettles, Elihu Schlosburg and John tf'orte, students at the Citadel, spent several days at home last week. The Kershaw County Medical Asso ciation was royally entertained at the home of Dr. John W. Corbett Wed nesday evening. A delightful supper was served. The association will hold its December meeting with Dr. J. T. Hay at Boykin. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Drakeford are rejoicing over the arrival of a daugh ter at their home a few days ?go. The little lady and mother are get ting along nicely. Capt. Charles Brown, of Augusta, Ga., a native of Camdfen, spent Wed nesday night with friends in Cam den. He is a conductor on the South ern Railway running out from Au gusta. Miss Evelyn Evans, a charming young lady of Cheraw, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. R. H. Hilton on upper Broad Street. The editor of The Messenger and family, accompanied by Mr. Christo pher Vaughan, spent Sunday in Char lotte, N. C. Miss Ethel Birchmore will spend several days before return ing home. Mr. R. H. Hilton was present Sun day evening at the meeting of tho Epworth League of the Methodist church by inviatlon, and made an in? terosting addr??s to the league. . Mr. WalUr Lowery, who is engaged in business in New Yoik, is visiting his a.ster, Mrs. B. W. Rhame. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Baruch are receiving the congratulations of their friondB upon the arrival of another daughter at their home Saturday night. v Rev. J. M. Forbis, of Bethune, was a visitor to Camden yesterday. To. Bo Made Beauty Spot. White Garden, located just east of tho city, which was recently cut up into nmall building lots, is to bo mado a real beauty spot. Tho purchasers oi lots there are invited to meet there on tho afternoon of Thanksgiving day and begin tho work of putting ou'J trees and shrubbery. The lots are s-> situated that they can bo trado very attractive. There were a consider able number of them purchased by parties now residing in tho corporate limits ot' the city, and som:? of them ? . Ui. will build residences upjn them and get out into tha suburbs of the city. Mr. Stoney Moor; has had an attractive residence completed and he and his family are pionoeis at White Garden. There will be c.thcrs tvi follow. HONOR ROLL Antloch High School. First Grade. Pofffcy Holland, Mac Sinclair, Hollis Grossland, Edna Bar field, Atherlee Branham, Elizabeth Grossland, Marion Spears. Second Grade. Mike Grosslnnd, Alice Branham, Louise Hinson, Golie Trlmnal. Third Grade. Mary Watkins, I.<e 11ft Hinson, J. G. Branham, Robert Ro Rdrs. Fourth Grade. Katherine Gross land, Sainmie Spoars. Fifth Grade. A. C. Baker, Lola Spear*. Fifth Grade. A. G. Baker, I^ola Spears, Mary Shivor. Slrtth Grade. Katie Arledjfe, Ma rie Sparrow. Seventh Grade. Sadie Tate, Jessie Mae Sinclair, Lillian Watkins, Hatt'.e Hinson. Sfehth Grade. I^ena Smith, Du ? Bom Bavls. Ninth Grade. Henrietta Joy?, The odore Pate, Alma Pate. Tenth' Grade. Margaret Johnson, Cornell!* Johnaon, Glarn Hinson, Myr tle Pate, Mildred Huntley, Lucile Sin clair. Eleventh Grade. Ida Pate. For Stile: One misused idea that "book-f arming won't get you any Would Honor Judge Kershaw. A request will Te presented to the Stone Mountain Commission to have the picture of the late Judge Joseph B. Kershaw carved upon the memor ial stone at Stone Mountain. This request will be backed by the city officials, the chamber of commerce, the civic league, of which Mrs. Wil liam Ancrum is the active and en thusiastic chairman. The various organizations and prominent citizens of Camden feel that this should be done, for there was no higher type of soldier, citizen and Christian gent leman than was Jugde Kershaw. Few communities if any did more for the cause of the Southern Confederacy than this community. Camden has the distinction of havijig (given six generals to the Confederate cause, and this county, too, was the home county of the gallant Richard Kirkland These, with many other sacred mem ories cluster around this historic town, and with these facts before them an effort will be made to have the pic ture of Judge Joseph Brevard Ker shaw carved upon the memorial stone J at Stone Mountain. Those who are J behind this movement are very much | in earnest and believe that their e*- j forts will be recognized and this hon-j or done to one of Camden's noble cit-j izens and distinguished jurist. Revival Services. Revival services will begin in the Baptist church Monday evening of I next week. Dr. William M. Vines, a, minister from Greenwood who has the reputation of being a very force-; ful and earnest speaker, will assist the pastor in these services. In ad vance of his coming it would be well to remember these services and plan j now to get the moat out of them possible. The coming of an i earnest minister of the gospel to any j community should arouse interest for! it means a moral uplift, and we sin-i coroly hope that the services will be 1 well attended and that much and last- j ing good will be accomplished. Let! every Christian man and woman in | the community .give encouragement to! the services to be held, and they willj prove a blessing to those' whortake< part and be a blessing to others. A Letter from California. We received a letter a few days ago i from Los Angeles, written by one who) has been a reader of The Messenger for many years. From this letter, which was purely personal we quota J several comments: The writer says^ "This is a rich state with many mil-j lionaires, and a gTeat many stores! have from 1000 to 1600 up to 2000 and more clerks, and are all busy, x x xx I noticed in your paper some time a go that some one there in your state counted the number of automobiles | ttyit passed a certain place in a giv-] en length of time, but if you were to see the automobiles in this city you would think there was no end to the rolling machines. They are many miles lonk, and some times there are estimated to be 1500 to 2000 automo biles in a jam, and no way to get through but to move a few feet at n time and stop, then move another foot or two, while the autos for 10 or 20 miles ahead and behind are doing the same thing. Sometimes there are three or four rows of autos on the same road for several miles. One continous line going one way and two I rows side by side going the other di rection, and the traffic is so thor oughly systematized that there are only about two or three persons killed each dny in accidents." "That was a good article you clipped from another newspaper about ^ou having never missed an issue of your paper f> r about 40 years. It has been issued regularly every week, and 40 years is a long time for a weekly news paper. Many others have quit, sus pended or gone out of business, and you are to be congratulated for keep ing it up that length of time, ami still going on." the eyo with their many thousands of blossoms. They are large as corn stalks--many of thorn, and some of them reach up to the second story of houses." TEACH ICRS' M RKTI NC. There will he n meeting of nil th<< teachers of Kershaw County in the Camden Orommnr School Auditor ium for the purpose of organizing for tho coming year. Thin is the regular time for the meeting of the study center and nil tho teachers are urged to attend this meeting. Office? will he olected for the County Teacher i Association and other importnnt husi noss will come up. Time; 2:00 p. m. N. M. HUCKABKE, Pros. Kershaw Co. Tonchors* Association Frank Farmer says: "Farming h a gamble, and the one-crop farmo* staok* tho^ardu against, himself." "Glories of the Carolina Coast." We are in receipt of a copy of the book entitled, "Glories of the Carolin a Coast," written by James Henry Rice, Jr., und printed by the R. L. Bry an Company, Columbia, price |2.00. It is one of the most attracive books we have received lately and deals with a subject that is at once interesting. Gilbert Augustus Selby, of Columbia, in a foreword, says: "The glory of the Carolina Coast is comparatively little known except to those favored few who dwell within its magic influence and wondrous beauty and worship daily at its shrine by James Henry liice, Jr., just from the press of the R. L. Bryan Co., Co-i lumbia. "The purpose of the book is to ac quaint you with incomparable charm and enchantment of this fascinating coastal country so long unknown, un-j honored and neglected ? although un- , excelled in all the world for its glor ious history 'when Knighthood was in Flower," for its rich and fertile soil, for its gorgeous flowers, for its migh ty forests and rivers, abounding in an infinite variety of game and fish, and for its mild and equable climate ? un-i rivaled by the Mediterranean shores.". "The uuthor tells, as only ho can tell, the wonderful story of this vori-j table "Garden ol' Eden" which he loves and knows so well ? its Past, Present und Future." ' The Martha Washington I The Martha Washington is the I name given a new tea room which opened up Thursday in the new store room next south of liirsch Bros. <? Co's. store. Mrs. W. L. Rush bad vne direction of the fitting up of this room and those who know her and the splendid taste she always displaysj knew in advance that it would be one of the most artistic and attractive places to be found anywhere. Noth ing has been overlooked to make it attractive and Mrs. Rush is beintf' heartily congratulated upon the pre sentation of The Martha Washington. Notwithstanding the weather was not lavorable on account of the rain there were Ynany cajltgra and th?y were oath served with light refreshments" com'*' plimentary and beginning at six o'-' clock in the evening a turkey dinner - was served at one dollar a plate. Tha Martha Wash.ngton is bound to prove i a popular resort, for Mrs. Rush ?will see thai it will be kept up to the high- 1 est standard. Many enjoyed the de lightful supper Thursday evening. Bright Prospects for Now Hotel. Recently a nu eting of some of the citizens of Camden was held, at which j time the question of > lding a modern hotel large enough U. iccomodate any reasonable demands was considered. A committee was appointed at that time to consider the matter further and a meeting of that committee was held Wednesday morning at which time Wilson, of Wilson, and Berryman & Kennedy, prominent architects of Columbia, were present and submitted tentative plans for a modern, fire proof, eighty-fivo room hotel. These plans were gone over by the committ ee, and several minor changes made. The plans are drawn for a hotel f>0 x j 104 feet, with a large lobby and din - j ing room on the main floor, and a ban quet hall in the basement. There are' a number of rooms with private bath, as well as some connecting with bath. These plans have been left with Cham ber of Commereee, and the committee will b" glad to have them inspected by j all interested. It is the determina-j tion of the committee to secure the building of a new hotel here if poss ible, for there is need for another) hotel here so that traveling people can] be sure of being accomodated. Cam den people are going after this need- 1 ed enterprise with a spirit to win.1 They feel that it is not only needed but! I will be a big advertisement for the1 I town just at a time when everything lis looking bright for the future, i . County Fair Opens This Week. The Kershaw County Fair opens Wednesday and will be in ptogresa three <lays Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The fair Friday will he fea tured hy a school parade. All teach ers and pupils will be admitted freo on school day. The weather is idea! for the fair and it is expected that [there will be a lar#e number to at tend. An engagement. was made with I the Nat Keiss Shows to furnish a j musements, and this company arrived l Monday and opened up Inst nitfht. 1 They have with them a number of j attractions and havo the reputation J of furnishing amusements that are clean and attractive. Everybody is invited to come to Camden this week and have a real fifnod time. McCormick's county song is no I lo.igc i "Roll dem cotton bales" but I "Oock-a-doodle-do." DISTRESSING ALTO ACCIltoT SUNDAY. ?Man and His Sister Ixjse Their Lives. Two Others Injured. There was a distressing automobile J wreck near Bethune Sunday about I midday, resulting in ths instant death of Benjamin Grubbs and a few hours later the death of his sister, Mrs. Annie May Russell, and the injuring of Grubbs' wife and Balfour Shirley. They were riding in a Hudson coach "n the left hand side of the road, and it is stated that Grubbs was driving the car, when he ran into a large bus, uhich was one of five being taken to Florida, and owned by the American Motor Company, of Boston. The ill fated bus was being driven by Mr. Oscar Lundenburg. He was the only occupant of the bus and escaped with out injury, but the bus was badly damaged and the Hudson was about a complete wreck. An inquest held at Bethune Sunday evening with Mr. 1\ T. Yarbrough as foreman of the jury, exhonerated the drivor of the i'.is < f all blame in the accident. Mrs. Russell and the other injured ones, Mr. Grubbs' wife and young Shirley, were brought to the Camden hospital,! where Mrs. Russell died a few hours' after the wreck. Mrs. Grubbs is not I seriously injured and will recover. Shirley was not badly injured. Mr. Lurdenburg was seen by a reporter fur The Messenger, and he appeared to be a very clever young man, and ( ? ressed his deep regret at the ac ciii nt, which was unavoidable on "his ; ai t. He also expressed his great p.; 'precaution for the courtesies shown him while in Camden, saying that he i never come in contact with a cleverer set of people. He was wait i i "* here for an adjustment by the in ; uv.nr.ee company for the damage done t * the bus. They were large mach p :"-. costing nbout the body nn raeh one boing worth about $8,000. Two of the doors were crushed in and L>; ? < 1 1 y damaged besides other parts broken. . ^ The Passing of an Old friend. "Our BctfitlVie correspondent last \\e<k mentioned the death of Mr. W. T. Hall, who was found dead at his home about seven miles from Bethune on Saturday; the 7th inst. In the passing1 of this good man there was something peculiarly pathetic. He was an honest, upright man, with scores " of friends and relatives, in cluding his surviving children, and then to think that he should die alone. It was, however, no fault of his chil dren and other relatives, for he chose to live on his farm by himself. His first wife was a Camden lady and she died a year or so after his marrige. He later married ri Sumter lady, and some years later she passed away, leaving him with several children, all now grown and living in different ^ncrs while he sought the quiet of his old home place and near many relatives. We knew "Tom" Hall f? r "nc.ny years and knew him not only to bo our warm personal friend, but one who was as true and loyal to the 1 bvst ideals of life as one with his limited experience could be. He would spurn the thought <>f taking advantage o tz anyone, and dealt hon estly with all whom he came in con tact with. He was withal a very kind hearted man, and his heart throbbed with sympathy for those in distress and he rejoiced with thoso who rejoiced. It was with sorrow that we learned of his passing. Mny his freed spirit, rest in peace! Banquet To-night. The annual banquet, nf the Camden and Kershaw County Chamber of Com ' meroe, will be held to-ni(fht in the din insf hall of the Mason lodge. The weather promises to be fine for the occasion and everything will he in readiness for an event of much inter oat and pleasure. Col. T. I<. Kirkpa t:irk, former Mayor of Charlotte, N. C., and at present, rhairman of the Chamber of Commerere of that city, will he the speaker of the evening. It j was announced several weeks ngo that Dr. Henry N. Snyder, president of Woffoul College, would l><* the speak er, hut it was deemed wise to chant?" tho date for the banquet., and I)r. Snv i df r Was unable to come at. a later date, I no the Chamber of Commerere was 'fortunate in "Hhvinjf Col Kirkpat r;ck to accept an invitation to mak?? the j annual address. PIG i.OBT. A red colored pitf, will weipli ab'.ut 50 or 00 pound?:. Strayed frnrn my lot two wftfikn ajfo. Kinder will please notify m? and jjet, pay for his return. F. II. Herriott. Some weekly papers, though proul to call thomwlvea "count y papers'' BETHUNK, NEWS. Bethune, Nov. 16. ? Mr. Noel L. Cassady. a life-long resident of this section and who has been a citizen of the town of Bethune for the past year, died at his home about 4 o'clock j Friday afternoon, after a long illness jwith cancer of the head. He was a ( bout 55 years of age and is survived j by his wife, one son, Arthur R. Cas- 1 sady, of Bethune; Mrs. Claude Tyner, | 'of near Hartsville; Mrs. Efhe Kelly, of near Lucknow; three brothers, C. R. Cassady, of Bethune; Tom Cas sady, of Bishopville; Sam Cassady, of Americus, Ga., and a large num ber of other relatives. Mr. Cassady j i was a quiet, industrious man and was 'generally liked by every one. Th (funeral services and burial were held' ! at Pleasant Hill Baptist ? h ireh on! I Saturday morning at 11 o' .->c!:. xvi r. James K. Polk, the b.'.rber, and 1 family are living in the house nex' j below the Bethuno drug store. Mess. D. T. Yarbrouph, Barre and Foster Gardner returned Saturday afternoon from a trip to Florida. Last year the two ginneries here ginned about 3,300 bales of cotton during the entire season. This year they have already ginned about ,">,00') bales and there is perhaps more to be ginned yet. This does not mean that the farmers, the small farmers, are in a more prosperous condition than last year. Not a kit of it. Raising all cotton and no food crops means hard times, especially when three fourth of the farmers in this vicinity own a car and they are compelled to! use nearly all their surplus cash on perky second-hand things to keep i them going. Produce corn, wheat, \ oats, potatoes, peavine hay, fruit, vegetables and plenty of live stock, and prosperity will smile on us again. The terrible automobile wreck which occurred on the Jefferson Davis highway near this town yesterday af- > ternoon should arouse our citizens to | the seriousness of these automobile! wrecks on our highways. Several j lives have been lost recently on this highway between Cheraw and Colum bia and moRt of them were due tc reckless driving,- mean liquor a*nd oth er causes. Any one driving a car while under the influence of liquor should be given the full extent of law, or at least not allowed a car any more. I)r. J. R. Durham, of Columbia, was a visitor hero a. few days the past week. U. S. Civil Service Examination for! Postmaster The United States Civil Service Commission, nt the request of the Postmaster General, announces a com petitive examination for postmaster in t hi ? city. This examination is held unedr the President's Order of May 10, 1921, and n<n under the civil service act and rules. Competitors will not be required to j report for examination at any place, but will be rated upon their education and training, business experience and fitness. Apply to the secretary of the board of civil service examiners at the n?v office in this city or to the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, I). for applcation Form 2241, and Form 2213 containing definite information in regard to the examination. Applications must be properly exe cuted on Form 2241, and filed with the Civil Service Commission, Wash ington, 1). C., prior to the hour of closing business on the dnto specified in Form 2213. IJNITKI) STATES CIVIL SF.UVICF, COMMISSION A j plicanta aro warned against pay ing money or other valuable conspi ration to anyone in taking an nxam nation or securing an appointment.. An eligible who in found to have given or promised anything of value to any presumably influential person in con nection with an examination or ap n'm?>nt will >e barred by the Com mission from certification. Box Supper. The Baptist Church at Cassatt will fjive a box supper Thnnksfcfivi ntf ni^ht. Thursday, Nov. 2 fi. The proceeds will (fo for the benefit of the church. The public is cordially invitod. Mr. I. Snyder was in New York last week and upon his return homo was accompanied by Mrs. Snyder's mother from Baltimore, who arrived in this country from her home in Warsewa, Poland, recently. She expects to he here for some time. Mrs. Snyder had not seen her mother in sonic years and her visit is made the oc casion of much pleasure. LIBERTY HILL I. MV* itor ? An accidental drown ing red in the Wnteree Power Co's big pond near here on Friday e\ ening of last week, Mr. Steve Wil iliatns, highway engineer for Lancas ter county, and Dr. Duster, of Lancas |er, came down and brought a motor boat to use in duck hunting, i h ? wind was blowing pretty strong nn.i the water was very rough, ? the pond is over two miles wide at this place and while Dr. Doster was in the boat alonu it was overturned in deep wat er. Dr. Doster is said to have t on the bottom of the upset boat and was told by his companion on the bank to remain on the boat until he procu" * assistance, bui. he said he was going to swim ashore, and either ?ot off or fell off and was soon lost sight ol". When help was obtained his body was found entangled < >r fastened to t.i !or stump ?he had on a life preserwr and could not sink entirely ? forty or fifty feet from the shore. The hod> was soon brought to land by Mes. U. C. Jones, Jr., James Smith and a co lored man, Sam Whitaker. All avail able means to restore life proved un availing, so the body was taken t.. his home in l,ancaster that night, Mv\;-r R. C. Jones, .Jr., James Smith and \. . C. Wardlaw and one or two c >)? r 1 men going with them and as.-..-, i : Mr. Williams in his sad humr.v.i 1 trip, and verily we are made t > fee! t h:it in "the midst <>f lift- v.v death." An inquest was held in I.; caster and a verdict of drowning dered. The unfortunate man, v. c a informed, left surviving, a wife a.-.d two or three children. Mr. I). F. Kfird, of Lwxin^tor . \\: ty, came over last week with a ::r " of fine trained fox hounds, to have a day of sport in chasing the . - ous foxes which are said to b i cilod in the country about he.< " ! here Mr. Efird was the guest friend, Maj. J. G. Richards. \ lio himself an ardent lover of th vha and a judge of fine dogs. Th. y h;. 1 a "tryout" Saturday morning in ib. ? Stoneboro section where fo:: ?>. a ? said to he plentiful - and dog? . - . 4 3 are said to have joined in the _?!; - so that "confusion of ideas" ??!? \" d "sly reynard" to elude his pa \ .u-.s and make good his escape. Mr. Ii. J. Wardlaw is at w ?; k ? .airing his well drilling machin He intends to sink a well on h:>; in the northern part of tin* "Hi'l". i. ! should a suitable flow of -vati: !? ? ol nined he expects to build a t ? - (It- lire there a little later on. Mr. and Mrs. J. I'. Jones, of ' . rails, spent Sunday with r la \ here. Mr. Jones holds an imp position with the Wateree i o\.< ? Mr. W. Z. Hilton and son, Ab . an 1 J A. Small, made a trip to Aadrv .v . and Georgetown Inst week. They vi sited Mr. Hilton's daughter Mrs. Har ry Burch, at Andrews. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McCoy at ! ' .v > children of the Mt. Zion section, ;< at. the weekend as guests of Mr. and M - F. B. Floyd. Mrs. I. B. Small and two eh'.' Ir - \ of Rich Hill, spent the latter pa last week with relatives at tiii Misses Mildred and Jeai Ri liai i-;. A inthrop students, were at !">me with (.heir parents, Maj and Mrs. .!. (i. K < a aid:-, last Sunday. Hon. F. C. Bridges, member of the legislature from Lancaster county, Mayor W. B. Twitty of Heath Spr.n'1 , and Mr. W. II. McMillan, ar n ? ! Southern R. R. at Heath Sp:,;n ' . \v? ? visitors here and to the big pond on Monday evening. Mr. R. C. Jones has had a number of wagons for some time hauling in his corn crop. While the yield wa very short with many in this sect.?>n he seems to have been Messed wi'h a fine crop. Wo are Indeed sorry t" learn of llv death of our long-time f.iejid, Mr. ?f. It. Haile, which occurred ?t hi< home ri^ar Heath Springs, >>n Thurs day, last. Mr. Hallo's health had In ?? .1 had for a number of years hut ii ; al ways KOPtncd to ho rhoorful and ploas ant. II?? loaves surviving, a wife, v. No was a daughter of (ho late Mr. .loin 0. Stover, of the Flat Rook section, and several children, mostly grown up, besides numerous othor relatives and friends who will learn with sor row of his passing away. Onr sym pa thy goes out. to the hero a ved . LOST Lost n porkot book containing sev enteen dollars and about 12 or 13 tick ets {food for chances at the Ford to h-> given away in December. Lost .Satur day either in Camden or on road be tween Camden and Cantey Mill. Li beral reward if returned to this offico or to Coor^e Alexander, Camden, Kt. 0, Hoy 3. It. j neglect, news of agriculture for news that's easinr to (fet.