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TERMS:? li.50 .IN ADVANCE PER ANNUM. VOL. 43 T "The Hand <ff the Diligent Shall Rule" CHAS. W. BIRCHMORE, PROP. CAMDEN, KERSHAW COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, APRIL 12, 1927 NO. 27 SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mr. and Mr.*. J. T. Houston,' of St. Petersburg, Fla., are visiting friends and relatives in Camden. For some time i. ast Mr. Houston has been the cartoonist on the St. Petersburg Times. Their many friends in Cam den are delighted to set- them again. Mr. Houston fromerly lived here be fore going to Florida. A meeting of the laymen of the Me thodist church will be held at Water ee school house in West Watoree Fri day, 15th inst. l)r. J. C. Guilds, con ference lay leader of Columbia, and Hon. Charlton Durant, of Manning, are among those who are expected to | attend. Mr. A. E. Miller and others will provide a fish dinner Tor those who attend. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Cameron, delightful people from Hartford, Conn., after several weeks sojourn in Camden, have returned to their home. S. I). &. W. G. Taylor anil Miss Vir ginia Taylor of I^ancaster and Tayloi Mobley, of Kershaw, visited Mr. and Mrs. K. B. Mobley, of Camden, Sun day. Mr. Moses I.omansky, who tins been quite sick for the fast two weeks, has been removed to the Camden hu pital for treatment. His many i"ri<.iKi& hope that he may soon be well again. There was but little change in his condition this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lewis ant children, of Washington, 1). C., arriv ed here this morning to visit theii parents here. Judge W. F. Russell, "Uncle Jim mie" Dv-Loache and Judge I. F. Hoi land at ended' the confederate re-un ion in Tampa, Fla., recently hcild there, and have lyieh returned home. They h:id a fine trip, and their friends at home rejoi-je with them that'th y did have a real nice time. Mr. nnd Jhlrs. F. M. Zemp, Mr V . R. DeLoacne and Miss Katherine Lk Loache, ' attended services at Bishop ville Sund&y - Th?y . down to hear Rev. J. H. Graves, a * former pastor of the Methodijt church in Camden, preach. Mr. W. M. Young, who for sorm time past has been making his honu in Florida, spent the week end in Camden with his sisters and other re lat.ves and was given tht glad hani by hif numerous friends here. Dr. and Mi's. W. D. Grigsby, o lilaney, were pleasant visitors ti Camden today. Easter bervices Sunday Evening Next Sunday will be Easter du. and services appropriate to the occas ivn wil be observed. The regular Sv;i vices w.ll bo held in the Method. u church Sunday morning at the us ul hour, 1 1 : i ?>, but at the even.!., hour, eight 9'clock Rev. J. T. i'cul Will bring a social Ea.s.er i.ie.s in compliance with the Camden L-u mandery No. 12 K. T. as will b.! no. by the following notice from that 01 ganization. Sir , 1 . .. o The Easter .ervices of Um?u Commandery No. 12. K. T., will b. held at the Lytt!eton Street Method ist Episcopal Church, Camden, S. C., Sunday, April 17, li>27 at, 8:00 p. m. Sir Kliight Rev. J. T. Peeler will de liver the sermon. Sir Knights wil! assemble at the Asylum at 7:00 p. m. in full uniform and belt without swords. You are requested to invite all friends to attend this so-vico. Courteously, v W. F. NETTLES, Commander. J. E. ROSS, Recorder. Club Met With Mrs. Kliiott. The regular meeting of the Midway Home' Demonstration Club was held Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. R. B. Elliott, with a lnrge number of members present. The Club had as visitors Mrs. Thomas Blackmon. Miss Alma Burgess, home demonstra tion agont, made an interetsing talk on, "Body Noeds and Food Values," which was the fifth lesson in nutri tion. Miss Minnie Floyd, nutrition specialist of Winthrop College, had previously met with the project lead era of Midway, ChaVlotto Thompson, Oantey, Lugoff and tho homo demon stration agtmt, in Camden, and hnd carefully instructed them on this les son. After tho businoss session the club was served punch and cake by the hostess. WATKREE BRIDGE TOLLS TO REMAIN Senate Kills Bill to Free Columbia Camden Highway Span. A charge that the Waterce rive toll bridge on the Columbia-Camden state highway is being operated to pay the general exrenses of Kershaw county was made by Senator James II. Hammond of Richland in the sen ate last night while speaking for a bill by Representative Kreps of Rich land providing that the bridge be sold to the state highway department and made toll-free. The measure was later killed when the senate voted to sustain an unfav orable report by the finance commit tee. An attempt by Senator Williams to have the vote reconsidered for the J purpose of recommitting the bill was in like mar.enr tabled. Declaring that this question con cerned the entire state and was net a problem for Kershaw or Richland counties alone. Mr. Hammond charg ed during the eight years since its construction, the bridge had yielded from three to five times its cost in ^olls, and that these were sufficient to pay interest on the bonds, pave -h jounty roads and contribute to the ,'eneral expenses of Kershaw. "The bridge was built by an act of vhe legislature which specified that the tolls\of fifty cents i er vehicl. were to oe used for payment of the ost," said Mr. Hammond, "and the bridge to become free when the n mount collected had been sufficient pay the cost. It is our informa tion that the bridge collections are a :'ound $80,000 a year, and that its otal yield has been five times the :ost of its building. "The state maintains the road on >oth sides of the bridge, and a toll oridge on a state highway is an ab norrence. It will be advertised to he world by motorist associations, and ho touring public will avoid the state. It will hurt the state on the eve ^ f ur period of prosperity and expans ion. Denying that the bridge was "a ?fold mine for Kerskaw county," Sen ator Welsh of that county asked that . ha nnfaWahlft ^f1onfr(jLu,u "I don't have the figures on the ?ollections," he said, "but in the per od of greatest business during the /lor id a movement, it never paid more han $50,000 in\ any one year. Up ceop amounts to $30,000, and we gen rally break even on revenues and ex enses. Mr. W< bh also said thot the county s'as still raying for two earlier' ? ridges wh ch had been washed away, and that it had been u"der e>; sns >ecause roads to the bridge had been elocated. A bill providing a free ?ridge if the highway departmemt urnished a hard surface from the .ichland county line to the river was epealed at the present session, he addod, when the highway department dmitted it could not pave +he road '.'ithin the specified time. "Kershaw is a poor county," ho aid. "We have not been repaid the nst of tJhe bridge, and it \s not *a:r o take it from us at this time. This >:!1 provides that the h'ghway d - irtment buy the bridge and pay u rom the gosi.'line tax alic>'*atioins hich would be paying us with our wn money." I>ater charges by .Senator Ham lond that Kershaw residents were being passed for 12 1-2 ."jn'.y ii:-I 1-8 cents tolls were answered by Mr. Welsh who said these rates were giv en to holders of commutation books vhich were sold to anyone who wished o buy. ? Columbia Record. Bishop .Moil /.on in Columbia. Revival services began Sunday ir the Washington Street Methodic hurch in Columbia Sunday, of which Kev. A. L. Gunter is pastor. Risho' Mouzon is doing the preaching, an.i no doubt many from adjoining sec tions will make it convenient to vis it Columbia to hear the Bishop. He preached in Camdon recently, and hose who heard him were greatly leased w th him, and already we , have heard of a number who arc planning to hear him again while in ( olumbia. Bishop Mouzon ranks af. one of the most scholarly and able preachers in America. Marriage of Well Known Couple. Mr. , George Rhame Coleman and Miss Emily I,ang were married Wed nesday night at the Methodist par sonage by Rev. J. T. feeler. The marriage of this young couple who aro well known and quite popular wjth a large clrlco of friends, was somewhat of a surprise to their friends. The best wishes for a long and happy Ilf? is exbendod hem. REVIVAL MEETING To lie Held at the Bethune Methodist Church, April 17th to May 1st Bethune, Ajpril 11. A revival meet ing will begin at the Bethune Metho dist church next Sunday, (Easter) and will continue through Sunday. May 1st. Rev. M. N. Lovein, of Macon, Ga., will do the preaching. Mr. Lovein is one of the leading evangelists of the Methodist church and has assisted in some of the greatest revivals held in '.he south in recent years. Cottage prayer meetings to be in charge of Mrs. C. L. Mays, will be held every day at different homes in ;own during Easter week. A choir committee to be in charge of Miss Ruth Watts, Miss Stella Be thune, Mrs. J. C. Foster, Dr. E. Z. Truesdell, J. A. McCaskill and Miss Riley are practicing regularly for the revival. Two services will be held daily ? at 1 p .m. and at 8 p. m. 4 The public is cordially invited to attend these services. What the H. Y. P. II. is Doing On last Thursday night the union enjoyed Very much the programme rendered by Group 3, directed by Christopher Vaughan. Topic discuss xl was, "How Broad Should Religion Pe?" This was discussed by F. C. Most ley, Blanche Nettles, Nellie Dix jn, Helen Baker and Martha Oglesby. On Thursday night of this week the esson will be "Bible Study ? The Book jf Jonah." This will be directed by Mrs. Julian Graham, Captain of Jroup No. 4. We are sure the visi :ors as well as the regular members jf the B. Y. P. U. will enjoy this ?tudy. The subject of the Bibie quiz s "Prayer", which will be directed by Miss Mary Graham. On last Thursday night the union elected officers for the next six nonths, which resulted as follows: F. C. Moseley, pres., Geo Tidwqll, vica pres., Group Civ tain No. 1, Martha Oglesby, Group Captain No. 2 Belle Watts, Group Captain No. 3 Christo- i pher Vaughan, Group Captain No. 4 | Mrs. Julian Graham, Pianist, Anna, Belle Watts, Secretory, B. A. Homs fe. Treasurer Mrs. B. A.. Honraby, 3ible Qu:zz Director, Mary Graham, Social Committee, Mary Graham, Es >a Myers, Mrs. J. A. Watts. We had the pleasure last week of 1 receiving two new members that we 1 believe will be of real help to us. We | jre always giad to receive new mem- j bers and it is inspiring to see* the : young Baptists of our town come out ! ?u.d join us in carrying on the work ? we are commanded to do. Visitors welcome. Tw ; Fires Last Week. About three o'clock Thursday .norning f're destroyed the cottage of Robert Duren, colored, on Hampton Avenue. The house was vacant, the occupants having recently moved out, 1 and the origin of the fire is unknown. Thursday evening the grandstand at the base ball park was burned clown. Just how the fire originated .s a matter of speculation. It is thought that possibly some parties were occupying the weats and smok .ng and a lighted stump of a cigar j or cigaret'.e was thrown down and the fire originated "com this, but if t did r.o one knows it positively. A party of something like forty poot lc were having a fish fry out there fhuisday evening, near the grand stand, but. when they had ??included their feast the fire used by them was extinguished with wafte:- from a hydrant near by and it is not thought that the fire originated from this source. The grand stand was erect ed some yoars ago, and since base ball is very popular we suppose vhat arrangements will be made to erect another stand, for it will be needed and Camden should liave a good base I ball park with ample sents. Master Features Sunday Morning The Lyttleton Street Method':' Sunday School will present a special Easter programme Sunday morning at ten o'ciock. One of the s jo mh features will be the music which will includc a number of instrumental pieces. The collect on at this service will be for the Epworth orph'in'ige. It is expertcd that there will lx> a large attendance at this service ir I ! a special invitation is extended par ents and grown-ups to attend. Preached Here Sunday Rov. Robert Hodges, of Batosburg, I preached to a large and appreciative congregation in the Presbyterian church Sunday morning. Mr. Hodges is quite a young man and is a preach - 1 er of considerable force. BETHUNE NEWS. Bcthune, April 11. ? A public meet ing of the Bethune School Improve ment Association was held in the aud torium of the high school building last Friday night. A large audience greatly enjoyed the program which consisted of various "stunts," pulled off by the diffrenet grades of the high school, a prize being given the grade rendering the best stunt. The eleventh grade won. Mess. G. B. King, N. A. Bethune, G. E. Purrott and Mrs. E Z Truesdell and Miss Stella Bethune returned from the United Confederate Reunion | at Tampa, Kla, last week. 1 A number of colored people have died in this section during the past two weeks, among them the wives of William Bell and ^Burrell McLeod, well known colored farmers. Misses Alice and Faye Horton, of Charlotte, spent a few days in the Timrod section last week. Mr. A sa Warden aiul family and Mrs. Kirkley, Mrs. Warden's mother, of Che raw, motored over to Be thune yesterday afternoon. Prof. E. L. Flowers, who taught in the Bethune school last year, and is princi al of a school in Berkeley county this year, was a visitor here Sturday and Sunday . Mr. Mayo Davis and bride arrived I home on Friday night. Mr. Arthur Cassady went to Colum- j bin yesterday to visit his uncle, Wiley j Stewart, of Camden, who is in a bos- | pital there. Mr. D. M. Kirkley, County Com missioner for this (Buffalo) town-, ship, met the commissioners from I HartsviMo ttwnship at Tiller's Ferry bridge last Friday afternoon to dis- 1 cuss the advisability of rebuilding the bridge across Lynches river there, j This bridge was recently partially i burned and a; there is considerable I travel on the road across the bridge ? at Tiller's Ferry, the commissioners | agreed to rebuild the bridge at an ? early date, provided each county will do its part. ? IVn'h of Wm. Thompson I Mr. Will'am M. Thompson, of the Sandy Grove section, died this mom- j im ftftfti; im.iUoqs Ql-ffsygiffl with Bright's disease. Mr. Thompson | was nearly 70 years of age and had t been a resident of this section for the i past forty years. For a number of j years he was Worshipful Master of . Lynchwood Lodge, No. 97, A. F. M., ' wns a member of Sandy Grove Me ihod'st church and was highly esteem- i pd by all who knew him. Mr. Thomp son is survived by his wife, two sons, Hugh S. Thomi. son and Tillman Thompson, and two daughters, Mrs. ] Charley S. Nicholson, of Society Hill, and Mrs. Lester Fields, of Winston- 1 Salem, N. C. The funeral services and interment will be held at Sandy | Grove church tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, conducted with Masonic honors. i To My FriendH 1 Next Friday week, Aprill 22, 1 will be 59 years of age. I have not walk ed a step in nearly sixteen years, i I am ? selling a first class needle* book, price 10 cents. The regular j price of this book is 35 cents. If you desire to help a man Who Is trying to earn an honest living and * if you desire to make my 59th birth- i daya little more enjoyable, send me j a dime ? 10 cents -and you will re-; ceive the needle book by return ? ail, j postpaid. It. h worth five times the 1 amount charged. This hook contain? j fifty lnrge-oycd needles, assorted j sizes and fift.en large darning, wool and cotton and button needles. J. E. GARDNER,1 Bcthune, S. C. j Honor Itoll Crescent School, Sixth Month. First Gra<k? ? Inez Peakc. J. V Kelly, Vernon Nettles. F* ?ord Grade? Leila Branham. Third Grade -Gladys I'eake, Lei .*? Branham. Fourth Grade ? Vero Aldrich, Paul- ! ire Peakr', Fannie Shanks. Fifth Grade? -None. Sixth Grade - 'Emily Nettles, Corrie i Penke. Seventh Grades? Levi Branham. Principal ? Elizabeth Konrtody. Fire at Stateburg | Sunday morning Mr. K. S. Tupr r, of Stateburg, had the misfortune of losing his h'.me and vt-s contents by [fire. The loss falls very heavy on him aa there was no insurance on the household godos and only a small a mount en tho house. Mr. Tupper is a son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. i Currton, of our city. I I SEABOARD ANNOUNCES WEEK END AND SUNDAY FAKES j Commencing April 2nd, to October 3rd. ? Patrons on System Bene fitted by Reductions. As an inducement to patrons of th Seaboaui Air Line Railway a very I liberal i eduction in fares for week end and Sunady travel has been insti tuted throughout the entire Systean, bringing back the old accustomed re duced f; res offered previous to th<.? i war. | With these i\?ducti".ns in effect no i doubt but wlriit ?|ui;< a number will Make wiek-md a. id Sunday visits <..> their neighbors and friends, as was j 'the custom when similar fares weiv Lrevicusly in effect. Week-end tickest between Savan j nah, Albany, Amerijus, Columbus, ! .Macon, Montgomery will be instituted , on the. Alabama Division for all trains ! Saturdays, and all trains scheduled to leave selling station not later than 5:00 P. M. Sundays. Week-end tickets from all Alaba i ma Divi. ion points, fr.im Camden, I Charlotte. Columbia, Denmark and j Fairfax, ar j to be sold to Savannah 1 [on each Friday anil Saturday Apri. , ; 1st to October 2nd? limited to return j to original rtaMing point rior to' n.idnight Tuesday following date of ! jsale at a vqry liberal reduction. At all stations from Helena an:! Statesboro, Ga., Camden and Colum | bia, S. C., and intermediate1 points,! tc Sc?av.r.ah and Tybee, Sunday F. cursion tickets at very low fares are ? t.> be sold May Ttli to October 2nd. Sunday Excursion tickets are to be sold from Andrews, Georgetown, and ' Jamo?town to Charleston, S. C.t at very low fare. To Georgetown, S. C., Sunday Fx cursion tickets are to be sold from Andrews, Lanes, Trio and West An drews. Death of Mr. Samuel Moseley of Westville Mr. Samuel H. Mo.:eley, son of .he : lnte C. L. and Catherine Moseley, ? died at his home in the Westville sec- 1 tion, Saturday night, April 10. He j had been in very poor health for C3V- 1 era! years. ??Ilg a Kmnl ci and a good neighbor. Mr. Moseley ! had been a consistent member of the ehurch for fifty one years. He was . progressive in thought, believed in strict observance of the law and a defender of truth and justice. II j was a good husband, a kind father; and a friend to all. As a result of his passing away the county has lost a good citizen and the ?hu:'ch ! lost a good member. He was seven- j ty three y^ars and four days old. ! He leaves surviving him his wife, j Mrs. Sarah Ann Moseley ard t " r 1 b wing children, Roderic Moseley of Boston, Mas.s., Lewis M. Moseley of Sumter, Corbet Moseley of Camden, I Mrs. Alice Truesdale of Westville. I Mrs. Callie Aiken of Miami, Fla., Mrs [ Docia Parnell of Timmonsville, Mrs. lyouella Lyles of Columbia and a brother and sister of Camden, Mr. W. R. Moseley and Mrs. J:;hn W. { Wilson. He also leaves a large cir- ' cle of friends who extend t'> he b ? leaved rnes, their sympathy in this their hour of grief. After funeral services conducted ai the home by his pastor, I'. E. Black "ion. his remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Bethany churrh, ,f which he was a member. Mr. Thomas Sells Out. Mr. W. P. Thomas, who has been running the Hetty Thomas (' f c Shop for some t'me, and made quite a success of it, has sold his interest in the business t.i Mr. Pupont Hancock and Mr. John Kykard, who are now in c barge of tho business. They are each well and favorably known in Camden and can be depended upon to k'ivc? careful and s'rVt attention .<> the business and serve the:r cu ;toniers promptly and satisfactorily. I A woman's reform o. gan /.a. ion '?nils upon Chicago social matrons to make drinking af parties b'd taste. We thought the bootlegger* had attended to ihal detail. Kx. At Wateree Baptist Bnptist ( hurch | Sunday morning at !h" X.aterce Raptist ehurch at. 11:30 the l'astor, Dr. Willingham, will use as his sub ject, "Who is on the Lord's Side." Fn (the evening Rev. Mr. Whaley will i preach, the services to begin at 7:30. The a-ttendance at this church is steadily increasing, and next. Sunday a large attendance is expected. Spec ial music will be furnished. SOCIAL AND 1'EKSONAL ; [ Mrs. Thomas Lawton Willingham ' In answer to the requtst from many sources to print the son#: that Miss Cecilia Willingham sang so jft en the months before she died, it is given in full below. Also ihe oem that she used when asked to serve on an Epworth League pro gram at the Methodist church just three weeks before she was taken tu the hospital, and at that time was seemingly perfectly well. The song: My Task. To love some one more dearly i v'r: day, To help a waml'ring eh Id to find h's way, To jx>nder o'er a noble thought, and pray, And smih when evening falls, And smile when evening falls, This is my task. To follow truth as blind men long for light, To do my best from dawn of day till night, To keep my heart fit for His holy s:ght, And answer when He calls, And arswer wlun He calls, This is my task. And then my Savior by and by to meet, When faith hath made lu<r task on larth complete, ' And lay my homage at the Master's foot, Within the jasper walls, Within the jasper walls, I'his cr. wns my task. Myself ! have to liwi with myself and so want to be fit for myself to know. . want to be able as ciays go by Mways to look myself straight in the eye; . (I n't want to stand with the setting su n, \:id hate myself for th things I've done. t dcrf't want to keep on a closet shelf, A lot of secrets about myself, And fcol myself, as I come and go, fnto thinking that nobody else will k now .'he kind of a person I really am-; ' don't want to dress myself up in sham. want to go out with my head erect; ! want to deserve all peoples' respect; ut here in the- struggle for fame and pelf T want to be able to like myself. ! don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and bluff and empty show. i iv. ver can hide myself from MK; i ree what others may ni ver see; I know what others may never know, I never can fool myself, and so, W hatever happens, I want to be '( f-respeeting and oonsicience free. -??Selected. M. . i, H. Loftis and little Miss Irene, are leaving this week for an ::l. nT d visit to relatives and friends ; rst to Brevard, N. C., and then to I'lackwood, N. J. Mr. I/oftis will be ' ,i Camden until his vacation and will s i that time join his wife and little daughter. 'I'M1 Semi-annual meeting <?f the f'ounty Council of Farm Women was at the High School Auditorium at unlay. In the absence of the [^resident. Mrs. H. R. Truesdale, Mrs. Willis Can toy presided. A splendid program was prepared . Those tak ing part were: Mrs. Paul Brown, Mrs. A. A. West, Mrs. K. T. Truesdale, Mr. Kathleen Watts, Miss Isabel I,orrick, Mrs. K. K. Holland. The special ; peaker of tho day was Miss Harriett l.yton, assistant. state agent from WiAthrop College, who gave a very 'clear and concise talk on recreation, also demonstrating play in a very at tractive manner on 1.he High School play ground. A most excellent din er, Imintiful and well prepared, was c i ved. The County Demonstration ' vent hs well as the club members ? r ? to be congratulated on the ?uc . cevs of the meeting. Death of a Hnby Hoy I James Lboyd, agert 10 months and ?.? days, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Moyd of the Hermitage mill, died Sunday morning at the Camden hospital. The bereaved parents will have the sincere sympathy of their friends in tho death of their baby hoy, ll eir only child.