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(Incorporated) Delivered Radio Address Friday The following address, "Historical Outline of Kershaw County", prepar ed by Mr. T. J. Kirkland, eo-author of "Historic Camden", was delivered over Station WBT last Friday after noon by Mr. John K. de Loach, young Camden Attorney: While in good society, boasting by individuals is regarded as odious, yet ! it is complacently allowed to towns j and counties. Indeed, each is expect- j ed to proclaim itself the best on earth. The effort will be made in this brief discourse not to abuse the' indulgence, but to stay inside of the facts. ^ Shortly after the Revolution, the Extensive District of Camden was carved by the Legislature into eight counties, York, Chester, Fairfield, Richland, Lancaster, Kershaw, Sum- ' ter and Claiendon. Priar to this, the - town of Camden was the Court Hou.ie Seat for the whole of Camden District, which was about 150 miles long and 50 or 60 miles wide. | Subsequently Camden District was divided into counties and the county! immediately surrounding Camden I was named in honor of Joseph and Eli Kershaw. Joseph about the year! 1750 came up from Charleston and located at Camden, then known as ' Pine Tree Hill, where a town site had boon laid out in 1733, and there es tablished stores, mills, and various in dustj: ies which gave great impetus to the young community, attracting many settlers, especially a colony o; Quakers. These people brought a ' steady and substantial quality of j character. <Their descendants are still in the Community. Kershaw, i himself, married one of them, Sarah Mathis. Along with Joseph Korshaw came his brother Eli, who received a grant of the land on which the town of Cheraw stands, first known as Chat ham. These names, Camden and Chatham, wore bestowed as a tribute to the two great Englishmen, Wm. Pitts, Earl of Chatham, and Charles Pratt, Baron Canulen, for their im mortal defense of the American Col onics in the English Parliament. Let us never forget these chanriipions o, Libert,;. During the Revolution these twr Kershaw brothers were vigorous pa triots and when Camden was occupied by the I J i i i h in 1780, v:c n t.ak' prisoners and transported first to IT nduras, then to Bermuda. They spffrred from tropical distemper am' Eli died. Joseph remained , prisoner for 18 months. , He was ruined by the w: r. His re-idenee located ori thr rising g ound, then named Pine Tree ' li'i. in 'ho -'out beast corner of the present Camden, wan occupied as headquarters by Cornwallis, Rawdon and I arleton. It stood intact until the Civil War when it perished ir. I* oh. nary 18(55 from tho torch applied !? S ir i,;nrv.ri men. Camden during tho Revolution was a most important interior military and commercial post, and tho region in its vicinity, now within the limits of Kershaw county, was the scene of bitter conflicts, especially along the old stage coach toad between Camden and Charlotte, which carrvo to be known as the (Jreat War Path. Among these may be mentioned Hanging Rock, in the Northern edgo of the' County, where occurred a fierce com-! bat between Sumter and Col. Stewart,! and there 'tis said, Andrew Jackson was captured by the Hritish and brought a prisoner to Camden. On this same road is the spot, twelve miles north of Camden where Col. ' Rugeley and his hand of Hritish and Tories surrendered to Col. Wm. Washington and his sham Ior cannon. Seven miles North of Camden we traverso the ground of the battlo of Camden, where the disgraceful flight of militia has obscured the glory of the Continentals, who after hern* 1 outflanked and out numbered, made I tho Hritish pay dearly for their vie-'1 tory, and afterwards drove them out] of No>rth and South Carolina; fori these same, heroic troops furnished the backbone at Guilford Court House j in North Carolina, at Hobkirk Hill in the northern edge of Canulen, at Cow pens, Ninety ?Hx and Eutaw. Have i they any equals in our annals? The same Great War Path waa the Indian trail over which King Hairier , led his Catawbas to Camden. His life size ideal effigy, with drawn bow and arrow cut out of sheet metal, prior to 1825, has served as a munici pal weather vane for well over a cen tury and still so serves. It is one of the most unique, objects in this coun try. The War Path lies two or three miles to the West of the present pav ed road U. S. Highway No; 521, which it intersects at Heath Springs, just North of Hanging Rock, and at Shamokin, five miles North of Cam den. Tiue to its military tradition, it was along this same old pathway that Sherman sent his detachment in to Camden, his headquarters being at Dr. Horton's residence twenty miles North, on the site of Hanging Rock battleground. Generals Washington and Lafavitte both visited in Camden and it is here that Baron DeKalb, celebrated Re/o luionary figure, died and is buried. During the War Between the States, Kershaw County finished its quota and more of men to the lost cause, among whom were Six Gener als: General J. B. Kershaw. General JoVn D. Kennedy, General .John B. Villepigue, General Zack C. Deas, Gene.al /James Chestnut, General James Cantey, and one of the great est heroes of all time ? Richard Kirk land, a youngster of Kershaw'd Bri gade who, without protection and un armed, left the Confederate trenches, amid the shot and shell of Northern troops, and carried water into thci in tervening "no man's land" with which to still the agonizing cries of the Union wounded and (lying victims of the many assaults of the Union sol diers uoon the impregnable positions of the Confederates. Seeing this act of generosity and kindness on the part of Kirkland both sides ceased firing until his act of mercy was com pH ?. When the call to Arms came in 1917 the Kershaw Guards, military unit of State militfa, consisting of Korshaw County men and boys, was inducted into service and took part in the breaking of the Hindenburg Line. Out of this chaos emegred two moi;e heroes, who were given the nation s highest award ? 'the Congressional Medal of Honor ? John^Cantey Ville pigue and Richmond Hobson Hilton. In the recent disturbance in Nica ragua another Kershaw County boy ?>roved himself a hero and the United States Government conferred the Congressional Medal of Honor on Donald Roy Truesdale. Kershaw County is bisected by the Sand Hill belt which crosses the State ?nd extends from ne-w Ralegh, N. C. to Montgomery, Ma. It averages nbout 15 miles wide. That section of the bounty lying South of it is part of the Coastal plain; that portion to the North belongs to the Piedmont, and rises into hills rugged with Kianite. Thus, the County contains great diversity of soil and landscape. Many are apt to condemn the sandy section from superficial appearances. It forms a comparatively small area of the State. The winter tourists of Camden, Southern Pines, Pinehurst, Aiken ran testify to its inherent fasci nation. The soil is clean and never muddy, the air pure, tho water crys tal clear, delicious and soft, never failing t? flow. In tho extreme drought of 1845 n?ople from the ('lay county came with their animals to get water in the Sandhills. Camden is in the midst of the Sandhills, nnd | the beautiful gardens, especially of the winter residents, show the capa bilities of the Sandhill soil when fer tilized with a fat pocket book. Kershaw County in mainly agri cultural, but within it are twh cotton mills, a foundry, several lumber plants, two weekly newspapers, an oil mill, the great water power devel ' opment of the Duke Power Company | on the Wateree River, Granite quar ! ries, an excellent hospital, the gift of I Bernard Baruch, who is a native of Camden, three tourist hotels, three golf courses, four |>olo fields, Wood ' ward aviation field, Springdalo Race Course whore tho famous "Carolina ' Cup" nnd othei racei are held an I nually, and beautiful estates of I Northern residents, many of whom have become so much attached to tho County that they live almost the en tire year there. Kershaw County is one of the done^r countien of the country in 1 forcutatlon. There is a full time Visitors to the Methodist Conference Bishop and Mrs. W. A. Candler ? J. A. Sterne, Camden Hotel. Dr. E. H. Rawlings ? G. T. Little, Camden Hotel. O. W. Morner ? <3. T. Little, Cartw den Hotel. R. K. Breeden ? G. T. Little, Cam den Hotel. J. D. Griffin ? C. F. Wimberly. Dr. W. P. Kin# ? See committee. Dr. J. W. Speak ? Dr. Carl A. West. W. D. Roberts ? Miss Cornelia Oliver (dinner). x Preachers and Hosts W. M. Alexander ? Eben Taylor, i Ivensen Graham. X H. H. Anderson ? One guest. Gus Beleos ? Two guests. R. E. Barnes ? J. W. and Mrs. Ariail. Mrs. Billings ? J. M. Fabian. C. H. Baker ? D. N. Busbee, K. S. Carmichael, Dr. O. B. Davis, Judge J. H. Johnson. I)r. S. F. Brasington ? ?Albert Betts, L. L. Bedenbaugh. Mrs. Hazel Oliver ? L. W. Smith, J. O. Bunch. Mrs. Luther Bell ? Woodrow Ward,1 J. F. M. Hoffmeyer. Mrs. C. W. Bruce ? W. T. Beden baugh, .1. B. Proper, T. E. Derrick, R. R. Doyle. Mrs. 11. L. Bradford ? H. L. F. Shuler. Mrs. J. A. Bell ? J. W. Connor, C. W. DuBose. J. R. Belk ? R. R. Tucker. Mrs. J. II. Burns ? J. M. Shingler, J. Francis Folk. Mrs. R. E. Chewning ? J. M. Bar rington, C. P. Chewning. Mrs. Bernice Chewning ? J. R Johnson, F. L. Glennon. Dr. W. R. Clyburn ? L. C. Reid, W. D. Rhoad. J. H. Clyburn ? W. J. Ellis, J. B. Brittain. Rev. J.. B. Caston ? J. C, Smiley, B. D. Shuler. Mrs. Arthur Clark? -Mrs. J. O.l Taylor. Mrs. Louise Cantey and Mrs. Willis Sheorn ? T. M. Dantzler, B. G. Mur- ? phy. Mrs. H. G. Carrison, Jr. ? L. Tom Parker, W. E. Nesmith. Dr. J. W. Corbett ? Dr. M. R. Mob ley. Rev. F. H. Craighill ? Four guests (room and breakfast). ? i Mrs. G. F. Cooley ? Mrs. J. R. WTil liams, Mrs. W. E. King. A. C. Drawdy ? L. D. B. Williams, Paul Crosby, P. IC. Rhoad, P. F. Cone. W. R. DeLoache ? W. C. Kirkland, J. B. Black. Mrs. Ben DeLoache ? Meals for two. Dr. W. L. DePass ? W. E. Wiggins, J. H. Graham. Carroll G. DesChamps ? J. G. Fer guson (meals). Mrs. C. W. Evans ? One guest. F. D. Goodale ? Peter Stokes, Jr., (room), C. O. Shuler, Jr., (room). Mrs. J. M. Gandy ? L. T. Phillips. Mrs. J. M. Gettys ? E. S. Scroggins, M. M. Mitchum. Henry D. Green ? P. J. Phillips (room). N. P. Gettys ? Two guests. W. S. Gardner ? A. M. Gardner. Mrs. II. I). Hancock ? W. L Parker, S. E. Owens. Miss Christie Hey ? Miss Eddie Rohler. Dr. A. W. Humphries ? J. F. Way, W. P. Way. W. R. Hough? G. T. Harmon, R. P. Turner. S. R. Hall? A. C. Corbitt. Mrs. S. W. Hogue ? J. Weldon, L. H. White, H. H .White. J. C. Hoffman ? D. O. Spires, G. C. Gardner, L. I). Hamer, J. F. M. Hoff meyer. S. M. Huggins ? G. H. Varn, J. R. Dennis. W. E. Hendricks ? G. L. Ingram. George llunns ? J. C. Inabinet, Carl Turbeville. Mrs. Eva (I. Irby ? J. E, Cook. W. Ii. Jackson ? Two guests. F. C. Jones ? Two roomers. R. M. Kennedy? -W. E. Willis, W. C. Moore. Mrs. Shannon Kirkland ? Four guests (rooms). J. R. I^angford ?One guest (board). Mrs. D. K. I<ee ? J. W. Jones, Purdy McI<eod. O. E. (.nmoy ? W. S. Heath, J. F. Campbell. (I. T. Little? Four guests. Mrs. I,ewis Lomnnsky? -M rs. C. E. Bethea. Rev. A. I). McArn- Two guosts (meals-). | Mrs. Anna M. Montgomery ? W. Stackhouse, R. B. Jones, Tom God hold, W. E. Rogers. forester who hns control of the exe cution of the program fot thfl county including fire prevention. There are two steel fire towers in the county with attendants and the South Caro lina Forestry Department maintains there a tree nursery where hundreds of thousands of pine and other trees for utilisation In reforestation are grown and shipped each year to var ious parts of the State and United States. Mrs. C. V. Massebeau ? R. F. Joiner, J. C. Young. J. H. Mc-Leod ? .Two gueBts. D. M. McCaskill- ? C. S. Felder, J. G. Rhoad, J. K. Inabinet, T. W. Godbold. W. P. McGAirt? H. W. Sheley, L. W. Sheley. < A. E. Miller? R. P. Hucks, P. W. Fairey, J. A. Graham, C. W. Lovin, S. M. Atkinson, C. E. Hill. B. W. Marshall ? A. A. Sassard, J. H. Noland, J. M. Shingler, E. D. Thomas. H. G. Marvin, Hobkirk Inn ? Judge B. H. Moss, Will Goldfinch, Charlton Durant, C. F. Risor. Mrs. M. C. McCullum ? B. H. Cov ington, D. T. Smoak. Mrs. J. T. Mac key, Jr.? B. J. Guess.! Joe McKain ? H. C. Parler, Mrs. W. T. Brown. McLood and McLauchlin ? Four guests. Clifton McKain ? Four guests (rooms). W. F. Nettles ? J. T. Peeler, E. L. McCoy, S. O. Cantey, F. S. James. John T, Nettles ? Two guests. Mrs. C. \V. Nuite? S. D. Newell. S. J. Jeffords. Mrs. H. D. Niles? Geo. J. Bethea, W. H. Fletcher. J. H. Osborne ? C. M. Peeler, L. E. { Peeler, A. F. Ragan, J. M. Collier. I'nte Brothers ? One guest. E. T. Pearce ? W. J. Tiller, J. H. Tiller, George K. I^aney. Grady Parsons and Mrs. Lewis ? W. E. Clarkson, H. W. Ambrose. Mrs. W. C. Pitts ? Eimest Dugen, F. L. Frazier, H. D, InabThet. J. G. Richards, Jr., and Mrs. J. T. Hay? C. H. Piatt, J. C. Quick. Marvin Reasonover ? -B. L. Knight,] L. C. Sanders. A. A. Reasonover ? W. G. Ariail, J. P. Inabinet, Roy Phillips, J. T. Fowler. Mrs. B. W. Rhame ? W. V. Dibble, Dr. Guilds, R. D. Guilds, Dr. Ariail, Mrs. W. H. Stone. Mrs. R. E. Rollings ? E. H. Beck- | ham, T. R. Sojourner. John Rhame ? Rev. and Mrs. G. E. I Edwards. Dr. George S. Rhame ? One guest. Mrs. J. S. Rhame ? One guest. Mrs. Russell? M. G. Arant, W. W. Player, W. E. Sanders, H. J. Bennett, W. A. Beckham. G. A. Rhame ? E. Z. James, L. A. Manning. Mrs. R. E. Stevenson ? Dr. C. E. Gamble, Dr. C. I. Green. Dr. C. F. Sowell ? G. E. Parrott, L. W. Cooper. L. A. Sowell ? C. C. Derrick, Julius Dan Sowell ? G. M. Arant, W. O. Henderson. E. Clark. B. G. Sanders ? G. F. Kirby, M. L. Banks, A. V. Harbin. Dr. W. A. Sanders ? Dr. V. W. Brabham, W. R. King. Wylie Sheorn ? Two guests (meals). Mrs. C. O. Stogner ? Room for two. M. L. Smith, Jr. ? Two guests. M. L. Smith, Sr. ? 'Two guests. C. B. Smith? Paul T. Wood, G. T. Rhoad. Arthur Smith and Walter Smith Two guests. C. J. Shannon, Jr. ? W. E. Atkinson, W. R. Jones. Mrs. M. J. Truesdale ? Leo Carter, B. S. Hughes. Wheeler Thomas ? T. M. Kemmer lin. P. Tobin ? W. J. Snyder, P. C. Dukes. Mrs. John Villepigue and Wylie Sheorn ? W. St. E. Capers, W. E. Ivey. Mrs. C. E. Watts? L. E. Pope, T. W. I*aw. Dr. C. F. Wimberly ? J. H. Danner, J. C. Long, J. I). Griffin, W. W. [ Smoak, C. A. Monroe, Florence Hem mingway, A. M. Jones, J. C. Heriot. J. L. Williford ? -Two guests (meals) Mrs. Etta Williams ? E. O. Watson, J. M. Rogers. Mrs. T. V. Walsh? T. G. Herbert, J. J. iStevenson. I>r. Carl A. West ? Dr. J. L. B. Gilmore. Mrs. C. C. Whi taker, Sr. ? F. D. Thomas. Mrs. C arrio Wooten ? Two quests for meals. Miss Lou Young and Mrs. Massey ? ?D. A. Phillips, R. H. Jones. Mrs. H^S. Zeigler -G. W. Davis, S. W. Henry. Mrs. J. B. Zemp -<E. K. Garrison, Gobe Smith. W. R. Zemp J. H. Graves, Peter S<tokes, C. G. Herbert, C. B. Burns. Dr. S. C. Zemp ? Bryce Herbert, H. F. Collins. Miss El lie Zemp ~J. W. Elklns, F. E. Hodges. Reserve Rooms ? Mrs. G. O. Stog ner, Mrs. J. M. Hoffer. 6 6 6 LIQUID, TABLETS, HALVE, NOHK DROPS Check* Mnlnria in 3 day*, Colds first day, Headaches or Neuralgia I" 3? minutes. FINE LAXATIVE AND TONIC Mont Speedy Remedies Known. Snappy Stuff Celebrating their 69th wedding an^" niversary at their homo in New Ber in, 111., Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Leo en tertained their 10 children, ]? grand children, and 5 great-grand-children. Because she backed through a second-floor window in a department store in St. Louis while trying on a pair of beach pajamas Mrs. Charles Heiss won a ^12,500 damage verdict. Rev. Charles W. Savidge of Omaha celebrated his 83rd birthday tfy per forming free marriages. Judge C. D. Smith of Del Rio, Tex., who formerly practiced medicine, recently was paid the $2 balance due on a bill for service rendered in 1897. Grief -stricken because of the death of her pot cat, Mrs. Mabel E. Force of Denver, committed suicide. "Aunt Mamie" Williams, colored, of Jacksonville, Fla., who tips the the scales at 598 pounds, complains that troublesome neighbors have caused her to lose 200 pounds. William Williams is a painter in the law firm of Williams, Williams & Williams in Ardmore, Oka. Fifty dollar fines and 30-day jail sentences were given Maleomb Wright and James Edwards of Cleveland on conviction of operating a confidence trame ? on a man named John Swind ler. Charging that his wife served him nothing but bacon ami eggs until lie couldn't even look at hem, let alone eat them, Clint O. Trout, of Hanford, I Calif., sought a divorce. John Carson of Jefferson City, Mo., . went to jail for 60 days for stealing gasoline, but he's still enjoying hc$me ' cooking. His wife is the hired cook at the jaiW Asserting that his wife nagged him and kept him awake until 4 a. m., James Seymour of Los Angeles was granted a divorce. Overcome Pains this better way WOMEN who get into a weak, run down condition can hardly expect to be fr^ from troublesome "email ?ymptonre." Where the trouble la due to weak ness, Cardul helps women to^ get stronger and thus makes It wwler for nature to take Its orderly course. Painful, nagging Bymptoms disap pear as nourishment of tho body Is improved. Instead of dopondlng on temporary pain pills during the time of suffer ing. take Cardul to build up your resistance to womanly ailments. Jartied EV&ns of Leeds, Eng., re I ports that every night a mouse comes ; into his kitchen and sings, making a j noise like the b.-ras string of a violin. Frank Stephens of New York, when arrested for two holdups, said he was trying to get enough money to get married. As Miss Caroline Pottel of Phila delphia was being married sh<f"fctop ped the ceremony, and after a half hour delay she consented to its com pletion. When Mrs. Agnew of Chicago was warned by a policeman to be less ' noisy, she struck him over the head with a large kettle. As a defense to a charge of theft, Thomas Moring of Chicago pleaded that he "had five children and a nasty-tempered wife to keep." Arrrsted for stealing a bottle of milk, Josieph Morgenson, aged 64, of St. Louis, pleaded that he was an orphan, his parents having recently died. Harnett Silver of London who has not spoken to his wife for two years, was held in court to have deserted her, though living in the same house. Louis Hoyt of Haverstraw, N. Y? leported to police that chicken thieves raided his hen house and carried off 56 hens, passing up six young chic kens, but left a note which read, "fat ten them up and wo will be back later." ? / Frau Augusta Gurvosch df Ham burg, who died at the age of 87, had outlived eight husbands. James C. Darven, a bank official of Glassgow, is very fussy about his false teeth, and has different sets for morning, afternoon and evening. Miss Ivy Smith of St. Louis cut off part of Joseph Dugmore's ear "because he jilted her. Charles Zerlinck of Chicago had 10 men arrested and fined for getting him drunk and cutting off his mus tache. W. A. Canon of Belfast ? willed his wooden leg to a nephew. Mrs. Frances Tullet of Chicago claims a world's record for hei cat* which caught 26 rats in a singla day. When 15-year-old Rose Gloven of Berlin was arrested for drunkenness, she was advised to stick to beer and leave wine alone. George Raymond of Boston, was ordered in court to pay a $60 debt at the note of 6 cents a month. School BOOKS 'and' School SUPPLIES -at Messenger Book Store