The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, November 15, 1933, Image 5
"So That's Where
the Doctor.
Comes From/"
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Babies may' not
understand, but
mothers know the
priceless feeling
of security the
telephone brings.
And priceless i^
may sometimes be
to hear the reas
suring voice of the
doctor saying "I'll
be right over."
But emergencies are unus
ual ? and the telephone has
another important job in the
home, smoothing off the rough
corners of everyday existence.
It runs errands, saves time,
trips and waste of energy.
Fo^ your leisure hours, it
forms a quick contact with
friends to arrange a spur-of
the-moment trip to the mov
ies, or an informal evening of
bridge. When your friends
want to reach you, why ? you
are as near as your telephone.
Your own experience tells
you in how many vays the
telephone can serve you well,
and at a cost so small that it
really doesn't pay to try to do
without it. If you do not have
a telephone, ask about the ser
vice at the telephone Busines
Office.
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co.
(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.
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