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ppg Camden VOM 'MK XXV. CAMDUN. SOUTH CAKOIJNA, FHIIIAV, JtXY 18, 1 01 ft. M'MHKH 12. SMITH CAROLINA NEWS PUT IN PARAGRAPHS HAPPEN J NG8 OF INTEKEhT IN XHK HTATK WATIIEIUOD I-'HOAl OUIt KXCHANOBS, The Hock Mill Buggy Co. Ih com pitting ilH arrangement# for making nytoniol)iU-?' I The county supervisor of Barn well han ordered an election In that county on the <luestion of voting the dlnpen?ary In. j), Frank Kelley, of Blsliopvlllee, wants I' understood that he 1b a can didate for lieutenant governor And will run in next yoar'B primary. Spartanburg on last Tuesday vot ed f 100,000 in bonds for street pav iog. TMh makes $300,000 voted by the city within a year. ?Hie members of the First Bap (l8t church of Greenville will re model their church building at a cost of $50,000. This includes a new Sunday school room. The couple that got married at Union on the Fourth as a feature of the great holiday were presented with many valuable presents, includ inK barrels of flour. The citizens of McCcymick have put up $5,000 to flnance^the ' new county proposition, with county seat at McCpruilek- - to come out of por tions of Abbeville, Edgefield and Greenwood. [? *" Dr. flenry Miller has resigned as pastor of Pendleton Street Baptist ? church in fireenvlllpt. Dr. Z. T. Co dy, editor of the Baptist Courier, will supply the pulpit during - the summer. A fine horse, belonging to John* Sullivan, of Lancaster county, went mad on Monday and bit its owner on the leg. The horse was bitten by a dog recently. Mr. Sullivan Is now in Columbia receiving treatment at the Pasteur Institute. : The will of David Weston Shuler r . of Orangeburg, who died of heat at Pfjk'land, O., "l&'st vfbek, hfts been j opened. He leaves his property ; ; valued .at $15,000 to education. If | jfe other parties will raise a like sum p for a girls' college at Orangeburg, the money goes for that; otherwise, as the trustees may see fit. f Miss Jessie Burton, of the Tirzah j f section of York county, died very I v suddenly Saturday night of heart j failure. There was a young man , friend caller at the home and ho and; the young lady had just risen from ' their seats and the young man rea dy to depart for his home when the L- J'?yng lady dropped dead. Matthew B. Stanley, one of two known survivors of the Palmetto re giment residing in South Carolina, and a Veteran also of the War Be tween the Sections, died Saturday morning in his 90th year, at the home of his son, W. E. Stanley, near Centenary, Marion county. Captain Stanley fought thru the Mexican war as a private in the Palmetto regi * went and was a captain in the Confederate army. Luther Harris, colored, got angry Saturday with Sam Wiley over ten tents due in a skin gamei out in the Fork section of Anderson coun tj and when Wiley' walked off de claring he was not satisfied, Harris f'red twice from a Colt's, one shot taking effect and k'lled Wiley. Wiley was shot in tho back, the bul let Piercing the bowels and coming ?ut in front. Capt. Hugh Knight, conductor of :he ,ocal train on the S. C. W. Ry., *hile the train was being shifted ^ar the depot in Darlington on uesday, saw the edge of something Protruding from the dirt beside the ra lr?ad track and on investigation 't Provt'd to be an old seal of the tate of South Carolina. The date on e SCa' was 1776. Evidently the sea' had been buried in the ground n.ear where it was found for con siderably over one hundred and ?enty-five years. ? McBee Courier. President Wilson has commuted ? ?n(> >'oar and a day tho five-year *?n,fnro of Milton Carlisle, convict ed at (Greenville, S. C... October 26, ? "? of misapplication of the funds ^ the National bank of Newberry, ^ t.., of which ho was rornierTy .'lent. Carlisle, who is 7 3 years 0|(j ? -is not yet served any of his rui and the president commuted e sentence with the privilege of re operation at any time It. apeared at continued imprisonment would h!!n!rOU8ly the prisoner's NOT KNOVOIl VOTKHH, I'd It Inn I'Ntr KU'clloii on in Tui'iicd Down. The several petitions circulated thruowl the county several weeks ago containing 1,07 6 signatures <11 r set oil to County Supervisor Went unking that he order an election to determine whether or not Kershaw county should vote the dispensary hack hus heen thoroly looked Into by the Supervisor und ho states thai he found enough names* hut not enough qualified voters. For several weeks he haw been carefully going over the lists, and reports that he found where signa tures appeared on more than one pe tition, some were not registered, others used such poor chlrography that the names could not he made out and some were non-residents of the county. For these reasons so many names were stricken from the lists that it brought the number to where It lacked some forty or fifty names of having the required num ber. As a result of the Supervisor's finding there will be no election this summer on the dispensary and the question so far as Kershaw county is concerned is settled. Mr. West has thorojy and con scientiously examined the petitions according to law and has given both sides a square deal. FIGHTING BOLlv WKV1L. Southern Railway Helping With Work in The South. Atlanta .(in., July 14. ? Farmers In Western Alabama and Mississippi are making a determined and win ning fight against the boll weevil and are being given loyal support 1>y business men, declares Mr. T. O. I lunkfctt, Manager of the Departmen Oi* Farm Improvement Work of the SouthQrn Railway and affiliated lines, who in company with Mr. J. C. Williams, Assistant to President Flnley, has just completed an in spection of farm cnoditions along th Southern Hallway, the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and the Alabama Gt. Southern Railroad in this territory. "We did not find a community," says Mr. Plunkett,. "Where there is any excitement or th slightest sign of panic but every one is in line de termined to produce coottn under boll weevil conditions. Thousands of adult weevils were destroyed while the cotton was small and where they escaped farmers are now destroying infected squares. On ev ery band we found appreciation of the efficient services of the agents of our department and farmers are generally heeding their advice in fighting the weevil. I% have been in close touch with the boll weevil ever since 1900 and 1 believe that farm ers in this territory have heeded the warning given them and will not suffer as did farmers furt.her west." "Farmers who have adopted the methods advocated by our agents are expecting increased yields in spite of the wevil, and with the de termined fight now being waged, I see no reason why the general yield in this great section should not be normal, though individual farmers who have refusde to take the advice of experts are sure to lose heavi ly." NKGRO K1LI/S ANOTHER. Russell Curry and Charlie Nelson, both negroes, became involved in a difficulty Monday night at Curry's house nearMr. Luther Hall's place, four miles east of Camden, in which Nelson was shot and so seriously wounded that he died from the ef fects of the wound shortly after, v. From what cyn be gathered from the aff.iir the dead negro had been warned by Curry to stay away from his home and upon him continuing his visits was the cause of his death, ap it was while on ono of these for bidden visits that the fatal shot was fired from a shot gun. Curry was arrested Monday and is now in Jail to await trial. Nothing l>oing. Since Adjournment of court there has been nothing doing, so to speak, ST Hie county court house. Very few property transfers have been made on tho Auditor's books, no news of interest with tho other officers and Judge of Probate McDowell has is sued only three marriage licenses during the month of July. He says apparently there Is a strike in mat rimony In Kershaw county. HANKKKH KKI,W*|' OFPlC'KKM ' -m# ? f>' Two < 'uiihIcii Mm. liouoinl in Kt'ltrvtiuil. l^ake Toxaway, N. C., July 12. ? With the election of officers and ac tion on a number of important reao lutlons, together witii addresses by W. F. Stevenson of Cheraw and Charles Hall Davis, of Petersburg, V'a., (he 13th annual convention of Bout)) Carolina Bankers' Association closed here this evening. Bright Williamson, of Darlington, waa elected president of the associ ation, Chas. J. .Shannon, of Camden, 1h made vice president and Lee G, Holleman, of Auderson is reelected secretary and treasurer. Emslie Nicholson, the retiring president, waH named an a member of the ex-, ecutive council at large for a term of three yeara to succeed E, W. Robertson, of Columbia. The report of the committee on resolutions was oiio of the most important Incidents of the day. The committee, of which Richard 1, Manning, of Sum tor, ia chairman, returned favorable reports on a number of resolutions of general interest. 'l'bead dress delivered by W. F\ Stevenson, of Chreaw, was a mas terful one. Mr. Stevenson took up and discussed with emphaslH ques tions of intense Interest to bankers everywhere but especially to. the bankers of South Carolina. Charles Hall Davis, of Petersburg, Va., told Jn a detailed paper of "Rural Banking and Currency Re form." in addition to the scheduled ad dress for today, McLane Tifton, secretary of the Alabama Bankers' association, and Hayne McPadden, secretary of the Georgia Bankere associatlon, addressed the meeting. H. C. Meyer appeared to extend Hendersonvill's invitation for the bankers to meet next at that resort. Among the resolutions reported favorably and adopted by the con vention was a motion for the chair men of the various groups to take steps to raise funds to offer prizes to farmers of their sections for suc cess in improved agriculture. The chairmen will work in conjunction with Clemson College and the Unit ed States ..department of agriculutre. The reesolution specifies that no conflict must come with the exten sion work of Clemson college or the farm work of the government. The chairman of the eight groups are placed on the agriculture committee. Mr. Wannamaker's resolution in dorsing Senator E. D. Smith's bill in the senate providing for the ex termination of the boll Weevil was favorably reported' and adopted. Eight members were added to the executive council as ex-officio mem bers. The additions are the chair men of the groups. The association went on record as favoring 1 cent letter postage. The resolution explaining the sentiment of the bankers will be sent to South Carolina's senators and representa tives and to Senator Burton and Representative. Bartlett, authors of the bill in congress. The convention commemded the efforts of the Southern Commercial congress and Senator Fletcher for a system of rural credits. A pleasing feature of the day was the presentation of a silveer loving cup to the retiring president, Emslie Nicholson. The cup was pre sented by B. Hart. Moss, of Orange burg. The convention adjourneed after President Williamson was escorted, t> the chair and thanked his fellow bankers for the honor accorded him. The members went their* many ways this afternoon. Some are going to various resorts for the weeek while the presence of Wm. J. Bryan at Asheville attracts others. The officers of the association are: President, Bright Williamson, Darlington; vice president, Charles J. Shannon, Jr., Camden,; secretary treasurer, Lee G. Holleman, Ander son; attorney, B. Hart Moss, ' Or angeburg; member executive coun cil at large for three years, Emslie Nicholson, of Union. John M> Ki- | nard and B. F. Mauldln hold over. Members of the executive council j from the seven congressional dis-- j tricts were named as follows First, E. P. Grice, -Charleston ; Se cond, A. M. Kennedy, Wilson; 3rd, I Mauldln, Pickens; 4th, F. F. Beat tie, Greenville; 5th, C. H. Yates. Camden; 6th, D. A. Splvey, Con way; 7th, J. S. Wannamaker, St. j Matthews. ? Brian Bell, in Colum- ; bla State. Mrs. H. B. Edmonds, of Colum bia, is visitin* Mrs. A. A. Moore. MlW. \v, |t> DNAI>. KMtimalth. Woman 1'iiHM'tl A \\ (iy it I Home In ttumter. Mrs.Lucy Hunts, wife of Mr. W. B. Bums, diutl at her home on West Hampton avenue about 9 o'clock on Monday night, after an illness ex tending over u period of four months. Sii? was forty-one years of age and Is survived by her husband and hIx children. Tlie funeral services were held from the residence Tuesday after noou at 6 o'clock and the interment took place at the cemetery, 'hlrs Burns was a native of liarn stabto, Mass., whore she was mar ried twenty-three years ago. She and her husband moved to Sumter about a year after their marriage and huvo been living hero since that time. She wasthedaughter of Cap talu an\l Mrs. Francis Hallet, her maiden name being Lucy Hallett. As a qltild she had saile<i around the world several times with her father, who wws a well known sea captain of his time. Beadles her husband sho leaves six children, W. B. Jr., Francis Hal lett, Alwyn .Dorothy, Lucy and Jas. She is also survived by one brothel" of Boston ,Mass. Mrs. Burns w?ih a member of Trln* ity Methodist church, with which she had boon identified thruout her residencee Tn Sumter, and her life was a daily exemplification of the Christian virtues. She was a de voted ?lfe and mother; - a sincere and loving friend, a helpful and con siderate neighbor. ? Sumter Daily Item. Mrs. Burns was well and favora bly known in Camden where uho of ten visited and has a host of friends here who are stiddened at hearing of her death. "llUD" MAKES DISC'OVKHV * I * Ami at Same Time Draws Crowd of Kx'cited Inquirers. The neighborhood of The Chroni cle has been for some time well known for its bombastic reputation, hut- of recent "days there -has been something doing almost every day along this line. We have gotten ac customed to tho "bustin" of auto mobile and bicycle tires, and pay little attention when a recruit helps himself to the free compressed air supplied by the garage of our next door neighbor, Mr. N. it. Goodale. But the latest scheme that we have been made wise to was devised yes terday by our goo-d friend, Charlie Coleman, better known as "Bud." All was <iuiet along Broad street, the steady grinding of our machines and the rush of getting to pross was all that we had on our minds for the time being. "Bud" Cole man called a reporter thru the back way to witness the experiment, the reporter Inquired: "What's up this time." 'Bud's' reply was: "I have a cylinder and piston which 'growed' together, and It must come apart, hammer and chisel will not budge it, so I bought a nickels worth of gun powder and put it in the cylin der with a long fuse and am going to try that. Touch the fuse off Mr. Horten, and come with me and stand behind this big sycamore tree ? she'll hardly go thru it." There was only four near the explosion when it took place, buV in a jiffy between seventy-five and a hundred people were right on the job to see what was going on. Among the early arrivals was the Mayor, who must have thought his automobile tire had gone to the bad, for he made a bee line for the garage. The cylinder was found to be in the same spot where it was left, but where in the thunder was the pis ton ? the cartridge from the min inture cannon. It made its flight towards Mars and a few minutes later it was found in a vacant lot :iear tho livery stable of Mr. Lit tle. After the crowd found the cause for the fuss they dispersed and "Bud" was heard tX say: "My scheme worked, didn't it? Building Handsome Home. Ground was broken this week for tho erection of a handsome house, the property of Mr. Mannes Baruch on Lyttlcton street. The residence will be 'located on the lot just norfh of the Methodist church and adjoin ing "Magnolia Villa" the "handsome home of Mr. David Wolfe and which is on one of Camden's prettiest streets. When completed It will contain eight rooms and be two sto ries high with light, water, heat and all fnodern conveniences. The con tract has been let to Contractor J H. Moore of this city. ItWOKOUIl'H rot KT. Auotlit'cr lilimi Tiger I'Iim* of IKtllHrN or Dayn. Five ovtl doers appeared l>eforo Recorder Goodalo in court Monday morning to answer to various charges and hh a result the city Is richer by $0 4, in fines und for fait ures. "Anil ICnoih wua ?, for, the copa look him." Enoch Ballard did not llvo up to the Wily s of bin biblical namesake and fell into w?y? of try ing to make easy money by dis posing of whiskey, Ho wuh charged with having sold a half pint t^ two negro acquaintances in a buck lot lit Camden Saturday, and a trap bad been laid for Enoch into which ho roadily fell. Two negroes, quo an ex-tiger, were the witnessed against Enoch. Ho demanded trial by Jury, but the preponderance of evidence againat him gave Enoch no allowing and ho did not even deny t ho charge after the testimony was all in. Ah this wan bin first appearance on this charge, the Recorder let him go with a fine of $45. or thirty days on the street. Helton Smyrl drew a flue of $10.. lor being intoxicated. H, T. Horton, Cornelius Certain and Jordan Cook were up on a charge of fighting," and each was charged $3. for his part of the melee. Other blind tiger cases set for Monday were continued to a later day. FOUR NKttKOEH SBNTKNt?Kl>. Slayer of Jolisn Q. IanvIk Condetnn e<l tx> KilectMc <? jkuir Chester, July 12. ? Four negroos ?? Meeks Griffin, John Crosby, Tom Griffin and Nelson Price ? today were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death for the murder of John Lewis, a hgihly respect ed Confederate veteran of the Corn well section of this county, April 26 last. The neroges wore sentenc ed to die in the elctric chair Friday, September 20, next. The verdict of guilty and the sen tencing of the four prisoners came as the culmination of thee. most son sational murder trial in the annals of Chester county. How the four negroes plotted the death of the aged man was told on the stand yes terday by Monk Stevenson, who act ed an watchman while the deed was done. This testimony, backed up by other evidence, proved sufficient to clear any reasonable doubt from tho minds of the jury, and after staying out about two hours tho ju rors returned a verdict of guilty without recommendation to mercy in the cases of all four negroes. C. J. Ramage, of Saluda, acting judge, then pronounced sentence on the negroes, setting the time of ex ocution as September 2 0, between the hours of 10 a. m. and 2 p. in. l>r. Lindsay Dead. The Rev. Wm. Carter Lindsay, 1). D., one of the most prominent and oldest Haptlst divines of South Car olina, who was 3 4 years pastor and two years pastor emeritus of the First Baptist church of Columbia, died last night at 9:45 o'clock at his home, at the age of 73 years. Stricken with paralysis early Friday morning-" while visiting at Hender? sonville, N. C., Dr. Lindsay was ta ken to Columbia Friday night, and Surrounded by all but two members of his immediate family, died, after a distinguished and useful career as sutdent, soldier and minister. The funeeral was held Monday afternoon at 6 o'clock from the First Baptist church, on Hampton street. Mr. William _ Carter Lindsay, a native of Louisa county, Virginia, having been born there February 15, 1840, is survived by his wife, who previous to her marriage was Miss Margaret Ella Steen, duaghter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Steen, of Greenville^ three . sons and four daughters. llaptl/^I Forty-Seven. Rev. W. B. Kizer, pastor of the Pine Creek Baptist church, assist ed by Rev. Yarbrough, conducted a very successful meeting at his churc closing on Sunday, the 0th, with an accession of fifty-three members. On last Sunday Rev. Kizer baptiz ed forty-seven. Little Miss Lorine (lault, sister of! Mrs. Sam McCaskill, who has been j spending several weeks ? here, re turned to hr home in Union last Sunday. While in Camden she made many friends who regretted to * see her leave. CITY AND COUNTY NEWS PUT IN CONDENSED FORM MATTERS OF liKNIOKAL INTER- w EST SKCUJtED IIY OUtt REPORTERS. .f, Miss Nan ilpufeli Jh visiting in HtmnotUvJlh'. Miss Lillian Man lM visiting in Saluda ,N. C. MJhh Khetta Wilson in visiting re latives in Florence. , Mi?a 10 the | Birchmore 1h visiting friends in Florence, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hinsou vis ited relatives here last week. Mr. (tassels Zonip spent the week end at Wrightsvllle Beach. Mrs. < liarlle NVatkin, of Nowber sry, visited relatives here last week. Miss lotta Hammond, of Reldsville, N. C.f Ik on h visit to relatives here, Mr. Luther Sowell returned Hun day after a week spent witit friends in Atlanta. Miss Gladys Twitty, of lieatii Springs, is visiting her sister, Mrn. J. T. Mackey. -> Mrs. Baggot and daughter, Miss Lillian, of Tampa, are visiting rela tives in Camden. Mrs. Lottie Went and daughter, of Atlanta, aro visiting the family of Mr. Robt. Latta. Master Thomas Ancrum Moore, son of Mr. C. (3. Moore, of New York, 1b visiting friends in Camden. Mr. Lewis I^ee Clyburn has re turned from n dnHffii?fni Y|Hjt to relatives at Kershaw. Mr. Tom Yarbrough and Dr. E. Z. Truesdale, of Bethune, were hero Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Arnett and lit tle daughter, and Mrs. Ella Twitty spent Sunday at. Big Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Bolton Beard have returned from a three weeks visit, to relatives in Ilendersonvllle. Mr. F. E. Mathis and family left, last week for Greenville to make that city their home in the future. Miss Francis Hoy kin has gone on an extended visit to her aunt, Mrs. Blanding deSaussure, of Atlanta. MJbb Vivian Mcdullough, of Latta, Ik visiting her sister, Mrs. Sawyer, on Lyttleton Street. Miss Charlotte Boy kin, who has been attending school in Charleston, lias returned home. Mrs. James Clyburn and children have gono to the country home of Capt. L. L. Clyburn for the sumrher months. Mr. Dltsy. Heath, who has been attending a house party in Lancas ter, has returned home. Messrs. .Tom Ancruni, Jack VVhit aker, Casper Bush, Burnet Whita ker and VV. O. Hay spent Sunday at Big Springs. Mr. J. M. Paulllng. proprietor of the Shamrock Hotel at Blackvllle, was here Friday, the guest of Mr. Leonldas Cain. An auto party composed of Cyril L. Jones, Luke E. Rushton, Misses Fiieda Rutland and Edna Steadman, ol*B atesburg, spent Friday in the ' city. Miss Williametta Smoke, of St. Matthews, was the guest of Miss Alice Cain last week. She return ed to her home Sunday, accompa nied by Miss Cain. ? Mrs. Renecker, of Birmingham, who has been visiting Mrs. W. F. Malone,' left Wednesday for Colum bia, where she will visit before re turning home. Miss Bessie Reasonover returned' to her home at Lugoff Saturday af ter spending several weeks with relatives in Charleston, Moncks Cor ner. Pinopolis and Sumter. Mr. Trabue Barksdale was in Camden several days this week. Mrs. H. L: Thompson and daughter, Miss Nina, acompanied him to V ilia View, near Wilmington, N.. C., where they will make their fu ture home. Mr. and Mm. I. L. Moore have re turned from a bridal trip of three weeks in North Carolina and are ? keeping house on LaFayette avenue. . Mr._ Moore 1b connected with - A. L. passenger force here. I Mrs. C-lias. MoKagen spent Sun day in Columbia. She went over to . the bedside of her husband who was operated on on Friday for appendi citis. Mr .McKagen's many friends will be glad to know that the op eration was successful and that" he is .ow rapidly recovering.