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mmm mmmmmm VOLUME XXVII CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY 7. 101S. NUMBER 3 JKTKK BUND THifCKH. I OH Butty and Number of 14quor Vmlcrv Caught. lint of*b/Tviidern am 1 spec It i , present ut the Tu^lay morn m r >IHH| -m lou of the Recorder's court and ^jaouut in fl?"? wt?r< uf polk'e Whltaker had engaged tbon??. ? m'#ro ?P<>Wer, who from North (Carolina, to work a tlx- police I" rounding up the leM,s blind tlge.ru. He succeeded rg evidence enough to convict helling whiskey and tines of Jj'flve dollar* were Imposed in jaae. Many of the negroes cou jwere not selling the whiskey hut icllni,' as agents for other par four old offenders helng in the A* , mines as they appeared on the M were : J^rt stradford, who was an old yer, was flued $25. Eton Sinyil, who has also been up ^ the courts on a similar charge, ied $25. ? Pauly and tyis wife, Mattie Pauly, the police have been watching a while, were convicted and fined Uli, The woman paid her fine flfta released. pi McGlrt, acted as agent for an Cr -party, was convicted and wap j? filled $25. His fine was paid. K Brbwo paid a tine of $25 for whiskey. IfUlie Hlount was acting as an agent iioother party and was fined $25. kn Taylor was up for resisting frit and was fined $40. Mary Bolden, for transporting whls f,pald a line of $15. J<* McOIrt paid a fine of $10 for W itmnk rt ml flfyhMnff. L yip Piuklns. drunk and disorderly, Ma fine of $5. Eta ninklns paid a fine of $3 for pw. Mm Anderson was fined $5 for re* ppg to pay a commutation tax. He f9 In the city prison. pearly every case where . the i/e m were ctfhvicted of selling whlRj^k Will 1)0 carried ta the court o? fcral sessions for violating the dlfc fen law. u |wtoble Sinclair and Chief of po * Whltaker and L. T. Stewart re tod a telephone call from Boyklns Way evening and went down to in? Bote. Ma Patterson, s negro wo |t.had ?ono to Columbia for a sup: Eofbopze. They reached there too I to capture the woman, but (parties I already taken the whiskey from find held It for the officers. Two leases containing about peven gal r ? v.hlskey *.va.s {Jig I m!i& Bed. |Md Booze From Dining Car. ? P. Tutson, a negro, employed as pk on a Pullman car on the, Sea led traiu passing Camden at 1 P token from the train Sunday af b#on by Chief of Police Whitaker, iUkcetUlft -the elty police trtationj P*e lie was fined $25 Monday morn ?t-for soiling whiskey. The negro i Pton .bringing the whiskey out off Kobvllle and disposing of it at dlf P* stations. The police had been, ?M&k him for several weeks but (?tV Sunday did they succeed In him In the act. Tutson plead py before the Reco*der and paid ?tote- He, however,. -is. not a_.free * *8 the county officers are holding ' for trial at the court of general IK . Resisted Arrest. pieman Hiewart arrested Mary John Taylor and a negro wo P companion As they were return a trip to Columbia Saturday R**? over the Southern railway. F BoWen woman alighted from the J? *Uh a supply of whiskey which F^rned over to John Taylor. Po Stewart saw the transaction, followed them. In attempting to arrest he was attacked by but succeeded in holding P??tll help came. The womau F^tf\$15 by the Recorder for whiskey. Taylor got a ^ for resisting arrest and Mkeiy be tried for assault P* ?>urt of general sessions. L ? I I II ? . A ll Wanting School. - 17 *** Mrs. John Scelai have or |l a facing school In Oamden P** Riving Instruction in the ftf and evenings over th? ttore L^Hltakcr. corner of Broad and rjj:?treeu. ~ They come to van*- 1 recommended Juad already I of about fifteen young I ^jgy^lnatruct In all df thej C'AMIJKN'K PKDKKAL !H IL|)IN(; CompluUd Nur Months /\hc*U of Time Limit Allowed ('out rotors. Our new Poderal Pout Office which hat* been adopted hy the Treasury i>e partment, wuh formerly occupied by thO Uh-hI |x>Ht office officials May - Int. ] uml they are now reeelvlng and din, patching mall iir their new quarters. Work on tin* building wuh started last May a year ago, and has progress txl steadily and so systematically that the huildlnK haw been completed prac tically four months ahead of the time limit set by the Treasury officials, that 1h, August 12, iUlft. . To complete a government building so far ahead of 'time Is exceptional, and the post office officials have rea son to lie thankful for hy moving in. early, they will avoid many of the ills comforts of the hot summer mouths. The contract for the building In aj> proxlintttely $.'{5,000 and the furniture, lK)st office equipment and lock boxes will Increase the total $2,000 more. The mate/lals employed and the workmanship required in the construc tion of the building .ire of the highest quality, in every respect, being the same as those required for the largest bulldi.ngs in the country, the difterom,e being. quantity,- not quality. The inyp?l 'Ing W'seuiil-ip rep roof construction, one story with basenionl, stucco face and metal roof. The fuel and holier rooms are . in the basement as is also the ? "BWlug" or lounging room for the city and rural carriers and adjoining the "swing room" are located the toil its ? tllfese beii}g equipped '-with every modern convenience, including hot and cold shower baths. The floor of tills" room Is "terrazzo" and the six foot murine wainscoat and partitions are from Vermont The first floor comprises the public lobby finished in- quarter-sawed ijvliitc oak, with wax 'finish, marble base and painted plaster walls and ceilings. The painted walls and ceilings tliru out'.the building are painted on can vas in lead 'and oll> the canvas pre venting the disfiguring of the walls from cracks. The remainder of the first floor is given up to postmaster's office with private toilet and* reinforc ed concrete vault; money -order and registry division also equipped with vault and supplied with lavatofy hav ing hot and cold water, ladles ^toilet and work room. The work" room is large and airy and ?quipped -with bub bling, sanitary drinking fountain, 'the water before reaching fountain pass ing through block tin pities In a large ice bqx located in the basement, so that at any time a bubbling stream of ice water can be had bypresiitug thgj pedal valve. The building in heated by steam and lighted by electricity, the electric fix tures without lamps costing $000. The post, office equipment, also fur nished by the Treasury Department, Is not only beautiful furniture of hard maple ahd oak, but is strictly tiptodate, and irrl^ct liOttylug hay been Icft un done that could in any way. be of ad vantage to tte ie?t^lce or to. the rgct-: fort of employes and patrons." There has been some criticism re garding the cost, of the building as compared with others of seeming equal construction, but we are informed that the Treasury Department awards\con fracts at a lower cost than private^mr ties dueto-tbefact thattliere 'are a number of contractors' and manufac turers who specialize in government work and in consequence the competi tion is very keen.* Another reason for the seeming high cast of Federal build iugs is due to the fact that the build tlltt WALK BKUIN8 TODAY. Tim Knt?rprlw Mercantile Co. WUI AkkIii Opeu For Husl?**a. An announcement that will !*? of In terest to Camden hihI Kershaw county j i eople will lie found In a page adver- , tlxetueilt In The Chronicle today. Tho Enterprise Mercantile Co., which hax l?een closed for (lit4 | Mist few months has made satisfactory arrangements with i h?*lu creditors and will resume business. This #111 Ih> pleasant news to the many friends of thw i>o|?ular young men. who are all native olt 1 r.ens. In resuming biwlness they have bought the stock at a great bargain , and are going to give the citizens of this section the lienetit of reduced prices. Tbey are offering the entire slock at less than wholesale cost. They nnvc u Kood selection of goods und the public can rent assured t)iat the goods will be sold exactly as advertised. The sale begins today, ?uj(d those at tending early will undoubtedly get the beileflt of some rare bargains. Base Hall This Afternoon. The Camden and Kershaw base ball teams will pla'y the Hrst game of, the season this afternoon at the fair grounds. Battery for Camdcu ? Smlt.1 mid Wntkiim; jCor?Karaha w^-Thomat.. and lllnson. A small admission fc< will be eliarged. Camden ttaby Winner hi Arizona. Relatives .and friends of Mr. and Mrs. It. ,f. (jyff, formerly of this eount.x but now* residing in< Phoenix, Arizona, were plejised to learn that their little daughter^ Margaret Miriam Goff, whk the winr.er of the second prize in a hilby show recently neat in tliat city Tho little tot was born In Camden, and at the time of the contest was twelve ed twenty -one pounds and. three ounces. Mr. Goff is a brother of Policeman Goff of the Camden force. I $rijjr upon its completion does not pass out of the hands of the government hut remains to he cared for and ktpt In good condition Until demolished to make way for another building. As this occurs usuiill.v ortly after a lapse of many years, (he cost of constant repairs, which is the rule with the av erage commercial building, is avoided by requiring care In workmanshipr-in sclectioh of materials and in strict at tention to details for In the many years that the Treasury , Department has been constructing public build! ags, tbsy have Jearned Just what must be doita and what avoided to prolong the Jtfe of a: buimialt, Mr. Algernon Blair, of Montgomery. Alal?ama, a specialist in government, construction, is the contractor for the building and has several other ppst office buildings now under construction in different parts of the country, while Mr. John E. Langley, of Charleston, S. Ca, superintendent of construction of public buildings, waw in ehnrgeoT the work for the government Mr. Langlcy is also supervising the ''ou st ruction ofth^ty. S. post office build ing at Bennettesvllle, 8. now about 75 ? per cent completed, and he .h'es moved his headquarters, to, .that. rity Mr. Langley's assignment to fiainden was tlue to the fact that bis great grandfather, Will lam. I^angley, of Caiu jAen. S. CU had been post _ muster here frorh 1804 to 1815 and when tills fact . ' ? ? was made known to the supervising architect at Wasliington. hef assigned Mr. Langley to supervise the construe tlon of the first federal post,> office building to l>e ' const rijeted here. TUK NKWK AT liKTIIUNK. Happening of lutereoi tut by Tbr (lironlcle (!orm|HNi(hi(. Hothuno. H. May ft.- Mrs. Mil llnda died at t)i?? residence ??f her 'son-in-law, Mr. M, (). Wur<l at j this 1)1* cc lHHt Friday morning, after only a brief illness. Mrs. Hook hart was Kfi years of ago. ? She leaves the following children : John Bookhart* of Atlanta ; Sum Hookhart, of IllrmiuK iiiun ; Mi Thompson, of lMnnhiglwtm : Mrs. Sat<hor, of Wards ; Mrs. M. (>. Ward, of Hethunc, a ud one brother, Dr. John Robertson, of lUdgeway, The I tody was taken to Illythcwnod Satur day morning, where the funeral sor vlees were lield. Mrs. Elizabeth Tiller, who resided ulH>ti| four miles oa si of liethuuo, In Chesterfield county, died lust Thurs day. Mrs. Tiller >va? tbi* widow of Mr. Allen Tiller, who died Just after the flvll war . She wtis over IK) years * '1 of age and had beet! In feeble health for some time. The funeral servlees were conducted on .Friday at Union Methodist church. As previously announced the doelng 1 exercises of the Bethune graded school were held on Thursday night of last week at the town .hall. Addresses were delivered hy l'rof. 'A. (V Carson of the University of South Carolina, and W. Blrchihore, superintend ent of .education. AH the teaehers loft ? for their respective homos last week. It 1m hoped thai before the opening of the next session of 'this school we will have that handsoifte new brick building, although there must be some hustling if the hulldlng is erected by that time. The family of Dr. II. II. Holder moved to McBee on Monday, where Dr. Holder has taken charge of the McBeev Drug company's fctore at that i >htetfc ? Dr. Holder' Hold bis hflllflA(Vme~ cesidonee liefe to Dr. J. I). Ingram, of McBee, and we learn it will be occupied by Mr. C. L. Maya and family. During the past few weeks we haVe massed by three or 'four cemeteries or graveyards In this section which were in/tsadly'delapidated or neglect ed coml ltloru Old. Jiethel- ?cemetery near town is one of these aml<3t Is the last resting place of a large number of former citizens of this vicinity. There Is no fence arouud this grave yard, some, of the tombs have fallen -down and the whole place has a gen erally abandoned appearance. Let us all show more respect to our loved dead than the appearance of these gra\<i y?!'d? would indicate. "The citizen that does nothing to help his own town Almost on a ps.r with the man who does not contribute to the support- of his family, and the apostle said of . such a man that 'he is worse than' an infidel.' The same condemnation may well be applied to ?the uian that kicks his town instead of boosting it," says the Orangeburg Times and Democrat/ The writer heartily agrees with the foregoing, hut candor compels us to state that while uo do not know of any responsible Citizen In llethune who ."knocks" his town, -at the Mime -41me we do not know of many here who exert them selves to boost their town. Strong, healthy boosting, is what counts ha any I'ommunlty, not merely sitting still wailing for the town to develop and grow without 4any effort be^ig^nade JiyJts citizens to miikelt grow. '1 hero has been considerable clean ing up on the struts and around the stores and residences here during the nast few weeks, which greatly adds to the* comfort. convenience and loqfy* of things generally; Ilethune has Vl The Camden Poetoffice, Looking North and Showing Part of "White Way" and Memorial Poontaln. TO K1*KN1> l?AKIiK HUM. ' ? i > l; . 8ou(Ih?ii Bell to Make UM IniprovV iumiU in Their S)h(hii, A <v|)rM*ntHtivn of the Southern I toll Telephone Company appeared Iwfoni tho City Council at its meeting Monday nielli with ;t request that the ofdl? nance requiring them to remove their tele phone |>oles from Main . street be prolonged for a short time. They stat ed that to remove the |m>Ics at the present time would cost them quite n large sum of money, and that It is their Intention within the next twelve months to expend ahout $21,000 in giv ing Camden an uptodate telephone sys tem, such as they have in oi?eration In many of the elties of South Caro lina. A complaint was made by the Ex press Company and bottling establish ments of the city that their licenses were too high and that they be re duce*). Council did not deem It wise to take any action In the mattpr. ? The ojiera house was leased for the coining season to Messrs. W. It. J)e I oache and II. L. Scldosburg. It Is the Intention of the new lessees to put Jn now oiieru chairs, heating system, and closets and lavatories In the dress ing rooms. Also to. place an asbestos curtain in the rear of the build ing. The lessees have already gotten in .touch with some of the booking agencies and will open with the same1 class of shows that will ho seen In *oriu> of the larger cities. They In tend ,to have only the very highest class of shows appear here tills season, and the thcatregolng public of Camden can expect entertainments not hereto fore shown in Camdeh. .,,u: - " ? ? Mr. E, V. Rlchnrda Dead. ? - News 1ms been received at Bennets vllle announcing the death in Gnlves ton. Texas, pf E. Y. itlehards. Mr. Elchardg was a native of England, but lived In Bennettsville for many years, j where he was a well known architect. 11(5 will be remembered by Camden people, as he was In this city some time ago and addressed a muss meet ing of the citizens at the court houfe in the Interest of a new hotel for Cam hfteir.-? ? " - ~~~ 1 Sold His Home. Mr. B. J. Lewis has sold his resi dence on LaFayette avenue to Mr. P. n.L Campbell, Sr. Mr. Lewis and fam ily have moved into tho Wittkowsky cPttage oh Broad street. Death of a Child. Little Verna Kelly, the two year okl daughter, of Mr. aud Mrs. Clinton Kel ly. of the Mtttihflii'n church seeticr:, <Hm1 In Tuesday, after a short lllneHH of pneumonia. The remain* were prepared for 'burial at the Mc Connick undertaking parlors and left Camden that afternoon for Bethune, where the funeral and burial was^held. at Marshall's church Wednesday. wsys been a pretty, healthy towiX_aiid. ?wtr7ire"TTeaHed to note that our citi Kcns- are eo-opetatlng with the local buanl of health in having a general clean tip. There are Rome few plnces yet, however, that should l?e looked after. Wo have heard it rumored that the THs Springs, BethUne'fP famous sum mer resort, some time ago went into the hands of a receiver and that the receiver would look after the resort this summer. The receiver is a Mr. Pendleton, who erected the hotel there last year and the springs will proba bly be opened to the public about June 1st or l6tlw Mr. J, E. (?hnl?M>r and family- are spending Uils week at the home Y>f Mr. D. W. Barnes on route %; Miss Jul In Barnes, of route' 1, spent Keveral days last week In town with relative*. A "severe wind and thunder storm visited this vicinity on Monday even ing of this week. For several minutes the rain fell in sheets, causing wash outs in many places and damaging crops some. Mr. D. W. Barnes on route 1, had ten acres of corn com pletely covered up by the freshly plow edo^HH and he will have to plant It over again. Our friend** are agin requested to please fnrnish ns alt the local hap penings of 'interest. It is our purpose to make the weekly Bethune letter to Th* Chronlele a special feature of .that newsy and excellent paper and our' friends can greatly aid us In doing so by Informing ??* of any" Hail of trews tliat wonld l>e of interest to the public. If you nmrringO, ,4mtb, tight, a visitor in town, any one going ?wi> or anything elaoof interest cither let os know or tell Mr. I*. W. Weot at the postofflce.' , X ITKMH OVKK TilK KTATK. Short News <?hI1u' t ? ?*! From Our Kxrliiui{m. The president Iiiih signed an exeeu t|vo ortlor changing tho name of Cu lebra Cut In thu Panama canal, to (ialllard Cut. The change has beou made In honor of |<olutemtlit Colonel Havld I )u Itoso Calllard, of the canal commission, who had charge of tho central <I1v1nIoii of the4 count met toil worl?, including tho Culehra cut, and who lost IiIh life a h the result of brok on health brought on hy tho tropical climate. Col. (billiard wiih horn and reared in WlniiHlxiro. Air. and Mrs. Henry .lames and Miss (ihidys James aro resting easy, after the exciting runaway they hail Thurs day night, Coming from Filbert. The Unes hroke and the two spirited horses ran away. Mrn. .la in oh jumped and received several painful bruises. Mr. J a to 08 was thrown out and his knee cap was broken, while the bravery of MIhb (iladys Is wonderful, she staying 111 tho buggy and managing to atop the horses, Hho wiih thrown out at hint without an injury. Inaugurating what Is helleved to he >ne of the coming big businesses of Charleston, tlio llrst oats over shipped ftoiu the 1'bcUIc eo?Ht (,0 Charleston Sy an all-water route, arrived In Ohftr^ I e^t on Monday on the steamship Mon tanau, Capl. Wright, of the America n Uiiwajlan line. Tho oafs followed close >11 the heela of t^ie II rat shlphieut hy the an rue route yf Pacific count flour, vblcb arrived In Charleston laat. months ?n tho lowari, of tho same line. The Montanan oil 'Monday came -Into the harbor and docked at the Columbus <treet terminals, where all the hlir steamships of the American-Hawaiian 'ne dock upon theli^ visits to ? Charles-, ton. Mr*. Marj? Craig Sinclair, of Now York city, wif<? of Upton Sinclair, the Socialist leader and novelist has! tiled Hulfc against the Record Publishing company, publishers of the Columbia Record, for $10,000, alleging that u report that #he had been arrested in New ' York n. year ngo was false. The ?fldt-growti ont of irn nrttftte" bulrtisTTed In Tho lteeord alleging that Mrs. Sin clair was arreuted lii New York Ajn-ll 29, 1014, in connecting with a demon stration In front of a building in which John D. Rockefeller, Jr., had offices. The demonstration was , a protest | against alleged conditions in Colorado. during a Strike of minors. y I)r. Chiles Clifton C. Ferrell, a noted cducutor, was killed Sunday at a min ing camp near Birmingham, Ala., ip a flgh* with two burglar*. Two uegroes, who were trailed by hipodbojindp, have been arrested in connection with the killing. ' ;Thc officers Say one of the negroes had a shotgun, which recently had been discharged. Dr. Ferrell wan bora -in i860, in Greenville, to. C., and was educated at Vanderbllt. He re ceived a degree from the Pnly#wltV : -of- betpsto7"HTt<rrwa rd~ studying at the University of Paris. On his return t^> the. United States he was professor of modern lnnKiinge at the University of Lelpslc, afterward engaged In lit erary work' and two years ago accept ed the presidency of the coal company. ?. Shipping K<<i Cattle. The Camden Iteef Cattle Farms ship ped twenty-three head of beef cattle from the Lugofl - aiding Wednesday. They were all free ofN cattlo tick and were conslgue<l to dealers in Itlchihondr Va. Johnson Gregory Killed. Lancaster, May 3.-- -Johnson Gregory,' a white employe of the l<ancaster cot ton mills, was Hliot to death Saturday afternoon by Gussie Knight In tfrtf rear of a pressing clut> of the mlH village. Both parties, It 1s said, tiad been drink ing and upon a slight provocation began quarreling. *' It Is said that flvtf shots were flred by Knight, four taking effect in bin assail ant's body. Death cft'me In a few min utes. 4 Immediately after the shooting Knight was arrested fcy.a policeman of the mill and lodged in jail. Both Gregory and "Knight are men of fa nil- : llfs and are w.cM known al>out Lan caster. V * To Have Mutual Servim Mr. R. B, CfceatHkm. representing the Mutual Film Serrlre niunmH.v, was in <^mden yoster?layv ; Xhx ma^o ar rangements with Mr. T. Ix^ Kittle to famiftb the ucw "Mai?tic" with irt* wrvh? Mr, falttie experts W^ ptewfe to Ih> United an<l fbr oj*ntag' bj the latter nit of the