The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 28, 1917, Image 7
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Oflin lil.'-J. H. Ou Hedge,
N. <\. Wits "Hot to
* the xtroets of Hwm* thU
||V Jtmx Kenijedy of thl*
??'L',UH1\ wa* Immediately ar*
m js now In prison. The
, i.Mik i>la<*? at or noar the
of Hasi Kvans and Harlee
' one ??f the malu tllurOJnfhfar??
C\-lty. ulM>ttt <? o'clock i?nd was
|,y a I.IIIIllHM- Of (H'deSt I'lltllS
ra" 1,0 ?uthm>U otlM,r
wind WH* stnte<J ,,y witnesses
!L ih?' Conner's Jury ft *?em*
r tin
i.IinnI existed iK'twwn tlu*
' im.n f??r some tInto iHK'Hiixo of
f* Ik'K^1 domestic troulde. and that
r -htMtfiiiic Horaiie wan only it verted
I1 * (|)IVS hko by cooler heads and
SIuO* Vlowevor, the two men mot
afternoon and the shooting re
I "(HI Kennedy dro?I live shots from
I ?{?? ,j|||l,?>r Smith & Wesson pistol.
^1," hall taking effect in Oiilledge's
|i -jjIy
u'licii Chief of Police Krniison ar
,r(Ml |?. found in (lulledge's hand a
j> chIIImt Smith & Wesson "slde
hut " never heen tired,
(julledge a tiagiuan <?i? the At
Ijjiii*' 'a"4'- running l>etween
florem-e and Wadeshoro, N. and
fas about twenty-five years -old. He
?a* a Moson and a Shrlner. Kennedy
?> ilnguum "ii the same system, run
dM on passenger trains lietween Flor
Iflirt', CliarUwtoJi and Savannah. <
q*li?. coroner's Jury rendered a ver
dict alM?ut !' o'eloek tonight to the
ffffct dial tinlledge "came to his death
from a minshot wound iu the hands
j s. *' Kennedy."
flulledge's ImmI.v was taken In charge
?f by Vaughn's undertaking estab
lishment and is a waiting disposition
Instructions from his family. (Jul
^?.'c was unmarried. .
Atkinson Not Guilty. I
? I
Jtisliopvillc. Sept. lil'.?The trial of
Henry II Atkinson charged with kill
lii).' Ills wife, resulted In the acquit
tal of tin* defendant. The case l>egau
WeriiH?day and consumed the latter
liarf ?>f the week. J
One night last .June Mrs. Atkinson
nas killed with a shotgun and shortly
after the funeral her husband was'
lodged in jail. There was a cloud of
mystery surrounding the unfortunate
affair and intense Interest was mani
fested in the cose. The solicitor
Philip Stoll, and T. <}. McIx^kI repre
sented the State, while T. II. -Tntum ?
Printer Jtouham and Frank Kelly
were attorneys for the defendant.
Judw Frank 15. (Jury presided. The
court ro.mi was (tacked to the doors
at oven s(>?siuu. many women attend
in:.' tile trial. .
MANY AIRPLANRN BKINti BUILT
I'nrlv 8am Soon to Have 20,000 Ma
rhino* Heady For Army.
? ii'iin'ii ii
Washington, Hept. 21,?The dovorii
mout \* wanting no time In tin* orea
tion of vast ulr lleoU.
It wun learned Unlay that the Signal
Coriw In having 5,(MM) high-type, Un
proved battle plants built In French
factories, froiu the latest HrltlMli and
French models. Tlwwi machines are
two seated. They carry two machine
guns. and are believed hy Signal Corp**
officers to be superior to anything tlu?
Germans are turning out. Tho ma
chlnea may la* delivered to Pershing's
army within three months.
Besides theae every atrplano fac
tory In the United States Is at work
and many other factories hiv turning
out parts. As far away as Iami Angel
es and San Francisco two factories
are producing large iiuiuIkms i?f com
plete machines. In Oakland, Cal., en
glues are being made In large quan
tities. On the l'acUtc coast dozens of
mills arc turning out the spruce strips
for the wooden parts of airplanes.
Two English-model laittie pianos re
cently arrived In Washington. Those
machines have seats for a pilot and
an observer. They carry machine gnus
and have photographic and wireless
apparatus.
Signal Corpjf atllclals say the rutted
States soon will have between 20.(MK)
and 22,000 lighting and observation
planer, and this Is only a beginning.
Plan Soldiers' Newspapers.
Washington. Hept. 11).?Plans for
publication of a soldiers' weekly news
pajH?r in every National Army and Na
tional Guard camp beginning with the
week of SeptcmlHM* 110, under the aus
pices of the National War Work Coun
cil of the Y. M. ('. A. were announced
today by John Stewart Bryan, publish
er of the Kichiuoud-News Leader.
He has arranged the details of co
operatioii among many other publish
ers which will make the work possi
ble.
Among contributors will be Colonel
Roosevelt and many of the best known
newspai>er workers and cartoonists.
.President Wilson has 'endorsed the
plan. The general management of the
paper will be under the personal di
rection of Mr. Bryan and the co-opera
ting publishers will compost' an ad
visory board. The plans grew out of
a conference In Washington in July
at which Mr. Bryan wAs assigned by
tho War Work Council to visit all
camps in the South la?foro going to
Eu rope.
New Enterprise.
The Miner's Mercantile company of
Lancaster county near Kershaw, has
Ikmmi commissioned to do a general
merchandise business. Capital sb>ck
is $r?.000. Petitioners are A. II. Blake
tiev and H. I*. Pellet of Kershaw.
CAMDEN FURNITURE COMPANY
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?no more barefoot trips to the basement
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?no more fires to build.
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J5oui*4es and its
TiotefDeVille
THt OCtagomal. Stair ItowtR.
IT is often to some fortunate acci
dent that we owe the preser
vation of an ancient town house,
such as the slackening or arrfcst
at some period of the town's prosper
ity, or the acquisition of the building
-for the purposes of some society' or in
stitution more permanent In its nature
than the family. It is largely owing
to causes such as these that the
French city of Boyrges is still so rich
in buildings of the medieval and
Renaissance periods, says a writer in
Country Life.
Bourges proclaims by its name the
antiquity of its Importance. It Is one
of those tribal capitals so numerous
In France, which still preserve the
name of an otherwise forgotten peo
ple, while the title it bore In the days
of the Roman empire has long ago
pussed out of use. The circumstance
Is all the more remarkable in this cafte,
that It was no indistinctive "Augusta,"
"Caesarea" or "Colonla," but the eel
tic "Avarlch"?Latinised "Avaricutn"
?that was superseded by the designa
tion of the Biturlges, which likewise
survives, still further corrupted, In the
form "Berry." The province of that
name, occupying us it does the very
center of the realm of France, has
been described as constituting a com
pendium or epitome of the whole by
th*? varied nature of its conformation
and produce. Within its boundaries
are to be found rocky hills aud heaths,
woodland and marsh, upland and low
land pastures and well-watered plains,
with soils and aspects favorable for
viticulture and corn growing, for the
orchard, the market garden and the
rearing of cattle, sheep and poultry.
In addition to its yield of timber, wool,
hides, hemp and all manner of food
stuffs, Berry Is not lacking in iron ore,
easily got. Thus provided with all the
staple needs of civilization, It formed
in early times a self-supporting unit,
which, moreover, was largely Isolated
from surrounding districts by an all'
impenetrable fence of forest?and
swamp,
Once Leaders In Gaul.
If the true heart of France has had
its seat rather in the He de France j
and Paris than in Berry and Bourges,
there have been times when the latter,
too, have formed a determining factor |
In the national destinies. When the
jurisdiction of Rome hardly extended
beyond her walls, the Biturlges held
the hegemony of Gaul, and In Caesar's
day their power t*roved one of the
hardest nuts he had to crack before
his conquest could be completed, while
the wealth they had amassed through
their position on the direct route from
Italy to the ocean was an object of de^
sire. The town, situated on rising
ground surrounded at all points but
one by a belt of swamp, was strongly
defended by walls and towers of tim
ber and stone, on whose Imposing aud
not unpleasing mien Caesar comments.
But neither natural nor artificial de
fenses served to avert capture and
subsequent sack aqd destruction.
Avarictira, however, rapidly regained_
her prosperity under Roman rule, and
abundant if fragmentary remains
prove her importance as a center of
art and civilization, an Importance
which she never wholly lost In the
dark ages which followed.
In the later middle ages Bourges
blossomed again into a rich crop of ar
tistic production, including the noble
Cathedral of St. Etienne and also the
great Palac* of John, duke of Berry,
the luxurious and art-loving uncle of
the mad Ivlng Charles VI. which, with
his neighboring castle of Mehun-sur
Yevre, were reckoned the wonders of
the age,, but have both disappeared
with the exception of unimportant
fragments. Later still followed ttte
Interesting group of domestic and mu
nicipal architecture.
It Is probably no accident that It
should have come into being in that
same fifteenth century which saw
Bourges for a brief space once more at
the center of the nation's uffnlrs.
During the paralysis of the capital and
of the kingdom at large through In
ternal discord and foreign Invasion,
the remnants of national force gath
ered themselves together Into the cen
tral province before the final effort to
recover the lost ground.
The unity of the kingdom once more
assured and the royal authority ex
tended the court abandoned BourgeR
forever for the pleasant banks of the
Loire and the morjp, stirMng life of
Paris, and the old provincial city?not
situated on a main artery of traffic ei
ther then or after the advent of rail
ways?sank back into a secondary
plane. It lived on. not wholly un
eventfully ; for during the wars of re
ligion it suflfcred many things?havoc
wrought on the cathedral by Mont
gomery's Huguenots, and bloodthirsty
St. Bartholomew reprisals; yet in the
main a quiet, unexciting existence.
How Hotel de Vllle Was Built.
It Is somewhat remarkable that up
to the period to which our subject be
longs so Important a city as Bourges,
and one so given to building, should
have remained without a hotel de
Vllle. But such Is the fact, and the
city fathers were content to hold their
meetings In a church chapel known as
"la Comtale" from Its foundation by
one of the counts of Berry. This
church was damaged and Its chapel de
stroyed in 1487 by one of those de
vastating fires so common in medieval
towns, whose timber houses, crowded
In narrow and tortuous' streets, offered
such ready food for the flames. The
whole northern quarter of the city,
which was then reduced to ashes, was
promptly rebuilt, and the municipal
?Authorities seized upon this opportu
nity to house themselves worthily. The
original building of the hotel de vllle
standing at the back of the court and
still substantially Intact was then
erected. In the sixteenth century Im
portant additions were made.
The building Is rectangular, contain
ing one long and one square room on
each of Its two floors, and an octagonal
stair tower projecting Into the court
to connect them. The last forms the';
principal feature In the elevation, and
on it were lavished the richest decora
tive efforts. This tower was orlglnalljr
surmounted by an open story,, or "bel
vldere," to which the now useless tur
ret stairs led, and which provided a.
point .of observation over the town,,
useful for the detection of incipient
flres. This was removed during a res
toration and replaced by the present
cornice and conical roof.
The great hall within has a. richly
molded timber celling and Is adorned
by a noble stone chlmneypleoe. On Its
mantel a frieze of quatrefoil losenges
Is decorated In every panel with a
belled sheep (Brebls clarlnee) repeat*
ed from the arms which the city took
from Us cloth Industry and which were
once carved on the central shield sup
ported by a shepherd and sherpherdess.
It was not till the middle ot the seven
teenth century that Bourges was
granted by royal patent the privilege
of bearing three fleurs dp lys In chief
like several other cities?Abbeville,
for instance. Above the frieze dainty
birds perch among the sprays of a
crisply cut wreath of thistle, and high
er still the masonry yet bears the
traces of the lilies of France consci
entiously obliterated by some repub
lican enthusiast.
THAT PAYS
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party must bear his part of the load.
Your team is willing to do its shar, but dou you treat
it fairly? Dou you furnish your horses clean, smooth,
snug fitting
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are unfair to your partner? in toil. Give them a chance
and they will respoid gladly.
We have just the harne >s you need to get the best pos
sible team work from your team. Inspect our stock. You
will like it. Prices are very reasonable, and the quality
is in every piece.
Springs & Shannon
The Store That Carries The Stock.
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
To get the ma ximum of service from your
Ford car, it must have careful attention from
time to time; a little "tuning up" to keep it
running smoothly always adds to its power and
endurance. To be assured of the best mechani
cal service and the us eof genuine Ford ma
terials, bring your car here where you get prac
tical Ford experience, and the regular Ford
parts. ? Ford prices, fixed by the company, are
the same everywhere.
KERSHAW MOTOR CO.
Phone No. 140 East DeKalb St.
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SYSTEM OF BANKS
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our
National Bank
When you do your hanking with us you do it with a Mem
ber Bank of the Federal Reserve system of hanks. Our bank had
to hhow it was a strong bank before it could become a member.
We are one of a vast army of banks which stand together for
the protection of our depositors.
Our bank can take Its securities to our Central Reserve Bank
at any time and get money. When your money is in our hank
you < h.i get it when you want it.
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OF CAMDEN, S. C