The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 06, 1918, Image 4
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AN EXPLANATION
We fti-J t hut wo are due a number "f
our Hli)>M'r(l?ci-N an explanation. I .. .
Thursday afternoon when wo had uear
ly completed printing the paper, some
of our iniK'Uiuory broke down (ind about
(Urea hundred of our subscriber* missed
their paper. We have made every effort
to get the brokeu parts replaced, bat
owing to varioilii delays the new parta
?h'd uot reach us until today. And af*!
tor we got our plaut running again an
eleotric light pole f?li in front of (be
i x . - . i 1 1 1 1 r . and the eity current wont <?lt
again further delay Ihg uh, making our J
pa^>cr late reaching ita readers again
tibia week. With the help of Mr. W.
O. Hay's garage we have tcmiwrarily
repaired the break and hope to have i
no further trouble in g?*ttlng onr paper \
to it>* readers.
Suggest* a Manunieiit. ?
A prominent business man waii in '
our Office last night and asked uh to j
start t ho movement to erect a monument
to the men who have died in France
from this county. He suggests that the
shaft be made large enough to contain
??very name of the men who hnve died
in France or in the service in this coun
try ffoin thin county. He would havf
the monument erected on monument
square and a?ks uh to start the aub
scription < with $25 from him. Another
Hu#RCh;tion is that if the negroes want
to erect n like monument thnt they start
a subscription and raise funds among
Iheir own race and the wlii^e people will
also contribute to tltld fund. Another
?'jr? tya* boon added to the fund ? maV
ing a totvil of $50 already pledged. "These
who care to subscribe to the monument
fund can send their names and amounts
to this office and it will be acknowledged
through those column*. ?
The Gorman government haw proposed
to the entente nations that n neutral
commission be ?*wtnbllwhed to ' examine
?ho question as to who was responsible
for the war.
Madam Priour, widow of one of the
victims of the torpedoing of the Sussex
by a German submarine, has lodged n
complaint of murder in the court*
agniiiHt the former Gorman emperor.
UK NAID IT KHtHT
Col \\ iiii i s4. n <JIv*h View* on III*
Kanioua Kxpreiodon. ^
' < Front t'harlotte Observer)
"Mara* 1 Ion ry ha* many admirer* in
1 Charlotte," said a oitixen who for yettrt
? has known t.Jol, WalteiMou, of The (*ott?
| rif'r .|.>it rnul or, tut it wiih formerly writ,
|'CmI. U'iJttcrwil, TIlC < ',.in ii i J iMii nal,'
and I iiiii Mire nil will be interested
in 1 the following If roin u receat edition
of tb<* paper, the ?tory being aeooiupauied
by ii two*eohifun cut of (lie editor emeri*
' tu*. over bin picture and the ntory be
J iufc the words: 'From the Man Who
Started it.'
"The #ti>ry ruun thua:
"H'h'ii the new* of the kaiser'n ab
diiHtlou waH received the Courler-Jour
ii til sought uu interview with it* Editor
emeritus, who, ax early as September
.'I, 1014, proclaimed the future slogan
of the war, 'To hell with the llohen
Kpllrruft and the napalmr^.' Although
the war wax strictly in Kurope and ouly
;M? da>H old when this great exclama
tion appeared in 4be editorial columns
of the Courier-Journal, Harry Watter
*on, then it? editor, foresaw that the
kaiRiMM must go and that tbo United
States must intervene ^to aceompllHh it.
"From that date forward, in the face
of attack and /vbuse and deprecation
fioin people, presn and pulpit, Mr. Wat
t< r>>on stuck to his task of educatiug
tho whole world. He knew that the mili
tary ideal* and the conception of kul
tur an personified in the Hoheuzol'.crn
and the liapKburg dynasties could not
oxint ou the wame planet with tfie Ameri*
can conception of liberty, that one or
the other must be crushed, and he set
out tr hHow wh.v. Events as he knew
they wpuld, came to his aid, and the
Kinking of tho Luaitania awakened the
United. States to the fact that it could
not stay out of the conflict. Pounding
away at his great principle^ Mr. Wat
terson lived to see his country take it
up through the President and to wit
ness the return to hl? Hubsoribcr'a fold
of many renders who had opposed him
and hhd then discovered how true wan
his inspiration.
"Mr. Wutterson was at his home,
Mansfield, near .lefferwontown, yesterday
afternoon when the Courier-Journal tel
ephoned the news to him.
"You started it," The Courioi'-Jour*.
ii al said to him. 'The Hohenzolleru has
now followed the Hapsburg Into the hell
of a Miration on the Courier-Journal's
fiftieth anniversary. Will you make Mine
Wfininent on it?" He replied:
"The Courier-Journal's adjuration
touching the Hoheir/ollerns and the Haps
burgs has been answered sooner than
I expected. Its prophecy that iu JWS
your* there >ill not be u crowned head
in Kurope will ulsu conic true. It ha>
been f?>r a lung time obvious that autoc
rm y win ou Hie down grade. 'I'll i s i*
a iKM>r era for Ring*, kainers aud other
ligurehcad*. The world in moving to
ward nelf govermm'rtt Kaeh iriuti thinks
hlmrtelf to wear the purple. I<et us put
UpOtt the kuiser'H toiyb Ilea Jouhou'n
inscription over the grave of a dead
I'itf |
"Whilst he lived he lived in clover ;
When h? died he died all over."
No Time For Glooms.
Not a few persous arc busily workiUf
overtime in uutkiug all noKh of bogey
men, walking ghoutM, and blue devils)
that are to Npring their appearance iu
labor. induHtry and tiuauee with the re*
turn of peaee and the advent of "re
construction."
These are almost invariably the same
persona who were conjuring \?p a like
uworUneut of gloonm^wheu they assufdd
usi, nrt the opening of the war, that we j
would have an awful time of It siting
up to th^ tasks which we would be
called upon to share with the Allien.
Of course we are going to have, for
a while, hojiio pretty hard nuts to crack,
but tfhey are not likely to be nny harder
than those which we have been crack
ing in first- rate fashion during the pant
year and a half.
This is not a Bolsheviki country ; |
is not built that way, and never has
been. The American people were never
kq levelheaded as they ha\e been in the ,
entire course of the war, and there is
not likely to be less of sik4i leVel-head
odness in the average, delate our Cal
amity Janes, when we shall work out
the problems of pence. *
It has always been a safe and sure
thing in the long run to be a hull *?n
the United ?tnte?; and that faith in j
the capacity of the vast majority of
our country-wen to meet their troubles
sanely and squarely, should be as ar- ;
tide first in the patriotic orccd of fevory j
wise and sound American todays ? Phila- j
delphi-a Bulletin.
Five hundred thousand German sol- j
diers are leaving Itunsian soil making!
their way into German territory. The i
men are said to be traveling over sled j
and snow and pillaging villages as they j
pans through.
Bernard M. Barn oh, chairman of the'
' , i
war industries l>oard, has forwarded his
resignation to President Wilson, to take ;
effect January 1. Mr. Baruch's decision ,
to resign is in line with his known he- 1
lief that the affairs of the board can
be closed, by' the first of the year.
AnNtria-Hurigary lont four million kill
ed and wounded during the war, accord*
lug an lCxcharige Telefcrgph dispatch
from Copenhagen. Night hundred thou
sand uu'ii were killed, including 17,000
?dtteer>, The (ierumu looses were placed
:?t.- by the Socialist Vorwaertz
of 1 tc 1 1 i it , nit November 20. The news
paper'* intimate, which whs unofficial,
?aid that up to Oot? ber 31, 1,580,000
(Jcnnan soldiers^ had been killed uud
the fate of UUO.tMX) was not known. Four
million .soldiers Were wduhded and IJM),
>'KM) were prisoners. The British in all
theater* ? f activity, including killed,
woundt'd and missing, were officially
placed at 3,04tMM)| on November 1. Of
t ho totHl 058,005 wore killed,* including
37,000 officers. An official announcement
from lAnvdon Wednesday aaid that one
million men had been killed or were dead
through various causes, it being explain*
?h1 tlwt the earlier total of killed did
not include the men reported missing
who actually lot* their liven, uor those
who died from sickness.
I ??'
At ICwh In Luxemburg, the populace
wrecked twenty-eight stores conducted
by (Jermaus, hecause the storekeepers
charged exhorbiUnt prices to American
soldier* when they entered the city.
The mob grew to thousand** and Ameri
can soldiers had to quell the disturbance.
Hermitage Mill Newn.
Dec. 3. ? Saturday night a week ago
the Cotage was opened to quite ? nice
crowd, everybody was feeling in Arte
spirits and made the evening a pleasure
I to all.
Wednesday morning the kindergarten
children had a party and invited Miss
Cprnell and her kindergarten from the
Watef^e village. About thirty five child
ren enjoyed the morning, (lames were
played after winch cocoa and wafers
were wrrVed by Miss Jones and her
mother. The little folks left with-beanv
ing faces which was their way of tell
ihg how good a time they'd had.
A er?.?wd of girls and boys from this
village (chaperoned by Miss Jones attend^
od the box supper in the Wateree vil
lage last Saturday evening. The time
was enjoyed by the entire crowd.
Mrs. Deanie Hazel and Mr#. Bishop
who have been spending several weeks
with Mr. and -Mrs. Hazel in the village
left Thursday for Spartanburg. Mr.
Bjshpp who received his discharge from
Camp Jackson the past week .accom
panied them.
.
Private Tavers Thompson came from
Camp. Jackson to spend Thauksgiving
with his mother in the village.
Rev. Oscar Spires leaves this week
for the lower Methodist conference which
convenes tomorrow at Orangeburg.
THA1N WKKCKKI)
Coaiit Line Train CuinpieUily Demolished
Hut liVM of Life W?? Small.
tt^t-cial to the News and Oturicr.
Kiugatrce, N?v. iiO.? Atlantic ('oust
Line twill No; t HO which wan wrecked
here At i o'clock JhU morning including
engine and tender, express, mail, bag
gage and live pa-snenger coachex, is still
strewn shout tlie company'tt right of way
tonight. A large force of workmen has
been engaged all day getting the tele
graph wires up and searching for the
body of the dead engineer, Henry Jaeger,
of Florence, which wml. recovered from
l>et ween the wreckage ju*t before noou.
The body waa* burled beneath the end
of the first passenger coach fifty ygnj*
from the1 engine. The body of the
man won found in the cab somewhat
bruised aud badly burned. The expr^as
messenger received alight injuries only.
He had left his oar to go baek In
the train for a drink of water and the
fact of bin absence at the moment ac
counts tor his being alive. One. colored
woman passenger waa seriously, if not
fatally hu^t. On the train were thirty
seven soldiers but only one received any
injury at oil. He thrown through a
window and slightly cut by glass.
Hteel coaches probably prevented the
death of everyone on the train. Kail
road mou here today have informed- your
correspondent that in their long service
at such work they have never been call
ed upon to clear away worae looking
wreckage, and they consider the small
death toll almoat miraculous. A new
track is being ? laid today around the
wreckage and to the cast of it. It ia
I thought that trails will be passing on
! schedule time again by tomorrow morn
?jug. A ? soon as this is accomplished
the work of clearing away the demolish
ed engine, etc., will be taken i up by
the wrecking train, which is now on the
scene.
When the train was wrecked this
morning it is believed to have beeu mak
ing a speed of between sixty and sev
enty miles an hour. It was reported
as having left Lane*, the junction point
at 12-5ft, and* the operator here says
that ot exactly 1 o'clock the accident oc-.
purred. Thus it will be seen that Jae
ger was ruuniufe his train over a mile
a minute, as the distance between Lanes
and Kangstree is over eleven miles. He
was an old man in ,the service of the
Atlantic Coast I vine aftd was considered
an excellent engineer*} His body and
that of hia fireman were taken in charge
by Undertaker P. C. Courtney here and
prepared for burial. They wkere shipped
to Florence this evening.
The gcene of the wreck has been via
MAJESTij
procTa
Today Friday t ?. , ,i,|,
KN1D HKNNKTT in
">VIIKN I>0 WK KATr
A Thomas H. law I'Munioo
Also u liurton Tinvtloj,
Saturday lift 7t|,~
WILLIAM DKHM.ONII IN
"WILD L1KK"
Also a Muck Henm-tt
Monday l>*c. wth.
"Two years in h?dl uud back wit
a KiuiU"
1 1 AHOLI) R. 1?KAT IN
?THIVATK TKAT
War scenes relived for you t) ?
Also Official War Review lVnm*
Tpeaday Dwr. loth. '
VIOLA DANA
In cu?? q( the greateat ul ^
Koreen triumphs
* * <BLl'K J KANT .
?' Wednesday Dw. 41th. . ,
UNA LBK
One of the youngest and mo?t Ult&t?
art reuses In the hilent dtfnu'ln
"SUCH A LITTLHP1RAW
? Paramount1* Ntar to take
Viekford h place. Mnw l*ickford i
longer being with raraniouDt-Artml
Iff your wife talks too umeb, co?
and enjoy the silent drama, or bria
her and enjoy her silence.
ited today by several thousand peo,
trnany ot them coining from th? cout
Several wagon loads of outl were tai
ftwm the wrecked mall car and triad
red here, as was also a good deal
the express. , Fish and other perishd
were ?old out here. All pa&sengm w
transferred early this monjlatAud i
tv> Florence.
Fifty-five pussengcl-tj were more or I
injured when Atlantic Coast Line p
sengcr tntfu No. 78 wrfs derailed j
Dillon Sunday night. None were
lkved fatally hurt. Dr. Wade 8ti
house, an exteusive planter of DiB
is the most seriously hurt. He wq
jured about the head and podcuh!
of the brain is feared.
FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice is hereby given that one m<*
from this date, on January 10th, II
I will make to the I'robate Court
Kerahaw County my iinal return as I
ocutrix of the ewtate of J. Wake 8ta
man, deceased, and on the same ihrtt
will apply to the said Court for i 1
discharge from my trust a? said Ei?
t t'iv.
MISS BESSIE STEEPMAN,
Executru.
Camden, S. C., December Oth, IMS.
It has always been a custom with me to have aft Annual Sale, but on account of the shortage of help
I have been unable to have my Annual Sale, but for the next Twenty Days I am offering my entire
stock of Mercandise to the people of Camden and vicinity at 25o|? less than manufacturers prices.
One Case of Amoskeag Ginghams,
worth 45c. Special Sale OA
price, per yard - - -
?4
One Case Shamrock Outing, white,
pink, tan, gray and blue. 1
Special Sale price, yard -
One Lot Fancy Turkish Towels, pink
white and blue plaids,
Special Sale price - -
H. L. SCHLOSBURG
"The Underselling Merchant"
Ladies' Velvet Hats, assorted styles
and color; trimmed & HA.
untrimmed. Sale Price t^*
One Lot Children's Play Suits, any
one in the . window, (1 OA
Special Sale Price - *r- *
One Case of King Canton Flannels
Special Sale Price, per 25c
H. L. SCHLOSBURG
"The Underselling Merchant"
944-946 SOUTH MAIN STREET
CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA