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The Camden Chronicle CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1919. ' _ ' _ One to Eight "*7? NUMBER 27. Jy4l> Kf/Wl' 1? K\KOI,|, igmtn ?i"l <Hu?lne?? Mw un Mem ^ (if CottOII \hMMirt<ioil. !" " ? " . J fjmubi*. Oct. O.- A final effort fU 1 14 members of the South ('uroljnu - ,%HMfciatU>ii ?" t he faruioiH, , pat*, and professional I I ?ko have not yet joi ued, will be J ), durii'ff tbf next four weeks, ur lo in announcement made Alon SgfiMte keudquartera in thin oi^y. |Wo>? sections of the state the mem ^ctiupalKii has hceu a won<loiful ?v.. tl.u IIUU,U my0 a statement by the asso rt |n other* the campaign Iiun l^a ?? successful as the officers nidation desired. ijlottowf Wannamaker, president jfj^ocJatlou, has Issued thin apipnal |i jK'oi'!'1 of the state: y fllU are satisfied to accept 15 J# cent* a pound* for your cotton [Mfd not join the South Carolina y AModa^0" If, however, you [(kit you are entitled to a livipg j| from it and that if you are 0t your children and keep your i. pf^vahtd with, the coin far ta of ,K^it! be necessary for you to get ir 50 cent* a .pound for it, let me jijou to joiu the association. ijf the cotton farmer will organise at demand a fair price for his cot i Tb*' fruit growers organized and | lie now securing a living price for it product. The cotton fanners can fed $ ItVine price for their product 'K-;. fill organize. ? prosperity of the whole South 4<l*ndeut u|H?n the cotton fanners, atton brings a good price the South Lpni. If the price i* low ajid the (Mrs bare no money the South suf ji The banker, the merchant and the man depend iijjon the farmer, tkfir" living. That is why they J ?Id join the .association. ?fcfort* roin over the belt indicate I the other states of the cotton, belt) flailing strongly. I do hope South nta will keep pace with them. I it io make this linal appeal to . the fl< ?f my state to join the asoocia i returns will be great" HOB LYNCHES N^GKQJHH ilW Killed a Deputy Mid Another I W Helped Murderer E^cj^pe. ' on, Oa., Oct. (5? Three ne-| kite been killed, two being burued bitake early today, as aresult of fatal abooting of Deputy Sheriff rweman,- near Liucolnton, in 4 county, Saturday nigbt. Jack pn im) Will Brown, the latter be iiffro who i>^ ulleged to have taken in an automobile' from the scene Hl.ikooting Saturday night, wbre i M it the stake shortly before day p today by a mob of a thousand m, after Gordou had been taken Uncoln county officers. b* Freeman, a negro chargeil with Woe members of a mob hunting ?k?, was shot, . to death when he I to wrap?. ' Freeman, who was shot i|k an eye, the bullet lodgtgng in Win, died this afternoon and will at Lincolnton tomorrow. He reported dead, due to the fact k *ax unconscious and showed *P>? of life when friends hurried ? acene of the shooting, I>ast re I frocn Lincoln county tonight indi ' *11 was quiet and no further 1* ? aiiftici|)at?y| unless negroes to U- said to have implicated are ^ quiet hunt is in progress for ten. Won was caught five miles from I l?i* Sunday and kept in jail un* 1 thin morning, when he was I ^ om to Lincoln county officers. I ? u Lincoln county ipob sei*ed I K brought up Brown, whov had I lt?Q|ht earlier in the day, and fas- 1 to an old wagon axle. Wood j wa? piled n round the negroes I torr-h a4jpli.1l. t I UbiuI W. O. W. Sermon. j W. Daniel hn? accepted an I to deliver the annual sermon I *t)>? local camp of Woodmen ol 1 ?rid next Sunday night in the Cam- 1 Htist ehurch. The sovereijfn? are I W to tnemhlo in their hall at 8 1 ^ wd march t<> the church in a J I TV*. w^o )10v(4 lady ? mem | jj' th*ir family to accompany them | *nd who will not find it con- 1 ? to men at th" hall, arc asked I P^fir brother sovereigns just out- I P'** church and all nit together.! *nd expected that there Willi ^turnout of Woodmen, axlfl ?r. J *i!1 b? Rijrp to have a message 1 *^le for thnn. The public i$| ' '"rited to attend the service at 1 j** Perfectly and with the ?rf?t-I S*' ** fuel and labor, get *1 ? ^raft Range. ? adv. U > ? HT.ATK r.Vllt HltlN'ff* IKOI'HII S Several Carloads of Government Kxhibitn -? Coining. One ?*f the biggest features of the Fuitcd Static government exhibits, t?? be showu at the State Fair October 27-ttl, Wttt he made up of trophies and other enccny material captured oji# the battlefields <rf France by Anterk-au loldierx, The captured articles, includ ing almost everything from a big treuch mortar to a caDfteen, have just been brouKht to this country and have never before been ou exhibition. With them will be shown military and naval equip ment of the American force*, in addition to displays from other departments of the government. The character of the display <>f cap tured material la indicated by the fol lowing partial list: l . i k 1 1 1 and heavy machine guns, autl tank guns, rifles and carbines, *mall arms ammunition, grenatenwerfers, trench mortis, hand grenades, hel mets off various kinds, sabers, oflleers' and enlisted men's canteens, -shells and - cartridge eases - of various sIzpb. trench periscopes, gas shells, smoke hand gre nades, smoke pots, anti-gas alarm de vices, field telephones and switchboards, signal lamps, breast reels . and trench lautetns. Visitors to the exhibit, will have an opportunity to' compare the German tquipment with that, used by the Ameri; can fighters*. Among the. articles fur nished by the war department of the United States government are the follow ing : Fiejd gun and mount, trench mortar, }>ggbt and heavy machine tfuns, air ?w'left gun, rlHes, trench helmets, hand and rifle grenades, dummy cartridges, and drop botnlbs, complete set of iufan , trj' equipment, figures wearing different uniforms of the army, including the win ter uniform supplied \o troop# on duty ill UOssia, live carrier pigeons, some of which saw service on the firing line in France, national and regimental color.-*. inMgnia and campaign bandages, wire Jess telephone apparatus and varioutj other equipment from the ordnance- de ' partunent, quartermaster ' corps, signal corps, engineer corps, air service au?l medical department of the army. One of the feature exhibits is a col . lection of 322 enlarged photographs, se lected f iv) in 20,000 taken by army pho tographers in France. - The navy will exhibit two complete exhibition models of fighting ship*, and five anal! models showing the applica tion of camouflage. Other naval exhibits wiii be radio telephones, torpedo** and their (trucks, machine guns and rifles, gjfjs of the kind that were mounted on Hi&marine chasers, Y guns for launching dopth changes,, projectiles of various staes and winter clothiug, including a set of the kind worn on submarines. "The marine cojps also will exhibit a large rewnlber of articles of equipment. Other exhibits will be shown from the department of commerce and the de-i partuient of iabor. Altogether the gov- J ernment exhibit is expected to be of great aid in bringing the public in closer touch With the activities and achievements of the government. Two freight cars are required to haul the exhibits and 8,000 square feet of ?oor space in which to set it up. PUBLIC HEALTH CAMPAIGN. Great Work Undertaken by Young Mens Christian Association. The Y. M. C. A. is arranging for 1020 a campaign in this State to give personal instruction to every young man and high school boy upon social morals and per sonal health. They intend to reach every section of the State, nnd arc asking for a contri bution of $i>0,000 to <io this work and to carry on their rejrular organization. ,/Cernhaw County will be asked to give $800 of this amount and the canvass will be*made for this collection during the latter part of this month. Mr. Laurens T. Mills, of Oamden, has been appointed as chairman of this campaign for Ker shaw County. No better work for the Stgte could be found than that which the Y. M. C. A. is planning to do next year. The South made a rather fair show ing before the army draft, boards in its percentage of men suffering froin pr?? ventable diseases. The condition in this State deserves our be#?t efforts towards improvement The Y. M. C. A. has un dertaken a big job, but a very impor tant one, and every community in the State should help the work by promptly craning forward with the proportion of the needed funds. Card fft Thanks. > - Mr. rod Mr*. 55. L. Player wish to extend their thanks to their many friends in Antloch neighborhood for their kindhe** In their recent beret v?n en t. (?I'.'Ts mo\ti;nf:<ikin MttOAL Camden ||<^ 1'i-ohably Most Honored Carolinian. (Tuesday's Columbia Stilt**. ) John < 'antey Villepigue of Catu.deu, one of the nix South Carolinians on whom the 1'nitetl States government co? ft?r ri'<l the congressional medal of honor, has been signally ho no ml by King N Ichola* 1 of Montenegro with a Hilver bravery medal for gallantry displayed in action whild fighting with the American army in France. The medal arrival at Mr. Villepigue'K h.wne last week and it is of a beuutifM) design. The medal i* round, carries a double eagle on the front nlde and au inscription on the bark. .Mr. ViUopigue is assistant chiei game warden with office* in Columbia. The medal wan presented to Mr. Vil b pigue in the name of the Montenegrin government, an official citation aceoto* panying the decoration. Mr. Villeplgue will receive the "medal inilitairc", one of the highest war deco ration* given by the French government in a short time. Tin' citation for the French nunlal has already been received by the former corporal. This is a high honor as the "modal militaire" is only presented for exceptional bravery. Besides the congif&tdonal medal of honor, the Montenegrin medal and the citation for the "medal ?militaire",' Mr. i * ? b Villepifcue has been presents with tin British distinguished conduct me<fal for eonftpiciouK gallantry under fire. The latter honor was bestowed upon him shortly after lie received the congression nl medal of honor at Camp Jackson on May 2(1. 1910. Villepigue was formerly a coritoral in Company M, 1lKth Infantry, Old Hickory Division.- He has probably been honored by more governments than any other South Carolina boy. All the medals given him have -been for con sipicious bravery beyond the Call of duty in action. Below is the citation which was rea< 1/ vhen he was given the con . f grewsional medal of honor at Camp Jackson last. May: , "John C. Villepigue, Con|>oral. Com pany M, One Hundred and lOighteenth Infantry. For eonspiciout* gallantry und intrepidity above and- beyond the call of rkity in action with the enemy at Vaux-Andigny, France, October 15, 1918. Having been sent out with two otbef soldier* to scout through the village of Vaux-Andigny, he met with wtrong re sistance from ene>my machine gun flte, which killed one of his men and wound ed the other.. Continuing his advance without, aid 500 ,yards in advance of hi? platoon and in the face of machine gun and artillery tire, he encountered four of the enemy in a dugout whom he at tacked and killed with .a hand grenade. Crawling forward to a point 150 yards in advance of his first encounter, he rushed a machine gun nest, killing four and capturing six of the enetay and tak ing two light machine guns. After be ing joined by bl* platoon he was se verely wounded in the arm." CHAUTAUQUA FOR CAMDEN. High-Class Entertainment l*romlsed For Five Days Next Spring. _________ v Mix* Jj. M. Springstead, representing the Redpatty Lyceum Buread, was in Camden last wen* arranging to place Camden on the Redpath Chatauqua cir cuit next spring. The dates and names I of the entertainefs have not been an nounced yet, but the algh-class lecturers, entertainers and nvusical ctanpaniea will appear here under their own tent This in one of the highest class forms ?f wholesome instruction and entertain ment and will doubtless afford the peo ple of Camden great pleasure next spring when they appear here for ? five days, both afternoon and evening. Season tick ets will be placed on ?ale several weeks before the Opening and will be sold at price* within reach of all. The following gentlemen of Camden compose the committee who have guaran teed' the success of the undertaking: IT. CJ. Carrison, Jr., M. H. Heyroan, O. A. Rhame, Henry Savage, 8. F. Bras ington, W. L, Wooten, Thos. J. Kirk land. S. A. Burrier, W. D. Barrett, Jj. A. Wittkowsky, Wm. King, W. H. IVaree. James H. Bums, J. O. Rich ards. Jr., T. L. Little. Camden Defeats I^ancaster. The Camden Bulldogs took revenge on Lancaster on last Friday on the letter's grounds by defeating thorn by a decisive noore of 'J2 to 0. The whole Camden team played ktar ball. The High School eleven plays the Dar lington high school team today in Dar lington. The following players make the trip: Hay, Hiwkabee, Kirkland, C., Kirk land, R.. Bladcwett, Oooke, Wittkowfky, Watts, Savage, Burnett, Evans, Smith, ! Barrett, Mills and Boykin. - The CV)hutA4a High elerven plays ft Camden O ctetoer 17th and I>an caster the j following F riday. - Jfr _ _ j KKKS11AW NKWH N0TK8 Interesting ilapprnliiKH (}?lher?l From The Kra of Tl??t Ware. |1?'IU\V 11. Ct>ok Mini W I I . : 1 1 ! V IJtltaU, wh<? are employed iu l'ttnxlt?n, spent lant week erid in Kershaw with their respective parents. T. 'A. Can then, who ha* been ,mau* agiug u business at McBee for several months, returned to Kershaw Saturday to make Ills home here again with hi* daughters, Misses Kuuiee and Alma Cauthen. If, ly. True?del, who **|?en? al>out a 'month at Hot Spring*, Ark., . returned home last week and state* that he re ceived considerable improvement from Ihe hot baths. Mrs, H. B. Ham and children, of ThnmouHville, are here to upend a while witji Mr*, llam's parents, Judge aud >trs. B. N. Jones, both of whom are in 111 health. Prof. Hoyt (Vh? ki returned to Charles ton last week to resume his duties a? teaeher in the boys high school. - ? - Beckham H. Clyburn has received a certificate <>i his appointment by the executive eomnmittee of the World Cot ton Conferem'c, Boston, Mass., as a dele gate to the World Cotton Conference, whi<1i wiLl be held in New Orleans, La.f next week, commencing on Monday and lasting throughout Thursday. As ad ministrator aud manager of bis father's yast estate, Mr. Clyburn is interested in a very large degree in tho welfare of the cotton interests, and it is his in tention to attend the'" conference in New Orleans. I Miss Minnie K. Conuell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Conuell, of the lioland section, was married Inst Sat urday afternnoU to James L. Williams, Spn of^lr. and Mrs. J. K. Williams, of Kershaw, at the home of the bride's parents, by Rev, A. 1). Woodlc. I)r W. J. M<*( Jlothlin, the new presi dent of Funhan University. the Baptist institution of learniug for young men located in Greenville, will speak iu the First Baptist Church of Kershaw on next Suntio-y night at 8:30 in iuterest of the Baptist $75,000,000 drive. Will -Wright, oulored,^. who lives ou the place of K. T. Est ridge in the Flat Ilookv section, had the misfortune to lose In effect a very valuable male last week. Some time before the male fell into a well at>out twenty feet deep,. buf. was not Reridusly. hurt. He was res cued from his situation by the filling in process. After this Wright turned the mule 'into a pasture aud on going to the jmsture one day last week he found the mule, with a broken leg. He had Dr. Gay make an examination ?t the limb and the doctor found that the mule had been shot iu the leg and the bone was broken by the ball. Wright bought the mule at a cost of $460 and the' loss is a very heavy one to him. For while -the mule was not dead, it is not likely that It can be of service to him again. TO MKfcT AT CpTiVMBTA Fist Business Session of Sportsmen Will Be Held on October 15th, Sutnmerville, Oct. 7. ? A trail for the first business meeting of the Sportsmen's Association of South Carolina has beei issued by Mr. L. W. Boykin, Chairman temporary advisory board. The meeting! will be held in Columbia October 15th. [ Headquarters for all Sportsmen attend ing will be attthe Jefferson Hotel, whose management has extended to the Asso ciation the courtesy of using 'heir ?pa-| cious parlors for the business session, which will be called to order promptly at 1:30 p. m. At this meeting officers] will be elected, arf executive board se lected and the various committees ap-] pointed and the permanent organization of the AK?ociation completed. Every Sportsman In thla section anil throughout the entire State is urged to not only attend this meeting but to bring a? many Cfcx>rt?nen friends as possible. Reports coming in every day indicate now that it will be only a matter of a few weetos until the Association will have a membership of three thousand. Any sportsman in this section who ha% not been enrolled should send his name a* once to E. C. Adamson, Acting Sec retary, Summerville, S. C. Forced to Kiss The Flag. Weirton, W. Va., Oct. 7. ? One hun dred and eighteen alleged members of the Industrial Workers of the World, captured in a raid near here today, were marched into' the public square of Weirton, fonced to kiss the American flag and were then driven out of town by police and deputies. Seven others, suspected of being the leaders, after kissing the flag were taken to the county jaH at New Cumberland, where tb? will be held pending inves tigation by federal authorities. PLOT TO MAHHAfitK WIIITK8 Negroes at Helena Were Well ihgauized Investigators Report. Helena. Ark., (N't. 5. ? That ?>?*??*? i? iitt'il itegroe*. *?f Southern Phillip county, of which this city is the seat of gov ernment, had planned a general slaughter of white jHHmlo iu the locality tomorrow was Tletiultely revealed hero today by authorised investigators of the. past Week'* difcturbaiu-es in that section. According to these authorities, the plot included a widespread uprising iu the event certain dtununds were not met. NVkh October fi, net an the day for the uprising negro prisoners are said to have confessed, each member of the or ganization at specified placcR wb* 10 have picked a bale of cotton by that date, take the cotton to certain prominent landowners, plantation managers and luerchautii and "demand a settlement." ( The confessions, as announced, made ft appear to the invest igutors that with out further ado following thin demand the blanks were to shoot down all whites 4n -wiirht. A Hat of twenty-one names, admitted to represent the men to whom tire demand would be placed, is in the hands of the investigating committee. . Killing of these twenty-one, the pris oners ?aid, was to tte the signal for all members of the organization to at tack the white .population. An extensive courier system was explained in the evidence, providing for messengers known to the negroes as "P&ul Reveres." These couriers had been duly appointed to ride into all parts of the territory accord ing to the testimony and summon mem bers to arms. The organization concerned was de clared to be thex local lodge of the Progressive Farmers and Household fnion of Ami erica, confiscated literature of which designates Washington, 1). C., as national headquarters with State of fices at Winchester. Ark. Corporal Luther "TCarl, Company II. 4th lufautry, who was wounded Thurs day in the disorders near Blaine, Ar: kansas, died in a local hospital ..tonight. This increased the number of white dead to five. With federal troops patrolling the villag? of Elaine, detachments on duty at Melwood ami other part of Philips County and a coniffmgt of . sol diers stationed iu Helena as a precau tionary meamire, the situation due to race rioting in the vicinity of Blaine, wlitfe intensified today by the killlug of O. It. LIMy, a member oif the board of aldermen of this city, . was believed to be well in hand. / 1 North Carolinian Leading, Mineola, N. Y? Oct. . 8. ? Forty-seven airplanes piloted, with one exception, by American military aviators, started from here to blaze an aerial trail 5,400 miles across the continent and return in the greatest speed, endurance and reliability contest in history, while from San Fran ciaco 15 plane** took < the ^ir tot the east. Five more planes will leave here tomorrow. At sundown tonight Lieut, Belvin \V. Maynard, a Iiaptist theological student at Wake Forest, N. O., and winner of the recent trip contest ? between N^w York and Toronto, had flown 840 miles from Mineola and landed at Chicago, while several other westbound contest ants were resting over night at Blng hampton, Rochester, Buffalo, Bryan and Cleveland controls stations along tie way. Bight accidents in which three per sons were killed and one injured had been reported tonight to the headquar ters of the American Flying club here, which is cooperating with the army air >?ervice in conducting the contest. Death at Rock Hill. H. M. FJneher, who moved here ?ev eral months ago from Camden, died at hi* home on Peachtree street, on Tues day evening at 0:30, and his remains were buried here Wednesday afternoon. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and also of the Masonic Lodge. C. K. Chreitadbery, C. 8. MdCrorey, C. M. Joye, P. W. Spencer, D. M. Murchi gon and Valdore McFadden acted an pall-bearers. ? Hock Hill Record. House Being Moved. The old Schrock residence which has stood on the corner of DeKalb and Lyttleton streets for many years is be ing removed to the lot just north of the Tweed property owned by Mr. H. C. Singleton. Mr. Singleton purchased the house several weeks ago from Mr. Scarboro, who has already begun the erection of an auto service station on the corner where the house stood. Attention, Sir Knights. ? There will be a stated Conclave of Camden Commandery Tuesday evening, October 14th, at 8 :30 o'clock, tot rygu~ lar business and to recedre and ballot on petitions. R. T. Ooodtfle, Commander. C. F. DvBoae R?*>rder - T1IK N/VIKJIITY WIFIJ Kcmii at Camden Opera House Tonight. Coming direct from Atlanta and Au gusta where it acored one of th< higgcj** hits any comedy eirer produced in tho>e ?-ities "Tlif Naughty Wife", a fai TC? by Fred Jackson, (lit* author of "A Full House"( aud other extremely successful plays will t?e presented by Selwyn aud, Company at the Oportt Houae for one night only, Friday October 10th, The play comes here exactly as pre sented in New York, (Thicago ami Bos ton, where it scored amicesslve triumphs. Au excellent cast l?as beeu selected tuiioiig whom are such well kuowu far- . ceil r a as Iteeva Greenwood, Gordon Khlrid, Gertrude Walthers, Harry Koeu, W. H. Croahy, Irma Heath and others, all of whom are well known to those who follow tin- affairs of the theatre. The farce has been pronounced by critktt to be <jf exceptional merit. Cer tain it is, that .the unqualified support aoeorded it by theatregoers "wherever It has been presented, gives added wolght to the assertion. Selwyn and Company have long sinco made an unmatched rword for skill in producing this kind of play. It will bo many years before" such farces as . "Twin Bed**" and "Fair and Warmer" both of which were presented by these managers, are forgotten.' In iheir announcement tfiey declare "The Nativity Wife" to be their most successful farce. The state ment is a guarantee of its worth. The seats art) now 011 sale at W. Robin "Zemp's Drug Hfcoro. NEW ADVKRTWBB8. Numbef of New Concerns Using The Chronicle's Columns. It taken twenty pages this week for The (Ifironi^le to accommodate its grow ing advertising patronage. For the pftfct three weeks the paper haR been ning in srixteen j>age form. Four Co lumbia firms are carrying ads with us this week and this bumnew comes tb us unsolicited on our part.- Thin is the largest paper ever gotten out in Camden that we know anything about.. New Arms using our columns this week are as follows: Opera House? The 'Naughty Wife. F. B. Shackelford,^ Columbia ? Dro??, Goods. . Booth and McLeod, Sumteiv- Build ing Material. American Land Co. ? Auction sale- of v land. Camden Motor Co. ? Automobiles. Smiths, Columbia ? Coat*, suits and dfewotes. Htate Fair, Columbia-? Educational aud entertainments Majestic Theatre ? Mack Bennetts Bathing Beauties. Rhamc Brothers ? Wagons. Van Metre's, Columbia ? Furniture. Springs* and Shannon ? Tractors. Ilay's Oarage ? Batteries. C. C. Cowter ? Farm Lands. > Finkelstein'ii, Columbia ? Jewelry.' George T. Little ? <Pnmklin Cari. Carolina Motor Co. ? Paige Cars. Liberty Motor Rales Oo. Liberty Cara. Pinnix Realty and Auction Co. ? Sale of real estate. Bank of Camden? 'Banking. * - Named Cashier at Lugoff. Friends of Mt. and Mrs. J. B. Wal lace and faintly, of Beaufort, will wel come thrtn back to this county, where Mr. Wallace has been named as the csshler o t the Bank of Lugoff, a new institution recently organized for that section of West Wateree. Mr. Wal- ?Jj lace has many friends in Camden and Kershaw county where he.hss long been associated with two of Camden's banks. . Since going to Beaufort ' he has been employed In i bull is flut and his banking experience will be valuable to the Lugoff bank. Mr. Wallace and family will soon return to Camden where they will renide in their old home on North Broad street and Camden people will be glad to know o< their return. Prominent Speakers mt Meeting. . On the lflth of this month the Kershaw Association wiH convene in its twentieth aunual session with the Mispah church. All churches holding membership in this body wiH mark the time and place and have their delegates there and* ready to assist in the organisation. In connection with this meeting there will be four prominent speakers to ad dress the gathering on ' the 75,000,000 campaign. ? It U, the desire of the officers o t the Association that not only the delegates will attend this swiMr-t^ llilfTBffiir ?letters will avail' Uwm^vm. ot this opportunity of inrfoiming themselves on the biggest thing Baptists have ever vn dertake% M. M. Bosses, Ifrimtpi.