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NINE TO SIXTEEN VOLUME XXXI. CAMDEN, Si \KOLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1920. ^: number 42 MKDAl* KOH THIS HTATK Sootli Carolinian* Received Six Medal* of Honor and ?? 1>. 8. Co.* ' Lew than oue percent of the Ameri can soldier* who saw service with tho Jr. F. wou che Oougrwsioual Medal ?f Honor* aud the Distinguished Service the military decorations bestowed >y the Amerieau government for extra* ?niiiuu'> heroinu in action. The official figure* are; Medal of Honor, 78; Distinguished Service Cross, 1,241. I There were Ml awards of the Dis tinguished Service Medal which is the decoration conferred by the government for conafldekws service in * position oI Kivni trust and responsibility. Tho American decorations sre the greatest in (he world. Winning them calls for a greater act <>f honor, vMpr or service than required by any other uatfoir. The man jjvtyo -wears one has done something. These interesting fa<*ts are disclosed in the publication Of Heroes AH! which ha? just been announced b^ the Fassett Publishing Oo. of Washington, D. C. The book is an official record of the individ ual exploits and achievements of Ameri rrtns in the great war containing the name and citation of th^fle who were decorated with the Medal of Honor, the Dlatfttgulabed S?r,vlce Cross aucl the Dl* tingushed Servve Medal. liu-ludded in Heroes All! are tablet* which show the number of men from *??h I >1 vision, *ii(l Regiment and each state ami city who received the decora tion*, The Fifth nvKiiufut of Mariue? ami New York State head the IlltK, NMM ?lieu from New York won the Medal of lienor and 1120 the 1). S. t\ Illinois with seven, ?* second on the Med?l of Honor list while Teunessee, South Garo^ Una, (California. Missouri and New Jer ?ey with six apiece are itied for third. On the D. S. C. 11 I Vnn sylvan in Is aecoml with' 420 while Illinois in third with 808. Massachusetts in a Hose foarth with 321. South Carolina :* tle<l with Iowa, each having received 99. The origin ami history of the Amerb can medals aud decorations generally are described iu the Introduction of Heroes AU! by Harry It. Stringer the editor. In 'part Mr. Stringer wrlteaj' l "Tradition has it that the custom of decorating war heroes originated with the Ohiuese many centuries bofoi4 the :ulvent of <Christianity, but the pi^ctlco did uot become (popular until late iu the Middle Ages, when the armies of Kivgluml wore badges after the decline of armor and before the use of distinc tive uniforms. In this country the ens MAKE EVERY ACRE ITS BEST ? h\: ' ??;* iTv * ^ T ? /? .*?/* '*? ; n*-v* I2; ????.*? --'r- " ? ' ; ' - ? ' *-'? * * . o . .? v. ??? TiV ? ? ? ?' - y ? ' * ? a : ? . \ - A The same, labor, same mules, same machinery, same acreage, with a good qua'ity of High Grade Fertilizer added, will earn a bigge * profit. Insist on using ? ?. . ' % ' ? , . -v * ' The fertilizer^you buy v> hen you want quality and most profitable results. . Used by thousands of farmers because it produces the biggest return for the dollar invested by them. v The labor situation and the shortage of cars makes ear ly ordering a necessity. ; :?j? Place your order. Protect yourself and avdid delay by bauling NOW. - ? . - it V. . Wm. H. HA1LE, LOCAL AGENT Camden, South Carolina ? / . : v.- v. > *m , y , t ?? w . ?? ? ?? -C. . . * c ?* . I HAVE THE AGENCY FOR ARMOUR & CO., . ' ~ ; FERTILIZER AND ACID; AND NITRATE AGEN CIES CO., SODA, OF SAVANNAH, GA. SEE ME REFORE PLACING YOUR ORDERS FOR FERTILIZERS. w ? ? w ? ?/ ? ? , ? , ' . , ? , ; East Rutledge Street jf ?V:";- Camden, a. C* -J torn d.vtew back to*, the Revolution. "'Ml* Army Medal of Honor wax au hollaed by Congress iu 18(12. Original ly. the law governing the i^uamv of these medals provided that they wore ty V conferred only ikpon nou-cotumi* cloned officers A1)J enlisted lUen for deeds ? ?f extraordinary h?roiNin, but popular agitation resulted iu the removal of this ???striction twi yearn later and commis sioned officers were made eligible to the decorations although th^-requlrements were in no wine altered. At the iimf f!l|ke the provision designating them &s < i\i! War Medals strictly was elimi nated. "The war with Mermauy gave ua our two other military decoratlous?the Dis tinguished Service Cross and the Distin ?Miisltfd Service Medal. , Oougress eatab lluhed ithwu iu the Ariny appropriation a<* of July, 1918. "The American military decorations rank with the highest iu the world. There is none greater, perhaps, thau our Medal of Honor. Our Distinguished Service Cross takes Its p'nce with the celebrated Victoria Croas of Great Wrltftiu vwhich has been ipowMN to bo the highest dec oratiou for valor In the world whilo our DivtiiiguiHlicd Service Medal is the equr.1 of any foreign inedal of its claaa.' Iu the above list two Distinguished Service Crosses went to Camden boys; "one Modal 4>f Honor to a Camden l>oy. WoKtvllle. in thin couuty received one Mcdid 4.f Honor and Kershaw also in this roupty received one DistiugtiJ^ied Ser VJMl Cross. Wouldn't Pardon McNaugliton. "4 The following taken from a Georgia pXper win be read with interest In this ? line resided, and who has a brother re-t ?siding in Kershaw County: "Governor Dorsey Thursday ^Jeclined to jmrdon'or parole Dr. \V. J. McNaugli ton, who Is serving at the. prison farm at Milledgcville a life sentence for the murder of Fred Flanders, an Emanuel county fawner and turpentine operator, whom Dr., MjcNaugtoton is accused of pol zoning -with araeulc ten years ago in complicity with Mrs. Flander*. "Dr. McNaughton's application far a pardon or pnrOle was heard by the gov ernor several' weeks ago. It was sup 1>orted "by numerous friends of the pris oner, iiM*ltiding ft Baptist minister of Savannah and a- Methodist minister of Atlanta. Relatives of Fred Flanders strongly opposed the application. "The governor states that a commu tation of Dr. MksNaugbton's sentence from death to life imprisonment, granted by a previous governor, in hip opinion is ?? sufficient exercise of clemency in fels case." Overdone Defense. Tlio visitor to the lawyer's offline $tood in amazement. "I Kay, old man!" he exclaimed. "Whatever lun happened to you? Ilad a motor smash or what?" The Jawyer sliook his hPa<l wearily an he glDgtMly ~twR&W hi* ImiiRnrl nnd bandaged (face. ' u "ICo. ^You remember that case ? the other dfey wln-n I defended a man charg ed with ?*sault ? Wellr-I-wade a -strongs plea for bim ou the ground that ho was a fool rather than a criminal." "Yes, but?" r "I did it so weri that he was acquit* ted and he waited for me outside the court."?San Franeis<?o Argonaut. ?. An Horry County Snake Story. (From-the Horry Herald) In a recent iasue of this paper there appeared a new* item telling of the taking ut three live snakes from a dog Sn Oallivnut's Ferry township. This dog had been snake-bitten several times, and by fti rattlesnake within the last two years before he wa* killed to relieve the animal from his misery. It ban often been told that if a snake bjt a dog he would develop a parasite resembling the snake; but there were few found to be lieve ?uoh a atory. This comes from a reliable source and cannot be doubted. The Herald meat ions it because It fur nishes something for careful thought and the study of it might lead to something xof great value to tbe Human race. r? *r Harry New Found Gnllty. ' iLos Angeles, Oal., Jan. 15.?Harry Si'ow was found guilty of second degree murder ift connection.with the shooting and killing of his fiancee, Freda Leaser, in Topango Canyon, near here, on the aight of July 4, !a?*t A jury in Su perior Judg? Craig's court returned -the verdict after being in deadlock for nearly 44 hours. Coupled with the verdict wa* a recommendation that the court order the defendants placed in an institution for a reasonable length of'tfane for ob? nervation aa to his mental condition. John H. Staling, 68, a retired mer chant of Cohwrtrta, died at his home hi that city ? T?day. By hia will he left $6By000 to church and benevolent imtrtutione of CahnoMt DAVID DOOI4CY, COLQHKD Aiitin S4MI N?|r? I-tiivis KCiUt* Valued tU About $100,000. Of interest to Kershaw county negroes specially unit to (he people of tbo slate !u geueral, is the iicwh of the dee.1 h of David Dooh\y, u(|M ttlacVttnith of Au '<mon, who died in that city last week, leaving an e**tato valued at The uewspapers of Auderaon carried lung stories of his life and character, aud newspaper* over the two Carolina* have .umiunted editorially upon Dobloy, The Anderson Dally Mall said of htm editorially: Laboring Incessantly for upwards of 40 yetira aud accumulating In the mean time a fortune ,which ,is estimated at ^100,000, David Dooley humble tout high \v respected colored resident of the city, Miuvuu&ed yesterday to an attack ofj paralysis suffered laMt Haturday while working at his anvil. Upright, indus trious, lowly and always attentive to Bis own affairs, happy at his work aud con tented with his lot, David Dooley, by the might that wau in hU strong right arm end iu Nie sweat of his fn(je. mudc fur himself a place in the esteem of the community held by few if any mem* hrrs of his race who preceded him here. There will t>e genuine sorrow on the part of n large portion of the white popula tion ?t the''passing of this worthy ne ?gfo, ' "Iu these days of race Kutagouism, when hounds of hell ffrxn Iw*11 slde^ woiijld stiiv into a conflagration the smouldering embers of a hatred that has i Seen slowly but surely disappearing since reconstruction days, what & splendid les ion Is" in the1 life of this brawny toller, whose nnvi^today is silent only because | the hand that wielded the hammer upon ( ft is stilled in death. His was no career j turned into success by a fre^k of for tune but oue made ?o by the dint of honest toll. He kuew but to work, to save, his money ahd to keep to the place ascrlbd to his race by society iu the sec tion of the nation in which he lived. Dawfcl Dooley took a prominent part in the work <?f 4iis own church and was r. recogniaed leader ol his race, yet his voice was never raised iu public aud he never ligurcd in the public pt4tiUt ?? voluntarily or against hi>t will, and t here was never ? wh taper of buaplcion as to his lovult.x t.? thy white race or to lii? own. I To held the supreme confidence of boUi." The Anderson Dally Tribune Wi^fo <>t Dhvp Dooley: ? . ; ^. .. $s'r v.- I . .. . ..... " "Probably *thc most highly reapecked negro who ever lived in Anderson, tiled >?-oerday 4? the person of Dave Dooley, ? well known blacksmith, who wa? the victim of ttu attack of apoplexy, "Duvo Dooley us be is known to all of the older people of Anderson, cuine to Amlerson about HI years ago from (Jeorgia, and started to work as a black smith, working hs a helpftr in lleuson's blacksmith shop. "Dave wan an humble, indite, though very energetic and enterprising negro; and throngh hi* own efforts haa built up quite u small (fortune in Anderson, i His estate is expected to be in the neigh borhood of $100,000, lie owning much valuable veal estate in the city of An- j dersoii and considerable farm laud. ' "When Dave began to gather his wealth, his good fortune did not In any way change his general disposition, nor did his subsequent actions over lower him in the estimation of the white peo ple (?f Anderson. IIo developed other business, but continued to cling to his own trade as n blacksmith, lie worked his last day in his own shop on last Mat urday. , . _ ? "Dave vDooley's. "death will b&Vmour&ed Jiy. u largo ~?4*<4e~ t>f~frtrmht; wit; OTit^r those of his own race, but probably an equal number of .white friends to whom Dave has always been "just Dave IHioley." He la survived b.V Ida widow ami four children^"al^so one grown ?on in Atlanta, Ga., this s6n hieing a child of his lirst wSfo. "If all the negroes of thia country were of the' type of Dave Dooley, there would be no need for courts or jails and there would be no aocieties for social equality ^headed by such negroes aa,. Xlasaaway, Hlatcher and Timmons, who were run out of town, barely escaping necktie par ties." The following about Dave Dooley la I fromthe Charlotte Observer: MDaoley was a negro of the type that is Mil u^m'I to the < onummiiy in whk-h he Hvri?. Negroe# of I ho Donley ly i??* aiv a big as^et to the Mouth. He had character and was industrious. lie at tended to his own business ami did it well. Ho caused UO trouble or ffiCtiOU or dUtuitnufcCO in his community. lie ' N wa* not of the ty|>e of. negro ever to cause friction or between th > imi'H. Uo wun "highly respected" by the white people of AmUixm, and we may safidy presume that ho wan, as highly itKiMH'tnl by the colored people of hl? community. ? Ai And flooley was rewarded for his work and exemplary conduct. Ill poiut * of worldly foods he was independent. lie had to ask fovai'H of uo man. Not only la influence and character wa? he an nss< t to his community hut also in tliut he wan a substantial citixon au?l taxpayer, "And we tpay presume that he was happy and contented, We oottHk not con eelvfl of Pooley helming dissatisfied with <1>ndlttous In the Houth to an ox tent that he would for a moment think curiously of pulling up stakes, . tuVninff his back on his neighbors and friends, white and eolored, and going to' the north or elsewhere to live and undertake to better himself mnongstrangers and amidst inhospitable surrounding*." Slew Whole Family. Charles Marshall, charged ? with tnur '.der .in connection with the killing Friday night,_neur Armory, Miss., of Robert ??Miller,' 1T, o fttriuer; licouurd Miller, ? 1(1, his son'; Annie Green Miller, It, his daughter, r.urf Hurley Miller, ten months ohl, was held in the county jail at Aber deen under a ktrong- guard. I'ublic feel ' Ing is intense and precautions have been taken to guard against possible attempt* at mob violence. I'earl May Miller, lo? the only survivor of the family, is said to- have witnessed the cri/rio from the { loft of the Miller farm house' and, ac <<ondiug to Hherlff J. B. Lewis, In charged Marshall with t*be quadruple kill ing. Marshall was indicted at tho No vember term of the court Of a statu* tory offense against tho young womau killed and was at liberty, under bond pending trial. . The baby is r.llcged to iiaye been his sen, - ------ - --ov-v ;rv~ jt iiia. ? D. W. GRIFFITH'S * ./ ? Supreme Achievement ^ r: r:: -Cjjp>iV-JfZ ?.. lari. >/ . ,i, t% '.t The Play with an Amazing SouL ONE DAY ONLY dav. Jui. 23 ? / Night 7:30 P.M. Admission 50c Children 25c ? ? ?? *? ' . '* ? ? .. ? " *? ? . ' IvZT 1 4 'SSii