The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 21, 1922, Image 4
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Camden, H. April 2 1st. 1932.
W K Sense, who. for a number of
.votes 1 1 1 1 prominent In (\duin
l>ta tnHurft'fW'W circles, as agent of tl?e
lVnln*ular Klp<? Insurance company <?f
Grand Itaplds ; tluj Liberty Fire Ii**ur
unco company of St. Louis, and tf?o
<Gfil?r<Han Flro insurance company o t
Salt Lake City, lias disappeared ac
cording l<? a statement Issued lust wcok
. l?y State Insurance (k?nmIssh*ii>ervMn*
I ' ...I.!., ...... ,>
.Malum. Mr has gone vv<*t and a letter
to one of Miw dlerk* In his Aiflec, writ I on
on Chicago hotel slat lottery. and mailed
on a wegMtound train, stated that an
ho wum ?o heavily Involved, he would
no! return to t/olunibla, ( >fficers of the
* Insurance ctmipaarles ami representa*
tlvos of tin' 'bonding company that had
him bonded, arc in Columbia cheeking
ii]i Ids office. It is stated by the Insur
ance commissioner that numerous
polices have 'been f.>und In . Mr Sense's
office >vlil?h had not Ixxmi forwarded
to the. Inane offices of the companies
lie represented. Ilowuver, it Is stated
?that the companies \VlM protect all
losses under policies whlcth Mr Sease
liail not sen) to headquarter*. , The
whereabout# of Mr Mea**e are unknown.
What final action will be taken by (he
lnsurnu<>c nun jinnies \yiih regard to
li I in will depend on the report of the of
flelals who are at work cheeking Ills
office.
A policy to save every possible
shade tree in fJreenwood was adopted
at a recent mediate of the paving com
-mission. In several cases .street pav
ing to be done in the near future will
be narrowisl slightly to prevent the
taking up of 'trees. In some ease*,
where 1re?t< are on the edge of the
streets, pavements will be placed
around trees. The commission pointed
out that trees were one of the city's
?most valuable assets and eyery |?ossl
ble moans would be iukett In protect
them
The state (ax commission is now
cn^ancd 'ii mailing out blanks to oltl*
?/.en* who llH-hle for Income tux un
der tin.' recent act of the general lis
semhly. I'ln' Planks arc licinK itta 1 li*<1
only t<? tlio*!' who paid Income tax to
I lie Federal uovei nmcirt . Tlipy consist
mainly of affidavits showing the
amount of t'ii x ps already paid. The
state 1 -? i laiinii, n < ? i n ?-?! hi rd of that
atnoMMt Thi' tax i- tint' May 1
Fertilizer sales in South Carolina
aic eun-ldvl ahly ??ff t h i ^ sprilitf ns
euinpai od with la-.* sprln;;. according
In i 1 1 ? ? privilege tax tidleetions or
St n 1 1' Treasurer < ait*i For .lannary,
February nod Mar-h of thi- year tin*
ta\ < ?1 h c l i on was $ 1 1 >T> I IP ;is eoin
pai.d wi!1i r.,r the ^nmo
t h r< i' months m I '. )? 1 . The fert ilizer
sca>f*?t i v ? I f:? w i I liS !?> a e|i>se, lilosl
farm r- puitPm in t h?? i r supplies dur
iiiL' tin'" fii ?' M i i'i'i1 months However,
a ginxl deal of piirehasi .u is done in
April and early May. The figure*
fn in the tax ( i>!]eet ions ;i< reeciveo
l>\ Mr ? '.trier show that less frrtilt
y.V (-< Pe'rig U?-*3V| T!)t> Veal' tliail I H
!?> ! lie ?".! fillers
( ; , >\ . i i ,i >r < , .i i I n m la y ??< ?u i
mute! t ? ? 1 i fe i 'II i ! - ?' nil 'it t lie da 1 1)
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COLUMBIA, S. C.
Letters From Thj> People
!M!l< r ( 'hronlele :
Two very Interesting loiters have
recently a ppen red In tin* of t Ik*
Ohroulclo. One from fur off <Wt
fornla touehfcntf ui>on' life In t !?<? "old
town" fifty year.-* #go. The" otbor
from a rcccM filitOf thai, written It
win lii an ?? pprtH-i a 1 1 vc spirit, murks,
to some extent, tftip progrew* Camden
has made during the <perh>d elapfced
l?e|weeii "live residency of Mr Itohlnson
and the sojurn of the recent visitor,
If Mr |(< ha.H beon ho fortunate
n* to road * h<* letter signed ."Itecent
V Iviror" h?- must have caught a
gfiiuiisc of I ho- progressive' strides our
UM.,.iatuh' (lui'ijiK the fifty
yoa.rt. ?attaftf which we ai^ justly
proud, Yet, \tfhllc we take a Just
pride in tlu* inater'al progress that
fifty years have brought to our city
nu<l its life, there giro Houie thiols of
l lie "(UmwI and burled 'past" that we.
miss from our present day makeup,'
hut which. nevertheless, occupy a very
coiisplclous v'iuy> In our affections and
memories.
1 cannot go as far Into (he past as
Mr lM.dnson, but I earn eall to mind
much of the Camdeh life and envlroai- j
nienl of thirty fjve years ago which Is
separated from Mr Itohlusou's tlibo
by only ,flfleen years. My first recol
leutlons ol' life in the town of my
hli'Mi and curly boyhood have their
origin in the period that we si>eak of
as the 'KOs. Especially the middle
'SOs. TlioAe were the days when Joss
Chestnut was always "gwlne bring
yo'dat rabbit tomorrow. "And when
A he Arthur, under the supervision of
Mr lOdd I tpy kin, pulled the beHeord
on the 'yprcss tfngon that plyed be
I'wwn the 'spress office, which was
domiciled in a little cubbyhole oil 'law*
range," and the S C & U depot.
l>ot not the younger i>eople of our
fair it nil far-famed oity think that
those were the old ami pokey days
noted chiefly for their monotony anu
a lack of ttomcMiing t < > do and talk
ahout. Not so. Nay, not by any
means. True, we didn't have pioture
theatres and automobiles. Our chief
means of geMiug about the community
consisted of old I >ol<bln and l)exter
and IJie "one bij; one little wheel"
bicycle. Safety bicycles in tide their
first appearance in Cumdcin. in those
? lays, and everybod^ male and female,
who could afford them had one. Vp
to the completion of the "oi>era" house,
which in itself was a notable achieve
ment of those days, we dupended on
the "old market" building for housing
such theatrical entertainments jjs the
"Mia rn st??rtners" brought our way
from time to time.
No, we didn't haw as many eoui
veiiioneo* and helpful muehanei-il apl
1 ?l iii ii?M>s f 4 ? r tljt* promotion of health
and i d i s i - u i ? * ? as wo now on Joy . Hut
wo had a tfo<'>d time anil always had
in a lunula n< o i>r things to look toward
and |o keep itiii' inltnls and speech oc
ewpled. Why, aloii-n with I ho halanec j
of t liti^ ureal e>>nntry of oui\ we had
(Iitmt Cleveland for president. And
the immortal John I. Sullivan for our
puis i I ist'ie champion. .Aim! wo eiiju.vodj
Mhli prlviltMlKi'N as tin* si Hiring and
w in a lin_r i:i>k Kdd Lewis about the
\\ 1 1 1 - 1 i i 1 1 i of ".lissi' .laini'.s'' "After
'I'ho Mali" and "Sweet Mario." Wore
I ln?.?o I ho jcreat days when we played
?'lau'" with marbles. shot robins with
>liiiK^hot> ami "polkxtoeks," and went
f i ?? 1 1 1 1 1 and "hi washing" in the I?oi>o'
Civi k, while our fathers and uncle*
and I > i tr brother*. built "oj?era Iioum^,
laid flagstone pavements. talked a bone
the wnr. and marched in "torcldijrh"
I >t < >i *<??* ?<ioii - in oidobi at ion of tin* I'be
li'ii of d< lie ?< in I - to offieeV Were
I hex u'lo.'iiV Just ;i^U s,?ine of the
u ho bad a part i : i them and
xxateh i|m> i>\ pri-svidii of their faces
us thex make answer Truly they
Wele t he w i Older fill days.
AiTioiiu other act ivi tii*s of the folks
? tiio?i. days for ]lhysjire and profit
I !"(???. iii ttre sUatiiii: rink that \\a^ "ear
I !? -d on" III the "lip- -t .1 i r^ " of the
wooden building that stood on the site
that K now oeenpiod by Urine's
cro. . I \ Aid till re W;l> the oilier "f
i. ???<1 r.-inplars that usod to meet fn
tin" prove:;! <it> Hall, and whieh i*
. !v\.iv- at to ded a tit I intei"o>( iu-^ i : , the
!? i Miuiiiei.: d a f ford i d What w . di
? I :t !,i|.ia ke. the la\ in;: of the fl.u;.
1 ' ? ? ? " M X i III- " . t iii . Ill I i II street ! lie
? 'ha; ? 1 1 1 1 1 about at ri^n..if
? I i " < - - ! e ? I ?U; . 1 , It.' ? ? f the ? ?pe|\t"
. ? :i\L. f tie.- ! :. li.lt!
v a \ a :.e ftoiu the old town hiill
i .teep 1 1 . .... ?? ?
' ? ? ? f ? -x : - i k . - -he '? ; . M
< ? K A < ' "I |-o;|d. ' df
! ? - -J' - ? ; k ? - a ' ' . - iii><,
? _ ? i ?! I ? ''ii I ! he
! Ml- . ! he dispiii x of
W e.. ?, ? of tl e
fa!.: V . ' ' : ? ? P.w : d fr . ? .. u
? itx l.a'l i u?l a \ : ! . of \ of ? ?:!.< r things
i 'ha' were ?????? I ! : M -t \ llp'e; )| v. f !)?>??*
Vf!l is Were It..: -o eUlptX after ,'lli.
And tie ii ,f tint..* did .|iii? t down a
little We toilld ;i!w.i\n depend on Hilt
i'ra:.ei> to releiv.- monotony by
painting the nld town a ! arid rod I
retni'TTifwr the ??fory was t ?!d that PdH.
bein^ ?>?nfin*sl in the ivi il"?>v whieh
was lmatetl 1m hind the -dd town hall,
findiior himself in one of his Samson* j
! , k e mo.nN bartered the d'??r from its
fasteidii?M and oirrbsl it away with,
hini ' rf ft ?ivrs?- I i-nn't \ otieh fop the j
verarit\ of t h Ia story, but it wi* a no |
f..riou>, frtet that it t????k ipiite ft K->od |
?h>nl of brawn to handle Hill when he !
wn* nx'V^H] by the "spirits" of l^M.
There is Just another f>*trulon ii?#<tt* ;
tuMon those days that I wixh r<? re
fer to It is? tlie ?ehool that was r?n
tlnrted t?y professor I^enlie MrOnndlfsa.
Aji I rom<,'ml>er rtie nehool the ?fudent
boily wft* iruule \rp of Jim and
<"'lrt?um. Albert?w and f^alr4> kl<w>re.
\ ei-dare Duuhtp. lV**b tMttrk, l.auivn*
Mill- l>nlton lira*lugton. Saul Por
kliiH, J a men and Cliaillo Dunlap, John
Singleton, Thorny "Walker, Willie and
junuw Latham ami myself. The fetKHj*
a part of Which was used aw a n I
tk>uco by our teacher, was located ou
or near the site of the Kenrtmw Motor
foiiiinn.v. It Wl? ? out* room build
in- one end of which was fitted up tor
M'hool ami tlw other for residential
purposes. It was hero that "ua boys"
would recite, ami airfff, autl parse, and
conjugate, while "old Mac", aa wc drib
tied 'Win, ?a r, listening, as ho rocked,
with cloited eyes, lu bin MtUe cushion
<nl <-h?lr. Oftentimes our mistakes and
I. hinders would ell<-it a resouudlng yell
or, HOiiiofinW'H, a liead-tf!>li King box on
i ho oars from our sometlwea Sorely
\? v<xl teacher,, and 1 havo.no doubt
that many ft UottrU beside my u\m lias
at Mines ltanbored muderous feelings
toward the man who was really our
friend.
Many of the scholars of that school
are flllllikg active and im|H>rtaut places
lu the affairs of our tity, county and
? -Muutry. They are doing their part
in the great lalM>i?H of humanity aad,
so far as 1 am able to discover^ they
are doing It woll. Some of them, to
gather with "obi Mac" and others wlio
contributed to tfic pleasure awd hap
piness of those days, are gone on the
long trek from which there Is ho re
turn. May they us peacefully and
securely In the sluidowless land as the
memory* of them does with.
Yours rend nl scent ly,
J. H. Sill VIIU.
Camden. S. April lli. 1022.
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Bird Wandered Afar
Selma, Ala., Apr. ft. ? A letter re
ceived by H F Boss, of Selma, fi;om the
United States department of agricul
ture, bureau of biological survey, at
Washington, D. O., In adsnowlcdgc
ment of the receipt of a tag, No. 53,
050, found on the leg of h bird of the
?Thrasher ?i>eelos on the farm of B It
Rudulph, near Benton, solves the In*
t crest lug mystery of the Jittle feather
ed wanderer.
E W Nelson, chief of the bureau
writes, "In reply to your fjomiunntea- j
tlon of recojvt date, the bird carrying J
baud number 5.1,050 was a brown j
thf&sher, banded at Cleveland, Ohio,
on June 28, 1011), by S I1 Baldwin, of
that city.
"By means of these numbered alum
inum bauds an Important Investigation ?
relative to the migration of the birds
and their life histories is lM?hng advanc
ed. The Information furnished us by
you 1s therefore of value, and your In
terest in the matter Is^afipreelated/'
The bird was caught in a trap by a
negro woman living otv-t lie farm of Mv
Hudulph. Unit the little messenger had
]>Ciished from hunger before it was
found. The traip bad been set for ra?>
ldts, and as several days had elapsed
between the visits of the trapper, life
was extinct an id only the mute message
50,050, on the band fastened around its
*
leg, told the story of its wanderings amj
that it was a visitor to this section of
more than usual interest.
The town of Lebanon, Texas, was
damage to extend of $220.0<>0 T>y
a tornado last Saturday.
NOTICE
Atteiuion is < j? ! 1 * m 1 to the following
seetif?rv^of City Ordinance tfoverninp
| ? ? i I y commutation tax :
Section 2. That nil alde.hodied male
persons l>elw<>en tlio atfos of twenty-one
Mini sixty yrnrs. residinjr within- tlio
: corpora to limits of tin- City limits .of
tlic City of Camden, S. C.. not ex<?m\)t
from road duty under tlio laws of tlV>
State shall work streets, ways a ml
| bridges under the direction of stfrjr
overseers as ma\ lh? appointed for Mieh
<s|Mi4'e <>f time, not fxcoodhijr six (fl)
days in one year. Providing that at
the time of receiving such notice any
j person may pay to tin- per.<on givtng
such notice Five (."?.? Dollars Com
limitation, which shall be received in
1 lien of the work and that i>orson re
fusing to work on said streets or to
pay said commutation .stint!! he fined
not los> than Ten ($10 .) Dollars
nor more than Fifty Cf in.) Dollars
or he imprisoned not less than ten days
1 1 or more thPR days, in the discretion
"i' j he City Recorder.
All persons who have not y>aid this
commutation tax for the year arc
notified that the above ordinanv> will
'??e ell foreed
H C SIN<;r.FT< >N
City Recorder,
c.i m '( i ?. S C. April JO.
HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS
LAW me ' DOCTUM C HAH G E
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I1KKK AND THKHK
Short News Stork* Gathered From
All Sources.
.J 1) Kriwt Meyer has been nouii
hated by r root (1e lit Harding to bo tll?
trict. attorney for the Eastern district
of South OifOl|AI? i?| Samuel J |
I/capliart ban been nominated to bo
I'nlted State* marshal. Meyer Is a
citizen of Charle.ston and I^aphart
Is- a citizen of l(lchm<?ml. Meyer will
miccced F U Westoi) and Leapluut will
succeed James L Sims.
John Hoambree was shot ami killed,
about 1?"S miles from Greenville on the
nui^SonritQ' road Tuegday^ a itd Claude
MeCuen has been arreted as. hi* slay-]
or. A party of four had 1? I i?h1 a cal
ami gone Into ithe country after
whisky, and the killing occurred on
rho way haok. Hembrec wanted to got
In a front seat on the ground that bo
bad paid for the car and bad a right
to lido. where he 'pleased. The other
members of the party were Charles
Ilolcomb and Palmar Hart on aM of the
Orr nilW section. Marten Is being held
as an accessory*.
Captain G S Little '.and Sergeauit
Janios L Johnson, army flyers from
*-Kelly FleHl, San Antonio, Texas, were
killed at Dallas, Texas, last Sunday
when the plane in which they were fly
lnfc crashed to earth.
The Mississippi love? at Grand
Tower, Illinois, broke Saturday morn
ing and flooded nioro than 75,000 acres.
Crop damage is estimated at over a
million dollar?.
One man was killed and another was
perhaps fatally injured when a Sea
board train struck an automobile near
KaHolgh last Saturday. The automo
bile was bound -north from Florida.
* Mrs Alice Ayer of Traverse City,
Miehlgan, \?as on Saturday sentenced
to twenty years Imprisonment for bank
robbery.
James S Fischel lias bought 71 acres
of land near Chester on which be pro
poses to start a poultry fai*m.
It T Brown, chief field engineer of
the state highway department has
tendered his resignation In order to be
come associated in contracting work
with .1 T l*lott of Greensboro, N. C.
Capt. Sir Ross Smith and Lieutenan;
Ilennett were kille<i .near London a few
days ago in a nose dive of an airplane
In which they were 'preparing to fly
a round the "world.
|. Hereafter government employes in
Panama Canal zone must pay for
' houses that they have previously been
j getting rent free.
Desirable Residence Foe Sale
Properly of Mrs. W. B. Gordon, opposite the
Catholic Church, on Lyttleton Street. We offer
this at an attractive price, Ajpplyjto
C. P. DuBOSE & COMPANY
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Phone 43 Crocker Building
William J Dry ai)' has made posi
tive announcement that he will not l>e
a candidate for i ho United States sen
ate from Florida. He does not want to
go to the senate at all.
j A Moscow dispatch says that the
spring sowings in the field? of the
; southern Ukraine are belpff destroyed
|by' swarjns of rats and that officers
and Soldiers who served in the Russian
poison gas Squads are being pressed
into service ito fight the pests.
The F W Woolworth chain of ten
cent stores has declared an extra
dividend on its common stock in ad
dition to the quarterly dividend of $2
a share.
\ (Jeorge Nleholls, who was arrested
at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for murder
connnitteed in, Rome, Ga., 51 years ago
was released without a trial.
Cotton consumed in the United
States during March amounted to
SiaOOO hales of lint; against 438,218
bafles of lint last year and 4(1, (>00 more
hales than wore consumed during Feb
ruary notwithstanding there were
?, 000.000 'levs spindles in operation in
March.
Theodore Autrey, salesman, Kliot.
and killed Xialas A Gladden, transfer
driver, In Columbia Saturday after
noon. The two men were living with
their wives In the same house. The
An t reys were moving. There was a
Quarrel over a dish and a table which
had been borrowed from each other.
The Gladdens refused to give up the
table unless the Autreys gave up the
dish. Autrey cursed Mrs Gladden and
when Gladden took it up Autrey shot
him.
The plant of the Reaufort Gazette.
Neils Christensen proprietor, was de
stroyed by fire Wednesday night. The
loss is estimated at about .$15,000.
Headed by Miss Jan? Sands, a
treasure hunting expedit'lon recently
left Costa Kiea In an attempt to re
cover the gold supposed to have been
buried on Cocas Island by the pirate
Morgan In 1820. .
A group of New York society women
have started a movement to provide
l?i thing stations in New York nud other
cities so that men temporarily out of
work can keep clean and retain their
thoiviM >vhUo. hunting jobs.
8 8 Farrnr, a prominent citizen of
Mountvllle, Laurens couwty, was found'
dead in his barnyard Wednesday morn
iivg with a bullet in his temple, a pis
tol by his side, telling a story of sui
cide.
Cotton on hand in American consum
ing establishments on March .31
amounted ito 1,553,901 bales of lint
against 1,330,542 (boles last year.
The ?iQ>reme , court has refused a
reheating In the case of Edinnud Blg
hairt, convicted and sentenced to death
for the wholesale murder of members
<>f bin ijainily.
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Oiie {of the few branches of stage
work that is not overcrowded arid one
of the best paid professions for women
is that of ballet dancing.
Massachusetts 22,000 saleswomen
have been granted a minimum pay of
$14 a week.
** "" FOR SHERIFF
Editor Chronicle.
Please announce the name of Mr.
M C West as a candidate for the of
fice of Sheriff. Mr West is well and
favorably known. Ileflias beem (faithful
to every trust committed to him and If L
elected will discharge liis duty with
credit to the office, and satisfaction
to all he comes in contact with. The
friends of Mr West take iprlde In plac
ing him before the people in the coming
primary election.
Voters.
THE AMERICAN LEGION
? e
WILL PUT ON AT THE
CAMDEN OPERA HOUSE
Monday, April 24th
AT 8:30 P. M.
The "SELDOM SEEN" MINSTRELS
< Which Has Made Such a Hit Where Ever Shown
/
The Special Scenery is Very Elaborate. The Cos
tumes Most Attractive and the Music, Singing and
Jokes are New and Sidesplitting.
Come Out, Help The Legion and Have a
Rousing Good Time.
_
Big Street Parade Monday Afternoon at 4 o'clock