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NUMBER 5 VOLUME XXXIV. CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. MAY 5. 1922 FMKNl) OF W1U> roWL Tag Found on Duck Killed la North Carolina Hiwb A tag bearing a number of vers** from the Scriptures awd the "?,m> ot jump w?w^r >'**?'*>* g ;/ 9**' Ho. found U?* to to tal ' * duck killed recently by ^>dt *?|J cr of freutpn,. Jones county, near - bom N. O., revealed ? haven for wild fowl on tin North ?***<* Hike Krle to which the feathered tribes flock * touw bera. Keener wrote Miner, advis ing him of the finding of the tag. The latter, in an answering letter, stated m m *** *** gt bis farm during the course of then migratory journey* and that he an the birds are best of friends. He sa . be had built a pond for the feathered tourists and that be feed* them 600 jinstaels of corn each year during tire r ,w? months ?(e? ?? Ws Place. Mr. Miner's letter. 'n I?rt, follows: -Thank yon for having reported finding the tag> I ?<"? have tags m turned to me off wild geese and ducks from North Carolina to Hudson Bay. In several Instances the tags have been fownil by Indians in the Far North af ter shooting the birds, and they have taken them to Hudson Bay agents, who forwarded them to me. "I have had tags returned from 23 different Status and Provinces, the rferthwd south being 6uy<lan, I/a., and the farthest west being Bnglefleld, Saskatchewan. "I try to tag all the birds that spend some time at my place. Forty per cent, of those that I tag in the fall return to me the following spring. Others Ktay here all the time, in spite of the fact that the weather grows very cold. As I am writing you there are about 75 geese and 40 wild ducks feeding -within fifty feet of me. They are keeping a small hole open in the pcntf and they are depending on me for food. "It took me several years to got the birds coming. At last however, a small bunch came and they apparently told others, until there little flock grew in to a small Cloud. In fact, I have seen the wild geese rise up thick that you could scarcely see through them, and their honking could be heard over n mile away- ^ "During the last six or seven years I have fed them in the months or March and Ajpril 500 bushels of corn. When the birds stop off here they seem to leave all fear behind them. Even strange birds, visiting iny place for the first time, let me come with in a few feet of them, .They evidently have been told by the old timers that. there Is no .danger. _ "It is a great ?4glit to see all these Jdrds together. People for miles around have heard of what I am doing and thousands have come to see the sight. Even these strangers can come with in 40 or 50 feet of the wild birds without causing them any fright. Not a single bird ever has been shot on my promises and the feathered tourists seem to know that when they stop off hen? they are on neutral ground. " Of course this is not so with regard to the surrounding territory, over which I have no jurisdiction. I have seen men shoot and wound a duck or goose and I have seen the bird make a des perate effort to reach my place. Some times they succeed a.nd permit me to doctor them. At other times they /all to the ground before they can reach the safety zone. "I am opposed to deliberate slaughter of ducks and geese Just for the sake of shooting them. We've got to be care ful and call a halt to this destruction.' for unless we are careful It will not be many years before geese and duckfc are hard to find. I am trying my best to give the birds what protection I can. My ~ system of tagging them is part of this plan. I have received letters from many hunters who have written me that they uphold me in my work. "There is always fascination in overcoming prejudice and dislike. Wild bird**, of couree, consider all men to be their natnral enemies. It has been | nighty hard for mo to convince them that I am their friend. Tlowever, that conviction now seems to be spreading amotng them rapidly. Hundreds of new birds come here every year. I can al ways tell when a frt range bird arrive*. It seems very shy. Not so with the old timer, however. He comes sailing in as fast an he can, honking a wel come, and proceeds to staff himself with corn. "I have one mallard duck, which was hatched and raised by a domestic fowl In 1912. She has now migrated and retained to me each sprinc ud has (OI NTY CONVENTION MONDAY ? . Nearly u Full Attendance and Dele gates Named to State Convention. ? The county Democratic clubs uiet In convention at the Court House Mon day with fairly good ?He?danee-, tm ly a few of the clubs failed to 'have delegates present. - Former Judge M 1< Smith wuk named temporary president and later Mr M 3d Johnson was rejected county t^b airman. Resolutions were called for and Mr JobPi J Richard*, of JJkborty JiiU in troduced the foliowiAf* resolution: "Resolved, That we. the nimwenta lives of the Democratic party 'of Ker ahaw County In convention assembled, urge aud demand that the most rigid economy be adotpted In the adminiatra tlo'n of our government, both county and state, and that our delegates to the State convention be and are hereby directed to vote for such, resolutions as have for their purpose the ultimate r? ductlocuof the tax burden that are nesting so heavily upon our i>eople." The following was (bun presented by Mr T J Arrants, of Camden. "Resolved. That wo the delegates of the several Democratic clubs of Ker shaw County, in convention met. wel come to our ranks the women of our county and country, as voters and co la bore cs to effect better government of our county- and state, and do' herdby irnge that they exercise their rights of citizcoiship and register and vote with UM." ? The finMowing resolution presented by Mr J B Munn and signed by W T Hasty, \y A Anderson, J J Dowers and T F Morton was introduced and after considerable discussion was jmssed : j '"To the Democratic voters in con vention assembled: Whereas, our form of county government has been changed "in the last few years, and Whereat there are ? number of office holders in tlie county now holding of fice appointed by the 'legislature, which, we think contrary to Democratic princi* pie, therefore, be it "Resolved, that tliis convention go on record as being in favor of every man holding office in Kershaw county 1 go in the (primary as ordered by the county executive Committee, and let the l>eople have an expression, "Provided, that If a primary for nomination of commissioners for Ker shaw county be ordered that same be distributed among the different town ships of the county." Nominations for delegates to the state convention were then called for and resulted in the naming of Mendel 1j Smith by acclamation, and <) C Welsh, W .J Dunn, I, T Mills, M M Johnson and* R H Williams. Major John G. Richards was elected state executive committeeman by the convention. Knights Templars To Meet. Attention, Sir Knights: You are fourteously requestor! to attend a stat e<l Conclave of our Commaudory on Tuesday evening, May 9th, at 8 p. in., to transact regular business and confer the illustrious order of the K<h1 Cross and Malta upon a <*om|>ajiion in wait ing. W. Iiobln Zemp, Commander. Attest, M. Billings. Clean Up Day At Cemetery Monday and Tuesday, May 8th and 9th, will be observed as "Clean Up, Daya", In our beautiful, "City of the Dead". All owners of lots are re quested to have their enclosures put in order, and tra*h piled conveniently for town wagons to haul Jt away be fore Tuesday afternoon. Wednesday the 10th being Memorial Day, no trr??h will be taken out. By order Cemetery Association. Recorders Court For April. Following is a reoord <4 cases handled by tbe city recorder for the month of April. If shows eases tried as fol lows : Soiling whiskey 1. t ra-nsix>rting whiskey 1, gambling 7, disorderly con duct 2~, dTUnk and disorderly 2, drunk 7, fighting 2, violating auto orda/iee 1, 7, fighting 2, violating auto ordinance 1, license ordinance '2. Total numt>er of oases 20. total f 1 nes $259.00 ' * raised four families in five summers ? two eights and two ninos. "My friend, to see my pets return to me year after year for food and pr(V teetion, after tliey have evidently shied around and outwit ted thousands or hunters who hid in ambush for them, and to see wild geese come home bleed ing aiul with leg* broken, makes me f#fl thst my work is really wortlj while." (MPPINS AFflAL DIHMIHNKU JukUc* Warns Attorney* Wh? Seek to Defeat Mr. Columbia, May 3^ hi ? percuriam order haiidml 4owaM thjb afternoon,, lb** Stale l?upie?? C**?t rt+mni?*d the apt*'** of Jwe OappiiM*. <me ot the trio of murdmnt of WMTfaina C liraxfll, a you?* t?ai*cafe dcired of tlit* city, now under mmtm ?w of (fcttth in the State Peiilteettaiy sod remand ed (topping to rtfce Cburt of General Sessions of , 1 ^-xlugCA* County ft>r l wcutriKi' *oroe tt*e Ihle month. The two other murderer*. S .1 Klrby and C O Wtm Wwt vppealed before the Suprtwee Conrt, end ?olW tor Callison, of tile TOereentli Judicial Circuit. announced tfcat bf shortly would request th* wed to dbuniaa them also. The appeal of H?pp(u? was on the ground** flkni ib# grind jury which brought the true bill against trim wa? not sworn and tl>erefore hi* trial wga illegal. I Miring tin* course of the argument on the case before the court this morn ins Chief Justice Rugeue Xi Gary too* occasion to warh Attorneys at Jtae bar against bringing appeals 011 tmvlatt tics in an effort to defeat Justice. He said that with the crime wave swecfp L?g the State, attorneys who'taXc ad vantage of minute technicalities were arranging themselves with the "force* of lawlessness." He said that when criminals from other Stat<?s are coming into Soutb Carolina stealing automobiles and committing burgiarlan be (proponed to use the uttermost diligence in grant ing bail and giving tibcm no oj?port uni ties to defeat the lew. "It is (he duty and the province of ttie Courts," he declared "to do everything in their l>ower to see that the fortress of the law and the civilization of the State are not ?breathed -by <-riminaI ad vances." Tlje chief justice issued a solemn warning from the bench that if it W necessary to stop ai>peals 011 frivolous technicalities. offending attorneys would be lin1<?d l>efore the Supreme Court to answer <nuse as to why they should not l>e di.sbarred as unfit prac titioners of their profession. The killing of William O BrazCll or currcd on the highway bctw'een Colum bia and Tjcxington last summer. It was proved at the trial by the testi mony of the accused that BrazeU-^Cvas hired to drive Klrby. Fox and (lap pins, and that they murdered him to gain possession of his automobile.' Tho brutality of the crime and the ghast ly circumstance? surrounding it caused nn upheaval of indignation and several mobs attempted to lynch the accused men. They were sentenced to death by kludge Thomas S Sease at l/cxing t ion, but their executions have been ?fayed by appeals. Odd And Interesting Items Washington. May 4. ? Twenty-five thousand families of (Thicago will move from bouses and apartment to tents for the summer in a fight against pro hibitive rents, aeeording to an an nouncement of the Tenants' Protective League of that city. Ninety dollars is set a." the price of the camping equip ment. Dogs are not allowed, but children are welcomed. Murder by telephone was the charge preferred against a citisen of Berlin, Germany. Bernard Kobler- was ac cused of telephoning every day, anony rnously, to a man suffering from tuber culosls and speaking dlscouragingly to him of his symptoms and offering ad vice to commit suclde. The man suf fered a collapse and died and Kobler was tried for murder. Flo escaped penalty through a legal -technicality. Migistrote Black of New York set free Knmuel E. Malcolm. (W years old, married for 28 years, -when he oele i bra ted tbe birth of his first son by get ting drunk. The magistrate hefld that. Volstead law or no Volstead law, there are occasions when a man simply must celebrate and that the end of fatherless years was such an. occasion ! Catholic Chureh Servlees. Services at the Catholic Church on Sunday, May 7th, will be as follows: Sunday School at 0 :15 a. m., }fass and Sermon at 10 a. m. Sermon, "The (>ocpel of the Day." Rev. M. J. Red din will officiate. All are cordially Invited to attend. Moro than (V> persons are dead and miming as the result of floods which swept Fort Worth, Texas, daring Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The property lots is estimated at more tbsn * 1,^00,000. THK PASSION PLAY Anion I *nK Offered $1,000,000 to go Into the Movie# as ('brltituH. It will cost the Amcrlcai! visitor to the pawlou Play this wumuMu- writes Afcset nroer from cmcrniiraiAfiroT something W*h titan ?$ 1.2ft. This In cludes the prkv of the ticket, lodging for two iiijctit-H, and five mountain meals. Thcprto*l^? Wen fixed at 400 mark*, everything Included, ami 400 marks are right mow worth less than $1.25. There Is *o knowing how little ;they may he worth by the time the first iH?rfornianee I* given on May 14. The town of Obcrnminergau in in danger of rutnlug Itself in its insist' enc<> of asking as llttW* as possible of the thousands of visitors who will come to their quaint mountain village this summer. They w?nt above all things to avoid tbe slighc.st suspicion I of trying to make money out of the ^Hvogeant lij honor of Christ which they^ bavo jierfonncd *? pearly as possible /every ten year* ?lnw they vowed to .do so following tfee great plague 'of 1033. ThJs was always eas$ to do in the yeafs l>efore tl?e war, when money had n fixed value, hut with the value of thr Gt^man mark changing from day to day and the price of living con stantly increasing, it Is going to he an expensive business to feed the quarter <>f a million visitors they are sure to have this summer. Then there la tha, question of renewing th?' scenery an<K the costuming. In which the village *has already invested a million marks. < Hence the money question is really beginning to worry these simple. Ide - alistic people, as I have learned chief ly from private conversation dur-< log the few delightful days I have been here 'in their pure, religious atmosphere. . .Curiously enough. I have heard a great deal about money mat ters ? not that the Obernmmergau people want to know about or think about worldly questions, but because they aro constantly having the dis agreeable matter shoved in front of them. Perhaps it is the oft-roqx*atod fceene of Christ driving the money changers from the Temple- that hns given them a disgust for money or perhaps it is the crude way their idealism has l>een shaken by theatri cal and movie managers eager to put them on the boards and inako a for tune out of them. Incidentally most of those ? offers have come from America. For Instance, Anton Lang the vil lage jiotter, who lias entered tho soul and broadened the religious con sciousness of hundreds of " thousand*: of spectators of tho Passon Play by his irroscntation of Christ, told mo ho had been offered $1,000,000 by Ameri can film producers to stage tho Pas sion Play for them. Tho sum struck me as so large that I could not have believed such am offer had been made if I had not had it from Lang himself. He also told me there was a second offer of 70,000.000 (iormaii marks, which was something near $1,000,000 at the time the offer was made. A German film company made the more modest offer of .1,000, 000 German marks to film the j>erforma nee, I^ang's attitude toward aU these money offers is one of annoyance. When I talked to him the other morn ing at breakfast over the coffee ?vnd jam he shared with me, he happened to have his mind turned that -way. "I have Just received a letter from an American bishop," he said, "which I aa/preclate very much. The bishop l>egs me by no means and under no consideration to be tempted by the fortune held out for movie picture rights. 'Don't let anyone induce yon to make money from the Passion PLay,' he writes. 'It stands out as ft great religious festival, something so far above and remote from mere mon ey that there is no price. "Even before the war I was made offers to produce the Pasnion Play elsewhere. One offer years ago, I re member, was $2?i,000. It astonished me at the time, but it Is only since we de cided to r^new our vow this year that the offers have t>een insistent. " You can imagine how distressing such offers are to me. Hnt I have been compensated by other offers of money of a very different kind. I have here n letter from an American who writes offering to build a crucifix in the vil lage in compensation forr the great spiritual Joy he experienced while watrtdmr the Passion Play here In 1910. He wrote that he had been so moved by the spectacle that it has made a lasting impression on his life and he ?n4y hopes he will hav? enough strength this year to come to see It WOMAN KILLS IIKKSKLP I Suffering From III H^alUi She Shool* lop of Her Head Off. Mm, Minnie Copland, of , Klllott's OfqM ltoaxls, In Lee county i who had noon visiting at the home of her fattier'. (? .1 1 taker. h few mile* east of Cam don. killed herself Monday afternoon ?by shooting the W <"f her head pff with a shot gun. It Is said tJiut ?he had been in HI health for sometime and had c>i? more than one occasion made the throat to take her Mfe. She used a shot gun with a airing tied to the trigger and her decith was ta stanta-noons. Mrs <\ipetnn<t Is survived hy -her hudmnd and so.vera.l small children. The body was prewired for burial and taken to her former home at Klllott's Cross Roads Tuesday where the In terment occurred. It was deemed un necetsary to hold an Inquest as every thing pointed to a plain ease of sui cide. rmisual Sea l>la|prbatire Washington, .A j?rl I 127. ? Am unusual phenomenon In the form of a general ground ?* well. subterranean disturbance, earthquake' or Hubterreatlal shifting, which occurred off the North Caro lina (roust was reported to the hydro graphic office by the naval collier Prometheus. < Sounds rtiowed no l>ottom at one hundred and thirty fathoms. Thousands of provisos loaiMMl into the air during a disturltanee lasting two hour*. Invitation to Join Summer llrauch An effort Is boing made to keep open the Camdeu Ooontry Club for the bene fit of the Camden u>cople during the .summer ami fall. A committee met and decided upon plans \Vhleh are to secure thirty members at $20.00 each, which entitles the mule member to his ipem berdbip and adso one flady friend ox member of his house. Anyone wishing to Join can leave his money with either -Messrs. C. P.'DuHose, J. It Wal lace, J M VUleplgue or A K Hlakctucy. It Is hoped that the required -number will Join immediately as it is neces- 1 wary to luive a definite answer ready to >?iv<? the club owners by May 10th. To Open Club Rooms. Tito Jioroy Hoik Post of the American | Legion will open their newly fitted club roomw over the store of L. J. ? Whitakor Friday evening with a 'lunch eon and nil members of tlx* Post arc urged to 1h> preeeut. Through the courtesy of Mr Whitaker tile rooms hare been tendered to the Post free of rent umd this week t lie members of the P<*xt have* boon busy putting thorn in sh?i>o. onoe tn ore before he die*. Such an of fer brings us great satisfaction. It makes us realize we are doing our part in glorifying (Jod and in fulfilling our vow. To this offer T was glad to roq>Ty in the Hplrit in whioh it was written, and I informe<l the writer that we al ready had so mail}' crucifixes I believ ed he could do us a great service !ti letting us use the money he offered to I had to seek him in the forest whore ho was sawing wood. It was about the dinner-hour, and he struck work and walked home -with me, and there he sat dqwn to his sausage, potatoes and beer, while he told me that It had always boon hl? ambition to play this part, and he had succeeded In his great wish at the early age of twenty-three. He Is a very serious young chap, quite in the spirit of the community. He Is the nephew of the Horod. It Is always difficult to got any one to take the part of Judas, because somehow the stigma clings to the ac tor in private life. He must be no less honorable than another to have so im portant a role, but ho is forever after wards under a slight cloud. It is play ed this year by Karl Mayer. Perhaps the whole Oberammergau community feels Just a little under a cloud as their Judases always do. They have l>een cut off from the world, a part of a nation which has l>een at war with most of the world. Now they are preparing to receive the whole world again, and they are not used to the Idea yet. They still have that Judas like war cloud over them. But as they say in their annotincements : "Sixty-seven sons of the village lost their lives Ln the war. Ix:t us think of them with honor, awl with them of the heroes of all places and nations, be they friends or form or enemies." They do not yet realize that no one who conies to Obers mmergau will come with the thought of the war still Id mind. CITY COUNCIL 11KLU HKP/nwu Attorney li. T. MHIk Named as Keeurdrr and (J, F, Cooley as I*ollfem?n. ' <'ity Council hold \ht-lr regular month lv meeting Moiiduy - liigUL ? at.. ...whlclL mcetlng the annual election of subordi nate officers was held and aside from tin1 Section of Attorney t, T. Mill* a* city recorder ?*ul Mr. <?. P. Codey as policeman iln place of Officer Barnei no change was made in tlve other of ficers. It ww* deemed advisable from legal standpoint to separate the office of City Recorder ami City Clerk, some holding that the an mo man could not ho'd both offices although the salary was separate. It Is stated tliat the rep aration of the office was from no in efficiency on the part of former re corder H. O. Singleton the council showing their appreciation of his splen did services as city clerk by unanimous ly reelecting him by a standing vote. Mr. <i. F. Cooley, the nevrfly tweeted policeman Is stranger in Cnmden, where he has made his home for a good many' years, and his election as a. it officer poems to give satisfaction In all <]iin iters. A committee of ladles consisting of Mrs II <; CarriMon, Jr., Mrs. K. C. Ritchie and Miss Minnie Clybum, ap peaml "before the council . In the Jn terest of a children's playground. It is their idea to use a iM>rtlon of the grammar RchrwY! property and <Kiulp If with amusement devices and they ask ed council for an appropriation, nils was g malted in the .sunt of $1100 and $20 per month will be ai*proprlatcd to pay a suiHTlti tendon t" of the (property. The eoiinty and city teams will very likely In* used in properly grading the pxop erty. The election of Mr. W. F. Nettles as chief of the fire department by the members was confirmed by the coun cil, as was ylso tin' selection of James Zemp as foreman. Council also passed a resolution authorizing the payment of $.'{ to each member of the fire de part merit who attended an actual fire an<l stayed with the depa rtipeut till the return of the truck to headquarters. ^Attorney L. A. Witfkowsky was un animously re-elected city attorney. Mr. W.. I). Whitaker was unanimously re eh-cted chief of police. J. W. Colewns reelected truck driver, (J I , Rlack we'll reelected clock kc<*iM'i\ unci C O Brown, ~ Mollis Hilton ami U N Myers reelected policemen. City council authorized the city Clerk to write letters to eighteen or twenty business men of Camden requesting that they meet with the council on Thursday, May 11th, when engineer#, will 1>e [present t<> dLscuss the master of 1 >a vlng certain streets in Camden'. Those named on the committee were (Jcorge A. Rhame. It. L. Moseley. R. M. Kennedy, Jr., fl. L. Schloshurg, R. T.Cooda'le, J. I'. I a* wis, M. Raruch, C, W Killings, ( '. II. Fonts, J. Fletcher Smith. T. Lee Little, Ra!jph X. Shan luk'i, AN. Zemp, John M. Yilh'pijjue, II. I>. Niles, L. L. Rlock, S. W van I/andlnffham, John 8. Lindsay, J. R. Wallace, I)r. It. K. Stevenson and L. ,T. Whitaker. New I'astor at Baptist Church Sunday. The pastorate of the Camden Bap tist Church which has l>een vacant since Rev. M. M. Benson went to Flor , ida, will <x? filled hy Rev. J. Jeter Johnson, of Virginia. The church In conference last Sunday extended a call to Rev. Mr. Johnson and accord ing to nerws received this week he lias accepted this rail and will preach at 4 the church next Sunday morning and evening. AIho, he is arranging fo move his family to Camden imme diately. ? Rev. Mr. Johnson, we understand, is a mo?t able preacher and an ex cellent pastor, having filled much larger pastorates than t lie Camden church. The members of the congre gation feel that they are indeed for tunate 1n securing the services of Rev. Mr. Johnson. Will Build Large fiesldence. Mr Warren H Harris, lot AlleKheuey county, Peimaylvanbi, who with lits famLly have been winter visitors In Camden, occupying the Villeplgue home for the winter, has let the con tract for a commodious house to be erected on a portion of the W. L. De Pasfl property on North Fair street, j The house will replace the touslst stable alte, and the lot will hare a frontage of 180 feet ami run back to a depfeh of POO feet. It will contain ten rooms and will be located in one of the prettiest ?ection* of Camdea. Mr. Oeoftre A. Creed has the contract for the building. .-/.I-.