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Chronicle VOLUME XXXIV. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST U, 1922. NUMBER 19. DAMAOK FROM HAIL. Several Counties In Piedmont Section Hard lilt. llouea l'ath, August I. VUltod la -1 night l?y the worst hall storm la many ? years. farmers of portions of Grecn viile, Anderson, Abbeville, Laurens and Creemvood counties today related a to rlea of r\fin and havoc wrought by the hailstones. The storm covered a section ubout i?0 miles long a* far as could be learned here, beginning about the Ware Oross Roads in Greenville county and continuing as far down Saluda river a? Ware Shoals. The width of the area nffoeted was probably ten miles although at the southern ex tremity of the territory the storm seems to have widened and include^ a section in the direction of Due West. At 8 o'clock last night the ?toriu broke loose and almost without warn ing hailstones said to be as large as lien's eggs began falling in the vicinity Of Wares and Toney Creek. The ter ritory above these places were not -se riously affected,, as far as can be learned. For one hour the huil con tinned to fall, stripping cotton, cor^ and growing things as well as killing riiany chickens and birds, bursting watermelons and smashing tops and windshields of automobile#. The ehtire section from Toney Creek to Ware Shoals, and covering an area several miles wide, . today shows the devastation wrought by the storm. Corn and cotton stalks are stripped of every vestige of growth leaving only the bare and broken plants from which the farmer may hope to produce anything. Dozens and dozens of farmers weCe in Honea Path today and not one of those interviewed by tliLs correspond ent carried any hall insurance. (Xhe farmer, in discussing the cha otic condition that today prevails on his farm, said he would take $5 for his entire crop, so unfavorable Is the outlook now. . Another ''farmer said that even the watermelons on his farm, which soon would have boon ready lor marketing were utterly destroyed, the melons having been pierced and smashed as though some one had driven rocks through them. A resident of the section just below Honea Path said that in going over bis farm early this morning he found '51 wparrows huddled together where they had made a last stand for life. 'Hie frail bushes in which they took refuge went down before the hail stones as if they had been made of pasthoard and the birds were quickly killed. Another farmor said that 150 chickens, many of them grown fowls, were killed by thq hailstones. Vir tually aJJ chickens, roosting in trees and on fences were said to have boon killed or severely injured. More than a bushel of hailstones were being exhibited on the streets ? f Honoa Path today by a resident of the section east of town. Although the hail began falling shortly after v o'clock last night and had l>een melt ing since that time some of the stones wen* H-4 incites in si/,e by actual measurement. Others were smaller in *ize until they resembled the end of an :ivcrage man's finger. The stones were firm and flinty and ajipeared to have kept well considering the period "i.icc they fell. Not only were growing crops se verely damaged, if not ruined, but mati.v automobiles were said to have ,heen damage<1. One motorist stated ? hat when the storm came up he was afraid to seek shelter !>ecause of the terrific force of the falling mis sies. While he remained in the car 'he top was wild to have been beaten .'dmost t<? shreds and smashed into ;?owder. other persons are said to have had the windshields of their flr<? damaged in the same manner while attempting to gain shelter. Telephone i<osts were l>eaten and hraised by the force of the stpnes but ?'?one of them were put out of commis sion, jt was stated here today. Tele thon#* lines In general seem to have 'seajx-d with but little damage. The storm i? said to have broken ?a n!l of its fury with but little warn ?nE- CV?ming out of the west it swooped down on the Warw and Toney ' reek section, leaving ruined and des 'late crops in its wake. "Within a vbort time virtually all growing crops "?ad been &trli?ed of limb and leaf as stones continued to fall. 'From to 0 o'clock the storm continued, 'ontlnuing as far south as Ware Shoals -od Into Greenwood county. Oddly '?nough, the fury of the storm seem* 0 hare been wrooght on the section y'n# on eaeh aide of Saloda river and the exception of about Due Weatj PATKKIDK AT KKKSIIAW. Brother and Sister Witnessed Killing pf Their Fattier. Krrxhaw, Aug. 4.?A J off <; ? ?'?<?! y. prominent farmer ?iul formerly cotton weigher h( K^whiw, was shot anil kiWed by his aim, Paul Gregory, at his home a few miles from Kershaw at about 8 :S$ o'clock ttits morning. Young alnuit 8;S0 oVlopk this morning. Young bullets taking effiH.it to cause almost instantaneous death. Young Gregory, himself, gave the alarm, telephoning to frlemls in Ker shaw that he had killed his father, lie was taken into custody by Sheriff Welch within a few hours after the kill ing and is now iu the Oa union jail fac ing trial on a charge of murder, the coroner's jury investigating <the homi cide having held him responsible for t,ho death odf his father. Young Gr<>g pry is about yeans old, but is small for his age, having l>een crippled by an attack of infantile ijKiralysis. The only eyewitness of the patricide, if any, are members of the Immediate family and these with Paul Gregory have declined to make any statement with reference to the shooting. Paul Gregory's younger brother awl a sister, officers have been informed, witnessed the tragedy. Neither, however, testi fied at the coroner's inquest, the jury's verdict being tmsed uj>on admissions of young Gregory. The boy, after having confessed firing the four shots to per sons first reaching the house, 'has re fused to make any further statements, officers say, except to claim that he act (HI Ju defense of his mother and sis ters. Th" first persons reaching the house after the killing found a loaded (pistol grasped in Mr. -Gregory's hand. The revolver had not been fired. IMr. Gregory was about 50 years old and is prominently connected and well known in l>oth Kershaw and Lancaster counties. He is survived by hi? widow, five daughters and two sons. Attorneys for young Gregory, it is understood here, are intending to make an effort to secure bail for their client. ?Columbia State. Little Girl Killed. Columbia, Aug:. 7.?Henrietta Todd, eleven-year-old inmate of the Kpworth Orphanage here, was struck by an au tomobile, said to have been owned by T. F. Phillips, n grocer, in front of the institution about noon today and was almost instantly killed. The girl was from Walhalla and has been in fhe onphltnage for the .past six years. It a<|jpears that the uirl had gone across the street to a merchandise wagon to purchase some <*an<ly and stopped from the rear of the vehicle as Mr. Phillips' automobile ap proached. 111 her confuslou, it is said, she stepjHMl in froirt of the moving car, the driver in the meantime doing his best to swerve from her. She died in a few minutes after being struck. /Heath Hprings Picnic. It is announced that there will be n big picnic at Heath Springs on August 25, the day of the political campaign meeting at that place. The public Is cordially invited to attend the social gathering in connection with the politi cal campaign ><peaking and to come with well filled Iwskets for an old-time picnic dinner. Seats will be provided for the Indies. Such other refresh ments as may Ik? dispensed will be for the benefit of the Heath Springs ball team.?Lancaster News. very little damage was done more than five miles from the river. To hear farmers, both white and black;, discussing their loss wa? pa thetic l>eyond description. One farmer, a stalwart fellow apparently 50 years of age, said that he had gone the ?*n tire season Without T>orrowing any money but that every dollar he jk>s sessed in the world, excepting only a little property, had gone down with the storm.. He was at a loss as to his next move as he did not be^eve the cotton and corn to be made would sustain members of his family for the period of a month, much lean a year. A hakf bushel of hajjstones, that had fallen the night before, and had lain in the fields through the night, were brought to the office of The Greenville News yest<?rdny morning by J. C. Cothrnn, prominent farmer of the Toney Creek section, one of whose farms was in the direct path of the storm and It* crops completely de stined. In Mlirrg of the storm, Mr. Oothran Raul that he found hailstones five Inches deep In'drifts in some i*>r tions of his fiejd. Several staUo* of cotton that had been stripped of every restige of leave*, were brought in by Mr*. Cothran and other farmers. FATI1KR OF STIIJLN KOUMI. Offifer* Capture Patriarch ?f Moon nhliie Faclorle?*. Flon'ime, Aug 4. The great grainl daddy of all the moonshine stills of >souCuroliua, aiidlme o( tin* pa trlarehs of tiio South tu that lino, was ruptured this morning'in Pee Dee swamp by State Constable hMchelber ger and Federal (>fft?er Youmans. It measured (140 gallon* cai>aclty, luring about* tioven feet long, four feet wide and waist high?and, approximately, coffin shaped in its general propor tion*. Marion county now gets the rake for the biggest Htill. Sumter had it be fore, said Mr. Eh-helbergor, reporting the find mi returning to the city this morning. More 'than trwo hours' ar duous labor by the two officers was necessary to destroy the mass- of cop ier, sheet ironi and brick. George Best, prominent farmer near Marion, is in tfte Marlon county Jail (4iarged with owning and iterating this giant still. Last night the two officers, Officer ?Stacy with them, Went to the farm of Mr. Heat. They found one gallon of slidne in the house. Then commenced a search for the still and other "evi dence.'' Mr. Kichelberger ran head first over a 2T> gallon kog of liquor But they were pnable to find anything more, so they took Mr. Best ami the evidence into the Marion county jail with them. This morning Mr. Elcheiberger and Mr. Youmans returned to the Bc**t place and coutittuefrtneir search. Again they fell over another lot of whiskey, this time a no gallon barrel of it. Along with the still they destroyed 70 gallons of moonshine liquor, 500 gallons of mash and ten fertn enters.?-Oalum/bla State. 0 Convict Returned to Pen. Cohimlba, Aug. 3.?Jack Scbuma cber, the Orangdburg convict, who re fused to report <o the penitentiary at the expiration of his parole on August 1, was arrested in Orangeburg today and brought to the penitentiary, accord ing to advices received by Governor Harvey from Sheriff R. ^Fulton Dukes. Schumacher 'tried to get Governor Harvey to extend his parole but the governor declined.and ordered the con vict to return to the penitentiary. Schu macher did not report and the governor wired Sheriff Dukes to arrest him. The sheriff wired this morning that lie had Schumacher in jail. Though Dead; He Wins. Nashville, Aug ?Despite the fact that he died yesterday, former Con gressman Lamuel P. Padgett, of Col umbia, has l>eeu renominated for con gress in "the seventh congressional dls^ triet. He defeated his competitor, Wil liam C. Salmon, also of Columbia, by a majority of between 1,000 and 1,500 votes, a(HH>r(lIng to incomplete and un official returns. The movement >to nominate Mr. Pad. gett for his twelfth term, despite the fuet that he is dead, took form yester day afternoon when liis friends formed a hasty organization and made public an app<?l to vote for him. What effect the nomination- of the former congressman will have ds prob lematical. The purpose of it was to force a new election and to permit oth er candidates to on<ter the race. Gas Prices Under Investigation. Washington, Aug. ?A searching investigation jnto soaring gasoline prices was scheduled to open formaUy today in the senate. After weeks of rtos2>d sessions, ?sin-nt in collecting and ' tabulating valuable information on all phases bt gasoline and oil industry of i the nation, the *p?*<ial senate sub-com mittee was prepared to summon wit ness's in the endcflvor to determine the reason for fhe alleged "sky Tocket ing" in priees of'gasoline. County Campaign Dates. Blanoy, August 14th. Haljon's Cross Roads, August 15th. (Cleveland School House, August 16th. C-assatt, August 17th Pethune, August 21st. Haley's Mill, August 22nd. Kershaw. August 23rd. Westville, August 24th Camden, August 28th, 11 a. m. Cotton Mills, August 2HTU, 8 p. m. ? State Campaign Dates. Newber!ry?Monday, August 14. Greenwood?Tuesday, August 15. Laurens?Wednesday, An gnat 16. Abbcvlll^^-Thursday^ August 17. MoCormlcte-?Friday, August 18. Anderson?Saturday, August 19. Walhslla?Monday, August 21. Pickens?Tuesday, August 22. GreenvlTVe?Wednesday, Augulit 23. <; a ff<*?y?Tli 11raday, August 24. Rpartanbnrg?Friday, August 25. KI KSIIAW NEWS NOTES. Interest inn llappciiiiiiSH a* Void By Til? Kra of That Place. ' I Mrs. mm lifting left this morning for a fifteen tlay* vacation, which she will spend with reNatfve# Ui O^oNiiA ami Florida. I>r. W. (\ McJ>?we81 returned iast. * ? ' * " , % 1 week from his western (rip and reports that h?? had the time of his lift* in sightseeing. Ho'talks interestingly of the many places he visited and gives vivid descriptors of what he saw. it G. Sanders, secretary of the Oaiu de? Chamber of Commerce , and pro prietor of the Electric Maid llakery, was a business visitor Jn Kershaw Friday and paid the Era office a pleas ant calj. Mr. Sanders tft trying to pro mote the sale of Ills elctrle baked bread and the other product*! of his up-to date sanitary bakery. Miss Mclita Floyd Jeft Monday aft ernoon to Join the party at tourists at Rock Hill who will make the edu ? cntional 4our of the western state?* ami Canada, conducted under the personal supervision of Frof. Roy Z. Thomas,; of Winthrop College. The trip will last until the 20th Inst., and will give the members of the party opportunity for seeing some of the most beautiful and wonderful natural seenery in the world. J. W. Sanders, demonstration agent, for Kershaw county, was bore yester day to arrange for a picnic for Hie county club Iwys, to be held a,t the itaile Mine later in this month. The date and other particulars will he an nounced later. George Gardner. son of J. J. Gardner, ami Miss Lillian Shri^, daughter at Mrs. M. A. Shaw, both of the Ml. Pis gab section, were married Friday, July 21 at, by Notary Public W. J. Man^um. William L. Good ale, of Camden Flo ral Oomj>a7iy> was a visitor in Kershaw Saturday ami paid the Era office a pleasant call. The company has re cently enlarged its plant very consider ably and is prepared to handle promptly any and all orders for floral ' designs for any occasion. Will Cast Vote at Age of Ninety. At least one womau in Greenwood county did not wish to put her age as "21 plus" when she enrolled on the Democratic club rolls. Mrs. Cecilia Alice Henderson, of Coronaea, boldly wrote her name, and gave her age as ninety years, thereby becoming the oldest woman iiv the county and one of the oldest in the state to qualify to vote in the Democratic primaries. Mrs. Henderson declares that she is proud of her age and the fact that she was able to go to the place of enrollment instead of having the hook brought to her. In spite of her advanced age. she ts active and interested in the affairs al>out her, and has shown a keen in terest in'politics. She says she Is glad of the opportunity to vote in tin' Dem ocratic primaries.?Greenwood Index Journal. Requests Change in Highway Route. Columbia. Aug. 7.?The State High way Commission is in receipt of a let ter asking that the route of the pro posal Stonewall highway from Flor ence to the North Carolina line he changed. At present tlie plans call for the road to run by Darlington, Hartsville, McBce, Jefferson, Page land. Monroe, Charlotte. King's Moun tain and Shelby to Ashevllle. The re quest is made to divert "it by way of Darlington, Hartsville. McBee. Bo thnne. Kershaw. 'Lancaster, Fort Lawn. Rock Hill, York. King's Moun ts n and Shelby to Ashevllle. The matter will l?e considered by the com mission at its meeting on August $. Another Old Veteran Dead. Mr. J. W. Boone, a well known Confederate veteran, died at the home of his son, Mr. G. W. Boone, in the DeKalb section of the county last Tuesday He was about 70 years of age. He was twice married but 1>oth wives had prede^essed him. He is survived l>y four sons and a number of other relatives in this county. Married. Mi ss Malinda Ward, of Bethnne, and Mr. Chesley Hoyt Wall, of Andrews, S. C.. were married nr LUdhnnc on Wednesday, August 2nd, the Rev. M. Byron Gunter i>erformlng the r-r-re mony. Mr. Stephen L. Folson, of the Tur key Creek section of I>ee county,, and Miss Unice Lee, of the Iona section of the same county, drove to Camden at> Thursday and were married at the court house by Probate Judge W. L. McDowell. CLMMK1) BY DEATH. .\Ie\wwder <?mliHiu ltt'll Ituried at Sunset Friday. Mjdiwy. N S.. Any:. 2. At sunset on Frltliiy an tho crost of Belhn Bt'ough mount alii, the body of l>r. Alexander (Jriiluti* Hoi I. who died this morning at Ills summer homo, will la? burled In a spot chosen l?,v the Inventor of tins telephone hlmsolf! > Tho grave of tl*o venerable scientist the immensity of .whoso lift1 work was attoftted by scores of telegram^ which came today to tho Boll estate from tho world's prominent figures, is at a point overlooking tho town of Haddock, Capo Breton. Tho swooping vista from tho mountain .top, so ad ml rod by Mr. Holl stretches far over tho Bras d'or lako; sunset* chosen as tho moment when tho body will lvooame forever a part of tho sturdy hills, gilds the wators of tho lako until *hoy are roally what their namo moans- "tin? lako of tho arm of gOdd." Alexander (Jrnbnin Boll lived to see o*i?orlmojits which ho began with a dead man's oar le?s8 than 50 years ago result iu a moans of communication for million* of long distance tolophono conversations daily In all parts of the world. Tho possibility-of talking over a wire, ridiculed then as a dream by almost everybody oxcapt Bell, became during his lifetime a reality, common 1 place and marvelous. The Roll basic patent, known in the rei-ords at Washington as No. 17-1 ,*I(V> lias Imhmi <?? 11?mI the most valuable sin gle patent ever issued in the' whole history of invention. There are today over 1.1,000,000 telephone Instruments through which billions of telephone conversations are carried on each year. Bell spent three years in night work in a cellar in Salem, Mass. His money needs were nlct by Gardiner (}. Hub hard. his future father-in-law. and Thomas Sanders, the owner of the cel lar. As he workd he began to see the possibility of conveying Hj>ee<'i over an electrically chargd wire?the telephone. He used a deatl man's oar for a transmitter. "If I can make a deaf mute talk," Hell had declared, "I can make Iron talk." His first success came while testing his instruments in his now quarters in Boston. Thomas A. Watson, Bell's assistant, had struck a clock spring at one end of the wire, and Bell was eloc. trified to hear the sound in another room. For 40 weeks the instrument struggled, as it were, for human speech. Thm^pn March 10, 1S70, Wat son became almost insane with- joy when he heard over the wire Jtell's voice saying: ^ "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you." On his "Oth birthday, Bell received his ipatcnt. It was at the Centennial exposition held at Philadelphia, two months later, where men of science the world over who had come to examine and study the numerous inventions ex hibited. saw Professor Bell give a practical demonstration of the trans mission of the human voice by elec tric! ty. One of the eurlous thinjjw about tin invention of the telephone iiTTtTTft Bell knew almost nothing about electricity when he started. He knew a great deal about acoustics, though and the formation of the human organs of speech and hearing. Bell was called to Washington once when be was in the slough of despond and took the orpportunity to call on Prof. Joseph Henry, who knew as much about elec tricity iin<l the telegraph as any man then alive. Henry told him he had the germ of a great Invention. "But." said Bell, "I have not got the electrical knowledge that is necessary." "(Jet it." said Henry. Bell <Hd get some of it?enough. "Had I known more about electricity and less about sound,'* he said, "I would never have invented the tele phone. While Dr. Bell will l>e best remem bered as the Inventor of the telephone, a claim that has l>een sustained through many legal contests, he also iH'came noted for other inventions. He was Joint inventor of the grapha phone with Sumner Taintor. He In vented an ingenious method of lithog raphy, a photophone and an induction balance. He invented a telephone proln* which be used to b?cate tho bul let that kiltrd Provident (iarfield. He spent l."? j*ear* anil over ?200,<V?0 in testing his famous tetrahedral kite, and established a principle in archi tecture. the use of tetrahedral cells nr units. Throughout his life Dr. Bell main tained his interest and labors for deaf mutes. Me founded, boctme president ODDITIhS IN TIIK NKWS. Strange HuppWllngH Ah Kelaled By. the Dally Press. Washington. Aug. lb. A man in London tried to hang himself. He wns a poor hnnrt nt It, tint he rtted Just the same. The doctor testified that there wan noisl^u of death by strangulation. so (ho Coroners duly brought In a ? verdict of "suicide hy auto-suggestion," the first of its kind on record. The theory-is that the wan believed lu* was hiiiiglng himself, l>c cause he had a handkerchief looped over >i IhsI ipost and'-about his neck. \ and that the conviction that he was being' strangled succeeded In killing hint- It is not thought that killing one's self by thinking one is dead will Iwoomo popular! ljondon also is responsible for the story of William Skiuuer. a sailor, who lost his life in the bottle of Jut land. When bis body was recovered the usual brass identification disc was taken from his neck. On the reverse Of It, 'in words so fine they require a microw</|H? for reading, is his will, leaving his all to his wife. This, the smallest and most unique will in the annals of law, lins Just la?en admitted to probate In the 1/ondon courts. The first aerial stowaway has .safely made his flight. One Mike Stone, Of Detroit. concealed himself in the nod I < .compartment of the aeromarine eleven passenger pin no flying regularly from Detroit to Cleveland, went to Sleep, and woke up when the motors roared, lie couldn't make his presence known until the motors stopped, across the lake in Cleveland. In Northern Montana, near (Uacier National Park, is a colony of ii million marmots. These little animals make a curious noise, something between a yelp and a whistle. It Is (proposetTviSU-' broadeust their chorus via radio, that wireleas "fans" of America may hear the largest aggregation of animal voices.In the world timing up in a nat ural symphony. Nr. Sowell Dead. Jefferson, August 0.?After a long illness James M. Howell died at his home and birtlqfluoe in the Plsgflh sec tion Tuesday. The funeral services were held at the Mt. Plsgah Baptist church Wed nesday afternoon. Mr. Sowell had been a member of the Baptist church for many years. Mr. Sowell was 71 years old and Is survived by his widow, four sons, J. G. Sowell. W. T. Sqwelll. R. P. Sowell and S. Mi Sowell, and one daughter, Mrs. Flora McOaaklll. Mr. Sowell was at one time a res ident of this county and held the of fice of county supervisor. He was a highly respected man and had numbers of friends and relatives in this county who will n-gret to hear of his death. sSouth lias Big Koud Program. in road building and- street tf<AViu# work the Southern stall's im* showing greater activity than h( any lime in their history. Contracts-reported dur I in? the prist four monts aggregate in I vnInr about $40,000,000. Kver.v state in the South is showing tremendous progress, especially in road Improve ment. Con tracts awarded In the last four months include in value, tl*e fol lowing: Alabama. $1,870,000; Arkan sas, $8-12 Ak); Florida, $4,800,000; Oeor>;ia, $7NO,<HM); Kentucky, $870,000; I/ouisiana. $032,000; Maryland. $000. <>00; Mississippi, $844,000; Missouri, $2,735,000 ; North Carolina. $7,780,000; Oklahoma. $1,973,000; South Carolina, $1,104,000; Tennessee, $8.'t.1.000; Tex as, $6,657,000; Virginia. $600,000; West Virginia, $4,523,000. In ad<lition to the actual contracts awarded, there is a tremendous volume of highway improvements for which plans are heing made and for which bids will be received during the year. An impressive amount of asphalt con struction is under way in the South, es pecially In North Carolina, Tennessee. Texan, Florida. Kentucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma and West Virginia. and contributed $250,000 to the Ameri | fan Association to Promote Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. He was a mem ' Iwr of many of the leading American learned societies. Dr. Bell's laboratories have been lo oted since 1K86 near Baddeek, C?i*? Breton. There for many years he conductr-d rcscnrch and eTi?eriment frt aerial locomotion and other scientific subjects and maintained his private museum showing the development of his greatest inventions. Twenty thousand Chicago street car men went on a strike Tue*d?7 against a 17 per cent reduction in wages.