Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Social and Persona) News By Mi?? l ouise Nettles Young I'aopl? NeHr in a picturesque ?iK?t on fhe i>lnc frJllged banks of the Old tpoud near Camden,- * crow it of Jolly young folks |1)1NV |>itriu'(l Uhclr te?U for n sojourn 0\ pleasure. Mi. ami Mr^. Balph ghannon art Ufe popular ojiap^rpnei, _iIM1 ihe program for tho long, sunny days a ml moonlight evenings consists of boallug, 'swimming. fishing, riding I,, town, etc. The camp enmasse ut I,'ikUmI the dance at tile I>. A. it. Hall, Wednesday evening. Among the out of town visitors are Misses llden, and Fonsie* BoyHlu, of Ueykilisr Nell Ooleman, Dot Allen, "Moody" (fibbs, of Columbia, J.ea nette Patterson, of AUeudaikvSara Miller, of HemiottHTllle, and -the Messrs. Seegars, of llartsvJl'A*. Izard Josey, of ColiMQ* Ida, Hal Clarke, of Sumter, James and Dudly Sanders, of Hagood, and also includes a number o^ Camden girls a lid young men, Visitor Complimented. ? h Mrs. Hoyt Bockofellow, of Camp Kenning, Georgia. who is remembered in Camden, as Miss Margaret Bans ket.t, was complimented ithls we*>k \yhen Mrs. Randolph Klrkland elitertalned lh lu r honor at a lovely bridge party. Amid a setting of summer bloom the mime was played, the score prize. a lovely towel going to Mrs. Jack \Vhit aker? Jr., while 'Miss Elizabeth deSee $esuhfc of Charleston, found ample con. su.'a^lon iq a dainty .handkerchief. The honor gueslt was presented, with an exquisite handkerchief, and Miss Klisr Kirkiand, a Joint honoree, re ceived, a ?^t of lovely manderia mats, After the game the hostess served a salad course, followed by sweets. Circles to Meet. Circles of the Missionary Society, "of the Catnden Baptist churth will meet at the church for the general meeting, Tuesday afternoon. August 15tH, "atf I :.'J0 o'clock. A full attendance is urjzed. .Mr. Gardner Entertains. / hi honor of his nephew. Bandmaster 1;. A. Gardner, of Columbia, Mr. \V. B< (Tardh'er entertained-the members of the Camden Orchestra, at his home, on North Broad Street, last Friday evening. Several Beautiful selections were rendered by the orchostra, after which refreshments consisting of Ice cream, cakes and fruit were served by Misses Anna Kate Alford and Maude Gard ner. . ^ All expressed themselves as having a pleasant evening and wished to t>e entertained again at Mr. and Mrs. Gardner's home. . ,? Cor." ?' Heath at Camden Hospital. Mr. Burwell Dowey, a citizen of the lieKalb section, died at the Cam den Hospital Monday afternoon after a >hort illness. Mr. Dowey was about fifty years of age and leaves two children eurviving. His wife- died several years ago. He resided on'til# Workman and Macfcey farm a few miles north of Camden. The funeral and burial was from DeKalb church'on Tuesday. Majestic Theatre PROGRAM FRIDAY, AUGUST 11th Thomas Meighan in a Paramount Picture "01 R LEADING CITIZEN" SATURDAY, AUGUST IStb A Sunahine Comedy "HIS WIFE'S sour And a Christie Comedy "IIOKUS POKUS" And "GO GET 'EM HUTCH" MONDAY, AUGUST 14th Agues Ayre8 in a Paramount Picture "BORDER LAND" And Ki nog ranis TUESDAY. AUGUST 15th . Betty Corapson in a , Ooldwyn Picture "ALWAYS THE WOMAN" , And a Christie Comedy?f - REST IN PEACE" WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16th Lillian "Billie" Dore in "BEYOND THE RAINBOW" With a Supor-all-Ktar cast of 10 screen favorites THURSDAY, AUGUST 17th Kugene O'Brien in a 8elect Picture "A HIDE OPEN TOWN" And Hinograms FRIDAY, AUGUST 18th Jack Holt in a Paramount Picture "MAN UNCONQUERABLE" And a Oampbell Comedy "MONKEY SHINES" SATURDAY, AUGUST Ittta Tom Mir in "SKY HIGH" . And Charles Hatchinaon in "OO OBT EM HUTW PERSONAL MENTION Mr. aud Mrs. E. N. HoDow^U wore visitors lu Clarendon County Sunday. Mivs Rom (ifisriiht'iuHT of Camden is visiting Mt?, A li. laittn. ?( 'liri iiw Chro4*Me. Mi?. Humphries of Oioulfin is visit Ing her daughter, Mrs. .Charlie I.iney nwr Chera w...,.Chora w Chronicle. Mr. A. L Latta ami faintly spent Sunday tn Oundeu. Misses Janle and Katherlno Shan non of Columbia were the week-end gttests of Mrs, Jlrattou ctoLoaehe. Mr. Kershaw Shannon, Jr.. of New Orleans, Is visiting his parents, Mr. uiul Mrs. Kershaw Shnnnou. Lieut. and Mrs. Ilovt iluckufclluw yrlty have been visiting Mrs. Ko.-ke fellow's mother, itrs. Margaret llaus kett, have returned1 to ('amp Heunlng, Columbus, Oa. ,,v Miss Eunice Keel, of Allendale, Is visiting Mrs. A. E. Kennedy at her country home near Lugoff. Mr. Wilson Klee and Mr. Corbet t Itoykin will jspeud tho week-end in Savannah and Tjtoee, Ga. Miss HeEtte Maynard ln?s as her house guest this week Miss I>orothy Uoddlng. of Augusta, Oa, ( Miss Stella A. UalL Is visiting rela tives in Augusta, (*a. Mrs. William E. Turpi n, of Augusta, (?a.t Is the guest of Mrs. W. S. Alex ander this week. k" Mips Sarah Lewis has returned from an eight weeks visit to her Ibrothpr. Mr. C. R. Lewis, in Aitlanta. iMiss Marie Nash, of Sumter, is vis iting Mrs. W. J. Dunn. .. Mr. Tom Ancrum is on a vacation, ^m^tbrtng through the northern states wlith Mr, Clarence Banks, of Kentucky, who is pleas-antly remembered in Cam den, where he often visits, v :.;V Miss Elizabeth Thomas, of Charles tob, who has been visiting Miss Iie beokah I)elx>aehe has gone to Rldge way to visit frdends. Sflss Robeckah DeLoache is visiting in Laurens. iVfl^.JSlizaboth Heath, of Heathwood, hear Columltda, and Miss Ella Craw for Heath, of Wlnnsfboro, were the guests of Miss Naney Lindsay this week, Mr. and Mr*. John Kliame and Miss Mattie "Gerald were visitors in Col umbia Sunday. Miss Mattio Lee Beuson of Charles ton is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Beulah Barfield. Miss Tillie GeJsenheimer aix'nt Tuesday in Columbia as the guest ()f her lister, Miss Helen Geisenheimer Miss Eiise Kirkiand left Wednes day evenlug for a visit to friends in Philadelphia, Penn. Miss Edna Tiller of West Wateree wks a visitor in Camden this week. Mrs. Ira B. Jones and children 'of I>anca?ter after a visit of several weeks to home folks . have returned home. ti Mr. C. J. Shanuon, Jr., and son Charlie have gone North for a stay of several weeks. 'k'nd Mrs. Burrier left this week for Knoxville, Tenn., to visit their old hQuie. Mr. Burrier will return in a few days, while Mrs. Burrier will re main for a longer visit. iMr. and Mrs. Guy Gunter and chil dren of* Greenville are visiting at the (home of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Blark well Mrs. Lawrence A. Kirklartd left Wednesday night for New York to visit Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Allen. : . Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Wooten, Mrs. Sallie Blakeney and Miss Lai Bla keney left Sunday morning for New York. Niagara Falls, and Canada. Mr. and Mrs. HeBry Eiehel left Wed nesday night for New York. Mr. FMchei will purchase his fall goods. Miss Mattie Gerald left Monday night for the North. While away she will purchase fall sto<?k for her mil linery parlor. Mr. and Mrs. II. K. Hal let t, and lit tle daughter Katherine left Wednes day even/ng for New York, Boston and Peterbor<? N. II? whertj they will apend several weeks, Mrs. Hallett and b$by going to St. Louis for a visit be fore returning to Camden. Mr. John K. Aull of Columbia was in the city the latter part of the week, lie was Just from Camden, after per forming his duties there as court ste nographer. The reporter was truly glad to see his good friend after a prolonged "absence from sight." J no. K. Aull Jias one of the best hearts that ever beat in the breast of man.?? Newberry nerald and Now?. Mr. J. E. Vanghan, a former citi zen of Camden, with two of his grand children, ts spending a vacation of a couple of week's in C'-amden. He is stopping with his sister, Mrs. W. W. Hudkabee. Mr. Vanghan comes to Camden nearly every summer for his vacation, and he has nuirtbers of friend* here who are always glad to welcome him^buck to his native home. For many yean he was the leading gtoe^r in thia city. Mr. C4yde OlUam. of Atlanta, Is vls itiiiK relatives Lor*-. Mrs. M. W. Mi"-vVjanQ, who has been spending sometime here with her sl>? ter, Miss Cornelia Mlekle, has gone to Washington. 1). C. Mr. William kelson was a week-end visitor In Cheraw. Miss Anna Kate Alford leave# today for Columbia, whi*re she. will .spend a few days before going to the moun tain*. < Ml ss Margaret Law. of Florida Is visiting Mrs. .Taek Whltaker. Jr. Mr. nod Mrs. Henry Sfcvage and fainl'y left by auto Wednesday for the mountains. Miss Margaret Burnet and Miss Harriet W hi taker are tepeuding time at Little Switzerland. In the mortmains. ?? > Mrs. Sanders as Hostess. Mrs. II. <?, Sanders was a charming hostess to forty or fifty friends at a delightful tea, Friday afternoon at her homo on Fair Street. Tho lower floor was thrown* ensulte and taste fully decorated for the occasion with crepe myrtle1 and cut flowers. The dining room was attractively deco rated with .pink verbena. Those 'as sisting in the dining room were Mrtj. D O. Itoykin, 'Mrs. W It. DeLoache, Misses Katherine Boykln and Juraele Halle. Mrs. l^awrence Klrklanil served frozen punch during the aftemooa from a prettily decorated table. l>uring the afternoon sandwiches, iced tea and cakes were served. The # , unique favors were miniature corsage bouquets fasliloned of candies and tied with lavender ribbon. . In New Home on UeKaJb Street. The Camd<>p >I>rug Co.. of which Or. It. T. (foodale Is manager, ha,s moved this week from their stand on Main Street to one of the new store buildings recently erected by MY. It. (I. Sanders on East DeKalb Street. This is in a new business sec tion of Camden* but it Is on the pub lic highway leading from east to west and already Is beginning to bo a i>op ular section. It is close to the post office building and very convenient to the general public, / Open Air Meetings of Circles. There will be an open air meeting of the Circles of the Women's Fori elgn Missionary Society of the Metho dist Church on Tuesday afternoon, August 15th. at 5 o'clock. Committees have been api>ointed to arrange for cars. M. K. Church Kpworth League. On Sunday night, August 13, the Senior League of the M. E. Church will give at 7 :IK> o'clock at the reg ular meeting, a one act play, "The Joy Finders."' You are cordially invited to attend. . Married. Mr. Alva Jason Rush, of Camden, and Miss Pearl Hazel Mahoney, of logoff, were married at the home of Rev. Edwin Muller, oil Sunday. Au gust 0th, the Rev. Edwin Muller of ficiating, <.* I>ied in Poverty. Charles Deville Wells, the ''Man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo," and hero of the celebrated soiu heard wherever the English tanguag' was HI>oken, in the early nineties, died at Paris on June 22, in such abject pov erty that his death has passed unno ticed until now, more than a month afterward. He was eighty-one yeiirs old. Wells, after a record run of lu'.-k at Monte Carlo, soon became a bankrupt. Ho had many other vicissitudes, in eluding several terms in jails and pen itentlaries in England and France, for obtaining money under false pretenses. He used to blossom out with inuny get. rich-quick schemes. One of them was a system whereby he claimed any rou lette wheel might be beaten by a player with a sufficient bank roll. Ap plicants for the system, however, gen erally were relieved of their bank roll before reaching the roulette wheel. Soda fountains are becoming more popular in Great Britain. Until re cently iced drinks and soda fountains were practically unknown outside of r<ondon, but they can n<m be found in most of the provincial cities of the kingdom. FREE! CALL or PHONE No. 10 Zemp & DePass Pharmacists and get a nice FLY SWATTER fives free by the Capital City Laundry. Family washing 5c per pound. Trucks call twice each week. Collars will net crack. Divide IHoecs* In October. Unless .something Ulliorsoon hapj^ng to olo? the \\ 1i?h*Is t?f routine ma chluery. the South Carolina dlocose. Kpiseotml chureh, should he divided t'"i in.illy ?>ftoh?>r 10. Art Ion whU!i will permanently separate the ui^ht aud lower parts of the stale will com? at a preliminary eounell jjuvt lux in Trinity chureh. Columbia. on that date. Ah the matter uo.w stands all for malities have been met and the divis ion needs only the sanction of the general contention. This ho<ly, whieh is the chief Kplseopal l>ody of the Country, will assemble In Portland. Ore., early in September. Ordinarily approval of the division will he a pn* fuuulaiy action ?_ ?? The general convention having sanc tioned tluv separation. the preliminary council will meet In Colunihla Octo her,10 with III shop Guerry of the dio cese of South Carolina presiding. Hon tine mutters will he disposed of ami then the lit. Kev. Kirkman (?. Finlny. l>. l>., bishop, coadjutor, will titke tluM'halr. From then on Bishop Flu lay drops the "coadjutor" part of his title and hocomog the bishop of the new diocese. * A name for the new dlocose will be selected at the meet lug of the prelim inary council. Several have been sug gested : Upper South Carolina. Caro lina, Columbia and N Northwestern South Carolina. While no one knows what name will be seleoted, it is un derstood that Carolina and (Aduuibla are those most protnlnently spoken of. The line of the new diocese is Ir regular. Counties of Aiken, Lexing ton. Rlohland. Kershaw, I.aneasteer. and those to the north and west form the diocese, while those to the south and east of this boundary Uu&...-forro the diocese of South Carolina.?Col umbia State. August 4. Mittle Must Serve Term. Columbia, Aug. 3.?The supreme court today dismissed the petition of E. N. Mittle for a rehearing of his and ordered the remittor forwarde<l to Orangeburg. Mittle, former Greenville inecfcanl, killed .T. H. Patterson, a clvijl euglneer in Orangeburg county over n woman. He was convicted of man *? slaughter and sentenced to serve nine years. The supreme court recently de nied him a new trial and hls(attorneys sought to get a reargument. but the court refuses the request. Fifteen counties have reported the enrollment to Harry N. Edmunds. sec retary of the state Democratic execu tive committee and the figures of these 15 sho"w a total enrollment of 84,430 as rompav.ed with 58,042 for the same counties in 1020. Greenville leads the 15 with 10,132, while ttichhind Is sec ond with 12,000. HEAD ' Came Near Killing Own Child. Union. Aug. 3.?Clara Belle Gault. the 13-ynr-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. .T. Henry Gault, a well known merchant of West End, came near be ing shot to death by her father this mornlng<iat 4 o'clock for a burglar. I| seems that she became hot and was sit ting in one of the windows In the bed room. In dome mnner she moved, wak ing her father suddenly and he drew a .38 special Smith and Wesson pistol covering the young lady, not knowing who shcw&ti and demanded of her what she was doing In the window, so Mr. Gault is advising his friends today to know what they are doing l>e.fore pull ing the fatal trigger of his gun.' It is possible that if Mr. CJault had not been a brave man the fatal shot would have been fired. Representative Lemuel C. Padgett, of Tennessee, died in Washington, Wed nesday, ?fter 22 years of service In the house. -f FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on Saturday, September 2, 1922, I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Guardian of May Belk minor, and on the same date I will apply to the said court for a final dis charge as said fJuardlan. J. R. BELK. Camden. S. C.. August 2, 1922. Notice to Debtors and Credit^. All parties Indebted to the estate of Dr. L. W. Nettles, deceased, are hereby notified to make payment to the un dersigned, and all parties having claims against the said psfate will pre sent them duly attested within the time prescribed by law. W. F. NETTLES. Administrator. Camden, 8. C., August 3, 1922. STOCKHOLDERS MEETING. Notice is hereby given by vfrtue of a resolution of the Board of Directors of tho Kershaw Motor Company, that a meeting of the Stockholders of the sold Company will be hid on Tues day, .September 5th, 1922, at eleven o'clock a. m., at the office of the Ker shaw Motor Company, In Camden, S. C., for the purjpose of considering and acting upon a resolution to dissolve said corporation end surrender the charter thereof. All Stockholders orf the said Com pany are hereby notified of said meet ing and requested to attend, J. J. lftoKBNZIB, Prealdent. I. J VfcKBNZIB, ReoTreas. Camden, 8. O.. Aug. 2, IMC WHY NOT ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS? *' ? 'S < . ? i\ . ? ' . . ' . '? - . .. ?<' : " ; i . ? ' ' Bulletin Boards, Road Signs and Signs of All Kinds AD SIGN SERVICE pver Snyder's Store - Corner Broad and DeKalb Streets Ullje (Eamiten Jftlnral (Emiijrang WILLIAM L. GOODALE, President Flowers for All Occasions :? ? 'V* y Phone 193 Camden, S. C. DAIRYING IN LEE COUNTY.' MeCutliclien Says His Cow# Cut Ferti lizer Bill In llnlf. Fear of the relentless boll weevil combined with the departure of the cattle tick on the arsenic route iuduced 10. B. McCutlichen of Bishupville, S. C\. tp establish a herd of Guernsey eat tle. What the result has* been was feel logly eompre?ved Into a single seuteuce by this new recruit to the runks of the dairymen. "I dou't know what would have become of nu> since 1020 If I had not had my JumvI of et>ws-to-4>rlng lue a regutar Income." Mr. McCut cheat now has a heard of .Ho vows and isolls his milk In Blshop ville for ir? cents a quart or .r?0 cents a gallon.'\ He cnn not say too much In ,pralse of dairying, both from the standpoint of direct returns and the improvement of the soil. He now spends less than half as much for fer tilizers on his dairy farm than he did before he established bis herd. Ma nure, he says, not only benefits the cur rent crop, but the effect of one appli cation canb e noticed for several years. Hip crops of silage com arc now grown on this farm with no commercial for- j tlllzer whatever, and In the fields of suiifll grain there Is a conspicuous line of dcmarkatlon between the part that was manured and the unmanureH part. He is now making more corn, oats, and wheat <per acre than ever before and the growth of cotton is greater, but the Weevil cuts the yield of lint. On this 300-acre farm some mixed feed and wheat bran ary bought, but most of the ration is home-grown. Dependence Is placed on pe&vlne hay, velvet beans, corn meal, ami corn si lage. Mr. MicCutchen has two other farms, and he intends fo q>ut cows on all of them as the tick Is. gone for good. The cow, he says, brings in money dally, weekly, ami monthly. Mrs. Harriet de Kraftt Woods, su perintendent of the library of Con gress, started work as a clerk in the library and gradually worked her way up to her presen-t post. Bunk Harris, a negro, was lynched at Hot Springs, Arkansas, Tuesday for the killing of Maurice Connolly, an In surance solicitor. Greenwood Man Hadly Wouiuled. (Jreeuwood, August 7, - ? Oscar Mitchell, second *>11 aeman for the Greenwood baseball team, was shot, three times through the lungs, arms ami leg* It Us alleged, hy R- Clayton Underwood this afternoon a short time before the game between Green wood and Anderson .began. Tho shoot ing occurred In front of Underwood's house in Grendel Mill No. 1 village. Immediately after the shooting Un derwood eame up town and surren dered to Deputy Sheriff T. W. McMil lan. "I've Just shot a man and I've come to"*sftm4rtier," he told Mitlan. H<j was lodged jn jail and L? being held pending the outcome of Mitchell's wounds. Mitchell was carried ti> the Green wood Hospital Immediately after the shooting and is said to be In a serious condition. After Mitchell had beeu shot down he Is said to have taken Underwood'** pistol fpom him and hit. him over the head with it. The cause of the quarrel which precipitated the shooting cannot be learned. Under wood refuses to talk and Mitchell Iff too seriously Injured to make a state ment. Members of the Underwood family and neighbors say they do not know what the trouble was alwiut. | Joe Richardson, colored, of Heath I Springs. is iti the county jail, having I confessed to setting fire to the home ? of Mary Fraser, also colored. Joe claims that he wanted to "get even** I with Mary. Mary's husband recently ! died under circumstances Indicating that Joe mightv#Jtve hastened his <fr}> inlse, and officerfrjfcre Investigating <thfs phase of the mdtter also. Joe will probably face trial on chnr^es of arson and murder both.?Lancaster Citizen. Child Dies From Rite of Mosquito. _ Greenwood, S. O., Aug. 3.?diloo<? poisoning caused by a mosquito bite, is-ibelieved t<?-have caused the death of Elizabeth Strom, the? three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Strom of Co'lison, in this county." DR. R. E. STEVENSON DENTIST Crocker BniMing Camden, 8. C. < FOR MOTOR LUBRICATION Is the right oil for your motor. Elimi nates friction STANDARD Oft. COMPANY ? (NCW JERSSY)