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Camden Chronicle ? ?" ?? '? ' .. ' ' ' ' 'V ' 1 1 " ' ~ ? " * ? ' i-.-! J-- ' -1 -I. ? . fli. J . J....! . ...... ? M, ..JUL CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1923. NUMBER SO. ' J" 'J! ? JJJLi NEWS or KIRKWOOli SOCIETY ? Huimening* ?f Interest Among Our ' Northern Viaiturn. With every available loom taken alHl hotels filling vacancies as fast art they occur, Camden is having her heaviest season. This week marks the apex, and un til April ftMt brings a break many events are crowded into the short in terval before Kftstor. Saturday, the 17th, is tho date for the Horse Show, whieh' holds forth great promises of success. The show will be held this season on the small polo practice) field in the pines and not as heretofore in the Race Track. The setting is ideal, and Hvwill prove a charming background for the many line animals now in Cam den. There are now nearly two hun dred )>olo ponies in Camden, besides many fine hunters, saddle horses and junipers. r The Camden contingent who at tended the Aiken Horse Show report ed it a great success. Aiken will be represented at Camden's exhibition as well as in the polo tournaments which begin on |the 19th. Fine polo may be anticipated dtiVi rig the week of the lUth to 27th. Many experts in the game aro .here, and more are ex pected. Frank Gulden,. L, A. Youpg und.C. C. Crawford are recent addi tions to the ranks. During the tournaments trophies from the Camden 1*010 Club and the Kirkwood Hotel are offered, and on the 124th the Southern Circuit Cup which is open to all teams in the Southern Circuit will be the much prized trophy. Golf tournaments are the order of the day on both Sarsfield and tho Camden Country Club links. - Hand some trophies are offered oh both courses, and much interest is mani fested by the large number of devo tees, of the royal game, now winter ing in Camden. Representative James Southworth Parker and Mrs. Parker, of Salem, N. Y., came from 'Washington after the adjournment of Congress, and art? visiting Mr. Parke's sister, Mrs. R 1). Ticknor at the Court Inn. A most attractive affair of the week was the cjyrd party, given on Monday afternoon at her home by Mrs. War ren Harris, in honor of her sifcter, Mrs. W. C. Boyle, of Cleveland, who is spending a week in Camden. There were three tables of auctipn, siTid later several guests came in for tea. Mrs, Robert Thome, of Chicago, iid Camden, made the highest score. Among the guests were Mrs. Robert. Thome, Mrs. Isaatf Newton Post, Miss Ualdwin, Airs. Edwin ? Mull?v Mrsr William Lambert DePass, Mrs. Ed ward O. Emerson, Ji*., Mrs. George <\ Willock, Mrs. John W., McCown, Mrs. John W. Corbett, Mrs. C. C. Romtrogger, Mrs. J. II. McNulty, Mrs. J. Terry West, Mrs. Roland ? ioodale and Mrs. Thomas West. Friday about sixty guests from ho tels and cottages went by automobile and on horseback to the cabin eight miles north of Camden for a day in the woods. The weather was fine and a good time enjoyed by all. After two month^s visit at Hobkirk inn, Mr and Mrs John Sweeney have returned to their homo in Detroit. Mifis Margaret Sweeney will remain in Camden until the Inn closes. , Mrs. Alexander B. Trowbridge is another winter visitor leaving within the past week. She returned on Mon day to Flushing, L. I. Mrs. Isaac Newton Post is enter taining her sister, Miss Baldwin,, of Kochelle, N. J., at her cottage on l/ake View Terrace. The many friends of Mrs. Robert K. Allen are glad to welcome her in her former home. Mr. and Mrs. Al len and their little daughter are down from New York and are visit ing Mrs. Allen's aunt, Mrs. J. T. Hay .'?ad other relatives. For the benefit of the Camdeii Hos pital a subscription dance will be given at the Club House on the eve 'ling of St. Patrick's Day, March 17. Tickets are two dollars for each per son. The patronesses arc Mrs. Clar ence Morgan, Mrs. Robert W. Pome roy, Mrs. N. S. Simpkins, Mrs. Robert Marye, Mrs. Stephen Robinson, Mrs. Ralph Shannon, Mrs. Robert Martin, Mrs. William Peake. Fld&r Commit tee?Ward C. Belcher, Robert Mar tin, Bisscll Kennedy. ' Hotel Arrivals. Hobkirk Inn^-Jame* V. Davis, D. C. Percival, Boston; Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Downey, Herman Vine?i?tj. New Hpchett?; Mr. and Mrs. 1? A. Arthur, Pittsburgh; Dr. W. t. Porter, Bo* ? | " * v : Court Inn: lira. Grace Maaury, Mr*. P. A. Sturgis, Mi*s Edith Stnr A WORTH* NRORO ll RAO; Torn Johnson Had lieen Trusted Km ployee For Many Yearn. "ji-. Diath claimed n highly respected, ts usted and useful citizen of Camden when on Friday afternoon, last Tom I Johnson depurtcd this life at his res idence in Camden, S. C\, in the THrd year of his agei ' Tom's mother and grandmother were exceptionally fine women whose loyulty to their friends and devotion to duty justly nreritod that regard and respect which they received from those who knew them. His boy hood days spent on the premises of n Presbyterian minister and his early associations were exceptionally up lifting. Thus can be traced a fine heredity and n desirable environment ii\ the formation of the splendid char acter which lie possessed. Hij life was one of service. For twenty-p|ix years, he was janitor of' the Camden Graded School, where he . was trusted by the teachers and loved by the children. He was sexton at the Lyttleton Street Methodist church for twenty-three years, As 'sexton of two of our churches and janitor in ttye Court House he was efficient and faithful. At the bedside of hi* friends, white and colored, he was a gentle, tender nurse. oWe don't remember* that Tom was much given to speaking in public he was. too modest. uo remember how his fine old face was lighted up "With a smile as he cheerfully did his day's work. His life of self-abnega tion, love and gentleness was more eloquent than anything he might have said. At Mt. Moriah IJaptist Church on( last Sunday afternoon many of his friends, white and colored, attended his funeral as a mark of respect to the memory of an honest, (loci fear tag man. gis, Miss Sturgis. W. S. Baldwin, of Now York; Mv. 'and Mrs. Ralph P. Aldcn, Mrs. James F. Bidwell, Spring field; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Struth ers, Jr., Miss Jackson, Noroton, Conn; Miss Annie G. Mian, Boston; Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hussey, Danvers; Mr. and . Mrs. JL. F. Lohman, J. F. Lohman, Jr., Brooklyn; C. B. Whithey, Spring field; Mn and Mrs. P. K. Hartman, Brooklyn; Richard C. Paige, South bridge, Mass. Kirkwood Hotel: David Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Smith Taylor, Madison, N. J.; Mrs. II. Morton, Rye; Jlr. and Mrs. F. L. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Russell, Ridgeway; Mrs. Frank B. Garland, Miss Matilda Car land, Nutley, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Jas. A. JSmith. Brooklyn: A. VY Perry, Mrs. K. N. Larkin, Boston; G. S. Reynolds, Mt. Vei/ton; W. G. An drews* Buffalo; Mrs. \\Tm. M. Law rence, New York; Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Bottomley, ?' Haddonfield, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Reeve, Westfield, N. J.; Mrs. C. W, Moss, Miss Esther L. Moss, Lockport; Mrs. Fleming Newbold, Washington; F. II. Town send, Detroit; G. E. Rice, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ryerson, Miss Joan Ryerson, Lake Forest; Mr. and Mrs. J. Harvey Williams, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gulden, Hemp stead; Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Pil ch'er, New -York; Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Danforth, Buffalo; Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Lamy, Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Pullen, Baltimore; Walter G. Hardy, Charles ton, W. Va.; E. L. Mattack, Philadel phia; Mrs. T. W. Blake, New York: John W. B. Brand, Harold Ley, of Springfield; Dr. and Mrs. William I). Briggs, Bridgeport; J. W. Estsbrook, Boston; L A Young, C. C. Crawford, Detroit; O. W. Loomis, W. G. Kranz, Mrs. Kranz, Miss Alice Kranz, Cleve land; John C. Haymaker, Pittsburgh; Mr. and Mrs. John C. Owen, Ean Claire; John II. Mann, Miss Marion Mann, Buffalo; W. C. Belcher, Mont-' clair; John W. Thomas, Hartsdale; C. J. Parker, Bronxville; Mr. and Mrs. Hartwell Greene, Cambridge; Miss Flore G. Siiuth, Scranton; Mr. and Mrs. J. Van Nortwick, Batavia, 111.; Mrs. D. Clinton Whiting, Passa dena; Mr. and Mrs. James W. Eus tis, Boston; Mr. and Mrs. Willard Smith Lee, Mrs. J. Henry Fletcher, Arthur W. Fletcher, Boston; Walter S. Miller, Toledo; Mrs. L. W. Borden, Miss Penelope Borden, New York; Mrs. J. W. Graeme, Miss Alice Graeme, Mrs. Ralph Hammer, Mis3 Georgine Wilde, Miss Louise A. Smith of New York; Mrs. Chauncey B. Chapman, Flushing; Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Taylor, Haverhill; Mrs. A. L. Chase; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ward, Boston; Mrs. George Thorno, Miss Eleanor Driscoll, Chicago,. Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Cromwell Woodward, Utica; Mr. and Mrs. Stanley P. Jad win, Brooklyn; Howard Morton, New York;' Mrs. R. G. Morris, Jtfew York; Mrs. George Swift, Sound Beach; Mrs. R. W. Ebling, New York; Mr. ?ill iff*. W. B. (tore, Mr. and Mrs. John Wllkihdon, Miss Gladys "fills*, Syracuse; Mr*. F.~F. Cheney, Buffa lo; Capt. and Mrs. J. A. Ouemfnyaad, of Haranna. ~ - CAMDEN HOY RETl'KNS. Talk*! of Occupational Army in Cob ltna District. v y * mmi* Nov.- York* March 7. ? William McD. j Young, of Camden, South Carolina# has just returned to tho United States among the last of the group j of secretaries of the American Y. M. C. A., serving with the A.. F. in G. j in CJoblenz. Young's welfare activities began m j August, 1918, in France where he was placed in charge of one of tho large warehouses used as a supply depot for the Fourth Army. -I When the Third Army settled down to the task of guarding the Cob leir/. bridgehead, he was transferred to the Rhine to guard the incoming and outgoing of supplies reouired by the Y. ior its soldier huts in the oc cupied territory. "Nothing finer has ever been ac complished by an invading army," You rig said, 4 'than the process by which tho attitude ttf tho German peo ple was completely changed from sul len resentment in the first days of the occupation to respect, then ricjK miration and finally, genuine affec tion. "I asked a fine old German woman if she had seen the lowering of the America? flag for the Inst time from the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein. 'Yes,' she said, 'and I cried even more then than the day that flag was first hoisted.' "The burden of discipline fell to the Military Police and it was due to their firm but just treatment that there was so little friction ar^d splen did obedience to necessary rulings. Just bcfqre the departure of the troops, a group of Germans descend ed, late in the night, upon the print ing establishment of a newspaper which had espoused the cause of a' separate Rhineland Republic. Some damage was done but still more was planned the next morning. There Kvore at least 5,000 people in the streets around the newspaper office when a riot eall was sent in. This brought an automobile hurrying to the Scene with four American M. P.'s in it. Without pulling a gun or the least show of violence, those four men dispersed that mob without fur ther damage to the printing plant. It would have taken a regitrient of German or French police to get the same result." v y Young points . out that since the occupation of the Ruhr by the French, the atmosphere is electric with misgivings, doubts, and anxiety on the part of the Germans as to the future. They regret the .depar ture of the Americans, feeling tnat their only hope for peace has been taken away from them. This regret, he says, was shared by the Americans who felt they were leaving Cobleriz with European conditions in the most chaotic and critical state since the armistice. "The Y. was With the troops until the transport St. Mihiel cast off its hawsers and started on its home ward Voyage. At the request of the army, a group of Y workers, accom panied The men on the all night trip from Coblenz to Antwerp serv ing coffee and sandwiches. In the early morning every officer and sol dier was given a warm breakfast at an improvised canteen set up on the dock. Great as was the regret of the men on leaving Germany, greater still "was their genuine reluctance in parting with the men and women who had made a home for them 8,000 njilcs from home." New Parking Rules. We have been tojd by members of the eity council that probably next week new rules for motor vehicles will go into effect since the advent of the payed streets and motorists arc inclined to speed. Silent sentinels have been ordered to be placed at all of the important corners and new ryles will be Aadc as to speed, park- J ins: and at corners. A notice of the j rules will bo published in a later dato of the two city papers. BILLY SUNDAY COMING. Will Hold Services in Camden Next Wednesday Morning. Rev. W. A. (Billy) Sunday, the fa mous evangelist, now conducting a revival in Columbia, has assured the Camden people that he will make a visit here on Wednesday morning, March 21st. Some time ago a com mittee from the churches made a visit to Mr. Sunday and asked him to make a visit to Camden and our people win be delighted to know that he has ac cepted the invitation. Secretary 'Sanders of the Chamber of Commerce lalso wrote to Mr. Sunday asking him to come over, and his reply to ?ir. Sanders is given below, the date hav ing been arranged with Mr. Sunday by telephone since the receipt of his letter to Mr. Sanders: Columbia, S. C., Mar. 13. Dear Mr. Sandets: I am planning to make the visit at Caftden. Prob ably-wt iwake it bestsome week-day morning, as Mr. Matthews suggested to your committee. Don't know just yet when jjjKUl be frat will atoe yoil in lime to get y oar folks to gether. Thank yon for your kind DfPFBRRpCIS IN NKKDS |On? Hundred Per Ont Increase Is Possible at Timen Says A|?cnt. Rt'cently. in a public nutting j for fanners charts showing the differ ence in yields of cotton from various rows in n plunt-to-row plat wttre be< in# exhibited when an elderly farmer jumped to his feet and said: ?J)o you mcam to tell us ^t hat as much a* 100 per cent greater yield is possi* ble fro m rows of the same length, same plot, upon thw same ground; j fertilized and cultivated al^ke, and ; that the only difference is in quality [of the seed?" It was thci^ explain j ed that the needs which had prod tic j ed the rows in question came from 1 different mother plants in the same ; field the year before, plants specially ! nelectcd as (food /individuals, and j that the results shown were correct, i nbt guess work, t This fanner was absolutely sincere I in his disbelief, says L. Carberry,, ! who was displaying- the charts. He had never tried in any definite way the principle of contrast, between high and low yielding seqds. Differ i encu in quality in seed was explain ed dfc existing in many cases to even ! greater extent than in other things, i that it is a matter of selecting seed J j from the very best mother plan's ? grown under normal conditions, find J ing out then the standard of quality, j and constantly perpetuating only the J best strains. j rTjy1 farmer sank back in his seat j > rewRikin^ -r "Well, 1 never would' j haye believed that such a difference i i could exist in seeds." | Lots of other farmers think the j i same way. They have for one rea- i ( son or another been t6o neglectful ' ! of the quality of seeds. They have 1 j employed no method (other than per- j haps the eye) for distinguishing the ! high from the low yielding seeds. | They have planted altogether with OUj. considering that there is a niark j etl difference in quality of seeds and | that one hundred per cent greate/ jyields Is well worthy of considera- ] tion. J. W. Sanders, j I Presentment of Grand Jury. j To His Honor Judge S. W. (i. Shipp, , Presiding Judge of the March term I of Court for Kershaw County, 1923. j We beg to say that we have passed j on all bills handed us by the Solicitor. A committee inspected the jail and ! premises surrounding and found same . in good conditiofi and well kept with j j the exception of the floor in the front ( living room which is badly in need of i a new floor. Also a broken pipe in | the water line needs repairing. We find the Court House in good . ronditiorrexcepr Ijhe roof which le^ks j and should be immediately repaired. ; Also leaking under several window j sills which is discoloring the walls. It is reported that the Old Porter road from Nine Mile Post to the 13 mile post is in bad condition. About two miles of this road is a mail route. We recommend that the road be re paired at the earliest moment. The roads of the County from in- j formation seem to be in fairly good condition. From reports received the j schools 9f the County appear to be ! running smoothly with very little complaint. We wish to go on record as beiny; heartily in favor of the enforcement of the prohibition law and we hope every good citizen of Kershaw Coun ty will lend his or her influence to that end. Having just organized we have no report to submit on the several offices of the County but we understand that there is a controversy between the old Board of Commissioners and the newly appointed Directors of the County. Also a like controversy ex ists in the Auditor's office. We hope these differences will soon be adjust ed so the affairs of the county will not suffer. We have appointed a Committee to i look after the several interests of the j County and these will report at the j next term of Court. We thank the Judge, the Solicitor j and the Officers of the Court for the I courtesies extended us. All of which is respectfully sub mitted. I. J. McKenzie, Foreman. Large Cotton Mill For Camden. i Plans for a new million dollar cot ton mill are said to be under way for I Camden, and land adjacent to. the preseqt Wateree Mill site near the city limits has been purchased as a site for the new mill. Options on other lands have also been secured and it is expected work will com mence on the new building in a short l while. The present owners of the Wateree Mills and Loekwood, Greene and Company, with planta In many of the large cities are interested in the piUjCCl. TTydro -eT^ciric power wfJl be asvd. ' turned -from an extended vtott tn Charleston and at, Camp Bennbur, at Oohnnboa, Georgia. j , CO I RT GOING on mis wkIck Only Pew Criminal Cases Tried and 1 No Court Held Next Week. ^ h r _ ; The Spring term of court of gen- ' etnl sessions for Kershaw County,; Judge S. \V. G. Shipp, of Florence, presiding, convened on Monday morn ing. Solicitor A. F. Spigner and CpuVt Stenographer .John K., Aull, of I olumbia, and the local officers of the court, were on hand for the work. Mr. Cole L, Blease, of Columbia, moved for a continuance of the ease against Tom Uay, charged with rtiur der, on account of the absence of Mr. Mendel L. Smith, who in presid ing at Manning thin week as special judge. The motion for continuance was vigorously opposed by Solicitor Spigner, who contended that no legal excuse had been presented. Judge Shipp carried the case over until Fri day morning, with a view to going into it then, .should Judge Smith con clude the Manning court by that time. A true bill was returned by the grand jury in the Hay case on Mon day afternoon. ti During the. morning the bar decid- 1 .ed to postpone the civil court which ' was to have been held next week, | and Judge Shipp passed an order pro- I viding for. a special term of common j pleas court on the first Monday in! May. | In 'addressing the grand jury Mon- i day morning Judge Shipp compli mented them arid the county upon the fact that the entire eighteen mem bers of the panel lyul answered to their -name* on tfte opening morn ing of the term, thus permitting the organization of the grand jury and the starting of the machinery of the court without delay. ' I Judge Shipp delivered a strong j charge dealing with the general and | specific duties of the grand jury. Mr. ? I. J. McKenzie was chosen foreman. It has been generally commented upon by court officials who have ob? 1 served other courts that the jurors j. in this county are exceptionally [ prompt and willing in the perform ance of jury duty, and thtt^ease and ability with which Clerk or Court j Clybum .handles, the business of the j court, anil Sheriff G. C. Welsh se cures the attendance of witnesses are marked. A number of bills of indictment were handed out by the Solicitor, | C. W. Dodd, a white man was con victed of giving a false check for ! $75. Dodd at the time was working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Mr. W. B. Porter/ who reprc i sents the company jn Camden, en dorsed the check which was cashed by the Loan and Savings Hank, and which Mr. Porter later paid for the reason that Dodd had no funds in the bank at Raleigh upon which it was drawn. A sealed sentence was left for Dodd. James Bracey, colored, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill upon the person of J. F. Smith, by cutting him with a knife, was con victed by a jury of simple assault and battery, with recommendation to mercy, and was sentenced to serve thirty days, suspended during good behavior, Iiracey having already serv ed nearly three and a half months in the county jail. Bracey was not represented by coupsel. Walter Jeffries, white, chargcd with violation of the liquor lavpfi, was convicted with recommendation to mercy. Robert Shine, colored, pleaded guilty to house breaking and larceny and was sentenced to serve two years. M. O. Hatfield, white, was convict ed for violating the prohibition law. Wash Williams and his wife, Selina Williams, were tried for violating the prohibition law. Wash was convict ed and Selinn acquitted. Wash, who ^gave his age as 74 years and said he had been in jail four months, was sentenced to serve three months, two nponths of which was suspended dur ing good behavior. Alton Whitehead, white, aged H, pleaded guilty to larceny of a bicycle and was sentenced to serve two months. Joseph Roberson. young white boy, pleaded guilty to larceny of a bicy cle, and was sentenced to serve two months. 1 These boys jvere from Atlanta, Ga., and ytid they took the bicycles to got back home. They had been in jail two months. r Lloyd Yfesvwr, white, pleaded guil ty to of a watch, And was sentenced to serve two month#. Tb? case against E. M. Atkinson > t- 9 . - - - \ l3f .'II? _ A A.L.J ? - -'-i- -/a _ una nw ion, tttttw AisnTTSOn, wttttc, tried on Tuesday morning, charged with violation of the prohibition law, ? . tr.- -I.-:/.:. -! if I ii I ''this Tiiiiii) alarm;* Special Firemen's Picture at The MajcHtir Next Thursday. The ftt'emen of Camden a re bring ing to the Majestic Theatre next Thursday as a apodal benelU per fo finance "The Third Alarm," starr ing Ralph Ixiwis, said to bo the moat stupendous, spectacular and sensa tional picture ever shown in Camdtm.. and best described as follows: Roar ing flames, shrieking sirens, pound ing hoofs, choking smoke, flyitag sparks, throbbing engines, hissing streams, 'surging crowds, crashing Walls, screaming survivors, reckless rescues, pleading women, frantic men, piercing whittles, twisting girdles, dying embers, smouldering ruins, tho faithful horse,- the discarded fireman, tho *voung couple, the patient mother ? contentment and happiness at last! Tho admission to all will he ?Nh\ Per form, ance and 4:M0 and 7:15 and I* p. m. Circles to Meet. The circles of the Missionary So* ciety of . the Cfimden Baptist . Church will meet at the church for the gen eral meeting, Tuesday afternoon, the 20th of March, at 4 o'clock. Special Meeting. A special meeting Camden C'ommandory No, 1U, Knights Tom plar,1 is called for Friday evening, March Ifith, at K o'clock, for drill anil rehearsal. Attend if possible and be punctual. \V. Robin Zemp, Coihmandcr N. K. (toodale, C. (J. M. Hillings, Seeretary | , ; r | resulted -in a( mistrial. , Robert Williams, colored, was con vie ted of grand larceny, in the steal ing of two tiros, two rims and a ra diator cap from the automobile of Mr. W. A. Sanders, and was sentenc ed to serve nine months. , , H. L. Kotan was convicted of sin) ? pie assault and battery upon the per^ son of Hon Humphries, and was sen tenced to ]>ny a fine of $50 or to ? serve 30 days. . M. O. Ifatfield, convicted of storing whiskey; was sentenced to serve three months, two months beinjf suspended j during good behavior. I In* the case of the state against E. i M. AtkinRon and Willie Atkihsdiij J charged with violating of the prohi bition law, in which there had been a mistrial, Willie Atkinson, the son, , pleaded guilty and the case against IC. M. Atkinson was nol progsed. Willie Atkinson was sentence*! to - ? serve three months, two months of? the sentence -being suspended upon ? the service of thirty days in county jail. | Charity Green, colored, was con i vieted of breaking into the house of } Mr. Hufus Watts, near Lugoff, and I stealing two hams. She was sentenc ed to serve three months. W. P. Hughes, a young .white mar;, was convicted of bigamy, the two marriages being alleged to have oc curred, respectively, at McOoll, in Marlboro county, and at Camden. He was sentenced to servo six months ; and pay a fine of $500. Landy Laney, white, was convicted of malicious mischief, in the shoot ing of a cow, the damages being fixed by the jury at $18, and Laney was sentenced to pay a fine of $75 or to serve thirty days, the sentence being suspended on condition that tho de fendant pay the costs of the trial and pay the prosecuting witness the amount of $1X damages assessed by the jury. All other jury cases having been disposed of, Judge Shipp stated that he would not hold the jury over un til Friday for the trial of tho Ray case under the uncertainty surround ing the probability of being able to take it up, in view of Mr. Blease's motion for a continuance on account of the absence of Judge Smith hold ing a special term of court at Man ning. Judge Shipp granted a now trial in the ease of Walter Jeffries, con victed of violation of the prohibition law, on the ground that he did not feel that the verdict was v warranted by the evidence. In the case of tho two Atlanta youths, Alton Whitehead and Joseph Koberson, who pleaded guilty to steal ing bicycles, citizens of Camden po sitioned the court to allow them to return to their homes upon funda raised by public niiliwi iJj'Mnili ' til ? funds having been raised. In, accord knee with the petition Judge Shipp suspended sentence* during good be havior *#n condition that the boy? re turn home, the fJlwi Iff to btry their tickets and put them on the Atlanta train. ?. ^ . ... ? * -- - . !