The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 23, 1923, Image 3
01 DEBT HALE 0 COTTON.
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Laurens Man Has One That Was
ked During Civil War,
Recently. writes a Laurens corres
pondent, ? story was carried in the
Georgia newspapers to the effect that
a Georgia farmer owned a bale of cot
(oh t hat WAS thirty-eight years old,
ami added to the Htatement was the
claim that the cotton was the oldest
ha le in existence. The Ueogia bale of
the fleecy -staple is a comparative
youngster when its age is chalked ui>
against a well preserved, retired Lau
lt i). (ounty produced bale, which will
this year, mutely, though nevertheless
truly/ celeBrate its sixtieth anniver
ai y. The Laurens county raised bale
of cotton may be the veteran bale of
? staple in the vyhole wide world. It is
a relic of the ThompsonrFleming fam
ily and has fer many years reposed
in the archives of one of the local
bonded warehouses. The bale is tho
property of Mall Fleming, a young
' farmer of Ora, and was produced by
Mr. Fleming's grandfather, Thomp
son, on his farm near Mountville, in
the year 1863. The bale which weighs
about 400 pounds, was ginned and
packed by the alow process that ob
tained during those days, hoops being
used instead of steel ties and bagging
for wrapping as now. It has been
re-baled once or twice and thus well
cared for and preserved. The staple
of the bale is very good, it is said,
though it has never been sold, not
withstanding the fact that fancy
prices have been offered fo,r it from
time to time. Since this bale has been
in existence cotton has sold for GO
cents a pound in gold, and the price
fu,- the staple has sagged to the low
level of 8 1-2 cents for the same grade
Counting the war period from which
it emerged, this artcient bale of cot
ton has survived three wars, several
panics and i$ entirely oblivious to the
boll weevil struggle and menace that
now attends tl^$ growing of the great
est commercial commodity in the uni
verse. " 1 '
The commercial value of the old
bale of cotton today' is about $140.
If its original owner had sold the cot
ton when the staple commanded GO
cents per pound and placed the pro
ceeds at compound interest, it is cal
culated to make the best mathematic
ian dizzy in computing the accrued
amount to date.
Hilly Sunday Saw Execution.
Columbia, March 15. ? Jake Terry,
Hampton county negro, was electro
cuted at the State prison here today
for tho murder of another negro.
Among the witnesses to the execu
tion were Kev.* William A. (Billy)
Sunday and Albert Peterson, a mem
ber of Kev. Sunday's party, which is
holding a series of services here.
Kev. Sunday went to the prison !;o
talk and pray with the doomed negro
and du} not originally intend to wit
ness. execution.
As the prison officials led Terry to
the death chair immediately after the
lnief service, however, Kev, Sunday
went to the execution room and re
mained until the negro's body was re
moved. ? *
.yibert Peterson, custodian of the
Sunday tabernacle, remained with
the evangelist throughout.
SUSPECT ARRESTED.
Man Hold in .Mississippi Said To Be
Mills Moore.
York, S. C\, March 17. ? The sus
pect held in Hattiesburg, Miss., ja s
Mills Moore, wanted here for killing
Policeman T. R. Peninger, at Sha
ron, is the right man, according to a
telegram received here this after
noon from G. F. Peninger, son of the
slain man, who went to Hattiesburg
to identify him.
Moore has just been convicted of
-afebreaking, and sentenced to serve
five years, but the Mississippi author
ities are willing to^urn him over to
the South Carolina officers, it is said.
He still insists that he is not the man
wanted here,
Sheriff Fred K. Quinn will go for
the prisoner as soon as requisition
papers are made out und honored by
the governor of Mississippi. %
Mills Moore shot and killed Police
man Peninger at Sharon September
? ?0, 1918, when the latter was trying
to arrest him and his brother, Frank
Moore, for alleged disorderly conduct.
Hoth escaped for the time, but Frank
Moore was subsequently captured in
Haleigh, convicted of complicity in the
crime and sentenced to setve ten
years on the chain tfanK- After serv
ing a year or more he made his escape
and is still at large.
A reward of $150 is outstanding
for the arrest of Mills Moore. He
formerly lived at (rreenville, and has
a criminal record there, it is said.
Mrs. Tillie Klimek, alleged copart
ner with Mrs. Nellie Koulik, in the
feminine "arsenic trust," and alleged
to have murdered more than a dofcen
? friends, husbands and relatives, for
life Insurance, was found guifiy by a
Chicago jury Tuesday night and sen
tenced to life imprisonment.
NATION A I. J K\yiSII IIOS1MTAI.
At Oeqver To Ik* Scene i>f Unique
( ons t i?i inn in June.
Camden Jewry is interested itf the
announcement that Was made today
by the National Jewish Hospital for
Consumptives at Denver, Colorado, >f
plans for a unique convention, which
will IK' held there in June, and which
many prominent loeal ? Jewish resi
dents Who are supporters of the "hos
pital have been invited to attend.
While conventions usually mean th*
coming together of a small body of
delegate.*, this hospital, eager to hava
all those ,who are supporting it, see
the institution and take part in its ad
ministration, has sent out a general
call for the convention to fifty thous
and men and womefl throughout the
| United States* who are helping its
work, and is urging them ,to particl
| pate in the preparations which will be
.made ^t the convention for the cele
! bration of the twenty-fifth anniversa
ry of the founding of the institution.
The National Jewish Hospital for
! Consumptives was the first free hos
pital in the United States for the care
of tubercular poor. Men, women and
children have come to it for treatment
I from all parts of the country, and
since it was opened, with a single
small building, it has grown to be an
extensive institution with twelve
buildings contributing toward the
health of thousands qf sick patients.
The first building housed sixty-four
patients. To date more than four
thousand persons have been treated
at this hospital, and sixty per cent of
these have been restored fully to
health and economic independence. Of
the remainder, fifteen per cent have
been improved in health, and those
whose cases had advanced beyond
the stage of improvement wero made
comfortable and contented. A new
building for j the care of children was
(recently opened.
Occupational therapy is an impor
taut phase of the work i?f (his hospi
tal, turning, m>i only to gWfc the con
valescent patients occupation for
hands and brain, but to stye t h*-m
skill in paying and healthful ocupa
tipns. The hospital has its own trade,
school where in addition to Knglish,
Jiph\ , l>tt.)kk?'t i>inK and tailor
ing are iaugftt, The research labor
atories of this institution have concen
trated their efforts upon f\nd4ttg per
manent cures and methods of stamp*
ing out tuberculosis.
Originally sponsored by the 'Order
B'nai Brith, a great national Jewish
bOdy, the hospital now has directors
in all parts of the Unityd States,. The
national officers are N. L. Dauby of
Cleveland, president; Rev. W. S.
Fried ham of Denver, vice president;
David May of St. Louis, vice presi
dent; Hermon August pf New York,
B. Flesher, of Denver, vice president;
Chaa. H. Studin of New York, vice
president; Herman Wile of Buffalo,
vice president, MrB. S. Pisko, of Den
ver, Secretary, Ben Altheirier of New
York city, treasurer. The executive
eo'inmittee is composed of Ben Al
theirter, Hermon August, Louis D.
Beaumont, N. L.- Dauby, Alfred A.
Bint^ch, [J, Flesher, Rev. Dr. W, 3.
Friedham, Sol S. Kiser, Adolph Kraus,
David Kay, Nathan J. Miller, and
Chas. H. Studin.
Among the local residents interest
ed in its work is Mr. L. A. Wittkow
sky.
Penitentiary Recruits.
Camden sent five prisoners Friday
morning. Four white men and a De
gressive re in the party from Ker
shaw county. Loyd Weaver will serve
two months for larceny. M. O. Hat
field will sorve one month, and Willie
Atkinson will ^aerve one month for
violating the prohibition law. W. P.
Hughes will spend six months for bi
gamy. Charity, Green, negress, will
spend three months for housebreak
ing and larceny. ? Saturday's State.
. 0 The Drunk Man in the Car.
One day l?st week a ulch young
follow, Cull of whiskey aiul hilarious
in tlu- ownership ill' a h ?k K - 1 k?\s f ? ? il
automobile, run into a crowd getting
off a street car in Philadelphia, dash
ing three people to death. The affair
served to emphasise the condition of
recklessness which prevails there.
The indignation aroused caused a
sudden activity on the part of the
police in suppression of speeding. On
the Virst day, 500 automobiles were
placed under arrest for reckless driv
ing. The majority of the parties car
ried to the court hail no license or
were driving when drunk. The con
ditions of recklessness thus revealed
no doubt prevail to a more or less
extent in ail cities ? -it takes an affair
like that which aroused Philadelphia
to bring the public into realisation of
the situation. The Philadelphia po
lice declare the campaign against
reckless driving is to be prosecuted
permanently, but unless history fails
to repeat itself, the agitation will die
down and things will lapse into the
old condition and remain so until
another killing occurs. -Charlotte Ob
Server. ? '? ?- ' ? " ? '
Large Still Captured.
I*nncaster, March 20,-^-What is said
to be the largest and most modern
still ever seized in Lancaster county,
was brought'to town Sunday night by
Sheriff John P. Hunter and a party of
officers. The still, which was of cop
per. and 75 gallons capacity, was
found on the Rich llill place of the
Southern Power Company, 30 miles
south of Lancaster. The still was lo
cated in a deep ravine, which was sur
rounded by high hills so inaccessible
that the distilling was done in day
light. Twenty barrels were found at
the still, three of which contained 150
gallons of mash, which was destroyed.
Leading from the still was a well
beaten path, which led to the house
of Hen Montgomery, a negro, who
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with Robert Carless, Jim Stekenson
and George Nelson,, nefrfoes, wore
brought to jail, where each of them,
according to officers, made a full con
fession and implicated a prominent
white man of the community. A
warrant has been issued for his in
vest. Not knowing the still was lo
cated in Lancaster or Kershaw eoiinty
Sheriff Hunter hail ?Magistrate Wil
liams of Lancaster urn! Magistrate
Cook of Kershaw in the raiding1 par
ty, in order to be prepared.
This is the first still captured in
the eounty since last October when
Judge Peurifoy sent 1*1 men to the
roads, without a fine, for violation of
the prohibition law.
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in America. "
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