The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 06, 1923, Image 8
GENERAL NEW 8 NO TKS.
Items of Inter?nt Gathered From
Many Source*.
Union telephone operatprs in all the
Now England states except Connecti
cut, wont on a striko Tuesday morn
ing, 7000 operators walking out antl
leaving their, jobs;
Amateur burglars blew open a safe
in an insurance office in New York
Monday night and used ho much nitro
glycerine in their work that the safe
wan blown to pieces and the money
in the cash box wan torn to frazzles.
The building wait badly wrecked.
The * Hoyal Mail steamship, Cara
quet, went on a reef twelve miles
from Bermuda Monday night because
of u fog. The passengers were land*
ed safely but the ship wil be a com
plete loss.
Carlton Mathews, 22, attempted sui
cide Monday in his home in Philadel
phia, when he loarned that his 16
year old . bride bad married him on a
wager and had Haid she did hot lovo
her husband.
Lawrence K. Price, Philadelphia
salesman, killed his wife and then com
mitted suicide Tuesday. Heleft a pote
in which he said, "I am jealous, can't
live without her." Price fired five
shots into bin Own breast, one of them
piercing his heart. *
Seven ten cows, owned, by John
(JriefF, wandered on to the estate of
James B. Duke near Sumerviile, N. J.,
Monday and ate grass that had been
sprayed with a gipsy moth poison.
Fourteen of the animals died from
the poison arid three other* were shot.
The Pennsylvania state department
of labor says there is a shortage of
(>0,000 men and womon laborers in
that state. "White Collar" workers
and those, who will not accept work
are the only classes affected by un
employment.
Four persons were killed in the vi
cinity of New York Tuesday when a
spectacular electrical storm swept
over the city and suburb*. Bert Sa
voy and Jack C. Grossman, well
known vaudeville actors were two of
the victims of lightning.
Automobile fatalities in New York
city and state during May totaled
203 persons.
Mrs. Anna Buzzi, charged with the
murder of Frederick .Schneider, a
wealthy contractor of New York, last
, February, was convicted by a jury in
that city Wednesday night after delib
erating on the case for ten houurs.
Mrs. Buzzi attempted to prove an
alibi and to put the killing on her
brother-in-law. She faces the electric
chair, although sentence has not been
passed in her case.
Mrs. Mary Lonergan, 46, the moth
er of thirteen children, is on trial in
New York on the charge of having
killed her husband, Big Bill Lonergan.
She had been beaten and abused by
her husband almost all their married
life, and the killing followed the beat
ing of their 24-year old daughter.
Nuny Davis, negro woman, has had
her arm amputated because of in
fection caused by the bite of a "blue
gummed negro" woman, says a dis
patch from Moultrie, Ga.
Bandits in Chicago Saturday lock
ed the bookkeeper and a man clerk of
a contracting firm in a rear room and
escaped with the payroll of $5,000.
Tom Fields, of Thrift, was almost
instantly killed Saturday evening
nenr Mt. Holly. N.? (\, by a negro,
alleged to be one Brad Gordon. Fields
is ^aid to have been drinking. He was
shot four times.
Lightning set tire to two barns near
Hodges Wednesday, causing loss of
much feed stufl' and burning four
mules to death.
(!. D. Young, aged -11'. ami for lf>
years rail road agent at Simpsonville,
Greenville county, committed suicide
with a pistol Thursday. He is sur
vived by his wife and five children.
A telegram from Inman, Spartan
burg rounty, Wednesday said that
"five small children and one grown
person have died as a result of the
epidemic of measles which has been
prevalent in Inman for more than a
month."
.1. I). Fulp has ivMgneil as superin
tendent of the Abhevillr eity schools
to accept the position <>f high school
inspector, to which he was elected
Friday by the state board of educa
t ion.
Will Flowers, h well known contrac
tor of Dillon, was drowned Thursday
night in Fee Dee river when a boat
in which he and a friend were fish
ing upset,
Two thousand quarts of Scotch
whiskies, wines, champagne, gin and
beer were poured into the sewer at
Charleston custom house Thuursday
having been raptured and confiscated
by officers. Most of the stuff was of
foreign make.
Spartanburg county banks and cot
ton mills are paying out $700,000 on
stock dividends for the past six
months; which is slightly smaller than
last year. Greenville is paying about
the same. |
Three banks in Columbia have com
bined ? the Liberty, the Palmetto and
the Merchant* ? the two first named
national and the third state, with a
capital of $2,500,000 and a surplus of
$600,000.
THK PIKES OF MT. ETNA.
Volcano Han Been Active Since Kuril* I
est Times, Say* Bulletin.
"The newspaper mon who dre writ
hastily about Etna thorn? days were
-?( i k 1 1 ?i ? l Home year* ago by at leaat
three rather well-known fellow crafts
men: Homer, Titular and Plato,"
says a bulletin from Washington, l>.
C\, headquarters of the National Geo
graphic Society. "For this volcano,
gieatoht in Europe and ranking with
the greatest in the world, has been
pouring out lava and ashes, destroy
ing farms and villages and interesting
philosophers and scientists since the
world was young. Pindar was the
first writer to mention Etna'* fires, in
474 Ii. 0., and Hince that time more
than 100 eruptions are said to havo
taken place . .
"A much more remote history of
Etna has been pieced together by
modern geologists who look upon the
whole islund of Sicily as a contribu
tion from the great reservoir of mol
ten material under the*-. mountain.
They picture a time when the sea roll
ed over the site of Sicily. Then pre
sumably in the Pliocene, Etna's tip
emerged, and through the ages it has
steadily built itself and Sicily up.'
Etna might be described in the
terms of an Eastern religion as both
the Creator and the Destroyer. It has
created Sicily; its disintegrated lava
has given a soil of matchless fertility
Whieh supports rich vineyards and or
chards; and it hiiS drawn to its slopes,
in spite of obvious dangers, hundreds
of thousands of tillers of the soil and
their towns and villages. As one
wrltof puts it 'to.wna . succeed, tawnp
along its base like pearls in a necklace
and when a stream of lava effects a
breach in the chain of human habita
tion, it is closed up again as soon as
the lava has had time to cool.' Many
of the villages on the mountain's
slope are built almost exclusively
from black lava, and have a somber,
depressing aspect in consequence.
"It is on the lower slopes of Etna
where time and weather have most
completely broken up and washed
down the ancient lava, that the crea
tive side of the volcano is best seen.
Virtually the whole circuit is a gurden
spot of date palms, bananas, oranges,
lemons, olives, figs and almondsTVar
ther up are nut trees,? notably the
beautifully ordered filbert orchards
near. Castiglione ? and a forest zone of
chestnut, cork, pine and oak. Above
0,300 feet is the region that fire has
kept for its own domain ? a dreary,
rough, black desert of lava and ash.
Down from this region and into the
forest and orchard and farm zones,
tongues of molten lava have encroach
ed at frequent intervals. These are
left, significant warnings of Etna's
potentialities for destruction only so
lonjf as they must be. Some enter
prising? planters have blasted holes in
fairly recent lava flows and have
made the artificially fractured mate
rial support olive and almond an4 ci
trus trees.
"Few of the towns and villages
near Etna have escaped destruction
or serious damage from one or more
of the numerous eruptions. One town
that seemingly lives a -charmed exist
ence Is Uandazzo which, though less
than ten miles from the crater, has
always escaped. The city and port
Catania, about 20 miles from the
crater, has on the other hand, been
Etna's chief victim, and is reputed to
have sulTered more from eruption and
earthquakes than any other place of
Importance in the world. Because of
partial destruuetion in 122, Home re
mitted part of its^ynxus for a decade.
There in 1 1 GO the catKedral was over
whelmed by lava and its worshippers
and bishop destroyed. In 1069 a river
of lava rose above the 60-foot walls,
poured into the streets, destroyed a
large part of the city, and, flowing
into the sea. ruined the harbor.
"The streams that have poured
down Etna's sides during the past
ft-w days can hardly be different from
the numerous preceding flows that
have been sn frequently described. The
typical river of fire from Etna flows
in a relatively narrow stream. It
moves sufficiently slow so that men
and animals may keep out of its path
and large crowds of people assemble
to watch its progress. It is a crowl
of mixed emutionns. Beside the small
farmer, trembling, lest the stream de
stroy his valuable orchards, may kneel
peasants from the threatened village,
weepmg and praying that the flow be
deflected, and tourists from a far land
viewing -what can be to them a mag
nificent activity of Nature. Priests
head processions of the pious country
folk; candles are lighted, relics ex
hibited and altars set up.
"Beneath the rays of the sun the
stream seems black except when, like
the crest of a breaker, the edge of the
oncoming wave breaks disclosing the
angry, red interior and sending aloft
sparks as the falling material shat
ters on the ground. When night falls
the same activity seems tremendously
increased. The stream is now a river
of fl re, a thing of fascinating but
cruel beauty."
'AN ORDINANCE
To Amend "An Ordinance Authoriz
ing the Sale of One Hundred Thou- 1
Hand Dollars Certificate* of Indebt
' edncHM for Street Improvements of
City oj Camden, South Carolina."
Be it Ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Camden, and
by authority of the same, That "An
Ordinance Authorising the sale of
One Hundred Thousand hollars Cn
tiftcates of Indebtedness for Street
Improvement* of City of Camdon,
South Carolina," and ratified in
Council assembled the 18th day of
June, 1923, be and is hereby amended
ho that when amended said ordinance
shall read as follows: *
Sec. 1. That the City Council of Cam
den offer for sale One Hundred Thou
sand Dollars Certificates of Indebted
ness for street improvements of the
City of Camden, in denominations of
One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00)
each, bearing date the 1st of July,
1023, said Certificates of Indebted
ness shall be due and payable as
follows: Six (6) of said Certificates
of Indebtedness to be due the 1st of
July, 1024, and six (6) on each con
secutive 1st of July for the years
1025, 1026, 1027, and 1028; seven (7)
of said Certificates of Indebtedness
to be due the 1*1 of July, 1020, and
each of the years 1030, 1031, ? 1032,
1933, 1034, 1936, 1936, 1037, and 1938,
together with interest on said Certifi
cates of Indebtedness from the 1st
day of July, 1923, nt the rate of six
(6) per cent per annum, payable
semi-annually, payable at the Han
over National Hank, City of New
York.
J-Section 2. That the City Council
sell same either after advertisement,
as may he determined, or at private
sale. ,
Section 3. That Fifty-nine Thou
sand Dollars ($59,000.00) of said Cer
tificates of Indebtedness be ({olivered
at once after the sale Of same, and
the remaining Forty-one Thousand
Dollars ($41,000.00) of said Certifi
cates of Indebtedness be delivered in
blocks nor may be hereafter deter
mined by the City Council, the pur
chasers to pay accrued interest upon
all Certificates of Indebtedness. That
all bidders for Certificates of Indebt
ednessf shall be required to" deposit
with the City Treasurer before mak
ing bids certified checks drawn to the
order of the City of Camden, South
Carolina, upon an incorporated bank
or trust company, or a sum of money
equal to two (2) per cent of the face
amount of said Certificates of Indebt
edness, to secure the " 1 municipality
against any loss resulting from the
failure of the bidder to comply with
the ternis of his bid. The purchaser
or purchasers - of said Certificates of
Indebtedness is to have printed and
delivered to the City said Certificates
of Indebtedness ready for signatures
within fifteen days after the delivery
of same, at the purchaser's expense.
Said Certificates of Indebtedness to be
-promptly paid for when executed and
delivered by the City. That the City
reserves the right to reject any and
all bids. ?
Ratified in Council assembled the
29th day of July, 1923.
H. G. CARRISON, JR.,
Mayor, City of Camden.
Attest:
H. C. Singleton,
City Clerk.
Facts About South Carolina.
(By the Associated Press.)
The lowest temperature of record
in Sumter is three degrees below zero
Fahrenheit.
A total of 4'849 pupils were enrolled
in the Anderson city school in 1922
23.
The railroad distance between Co
lumbia and Sumter is 42.7 miles.
Resources of State and private
banks in South Carolina aggregated
$147,059,969.18 at the end of 1922.
Street railway companies were as
sessed at $1,428,578 for purposes of
taxation in 1922.
Batesburg with a population of
3,000 was the largest town in Lexing
ton county in 1920.
The_AV^rag?i^uuiunl snowfall " in
Orangeburg county is recorded as
four-tenths of one inch.
Salaries paid white men teachers in
? * w
^So"uth Carolina punT'TP" schools la*4
year totaled $1,218,615.18.
The automobile distance from Co- ?
lumbia to Sumter by the Wateree
river bridge is 44 miles.
The Southern Railway System had
1,158.74 miles of track in South Car
olina in 1922.
The elevation of Orangeburg coun
ty ranges from about* fifty feet to 370
feet above sea level.
Florence county in 1922 spent an
average of $2G.f>4 per pupil for edu
cation.
I/ee county's l'J22 tobacco crop to
taled 1.280,000 pounds, valued at
$204,400.
Beaufort county on .January 1 had
20,000 head of hog?, valued at $220,
000.
Marlboro county has 58 miles of
state highway and 442 miles of county
roads. The county last year appro
priated $42,000 for roads.
Hampton county in 1922 received
$4,725 from the motor vehicle license
tax and 3,589.60 from the gasoline
tax tor highways. j
Abbevile county's torn crop in 1922
totaled 520,000 bushels valued at '
$452,400.
A total of $3,004,000 was invested j
in the manufacture of electricity in
Richland county in 1922 and the out
put w*? valued at $472,044.
Laurens county has a totatof 96.02
miles of railroad track within its
limits. t
Nine white men patients at the
South Carolina State H6apital were
employed as musicians lut year.
The fint house of warship in Can
PLUNGES TO DE^TH.
Airman . Falls Into Ocean Near the
III* of i^almi.
Charleston, July 4.? '"Bugs" Mc
Gowan, stunt airman, lost, his life to
night at; the Isle of Palms, near here,
when his machine fell from a height
of about 700 feet, plunging into the
ocean. About 3,600 holiday visitors
saw the accident. Mrs. McGowan, the
airman's wife, was among the spec
tators; she had kissed the airman
just before he went up.
McGowan was scheduled to take hi?
plane high in the air\ set it afire and
escape in a parachute. The machine
was not on fire when it appeared to
fall, nose first. The machine struck
the surface with great violence and
McGowan is believed to have been
drowned. Hundreds of people rushed
down to the beach and several men
swam out, to the wrecked plane, but
found no trace of McGowan.
After taking the air, McGowan, fol
lowing his custom, circled over the
beach pavillion several times before
startnig over the ocean. The crowd
was on the alert for the "thrill" of
seeing McGowan come down in a
parachute from a burning airplane.
McGowan is reported to have been
strapped to the parachute, hut not to
the airplane.
At dayljght the search f Mc
Gqwan's body will begin.
McGowan was known in 'Hying cir
cles as "Bugs" McGowan and was a
native of Quitman, Georgia. He had
don$ stunt flying in a number of
Southern cities for the past two years.
A poll made by the Literary Digest,
New York, on the question of choice
of Democratic presidential nominees,
announced Saturday, gives the lead
to William G. McAdOo, for first place;
Henry Ford, second; Oscar W. Under
wood, third; Alfred E. Smith, fourth;
and James E. Cox, fifth place. Wood
row Wilson stood in sixth place.
den, of which there is record, was the
Quaker meeting house. . .
Spartanburg county is the most
densely settled South Carolina county
outside of incorporated places, with a
population of 93.6 persons per square
mile.
Four Hole Swamp, with its tributa
ries, is the principal drainage system
for Orangeburg county.
In 1920 Horry county led the State
j in pounds of pork produced per capi
ta of population with an average of
183.3.
The assessed value of water, light,
heating and power plants and trans
mission lines in Charleston county in
1922 was $931,625.
The annual mean temperature of
Florence is 62.8 degree Farenheit
and the mean annual precipitation is
46.55 inches.
Greenville county industries paid to
their employes in 1920 $8,873,931 in
wages. ? ' .
N?. 4W 73
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE '
MERCHANTS AND FARMERS BANK
LOCATED AT BETHUNE, S. Ci, AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINP??
JUNE 30, 1023.' '
Resource*
Loans and Discount# - $N0,52U
Furniture and Fixtures rr- ? ? ? ?
Bunking llouBe ? * ??> l,128j
Other Heal Estate Owned
Due Froiu Bsnks and Baukera -5,0tK>.|
Currency -- -- ? - ? --- * * ' ' 1.834J
Qold - --7 ? -
Silver aud Other Minor (x>lu . ?,? ? ? * V'4
Checks aud Caab Itecua . ***!*" . . ... ............. .
Other Resources
Total ? - m...' ? ? ? ? U
' Liabilities
Capital Stock Paid Iu ? * 120,000,
Surplus Fund -<4- jr"""* ? **' ; - 15M
Undivided Profits, leas Current Hspenaes ahd taxes paid .. . ,304?
Iudivldual Depoalta Subject to Check - ..32,034.64
Saving* Deposits . ? .... ? ........ 7,007.76
Time Certificates of Deposit .r. . ,49,685,80
Cashier's Checks 288.60 89 46H
*???? ----- ------ rui?j
State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw.
Before we came J. D. Laffltte, Cashier of the above named bauk, ?|
being duly sworn. saya that the above aud foregoing statement is a in
condition of said bank, as shown by the b^oks of said bank.
J. D. Lafitte. Cashier.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3rd day of July, 1923.
Correct Attest H. T. Lee, Notary Public,
For South Carolina
W. K. Davis
,B. W. Best, Directors
' E. B. King,
J. W. Watts, driving a Studebaker
in Greenville Saturday, collided \vith
a train on the P.- & N. road at the
Hampton avenue crossing. A six
year old daughter of Mr. Watts was
instantly killed, another daughter of
13 and an adopted daughter of about
the same age were severely hurt.
A convention of the solicitors of
South Carolina, held in Columbia Sat
urday night, decided "to ask for" more
money for law enforcement? to em
ploy detectives, investigators, et cet
era.
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Mill Pupils Give Recital.
The recital by the music and ex
pression pupils of the Wateree Mill
Village last Thursday evening, under
the direction of Miss Helen Williams,
music teacher, and Miss Brucie
Barnes, expression expert, was one of
the most delightful events put on in
village recently. Misses Williams and
Barnes together with their numerous
pupils who participated certainly de
serve a great deal of credit and the
thanks of the community for splen
did program, and unexcelled rendition
of same by their skilfully trained pu
pils. The Wateree Mill Vfllage Club
House was crowded With an apprecia
tive audience and the standing room
sign had to be put" up early in th
evening. Quite a number of ladie
tmd" gentlemen from the city of
den were present and enjoyed t|
program in conjunction with ttb
hospitable people of the Wntfcree MB
Village. Those-, who participated |
the program were a^TJollows: Mi^sJ
Mac Morris, Kate Shaw, MUrgarj
Barnes, Lillian Hasty, Grace Robuj
son, Alethea Sanders, Jesie Lee Rob
inson, Nellie Benton, Esther Barn?
Brucie Barnes, Grace Robinson, Rut
Robinson, Vera Anderson, and Cle
Hasty and Master Wiliam Johnson.
, Under the excellent supervision o
Miss Bertha Peppeard, Comraunit;
Worker of the Wateree Mill Villas
some very fine work is being don
and this mill village is one of tb
most up-to-date to be found in tb
southern states, as it has all of tb
recreational and amusement feature
to be found in up-to-d^te mill village
such as community club rooms, co?
muntyy worker, recreation groundi
music and expression experts, dome*
tic science teachers, swimming
base ball and tennis clubs, etc. Es
pecial attention is paid to sanitati#
and to the "City Beautiful" idea, at
the authorities of the. mill conte*
plate further improvements and recit
ational facilities at an early date.
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