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WATCH THE DATE ON YOUR LABEL ?L1 J - - -- ' - ' . ? \ rnm ? ? * .W * 9 ifHi^ ? ? ! m The Camden Chronicle WATCH THE DATE ON YOUR LABEL VOLUME XXXV. . CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1923. , NUMBER 25 RKTHCNE news notes. HapponinRH of Interest Ah Told By Our Correspondent. . fk'thujH'. S, C., Sept. 10. ? The reg ular monthly meeting of the School Improvement Association mot Friday afti'inoon. The following new officers were elected: Secretary, Miss Elise Hook; treasurer, Mrs. J. R. Sojourner. It was agreed to give a prize of $1.00 pt>r month to the grade having the greatest number of parents present. . The president also offered to give this amount as an inducement to parents to attend these meetings. Money to lu. used in the room of the grade winning. Mrs. B. L. Norwood and children of Me Bee spent . Saturday at the home of Mr. N. A. Bethune. Miss Helen Garland left Monday to enter training at the Columbia hos pital. I * Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Yarbrough and Miss Ruth Est ridge of Sumter ^vere the week-end guests of Mrs> K. T. Estridge. Mrs. M. O. Ward and daughter, Helen Pope, spent Saturday in Co lumbia shopping. Edward ' Sojourner returned Tues day to Wofford College to enter the junior class at that institution, i Ralph McCaskill of Raleigh, N. C., is with his pare.nts, Mr. and Mrs, J. A. McCaskill. Miss Katherine Myers of Fulton, Mo., who is puttingL_on the "Marriage of the Midgets" arrived Wednesday. This entertainment will be given in the school auditoriOm Friday under the auspices of the School Improve ment Association. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Horton celebra ted their 72nd and 73rd birthdays last Saturday. Members of the immediatfc family assembled to partake of the bounteous dinner prepared and to wish them many happy returns of the day. Miss Annie Yarbrough left Tuesday to resume her studies at Chicora College. Mijf.'J. P. Bethune and children arc visiting her mother, Mrs. C. L." Mays at Cartersville. I Messrs. A. K. McLaurin, W. E. Da vis and B. W. Best made a business trip to Atlanta this week. Miss Helen Pope Ward left Tuesday afternoon for Coker College. Mr. S. H. McCaskill, who is work ing in Florence spent the week end with his family here. CONFERENCE AT BETHl^E. Seaboard Development Agent Tells of Berry Possibilities. An important agricultural confer ence was held at Bethune in Ker- j shaw county at 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon which was well attended by farmers and other business men of Buffalo and adjoining townships. .1. X. McBride, Seaboard Air Line Railway Development Agent discuss al tho possibilities of blue berry cul fuie on the satid hill creeks around Bethune, where they grow in the natural wild state, pointing that if they grow in such profusion wild, th"y would do much better if cultivat <>1. In the course of his remarks he ' i'i about the blue-berry industry in a;.tl around Crent View, Florida, h was started about twenty - ????irht years ago, by Mr. Sapp, who "? '?till shipping berries. Mr. Sapp v< !d this year from 283 berry bushes *1100 worth of fruit. The northern markets are paying high prices for Ix rries and there is no reason why :heir growing would not be possible at Bethune, bringing in northern moiif-v in June and July, at the time hIkm it is most needed on the farms. Mr. A, E. Shilletter, extension h--.- r.icul turret of Clemson College told '^at the U. S. Department of Agri 'u.'.ure was doing to develop this n- A industry. He- discussed propaga tion and stated how blueberries had 1 n improved by selection. He also nt into detail in discussing the cul *ure of blueberries. Mr. J. W. Sanders, County Agent, '-aiked about the Greater Kershaw ' ounty Fair to be held in Camden November 15th and 16th and urged pai j icipation therein. Secretary E. I. '???ardon of the Camden and Kershaw ' ounty Chamber of Commerce urged the farmers to plant blueberries, cx fxhibiting numerous photographs of b urberry orchards now growing in Horida. Mr. Reardon incidentally 'bowed everybody how to get rich planting tobacco in Kershaw county. Servie# at Catfeotte Chnreh. Service at the Cathplic church on Sunday, September will be *t 7;30 a. nu All art cordially invited to atu&4 this fffke. ARENIC STARS AND ANIMALS Featured Under' John Robinson's Big Tops, Here October 2nd, i ? ? ? - The roars of the wild jungle beasts will soon strike the ears of the people of Camden, for John Robinson's Cir cus and Trained Wild Animals are scheduled to give two performances, afternoon, and night, rain or shine, >on Tuesday, October 2nd. This cir cus, which is the oldest on earth, comes on four trains on its 100th an niversary tour of the United States and Canada.1 And the Robinson man agement- will endeaveor to present under its mammoth seven pole tent a performance that will go down in circus history, as being beyond com pare. The prestige of John Robinson' in riding and clown displays will be up to all former standards and the most critical of circus fans, know that standard to be high. Favorite stars of the ring? Rudy RudynofT trio, Mary Bedini, Erma Noff, and Bernie Griggs will again be seen on the resin-backs, and famous riders from foreign climes will also be introduced. Two other big features, the scores of wild animals displays and the famous Morales Family will be featured on the program. This announcement means that the management has ex pended much money in gathering to gether the best for the patrons. As has been remarked, John Rob inson cqmes to town with "everything new but the name" and it is especially true on this tour, for the show is new from the opening spectacle, "Peter Pan in Animal Land," to the chariot races, with over 100 more people than ever before taking part in the perfor mance. ? A complete train has been added to the rolling stock to trans port the augfnented menagerie and Trained Wild Animals. The parade this season is said to be nothing short of an animated open air production, for huge sums of money and the conceptions of a big staff of specialists have gone into their "mile longer" procession, which will inau gurate the colorful activities of circus day. . - . Marriages. Married by Probate Judge W. L. McDowell on Thursday last, Sept. 13th, Mr, Sumter Jackson, of Blaney, S. C., and Miss Katherine Richburg, of Gastonia, N. C. Married by Notary Public B. E. Sparrow on Tuesday, Sept. 18th, Mr. Shelley C. Gardner, and Miss Nettie Knight, both of Kershaw, S, C, In a New Garage. Mr. F. V. Allen, who has the agency for Cadillac, Hudson, and Essex cars, and in addition is running a service station on these cars, is now located in the Savage garage on West De Kalb street. He has several of the cars on display in his show room, and tells us that the price went off Tues day for $75 on the cheaper models and $100 on the higher priced cars of the Essex and Hudson. Mr. Allen re cently moved here from New York and he and Mrs. Allen and little child are occupying a residence recently completed on Walnut street. Mr. Sam Evans, of Camden, will be asso ciated with him in the sales depart ment. Caterpillars on Cotton. Reports from all sections of the State tell of caterpillars stripping the foliage from cotton stalks,, but so far there has been no damage report ed so far as the bolls are concerned, in fact a report comes from Elloree, in Orangeburg county which says: "Fortunate for the luxuriant growth on the stalks the caterpillar appear ed and has destroyed all the top crop foliage, this deforestation letting in the sunshine which will open up more bolls than otherwise should have oc curred but for the merciful visitation. All the top crop has been surrender ed to the wpevil." A Chronicle man and some friends made a trip to the Sumter county State farm under the management of Mr. John M. Gleijn, of Anderson county, and found many fields of cot ton in that section literally stripped of its foliage ? giving ? the cotton field an unusual appearance, caused by the rqillions of caterpillar* eating every loaf in sight. The trip to the State farm poved in teresting to the party. I^arge brick barracks house the convicts and it being Sunday they were all in their quarters. There are sixty-three at farm? with nomo ? oight or tvn trusties who have the freedom of the yards. A mammoth bam Is under one recently destroyed by fire. DESTROY STALKS EARLY. Association Calls on Members to Put their Influence Hack ??f Cantpaigm ? , ' ^ Following is a communication which is being mailed to all boards of trade, chambers of commerce and agricultu ral associations in South Carolina: The Camden' and Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce, Camden, gj e. ? To the Secretaries of the South Caro lina Commercial Secretaries Associ ation. Dear Fellow Secretary: At the meeting of the South Caro lina Commercial Secretaries' Associ ation in1 Columbia, September 12, the campaign being conducted by The State of Columbia for early destruc tion of cotton stalks for the purpose of destroying boll weevils, and the cleaning up of other hibernating places about the fields, and the agree ment upon a single variety of cotton which all of the farmers of a com munity shall grow, and in a general program suitable po the locality for the maintaining of soil fertility, was taken up by the association, and I was appointed a committee of one, to put this information in the hands of every commercial organization in South Carolina. The following is an extract from unanimously adopted recom mendations of the - Agricultural Workers' conference held in Memphis, Tenn., February <>-8, 1923, drafted by a committee consisting of Drs. Bradford Knapp, W. D. Hunter, Wil man Newall, J, A. Evans, VV. M. Riggs and' II. A. Morgan: "7. Pick cotton in the fall as soon as possible and immediately there after kill all cotton stalks, preferably by cutting and plowing under. To be most effective, this must be done as long as possible before the first kill ing frost. A very light infestation, or even practical immunity from wee vil damage until; late in the following season, could be insured if all cotton growers in the entire communities or counties would, when conditions per mit, cooperate to destroy all cotton stalks at least two or three weeks be fore frost, ty ? eyl(> s- iVkfnrgo-rS ETAO I ETA "8. We strongly recommend the adoption of community, cooperative effort in the timely destruction of cot ton stalks, in the clearing up of un usually favorable places for the boll weevil hibernation, in the agreement upon a single variety of cotton which oil farmers of the community shall grow, and in a general program suit able to the locality for maintaining soil fertility." The special, committee of the sec retaries' association, composed of Sec retaries Meares of Ridgeway and Witherspoon of Bishopville, with my self as chairman, recommended that each commercial secretary give to his county papers the above Sections 6 and 7 of the extract of unanimously adppted recommendations pf the Agri cultural Workers' conference, Mem phis, Tenn. The South Carolina Commercial Secretaries Association respectfully submits the above for the considera tion of the various commercial or ganizations of South Carolina for co operative effort, as the judgment of some of the best and most expert minds of the country at the Agricul tural Workers' conference in Mem phis, Tenn., February 6-8, 1923. E. I. Reardon, Chairman. .Much Cotton Sold. The Camden and Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce announced that on last Friday and Saturday ap proximately five hundred bales of cotton had been sold each day pn the Camden market, aggregating on each day about one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars, at an average price of twenty-seven and a half cents per pound. J. L. Moseley, local cotton buyer, furnished the above information, to gether with the further pleasant news that on Monday Camden was paying from twenty-eight to twenty-eight and one-half cents for cotton and thirty-three cents for staple cotton. Camden's four banks were well pre pared to handle the big financial pull on 'the money market last Friday and Saturday without any inconvenience whatever. Camder> is said to be the leading interior cotton market of this state and pays the highest average market price. Epworth League Sunday Night. The Ep worth Laagua invito* you to "Be One Of the Krowd Sunday", at 7:00 p. m. at the Methodist church. There will be ft ihrety dfoettMion on Good Books. PUOQKAM FOB NKXT FRIDAY. Number of Diacuwioiw to Take Place at Camden Community Market. Friday, September the 2Hth will bo u rod lotto r day in Kershaw County Council of Farm Women and in Ker shaw county community market circle a. All the following pleasant and imv port ant events mentioned being stair ed in Camden at the community mar ket in the display rooms of the Ker shaw Motor Company. 15ut the ladies will not be the "only pebbles on the beach" as we some times say, because the lucky men of the forces composing the office stall and all the employees of the Kershaw Motor Company will be tendered a de licious and complimentary dinner ai 1 p. n>. that day by the hospitable and grateful ladies of the council ot farm women and of the community market circles in recognition and ap preciation of this public spirited au tomobile sales agency having for many months courteously allowed the community market absolutely free use of their display rooms every market ing day, which is every ^Friday. So it pays, after all to be nice to the ladies of Kershaw County, so the Kershaw Motor Company gentlemen think any how.. Trior to' this dinner? thelV will be h very important community marketing meeting presided over by Mrs. H. K. Truesdalc, chairman in charge of the community market which is main tained under the efficient supervision of the Kershaw County Council of Farm Women and. Miss Jennie V. Boyd, County Home Demonstration Agent of Kershaw County. Miss Agnes I. Webster of Winthrop College, specialist in community and other forms of marketing will be here tc discuss marketing methods in gen eral. Mrs. Margarett Miller Mayfield, of Camden, will from the consumers' side discuss "The housekeeper's view point of the community market." E. I. Reardon, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, will talk ,on "What the community market ought t to mean to the city or town, and what the city and town ought to mean to the community market." Immediately following the dinner the annual meeting of the Kershaw County Council of Farm Women wi'.l be held at which officers for the en suing year will be elected and the following discussions will be held: "The 1923 Kershaw County Fair" by J. W. Sanders, County Agent. j "County Council and Community Marketing Plans for the ensuing year," by Mrs. S. O. Plowden, of Winthrop College. The Kershaw County Council of Farm Women is perhaps the most active and result - getting body of farm Women in South Carolina and their community market held in Camden every Friday is known far and wide for the regularity of its weekly supply of numerous kinds of home raised farm products and the hundreds of city women who .weekly look to this mar ket for their vegetables, fresh and canned, poultry, eggs, butter, fruits in season, jams, jellies, preserves, hams, beef, pork, etc. This community market has long passed the experimental stage and is a fixed and important institution of Camden and Kershaw County: It is an object lesson to the entire state of South Carolina in many respects. It goes a long ways towards empha sizing the importance of the slogan of patronizing home enterprise ? and keeping home earned money at home. It paves the way in demonstrating how to "live at home" and teaches how to make Kershaw County live nt home, work at home, and board at the same place. Woman Died Suddenly. Coroner W. F. Russell was called to the home of Janie Hallett, on the Black River road about five miles be low Camden Tuesday morning to view her body. The woman had died sud denly during the night but as thero was no evidence of foul play, the coro ner did hot deem it necessary to hold an inquest. Hope and Sapp To Speak, State Superintendent of Education) James H. Hope and Hon. Claude N. Sapp, chairman of the ways and means committee of the House of Representatives, will deliver ad dresses at the opening of the Char lotto Thompson School, Monday, -Sep tember, 24th. All the friends and pa trons of the school are invited to attend the opening exercises which will begin at 8:45. TO HK Ol'EN TWO DAYS. ' . * ? . ' h- .. Community. Market To Serv e Public On Tuesdays and Saturdays. Miss .Jennie Hoytl, county home dcmonst ration agent . and tho Cham her of Com moire invito and specially urge the men and women of Camden to visit the community market at a. m. on Friday, September 2Uth,t-lui which day there will bo a special maiv koting day list of every kind of good things to eat. The Korshasv County Council of Farm Women are going to see that this special market day is a banner day 4n community market ei roles in so far as variety and quality of products are concerned. Fggs, chickens, vegetables, canned goods, jollies, honey, jams, ham by the pound, candy, cuke, and almost any thing a housekeeper' wants or needs. After September UStb the commun ity market will be operated two days in every week, on Tuesdays and Sat urdays. If the people of Camden de sire' this very important local enter prise maintained two days in a week it is necessary for housekeepers to patronize this market regularly and. purchase everything offered for . sale during the two day a week market, as they are now and havo been doing during the one day marketing pro gram. This community market is a big thing for Camden and for Ker shaw county also. Nothing does more for h community than a well establish ed, regularly supplied and patronized community market. Bo there in num bers on September 2ttth.' Encourage Miss Boyd and tho wo men of the Council of Farm Women by cooperating with them in this splendid community development work. Negroes Must (Jet Out. Johnston, Pa., Sept. 14.? More than 2,000 negroes have left Johnston since Mayor Joseph Chauffiel declared a week ago that only negroes resident in the city for seven years would be allowed to remain, said the mayor t'o day in outlining the reason why he had taken actiofi against them. More are going, he added, and it was his intention to see that no more were brought here from the south. > . "We have been sitting on a bomb , in this city," said Mayor Cauffiel, "and it almost exploded last week when two of our policemen were killed and four others so badly ^wounded that one of them has since died, and two others^ are so dangerously hurt their deaths may be expected at any time. This was done by a negro who had quarreled with his wife." B. Y. !\ U. Convention To Meet. The Kershaw Associational B. Y. P. U. Convention will convene with the Bethune Baptist church on Sat urday, September 22nd, at 10 a. m. A delegation is expcctcd from every church in the Association^, whether there is an organized B. Y. P. U. in the church or not. On Trip To TexaA. Former Judge M. L. Smith left Sat urday for (Jatesville, Texas, where ho goes to assist Attorney Hamblin, of Spartanburg, in the defense of a for mer citizen of Union, S. C., charged with murder. , Died in the Asylum. Scipio Whitaker, a colored boy who was committed by Probate Judge W. L. McDowell to the State Hospital for the Insane on the 10th of September, 1015, died in that institution on Tues day last. Special Meetings at Harmony. Blaney, S. C., Sept. 19. ? Evange listic meetings that bi-gan with Har mony Baptist church the 10th of Sep tember will continue through ten days. Evangelist A. S. Lockee is preaching in this meeting which prom ises to be one of the best in the his tory of the church. Harmony is sit uated about five miles north of Hlancy in West Wateree and our friends from other sections of the county will find a hearty welcome awaiting them during this meeting. All day services will be held at the church Sunday the 23rd. Dinner will be served on the church grounds and every provision made for the comfort and convenience of visitors. Services begin each evening at 7:30, the ser I vice* beginning Sunday at 10:30 a. m., 3 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. The public generally cordially invited to these meetings. NOTICE. ? Hunting, fmhing or otharuuM Lr OA passing on either of my places is pro hibited. No pertnlt* will be issued to anyone. - - ? ^ 25-28 pd H. S. ZEIGLER. MHS. VKKNON COOK l?NAI>. Was Native of England and Wife of Korsliaw County Man. MMr.s, May Cook. wife of Prof. . Yci - non i \?Qk of t)ie Cnivevsitj of South Carolina faculty. died at the Columbia hospital Friday morning at f? :JU> o'clock, Mr#. Cook was taken to U\o hospital , Wednesday evening at. Ui30 o\ lock to have her tonsils removed, but. died before the -operation could he pet formed. She had been suffering from asthma for som?- time, but her condi tion was not considered serious. The funeral services Wei'o held* the grave in the cemetery Tat Kershaw, Professor Cook's old home, Friday afternoon at o o'clock, conducted by the Rev. (J. Croft Williams rectm/of St, .John's Episcopal church, Shaudon. Mrs. Cook was horn at Cheltenham, England, 30 years ago. She was a brilliant woman of many lino traits of character and will be missed by host of friends in this city. She was a- member of the St. John's church and took an active part in its w.ork. Mr. and Mrs.. Cook were married in I New York City three years ago. They met. in Germany ^vhile Mi". Cook was studying in that country. After their marriage they came to Colum bia, where Professor Cook was one of the professors of. ancient lan-_ guages at the university. They lived first at the university, but worn mak ing their home at 2820 Wheat street at the time of Mrs, Cook's death. Besides her husband, Mrs. Cook is survived by her mother, Mrs. Herbert Simmins, and one sister, Miss Connie Simmins, both of England; one little son, John Ruwlinson Cook, 18 months, and a cousin, Mr. Henry LaChance of New York City. She also leaves an uncle, Edgar Malvern of Norfolk, Va. ?Friday's State. Back From Hunting Trip. " Chief of Police A. G. Whitaker, E. I?. Phelps, W. 11. Watkins, A. L. Wat kins, L. M. Hall, Perry Hall and Laurie Campbell returned last week from a two weeks hunt near George town. They carried a large pack of hounds with them for fox chasing, and used a pack of deer dogs belong ing to Mr. G. T. Skinner for chasing deer. The party brought down four deer ? Mr. Whitaker killing two, and Spaniard the negro x'ook, got one of the deer. They also captured seven teen fox, the chases sometimes last ing not more than one-half hour. Deer and fox were found to be plentifql, while smaller game could be foutid in abundance. CANNERY AN!) TOBACCO. Joint Committee To Get Farmers Ih terested in the Two Projects. The joint committee of the Camden ami Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce and a committee from the recent farmers' mass meeting: >n Camden regarding the establishment of a cannery and- starting a move ment to increase production of to bacco in Kershaw County and erect a tobacco warehouse in Camden met last Friday at Chamber of Commerce. Messrs B. G. Sanders and E. I. Reardon, the chairman of each com-, mittee with Messrs. Paul Brown, J. B. Munn, Victor Ward, C. C. Whita ker, I. J. McKenzie, VV.'A. Edwards, George T. Little, and County Agent J. W. Sanders, were present and Messrs. B. D. Boykin, Jr., and L. VV. Boykin, Jr., other committee mem bers were unable to attend the meet ing. Those present agreed to plant altogether seventy-five or more acres of tobacco in 1924. County A cent J. W. Sanders was requested to ap point not less than two farmeVs in each township of Kershaw county as a general committee to interview far mers and see how many acres of to bacco can be signed up to be planted for 102-1. Secretary E. I. Reardon of the Chambe r of Commerce was di rected to correspond with parties with view of finding out something about prospects of some experienced can nery man going in with local citizens in such ^n enterprise, and Mr. Rear <* ! oO Vt u o vT ^ ^ nltAiil getting plenty of tobacco seed for fiee distribution. The two committees were merged with B. G. Sanders as chairman who will call the committee together again to hear reports and take such further action as may be necessary. Ker shaw courrty farmers who will- plant tobacco are urged to cooperate with to wnah ip- committer* and by writing or notifying the Cam den and Kershaw County Chamber of Comiheree how many acres of tobacco each farmeT expects to plant.