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ui: CAMDEN CHRONICLE 'I ? ^| Ull ? Ill I IP I >11 I II H. 0. JS1LKS Editor and Publisher Punished ever y Friday at No. 1100 liioadktroet and entered at the Cam-* <len, South Carol in# postoffice as *econd elass mail matter. Price per annum $2.00. CaimU n, K. Friday, Oct. 12, 1923. ' Traveling men making this town tell us that Camden is considered the Very beat town in this section. They note the steady and continued growth of this city and all sing its praises. And the traveling nun boost ing a town can do some mighty One adver ting. The roads are good, the city centrally located and the merchants wide-awake and prosperous makes them eager to Hell here. The iiiei'i 'bants ami business njen of Camden and surroundings are at pres ent enjoying an unusually prosperous .?ii'ason. Money is mure plentiful and farmers are paying up some of the debts of several years standing A K0o(| dear! more cotton has been made aid, Vital here than was expected and ? Uu* piiew being several cents higher than expected accounts for the thisn times. People are spending more lib erally, but not taking on to every proposition that comes along. Some have learned costly lessens from spec ulative ventures und are using more caution. A merchant told us this week that lie had collected quite a lot of money on 1020. obligations. He says one colored man came in his store and paid up an account of several years itTTind'n^. The. negp'o hftd gotten in tough luck and had moved away to anqtHx'y couiiity. Kt* came back and tills yc-i; : '.s c rop pu l him on his feet. '1 We merchant su'ilv's thai he had al most forgotten the negro when he pulled a roll from his pocket with the ? declaration that be was ready to pay uii his old account1. Needless to state the merchant was pleasantly surpris Gol'errior Walker, of Georgia, has refused to honor the requisition of Governor McLeod for the Barretts pi Augusta at the request of ,1. \V. Ly biand, of Aiken. Ly.brand got caught iie the failure of the Barrett cotton turn and wanted to get the Augusta men into the jurisdiction of the South Carolina courts. ' To Make a Better Caper , ? ? The News and Courier, of ( 'hurt uv ton, always considered one of the most reliable of southern dailies, in its issue of Monday morning makes the following announcement: ? "It was stated yesterday In a little box on the first page of The Sunday News that plans were under way to improve the paper greatly in impor tant respects. One improvement will he in the matter of the news service from Columbia. During the past year the letters and dispatches of Mr. Wil liam Hanks from the state capital have been a feati^ie of The News and Courier which its readers have united in praisPng. The most experienced man ii> South Carolina public life ? wrote that in his judgment Mr. Banks it; the best reporter he has ever seeh. ,4But Mr. Banks has not been able to give full time to the work he has been doing for The News and Courier tliough few readers probably guess ed that. Before his connection with this newspaper was formed during the Legislature last winter, he had al icady committed himself to certain work with the State Department of Education. Naturally, this being the niie, his work there had first call and it was only through the courtesy of Superintendent Hope that he was able t."> give a part of. his (line to work for T'i? News and Courier. Mr. Hope has now secured someone else to take over the school work which he was doing and The News and 'Courier and Creenvile News, consolidating forces f that purpose, have arranged with Mr. Banks to gi\e them a news ser vice from Columbia the value of which will, they a re convinced, be,* rc < < gni/.ed vol'} quickly. "1 lie News and Coir io; is also be ginning the publication 5h!.- morning hi ? lv special foreign news service of die Philadelphia Pubi.- Ledger. These < able* and let ??*? s wdi In* a regular feature of The News and Courier and T ie Sui o'ay Nev.'.i he "eat*', or. It is a s ? vi Co wh>ch a?imirah!.\ supplements the Associated Pre and w hich will, i ' is believed, he appreciated b> many i ,?(ic?-s r. Char !c ston. Mr. Cyrus II. I'. Curtis <>t the Public Ledger has .-?licet hund ; eds of thousands of dol i in bu'Mting up this service and " Public [.eager at great cost main :;i?n; ahie sp.uial correspondent s in r-ery tuirf ot lhr? inhabitable globe. Tins is the tines''. .sorv.ce of its kind Ij be had an. I The Now.-. and Courier j. delighted at getting i*. ' It is the pucpoM' of The News and Courier to give its readers a newspa per which will be in t i y wa> a sat isfaction to then: and a i ledi' to Char leston. It believe* t hj*i I hole is KKHII in Charleston fo: </ne .-uch morning jiini Sunday nev ij?apfi and that the support necessary f<><- such a new s papec will be fo: thcoming. There is not room for two su? h newspajH'rs, obviously. The fact i.-. that there is not a city in the south with the sole exception of Louisville. Ky.. that has two morning newspapers; and I.ouis vdle. with a population of 2.'14,891 is the smallest city in the country where ~ more ITkaiTfe/W 7r.;irTrf7Tir Trrcr^prrprr t* published." At Salt. Lake City, Utah, Saturday, Hear? Seaman, *?hot at a stray dog and k;*' ; his 5-vear o!d non ' I v' " J __ ^ r ? A Chronicle man in panging' heard a , conversation between several auto tourists. From the talk all had trav eled quite extensively and one man made the remark that of all of the roads he had found anywhere the road* in South Carolina and Nortl) < aiolina were the best of all. Judge* Violate I. aw. Special Judge Sims at Chesterfield court imposed fines of $25 to $100 upon liquor makers and sellers. Other judges have been doing the same thing, except some of them re-, quire a higher license than Judge jSim^./exacted at Chesterfield. When a judge lets a liquor maker, trans porter or seller off with any fine at all, the Judge is violating the law him self. The Advocate has more than once called attention to the la\$ which requires imprisonment without fines for liquor dealers. v Section 8U8 of the Criminal Code of 1P22 Htiyi: ?'Any person who violates^ any of ; the provisions of any law of this state prohibiting, relating to or regulating the sale of tatoxicatiug liquors, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be imprison ed at hard labor for not less than six months nor more than two years, and for any subsequent o/fense, upon con viction shall be imprisoned for a term of not less than a year nor more than five years: Provided, That any circuit judge may, in his discretion, suspend all of such imprisonment except thirty days for the first* offense and sixty days for subsequent offenses upon such terVns and conditions as he may see fit to impose, but . in each and every case any person convicted of the violation of any of said laws shall be required to serve at least thirty days tor the first offense and spcty days for any subsequent offense of the sentence imposed upon him: Provided That .Llie provisions of this, sectiou. s ha 1.1 not apply to eases pending on or to offenses committed prior to Febru ary 19, 1010." Why .judges persist in violating this law, we do not understand. ? Several persons have said to us: "The legislature ought to pass a law to put liquor dealers on the ehain ganjf without the privilege of paying a fine or license." The legislature has done its duty. The law is as clear, % comprehensive and mandatory as any legislature could make it. It even provides against the suspension of sentences ^ \le ju^ge bp low a .thirty day min imum. The people usually do their duty in the jury box in trying to break up the liquor business* They have done their , duty through - their representa tives in the legislature. What more can they do? ;The responsibility is now on the courts. ^Vil the people continue to al low them to disregard the law and defy the legislative mandates of the peop)e of the state ?~-Pee Dee Ad vocate. GENERAL NEWS NOTES The1 Northern Methodist church is facing n deficit of $2,000,000 for the year ending October 31, according to announcement made in Philadelphia last Friday. Part of the deficit is due to a large increase in the cost of con ducting foreign missions. Major George \V. Cook, army sur geon, has been found guilty by court martial of charges resulting from the maltreatment of a private soldier at Fort Fustis, Va. Figures up to Saturday night indi cated that .Judge John If. Kerr of Warrentoti, would be elected to con gress from the second North Carolina congressional district to succeed the late Claude Kitchen. Fddie Hurtj army deserter, was ac quitted by a jury in the Federal court ;ii Raleigh, N". C., Saturday afternoon niieV trial charged with the murder of Private Angelor K^naris at Fort in August last year. .iu!c Mc.Clcllan. negro, 1 <1. was ar ri'^tod by a rural policeman near I '? oeto; \ die, Robeson couittv, N. Friday morning shortly after he had ,'f. ?rmpt?d a criminal assault on a while woman . The negro is alleged j u* have confessed the crime. i\< nun were killed m Detroit, , .M l'.. l'i ida\ afternoon when the last car in a funeral cortege was struck by ( :> n electric mtentrbun car en the i .vit - 1; 'rt * < ' f ? he city. P.ivnl Lloyd George, war-time : re'iiie: i>f (iieat Hritain. arrived in! Montreal. Canada. Saturday night for a \isit i>t* two da\s. lie was give n a ir' tit well onu1 by the Canadians. "I.cil" Hice, a jockey, died Saturday ? at Jamnici, N. V., as the iv<ul? of in- ; in i 'os sustained when he was ? hrown from a hor.se rate. The hor.^e fei! on; him. ! Fifty thousand Masons are cvn^ct- j ed to attend the laying of the < orner , st'.ne of the George Washington Ma- j sonic National Memorial at Aiexan- | di ia, Va., on November 1. President Coolidgc and his cabinet" have been in vited to attend the ceremonies. Alfred R. Reeder, 87, of Trenton, N. committed auicide Tuesday, be cause of Hi-health. MKM^lNtiBfc'TALkfr TLAlK Bars Ntota* of Wi W. Kogera on In dfttment Hi Sumtn c.\m\ G. A. Buchanan in Cohxnribia State. ? Sumter, 8. C., Oct. 10l? Drama of a kind rate in the orderly processes of the coifrt# was met in Sumter this afternoon when Judge K. W. Mem rainger of Charleston, branding W. W. Rogers, state constable for Gov. Thomas 6. McLeod and star witness for the state in three cases pending before the court, as a man "utterly and absolutely unworthy of belief/' refused to hand to the grand jury in dictments in the cases until the stuto detective's name had been stricken from the indictments. ?I }?now the man," 'the Judge said in a lengthy statement In denuncia-1 tion of the officer, "to be the scum of the earth and I absolutely could not hand you an indictment with his namo on it. . . . If a conviction should be had under the testimony of this wit ness I would not let it.ptand." Solicitor Frank A. McLeod, brother of tlie governor, after declaring that the chief executive of the state had confidence in Mr. Rogers and obtain ing from the judge the positive state ment that the three indictments would not be given to the grand jury with Mr. Rogeva as a witness, erased the state constable's name and sent the case before the jury supported only by the testimony of a magis trate's constable, who had assisted Mr Rogers in working up the cases. The grand jury returned true bills in each instance. * Mr. Rogers, who had been .called to the front of the court room by the solicitor in order that he might be swurn as a witness, heard the judge's denouncement in silence. The state constable had come to Sumter mulov fti'ilpiN nf Governor Mc Leod at the request of Superintendent Malcolm Scarborough of the Slate penitentiary to investigate conditiohs at the DeSaussure state prison farm. His investigation brought the arrest of E. ii Johnson, a guard at the farm, on charges of grand larceny, the ar rest of Ben Osburne, a negro, on charges of receiving stolen goods, and trafficking in seed cotton, and the in dictment of Albert Glenn, also guard at the fairm on charges of grand lar ceny, the three cases growing out of the alleged theft of approximately 3,600 pounds of seed cotton from th,c state farm. Confessions involving each of the defendants and twq con victs at the farm, were obtained by. Mr. Rogers from Johnson, Osburne ami Harrison Myers, one of the two convicts charged with aiding in the aljeged thefts. Johnson an$ the negro Osburne were in court ready to en^er picas of Ktiilty, while Glenn, the third defendant, at home in Anderson on his vacation at the time of the inves tigation and arrests, was at large, as surance satisfying- to the solicitor having been given that he would be in court tomorrow. This afternoon Mr. Rogers and the magistrate's constable came into the court after the dinner recess and were prepared to lay the evidence secured, by them before the grand jury. At tne call of Solicitor McLeod the two of ficers walked down the court aisle to be sworn. The solicitor handed the indictments to the judge and as Mr. Rodgcrs and the others stood waiting, Judge Memminger began his chafge to the grand jury: "The court," he said, observes on the back of these indictments the name of a witness, W. W. Rogers. The court knows of his own knowl edge that that man is wholly un worthy of belief. Of course, he is a state constable and the governor may do with him as he sees tit as that is a ?separate and distinct department from the court. I could not consistent ly hand you an indictment with that man's name. on it. I would be wrong j to let hi in go before you, the gentle | men of the grand jury, because that i man is utterly unworthy of any belief, land it would be a monstrosity in the court's belief if he should. "Now as to Governor McLeod. 1 do not know what facts he has. I kmnv Governor McLeod got a letter of rec ommendation from Governor Harvey which is a very flattering document. He (Rogers) went first to Governor Cooper from Charleston, but I know the man to be utterly and absolutely unworthy of belief and the of t he earth, and {.absolutely could not hand you an indictment with his name on it." Solicitor McLeod, vVho had previous ly talked with his brother, the gover nor, by telephone, addressed the court. "Ho," ho said, referring to the gov ernor. "stated he had confidence in this witness and I have another wit ness sworn along with Mr. Rogers. I understand your honor wjII not hand tb** indictments to the grand jury as they stand unless his name comes off?" "? His name will have to bo stricken off the indictments before I will hand iTie l ncllct men t ? ~ (o TTie "graijj Judge Memminger replied "and if a conviction should be had under tho testimony of this witness I would not let ? it stand. " ?* *'?v '?'v .CijKfe"-"-. ? assfe. '* T^e solicitor re^tiVed th'i indict merit gi von back to him aj*i scratched off Mr. Rogers' immf, Mt have stricken the. nam? pf W. W. Rogers from the jjidictment", he said, and returned the indictments to the judge. "Now, you understand, gentlemen of the grand jury," Judge Memminger .said, resuming his address to the jury, "that that witness is not to be sworn. Any testimony depending on him strike it entirely from your mind. 1)911' t let any testimony .~fMyUiinK. that emanates or starts .from him ? 1 affect you in any way and if you can not fln4 ? true bill withput his testi mony then reject the case and find a no bill." * The jury took the ftidictmehts. and retired. Mr. Rogers sat silent in the court. A man loaned over and whim pered something to him, *but ho did not tuj&wei. The two prisoners, jvho had jpon foased, stood ready to enter pleas of guilty.* Tho jury, hearing only the testimony of the magistrate'* constable who had assisted Mr. Rogers in the case, returned a true bill as to each of the defendants. Mr. Rogers, who at one time, lived in Charleston, has been employed as a special state constable under three governors, Robert A. Cooper, Wilson G. Harvey and Thomas G. McLeod. Governo^ McLeod declared in a state ment giyeh by telephone tonight his confidence in Rogers. "I have found him,'" the governor said, "a reliable and exceedingly useful <hnd efficient officer of the law. I sent him to Sum ter at the request of the superinten dent of'the penitentiary to make the investigation. "With reference to the statement of Judge Memminger I have no. . com ment."" "" ~ v ~? ? The three cases, which occasioned Mr.Rogers appearances in the 'court, grew out ?ul the Heretofore unex plained disappearance of seed cotton from the state farm. The mystery as solved in the written confessions, se cured by Mr. Rogers froni Johnson and other defendants, resulted in the preferring of indictments against th<f two guards and the **egro, Johnson and Glenn, the guards, according to the confessions, had two negro con victs, Harrison Mijes and Eugene Bimbo, load an amount of the farm's seed coton on one of the state farm wagons and then had taken a mule from the farm and carried this cotton to th^ negro, Ben Osburne, who it is charged , had sold or was to sell th^ cotton. Six loads each of approxi mately 60 pounds, were carried away, the men are said to have confessed, Of \yhich one bale of lint cotton' and about 1,400 pounds of seed cotton ? all admitted by Osburne to have been stolen from the penitentiary ? were' recovered by the state detective and returned to the state farm. The two convicts claim that they merely acted under orders of the guards. Mr. Rogers was also instrumental in the solving of the recent mystery1 of an attempt at poisoning of a pris oner in the ?umter jail. ( , Following a hearing jn# his office Tuesday Governor McLeod revoked his recent order , ousting JuliUs E. Sharpe from the office of superinten dent of education of Lexington coun ty. The order of the governor was issued on advices irom the office of the attorney general after Mr. Sharpe had been presented by the grand jury *of Lexington county, charging him with "official misconduct" in that he was alleged to have fraudulently con verted public funds to his own use. Coincident with the order, vhich was for the interim between its issuance and the disposal of the case by a trial jury, the governor appointed D. Ira Wirigard to succeed Mr. Sharpe. The governor in a statement, explaining his changed position, said that after* giving consideration to the authorities presented at the hearing, he w'as con vinced "that the case does not charge one of those offenses which come un der the provisions of the constitution, j requiring the suspension of, the of- j ticcr pending trial." HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS AH GOT MA1> EN LAM MAH OLE MULE WID DE BRIDLE pis mawnin' ca'se boss won let me lay off T'DAY, en PAT 'AR MULE" HE LAID ME OFF.'! I'll Be There, Will You? < * ! ? '? - ' ti? . AT THE GREATER SOUTH CAROUNA STATE FAIR OCTOBER 22-27 (Inclusive) Cream of Fair Attractions Gathered into One and offered to the People for A Solid Week. ill II Ml I II ' ? ? w? SOMETHING BIG EVERY DAY! SOMETHING BIG EVEIfcY NIGHT ! Fine Exhibits ? Pure Bred Cattle? Prize Swine ? Horse Racing?Great Poultry Show? FinesfMidway Company? World Renowned Free Acts? Music ? Night Horse Show ? Football. SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE EVERY DAY AND NIGHT AT THE GREATER South Carolina State Fair THIS YEAR! Wants~For Sale . . ' v* ? r - ????* >/M FOR SALE ? Two Jersey Milch Covirs for sale. One with second and an other with third calf. Three gallons of milk each. Apply to R. S. Trues dale, Westville, S. C: ' 28-29pd lji IX)ST ? One white and liver spotted ? full grown mal^ pointer. Reward, if returned to Nye Workman, West ville, S. C. 28-29pd' - ? WANTED ? Teams to log hard^uood , to logging railroad. Price $6.00 per thousand and carts furnished. The Sumter Hardwood Companv, Sum ter, Sr"Cr 28-29sb i LOST ? One key ring containing num ber of keys. Return to W. M. Lollis at Mackey Mercantile Company,' Camden, S. C. 28sb FOR SALE, CINDERS? 25 cents, one horse load, 50 cents two horse load. Camden Oil Mill, Camden, S. C. 28pd LOST ? Red tan hound dog, black back, streak of white on neck, spec kle nose, speckle breast, white tip on tail. Answers to name of Jack. Reward for his return to Luke Newman, Camden, S. C. 28-pd FOR SALE ? Nice sevep-room house with all modern conveniences. Fine location from business section. J. E.' Jones, Camden, S. C. 28pd W ANTE1>. ? Two colored barbers, white trade. Must be neat and clean. Apply at once Trust Build ing Barber Shop, Wilmington, N. ('., H. G. Cogdcll. Proprietor. 27-28pd. FOR SALE ? Milk and cream in any quantity. Apply Mrs. B. R. Trues dalr, Camden, S. C. 27-29pd JfOR SALE ? Farm of 101 Acres/'' \ southeast of Camden, formerly known < as "The Collins Land", ad r joining,, Jaads of Reuben Hinson, - - and others Apply to L. A. Witt koWsky, Camden, S. C. 27tf.'< . ? ' I .iti || 1 i',i i I ? I .1 I . I . >r LOST ? One black light tan hound dog/ slightly white in breast; lost ? near, river , bridge Friday morning, l Sept, #l$t. Reward if returned to .. -'T. J. Robinson, Rte. l. Kershaw,: S ' 27-28pd WANTED^ifco. 1 Pine, Poplar and "Cypress Logs. We pay cash nnd take your logfe the year round. The , Zickgraf Company, Denmark, S. C. H7-2Hsl>. . . : 1 VV FOR RENIN? About 45 acres of farm - land, known as Spradley place, r> j near Mt. Zion church. Good pAlf- ~ ture landd, good spring of water. Apply to. Mrs. Lillie V. Wood, route 1, box 9\h Blaney,^3. C. 27-29|>d ' j FOR. SALE OR RENT? A good five to six" horse farm in West Wateree, lower portion of County. Good residence on ~ place. . Barns and houses for labor. Apply to C. J. f. Shannon, Jr., Camden, S. C. 20-tf FOR RENT ? Furnished rooms for* light housekeeping. Apply to Fair Street, Camden, S. C. 26-29pd WANTED ? For board and lodging, refined couples or individuals, for 3 particulars apply to 1307 North h Broad Street, Camden, ?. C. 26tf ? J REAL ESTATE LOANS? 6 per ccnt ^ Loans under Reserve System on city or farm property. Reserve J Deposit Company, Keith Building, 3 Cincinnati, Ohio. Nov. 2 WANTED: ? Men or women to take orders for genuine guaranteed hosn 4 ery for men, women and children. Eliminates darning. Salary $75 a week full time, $1.60 an hour spare time. Cottons, heathers, silks. International Stocking Mills, Norristown, Pa. . 24tf ^ ATTENTION FARMERS Before buying your Nitrate of Soda, Cotton Seed Meal, Fertilizer and Fertilizer ma terials, get our prices^. ? ? ? CAMPBELL & SMYRL