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12 PAGES THIS WEEK NUMBER 29 1 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1923. 12 PAGES THIS WEEK __ .... ii VOf-UME XXXV. < ONTIPKNCK in ROGERS. (jwvorntvr Mcleod Hold* Different \;t w Krom Judge Memminger. Columbia, October 12.- "I have con fulimv ? "i W. \V. Rogers." So (Joy. Thomas G. McLeod yester day re iterated his faith in his state table in the face of the denuncia tion of the offieer in Sumter by Judge 1{ \V. Memminger of Charleston. found sMr. Rogers, who had been employed by Governor Cooper and (Jovei nor Harvey, engaged In the in ligation of u number of cases when 1 took office," the governor said ? ik: ! id l i i" ts t been employed by Gov ernor Cooper and I presume that Gov ernor Cooper made an investigation as to Mr, Rogers' past life that was de sired. From Governor Harvey I re ceived a letter in praise of Mr. Rogers and his work. These I considered suf ficient evidence of the officer's integ rity and since I huve known him noth ing has arisen to alter my opinion so foi liit'd. Nothing has coRje to me that has detracted from his service as an officor. ? ? * '. "Mr. Rogers has been engaged in hundreds of cases with officers of the law and with judges in every section of the state and in these cases he has revealed himself as a highly efficient servant of the state, a man through "?whose- ability many criminals? who might otherwise have gone unpunish ed, have been brought to justice. From all these officers of the state coun ties and cities, wJio have known Mr. Rogers, there has come not one word ol criticism as 10 his character, nor any expressions of doubt as to his integrity. "In my experience with him I have found no cause to question him nor his acts. t | Various messages of confidence1 in the state constable were received by Governor McLeod yesterday from solicitors, lawyers and others, who had known Mr. Rogers as an officer. * Some came from Sumter. M sent Mr. Rogers to Sumter," the governor said, "at the request of the superintendent of the penitentiary to make an investigation of the alleged theft of eotton from the state farm, the necessity for the investigation having arisen almost on the very eve of Judge Memminger's convening of the court in Sumter, j Mr. Roger* made the investigation and made his arrests in upholding the laws of the state. He went into the court room in the orderly discharge of his duties as an officer of South Carolina." The governor, who left yesterday afternoon- for a trip to North Carolina has not had an oppotunity to confer with .Mr. Rogtvrs 4ince the incident in the .Sumter court roorn, the state con stable having remained in Sumter. Today, under orders from the govern or's office, Mr. Rogers will return to C oUimbia. O.sbourne Found Not Guilty. Sumter, Oct. 13. ? A verdict of not guilty was rendered this afternoon in r :.?? case of Ben Osbourne, charged uk\ receiving cotton stolen from the State farm. A. R. Hagood, Albert Glenn and E. I>. J hnson, the two former guards at ;: *? State farm, plead guilty to Mcjii ng the cotton and ' were each st? < need to servo three months in the pt" '.i-nt iary. ? 1 T:..s is the case that State Constat b!i- v.". \V. Rogers worked up and vV i brought about charges against rh.-f f ticer by Judge Memminger. Killed by a Mule Kick. K.. ked by a mule at 5 o'clock Wed nt'vi' sy afternoon, Jesse Walker, a 12 1"' ? ? will negro boy, of Yorkville, died 'it ! : <, 'dock Friday. The tragedy was Micwhat unusual circumstance in .r.c> boy was on the back of a r ? at the time he was killed. The in. . occurred on the farm of H. E. ' ? 'vw^on on the northern outskirts of ville. The boy's father is Jim ? . who works at the Cannon Mill. To Clean Off Cemetery. Wednesday, October 24th, all l-.u' -s having lots at McLain ceme li:.. in Heaver Dam section, are re fiu< -ted to meet at 10 o'clock to clean otT anfj rPpnjr fences. J. J. Munn. Killed Large Rattler. Mr. f\V, B. King, of Sumter, who W" "ates a saw mill a few miles north "f i amden on the Wateree River was exhibiting a huge rattlesnake on. the here Wednesday. Mr. King "aw the big snake in the public road *'hi<h runs through the farm of Mr. (jecr^e T. Little near the river bridge. _He it yhth a sttefc and the guafre measured five feet and tfco inches. It Had eleven rattles and * button. Til K SlUVPER TONMJHT. ? \? ? Dr. J. C, Cuilcs To Deliver Address, With Other Features. V ' ^ by . Don't forget tht' annual jn$eting and dinner of the Camden and Ker shaw County Cham ber of Commerce tonight, Friday, . October liUh, at eight o'clock, at Masonic Temple. Present your tickets at the door as this is absolutely essential if you wish to get in. A delightful menu has been pre pared and there will be a musical pro gram, vocal and instrumental that will be Worth the dollar that you pai l for ymir 'JLkkc*. taU C (Juiles, President of Columbia College, the orator of the occasion will give you a message worth traveling many miles to listen to. This i:i your Chamber of Commerce, our chamber of commerce, in fact everybody's chamber of commerce of Camden and Kershaw County. This body is the central forum of this city and thia county working for the mer cantile, banking, agricultural, educa tional, laboring, social and every in terest of every profession, trade and occupation. t It is most democratic, non partisan, got together organization, not organ ized for the benefit of any particular class or for. any special interests or for any special section of Kershaw county. This lias been proven by the results obtained and the work done by this organization* Remember that this annual meeting and dinner is for men and women. Be there a little before eight o'clock and help to start the ball to rolling on time. A reception committee with Mr. W. L. DePass as chairman will look after every ticket holder and especially in vited guests. Mr. H. F. Cobb is in charge of the instrumental and vocal numbers to be rendered. Mr. L. C. Shaw, Chairman and other members of the entertainment and hospitality committee, and Miss Minnie Clyburn, chairman, and her associate ladies in cKarg^,vof ?he menu will be there all ready. ? ? .1 - . Child Hurt By Truck. v Mary Florence, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Lee Little, was quite painfully injured Tuesday on North Fair Street by being knocked down by a delivery truck belonging to the McLeod-Rush Company, driven by a negro boy. The accident is said to have happened so quickly witnesses state they could not tell how it hap penedj as the hoy is said not to have been driving exceedingly fast. The little girl .was carried to the hospital, where it was found the most painful cut was in her head. She was other wise bruised but her friends are de lighted to know that she is not seri ously hurt. Hurt by Falling Board. Mr. Alfred M. McLeod, a salesman for Springs & Shannon, was painfully cut by a board falling on him* Wednes day afternoon. He was passing th^ old wooden warehouse to the rear of the Springs & Shannon store* whore workmen are engaged in tearing it down to be replaced by a brick struc ture when a plank fell on him, cutting a gash in his head. It required sever* al stitches to sew the wound but hi3 .friends are glad to knowv he is not badly hurt. Chamber To Assist Fair Week. Columbia, the capital city, is get ting ready to house the thousands of visitors expected from all over the I State to the South Carolina Greater State Fair next week. "No one need fear of having to i walk the streets all night." is the word received from the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, which is mak ing arrangements for the additional fair week population. Private homes j near the center of the business dis trict are being opened to guests. There will be room for everybody, ac cording to the commercial body which will conduct two information bureaus and room registrys. One will be lo cated at the Chamber of Commerce, 1532 Main Street, and the down town bureau will be in the Central Drug Store on Main Street near Gervais Street. - At both places information will be given and rooms assigned to those wishing to remain over night. Last year the Chamber of Commerce bil letted about 2,000 people after the ho tels had been filled to capacity and had over 4,000 requests for informa tion. Three bandit* entered a bank of West Oakland California, Monday and BTWF ftaiaing.bp the casT^er, gol away *tt> ?n,ooo," every cent in tfce insti tution at that time. A TAYLOR KILLS IIIMSKLF. Lancaster Man Places Pistol To His Head and Fires. Henry R. Taylor, Jr., young mar ried man of the Brooklyn suburb, shot himself to death Monday morning about ft:J5 o'clock. The circum stances surroimding the unfortunate affair seen* to be that young Taylor and his wife wore discussing the pro position of moving to Hock Hill to work. There appears to have been no quarrel, but his youn;j.w.fe states that be accompanied her into the rojrm where the tragedy occurred and made some remark about going to Rock ill. Either in seriousness or jesu he is reported to have said, "I'll go to Hock Hill or kill myself." With rthio remark hie raised the revolver to j his right temple and pulled the trig ger. His young wife saw the move and tried to prevent it. She was heard to scream and a moment later the re port of the pistol rang out and he fell to the floor. The victim must have died almost instantly as the position of the body and the weapon showed no evi dence of a death smuggle. IJis young wife and other relatives are" unwilling to believe that' he deliberately killed himself, their theory being that he was only attempting to frighten his wife. The young couple had been married only a few months and those who know them say that there was no quarrel or disagreement so far as known. Tfce deceased is ^survived by his wife who Is a daughter of Dock Baker, his parents, four brothers and two sisters. The family was foi^nerly from Kershaw. The deceased worked in the spinning room at the ^otton mill. The funeral services will takje place today at Sand Hill Baptist church near Kershaw. N Coroner Caskcy was notified and went to the scene shortly after it oc curred. A jury was empanneled and a verdict was returned to the effect that the deceased came to his death by n\eans of a pistol shot infiicted by ) his own hand. ? 'Lancaster News. School Pupils Marry. Sumter, October 17. ? Interest was keen this morning when it became noised about 'hat Augusta Jennings, 15, daughter of Mayor and Mrs. L. D. I Jennings, and Townsend Rivers, 18, a high school boy, had gone to Lex ington yesterday and been niarrie 1 there by the Rev. W. C, Wallace of the Baptist church, after securing :\ license. V Mayor and Mrs. Jennings were last night at Rock Hill, where the former had gone to speak in favor of a issue of highway bonds, when they received a communication from Sumter that their young daughter was missing. They at once returned here, arriving about three o'clock this morning, but were unable to locate their daughter and no news of the runaways had been received here up to this afternoon, Mayor and Mfs. Jennings and others went to Columbia and lother points this morning in search of the young ^couple. Guards Now Behind The Bars. Three new prisoners were enrolled Monday at the State prison. E. D. Johnson and Albert Glenn, former guards at the state farm in Sumter county, started to serve three month.^fl Tin; young men pleaded guilty before Judfffi Meminger on charges of steal ing seed cotton from the state farm. ? Columbia State. Catholic Church Services. Services at the Catholic church on Sunday, October 21st, the twenty second Sunday after Pentecost, will be as follows: Sunday school at (J a. m.: Mass and sermon at 10 a. m. The sermon, "Duty to God and Country" by Rev. M. J. Reddin. All are cordial ly- invited to attend these services. Spanish War Veterans. Come to the Spanish War Veterans' Banquet at the South Carolina State Armory, 12}9 Assembly Street, on Thursday of Fair Week, <5:30 to 8:00 P. M. This will in no way interfere with the amusements of the day. You have not seen some of your comrades in twenty-five years. Price per plate is $1.25. \fail check for same to Gen. Wylie Jones, Co lumbia, S. C., at once, so that we may know how many to prepare for. ?? L. S. Crawford, Jr., five year old child, of Columbia, was killed and fAir other children injured Sunday morn ing when a wild automobile without a driver, ran them down at the bottom of a hill. The car belonged to D. A. Sandifer and was pariTeiTTn ^?ront of his residence when it began to move down the incline. < " * - . - , - r . ^ ? V " ?" * tiiil ? HETHINE NEW8 NOTKS. Happenings of Intent As Told By Our Correspondent, Bethune, S. 0., Qct. I?.~ A mar riage of much interest hero was that of Miss Annie Mays to Mr. Steve La no of Cartf rKville, on the 12th at Florence. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Mays and until recently has made Met-hune hor home. The nuu i iage of a young couple which came as. a great surprise to their friends was that of Charles M< Kinnon to Miss Amy Durani at the residence oj' the bride's.. uncle, Mr. Hump Palo in Bishopville last Sun day afternoon. Rev. J. M. Forbjs, pas tor of the groom, performed the cere mony. The bride was gowned in a dress of midnight blue with brown ao t'essorics to match. A full course sjx o'clock dinner was served immediately after the ceremony. A reception was tendered them Monday owning by the groom's mother. Mrs. MeKinntfm affectionately known by her friends and associates as "Bill," has endeared herself to her companions by her ChaYVrtihg and vivacious personality. The groom has his mother's business in charge and is a young man of promise. Dan Cook, who has been employed in the Bethune Drug Store, has re turned to his home in Hartsville. Mrs. A. B. McKinnon of Heming way, is spending several days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mc Dowell. Mesdames is. L. Norwood, E. Z. Truesdell, Misses Stella Bethune and Kate Yarbrough spent Wednesday in Columbia. ? Messrs. G. E. Parrutt, K. T. Es tridge and J. D. Laffitte attended" an oyster supper at the Charlotte Thompson school Friday evening. Mr. D. M. Mays and family spent Sunday in Neeses with relatives. Mjss Stella Bethune spent the week end in Cheraw with Mrs. R. M. Be thune. Miss Ellen Sojourner who is teach ing at Mt. Crogan spent Sunday with her- j>a rents', Rev. and Mrs. J.- R. So journer. I Miss Carrie Yarbrough of Chicora College, was the week-end guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs; D. T. Yar brough. '? Mr. J. P. Bethune was the week-end guest of relatives in Cheraw. Messrs. P. H. Hester and A. B. Mo Laurin spent several days in Green ville and Pickens last week. The School Improvement Associa tion held its regular monthly meeting with a full attendance Friday after noon. The $2.00 prize^ given each month to the room having the great estonumber of parents present was won by the seventh grade. After dis pensing with the business, the pro gram was given over to Miss Annie Lee Baker, teacher erf seventh grade, whose pupils entertained the Associa tion with vocal and instrumental so los, quartettes and readings. Mrs. L. M. Best, Misses Kate Yar brough and Stella Bethune, Messrs M. G. King and Loring Davis were visitors to the Pee Dee Fair in Flor ence Wednesday. New Wholesale Firm. A new wholesale fiirn, dealing in -fresh fruits and groceries has been organized in Camden with their place of 'inmneax ?>n fast DeKalb street near the Northwestern freight depot. Messrs. H. S. Moore, T. C. Gladden, and" W. H. Ashcraft are members of the company. Mesrs. Moore and Glad den will travel the territory adjacent Co Camden^ comprising parts of the adjoining counties, while Mr. Ash-, craft will have charge of the office work. All three of the above named gentlemen have had long experience as salesmen on the road for several of the larger wholesale firms of the capital city and are well known to the trade of this territory. Fire at Mt. Moriah Church. The fire department was called to Mt. Moriah . Baptist church on lower Main street Saturday to extinguish# flames caused by the testing of n heating system being installed. Very little damage was done. Frank O: Black, superintendent of education of Saluda county, has ae f cepted the position of state supervisor of mill schools, to succeed William Banks, of Columbia, S. C., recently resigned to return to newspaper work, according to an announcement by James H. Hope, state superintendent of education. *2 _ " Mtb. UriulM Minifl "dTe^ Tn Savan-: nah, Georgia, ^aturday at the age of 98 yetrft. , / ? ^ - - ROADS SHOW CIVII .IXATION. ? >v llighwa>s Index to Kiiul of l.ivvN lt? I'Hcrs J.ive. Gibbon., famous historian, wrote "Tho character and civilization of any community van bo properly judged by tho i lass of roads it has." Tho community which can afford a good road and is content to wallow in mud, is, by this standard, not thor oughly civilized. This may not hi* agreeable reading to those contented with had roads, yet tln\se very people will judge their neighbors by stand- i ards no' more exacting. The man who can afford an automobile, a telephone, a lighting system, a warm house, and good clothes, and who walks, borrows his neighbor's phone,- reads by can dles, has a cold house ami wears rags, ik not called civilized by his neighbor's. A good road is as. necessary for the enjoyment of tho advantages modern qivilizaion has to offer as is the ability to read (which was once the accomplishment only of the priest, and the king.) The abandoned farm is seldom or never found on a good road. The illit good road. People who live on ov near good roads get to town, see pic tures, mix with their fellows, enjoy a rich social life, visit each other, buy and sell quickly and easily, are in touch with tho world. Those who live on bad roads cannot even depend upon the R. *F. p. if rain or snow lays its prohibition upon the carrier. This great country is away down the list among the literate nations; one of the reasons is the difficulty of educating either child or adullt where mud prevents attendance at school. Gibbon's measuring rod may not be comfortable, but the facts seem to show it is accurate. SLEW HIS BROTHER. fircw Corn Over His Grave and Elopes With Widow* Douglas, Ga., October 1(5. ? L. S. Rogers, a former mill hand at the Garrant lumber company plant at West tiren, was arrested this morn ing at Avon Park, Florida, on the charge of murdering his brother, John Alton Rogers, 42 years old, in this county on November. 18, 1922. According to Coffee county officers, who released the details of the crime coincident with Rogers' arrest in Flor ida, L. S. Rogers killed his brother by* shooting him through the head with a pistol and buried his nude body with part of a quilt wrapped around the face in a corn field. He according to the officers then reported that his brother had deserted his family. The accused man then cultivated, a crop and ploughed over the body of his dead brbther until about a month ago when, the officers say, he took the widow of his brother and went to Florida. According to the information of the officers, L. S. Rogers confessed to a friend some weeks ago that he had killed his brother and buried his body in the corn field. After he had gone to Florida, the friend reported the conversation to sopie one, and the story reached Coroner G. L. Simms, who webt to the farm last Sunday and dug Xip the body. Tho officers say the .body was identified by means of gold teeth of the deceased. The skele ton was brought to Douglas. To Meet Tuesday Evening. Camden Commandery, Knights Templar, will hold conclave Tuesday evening, October 23, at eight o'clock to confer the Order of the Red Cross and Order of Malta on class of can- j didates from out of town. Officers and others taking part in this w;ork should be punctual so as to let these com panions return to their homes at a reasonable hour. No uniforms. Re freshments will be served. Tell your Fraters as no personal notices are be ing sent out. \V. ROBIN' ZEMP, Commander. Negro Badly Cut. Spencer Jones, a negro, was quite badly slashed about the throat and face Saturday afternoon and had to go to the hospital for surgical ntten tion. He had several severe gashe? dangerously m*ar his jugular vein, but is not thought to be dangerously wounded. The cutting was done by | Luke N't'wman, ,a white man, and the f affair occurred on lower Main street, near the Mt. Moriah colored church. Mr. Newman surrendered to the police and it is said he claims the negrd had cursed him once before and had threatened him, and that he was foro cd to use the icniYelrTieTf defense, lnj this he was substantiated by several witnesses, ixrth white and colored. - - # TO INsrVI I CASH lUHilSlKK, Vt Wateree Uiver Toll Bridge iilui Klect Three liridge Kcc|)crfi. A i t he last meetinjg of the County Hoard of Director* an order wiis placed for a specially ?('?oust runted noli ivuistii to |bo pbii-cd at thr \\ a teree River Toll H rid go., to take the place of the numbered receipts here-' ? tofore used. IJefovO placing tin- order lor the i ash register tin* board of directors made ft trip in a body to in spect the sysh?m now in use over the toll bridge at Mars ItlulV over tlu; ,Pee Pot' river. The board also decided to pattern the arrangements at the Watprey river -bridge after the one over the Pee Oeo. The keeper's house on the west side of the river will be dis carded and an overhead archway will be constructed at a point some little distance from the bridge on the on st ern side of the river. The* cash rogis tor will be placed in t1u> center of the driveway with gates 6n each side and tlu- keeper's room ? -4? ? t-he center. Three keepers will serve on different shifts' during1 the twenty-four hour ?period, instead of a night and day ?nam as heretofore. /.p>thev improvement to bo made in the near future is that of double llooring the bridge, The same floors now in use will tenia in but tho second tier of boards will be laid at an angle of .46 degrees which " will make the structure stronger. White Man and Negro Woman. A ui?i cpuutbie white man was ar? rested Friday night while visiting the home of a notorious negro wenchJ For several years the officials of the city " have had their eyes on the place, but efforts at capturing the pair have failed. Friday night the house <Jvas surrounded and both were arrested and placed under bond of one hundred dollars each for their appearance be fore the recorder. The woman was I charged with keeping a bawdy house,, and the man was charged with vio'lat | iiig the ordinance of frequenting a bawdy house. I ? . _ Should Plant Lawns. The suggestion has been made that parties owning property on paved streets have their plats adjoining the curbing made into lawns. This could be done, at a small cost and would add greatly to the beauty of the prop erty alid the whole, city if all would join in and have continuous grass plots along paved streets. In this con nection an old and long established and thoroughly reliable southern seed house, T. W. Woods & Son, of Rich mond, Va., is carryings an advertise ment in this week's Chronicle telling of grass seed suitable for this pur pose. Follows Wife To Grave. Columbia, Oct. lfi. ? Exclaiming, '"I can't stand this, I'm going to end it all," O. M. Rhodes, sixty-nine, of New BrookJand, today shot himself to death at his home with a sa wed-off shot gun, the same with which his wife, aged sixty-seven, a few minutes before had accidentally killed herself, ? according to statements of eye-wit nesses who saw the tragedy. Rhodes, a night watchman at a r stone quarry at Cayee, ,H appears, ' when he came home from his work, ? secured the assistance of his wife to i unstrap his gun, and while pulling it I toward her, the hammer became | cau^hl and load of shot entered he; side, killing her almost instantly. Horror-stricken, Rhodes picked up | the gun, according' to a woman neigh i bor who witnessed the affair, went I into the yard of his home and tried t'> ? shoot himself in the head, hut missed. His next attempt was successful, a ? full load entering his side. Traffic Violators, Attention! Effective at once, the lines imposed on persons violating the traffic rules .of our city will he to the* limit of the law, reckless driving, speeding, turn i ing corners above the speed limit, (e< ! pecially at Main and DeXalb) MUST ! be stopped, A. G. WH1TAKER, Chief of Police. South Carolinian Stopped Walton. Columbia, Oct. l?. ? Jennings K. Owens, of Bennettsville, who was here today in the Supreme Court, nays 1 that the Oklahoma melee was not set tled until a South Carolina boy .step ped in and was the cool-headed rr^n needed for the e^Wrgeney. W. C. Mc Allister, of Marlboro county, went to Oklahoma some twenty years ago. He^ is now the chairman of the State Election Board which refused to be bullied or diverted by Governor Wal ton. A brother, Arch McAllister, went to Arizona, where he is Chief Jintira a . . - - i a - f- , I, , ' f X ' - . . W-. - ^ - y>9 * ~~ ?