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ENROLL NOW! ENROLL NOW! NUMBER 12 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1824 VOLUME XXXVI SENATORIAL CHAJTIOU < .uululau-N Spoke Here Monday To (iood Sized Audience. The four candidates seeking: the junior senatorial prize spoke here Monday in the county court house to an audience estimated to have been three hundred and fifty men and women. The Associated Press cor respondent carried the following ac count of the meeting: "Candidate* for the seat in the United States senate now held by Nathaniel B. Dial, of Lauwais, swung into the second week of their state wide campaign today, addressing a group of Kershaw county voters, men and women, who gathered in the county court house. "Congressman James F. Byrnes, of the second South Carolina district, was first on the list of speakers, with Senator Dial, State Insurance Com missioner John J. McMahan, an<l former. Governor Cole L. Blease, fol lowing in order. "Congresman Byrnes launched an attack on Senator Dial for the al leged blocking by the latter of tho appointment of J. William Thurmond, of Edgefield, as district attorney. lie read letters from Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to President Wilson, to A. Mitchell Palmer, attorney-general, in ? which ? the ? former ?said the senator opposed Mr. Thurmond's appointment on the ground that he was "person ally objectionable," to the senator. Palmer's letter as read, upheld the record of Thurmond and insisted on the appointment. "The speaker criticised Senator Dial for alleged acceptance of Thur mond's hospitality at home if he were "personally objectionable" and other than politically objectionable. "No friend of Ben Tillman, late United States senator, has a chance to hold office in South Carolina, Con gressman Byrnes declared, so long as Senator Dial is in his present posi tion. "If a second term was not good for Thurmond, friend of Woodrow Wil son, it is not now good for Senator Dial," said the speaker. He charged the senator with venting personal spleen he felt against the late sen ator. "Congressman Byrnes also repeat ed. his attacks on Senator Dial's recn^ ord on the immigration question, cited his own record and appealed for rejection by this state of the pro posed child labor amendment. The Thurmond matter was referred to by Commissioner McMahan, also, who joined Congressman Byrnes in criticising Senator Dial in that con nection. ,He continued by charging Senator Dial with backing Senator Underyvood, whom he designated the Wall Street candidate," for the pres idential. nomination, and concluded with a denunciation of President Coolidge and Senator Dial's alleged intimacy with him. "Commissioner McMahan declared he had na sympathy for "the land settlement proposition," in which he said Senator Dial and Congressman Byrnes have "becouie embroiled, as serting that it is not economically sound. He denounced what he termed the manipulation by W. P. G. Hard ing, governor of the Federal reserve board, and David Huston, secretary of the treasury, of the country's monetary system in 1920, declaring their course enriched Wall JStreet and impoverished the common people. Calling the moving pictures "one of the greatest curses" of modern life, and advocating rigid regulation and censorship, the speaker attacked a proposal, to circulate motion pic tures among the rural districts foi the entertainment of those who liye on farms. The commissioner defended the principle of state's rights, saying that it gives 48 laboratories for ex perimentation in governmental nos trums, rather than one centralized power trying them on the whole peo ple at the same time. "He rejoiced that the government of Britain has come under control of the labor party. Senator Dial, answering the crit icism* levied at declared he had no apologies to make for his opposition to Thurmond, who, he said, had organized the state against him but who, he understood, supported him after Senator Tillman died. Ha disclaimed any ill will against Thiir mond, but accepted the latter's hos pitality only after it had been in - sisted upon. Ha asserted hie right to- support far office- his own friends ?nd men of his OWB choosing',, adding |jhat he rmtvamd ; v: -v ? TO MAKK ADDITION Flans ('alt For Six Room Addition to Grammar School. Plans and specifications have been diiiwn by a Columbia architect for a six room addition to the new gram mar school building, making it n three story building. The new build ing was so constructed that another story could be added to both north and south wings and still not roar the beauty of the front or of the structure. " With the discontinuance of tho Malvern Hill school, four miles east of Camden the school register shows a total of 855 students ? 580 in the grammar school building and 275 in the high school building ? the enroll ment having outgrown the facilities by far. .Each year as the pupils finish the fourth grade at the mill schools they are transferred to the Camden schools, making a steady growth each year, with many others from the out lying- districts coming here to school The plans also call for a new addi tion to* the Jackson (colored) school. The -school for colored children will be one story high with a single roof. The plans call for six class rooms and an auditorium. Bids on the two projects are to be opened in Camden on Tuesday, June 21th, and the work will be completed and ready for the opening of school in September. Palmer and "the house put a collar around his neck." He had secured the appointment of Thomas P. Coth-< ran, the senator went on, but Coth ran declined, after which he consented to Thurmorid's appointment but the latter refused at that time. Saying that if he had "as much egotism as Byrnes" he would be run ning for the presidency, the peaker announced that he did not propose to be diverted from the issues of the campaign by the attacks of his oppo nents, and referred to his record as one that he was proud of. Congress man Byrnes, he asserted, is trying to stir up prejudice against him. He took the Aiken man to task for his remarks- in regard to" the senator's secretary, Pat McGowan, saying his opponent was holding up to ridicule "the scion of "one of the foremost families of South Carolina." "Senator Dial denied .that the land settlement commission asked him to secure Italian laborers for this state, and he told once more of his con ferences with the commision. "Replying to Commissioner Mc Mahan's remark that he was for Un derwood for the Democratic nomina tion, the senator declared when he gets ready he will announce who he is for but does not "propose to let McMahan speak for him." . . "Repeating his plea for enforce ment of the Volstead Act, former Governor Blease declared that "offi cers smile at banquets in Columbia" where the vilest of liquors is drunk and "people become befestly drunk" while a countryman, seen staggering on the street, is thrown into jail. "He reiterated his stand for a closed door to immigrants, and con tinued his support of state's rights, tracing his part in fighting for this principle since the introduction of the Dick militia bill, and continuing his opposition to the proposed child labor amendment, and the National educa tion 4rfll. "Many people are saying, the for mer governor said, that "Blease is talking through his hat just to get office," and he added: "this year you are paying $10,000,000 in taxes and when Blease was governor you paid only $2,000,000. Talking through your hats, eh?" "Mr. Blease said this is no time for personalities or prejudices but for serious thinking in- government and in the selection of members of Congress. Pleading for an awaken ing of the electorate, he urged his hearers, men and women, to sign the club rolls ho they can vote in the coming primary. He urged that rep resentatives be chosen who will ig nore the "You tickle me, Johnnie, and ?I will tickle yon" practice -of- tegis-1 lation. He voiced the opinion that the campaign was started two weeks too early. "Mr. Blease used only about 20 minutes of his time. Congressman Byrnes, claiming his rights of re joinder, defied Senator Dial'* charge that he iSl ridiculed Pat McGowan. He said McGowan had been corres pondent tot Sooth Carolina news papers since Senator Dial baa been ?Aiutitr , ta . Horn** I tfl grfewrt--.. BETH UN E NEWS NOTES. Happenings of Interest As Told By Our Correspondent. Bethune, S. C., June 18 -Ratio Bell Baker, daughter 0f will Baker, at Cassatt, fell into an open well Sat urday night and was drowned. She was about eight years of age. As the well was eighty-five feet deep and the curbing very poor it was difficult to get anyone to go down into the well. Several hours had elapsed be fore the unfortunate body was secur ed, The interment was held at Bea ver Dam Baptist Church Sunday af ternoon. The child lived with the family of Bunyan McDonald, her grandfather, who is serving a flve year sentence in the penitentiary as accessory to the murder of William Casori, for whom Coburn Taylor was given a life sentence. Dr. E. Z.' Truesdell has returned from a ten days stay in New York. Little Harriett Stevens, of Lancas ter, is the guest of Margaret and Kathryne Truesdell, Mrs. C. S. Watkins and little son, of Williamsburg, Va., is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Smith, Mrs, Watkins before her marriage was Miss Madeline Smith of this place. Mesdames G. L. Parrott, A. K. Mc Laurin, A. B. McLaurin, Misses Ruth Watts and Mary Arthur attended the Methodist Missionary meeting held i?i Columbia last week. Quarterly conference was held Sat urday at the Methodist church. Pre siding elder McCoy preached a forc ible sermon Sunday morning. Misses Gussie Hough, Geneva Pitts and Lillian Brannon are attending summer school at Winthrop College. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McCaskill are in Spartanburg attending the Grand Chapter meeting of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Loring Davis is visiting her parents, Mr,* and Mrs. T. B. Clyburn in Kershaw. Miss Emma Bradley is spending a few days with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Annie Bradley, in Chera>v. Miss Stella Bethune returned Wed nesday from two weeks stay in Trenton, Tenn. She was accompanied home by Mrs. J. B. Johnston. Mrs. Johnston before her marriage was Miss Kate Yarborough. She is being warmly welcomed back to her old home. . ? An election for the issuing of $18, 000 bonds to erect a new brick high school building was held here Tues day. The building will be erected ii* time for the next session of the Be thune high school if possible. Coolidge and Dawes. Convention Hall, Cleveland, June 12. ? Coolidge and Dawes is thp Re publican ticket for 1924. President Coolidge's nomination was accom plished with only a ripple of dissent from Wisconsin, and North Dakota but the nomination of his running rhate came only after the convention had once chosen Frank O.- Lowden of Illinois and been forced by his declination to choose another ? Charles G. Dawes, the "hell and Maria general." After a short race with Herbert Hoover, who came into the balloting after the declination of Lowden, Dawes galloped off with the nomina tion. Motions to make it. unanimous and by acclamation were disturbed only by the dissents from Wisconsin and North Dakota. Boy Scouts to Reorganize. A meeting will be held in the audi torium of the Camden Graded School Monday, June 23 at 8:00 p.m., of all boys over the age of 12 years for the purpose of forming a troop of Boy Scouts. It is hoped that a num ber of the young boys will be in terested and will turn out to the meeting. Talks on the organization and work of Scouts will be made by Mr. T. Keith Legare, scout commis sioner of Columbia, and several local | men. An organization of this jcind is good for *tne yffimg boys and the older set should encourage the re-! organization of the Scouts in Camden. Judge Smith Announces. Of interest not ooiy to the people of his home county, but to the state nt large, is the announcement today by former Judge* Mendel- L. Smith that he will be a candidate for the house of representatives from Ker shaw coAty in the ~ approaching primary. Judge Smith served a num ber of terms as representative in the general assembly and was speaker of j the house, being one of the ablest and < best known men at that time. Other entrants in the race for the j house from Kershaw county are Allen B. Murchison, the pre&nt superin tendent of education; Norman S. Richards of Liberty Hill, and James B. Munn of Bethune, the latter two seeking re-election. to the tornado relief fond if Mij charge wee incorrect, cheUenftn Senator Dial to dotbe tame if hel THK NKWS AT BOYKIN Vacation Days Filled With Many KormN of Amusement. Boykin, S. C., June 18- Misn Mar-1 garet Kennedy, of Columbia, is visit, ing Miss Florence Boykin at Wanah Plantation. Miss Janie Shannon and Mr. J. K. de Loach were the weekend guests of Miss May Boykin. Misses Frances Bissell and Ger trude Zemp, of Camden, have been .spending several days wfth Miss May Stockton Clark. ^lr. and Mrs. L. W. Boykin, Jr., have hh their guests Miss Frances May, of Quincy, Florida. The Misses Bostick, of Columbia, are visiting their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Boykin. Miss May Boykin has as her guests Misses Mary Haile and Elizabeth Hey ward, of Columbia. On' Tuesday morning she entertained at a bridge luncheon in their honor. . Rev, Wm. S. Stoney has returned from Suwanee, Tenn., where he at tended the commencement at the Uni versity of the South, The coming of vacation days brings home many young people who are en joying freedom from the irksome du ties of school. Swimming parties, riding parties, bridge parties -and | dancing parties are daily events and ' the popular flapper sometimes finds it hard to decide which of her many invitations to accept, and is often "dated up" a week in advance. Miss Frances Boykin, who has been I attending school in Spartanburg, is at home for the summer holidays, and has as her guests Misses Sarah Hodges and Lila Atkins. Oiv/Tuesday evening Missefe Frances and Ellen Deas Boykin were hostesses at a pic nic a^ Boykin's- Mill, a spot made ideal by a breeze and a full moon. On Wednesday evening the Misses Boykin again entertained at a sup per party, the occasion being Miss Atkins* birthday. Mr. Izard Josey spent the week end with Mr. Willis Boykin at Pine Grove. < Marriages Married at the home of Probate Judge W. L. McDowell on Saturday evening, June 7th, Mr. Pervis L. San ders and Miss Bertrue Williford, both of Camden. Mr. Sam Hunter, of Bethune, and Miss Grace Elvina Baker, of West ville, we^e married by Rev. S. B. Hat field on Sunday, June 16th. Mr. John E. Drakeford, of Camden, and Miss Nellie Laconia Sanders, of Blaney, were married at the pasto rium of. the Wateree Baptist Churchy Thursday, June 12th. They are to* spend two weeks in travel, after which they will make their home in Camden. The ceremony was per formed by Rev. W. E. Furcron. Mr. E. M. Price, of Lugoff, and Miss Sallie Irene Branham, of Blaney, were married by Probate Judge Mc Dowell on Saturday, June 1 4th. Big Surveying Contract. Esq. T. W. Secrest, of Waxhaw, will next week go to DeKalb, S. C., on. a big surveying job. A tract of 15,000 acres in one body is to be cut into lots which will be divided among ten children of the owner*, who is Capt. L. L. Clyburn, of DeKalb. Mr. Secrest, who is an expert aurveyor, says this will be the second largeat. body of land he has ever sub-divided, the largest being that of a tract of land for Mr. W. S. Blakeney, presi dent of the Bank of Union, and con tained over 47,000 acres. The tract lies between McBee and Jefferson, and a number of the lines were over five miles in length. ? Monroe En quirer. Baseball on Friday. The Chamber of Commerce and the American Legion will ' play their second game this afternoon at 5:15. The first game resulted in a victory for the Legionaires, though the score was close. Lee Little has gotten a stronger team together for this game, and Arthur says the same thing, so you can expect a hotly contested battle. The receipts of the game will be divided between the two organiza tions, the Legion's share to go to a club fund, and the Chamber of Commerce will place their receipts to a fund for the Camden Booklet. Vacant Scholarships at the Citadel. We call the attention of the' young men of our county who are complet ing their high school courses this year to the vacant scholarships for this- county in the Citadel which is advertised in another columji of this paper. This is a valuable oppor tunity for a poor boy unable to pay his way through college to get an education in one of the State's beat institutions of higher learning. Ap plicants are required to All out cer tain blanks, and we would advise our ambitious boys to writ* At once to tfce Citadel authorities for the necessary forms. The examination will be held on July nth **e CouatrJfcfi* rife tendent of Education ^ y-- iau r uatfSfrah ssf" *:-?>?? CAMPAIGN DATES FIXED. Schedule of AgMMmrnta Made For County Candidates. ? , ,, . ? I The Kershaw County Democratic! Executive Committee met Mondavi and arranged an itinerary for the county candidates *jnd also fixed the assessments for county officers. T. F. Horton, I). M. Kirkley and W. A. Anderson were named as a committee tp arrange the speaking dates and made a schedule as follow*: Blaney, Monday, August 11th. Rabon's Cross Roads, Tuesday, August 12th. ' *\ . Lugoff, Wednesday, August 13th. Cassatt, Thursday, August 14th. Bethune, Monday, August 18th. Haley's Mill, Tuesday, August 19th. Kershaw, Wednesday, August 20th. Westville, Thursday; August 21st. Cotton Mill, Saturday, August 23rd. Camden, Monday, August 25th. S. B. Stokes, J. B. Munn and J. K, Smith were named to assess the fees for candidates and adopted the fol lowing schedule: Clerk of Court. $40.00; Superin tendent of Education, $30.00; Master., $30.00; Road Superintendent, $3Q.00; House of Representatives, $20.00; Magistrate, DeKalb Township, $25.00; Magistrate at Kershaw, $15.00; Mag istrate at Bethune, $15. 00;. All other Magistrates, $7.50; Township Direc tors, $5.00; Coroner, $10.00. Pledges must be filed with the County Chairman and Clerk of Court and assessments paid before the opening of the campaign. - To Hold Clinic at Lugoff. Indications are that a large number of people will attend the tuberculosis clinic to be held at Lugoff on Friday, June 20th, at the school house. Mrs. Manus Rabon, of Lugoff, is at the head of ? a local committee of ladies who will assist with equipping the clinio ;and helping with the work. D.r^ Columbia, and Dr. McDowell of York and the local doctors who conduct the clinic will be assisted by a nurse from th^ Cam den Hospital; Mrs. Lee Cain of Columbia; Mrs. Brown, the county nurse, and Miss Gudger of the Tuber culosis Association. ' l As the attendance has been so large at so many of .the clinics held in other counties, 'the State Tubercu losis Association is sending out two chest specialists on as many of the clinics as they can this summer. Other clinics will be held later on in this county at Bethune, and Cam den on July 8th, 9th and 10th. -r Had an Unusual Experience. Professor J. G. Richards, Jr., left here last Wednesday in company with his mother and four nieces for a trip to North Carolina and tells of an unusual experience while on^a de lour around the mountains near Ilen dersonv^lle. The detour took him into a lonely roadway and just in front of his car he saw two men cross the road, and enter the woods. He looked around in time to see one of the men who was armed vvith a rifle, rest his rifle in the fork of a tree, take deliberate aim and fired at the qar. Luckily the shot went wild and Mr. Richards having so many ladies with him did not take time to investigate but put on full speed andj got out of reach. He cannot account for the attempt to assassinate him unless it was a moonshiner who took his car for that of a revenue officer. Death of a Young Boy. J. D. Johnson, young s<*n of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Johnson, of the Buffalo section aged twelve years, died Monday night about 10 o'clock at the Fonnoll Infirmary in Rock Hill where he was taken on last Thursday to undergo an operation for appendicitis. The remains, accom panied by the parents, were brought to Kershaw Tuesday morning to be taken to the home, and burial wan at Buffalo cemetery on Tuesday: afternoon. ? Kershaw Era. Colclough Home Repaired. Of great interest to many who have visited the Colclough home at Gtf liards Cross Roads after Ihe recent! tornado is the fact th%t this home has been repaired and ftonodeledj this work having been done^q^jG. P. Knowles & Son, who have dons some excellent work on the devastated building. The top story hum been eliminated and all of the first floor fell t?en remodeled. This If the first to be repaired in this devastated area, and the owners are to be congratu lated on their quick comeback after SI>R1N<U)A1?E POPULAR (ioU and Other Amusement* Planned For (be Summer Mouth-, / ThO Kershaw County Country Club is planning many interesting events for the summer and if Steward Brown will receive a bit of support and co-operation from the local people the club house and grounds so familiarly known as "Springdale" will be a most popular local resort. It is without question located in one of the prettiest and coolest sections of the state and surely deserves t^ho support of those living in town and within easy riding distance. . The club house should prove espec ially attractive for those who desiro a pleasant Sunday afternoon or eve ning drive from Camden or near-by cities ami towns in so far as it is possible for not only members but others to stop olT here for refresh ments. Sandwiches, salads, fancy and bottled soft drinks are being served at attractive prices The golf course which has been rushed to completion for this past winter's season has improved greatly during the spring and is being kept in shape for those who wish to patronize it this summer; the green's fee for those who are not members but who would' like to use the course is very nominal. & Special weeks will be set aside for an invitation match with the various clubs of near-by cities, so it seems there is considerable golf in tho making for the summer. Local golferd should exert them selves just a bit and see to it that these visitors have partners in suffi cient numbers to make it interesting as there is no reason why Camden should not have just as good a repre sentation of "golf bugs" , as other localities. \ Year Book Free. . We have received the following letter from Congressman W. ?.F? Stevenson, at Washington, with the request that we publish same: "Any one wishing a 1923 Agricul tural Year Book, or & book on tho Diseases of the Horse or one on the Diseases of Cattle, can obtain same by dropping me a card. The Horse and Cattle books are now ready for distribution and the Year Books will be ready after July 16th." . Catholic Church Services. There will be services at the Cath olic church on Sunday, June 22nd, at 7:30 a.m. There will be no other services during the day. All are cordially invited to attend the serv ices at 7:30 o'clock. New Demonstration Agent. M iss Madelyn Thomson of Gas tonia, N. C., arrived in Camden this week to succeed Miss Jennie V. Boyd as county demonstration agent. Miss Thomson is a graduate of the North Carolina College for Women at Greensboro, and since leaving college has had experience in teaching in Georgia, Florida and Alabama. Sho has already entered upon her new duties. Miss Boyd has gone to Ben ncttsville. Jvershaw Represented at Winthrop. The State Short Course held at Winthrop College, June 5th-13th, for the member's of the Women's and Girls' Home Demonstration Clubs was a source of much pleasure and betterment to those who attended. It is hoped that at some time many of the women and girls may secure the honor of attending. The county had representing it in J the Meal-Planning Contest Mrs. H. P. Oglesby of the Lugoff Club. Although Mrs. Oglesby did not win the first% place, it is of much interest to know that one of the judges, in announcing the decision, told the audience the three Judges unanimously declared that Mrs. Oglesby was the best cook of the three contestants. The first place went to Hampton county. ???????????? **?>--->3 Tornado at Dinkins Mill. A small tornado, but with terrific ' force, as was the first which visited the flagood-Dalzell section visited, the settlement at Dinkint Mill Sat urday It started about a mile to the northwest of the track of the first cycjpne, and went in * northwesterly course, uprooting and blowing down trees and unroofing dwellings, blow- * ing down several trees near the resi dence of Mr. G H. Lenoir end damag ing his residence. A flood of rein mU mom HAH teMMiiftid iki ?