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T SOt'TII t'AKOI.INA NEWS \ l? V&jthne, member of the <??*?? ifc'v 'high >ch<*l f<*>t&H ***?h .M m . ti.rt ...y ???' tW* bullet woiirub mflicted h> 1 J V, sv-bitt, a ^?mii^nt physician, dufcng &? ericountor vn the \M ^c?#?> ' hnnv in <.*tTm-y. The phy*ict*n #1*0 * vuff< :v.} * kmf* wound, Guthn* Yj-aSj .juried ' " the bospita* by Hi. Ne?wtt ..mi '.Ik' |ih> Miian refuse* to make ?? ,uwmcnt.*^ to the <au*e, *?/' 7^: bitt gave. bond "in th* sum "i *1.000 peudm?. the 'Ut.oive of th- ihjurie* t<> the young man. Jfeke Johnson, negro <!*$ Vjwn'J' w6r|)ng ftn. thy (a,mv ot )& J. 1.. Jordan of lUrt*v?M*, kiiu.i wmm ^usl * I Tnfnjit^^Jl^/ore noon wh.^the tractor which he was driving turned *?vei . ]>innW' him underneath. Johnson it wents had come over from a nearby (d where he was working and volunteered to pull the- tractor out vf a ditch. When ho applied fud power against the overload the trac tor turned over backward and death was instantaneous. .) Noah Webster Smith. U-'s painter, iljed while being carried to a Green ville hospital ufttr ht' *m<l ^ the concrete floor of a utilities com party power bouse about- .?'.^0 oVlock Monday afternoon from an IK f?oi scaffolding. The man wa* painting the ceil tng of the J'ower house at the tune ?.f the accident, it is not known whether h# lont bin balance or fell when shocked by *. 2.300 volt power line next to which he was working. Kcv. Frank Juhan, rector of Christ chuich. Greenville, has lk>l" mallv accepted the bishopric of the Florida diocese of the Kpiscopal ' ( hurcb to which he was reccntlj elected. . The unti-Ku K!ux Klan *ot?' of Texas is bfing urged to vote -olid!} for Mrs. Manam M. bergusori for guvei nor again#? Judge Fe|>\ lv>lf irifon. the leading candidate in the second gubernatorial primary, and .al(| tu be the candidate of the k.an. A life sentence wa* imposed on ( larence Blalock, 2S. farmer. Thuis <iuy . of the Boiling Springs section, of Spartanburg county, at noon b> Judge T. S. Sease. presiding in the K.urt of general Session, after th" ury had handed in a verdict of mul ? der with iv*. ommendation to merc> f,.r the killing of his father. John Blalock. on June 2. The verdict of the jury was rendered at 7.30 o clock Thursday morning after the body had deli !>?> rated on the case for more than :J hour?. A motion f??r a new trial V.;,* made by Suns and' Southard, i oun-el for the defendant, but it was later waived. Judge Sease outlined ?hi \erdict on the jury .and -aid that t appeared the son had beat his father's head into a puip with a i??ck aft'-T' disarming him. Your wife Hinged' !n hit vi* witnr^cd the killing wa- m etror in not helping vovi b\ i**-tifying on the ^tan?l. he !*o?tH-UT-d. 'If -he cr.uifi have hftpe.l ..uU 1 Klieve she should have been "ru. ?n -he <tand b> >oU. Therefore. , -hat h. i testimony in -elf .1, fvi.H? . ou'.d not hav.- hot lie you . ut." ? . j j t* s in iHio alio . i i, . . . , . v ? , : f j oir a 1 1 a v ? ^hh' /r, rirll '' 4 ? tlif.i; -?? -man u- ?' l'ulim;?n ??i ?" ? u ecu < 'olumbus. <>h.'. a!i 1 < T uesda> ?' ight ? " The lb'U-'.vr . Tcxa-. V -t ! i *'??' :!? -urn '1 , hanged ' ?. $ 1 .* 00. < 'Ot i I'he 1\-' h.t - l ii"'1 IIli;;i,.; i fa mils Ko?-n''-r (i \e:-ror Hobby "f I ? xa . ... ,hp rrridirt .-f the . f, -t. ha- :???* -in. th? uwru i of the IV.. an-i f ub'.i.aHcU ? with t h? Hon-'"! ;'Ih ;,t,::-he.i ..-d the I -t-I?:-patvh King \ lor-- of Spa;n. who - i ? oil ><? ' ; ; V;' >?'/ ?' . . ;; ") - uch : ai.k . * ' " 1 ?? ? a ? : o t h e ! c<U?"t!>. I I I \ \ KR1M. D\ KU I H \ - I \ I K h ? c rr. 1 V ? ar.d ? r..n and ? h : The bu*> f u n<i !) * ? ? tr. < ' .T < 1 1 i*t:rg. i ( J U . 1 1' * ax re \vh<"> arf pa v. a .? ? K he i.rec : ? be ! n < arned !r. L'nclf San:'' .*.*< r: ; nc.-H for :r. :? -ta't. force Jo handle ar.>! ;; : t :*>n of Major Jone? *r.? Hone like clock u-nrk. Columbia that in Wa.'hi.-.^'tr they if'p ard the South Carolina burfau as one of the moot efficiently conducted in the country and that it is never necessary to "jack up" that depart ment on account of tardy reports; but usually South Carolina is first. The major didn't talk a lot ? Uncle Sara wouldn't allow him if he were bo inclined, but he did ?olanUcf that he was glad "the people ? , t arolina ai< eon>fng to realize that i hi s . depart rm at if not (wing run m*iv / for thv .vkv of giving office t.. a numb* r of Kepublitun-* but i* for '.hi' purpose ? J giv.ig real ?erviee to the taxpayer- ami lh.it if ther?* is ,any thing wrong abojjt their taxeh it licit n<M.* --ary to hir*? a lawyer to Straighten thing* out bec*u*#. Our I'Onii' duty :* to secure & * deal ! fi >r the taxpayers as well is the g,ov eminent." Major Jones, an hi# friend h , ha*. alwa>? been very #lim but ho in getting fat. Keminded that <>lT ict- holders usually get fat he de viated hi* office ha* nothing to do with it in his cane but give* the ? credit to a morning breakfast of two eggs in a ran of milk qnd the justice of an orange and much hard work. Well, there'* nothing doing aroun-i ?tile xtale huuse on a Saturday afler | noon because they knock off at noon and alt the *dd bell weathers are off , oil the . hustling* trying to show the ! dear people why they should be con ; tinucd in gravy, so the jaunt is re sumed toward' St. Matthews. The distance is thirty four miles and th? Koing )s a little rough in spots due to the fact that the state highway commission is engaged in building a real load from folumoia to Charles ton. Ctoi'sing^.J.hc Conga tee and through the village of Cayce, the wrong road is taken and an old fel : low who bobs up from somewhere out the bushes say*, "yes, this is the road : to St. Matthews but- you can't go it i y?>u - ? <? i ? i through the i iw'amp." So you turn- around and start on a road that does lead safely j through the- swamps. It i> a long ?>)d thirty-four miles. There, arc numerous waste retches and where there is growing cotton and corn it doesn't . look vei \ goo<l. Tinterpf ismg people looking for goo.l vitp? for tiiiing stations which are not to be- had anywhere in York . cuUiity any more, might look uver this country between t ayce ami ?>v. Matthew*. There is plenty of <{00111. Along about fix the oKi tin pan "chug chugs" into St.. Matthews and up to the Calhoun Hotel. It is Sat urday evening and the streets of the little town are lined with people ? two m-tf roes to every white- ? the negro population of the county is twice that of the white. Business appears to be good despite a gloomy crop prospect. St. Matthews is a town of some 2.000 people. It includes a good hotel, , three banks, four churches, a water ! and power plant and handsome resi ? dences and stores. It is the capital i of perhaps the most purely agricul ! tural county 111 the state. | There is not a single cotton mill in the county. There has been consider able saw milling going 011 111 recent years; but it appears there is a quietus on that industry now and the people ave looking entirely to the ! soil. May rains have played havoc I with things; but there is a hopeful J spiVit prevalent in every man to whom you talk and they are confident they are coming out somehow. Truly, the history of these hardy, plucky farmers for the past four year* ha- been a tragic one. In 11*20 ; the counts made around 1 ,000 bales of cotton. Then came the crash in price and the bull weevil and the pro duction ha? T?c*en going down, down, . down! Kor instance, take the case ? J A Hank', ox **a:e senator ani oneof the? '.vadijig fanner- of the count \ In 1 1'20 he made ">00 bales ?of cotton. 1 n 1 i'2 1 he made '>'1 and ;I: 11' 22 he made It :- the -am? with -cure"* of other-. l'he\ ex pei t the> w.l! mak? I0.0OO ? hn!r> ".r. '.l-i < i.ur.ty this >.*? ('f ? t-uf ???a' ?? gur = = work ??:ni n."bo?j\ pr?*. ?n"d- '?? know. I he ^ ; c- i* ha- bn :: :teva..\ dfow red ?Ut. 1 1 ' it 1 ' u u . . \ ?t.. i ? ? ^ I a \ w it > ? a 1 n . tain. : i? : r. ' ( ^ r .wth ha- b? en ret aided ar.d ih.t : i .tr.- t.. little fruit ? on the -r;?:k- I >ur:r.g the past tvrrk t ? 1 . 'i.t\- ' ? l* ? " w . ? \ :1 ha- been O.'.w,: u: 1 .d?rab;? number,. .1 udgil.g f : ? fv ; :i-'. ? xp? r er ? h. will ; .1 k t .?!???; in : i ? . x The prvp'-r* ?--- a r "* "?'?p ' -yk :r. j>. h ix-tt? : than t" 1 1 ? ? r Kxpei; t*ti fit i itu*!" ' r . . \ ? t m vun- y uhi I'liiM t* ! ? .* 1! * 1 - ? * ? ' f ? ? ? *' 1 h ? ' x t 4 K .1 : ??..?: : 't ' - 'here W t be <. M ? < '. ? ? -? K \ I 'f r :? liv e? - . !!t c I'.'Jo na< e *.i i*:K* '.'.e-e pe?*p.e ,"t of th.ng- Tr-.ere ale m>re r..>g- and cattle ? ? 1 t ?>U!.t\ thi- year thai. I. el ! ? f ? ?>. pet hap- It ?' ha dr.'' be?. ? f ? "he -a e of tr.e-e animal- la-' \ ??a - . ir??odr.e?? kr >ws what the | i ? ; w haw dor.**. The;, w . *i ::: ' ? gar ag.. ? th - year Ran in. r<>- - ?! Sn t; w ? A an r 1 makcr. pre-ident "f the American fotton A -s*> jaticr. w hich has .ts offices here Hard hit h:m?e:f and daily witness of tr.c m*sfortune? of ii is /rier.<l? ar.fl acquaintance? among whom he has lived all hi? Ii^e in Calhoun, he is not despondent hut is carrying on the work of the ifr^at farmer*' organization of which he Is th? head and ff\iidtng geniH? ?ith ea tbaaiaam and optimiaaft* lie belleveft cotton ia going to torteff a f?o4 pricm tfrrv faH and that th* fact tint acreage of the belt f? the largest in >tars if not ever before, conditions are *tnh that it wit) be Impossible to produce a crop nearly ttjuai to supply the de mand. The 'American Cot'.on Association i* grawtug in membership ami ( otton News, the instinctive maga/.lm of the organization which i* published here, i> increasing in circulation, now to'ai ng al*>ut A real new* man, John Marshall, is in charge of ?t- He was for ye-uts on the News, and Courier an<i his wife, now dead, was a daughter of the late Col, ?>, S. H. Thomson, for many > < .it.- a ic-ident wf Yorkviilc. While the colored population of Cafiioun is much larger Mt ill than the white, hundred* and hundred* of negroes of that section have gone North and to other parts -of the coun try since the beginning of the agri* -cultuial decline and there is consid erable of a labor problem confront ing the land owners. There i? mora or less political and economic unrest and one learns that recently the Ku KluxKlari staged a demonstration in St. Matthews and that shortly after ward two prominent negroes of more or less questionable character were served with notices purporting Jo; have come t:om the Kian to: leaw| town. I One accoftiing to the ?tor>|. has bcon hobnobbing loo closely with one [.-Joe" W. Tf.ibe.rt of Ninety-Six, rela tive to the St. Matthews postofTice aftd, lh? olhi't saHl To be worth maf o than a hundred thousand d dials, ? much of v. ha h 'Aii: uctjuired by ways that are dark and tricks t.hat are ; vain was given until Sept. 1. to hike' -..ut I Some feel that they need the j K K. or - >mething down state. Coming home the route was the same "back to Columbia and thence across to Camden over another tine stietch of Richland county hard Sur face road. There is a pretty stretcn of country for you. Much of it is ly ing idle but a good part of it is being developed into a part of the ever in creasing peach belt of the state. One strikes the peach orchards ten or twelve miles out of Columbia. About thirteen miles out one enterprising peach grower has established a shack on the side of the road for the sale of peaches to travelers and Sunday morning he was doing a flourishing business because he had peaches worth while ? the most beautiful peaches this writer evtr saw. Peach growing in this section is in its infancy as yet; but one learns from the growers that it has a bright future and that there is no reason why it can not reach the proportions of North Carolina or Georgia and the growers have that object in view. And so across the toll bridge over the Wateree and into Camden where the old flivver is filled and the inner man is tilled and a call is made for Henry I>. Niles and Ferris McDoweil of the Camden Chronicle, good news paper men and gentlemen whom it is jjood to ^ce. Nothing would do but a trip over historic Camden and that ride of an hour was one of the most pleasant and interesting features c.i a most pleasant jaunt. Arising out < ? f a lethargy of years ar.d years <ince the Civil War. Camden is growing b\ leaps ar.1 bounds. The population now is around ">..r>00 sa-ys Editor Niles. despite what the census' but eau might -ay to the contrary. It is a city of beautiful homes and paved i eels and elegant hotels for winter tourist* where a coca-coin costs vpu fifty cent- and you can get the same d"?e up tuwn for a niokle. Those hotels aie closed now and so are the winter homes of the rich ea-ternet< and northerner*, families of mdhonai! e manufacturers and othir business nun who tome there from Thar.ksg.'. .ng to Easter* to play polo am! poker, golf ar.d what-not, to hurt a: d M-n. take .;ft ? asy and -p:ead ; y generally. Must of them w her. they go ea>* ;n early spring a ? ar?-:aker or; their otherwise (i?-M :u-ii prtmiit: r cl-c make a r ra :.gi nu : - :">? i ::mmirg of lawns ar.d f" .agi . I u' .? f? w are content tlni-g- grow ur*:ghtlv and urkeinpt u !i t ! i .- t . iv. ' come back t o p i ay a g a ; n I m > . o v t r g I* t : ;u n to natuie, 1 1 ? u ! : > t s , to .( : the tit-es and the bru-h b? ' .1- r.aturi would have them be ar. : t r v r < !V..,.ri*' natural beauty an : g : a r u ui Camden perhaps thar. ar.\ t> wn up state. Especially pit t ure^ue 1- the Hull Estate of 300 ?? re* right ;r. town, a beautiful home surrounded b\ a heavy growth in whun l:ve rarc'.?or.> and foxes, rab bits. *o(u:rrt)s. partridge- and other gam*, in abundance almost in the heart of a town of 5.500. Rich :r. history and tradition is Camden ? a history dating back long before the revolution. Here is point ful out a hr>u.-e where Georg? Wash ington was entertained when he stopped in Camden on his southern tour. Here is the I-a Fayette cedar under whose protecting shade ths noble Frenchman addressed the pop# Uc*. There is where the Battle of j ' Hobki.k Hilj. The weather vane on the city hail i$ a representation of King Jlaigler, last. great chieftain of the Catawba* who cut a big figure in this whole section when* the country was young,. Your friends take you to the ancient Quaker cemetery where all Camtlen people, are carried to sleep the last . . i?. A beautiful bursal ground. Some of the crumbling grave stones whose date* are deciphered with dif Acuity date hack to long before the Revolution, '* The route to this cemetery leads past the old court house, now ueed as a I>. A. K.. hall, the old jail more than one hundred years old and now serving as a church for negroes; an old building which was once a famous tavern, the sign "Kntertainment for Everybody" still clear; another ancient building which was once a noted grog shop and which formerly bore the sign "Wines and Liquors," reminders of a long gone time when liquor was liquor and Mr. Volstead wasn't.. One goes into the cemetery and wanders among the graves, old time vaults long since begun to totter and crumble and where an occasional wild cat or fox now has its quarters and i arses its young; old head stones brought from Scotland and Knglan 1 to mark the resting place of some prominent citizen uf the. ion# ago. Your frieVids point you th^ lowly heaJ rock marking the grave of "A^rnes of i GT^rguw^~U^\o<Je pa r t ed this .life Feb. I ' J . 1780. There -are man/ stories! ..l out her. One tradition has it that : _ I Save Your Top Crop! Cotton Is Valuable! Poison is Cheap! We have Calcium Arsenate stocks at Memphis, Atlan ta, Brunswick, Charleston, Columbia and Greenville. v GET OUR PRICES FOR QUICK SHIPMENT We sell the Little Giant Blower for dusting cotton? economical, efficient; retail price $6.50 f. o. b. Atlanta. Special discounts to dealers. . , Ashcraft- Wilkinson Company ATLANTA, GA. , she was a Scutch School teacher in love with a soldier of CornwaHis's Army who was rowed in a canoe from Georgetown to Camden in search of her lover by warriors of King Haig ler, the jf'atawba chieftain. Finding not her lover she died of a broken heart aiul was laid to rest beneatn the whispering pines in the oid Quaker cemetery in Camden. Some of these days I >hall try to get all the facts about Agnes and put them in print because the story might be of interest,-? ~ . One learns that the fishing? trout lliht.ng around Camden is the. iinttst ?ever and Editor* Niles tells you with out hatting an eye that he recently I landed a b'g mouther that weighe 1 | i-ight and one-half pounds and ywung Mcdowell says it is so. You would like to stay in this lovely spot a wggfc but the paper's got to conn- out an>l finally you are off to home through' Kershaw and Lancaster and then a dip into Union county, N. C., and into Fort Mill and Rock Hill and then back to the starting point. A?d while taken as a whole, the crop prospect over this 300 mile jaunt is not so good as could be hoped for, still you find that the farmers are in pretty good spirits as well as the business men and that all are of the opinion that it eould be "worrrr aTur: if the price is anything like it .should be everybody will be enabled to carry on. ? Is Giving One ? What They Want ? As They Want It ? And WHEN THEY WANT IT That is the Kind of V Service We Render ^ If you have ever failed to get this kind of service from us, we want to know 6 If you are not already a patron of ours for printing, call us for your next order and let us show you what good service we can render you. Our prices will please you just as well as the service and goods we furnish you Aside from our prices and service we make a bid for your printing on the ground that we pay a license, we pay taxes to help keep up the city and county government, we pay our printers and we pay our just and honest - debts and spend our money in Camden where you will very likely pet a chance at some of it coming back to you. The Camden Chronicle 1109 Broad Street