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The Camden Chronicle : ?' ?"' ? "k 1 1 1 J 1 , . ' .iiiiiin , j,;. . ii ' i - ii. i i i a ?????. VOLUME XXXVI. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1824. ? NUMBER 22. ? ? .? : ; . TUESDAY'S PRIMARY Second Primary Ordered To Decide Several Contests. ? -C* v ? .... ? a I The primary held Tuesday passed off quietly with quite a heavy vote polled and n great deal of interest was manifested in all of the races. The County Executive Committee met Thursday: at noon and adopted the tabulation as compiled by The Chron icle as correct. For clerk of Court James H. Cly burn, for house of representatives Mendel L. Smith, for master K, H. Hilton, for coroner W. F. Russell, for director of DeKalb township H. 0. ( arrison, for Buffalo township I). M. Kirklev, for Flat Rock township , Jesse II. Howell, for Wateree town ship K. If. Bo wen, for magistrate l)e Ka!b township Samuel N. Nicholson, for Buffalo eastern J, K. Copeland, for Flat Rock township T..C. Fletcher ud h. P. Thompson, for Wateree township northern C. A. Branham, for Wateree township southern G. E. Hinson were declared the nominees. A second primary was ordered for Tuesday, September 9th, when W. L. DePass, Jr., and J. 13. Munn will run over for the House, J. Team Gettys and T. M. McCas'kill will make the second race for superintendent of ed ucation, S. H. Mickle and J). T. Yar brough run over for road superin tendent, in the Western part Trf~Buffa !o a second race for magistrate will he necessary between Paul E. Jones and W. R. Taylor. The usual large crowd was here from all sections of the county to get the returns as they came in, and The Chronicle wants to thank the managers and our friends for the excellent help rendered us in compil iik the returns. The entire county had be6'n heard from before . ten (?'( lock and the results known. Kngineer Dead; Train Huns On. Macon, Ga., August 24. ? A South in Railway freight train ran for three miles tonight on the main line between Macon And Atlanta without an engineer at the throttle. When the fireman, Gab Adams, negro, discovered that thb-^ engineer was not blowing for crossings, he in vestigated and found the engineer's ^??at vacant. The fireman brought the train to stop. The crew went back along the 'railroad track three miles and f??und the lifeless body of the en gineer, Guy N. Hancock,, of Altanta, ? n the ground. The only injury no ?sceable was a broken leg and it is believed that he died of heart failure ifxl fell out of the cab while the train was running .30 miles an hour. Hancock was the oldest freight en finer on the Macon- Atlanta division ' the Southern Railway. POLO PLAYERS KNOWN HERE World Championship Will Ih? Watched 1 By South Carolina. -vj . When the United States takes the Held against Great Britain next month for the polo championship ojf the world, 'every member of the big four will be an Aiken player, though they fly the Meudowbrook colors. 4*.. Every one of the substitutes ex cept' one, the brilliant Eric Pedley, who is from California, is off the Aiken field. i One regular?ten goals, to be exact ? Tommy Hitchoek was born in Aiken and proudly calls South Caro lina home. One substitute has a double claifn 011 the Palmetto state; " The dashing, effective Karl Hopping, who has gone forward rapidly, was for three years captain at Camden and has also played at Aiken. There was one game in Aiken la**t winter in which three of the big four ? *Milburn, Webb and Stevenson ? and two of the American team substitutes ? Strasvbridge and East? bwere play ing. Hitchcock was away at the time because of an operation. So many South Carolinians have seen these men play that the matches take on a very personal touch in this section. ? F riday's State. Man Was Hydrophobia Victim. Charleston, W. Va., Aug. 20. ? Dying from hydrophobia General W. Irons, 77, escaped from a hospital today and roamed the streets until he was retaken by the police and re moved to the' jail hospital. Physi cians declared the man could not litfe more than -18 hours and their efforts were devoted to prevent self injury. He was rational at times. Irons was bitten about two months ago by a small dog- but paid slight attention to the scant injury. Last week he became ill and the case was diagnosed 41s hydrophobia. Did Not File Pledge; Ruled Out. . Gaffney, August 23: Refusal by one or more of his five opponents to sign a waiver of his failure to file the required pledge with the clerk of court before beginning his campaign yesterday resulted in 'the elimination of Richmond Stacy for the race for the hou^e of representatives. In reply to a message sent State Chairman Edgar A. Brown at Barnwell, County Chairman A. L. Hallman received the following telegram: "No one who fails to comply with rule 27 by filing pledge with clerk of court by 12 o'clock noon on day before campaign" speaking is scheduled to begin is qualified to run in primary and have name put on ballot. This might be corrected if all candidates running for same office agree in writing to waive this; otherwise, don't put name on ticket." The Cherokee county campaign began last Monday. Mr. Stacy signed the pledge before the Clerk of Court jf- Caldwell the following Wednesday. TO OBSERVE SPECIAL DAY f' Company M of Camden Sponsors Day of Mobilization. Since its return from Camp John ston at -Jacksonville old Company M has boon busy preparing for Septem ber 12, which the War Department designates as a great occasion, and will be known as a general <lay of mobilization all over the country. The keynote of this meeting is pre paredness. The government wants every man who would be ready to enlist to be present on this day and fall in line to show that our company is well backed by recruits if nec essary. A prominent speaker whose name will be stated later will deliver an address and a committee of which the mayor is to be chairman will officiate. ! Our local concert band will render patriotic music and take a part In the parade. Company M will be out in full force. We want the American Legion who once showed they were ready to make the supreme sacrifice to be with us and inspire those ideals which they fostered in the most gigantic war of all time. Many of them were right with Company M in those most trying 4a>'s and their hearts could not help being with that organization which did such, noble lighting in northern France. The boy scouts will also take a part in this parade. We want not only those who are taking an active part in the exercises to "be present, but men, women and children all over Kershaw county wlio feel the company near and dear to you, are askbd to come out and help .make the occasion a great success. Bees Sting Farmer. Chester, Nr. Y., Aug. 207? Edward F. Green, a farmer, was in a serious condition today from bee stings. With his team of horses he was at tacked by a colony of btjes when his mowing machine struck a bqe hive. Physicians who treated him stated ihere was poison. enough in the man's body to cause h i ft death, but hope whs held out for recovery. j A veterinary said one of the horses had become deranged and probably would die.' The angered bee colony covered the body of the man with ! stings. . 1 1 I Backed Off Hridfre. , ??Jim White, operative in Buffalo j mills of Union, and his daughter, 14 i years old, and the son of Jeff Sum- J mer, aged 15, were overturned in a ! one-horse wagon when the horse got excited and backed off an old wooden bridge on the Appalachian highway a few miles beyond Buffalo Friday morning about 10:30 o'clock. The occupants fell to the ground just at the water's edge on Union side. All three are considerably bruised and skinned up, but none are thought to be fatally hurt. j i w;k bowman ukad Expired Suddenly Early Sunday Morning at Orangeburg. Orangeburg, Aug. -1. Hde.ton Wesley Bowman, judge of the First Judicial Cireuif; "died here suddenly thjs morning about 0 o'clock at his hojne on East* Amelia street. Judge Bowman had not been in the best of houlth since last. Christmas, hut hail improved each month' and his many friends here thought he could soon assUme hi* duties again on the bench. Judge Bowtuan was born in this county sixty-seven years ago, on Sep tember 20, 1857, ar>d married Miss Mary Ellen ('rum on November 11, ! 1883. His boyhood days wore spent , on the farm, but he loved to read ! when young and early entered Wof.r ford College, from which he was graduated in June, 1871). lie was od I mitted to the South Carolina bar in ! 185'2, was a member of the State ' Legislature from 18D1 to 1S5M5, mem. | bur of the South Carolina Constitu , tional Convention in 18'JG and author , of the provision 'in the constitution which prohibits divorce in South ! Carolina. Judge Bowman practiced law in this city actively until he was elevated to the bench in 11)13-. Judge Bowman took an .active in- 1 terest in church affairs and was a j man of unfailing integrity. He was a member as well as a steward in the Methodist Episcopal church, as sistant superintendent of the Sunday school and four times represented his church as a delegate to the annual conference of the state. He was a member of the Business Men's Chris tian League and had been actively attending its meetings each day this week and intended being present this morning. He was u past worshipful master of Shibboleth ?odge A. F. M., a member of the Woodmen of World and at college was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity. The death of Judge Bowman has ? cast a sad feeling over this city, as he* was a friend to everybody and c man that always stood for that which was for the best interests of his peo- i pie. | Judge Bowman is survived by his wife and the following children: John YV. Bowman, of La Feria, Texas: Mrs. C. T. Easterling, of Cope; Mrs* \V. -C. Terry,-of Hamlet, N. C.; Ham mond C. Bowman, of Charleston; Orin and Reddick Bowman and the Mjsses Lois May and Elizabeth Bow man, all of this city. Two brothers, John S. Bowman arui George R. Bow nuwi, of this city, and a sister, Mrs. B. S. ('rum, of Rovvesville, also sur vive. The Post Office department has" equipped more than five thousand rViail clerks with gas masks supplied by the army's chemical warfare ser vice because of the recent mail-car robberies in which bombs of poison gas were used to force the guards to desert their posts. Official Tabulation For County Officers in Tuesday's Primary Election ? RKHNCTS ^ bney \ ntioch Belk Hill Hethune Hlaney Buffalo ? amden ' assatt < harlotte-Thompson . . . ? DeKalb boby's Mill F.nterprise <Jates Ford Harmony Hermitage Kershaw Liberty Hill I.oekhart I.ufjoff Ned's Creek Oakland I'ine Tree Rabons Cross Roads.... Raleya Mill Roland Sandy Grove ? Salt Pond . . . Shamrock Sheppard * ShayTort Hill n Swtft Creek Three C'? ? ?? 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Examinations throughout all grades from the second through the eleventh will be given to all pupils who were promoted on trial unless such pupils attended the summer session under | our regular teachers and passed on the work taken. All pupils who wore] promoted on condition and who did not attend the summer session must pass a satisfactory examination on subjects failed on before they can enter the grade above. These exami nations will be given Thursday; Sep tember 1th only. Below is published the three curric ula open to the students of the high school. Each pupil entering the eighth grade must select a course to be carried on through the high school. Any one expecting to enter college after graduation from high school is advised to select the College' Pre paratory Course. Those who would enter college and are sure they do not wish an A. B. degree may solect the General Course. The General With ' Voeationals Course is placed in the high school primarily for those pupils who do not intend taking a higher education, though graduates in this course can enter certain colleges which teach vocational subjects. College Preparatory ? Eighth grade ? ? English, Algebra, Latin, and Goner- j a I Science. Ninth grade ? English, Algebra, Latin and Biology. Tenth grade ? English, French, Geometry, and Latin. Eleventh grade ? English, French, History, Physics, or Latin. General. ? Eighth grade ? English. Algebra, History and General Sci ence. Ninth grade ? English, Alge bra, History, and Biology. Tenth grade ? English, French, Geometry, and Chemistry. Eleventh grade English, French, History and Physics or Geometry. Vocational ? Eighth Arithmetic ''2 year, (last half). Cooking and Sewing, (Girls) and Book-keeping (Boys). Ninth grade ? ! English, Algebra, Hist., Biol., Cook' [ ing and Sewing. (Girls) Tenth grade: English, French, Geometry and Chem istry. Eleventh grade ? English, French, History and Physic's. Students desirnig aid in selecting | vc.ourse and subjects may call the superintendent on phone 2 for an i appointment. Office hours at the grarfiniar -school building are from j 9:00 a. m. to 10:00 and 3:00 p. m. to j 5:00 p. m. The superintendent will ? be glad to help you in this matter. ' ' Do not buy books for use in the! high school until you are absolutely j sure of your course. Algebra, year, The following is a list of texts to be used in the Camden ihgh School for the year l'J24-25. In selecting text books be sure that you know what course of study you will pursue. Texts that are used in one course are sometimes different from those used in another. All pupils must take four subjects. By special permission a pupil may take five. * ( From grade 1 through grade ? the list of books to be used is the same as those used by the Charlotte Thompson school to be found in an olher place in this paper.) Eighth Grade ? Ward's Sentence and Theme, Punctuation Leaves; West's Ancient World, West's Short History of Karly Peoples, Wells' Al gebra for Secondary Schools, Part 1; Caldwell & Eikenberry's Elements of General Science Revised, Smith's Ele mentary Latin, Greer's School ? and Home Cooking. Ninth Grade ? Ward's Sentence and Theme, Ix*wis & Hosic's Practical English for High Schools, West's Modern World (With West's War and The New Age free), Wells' Algebra for Secondary Schools, Part 1; Small wood, Beverly and Bailey's Biology for High Schools, Smith's Elementary Latin, Bennett's Caesar's Gallic War, Greer's School and Home Cooking. Tenth Grades-Lewis A Hosic's Practical English, Wells' Plane! Geometry, Black & Conant's Practi cal Chemistry, Bennett's Caesar's Q*J He War, Chardenal, Complete French Course. Eleventh Grade ? Ward's Theme Building, Wells' Solid Geometry, Black & "Davis' Practical Physics and La bora t o r jr ?- Manual, - _ Bennett's Cicero's Orations, New Latin Co?po- j sttion, Stspheroott's Antrksn^ Hist- 1 HI KASK/ AM) BYRNES To Make Second Kaco Opnden Man Klccted Comptroller Uenortfl. (From Thursday's State) The tabulation of belated returns from Tuesdays primary brought no signitleant ehanges in tho relative standing of randidates for nomina tions to the major offices and James F. Hyrnes of Aiken and C. L, Hloase of Columbia will accordingly bo pitted < against each other in tho run off in the senatorial eontest. The total vote counted mounted this morning to 78,(502 with 1,180 of the 1,354 boxes in tho state reported. There remain unaccounted for, ac j cording to estimates, hurdly more than . I ft, 000 votes, and their tabula tion will have little, if any, efVect upon the day's races. Blease continues to load in the sen atorial race by a margin of approxi mately 14,000 votes over Byrnes, his .nearest opponent, who in turn tops Senator Nat B. Dial of Laurens by near 20,000 votes! The standing of the four candidates with onlv 168 boxes missing showed: Blease, 74,152; Byrnes, 60,2?0; Dial, 31), 929, and John .1. MeMahan of Co lumbia, 4,271',' Thomas (i. McLeod of Bishopville, in like manner, tightened his hold on the nomination for governor, the final eoupt giving him a total of 107,071 votes to OS, 327 for his opponent, John T. Duncan of Columbia. Second primaries, to Ik- held Sep tember 0, will be necessary to name nominees for attorney general and ^commissioner of agriculture, all other races for state office having, however, apparently been decided in Tuesday's balloting. For attorney general, John M. Dan iel of Greenville, at present assistant attorney general, topped the ticket with 76,432 votes; J. Monroe Spears I of Darlington, for many , years a I solicitor, being second' with 67,505 I votes-, and D. McK. .Winter of Col urn - I bia third with 28,229. Mr. Daniel and I Mr. Spears will make the second race. B. Harris, incumbent, led in the race for nomination as commissioner of agriculture, commerce and indus tries with a vote of 75,223. James W. Shealy of Richland county, who will oppose Mr. Harris in the second race, was second with 50,271 votes and 10. W. Dabhs of Mayesville third with 43,374. YV. V. Black well of Columbia, secre tary. of state, has a lead of near 10, 000 vote? over his two opponents in the first primary. The vote stood: Black well, 95,081; James Cansler of Columbia, 30,703, and C. C. Brown of Spartanburg, 30,178. S. T. Carter of Columbia, seeking: renomination as state treasurer, topped his opponent and was an easy victor, as was also Robert K. Craig; of Columbia, candidate for renomina tion as adjutant general. A. J. Beattio of Camden won the nomination for comptroller general, defeating VV. C. Sutherland of Columbia, chief clerk in the comptroller general's office. The vote in these several races stood this morning at: For treasurer: S. T. Carter of Co lumbia, 129,498, and Warren . I . Scruggs of Columbia, 12,258. For adjutant general: Robert E. ? Craig of Columbia, 117, <>81. and John I). Frost of Spartanburg, 59,758. For comptroller general: A. J. Beattie of Camden, 96,591 , and W. V. Sutherland of Columbia, 77,129. For congress from the Second dis trict B. B. Hare and R. L. CJunter will enter a second race, it was indi cated with only four small boxes missing. W. Turner Logan of Charleston in the First district will also be forced to make a second race pitted against Thomas S. McMillan, also of Charles ton. All representatives contesting in congressional races were victorious in the first primary. Death of Former Citizen. James Doak, native of Scotland hut for fifteen years past a well known plumbing contractor of this city, died early Thursday morning at i his home 22 Grove street, after a i long illness. Mr. Doak was 11 years of age. He | is survived by his wife. J lie was a member of the First I Presbyterian church of this city. Funeral services were held at 5 o'clock Friday afternoon from the chapel of James F. Mackey and Sons, East Washington street, the inter ment following in Springwood ceme tery. ? Friday's Greenville News. Mr. Doak formerly resided in Cam den for a good many years where ho vtas employed in the plumbing busi ness. He will be remembered by a good many citizens. * ? vw aa a