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The Camden Chronicle --- - -i - - ? Ml.. ? ! . , ' ' VOLUME XXXVII. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1925. NUMBER 19. REBUILDING ()!,!) KOAI) Eastern Kershaw People Being (liven Nearer Route to Camden Superintendent of ltoads S. 11. Mlckle ami Ci. F. Cooley sv^er in t ind ent of the county chain gang forces, Hie Riving" the citizens of eastern Kershaw an excellent piece of road pcrtf Tiller's. Ferry and opening up a route to Camden that will save them many miles of travel. The gang- is camped ? few miles this fdde of Lynches river and is working on the eastern extension of the old wire road, used many years by the ehrliest H'ttlers in their route to Cheraw. For some reason a former county administration saw fit 'to abandon this ,x.atl and it gradually went down until it was impassable in places, owing to I the heavy sand-beds. After the aban donment the nearest route was by my' of Bethune, making the. route traveled anywhere from eight to twelve miles farther for the residents i-f tjii.> section. Many of the older residents of this county, .such as the j Halls, Kadcliffs', Humphries and! others use this road. It is not an j uncommon sight to see old-fashioned lug houses ? one said to be more than . hundred years of age- ? and miles (1' o'd-fashioned rail fences used for fencing 'in pastures. It is in the Sandy tlrove section where the aged ihurch by that name still Js used as house of worship, and the cemetery! ;)ea .??by is the burial place of many uf the old settlers of that time. Some quaint inscriptions ad.orn many of the handmade, tombstones. This old road is said to be the iiraightest in the county and is built j.:nu<.""t on an air line. The Southern J i-!! Telephone system follows this ioute on into North Carolina. It is art important link in our county high ways ahd serves some of the best citizens of our county who for years j have used Camden as a marketing: ^ place and now that the distance has I . fceen cut down they can make the 1 trip with more ease. While on a trip in that section one ' < mid not help but take note of the i prospects for a fine crop in all lines, | and especially on what is considered; poor sand-hill lands. Reports ftx>m nearly every section of the county .state that the prospects are exceed ingly good for the largest and finest ! ??/?ops ever harvested if weather condi tions are favorable from now till harvest time. Joe McCain Gets Scholarship. Upon- the- recommondation anil ap- j pointment by Mr. Team Gettys, coun ty superintendent of education, and Mr. W. L. McDowell, judge of pro hate of Kershaw county, Joe McCain, v f Camden, has been awarded a schol arship to tihe College of Charleston. Mr. McCain graduated from the Cam ?i< n High School last year. (ireat Men Dying Fast Washington, Aug. 3. ? The death of ?v;;'.iam Jennings Bryan has recalled '?i?- fact that a great many prominent !i?:i of the nation have died since the world war. The grim reaper has been ??specially severe in Congress. Here are some of the public men >i have answered 'the summons: l*ormer Presidents VVoodrow Wil ? !) and Theodore Roosevelt, Presi '-??nt Warren G. Harding, former Vice I'rc-ident Thomas R. Marshal, Sena ' F'hilander C. Knox and Boise Pen o>e, of Pennsylvania; Henry Cabot i.od;rc, of Massachusetts; Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia; Knute- Nelson, of M nr.csota; Secretary Henry C. Wal "f the <lepartment of agricul *UM ; Re presentatives Champ Clark, Missouri; Claude Kitchin, of North ' <tr. ciua. and scores of lesser lights. Barracuda Attacks Woman Mrs. W. If. Kahrs, 57 Reid street, ?yas reported at the Riverside in ? miaiy last night as being improved. Nunday afternoon in the surf at Folly '- and she was attacked by a fish ?vnich is said to have been h barra ' uda and severely wounded, sixty "'?itches being taken by surgeons. That a barracuda should attack a f.uman being in theso waters is a ?m>?? extraordinary occurrence. Re ?"'rt? of the barracuda attacks are >:r'- uncommon in more Southern >v<tters, but few of the fishermen of - coast have ever seen this "tiger f the sea.". The attack occurred at high flood 'i<ie when Mrs. Kahrs was in about n feet of water. Mr. Kahrs went "'mediately to her assistance and *ssi*ted her ashore. The barracuda attacked her repeatedly in spit* of her frantic effort* to scare the fish sway. ? Tuesday4* News and Courier. I'KOVKD TO HK WKOMi M \N Judge He leases Missouri Neu'ro Wanted at Charleston ? j St. Louis, MP,, July Ul.?A negro un r.sttHl July J aiul ac c used wl' being Samuel Brown, who shot and killed Allen HethingtGii . at Meggetti S. C? in 1904, was freed today 'when Cir cuit Judge Mix granted a writ of habeas corpus. Deputy Sheriff Wienges from Charleston, S. C., was waiting td take the negro back with him, He tame here for the alleged slayer* identified by Hethington's brother, after Governor Sam Baker had granted a requisition for the ex tradition to South Carolina. As the negro stepped from the court room Deputy Sheriff Wienges started to take him in custody. .Judge .Mix then warned the sheriff, "if you lay a hand on him I'll send you to jail." Earlier this week Judge Mix held a hearing on the prisoner's ap plication for a writ of habeas corpus. The negro said his name whs Nat Winston, not Brown, arid that he had never been in South Carolina. C. F. Hethington, wlro says he i found the slayer 20 years after his brother was killed, in a dispute over fa j{in labor, did not testify. Hething ton .says he recognized the negro as. the slayer, while both were working on a building under construction here. Sheriff J. M. Poulnot of Charleston toid the police here he recognized the prisoner's photograph as that of Sam Brown. Both men based their iden- J tification on general appearance. Judge Mix explained he could do | nothing but discharge the defendant, as there was no testimony that he was Brown a fid .the requisition papers call for Biown and not Winston. I . . SLAYS WIFE AND SELF Early Morning Tragedy .-Enacted 'in Richmond When Two Die I Richmond, Va., Aug-. 1. ? The Rev. Geo. W. Holder shot and killed his wife and then killed himself at his home here this morning. The shoot- 1 ing took place in the dining room and both are be.lieved to have died almost' instantly. Police have not yet del'- j initely .assigned a motive but they! declared that their preliminary in-; vestigation indicated ill health was the cause of the tragedy. Holder retired from active minis-: terial duties several years ago and ! in recent months has been working! in a furniture store. Mrs. Holder- j had been his housekeeper until she , became his wife. The retired min- , ister had been ill for about a week but went to his work yesterday. ? He was unable to report today. Mrs. Holder also was employed but she too did not go to work today. Both were thought to be about thirty-five years of age. Holder's first wife died several years ago, leaving three children who now survive the father. They are Winifred 15, Grace 13, and Pauline 10. Stockholders Receive Dividends The Carolina Coca-Cola with head offices at Sumter has recently mailed our two per cent dividend checks to its stockholders in this section. Quite a lot of this stock wa.s sold in and j around Camden several years ago and the distribution of this dividend, though small, comes at a most oppor tune time. Paul McCorkle Remembered In Will Coroner Paul G. McCorkle, of,JSTork county, is a beneficiary to the extent of $75 a month for the balance of his natural life, by the terms of the will of the late E. I). Latta, Char lotte millionaire, whose will w/?s filer! for probate at Asheville last week. Latta had long been a friend of McCorkle. $5,000 For Thorn we 1 1 Clinton, Aug. 2. ? The name Phle gar has long been an honored one at I the Thornwell Orphanage. of this J place. The late Judge J. A. Phlegar, of Christianburg, Va., erected the Nellie Scott Library on the institu tion's campus. He also contributed to its endowment fund and led his J Sunday school to make regular] Christmas offerings to this fund, the; total from the school now standing at $15,000. Through the will of the late Mr.?. A. A. Phlegar the orphanage received this week $5,000, which is specified to be applied to its endowment fund. Both husband and wife have been de voted friends of the institution for a long period of year* and their interest has been manifested by the continual and substantial fifta they have made. SCHOOL DAYS NKAK fh?rlotte Thompson High School T? Open Monday, ..September' 7th. The Charlotte Thompson ^ High School will open Monday morning, September 7th, at 9 a.m. Pupils must bring their books to school on this day. A complete, list of books to be used will be published in next week's issue of The Chronicle. Parent* are urged to have their children vaccinated at once and not delay this until just before school begins. The state requires all pupils to show signs of a successful vac cination before being enrolled in the schools. . New pupils must bring their reports showing the work completed during the past year. Any pupils having conditions to remove will stand these examinations on the opening day of school before being allowed to progress to the next grade. The | school trucks will be operated on < practically the same schedule as last year. The teaching force will be. the same as of last session: N. M. Huckabee, ! superintendent, in the high School, Miss Olga Hush, Miss Ktlu-1 Rruee, I Miss ICsther Garvin. In the gram- I mar school, Miss S.a^lie Pearce, Miss j Mae Rush, Mrs. A. (1. Sanders, and j Miss Mae Boykin. The patrons are asked to co-operate with the teachers in every way pos- i stble to make this the most successful ! year wje have had. Regular attend- j anee, lessons well prepared at home, 1 less social activity, except on week- j ends, for the pupils and occasional j. visits to the school by t1Ye parents ? will greatly help. MANY PAY FIXES Monday Busy Day For Recorder .Mills In City Court. An unusually large number of de- ] fe..ndants appeared before Judge Mills :n municipal court Monday morning and the name? of several prominent citizens were among the list for vio lations of the traffic ordinances which are being strictly enforced in Cam are now being strictly enforced in Ca mden. Richard Peoples, also a defendant in magistrate's court, withdrew his request for a jury trial and plead guilty in tins court to charges of speeding and reckless driving. In j making distance from tihe scene of a i cutting affair on the river road Sat- i urday afternoon Peoples, it is alleged, overturned his autoiu-obile when mak ing the corner of DeKalb and Cambell ?streets and on this account was fined j twenty dollars. W. P. Thomas charged with selling goods from his ice cream parlor on the Sabbath, was found not guilty. This case went to a jury composed of F. M. Wooten, foreman, R. M. Ken nedy, L L. Moore, U. N. Myers and J. K. Lang. Thomas Chestnut was found guilty on a charge of- drunkenness and as sault and battery upon a colored woman in the lower part of Camden. Both man and woman claimed it was all a matter of fun but the woman was made to exhibit fresh wounds from a carving knife and Tom paid thirty dollars instead of serving the j days. Lane C. Shaw and M. Klein an swered charges to fighting within Che corporate limits and each were fined ?ten dollars. A. F*. Sharp, charged with disturb ing the peace of his neighborhood and assault and battery upon his wife,! was made to pay a fine of $"20. Bernard Williams, 10-year-old col-1 ored boy, answered guilty to a charge | of assault and battery upon his step- { father and is now serving a thirty- j day sentence in the city bastile to ' consider the seriousness of abusing! older members of his family. Wateree Plays Last Team Wateree plays th<* Columbia Red ? Sox Saturday at Wateree Field. The Red Sox is the team that defeated Wateree three weeks ago by the score of >ii- to 4 'in eleven innings and is made up almost entirely of the 1923 Columbia High School team which won the state championship that year. Included in the Red Sox lineup are Boall, Lamar, Williams, McAuley and Rosebury, all well known in high school and prep baseball. j . Wateree has a good team and is ' out for revenge fot the recent defeat. The game Will start at 4 p.m. The Wateree Mill* band will furnish music throughout the game. A good, fast me is assured. . ? WHITE MKN FltiHT Otic (Jets Terrible Slash Across Face and Arrests Follow . ? The Use of mean lii^uor in all too, [generous quantities sfcms to have been the4 notable factor in developing! u fret* for aH . fight- and human carv ing demonstratittn on the river bridge j highway a ' half mile from Camden] early last. Saturday afternoon. City I ?ami county offieei> who rushed to j the scene placed four men undor ar- j rest for public disorderly conduct and to this chinrge C. V. Johnson ami .J. J. JB. Tvuesdell centered pleas of guilty before Judge N i eh olson in magis trate \s court Monday morning and were fined twenty -five dollars each. K. L. Peoples was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence 'H>f whiskey and was fined in this court aft,er having plead guilty to a charge of reckless driving in municipal court. Kei>haw T: u< -mIi 11, who MillVred j most with a variety of fancy slices : and slashes upon the forehead and face, with CV V. Johnson who, it is alleged, handled the weapon, will &tand trial upon charge of public dis orderly conduct in Magistrate's court this morning. After this trial Johnson will be .nerved with anot'her warrant charging assault and battery ami will be bound over for the .next term of criminal court, which wiji meet in November, j . i Catholic Church Services. Services at the Catholic Church on - Sunday, August IHh, will be at 9:80 j a. m. The public is cordially invited! "i t to attend. Had Terrific Punch c\ Manly. liuf.Ji, a, young white nun ; i of the Eljoreo sectidn, must have a | terrific kick in his fist. Thursday,, after a magistrate's trial in Elloree, Mr. Rush is alleged to have struck a negro named John Reagin with his bare fist ami the negro died in about thirty minutes. It seems as if the two had a case up before the mag istrate there and during the exam ination Reagin disputed Rush and j after the hearing Rush asked the 1 negro if he meant to dispute him. j The negro said he did and proceeded, to curse Rush and immediately he : got the lick that is alleged to have i caused his death. Rush immediately ! came to Orangeburg and surrendered j to Sheriff R. F. Dukes. Bohd was arranged and Rush returned to his1 home. Mr. Rush says he deeply re- j grets the incident and that he had' no intention of killing the negro. ? ! Orangeburg Times. SENTENCE COM M L'TED Haithcock Not To Die For Murder of! Arthur Pedens The sentence to death by electrocu tion of W. B. Haithcock, convicted at the January, 1U 24, term of the court of general sessions in Richland county of the murder of Arthur Pedens was yesterday commuted to life imprison ment by Governor McLeod, the com mutation of the sentence "being recom mended by Solicitor A. F. Spigner, his recommendation being joined in by Mendel I,. Smith trial judge in the case. The homicide occurred in the lower part of Richland county in November, 1923, near the home of J. B. James. The testimony was to the effect that Haithcock and Pedens had been hunt ing, being apparently on friendly terms and later in the day, when Haithcock and Pedens were in the yard at the horfffcof Haithcock, a dif ficulty arose in whic^i Haithcock was beaten. That night Mrs. Haithcock was visiting at Peden's home and Pedens was taking her home in an automobile when he was shot, the homicide occurring on tho road be tween the Peden and the Haithcock i homes. The defendant set up a plea j of self defense at the trial. Solicitor Spigner, in a statement t o . j the governor says, "I have concluded , that I should recommend that the ! sentence in this case be commuted from death to life imprisonment. I am convinced there were some miti gating circumstances connected with I the homicide which were not devel I oped at the trial which, had they been ' developed would probably have had sufficient weight with the jury that i their verdict would not have, been 1 more severe than life imprisonment." j ? Tuesday's State. i __________ ____ The paving of approximately 30 miles of highway will begin in York county in the near future . It) OPRN SCHOOL HIvHK Georgia-Carolina School 01 I'ommcrtT To Have Branch School Here Mr. Alton 11. Perry, president/of ! the* Cieoripia-Curolina School of Com nuM'i'c, an<l Mr. Robert L. Williams, the vice-president, of thy same ?chfl>ol welt; in Cani?!?n ;ul week making ['arrangement's for the opening: of a branch school here. Mr. William* is still in tin1 city and will remain here until the school gets under way. He tells us that He is meeting with grati fying success in the number of ap plications for scholarships and ho thinks there will be no (rouble in getting the rrquired number of Students. Nearly everything taught in a com mercial' college will be taught here and it will afford local young people an opportunity to take advantage of a school at their very door, and many of them will be enabled to take the night study. Several schools are be ing successfully operated in the smaller towns in Georgia and the Carohnas. These gentlemen have the. endorse ment of the Brunswick board of trade in which city* the school has its head offices. Letters from the Georgia city signed by Fred (J. Warde, manag ing secretary of their board of trade, reads as follows: "We have been advised that ? the Georgia-Carolina School of Commerce of Brunswick, Ga., anticipates open ing a business college in your city, and we take this occasion . to write you and tell you that if you are suc cessful in having a brunch of this In stitution established in your midst that you will find it quite an asset to the interest of your community. "Several years ago through the ef forts of the Brunswick Board of Trade we induced Mr. Alton 11. Perry i to establish in our city the Georgia Carolina" School of Commerce, teach ing shorthand typewriting, bookkeep ing, and the. usual business school subjects and courses. After closely observing the work and results ob tained- by the school we take great pleasure in recommending Mr. Perry as a high class business man and gentleman, absolutely reliable and de pendable. "Mr. Perry informs, me that Mr. R. L. Williams, vice president of the school will be in general charge Of the work in your city. Mr. Williams is known by me to be trustworthy, and conscientious in the splendid work which he is doing. "We shall appreciate any courtesy you may have opportunity, and feel disposed, to extend to him." Had Expensive Tastes An old negro entered the office of the lawyer whose usual custom was to charge his clients whatever he could get. ?_*_ "Bogs, dey's got my boy in jail. What will you charge to get hinj out?" the .caller asked. The lawyer, siz-ing up his prospec tive client as one who was not very prosperous, replied: "Oh, ten dollars." Thereupon the negro, who had been away from the community for somy time, and who had, without the home people knowing anything about it, accumulated a little money, pulled out a large roLl of bills. The lawyer saw the bills and hast ily said: "What jail is it where they have your boy?" "Why, boss, it's de county jail, dey calls it, up heah on de hill." "Do you mean he is in the big stone jail up there, with steel bars on all the windows?" "Yah, suh; yas, suh ; dat's de place, boKK." "Oh, well, when 1 answered your first question, I thought you meant they had him in the little wooden building down here that they use hk a holdover. If he's in the stone jail, with the barred windows, it will cost $25 to get him out of that." The old darkey slowly counted out the required amount, the while mut tering: "Dat pestifferous boy can't be sat isfied wid no little wooden jail; seems lak he alius picks out dem 'spensive ; places." ? Central Press. I Marriage. Mr. G. W. Gampbelle, of Camden, land Miss Mary Alice Lee, of Bishop jville, were married on Sunday, July ' 2Gth, by Probate Judge W. L. Mc ; Dowcll. Special Meeting Kershaw Lodge Kershaw Lodge No. 29, A.F.M., will meet in special session Thursday eve ning at eight o'clock for the purpose! | of conferring the E.A. degree upon a class of candidates. A special in vitation ks extended through Frank Campbell, W.M., to members of this lodge and afl visiting Masons to art tend thi. meeting. ggr ' H\ ST A \ l>KR (?KTS TMK IU-I.KKT J '? ' ? ' . ?; ?' . ? ? ' . V. j Tobe Kirkland Ai?n*? at KouCh Hut ?loiH'H t'arries Oil liulltM r v>l?o Kirkland, who operates the Fountain Killing station on lower Broad street became embroiled in i fight with his helper Roy Roach last Saturday ni^ht and during tlu' fight shot at Roach and hit Theo'dore Jones a negro youth in the thigh. The story gois that Kirkland arid Roach had a fueling oat over a fruit jar filled with ice water, resulting in Roach, who is a cripple, getting j Kirklund down 'and administering a s?>und 'beating. Kirkland's son came to his father's rescue with a pistol and Kirklund fired the bullet grafting tin- arm of Roach -and finding lodge ment in the thigh of Jones who wjis ; passing by at the time. The wound to J ones was a flesh wound ami is not -.considered serious, Kirkland's hoy was arre.stMl ami .placed in tin' lockup, hut Tobe Kirkland made his getaway and waw afterwards located at his home where he wan so badly beaten up he. could not attend the Recorder's court Monday morning. Kirkland has been before the city and circuit courts on numerous oc casions charged with selling other than gas at his fountain tilling sta tion. As a result of this last affair in which Tohe was engaged Mayor C'ar rison has very properly revoked his license for operating a filling station us well as that for operating a trans fer. MKKTS DKATH IN R1VKR Prominent Voting Man of West Wateree Drowns Near Camden James T. Rabon, il2-year-old white man of the West Wateree section of this county, met death Arly Monday morning by drowning in the Wateree river near the old ferry site not far from Camden and his body was not rcovered until Wednesday when par ties who have continuously searched the river located the body a half mile below the site of drowning Mr. Kabon and three companions by the name of Bran ham had gone in the river early in the morning to seine before the turbines . started at the Wateree Power company's plant a few miles nortih. While in the river the water rose rapidly and be fore they could swim ashore the en tire party came near drowning. Mr. Rabon went under when within a few feet of the river bank. Mr. Kabon was a son of Robert A. Rabon of Ridge way and was a mar ried man and leaves i "wife a nd four children. He is widely connected in this and .adjoining counties. The funeral ^Yvices and burial occurred at Springwale Baptist church near Rabon's Crossroads Wednes^^yy after noon. Scouts Save Man's Life Greenwood, Anp. 4. ? J. F. Park man, operator at the su-bstation of the Southern Power company at South Greenwood, who was severely shocked when he fell against a live wire of high voltage at the local power house yesterday, probably owes his life to four Greenwood Iioy Scouts. Mr. Park man's head struck the wire and his scalp was badly burned the shock throwing him from the platform on which he was working eight feet to th?* floor and knocked the breath out of him. Fiank Cry me a, Florian lJuniater and George and Carl Deadwyler, members of a Greenwood scout troop, happened to be enjoying a watermelon feast on the power house grounds. As soon as the youngsters heard Mr. Parkman fall they resurrected their faces deeply buried in the watermelon rinds and went to hw assistance. Putting into practice the training they had received they used the scout method of artificial respiration and in a few minutes had'the injured man breathing again. When a physician arrived he expressed surprise that Mr. Parkman was' alive but soon learned from the boys themselves what they had done and he found that he could not have done any better himself. Byrd Next Governor. Richmond, Va., Aug. 5. (By A. P.) ? State Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Winchester, newspaper man, orchard i?t and brother of Lieut. Oomdr. Rich mond Evelyn Byrd, Jr., in charge of the naval fyers witffi the MecUfllan North Pole expedition, was nomina ted governor of Virginia in the -Demo cratic primaries Tuesday by ihe greatest majority to the history of gubernatorial primaries in the state.