The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 11, 1925, Image 8
The Pinto! in The Car
The finding of a pistol tU0k?4 away
in the aide pocket of the Kord auto
mobile in which W. W. Ormand sat
when he was shot^and kille^ by W. B.
COle k' n circumstance thaftg doubt tow
will >play a part in the trial of the
? Jtockingham manufacturer. Certain-,
ly the defense may expected to
make all possible use of the fact that
a deadly weapon was carried in tho*
cat-, a fact which usually suggest*
that .one is "looking for trouble."
Two days following the homicide .
a dispatch sent out from Rockingham
to the daily papers of the state, con
tained this unqualified statement: j
VNo weapon of any description was
found on Ormand or in his car." *
The statement was sent out by ui
correspondent on the scene, a man
who hat lived in Rockingham for
years and wasjas familiar with the
circumstances of the homicide as any
man could be who had no connection
with it or with the parties thereto.
Now' the question naturally arises,
why has the discovery of the pistol
in the automobile been kept from the
public so long, for two weeks?
The homicide was the talk of the
town for* days, and doubtless is the
chief topic of comment down there
even yet, more than two weeks after
the tragic afternoon. Every bit of
information that could have any bear
ing of much discussion, once it came
to the knowledge of the people in tho
streets or the stores and offices. Why
was the discovery of the pistol never
talked so that any newspaper man,
of the several who spent much time
trying to get information bearing on
the homicide, might chronicle the cir
cumstance? What motive could one
have for concealing the facts? Was
it regarded as an incident of no par
ticular interest or significance?
tfhe case is one of the most inter
esting in modern North Carolina
criminal annals. It is the more in
teresting because of the peculiarities
involved. Keen interest has been aug
mented, if possible, by the silence of
tho-dofensc.
Tho trial will be one of the most
interesting in -r^cuut years in North
Carolina. If one may credit the inti
mations that are frequently heard
with reference to the plans and pur
poses of the defense, some real sen
sations are likely to he sprung during
the trial.? Charlotte Observer.
Ask your grocer for IClectrik-Maid
Bread? linked in Camden fresh daily.
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and tried them. Aft?-r ? few doses 1
began to improve. Tutt's PilN have
ke|H me free from h return of Hie
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WOMAN IS KILLED
Ttmpcranco Worker Thought to Jlitve
Hr? ? Shot By Liquor Men
Vinton, Iowa, Bftpt. 8.? Shot down
TTs she wax writing ft p*pt'r~she in
tended U? r?itd today before thq Ben
ton County W. C, T. U., of which she
wan president, Mrs. C. U. Cook wu:*
killed in her home last night. Her
friends believe hor the victim of oiw
of it number of liquor law violators
against whom she had been active.
A shot fired through a rear win
dow as she sal writing her paper,
'entitled "Looking Forward," caused
Jjer death aqhour and a half latcy.
She was'uncousCioUs most of the tim^
until her death and unable to supply
any information that would aid au
thorities in their search for her as
sailant.
"Oh, save me, save me," were the
only words she uttered to her aged
mother, Mr?? Underwood, when the
latter hurried, 'downstairs upon hear,
ing her daughter scream following
the shooting.
Testimony to this effect was giyun
by Mrs. Underwood at the coroner's
inquest this afternoon. She also ex
pressed .the belief that "some of tbpse
drunks who hang around the stroets
near our home" were responsible.
Belief that Mrs. Cook was killed
by a liquor law violator was strength
ened by word from Cedar Kapids that
Mrs. Cook had made two trips to the
city to consult Roy C, Slade, a pro
hibition enforcement officer, relative
to conditions in Vinton.
Mr. Slade said that on her last
visit she furnished the names of sev
eral persons suspected of being en
g?gud in rum-running and illegal sale
of liquors. Later, Slade said, he re
ceived a letter from her in which she
spoke of going before the Benton
County grand jury.
Mrs. Cook charged, Slade said, that
Benton County civil authorities were
not doing their duty, though he de
clined to make public the corres
pondence. From another source it
was learned that Mrs. Cook had a
list of names of all of the bootleggers
she intended to submit to the grand
juries.
Marks on the screen of the window
through which the bullet passed are
believed to have been caused by burn
! I'd powder, leading to the opinion ,
| tha;^ Mrs. Cook was .-> h < > t.
"A martyr to the cause of prohibi
tion," was the way Mrs. Cook's
friends viewed the crime. Her
mother-in-law and co-worker, Mrs.
S. W. Cook, declared that "this das
tardly murder ? the shooting down of
a Cod-fearing woman in her own
house ? only arouses us to new ef
forts to crush, the illicit liquor traffic
in this community."
Mrs. Cook, born in Benton County
forty-one years sigo, had been active
in work in the Christian church here.
Several months ago her residence
was smeared with rotten eggs shortly
after she had returned from a meet
ing of SiiWday school leaders. Her
husband has been employed by the
Sioux City Gas aiHl Klectric com
pany.
When It Rains
When it rains, and undoubtedly it
will some day, it should be remember
ed that the most important thing be
fore the farmer is to do something
to provide feed for his farm animals.
The outlook now is most gloomy.
No feed has been made nor can it
be made now in time to support stock
through tlft- winter unless some 01
tin- cane crops eome in for those who
have put in cane.
Feed will have to !><? bought for
next year's nop and that is very dis
tressing. Hut thr handicap may in
part be offset, hv sowing oats now.
We may have a hard winter, and sonic
of the weather men are predicting a
hard winter, drain is likely to be
killed unle.*> it is in time, and sown
just a* soon as the rain come?. And
there should be lots of it to put in
thi? y (f. r. - ( ? reenwood Indi-x .Journal.
A 1'ii r was fined $25 for flying
under t^e 2.000-foot altitude when he
flew '.?) Siis airplane over the stands
on Yale Field, New Haven, Conn.
Heieagu? i <-d garrisons hereafter
will be provide*! with provisions and
ammunitions from airplanes equipped
with special canisters attached to
parachutes. A metal dome or cap at
end absorbs the shock of landing.
A "d. your grocer for Kleetnk-Maid
Hread Raked in Camden fresh daily.
?\ our Subscription In Due
The Chronicle is mailing this week
a card to all subscribers whose sub
scription account* expired in July
and August. We have .run the ac
counts over a short while owing to
the dull season. Hut now that a good
deal of money is bcing*4>ut into cir
culation, those in arrear* should call
or send the amotirft to us before
J another week a* onr mailing list will
corrected apd *H in arrears win
he taken from our list.
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A NuUance
'Phis ttoing of solicitor# traveling
around the couutry selling everything
from pins to steam engines i S getting
to be a nuisance.' Nothing tire* m<?
than to have J^a|j^n*
fice when you are busy a* a eat with
a tin van ti?4 to to UU 14,1(1
lu elucidate in glawlog mw*
hi? selling the beat typewriter ribbon
in the world, guaranteed not to rip
or ravel no matter with what speed
you may operate your typewriter.
You tell him you do not need a
i-bbon and . furthermore you buy them
only one at a trme and still further-,
more you can get them right in town
and get them when you want them,
lie proceeds to ^nravel his type
writer ribbon, still elucidating, and
goes on to say that you just simply
sign an order for a dozen ribbons and
order thom out one at a time as you
need them. This *ink takes up your
valued time and Irritates you to the
extreme, yet one does not like to be
discourteous to people who call m
your office, but such agents are get
ting so plentiful and call so often
until I am beginning to give them
the eold shoulder and to let them
know in no uncertain terms that,
when I say I do not want a thing that
the argument is settled. I may be
different from most people, butj
can tell a salesman in tvto minutes
whether 1 want what he has to sell
or not.
These "bell ringers" must be quite
a nuisance to the housewives through
out the country. Just think o-f having
to get up early and get the. children
off to school and then (be sailing
around tho house in your kimona,
cleaning up and getting things
straight before time to start dinner
and have one of these elucidating
??bell ringers" step down on the door
bell and want to take up your time
trying to demonstrate that he has
the best hose or the best mop in the
world. If 1 were a housewife I think
I would want to pick my o\vn time
to buy ' my household articles ? and
wearing apparel and that 1 would
visit the local stores at a time chosen
by me. I would then also have the
satisfaction of knowing that if the
articles "were not f'up to snuff that
I would know who to call on to. have
the matter adjusted.
Yes these .peddlers are getting to
be a nuisance. I went into an office
Sfere in Chester recently and there
was a gink in there trying to sell the
local citizen stuff (or which he had
no earthly use. The man told him
he had >10 use for the stuff, yet that
Kink proceeded to tell him what f?ne^
stuff he had? the best in the world -
used by all the largest firms in the
country artd absolutely guaranteed.
Then he would start over with the (
same line of chatter. I went in that
office 011 business and hung around
for possibly fifteen minutes, got
tired and irritated and went some
where else to get a matter attended
to. That darn salesman took up that
man's valuable time, sold him nothing
and caused the local man to lose
about $5 worth of business that 1
intended giving him but did not feel
disposed to wait on that wind-ja/mmer
to get through with his elucidation.
And the sad part of it is that tbe*e
??traveling salesmen" are becoming
more plentiful every month.
If the people keep encouraging
these agents the time will soon arrive
when a man who has anything to do
will have to hire a secretary to listen
to the elucidations of the traveling
wind-jammers, -W. W. TVgram in
Chest n News.
Accepting a Position
Then* art' some phrases lhat irri
tate you more than others, and the
one. "accepted# a position" is the one
that makes u.s feel like throwing a
brick at some one more than any
other. It is used 100 per cent, by
newspaper correspondents, and also
largely by newspapers themselves.
The editor of the Daily Mail has
been working a long time, and has
held a number of jobs, all of which
were secured by going after them.
So it is with 1>'J per cent other peo
ple. It is the exception when the
job seeks the man. Ministers arc
about the only class of people who
"accept" calls but in a whole lot
of cases the acceptance comes 'after
considerable effort on the part of thi*
minister to secure it.
Of course a feilow "accept*" a job
after he has secured it, but the gen
eral use of the term implies that the
employe has been hunted up and
begged to take a job.
Wo hardly know of a suitable word
to u-?e instead of "accept," but we
dont' :t at ;i?i. Anderson Daily
.John Muir, natuiaiiM and poet,
and largely ro*pons?ble for the set
ting aside of the Yoscmite Valley as a
national park, called sheep "hoofed
locusts," because of their ruthles*
raids upon forest vegetation.
\tu, They Ar* High; But?
A beloved old county officer Qf the
kind that the boys like to drop in and
h^ve a talk with listened quietly while
his visitor railed at the high tax*s.
The angry tax payer was a poor man,
"STVrt rraturatiy one ^cottM understand
how he would rebel at having a large
portion of his income taken from him
by the rapacious hand of the public
authority. ' The old man heard him
through. Then he said:
"Bill, you have a pretty good road
by your house, now, don't you?"
"Yes, Mr. Heath, we have a fine
road both ways, across the county
and north and south."
"And it seems to me, s Bill, that 1
noticed a mighty, gdod jbrick school
building last time I was down there."
"Yes, we've got a fine school build
ing and a fine principal and a good,
set of teachers."
"What were your taxes last year,
Bill? if you don't remember exact*
ly I can look here on the book. Here
it is: a dollar and eighty-nine cents.
How many children have you, Bill?"
"I'vo got four children in school,
Mr. Heath."
"All right, Bill; I've got you right
Avhe*;e I want you. When you were a
boy, your daddy drove to town over a
road that almost tore his wagon to
pieces. You drive to town today as
smoothly and as fiuit- as railroad
trains used to run then. I remember
when the schoolhouse near your home
was a log cabin with a dirt floor,
and you know what kind of school
you've got now. You've got four
children in a good school and you and
your family have all the benefits of
good roads, and all it costs you is a
dollar and eighty-nine cents a year/
Say, Bill, what do you think about 1
your kicking?"
"I think I'm a damn fool, Mr.
? Heath." ^ .
"Well, 1 wouldn't say that about j
you Bill. Probably you just hadn't I
thought."
"That's so, Mr. Heath. I just heard
some other feller kicking, and 1 just j
began to kick too." - j
There is not any fiction in this. We
have told the whole story just as it
happened, except the naTne nf the
county. ? Newberry Observer. ;
U. S. Department of Agriculture
explorers have brought from the
Andes Mountains some rare v&rietiei
of potatoes that^re said ttt have flesh
as yellow as butter and n rich, nutty (
flavor.
A suprenVe court justice in Brook
lyn refused to approve a certificate j
of incorporation for the' first Ilwer
chnedneprowsker Progressive Society
on the ground that the name -was un
American. ,
From a total of 40,000 children and
young men who have been before
Judge Ben B. Linclsey in the past
twenty-five yeaTs, only one case has t
been graduated to the capital criminal
class.
The Bermudas may be said to be
a land of perpetual springtime, for
their monthly temperatures average
between 02 and 70 degrees Fahren- ;
heit. !
Fire early last Monday morning
caused $5,000 damage to the saw mill
of the G. E. Miller lumber company
at Hartsville. The plant will be re
built as quickly qs possible it is said.
From the Saturday Evening I'oit of September 12
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You should have a blue ? the all around indis
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Silk-Lined ! The quality of the silk gives it the
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quality* and the price is moderate.'
Other special Fall features in Styleplus which
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Windsor Cheviots and Supermixtures, Hol
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Glade Toppers, Dunberry Overcoats,
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CAMDEN, S. CI
? Deposits and total resources of the
banks of the United States were
never as large a s now, according to
R. N. Sims, secretary-treafcurer Tjf thu
National Association of Supervisors
?f State Banks.
In 1024 the Methodist. Episcopal
church paid in excess of $25,000;00d
in ministerial salaries. At that, there
were only 21K churches that paid
$5,000 a year or over.
The eaYly advertiser was humble
.and obsequious in attracting atten
tion, he often wording his appeal by
stlfh <*XfWQK<innK ng, "anluMts, a call,"
"has the honor to announce," et
cetera. ??
Michael Faraday discovered ben-:
line in 1825, giving to the world the
knowledge of that discovery on June
16 of that year, but it remained for
others to show its value.
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