The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 30, 1925, Image 1
The Camden Chronicle
VOLUME XXXVII. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1925. i NUMBER 31.
HKM) ON MtRPBR CHARGB
For Crime Said To Hive Been Com
mitted in Florida Year? Ago
( I tu uf Mason, alias Odell Hous
ton in b*H* held in the county jail
here awaiting tho arrival of* officer*
from Jacksonville, Fla., being (barged
With a murder committed m Puvall
County about twenty year* ago.
Mason, who was going under the
liame of Houston, is being hold in
the Kershaw County jail under a
charge of grand larceny. He and
another negro entered tho Enterprise
Mercantile company's store here, and
;v;.re captured with the stolen goods
in Columbia. He had already served
thirty days .on the chain gang in this
i-ounty for vagrancy. It was while
:rlned in jail that Sheriff Welsh,
Deputy McLeod and Jailer Boone
learned that he was wanted on the
murder charge in Jacksonville. Of
ficers in Jacksonville were wired for
a description of the negro whkfo tal
lied with the one held here. Later
Deputy J. A. McLeod, of the Florida
titv came to Camden and had photo
graphs made of the negro, and a later
telegram from Charles M. Durrance,
prosecuting attorney, of Jacksonville,
, guested that the negro be held, that
identification was complete and an of
ficer would be sent for his return.
In relating the circumstances of the
killing the Jacksonville deputy sari
that the crime was committed on *et>
mary 24, 1905, and shocked the com
> MWV a*gedtaxm
vr together with his daughter, Lizzie
Baer, resided ort his farm on Six^
Mile creek, west of Jacksonville,
clarence Mason, who was a youth of
about seventeen, worked for Baer and
slept in a shed room of the house.
The negro fancied that the old man
had hoarded treasures in the house,
and one night called Baer to the lot
telling him that the horse had stuck
a pitchfork in his leg. Baer lit a
torchlight and went to the stable anl
while examining the horse the negro
youth brutally murdered him with a
?hot gun. He then shot a > the young
lady who ran to the house and barri
caded the door, where the negro for
more than an hour tried to break into
her room, finally giving it up as use
less and escaped on the horse belong
ing to Baer.
Frank Jones, who was ? deputy
sheriff at the time and is still deputy
, he riff at Jacksonville trailed Mason
through South Georgia where / the
trail was lost and nothing has ever
been heard of him until his arrest
n Camden.
Miss Lizzie Baer later married a
man named Billington, a river follow
er of South Jacksonville, r-and the
photos taken of the negni* <here were
, a t ried to her for identification.
Local officers would not tell how
they secured the information and n
is said, unofficially, that rewards
totalling around $S00 were offered for
Mason's capture.
Baer's slayer was indicted jor first
degree murder in Duvall County on
May 1905. Federal Judge R. M.
i 'all was circuit judge at the time
and P. 1). Cassidy was clerk of cour*.
Name Was Omitted.
Through an unintentional oversight
the name of Clarkson Rhame was
emitted from the first month's honor
roll of the Camden High SchooL
Young Rhame has also the honor o.
being president of the Senior class
.i?id fills the place most efficiently.
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Alice Simmons, a very worthy and
well known colored woman, died in 1
Philadelphia last Saturday morning,'
October 24th. Her body was brought
here Wednesday and her funeral was
lu'ld at the Mt. Moriah Baptist church
Wednesday afternoon at 3:30. She;
was a good Christian woman and
loved by all who knew her. She was J
about 6X years old and leaves one son, j
two grandchildren, one sister and |
many other relatives and friends. j
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Boy Charged With Patricide
Chesterfield, Oct. 28. ? Charged
with murder of his own father, James
Newman, 17-year-old white boy of
< hesterfield county has been arrested,
^ . W. Rogers, state detective has
been advised.
The warrant, upon which the arrest
was made Monday by Sheriff J. T.
( i rant of Chesterfield, was sworn out
b>" Mr. Roger*. ?<,
F. C. Newman, the boy's father,
was found dead September 25, having
been shot twice with a shot gun as
he sat grading tobacco in the door of
tobacco barn, about three miles
from Chttterfiek).
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KKRSIIAW COUNTY FAIR
Interest Now Center* In Local Annaul
County 'Wide Affuir
With the passing of the gre atesi
State Fair interest in Kershaw Coun
ty and surrounding communities is
turniug to the local County Fair
which is only ? about three weeks off.
For the past several years the K^w?
shaw County Fair has been stn^ \1
during tho month of November and
the people of the county have learned
to look forward to it as an annual
ovont.
Interest in the fair has been grow
ing from year to year, and each year
tho management has seen fit to make
the Fair a bigger and better one in
every department. This year will be
: no exception to this rule, as the
J premiums which are being offered are
substantially higher than heretofore,
and numerous items have been added
including cattle, swine and slfeep.
Interest is being shown by numbers
of the schools which will exhibit their
work to compete for prizes in the
various departments as well as for
j the school prizes which will be given
in the school parades on Friday, No
vember 20th, which has been declared
school day at the county fair.
The Home Demonstration booths
and the various. community booths as
1 well as the general exhibits are al
ways worthy pieces of work and the
. fact that this has been an adverse
j season for diversified farming should
""j Mti cverv^"''"j^?) put forth
effort to bring .the best they
the county fair in order to show the
people that Kershaw County does not
necessarily show any weaknesses dur
ing ftdverse conditions whether it be
due to drouth or to excessive rain
falls.
Special entertainment for. the
crowds will be provided by free acts
| in the fair grounds and also by the
Nat Reiss Shows, wl\o will exhibit
on the fair grounds during the entire
week of November 26th to 21st.
| COURT ADJOURNED TUESDAY !
| Sam While Drawn Sentence SeVen To
Fourteen Years
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The second week of court of general
sessions came to a close here Tuesday
I leaving several cases to be tried at
the December term. The first week
of court of common pleas convenes
Monday morning with* Judge *W. H. !
Townsend, presiding. ?
Lulah Jenkins, a negro woman of
the Flat Rock section, was tried on
u charge of murdering Ned Catoe, an
other negro of the same community*
The jury brought in a verdict of man
slaughter and Judge Sease, on his own
motion, ordered .the verdict set aside
and ordered a new trial for the
woman, The woman was released on
her own recognizance, t The woman
was represented by Attorney J. Cope
land Massey, of Kershaw.
Sam White, a negro, who killed an
other negro by the name of Elmore
English, at Cedar Rock church near
Stoneboro, was found guilty of man
slaughter and was sentenced to serve
from seven to fourteen years. The
killing was the outcome of a diffi
culty over a woman.
(). B. McNaughton, a white man, of j
the Buffalo section, plead guilty to |
a charge of assault and battery and j
was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 1
or serve $ixty days. The fine was j
paid. {
I^ewis Sease, a negro, plead guilty
to a charge of larceny and receiving
stolen goods and Judge Sease sen
tenced him lo serve one year.
The cases against Charlie McGee,
a Columbia barber and H. F. McGiri,
an attorney of Camden, both negroes,
charged with arson, was continued to
the December term. The case against
Albert Melton, white man, charged
with murder, was also continued.
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Dr. Pitts' Condition Grave
IjHurens, Oct. 25. ? The people cf
Laurens arc anxious over the condi- .
tion of the Rev. John D. Pitts, D.D.,
retired Baptist minister, who is suf
fering from a broken thigh at his
home in Greenwood. He fell Thurs
day and fractured one of his thigh
bones, it is understood, and his con- [
dition is critcal as a result of the
shock and the injury itself. Dr. Pitts
is one of the most beloved men and
ministers of the state. For 29 years
he was pastor of the First Baptist
church of Laurens. He is a veteran
of the Confederate war and served
with a command of cavalry in Hamp
ton's legion. He is 84 years of age.
Rev. Pitta U the father of Mr. R. B.
Pitta, of Camden, president of the
Hermitage Cotton Mills.
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SIJMTEK PLAYS CAMDEN
Gamecocks Hope to Spring Surprint
Here Friday
Sumter, Oct. 20. -Sumter High is
stiu'ting out this week for a pevlod
of intensive training in perfecting
plays which they have been using
heretofore this season and in new
plays whirlmre beting planned for tho
game with Camden next Friday after
noon at Camden. The locals are not
over-confident, but they believe that
they can win this game with the
proper amount of fight, if the break*
of the game will be anything like
equal betweon the two teams. The
past two years the Camdenites have
won honors in football, but it was be
cause of breaks in their favor.
This year tho Sumter team was
slow in starting off. It was green
and needed experience. The team has
shown decided improvement in every
game played both in the line and in
the smoothness in tho back field, and
it is expected that the eleven will be
just about at the top of its game Fri*
day when it meets Camden, and the
j men from that town will know they
j have been in a fight before the final
whistle blows.
Last Friday the locals' found the
i Hyutt Park team unexpectedly easy
and after the first quarter with Col
umbia and Caanden High school
coaches and players on the sidelines
they were content to play safe and
not to open up, being content wi|h
"untimr and only line plays.
jTo'win IronTVatrnfcn on next Friday
they will turn loose all they have to
offer. A* big crowd of .Sumter sup
porters of the team will go over to
Camden to witness the contest and*
are hoping for a reversal over game*
of the past two seasons.
COTTON ESTIMATE HIGH
Government Sa.va Will He Probable
Crop of 15,226,000 Riles
Washington, Oct. 26.? A probable
cotton crop of 15,226,000 bit Ion, .an
I increase of 467,000 bales, compared
with the production forecast October
1, was indicated in the crop report
issued today by the department of
agriculture, based on October 18
prospect. Although sonio cotton has
been lost through storms and de
layed picking, the department said in
a statement, prospects have improved
and growers in most states are find
ing more cotton than they expected
two weeks ago.
The ginnings prior to October 1$
by states follow:
Alabama 1,064,222
Arizona 30,67*>
Arkansas .* 708,116
California 16,803
Florida 35,900
Georgia .1,051,785
>Louisiafia 683,485
Missouri ' ? ? . 72,983
New Mexico 16,536
North Carolina ^ .. 709, 90J
Oklahoma 549,272
South Carolina 731,690
Tennessee 234,672
Texas 2,104,460
Virginia 21,952
All othe .states 5,113
South Carolina Cotton Report
"No change in the indicated cotton
production for South Caolina occurred
from October 1 to 18, according to
the government report released today
through the office of Frank Hlack.
agricultural statistician for the state.
"An acreage of 2,740,000 was esti
mated to he under cultivation .June
25, but 2 1-2 per cent, of this has
since been abandoned, according t <f
correspondents, which gives 2,671,500
as the harvested acreage. An indi
cated yield of 152 pounds lint per
acre on this picked area is the basis
of the forecast for 850,000 bales of
500 pounds gross, which is equiva
lent to about 885,000 running bales,"
his report states.
"Most of the abandoned acreage i<
found in the northern and western
counties where the drought was very
severe during the growing, season.)
Ginnings in the state prior to October
18 were 731,690 running bales, ac
cording to. the census report.
"Last year South Carolina produced
807,000 equivalent 500 pound bale>-,
two years ago 770,000, three years
ago 492,000, four years ago 755,000,
and a four year average (since the
arrival of the weevil) of 706,000
bales."
Watermelons, which were enjoyed
long before the Christian Era, an 1
originally were produced only in
warm climates, are now raised in
every state in the Union except Maine
an4 New Hampshire.
BETH UN K NKWS NOTES
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Items of Interest as Gathered by Our ,
Regular Correspondent,
Ucthuno, S. C., Oct. 2H. ?Circle No.
One of the. -Presbyterian church was
entertained by Mrs. C. C. Pate Wed
nesday afternoon. A good attendance
was had and delicious refreshments
were served during the . social hour,
following the study of foreign mis
sions.
Circle Nufrtber Two mot with
Misses Kmma and Tysio Bradley
Wednesday afternoon. .The subject,
"Ming: Kwong," under discussion was
led sby Mrs. Kva Morgan. At the
close of the social hour, little Misses
Frances Bethune, . Nancy Tompkins
and Frances Hnllford served the
guests with jello, whipped cream and
cake.
Mrs. B. F. Bolton was hostess to
the Home Demonstration Club Friday
afternoon.
Margaret Truesdell .was hostess to
a few pf her little friends Friday af
ternoon at a Halloween, party. On
arriving the little guests were blind
folded and taken into a tent where
Miss Stella Bethune told their for
tunes. After whicli the litt^> lassies
disported themselves by biting apples
suspended from the ceiling. On being
invited into the dining room the oc
casion of- the party was revealed by
the birthday cake gleaming with elev
en candles. Miniatu/'e Halloween
baskets filled with candies were given
as favors. Refreshments consisting
of pound cake and ice cream weiV
served.
' Among those attending the State
Fair from here were Mr. and Mrs.
A. B. McLaurin; Mrs. A. K. Mo
Laurin, W. M. Best, 1). J. Clyburn,^.,
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Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Fost^pattended
a musical at Coker College Friday
evening.
Mrs. C. M. Wilson and daughter,
Ruth Louise, of Columbia were week
end guests of Mrs. Wilson's mother,
Mrs. Louise Kelly. Mr. Wilson came
over to spend Sunday and was ac
companied home by Mrs. Wilsoit and
their little daughter.
M iss Klise Hook spent the week
end with her parents in Irmo.
Miss Ollie Farr was the week-end
guest of her parents in Chapin.
Mr. I). T. Yurbrough left Friday
for a business trip to Florida.
Mrs. Ruby Shaw and little son,
who were called here from Youngs
town on account of the death of Mrs.
Shaw's mother, Mrs. A. J. Smith, left
Monday for other parts of the state,
where she will visit relatives before
returning to her home in Ohio.
Miss Kva Mae Caston spent the
week-end in Heath Springs as the
guest of her parents.
Rev. J. M. Forbis and Mr. J. N.
McLaurin attented a meeting of Con
garee Presbytery held l'at Kau Claire
Church in Columbia Monday and
Tuesday.
An entertainment will be given in
the high school auditorium Friday
evening under the auspices of the
Woman's Aid Society of the Metho
dist church.
Little Emory Parker 'has returned
from the Florence Infirmary where
he recently underwent an operation.
He is doing nicely and will probably
walk again in About two weeks. His
mother, Mrs. L. C. Parker, has been
in attendance upon him all the time.
Mrs. W. E. Davis and chjldren are
spending this week at Darlington with
Mrs. Davis' parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John McSween.
Mrs. C. L. Mayes was called Mon
day to the bedside of her daughter,
Mrs. Johnson, at Kollock.
Mrs. J. N. McLaurin entertained
about a dozen little boys and girls
Tuesday afternoon complimentary to
her little daughter Margaret's fourth
birthday anniversary. The party table
was centered with the snowy white,
birthday cake bearing four pink can
dle*. Ice -cr-oam aud cake were served.
Strike Promoter Died Suddenly
Wilmington, Oct. 24. ? J. W. Ander
son, of St. Louis, vice-president of
the Order of Railway Telegrapher.-,
died suddenly in his room at a local
hotel here at 7:30 tonight. Mr. An
derson was in Wilmington directing
the strike of telegraph operators on
the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
County Farm Women to Meet
The regular fall meeting of the
County Council of Farm Women wil!
be held on Saturday, November 7th,
at 10:30 a.m. at the home of Mrs.
Kdward C. DuBose, 1709 Fair street.
An interesting program has been ar
ranged, and it is hoped that every
member will be present. Mrs. S. O.
Plowden of Statesburg will be at this
meeting and the work of the Council
for the coming year will be discussed. '
Fire Destroys Residence .
Fire thought to have originated
from a kerosene .Uove destroyed the
five- room cottage located on east
Haile street early Sunday morning.
The building was the property of Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Gaskins. It was just
inside the city limits and by the time
the fire department reached the place
the building was too far gone to be
saved. Mr. Catkins follows the pro
fession of a photographer. He had
partial insurance on his property.
WINS AT 8TATK FA IB
i.ugotf Community Club C?ot n Award
of Second Prlte at K\ posit ion
It is hoped that no one from Ker
shaw County Attending the State Fair
misled- seeing the spWudid exhibit en
tered by the Kxi^co^f Community.
This was the first time that any com
munity in Kerfthaw County "has as*
sui^en mi* undertaking of this kind,
and its success far exceeded the moat
sanguine hopes of thu Lugoff Home
Demonstration Club, by wlioat it w??
sponsored, under the leadership of
their capable president, Mrs. 1!. 1\
Oglesby. Mrs. Oglesby was ably as
sisted by practically every person in
the entire community aud three -hun
dred varieties of products were listed
in the exhibit. An attractive back
ground was made of dark green wall
paper, decorated with sheaves of
grain. The canned products were par
ticularly attractive all being displayed
in standard containers, and marked
with the 4-11 Cjub labels. There was
a fine exhibit of farm and dairy
products, and cooked foods, including
roast duck, fried chicken, potato
chips, and ail kinds of breads and
cakes wen found in abundance.
The excellence of the I.ugoff ladies j
as needlewomen was shown by a Jis-j
play of tailored garments, children's.;
clothes, quilts, and . fancy work. B.e- 1
J sides these there were baskets, homo
woven rugs and draperies, homo
? dipped candles, and silk, spun at
home from home raised silk worms.
These were not relics of the past, but
tall recently made.
This exhibit shows what a Com
! munity can <io when everybody is
willing to work hard and work to
j gether and all the Lugoff people will
tell you that they enjoyed the work
j and had a fine time at the fair. The
'exhibit won second prize of $ir>0 in
! cash, the first prize being won by the
j Midway Community in Lexington
j County'. a
Kershaw 'County was also repre
sented at the fair in the biscuit con
test, which is always the center of
much interest. Nellie Barfield of the
.Pine Grove Girls' llome Demonstra
tion Club won the first place in the
District Biscuit Contest, and as a
prize was given a trip to tho sta4o
fair, where she entered the State Bis
cuit Contest, in which she won second
place. Each contestant is required
to make biscuits in a booth fitted up
as a kitchen, giving a talk about her
club work and explaining the intrica
cies of biscuit making as she work 4.
, This is quite a difficult thing for
; even an experienced person to do, and
Nellie reflected great credit- on .her
self and her club. While in Columbia
Nellie was entertained at the Jeffcr-.
j son Hotel, where with a party of other
i girls, she was chaperoned by M?r
Harriet Johnson of Winthrop College.
CAMDEN MEN HONORED
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Mr. Yates and Mr. (joodale Received
Deserved Recognition
At a meeting of the American
j Hikers' Association held at Atlantic
City September 28 to October 1, at
tended by bankers from all part^ of
the United States, Mr. C. H. Yate%
of the Hapk of Camden, was named
as a member of the Federal legisla
tive council, and wft? also appoints!
on the inner circle committee of the
State Legislative council. Only one
other man of the Southern states,
R. S. Hecht, president of the Ilibernia
Rank and Trust company of New Or
leans. wa? appointed on this council.
It is quite a compliment to Mr. Yates,
to Cainden and the fine old banking
institution he represents.
At a recent meeting of the South
eastern Floral association held in At
lanta on October 13th, Mr. William L.
Goodale, manager of the Camden
Floral company, was named as secre
tary' of this association which had
representatives there from the
entire Southern states, and this, too,
is quite an honor bestowed upon a
most excellent young" Camden busi
ness man.
Progress of Farmers.
Re^nt statistics show something of
the progress of farmers. Nearly one
fourth of the telephones in the United
States are in the homes of farmers.
About thirty per cent, of the ..-motor
trucks and tractors in this country
are owned by farmer#. The propor
tion of farmer-owned automobiles is
large and in a great many farmer*'
homes radio sots are being installed.
? Kind Words.
?ft. Salvation Army has 3,000 offi
cers in Indttr.
SKI.I.INti IIRK'K IN Ff.OHUM.
Camden |iri?k Plant Operated To Full
Capacity To Take fare of Orders.
\\ .hin the past month the Camden
r.iivk t *?f>?uy, a locally owned and
operated plant, has shipped many
car loads of ft ne. brick to the various
boom center# of Florida, where build
ings are being eroctt-ed daily, Quite
an assignment has been sent to Tam
pa, Miami, Jacksonville and several
other towns.
The mill is now being Vun at full
capacity, turning: out something: like
45,000 brick daily, for which they are
finding1 ready sale. In fact the man
agvment informs u? that they have
had to turn down several immense
orders on account of not being able
to till thenn and at the sam# time
tjike care of the local trade.
A recent Improvement installed at
this mill Is a dry kiln operated from
heat obtained from the burned kilns
when they Are closed ' down to cool.
Terra eolta pipes run underground
i i om the brick kilns to the drying
house. The heat is drawn through
these pipes by means of a huge suc
tion fank and through this method the
green brick just out of the mill are
dried out in far less time than by the
old proce/s of nature drying, Another
advantage of t h*j drying kiln is the
' fact that the mill can bo operated in
the colde.-'t weather without the green
brick freezing.
Around thirty-ftve men are em
ployed in the different crews and the
payroll amounts to around $r>00
ly? the greater portion of which finds
J its way back into the channels of
[trade around Camden. It is quite an
! interesting and valuable industry for
i Camden and quite a number ol'
houses have been built and are now- ,
under construction of home-mad >
brick.
TOl'IUST CAR WRECKED
i Family Enroute To Florida in I'itiahle
IMight on Ilighwa>
I Motorists returning from Columbia
. to Camden Tuesday afternoon were
"telling of an unfortunate wreck which
occurred near Rollins Mill, about nine
miles south of Camden on the Cam
den-Columbia highway. The party
telling of the accident said they had
just passed a rickety Ford laden with
, passengers . when they looked around
j in time to see the old Vehicle turn over
at the embankment near the- bridge
that spans the creek. ' There were
seven passengers in the car? the
father, mother and five children.
Fortunately none were, hurt except
for minor bruises, and the only dam
age done to the old Ford was the de
struction of a front wheel and the top.
All occupants were pinned under
neath, and wtth tftir assistance or'
passing motorUts the car was righted
and put back in the road. The c#r
bore a New Jersey license tag and
inquiry developed the fact that the
head of the family was a painter and
carpenter by trade and that they were
making their way to Florida to escape
the rigors of? the Northern winters.
Hard luck had overtaken them all
along the road and the small capital
they had started with had given out.
They stated that they had not eaten
since reaching a point in North Caro
lina. iind. there they had. 'been given a
meal of potatoes by fellow travelers
at a camp site. The father stated
that the escape of the children from
injury was probably due to the fact
that they were securely packed and
tucked away in the ear with blankets
and this protected them from injury."'
Quite a crowd of motorists congre
gated from both ends of the road
while the car was being righted and
touched by a sense of pity from the
erics of the mother and children a
collection was started in the small
crowd and a sum of $11.50 was raised
?a second hand wheel was purchased
at Tilaney and the unfortunate party
was again started on their journey
to Florida, where the father stated he
i would meet a friend and acquaintance
who would hold them up until he
! could find work enough to get his
family on their feet again.
| The highways leading to and from
| Florida are full of such travelers
' these days. The print shops, garages
and other placcs in this city almost
every day have calls for "enough to
get a meal."
Mother of Fiftwn Dead. .<
- Rock Hill, S. C., Oct. 21. ? Mr*.
John Andrew Hayes, mother of
16 living children, died Sunday room
ing at 10 o'clock followhg a lingering
illness over a period of five years due
to heart attacks and complications.
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