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GREATER KERSHAW COUNTY FAIR OPENS HERE WEDNESDAY WITH MANY ATTRACTIONS THE Camden Chronicle VOLUME XXXVII. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 192S. "" " ' 'nUMBER 33. KERSHAW COUNTY FAIR OPENS NEXT WEDNESDAY All preparations have keen made fur the opening of the Kershaw Coun ty Fair next Wednesday except the erection of the big tents in which the exhibits will be placed. These will Ko up Monday and exhibitors should b6 able to start work on tbeir booths Monday afternoon. Premiums ar^ substantially larger this year and the management has made adequate arrangements for tak ing care of larger numbers and more I varied exhibits, including cattle, swine, sheep, poultry, home demon stration elub exhibits, community booths, school exhibits, individual j farm exhibits aftd general booths. * Competition is going to be keen in the school exhibits wherein $120 fn cash is being offered for school work and also in the achool parade on Fri day in which $150 will be given by the County Board of Education. Friday will be school day and all school children and schooT teachers will be admitted to the fair grounds free of charge, and while every day is expected to be big ones, Friday is expected to be the gala day. shr e swinegt shr shr shy forshrdl bm Total premiums being offered at the fair this year amounts to more than $1,500, and it is hoped that every section of the county will get its share of these premiums. The Nat Reiss Shows have been en-.w gaged to furnish the amusement features for thectfunty ihir and their immense trainload of show parapher nalia will arrive here Monday 'morn ing next and will be set up immediate ly- on the shoty grounds to continue from Monday night to Saturday night. Some of the attractions with the Nat Reiss shows include animal show, Georgia minstrels, motordrome, circus side show, illusion show, cobr.i. Through the Clouds, the busy city, caliban, puzzle house, Happy Jack, Collins cave, Wild West, law and out law, merry-gO-round, Ferris wheel,! caterpillar, merry mix-up, whip-, min iature Ferris wheel, miniature merry*' go-round. This show recently played a week in Bluefield, West Virginia, and it is #o out of the ordinary for a show of this kind to elicit favorable editorial comment from a big daily, we are re producing the following from the Daily Telegraph of that city: "The public experience has been that street carnivals and shows that make up the midway of a fair are coarse, unwholesome, arid followed by vile characters; that they have dis honest games and are out to fleece and skin the people. Realizing that this would destroy the business, a number of showmen organized and employed a referee and began to clean up the show business, to the end that clean, wholesome amusement might be furnished the American people. One of the shows that be longs to the new organization spent last week at the fair grounds in this erty, and it is so different from the ordinary that we cannot refrain from comment. The attractions are clean, free from the shady customs of the past; no gambling; no obscene nor disgusting exhibits. The departure is certainly one that should be appre ciated by the public. ^ The Nat Reiss Shows lives up to the professions "it makes ? its attractions are clean and wholesome and can be attended safely by women and children. It. is far and away more deserving of patronage than any show that has been here." Revival Serviced Rev. Dr. Wm. M. Vines, pastor of the First Baptist church of Green wood, will assist Rev. J. P. Graham, in a series of services at the Baptist church in Camden commencing on Monday, November 23. Dr. Vines is a native of Jones boro, Tenn., and his first pastorate was at Johnson City, Tenn. Later he was for more than seven years pastor of the First Baptist church at Asheville, N.' C. He has since served pastorates at Norfolk, Char lotte and Norfolk. He has conducted revivals in many cities, towns and churches throughout the South and Is in great demand as a revivalist. Some years ago Dr. Vines suppled the pulpit of Dr. Alexander McLaren, in Manchester, England, and for two prominent Baptist churches in Lon don. The pastor extendi* a cordial to the public to attend these . TELLS A QUEER TALK "Dutch" Anderson Claimed This State Responsible For His Bad Life Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 5*-~George "Dutch" Anderson notorious outlaw, who was slain with his own gun by a policeman in Muskegon, Mich., lust Saturday attributed his hatred of so ciety to an experience he claimed to have had in Sooth Carolina. His treatment in a turpentine camp where convict labor was employed was blamed for his attitude towards the rest of the race. The veil of mystery which sur rounded Anderson was pierced today. In a copyrighted story The Rochester Journal and Post traced the life hist ory of the bandit as given by Wiliam J. Baker, local attorney. Records at [the Atlanta federal prison from which Anderson escaped with his pal, Gerald Chapman, gave Baker as the man to be notified in case of death. Anderson's real 'name, Baker said,, was Ivan Dahi von Teller and his widowed mother is now living in Den mark where the bandit was born. She does not know that her son, Ivan, whose letters told'her of a prosperous | business career in America and the internationally famous outlaw "Dutch" Anderson, were one and the same. The mother will be notified of her .son's wishes as to disposition of the body will be heeded. Pending re ceipt of instructions it will be interred temporarily in Muskegon. Telling of Anderson's life the Roch ester lawyer said: 'At the age of twenty he ran away from home and came to America. With the lid off it was not long before he fell in with criminals of various kinds and soon his genius for crime-' began to assert itself. From petty crime he soon be came a member of larger mobs and it was not many years before he found himself a leader in the circle of those who live by pitting their in telligence against that of the police for big stakes. In his bertiJlion pic tures there is an unmistakable sneer in the do\vnward draw of the loft corner of his mouth although even among the police he has always been characterized as,. a gentleman crook. He himself frankly admitted a vicious hatred against groanized society. This he attributed to an experience in South Carolina when he was con victed of a crime because, as he would have phrased it, "there was no one else to hang it on" and sent to one of the turpentine camps operated by convict labor. ... \ Football Team Still at Work ? Although Columbia . eliminated Camden from competition for state high school football championship ; honors, the Bulldogs are hard at work each afternoon preparing for games for each Friday during the rest of the season. The two coaches, John M. Villepigue and J. Qi.Richards, Jr., together .with all of the members of the football squad desire to take this occasion to thank the men of Camden for their contributions for equipment. They also desire to thank the people for their generous support. The receipts at the Columbia-Camden game were large. Of the amount taken in, Columbia received a guaran tee of one hundred dollars and fifty per cent of the funds above expenses. This seems a rather large amount to pay a visiting team but the contract gives Camden the same terms next, year on - the Columbia field or wherever the next game between the two teams is played. A game has recently been sched uled with Orangeburg in Camden on Thanksgiving Day and negotiations arc being carried on with Charleston for a game during fair week. Plans Made For Hotel An enthusiastic meeting of the Hotel Committee was held in the chamber of commerce office on Tues day morning. Mr. Wilson of Wilson, Berryman and Kennedy, prominent architects of Columbia, was present, and submitted tentative plans for a modern, fireproof eighty-five room hotel. These plans were gone over, by the committee, and several minor changes were made. The plans are drawn for a hotel fifty by one hun dred four feet with a large lobby and dining room on the main floor, and a banquet hall in the basement.! There^-i^e a number of rooms with private bath,- as well as some with connecting bath. These plans have been left at the chamber of commerce office and the committee will be fl*d;to have tbem i COTTON CROP REPORT ?. I Latest Figures Ky (Government Kati- j mute ShowM ( ? a i n Washington, Nov. 9. ? Probable cot ton production of about 15,386,000 equivalent five hundred pound bales this year if average influences pre vail is indicated, the department of agriculture forecast today by reports as of November 1 on conditions, aban-j donment, probable, yield, ginnings and other factors. A probable yield of 166.4 pounds of lint cotton per har vested acre is indicated compared with 164.7 pounds indicated a fort* night ngo and 157.4 the final ? yield per acre last year. 11 A fortnight ago a crop of 15,226, 000 and an acre yield of 164.7 pounds were indicated, while last year's crop totaled 13,267,036 bales. The indicated production based on November 1 condition was announced as follows: Virginia, 48,000 bales, No.rth Carolina 1,080,000; South Caro lina, 860,000; Georgia, . 1,150,000; Florida, 42,000; Missouri, 245,000; Tennessee, 485,000; Alabama, 1,290, 0p0; Mississippi, 1,885,000; Louisiana, 81)5,000; Texas, 4,100,000; Oklahoma, 1,520,000; Arkansas, 1,480,000; New Mexico, 61,000; Arizona, ^94, 000; Cali fornia, 130,000; all other states, 21, 000. About 08,000 bales additional to California are being grown in l^ower California,* Mexico. Annual Banquet Postponed The annual banquet of the Cham* bcr of Commerce which was announc ed for the evening of the twelfth, has been postponed until Tuesday, November 17. This change was made in order that all its members could attend the meeting of the Flying Squadron at the Baptist church on Nov. 12. Please note the change in date, and don't fail to be present. Hot Supper on Friday Night There will be a hot supper given on Friday night, November 13th, at the residence of Mr. J. A. Rabon,' at ' Rabon's Crossroads, at 7 o'clock, Plates will be fifty cents, proceeds from the supper will be for the bene fit of Springfield Baptist church. The public is invited to come. To Atlanta aft Delegate. Cecil L. Wittkowsky, a Camden boy, was one of four delegates from the University of South Carolina, who| attended the International Relations! Conference of Universities held in At lanta last Friday and Saturday. , Parents Witnessed, Child's Death - Gilbert. Nov. 10. ? Beaten back by flame and smoke, helpless, a mother and. father yesterday watched the burning ,of their home which was the -funeral pyre of their only child, a little 'girl of between two and three years old. The charred body of the baby, Mary Lee Sease, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.; Sestus Scase of near Gilbert, was found in the smouldering ashes of the house, the little girl having apparent ly taken refuge under a bed where her parents, hearing her cries from the flaming house, had yet been unable j to find her. JuBt before 7 o'clock yesterday af ternoon Mr. and Mrs. Sease had left the house, going only to the "lot" to complete the usual farm chores. Thej little girl they had left in the "house f alone and in the fireplace a fire. Returning they noticed smoke rmdj flames breaking from the room in which their little daughter had been playing. How the blaze had been started they did not know, but it is believed that the child's clothing had caught from open fire and that the little girl frightened had crawled under the bed, which in turn caught fire, communicatintf-tht' flames to the building itself. Death of Arista Cauthen. Arista Cauthen, resident of the Hepth Springs section practically all his life, who had been spending the past several winters in Florida, died in that state last Saturday night and his remains were brought back to his home for burial in old Salem ceme tery on Monday morning. Mr. Cauthen, who was between 65 and 75 years of age, was a good cit izen and was highly respected by all who knew him. He is survived by his wife, qne daughter and two sons. He was a brother of Mr*. W. L. Croxton of our town, and is survived also by FARM COUNCIL PLANS BOOTH H?nu' Demonstration Clubs To Serve Refreshments at Fair The County Council of Farm Women, which is composed of all the Nvomen's home demonstration clubs in ?the- jM>unty has realised the import ance of having suitably camping equipment for the boys' and girls' short course which is held each sum mer, To this end they havo decided to raised funds with which to purchase this equipment, and as their initial effort will sell refreshments atl the county fair. Members of the committee in charge have already solicited contrib utions of supplies or cash from *i number of Camden merchants, and have in all cases found a spirit of great generosity and helpfulness. The outlook for success is very bright. The Cantey Home Demonstration Club will have charge of the booth on Wednesday the 18th, the Lugoff club on Thursday and the Midway, Charlotte Thompson and Mt. Zion clubs on Friday and Saturday. The following committee is in charge and will gratefully receive contributions from anyono interested in this Work: Mrs. Moody Hough, chairman; Mrs. B. R. Truesdale, Mrs. J. W. Cantey; Mrs. James West, Mrs. Team Getty?, and Miss Eva McCoy. Hot coffee and ham, chicken salad, cheese, roast beef and pimento sand wiches will be served and the names of those on the committee are a suf ficient guarantee of the quality. Buy your lunch at the home demonstration booth and help the girls and boys of Kershaw County. NOW IN SESSION HKKK. t Flying Squadron Law .Enforcement Conference at BnptiHt Church. The Flying Squadron Law Enforce ment Squadron is no ^ holding a con ference in the Baptist church in Cam den to which the public Is invited. Their platform is: "Ours is a government of the peo ple. * "The Eighteenth Amendment is their verdict against the Liquor Traf fic. "Political parties and leaders are entrusted with its enforcement. "The Flying Squadron demands that they discharge that obligation." Thursday's session was featured by a mass meeting with Rev. J. T. Peeler presiding and an address by Col. Al fred Moudy on "The Rock of Liberty." Today's session, beginning at 3:00 in the afternoon, includes the follow- J ing- program: Opening exercises, Rev. J. P. Gra I ham, presiding; Address by Norma C. Brown; Open Forum led by Hon. Oli-i ver W. Stewart. Evening session ? i Closing Mass Meeting, Dr. Edwin Muller, presiding; Addresses by Hon. Oliver W. Stewart, President Flying Squadron Foundation, and Miss Nor ma C. Brown, Vice President Flying Squadron Foundation. Would Destroy Their Influence Columbia, Nov. 10.' ? If the $50,000 verdict given Senator T. C. Duncan, of Union, in his libel suit against E. W. Robertson and the Columbia Record, is sustained, South Carolina newspaper^ would have no choice but to destroy their presses and go out of business, declared W. C. McLean, of counsel for the appellants, in ar guing the case before the supreme court here, today. . Citing several cases in which ver dicts of damages were reversed when "libel had been inferred from the pub lication of admitted facts," Mr. Mc Lean stated that such a verdict had never been upheld. Preceding him, D. W. Robinson, of counsel for the respondent, quoted from the presiding judge's charge to the jury, letting forth that if a ver dict of guilty were returned, "aub stantial" damages should be allowed. J. B. Liles also argued for the ap pellants, Claud N. Sapp, of appel lant's counsel, being absent. A copy of the Columbia Record containing the alleged libelous article was turned over to the clerk of court. An Appreciation We are prone to reserve the good we say of our friends and neighbors until they have gone beyond and can not be cheered on the way by an appreciative word. Our kind and courteous Librarian .shows unusual nerve to be back at her post after such an accident that would have prostrated most women, bat she is there with her same cheery word and faithful service. We do admire ouch wvwen, to why not tell tfce? to? ? W. - t "tz,-- ~ r_ sl T";H FARM WOMEN HKL1) MKKTlNt^ Characterized My Spirit of OptimiNin and Enthusiasm The meeting of the County Council of Farm Womon at the home of Mrs. E. C. UuBose was characterised by a spirit of optimism and enthusiasm. Tho meeting was called to order by the president, Mrs. B. H. Truesdale and tho roll called and tho minutes read by the secretary, Mrs. J,- A. Bell. Five clubs \*Kire represented and about sixty members were present. Delightful music w#s furnished by Mrs. J. (j. Richards and Mrs. J. II. Zemp, accompanied by Mrs. Leon Schlosburg. Miss Harrietto Lay ton of Winihrop college was present and gave an in structive talk on living room furnish ings and this stimulated much i nt els e?t. Reports were given on the commun ity market and on the State short course at Winthrop college which seven Kershaw county women at tended. An interesting report was also given on the county short course held at Holland's pond in August. The council was then addrvssed by Mr. R. H. Hilton, whose presence is always a great addition to any gath ering. Mr. Hilton spoke of the great oppoi tunities of farm .women and of their obligations in civic affairs. The council has for several years taken an active part in the county short course and realizj/ig the need of proper equipment, the president, Mrs. B. R. Truesdale, proposed that they should undertake to raise funds by selling refreshments at the county fair. This work was undertaken with great enthusiasm and will no doubt be a great success. At the end of the program the ladies were invibui into the dining room where coffeB was poured by Mrs. B. M. Pearce, and other refresh ments served by a group of home demonstration club girls, all wearing ; white dresses and their 4-H head bands. Death of Mr. Hall Mr. William Thomas Hall, a form er 'citizen of Camden, 'but who has been residing on his farm near Be thune for a number of years, was found dead , Saturday last. It is sup posed he died of apoplexy. Mr. Hall was first married to Miss Kate Ho. swell, of Camden, and his second marriage was to Miss Eliza beth Gaylord of Sumter. He is sur vived by the following children: Mrs. W, M. Jones of England, Ark.; Archie B. Hall of Camden; Thomas D. Hall of Akron, Ohio, and Mrs* Ralph Hill of Sumter. VAe remains of Mr. Hall were car ried to Sumter where the funeral services were held at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ralph Hill on Wed nesday and the burial was in the Sumter cemetery, services being con ducted by Rev. E. W. Reynolds and Dr. John A. Brunson. The deceased was a member of Lynchwood Masonic Lodge at Bethune for nearly fifty years. Armistice Day at School Armistice Day was observed in the city schools on Wednesday, Novemljer 11th, with appropriate exercises pre pared by Miss Annie Hennagan and her sixth grade class. Exercises were opened by a Scripture reading by Thomas Wooten, followed by prayer singing- of "America the Beautiful." Following ?Ms were songs by the class and school appro priate to the occasion, such as "Over There" and "Keep the Home Fires Burning." The speaker of the morn ing was Sergeant Hobson Hilton, who made a delightfully interesting talk on the causes and results of the World War and the outlook for peace in the future. The stage was tastily decorated with evergreens, flowers and American flags. The public is cordially invited to attend morning exercises each Wed nesday morning at 8:40, at which time exercises will be given by the differ ent grades of the grammar school. To Present Picture* On Tuesday morning, November 17th, at the regular chapel hour, 8:45 o'clock at the Grammar school the John D. Kennedy Chapter U. D. C. will present to the school the pictures of the six generals that Kershaw County gave to the Confederacy. Those who are interested are in vited to attend and a special invita tion is extended to Confederate vet CONFKRBNCK (l.OSKD SUNDAY One Hundred Boys Kntertained Ilertf Friday, Saturday and Sunday The seventh annual older boys' conference of the Young Men's Chris tian association, representing fifteen high schools from this district, with about 100 boys in attendance, waa hold in Camden Friday, Saturday and Sunday. A similar conference was held at Clinton for the boys of that section of the state. These will bo followed by two other*, one at Ham berg and one at Mull ins December <1, 5 and (>. The boys were in charge of T. B. u Lanhain of Columbia, state secretary, and ' C. A. NVitherspoon of lliahop ville, district secretary. They were ontertained in the homes of Camden and are loud in their prase of Cam den's hospitality and the magnificent banquet tendered Ihem by the ladies of Camden at the Masonic hall. Friday evening. The young men were assigned to home* Immediately upon their arrijyu and were udmitted to the Camden Columbia football game free of charge. The program began at the First Baptist church at 0 o'clock Friday evening with a devotional message?, "The Goal of Preparation," by the Rev. H. G. Beding?r of Hartsvllle. An address, "The Goal of the Sev* enth Annual Older Boys' Conference," was delivered by T. C. McKnight, gen era I secretary, of Sumter. At 7:80 o'clock the banquet follow ed. L. T. Mills of Camdeu acted as toustmaster and along with Billie Lindsay delivered an address of wel come. The response was made by Harold Harris of Biqhopville. One Ittinute reports were then heard from delegations. An addvess on "fhe Goal of Life/' by Dr. Carlyle Camp bell of Cofcer college, Hartsville, closed the evening. Saturday morning a devotional message, "The Goal of Sacrifice," by the Rev. H. G. Bodinger, opened the conference, followed by organization of -the conference. "The Goal 'of Clean Scholarship" was the subject of another address by Dr. Carlyle Campbell. Saturday afternoon "The Goal of Service" was the subject of a devo tional address by the Rev. H. G. Bed- . inger. Reports were then heard from sectional conference groups. "The Goal of the Three C-s," an address de-. livered by J. B. Horton, general seere~ tary, of Columbia closed/ the after noon meeting. The Saturday evening meeting, ta which the public was invited, wa? featured by talks, by boys and leaders. "The Goal of BNble Study" was the subject assigned Earl Weatherly ot Sumter, "The Goal of the Father and Son Idea" to Charlie May of Colum bia and "The Goal of the Hi-Y" to the ?Rev. I). A. Brown of Chesterfield. Sunday morning the delegates at tended Sunday school and church services with their hosts. At the First Baptist church Sunday after noon at 3 o'ctock a meeting was held for delegates and older boys of Cam den and an address on "The Goal? Right or Wrong. Which?" bv the Rev. W. P. Mills, formerly of Cam" den, but now of China. The Sunday evening program at ' tjxe Baptist church, to which the pub* lie was invited, included remark* on "The Goal of Our District Work," by C. A. Witherspoon of Bishopville, and an address on "The Goal Supreme," by tHi Btrt W>-P? Kills, with a faj&v . well service led by tTfc cortTeriwScfl'" president. Officers of the older boys' confer ence are: Harold Harris, Bishopville, president; Ben Crowder, Colombia, vice president; James McOrae, Ches. terfield, secretary; James Carson, Summerton, assistant secretary. Ballard- Honey cutt. Cards have been received in Cam den announcing the marriage in Kock Hill, S. C. on November 8th, of Miss Jessie Belle Ballard.to Mr. Britt Baker Honeycutt, of Raleigh. The bride has been a frequent visitor to friends in Camden who will be in terested in this announcement. J Marriages ' ? ?< Mr. John Dorch Horton and Miss Mary Ethel Williams, both of Be thune, were married by Judge W. L. McDowell orr the evening of Novem ber sixth. The marriage took place at Judge McDowell'p home. Mr. Arthur Denton and Miss Ruby Kreppe, both of Camden, Were mar ried by Judge McDowell en November ?wnmth.