The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 13, 1925, Image 5
Ify Mfaa Loillae Ntttlei
viirH Shannon Honored in Columbia
Mi's* Agne* Shannon, who*e mar
iagc t<? John Nettles Lindsay on
November li-lth, is one of the out
landing social events of the autumn
. pi'ut th?- past several days in Colum
bia where she was the recipient of
?nany social courtesies, several beau
tiful parties being given in her honor.
She was aUo ? joint honoree with her
.ousin, Miss Janie Shannon, whose
narriago on November 18th to John
Kershaw deLoach, of Camden holds
i prominent place on the capital city's
-ocial calenda?> Both of those young]
?oupk'3 will make their home irt Cam
len and will no doubt be quite an ad
dition to the civic and social life of
,he old town.
Met With Mrs. DePaas
? . 'v. '
The Kirkwood Book Club had an
^reeable hostess in Mrs. W. L, De
Pass, on Thursday morning. The
spacious rooms of The Oaks were at
tractive and inviting for an enjoyable
nformal morning. After the ex
.ha'nge of books the. hostess served
telightful refreshments.
T
Death of Mr a. Mary W. Kirkland
In the death of Mrs. Mary Withers
Kirkland which occurred at her home
n Kirkwood last Saturday afternoon
at 5 o'clock, Camden lodfcs one of her
hest loved and greatly admired 6iti
rens.
From infancy, chfldh^bd to glorious
vomanhood affection .and devotion
avishly showered upon Mrs. Kirkland
ill that was realized in the rich
larvest of a ripe old age. True to
<very reJation and obligation of her
full life she passed through the fiery
furnace of the great war Between
the States in which she lost the hus
band of her youth and lived to pass
?trough the furnace again when she
grave up hor splendid young grand
son, Lieutenant Massenburg Trotter,
n the World War. Like perfect
-?earls strung upon a golden thread
vere the virtues of Mrs. Kirkland.
One by one they /night be told. She
valked in paths of righteousness and
^eace. Her feet trod the straight
?vay of the Christian.
Kindness and charity clothed her
as with a shining garment. Intellect,
talent and beauty crowned her like
i queen. Her great personal beauty
"hat tradition says was. nation-wide
n her youth' faded not in the passing
years. A typical daughter of South
Carolina ? dainty, courteous, cultured;
fragile with her more than four score
years, ever as we think of her there
drifts into our hearts the promise:
At eventide it shall be light!"
Mrs. Kirkland is survived by two
hildren, Mr. T. J. Kirkland and Miss
Marie Kirkand of this city and a num
ber of grandchildren and great-grand
children. The funeral services were
-olemnized at her late residence Sun
lay afternoon, the Rev. Edwin Muller,
D. D.y pastor of the Presbyterian
hurch officiating and she was laid
o rest in the old Quaker cemetery
vhere generations of her forebears
ire sleeping.
PRIVATE SCHOOL
Conducted by
MRS. W. J. JONES
1502 North Lyttleton Street
Majestic Theatre
Today, Friday, Nov. 13
Betty Branson in
THE GOLDEN PRINCESS"
A Paramount Picture
And a Sennett Comedy
"The Lion's Whisker#"
Saturday, Nov. 4
"Hoot" Gibson in
THE CALGARY STAMPEDE"
Two- Pictures-in-One
And a Sennett Comedy
"Good Morning Norse"
And "Play Ball"
Monday, Nov. 16
Douglas MacLean in
"SEVEN KEYS To BALDPLATE"
A Paramount Picture
' And Pathe News
Tuesday, Nov. 17
House Peters in
"THE STORM BREAKER"
A Universal Picture
And a Christie Comedy
Wednesday, Nov. 18
Richard Barthelmess With
Dorothy Gish in
?THE BEAUTIFUL CITY"
A First National Picture
Thursday, Nov. 19
Vilma Banky, the new star
of Filmdom in
"THE DARK ANGEI/'
With Ronald Coleman
And Pathe Newa
PERSONAL MENTION
Dr. ami Mrs. J. T. Hay spent Sat*
urday here as the guests of Dr. and
Mre. L. S. Hay. They were en route
to their home at Boykin, after vitit
in# relatives in Spartanburg,? Rock
Hill Record.
Mrs. J. H. Osborne and daughter,
Margaret Osborne, left Thursday for
Charleston to visit relatives.
Cadets ^Jack Nettles, Elihu Schlos
burg, Sidney Zemp, David Blackwell,
Goudine Kershaw, James McCoy, and
John I.?ee from ttye Citadel, spent
Armistice Day ^itblrelativ^s.
Mr. and Mrs. J(;.,'jL,tj6hard Graham
and children, who have been spending
the summer months in Paris, have re
turned to Camden for the winter.
Their friends here welcome them back
home.
Rev. James J. May, rector of St.
John's Cathedral, Charleston and Rev.
William Mulvihill, rector of the^Cath
olic church at Rock Hill were guests
at St. Mary's rectory on Lyttleton
street this week.
Miss Annie Long, of Meridian,
Miss., who is spending the autumn
>vith her aunt, Mrs. W. J. Jones, spent
last week with friends in Cheraw,
but returned Saturday and pleased a
large audience at the Baptist church
Sunday night with her lovely voice.
Cars Named For Southern Leaders
Charlotte, N. C.. Nov. 3.? The
Crescent Limited, do luxe Southern
train between New York and New
Orleans had new equipment when ic
passed through Charlotte Monday
morning at 11:20 o'clock on its way
South.
Thirty-five news sleeping cars were
built especially for the Crescent
Limited and named in memory of
prominent men of states served by
the Southern in its North-to-South
route.
The North Carolinians for whom
some of the Limited's new cars are
named General Robert F. Hoke, Gov
ernor Zebulon Baird Vance, Thomas
Ruffin, John M. Moorehead and Wil
littm Davidson.
South Carolina names are those of
William Moultrie, Fsancis Marion,
John Rutledge, Andrew Pickens and
Wade Hampton.
Virginia ? George Wythe, Robert E.
Lee, Patrick Henry, John Marshall
and Stonewall Jackson.
The list includes many other names
from Southern states.
"SUNSET" FOR SUN
Spartanburg Daily Quits Field After
Short Life
Spartanburg, Nov. 9. ? Under the
caption, "The Sunset," the Spartan
burg Sun, afternoon daily newspaper
which has been published since March,
1924, today announced its suspension.
The Sun was started first as an af
ternoon and Sunday morning news
paper, but after a few months the
Sunday morning issue was suspended
and the paper continued strictly as an
afternoon paper. A. M. Carpenter,
who was editor, resigned several
weeks ago and moved to Fayetteville,
N. C. George Koester, formerly with
the Columbia Record and later with
the Greenville Piedmont became pub
lisher of The Sun a few months ago
and upon Carpenter's retirement took
over the duties of editor. In announc
ing its suspension The Sun carried
the following:
"There is much that might be said
in this statement, but, what's the
I use ? The business of The Sun will
not meet its expenses. I have been
unsuccessful in efforts to raise funds
to continue operation of The Sun until
its receipts should pass its expense'?.
Therefore, nothing was left bat to
stop publication of The Sun. This is
its last issue. I have done the best I
could, but the struggle against insur
mountable handicaps was futile and I
?will leave Spartanburg broken in
health and fortune by my vain efforts
to do the impossible. The directors
believe Spartanburg should have an
independent paper, but they do not
believe the burden of establishing
such paper should fall on their pock
ets alone. They have made tremen
dous sacrifices, purely because of
public spirit, but did not feel they
should go further as individuals to
carry the burden of what should be
a public enterprise."
It is said that the invention of the
Marconi loud speaker will improve
the quality of "orations," by making
it possible for a man with a weak
voice to be heard better.
George T. Moore, of St. Louis, says
that the average city dweller would
gain from 25 to 35 pounds a year if
the body retained all the soot and
dust breathed in.
In some parts of Norway people
look up the telephone number after
taking down the receiver.
- The cemetery wlfich contains the
burial plot of Nancy Hanks, mother
of Abraham Lincoln, in Spencer
County, Indiana, has been closed to
motor vehicles.
COST MUCH MONKY
Acquittal or Cole Will Cost $100,000
or More
The Coio trial is going to leave
4*40 marks of bitterness in Rocking
ham for years , to come. While the
"better people" have generally sup
ported Cole, there have been violent
differences of opinion in Rockingham.
Somo ol Cole's cousins were friends
of young Ormond. Frank Steele,
Cole's cousin, testified against him.
A split has developed that will by
years in healing.
Under Judge Fin-ley's charge the
trial did not settle the most unfor
tunate issue raised in the case ? the
virtue of Miss Klizabcth Cole. The
fight over Ormond's war record was
not settled.
Whether the propttition that a rich
man can be convicted in the courts
of North Carolina or not was settled,
depends on how you look at it. Judge
Finley stated as a fact in his charge
that rich and poor are alike before
the law.
The trial will certainly go down as
one of the most notable in the history
pf North Carolina.
Richmond county will learn that
it cost a tremendous amount to try
Colo for shooting young Ormond to
death. As a mere phrase, it cost the
ordinary court's expenses of eleven
days. Richmond county must pay the
per diem and mileage of 200 Union
county citizens who came as a special
venire. Twelve members of this spec
ial venire must be paid for ten days
and all the expenses of their food
and lodging and care must be paid.
Witnesses of the state must also be
paid under the law.
During the trial the entire year's
supply of sanitary drinking cups for
the court house, which was recently
purchased, was exhausted. Other ex
penses will send the total mounting.
This naturally does not include the
tremendous expense on Cole in pay
ing his lawyers or the Ormond family
and their friends for paying the pri
vate prosecution.
It is reported that A. L. Brooks of
Greensboro, received a $21,000 fee for
helping save the hide of Cole and that
James' H. Pou, who is sometimes re
ferred to as the "Clarence Darrow of
North Carolina," also received a fee
of between $15,000 and $20,000 from
the slayer. Jim Lockhart, who turned
his back on his war comrade, probably
received $10,000; but is done for
politically in North Carolina as the
American Legion will have nothing
further to do with him on account of
his aggressive tactics in slandering
their dead buddy. All told, Mr. Cole
is doubtless out something like $100,- ?
000 in lawyer's fees alone, to say
nothing of the ghostly shadow of Bill
Ormond that will forever be haunting
him in the deep shadows of the night
all during the coYning years. ? Union
Republican.
"Always Too Late"
His personal appearance spoke
plainer than words and told the story
of his all-night ride in an empty
freight car, His tk>nes were still ach
ing from the chilling drafts that fil
tered through crack and crevice as
the long train lumbered on its journey
through the night. Entering the of
fice he made a straight line for the
stove and as his stiffened muscles be
gan to respond to the warmth radiat
ed by the glowing anthracite he un
burdened himself of his mission.
He was a tramp printer who drifted
into The Herald office Tuesday morn
ing. 1
"Sorry," replied the foreman, "but
we filled our last vacancy three days
ago. We have been short-handed for
several weeks. If you had been a few
days earlier we could have taken you
on for a while."
A shadow crossed his weatherbeat
en, unshaven face, as his deeply lined
chin fell at rest upon his sunken
?chest* He sighed a deep sigh.
"It's the same old story," he mut
tered half aloud. "Always a few
days too late. That has been my
Nemesis. Those fatal words seems
to have pursued me through life."
Lost in reverie he jingled the eight
bits the office boys had contributed
to send him along on life's journey.
In that moment his mind must have
traveled back over fifty years of mis
takes and blunders. He came back tj
himself. "Thank you, sir," were his
parting words as his weatherbeaten
hulk slouched out of the door.
It is from the great army of
always-too?late meti that we get the
human flotsam and jetsam of life's
restless tides. They are more to be
pitied than censured. We sometimes i
think they were perhaps born out of 1
harmony with the universe. It is the
always-on-time man ? the man who
keeps in tune with life's radio ? upon
whom fortune bestows her richest
gifts. I
There is a sermon in the life-story
of thi* unfortunate printer. ? Dillon
Herald.
C-.
Catholic Church Service*
l,yttletou and Pine Streets-~*Twen
ty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost,
Sunday school for children at 11 a.m.
Celebration of the Holy KucharU.t and
sermon at 10 a.m.; no evening serv
ices scheduled. Non-Catholics are al
ways welcome at all services in this
church. AH are welcome to enter the
church any day for rest and prayer,
The church is open, y very day from
7:30 a.m. to nightfall,,
According to the last census (1020)
of the United States there were l,
020,220 more women in this country
than men. In CJ feat Britain the cen?
sus of 1021 shows that the predomi
nance of women over men is 1,720,802.
The Lawyer
? When Hilly Hawkins hung nut his
shingle and oeg&h the practice of
law the -people of his town united
in the prediction that he would starve
to death by reason of his uncompro
mising honesty. His friends did not
advise rascality, but in their several
ways and in accordance with the de
gree of their intimacy with hira they
intimated that a young lawyer might
be too honest for hits own good.
To the surprise of himself and the
community Billy got his first client
within a week. The man was ac
cused of stealing a mule, and he pro
tested his innocence. Billy defend
ed him shrewdly, but the state's evi
dence was overwhelming, and when
Billy got to his feet to address the
?jury he said: "Gentlemen, when I be
gan the practice of lnw I determined
to defend the innocent, however poor
they might be, and have no dealings
with the guilty regardless of their
wealth. This man is my first client.
He assured me of his innocence. The(
evidence introduced by the state has
established his guilt, however,, and J_
ask you in the name of justice to re
Qtyr lHartlia Hauli umt mt
On Broad Street Pacing Bank of Camden
Fruit Store ? /TEA SHOP ? 4>elicateft?en
Gratefully acknowledge* your liberal response to
its opening yesterday and bids welcome to
your return; bo it today ? tomorrow or
any day to come!
turn a verdict against him,"
Tfoo story got into the newspapers
uiui became a nine-day sensation. A
groat many people comm&nded Billy's
honesty, but the more conservative
element leaned to the opinion, ex
pressed by' an elderly lawyer, that he
had violated a trust; and even those
who spoke in his praise conceded that
he would soon perish and join that
Diogenes who had sought his in vain.
He did not perish, however. Num
erous people who were wrongfully
accused enlisted his services and were
acquitted, and one who was guilty
asked him to name his own price and
was kicked down a flight of stairs.
This happening Billy related to a
friend, who embellished the tale and
gave it to |the public, and the man
was found guilty ? -largely, as the
community declared, on the strength
of Billy's reputation. f . I
Other lawyers, who made a special
.ty_of defending criminals, circulated
inan\' shrewd tales to discredit Billy,
and succeeded in persuading an ele
ment in the community that his hon
esty no more held before a
cynical jury, sent one of Billy's
clients to the electric chair; hut un
other month brought vindication in
the form of a death-bed confession by
the real murderer, and thereafter
Billy entered into hi* estate as law
yer, jurist and judgv.
Those who have need of his"1 services
agree that it is more difficult to con
vince him than to convince a jury,
but once he had agreed to defend tho
accused, everybody in the community
knows that the case is settled. The
action of the jury is no more than *
formality.
The guilty give Billy a wide berth.
They know that if they fail to con
vince him of their innocence he wtll
make no secret of his refusal to x>ep
reaent them, and thoir refusal will
damn them in the eyes of any jury
that may be impaneled. . And they
know that if they do win his support,
and the progress of the trial proves
unworthy of it, he will mako them
wish they had been with Dante on
his pilgrimage and remained to
colonize the nether regions.
So quick is man to appreciate hon
esty, so eager to follow one worthy
of-trust. ? Fountain Inn Tribune.
When good dressers get together
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place where well dressed men gather ? note the smart touch
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this Fall ? it commands an approving eye ? style that
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Yes, there's wear? the guarantee is in the pocket.
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$25 to $45
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.CAMDEN, S. C.