The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 25, 1925, Image 8
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Struck by AaUmoWk ?a Camden
Columbia Highway
I m
Arm) Cook, eigbtyear-old son of !
Sam Cook, Pootiac planter, was fatal
' ly*injured early last night, apparently
by an automobile, since wax found
at the aide of the^'olUmbia-Camden
road near Poritiac in a serious con
dition. He died a few minutes later.
Report of the accident waa made
to W. H. Thompson, deputy sheriff
in tbc^yffk^ of Sheriff T. Alex ffeise,
by G. T. Jacobs, storekeeper at Pon
tile. Just how the accident occurred
wa* not known, Mr. Jacobs reported.
Shattered glass, thought to be from
a light of an automobile, was found
near the ^oint of the: tragedy. A
touring csir , carrying a party of
negroes was found in the ditch not
far tropi the scene but no definite
connection had been established, Mr.
Thompson said.? Monday'a Columbia i
State. v V : j
< Frr/m Tnwrfiy'l) Stair. )
Tbr?e young white men of Heath
Springy ? C. C, Orimminger, Tom
Mag:ll and C, C. M&yuard-? came to
Columbia late last night in answer to
a aummons from Sheriff T. Alex Heiso
regarding The fatal accident that
caused the death of Ansel "Cook, eight
year old son of Ham Co ok, who was
struck apparently by an automobile
Sunday night on th?? Camden road,
near I'ontiac.
Investigations yesterday traccd the
number of the machine .supposed t^>
have been the one that struck the
child, and Mr. Maynard, the owner of
the car, promised to come to the Cap
ital City. It developed upon the arri
val of Mr. Maynard and the two
young men that Mr. Crimminger had
boon driving the automobile Sunday
night ami that he had been accom
panied by Mr. Magill and Porter Wil
liams, another Heath Springs man.
They were on their way to Columbia
to meet a train on which Mr. May
nard was traveling and were to take
him back to his home. At a point
near Hlaney the automobile driven by
" Mr. Crimminger was forced to the
edge of the road by another machine
and the car slid into a flitch. The
occupants alighted and in ten min
utes' time were on" their way to Co
lumbia.
Mr. Crimminger f /i ???! he was going
at a rate of about liO miles per hour
when he came to thu place where the
Cook rhild was fatally injured. He
said that the mud had got on his
windshield and a mint was falling.
He declared that he moved his car a
little from the center of the road, and
that he heard a lick on the automo
bile. He said that it sounded like
Rome one had slapped his hand on the
fender.
The Heath Spring# man told the
Richland county officers that he turn
ed to one of the occupants of the
machine, .saving, "That sounded like
we struck something."
He checked up his speed, ho said.
One of the young men looked back,
but declared that he saw nothing in
the road. The travelers continued on
their journey. Mr. Crimminger said
he alighted from his machine at a
filling station near Columbia, and as
was his custom, declared he got out
to look at his lights before* entering
the city. He four...' a broker, light
and also noticed ?ha' 'h< fender <?f his i
car was l>ent.
Mr. Crimminge- -aid n>- continued
on to Columbia and escorted Mr. May
nard bark U? Heath Springs. He
knew nothing of the a> c:d? nt. h?> *aid,
until yesterday morning.
The Heath Spiingo mar: appeared!
very much perturbed last night.
The fender u f the Mayrard cai, ac
rording to t he officers, making the
examination, looked as if the < hi'd
had left the imprint of its bod v.
i ounp .Mechanic Held.
( u.unsbia. De.\ 'J'J. ? Charged with
"criminal careicfi-neas" in driving an
automobile, ( Crimmsnge' . young
aut<>mobiI<- mechanic of Heath
Spring/'. h<ld by a coroner's jury
today to I*' responsible for the death
f An^el Cook, eight year old boy of
I'm hland county, who ua- -,truek by
? y?r automobile Sunday r. :ght. f'rim
m.nger wa? released in $2,000 b.r.d to
await tr;a! for Involuntary man- j
"?lau jr.ter. Th<- b.iy died* Sunday i
night after he was found ly- j
ng by 'he roadside, Crimminger ad- ;
mitten, effu?-rs ja:d, that he heard a
ou :d a ? : f the au' -mobile had struck
?ometh:r.g, but he could not see well
< n account of mud and mist on hi.?
windithield, and one of his compan
.ons, aft' r looking back, told him
there was no sigr. of anyone being
nit. 11? drove to Columbia with
out fir.lhcr investigation.
Boan- Hammond*.
M.. II. I>. Hammonds, of Raleigh,
N C . and Miss Li Hie Mao Roan, of
<"r, rr.(ji.n, were married in Can* !?r ->n
Monday, December 21st, Judge of
Probate W. L. McDowell performing
r,\sr Al.TIKS OK THK ROAD.
Thirty-Nine Kifled n^d 227 Injured
in South During Pa*t Week.
| Atlanta, Dec. Thirty-nine per
j aon# sacrificed their lives during the
past week on the altar of the traffic
god and 227 others suffered varying
degrees of injuries. Home of those
are expected to die. These figure*
were revealed today in a survey of
traffic accident* by the Associated {
Pre** in eleven Southern states.
^ North Carolina, with seven deatha, j
led the galaxy of atatea, while Flor
idaand Mi?*i??ippi reported two each
as the lowest numbers.
Georgia again took th* crown tor
the higheat number of injured with
forty-nine. This waa"*ohe less than
was reported through the same chan
nels last week. Virginia was a close
follower with forty-four. Florida re
ported none having been injured.
There were I outstanding acci
dents during the week, the toll aa
taken by scattering accidents.
j South Carolina reported threcdead
[and four injured.
JURY ACQUITS MAN
But Mob Taken Him From Sheriff
and Putn Him to Death ?
Clarkadale, Miss., Dec. Lindse'y
Coleman, negro, was lynched here to
night a few minutes after a jury in
circuit court had declared hira not i
guilty of the murder of Grover C.
Nicholas, plantation store manager.
Coleman was one of several negroes
arrested after the slaying of Nicholas,
[October 1 f>, by a man who knocked'
the storekeeper in the head with an
axe. His trial has been in progress
throughout this week.
Coleman left the Coahoma couri
house immediately after the . verdict,
accompanied by Sheriff Glass and a
deputy who feared violence.
They had gone but a short distance
when a group of men unmasked, ap
proached and seized the negro, over
powering the officers. '
Leaping into an automobile with
the negro, the men drove away. A
few *hoU wer? heard and Coleman's
body, pierced- by several bullets, was
thrown into the street near the out
skirts of th?' city.
"And I Don't Mean Maybe."
Did you over hear a minister uso
a slang phrase as a text? We did
the other night over the radio.
"And I don't mean maybe." That was
the unbroken and outstanding thread
which ran through the entire dis
course.
"And I don't mean maybe." Christ
this and. Christ that, "and I don't
mean maybe." Paul this and Paul
that, "and I don't mean maybe."- The
church this and the church that, "and
I don't moaq maybe." Every point
was driven home with it. Every ar
gument was topped with it. Every
climax was capped with it. ? "and 1
don't mean maybe."
The vaccination took. Before that
minister was 15 minutes into his ser
mon radio listeners all over the Uni
ted States and Canada were saying to
each other, "And I don't i?ean may- .
bo." Hundreds of thousands of poo- .
pie got that expression, and that only,
and got that thought and that only,
out (>f that dissertation that Sunday
And if that were the purpose
of the homily ? all right. The effect
would have been heightened if the or
ganist had played, "Yes, sir, that's
my baby. No, sir. don't mean maybe
a-, a recessional.
The unconventional line of road in
ihe pulpit always makes people sit
up and take notice. Sometimes it
make* them sit up and take notice of I
the idea which the unhabitual proce- !
dure would stress, and sometimes it
makes them take notice only of the
unhabitual procedure itself. Some
prc.achers have the gift of being able ;
to take all sorts of slang and idiom
atic artistries and colloquial mon
strosities and use them as handles to :
I
drive home poignant truths. Hilly '
Sunday :s a man like that, and Sam '
Jones was another. Hut that sort of i
vehicle for conveying the word of God,
n'-ods a >> k : 1 f u 1 driver or the load will j
bo lo>t by the road, while only the rig
Hots home.
We recall "-nee visiting a certain J
ihurch just after a Hilly Sunday re- |
v.val in that city. The m r.ister was i
an extremely sedate and dignified 1
man. He didn't know how to be hu -i
morous; it wasn't natural to him.
The choir leader was the same kind '
of chap. But, evidently it had been
decided that the Billy Sunday methods
should be introduced into the church
in order to keep the dry bones rat
tling. And so the preacher, who was
ponderous physically, and ponderous
mentally, tried to skip around in his
pulpit just as he had seen Billy Sun
day skip. And he tried to pepper his
pulpit language with quaint phra es,
just as he had *cen Billy Sunday
pepper. "Hop for the mercy Beat
while the hopping ia good." "You hit
Piiy Re hear 9^ f? Trr
Patiencr anxi
Kfhc?ar?uf? are u><?? lit
>r)My w-(u? 10 .v?ji
OetVf* Oil I A. <|<* flip k.l? I' J; r
< whether the tfciur ?hmjM i '
M#(M 10 Ht?* jtnd jmi- (?
left hand uu the bul k y' h ci? us, ? ???
KT. before proj>??? ujj (O ii . . .. j?
or ivjictb^ >>e aitouid do ti tlj^
hejirllKug. with HI* .eft on ('??*
| mantelpiece. may threaten the friend
Mhiji of a lifetime. ,
The uutlior hiou him to do It fiout
the hearthrug ? la convinced that flow
there and there only-can he convey to
the heroine the depth and sincerity at
hit paaalon The producer la po*lt)ve
that a true gentleman would wAlk
around the top of the table and do It
from behind a <, chair The actor
coiue* to the rescue, lie "feels" he
can do It only from the left-hand bot
tom corner. of the table.
"Oh. well. If you feel aa strongly
about it aa all that, mjr d?ar boy,"
aaja the producar. -that aada. It. It's
you who've got to play the part.**
"Do you know," aaya the author.
think be'a right. It does aeem to
I " 1
The rehearsal proceed* Fire min
ute* later the argument whether a fa
ther would naturally curse his child
before or after she Mis taken off her
hat provide* n new crisis.? Jerome K.
Jerome, in Harper's Magazine.
Totem Polea Figure
in Religioua Belief
Tin*- western and northern Indians
have ft. i monopoly on the ornamental
totem. according to those who have
made a Hiudy of the subject. Totero
isi.i ap|?ei.r?> In kindred forms all over
Hie world. Savage tribe* all apparent
ly posses* a set of - beliefs and prac
tices, mythological, religious, artistic,
ceremonial and economic, that grow
from i heir attitude toward animals,
plnnts and inanimate objects. These
beliefs and practices govern their
mode of life and give rise to their
form* of worship. This Idea still lin
gers with the Alaskan Indians In the
I significance the totem has In regard
j to their family and the family myths
j and superstitions. These Indians be
j lleve they are descended from some
! bird, fish, Least .jpr other object, and
' take this as their symbol. The em
blem chosen iy carved or palhted on
all belongings, and is regarded as the
visible being who has to do with their
; welfare, and carries with It certain
! obligations. Those with the same
' crest, for instance, rannot intermarry,
i Christianity is in some places leading
to abolition of the totem. ? Nature
| Magazine.
Relics of Pagan Days
Not everybody knows that every
time h#4 or she writes down the name
of the day of the week, the name of a
Pagan god or goddess is being perpetu
ated. When Kngland passed under
the sway of the Norsemen the people
largely adopted fhr Norse system of
gods, lifting them in to the nearest
j corresponding planet or deity of the
I -(toman calendar. So the Day of Mars
?the Jtomnn god of war ? turned Into
Tlu's daeg or day ? Tin being the
Norse god of war; the.Duy of Mercury
Info Woden's daeg, Jupiter's day into
Thor's day, and the Day of Venus
Into the Day of Freya, the Norse god
dess of love, corresponding with Ve
nus. Whether Saturn's day remained
as It was or turned Into the Day of
Saeter, we don't know for certain. But
the Sun's day and the Moon's day are
obvious.
Work and Worry
That "leughlng ? philosopher" of old,
Dernoc \f u*. jesting at mankind's anx
ieties. , o a great age. We all
admit thm ,s is not work but worry
that kills. I.oth of these call for the
expenditure ?<( a proportionate amount'
of nervous energy. Work, however,
has u definite aim and termination,
:he result of which Is the feeling of
serene satisfaction we all have in work
accomplished, (in the other hand,
worry, having no definite objective; Is
endless, achieving nothing beyond a
prodigal waste of energy, accompa
nied b\ actual wear and fear of gray
matter and nerves thqt may In the
long run be productive of vphyslcal
wreck age. ? Kxcbn nge.
No Dry Cell for Him
Sim L'pdlke was taken Into court
the other da.v as the result of having
a slight mlxup with n clerk In the Cash
Pood store. It seems the\ were argu
ing over a baseball game nnd the clerk
Idt Sim with a KVc? nt hag of salt he
happened to ha\e in his hand. Sim
countered with .1 It-battery he whs
taking back to a radio store on ac- ,
count of its being run down. The
Judge said th'?. ns the clearest case t
of a.-.-. Hilt and battery that had ?.ver !
come before him, and that l>oth parties ?
seemed equally guilty. Sin) pleaded, '?
however, that as the battery was dis ;
charged he should also be discharged,
and the Judge saw the logic of It nnd ,
let hlai off.
And the choir leader, stiff and serious 1
and solemn-eyed, flourished his baton:
"Now all you men with corns, carry
i the chorus." "Now, you ladies who
! don't paint, sing the last Verse." It
1 was very painful.
Yes, undoubtedly, horse play cAn
be made to do its part In glorifying
tho word of God. But.it has to be
used carcfnlly and skilfully and' ar
tistically or the objective will be lost.
And we don't mean maybe.-? Selects
I' * 1 1 ? ? ? ? - -* ?? "*
N?f irr To DtkUr* aadl Odit?ra
All persons indebted to the late
w. r. mn or having claims against
the late W. T. Hall or his estate will
plea** make settlement with the un
dersigned. All person* having claim!;
against him will file claim with proof,
of same with the undersigned.
THOMAS P. HALL. J
18 K. Chestnut St., Akron, Ohio.
FINAL DISCHARGE
I Notice is hereby given that one
month from this date, on Tuesday,
January 6th, 1926, I will make to the
Probate Judge of Kershaw County my
final return a* Administratrix of the
estate of Kdward Gamble, deceased,
and on the same date I will apply to
the said Judge for a final discharge
as said Administratrix.
LOTTIE GAMBLE.
Camden, S. C., Dec. 3, 1986.
FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice Is hereby given that one
month from thia date, on Monday,
January 4th, 1986, I will make to the
Probate Judge of Kerahaw County my
final retprn as Administrator of the
eatate of H. C. Hall, deceased, and on
the same date I will apply to the said
Judge lor a final discharge -as said
Administrator.
a B. HALL.
Camden, S. C., Dec. 8, 1926.
MASTER'S SALE
State of South Carolina,
County of Kershaw.
(Court of Common Pleas)
M- I- Alexander, Plaintiff,
against
Hattie Mitchell, Gary Mitchell, Lily
Mitchell, Jessie Mitchell, Rharoe
Brothers, a corporation under the
laws of the State of South Caro
lina and A. J. Ives, C#1_ L. Wilcox,
A. L. Wilcox and W. T. Hopkins,
co-partners in trade as Wilcox, Ives
and Company, Defendants.
Under and by virtue of an order
by his Honor, W. H, Townsead, Judgo
of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, of date
December 17th, 1925, I will offer for
sale in front of the Court House* door
in the City of Camden, on the first
Monday in January next, being tho
4th day thereof, during the legal
hours of sale, to the highest bidder
for cash, the following described real
estate:
"All that piece, parcel or tract of
land, situate, lying and being in the
State of South Carolina, County of
Kershaw about twelve miles South
west of the City of Camden on the
old Camden-Columbia ~ Two Notch
RcMd, containing thirty-six and 3-100
(3t? 3-100) acres more or less, said
tra?t of land being bounded on the
North by lands qf Cook, formerly of
Jackson and Cook, on the East by
lands wf Sam Mitchell and Joe Cook,
on the South and West by lands of
John Mitchell, said tract of land be
in$: the same conveyed to me by deed
of J. T. Hay, bearing date October
0th, 1900 and of record in the office
of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw
County in Book DDD page 3$.
"Ail that piece, parcel or tract of
land; situate lying end being in the
State of South Carolina, county of
Kershaw lying and being in West
Watcee containing one hundred nine
teen acres/ more or less, and lying on
the Two Notch Road from Camden to
Columbia being' bounded on the
Xorth by Notch Road, on the
East by lauds of Mahallie Mitchell,
on the South by lands formerly of
W, H. Jones and by lands claimed by
the estate of Player, and on the West
by lands of Higgins and by lands of
Mahallie Mitchell. The above de
scribed tract of land is the same con
veyed to me by deed of F. M. Zemp
of date October 81st, 1919.
Also all that piece, parcel or tract
of land, situate, lying and being in
the State and County above set forth
in West Wateree Township containing
fifty acres more or lees, being bound
ed on the North by lands of Joeeph
Cook, on the East by landa of Jol>n
Mitchell, and on the Wert by lands of
Ben, Getty s And Sam Btaftrham. The
above described tract of land' if the
Same conveyed to me bydted'of J. L.
Guy of date February ' llth and of*
record in the office of the Clerk of
Court for Kershaw County In Book
A. C. 727."* . ' ^
Any one desiring to bid at said sale
shall deposit with tjie Master in
money or certified check the sum of
one hundned dollars (flOO.OO) as in
evidence of good faith.
R. H. HILTON,
Master for Kershaw County.
December 17th, 1925. ?
I :
I MASTER'S SALE.
State of South Carolina,
Cbunty of Kershaw,
Court of Common Pleas.
f. M. Clfichester and L. A. Wittkow
sky, Trustees, Plaintiffs, .
4 against
Camden Iceland Cold Storage Com
pany, and Farmers and Merchants
State Bank, Defendants.
Under an order of fCotirt herein,
dated December 14, 1926, 1 will sell
to the highest bidder at public auc
tion, for cash, before the Jtefshaw
County Court House door, in Camden,
in said State, during the legal holies
of sale on the first Mondtyy being the
4th "day of January 1926,' 'ftie *-foTWv
ing described real estate: ...
"All that piece, pircel or lot of land
situate in the City of Camden, County
of Kershaw, State of South Carolina,
being rectangular in shape, and meas
uring two hundred (200) feet, more
or less, from north to south and oije
hundred (100) feet, more or less, from !
east to west. Said lot starting at a
point two hundred and twenty-five
(225) feet, more or less, east from an
iron peg on Mill Street, and from
that point extending at right angles
northward two hundred (200) feet,
more or less, thence at right angles I
eastward one hundred (100) feet,
| more or less, thence at right angles
southward, two hundred (200)
more or leas, thence a t right *3
westward one hundr^f
more or less, to the atartia*
Said lot being bounded north t,y?r?i
frty of Parrish; east by property ?
Thos, Wilson, or the NorthwSLjJ
Railway Company; south by u-J
street of the City of Camden;
Broperty of MeNair and proper^ ,?
larshal, of wbkh will more fujiJ *
pear by plat attached by W. K KjT!
land. Surveyor, of date June, 1920 u
<1ced from -J* H. Osburn to Itw
Herfurth, it being the same propert,'
conveyed to the Camden Ice and Cok
Storage Company, Incorporated w
R. W. Herfurth. Also that par^l 1
lot of land in ..the City of
County of Kershaw, State of
Carolina, fronting sixty-seven
feet west on Mill Street of C?.
and extending back east of a uni
width to a depth of Two Hundred
Twenty feet (220), more or le&a, and
bounded on the North by lot f<>nn?rf?
of H. L. Schlosburg and S. P. Bra*
ington, now of Charlotte*^ Marshall
east by land formerly of P. U^S
Manning, now of J. H. Osborne, south
by property formerly of Thomas Wtt.
son, bat now of Northwestern Hail
road Company of South Carolina, art
west by Mill Street <>f Camden, $outh
Carolina. It being the same property
conveyed to the Catndep Ice and Cold
Storage Company, Incorporated, bv
R. W. Herfurth, together with ti*
plant, structure*, erections, and coi
structions, now or hereafter placed
thereon, and in addition thereto, of
mschine.ry, fixtures, appliances, in.'
plements and appurtenances of even
kind and character, which are now or
may be hereafter at any time situated,
lying and bei&g in, on or about the
said plants, premises, and property
described herein* and used or pro
vided for use in and about t^e opera
tion of the aaid plants and property
and the carrying on of the business
of the Company in the same, whether
the same are now owned by the ssid
party of the first part or ahall here
after be acquired by it."
bid from any one, except the ptaintiff
Before the Master shsll receive any
or parties holding liens on said prop
erty, he shall require ^a deposit of
three hundred ($300.00) dollars, in
cash or by certified check on soae
reliable, bank, as evidence of good
faith, said money to be returned to
unsuccessful bidder.
R. H. HILTON,
Master for Kerahaw County.
Dec. 16, 1925.
FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice is hereby given that Ida L.
McLain, Executrix of the Will of
John D. McLain, deceased; has thi*
day made application to me for' ?
final discharge from her trust as said
Executrix and that Monday, January
18^h, 1926, at 11 o'clock a.m., as the
time, and the Probate office in Cam
den, iS. C., the place for the hearing
of the said petition.
w. l. Mcdowell,
Judge of Probate Ker. Co.
Camden, S. C., December 16, 1925.
THE BANK'S CHRISTMAS GREETING
\
To our customers, to the entire cpmmunity, and
to all the world, the Christmas wish of this bank
is that prosperity and thrift and happiness may
prevail everywhere. 4, \ ? *
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