Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CLAUD BIKCHMOKB'8 DEATH Former Camden Man Met Death in ' Automobile Accident v 1 i 90 n?;? ?? ? ? ?? ' Mention wh* mado last wet k of the death of Mr. (Maude Birchmore, a former citizen of Camden, at one time employed by The Watorec Messenger at this city, and th following detailed account^ of the accident is told in a special dispatch to The Atlanta Jour nal from Uricolnton, Ga., under date of December 26: , 4 ? "The story of devotion of a dog to it.s master fyas come to light in con nection with the tragic death Friday night of Mr. Claude Birchmore, of Lincolnton, who was '' friund pinned under his automobile near Centerville, on the Wilkes-Oglethoirpe county line. "Mr. Birchmoro was on his way to hia father's home at Maxeys, Ga., and was taking his dog, "Rap," with him, intending to go hunting Saturday, The car evidently had drawn to the side of the road to allow someone to pass When it overturned, pinning Mr. .Birchmore and hia dog beneath it. "When a party of men attempted to lift Mr. Birchmore, after getting the car off him and his dog, the dog would not allow anydne to go near his master, and it was only after hiA protests had been overruled that the men could touch Mr, Birchmore. "When the dog was finally beaten off, it is stated that he became al most wild before leaving the place. Up to a Tate hour last night, ho had not been seen again. The dog is the prize bird dog of the county. "Mr. Birchmore was collected for years with the Lincolnton Journal, of Lincolnton, and had a large number of friends in this section, lie former ly was employed by The Jeffersonian, /the late Senator Thomas E. Watson's publication at Thompson. His wife and one son, Charlos Birchmore, of Lincolnton, and a, brother, Harold, of the News Reporter, at Washing* ton, Ga., survive," Mra. DeKay Dead M rs. J. K. DeKay, for many years a citizen of this county, but of recent years residing at Georgetown, died in Camden at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. G. Whitakct^tn ? norih ? MilL_ street Tuesday after a short illness. Mrs. DeKay was the widow of the late J. K. DeKay who died about one year hkv. She was 50 years of age a nd is survived byt tflu following chil dren: Mrs. A. G, Whitakcr and Mrs. Stoney Campbell of Camden and Messrs. George DeKay and J. K. De Kay of Georgetown. She is survived also by three brothers ? Dr. W. J. Dunn and J. S. Dunn of Camden and Dr. I^unn of Newberry. The funeral and burial occurred at the Dunn fam ily burying ground, ? few mites ea.it of Camden on Wednesday, services be ing conducted by Dr. Edwin Mujler of the Camden Presbyterian church. USE ACME FERTILIZERS FOR PROFITABLE CROPS The "Old Reliable" Begins Its Forty-Fourth Year As a Superior Plant Food T<> farmer* who are now figuring their fertilizer requirements for this article is intended. 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I Here is what one planter think ' i Acme : Whitevil'.e, N. C. ? "1 bog to -tate that I have for the past ten or fifteen years been tisiflg fer tilizers manufactured and gold by the Acme Manufacturing Com pany on my farm- located ir. Columbus County. "It gives me pleasure to state that- I have found thes^e fertiliz er* tn ho thoroughly reliable and productive very satisfactory , results. "Through preparat .or., i a re planting and proper cultivation and a liberal application of Acme fertilizers is sure to produce very renyjporative return*. "Jn my opinion there is none bettor." (Signed) ? DONALD MacRACKAN. Talk \ >ver your requirements with the Acme denier, or write the Acme Manufacturing Company, Wilming ton. N. C. A Muon'i trial will con vince you q{ Acm^? taperlority. T..<rr* 4 ? W. . : * . QUII'I BN TAKKH CKNTKK STACK Hi* fore Memorial Plan Subside* He Offer* Newspaper atf One foliar Fountain Inn, S. Dec. 23.-? Robert Quillcn, whose quaint philoso phy and rich humor scattered over the editorial pages of American news paper* in recent years have caused millions to chuckle and smile and be come all the wiser for their reading, has bowed an unceremonious adieu to the department of, the papers -for t ht* moment at least. The S^ge of Fountain Inn has for saken the editorial column for the top of the front page. From Vancouver to New York and from Toronto to San Antonio the press has heralded his name during tho past few hectic days. It's all because Mr. Quilleu, out of the fullness of his heart as a great ful, but distant grandson, Saw fit to honor his racial mother, Kve the first woman, with a monument to her memory, Ho set the modest little obelisk up on the lawn of his Fountain Inn home and everything went nicely until 1t leaked out up in Greenville. Newspaper reporters saw their chance and dug into tho story. It was flashed over the Associated Press wires to the utmost ends of the land. Mr. Quillon's trouble thon began. Photographers began stepping off (Tains up at Greenville and dashing down to Fountain tun to get pictures and to interview this kindly faced, unassuming man who had honored Eve's memory after mankind had sadly neglected her down through all the ages. T>he telegraph office here was flqoded with demands for news and the telephone at the Quillen home was nearly burned up with calls from Greenville and Baltimore, and New York, and Borneo. The author did the best he could and finally, after a day or two, suc ceeded in quieting things down a bit. In the meantime nearly every news paper from East to West and from North to South had carried dispatches out of Greenville about the Quillen monument. Quillcn the paragrapher and philosopher, had suddenly left the editorial pages of a thousand newspapers and taken his place at the top of the front pages, bidding with Colonel Billy Mitchell, Calvin Coolidge, Clarence Darrow and Whang Shang Bang, for the attention of the public eye. Hut the photographers, reporters and Sunday magazine editors con? tinued to call at intervals and snoop about Fountain Inn and the Quillen monument to Eve. More front page stuff. (>ne found that a man in Fountain Inn when stopped on the ?street and asked what he thought of the monument swore he never heard of the monument nor the man, not to speak of Eve, the reigning belle of Adam's day. "A prophet is not with out honor, save in his own country," thought the Now York photographer as he grinned and walked on, leaving the farmer to his Climax and quoits. Finally the Associated Pness was satisfied, the International and all tha other news services had taken a whack at the rare story of this man who erected the monument to Fve, and quiet seemed again about to reign over Quillen and Fountain Inn. Of course Fundamentalists around Fountain Inn had a hunch that some thing was Swedish in Denmark and that undue levity was being em ployed in so serious a matter as the so-called 'First Lady." The younger folk grinned and thought it fine, but took care to avoid the Quillen lawn at night where the author had so recently started the skull orchard for the Adam family. Things were actually getting down to normalcy, after a hectic week, until at fast the paragrapher took it into Irs head to dispossess him self of his weekly newspaper, The Fountain Inn Tribune, long since more famou> for the >picy nature of it> editorial page than for the payment i>f excess profits tax on its earning . Ordinarily there ? u 1 < i be nothing 1. 1 > i v y ab>ut selling a small weekly newspaper unless Quilen happened ? a n i*. ami >>' map out his own I < i I -P-ar To make .1 ong story short the paper, which should be worth several 'hi'ii>and dollars, as weekly papers , no, wa> o ffered for i*ne dollar, lock s:< -'k and barrel, it to go to the first ? :iu- ?? who presented himself at the j-.ff-rr nn Wednesday morning. Again ' Tn ? Crcenville News carried a Jitt'c ; it.-m about the huniorisl and the pro I posed sale of hi# paper. The story . got onto the Associated Press wires j.ind created second furore. The copy chief in the Columbia ! bureau ?>f the Associated Press* re ? , - layed the story to the ends of the earth almost, as)ccd the papers in Greenville to keep an eye on that bird Quillen and pttfled his hair and swore that he had never hear^^of soch capers in Us lift. The telegraph wires began to click again ami pap* re here and fron wanted - -i ? . ..-J ? . _V - ' . FOUR YOUTHS MUST DIB. Two More Sentenced to Pay With Uvea In Georf is. Eatoflton, Ga,, Dec. 80ht.? Four young men arc under sentence to pay the death penalty in Georgia on Jan uary 29th? two to dio by, hanging and two by electrocution. Tad Coggeshall, of Clyton, IU? and Floyd McCelland, of Brockton, N. J., for the second time were sentenced here today by Judge James B. Park, to die in the electrip chair on January 2Dth at Milledgeville for the murder, of W. C. Wright, superintendent of Putnam County schools. Eight days ago Judge Charles E. Roop, presiding over Muscogee Supe rior court, seiiteneed WUlie Jones and Gervis Bloodworth to be hanged at Butler, Ga., on January 29th for the murder of Howard F. Underwood, Taylor county medicin*^ &lesman. This was the sixth time these two youths have had the date set for their execution. Executive clemency is ^he | only hope the youths have of escaping death and Governor Clifford Walker has indicated he will not interfere in the judgment of the courts. R^lph Bigham Dead. / ' ' Ralph Bigham, widely known hum orist, who has been on the Chautau qua platform for years, died suddenly at his homo in Philadelphia, Monday afternoon. According to tho Asso ciated Press account of his death, ho wan stricken with acute indigestion h short time after dinner and died before a physician reached the house. He was fifi years 8ld and a native of Richmond, Va. 1 to know about the Fountain Inn Tribune and Qulllen and the monu ment to Evo. One suggested thajt the paragrapher trace his family lineage back very carefully and ascertain if the world was right in assuming that he was a far off grandson of the famous lady of the apple fruit and fig foliage. At this writing things #re still somewhat "het up" over both the monument case and the sale of the paper, the latter actually b^ing sold for a dollar yesterday to W. W. Kel lett, a Fountain Inn merchant. Just how long it will be until Quillen's name will retire from the front page and get back to the edi torial columns remains to be seen. That it will come again some day to the front, where* blaring headlines tell of things unusual, can hardly be doubted. As it stands now after all the furore has run for some days, if the humorist should forget to, put the cat out at night, or lace up his left shoe first, it would be a 'page one, column one" story to half the coun ty* While the world looks on and gasps the humorist himself barely smiles and wonders why all the excit'ement. Discussing the monument he says that he has always admired Eve for her originality and popularity in her day. ' 'Further explaining his stand on Jt he monument case the paragrapher said: "I never get to have any fun. All my little jokes go away. Good in tentions serve only to get me into trouble. "There's the matter of Eve. "Evo was a distant relative of mine, on my mother's side.^ The family has a! ways been proud of her. She was the first lady of the land, and the reigning beauty of her time. "So far as I know, the family never has done anything to honor her. A few weeks ago- 1 determined to make amends for this unpardonable neglect, and commissioned Mr. Gillespie, of Greenville, to fashion a monument of marble and to carve upon it this legend: "In Memory of Eve, the First Woman. "Beneath the inscription is a nicely carved apple, with a twig and one leaf. "The marble is a delicate shaft or obelisk, similar in design to Cleo-. patra's Needles, and I am sure its simple dignity would appeal to Eve's taste, for she was not addicted to useless ornamentation. "l^ast week the obelisk was erected in my yard, and I had the complacent feeling of one who has done his duty well. "Hut one never knows. My neigh- , bors stared at the marble with in piagues upon me; the " accused me of credulous horror; they prophesied an unbecoming levity toward things that are sacred; they glared at the marble by day and scurried by with many a backward glance at night. "I am sorry. I never intentionally hurt anybody's feelings or offend against anybody's pet superstitions. "But this is purely a family affair. Five was a fair and charming lady and deserved a much,fiper monument than she hat obtained. It is alttxost in credible that six thousarul, year* were gathered into history before one 6f her kinsmen erected a stone in her . . . ? *? - '?*?' ? Change in Ford Agency Mr. and Mr*. LeConte Ma<flwy have returned to Lancaster from Hillslap/o, N. Mr? Maclcey having purchased the Redfearn Motor Com pany, the Ford agency in this city. W. T. Kedfearn, who ha? been in charge of the Lancaster agency for the past year, has acquired the Ford agency at Camden and will move there with his family in the next few day.*. Whilb I^ancaster regrets to lose Mr. Kedfearn and family? Mr; and Mrs. 'Mackey are receiving a most cpfdial welcome , back home. Both Messrs! Mackey and Kedfearn are experienced automobile men and are unusually popular among a wide circle of friends In the two Carolines. Mrs. Mackey was, before marriage, Miss Gene ^Hughes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Hughes of Lancaster, and Mrs. Redfearn is a daughter of the late lamented W. U. Clyburn, ene of the county'* staunchest citizens during his life-time. ? Ifincaster News The Greenville South Atlantic base ball club suffered a loss of upwards of, $10,000 when their grandstand burned Monday ' morning. It is thought the fire was of incendiary origin. ^ ? . i . i ,i. .1 i , ? . . FINAL DISCHARGE Notices is hereby giveh Jthat one month from this date, on Monday, February 8th, 1926, I will make to the Probate Judge of Kershaw County my final return as A4miifistrator of the estate of C. S. Higgins, deceased, and on the same date I will apply to the said court for a final discharge as said Administrator. H. S. HIGGINS. Camden, S. C., Jan. 7, 1926. Wants? For Sale WANTED ? Sharecropper for my two horse farm at Lugoff. Good colored ihan preferred. Must give refer * ences. Apply to B. H. Baum, Cam-% den, S. C. 41-sb FOR SALE ? One Jersey cow, fresh in milk, and calf. For further infor mation see J. C. Hilton, Westville, S. C. 41-sb FOR 8ALE ? At my plantation, six good mules, one horse: ? Reason for nelling, have sold one half planta tion. Apply Henry Savage, Carti den, S. C. * 41-42sb IF YOU HAVE NOT GIVEN US A trial, do it now.. Wo will please you and allow 10 per cent on bills of $2.20 or more. Camden Steam Laundry, Telephone 17, Camden, S. C. 41-sb t^y .1*? "AUP^-One yov feom?[, tto?*Js App^y jWe, LWe?tviflfflf C. oung male, one 1 Coyt C. T tvm *^f 41-48-pd ?ALB -One Ford touring car, *4 model, In good condition. Mr?. Whit#. Camden, 8. Cf. 41-sb iwai . CTb&ND YOUK IAUNURY OUT K. A - M <*o feeder and as cheap, . WlW m C## returning it with a clean, Whert\ melt. Camden Steatfl Laun S phone 17, Camden, 8. C. 4Ub -Peltatype Webber Cot -ain 2, $2.00; Deltatype V u Seed Strain 3, $2.25; AfMuen Strain 8, $1.75; ?^f*fre*s Strain 4, $2.00. tcked at gin.' One 'h Pedigreed Seed ,b\ Parrott, Dar 1. 41-42-ab s or renters. SAL1 FOR ton Seed Webbor lightning Lightning % Recleaned year from Coker Farms. Mrs, Jo lington, S, C., R, WANTED? Sharecro renters preferred, horse farms. Address WestviUe. 8. C. FOR S ALB? Nitrate Soda and deferred shipments. I contracts, also Kainet and of Ammonia. Write or E rices. Cunningham & La a nc aster, S. C, ? 41 TAKEN UP? On Christmas day female bulldog. Owner may. 1 same by proving property. A Hiss D. E. Brown, 1806 Lyttl St., Camden, S. C. 4 NO BUSINESS CAN LIVE? U patronized by home people. W# guarantee to please and charge mighty little. Camden Stegm, Laundry, Telephone 17, Camden, S. C. 41-sb FOR RJ5NT ? A 3 ov -1 horse farm orU-, the Mtobloy place, near Camden, be tween Lugoff and the Southern Power Co. nice new residence with [?sb ?ne M/l ^thoTiuj 5 large rooms. Lerel U&4 \% *_ Vut? ot cultivation. MUi a2 Mobley, 24 Soco St., AshevilU.N^ JA??" F013N1) ? On the Btthune Sunday, December 'tfth, , Iv valise contain!** ? -v" vertiaement. Can ai ChroiutW flee, Camden, S. C. WK ALLOW 10 PERCENT ? count on all family wash amount to 12.20 ov more. Telephone . 1 Camden Steam Laundry, S. C. 4^ FOR RRNT -A on^ horse farta ? the Mobley place, between Uu and the Southern Power 6). G 3 room house, well. Fertile V land. Address Miss Annie Moh 24 Hoco St., Asheville, N. C. ?10 GIVK 1)8 YOUR LAUNDRY then come and see the sauti! manner in which. Jt is done. On den Steam Laundry, Telephone l Camden, S. C. 4U 9ALBSMAN? We desire a Ion and aggressive salesman to tell 1. high grade calendars and tc 1 1 tlsing specialties in Camden adjacent. Will consider only ' j of reliable character and first selling ability. Send telerww Kalre,, Parris & Co., Inc., 124 \ 11th Philadelphia, Pa. ION BY TO LOAN? On imprt*^ real estate. Address deLoaeh kit Loach, Attorneys, Camden, S.C.J k3$4l< R SALR? Furnace for heati Vater or operating steam plant Wd condition and at meow' * Aoply The Chronicle otL Respectfully, DixieTce R. L. Moseley, jk, Pres. and # i ? Dixie Ice & Fuel Co., i New Year, offering the and courteoui Service. Call Anytime when in need of The First National Bai of Camden , South Carolina ? v. W 1 . * of Condition at Close of Business Deceihb^ 31, 1925, Condensed from Report to Comptroller of the Currency RESOURCES ^ '' J Loans and Discounts ? . .$541,55] Overdrafts l,Blj United states Bonds i ; . . . 79, f Other Bonds and Stocks 30, < Banking House and Furniture and Fixtures 33,! Cash in Vault and due by Banks and U. S. Treasurer .... ............. 92,95 Total $779,77* LIABILITIES Capital Stock Paid in $ 75,000.1 Surplus and Undivided Profits . .' 36,561.1 Circulating Notes v<? <????'? 48;800.< Deposits ... . 613,716.! Reserve Fund ^,698.< Bills Payable ..... ? NOf ....$779,776. The Only National Bank in Kershaw Coun DIRECTORS C. J. Shannon, Jr. Ralph N. Shannon , W. T. Sm L. A. Wittkowsky Leroy Springs Geo. T. Lit1c John T Mackey GHBaum M.H.Heyman W. A. Boykin S. W.