The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 07, 1926, Image 5
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By MImi Louise Nettles
The Msrtiiis Song.
"Dear Heart, today, somewhere I
heard a mating martin sing
In his wild flight above my head upon
a tireless wing,
And with the note so new and sweet;
so plaintive, strange and low,
There seemed to flood within my soul
love songs of long ago.
He did not linger in his flight to rest,
nor yet to sing,
I only caught a fleeting glimpse of
polished breast and wing,
But with it came the fragrant fc&jjt
of climbing roses red,
And with it came the memory of
summer days long dead.
Sweet summer days and glorious
nights when hearts 'beat fast and
true;
When down the primrose path of Life
I wandered, Love, with you;
But now the days of youth are dead?
the path of Life is long;
And only memories of all come with
the martins song."
Meeting of U. D. C. Chapter.
The John D. Kennedy Chapter, U.
I). C., held its May meeting with Mrs.
Bratton deLoach. The Misses McDowall
were assistant hostesses. The
spacioufi old-fashioned parlor, 'brightened
with a variety of roses, made an
appropriate setting for an assemblage
of' the Daughters of the Confederacy?the
old home of General Joseph
Brevard Kershaw?it is redo'
lent with memories and traditions of
the old South and the faroff days of
- the Sixties. In this room a beautiful
Confederate flag was unfurled and
the staff accidentally broken. Was it
an ill-omen, prophetic of the drooping
flags at Appomatox?
The chapter president, Mrs. N. R.
Goodale, presided, and Mrs. F. Leslie
Zemp was in her place as secretary.
Plans for Memorial Day exercises
and for the Veterans dinner on Monday,
May 10th, were perfected. The
dinner is to be in the Presbyterian
Sunday School rooms and Mrs. W. J.
Dunn has again kindly offered her
home as a resting place for the Veterans.
The proceeds from the last entertainment
were satisfactory.
The chapter decided to continue
work during the summer as it is very
necessary to have a full treasury by
next December when the South Carolina
State Division U. D. C. will
meet in Camden.
Several "ways and means" were
decided upon. Among them an antebellum
dance, a spelling bee, the making
of~a^"dollar and telling how we
made it, etc.
After business a social hour was
enjoyed, Miss Leila Shannon reading
from "The Diary of a Confederate
Girl," and the Misses Jumelle and
Virginia Haile pleasing the chapter
with two piano selections. The hostesses
served cake and punch.
Ocean cables, controlled by Gfeat
Britain and America handle 90 per
cent of the world's cable traffic.
STUDENT WINS HIGH HONOK
Mini Carolyn Wooten Winner in
State-Wide Content
The Camden high school was represented
at the state high school meet
which was recently held in Columbia
by Miss Carolyn Wooten, entered in
the Latin contest, and Miss Willie
Bell Jackson, Miss Euzelia Creed, and
Mr. Herman Watts who composed the
typewriting team.
Although few in numbers these
students of Camden held their own
among the best of the state bigh
schools. Miss Jackson though not
winning a medal proved to be the
most accurate in typing of all the
students? cnteredf" She averaged j
thir.ty-five word a minute for a period
of fifteen minutes with only seven
errors charged against her. The
others alsy did well, the Camden team
ranking third in the state in accuracy,
and standing well up among the best
schools in the state though the commercial
department of this school has
been in operation only eight months.
To Carolyn Wooten came one of the
highest honors of the week. Some
weeks ago a preliminary contest was
held over the state with around five
hundred high school students taking
part. Of this number a few of the
.best were selected to compete in
.Columbia for the Latin cup and
niedul, being offered this years for
,the first time. Miss Wooten was one
of this number and, due to careful
training under Miss Alberta Team
and her own generous knowledge of
the subject, she was awarded first
place in the contest.
Miss Plunkett, the efficient commercial
teacher accompanied the typewriting
team to Columbia and Miss J
Team accompanied Miss Wooten. Mr.
Richards also was in Columbia on the
day of these contests.PERSONAL
MENTION
Mrs. Robert Marye is visiting in
Charleston.
... Mrs. Eliza Brasington, of Columbia,
is visiting in Camden.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Smyrl have
gone to Rock Hill to make their homo.
Miss Ida Wallace and Mrs. C. W.
Evans were visitors in Sumter this
week.
Rev. J. B. Shiver occupied the pulpit
of the First Baptist church last!
Sunday evening.
Mrs. Darling Davis, of Clinton, N.
C., is visiting her grand daughter,
Mrs. O. J. Smyrl.
Mr; George Coleman was a visitor}
at Myrtle Beach Tuesday and Wednesday
of this week.
Former Lieutenant-Governor An-1
drew J. Bethea, of Columbia, was a
visitor in Camden yesterday.
Mrs. A. S. Paine, Mrs. Kate Dort,|
and Norman Dort are attending the I
May music festival in Spartanburg. |
> - Mrs. J. R.' Green, of Newberry, is
the guest of her daughter, Mrs. H. D. I
Niles, after spending the winter in
Arcadia, Fla.
Mrs. Jacob Green, of Earle, N. C., I
and Mrs. Frank McGee, of Rock Hill,!
were guests this week of Mr. and Mrs I
Charles T. Green. *1
Mr. and Mrs. J. Gary Martin, of
Laurens, and Mrs. L. W. C. Blalock, I
of Goldville, were guests for the week
end of Mrs. H. D. Niles.
Mrs. Lewis R. Larson, and son,
Lewis, Jr., of Greenville, S. C., are
guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Hughey Tindall on Fair Street.
Mr. and Mrs. Hampton Gibbes of
Columbia and Mr. ahd Mrs. Ralph
Nesbitt of Georgetown were weekend
guests at the home of Mr. C. J.
Shannon, Jr.
Miss Lillian Garriss, who has been
making her home in Georgetown for
several rqturneT to Canfc.
den and her friends will be glad to
know she will be located here again.
She will be with the Dixie Ice & Fuel
,
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Engagement Announced
Of cordial interest to a wide circlo
Of friends here and elsewhere will be
the following account of an announcement
party, taken from The IUleigh
News and Observer:
'Saturday eyening at a lovely
bridge party given at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Adickes, of
North Boylan. Avenue, Miss Sallia
Blackwell announced the engagement
of her sister, Miss Mary Blackwell,
of Camden, S. C., to Mr. Donald Morrisen
of Chicago, Illinois.
1'loral decorations of sweet peas
and Killarney roses carried out a
color scheme of pink and white in the
living room., library and dining room
where the bridge tables were arranged,
each place being marked by
a miniature bride.
Just before the serving of 'refreshments,
which consisted of a
salad and sweet course, the notes
of the Lohengrin wfcdding march
sounded and little Miss Nancy Frances
Goodwin carrying May baskets,
filled with sweet peas and roses, came
down the stairs. She presented the
ladies with corsages and the gentlemen
with buttonieres. On each was
a card announcing the coming marriage
of Miss Blackwell and Mr. Morrison.
The wedding will take place
in South Carolina in the fall."
Miss Blackwell has been an efficient
teacher in the Camden High
school for the past three years. She
is a graduate of Winthrop College
and a worthy representative of that
institution. She also studied at Columbia
University and has decided
dramatic talent?a talent that was
brought into play and won success as
the directress of "Camden Yesterday
and Today," the beautiful pageant of
last year. Mr. Morrison is a native
of Scotland but is now making his
home in Chicago. He has spent several
winters in Camden and won
many friends by his genial personality.
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Country Club For The Summer.
AH work and no play makes Jack
a dull boy." The Hospital Auxilliary
believing this, have through the courtesy
of the Kirkwood management,
taken over the Camden Country Club
for the summer, not only as a Hospital
benefit but also to give our people
pleasure and recreation during
the long months when the stay-athomes
are keen for diversion. The
management will keep open house
every Wednesday afternoon. Tables
Will be arranged for bridge and tea
and refreshments served for the small I
charge of twenty-five cents each. On !
every first Wednesday club members
will be allowed to invite non-club
members for bridge or tea with the
same fee of twenty-five cents charged
for guests. This will be an ideal
way to extend social courtesies or
pay off social obligations and we
trust that our people will stand by
the auxiliary and make the undertaking
a success socially and financially.
The following are the chairmen
of the different committees:
House: Mrs. John M. Villepigue, telePhone
294; Entertainment: .Mrs.
Kalph Shannon, telephone 471in*nce:
Mrs. Robert Marye and Mr!
c'if Z Jr-: Green and
rlr M1"' I' L- Smith- ,r-; Women's
Golf: Mrs. Frank Hopkins..
Library Notes.
the Camden Library has recently
received quito a number of gifts?
" beautiful book for the
Mr n P'ctuJea<Iue America," . from
A A da,1; "ore than "one
hundred new books, including general
literature and fiction from Mr. and
Mrs Robert J. Thornev* One box of
nh?r SMnd tbree years of the Geographic
Magazine for filing from Mr,.
: George Sanderson, at Seranton,
Bartboi ??^S th? author' He,e?
[ Bartlett, of Bridgman, N. Y "Th*
Outlook," for the table for one year
rom its .editor, Harold T. Pulsifer,
New York. Several books and magazines
from Mrs. Hamlin. Also several
substantial checks from people
yhci believe in the library as an educational
institution and consider it
one of the city's most useful and valuable
assets? L
"FOrare0?tkho WeTO?re 'han b??k8' they
The very heart and core of ages Dast
Ind8diod,hy me" "Ved and w?rked
The litis"'0 a"d <lu'"t??sence of their
entirely true, ?bu? we'
any one who has access to a good i"
y and improves the opportunities
offered therein, need never blush for
ignorance. ' v <(
The latest book news?Fiction, best
sellers are: Thunder on the Left,
The Private Life of Helen of Troy,
The Perennial Bachelor, Wild Geese,
The Unchanging Quest, One Increasing
Purpose, A Man Under Authority,
I**.
Bean Gesta, Hearts of Hickory,
Drums, Queen's Folly, The Little
White Hay, The Ghosts of Gallows
Hill, and num/bers of others are in the
Camden Library, on 'the rent shelf
and can be read for 10 cents each and
after a certain time they are put 011
the free shelves. .Every library must
carry uptodate Action along: with senera!
literature or close its doors. But
remember that immature minds do
not have access to every^uook in the
library, their reading ia carefully selected
and no boy or girl gets a booh .
that is not perfectly correct from the
librarian, ' ci(
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Majestic Theatre
The Coolest Spot in Camden
> The Home bf High-Class
Entertainment
TODAY, FRIDAY, MAY 7
"THE BLIND GODDESS"
A Paramount Picture, with Jack
Holt, Ernest Torrence and Louise
Dresser. A picture packed with
a powerful dramatic punch. Even
a more powerful picture than
"Manslaughter." ' Also a comedy,
"Djssy Daddies" '
SATURDAY, MAY 8 '
Fred Thompson- alTd" Ills- wonder
horse,~ Silver King In ?
"THE TOUGH GUY"
In a big Westerh picture that's full
of action, the type picture that
will thrill you. Also
"The Scarlet Streak"
and a two-reel comedy.
A special showing of this program
will be given at our special matinee
Saturday morning at 10
o'clock for the children,
j Admission 10c
MONDAY, MAY 10
"DRUSILLA WITH A MILLION"
With Kenneth Harlan and Mary
Carr. What would you do if
some one left you a million dollars
? See what DrusiHa did with
it in the most fascinating picture
of the year. Also Pathe News.
TUESDAY,' MAY 11
"MONEY TALKS"
With Clair Windsor, Owen Moore
and Bert Roach in the feature
roles. Excitement? Never a dull
moment-?Comedy, Surprises, and
a thousand thrills. YouH say
money talks when you see this
picture.
"WEDNESDAY, MAY 12
D. W. Griffith presents his latest
picture
"SALLY OF THE SAWDUST"
With (Carol Dempster and W. C.
Fields?A picture of circus life.
Salljr^is lovable, laughable and
carefree. Come, see this picture,
and laugh and cry with Sally.
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^11 iitaiea 0*tornally.
Chock th.m
v r n I ( h t without
"doalng" br rubbing
Vloka o?tr throat and
ehaat at bodtlma.
ViSJjs
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"^enny ivise
and poundfoolish"
"I never could see the sense
of saving a few pennies
every now and then by buyrr
ing gasoline of unknown origin,
only to wake up some
bright morning and find
there's no power in the old
bus to pull the big hill?no
right smart get away in traffic?sort
of dead on her feet
?no life.
"It pays to buy the best
gasoline?that's "Standard"
?always, dependable."
"STANDARD"
GASOLINE
A ? W AYS DEPENDABLE
Telephone Service Expands
To Meet State's Growth
THE extensive telephone
construction and
replacement work completed
in South Carolina last
. year is a reflection of the
growth and progress of the
State. Hp
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The result has been to
improve and extend ttys service
to bdtter care for present
needs, and to prepare
for the growth of the future.
South C a r o 1 i n a's telephone
system has grown to
the .point where it now requires
54 central offices,
110,100 miles of wire, 1,895
miles of pole line and 127
miles of underground duct.
?There was an increase
of more than 6 per cent in
, the number of local and
long distance calls last year,
and the service rendered in
handling these calls was of
an exceptionally high order.
To reader such service,
maintain the plant and
complete the new additions
has required the co-operation
of customers as well
as the loyal efforts of a
trained organization. Our
happy, relations With customers
is a source of satisfaction
and is reflected in
the fact that in South Car- olina
there are 509 stockholders
of the Bell System'
who own 8,184 shares of
stock.
There are now 7 8 V
skilled telephone workers
serving you in the Bell Sys-_
tern in South Carolina, most
of whom are native residents.
They appreciate your
friendly interest and share
your pride in the advancement
of our State
More than $1,000,000 will ba
pent In 8outh Caroling this*
year for additions and replacement*.
It la eetlmatadjAhat 2,000
new telaphones wilt vei added.'
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MORGAN B. SI'EIR. Carolinas Manager .'
"Bell System" ,
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
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