The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 28, 1926, Image 5
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IIy Mi?s Louise Nettles
What llecsme of the Flags?
(juite a number of Confederate
flags used on Memorial Day are misgnig
and we have been requested by
the U. D. C. Chapter to make inquiries
about them. The wind may
have carried some of them off from
the graves and parties picking them 1
up did not know just what to do with
them. ' All who found flags and all
who borrowed them for decorative
purposes will please return them to
Mrs. P. Leslie Zemp. This courtesy
will be greatly appreciated by the
chapter.
Miss Wallace Complimented
In compliment to Miss Elizabeth
Wallace, a popular bride-elect of
, early June, Mrs. John Langford entertained
at bridge Wednesday morn?ing.
Summer bloom filled the rooms,
Black-eyed Susans predominating.
The score prize was won by Mrs.
L. A. Kir kl and and the honor guest
received a dainty addition to her
trosseau. After cards the hostess
served frozen fruit salad "with accessories.
Miss Wallace Again Honored
Miss Wallace was again honored on
Wednesday afternoon when Mrs.
Frank Armstong of Pickens, nee Miss
Margaret Lenoir, entertained three
tables of bridge at the home of her
sister, Mrs. J. Blakeney Zemp. Gar- 1
den flowers were abloom in the at.
tractive rooms, the lovely blue of the
corn flower 2 predominating.' The
score prize went to Mrs. Stanley Watkins
of Columbia and Miss Wallace
was presented with a lovely piece of
lingerie. A salad course was seYved
with iced tea.
Hobkirk Hill Chapter To Meet
The June meeting of the above
chapter will be held next Thursday
afternoon at 5 o'clock with Mrs.
James Clyburn with Miss Mary Edna
Clyburn as assistant hostess. Members
are urged to be prompt as the
meeting will be called to order
promptly at 5 o'clock. An important
meeting is scheduled and all members
arc urged to attend.
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Johnson-Stoney
New Yofkv May 22.?Andrew Burnet
Stoney, freshman coach at the
University of South Carolina, and
Miss Anna Mabel Eugenia Johnson of
149 West Tenth street, Manhattan,
were married here today at the Little
Church Around the Corner.
Mr. Stoney was born in Camden,
is a son of the late Rev. Joseph M.
Stoney and J. E. Annie Stoney. The
bride is a native of New York City,
the daughter of Joseph and Ida Johnson.?Sunday's
Columbia State.
Brunson Lee McDowell, 44, well
known Columbia lawyer, was found
dead in his bed in that citjt Wednesday
morning. He was a victim of
heart trouble.
PERSONAL MENTION
Mrs. Ida Heath is spending the
week with relatives ih Columbia.
Mrs. Albert Heyward of Columbia
is the guest of Mrs. D. A. Boykin.
Mrs. E. E. Sill left this week for
her summer home at Montreat, N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Pitts have returned
from u week's stay in New
York.
. Mi?* Carrie Deschamps of< Sumter
is* visiting her aunt, Mrs. C. W.
Evans.
Mrs. Mark .Johnson of Charlotte Is
i visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
G. E. Taylor. v
Miss Jo MacMillan of Hendersonville,
N. C., is visiting her sister, Mrs,
Bennie Smith.
/ Mrs. J. S. Rhame has returned
home after a visit to relatives in
Charlotte, N. C.
Mr, L. R. Whitaker of the Gainesville,
Ga., school faculty is the guest
of his sister, Mrs. T. B. Bruce.
Mr. John D. Gerald of Tampa, Fla.,
spent the week-end here at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. John Rhame.
Miss Margaret Hogue returned
Sunday from Washington, D. C.,
where she has been visiting friends.
Mrs. Frank Armstrong and little
daughter, Louise, of Pickens are visiting
the former's sister, Mrs. J. B.
Zemp.
Mrs. Steve Perry and daughter who
have been making their home in Warrenton,
N. C., have returned to Camden
to live. <
Miss Miriam Bruce has returned
home from Apison, Tenn., where she
graduated last weelc from Southern
Junior College.
Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Cooley and
g^and-daughter have returned home
from a trip to the mountains~~of
North Carolina.
Mrs.- Rufus Thurmond of Cheraw
and Mrs. Stanley Watkins of Column
jbia are visiting their father, Mr.
Blair DeLoache.
Mrs. John Rhame and daughter#
Francis, returned this week from
Darlington where they have been visiting
at the home of the former's
sister, Mrs. J. N. Kirven.
Messrs. W. R. Rhoden, J. Smyrl
Halsall and J. T. Nettles, of Camden,
were drawn to serve for the first
week as petit jurors in the federal
court held at Charleston this week.
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Carrison and
Mrs. W. J. Mayfield are leaving today
for Annapolis to attend the festivities
of June Week Mr.. W. J.
Mayfield and Mrs. William Ancrum
will join them, leaving Sunday by
auto., Dan B. Miller graduates this
year from the U. S. Naval academy
at Annapolis.
Went On Fishing Trip
Messrs. T. Lee Little, R. E. Stevenson,
John Whitaker, Jr., W. O. Hay,
B. G. Sanders and Joe Baruch returned
Tuesday night from a fishing
trip on* the Little Pee Dee near
Briton's Neck. They did not find the
fishing good?Dr. Stevensojn making
the largest catch of the party. .
Marion Farmer Killed
Marion, May 21.?Jim Ammon3,
middle aged farmer of Marion, was
fatally wounded at a filling station
at Pee Dee, eight miles west of Marion,
this afternoon, he being'5 shot
.three times byc Andrew Tyndal, a
white youth' about 19 years of age.
Tyndal made his escape from the
scene and has not been located yet.
Carolinians Killed in Florida
Dade City, Fla., May 21.?Three
employees of the Atlantic Coast Line
railroad were electrocuted near Rital,
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Hernando county, early this morning
when a crane of a steam shovel on
which they \9ere working came in
contact with the high tension transmission
line running from Dunnelloon.
The dead: J. D. Lambert, 24, and
Rotes Lambert, 19, brothers, of Trenton,
S. C., and M. W. Reardon, 30, a
New Jersey man.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR CONGRESS
W. F. STEVENSON
ZEB VANCE DAVIDSON
FOR STATE SENATE
V% G.C.WELSH
FOR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES
ALLEN B. MURCHISON
" mendel l.-smith
For Magistrate DeKalb Township
J. D. SINCLAIR
W. L, DePASS, JR.
For Magistrate Lower Buffalo
J. E. COPELAND
CLARENCE C. PATE
FOR TREASURER
S. W. HOGUE
FOR JUDGE OF PROBATE
SAMUEL N. NICHOLSON
^ . w. l. Mcdowell
FOR SHERIFF
J. HENRY McLEOD
D. T. YARBOROUGH
FOR COUNTY AUDITOR
B. E. SPARROW
FOR COUNTY DIRECTOR* *
H. G GARRISON, JR.
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The Camden Battle Field
On August 16, 1780, a battle was
fought eight miles north of Camden,
which was to the Ameicans the most
disastrous field of the Revolution?
the field where General Horatio
Gates, the victor of Saratoga, exchanged
his wreath of Northern
laurel for one of Southern willow.
Jiut in spite of that fact and our defeat
it was an important battle and
to the lovers of history must ever
hold an interest and charm.
Several years ago the Hobkirk Hill
chuptcr 1). A. R. marked the spot
where the brave Buron DeKalb fell
bleeding from eleven wounds from
which he afterwards died in Camden,
but so far no further notice has been
taken of the battle ground. This is
not as it should be, and recently a
citizen in an article to The Chronicle
suggested more extensive marking
and improvement. May we emphasize
this suggestion?
7 he heed of this has been brought
forceably to mind by the number of
strangers coming into the library enquiring
the way to the Battle Field
of Camden. We could only tell them
that this historic field or woodland
could be reaohed by a railroad line
which runs within a .mile of it and
also to direct them along the road
leading through field and forest that
should be marked, but it is not. But
alas, how little to see after reaching
itl
The ground for the DeKalb boulder
was donated to Hobkirk Hill chapter
by Mr. and Mrs. William Edwards
and we feel sure that these public
spirited, generous people would make
easy terms for securing more lq"d
for a park. How attractive it could
be made with flowers and shrubbery
-and a log-cabin tea room as an objective
for the automobile devotees
and horseback riders wending their
way over the broad white sandy road;
through the forest of stately pines
and giant oaks and over the streams
once crossed by the American and
British soldiers. These swamps in
the spring time are fragrant with the
yellow jessamine and the sweetscented
bay and their slopes carpeted
with the pink and white arbutus.
Then let's try to crystalize public
opinion in favor of it and something
will be done. 'Camden is a place of
past interest and present notoriety?
hundreds, from all parts of the Union
visit it annually and this park would
be an historic shrine that would not
fail to interest and please. To mark
this spot would be to honor the memory
of the brave men who made this
republic possible. Then let the flag
wave over Battle Field Park!
The flag of our stately battles, not
struggles of wrath nor greed,
Its stripes were a holy beacon, its
spangles a deathless creed;
It was red with the blood of Freemen
and white with the fear
of foe, .
And the stars that fight in their
courses,
Against tyrants its symbols know.
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Says He's Tired; Then Dies
Birmingham, M*y 21.?With the
remark, "I'm tired," an aged Confederate
veteran laid his head on his
son's shoulder in a barber shop after
participating in the parade today and
expired. ,
Noah V. Lovett, 80, of Ferris, Tex.,
was in Birmingham for the reunion
from Sterling Price Camp, U. C. V.,
Dallas, .Tex._____
At the conclusion of the parade,
Mr. Lovett and his son stopped at a
barber shop.v Waiting their turn, Mr.
Lovett made the remark that he was
tired and placed. his head on his son's
shoulder. Thinking he was sleeping,
the younger man left his father urn
disturbed until his turn at the barber
chair. He had died on his son's
shoulder. ' ,
Enjoyed Fish Fry.
J ' Between seventy-ftve and one hundred
members of the Men's* Bible
Class of the Camden Baptist Church,
including several invited friends, enjoyed
a most delightful flsh fry at
-Holland's Lake, about six miles north
of Camden last Friday afternoon.
The cooking of the fish was in charge
of Mr. M. G. Huckabee and his assistants
and it is said the supply of
flsh was so bountiful that many more
could have been fed. Holland's Lake
is a beautiful place for such ap outing.
Mr. Holland has recentlyr made
some improvements in the way of
benches and the stringing of electric
lights made possible from a dynamo
drivep'.. by water from his lak?. Mr. :
Holland is planning other improvements
on his property for the summer
months.
Children at Bordentown, New Jersey,
during the winter of 1885, earned
pocket money by selling hot bricks to
the chilled passengers on the Camden
and Amboy Railroad.'
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Fishing at Witerce Dam
Largo crowds from all parts of the
county have been making daily visits
to the Wateree Power dam of the
Southern Power company, northwest
of Camden, in quest of a species of
perch that huve been caught there
in recent years in large numbers.
Some parties have been reporting
! large catches.
! In conversation with Mr. A. K,
Miller last week, who is the manager
of the power plant, he tella uh that
the impression has gone abroad that
fishermen are not welcome, but he
tells ua that such is not the case.
He stated, however, that they had
been compelled to make a restricted
area in which parties could fish?for
safety as well as cleunllness. In recent
months many have gone there
to fish from the concrete platform
near the iron railings and near the
huge transformers. There they left
a lot of rubbish, such as fish bait,
tin cans and the like, which proved]
obnoxious to the workmen and had
to bo daily cleaned up. Then too,
there was an clement of danger from i
the high voltage nearby and he had
to make the request that they fish!
farther down the river. He tells us
that fishermen and picnic parties are
perfectly welcome at any time provided
they abide the rules laid down
by the management.
Contracts for Road Construction.
Low bids on a number of projects
on which proposals were opened on
Tuesday were announced Wednesday
by the State highway department in
Columbia. An interesting experiment
was tried at this letting, alter- |
nate bids being received, specifying
whether the highway department or
the contractor should furnish - the cement.
Some contractors made the
same bid in either case, and all but
one the difference was too slight to
warrant the trouble of purchasing
the adhesive material. Among the
contracts let was one for ' the construction
of 11.567 miles of route 50
in Kershaw county to Langford and
Wicker of Newberry, $76,681.75 and
another one for the construction of
3.085 miles of the Lando road in Chester
county to J. L. Carroll of Columbia,
for $8,673.28.
Brannon-ftrannon
Mr. John Wesley Brannon and Miss
Mamie Ruby Brannon, both of Bethune,
wore married at the home of
Probate Judge W. L. McDowell on
Saturday morning, May 22.
Cars in Collision ?~?
While driving north on Mill street
Wednesday afternoon the Buick sedan
belonging to Mrs. T. Lee Little was
struck by a Chevrolet touring car
driven by a son of Mr. H. O. Burns,
of near DuBose Park, as it was turning
the corner leading from the
Watoree Mill village as it enters Mill
street. The Chevrolet car is said
to have been running at a rapid rate
in turning the corner and was occupied
by more than a half dozen boys
?many of them riding on the running
board. Both cars were badly damaged
and the escape of the occupants
from getting badly hurt seems miraculous.
Mrs. Little and one of he>r
daughters received slight bruises.
Blaney Graduating Exercises
The graduating exercises of the
Blaney High school will be held on
Tuesday, June 1st, and the following
program will be carried out:
Invocation, Rev. J. Davis Harrelson;
Message from the School Board,
Mr. Jesse T.' Ross; Awarding of
prizes and honors, Mr. E. Talmadge
Bowenj., Class day exercises: The
Class Gift to the School, David Roberts,
president; Salutatory, Miss
Elise Rose; Class History, Lucille
Dink ins; Class Prophesy, Oscar Rosa;
Oration, "Not .Evening, But Dawn,"
David Roberts; Class Poem, Mattie
Mae Dinkins; Class* Will, AveryNel- *
son; Valedictory, Nelle Evans; Address
to the graduating class, Rev.
Lewis N. Taylor, Rector Church of
the Good Shepherd, Columbia, S. C.;
Delivery of Diplomas", Superintendent
Leonardo Andrea; Class Song, Benediction.
Majestic Theatre
THE COOLEST SPOf ^IN TOWN
TODAY; FRIDAY, MAY 28
"IT'S THE OLD ARMY GAME"
With that famous comedian, W. C.
Fields. Just the thought of selling
New York lots in Florida is
funny. If there's a game the
whole family can play it's the old
army game. Fields and his Ford
will give you forty fits in this one.
Also a two-reel Pathe comedy:
"From Rags to Riches" j
SATURDAY, MAY 29 ~
"THE SET UP"
The type of ^Vestern picture that
everyope will enjoy, with the wellknown
Western star, Art Accord.
There's a thrill in evey foot of this'
thrilling picture. Also Our Gang
Comedy, "Monkey Business," and
"The Starlet Streak"
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TUESDAY, JUNE 1
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A real picture with a real story of
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Featuring the most brilliant dog
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