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1 111 11 1 " 1 11 " i Mill _l I II I 1 [JJBBBgHBHgglfflBEPPMtHBBBSESSgEflBBMEKMBWffMMWP VOLUME XXXVIII. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROUNA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1,1926. > NUMBER 27 I !" ' * ' ' . - " Y : J I 1 THIS FLORIDA BTOKM. i' ' Cumden People Mode Trip to Stricken Are* ftn4 Toll of Conditions There. Messrs Hughey Tindal, Stove Perry, George A. Creed and Dewey J. Creed left here Monday last week for Miami, in quest of information as to relatives in the storm area. No word had come from them since the storm and relatives were of course pnxious; They found all uninjured, but practically all of them Mad suffered property loss. Mr. Perry was in quest of bis brother-in-law, Jack Watkins. Mr, Watkins had the top of his house blown away and his furniture damaged by water, , The family of Mrs. E. R. Hudson, Mrs. Tindal's sister, was found uninjured, although the press report had Mr, Hudson's name among the injured. It proved to be another man inthe/aame towni by the same name and .*nme initials. The. Hudson house was also badly damaged. The Messrs. Cree<J were there in quest of news from their three siBteitt and their families?Mrs. , Ben Pearce, of Hialflfih, Charlie McKenzie and Mrs. J. C, Rose, of Cocoanut Grove. They iwmte all found sate, but the housCs of Mrs. ; Pearce and Mrs. McKenzie were blown away, and the house of Mrs. Rose was badly damaged. Mr. Tindal, Pi the party, kindly consented to/fell of the trip' for The Chronicle readers, and his story, told in his ovtfn. way follows and we know it will prove interesting reading: Our trip to Florida was made primarily because *each of us had relatives in the storm area from whom rfq word could be had and as the papers on Monday were so full of accounts of death and destruction, we left hurriedly at 3 o'clock "Monday afternoon and taking the nearest route, rode all that night aftd reached Jacksonville early Tuesday morning. We were slowed up considerably by having "to travel over home of the muddiest roads imaginable through South Georgia, where it had rained for several days. I ;l From Jacksonville down we were told iri~ mSny pTaces tbar-we" would not be allowed ihthe stqjpm area when we reached there unless we secured a pass at West Palm Beach, but upon application on our arrival there a pass was rftfnaed onlaaawewere Red Cross workers. Tliis came pretty near causing us tQ turn back but we finally spent Tuesday night at West Palm Beach and next morning went straight ahead) and to our surprise we were never halted, or asked for a pass. The pass talk was evidently a ruse to keep as many out of the stricken area as possible. From West Palm Beach, approximately eighty miles from Miami, signs of ttye hurricane began and seemed gradually to grow ini intensity until it appeared to us to have reached its grj&tast around Fort Bauderdale, where, block aft^r block of small residences, stores, shops and buildings of all kinds were flattened to the ground, - ilot only we*- everything practically destroyed but for miles along the Dixie Highway, which w almost continuously settled along its entire length, the water had not receded and surrounded thousands of wrecked- home* and buildings several feet deep. At Hollywood, which has been perhaps the most advertised of all .Florida places, we were held up and detoured aroundTHe-Hlge df the town on account of a convoy of about twenty busses being assembled there gathering up refugees; mostly children, and taking them out of the stqrm area, to where they could,be boused an ldoked after or sent back to former homes. Wa_- understood that Jrei transportation honje or to aaw^^! wanted was being furnished them. 1; -We rwched - Wednesday morning and all ofjasJ^.6*^ rel tT8. from considerirbhrtmxiety^o ftn^that none o'f our folks, had been hUT a though all of them sustained heavy damage to thdlr homes, etc. J?? Watkins showed us around I hpiped us leata the traffic rules oc that we were able to spend WednesI day afternoon and night looking ovei pftami, Coral Gables, Gocoanut Grip! ;v To us the wonder and amazement oJ I tfce entire situation is how so mam I -Softies apd building* were . wreCk e J?!' ? out of every four-o' /*A*nn\etely wrecked destroyed but J tfo not believe our! party saw a hundred homos out of the countless thousands covering an area pf at least 75 square miles, [ which were not damaged in Some way or J another. In the heart ?of a business Section, the buildings semed to have protected each other to a certain extent, but even here much damage was done. Miami's most imporstreet,. many stores. were wrecks, ed, the fronts of some .being blown of other^fallen in' amftoo many other things ^to mention* The <Meyer-Kiser Bank Building 14 stdries, was completely wrecked, | every window blown out, and the t-bullding twisted, to such an alarming angle that only tihe steel frame work Fas'holding it together: Near the fopt of Flagler isdleyal Palm Park on the waterfront, something similar^O Charleston's Battery, where band con* carts, etc., atfe he)d ? and in this park we saw, a thousand yards from the water, three large'boats or vessels along with many small* ones which had been thrown up there by the high winds and tidal waves., They did not feppear to be damaged much and were therefore undoubtedly washed up there while the water was so high - .that it must have been 20 or more feet higher than the normal sea level. >, Only those Camden people who saw the scenes around. Horatio and <Dal wsH after the tornado two years ago, or some other similar a^ene, can' vin anyway realise what things in Florir da look like since the hurricane. Eor miles and miles the trees are either uprooted or so whipped and blown around that only hare brown and soafrdd trunks are standing. The beautiful grape fruit and orange s groves interspersed with palms 'lopk brown as if a fire had swept thru with fruit and foliage literally covering t Sfcrth ek^ywhere. ht the streets ight end telephone poles and trees lie twisted in groteqUe fashion, inany I crushed in roofs, buildings, automo, biles and any thing else in reach. In I hundreds of casesK buildings which would evidentlyvhave escaped Vith L small damage themselv9i were wreck* j ed by entire roofs ofpther buildings or flying parts of walls and similar I debris blown in sbme instances fbr I more than a block away. One ini -stance, we noticed in particular was . in the Buena Vista section of Miami, r where a kme was only slightly 4atn: aged about the roof where a small I garage in the yard was blown to t pieces with subh fury that the roof . and a wall of it blew several hundred p feet to the corner of the block and , completely wrecked a beautiful little {Spanish stucco residence. fj It seemed that one of the most com: r mon things that happened was foi I an entire end'of a building tu^e blown P out, the furniture, fixtures, etc, beinjj ? seen in place or overturned in piles et f the inside of the house, visible to u. , whifo we rode along street^. In tfy c?*k* of Hollywood a large church waj ELLIS ELDERS CfAPTURBD. Man Br oka Jail Hare Laat May and Recaptured In New Brookland. t&y,'Ji^z iv- ? - "^-irfvk.r"EHia C. Elders, 25 year-old white man who escaped from Jail here last May, along with Arthur Montgomery, was recaptured in New Brookland, a suburb of Columbia, last Friday. The .arrest was made by Detective S. S. Shorter, of the Columbia force, and Mr. Shorter claimed the $50 reward offered by Sheriff G. C. Welsh for his^ recapture. . \ , .; j. : ... It was stated at the time of the es- j c$>e, that the two men thrust revolvers into the face of Jailor Player and made him unlock the door. The men are said to have fired several shots in making their escape /but no one was! hit. Elders claims that he did not go into the swamp as was first suspected, but boarded a car and went to Char-J lotto. From North Carolina he claims he has been in Kentucky and Tennessee since his escape and was taken into custody the day after his arrival, at the home of his sister in New Brookland. Elders was being held in the jail at the time of his escape on the charge of having rented /an automobile from, Ran Dority and carried it away.'; Montgomery was confined on a bootlegging charge. It was thought at the time the revolvers used by the melt, were smuggled to them by a woman who visited Elders a short while be; fore his escape. He will now fate a rfharge of jail breaking as well-M thej auto theft charge. \ 7 RBAJ, ESTATE DEALS. I jSeveral Large Transactions Occurred F '? Rocent Weeks. L? a'"?*' C* Arnett r?Ports much activity in the <Camden Heal Estate market, both in the sale of developments in which be is identified and through the brokerage firm of C. P. DuBose and Company, 0f which he is manager of the real estate depart* ment. P Among the larger real aetata sales made by him recently is the Savage estate sold to Mr. and Mys. W. P. I Thorn as. This property consists of foUV acres ofJand in the heart of Camden's best residence section, being just opposite the Court Inn," with a twenty-one room house, one of the finest and most beautiful of Camden's famous old homes. It is understood that ^his will be turned into an inn to help accommodate some of our winter visitors, many having been unable to secure accommodations here last season. . I Anotheny important sale is a h6uae and lot orf North Broad 'street from Mrs. C. B< Spradley to Mr. T. B. Clyburn. Mr. Henry Savage is now the owner of the Thomas residence on the corner of Mill and Chestnut streets as well as thepeight rpom dwelling on Lyttleton strpet-Just south of the Park View Inn. These fcyo . properties were included in the Savage-Thomas deal, k Arnett reports the sale of one Lhouse and lot on Highland Avenue-**Mrs. Sallie R. Clyburn. One lot to Mr< GrA. *Partin, one lot":** Messrs. Geo. Fort and Mannie Fort, additional frontage to Mr. C. E. Watts and the decision of the development company to erect three more modern houses on Highland Avenue?all the Houses previously built having been readily sold. This section has 'been built up faster perhaps than any other pection in the history of Camden. < There are already nine honie^ owners -and materia} is being placed for the construction of | three more~home?. j It will doubtless be of interest fry to knqw of tbe cn^f),cis, of homes and home sites on the larger property Of 'Messrs. Stevenson and Arnett purchased during January of this: year from Mrs. M. J. Carrison. Mrs. Sel1 bt^ ^oCa-Skill ..Sheorn* is ftrwct.ing fl J Hampton street. It will have * six j rooms and basement, the contractor being Mr. Fletcher Moore. Mr. and J Mrs. RT T. Goodale own the new six room residence on Chestnut street. Mrs. Elisabeth Jennings Thomas will erect a modern residence on the corI ner of Broad and Hampton streets, and her sister also will biiild on the adjoining lot on Broad street. Mr. J. C, Hoffman of Wateree Power ComI pany, owns a lot on Broad street and MrrWylie Sheorn two lots on which j he will build hi the near future. Mr. J W. T. Redfearn purchased for homer building the corner lot at Chestnut J and Broad. Mr. Mob ley, manager of I the Camden lumber company, owns 1 the adjoining Jot and contemplates building. Mr. Jeff Boyd has bought the Jot onrestnutj^rset next - east Jof Dr. Goodale's residence. N. C, Arnett And Arthur Smith now J own the Sheprn residence on the cor|ner of Fair street and the high school j ground. j J. On Visit To Tampa. I Judge W. L. McDowell and Mrs. H. D. Bradford and (title daugliM^;i^S Tuesday morning by automobile for a ten days' stay in Tampa, il Florida, with relative#. During-Judge McDowell's absence the probate office will be In charge Judge W. F. Rus| sell. k On Trip To California. F Mr. find Mrs. a H, Yates left Sunjday for Atlanta, and from there they J will go to New Orleans andinji special Pullman train over the SouthJ ern Pacific for Los Angeles, where Mr. Yates will attend the meeting of the r American Banker# Association. The , ^P ^11 carry them through a portion , j of old Mexico. From Los Angelei they wMl go Jwrsteamer to Vfin Coujver, British Columbia, and from there I take the Canadian Pacific through the j northwest and portiohs of Canada or I CJhcinnatlj and thence return t< : Camden. Mr. and Mrs. Yates will b< ' | away about one month and their roan^ j fnenjyi Will wiKh them a most pleas ^r" 's vice presiden ? cf the Bank of Camden and one of th ; J v?ry few southern hankers beim 7n>mcd * * member of the advisor council of The American Bfitn&fs~Ai ' GOVERNOR'S TKRM FOUR YEARS But He May Have New House and ru J. s#Mt* During That Tipte, (By John K. Anil.) *** ' Columbia, Sept; 27.?The fact that the next governor of South Carolina wiU serve for four years, under the constitutional amendment which goes into operation with his term of office, and that the terms of the members of the house of representative* are sti'l two -years and of senators four years, with the terms of half these expiring every two years, presents a novel situation, and one in which, if the governor and the general assembly should lock horns upon a State-wide program, the people would havfe the decision between them. The governor will^be ineligible for re-election, and during the midst of his term a new house and1 half <jf a new aenate will be etffccted. The governor-elect received a inujotity, in the second' primary, of around,27,000 votoa. Two-thirds of the house, and 22 of the 46 members of the senate are new members; though some have had legislative ex^ perinece. Upon tax reform, economy, the abolition and consolidation of offices and departments where there is over-lapping of duties, the getting bjjck to constitutional government, the ftewly nominated governor, Major Richards, made Wfs position clear, and drove it home upon every stump in South Carolina. A strong inaugural address will reiterate these positions, for Major Riclratds is pledged to these reforms, and with him a pledge ST" a very sdcred thing. Should they not be carried out by the legislature, which will operate during the first two years of his administration,then the people will have it in their power choose a - legislature which during the next two years will " carry out these reforms. There is the State Tax Commission, fpr instance. Commenting upon the Outline of the position of tbe governor eject given in this correspondence last #cek, the* Spartanburg Journal says that "just what the attitude of the newly-elected governor will be with respect to the State Tax Commission is interesting speculation with "many people," and "whether the commission will or will not be abolished rests with created." Just how it is V matter of speculation?"the attitude of the newly-elected governor . . with resect to the State Tax Commission" ?^does not appear. <So6n after the campaign opened, Major Richards stated clearly and without equivocation his position /as the ' State Tax Cornmissionr?that' it had assumed arbitrary powers, and that it should be abolished and its duties devolved upon the office of the comptroller general, both because that is where these duties, belonged, and that by so doing si* saving of many thousand^ of dollara a year would result to the ^tax-payers of the. State. It was not urged that the comptroller general could take over the functions Of the State Tax Commission withpvt an increase in his \ office force; but It-Was urged^jj^ activities could, be much more economically carried on by the constitutional ' office of comptroller general than by a commission, which was created in lOlfi With a total appropriation of- a , little over $10,000, and the appropriation for this year is $220,946.40. In the light of the pronouncement by Major Richards on the stump this summer, with regard to strict economy in tach and every department of our government," that/If elected governor I shall use the veto power to , this end .whenever necessary, and when this can be dohe without impairing the efficiency of the government" ?this pronouncement, taken in ee*-. nection with bis "attfkude" .In regard . to the State Taxr Commission, which u is not a "matter of speculation," but i jyhich is on the regord?it yould appear tigkt "whether the cothtnission will oy will not be abolished" might , not rest "with the general assembly, , by which it was created," if by generj al assembly is meant a majority of t each house, but might rest with the . two-thirds of each house, which is t necessary to'pass an item in the ap, propriation bill?or any other legisk lation?over the governor's veto, for , the funds for the State Tax Commis! sion must be re-appropriated by each j legislative session. " . -The budget commission is'now gett ting up the budget?though just what ? the budget accomplishes so far as tb< ? effect on the general assembly h 9 drafting its appropriation bill Is con H cerned, has never yet been made b appear, for the very same thing t gone over again in hearings before the ways and means committee of the house and theftatBCe committee of the senate?sometimes separately and sometimes in joint session. Of course it gives the governor a familiarity with the requests of the various departments and institutions, but even when the appropriation bill is laid on the desks of the members of the house and lifter on the desks of members of the senate, it does not show with any degree of clearness jukt what the huge chunks of money are being appropriated for.' The appropriation b|U this yeas, for instance, lumps the salaries of a staff of over. 18.0 persons, at the University bf South Carolina in jutotal .approjpriatioa -ef -$295,008r wh de^c the item of "Personal Service." It has been pointed out tha't when a member comes to vote, there is no way for him td tell when he is voting" for a saterjrfpr agtage society director, "dramatic arts" professor, or 4 singing teacher, or a newspaper writer teacher who refuses to vote in the primary, or an art teacher down here at the University, or what these salaries are. There Is no way for him to tell, even, what goes to what department. He votes blindly the sum of |296,003 for over 130 people?and there is no way for him to find out, for \yhen the bill comes up. the steam roller in its'deadly progress makes a noise like a Seaboard freight pulling a heavy tonnage across the long trestle that epanB southwest Columbia, or a flat cwheel on one of the city's street cars in the early morn* ing hours. And when the act gets downstairs for the governor's signature, or for his disapproval of any specific item, all this is in one item, and while the Constitution gives the governor the power to veto any one item in the appropriation measure, it does not go to the extent of giving him the power ta-veto one .ohehundred-and-thirtieth of an item, especially wben he would not know, from the terms of the bill itself, what that one onc-hundred-and-thirtioth of an item included. ^ There has never been enough of the "pitiless light of publicity" upon South Carolina's appropriation bills. That is a'pretty sounding phrase, and it la used In this state until it has become thneadbar?, but usually it is only the phrase that is used. It is the rule Tfcther than the exception that after the. house and. then the senate have battled for days and days over an appropriation measure, then the free coherence committee compose I of thrgg^ihembers o&Hhe house and th rodvaaember's of thb senate comes along and works its own sweet will. The** is a great opportunity for the next governor of South Oarolina altfhg many lines. f-With a constructive program of "efficiency with economy"?that, too, is sadly abusej and threadbare, but it can be givgr meaning?the next governor can point the way; and if the co-operatior of the general assembly is refused the people will pass judgment in th< midst of the gubernatorial term, whei the governor himself is not a candi ' date for re-election, but has twi > mpre years to serve. I Xircumefamces frave cMtfctbed t > favof a return to constitutional gov ? ernment and the rule of the people. SUMTER LAD KILLED Mistaken For Squirrel ahd Mortally Wounded by Grandfather ' > J^mie Wertz, 13-year-old ion of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wertz of the Concord section of the county, was accidentally shot, dying several hours later from his wounds, while huuting with his foster grandfather, Mr. G., W. Mahoney, in Rocky, Bluff swamp, early Saturday morning. Mr. Mahoney and the boy left <their home at daylight and had been hunting only a short while when the accident occurred. Mr. Mahoney told the boy to go in one direction to take ^ stand, but the boy, evidently misunderstanding the directions went in the opposite direction. Mr. Mahoney, thinking the boy had gone where he told him to, fired at a patch of gray qrhich he saw moving in the bushes and thought was a squirrel. When he went to pick up his kill he found the boy lying on the ground with a bad wound in hjs head. Brought to the Tuomey hospital, the lad lived fotf three hours, expiring at 9:80 o'clock without regaining consciousness* Jamie was in the sixth grade of the Coucopd school and Mb a bright ami attractive boy. His death will Jhst keenly felt by the many frienda and relatives surviving him.?Saturday's.Sumter^ Item. i<i' ii i ' i n 'i >11 i 111 ii i ii i ^ i IU ^ X imiua c BIGHAM CA8B POSTPONED. _ New Approach of Stork Throws Man. ~ H key Wrench In Wheels of Jiutlct. Florence, Sept. 2fi.-^Jix|ge John W? DeVore sustained the motion of Mendel L. Smith and A. L. King, attorneys for Edmund Bigham, asking for * continuance of the case from this, term 'of court. The motion canto on the eye of the date set for the third trial of Bighain at the Horry county courthouse at Conway. An'affidavit signed by Mrs, May Bigham, wife of Edmund, was presented to the court by A. L. King, attorney for the defense. The affi^qvit set out in.part that Mrs. Mjgham, who was Wth the'defendant the entire time .the murder of five members of the Bigham family was supposed to have'taken place and who was a material witness in his behalf, would be unable to attend this terirf of court, due to her delicate state of health. Mr. King stated to the court that td Bigham did not tell him of his wife's condition until Monday night, that he immediately went to Greenville andascertained the facts. Mrs. Bigham appeared pale dud in a weakened con- ' (lition; that this was the first continuance he had asked fot? with the eXcep- ff tlon of that made at,the first trial of <1921 and that for six years he had been seeking trial for his client. Solicitor L.iM. Gasque opposed the motion for the state, declaring that the affidavit presented by Mr. Kin# was not a legal instrument, as it had not been signed by a doctor; that the v< cafe had already ; been postponed . twice, th^a year since the supreme court's decision granting new trial. "1^ in February; that he had been ready each time to try the case and that he w*s ready to try it tomorrow; that all Cf the witnesses had been subpoenaed; that Solicitor J. S. Hydrick of grangeburg, had already been appointed to take his place at Marion next week SOf&|pi that he could finish the Bigham, trial. Former Judge Mendel L. Smith ~*e'-;-'~^ plied for the defense and called Judge' ~ DeVore's attention to the supreme " courtV decision in lhe "crse~ of the state against WilHhmson; that Bigham had the right to have his wife by his side in this trial and that it wbul& A': be a grave mlusrtcestO dehy hirn the testimony of his "best witness, who | was with him all the time the tragedy iwas alleged to have been committed. Judge Smith contended that Mrs. Bigham should be present to give her side of the bloody necklace a^isod* y carried in recent news dispatches as new state's testimony. According to Mrs. Bigham's sworn affidavit she had visited heir husband in the county jail ' at Florence the first part of July and that they had been left aloue together. She was now in a delicate condition and her duty to hor unborn child and ;ta herself, demanded that she refrain from undertaking the ordeal of a court 'trial.' " Judge DeVore in granting the continuance stated that "the supreme court has taken the matter entirely out of . your hands, Mr. Solicitor,, and mine." .. "If we entered into this com'now ic could only result in another reversal." KteriU Have Unique Exhibit. ' , Mr. jFohn D. Sinclair, who takes ? great interest in poultry, tells ua 'thatv ^ he will haye a very rareixhibit at the [Z poming county fair from his Black Gian^^^^^^^y,^s pullet that hen, but Were her own eggs. The second and Jast Ibroods^ wwe hatchoi hy to put mother and1 young chicks9" in * one coop and put the other two broods % tsffi5001*and **11 ~ *-*" .I ?n? n.111 n|^i> >i 'i . i i jSi 6 Myrtle jMyrtie sales, convention,' participated^ in by !j ?lhe officers and members of the Jfyr-e "3 tie Bkach SaloH Company, will be held tat Myrtle 'Beach, on October 3-4, featuring a fox hunt with thirty hounds, : led by Ed. F. Woodside, at Greenville^ i assisted by Clyde G. Brown, ofyMyrtle ?:d i 'Beach, an oyster roast and fish fry" ' and talks by the members of the or-' i ganitation. The program calls for I <h* Jo^hu?t early Monday morning^: ? 6dobej^'4th, at threo o'clock, and va rious features of entertainment diif- r t ing the day, culminating '-Monday ^ " ] idgfa jjjL gf illptf r roast andJUh' fry ^ hy C. XTN < ^$Baugh|g the new hotel Vtnanafor at J MyrtlaBeooh. A dolivhtful time :h - prolniscd thoee - the wri sr,^