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___Th^Camden Chronicle volume xxgvni. -? i ,, ' in- CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1M6. NUMBER 29 THREE NEGROES LYNCHED Citizen* of Aiken Take Law Into Own Hand* and Kill Murderer* Aiken, Oct. 8.?Clarence and Demon bowman, negro men and Bertha Lowman, negreas, all three of whom were being tric/d for murder in connection with the death of Sheriff ft. H. ftoward of Aiken county, were lynched early today on the outskirts of Aiken. A myb broke into the Aikerf jail at^'o'clock this morning and after ovfo-powering Jailer Rupert Taylor and Sheriff Nollie Robinson, seized the negroes and carried them in automobiles to a point on the Ai)cenColumbia road about one-fourth of a mile beyond the Aiken limits, where in a little pine thicket the three were shot to 4jp*th. The three negroes having once been convicted but granted a new trial by the supreme court were placed on trial a second time early this week. Yesterday special judge S. T. Lanham, presiding, directed a verdict of "not guilty'^ for Demon Lowman on the charge of conspiracy to murder. It is believed that the verdict precipitated fhe lynching. Taylor, the jailor, said all electric light wires to the jail were severed aftd he was called to the door by the mob. A? demand was made for the! prisoners, #but-he refused and had} Sheriff Robinson called by telephone;! The sheriff arrived while the mob' suYrounded the. jail and was promptly overpowered according To-the officers version of the affair. Meantime, some members of the mob gained access to the jail through a window lV a portion of the building used as a residence for the jailer and secured j the three negroes. I Sheriff Robinson said he followed' the mob part of the way toward the} scene, of the lynching although he was unarmed, but was outdistanced be-! cause he was driving a small automo- j bile while the lynchers were in highi powered cars and.he turned back nearj the city limits. The three victims were shot several times eachbutwOre bullets. Their bodies remained in the *ittle pine thicket for several hours) after they were killed. Although Demon Lowman was ac-j quitted of the conspiracy charge he! \vas> rearrested yesterday on a war-1 rant charging assault and battery with intent to kill and was being held, in the jail on that warrant. The two men werfrl .sentenced to death at their first trial while the woman was given a life sentence. No'reliable estimate o? the number of men in the mob. was available early today. One woman at the.jail declared there were a thousand in the crowd of lynchers while others said there were not more thAn thirty. The cutting of the electric light wires left the jail and in fact the whole town in darkness, making it impossible according to officers, to identify those tvho composed the mob. Sheriff Robinson was one of ^the officers who as a deputy accompanibd Sheriff Howard on the fatal raid on the Lowman home in April 1925; One of the contentions of the, defendants at the first trial was that the negroes were not aware that the raiders were officers when they descended upon their home in a search for hquor. Annie .^wmsirpthe mother of Demon and Bertha, was shot and killed by one of the officers. Clarence Was alleged to have fired the shot that) killed ;Sheriff Howard. -Bertha was shot through the body in the melee that followed the raid. Assistant Chief Woodward said the mob evidently had ordered the negroes to run and then opened fire. '. The bodies indicated ^at each negro-had headed in a different direction. -When Judge Lanham called court to order this morning the coroner informed him of the death o? the-three defendants and court was adjourne:! by the judge, who said it was a sad and deplorable end. "It was one of the best organised things pulled off here in a long time," Assistant Chief of Police Woodward said. "The mob knew what it'wanted, planned how to get it and the three dead bodies beside the road tell-the resJTof the~at<?T^* ? ? ."We afe going to do everything we 1 can apprehend the members of the mob, but 1 doubt whether we can do much," he added. "From all Mr port# it. was pitch dark and while the ntob did not wear masks no one could positively identify any one." "TKb people heroyfclt that justice I |Utorn4- thought would hurry wp. TOe wdkt <rf not guilty in the case of Demon Lowman yesterday set the community on fire as Sheriff Howard was a very popular man and everyone felt that his murder was a fearful thing/' Woodward said. ! The sheriff told the assistant chief that one of the negroes refused to get jnto the car when ordered to do 80 by the mob leaders and he was shot before leaving the jail. r Elder Low man Removed Aiken, Oct. 11.?Outfit direct order of Governor.Thomas p. McLeod, Sam Lowman, the father; of Demon and Bertha Lowman, who with their cousin, Clarence Lownjan, were lynched Friday morning fdr the murder ?4px Sheriff H. H. Howard, was last night" removed ffoiu ; the Aiken county chaingang, where he was serving a sentence of two years for violation of the prohibition law,' and carried t? Columbia to complete the remainder of his sentence in the state penitentiary. The charge of violating the prohibition law, on which the elder Lowman was convicted, grew out of rafjjL of Sheriff Howard and his deputies on the Lowman b,ome near Monetta in April of last year, at which time Sheriff Howard was shot to death. First Week Civil Court Jurors G.^W. Harrison, *fCamden; S. W.: Hogue, Camden; Henry Stroud, Ker-j shaw; E. \V. Rabon, Lugoff; W. W. j Davis, Camden; T. B. Clyburn, Westville; J. I.Tlbse, Bfapey; W. C. Cureton, Camden; S; \V. West, Camden; J. B. Catoe, Camden; C. J. Jordan, Westville; C. C. Pate, Bethune;'John S. Gaskins,' Kershaw; A., A. West, Cassatt; H. B. Branham, Lugoff; B. I. Roberts, Kershaw; Enoch Rob-J erts, Kershaw; William Kelly, Lugoff; < L. C. West, Bethune; J. L. Hunter, j Kershaw; J. R. Rush, Blaney; William Price, Blaney; William Gladden, Cainden; T. M. Maddox, Blaney; G. H. Coats, Kershaw; L. H. Peach, Westville; Joe Fletcher, Kershaw; J; M.J Villepigue, Camden; W. B. Kiug, Be-J thune; J. ^ Hiiison, Lugoff; J. _L.| Player, Camden;??T. IT. Burns, Cam-1 den; John Hammond, Kershaw; L. A. j Horton, Betbune: . W. J- Gaskins, Westville; Q, N. Brown, Camden. Young Boy Wins $50 Prize In the October issue of "Science and I.UY<?ntion/'_ a ?national 1 y known j -publication, appears the names of winners in its Matchcraft contest for October. The rules of the contest is to cut the heads off matchers and work the stems into models of various objects. It will be of interest to Camden people to know that young Henry Carrisoh Thomas, 16 years old son. of Rev. and Mrs, A. S. Thomas of Charleston/was winne* of third prize Km the national contest and received $50 in cash for his effOTts~Herirailf a microscope, using 4,800 matches in the construction." The first prize of $100 went to H. Gerdts of Brooklyn, N. Y., who constructed an old type pian-o'-war, using 18,000 matches. Secoftd-prize went to. Fred Spinder of Abin^n, III., and was a tea kettle [constructed of matches. YcunlfThomas is a grandson of Mr* anil Mrs. H/\G. Garrison of Camden. Camden to Meet Hyatt. Park f^day What promises to be one of the finest sporting events of the season is the football game to be staged in Camden this afternoon between the local warriors and thepowerful^ eleve* from Hyatt Park, the game Is to be played at the fair grounds park artd is called for 3;45 p.m. , . . This is the first game of the elimination series to decide the district chsjnpiona end^t onlyJ8t_Jonlookcd on?some jubilant and. others decided to be staged in this city and in order to be a financial success as well as In every other partfwdar the ccal team through it^pianager, Bil Lindsay, is making an urgent appeal for a full local attendance. Notice To Delinquent Taxpayers Notice is. herefcy riven delinquent t?xe? have been office for collection, and notices of ali ^xeT due have been m.Ued to property for sale for taws due. The amount represents all tlm^could jw gotten ready for this lsafte. instructed my deputy, J. H. U&gd, to levy upon and advertise all property that we -have tax executions against. This will begone at once. Those during to pay can do so by mllinir at the aheriff s office, thereby addittonal Election Sheriff Kershaw County TO MEMPHIS MEETING Camden Banker on Committee in Interest of South Carolina Farmers j By Staff Correspondent Columbia, Oct. 11.?Governor MeLeod, in appointing delegates from this state to attend the (Southern cotton conference to be held at Memphis on Wednesday, has chosen men representative of the business and agricultural interests of the state. They are: II. G. Garrison, Camden; Jerry Cleveland, Piedmont; B. C. Matthews and John M. Kinard, Newberry; G. A. Lemmon, Sumter; Clarence McLaurin, Minton; Paul y. Moore, Moore s; J. S. Wannamaker, St, Matthews; A. F. Lever, Columbia; .Bright Wil-( liamson, Darlington; W. A. Stuckey, Bishopville; Alfred Scarborough, Columbia; W. W. Long, Clemson; John T. Long, W. H. Milford, Anderson; R. S. Mall, Charleston; G. W. Duvall, Cheraw; Charles L. Cobb, Rock Hill. The outstanding events of the past week with regard to the cotton situation, so far as South Carolina was concerned, included the meeting of the state bankers association and the appointment of these delegates by the governor. The special session of the bankers', association was \y6ll attended, and its action, in brief, called for the adoption throughout the cotton belt of well-balanced and diversified agriculture; "that the stampede of selling be stopped and to that end that all farmers store their cotton at once in warehouses to be held for higher prices and that the banks advance ?0 per cent of the market price on same"; that the farmers be advised to reduce their acreage in 1927 twenty-five percent, this hot to apply to any farmer who in 1926 did not plant over ten acres to the plow, and that the bankers "decline to advance any money for the production of ?he 1927 crop to any farmer who fails and refuses to plant a well balanced crop and to reduce his acreage in cotton, as herein suggested, for this year's crop." The United States senators and the members of congress from this state were invited by wire to attend this special session of the association, and Senators Smith and - Blease and Congressmen Doninick, chairman of the delegation in the Jiouse; McMillan, Hare, McSwaiiv Gasque and Fulmer were present in response to the , invitation, but* none of them was invited during the session to make any remarks or to offer any suggestions. The appointment by President Cooljdge of a special governmental board, Composed-of Eugene Meyer,-managing director of the war finance corpora: tion,' and Secretaries Mellon, Jardine and Hoover "to assist him in solving the problem brought about by a slump ! in cotton prices" has been noted with considerable interest throughout South Carolina, as an important step, in pledging the assistance of the;; national government in tbe serious problem of handling the cropw -?It is pointed out by thos^ who have studied the cotton movement that it Is an anomalous" situation that the farmers of the South place themselves in a "position where they always apprehend with fear arid tiiembling a government report showing that.their lands have afforded an abundant harvest. "The farmers of the South," said a prominent banker of the state, in discussing the matter, "could -so easily take the situation i in hand. Suppose they should cut their acreage in half, and plant something else on the half heretofore devoted to cotton. The problem would solved?and our lands Will grow alihpst anything. As it is now, they are between the devil and the deep blue sea. \yith practically all their land /in cotton* iLthers is a.short crop they fact ruin, and | if there is an abundaht crop they face ruin?and either way it is something that is frequently spoken 0# in the Bible as a warning to si niters who refuse to repent.' Cotton won't mix With anything except business. If you mix it With anything alae, it is the same thing as mixing liquoK in a driver with gasoline in an automobile tank." JChe spirit of co-operation which is being shown eresjyvhcre in the pres> .ent situation is. marked. .To "borrow , jOn \he present crop and hold and i curtail and diversify next year" seems "to be the general opinion "among / htlMnen men1 as to What is best?bul ! liey p^int out that thi$ will work , only if there is sufficient curtailmen ' and diversification next year, and cur tailment and diversifcation must b* 1 JLn lugh to count hoavflirrpnd must g? f'together. Aull. JORDAN'S TOUR ABROAD Dillon Editor Releases First of Series Covering Life in Foreign Lends ' By Staff Correspondent Let's get acquainted. We are to be traveling companions for three months. I am a small town man. I was born apd reared in one of .the richest agricultural sections of the nation, where farming has been reduced to a science. I am a newspaper man by profession and training, but I have always had a fondness for the farm, and a good portion of my life has been spent in close, personal contact with the farmer. Until a few years ago 1 was a farm owner and I think 1 am familiar yith all phases of farm life. I was not, however, one of those theoretical farmers who makes hip money Jn town and spends it in the coyntry. Early in life I had a consuming desire to see something of the home .life of small town and rur&l people in other countries, and at the first opportunity I began to take periodical trips to distant lands. I lived among the small town and rural people and began to study their customs and habits. I had an idea that it was oyly through the producing classes that one could reach the soul of a nation. I found these people interesting. They have their social and economic problems but in a different form from ours. I found that the foreign magazine articles written by city-bred writers who had never formed a contact wijh the small town ancb rural dweller only touched the high spo.ts. The -foreigner visiting this country does not see America in New York; Neither does the Americap on a trip abroad see England in London, France in Paris, or Germany in Berlin. All cities are alike. After they reach a populatioxL-of a hundred ? thousand size does not make much difference. New York or Chicago differs very little from London or Paris. People in large cities do not talk. They are suspicious and evasive. They JiaVe nft interest in the world outside of the towering walls iy which their, lives are spent. The Vexatious Passport. ~ Before the war there were "no preliminary. difficulties attending .a journey abroad. You could buy your ticket, bid your friends good-bye, board your ship and. sail away. Now it is different. You must appear before the clerk of a-.drt&te or federal court and make but your application. Some one must make an affidavit testifying to yottr identity. You must detail your family history. Two photographs accompany tile application to Washington with a fee of $10X and the state departfnent issues a passport. .Before leaving America the consul of the first country at which you wip land must give $ou permission, to. enter, and as you journey,from country td' "country,"you inUSt present your passport to the consul of the country you intend to visit and get his stamp of approval. Without this permission from foreign consuls you are not allowed to board the shj>p. If you should succeed in passing the of lie ials ou this bidd'you would not be allowed td jand on the other side". Visaes, as they are called, cost $1Q for each nat-ion, and European governments arereaping a' rich harvest from American tourists. Many European nations are not as large as some of our states, with only an imaginary boundary line dividing them, but when you cross from one to the other you are penalised $10. American tourieta have protested against the passport nutsance. Foreign countries say they are ready to abolish it if America .will do likewis?,_it was an American idea and other nations followed suit or rather retaliated. """ The Baggage Problem. Trans-oceanic steamships apow each adult passenger 20 cubic feet of personal baggage. Extra, bagfcage is paid for at so much a pound. Seasoned travelers do not -burden themselves with excess baggage. It is a useless expense and causes irritating delays. On my first journey abroad I carried a large handbag and a heavy suitcase packed to capacity. Realizing my mistake as soon as I reached the other side, I stored the suitcase in a steamship warehouse and did not see it agatti until it was placed In. my E stateroom on the return journey. An ordinary handbag 23 'inches long and 18 inches deep will hold enough wearc ing apparel to carry thp average pert son on a journey around tiie world - Laundries and stores are plcntifu 5 everywhere. 3 Ferrying Across the Atlantic, "f? -Foreign travel has reached such in mense proportions that steamships cross the Atlantic with the regularity of ferry boats. The rush season, eastward is over by August and rates are reduced, but I notice on a steamship fodder in front of me that one large steamship line?r-the line on whjch 1 ?m traveling?is sending out^ Ave steamships to different European ports on the day that my ship sails. They deport at different hours up to 12 o'clock at night. Midnighi sailings have become popular. Many passengers are attending farewell or theatro parties and the midnight hour is convenient. Mechanical science is standardizing the affairs of min and giving its best talents to the comfort and pleasure of the human family. Superstition of the Sea. Man merely deludes himself when he laughs at superstition in this socalled enlightened age. Every man is influenced in his affairs by superstition in one form or another. Superstition of the Sea is as much alive today as it was a thousand .years ago, Before me is a schedule of ships sailing from May to November and in the j long list I do not find a single sailing, date on the 13th. That unlucky day seems to havb been avoided with scrupulous care. It 1b an example of applying psychology to business. Bookings on the 13th are light and sailings on the. 13th are not profitable. In 1924 I began a journey to Europe and left my native town on the 13th. My two traveling companions were friends and fellow townsmen. The number of our steamship ticket was 113. The first hotel we stopped at was in London. The room had been reserved two months in advance. The number was .113. We exchanged questionngl glances but there was no comment, i (Two days later we took a bus to I Stratford. One^of my friends alumped 1 down in .seat 18. He glanced around cautiously, arose hastily and took an-1 other seat. Two weeks later the same thing happened on a bus in Brussels. | This caused comment. We joined a! party of tourists'on a three-day jour-: ney to Rheims and the battlefields.1 There were 18 in the party. The matter became" g sbro point. Our superstitions were 4*oused. The number 13 j ran through the entire journeV like a yellow thread. -We returned home on the ill-fated Arabic that was almost lashed to pieces in a hurricane tha* j smashed her decks, tore away her lifo beats/ crippled 150 of her passengers and came within an ace of 'sending her to the bottom of the sea with her load of human freight. We escaped without injuries. Losing Your Identity. The world usually handsback to you what you hand out to it. Many Americans rraveling to foreign lands make the mistake of carrying their homemade pomposity along and. flaunting it^jn^fhe fafce of Strangers, if .you want to get the beat out of a foreign trip bid your identity 'goodby^ when youjwalk up the gang plank. Judge Smith of Illinois is plain Smith amoug strangers. Col. Brown of Richmond is plain Brown to the Paris bellhop. Distinguished bearing has no market value among the Europeans. It takes the coin of the realm to give you entree. With the foreign serving glasses a 25-cent tip eclipses the most distinguished looking visitor that ever put foot on foreign soil. In 1923 I stood at the corner of a - public building Sn Paris waiting to catch a taxicab. A distinguished looking "titan showing signs .of agitation paced back and forth. ?Ife was plainly very much disgruntled.: A. Word in English and he stopped abruptly with a Vemark about having been treated discourteously. He had asked for Information and * young clerk abruptly turned his attention to another person. The distinguished looking American was-a nationally known figure. In his native city of more than a, million inhabtgnta, prominent* men tipped their hats to him across the street. In the public places of his city ha was a towering figure. It was his first trip abroad. In Paris he was plain Smith. His case' was typical of thousands of cases. I have seen pompous Americans walk down the gangplank on the -other side puffed up like pouter pigeons. I have seen the same figures drag up the gangplank on the return *- journey looking like punctured toy balloons. The American who is wise 1 enough to lose hi? identity when hs ' leaves home-^-wlio" does not try to * thrust his importance upon absolute ' strangers Who merely regard him a? one of the sixteen billion people ir 1 the world?who has easy and con*te .ous methods of approach?will a! ways find a warm welcome'In foreigi I kwdaf whether ifbaVt the^oafc of i Ww- - -n: . ??j- ' *'.v ?s?s?? ?T:-i .. ... .. ^ m._ prince or a pauper. .The root of the* trouble in Europe today is the pomp- / cms American who makes an offensive diaplay of his high dollar in this land of cheap money. I was in Germany when the mark broke from 100. for the dollar to severr and a half million, when almost over-might beggars became millionaire!* and-'millionaires became beggars?when farmers were eating all they produced to beat the fall of the mark, and milk was fed to pigs while city babies were starv- . ingf^?and I think I know what I am talking about. This letter is written just before my ship sails. The next letter will inil VAif* AAiYiAthi 11 cy aVwitit tKA fiftiUiiin ; ; tt:ti y vti mrtnriltiitg tiutrtlt vllxT vhIIiuk . TT 1 of a big liner and of life, day by day ! a$ the ship threads-its way across the 1 Atlantic.' THe series of letters to fols low will take you ino the Glomes of 1 small town and rural people in the i beat agricultural sections of Europe and give you an intimate pen picture J of the daily hatfttif drid * customs ot > your^ neighbor on the other side^of _ lithe world.. . - - ' - gagggggaaasgaggggggy ir ~| FOOD SELBCTIOIT^ ^ Project in Home Demonatration Clubs , of This County From the time of Eve, moat every housewife has asked more than a few times in her life, "Well, what shall we eat today?" To help her answer that question, theq Kershaw County home demonstration agent, Miss Aima Burgess, backed up by the nutrition specialist , at Winthrop College, Miss Minnie Floyd, is offering to the housewives of Kershaw County an extension service called "Food Selection Project." Those who attend the meetings in this project and carry it to completion will study the principles of food selection for the family. The first meeting in the food selection course took place in the county "i agent's office the latter part of September. There were six ladies at* the meeting representing three different clubs. Those present were Mrs. R. B. Elliott and Mrs. Claude West from Midway; Mrs. Team Gettys, Mrs. Hugh McCallum and Mrs. H. P. jOglesby from Lugoff, dhd Mrs. E. A. [ Watts f rdm ' the Cantey. club. We hope to have a better attendance at the next ^meeting, some of the ladies being absent at this meeting on ac- ' count of sickness in the homes. Abo^t 1,100 meals are prepared on each farm every year, 'rhis does not allow for any extras such as we know are necessary in many homes where all members of the family cannot come for meals at the same time. Add to this the task which many women assume, namely, preparing meals to please. This often means preparing one food in as many as there are members of the family or preparing an entirely different food for those who do not like it. For ex- ; ample: father likes potatoes friod; Jerry will not eat them unless they . : are mashed; Fanny wants her ..... i toes creamed; the baby must have baked potato; and the hired man will not eat. potatoes at ail, so. rica. musti ^ H be cooked for him. This is true ill many homes. > ? . ?r~~"' Could not this task of preparing^ meals be materially reduced if mem- >v bers of the family had some consid- ^ eration for the taal^ of preparing 1,100 meals in a year? There is no real reason why anyone cannot eat .' practically every food. Our likes and dislikes are mental prejudices or sets which are groundless. These prejudices, if indulged, become ruling factors, making, th^.task of preparing meals unnecessarily difficult. It would be a better plan for the members of the family to co-operato fwith the one who has to prepare 'meals by all eating foods cooked the same^way-at the same meal. ?HomeJ&emf Ageniv^= ' ' >i. < <i ii ' ii I ^ September Honor Roll AntlOclr School ^ Grade 1?r-Marion Spears, Elileo Pate, Clarence Watts, Herbert Colvin, Ethel Arrant*, Aliee Pooblos> -? . Grade 2?s-Mae Sinclair, Peggie Hoi* land. r Grade 3?Bernice Holland, Marion Shiver, Iris Arnold. \ ' Grade 5?L. E. Peebles. , Grade 6?Mary Shiver. Grade 7?Marie Sparrow. Grade 8?Sadie PatP' Grade 9?Ozella Bradley, Ray Johnson, PuBose Davis. Grade JO?Loyd Davis, Henrietta Joy?,: Alma Pate, Ehna Shiver^---^ "Grade 11?Margaret Johnson. ^ ^ : ? ? ?-? - -??