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? > ^ PUT* ? Pf v_ J^__THE CAMDF.N rHRONiri c VOLUME XXXVIII. ^ lin|.y? . ? lv*? NUMBER 31 OIJR COLUMBIA LETTER. John Aull Goes a'Kambling and Tell* ' What He Saw and Heard. By Staff Correspondent Columbia, Oct. 26.?At 6:84 *.m. on . Thursday bf fair week the sun rose, as per its schedule, and everything j tlse followed sijit?not asvto rising at ' that hour, but 'as to running as per i schedule. The morning newspaper made its appeurance onr the streets at the usual time, confining the announce- 1 merit that Dr. Davison McDowell Douglas had accepted the presidency of the University of South Carolina, the date when he will take up the work at the university' to be deters mined yet J^ter. Governor-nominal John . G. Richards of Liberty Hill according to his custom, arose about the time the sun did, and came down to his dpslc. in the offices of the railroad commissiotf, tp find waiting for him severer more applications for the job of tlquor constable, or anything else that he might have to appoint to. Governor McLeod went to his office in the capityl, looked ovCr his mail, and went down to the fair grounds and reviewed the Cifeipson epdets, afterwards, along with thousands of others, including Dr. Douglas, who will become president of the univer-' sity at an undetermined, date, Dean L. T. Baker, aeting president, President Sikes of Clemson, and }&t. D. D, Witcover, of Darlington, the new president i)f the state fair association), saw the annual football game between Clemson and Carolina, in which Carolina was victorious by the.v score of 24 to 0?the exact figures which had been predicted. , The crowd on the fair grounds was, as always, the biggest in the history . of the fair, hnd the exhibits were the best. Market reports were received hourly, but pvpryhnrip knpw the price of cotton was down, with not much chance of a. rise until Senator Smith returned to Washington and shoved it up, and the people didn't pay much attention to the reports. The crowds milled around and looked at the exhibits, and ate "hot dogs" and icej cream sandwiches, sometimes aepar-l ately and sometimes together. and went to the side shows and saw the fat man and the leanTffahahd the females of these species also, and the monkeys and snakes, and then some thousands of them went to the football game while other thousands just stayed ' around and played, their hunches at a dime a play for blankets and dolls and boxes of candy, and various other things. Every now and then somebody would win something, and then everybody .else would talce renewed hope. A woman came along with ^ twoweejcs'-old baby wrapped Up in ablanket, but the blanket didn't smother Jthc infant's cries. The trouble was. that the grounda, in places were hot as summer under the crystal-clear shies, but around the corners of the buildings, the1 breezes were brisk, and, the blanket- wasn't fant simply wasn't* enjoying the fair at all. Every now and then you ran across a Confederate veteran, just as spry by the crowds, for sixty-five years ago they had seen bigger, madder crowds wan this. It was with patient tolerance that every now and then they stopped to watch th^se of younger years, here on pleasure bent, simply rushing around in high gear with no special objective in sight?just on their way. Later in the afternoon there was another football game between Columbia Hi and Sumter Hi, and this, too, went just ^ft /per schedule, with the score just as had been predicted. The officers, say that the*bootleggers this year were conspicuous by their absence from the fairgrounds. Somebody said that somebody else said that sombeody told him that about the oply thing this year '.that didn't go according to the schedule was that the bootleggers up town didn't sell out early in the week? that they still had considerable stock on hand Thursday night. This report, however, could not be verified. Anyway, the crowd was good-humored and orderly, as South CafSUha crowds always atk?even that crowd which assembled in ago, "V ; a*- 3 With all the crowds that were here on the streets, the fact that there tions, and the way the crowds handled themselves. The flocks of jitneys aimed skilfully for the tiny, cracks in the, traffic lines through which they darted. Occasionally when there was a near-hit the air,became just-a littla sulphurously charged by the expression of one driver's opinion of another's skill,, and with advice' |>o that other driver as* to just where to gO, but the brisk winds kept the atmosphere generally clear. The street cars were running to "the fair, grounds, tyjt everybody wanted tO go io something, on four wheels that didn't run on a track, and the OWfters of cars preferred to worry getting a parking apace down at. tho grounds and then getting out without smashing a .fender or two, rather than wait on a street car. The- pestiferous pickpockets 'got fn some work. The heaviest loss reported. to~the police was that sustained, by Mr. P. Barron Grier, of Greenwood, prominent attorney and president of the C. & W. C., whose pocket book contained $116 and some valuable papers. Somebody got my pocket book, too, but it was ten years old, and cost only one dollar when it was purchased, and had nothing in it but a newspaper clipping. ? I did not even have" a .newspaper pass to the grounds or it, would have been lost. The odollar bill which might have been in it happened to be in another pocket. The newspaper clipping didn't amount to much. It was that card of thanks issued by Senator Smith?the ftfst one, appearing in a morning edition after the seeond primary, in which he thanked the "decent" press for its support. It was of some "value because of its rarity, just as dimes or quarters or dollars of a certain issue become valuable some time when there are very few of that issue in circulation?for in the la|er .editions of the newspapers which carried this card of thanks the word "decejit" was deleted. Taken all in all, however, the joke was on the pickpocket, as the policeman with whom I talked it over agreed. It might be found in some of the trash cans, and if it should come to light, he Would let ntoe know. I toM him fie need n?t bother. There never was a State Fair in South fiproliua without political talk talk of politick past, present and future, and always at the State Fair some candidacies are born, This year, with a gqbernatorial and a senatorial campaign four years off, there was nevertheless talk of these races four years from now, and of the races whkh will come two years from now there also some talk. But the greatest part of this Fair's politics centered around the approaching session the General Assembly, which is to. have a new Speaker of the HoUse, a new chairman of the ways and means committee, and. which is to fill sever-; al vacancies in offices the terms of which will expire. There is a lively contest on for the speakership of the house and for the chafnggigghip of the Ways and means committee, and they ear of coerae intermingled and Interwoven, because the new Vspealptf will appoint the new committee Sftd lhe new committee-will the new chairman. Wheels within wheels it is. As per schedule the sun set st exactly MS P. Wh on the job for exactly 11.2 hours, the time predicted by Urn Observatory st Washington, but the sons of men kept <ta going?also jm per schedule. Some mora crowds*went to. the Fair Orodi>?te ta?e In the pageant, some politic*! caucuses met and others continued, shortly before midnight the young folks began going their several ways to the dances, and later editions of the newspaper cott?pmd the news that Dr. Douglas~fiad accepted the presidency of 'the universi^, hot that the time he should take charge had bnaf?ytl been.^bni,....; EE& was a great day for fiouth.Carolina?a typical Fair weekij Thursday, with nothing to mar the people's pleasore except the low'price of'cotton? and for the day everybody forgo! that ands imply osst ahead end had I ie, anyv . ??? HOYS STOLE A CAK. Two White Y out he Arretted Here Wanted in Durham. Two white youths, around ^0 years of age, were arrested on the Liberty Hill road near "Dusty Bend" Bundfcy after deserting a stolen automobile, i The arrest was made by Sheriff Welsh and Wiley Sheorn, While Deputy McLeod and others were in the search ing party. ? . ~ The boys gave their names as C. F. < Tyndoll and Lee A. William^, and their home address as Durham, N. C. They had stolen the car and driven as far south as Westvitlc. There they bought gas from the Cox filling station and drove off without paying. Young J. C. HilVon, Jr., gave chase and the lads deserted the car on the Camden-Charlotte road just north of Camden. Young Hilton came to Condon and notified the sheriff's office and their arrcat followed4 , .% Telegraphic inquiry to Durham stated that the Chrysler car had been stolen in that city. The boys were kept in jail until Tuesday morning whtetT officers arrived from Durham, and drove car and prisoners back to the North Carolina city. ? ' _ - PLAN TO RETIRE COTTOI^. . Hanker, of StauTw^kl Take 300,000 Bale* From Market. Columbia, 8. C\, Oct. 22.~Initial steps were taken here today for the formation of * $1,000,000 loan corporation to assist in retiring 300,000 bales of South Carolina's 1926 cottfm crop vom the market fpr twenty months or more as a measure to meet the situation produced by the bumper crop and resulting low prices. Plans for the organisation were framed at a conference attended by Eugene Meyer, chairman of President Coolidge's cotton committee, A. C. Williams, Federal farm loan commissioner, and thirty-five bankers and business men of the Sjtpte. By a reaq. lution adopted, details of organising the proposed corporation were placed in the hands of the executive committee of the State Bankers' Association. Reduction of acreage in 1927 was declared in the resolution to be a necessary factor; in any scheme for stabilizing the price, and all bankers," business men and farmers were urged to lend their efforts toward cutting the. acreage at least 25 per cent. ^ By request of those in charge the meeting wsb not attended by members of the press. It was said that some of the business men might not fee? fiee to express their real sentiment*** if they were to be quoted. Mr. Meyer, just prior to the meet J ing, issued a statement saying the Federal Intermediate Crpdit Bankg; wero prepared to advance as much ai $200,000,000 to meet the cotton price situation,, and cautioning farmers and others not to get "panicky" bver reported prospects for a big government crop report Monday. His statement also emphasized the need for adequate machinery being W Up ir\ the cotton belt to make possible the operation of the Federal Intermedin .ate Credit Bank system, ant} it wfm to meet this suggestion that the proj! posed loan corporation was launched. Appointed on the committee kb. J draft the resolution for the $1,000,990: organization were: Fo?Wr Governor Richard I. Manning, former Judge J. E. Peurifoy, pf Walterboro; C. j? Ccbb, of Rock Hill; A? F. Lever, of Columbia; B.L M. Edwards, of Columbia; J. M. Kinard, of Newberry; and T. J. Robertsoiyof Columbia. Edwin M, Robinson, Columbia banker, called thq meeting to order, and then relinquished the chair to August. Kohn, of Columbia. Attending the conference were the] following: Edwin W. Robertson, Au* gust Kohn, A. Frank Lever, Thos. J. ROtenaon, E. C. Powbib, W. I. Man" ning, /Scoviile Wannamaker, E. R. Hey ward, William Barnwell, J. E. Belser, G. M. Berry, Malcolm G. McCoplire, A. W. Raymond, J. Cliftoir Risers, Henry S. Johnson, Rev. JIugh R, Murchison, Rev. Kirkman G. Einlay, F. E. Hinnant, Alfred Scarborough, J. E. Peurifoy, R. Beverly Herbert, B. M. Edwards, W. O. Scott, H. G. Carrison, Jr., Harold C. Booker, C. L. Cobb, W. R. Scarborough, J. B. S. Lyles, Robert Lide, J. G. McAlister, It/ WT Marrett, J. D. Bailey, S, C. Rhanie, gBttiW-A, Lorick. 1 f ? Have Hallowe'en Entertainment. On Flday night, October 29th, at 9 o'clock, a Hallowe'en entertainment *iltbS g Weiratthehom* qf Mr^. W. J. Jones, by the Circles of the M. E. Church. All proceeds from the entertainment will go for the benefit of the Belle Bennett Memorial fund of Scarratt College, Tenn. Don't forget to come oijt Friday night at 7'o'clock and mingle^riHtl$a spooks, witches and other weird creatufes of Hallowe'en. Admission 16. end 26 cents. Refreshments served free. ^T^jT """"~~'v Charles M. Russell, famous "cowboy artist," died suddenly ?aC Great Falls, Mont., Saturdaj^jpight. II"" I JACK SCOTT TO SERVE LIFE, Jury Convicti Negro of Killing UwU Murphy in Went Wateree. The fall term of oriminal court opened here Monday morning with I Judge E. C. Dennis, of Darlington,! presiding, and adjourned Wednesday afternoon after establishing a record 1 preconvictions within such a liinited I time. Of the twenty-five cases hear^l! Solicitor A. Fletcher Spigner obtained! twenty-one convictions whjle three! were found not guilty and one was! nol prossed after it had resulted in a I I mistrial. I J Eddie Cabbiestalk was found nor guilty of a charge of assault and bat-1 tery with intent to kill, highway robbery and burglary. I Ira Jones and Jerry Price, also col-1 ored defendants, were found not guU-4 ty of housebreaking and larceny. Edgar Wilkes, negro, was found I guilty of , assault and battery with in-; J tent to kill and drew a sentence of six I months. I William Bowers plead guilty to vio-1 lation of the prohibition law and was! sentenced to serve six months with I three months siyspended during good! behavior. ^^innie Adajnsbn plead * guilty to 1 housebreaking and larceny and was I sentenced-to serve one year. J Solpmon Davis, negro, plead guilty to violation of Jthe liquor laws and was I sentenced to serve six months with 1 three months suspended. Davis has 1 been tried many times upon similar I charges and at the tittle of arrest in j his last case was under a suspended I sentence of three months^ Which Will I mean that he iK to serve a straight sentence of six montjis, ; V| Isaac Belton, negro, was ; given a sentence of six months with four ! months suspended for violation of the J prohibition law. * J Monroe Brown, negro, was tried for 1 nnnmilt. b?"?rv with Intent to kill and was sentenced to serve one year upon the county chain gang. 'The! charges agafhat Brown resulted from an attack the negro made upon the! manager of a,local hotel and in which! 4he latter received severe lacerations about the face. C. F. De.mmock, foreign operator df a tourist camp near Camden, -was charged .with violation of the prohibition law and was sentenced to serve sTx months but five months was suspended during good behavior. Jack Scott, negro, charged with the murder, only ten days previous of Lewis Murphy, another negro of West Wateree, w.aft found guilty and sentenced Jtp serve the remainder of his life in pii^uu.? - . ~ ' I Silas Moore and Messick Robinson, White youths, were found guilty of I housebreaking and .larceny, Moore was sentenced to serve six montfis I upon the' public works and RobinsonI was sentenced to a like term to the I State reformatory but sentence in the latter case was suspended. : ~ E. C. Elders, white, and characterized as a rather tough customer, was [sentenced to serve from two to four I years upon~a charge of assault and I battery vylth intent to kill and a slmI liar sentence ^pon a charge of an automobile larceny^ Aesault charges I against Efders came aa a result of his Lttifeessful escape-from. the county Mail while awalttflf trial upoft the theft charge. JpfT sehlefices, BowI ever; run concurrently 'and Elders will J serve only upon the first conviction. I i O. Graham, plead guilty to J charges of larceny andjauLSentettced I to serve three months. ^ . \T I Edward Hall plead guilty to vlolhLtioiViOf the prohibition I sentenced to serve six months with I five months suspended during good I behavior.' ?J Tom Boyd, negro, was sentenced tt> I serVW^flg^Wonths for violation of.^jpF prohibition law, but this sentence was I suspended altogether when the conrt ! took into consideration the several de~ I pendent children and the recent I death of the'defendant's Wife. I Charlie Montgomery Was tried upon 1 two counts for housebreaking and Jaw I ceny, and plead guilty to botb, drawI ing two sentences of from three to t i5ji .-v i~ - l. 'Sir| six years. I Sug Lee and Horace Haiglor were {tried and fotmd guilty of violation of I the prohibition law and each drew a itjoi'11111b" nn<i ?f {fifty dollars. Time was suspended In I 3 both cases upon payment of t?e fine. T Arnold Krtmont plead guilty and > I waS sentenced to serve six months in |the State penitentiary for larceny og II an automobile. Krimont once gave tiki* mwt 1' George Rodger*, end was itin lad who steH the ^ <11,m&mm . e-- "ts i Miss Stella. Bethune, at Bethune, arid was later captured in Virginia and brought beck to Camden. Mattie English, colored, was sentenced to serve six months in the State penitentiary for privily stealing. John Williams was sentenced to sefve cme year for violation of the prohibition law with seven months suspended during good behavior. pari lTV Presiding Judge at the October term of Court for Kershaw Couq&j the following report': We have passed on all the bills of indictment "handed m?y the Solicitor, t The Court House and grounds seem to be adequately taken care of. Our recbdhncndations made at the last term of Court, as to changes to be made at the jail have* not been done, but wb have Apart * assured by the chairman of the Board bfDfrectors that same will be made as soon' as Jail can be cleared of the prisoners. : < The rGadiTIn most places are in fair condition, considering the extremely heavy traffic: and excessively dry season, but we wish to recommend that some work be done in-the neat future on the OldrWIre Road, in West Wateree. - Also that bridge and approaches thereto at the Old Jordan Mill be iftxed at once. We also recommend that the approaches of by-roids leading into thepyblieroad be leveled, and whqn necessary be bridged or use tcrra-cotta piping in fixing same. ^ & Weyecommend that ilia bridgkahd approach thereto at Granny's Quarter Creek'in Plat Rock Township be fixed egfowBggr:; .ffr I'j:^nj|j':youn[tyr"ha? in its employment a bridge man, and we recommend that I hcMook carefully after the bridges of the entire county. As to the finances of the cotmty we I Wish to say that there is an audit now I being fpaMVe, Which audit'vfii authorised bp the legjslatifa^ d&Mtion, which we trust will be "-^finished "ffi I time for us to report in our final presentment to be msde at the December term of cburt. We wish to thank His Honor, the Solcitor, and all the Court ofAeiaii for the courtesies ahowiiJM : thi? term; all of wfpjfc; wfTCspectfully I Mfowiv:" *3:. Lk.R. 8. .Williams, ^ i foreman ftp Grand Jurors, for Ker|JU?haw Couat^ - 5-- '% v . "v. K- * r. ^ ' " 7 - *-"V "jl *1*111'1^ iMi ' " . STUDY CENTER SATURDAY. Reorganisation of Kershaw County Teachers' Association. jp I Superintendent of Education J. Team Gettys has issued the following letter to all teachers of Kershaw County: You are cordially invited and'Ufged to attend a meeting of the Teacher* of Kefshaw County Schools at the Camden Grammar School building, on next Saturday, October 80th, for the purpose of reorganizing our County Teachers' Association and beginning our Study Center work. The County Board of Education will provide-refreshments which will be served by the Faculty of the Camden City Schools, and it is hoped, that every teacher in oufcCoutity can and will attend as our guests. The following program is suggested for the day: 9:80 to 10 a. m.?Chapel Exercises and organisation of Study -Center Classes. 10 a. m. to 12 noon.?Study Center Classes. IS? to 12:30 p. m.?General Meeting for discussion and organisation of County Teachers' Association. 12:80. to 1 p. m.?Refreshments. 1 to 2 p. m.?study Center Classes, r Our study center instructors'-apd courses are: .7 * -Prof. J. Thompson Brown, head>of the Department of English, Winthrop Collegp, English Grammar and. Composition?Collpge Credit Course! Jt, A. Gentry, Principal Pageland Hjgh School, Tests and Measureme 111 s and Arithinfetic. " Mi8s?*Eleanor Vaughan, .Winthrop Training School, grammar Grada Methods and Geqgraphy. Mrs. Laurens T, .Mills, Camden City Schools, Primary Work. The success of our study center and our Association for the present* year and perhaps their continuance in tim-yaarippests with th<*"teaehers of our county and the interest which they may manifest on next Saturday. Be sure to come ait 9:30 a. m., and if not than, certainly, at 110011 for pur general meeting. " * , ' " ' The Toll of Traffic. Fifty-one persons lost their lives and 260were injured in traffic accidents in eleven Southern states during the week endrntn^c^^f^ to a compilationby the Associated Press. Louisiana reported the highest number in injured with 40, while Alabama, which had four deaths, was low in the injured column with 13. South Carolina reported two deadand 14 injured. - MUCH IN THRUST SHOWN. County Fair To Open Nov. 10 With Muny Features To Attract. With the completion of the exhibit building at the Fair grounds and with the increase premiums being offered for exhibits the "people of Kershaw county are showing more interest in the County Fair than has ever been shown before and the indications aro that this year's Fair will be much better than any .which have been staged since the holding of an annual Fair , was resumed a few years ago. Dairy cattle* awine, sheep, poultry, j community exhibits, individual farm exhibits, school exhibits, and gendral miscellaneous exhibits will bo plenti- , fpl, and the exhibitors will eejrry' off quite a handsome sum of money which is to be awarded in prises. The merchants and other business men of Camden are co-operating to the fullest extent with the local Fair Committee and the"'Chamber, of Commerce in an effort to create an atmosphere which will draw tho,crowds and help everyone to enjoy themselves at The Rernardi Greater Shows will arrive in Camden on November ?th, and will exhibit on the Fair Grounds *dUring the entire week, furnishing fun and entertainment of a wholesomoi variety for everybody. Friday, November 12th, has beeii designated as School Day by the ' CoUnty Board of Education, and free tickets will be given to all school children and school teachers for thai day. Saturday will be negro school day, and colored pupils and teaqhe/s will be admitted free on that day. , Everyone should take part in the County Fair and contribute to its success by preparing exhibits Und showing the county products in competition Wffilftrfieighborft. seeing wKdfr in he nai ekcolled or wherein he has -failed In evcfl-amLthua iiecomplisliiiig the real purpose of an agricultural Those who canqot furnish exhibits themselves* should not fail-to eome and wha\ his neighbors have been doing and. resolyfe to profit by what he sees at the* Fair. Suffers Heavy .Loss By Fire. " The barn andk atjiblcs belonging to . 7 Mrs. John S. Brown, who resides in the Mt. Zion section, were destroyed by Are on Thursday night of last + week. Two mules, a quantity of feed stuff and farming machinery, together with some lumber stored in tho building, was also burned, entailing a loss to Mrs. Brown of about $2,000. She carried about $400 insurance on the building. It is not known how, the" Are originated Camden Men Open Bakery. "I The Electrik Maid Bake Shop is a new Sumter industry, opened Wedne*- ,,J day at 102 North Maiu street. Mr: -C. C. Lingle, secretary and treasurer of the company, a former resident of Camden, will be in active charge of the bakery, and will makehlshome "here. He Will bo AMlfttad IntbOfttnagement oi the plant by Mr. A. G. Hall, vtee president, and also a former resident of Gamden. Mr. J. G. Mobley, of Waynesboro, Ga., is president some (SumtoP*capital invested in the V t?kifrr.^Sumt?r Item. Paule Andes, 20, was' killed at KnoxviHe,* Tenn., Saturday when the stolen car H? was trying to escape ' from the police hi, crashed into a tree and: ^mbledkf down ah embankment. Two other young men in the car escaped with painful bruises. jj White MenBewt To Gang. John M. Lawrence, three wung white sent to the chain gang last w^irfrom Magistrate Nicholson's court to serve ^ 30-dayr grabefnce each for stealing *Uj'fH automobile, tire from Mr. J. D. LaFitte of Bethuner. Mr. LaFitte'a car was parked in front of a Bethune church. The three men were seen, to df Ivq into town, one whpel running on the rim. Soon after missing the' tire, search was begun for the trio and they were found a short distance this . | side of Bethun# placing the tire on the vacant rim. They stoutly denied the theft, but Mr. LaFitte was able to identify the tire, and their conviction . | ^ One leg pf each man was fhackleJ \ after reaching thrgang, and wr short r while aftffHtarih each had filed his shackle and. .tied thfm tcmporaidlg .. with string#, presumably awaiting in opportunity%to br*ftk for liberty.