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The Fair Association invites all school children to come and hair~sfent free tickets for all children and their teachers. The Bernardi Greater Shows will consitute the Midway and this troupe, which has recently exhibited at Dillon, has* been inspected by the Fair management and bears the . endorsement of being first class entertainment. ' Many handsome prizes are offered for school exhibit# as-well as those in the community and home demonstration departments. Kershaw Exhibitors Win Prizes. Dr. S. J. Blackmon, Who la a chicken fancier and raiser of fine Anconas, had on exhibition at the- fitptc Fair last week a number Of his best. That his chickens are fine was evidenced by the fact that be was awarded first, second and third places on cockerel; first on hen; first on young'pen; third on pullet; and, sweepstakes, on the best general exhibit In the Ancona '1 .class. ..1?Z _ ' B. D. McDonald, who has a fondness for canines, his special attachment being for the police dog, had his three fine ones, Fritz, Poland young Alf, on exhibition. Fritz is a particularly fine specimen of the police dog and captured the blue ribbon, while Dora was given a white ribbon, and Alf, the pup, won white ribbon also. Naturally, these exhibitors feel elated at the success of their first venture among so many other exhibitors in the same lines.?Kershaw Era. G RE At MAGICIAN DEAD. - -'r-'V _ Hoiidinl Hart H?dd 8tagc of Old and New World For Many Years. 1 " Detroit, Oct. 31.?Harry Houdini, the magician* died today. The noted escape artist, whose adeptness at freeing himself from straightjackets, chains and cells mystified audiences in all parts *of - the woridpdied??#ter-a second, surgical attempt had been made to save his life from the effects of peritonitis./ Houdini was. operated., upon last Monday for appendicitis. Although it he arrived here eight' days ago, the seriousiiess of his condition was not learned until he collapsed at the end of his opening performance. Aoudini, popularly supposed?to be of Oriental birth, was born in Wisconsin in. 1874, the son of the Rev. Mayer Samuel WeisB. His theatrical name was early acquired through legal pro cedure. As one ots the outstanding person ages of the American stage and leader of magicians, his popularity lasted., for a quarter of a century. Beginning his stage career as a trapeze performer, he toured the world* It was during his journey through Asia that he became interested -in mysticism and shifted his role to th*t> of magician. Houdini counted among his audiences the royalty of Europe and Asia. He wrote numerous treatises intended to expose spiritualism aa a fraud. His book, "A Magician Among the Spirits" created a furore among professional ? spiritualists by its assertions that the * practice was "bunk." One of his public challenges of long slandinVr that he could dnpllcate or pose any' seemingly magic feat was accepted by-Raymen Bey, Egypt**" myatlfier, in "August, The Egypt**1* had oreated a seusatfon'by remaining in * e"6?3f6W^?eir^w1,trr ? W minutes. heua^freic"t trains i have fatal collision Otw.m.n Killed a .^Several I?,ured Early Saturday Morning. < Columbia, 'iCZ, October 30.-Twp ! freight trains met in a head-on colllsou near Kingville at dawn this morn- < h?3 ^e(;?U8e ^ en?Jnee?* of one train had fallen asleep at his throttle. One < man was killed and four others injur- 1 ed, none dangerously, however in the i aeotgont. ' > ?-??-1 < Ln'nJ ,?ll =* in a lo<*' hospital, | . B. lieidt, of Charleston, the cngin- I ZkZiVgoneth08e hurt-ad-' mltted that he was asleep when his train passed Klpgvlllc where it had . orders to meet tin; other freight, and < did not realise that he had passed the , -red stop signal until the two trains i crashed into each other. ) Neither Heidt nor railroad repreaentatives cared to discuss the wreck in detail The engineer appeared to -be in a highly nervous state. 1 One of the investigators when asked < about the report that Heidt had admitted being asleep, said that was his Information. Otis L. Jenkins, 23 year old fireman of Charleston was killed. His body was brought to Columbia where an inquest will be held by Coroner J, B. Scott, since the accident occurred in this county. Kingville is about thirty miles south of Columbia.-The injured besides Engineer Heidt, are: Mark L.'Abney, of Charleston, engineer of the other train; S. K. Pridgen, of Wilson, Aitklns, of Petersburg, Va. Pridgen and Aitkins were caretakers of a shipment of live stock being sent from the Orangeburg County Fair. The trains were originally scheduled to ppss at Singleton railroad men said Bttf* later orders named 'Kingville as the meeting point. Witnesses from Jlbney's train said when they rounde<j a curve near Kingville, they saw the 'Other freight, but assumed that it was ba^ng into a siding to let their train by. T$feir train, however, they said, slowed down to five or spc miles an hour, but "the other, they perceived, came on at a speed estimated at from 20 to 25 miles an hour. Abney jam med on his brakes, but Heidt's train came on at undiminished speed, and 1 both engines were derailed in the collision. Car Stolen'and Wrecked. pv ' Thieves entered the garage of Mr. . Giis ; Jnirseh on North Brofld j street Friday night and stole his t)odge sedan. It was found on Saturday where it had been abandoned a few miles north of Camden on the jdCamden-Charlotte highway, just off the roadside. No switch key was in the car and the thieves evidently had : some knowledge of elect.Hcity, for the wires had been cut and transferred in such a way as to start the engine. LThe car had turned over and was badly wrecked on. one side:?all ' of the , glasses being shattered, but it had | been straightened up agalna^dnven " 1 to the place where it was found. No trace could be found of where the wreck occurred, but there were bloodstains in the car and the print of a , nan's head where the impact drove it through the top. There js so far no clue as to who stole the car, and it has been suggested that it may have been tbo pranks of Hallowe'en celebraters on that night, as quite a number of people were disturbed by them. Mr, Hinech carried insurance against 'theft 'and damage and it is thought his loss is fully covered. Dr. McDowell' Taken III. Dr. and Mrlk W. C. McDowell went -to Asheville, N. Co last week to meet and accompany home Mrs; McDowell's sister, Miss Annie Burney. While I on the road going, Dr. MCDowell took seriously sick and had to receive medical attention. He was attacked with flu, and has been confined to his bad at home since his return. We are pleased to learn that he has improved, however,?Kershaw Bra. HHRr: * T*"?* ' u .f: Parent-Teachers' Meeting. A meeting of the Camden Parent- | Teachers'* Association will be held | Monday evening, November 8th, at 8 ! o'clock, in the school auditorium. Everyone intetoted in the welfare of * irt iirlmiiiiii'iiiii :ormer Camden Rector Awarded Signal Honor 1 *ev. Harding Holds Many Offices of Church The following from the Union-Re:order published at Milledgeville, Ga., will be read with interest by Camden )eOple, where Rev. Harding served as eetor Qf Grace Church for a number )f years: "Rev. F. H; Harding, Rector of St, Stephens Episcopal church, was namjd as Executive Secretary to Bishop Mikell at a meeting of the Executive pounctl of the Dioceve1ftAtl4ht?r{fco " past week to succeed the Rev. Mr. Bentley, who has been called to Christ church In Mac op, "The election of Mr. Harding was in unanimous one and conferred upan him the highest honor * of the chureh in the state. He 'was also named editor of the Diocesan Record, the official publication of the church which will be published and mailed from this city? J 'Jin the election of Mr. Harding an effort was made to take him from this city, but he only accepted with the condition that the offices be moved here. With the moving of the secretary's office here the headquarters~of the Episcopal church will be brought to Milledgeville. Bishop Mikell will maintain .hie offices in Atlanta and will keep his home there but all other business of the church will go out of the offices in Milledgeville.4 "Mr. Harding is considered one of the leading clergymen of the Episcopal church in this state aftd now holds some of the most Important offices the church can give." Little Boy Makes First Playground Donation Swing at School to Boar Namo of Randall M. Cross The first donation toward the improvement of the Mill school, grounds was received last week with the following note: "This is to help the Mill School"?signed Randall M. Cross. Little Randall, a hoy of 8 years, was enrolled as a first grade pupil. He was taken ill and moved to the Camden Hospital and afterwards moved near Hartsville. where he is now living. His donation will be used for erecting the first swing on the pfay ground and .will be called "The Randall Cross Swing-1' Ha also sent a small..picture to the first grade. This has been hung near the desk where he sat when he was in Mrs. Lou Pierce's room. His unselfish act may lead to a complete pipy gr?t*nd equipment for the school. The Mill school deeply appreciates his thoughtfulnesa and wishes for him health and happiness in the future. The object of Principal and Faculty is a supervised playground. ( ountiea Get Fee Money. ". County treasurers of the State wtyl receive the stlm of $85,180.20 on account of additional license fees on premiums. collected by insurance companies for the semi-annual period ending June BO, 1926, according to a statement given out by J, J. McMahan, state insurance commissioner, says lhst Monday's Columbia State. In o the. allocation, Lancaster county receives |806.7ti; Kershaw, $1,216.10; Chesterfield, $1,085.62; Chester, $2,01-2.12; York, 2,976.84. Championship Football Game Scheduled Here This Afternoon The Camden football team plays the Summerton high school boys here this Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, lor the Class B championship of the fifth district .of South Carolina! ?The Bulldogs expect a tough battle, but they are determined to clinch this very important game of the present series which means, fan-spirit prevailing, that Camden meets in combat another district champion next Friday? the big day of the Kershaw County Fair. Soup Campbell, for his part 'has promised a blunderless game, and if the young bambino ever snarls a wicked canine it is mor$ than just a good guess that it jgjH be pandemonium and into the Hellespont for Suiumertpn... Captain SowelL jwili. again call signals and altogether his line-up is the best of any game this season. I? - - - - - -^^ *?- - The Gold and Black supporters "i t- ?"v"~ Camden Lady Wins Prize. _ ~rr~ 1 ^: ?1? / "The Hick (ory) Nudtf**" submitted by Miss Louise Nettles, 1503 Lyttleto* street, Camden, S. C., was selected by the judges as the most appropriate title ,to christen the nameless cartoon appearing in last Sunday'^ i&ue of The Observer. The winning title .had as close seconds "Never Too Old to Yearn," by Mrs. Walker, 609 Kingston avenue, city, and "Two Nutty Parties", sent in by Mrs. H. F. Wall, 904 West Trade street, city. Miss Nettles willJ>e mailed the cash priae of $5.? Sunday's Charlotte Observer. M&s Netles is the popular librarian at the Camden Library and also society editor of The Chronicle. 1 . V x * -.v - 1 T * should gather together some of last season's pep and zest and turn out ma they did in 'twenty-flven Everyone will see a splendid game and, according to Manager Bill Lindsay, the team will be relieved of impending financial em* harassment. ' Young Lady Held For Death of Boy. .- ? ! In accordance with the verdict ren^ dered by the coroner's jury last Friday in the death of Ralph Campbell, Who was struck by an automobile, rq? ceiving injuries from which: he died1; Miss Florence Morrow was arrested and upon being brought before Magistrate Davidson,'arranged bond fit the sum of one thousand dollars, her brother, Mr. James Morrow, being the bondsman.?Chester News. Pineapples have been knows to reach the weight of seventeen pounds; Mr. Villepigue Injured. While attending the CHadelOarolir na football game in Orangeburg last Thursday, Mr. Charles R. Villepigue suffered a painful and serious accident to his right leg. The Accident is said to have happened while coming down the grandstand when he jnfctured a bone in the leg and a badly sprained ankle. He was given surgicfcl attention in Orangeburg aqd came on to Camden that night, when an x-ray examination showed^I^fracture of the limb.- He will be confined to his home for several weeks. i .1. . mi i . - Americans pay fbOO,0OO,OOO yearly for quack medicines, f*- ' .? .-.v^ ... '* - ? - - . -v- -r ^ ' TV " ' ' ''* ' ag. i", I" "Egg," The Chronicle it this week being sent to more than five hundred rural readers as a sample copy. -The paper this week consists of three sections?twenty-four paces?devoted to progressive advertisers and in the interest of the f Kershaw County Fair. We want a larger rural Circulation and we hope our npral friends will read this copy closely and come in and subscribe. Of course the paper is exceptionally large this week, but we never publish under eight pages, and for the past several weeks it has been carrying from eight to twelve pages. We fe*l that the paper is fuKy worth the price charged for it, and at that it is not as high in subscription price as some of the weekly publication*^ ; coming to our desk. . In add|^gn to covering the local held : of news completely. The Chronicle maintains a number of special correspondents and feature writers, including John K. Aull, A* B. Jordan, Arthur Brisbane and Or. Frank Crane.. Come in during fair week and let us put your name The price is $2 per year or $1 for six months. NEGRO OF BOYKIN IS BRUTAL WIFE SLAYER Later Slashes Owa Throat With Near Fatal Result Jfl Firet shootin* his wife,' |??tln* her with an axe handle and Anally cutting M her head half off and then slashing his > 'M own threat, waa the sequel of domes, tic troubles between Smith. Thompson, f| Jr., and his wife, Grace Thotnpsqiiy ~XM egroes, near Boykin, in this county, atlTl30~o-c7Sclc"l Thompson is in the Camden hospital jjB under guard with his throat ?ut from~;~J ear to ear, with a good chance of his W From testimony at the inquest the couple had quarrelled for some time 1 and Sunday night the woman had gone to' tlje home of AiwTe Tfced, all parties residing on the B. D; Boykin I plantation. Grace Thompson and Ah- ^^8 nie Reed appeared at the house and j Grace asked to be admitted. Thompson told hor that he wanted nothing pMi4her to do with her and pulling Revolver from his breast fifed at the Woman, who then rap and fell. Thomp- ?i son shot at her twice more on the *S1 ground and beat her with an ax* had- ^ die. He turned his attack on the I teed woman, dealing her a blow in the back of her head. lie started for the Boykin home and on the way mat his (mother and told of what ho had done and declared he. was going to shoot if?! himself. His mother persuaded him I to give her the pistol. The negro then ^returned to his prostrate wifo and pearly severed her head from her ?ody:;and glsshed mown throat. ' jv. He Suffered greatly from the loss of blood, but was able to walk from the JB car to the hospital, but fell' after S reaching the building. Smith Th6mpsoij was 22 years of age and his wife ? was 18 years old. A coroner's inquest was held-and the verdict was that f: Grace Th.ompBon.came to her death from pistol shot wounds at the hand < of Smith Thompson;: The supposition is that the first shot killed the woman, , 'M of th Tnt fcthr0Ugh the lQwor portion B Chemists declare that the discoverv of potash.deposits ill Pecos County, jH Texas, will -free Aipcricag agriculture from dependence on Europe for this J i>.; ^ . * - ' I- ' teachers held meeting ' ' t -Jii : ' -itfix [At Grammar School Building and Of[ fle^s Elected for Another Year. ^ A meeting of the Kershaw County -Teacher's was 4?eW -Saturday1 mornini, October 30th, ?t the Camden Grammar School building and the following program was carried out: I The program began with Chapel exercises at 9:30,. with organisation of study center classes. Froni 10 to 12 3 whs study center classes. From 12 I to 12:30 waa devoted tp ing for discussion and' the County Teacher's Association At 8 this meeting Mr. J. Team Gettys" im- I pressed on *the minds of ail present " ^1 the need of interest^and eg^fHsratiolF"''-!^^ from each teacher in order,' the association a success. The following officers were elected for the com- If ing year: President, Mr. J. C. Fob-Wl ter, superintendent of Bethune High 1 School; vice president, Mr. Leonardo "fl Andrea, superintendent of the Blaney I school; secretary and treasurer^ Ml?*l Ernestine N. Bateman, of the Camden Several of the sehpojs-reported one hundred per cent membership tdthe I South .Carolina teachers association I The other schools are planning a par-v^i feet'attendance also; ^ ; , Before the mating Adjourned Mr G. Richards invited them into the I domestic science room. Here an elafe- f~1 orate luncheon1 was provided hy the county board and served by the teach- I | ers of the Camdeir city schools. I The., secretary will notify each teacher of the date of the next meeting of the assoclatipn. I K- courses and in- ' stmeters are:, Prof. J. Thompson 9 Brown, head of the department of 'l"M English at Winthrop College, I grammar and^composition, college V 1 credit course. R[ A. Gentry, princi ^ I pal o* Pageland high school, teste and I measurements and arithmetic. Miss J mistrial rendered in aiken Slander case Man who TaiUflad Against Young Woman Lfft Aiken Immediately. Aiken, S. C., Oct. 29.?A mistrial w?h ordered this morning at 11 o'clock by Judge Mann in the case of the State against Mrs. E. E. ?Carroll| indicted for slander after a sensational trial and all night deliberation by the jury._ As the mistrial was announced fry tjfc judge; who said it was the saddest case he had ever presided over, the young woman in the case, Miss Daisy Bates, cried aloud, "Oh, God, D cannot stand it/' and her mother, wife of Horace^Bates, noted horticulturist, shook her (inger at the jury and cried: _ "You have brpke'n in my rose garden and crushed my fairest flower," ? During the trial yesterday Judge Marvin M. Mann ordered the relatives of defendant and accusor searched for weapons, and as E, E. Carroll took the witness stand and declared that he had been Intimate with Miss Bates/ the sheriff sat at his side and .several deputies drew close to the witness stand.?-* ' - ' ,'v Carroll, husband of the defendant, after his testimony -left the ( court rooth and is Raid to haVO gOine Bj FllJTr Ida. The jury remained in deliberation for 17 Hours. ' /Miss Bates, agent operator at <Ja?ksoty S. C., for the Carolina and Western vail road, had Mrs. Carroll indicte<i for uttering slanderous accusations regarding/^arS^taracter, charge ing that she saW" heV husband enter the warehouse and meet Miss Bates, the agent, at night. ? < r Highway Man To Assist. The Motor Vehicle Division of the State HighWay Departrtjerrt/ in an effort to.: better, nerve motor, vehicle owners of the State and the people at large, and to expedite the issuance of 1927 licenses, had arranged^Jo have aa representative of the Department in the principal centers' throughout the State for the purpose of assisting the motor vehicle owners-in making tfreir applications for license plates und answering such questions with .reference to motor Vehicle licenses as possible. Mr. J. T. Spell will be stationed at the Ford dealers place of business- in the following towns and on the following days as are herein-' after set forth: McBee, November 6; Pageland, November 6; Chesterfield, November 8; Cheraw, November RannettRville. NAVgmBer .10.11-1 Clio. November 12; Dillon, November 18,15p Darlington, 16,17,18; Hartsville, Noveinber 19; Bishopville, November 20, 22; Bethune, November 28; Camden, November 24,26; Mayesville^November 26; Sumter, November 27, 29, 80. ' Winthrop Students* Building Fund. The drive for this furtd begins this week.' KershaW County has always stood nobly by when her help' was nfeeded by the people of her State. Winthrop College is givingro hosts of girls of Souths Carolina their only Chance for an education, as it has dode for many in the past. '12. j. 2^ * In the beginning we thought "t^o girls to a room at Winthrop- was enough; now there are three tjo a room, aud ovqr a thousand turned away every year. The legislature must somehow arrange to take care of that thousand but Dr. D/B. Johnson is Asking those who have been helped by the college to give $20,006 to help finish the Students' Building, This will supply ;extrh bed rooms urgently needed in the. housekeeping for "eighteen hundred people. ' ",Vv" iT.f?vV.- '. The girls of Kershaw county are deeply interested and are contributing to this fund. Make checks out to Winthrop Students' Building Fund and hand to your community chairman or send to Miss E. L. Zemp, county chainpan. A receipt will be sent as soon as check is received. "if *' ^ , * ' ? \ " For Children To 8kqte. The police department authorises The Chronicle to state that on Friday -nights, of each week ."that portion of Chssttat street from Lyttleton to Fata;will be toped off and traffic stopped in order to let the children of tfre city/ Who desire to do so, skate on this restricted, area ^ betwati*-tbn hour* of % 6'clAck and 9 o'clock.