The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 17, 1926, Image 2
_ > Coea To Oxford '
Columbia, Dec. 12.?J. M. Stoken,
IWipfcer of the cl??? ?f 1926, Presbyjyy
College, has been awarded the
TVMm acholarahlp from South Caro^mtrom
a field of fifteen applicants,
Irvine F. Belter, secretary of the
, iWtodos acholaxship committee, au|pminced
here tonight.
* who is 2X years old, was
graduated from college with a general
average for his four years' work ,pt
W>.2 per cent. He is now a graduate
* tudent in English at Yale University,
New Haven, Conn. <
t- In his under-gradual* days, he was
on the staff of the college weekly
newspaper, monthly magazine, and
was editor-in-chief of the 1926 annual,
in addition tp (being valedictorian,
historian, and vice president of the
graduating class.
The Rhodes scholar designate was
also adjutant pf the Reserve Officers'
fraiuing Corps unit at Presbyterian
College, and though he devoted little
time to athletics, played tennis.
Stokes, who was born in Bainbridge,
Ga., has lived for the last five
years in Clinton.
Horses and Mules Dying
A disuse diagnosed by Dr. J. K.
Mollis, local veterinarian, as blind
taggers, has become cjuite prevalent
among horses and mules in Lancaster
county within the past two or three
weeks, as many as 20 to 26 deuths
having been reported. Among those
who have lost animals are: R. A.
Blackmon, Rich Hill, three; W. R.
Hegler and son, four; Dustin Snipes,
f about two miles northwest of the city,
__one; Hal Beckham, Belltown, one;
Roy Cunningham, West Lancaster,
oner O. H. Bell, northwest Lancaster,
fine saddle mare; S. J. Funderburk,
Buford township, one; John Stogncr,
Klgin, one; Frank White, colored,
south of the city, one; Doc Laney,
colored, East Lancaster, three; R. A.
North Lancaster, one; W. M. IIaye3,
Williams, nice marc; James Dunlap,
New Bethel, one. There are probably
others that have not been reported.
A number of others ure suid to be
sick and are being vaccinated against
the disease.?Lancaster News.
NOTICE OF SALE BY MASTER
State of South Carolina,
County of Kershaw.
Under and by virtue of a decretal
order in the case of Julius Cahn and
Ellis Cahn, plaintiffs, vs. Henderson
Perkins, Laura Palmer and Molcy
Davis, defendants, in the Court of
Common Pleas for Kershaw County,
South Carolina, I will sell, at public
auction, to the highest bidder for cash,
in front of the Court House door at
Camden, Kershaw County, South
Carolina, on the sales' day in .January,
1927. during the usual hours of
sale, the following described real
estate, to wit:
All that certain piece, parcel or lot
of land lying, being and situate in
Kershaw County, South Carolina, being
bounded on the North by lands
of K. T. hstard; on the East by land
of K. T. Estard; .on the South by land
of K. T. Estard, and on the West by
land of Cicero Blackmon and by the
Dick McClusters estate. Said tract
of land oontnining~one hundred acres,
more or less, and being the same land
the said Henderson Perkins, Laura
Palmer and Molcy Davis inherited
from their father, Joshua Perkins,
Also, all that certain piece, parcel
or tract of land containing thirty (30)
acres, more or less, situate, lying and
being in Kershaw County, South
Carolina, being bounded * on the
North hy land of K. T. Estard; on
the East by lands of K. T. Estard;
on the South by lands of K. T. Estard,
and on the West by lands of
Richard McClusters and E. Huckleberry.
Being the same tract of land
conveyed to Molcy Davis by Mary
Campbell.
Terms of sale, cash. Purchaser to
pay for papers and revenue stamps.
It. II. HILTON,
Master Kershaw County, S. C.
Dated at Camden,. S. C? this 14th
day of December, A. D. 1926.
KKi'OKT ON COUNTY JAIL
Mrs. M. T. Coleman, of tho xtatu
board of public welfare, ha# issued
^ following report relative to a
recent inspection of the Kershaw
county Jail:
"No changes or additions have bean
made at the Kershaw county jail-i
since the last inspection. The contract
has been lets and material
bought to paint the jail building inside
and out. This will improve the
looks of the jail, help preserve the
hygienic condition of the institution.
"Score for permanent plant is 256
out i>f a possible 400 points.
Under tho new management the
conditions of the juil have been greatly
improved. The jailer is keeping
the place remarkably clean under the
handicap of lack of facilities.
"Stoic for management is 302 out!
df a possible 400 points.
"The equipment of the jail is satis- j
factory with the exception that no!
private bathing facilities are provided
for the jailer's family. The shower
in the compartment designed for
the use of women prisoners is used
by the jailer's family and when not
occupied by women, by men prisoners
of both races.
"Score for equipment, repair and
! personnel is 130 out of a possible' 200
points.
"The total score of this year for
Kershaw county jail is 088 out of a
| possible 1000 points. The total scorei
for 1025 was 058."
Mrs. Coleman offers as recommendations
the serious consideration of
building a new jail at the earliest
possible financial moment; to provide
a private bath for the family of the
jailer, and to accellerate the plans for
[ painting the jail.
REPORT ON COUNTY GANG.
Mrs. M. T. Coleman of the state
board of public welfare has issued
the following report relative to her'
recent inspection of the county chain- i
gang:
The Kershaw county chaingang is
at present located convenient to the
work of builAing roads. The jite is
well selected on a well drained hillside.
The gang is provided with one
cage cell cur for white prisoners, and
a cage cell , car for the colored prisoners.
A new adequate tent is used
for the trusties. A tent is furnished
for guard quarters, and the kitchen
and dining room combined is a house
on wheels. Ample provision is made
for stoves, lanterns, tubs, basins and
other camp equipment. A good army
stove is used to cook with. The county
provides well for their chaingang.
Scoco for camp and equipment is
370 out of a possible 500 points.
Conditions due to foreman's management
are satisfactory with the
exception of the source of water supply.
Branch water is used for cooking
purposes, and a spring furnishes
drinking water. Branch tvnter may
be used is properly and thoroughly
boiled.
This gang is building excellent
roads and is moving vapidly. Camp
is changed frequently.
The total score of this year for the
Kershaw county chaingang is 762 out
of a possible 1000 points. The total
score for 1025 was 763.
Mrs. Coleman's recommendations
are that the next selection of camp
be nearer an adequate and unsuspicious
source of water, and that until
the camp is changed every precaution
be taken to thoroughly boil all water
used.
Mother of Nine Killed
Hendersonville, Dec. 9.? Mrs. Florence
Corn, 40, the wife of Dock Corn,
was instantly killed early today when
a shotgun being carried by a 17-ycaruid
son was accidentally discharged.
The accident occurred at the home of
the family on the Edneyville road
about six miles from Hendersonville.
The son had taken the shotgun to
go hunting, it was reported, and had
started out a door, with his mother
close behind him. As he threw the
gun over his shoulder, it was accidentally
discharged. The charge struck
Mrs. Corn squarely in the face, killing
her instantly.
There arc eight children besides the
son in the family, the youngest being
lcs< than a year old. Several of the
children were present when the life
of their mother was snuffed out without
warning. The son in whose hands
the gun was held is almost prostrated
with grief.
l,eg of Man Is Found
Kingstree, Dec. 13.? Wood cutters
working in Black river swamp in the
vicinity of the A. C. L. trestle discovered
the right leg of O. V. Gilbert,
who was murdored Thanksgiving
week at his camp near Kingstree.
Several days after the disappearance
?f Gilbert the severed upper portion
of Gilbert's head was found in the
river near the scene of the crime and
a search of the river bottom continued
for more than a week in an effort
to locate the hiding place of the re
mainder of the body.
I
Denmark
It in Sunday night in a little town
of 4,0 )0 inhabitants and I am lulleu
to sloop by strains of music floating
from the dance hall on the roof of
my hotel. The dance halls, I am
told, close at 12 o'clock. Social
standards vary with the accepted
customs of nations. The Dane says
Sunday dancing is a harmless diversion
but he condemns in unqualified
terms our Sunday baseball games
and prize fights. The Englishman
drinks with impunity at sidewalk
bars while church bells across the
street are calling people to worship,
but laughs at our Puritanical ideas
on civic virtue. Hut moral standards
among both Dane and Englishman
&re "high and Sunday dancing and Sabbath
drinking may not be quite so
bad as some of the moral lapses in
the social life of the America of
today.
t Small Town Life in Denmark
I was aroused from my slumbers
curly this morning by the pattep of
wooden shoes on the pavement be-1
low my hotel window. Looking oui
I saw streams of laborers?both male
and female?pouring toward factory
and field. The little town of Odder
is a perfect type of the average small
town in Denmark, and so let's get
the setting for the background to the
story about small town life in Denmark.
The. town is more than 1,000
years old, but long before it became
a political unit the Vikings used it
as a base of operations. Its cobbled
streets run in serpentine courses in
many directions. Its public square is
flanked on all sides by business
houses, one and two stories high.
Some are modern, others carry the
lines of ancient architecture. It has
its hardware stores, its groceries, its
cigar and tobacco stores and its general
merchandise stores. Strange to
say I found in it only one drug store
and that dispensed nothing but drugs.
In a small place twenty by forty feet
only two clerks were employed?a
man and a young girl. The stone
flagged sidewalks are narrow and
irregular. Through the residence sec:
tion the streets are narrow and
crooked. The miniature homes are
built close to the sidewalk and on the
window ledge of each you invariably
find a box of flowers. Beautiful flowers
of many varieties also flourish in
the tiny front yards. In lieu of house
numbers the name of the home owner
is found on a porcelain plate attached
to the front entrance. The summer
sun sets late and 'following the evening
meal family groups fill the
promenades. Here is heard the gossip
of the village. Automobiles are so
scarce that a new Ford attracts attention,
but bicycle brigades you find
everywhere. Bicycles are ridden by
young girls and b6ys, middle-aged
men and women, grandmothers with
fly bonnets and grandfathers with
flowing beards. it is small town
America forty years ago. And about
it all there is an atmosphere that
acts as an opiate on the nerves of
the tired American.
Forming a Triple Contact
The object of my visit to Odder
was to form a contact with the small
townbanker, merchant and farmer so
that I might study the business attitude
of each toward the other and
thus analyze the Danish system of
co-operative farming and marketing
which has given this nation a seat on
the top of the agricultural world. I
began at the Older Landbobank
where I was most cordially received
by the president, Mr. Ad. Muchitsch.
The Landbobank (note the prefix
"Land" which means agriculture) has
a capital of 500,000 kroner or $125,000,
with deposits aggregating- 1,900,000
kroner or $475,000. Its rediscounts
were only $5,000.00. The
bank's total resources ran to nearly
$1,000,000. Very little of the money
is borrowed by the farmer. The farmer
doesn't need it. He is the depositor.
The borrowers are the merchants
and small manufacturers. More
than two-thirds of the hank's stock i>
owned by farmers and the hank i?
controlled by farmers. Last year its
net profits wore 3(1 per cent. "How
is this?" I enquired. "In my country
the merchants and small manufacturers
are the depositors and the
farmers are the borrowers. Here I
find conditions reversed." A frown
crossed Mr. Muchitsch's face. He did
not understand and I explained. Ii
was with difficulty that he grasped
the banking situation in America. He
did not comment but he wondered.
He was feeling his vray~ T*Over here
i?rr 11 ? 1
w? could not exiat under such condition*/'
he countered. "The farmer*
are our moat valuable customer*. It
la from them we get the money we
lend to the merchant and manufacr
turer. Oh, yes, land value* slumped
in 11*20. Land that sold a* high as
$176 an acre ?old, when deflation
came, a* low a* $100. Men who sold
at high price* on deferred payments
pledged their mortgage* und when
they had to redeem or protect those
mortgage* they found themselves in
financial difficulties. Hank* that rediscounted
many of these mortgages
found themselves in deep water. Thirty
out of the 300 hank* in Denmark
*u*|>cnded bflbiness; ten were completely
wiped out and the remaining
20 merged with other bank*. If it
had not been for the farmer in thi*
crisis condition,* might have been
much worse." Mr. Muchitsch leaned
back in hi* heavily upholstered chuir
and hit viciously at the end of a big
black cigar a* if recollections of the
deflation days had revived hi* fighting
spirit. "What part did cooperation
play in thi* crisis?" Mr. Muehitsch
shot me a quick glance, leaned
over the table and assumed an aggressive
attitude, then his expression
changed and he laughed a goodnatured
la^igh. "Why, it saved us.
We could not get along without cooperation.
It is the life-blood of
business in Denmark. What does the
merchant think of co-operative marketing?
He thinks enough of it to
hack it to the limit. His prosperity
depends on the prosperity of the
farmer and the Danish farmer could
not prosper without co-operative marketing.
Oh, yes,' you can talk freely
to the merchant about co-dperativc
marketing. No danger of offending
him. He doe* not look with much
favor on co-operative buying, but he
is 100 percent co-operative when it
comes to selling." Interest rates in
Denmark are low. The rate is five
parcent on first-class collateral. As
the value of the collateral decreases
the interest rate increases.
Americans in Odder are as rare as
Eskimos at the equator. The news
of my day in the bank, I think, had
been broadcasted. People on the
streets turned and stared at us. In
our room at the hotel that night I
turned to my traveling companion and
remarked: "Say, old top, if that banK
should happen to be robbed tonight
we would have to lie here in jail for
. nil II I
the rest of our days.*' My companion
paled to Oie gill*.
The Yankee's Footprints
The Danish system of farming and
marketing is fifty years ahead pf
America's but American, farm machincry
forms u vital part of the agricultural
life of this little nation. On
every farm is found improved American
farm machinery. Asked why he
does not buy the cheaper farm machinery
made in England and Germany
the Dane will tell you that
he wants the best and it is more economical
to buy the higher-priced
American machinery and pay the
freight across the Atlantic. He uses
American plow stocks, American plow
points and American harvesters, reapers
and binders. In out of the way
places one discovers many interesting
objects. Once while roaming around
rural England I dug up out of an
old ironJbound chest, in a modeBt
little church in an isolated town
shunned by tourists, the marriage
record of Captain Jones, commander
of the Mayflower, to Mary Everett.
The Englishman did not attach much
importance to it. The other day
while plundering through the attic
of an agricultural building I came
across one of the first reapers and
binders made in America. Manufactured
in 1850 it was a crude, clumsy
looking machine ' built entirely of
wood. The. machine was bougKt by
an Englishman who soon became disgusted
with it and sold it to a Dane.
What the Dane did with it history
does not record, but it must have
tuken the patience of a Dutchman to
operate it.
He Had His Say
A couple of ?ity men who were oui
on .tHe links when they saw an old
man watching their play.
They asked him to join in the game,
which he did with alacrity. He was
mild in speech and manner and played
well. But once when he had made a
foozle he ejaculated vehemently the
Word "Assouan!" A few moments
later, when he had made .another bad
i shot, he repeated "Assouan!"
i The fourth time he said this, one of
| his new-made friends remarked, "I do
j not wish to be inquisitive, but will you
tell me why you say 'Assouan' so |
often ?"
"Well" answered the old man, "isn't,
that the biggest 'dam' in the world?"
He was a Presbyterian minister.
TRB8PA88ING FORBIDDEN
... All
parties tw hereby warned net
to trespass upon my Undo five mils*
south of Camden, for hunting or fcr
any purpose whatsoever. Anyone
found violating this warning will be
Kosecuted to the full extent of the
w. W. C. SEAGLE.
Nov. 19, 1926. " 34-37-pd
TltKfcO*A88 NOTICE.
Trespassing, bunting or shooting,
day or night, cutting or hauling wood
or straw, cattle or hogs running at
large, on lands owned ?nd posted by
Mr Ralph Ellis, will be dealt with to
the full extent of the law.
L. A. Kirkland, Attorney.
R. Storey, Agent. 27-37"pd
FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice is hereby given that ene
month from this date, on Tuesday,
December 14,% 1020, at 12 m., I will
make to the Probate Court of Kershaw
County my final return as Bxecutor
of the estate of B. G. McLeod,
deceased, and on the same date I will
apply to the said Court for a final
discharge as said Executor.
E. M. WORK-MAN, Executer.
I Camden, S. C., Nov. 15, 1026.
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Notice To Debtors and Creditors
! All parties indebted to the estate of
: Dr. Vf. 3, Dunn are hereby notified to
make payment to the undersigned or
T. K. Trotter, attorney, and all parties
having claims against the said
estate will present them likewise, duly
attested. n. * *
D\J, Ralph Dunn,
Administrator, Efcf^jite Dr. W. 3* D??n,
Sumter, S. .
Canden, S. C., Nov. 11, 1926.
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