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k THE Camden Chronicle MK^XXXIX. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1927. NUMBER 9. 1 ... . , I.J-L.. JLJ 11 -_JU I nil I I.LJ aggg?U1 _. J-LLJ1 l-HU -J- q?i-J -I . -?_L J ' J I M - IEAKLMWU MILLION TO BE SPENT PON ROADS OF KERSHAW COUNTY I*cU to b? Let Thia Fartt Connect Richland end ssterfield and Sunrrter and icaiter With Seventy or re Miles of Hard Surface way?All Roads ILead ougli Camden?Wateree dge to Remain as a Toll dge??Gas Tax be Used. ?;?? igreement whereby Kershaw will soon have under way seventy miles of hard surface y tame to a climax Wednesa joint meeting of the County of Directors and the county tive delegation. The agreement nanimously signed by all main\ ; is one of the biggest pieces of manating from the court house while and will put Kershaw in the front rank of South counties with hard surface s traversing it in two direclan as we are able to learn istruct these highways with: if any, extra tax lexy? an agreement with the State Commission, letting the toll ?main and letting Kershaw aunty's share of the gasoline tax ??ke care of the bonded indebtedness. ft is also said that' a corps of, ngrneers will be in the county withn the next two weeks to make the Isary surveys in relocating roads utting the work under way. The ' acts for paving will be let this ' md the entire program is to be | leted within a period of two' One million, seven hundred y thousand dollars will be ex*d. The roads will be constructf asphalt, using five inches o{ and cement base with two-inch tit surface. h hard surface highways coring from Richland to the Chestercounty line and from Sumter to Lancaster county line "and such r state highways or sections as he mutually agreed upon," it he -f untold benefit to Camden Kershaw county. cnatoi Grover Welsh and Chair1 H d: Garrison, Jr., have b^en 'ly working on this project-' fyr tiine and it was through their "ts this great forward movement on to be put over. Heimbursement Agreement i reimbursement agreement (' by the county board of tors?H. Q. Carrison, Jr., chairlb M. Kirklcy, ?arl H. Bowen ' M. So well?is as. follows: ls agreement, made and entered hy and between the State Highf'mnmission of South Carolina, "after called the Commission, Kershaw County, Witnesseth, >uisuan? to the provisions of the ' the General Assembly of < arolina providing for the 'highway Systefh, etc., the sameAct No. 731, Acts of 1924, ap1 March 21, 1924, as amended, provisions of the Act of Gen^embly of South Carolina reto the construction of highPursuant to reimbursement 'its, etc., the same being Act Acts of 1926, approved the day of April, A. D.' 1926, the * hereto have mutually agreed > hereby mutually agree as fol? rhe County agrees to advance rommission, within sixty days 'crrrand by the Commission or ( hief Highway Commissioner iVh?mh S*toUn*' the *um of 0nfl 'hn,?n ^Ven Hundred and Ninety s th*> r* t)o^arR?"or so much thereof a ?mmission may deem neces^ . or the purpose of constructing deRcribed highway or * the St '. 8ame bein* embraced ^'ibed' *Hi&hw*y System and deAct * "*" "X" C ttThe S field county line, approximately 38.3 miles in length. A section of Route 26, beginning at the Sumter county line, through Camden and Westville to the Lancaster county line in Kershaw, approximately 31.J miles in length. And such other State Highways or sections thereof in Kershaw County as may be mutually agreed upon between the Kershaw County authorities and the State Highway Commission. 2. The Commission agrees to construct said highway or highways, orso much thereof as can be construct-' ed by means of the moneys to bo advanced as aforesaid, and further agrees to reimburse and repay the County for all moneys so advanced, such reimbursements und repayment to be mude by the Commission out of the funds authorized by said Act approved March 31, 1924, as amended, to be used for the construction of a | State Highway System, as follows: $ 74,000 December 31, 1029. If 78,000 December .31, 1030. $ 82,000 December 31, 1931. $ 86,000 December 31, 1932. $ 90,000 December 31, 1933. $ 95,000 December 31, 1934. $100,000 December 31, 1935. $105,000 December 31, 1936. $110,000 December 31, 1937. i- $116,000 December 31, 1938. .$122,000 December 31, 1939. $122,000 December 31, 1940. $122,000 December 31, 1941. $122,000 December 31, 1942. $122,000 December 31, 1943. $122,000 December 31, 1944. ' $122,000 December 31, 1945. 3. The work to bt^-doj^e by the Commission under this agreement includes grading or re-gphding of said highways, hard surfacing thereof, constructing all neeessat*y drainage structures under twenty feet span, constructing necessary bridges, together with the necessary eng neering work and all other work which may he deemed necessary by the State Highway Department. 4. The rights of way necessary for said highway or highways and the necessary borrow-and surfacing mat: erial pits shall be obtained by and at the expense of the county and shal! not be paid for by means of the I moneys "to be4idvanced by the county as hereinbefore provided. The county agrees that such rights of way cannot be obtained by gift or purchase in i time to avoid delay in the said construction work, condemnation proceedi ings will at the request of the State Highway Department, as may seem : preferable to the Department, and | that any damages finally awarded on ; account of such condemnation proceedings will be paid by the county. 5. The moneys to be advanced by the County to the Commission pur' suant to this agreement shall be paid ! by the County to the State Treasurer of South Carolina, for the use of the Commission. The moneys to be paid ! to the County by the Commission, by way of reimbursement pursuant to ' this agreement, shall be paid to the ; Treasurer of,rthe County, for the use of the County. | 6. If the actual cost of the work to be done by the Commission pur' suant to this agreement shall be less than the amount covered by thijn agreement (which sum is the cost of said work as estimated by the Com-j | mission) all moneys in excess of said actual cost which may have been ad. vanced by the County pursuant to this ( agreement shall, upon the determination of said actual cost, be repaid by t the Commission to the County Treasurer of the County. {', Resolution By Delegation ' ; The resolution approving the bursement agreement, signed by the legislative delegation, G. C. Welsh, senator, and Loring Davis and Newton Kelly, members of the house, is as follows: "Whereas, Kershaw County road authorities, tinder the provisions of Act. No. 569, Acts*of the General As-* sembly of 1926, have executed a reimbursement agreemnt with the State Highway I>epartment in the sum of One Million, Seven hundred Ninety Thousand ($1,790,000.00) Dollars for paving: ^ "A section of Route 60, beginning at the Richland County line, through issM&zr-r- : Camden and Bethune to the Chesterfield County line, approximately 38.3 miles in length. A sectiun of Route 26, beginning at the Sumter County line, through 1 amden and Westville to tlw I,uncwii-UtfL.CuM/ity line in Kershaw, approximately 31.1 miles in length. And svu-h other State Highways or sections thereof in Kershuw county as may be mutually agreed upon between the KersRaut Oouhty authorities ant) the State Highway Commission. ? ' "And whereas, aaid Act hereto-] above referred, to requires that the bonds issued by the County road authorities pursuaht to said agreer meat, shall be upon the approval of the Senator and at least one-half of the members of the House Delegation, now, therefore, "Be it resolved, That we, individually and collectively, hereby give our approval to the reimbursement agreement herein referred to and to the sale of the bonds necessary to carry "Ut the same." WAS NATIVE OF THIS COUNTY Lawrence Whitgker . Taylor, Aged Veteran, Pasties in Columbia Lawrence Whitaker Taylor, an exConfederate soldier, died at his home in Columbia last Thursday morning at the age of 70. Mr. Taylor was a native of Kershaw County, having heen-.born at Stoney Hill, in West Wateree, August 21, 1K-18. The site of the old home is near Jordan's Mill, but the old house has been burned long ago. Lawrence Taylor came of a family who formerly owned the site of the city of Columbia as their plantation. He was the youngest son of William Jesse Taylor and Alexinu Jesse Muir. April 12, 1869. he was married to Katherijie de Clemery Burroughs, a daughter of Dr. Henry R. Burroughs and Ella c'e Saussure of Savannah. His widow, six eh i Id it-n. 23 grandchil'it-n and two great-grandchildren survive him. The daughters are Mrs S. M. Clark son and Mrs. A. J. Garick of Columbia and Mrs. A. B. Holland of Sumter and the sons are W. J., L. M. and A W. Taylor, all of Columbia. Captain Taylor, for the past 35 years, had been connected with the Richland county courthouse. Home-Coming Day at Stateburg The last "Home Coming Day" at the Church of the Holy Cross, Stateburg, seemed to be such a happy and successful occasion, and so many rxpressed the desire to return to another home coming gathering that the people of that community have arranged to have it this year on Sunday, May 29, and hope to make it an annual affair. So many helped sc generously to repair the walls of tin church that the congregation desire? the pleasure of having these donor* seeing them safti. and sound again and want to celebrate this year b\ concentrating upon the repair of '.'ritndships and memories once again The program will be Sunday?achoo at 10:30, service and address at 11:30 and basket lunch at one o'clock. To Meet In Kershaw The Hobkirk Hill Chapter D. A. R will hold ,its next meeting in Kershav at jhe home of Mrs. Fred Culvern oi June 2. Th^ regent urges even member to make an effort to attern as this will be not only a very in teresting meeting, but it is the las of the year, and a very importan one. Spent Week-End Here D.-. and Mrs. Walter R. Alexandci and little daughter of Rock Hill spen Saturday and Sunday in Camden a: guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Hack abee on Market street. I)r. Alex andcr is the pastor of the First Bap tist church aryi made the haccalaur ea'e sermon at Pisgah church Sun day afternoon/^Tor the Charlotb Thompson school of which Mr. Nor mar. Huckaboe is the efficient sup erintendeiit. At night Dr. Alexande preached at the Camden Baptis -church to an appreciative congrrga tior.. NEW YORK TO PARIS LINDBERGH'S RECORD _ ? ? Daring Young Airman Given | Create*! Welcome in History i of French People 1* Hailed J|y| World's Greatest Aviator -?Made Flight in ThirtyThree and a Half Hours. ' A i t I Paris, May 21.?(apt. (iharlcB A. Lindbergh, the young American aviator, who hopped off from New York yesterday morning all irione- in his monoplane, arrived in Paris tonight, safe and sound, as every one hoped he would. The sandy-haired son of the Middle West dropped down out of the durkIiess at Le Hour get flying field, a few miles from Paris, ift 10:21 o'clock tonight (5:21 p.ni. New York time) only Ji.M 1-2 hours after leaving Long Island?the first man in history to &o from New York to* Paris without changing his seat. To the young American it was fseemingly merely the achievement of ?U.ambition. T6 Paris, to Franco, to America, to 4)\e world, his.landing tonight made him the greatest of heroes mankind has produced since the air became a means of travel. A crowd of at least 25,000 surrounded his plane, the Spirit of St. Luuix, when it came to earth after its epochal voyage from the New World to the Old. The airmun was lifted from the seat, where for two days and a night he sat fixed, guiding his plane o\er land and sea, and for <10 minutes he was hardly able to talk or do anything else, except let himself he carried along by a mass of men made delirious with joy at his ^/hievement. Never has an aviator of any nation. even king or ruler, had a greater or more spontaneous welcome from the heart of the common people of France. The very re* klessness of his endeavor, as it appeared, appealed to the quick emotional imagination of Frenchmen, and bhey were quick to respond with everything their own | hearts could give. All ties of nationalism were fori gotten by the Ix* Bourget throng. It saw in Lindbergh only a man who had brilliantly gambled with death, and won. Then; wa> regret, of course, for Nungtsser and Coli, and regret, too, that the daring Frenchmen had not been the first. But there was m bitterness in their greeting of the American winner. It was the common people of France who first hailed the intrepid Lindbergh as he emerged from what only yesterday morning he had called his "death chamber." Shortly after 10:10, the roar of his motor, for which they had been waiting for hours, came out of the clear night sky to the ears of the multitude. ' Police lines were swept aside as thousands surged over , the field to welcome the man who had won their hearts and had earned immortal fame. ' "There he is," the cry went up as ' the. rays of the searchlights gleamed upon the monoplane gracefully de, scending from the darkness, which ' had enveloped all and through which 1 only the sound of the motor gave . warning of his approach. At this in 1 stant the crowds began their race , across the field. Smoothly the airplane, the Spirit of St. Ivouis, glided down upon the lighted ground. Even before it hue come to a pause a hundred hand* ' caught hold of the wings, and score/ 1 of feet were trampling upon on& ' another in an effort to reach ' of the fuselage, within which sat .' " young man who all alone had succeed 1 ed in flying from New York to Parii 1 without a stop. The wheels had scarcely ceased t< roll, the propeller had barely come t< a stop, when lyindbergh weary-eyed r but smiling, got up from the seal t where he had so long sat, and in i ? casual voice, almost drowned by th* - cheers of thousands, said with charm ing 'stiviplicity: "Well, here wo are.' He put his leg over the side of thi - cockpit, and it was grasped by i - dozen hands. So was the other leg, a e soon as he could get it out of th* - machine. Holding him high am - cheering him, with %-heers that cam r from the heart, a swell as the lung? t the crowd took him to itself. The police did their best to get t (Continued on Last Page) ^ ... .. :,*fc , * ' FORTY-SIX GRADUATES FROM CAMDEN HIGH THIS SESSION Commencement Exercises Will Begin Sunday Evening With Annual Sermon at School Auditorium-?Closes Friday | Evening With Graduating Exerciies and Awarding of Diplomas to Large List of Young Grhduatas. r" ' % The commencement exerciim* for the Camden High school will open with the commencement sermon on Sunday evening, a4 8:30 o'clock in the school auditorium. The annual sermon will be preached by Richard T. | Gillespie, president of the Columbia Theological Seminary. The next exercises will be the following Thursday evening at the sunn hour in the school auditorium. This is known us the class day exercises and will be under full control and direction of the students themselves on that night. On 'Friday morning at 11 o clock the yearly scholarship and attendance honor roll * together with announcements will be read to the student body and public. The closing exercises will be held Friday cveninir June 3. A new feature to tha annual commencement exercises will be the opening of an Exhibit to the public by the urt class which has been under the direction of Mrs. Lambert DePass and Miss Jo McMillan during the past year. This exhibit will he found on the second floor in the hull-way. ^Tho Domestic Science Department will ; have its customary exhibit. Thirty-two youngSadies and gen,-1 tic men will graduate fh>m the High) school this year and the graduating j class includes: Frances Evelyn Bis| sell, Gertrude Mitcham Zemp, Mary J Lou Moseley. James Team Gettys, James Riley Gettys, Moultrie Rrailsjfor'd Burns, V\ftHittm Samuel Lindsay, Carolyn Friedham Heyman, Willie I E\ans Porter, Louis DeSuussure ! Lang. Robert Edward Davis, Thomasia llarrid Guthrie, Abbott Walter Goodale, Mary Lynne Thompson, Virginia Lee Nettles, Walter Ashhy Rhame, Milohol Rabon, Aileen Funderburke, Ralph Brasington M;*Caskill, 1 had Fibertus Flowers, Louise Doby Jennings, Margaret Kinard Rtt.st, ^osie Winona Carroway, John | Stevens*? Davidson, Julian Henry ; KicheH, Lcighton f arnker Hardy, Hebron Radcliffe, John Witherspoon Richardson, Finest Peter Shebeen, ( lare Bruce, James Douglas Montgomery, Riley Gettys, John II. McDowell, Frank Sowell, Annafeelle Watts, huzelia C.reed, Faith deLoach,' Katherine DeLoache, Loma Gladden, Kvu Kelly, Margaret Myers, Esca Myers, Virginia Nicholson, Ktia Rabon, Marie Turner, Cora Williams, Willie B. Jackson. Sunday evening, May 2(J, 8:30 o'clock the exercises will be as follows: Doxology congregation; invocation, Rev. I. deL. Brnyshaw; hymn, "Day is Dying in the West"; prayer, Rev. J. p. Graham; anthem, double quartet, "I Will Praise Thee, O, Lord," J. W. Drman; Scripture reading; hymn, "A Charge To Keep I ' - Have"; Sermon to Graduates. Dr. Richard T. Gillespie, introduced bv - Rev. J. T. Peeler; hymn, "'Jesus Calls ' Us"; benediction, Rev. T. L. WillingI ham. ' C lass Day Exercises, Thursday eve' ning, June 2, 8:30 o'clock. Music, by ' Toy Orchestra; History, Louis Lang; i Jokes, Thad Flowers; Biography, Lou1 ise Jennings; Statistics, Thomasis Guthrie; Census, Frances Bissell * Piano solo; Alphabet, Virginir Nettles; Prophecy, Willie Belle Jack > son; Poem, Billy Lindsay; Will ' Julian Eiehel; Class Song. Graduating Exercises, Friday eve ^ ning, June 3, 8:80 o'clock: Invocation 1 Rev. J. T. Peeler, Salutatory; Song ? "Mighty Lak a Rose," Molly Black * we lb Virginia DeLoache, Essie Ma Watts, Esca Myers, Esther DeLoache ? Frances Bissell; Address, Dr. Car 4 lyle Campbell, Coker College; Pion * solo; awarding of medals, Supt. J Team Gettys; ^awarding of diploma: C. H. Yates, chairman, board c p trustees; Valedictory; commeneemer '? song; benediction. 0 . Scholarship Honor Roll Grade 1-A?Maud Outlaw,, Wilhe a.t.; iliji miiui Struk, Fauietle West, Hill Allred, Hob Alfred, Dan McCaskill, Jack Rhame, Jack Richards, Jack Villepigue. Grade 1-B- Rebecca Beard, Marie Bullock, Hilly DeLoavhe, Dorothy Durfee, James Graham, Fred Hugr gins, Randolph Kirkland, Margaret Osborne, Stanley Watts. Grade 1-C?Williurn Christmas, William Waterf, Grade 2-A*?Woodrow Benson, Allen Calder, Frnncin Chapman, Sidney Kirkland, Guy Love, Hobby Marye, Jack Mogulescue, Hilly Nettles, Woodrow Sanders, Clinton Thigpen, Minnie Sue Bruce, Lillian Davis, Vir- ^ ginla Davis, Catherine Dempster, Charles Dunn, Ellen Little, Rebecca Rush, Ha/.el Shirley, Sudie Shirley, Jean Van Landingham, Nancy Watts. Grade 2-B--Ralph Shirley, Bobby Outlaw, Lionel Minims, Joylynn Hall, Basil Munn, Clyburn Huggins, Maijory Culler. Grade fl-A? Sarah Biased, Leila Christmas, E) izabeth Goodale, Emily Shannon, Emily Sheorn, Lena Stevenson, Edna Strak, Helen Tindal, Fannie Mickle> Helton Beard, Jack Brown, Everet Goodale, Jack Halsall, L. S. Mayer, Raymond Moore, McKain Richards, Robert Shaw, Marion Smith, Rollins Hatfield. Grade J-B?Ethel Evans, Evelyn Horton, Fled a be! Horton, Thelma Kinney, Martha Moseley, Louise Reed, Louitte Tolbert, Lacy Brayshaw, Redding Ogleshy. Grade 4-A?James Chapman, Jat-k Hnile, Doris Hounor, Evorette Montgomery, Roland Moore, Katherine Brayshaw, Ruth Dtdxiache, Charlotte DuBose, Ruby Elliott, Estclle Myers, Frances Mclx?od, Dorothy Rucker, Dorothy Van Landingham, Eleanor Watts. Grade 1-B- Marie Trapp, Francis Shehccn. Grade 5-A ? William Thompson, Fletcher Moore, Cecil MoCaskill, Marion Evans, James Clyburn, Dan Garrison, Mary I?ee Blakency, Betsv Dickens, Mary Ellen Kirkland, Elizalx'th M (ton , Kate Shannon, Golda Shirley. Grade 5-B?Billy Baum. Grade <>-A? Meta Mogulescu, Samuel McCaskill, Nancy Brown, Sarah Kirkland. Grade 7-A ? Harriet Ixnick, Grayson Shaw, Joe Jenkins.* ; Grude 7-B -Mary Peebles. Grade K-A?Arthur Brown, Ethel Durfee, Evelyn Gcttys, Willie Hnile, Caroline llouser, Eli/ubeth McCaskill, Carolyn McKain, Emily Pitts, Lenoia Rhame, Mattie Shaw, Pearly VVelsh, Elizabeth Zemp. Grade 8-B? Nancy Doyle. , Grade 9-A?Annie Turner, Virginia Doyle, Benton Burns, Arthur Davis, Robert Kennedy, -Duncan Lang, Rocbelle Sheorn. "Grade 9-A?H. A. Rabon, Martha Benson, Catherine Boykin, Carolyn Burnet, Betty -Cureton, Lucy Kirkland, Sarah Mills, Maude McTeer, Caroline Richardson. Grade 10-A?Mary Boykin, Martha Boykin, Evelyn Moseley, Louise T rapp. Grade 10-B?Evelyn Bruce, Ellen Stewart, Dotty fcemp, Mary Brown, Virginia Haile. Grade 11-A?.Moultrie Burns, Robert Davis, Team Gettys, Carolyn Heyman, Louise Jennings, Louis Lang, Willie Porter. Grade 10-B?John Richardson, Eva Kelly. Attendance# Honor Roll Grade 1-A?Sophie Creed, ' Lesta I Davis, Betty Holland, Dorothy Moore, . Edna Moore, Katherine Myers, Maud i Outlaw, Leona Sinclair, Wilbelmina ; Strak, Paulette West, Bessie Willing- . i ham, Lucille Willinghani, Bill Allred, . Bob Allred, I>eroy Branham, Carlyle f Jackson, H. T. Ix>vette, Graham Marshall, Dan McCaskill, Bobby McLain, . Jack Rhame, Jack Richards, Jack Vil, lepigue. , Grade* 1-B?Rebecca Beard, Marie . Bullock, Macie Christmas, Dorothy e Durfee, Leonard Goff, James Graham, : >( J. E. Horton, Robertson Jennings, . Randolph Kirkland, Alva Lee, Louire 0 Mickle, John Melton, Margaret OsI, borne, Herbert Richey, Albertus Rush, Paytcn Shirley, James Williams, >f Douglas Wootcn. ,t Grade l-<%-*Malcolm Christmas, William Christmas, Harry Corb*tt, Carl ^rakeford, Joe Moaeley. Clarence Owens, Archie Stall), ' Williawu 1- (Continued on Laat Page) ^ # . " '-v