Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE ?7 U.~NHe? . . Editor and Publisher Published every Friday at No. 1109 Broad 8lr*x?t and entered at Uie Camden, South Carolina, postofflca as sacond clans mail matter. Price per annum $2.00. Camden, H. ('., Friday, July 8, 1027. 192r IUCY 1927 ^ IjUlt^lWaifie l fall* or nr n w w i ^ 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 I lit Ul g as Former Judge James E. Peurifoy of Walterboro, widely known jurist and financier, was elected president of th# South Carolina Bankers' association at the closing session of the twentyseventh annual convention of the organization at Asheville on Wednesday. (J. W. Duvall of Cheraw, the retiring president, was elected a member at large of the executive council, succeeding Robert N\ Woodside of Greenville. W. B. Turner of Aiken was also elected to membership on the executive council. F. P. Bcatty of Greenville was elected vice-president to succeed in that office the newly elected president. Newspaper men of South Carolina will be sorry to hear that Ed DeCamp has quit the game. He has for so many years been the propelling force behind the lively Gaffney ledger that his name at the masthead will be missed. Ed DeCamp has not only been a good newspaper man and still is, but he has made money at it. That is the most remarkable part of it all, us many would have said In the old days. Newspaper making these days, however, is us much of a commercial undertaking as any other business and Ed DeCamp is one of the members of the profession who has realized the opportunity and had the brains to make the most of it. With all of this He has been a great force for good in Gaffney and his friends hope that he will continue to be as successful in any other line he may undertake.*? Florence News-Review. Mr. Robert Jenkins, a young farmer living near Dal/ell met with a double misfortune Tuesday. Monday night one of his pair of mules was taken sick and died before morning. Tuesday morning he hitched the other mule to the carcass of its team-mate to drag it off the place. After going onlj^a short distance the mule dropped dead in its tracks and Mr. Jenkins was lef' with two dead mules in place of a good team. -Sumter 11 em. Governor Richaids has started something that might lead to the establishment of a state-wide prosecution of important murder cases. He has commandeered the services of Mendel L. Smith of Camden to assist the solicitor in the prosecution of the Willis case. If we could keep this brilliant legal mi,id on the state's side all the time, criminals deprived of h.s saving strategy would stop and think before getting in trouble. A new office should be created at the next legislature, that of chief solicitor. Florence News-Review. J. W. Jay & Company, cotton factors of New York City, in a letter dated June .10th to the buyers throughout the country, state that there is an indicated decrease in acreage over last year of 9 per cent and that average condition on that date was 7?>.T per cent, which is almost 2 per cent above the 10-year average. Jay and Company in their resume say that the crop as a whole is in shape to tespond to warm, dry weather aiui is about one week earlier than last year. Harvesting is progressing in South Texas, the first bale, volunteer growth, was marketed at Houston on Ma\ 29th. The first hale of this year's planting at Galveston, on June second; South Georgia and South Alabama expect firat bales in nbout four weeks. Commander Byrd and his party of trans-Atlantic fliers, will be offered transportation to America on an\ of the shipping b an! vessels they may prefer, when the\ are ready to return to the United States. N. C. ARNETT R E A I. ESTATE I.oan and Savings Hank Building OUR SERVICE INCLUDES A CANDID PRESENTATION OF OUR LISTINGS AND UNTIRING EFFORT TO SUPPLY YOUR NEEDS Named tm (io??ruur'a Htaff Hon. T. Hick* Fort, well known member of the Columbua bar and hea<J of the board of trustee* of the Columbia school*, wui officially notified in a letter received by him Saturday from Hon. J. C. Woodward, head of the Georgia Military academy and chief of the official ataff avlected by Dr. L. G. Hardman, inaugurated Suturday a? (governor of Georgia, that he had been appointed a member of the ataff with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Colonel Fort had had no previoua intimation that he would be ao honored other than that contained in Saturday press diapatchea from Atlanta, by the new chief executive, therefore the appointment came to him aa an appreciated surprise.? Columbus Ledger. Colonel Fort ia an old Camden boy who received hia high achool education in this city and ia remembered by many of our older citizens who are delighted to know that he ia inaknig good in hia Georgia home. Gin Hundred Hales Kayrnondville, Texan, June 27.? Laaara, a town aeven miles west of Kayrnondville, was ail outstanding town in the United States today from the standpoint of cotton ginning. Records showed more than 100 bales of the new crop ginned, which was a greater amount than any other town in the Kio Grande valley where cotton matures earliest. Greenwood, June 29.?James Campbell, Anderson youth, was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in sessions court today for the killing of P. T. Jacobs, world war veteran, here on the night of March 31, last, and was sentenced by Judge C. C. Featherstone to serve 12 years in the stute penitentiary. Campbell pleaded self-defense, maintaining that Jacobs wus advancing on him in a darkened room with two pistols when he shot to save his own life. The state stressed the point that Campbell told officers the day following the killing thaf he did not remember the shooting. Testimony showed that liquor played a part in the slaying. The following officers were elected by the South Carolina Cotton Seed Crushers' association, at the close of the joint convention with the North ( arolina association at Asheville, N. C., 1 uesday, YV. A. Reynolds, Columbia, president; H. L. Allen, Greenwood, vice president and Russell Acree, Columbia, re-elected secretary. A number of Monroe qcitizens, fifty or more in number, attended Sunday the birthday celebration of Miles Ihrentt, who had attained his 96th year. Major \V. ('. Heath, R. F. Beasley. \Y . S. Blakeney, of Monroe, and Senator Geo. K. Laney and Cupcland Massey made addresses. T. B. Laney, <>f Monroe, was master of ceremonies, and he took with him the Icemorlee band und Monroe's quartet?Ben Wolfe, Ray Shute. Herbert YVarlick and Pete Hudson--to sing. Also Stogner's Quartet and the Misses Ellis. graddaughters of Mr. and Mrs. P. Rogers, of Altan, were present ml furnished music with their ukeleles. There were about one thousand persons present and a most bountiful dinner served under a magnificent canopy of trees.?Monroe Enquirer. Youth Drowned Pryon, N. C., July I.?Edward Lee Broome, Jr.. 16-year-old son of E. L. Broome, prominent Landrum, S. C., merchant was drowned when a small boat in which he way riding capsized in Lake Lanier this afternoon at four o clock. Broome could not swim. (?<hk1 Revival at Wateree \\ ateree church has just enjoyed a glorious revival. The pastor was assisted by the Rev. YV. C. Taylor of Florida as previously announced in this paper. As a result the pastor baptized eighteen in the .beautiful ake at YY'ateree. Named Delegate To Paris Commander Hughey Tindal of the Leroy Belk Post, American Legion, was named at the recent convention held in Rock Hill to be a delegate tc the Paris 1927 convention. Mrs. Tin dal will accompany Mr. Tindal. C. Ri id E'.kins, o^jHreeuville, was electstate commander and Mis. YY'alter Montgomery named as heat! of the American Legion Auxiliary. Orangeburg was selected as the next place of meeting. Dorothy Mackaye, film star, was mi Saturday sentenced to serve one to three years in a California prison, for her connection with the killing of her husband, a musical comedy actor.v in Los Angeles some time ago. Paul Kelly, her friend, who killed Raymond in a fight, is already serving time for the crime. Commander Byrd announced in Paris on Saturday that he expected to fly over the South Pole and that Noville nnd Balchen would be with h m when he made the attempt. GENERAL NEWS NQTES Three unidentified bandit* held up a pay master of a lumber company at Bogalusa, La., Saturday and estaped with the pay-roll of $4,000. *** William Vaile, congressman from Denver, Col., died Saturday from heart trouble a* he was out riding with his wife and ?on. During the firat four month* of thU year the United States imported one million pound* of firecracker* more than it did in a like period laat year, and at the same time during a like period exported more than a million pound* more firecracker* this year than laat year. Two automobile* loaded with 300 gallon* of whiakey, were seised by prohibition agent* near Elisabeth City, N. C\, Saturday. One arrest was made by the officer*. The driver of a second car escaped, leaving hisj car and liquor behind. Lieut. J. Thad Johnson, army flier, was killed at Ottawa, Canada, Saturday a* he was attempting to land after accompanying Colonel CharleH A. Lindbergh to Ottawa on account of the celebration of Canada's jubilee of confederation. Arthur Barry, confessed burglar, one of two men who some week* ago robbed the home of Jesse L. Livermore on Long Island of $90,000 worth of jewelry, has been sentenced to Sing Sing prison for twenty-five years. Elsie Brown, 3 year* old, fell into a rain barrel at Ottumwa, Iowa, Wednesday and was drowned. Trying to better the fasteut rail time between Chicago and Los Angeles, Cal., Samuel Klein and his father, Norris Klein, were both killed at Council Grove, Kan. on Tuesday when the car they were driving left the road after striking a concrete culvert. They had left Chicago at 3 a.m., and when they passed througK Kansas City, Mo., at 2:11 p.m., they were four minutes ahead of the train schedule. Mrs. Marie Fryman, 35, widowed on April 18, and fearing that her five children might be taken from her and sent to an asylum, turned on the gas at her home at Whitestone, Long Island, Monday and took her own life along with the lives of her five children. Five bandits held up a bank at Galion, Ohio, Tuesday and escaped with $15,000 in cash and $50,000 in bonds. Leonard C line, novelist, under (harges at Rockville, Conn., on a charge of murdering Wilfred Irwin, playwright, has elected to risk his fate to three judges rather thun to a jury of twelve men. The court trial will take place in September. Beginning about July 15, an airplane passenger service will be inaugurated between San Francisco and Chicago. The scheduled time between the two cities will bo a little over twenty-one hours and the passenger fare $200. Fourteen of the most powerful financial figures of Los Angeles, Cal., have been indicted by a grand jury! charged with implication in the recent collapse of the Julian Petroleum company. Bonds for each of the men indicted was placed at $25,000. Conspiracy to violate the California laws against usury is among the charges. After Queen Victoria fell in love with her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, she realized that the task of proposing to a queen was a rather appalling one for a timid young man. She, therefore, proposed. A cow owned by Miss,.Aiina Penrose of Sydney, New stfuth Wales, has had an artificial leg for the past six years. The animal has lived in pertect health and has been one of the best milkers of the herd. The Methodist Episcopal church at Sweetwater, Tenn., has provided baby beds, rocking chairs, dolls and toys for the amusement of little folk while their parents attend services. Out of the 650 inhabitant* of Lucas, Kansas, fifteen are octogenarians, ten men and five women. Five of the men are veterans of the Civil War. The combined ages of the fifteen aggregate 1,250 years. The French minister of war has iaised the official allowance of the army cats, whose duty it is to run rats and mice out of army storehouses. from four to ten centimes a day. For the sake of economy many v ouples in a w irknien's quarter in Paris are married en masse. They assemble every Saturday, line up. and the principals, and witnesses sign tha i egister as they pass into the big wedding salon of the city hall. Famous men have employed peculiar methods of recreation. Spinoza, world-famous philosopher, joined in the trivial conversation of th? family with whom he lodged or provoked spiders to fight each other; Socratds played with the children; Balzac amused himself with a collection ol crayon portraits; Dr. Samuel Johnson, by jumping over tables and I chairs; and Dean Swift by running up , and down the steps of the deanery. Herbert McGirt Killed. fUv. G. W. McGirt. an uncle of HerbtM t F. M(<?irt, a negro lawyer of Camden, received a telegram Tueaday morning telling of the death of the Utter at Gary, Indiana, on the fyurth of July. The message was uigited by Vera McGirt, wife of Herbert, and stater that he had met death in a holdup, but no particulars were given. The meseage also aaid that the body was being shipped to Camden for burial, and the funeral will very likely occur from Trinity Methodist Church, Itev. B. F. Bradford, Pastor. Herbert McGirt being a member of that church. McGirt attended the Mather'Academy of this city, later graduating from Claflin University and still later graduating from Howard law school in Washington. He opened an office for the practice of law here, but a few months ago left for the north. After graduating he saw service in the World War and was decorated by the French government for bravery in action. He was a son of the late Eli J. McGirt, and all of his immediate family have either died or left here. He has three brothers residing in the north. No Court Next Week Announcement is made by James H.' Clyburn, clerk of court, that there will be no second week of the July term of court and jurors and witnesses need not appear. Notice to Subscribers Next week we will revise our mailing lists and take off all from our list who have not paid their subscription up to June. Look at your label and see how you stand with your subscriptions. THINGS WORTH KNOWING Judging by chemical progress, a French speaker warns that in the next war asphyxiation of entire cities by gas warfare will be possible. The bursting of a soap bubble by a bullet can be siu/wn in detail by pictures made in exposures of a millionth of a second. In Hawaii- the term "motor cop" is not slang but is a name applied to the territorial police mounted on motorcycles. The giant oaks of Mur, near Loudeac, Brittany, which Corot never tired of sketching and painting, must fall beneath the woodman's axe as the logs Ijflve been sold to a timber merchant. Ambrose Hieromonaehus Pamperes published a poem in 1802 consisting of 1G0 pages, each line reading the same backward or forward as, "Lewd did I live evil I did dwel," and so on. The historic right of a dog to chase a cat was upheld in the Minnesota legislature when a bill permitting any person to kill a dog found chasing that person's "domestic animals or poultry." was changed to read "livestock and poultry." Experiments conducted by two German physiologists show that if cows and goats are given music with their milkings they will yield increased quantities of milk. Airships operating between South American capitals and flying over the mountains for the accommodation of Caribbean Sea travelers charge fares according to weight. Rural and star route mail carriers operating in any part of America are instructed to report all forest fire? to the nearest warden. When the experimental frogs from his laboratory, valued at $462, were stolen, Percy Viosca, Jr., was able to identify and reclaim his property by their voices. This was in New Orleans. The frogs were bullfrogs from the North. A violinist has discoverer! that when she plays certain high notes she experienced a severe toothache. On examining the tooth the dentist found it to be perfectly sound. It never , aches except under the influence of the high notes of the violin. Only one in every twenty-five of the Parisian girls attending trade schools train to be stenographers or secretaries. They piefer dressmaking, millinery and similar women's work to tftese dressed-up jobs. Valentin le Page, a crippled Parisian chair mender, has lived for three years along the highway in a battered bathtub roofed with boards. As the result of an inoident at a recent marriage performed by him, a justice of the peace in Missouri has posted the following sign in his off.ce: "Brides must not kiss the justice of the peace." There are mora than two hundred separate and distinct forms of money in China. A resolution was adopted at a eoni ference of local education authorities i in England and referred to a comi mittee of teachers to introduce a i course in laughter into the curriculum of the schools. The authorities believe the British to be too sober and sedate. 1 In the opin-on of dftnrinj instruc? tors, tall persons with poise and bal; ance make the best dancers. Water** Mill News At leaet fifty per cent of our folks attended the big Kendall Mills field day celebration held at Newberry on July Fourth and those who didn't find it convenient to be out of town for the day had family reunions, family picnics and so on. The weathev was good and no accidents occurred during the day. Miss Mervin Murphy celebrated her thirteenth birthday with a lovely par* ty for a few of her young friends on Friday night at her home. Miss Brucie Barnes who is in training at the Columbia hospital is at home spending a three-weeks vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. K. T. Barnes on Holly Hill. Miss Mary Lee Taylor of St. Charles is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. W. P. Johnson. Mr. George Andrews of Greenville and attractive little daughter, Cecil, were visitors here at the plant on Wednesday last. Mr. and Mrs. Locia Colviu spent Tuesday with friends at Kershaw. Master Derrel and Alvin Sanders are on a yisit with relatives in Columbia. Mr. 11. P. Kendall was a visitor here at the plant on Wednesday. Mr. Kendall came South to attend the big field day celebration of all the Kendall mills held in Newberry on July Fourth. Mr. H. K. Hallett, manager of the Thrift Manufacturing company, was a visitor here on Saturday. Miss Ruth Martin hds returned to the village after a few weeks visit with relatives at Chappell Hill. James Harrilson has returned after a month's visit with friends at Johnston. . Little Sarah Frances Mitchell is at home hfter a visit with her grandmother at Chester. Miss Maude Wallace of Lancaster is on a visit with her sister, Mrs. W. B. Whalen on Lake Shore Drive. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Johnson are now occupying their attractive new cottage on administration row. < Mr. Joe Quinn spent the Fourth with friends at Gastonia, N. C. Mrs. John Smith and children are spending a few days with relatives at Bethune. Mr. Wylie Stewart is spending/ a few days with friends near McBee. -Mr. Johnnie Stokes spent the Fourth with his parents at Darlington. The regular dental clinic was held at the first aid room on Friday last. The next clinic will he on Friday, July 15, 11 to 12 o'clock, by Dr. C. F. Sowell. John Dempsey, brother of Jack Dempsey, the prize-fighter, shot his wife to death in their apartment at Schenectady, N. V., Saturday and then committed suicide. Wants-For Sale old-fashioned boxwood. On highway between Whitmire and Union. Mrs. Robert Beaty, Whitmire, S. C. 14-pd THETUSINE8S~ MEN^d^^r. chants are counted upon to keep the town in a progressive condition. Help 'them by trading with them. A town cannot be better or bigger than its business and professional interests. Electrik Maid Bake Shop. i_ti F(}J* KENT?Market on Rutledge and Broad streets. Fully equipped. Apply to L. J. Whitaker, Camden, i5-pd WANTED?-Hustling salesman to work with manager. Year round position. Address "Dry Goods," care of Camden Chronicle, Camden, _ b; C- , 15-pd want to b?y a farmland if there are any for sale within twenty-five miles of Camden or nearer and the price, buildings, etc., are right write me. Cash or terms. I am a white man. S. A. Fogel, 24 Mechanic Street, Webster, Mass. 15-16-pd LOST?-Six silver teaspoons, either , on Broad or DeKalb streets, in the business district. Reward of returned to the Chronicle Office. 15-sb-lvm . CABINET MAKER J Far all kinda cabinetmakin# k carpenter Work of all kinds call J! me and 1 will be glad to serve jm Firat-claaa workmanship y| 1 satisfaction guarantied, j DIBBLE HUNTER J 820 Market St. Camden, m FOR SALE?Choice peaches fori ning or table, $1.60 per bushel. 1 dress Miss Annie Keek. Raj 8. C. jQ <fOR SALE-^Seven ' hundred"^ Number 2 corn. Apply to ft. Boykin, Jr., Boykin, S. C.f ! ?*-15ih DRESSMAKING i? At ~7e23 prices. Give me a trial. Ca? I Mrs. SalUe Reynolds, over Ful .Shop, Camden, 8*. C. 13-ltd FOR SALE?^Pujre I Address Allen J. Boykin, Bojjl I DRESSMAKING?-Any kind old . making neatly done. Call on |3 Sallie Reynolds, over Be* Nettles Store, Camden, S. cT*m FOR^A LE-?Wbite leghorn'hJ $1.00 each or' 25 cents perj Address Willow Brook DairiH' goff, S. C. FOR RENT?Office^lrTToanTRB ings Bank Building, rates veryM sonable; no heat, lights or janitefl bills to pay. Apply N. C. Arnett Agent, Camden, S. C. 1S4 CURTAINS STRETCBjRD-rXny on wishing curtains stretched pleas apply at 904 Campbell Street Prices reasonable. ' 8-t FOR SHOE REPAIRING?call at th Red Boot Shop next door to Ei press office. A. M. JONES, Prop 24tf CARP EN TERING?For any kind^ carpenter work see John S. My? at 812 Church Street, or pho 268. 1 wiJJ be glad to serve public. Alt Work will be di promptly and guaranteed as workmanship. I specialize in hoi building. First class finishing, ci inet making, mantles and screenii I solicit your patronage and d furnish best of references. 4M WANTED?No 1 nine logs. Hlgij cash prices paid; year ronw I mand. Sumter Planing Milli i Lumber Co., Attention E. S.BoB Sumter, S. C. IjB WANTED?20,000 sawed '?? ties, 6x8x7 feet; price 35cl Also 50,000 or rrfbre mixfl standard ties, good inspectifl cash when loaded. Burwell TH Stovall, N. C. T] FIGURE out what it costi to^j a figure. Throwing away J* clothes is throwing away a chW for a saving. Call us. ?Mr. Before and AW "When Things Look Dark 9m For U?" CAMDEN DRY CLEANER Phone 17 BUTTERCUP DELICTOT CREA ^ ^ ~ ;ujh| >??? ee-V/fig Fresh Fruit Dripks? ?"Rock Springs" Milk Drinks, i ^.y* <?"' j"~p* jh The Best J. ^ === . J ?v *y*v - '/fog* ]*j w. ROBIN ZEMP'S DRUG STORE ""'''' ' " " " ^-fr r V li'i Phone 30 Kodak Developing 11 . v .