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i The Camden chronici-.f. LuME XXXIX. ' ? ? r CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. JULY 25 i?97 ' - 11 ^ c' * NUMBER 17. [prohibition vviolatouh. ** r" of (h? New Governor's Conntifril?ry Reviewed by Correspondent ((By John K. Aull) olumbia, July. 18.?Governor bards walked into his office short-1 ifter 9 o'clock in the morning and ad wailing for him there, among ood many others, two members hia State constabulary, who had. returned from smashing a few a and destroying some hundreds gallons of liquor apd mush and le some more arrests, and who had ady given the details of their vitie* to (Secretary Strieklin. lie details are submitted to writat the end of each month and m the files. The Governor called two officers into his private of, where they also reported to him, where he gave them further inictions. In fifteen minutes or less j were out again and headed noy knew where except the Governor his Secretary. An every-day oc'ence. ot many days ago, following a I in Horry county, one of them did return. His remains were jght back his comrades and f rest today In a cemetery near= old home in Saluda County. His rer met a similar fate and his fer's brother is awaiting trial, "he number of these States consta*has averaged between eight and St. The total - appropriation for Wsalaries Is $26,000, and none of in may be paid more than $175 per th. They are allpwed $16,875 for eling expenses. hen the constables had departed ?rnor Richards was asked the t-blank question if he thought ior conditions" or condition? jnflk ect to (ihe illicit manufacture #wT fie in liquor in South JvgrolWljt getting better or worsC/rlflfiMBw j e .said he could not tell -red to the work whi alary was doing, as *h#wn by figures, but he was not' in to say what the back^gib Yfii. .her stills were going up to ree - those destroyed-in short, t,her, with all the woijk that is g done in the enforcement of the and the breaking up of stills and arrests that are being made, the ber of stills was getting less or ving greater. Certain it is that Governor is bringing every power lis office, with all the means at command, to an enforcement of Law. le figures for four months' work he State officers and five months1^ k of the Federal officers will some idfea of the proportions of illicit industry .in this State. These ires show only the stills and liqu- j .destroyed, but they give an in-j ition of how great a number of i Is there must be in the State and 4e size of the liquor traffic that ping on. from the first day of February to last day of Mayjthe State conbulary destroyed 264 stills; 187,700 Ions of mash^ 3,365 gallons of skey, confiscated 20 automobiles, de 587 arrests a.nd conducted 398 estigatione. from the first day of January il the last day of May the Federal icers operating in the State report171 stills destroyed; 4,768 gallons spirits destroyed; 29,307 gallons It liquor destroyed; 200 gallons of ne brew destroyed;14i,112 gallons mash destijoywl;? 26 automobiles ted, and '169 prosecutions fp th# feral court recommended. )f course, in some instances, where feral and State officers have worktogether, there'may be some overiping. But Vh^p ^ fis takem into uideration thatthege figures aimr give the num^er,p^jrtil?s and gafe a of Hquor, etc., destroyed, and not include the work Of local ofsri, and thattfcereis and can be ' record of the illicit operations fch have escaped the officers, qx 'those taking the place of the ones *ed by thet officers, a startling is told, whioh. will probably be Relation to many good and indifcitizens?and maybe to the Wleggera themselves. Nobody who knows conditions as *7 are in South Carolina really bethere is As much drinking no* 1 tfcere was in pre-prohlbition days al ** tim?oroM on and prohibitior ?>ains, even the sincerest advocat* Prohibition, who look below tin lrftce and learn the facta, are be 'nning to wonder. If, with the sent! *** ?f the people aa R is?becaas< ****** number of bootleggeri 7* ** thrive 4n the face of pub *nliment-*<*daft growls better or worse. There is a fair test in South Carolina now. Governor Richards means business. - He is trying to stamp out liquor. T^ere 'are no half-way or half-hearted measures with him. There* is no compromise. It is a battle to the finish. What he can and will be all that humanly cafi be done with the means and the Sm at his command?remains to ^R?eu. He needs the whole-heartC'Q-operation of alls the local of{icials to accomplish very much. He 1 P.. getting the whole-hearted co-operation of some of these officials. In kAbbygUn.nties of others conditions are bad. * The price at which it is sold is an index to the plentifulness of liquor. In Columbia it is fifty cents a half pint:,It may be purchased in quantity at six dollars per gallon or less. In some of the counties the price is much higher?but it can be had. (Let it be understood that these facts and figures are given on infoTmation and belief. Personal testimony is not being offered, nor will the names of any informants be divulged to anybody anywhere. But from the source of the information, it may be taken as pretty close to being correct). ; >. Formerly there were two?or, at most, three?cldsSes of liquor dealers in South Carolina. There"* was the manufacturer at the still, who was also the wholesaler, and the retailer, who went to the stil for his liquor. The third class spoken of, which did not exist in large numbers formerly, was the wholesaler who purchased at the still, and sold to the retail trade. There were and are very few of these wholesalers. Now, however, there is another distinct class. The manufacturers have about stopped delivering their stuff to the retailed and the J retailers have about stopped going to the still for it; There are "runners" who. get so much per gallon to carry 1t from the still and deliver it to the retailer. The "runners" furnish their own cars and take tlheir own risk. They change their routes?that if a "runner" will operate - between Horry county and Columbia or the up-country, or hetween some other county, or maybe Georgia, and Columbia, and the up-cOuntry, one trip, and then change his baae of operations entlrel y. ~ $Jeit time there will be . another "runner" and another car. The bfficers can't stop and search i they see. 'As it is, nothing has done . more to hurt the enforcement of ' prohibition than the stopping of cars ' of innocent persons by officers. And :: bow ate they to knowf don't > and can't. A few of the counties are pretty M dry. lit. those counties -those who have the mone^ can Jtftve the liquor t delivered to tbem in quantity .by ? some one in the business somewhere ' else. It costs mora this way than . it does in othbr counties. ) All of the liquor is mean. and some i is meaner. \n common parb lance, it is rotgut in Columbia re cently several cars have been captured - with several hundred quarts of "real' * liquor, as it is known, or "bottled it r bond.? It is usually on its way. fron - coast' of this or some eftfeer- 8t*ti r on up North. It has adt bath state* ' by those arrested them whether or no they had any clients on the way It is safe n say, however, that -li quor cannot be judged every time? or most of the time?by its labels In the meantime, the Governor 1 i' waving a valiant fight, and m man; of the cowrttea there is a real an earnest effort by local officer-act I stamp out the traffic. It will b ' stamped out when a majo Ky of tfc I, godd people of the State want j I -stamped out to the extent *.hai the I ean't get a little Illicit liquor eve ! for "sickness"?and not before. v~ - BETH UN E NEWS NOTESHappenings of Interest as Told U) ^Our Regular Correspondent Bethune, S. C., July iy.?The grand son of Mr. Hoy Copcland, who resides just below town, was buried on last Friday afternoon at Pleasant Hill church. The lad who was about 14 years old lived with hi? parents io Bishopville and on Thursday afternoon while at the swimming pool in that town was instantly killed by a bolt of lightning. The funeral services were conducted by their pastor, in Bishopville and the body was broQght to Plea'sant Hill for interment. Great sympathy for the family was expressed by the quantity of lovely flowers which covered the grave. Mrs. E. J. Truesdell and Miss Stella Bethune have been attending a conference of the Presbyterian Auxiliaries in Montreat,' N. C. Mrs. Lawrence A. McDowell and children, of Tampa, Fla., arrived early Sunday morning to spend some time with Mrs. McDowell's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. McDowell. Mrs. Rogers and infant from Norlina, N. C., came Iffst week to join Mr. Rogers, who is working with the Carolina Light and Power Company which is now installing a new lighting system in Bethune. Miss Frances Pennington, of Hartsville, is the guest of Miss Edith Clyburn this week. Mr, and Mrs. Hugh Oliver have gone to Baltimore to purchase their stock of fall goods. Mrs. M. O. Ward is visiting relatives at Ward, S. C._ " the grkbnvillk m yhtkry . ? Pinker ton Detective luve?U|caU? Check* Forged on Willi* Relief that the checks forged on Sheriff Sam I). Willis on June 11, the day he was killed, may have bsflg done by someone who know tftet the officer was to be kilted seemed' a possibility. D, M. Harrelaon, representative of th? Pinkerton detective agency, with headquarters in Atlanta, is following closely the clues furnished him by merchants who cashed the forged i checks. He has interviewed several who saw this strange person, but1 so far as is known he has reached 110 conclusion as to who is responsible for the death of Sheriff WillU. Harrelson has been in Greenville about two weeks, but does not knodr who is responsible for his being tent here. He says he was ordered here by the detective agency for whifji he works, but has no information afe to who is paying the fee. All his fiWi ings, likewise, are sent to Atlanta, not being divulged here. Hhj-relson has closely questioned the merchants and others who saw the person who presented the checks alleged to lywe been fotged on Willis. The forger, a Greenville merchant stated today, appeared at his Btore and after passing the checks remarked that i)e had assisted in cutting several stUAs that day. He then told the boys in the store if they would come down to a certain hotel that free drinks would be provided. All declined, saying they didn't care to indulge in any "moonshine." Nothing more was thought of the ir^ident until it was found the checks were forged. The person presenting the checks was described as being rather heavy, possibly weighing 175 pounds, not very tall and wearing a cap. W. W. Rogers, state detective was sent here by Governor Richards shortly after the killing while Sam Henry, Spartanburg detective, also investigated the killing. The report that the United State government had sent two detectives here to investigate the killing in the belief that whiskey run-ners were responsible for it, was not substantiated this morning. Percy M. Caudle, federal prohibition director, said he had heard nothing of any such persons being sent here. James H. Price, of counsel for Mrs. Ethel Gray Willis and Hen y Townsend, who are charged with the death of Sheriff Willis, said he knew nothing oif Harrelson's visit here. "I understand he confers witn the state," Mr. Price said, "but it is significant that he has not made his appearance known to the defense. I do not know who employed this detective, but it would seem since he co-operates with the state that some one affiliated with the prosecution must at least know something about his being here."?Greenville . Piedmont. Pearman To Head Prison Columbia, July 16.?A. Malcolm Scarborough for four -years superintendent of South Carolina's penitentiary, resigned yesterday as head of> the state prison and will be succeeded August 1 as superintendent by James N. Pearman of Anderson, former member of the general assembly, former member of the state railroad commission, now a member of the governor's state constabulary. * < .-rev;, ?,vi v,. *. Steinway Piano Man Dead New Yorir/'Joly 18.?Frederick 'T. Steinway, president ofrSteinway and Sons, piano manufacturers, who died yesterday at his summer home ir Maine was one of the leading American patrons of the musical arte. Born ' in this city 66 years ago Mr. Steinway was the grandson oi Charles G. Steinway, one of four brothers who came to this country from Germany and founded the pi' ano business which bears their name Miss Lucy Kfrldand has returnee from a visit to hsft sister-in-law, Mrs t. .J. Kirkland, Jr, in Columbia. george khame passes Camden I,osvm Substantial and Useful Citizen in Death of Good Man Camden and the surrounding county and those who live in nearby coun ( tie* were saddened Saturduy morning ! when it was known that George A. Rha me had died, after a short illness, j caused from a paralytic stroke of his left side. Last year about the same t)jne Mr. Khame suffered a heart attack and remained in ap extremely critical condition for weeks. He rallied however, and had gone back to Ida accustomed place in his firm and > ?ttd apparently almost fully recover-! ed, and his sudden death came as a his friends. I George Ashby Rhame was born in Camden on September 24, 1881, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George I Sinclair Rhame, and received his early | education in the Camden schools, and | went to work as a salesman in youth, [in the store of Springs and Shannon, of this city. He proved himself an | apt salesman, and his genial personality, coupled with his strict attention [to business and his progressive spirit soon made him popular and he cameinto possession of a host of friends who stuck to him through life. After serving a long while as salesman, he learned the bookkeeping business in the office of the store under a former ; bookkeeper and at the resignation of |the regular bookkeeper he served in ^that capacity until September 1911, ^"hen he and his two brothers formed J I the partnership of Rhame Brothers?^ | George Rhame being the guiding I hand in a large mercantile business] ! whose patronage not only covered ( .Kershaw county but extended into .neighboring counties. The firm grew j fiom the beginning and has made ' good to a remarkable degree. Not only did he serve his own business and his associates well, but he t , found time to take an active part in the affairs of his church and city government. He served several termB as alderman in the city council, from Ward Four, and was also an ^officer in the Methodist church and an officer at one time in the Sunday [ school. Those in need always found ] in him a friend and he did a lot of; charity work that only his intimate friends knew about. Long since recognizing his good business ability he was made a director in the Bank of Camden, one of the foremost banking institutions in the county, and in this capacity he served long and well. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and a Shriner, and took an active part in all things relating to the welfare of his town and county. Mr. Rhame always took a lively interest in sports and athletics of all ' kinds. He was one of the first members of the did horse-drawn volunteer fire department, and took part in many of the fire tournaments held in those earlier days. He was a member of the championship team that won the state championship in Newberry. ( On April 16, 1908, he was happily . married to Miss Zoe Hall, of Sumter, and the following children came to [bless thaf. union: George Ashby, Jr., j William,' John Murr, Joseph Burns and Betty Zoe, the last named being only ten months of age?too, young to remember her "Daddy." George; Jr., is a lad of fourteen years. Besides his widow he is survived by The following* devoted sisters and brothers: Miss Zuleme Rhame and Mts. C. M. Coleman of Camden 'and Mrs. J. C. 1 Peer? oif Orangeburg; and Messrs. | John E. Rhamrj and Boykin iy. Rhame, his associates in business. ' I The funfcral was held from the i Camden Methodist church . Sunday morning at 11 o'clock conducted by J'his pastor, the Rev. J. T, Peeler, twi I the burial was at the Camden ceme Boykin Rhame, Jr., Wifltei j Rhame, George Coleman, . Clarksor j Rhame, , Marvin M. Reasonover anc '; Robert Brown of Sumter acted ai I pallbearers, while the honorary pall j bearers were members of the clt; council, members of the police de partmcnt, employees of the Bank o t Camden and an escort of * tweWi , Knights Templars. The funertf wa - one of the most largely attended eve I seen In Camden, a good many coloreL friends turning out to?pay their las H tribute to a man who had been goo y to them/ At the cemetery the grav $ .was banked high with the season' 0 choicest floral wreaths sent by admii e :-ng friends who were deeply g.ieve 1 at h t up?ttu e in the prime of lif< lt:. .. _ ' y Miss Francis -Btssle is at Hon n again a delightful visit to Chart* ^ V , - y t r.. . j - - ^ -raggs????_ MINK NOW A HA \ DON KIJ Oner I tus \ Sernr Now Dotted By Ruin* mid W*Ur Holes j Mendle S. Fletcher', of Kershaw, writing the Granville I)al|y News of! | Sunday, furnishes that paper with photos and the following story relative to the old Haile gold mine, located a few miles northeast of Kershaw. ?f th, Hai]?. ,;ol<| mj ill Its (lay this stau- s Jn()Bt f|?urjn)l. >ng mining property, and the longest worked mine in the East, is rumored here, although no definite announcemem has been forthcoming from the' Northern interests owning the land. he mins, situated several miles from j here, wan a famous gold-producing property and was the place where the 'chlorination" process of gold ore reduction, but has been practically abandoned since 1912, and all of the buildings and equipment have fallen into disrepair. Where once 200 men toiled doily in taking the precious metal from the earth, now only the casual visitor is seen, and the once busy shafts and pits are filled with water. The only activity to break the monotony of the spot in recent years was the mihIng of pyrite during the war, the material being used by the government in the manufacture of munitions. "It was the greatest thing in this part of the country," said W. J; (Uncle Billy) Jones, an 87-year-old resident of Kershaw, when speaking of the mine. The mine property was owned before the War Between the States by Captain Ben Haile who had no idea that he owned vastly more than 1,900 acres of "ordinary land." Soon after the property passed into the hands of his heirs, gold was discovered by two. men Hinson. The heirs , Jones stated, staked off cer&tn amounts of land for stipulated sumi, but soon sold the entire 1,900 tares m n' A' M" N" Taylor of Charlotte, N. C., for twenty thousand dollars In Confederate money. Mr. Taylor and a Dr. Asbury mined for Copperas. Soon after the war, the mine was bought by James Eldridgc of NeW ^ ?i k who later located and operated Hobkirk Inn. The mine, still under Northern interests, was equipped along about the 70's with new machinery and under the superintendency of A. Thies, a full blooded German and far sighted miner and engineer, entered Upon its ! most prosperous period. Mr. Thies' I according to Dr. Stephen Taber of the Geology department of South | Carolina university, developed at the Haile mine the "chlorination" process of mining which was later used in Arizona, Nebraska, California, and i other Western mines. This process, however, has been supplanted by the Cyanide process which is now the j most common method in use. The year >1904 witnessed probably the greatest disaster in the history ,of the mine when a boiler explosion killed Ernest Th^s, who had succeedj?fl his father as superintendent of jthe mine, and resulted in the death (of two others. The explosion proved I to be the beginning of the decline, j although gold was minedv to a certain j extent until about 1912. ' No further operations were carried en> Mr- Jones added, until the World war when pyritewas mined. The jgovernment iwing to the fact, that the supply of pyrite from Spain was cut off, Wat forded to get this mineral f -wherever it could. Large trucks operjited day and night but aince the mine I made this contribution toward the ' manufacturing of war munitions 11 ' i has -done no more. I Once where an observer saw the homes of some 186 or-209 workmen, [including an Englishman, a German " j a id a family of Swedes, he see* to? day just a few empty houses. Wher< j lie saw a school house and church * he sees only two empty bttildingi I What waf ?t one time a store ant f post-office in now a sagging frame * The large ^ superintendent's house which had every convenience of it *}4ay, ie slowly pasting away. Th * , great pits?Hfcile, Cross, > Bumalc J -'Beguelin which were inhabited by irte S aifd machinery now contain wate t and bite of wreckage. In answer to the question, the* i 'ny gold in the mine now?" Wllbu * L Libbey, superintendent when tl ' ;nin? warn closed in 1912, said in thi ear in his report to the board < uivectors: "It is not possible for ai '>!?<; t< make a statement aa to. tl * of ore that ia available f * that snu e is in shape that from a mining enir g'neer's technical poi.it of view it te could only be said that there are great it possibilities commercially, and from II practical minei** p*int of v#?w ijr >hem are abundant reasons for belie Uvlng that \beie afe enoymous bodies & or .f :?s good otohere e* hayp ?v*r yet ill ^ten m- -.?t and-tv*ttd and that the *f| c van b# hanilM *l.h profit/' ? 9555* UARI CH To hk SPEAKER Nati\e of ( ?,?<!?,! ()? Clenuon Program For Farmers Wrrk ( lenuion (ollvge, July 16. Jler"ard M Barueh, noted New York financier, petrolic South Carolinian, greatly interested m agricultural and other economic conditions, has been (secured us one of the speakers at genera) noonday echelons of Farj meiV Week, to be held at Clemson College, Augu.t 29?September 3 "is presence will be one of the strongest drawing cards on the program says Dr. W. W. Long, Chairman of the Farmers' Week committee. Other noted "peckers?educators, economists, editors?are being secured, some of these already dated [being Mise Florence Knapp, of Syracuse University, New York; I>r. X la re nee Poe, editor of The Progressive Farmer; Mr. C. A. Cobb editor of The Southern Kuraliet; Charles Schuttler, of the American Country Life Association; Dr. E. W. Sikes, president of Clemson College. These und others will discuss various phase* of agriculture and eonomics, rural life betterment, etc. At these general sessions there will 'be a series of lantern slides ugricultuial conditions and progresa, ' und other features to please and stimulate the big audience. The evening session* also are planned for the gerwMral edification " of the entire attendance. There will be special music programs by South Carolina talent including the big Clemson student baud; one or more rural plays; ?hort talks on several phases of Thomas C. Clemson's life and work and the Clemson type of education; a"'stunt night; a boys' and girls' program, movies, etc. Class and lecture work, demonratfjtions, conferences, judging contents, etc., will occupy mornings and afternoons?but that's another story. Marriages in South, Carolina Washington, July 18.?The De| partnient of Commerce announces that, according to the returns ~ received, there w^re 23,791 marriages [ performed in. South Carolina during the year 1920, Hs Compared with 2^1863 in 1925, representing an increase of 1,108, or 4.8 per cent. The estimated population of the State of South Carolina ol^July 1 1926, was 1,820,000, and on July 1 1925, 1,804,000. On the basis of thesj estimates, the number bf marriages per 1,000 of the population was 13.1 in 1920, as against 12.7 in 1925. The number of marriages performed was furnished by the judge of the probate court of each county, except in Sumter County, where the number was furnished by the i c'erk of the court, and the number of marriages annulled was furnished by the clerk of the court of coni- 7 mon P'eas of each county. The figures for 1920 are preliminary and subject to correction. No divorces are granted'in South Carolina, but there were four marriages unnulled in 1926. The figures for Kershaw county here ^ foUQwing?Marriages in 1925, 821; in 1926, 8J0. ' ; ? r Jill on Serious Charge. ^ rtsvllle, July ' 10.~Lawrence Munn, young white man, wae amityasUrday inCallagn Hatghta, _4U uburb of Hartsville on a chaigt 6t criminal assatjlt upon 4 I2-ye^dld~ f ' HPS lod*fd in th? D*rlingpn lin* *** *' was made by Hurgl Policeman John Gardner: The ( child Is seriously injured according ; 4<>, r?Ports from physicians. Storm Delays Publication The Chronicle Will be late "reaching r of its reader* tlstr weak oWtflg'?: ^ ^ many iiiUfri uVUoni Caused' by the electric lines being put out of commission. Along witli others who use electricity we have lost many hours of work this week from the electrical disturbances. All of the ' machinery in The Chronicle .plant is ' electrically driven and when * the " power is off we have to wait until repairs are made. I* ? w" ' ? n Miss Olive Nettles * is vyisitin* ? r friends in Sumter. * :' TV* .. . . ... . t -* 1 ? ' " " ' 1 L_