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THE KL0GK8T1ON IS GOOD. To ibi Editor of The Chronjd* if you will pardon tny presumption ori the strength of ite being prompted by a deep interest in Ctmden a* a personality, I would like to make a suggestion that I believe would prove ?nterefet?f*g to practically all of your reader* and that would make the Chronicle invaluable to Lhoae of us w'ho are native* of Camden. And that is, inviting letter* of rerrumscene* from < 'arnden'i own tons and daughter*, more especially those who have sons and daughter* of their own arid moat especially those who can look back on two or even! three generation* of life in our little town. Not only the people whose name* are well known in historic annals, but especially those who have something interesting to remember. There used to be a time, when families drew up be-fore a fire in the winter evenings, or spread out on a piazza in phe summer evenings, and gave themselves tip to talk. Casual, or eager, jlhe talk leapt from one subject to another with surprising rapidity, until it covered every topic under the sun?usually revolving around the marriages, births, deaths, travels and adventures of kin people. If there was company, and more especially if the company was a traveler, the talk was all the more interesting. And when old ones got together, who had to go over the old times with much laughter and a few tears, then it waa the signal for everybody else to sit tip and listen. And it was usually worth listening to, for no fiction that lias ever been written can equal in fascination the reminiscence of people looking hack on the generation that was theirs. It may he anything from one old gentleman from an escapade to a battle, or anything from another old lady from an elopument to a recipe for beaten biscuit?but whatever it is, it lias the flavor of that most interesting thing on earth, life, told, first hand by thoqe who have lived It. Camden has often been called an interesting, lovable town. And that is because it is made up of interesting, lovable people, for no matter how pretty u town is, the way it is laid out doesn't make it anymore than the crust of a pie makes the pie. And since not the least of these nice people are gradually fading from the picture, it seems to me that whatever means were taken to catch some of the romance they have known before it is too late would be justified? ehort of holding them up bodily, for the time will come when the generations coming on now will be glad of homclhing tangible from the lips of their people; when they will "wiBh they had listened" or "wish they had written it down somewhere." For tha time comes to all of us when we lean more on the traditions'of our fathers! and grow eager to tell what we ! know to our children in their turn. Young people have always been too busy to listen to such things, and in 1 hese days of motoring, going to movies, listening to the radio, it ionly more pronounced than ever. What do they care, in these lively days, what happened in that stupid long ago. when grandma was young, and \ I' lot lanism was very, very 'mid' nnv muie than grandma cared ahout ; her eiders when she was toeing the I light tantastic. Hut tin- time will I come !'< ( them, too. when tin- hoc of the old people iv tin- most fascinating thing : . listen to. And there are some ol us now, eager to know what I lie ever \ day people did. every day, be it t went j thirty, sixty, or ninety >ears ago. As your attractive paper is the mouthpiece of < umden it seems that nothing would be more fitting than for you to give space every week to somebody s little story. It might lie about a pichic or a battle, a play at the 'opera house' or a walk on Sunday afternoon. Whenever it was, whatever it i-, coming from one of our own people first hand, it is IhiuiuI 1o be interesting reading. Of cour.- e, you would know what limitations would have to bo put on tin- letters invited, as to length-;?a-nd in what order they should be published, whether alphabetically, or so as to vary the subjects. Hut I am sure, if you gave up a column to such materia., gossip and objectionable l*rsonal remarks aside, you wojfld Ik- surprised at the number of readers who would welcome with delight, that column. A weekly is aptly called 'news in a nutshell?hut a weekly is more than that it should l>e the representative of its community, colored specifically by what is peculiarly that community s own. And Camden. aside from its history is tull of color?all i'.j* own. To people who take the daily pap< rs, news garnered from them, is old r.ews when they come upon it again n their home paper. Hut the events | 'hat took pi ode at this season of the .-ear, many years ago. i? new. And .he advice from some old farmer, r.s to the best tnie t?. plant potatoes in = ? ~ ? V . J 7Z B , WIFE AND RIVAL SLAIN | Colonel on irnneftMc Governor's SUff Killed by Former Friend KncxviJie, Tenn , Au^ 'i.?"He broke up my home." J With thin cry, (J. H, May, president of the Tennessee Iajuii Brok er?" Association, rushed into the Queen Barber Shop today and emptied eleven bullets from two revolvers into Carl K. Roberts, colonel on tbe Tennessee Governor's staff and prominent'! business rnan. A short time before .May killed his wife, Mrs. Her nice May, in the bathroom of his uncle's home. Roberts and May were sacond cousins arid had been life-long friends I up to a few years ago when, May charges, Roberta became intimate with hi* wife. May had been suing for divorce. Ills wife yesterday filed a cross bilP for divorce against him. In the Knox County jail this afternoon, when asked as to proof he might have of the charge Col. Roberts broke up his home, May said. "I knew definitely that Carl Roberts had broken up my home. I first began to suspect Carl and Berriice about four years ago. Carl was an oid friend of mine and of my wife. For a long time Carl used to come to my house and we would play 'set back.' "I first began to suspect the pair when they began to hit upon the plan of sending me out for sandwiches when Carl would come over. Soon it came to be an every-night affair and I would be sent out. I had faint suspicions then, but I never thought my friend from boyhood would betray me. ( arl would come when we were both there and sit and sit until I would be forced to go to bed and i Carl would stay on after that. Ai last I told Carl that practice must stop. Then Carl and Bernice would meet at the house or some of his or her friends. She would tell me she was going to some of our, relatives and I began to find out she was meeting Carl. I ht*l warned Carl time after time he must stop playing around with my wife. I couldn't shoot my old friend, but I warned him time after time that I knew he was too intimate with my wife. "At last I determined to get a divorce. I had definite proof that Carl and my wife had spent several nights together?in fact, night after night. I sued for u divorce and meant simply to go away. | "1 haven't eaten and have slept very little for the last three weeks, When I learned that my wife hadJ filed a bill accusing me of unfaithfulness, and 1 learned that Carl was to testify against me, it was too much. I simply had to kill them both." Athens, Greece, is known at the ( ity of the \ lolet ( rown,' in reference to the beautiful effects of sunset light on the Acropolis. The discovery that the fiber of the cocoon spun by the silkworm could be made into cloth is ascribed to Se-1 .irig-She, a ( hmese queen who lived about f??rty-Huvier, centuries ago, Kllis-Polaris Mr. \\ i11e Roberts and Miss Nina I is. h<>;h of Westville, were marrieJ ( m Cam<h n .,n ]a>t Sunday. The ceremony wn> performed by Judge W. L. McDowell at h > home on Kast Hampton avenue. Dh> is-Truesdel Mr. Fletcher A. Truesdel of l.ucknow and Miss Inez Davis of BishupviHe were married by Judge of Pro-" bate \\. L. McDowell in Camden on Sunday. July .11. ?ur action, is new. And'' ih<> best method for instance, of putting up i cucumbers in brine?is new. Because those things haven't been told. as practicable in this section, yet. It seems to me a pity to fill up the columns of a town paper, with syndicated stuff??most of wbleh can be gotten elsewhere?most or which isn't applicable to these States anyway? when all the time, our people, are making history, making romance, building ''trkTer and wider, on the foundation laid so soundly long ago. And when >1 say history, 1 dori'* mean necessarily, blood and battles-and when I say romance. I don't mean that represented purely by having a heavy date with one's sweetie. There is history ami romance in everything that ever happened?if it happened yesterday. i I wish to suggest a title or two, like i Camden in Reminiscence, and Camdens Yesterdays, hut the title isn't -he thing? it's the original matter I ,s to count ? ;f you give it i ft <* hh dpc. ii) ITEMS OVER THE STATE The second fc***ion of six weeks of ; lummrr school was opened at Furman university, Greenville, yesterday, i K. K. Owinge, coroner of 1-awrem i county, died at his home st Gray Court, Saturday, after a pen?>d of do- ' dining health. If. E. Effingham. b9, farmer, was killed on his plantation at Effingham, i Florence county, Thursday morning, by a falling tree. John W. Richardson, former chief of police of Columbia, has beer, added to the state detect!va staff, operating under the chief executive's office. James M. Pearman, recently appointed superintendent of the state penitentiary to succeed A Malcolm Scarborough, took office yesterday. Dr. W. H. Lielk, 69, widely known physician of Greenville, died suddenly in his office in that city Saturday afternoon while examining a patient. Sheriff C. S. Bethea of Dillon county, has placd his resignation in the hands of the governor and the Dillon county delegation has asked for a special election to fill the vacancy. Sheriff Bethea is in, a Columbia hospital and is said to be in a serious mental condition. Ed Rhodes, white man, of near Greenville, was instantly killed Friday night when his car collided with another car. He plunged through the windshield of the car. He and members of his family were returning from a revival meeting when the accident happened, Preferring death rather than the j stigma and shame of arrest, William i Alfred Bright, a convict guard on the ; Greenville county chain gang committed suicide in his tent when of- : ficers from Greenville attempted to arrest him on a charge of criminal assault on a girl under age of consent. Albert leopard, five year old son of W. T. leopard, of Lawrens Mill village, was fatally injured Monday afternoon when struck by an eagle bus operating between Columbia and Greenville and died in the arms of the bus driver while being taken to a hospital. W. G. Guy and his wife, Mrs.1 Bertha Gardner Guy, are in a Florence hospital suffering from dangerous shot gun wounds said to have4 been inflicted by Edwin Newsoine,' young white man of near Hartsville.' The trouble arose Monday over the; sale of gasoline, when New-mme re-! turned to his home and returned to1, the filling station operated by Gus 1 and shot him and his wife three times with a shot gun. Ralph Martin, aged IP. member of; a prominent Cowpens family, was j drowned in Paeolet river while ir t swimming Monday afternoon. Mar-: tin was an athlete and a good swim-' mer. but hi- water , soaked clothes! proved too heavy when he struck deep pool in the river. Bessie Moore is held under $7,000, bail bond at New Brunswick, N. J., on charge of conspiring to kill her father. Her tather went on her bond, j Walter J, 1 ravis, widely known golfer, died at Denver, Col., Sunday.) He was a native of Australia, but I his home was in New York. * I trained and Cntrained A commercial traveler, visiting a I large insurance office boasted to | the manager that he could pick out j a!! the married men among the em-' ployeei. Accordingly he stationed! himself at the door, as they return-' ed from dinner, and mentioned all! those he behoved to be married. In j almost every case he was right. "How do you do it?" asked the j manager. "The married men wipe their feet on the mat; the single ones don't." Preaence o f Mind It was late when Pat ^'reached home. Not wishing to disturb his wife, he crept on his 'hattds and knees, but Fate intervened. He struck the bedpost. His wife, sleepily, putting out her hand,' touched his head, and thinking 'it was the d"g, began patting it. In telling this story, Pjtt said: 'And the Saint's be praised! 1 had he presence of mind to lick her hand." Hough?K ime Miss Ma-y F igoru- Hough became the b: ice of Mr. John M. Kime when Rev. T. L. Willinghain performed their marriage ceremony at the home of the bride's mother. Mrs. John Hough, in I.akeview Sunday i moining. The vows were spoken in the presence of relatives and a number of intimate friends and immediately following the young couple left for points in North Carolina where they will spend some time. Mr. and Mrs. Kime will make their home in Camden where both are popular. | John A. Young. 67. will known' j Columbia business man^ president of several laurxlry companies of that [city, died suddenly in that city Satur, day night. OLD CAR MAKES TRIP Twenty-two Year Old Old*mobile Here For Few Hours With its one cylinder motor humming a steady tune, "Little Willie"?< as the Curve Da* bed Oldsmobile, 1UU5 model, owned by Malcolm Kichard of Columbia in known to the older generation?was yesterday piloted to Camden by its owner and returned in the early afternoon without trouble or sign of wear on its 22-year old engine. I "Little Willie," said to be probably the oldest automobile in South Carolina still in excellent running condition, was purchased by Capt. J, S. Land, retired insurance u*un of Columbia, in October, 1905, from J. I K. Richard, first automobile dealer in ?South Carolina and father of Malcolm Richard. Captain Land used the one cylinder car for a decade and then turned the car back to Mr. Richard. Since that time the ancient vehicle has been put in running condition and driven about the streets of Columbia and elsewhere. It has, for the last two years, been on display at the Gibbo* Machinery company, distributors for the Oldsmobile car. Mr. Richard and Alfred S. Gaillard, Jr., Columbia realtors, took their places in the sturdy machine at 6:45 yesterday morning at the home of Mr. Richard on Pickens street and pointing her antique nose toward Camden opened up. The first dozen miles of the first leg of the trip were made in about 25 minutes, but several stops were made en route to take on oil and water and Camden was reached at 9 o'clock. Four times on the trip to Camden was the party obliged to low gear on account of the steep hills while returning the low gear was not used. After remaining in camden for some time the pair climbed into "Little Willie" and started homeward at 11:25, arriving back at the home port at 1:40 in the afternoon. The actual running time for the trip over was 1:45, while the return trip was approximately the same. To cover about 34 miles in one hour and 45 minutes is no unworthy feat for a one cylinder car that is 22 years old. "We encountered no trouble cither going or coming," said the owner, "and the old car fairly hummed, especially on its first dozen miles over."?Friday's Columbia State. 1 Aged Citizen Btdly Hurt A series of automobile accidents and wrecks have occurred in Lee county in the past few days. Several people have been painfully hurt and at least two automobiles wrecked. The worst of these accidents occurred Monday morning at 9 o'clock about 7 miles from Bishopville on the Bethune road at the home of Anderson Kelley. Mr. Kelley was run over by a car a short distance from his home and suffered a broken leg and arn^ and was otherwise bruised and cut. Dr. H. M. McLure was summoned from Bishopville and after examining Mr. Kelley advised his family that he be taken to a hospital. Mr. Kelley was immediately taken to a hospital in Florence, where an X-Ray examination showed his lejg broken In five places and his arm in one. Mr. Kelley is 63 years old. At last reports from the hospital he is resting as well as might be expected. It is said that Mr. Kelley had stopped Ollie Outlaw, who was on his way to Bishopville driving a truck. I Mr. Kelley was standing at the side of the truck talking to Mr. Outlaw and ! as Mr. Outlaw again resumed his trip to Bishopville, Mr. Kelley started to go around the truck, and seeing the approaching car became confused ' * and in trying to wan struck. '1 he car ^^1 a Mr. Severance of pod as quickly as ville Messenger. Mr. Hay Se^9 Mr. W. 0. Hay of tJ9 cured the agency for Electric company's n??B recently put on the aB new method of iefrigtt^| | product of tlie world's j^| ncers and is the last wql refrigeration. No pip^| no attachments, portibkH installed to the nearest nection. Can hardly txH feet away. No servicinf^B oiling, sealed at the very littlca current, aut?^| culation drives dust refrigerator. It is the teen years research. Tt*^| of sixty-four engineertfl sand1 refrigerators field tested before prodi^^H thorised, See W. 0. H^H buy.?Adv. I H Rutherford 1piatTli$^^| of the late Presidential Hayes, died at Tamps,? years. |^H Plant Now For Winter Vegetables All seed fresh. Grown by BU1ST, the old reliable seedman. Improved RUTA BAGAS and TURNIPS shopld be planted this month. Also Cabbage, Collards, Beets, Lettuce, Radish, Beans, Corn, Etc. Protect your RosesP and Flowers from Red Spider and other pests by spraying with Rlack Leaf <!<>. W. ROB!X ZEMP'S DRUG STORE Phone 30 Kodak Developing: I Need new brakes r\ AUTO BRAKE M Te?t your brake- fl avoid accidents, into each other Ul|^| because the brakes The safe way is to ul charge of your brake J know When to new brakes %re ataofoyH sary for your ssf^V^B overlook the unportsw^B safety. 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