The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 05, 1927, Image 8
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. I*ave it to ^ V
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