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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H D. Nile* . . Kditor mod I'ublt.her Published every Friday at Ne. 1100 Broad Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina, po&tofflce as second class mail matter. Price per annum |2.00. Camden, S. C\, Friday, Oct. 7, 1027 __?? ?? 1927 PCTOBER 1927 Sun ;u~ jT^ Twh ; rw- ; ; w ww w w w w i 12 3 4 5 6 7 9 ' 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 IB 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 W . .. ?1 ? I ? ' m ** Large Insurance Policies One hundred and forty-nine South Caiolinians carry insurance in the sum of $00,000 or more, according to compilations of The Spectator, a weekly "business paper of insurance," published New York. Two South Carolinians are listed us carrying insurance in exee*? of $1,000,000?Col, t^roy Springs, of Lancaster, over $1,000,000 and J< P Abney, of Greenwood, $ 1,200,000/ One hundred and ninety-five men of the United States and Canada, among them the two South Carolinians, are placed among the "millionaire policy holders," persons who own life insurance policies aggregating $1,000,000 or more. Heading the list is Rodman Wannamaker of New York, with $7,500,000. Jesse Lasky, William Fox and Adolph Zukor, all of New York, and Frank P. Book, Herbert V. Book and J. Burgess Book, alJ of Detroit, are listed as carrying each $5,000,000 insurance. John Barryinore, the actor, is listed as carrying $2,000,000 while Norma Talmadge, and Otis Skinner are set clown as carrying $1,250,000 each. Constance Talmadge, Douglas Fairhanks, Mary Pickford,, Will Rogers and John McCormack are recorded as carrying only $1,000,000 each. Makes Negro Lose Smile Sad now is that Columbia Negro, l)avid Mitchell, with several aliases, who, with a white youth, went chain store robbing in New York. As the result of one of the quickest cases of punishment following crime in New York court records, he and the white man are, three days after] capture, on their way to, Sing Sing to serve sentences "from 40 to 80 years" each. ~ - ? Whether he has learned wisdom may be doubted, hut David has acquired the meaning of a large word. When sentenced to from 20 to 40 years one each of two indictments, "the sentences to run consecutively," Mitchell interrupted with: "Judge, what does that word 'consecutively' mean ? " "It will give me great pleasure to enlighten you," replied^.!udge Marten, "It meamf^hat when you finish one sentence you will start the other one. Forty years at least." And then David lost his smile. By the time he yomes out the holdup game may have become obsolete in New York. It would quickly lose adherents were other trials as brief and sentences as hard as in this ease. -Columbia State. Wants Cotton Stalks Destroyed J. Clifton Rivers, South Carolina warehouse commissioner, is calling upon the farmers of the State to destroy cotton stalks as rapidly as the staple is picked, and at the same time made a prediction that prices for the crop would soar in the near future. Destruction of the stalk the commissioner declared saying he was speaking as a practical farmer, would insure against more than negligible hotl weevel damage next year, by preventing the hibernation of vigorous female weevils. Even were there no weevil menace, he added, such a step would stop the Rtalks from putting out a second growth and using the fertile materials of the soil to no purpose. Basing his estimate on the ginning figures of 3,505,000 bales to September 16, the commissioner said he believed the crop would be a round 12,000,000 bales. "When the department of commerce says that 17.000,000 bales were used last year,' he "said, "every indication is for higher prices before the seasor N closes." Dies From Peanut Spartanburg. Oct. 3.?Dewai Worley, Jr., three-year-old Cliftor boy, lost in a race with death toddv when he suffocated with a peanul lodged in his windpipe. His grand mother found the boy on the lawr of their home in convulsions anc summoned an automobile to carrj him to a hospital. Before the hos pital could be reached the child sue cumbed. His mother is visiting rela tiveR in Virginia and the boy hat been" left :n his grandmother's care GENERAL NEWS NOTES James (). Kunkle, ID, and one-armed, was shot to death by his brother, Hubert Kunkle, at Cumberland, Md., Friday, after the younger brother had threatened to" turn up" hia elder brother to Federal authorities in a quarrel over a still which they had been operating together. The United .States navy will next July begin the construction through contracts, of * total of 147 new airplanes at a total cost of *7,#00,000, according to announcement of Secretary Wilbur. Mrs. James B. Ladd, 00, of Ardmor?# I'm., fell from a seventh-floor window of an Atlantic City., N. J., hotel Friday and was instantly killed. Lieutenants Maitland and Hergenberger have been awarded the distinguished flying, cross by President I Coolidge because of their recent flight frbm San Francisco to Hawaii. Ten persons were injured, one probably fatally, when a tornado hit Huby, Ark., last Friday. Only ten buildings remained intact when the storm had passed. One hundred school children in a % f^ame school bqilding, escaped with minor bruises. Mrs. Medill McCormick, widow of the late Senator McCormick, and daughter of the late Mark Hanna, has announced that she will be a candidate for the United States Senate , in the primaries of Illinois next year. The thermometer reached 93 degrees in Washington on Saturday, making it the highest temperature for October on record in that city. Mr. and Mrs. John Sharp Williams celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their home at Cedar Grove Plantation, Miss., Monday Mr. and Mrs. Williams have seven living children. I I he tobacco market of Wilson, N. this year handled a total of 22,H2d,.424 pounds of tobacco, totaling $-4,051,862.94, an average of $17.75 per hundred pounds. . Plans are underway for the erection of a million dollar moving picture theatre in Charlotte. The explosion of a cook stove in the home of Thomas Clendenning at Saskatchewan, Canada, Saturday, killed his wife, two children and a Mrs. Reid, a friend of the family. Two hundred and twenty-five members of the criminal organization known as the Mafia, will go on trial today as Palermo, Italy, for murder. cattle stealing, holdup.-, robberies, etc. M hen their automobile, carrying 100 pounds of dynamite, struck a bump in the road, two men were blown to pieces near Watertown, N. Y., Saturday. Patrolman Henry Frischkorn of Cleveland, Ohio, bet an old friend $1 on Saturday, that he could shoot his hat off. The friend told him to go ahead. The bullet crashed into hi> skull and he is now near death. The patrolman is being held on/a vharge of shooting to kill. Arrangements are being perfected to inaugurate an airplane passenger service to begin the last of this month, between Kingston, Jamaica, uid Miami, Fla. Survtys were begun yesterday looking towards the elimination of forty Long Island railroad crossings The work will be started next year and will cost approximately Si1000 000. Thomas McCarthy?_af__Iiuiiaiea, N. J., stole 20 cents on Aug 29. This was his tenth conviction "of theft, and the Baumes law makes life sentence mandatory after three such crimes. Judge Abel sentenced the man to spend the balance of his life in prison. Four bandits robbed five cardplaying Brooklyn. N. \\. friends in the home of one of the players Saturday night. After the robbery the victims were forced to strip and the bandits left. Later Brooklyn police arrested a suspect whom two of the \ ictims recognized. The percentage of insane people in the South Carolina hospital for the insane is 139.4 per 100,000 of population. according to figures made public in Columbia. This percentage is said to be lower than is the aver1 age in thirty states from which statistics have been gathered, except in , two <>f them. In one state the fig. uics run as high as 226.9 per hundred thousand population. The 1 South Carolina hospital has a total of 2.558 patients. Six bandits seized $95,000 in currency from an official and three employees of the First National bank of i t icero. Chicago suburb, Tuesday, as the money, bonds and checks were ' being transferred to another bank. Half the town Acambaro. Mexico, i with 14,000 population. wn? de?*troy1 eu hy ? riooti in the l.erma river o:i > Sunday and Monday. Thirty-four rebellious "Catholic - fanatics." and also a priest, are reported to have been executed by 1 tederal troops in the state of Jalisco Mexico, within the past few day*. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS f Dr. E. Burts, for a year or more j pastor of the First Baptist church at 1 Newberry, tendered his resignation last Sunday to accept the pastorate of the First Baptist church Macon, (iti. A double fungrai was held iif Greenville Friday afternoon for Mrs. (J. W. Ward, who died as the result: of injuries received Tuesday night when struck by an autornobile oh the I Camp road, and her sister, Mrs. Sarah Noblin, 71, who died within 22 hours after the death of her sister, but without knowing of the death of the elder woman. Mrs. Ward met with her fatal accident as she was en route to the home of Mrs. Noblin. Governor Richards has ordered Magistrate J. R. Hudson of Hilton Head, Beaufort county, to show cause on Oct. 10, as to why he should not be removed from office, following a report to the governor that the magistrate had declined to impose sentence on hunters proven guilty of violating the law against night hunting of deer. "I won't sentence a man for doing something I do myself," the magistrate is quoted -as saying. J. Clifton Rivers, state warehouse commissioner, predicts a 12,000,000 bale cotton crop and higher prices! for cotton. He also urges farmers to destroy all cotton stalks in an effort to destroy hibernating boll weevils and thus protect the crop of next year against the ravages of the pest. E. K. Hutchings, Ren-. John N. V\ ren and L. N. Whitmire, formerly officials of the Bank of West Greenville, have been bound over to the court of general sessions of Greenville county, on charges of violating the state banking laws of the defunct bank. The men are charged with having borrowed more than ten' per cent, of the bank's capital stock and surplus, without consent of twothirds of the boards of directors. The state of Ohio possesses in Green county a natural history preserve of five hundred acres from which public worship must foreveri be barred. Such was the stipulation attached to the bequest by the donor, John Bryan. Otherwise, the preserve is open to all persons regardless of creed, race or color. Details are being worked out by j the arrangements committee for the expected visit of Colonel Charles Lindbergh to Spartanburg on Oci>, 12, and the city is expecting the moat notable gathering in its history. The city will be decorated with United States flags on a very elaborate scale. The state convention of the women's Christian Temperance Union is to be held at Allendale on Oct. 7, 8, and 9. Governor Richards is xto address the convention on Oct. 9th. Klansmen from all parts of the state will gather in Columbia on October 13 for the dedication of the klavern in that city, and for a statewide meeting of the organization. One of the things expected to come up at the approaching statewide meeting is discussion of the measure prohibiting persons from' wearing a mask or disguise of any! kintt and thereafter inflict corporal punishment of any kind upon anv! person. One hundred and sixteen acres of ( amp Jackson, near Columbia, are to be developed into a park and play ground for the benefit of Columbia. Superintendent Pearman of the state penitentiary, predicts that the state farm in Sumter county will produce a bale of cotton to the acre this year, but says that from now on the farms will be devoted more to growing foodstuffs. Walter G. Querry, Fraser Lyon and J. P. porman, state tax commissioners, will leave this week for Toronto, Canada, to attend the annual convention of the United States Tax association on October 10-14. J. R. Garner, Saxon mill operative, Spartanburg county, went an a rampage Saturday afternoon and in a quarrel over money, slashed his wife's throat and then his own. Both are expected to recover. Montgomery Gets Clemency Governor Richards yesterday suspended the sentence of Pierce Sullivan and Arthur Montgomery, each of /vhom were sentenced to serve one year in the penitentiary. Sullivan was sentenced in May, U'26, in Anderson county of a charge of adultery. His suspension -of sentence is on condition that he enter a government hospital for treatment of tuberculosis and that he remain outside of Anderson county. Montgomery was sentenced for violation of the prohibition inw in July. 1926, in Kershaw county and his suspension is on condition that he leave the state and go to his mother's home in Charlotte and be . under her supeivision for his good conduct.?Saturday's State. Club Boy*, Camp* Belter This Year Clemson College, Sept. 30. Ninehundred and seventy-one or 46 percent, of the 4232 white boys enrolled io 4-H Clyb attended camps held by 28 county farm agents during the season just closed. Camps were usually county-wide, though in a few instances two or three counties came together for a camp, and in one instance four counties joined for a ramp held at Clemson College where the campers hud uccess to facilities offered regular college students. The camps lasted two to four days, usually three. In most instances the last day was designated as Visitor's Bay, and some 6,000 visitors attended the various camps and many of these visitors expressed themselves as delighted with the camp activities and accomplishments. The camp programs, says B. O. Williams, state boys' club agent, included work and play. The mornings were usually devoted to instruction, including lectures, demonstrations, nature study a/id identification contests; the afternoons to play and recreation, through games, contests, etc.; and the evenings to lectures, pictures, sOngs, stunts and other activities. 1'rograms were carried out more efficiently and discipline was more satisfactory than in other years, ?first, because club members themselves have learned how to work together better; and, second, because local community club leaders, subject matter specialists, business men and organizations and others rendered excellent service. Kich Indian Women It may be surprising to many to know that one of the largest unearned incomes received by any person in America last year went to an Indian woman. Charles H. Burke, commissioner of Indian affairs in a recent statement revealed that one Oklahoma woman of the* QuapavV tribe, whose name was not given, received during the fiscal year ended June 30 the sum of $199,296.-. '0. oi $513 a day, from lead and zinc royalties. Many other Indians of this tribe received amounts ranging from $ > >.00 to $112,000 for the year, while the tribe as a whole received $1,307,HI as their returns on land and zinc leases on their land. Even this large sum is small compared to the royalties received by tribes owning oil lands. When the government induced the Five Nations and other tribes to locate ;n the Indian territory, now a part of the State of Oklahoma, duiing the middle ot the last century, it was little thought that the lands granted to them held some of the most valuable mineral deposits in the world, including oil, coal, lead and zinc. De\elopment of these resources during th.e past twenty-five years have made many of the descendants of these tribes wealthy, and this wealth has led to many interesting marriages between them and whites. A good many white men would probably consider the copper-colored lady with an income of $513 a day a- a rather attractive matrimonial prospect.?Cherokee Times. BLANEY NEWS NOTES Blaney, Sept. 30.-Miss Martha Roberts and brother Hedmond have returned to their home at Taylors aftei visiting their grandmother, Mrs. C. S. Andrea. D. \V. Traxlar has returned from a us it to BranchVille, leaving Mrs. Iraxler and daughter, Margie as guests of Mrs. Traxler's parents Dr. and Mrs. W. F. McKewn. The friends of Miss Clara Childress will regret to know that she suffered a severe burn on the arm ?t! o?^? HoPk,na Hospital last week in Baltimore. "Miss Willie May Andrea left Mon!?r ?er %cho?l at Trinity where *ne teaches first grade Union Baptist Church will entertain the Fairfield Association on \ ^nesda-v and Thursday October 5th and 6th. /The members of the school faculty VvKo were here last year entertained ntnni teachers w?th a delightful on Frida> ? Nettles and ^Catherine have been^hH Thornton ' "Unt' Mrs' J' N. Miss Myrtle Laird and Miss Virginia Doar of the school faculty spent the week end respectively ir Pehon and Columbia. Y Mr and Mrs. W. B. Ward have returned to their home in Camder m their Paints Mr. ami Mrs. Dolphus Rose. Mfwtle Mae D5nk:n5 o' Lugofl Milder SSLST* tHb wk ?f Mis' a cousin Miss Adabel Price * Mrs. Laurence Evans has returnee iom a visit to her sister. Mrs. W D. Kelly of Columbia. John Ford, 62, a brother of Henrj -foid, died suddenly/ at Fordson M>ch Wednesday of heart trouble ^ceased was a real estate ileal er. i t JAY'S COTTON LBTT*R r ' .fwp.M-r1' Coll on Eittin?tc For (Jnit?d State* is Placed at 13,606,006 Bak* .... _ t.. .? ' i J. W. Jay and Company, well known cotton tctojt auttitlctaiM, of HNew York, in a report mad* September 24th, given the average Indicated percentage condition for the United States at 55.2, and the indicated yield with normal weather henceforth, at 13,606,000 bales. For South Carolina the report hh^s: Weather favorable. No top crop prospects. Kxpect completion of picking around November first. Frost on average date will have little effect. Weevil have been very active. Supply of labor sufficient for gathering crops. Commenting on the crop conditions as a whole the report further says: "Ordinarily the fine weather of the past month would cause crop estimates to he raised, but the taking of new fruit by the weevil and the forcing of the older fruit to maturity by temperatures, which were above normal, has had the opposite effect. Our correspondents quite generally report that more bolls than usual are required to the pound of lint cotton. "With the exception of parts of Oklahoma* the high altitudes in Texas, parts of Tennessee, Virginia and the Far West; frost on an averr age date will make little difference. The weevil has taken most of the top crop and in some sections a large part of the middle crop. The saving feature, this season is the almost general fair to excellent bottom crop. Picking is proceeding as rapidly as labor conditions will permit although somewhat delayed in parts of Texas by rain. Altogether the percentage ginned to date is much above the average, although picking did not cover as much territory as in either of the years of 1925 or 1926. "The grade is running high and thus far averages above Middling." 1 Judge J. L. Patton, 62, country judge of Ohio county, Ky., was probably fatally shot Tuesday at Hartford by James Johnson, discharged from the United States Marine corps several years ago on account of ill-health, after a conversation in regard to a pension. Russell D. Haney, a carpenter, was electrocuted shortly before 11 o'clock Tuesday morning when he came in contact with a wire carrying a high voltage, while at work on a barn at the plant of the Whitney Manufacturing company.?In Spartanburg. Negro's Arm Broken Wedgefield, Oct. 3.?Friday afternoon John Carter, negro, was thrown from his buggy and his right arm broken, when his mule shied at an automobile and overturned the buggy. This is the same arm from which the hand was blowh off about a year ago when, in passing a lighted stick of dynamite to the white man with whom he was fishing, the premature explosion put an end to illicit sport for that day at least. J Life Term for Pint Gin Lansing, Mich., Oct 3.?For having a pint of gin, Fred Palm must go to State prison for life. Illegal possession of liquor in this State id a felony and four convictions for felonies makes one a habitual criminal automatically subject to- life imprisonment. Palm had a prison record. r A nsuter*?13 1?On application by both partner* , or either of them 2?Daniel Webster. ? I 3?Owen Wlster 4?Colombia and Venezuela. 8?.Imd, Hiibert and RJiwgaret Vnn Kyck : Flanders, latter half of the Flf teenth century 6?R O. Chandler of California. 7?A stick seems to bend lo watei because of a change In direction of i light after II enters the water 8?The hottest season of the year Is cafed "dog days** because It falls In j the iierhnl 2<? dnys before and after /-titf rising of the "dog star" . . - j tt?Half Moon. ,i ^ 10?George Washington 1703 i, ??????????? (| . I Stockholders Meeting I Annual meeting of stockholders ofl Camden Building & Loan Associj.B i tion will be held at Office of Lttafl i & Savings Bank, Tuesday Octobtrl , 11th at four o'clock p. m. , JOHN S. LINDSAY. * | 27-?8yib..| | ELIZABETH 11 J AKDKN II Announced I 1 that ber c.xtjtii.iile II I VENETIAN I | lOJLET PREPARATIONS fi | for preserving and I a 1 enhancing the beauty I 1 of the *y.in, may ah^ll 1 ways be had at ft | DeKalb Pharmacy IJ 111 "" ic'iii ii^I Wants--For Sales WANTED?Your subscription*^ J NEWS A COURIER. BestotsiSl? service for the money. I)a\\y ^ l Sunday, in your p. o. box 3654,:fl 8 a. m. for $9.00. Daily J $7.00. Phone 307-W, or s?i8ra;(i|> Wallace, Agent. 28tH I FOR SALE?One hundred land, G room dwelling, ter^H house, store building, other ciS buildings and bams and grist n^fl Sixty acres cleared. Bargain^H price. John K. deLoach, AttomB Camden, S. C. 2$tM FOR RENT OR SALE?Seven rofl house at 1215 Fair Street. lot, two room house in yard, tlH car garage, wood house, etc. session after October 15. Robin Zemp, Camden, S. C. FOR S^LE^Fourteen 'gootT^jH: seven weeks old, $5.00 each. jgH dress W. F, Truesdale, W^f?> FOR SALE?Shingles No. 1. andk^f 2, in any amount. Address C.t^H McCaskill, Rt. 3, Camden, S.jH FOR SALE?Antique low fourptfl er bed, for best offer. AdMjfl Mrs. William H. Mackey, Wifjfl'. boro, S. C. FOR SALE^(fr acuT'XH cream from tubercular Ma Jersey cows. Address Mrs.\?l Truesdale, Camden, S. C. orVI phone 2102. 254^ CARTEN^^ carpenter work see John S. )Ira^H at 812 Church Street, or pho^H 268. I will be glad to serve public. All work will be doat^B promptly and guaranteed S? workmanship. I specialize in house building. First class finishing, cw inet making, mantles and sctMgPgJ I solicit your patronage *** furnish best of references. yijB I) 1XIE BLUE GEM, Egg and Coal. Save money by letting us in your winter's supply now. W*? ephone 340 for our low delivetw* prices. Camden Lumber Compaq? Camden, S. C. WANTED?N(^Tpine Togs. HigMB cash prices paid; ywr rounfl , mand. Sumtey Planing MnisMoa Lumber Co.r Attention E. ? "JJaI _ Sumter, S.. C. ^ | FOE RBHl^Ofllce in t?o*n * ftjM inks Bank Building, rates very rt* sonable; no heat, lights of 1 bills to pay.\ Apply N; C. Agent, Camdett, a. C. ' CURTAINS STRETCHEIK-AW-J* . wishing curtains stretched P"2 apply at 904 Campbell Prices reasonable. > 1 M FOR SHOE REPAIRING-"* atgfB j i Rejd Boot Shop next door_ 1 4- PJ'J8 office. A. M. JON*s? rr^j I SELECTED FLOWER BULBS FOE ALTLMN PLANTING * Hyacinths, extra large, per dozen. . Narcissus, paper whites, per dozen . 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