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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE ? IX u>d fahUiktr Published every Friday at No. 1100 Jiroad Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina post of?ice as second elaaa mail matter. Price per annum. $2.00, payable in advance. 1927 NOVKMIU K 192 7 "5wT klon Tu?r W?4 ilw ?n < * W Ui I 2 3 4 5 67 8 9 1011 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 2 4 2S 26 27 28 29 30 UJ IU U. I UJ UJ UJ . ' I ^ . i .. . :> j Camden. S. ('., Friday Nov. II, 1927. Very sensational development* are promised by detectives working on the ca.se known in Cheraw a? the Rainwater murder case, following the arrest of Dol Chapman, a Croatan, 28, who is charged with the killing of the ( heraw furniture dealer in August, 1U25. J. H. Rainwater, brother of thy dead man, has never quit trying to have the murderer of his brother brought to justice. Floods In New England Over a hundred persons dead, including the drowned lieutenant governor of Vermont, great destruction of property, including some ut Plymouth, Vermont, the boyhood home of President Coolidge, wcukened dams threatening to let loose more torrents of water on unprotected countryside and towns, frantic efforts to prevent further catastrophe with sand bags, and the facts filtering out from large territory and cities long cut off from communication?such is a broad line sketch of the outstanding news of the flood in New England over the week-end. Boston and other cities are threatened with shortened rations of milk, as means of transportation were damaged. Cold weather and snow following the thirty-six hours of rain adds to the suffering of the people in the stricken territory, and hunger stalked among thoqe still alive. The Red Cross is linrd at work of relief of suffering in the flooded districts. President Coolidge has ordered an army airplane reconnaissance of all the territory involved, and Governor Smith, of New York started relief measures. The damage is mostly in \ rrnniiit and New Hampshire, although it extends into Canada. But in Springfield, Mass.. 10,000 persons were Hooded out of house and home. Montpelier, \ t., and thirty square miles around that city were Hooded. Mountain streams raged down carlying away power dams and all other obstructions in their path. The entire story ot the uamage done, and the number of lives lost ha- not yet come out of the territory involved, and e\er\ day's addition to it has made :r worse than had been believed befo*e. Convict Stripes In it.- r< rent presentment the grand jury of Kershaw County recalls that at fo. mer term of court it recommended that the eonvicts on the ehaingj :ig he clothed in stripes, and adds. "No attention has been paid to .his recommendation." Since it was made five white prisoners have escaped fioni the gangs (>f that county. The ehaingang pi isoners and re raits should I required to \> ai' > ! ipc.s. and tin -h >uld. of ours1, he some a or commonsense plan adopted . keep separate and dntinet stripes whites ami stripes of blacks. This could be accom.plis.icd without any great amount of rouble or expense. The prevalent attitude towards piisonor* doing time >n the cha.ngangs or elsewhere as for teat matter is one of liberality, sonietin s bordering on the ektreme. It often is the case thai there is no way to distinguish a felon from a man who has never been convietid and sentenced for violating the law. And without advocating hatsh brutal, tyrannical methods o measures, there icrtainly should be some distinction shown between these lines of cleaVago. Had the prisoners of Kershaw County been ciofhed i.i stripe/, as the grand jury suggested several months ago, the chances are those five men would have found it extremek difficult to make a successful getaway and continue at large It is possible, of course hut extremely improbable.?-Spartanburg Journal Camden Plays Manning Today Mann ng, No. Ih-Manr.'ng \vi! play Camden for the Fifth districl champii nsl.ip Friday aftern.i, n, November 1 I, at d.d(). Manning has defeated all teams in the lower metier of the district and Camden lias do fea'ed all teams in the upper section. Camden has played more team: than Manning and indications an th.v Camden will have the edge ir this game. Manning has -Oiot heei scored upon this season, hut ha: failed to show up as strong on offen ive p'.avs as expected. Much intoYeSt is "manifested in th< game and an exceptional crowd i: expected. The winner of this gami will have the right to pla> in othe district elimination games withii the next week. Camden defeatei Manning in a game to decide th< Fifth district title last year player in Camde- Manning will endeavo to upset cv yectations this time. ' ! -- 1 - 1 m .j. ... > .?ii n. IN MEMORY OF I'AT DAVIS Co-incident with Armistice Day being* tn- mind aome oi tho? win* lout their live* in France, and we have been requested to reproduce the following letter written by a Ke<l Promt nurse to the mother of Fat Davis, of the VVateree Mill community. It will be remembered that the young pnan'i mother ha<l died bttfore the letter reached here und she never knew the fate of her son. The letter follow*: My-Dear Mr*. Da via: By thi* time you will have the news that I'ut has died for hi a country here in France. I wun with him all night before he died and I went to hi* funeral here at the beautiful cemetery in Beauvais. So I am writing to tell you all the thing* Hie short government message couldn't tell you. The boy was wounded by an exploding shell. He was hit in the abdomen, but because the wound was not painful he did nt>t think he was hurt much and went on for a short time with his work at the gun. Then the Red Cross men took him back to the first uid station and from there he was sent by ambulant* to the large Ited Cross hospital here. Hut he was too much cut up ever to be mended. On the night of May 30, the fine American doctors in 'charge of the hospital asked me to sit with him because they knew he could not live much longer. Hut the sweet boy didn't know it. I sat by bis bed and talked to him from time to time all night. I told him I would do anything for him and the first thing he asked me was to write to you. He said he hadn't written for a long time, that he had been so busy. Hut he said that he had thought about you u lot. He told me not to say he was very sick because he didn't want to worry you. When I told him I'd write the very best letter I could he smiled bis nice smile and said he knew you would sure be glad to hear" from him because he was your favorite and the baby of the family. He said you had always been so good to him that he could hardly think of you without huving the tears come in his eyes. He loved you a very great <ieal and talked about you and home almost all night. He didn't feel tired or sleepy?was as bright and quick and smiling as if he were well. But he felt hot sometimes and then I would get water for him. He said it was cool and good like water at home. 1 hen he told how cool it was to go swimming there on hot sumnffer uights and said he would go every day when he was home with you all. We did not talk very loudly because there were forty other wounded men in the ward, but no one was hurt quite so badly as he was. I told him I was there to watch the whole ward for the night but would vit by him il he wasn't sleepy. He had no idea that he was going to die. Toward morning he felt weaker and decided to fry to go to sleep. He said he felt faint and begged me not to leave him. I told him I would stay right with him even if he went to sleep?and of course 1 <1 id. He - went to sleep at a quarter of seven that morning. He looked so peaceful and contented and his face was -o beautiful that I wish you could have seen him. He has boon a good boy in Krance as well as' a brave soldier. He was buried that afternoon with another American boy, Clifford Led!ord. The funeral was French military. A squad of soldiers in their French blue uniforms marched as a guard around the hearse. I walked behind with another woman who is helping here with Red Cross work and we followed the two coffins covered with the French and American flags l.? :hv cemetery where so many Amer-j ican, Knglish and French are buried. I here Hishop McCornich, of Mich:gan. a Red Cross chaplain, met us and took chaigc of the services. And in his prayer at the grave he prayed not only for the brave young soldiers who had died for their country, hut also for their famiiie- >.? far away in America. 1 enclose a piece of cedar from u tree near his grave in the cemetery.; Also 1 enclose two letters which were in his pocket. I send you my sympathy for your shaie of mother's sorrow. I send my love because he sent hi? many times that night and I vend my congratulations that you have such a* fine sweet son to give. I.oyaily yours for our country, Maude Cleveland. For the Home Communication Service of the American Red Cross, 4 Place de la Concorde. Paris. Services at Temple Reth-EI Services will be held at Temple Reth-EI Sunday afternoon, Nove.ni, be 1.", at -l o'clock. The public is . c ?r.i;al!y invited. Missing Plenty Pat was taking Professor Jones down the river in a rowboat. "Pat." said the professor, "have y oi ever studied zo.logv?" 1 "No," said Pat. 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