Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE h O/ NILKH Kditor and 1'uWUher ?T ea to # Published every Friday at No. HOD Broad Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina postoffice aa second class mail matter. Price per annum >2 .00, payable in advance. . | ? ; , 1927 * DECEMBER 1927 tt > UJ If I 2 3 4 4 5 ! 6 7 H 9 10 II 1213 14 15 16 17 IK | 19 | 20 ; 2f 22 23 24 25 26 27 | 23 29 30 31 J; ! ! w I . * ('antdcn, 8. Friday, Dec. i), 1927. K INDIA TOWARD (A \U7KN ' Last summer through the courtesy of The Kirkwood management the Young Men's Business lx*agu<- was given the use of The Kirkwood golf links and club house free of charge, -and the business league in turn formed a summer club, deriving both pleasure and profit to the League and its members. The president of the League, Henry Savage, Jr., wrote a letter of thanks to Mr. Karl P. Abbott, proprietor of The Kirkwood, to which he received the following courteous reply, which shows the most friendly spirit existing between the hotel men and the town people: "I wish to take this opportunity to thunk you for your kind letter of November 20. I am glad that in some small way 1 have been able to contribute to the pleasure and enjoyment of the young people of Citmden during the summer months. I want you to feel that 1 will always he willing to do whatever I can for the betterment of our little city. I say "our" advisedly as I am beginning to feel a distinctly home feeling for Camden and certainly it has a warm spot in my heart." THE HARM IT'S DOING. The Chronicle is reproducing a letter below from Mr. Samuel S. Simonds, of New York City, mailed to the Chamber of Commerce of this city. It is only one of a great number of protests being mailed to our civic bodies and to the State Highway Department relative to the Blaney speed trap, where motorists haw been held up and made to pay fines for alleged violation of the speed laws. The Blaney authorities justify their actions on the ground that the lives of school children are in jeopardy. We are told that this order of holding up motorists went into effect before the school opened. It is also said that the school is surrounded by a heavy wire fince, said to have been paid for by Kershaw County. Any defense Rlaney might put up as an excuse for taking toll from motorists in this manner could never offset the immense amount of undesirable publicity this section is getting. The letter from Mr. Simonds follows: "i am writing you a letter which I think you ought to know about in your state. Have just returned from a tour of the south and went through a little town of Blaney. South Carolina. I don't th:nk there were fifty people in the place, irr fact you wouldn't know it was a town. "A few miles outside of the town a man named K. M. Castles a traffic officer, stopped our car and made me pay him five dollats for speeding. This certainly was an imposition and 1 think you people ought to know about it as it only discourages southern touring from the north." An engineer of the airways bureau of the department of commerce, irrigated several sites for an airport unibia and found the old Camp ...ukson impracticable, and intimated his recommendation that a site for the airport be brought near a hard surface h'ghway close to the heart of the eit\ and too high to make fogs probable. , .., . - 1 1 '? ADVERTISING PAYS t Jtmm ?? f Paragraph* by B. G. Handera Sec- J retary of Chamber gf Commerce > If you don't believe that advertising pays, drop by tha Chamber of Com- J merce office and note the hairiness re- 1 suiting therefrom. It's a busy placet these days. t When a man takes the position that t iuimr /likiMrf ' ti< >i nu t/ ioi ikiit a Vttu t (tUVCI MVV? ?IVV ??V |/UV? IMO t opinion ugainat the judgment and experienee of the large majority of business men, great ami small. In fact the me reliant who nays he does not believe in advertising contradicts himself by stocking in preference the best advertised brand of goods. I Santa Claus is now scanning the advertising columns of your homet o v\ ii paper, so if you don't wont your legitimate business to go elsewhere, advertise in them. The coming of good roads opens wide the door of opportunity to live towns and live merchants. With all the delightful weather we ! have been having in South Carolina, and Camden in particular, it's u mystery why so many people still .Jive North, w|th its long winter and bitter blasts. While Camden has made many strides in the recent past in forging to the front, as a real, live, modern city, yet there remains much to he , (ione. Among the large items on the list is more small industries, a high class hotel with an adequate auditorium. Plenty of money in Camden and the surrounding country to establish and successfully operate a number of gopd sized industries in this city, and build thut hotel: also such enterprises would benefit the owners and bless many u man and woman needing employment. Our young people have to seek elsewhere. There can be no question but that South Carolina and other Southern states stand to receive a large influx of capital and industries from the north in the next decade or two. As to the particular community which gets its share of this capital much depends on those residing in that community. The Chamber of Commerce is trying to do good work. Its officers receive small, pay. its directors none.. Its membership dues are small. Join it now and help be a factor in Camden's growth. Phone 462. It has been said that the motorcycle apced-cop at Bianey, where so much complaint comes from, is paid $12 per day for himself and machine. This we would say is a very handsome salary, and Bianey not being a very wealthy municipality, Mr. Speed Cop must have to "bring home the bacon" each day, or his job wouldn't last long. Rumor has it that Bianey is soon to organize a hank to take care of their shekels garnered from passing motorists. Fdiiness?it is to 1 laugh. A bill to make the sessions of the legislature every two years will be introduced next month by Representative Olin D. Johnson, of Spartanburg county, he says. Some other members of the house intend to make a strenu- < ous fight for the passage of the bill. They say South Carolina is one of only four states havyig annual sessions of the legislature, and each one costs $200,000. J^ince the constitution must be amended to nlake the change the matter must be submitted to a vote of the people after and if the legislature enacts the bill for biennial sessions. The people once adopted the change, but an error in drafting provisions for appropriations biennially also killed the act. If the bill of the member from Spartanburg county passes the next legislature, its -ponsors feel sure the amendment to the constitution, will carry later at | the polls. (Georgetown had a quarter of a million dollar fire when the plant of the Brooklyn Cooperage company was neaf'.y all burned Thursday night. The fire destroyed much stave material and machinery. Its origin has not I been discovered. I I SEE OUR BEAUTIFUL | HOLIDAY LINE: I Smoke Seta Electric Irons T ousters - Waffle Irons Electric Grills j Electric Coffee Pots Thermos Bottles Christmas Cigars Christmas Cigarettes ,Christmas Tobaccos j Christmas Pipes Tobacco Pouches Men's Purses Ladies Purses j Bridge Sets j Playing Cards ; Christmas Cards i Christmas Boxes Christmas Seals Christmas Candies Christmas Novelties ! Old. English lavender Perfumes, Powders and Toilet Waters com Perfumes, Powdejrs | |. and Toilet Waters Houbigant's Perfumes. Powders and Toilet Waters ' Iludnuts Perfumes, j Powders, and Toilet W aters Beautiful Assortment of Horseman Dolls j Baby Carriages Scooters Wagons Velocipedes j Choice Assortment of Toys and Fireworks Exquisite Line of Tea Sets, Vases, Etc. Mesh Bags Box Stationery Eastman Kodaks | Conklin and Parker Fountain Pens Desk Lamps Pocket Knives j ? A Warm Welcome Awaits You! j I ZEMP 8c DEPASS I TELEPHONE 10 I V 1 7* ' ITATK ORDER# BOY# WHIPPED '*#? Henry Down The UMMial at I Cm# in Clmrlfeton Court a Charleston, S. C., Nov. 80.?Judge t i. K. Henry, presiding in State Court ? lere, thinks "the only way to .take a he thief out is through the hide.'? Ho r tlso believes that re-establishing the j >ld family rule is the greatest need v >f our times. Last week five negro boys wero t on vie ted before him of breaking into ( md robbing the home of Daniel S. * .esesne at 181 Broad Street. Ifer- < >ert Middle ton, one of the boys, hough only 13 years old, had aheadv t men before various courts nine times, t |Ie was sentenced to the State Ke- i ormutory to remain there until he is > !l years old. The four other boys?Thomas Jen- \ tins, Sain Brown, Paul Washington \ md Prank Graham?were whipped i >y their fathers as an alternative t? | foing to 'the reformatory. The sentence, executed by the athers of the four boys, was supervised by the sheriff of the county and vitnessed by the solicitor. The scene was (the courtyard of the I ounty jail and the instrument was ;i eat her strap. The whippings were administered horoughiy, but not brutally. Sheriff f. M. Poulnot, attending as the ourt's representative, halted each oj he paternal executioners at the end ?f the dozen stripes on bare skin igreed upon. The ekin was not brok,n*. A *ew w?fds of admonition from Solicitor Allan followed the meting >ut of the punishment, while Herbert diddletqn, the boy with the "record." tood wistfully looking on. The oihrs had taken their medicine. He was ust about to begin. The sheriff, solicitor and Mr. | .esesne reached the jail just before 1 o'clock to find the four fathers iwaiting them outside the 'prison fate. The group entered and the five )oys were led out into the courtyard. , Two of tips fathers had brought the eather straps, specified; the sheriff lad another. Several of the youngsters began o whimper even before they reached he yard and saw the chair that was 1 o serve as whipping block. One nnvever, from what he thought w?is he security of a tree grinned as the 1 .vhipping of the first of the four hefan. The sheriff, however, saw 'him. 'Take .that one with the smile next." le said/'Where's his father?" The frin vanished. The whippings ended, the boys and :heir fathers filed out of the jail. Midileton watched them go. This is he first real legal whipping administered in Charleston for many, nany years. Sheriff Poulnot, who las been a law enforcement officer n Charleston County for twenty-odd years, had never heard of one from :he older men with whom he worked when he started. In suspending the reformatory sen:ences, .Judge Henry said that he was ioing all in his |>ower to return to the old idea of training children in the home, where they should be trained. Comments were heard at the scene of the carrying out of the sentence, that it was "a good idea, and would teach those kids a lesson." WILL MAKE PROTEST. .The Rational Association of Manufacturers has protested against Uncle Sum's entrance into the field of manufactuie or power development as unfair to private industry, which is compelled to pay taxes and insurance and the like. For some time now the Government has been competing with the printers of the country through its practice of printing special request return address on stamped envelopes. And these printers must pay taxes, insurance, rent and all the other expenses to which any form of private industry is subjected. This practice of printing envelopes is dinky business and bad business for Uncle Sam. The National Editorial Association and other organizations are waging war upon it. Bills will be introduced in both branches of Congress to abolish the practice. Congressmen who will be called to vote on the bills are urged to ponder President Coolidge's statement that Government should get out of all kinds of business and stay out. This includes, of course, the printing business. If the bills fail, a new four-year contract between the Government und the envelope manufacturers will probably be entered into, and the practice will be continued.. Winning t+ie fight means giving industrial America a precedent for attacks on similnr evils in other industries. Winning means an understanding, too, that patecnalism will be postponed awhile. Down in Orangeburg, Mr. Giles planted twenty-four acres of cotton this year and sold 800 pounds off the tract. In the same time Mrs. Gates sold $500 worth of asparagus and $'200 worth of honey. The wife is complaining about the husband spending good money for fertilizer to feed the boll weevil. Orangeburg county has the most diversified farming of any county in the state?and a student of South Carolina told the Clover Community club recently that it is one of the best two sections of this state. Rev. E. N. Sanders, a Greenville preacher, when told in the street near midnight, that burglars were in a suburban- drtig store, got a shot gun, crawled tWough the same broken window the thieves used, and covered two men caught in the act of putting goods in a sack, holding them until the sheriff whom he had telephoned when starting for the store arrived. The men are being held in jail. The farmers whose land? will be flooded by the great dam at Saluda, near Columbia,'and who have sold out to -the water-power company, have : declined inducements to locate in adjacent Georgia and will continue to liVe near their former homes in South Carolina. '* - -* .qy;< The Traveler* Rest road in GreenIUe county which ha* been, bulging tnd cracking ever since the concrete labs wa? laid on it will have the aOfor its vagaries carefully inveaigated by the committee of the legiieture which is investigating the tate highway depaVtment. Subpoeius have been served on a number of leople near the road for a hearing vhieh starts today. President^ of 37 cotton mills on the astern kide of the Blue Ridge live irt, Jreenville, and that city claims the vorld record for mill company presiients. Sumter has been planting pecan roes for shading its streets and finds hem as good shade trees as are oaks, is well as producing a crop worth ivhile. H. W. Black well was electrocuted ,vhon ho tried to move an electric ,vire out of the way of u steam shovel jear Swannanqa, where he was em>loyed in the construction of a sewer ine. Wants?For Sale u N iVsG PTUCSEHVEVTOR SALE ?No. 1 tract 2,000 acres land. (Juail shooting and some duck shooting, thirty minutes tun from Camden. .Fifteen tenant farms, suitable lodge and stables for attractive game preserve proposition. No. 2. tract, 250 acres. Oldtime plantation house, nine rooms, four tenant houses, good peach orchard, running water and lights in house. Good quail shooting and deer and turkey shooting on adjoining territory. Just type place one likes for hunting lodge. Price very reasonable. T. K. Totter, attorney, Camden, S. C. 37-40sb FOR SALE?Turnips, turnip salad and dullards. Apply M. G. Huckabee, 1008 Market street, or telephone number 305, Camden, S. C. 87-38 sb. FOR SALE?r-One mule $125; disk horrow, rake and mower $125; one lot of wire $(>0. Address Mrs. John Collins, Rt. 2, Bethune, S. C. 37 pd. FOR SALE?Rosewood chicering square piano for fifty dollars. T. K. Trotter, Camden, S. C. 37-38sb FOR SALE?Antique mahogany chest of drawers, four drawers at top, doors at bottom that open into three large sliding drawers, cedar lined. Has original brass handles. Address A. B. C., Care of the Chronicle Office, Camden, S. C. 37 sb. ' ' ???????? i hi ^ GOOD BREAD?GOOD HEALTH Give your boys plenty of our superior bread and watch them grow in health and strength. Serve it with butter, jam or anything they like that adds to its enjoyment and you are providing boys and girls with the most wholesome and the most nourishing of foods. Our breads are made fresh every day of the best quality of ingredients. Electrik Maid Bake Shop East DeKalb St., Camden, S. C. _ # " 711 For Christmasu Novelties in China and Class and ffraits 1 Vantine's Perfumes TOILET SETS I MONTAG'S STATIONERY ! PEN AND PENCIL SETS Christmas Greeting cards complete perfume case electric appliances fine leather goods .v'.Vr I Johnson98 Candies -; * Finest Imported and Domestic Smokes Clyburn Drug Company ! AMERICAN LEGION BUILDING EAST DeKALB STREET \\ ! ~~~ " ?- P I FOR SALE?-Old fashioned boxwood and plenty of it. On highway between VVhitmire and Union. Adj dress Mrs. Robert Beaty, VVhitmire, S. C. 37 pd. ; HUDSON COACH FOR RENT? i Would like to rent my Hudson for winter season. In perfect condi' tion. VV. O. Hay, Camden, S. C. | 37-38sb. ; LOST?In Camden Saturday, December 3, ladies' brown pocketbook, containing checkbook on Rank of Bethune, keys and fountain pen. Reward for return to Bfliss Marie Horton, Bethune, S. C. 37-38-sb ,WANTED TO RENT?Five or six room house, modern conveniences. Address Mrs. J. P. Wilson, 1007 Lvttleton street, Camden, S. C. 37 pd. LOST?One canvas piano cover and one small victor talking machine, on highway between Kershaw and Camden. Finder please return to L. I>. Moore, Camden, S. C., and ! receive reward. 37-38 pd. [ FOR SALE)?One good saddle horse. I Can be seen at 1713 Gordon Street, t or call 354-J., Camden, S. C. 36tfsb.! IFOR RENT?Six room house on ! Union street, near Lake View. ! Apply Chronicle Office, Camden, S. C. 36 tf. ! FOR SALE?Three good work mules j for sale. Can be seen at DeKalb township chain gang, located near Beaver Dam Church. See Mr. H. E. Munn or J. M. Moseley. 35sb. | FOR SALE?Hunting right on 882 acres and also 178 acres, within | close proximity to each other. This property is known as the j Rock Hill place and is located on ( Twenty Creek, within two and onehalf miles of Blaney. For further j particulars and information wi^ite or call on T. C. Sessions, Blaney, ; S. C. 35-37 pd. | MONEY TO LOAN?At six and onej half cent interest on improved ; city real estate. Apply Henry . Savage, Jr., Camden, S. C. 34tf HOUSE FOR RENT?Six room house with all modern conveniences. ApI ply D. V. Dixon, at Dixon's. Gro; eery, Camden, S. C. 34 tf. FOR RENT?A two horse farm near Antioch Church. Apply to L. A. t Wittkowsky, Camden, S. C. 32 sb WANTED?No. 1 pine logs. HigW cash prices paid: year round <Umand. Sumter Planing Mills **4 . Lumber Go., Attention E. 8. Booth Sumter. S. C. 1-tf-ah CURTAINS STRETCHED?Any one wishing .curtains stretched please apply at 904 Campbell Stfreet Prices reasonable. gji FOR SHOE REPAIRING?caU at the Red Boot Shop next door to Ekpress office, a. M. JONES, Prop, I 24tf 1 CARI'ENTERINC?For any kU of I carpenter work see John S. Km* I at 812 Church Street, or'jCw'R 268. I will be glad to Semthel public. All work will be dopl promptly aud guaranteed as to I workmanship. I specialize in hoqae I building. First class finishing, cabinet making, mantles and screening. 1 solicit your patronage and can furnish best of references. 48-tf DIXIE BLUE GEM, Egg and Block Goal. Save money by letting us put in your winter's supply now. Telephone 340 for our low delivered prices. Camden Lumber Company, Camden, S. C. 27sh FOR RENT?Office in Loan & Savings Bank Building, rates very reasonable; no heat, lights or janitor's bills to pay. Apply N. C. Arnett Agent, Camden, S. C. ( rji Enterprise Building and j Loan Association. i ! NEXT SERIES : STARTS JANUARY 1.1927 - 1 I Where Is Your Will ? j I YOUR Will speaks for you when you .can- | not speak for yourself. If after you 'are gone | it is lost, burned, stolen, destroy ed-^itj can NEVER be replaced-. In a Safe Deposit Box here no curious eye I I sees it--and nothing can happen to -it. | THE BANK OF CAMDEN 1 I I I A SAFE PLACE FOR SAVINGS J