The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 23, 1928, Image 6
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Camden, 8. Friday, Marrh 23, 1928
The Worm Turns
A strange tale related editorially
by the Albuny Herald
"If a dog biten a man, that'a not
newa; if a man bitea a dog, that'a
news," has l>een quoted ho often that
it ha? become trite. Now we may
have to revise it. From Baltimore
comes the story of a man who laid
down a gun with which he was preparing
to shoot a mouse, in order to
answer the telephone. The mouse
sprung forward, stepped on the trigger
of the gun and the bullet shattered
the mun's thumb?if the news
dispatch is to be believed.
Maybe so. Now if some pugnacious
rabbit will kindly bite a hunter,
we shull add still another definition
of news.
Saw Kips Gardner
Florence, March 18. ? With his body
<ut deeply by a circular saw, Douglar
(iardner was brought to the Flor
enee infirmary yesterday from a m:il j
site near I,ake City. He is in a j
critical condition and there is little 1
hope for h overy. When caught
by the whirling blade Mr. Gardner'? ;
body was nearly severed and wound
being two feet long ar in parts as
deep as six inches.
Wrong Headline;
Wrong Impression
An unfortunate head line in The
( amden ( hronicie last week regarding
the horse show making the
tourist seasons close, created the
wrong impression. We want to correct
that impression for the tourist
season is now on in full and more
guests are here at present, in both i
boteiand cottages than at any time
this season. They enjoy Camden*1: j
climate and stay here as long as the
hotels will permit.
Pays To Arise Early
W ithin half an hour after he got
out of bed 1 uesday morning a bolt
of lightning darted through the bedroom
window of Mr. Sam Young at
Palzell and struck the mattress of his
bed. A large hole was burned in the
bed, but the tire was quickly extinguished
hy occupants of the house.
Mr. ^ oung owes his escape from
serious injury to his habit of rising
early every morning in order to
on the job at the H. C. Bland Motor
( o., where he has been employed j
for several years.?Thursday's Sumter
Item.
Honor Roll for Lugoff School
Grade 1. ? Richard Gettys, Mattie
Roberts, I^eila Mae Nelson.
Grade 2.?Betty Ellis, Ann Clarkson,
Benjamin Gettys.
Grade 4. ? Vivian Lee.
Grade 5.?Emily K. Bell, Thelni.t j
Jones.
Grade 6.?Lawrence McCollum.
Grade 7.?Ralph Lee, Katherine
Jones. I.ucile Ford.
general news notes
Greenville is making preparations
and has raised $.3,000 for expense
money for the convention of 6.000
South Carolina school teachers which
meets there 29-31. I
It required 5.761 vessels to transport
the 26,330,000 gross tons of trade
entering and leaving the United i
States last year.
At Greer, two policemen caught
robbers in a grocery store Tuesday
night and a pistol battle resulted. A
large pool of blood on the store floor
and splotches of blood elsewhere indicated
that the officers had wounded
one of the burglars, but they escaped
in an automobile, the cushions of
which were bloody when it was found
later in Spartanburg.
"Charles (Speed) Hoi man of Minneapolis,
on Saturday made a record
of making 1,433 consecutive loops
in an airplane, beating the former
record of more than 300 loops.
Harry C. Neilson, veteran railroad
conductor, convicted last week at
Chattanooga, Tenn., of the murder
of his wife, has been sentenced to
prison for life.
Five men were captured and a still J
representing $40,000 in cost, was de
stroyed by police in the Bronx section
of New York city last Monday afternoon.
The plant occupied three
stories of a brick building.
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Wateree Night School
Proving Very Popular
One of the bent evidence* of progress
in the W*U-ree Mill Vlll
the night school which has been
organized under the directions of
Superintendent of Schools, J. G.
Richards It ha-, been through the
uniting efforts of Superintendent
Richards, the aid of the county end
state, and the co-operation of Mr>
Llewellyn, manager Kendall MRU,
that this has been made possible.
The school was organized about
the first of February, and since then
thirty-three have been enrolled. The
average attendance has exceeded all
expectations being about twenty-five.
Superintendent Richards was very
fortunate in securing as teachers
Mrs. D. M MoCaakill, who has been
very successful with her teachings in
the mill day school, and Mr. Charles
Gibson, Dartmouth College graduate,
now employed by Kendall Mills. I
am sure that the success is due in
part to the popularity and keen interest
of these teachers.
The ?choo! meets three lights a
week at the Wateree Community
Hoi^se, which has been provided with
tables, chairs, and blackboards. One
of the most noticeable features of the
school is the interest taken by the
students. The teachers are attempting
to help each one along whatever
one is most in need. In order to do
this the group has been divided so as
to give individual attention to those
who need it. Reading, writing,
arithmetic, spelling, and Thrift are
the studies taught. Kverything
taught is practical, and taught so as
to show its practical use in life.
When the school was organized
sides were chosen. kn wr. :;a the
<>\s?ers and the other ns the
( hickens. These two s.des have
been having a ciose race for attendance
honors. Saturday night the
losers are to serve a supper to the
winners. Much appreciation should
be shown Mrs. V,". Wi.-ner, Mr3.
Charles, and Mr. Llewellyn who have
taken great interest in helping to put
this supper on. Mrs. Wisner has also
been kind enough to promise to
show the movies taken of the village
school children last year, along with
some other reels. The Mother's Club
of the Village, under the direction of
Mrs. Mof askiil, is handling the cooking.
After seeing the night school. 1 am
sure we have very good evidence of
the success and ability of our Superintendent
of Schools, Mr. Richards,
and the teachers Mrs. I). M. McCaskill
and Mr. Gibson.?Contributed.
Highway Detour Closed by Water
Columbia, March 18.?Officials of
the state highway department today
advised motorists traveling in the
lower portion of the state ttyat detours
on state highways are in poor
condition despite the fact that the
department is doing all that can possibly
be done to keep roads in condition.
Little improvement is probable
until a chauge in the weather,
according to officials.
Route No. 2 below Harleyville is
closed on account of high water and
No. .11 below Holly Hill is rough but
passable. Motorists from the upper
part of the state are advised to take
the route by Sumter, Manning,
Greeleyville and St. Stephens.
The inclement weather of the week
end has cut down the number of persons
who had intended visiting Magnolia
Gardens and other beauty spots
in the vicinity of Charleston.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
The U. S. battleship Colorado was
rammed by the steamship Ruth Alexander
off the coast of California Friday
night. The battleship was not
seriously damaged.
Klmer G. Baltz, ."id, cashier of a
bank at Madison, 111., is dead from
wounds received when bandits held
up and robbed the cashier and a companion
of $23,500 Friday.
Twenty-five thousand wearers of
the green marched in parade in New
\ ork Saturday to the memory of St.1
Patrick, patron saint of Ireland.
Lieut. Joseph Soper in an army
plane last Friday made a successful
flight from Sault Ste Marie, Mich.,
to Detour with food and supplies for
snowbound people at Detour, and returned
to his base bringing Russell
Goetz, a victim of blood poisoning,
ill for ten days. Hospital surgeons
say there is a good chance of saving
Goetz's life.
One thousand additional Marines
are to l>e sent to Nicaragua as quickly
as sailing arrangements can h?made
by the navy department.
William Fdward Hickman, convicted
of two California murders is now
No. 44,049 in the state penitentiary at !
San Quentin, ( al. He is also under
sentence of death on April 27 for the
murder of Marion Parker.
British scientists report succeas in |
the hunt for iL_cure of leprosy. The '
perfect^ remedy after Un cf
tudy is hydnocarpus oil.
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I'ATHKTIC .STORY TOLD
Of Men Who l?mt Their Uvea In
Sunken Hubmarine
Boston, March l?.__The torpedo
,room of the submarine 8-4 in which
six men lived for 72 hours after tiui
vessel was sent to the bottom in
luion off I'rovincotown Decembei; 1J,
gave up .t* story today. ' >;
Naval officers eutered the com
part ment after the submersible,
raised from the ocean bed on Saturday,
-ad been dry docked at the
Boator. naval yard, and from the
disma evidence found therein,
pieced together a tragedy on whicn
the inii-rest of p nation was centered
for three days last winter.
The mx bodies were found and one
of them, that of Lieut. Graham Newell
Fitch, of Washington, L). C., was
identified. In other parts of the ship
two other bodies ware recovered com
pleting the roster of death. The en
tire company of forty men perished
when the coast 'guard destroyer
J'auJding rammed and sank the S-4
During the salvage operations thirty
two bodies were taken from the 'hull.
Kvidence of a desperate fight fqr
life was seen in devices by 'which
the imprisoned men had striven to
shut out the water leaking into
their chamber from the battery
room adjoining. The watertight
door between the compartments ha i
been closed and dogged tight. *
lead maul had been used to batter
down the dogs, and a large pinch bar
was wedged against the door.
Glass headlight in the door apparently
had let water in. To shut
this leakage out the men had placed
a piece of rubber above the glass an i
secured it with a wooden block. ,
The preliminary search of the torpedo
room today revealed no written
records of diaries. Further search
will be made by a naval board of in
ve.-tigation when the interior of the
vessel is in .better condition.
The bodies of Lieut. Fitch and his
five men were all found on deck,
which was covered with gray mud and
four inches of water. Investigating
officers said it was apparent that ali
of the men but one had awaited death
quietly in their berths, conserving
their energy that they might consume
as little as possible of the precious
air. The exception was one
hlatY77l at the foot of the torpedo
hatch ladder, gripping the ladder
with his right hand. The body of
another man lay against this on?,
with the head resting on its chest.
Lieut. Fitch's body was lying on
his back on the deck under the work
bench, which is on the starwari
side forward, just aft the torpedo
tubes. The head was pointed aft
and the feet forward. The officer
was identified by his naval academy
class ring and sweater and his cap.
He had been wearing khaki trousers
and a submarine coat. One of his
arctic shoes was still on a foot, the
other lay near the body.
Three other bodies lay under the
hunks in the after part of the torpedo
room.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS The
South Carolina railroad commission
at its annual meeting Tims*
day reelected Sam C. Blease, chairi
man, elected J. H. Nance vice-president,
and put W. W. Godman as
head of the bus bureau just moved
over from the highway commission
to the railroad commission. Mr
Godman follows his job over to the
railroad commission. The session w*?
devoted to consideration of the new
work involved in supervising the bus
lin^s of the state.
R. L. Neal. a well known road contractor
of Bntesburg, was killed when
is car skidded over an embankment
four miles from Pelion Sunday mi(U
mght. He lived until Monday afte?
noon with his spine fractured and
died m a Columbia hospital. ThA
car turned over twice on the err?
bankment eight feet high.
Malcolm N. Rice, one of the largest
P an ten at Bamberg, died in a Columbia
hospital Tuesday after being
sick several weeks. The funeral was
field at Spnngtown church in BamiT
:>erg county Wednesday afternoon;
' Rice was a brother of Judge H.
. Rice, of Aiken, who survives him
with one sister, Mrs. W. S. Miley,"
He was an honor graduate of Furman
university, and was 60 years old. '
Fe,d> a Jew, reputed to be 125
yeaned, died recently at Lisko,
oland, after having been married
100 years. He leaves a widow aged
>*ars' ??x children. the*
youngest of whom is 80. j
Hiram Reed, convicted of dynamit-'
ng a heating stove in a school at-'
H.-asant Valley, 111., Uat December,!
and injuring the teacher, and sen-1
t.ncedto twenty years in prison has
oecn refused a new trial.
The lower house of congress on
Saturday gave its approval to the
proposal to strengthen the navy W
o addition of fifteen 10.000 ton
cruisers and an aircraft carrier of 13 .
000 estimated cost of
$274,000,000.
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BATTERY SPECIAL! ,
Saturday, March 24 j
ONE DAY OMY |l
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Full Size SUndfiio Guar- j
anfteed Battery for Fcrd, I;'
Chevrolet and other
light cars i
$0.95
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Exchange Price
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M)<:r's Service Station
Phone 38
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Colored Masquerade Hall
Climaxing a very busy social season
among colored people of this section
the Wednesday Evening Club, 1
headed by A. Leon Owens, entertains <
with a masquerade ball in honor of <
the White Rose Club of Sumter
Friday night, March 23rd..
Those selected to assist in doing
honor to the visiting club will witness 1
one of the most unique schemes of .
decorations ever presented in a local j
hall. Vera McGirt, of the Camden
Beauty Parlor, is in charge of decorations.
T. A. Gregory, of Hob- 1
kirk Inn, is in charge of refreshments. 1
?Reported for The Chronicle. I
Death of Colored Girl
Thelma Benson, aged 1 , daughter .
of Nannie Benson, residing at 1409'
Campbell Street, died at her home '
on Saturday afternoon, after a linger-'
ing illness. The funeral was held |
Monday afternoon at Edwards Chapel
A. M. E. Z ion Church and the burial !
was in the colored cemetery. The 1
relatives and friends of the family '
are thanked most sincerely for the
kindness and sympathy shown them
during her illness and death.?Re- J
ported for The Chronicle. i
Two state constables made 52 ar- i
rests in Charleston over Sunday, acting
under orders of Governor Richards.
after the city authorities had '
failed to observe the Sunday abservance
laws or clean up gamblers and
bootleggers, which latter made most
of the catch this time. The mayor
of Charleston in statements to newspaper
men resented the action of the
governor.
Aged Preacher Wee ./ *
Bishopville, 15.?Dr. J. W.
Wolling died et his home in Spartauv
t>urg Thursday morning at 12 o'clock
following a two month*' illness.
Doctor Wolling was a superannuate
niniatcr of the South Carolina Methodist
conference, having served as
missionary to Brazil for 120 years.
He also served as senate chaplain for
& number of years. I>oetor Wolling
was born December* 27, 1860.
He was three times maijied. His
first wife was Miss Ida Green of
Wisacky. Funeral services were
ironducted Friday afternoon at 4
o'clock at Bethlehem Methodist
church, Bishopville, with interment
in Bethlehem cemetery. This conjecrated
Christian gentleman leaves
u host of friends an^ loved ones to
mourn their loss. /
To Hold Group Field Day
The colored touchers of the county
are inviting the public to be present
and enjoy a group held day at St.
Matthews Training School, located
eight miles east of Camden on Friday,
April 6. The following schools
will participate: Pine Tree, Cool
Spring, Knight's Hill, Mt. Zion, Boykin
and St. Matthews, and the program
to be carried out will feature:
An interesting program, cattle judging
contest, hfty yuTd dash, one hundred
yard dash, potato race, suit case
race, high jump, tug of war, tumble
set, broad jump, base ball. Industrial
work will be on exhibition.
Wants?For Sale
MONEY TO LOAN?at six per cent
interest on modern homes and
centrally located business property.
Address F. O. ^ox 164, Camden,
S. C. 52-1 tf.
NOTICE?Pay your city tax before
April 1st, 1998, and avoid 7 per
cent penalty.?Camden City Council.
FOR SALE?Cedar posts, seven and
a half feet long. Apply to B. P.
DeLoache, at Mackey Mercantile
Company, Camden, S. C. 51-52-pd
NOTICE?Pay your city tax before
April 1st, 1928, and avoid 7 per
cent penalty.?Camden City Council.
NOTICE?Pay your city tax before
April 1st, 1928, and avoid 7 per
cent penalty.?Camden City Council.
FEANLT SEED?White Spanish, at
lowest prices. Good sound seed
from our 1927 crop. Samples on
request. L. Schenk Co., Camden,
S. C. 51 tf.
FOR SALE?Large
room cement ' stone, ?i?^ tJH
house. Local water plant ?w9
lights, steam heat, Lot 'juS
front by 180 feet deep. Kau n.a
northern suburb of Columbia s9
In sight of Hide wood Club ttuufl
links. Hard surface road to 39
ten minutes drive. Fine *?9
three churches, delightful c|jjJ?
If interested write 50'j L)ukf i9
nue, Columbia, 8. C., 9
CHICKS FOR SALE A hatch oil
March 26th and one otf on kM
'2nd. The all white I^eghorni 9
kind that lives and grown, C^9
vale Poultry Farms, Moseley'^B
Gaskin, Proprietors, i;no [{9
Street, Camden, S. C. jg9
FOR SALE OR RENT?One 1
room house, on Mill street oppc9
Court Inn, formerly rwjidenct9
J. H. Osborne. Possession gj?9
April first or earlier. Apply p,9
Zemp, Camden, S. C. J
LOST?Hunch of red bark bookt 9
together with tan shoe ?trS
Return to W. A. Marshall, ^9
Agent. 5Q jfl
CARPENTERING?John S. :,k9
phone 268, 812 Church St-,9
Camden, S. C., will give &|9
factory service to all'for all kj9
of , carpenter work. BuildS
general repairs, screening, c*k9
making and repairing r'urnitiB
My workmanship is my refert9
1 solicit your patronage. Thi9
ing you in advance. (9
BE A DETECTIVE?Travel ix[*9
paid, earn big money, three &9
two women, two negro m( n rif^H
Write P. O. Box 1314, ColunS
S. C. 50-52)9
FOR SHOE REPAIRING?auigfl
Red Boot Shop next door to 9
press office. A. M. JONES, frj9
FOR RENT?Well located six tJ
cottage with sleeping porch. f9
session given at once. App!j9
B. G. Sander.*, Camden, S. C. <9
CURTAINS STRETCHED?Any9
wishing curtains' stretched pi9
apply at 904 Campbell jj^9
Prices reasonable. ^9
FOR RENT- -Office in Loan &|H
ings Bank Building, rates verj^H
sonable; no heat, lights or jan^H
bills to pay. Apply N. C. Ar^l
Agent, Camden, S. C. r9
LOOK! LOOK!?The thing u9
Camden has been needing (otH
long time?a Fish Market?vhH
you can get all kinds of Fish 9
time. We dre&s them free of 9
charge or you can get them 9
way you like them. We delii^9
Just call Camden Fish Mar9
Phone 252-J and get it at onc9
S. D. Hammond, Prop. l9
WANTED?No. 1 nine logs. Hi(9
cash prices paid; year round 9
mand. Sumter Planing Milli 9
Lumber Co., Attention E. S. B':9
Sumter, S. C. l-d9
MONEY TO LOAN?At six andc9
half cont interest on impri9
city real estate. Apply
Savage, Jr., Camden, S. C. )9
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