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B ' . .. jri y: , V + "/ T#. pr^ chR TQ START BOOSTING NOW' I NUMBER 2. mrominent Camden I Man Died Thursday Euneral services for Burwell BoyE Clarke, 61-year-old barrister and HL<red citizen of Camden, who died E Thursday afternoon at a local Epital were held at Bcthesda PresEerian church Friday afternoon at Bp'clock and interment followed in s E Quaker cemOtery. 1 Eohn Whitaker, Sr., Eugene Lenoir, Ec. Whitaker, Sr., Alfred Boykin, liver Boykin and W. Ancrum BoyE formed the list of active pallErers and the honorary pallbearers Eluded the full membership of the Enden bar association. Ehiring his life-long residence in Hp city, Mr. Clarke had gained sig recognition as a practicing attorE, public office holder and as assoEte editor and publisher of Tho Enden Chronicle during the years E^tHliately following its establishBnt, being associated with Mr. W. McDowell, its founder. Clarke first entered the service Hhis county as achool commissioner En he was elected to, this poet forI years ago and in more recent rs he had served also as master equity for* this county. For a Eiber of years he served as an edi^Bal writer and. joint owner of The ^Eomc-lc and through his brilliant powerful writings on this paper gained many admirers. Bfr. Clarke was born in Camden. was the son of Captain T. H. ' Brke and Sally Boykin Clarke. *?His Be predeceased him many years ^ rvivinjr are three sons, B. B. ^Rrkc. Jr., with whom he mainlined law offices in this city; Henry Brke, of Waycross, Ga., and Alber Clarke, also of Waycross, Ga. . Clarke also leaves two brothers, H. Clarke, of Sumter, S. O.; J. C. Brke, Atlanta, Ga., and two sisters, J. M. UeSaussure and Mrs. R.VC. Saussure, both of Atlantar, Ga. ^Br. Thomas J. Kirkland, the oldB surviving member of the Camden , who was an intimate friend of Clarke, and who, perhaps, knew, a better than any of our citizens, ^B kindly furnished The Chronicle ^ following tribute to his memory: ^B IN MEMORIAM ^^purwell Boykin Clarke, who passed *)'on March 29th, ultimo, in his ^^ .I'-secnwi year, was a descendant Samuel Wyly and IDinah Mill se> two of the Quaker colony who ( fbst settlers, in Camden. Abhe had not reached the fun fitted term of human life, as we around there ai*etrot n\any of I wniors surviving him. His de ture removes another tie with the mien of old?the days of the hotdfe u?gy now forgotten. He was (' " tfu' very few of his gen ion w ho abode all his days in his H.iw' Place and that of his fore ners. lif^ here he maintained unE*?. two cardinal qualities ^B,n :in<i tirtegrity?essentials 1 character, These were o the last degree by priva'1 sufft'ring, and he never compromised, ELlaS ",,turally equipped for the Bth,. abva>'s relished and courtHer< S- of the court house, mad \ u r"u ll v' ability and projvEv, 5 him a formidable opponent. K a p-7 n?d. fcable tribute is H eider. i ",n,\ fnend? by some years Bth thor between us from early nee i Was always mutual con bovhn1, . comPatible tastes. A? I wiir?r assoc,at?s? fell away and I discard10"8-of youth pass d into ^VeminU#,' We grew more congenial BKSfc. of th! "a8t- both knew him well can only Hh and hm'v,'r lowered the flag of ' Bfortune ?nnr'- nort.<tuaUed ** ?ny other An- ein,g basically sound, Boned a ngs and fault* mayjbe to^wai? here for tears? notching I ?"n kHndXfanothing . but Opens For ~ I Summer Golf Club v. fumm? Golf Committed M.n's iiusincss Le.gaa w.?ia rpe-'!,n* f0r the ae*??n April 10, under much Bod tP an ?f ?P*ration as .tfgir B st summer. ?\Y.v Eh. "hits for adults are HikiST Jem**1 and fis-oo, m oh,edition"1 for B >' ivo-dollar memberB that P.<vrm,tud ^ ????B<? "v1 "Urt the " than t?ur*thirty io B^tb10 ?f B? wi brouehoot the nmmer H'hh r~w n re<lQ tt?i to con County Game Warden i Makes Annual Report C. 0. Stogner, game warden for' Kershaw County^ has filed his annual < report to the state game warden, j which shows that $2,158 was col- i lacted from the sale of county li i< censes, $921 from State licenses j< $810 from non-resident hunters, < $42 from fishing licenses, fur tags j $36 itnd fines collected $443.66, mak- j I ing a grand total of $4,411.36. < In talking withk Mr. Btogner yesterday he says he wishes the coopera- i tion of all sportsmen in the preservation of fish and game. Requesting all to frown down on all illegal fishing and hunting. He tells us that from aR reports there are many coviee of birds left in the county, and other game is also plentiful. If cared for during the breeding season there ought to be fine hunting here another season. For the benefit of the public he asks us to publish a condensed digest of the present fishing laws and the designation of game fish which include jack fish or pickerel, pike, black baea or pond trout, striped bass or rook fiph, warmouth, redbelly bream, COpperface vor bald face bream, yellowbeliy perch, Bun perch, red fin trOBti flyer, craipple, rock bass, googgle-oye and white perch, v Game fish can be caught with hook and line,' or single set line, or rod and reel only, at any time of^ the year. Nets, seines, traps, basket* and any other device /nay. be used from September 1st to May 1st, for catching non-game fish only, but nets and seines must be removed from the waters each Saturday at sunset and kept out of the waters until sunrise ' each JVednesday. '- .Seines or gill ^ets are not to extend njore than half across the ?treara or body of water. ! It is a violation of the law to allow ! saw d#*t to drift in streams, or to i dynamite, or in any other manner poison fish. At the last- session of the legisla- 1 ture an act was passed which reads: '*That it shall be* unlawful for anyonef to sell game fish during the | months of April, .May and June of i each year, and it shall be unlawful to |ake, transport, ship or carry game I fish beyond the limits of the State for commercial purposes." Residents of this State are not required to buy a fishing license. Nonresidents of the State are required to purchase a non-resident fishing license,^\yhich license costs $3.25. Camden Methodist .Church Lyttleton Street, near Hampton Park, George Pierce Watson, pastor. Sunday, April 8, Bible School at 10 a. m., with classes for all grades and ages. Public worship at 11:15 a. m, and 8:00 pt m., conducted by the jpastor., Morning theme: "The Resurrection." Evening service: An Easter T cantanta, "From Death Unto Life," by a large chorus with solos and chorus parts. Epworth League at 7:15 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p. m. The public is most cordiaHy invited to all the ^services of this Church. Come and bring your friends. ? T.'TT.- - ? % ? i ? Miss Jennie Whitaker^ has returned from a visit to "friends in Columbia. ' > . i - - ?Y Runaways Returned To Columbia Ho Leyton ^Thomas, 11, and Thomas Hipp, 15, who last week left the Carlisle Courtney Home at Columbia \ to pit their fortunes with the outside world, were returned to Columbia Wednesday night under custody of ] A. Dowey, of Lugoff, at whose home < ?l\e yofinger boy had been staying . gince -Sunday. / Hipp had taken refuge with Tillman Rabon, also of Lugoff, after his* i Ignip fiton Columbia. Both boys apttgareu/wojrn and hungry from the i ^p'^rlejiceVwhich, according to their ] ^Uded a night spent on ah straw-pile between Blaney and Lu- i goffv - t Mr. Dowey was in Camden Wednos- i day afternoon to obtain information relative to the adoption of the younger fellow-but when advised at the office of Judge of Probate W. Mfc- t Dowell that he was a ward of the c Columbia home he readily agreed to 1 return the youth. ? i In a conversation ovor telephone J authorities in Columbia approved of 1 returning the youths and expressed , a WttUngaeee to bear any necassary expense in getting them back. i . Traifittt n i >ii .'in 'i . \v _ "rv - * ? - Mwr ? ?vr\ Orchestra To Play Antioch High School The Darlington High School Of heslra under thev^irection of A??uh L. Oaiuey will give a conceit ia he Antioch School auditorium Fai' lay evening, April 13th. Thin gvoap yi young musicians are alwaya Mr -cived with enthusiasm, because they ?ive u program far beyond tha UaUtl high school average. They played tft Clreenville during the Teacher's ?OO* mention and are scheduled to play It many towns of. this section now. The teachers and patrons of Antioch school ajp taking tha 00 easion to present tQ the. public thsil new staga curtains afcl scenery which has just been installed and whidl gives this school now a very nice wall' equipped auditorium. This staga was made possible through the tronage of the business men of CaiB?< den and Bishopville, who very liberal* ly contributed towards the fund by advertisements and the patrons who have all entered heartily' into thf work of putting the curtain on befoty this orchestra should appear. .?~ Annual Inspection :! Shows Company Good On Thursday March 22, the Company M Kershaw Guards, a unit of the South Carolina National Guards, underwent their Annual Armory Inspection. The Inspecting Officer, Captain Marshall of the Regular Army, was attended by James C. Dozier, Ad* jutant General of this State, Col. John F. Moore of Columbia," Major Nims of Fort Mill, and Lieut. Compton, also of the Regular Army. The Company was inspected in every line and every way, and showed up exceedingly well, according to Capt. Marshall's report. The Officers and Non-commissioned Officers of the Kershaw Guards met after drill Tuesday flight, March 27, and formed art "Officers and Noncommissioned Officers" Club. Officers of the *?club \yere elected in the following order: Sgt. H. C. Hardy, president; Sgt. E. C. Rush, vice-president; Corp. L. C. Hardy, secretary; Sgt. E: B. Lorrick, treasurer. The meetings are to be held every Tuesday Night after drill. The first "get-together" meeting is to be held within a week or two at Capt. Alfred M. McLeod's home. At this meeting they will institute the rules and bylaws for the club. . This club has been formed in order to do everything possible to advance Company M's standing in this state. Although having previously made .1 good record they wish to better it, and firmly believe it will be one of the best things that the company has had in sometime. North Carolina Man Slays His 3 Children Durham, N. C., April 4.?Sheriff John Howard today placed Bay Roberson, Durham county farmer, in a padded cell in Durham county jail for the slaying last night of Roberson's three children. No evidence of drinking was reported by those who, following a tin brought the farmer from his home in Mangum township, 13 miles from here, two and one-half miles from the main highway. The farmer did not appear to know that some time after 10 o'clock last night after he chafed his wife with an ax away from home for the night, that he slew Cecil, 12-year-old -d>oy, who was sick in bed with the measles; Lois, his S)-yt?ar-old daughter and also Joseph, 4-year-old son. The three children were slain in bed and the- farmer then dragged the bodies to the yard and cut off their hands and feet, and 'further motil'ated them. This was known from the finding of the bodies. The farmer cot off the.- head of an old rooster and continued with his mad ix, driving it through the back of a lne bay horse. Wateree Village Loeee Citizen > W. C. Langley, 63-year-old resilent of the Wateree Mills near this rity, dyed last Tuesday night and was >uried Wednesday afternoon. The tervioes binder direction of Rev. C. be ih/tsmm Tff Miifa'aii * it* . Vateree Baptist church. , Mis* F?y Blritlud was a visitor ? WhMilnwi daring the peat week.} A Local Marine Goes To Nicaragua Some of the interesting events taking place in Nicaragua are likely to be witnessed by Everett J. Boyce, of Camden, S. C., who is with the latest detail <of U. S. Marines assigned to duty in the Central American republic according to a published list of marines assigned to duty in that country. iHrior to going abroad the local boy waB stationed at Parris Island, S. C., from which place a detachment left for Nicaragua. It is not knowu just where he will be located in that country as the marines are scattered throughout the republic, serving at many outposts and performing an endless variety of duties while thev are helping to restore peace to the [country. | Boyce is 19 years old and was born in Camden. He made his home with his mother, Mrs. Rosa Boyce, of Camden, before he joined the Marine Corps at Charlotte, last April, and in recent weeks has been on duty at Parris Island. New Legion Home Opens Here Tonight t One of the most auspicious celebrations in this city's recent history is promised for this evening when the ne# and handsome home of the James ffctoy Belk Post No. 17, American Legion, will be dedicated in the presence of an immense crowd of inviteo guests which include citizens of Camden, every former service man of this county, and legionnaires of high rank throughout the state and nation. Commander Stanley LleWellyn of the local post m his order to every member of the post has declared that upon the eleventh anniversary of America's entrance into the World war it will be especially fitting and proper for every man who had a part Bin the great conflict to join with [comrades-in-arms in the dedication of ! a home and meetig? placfe for the veterans of every war in which this country has been engaged. Additions and renovations to the j original building include a magnifipent ballroom, reading and lounging rooms, banquet hall and offices for the post in addition to the lower floor which is housing one of the city's most complete establishments for. drugs and sodas. The building faces north on one of Camden's principal thoroughfares and is located almost directly in front of the post office. Joining with the post in celebra| tion Friday night will be representaj tives from the city government and ! from every social and civic body in Camden. Relatives of those who went away for all time in the service of their country have received personal invitations from legion officials ; ,and will be especially honored on this night. Among the distinguished out-oftown guests list will be Gen. James D. Dozier, adjutant general of South Carolina; Major E. C. von Tresckow, of the American consulate ?t Berlin, Germany; Reid Elkins, state commander American legion, Spartanburg; Henry E. Cappehnan, state service officer, Columbia; Capt; J . Lyles Glenn, of Chester, and a number of other visitors and speakers. A. Stanley Llewellyn is commander of'the James Leroy Belk post and other officers to have a conspicuous part in the evening's program include Alexander Williford, vice-commander; Arthur Clarke, adjutant; John Whitaker, Jr., finance officer; M. L. Smith, Judge advocate; Rev. A. Douglass McArn, chaplain; Herman Baruch, service officer. The executive committee is composed of James DeLoache, Jr., Sam Karesh, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Hughey Tindal, in addition to a pumber of the post's active ! officers. . i Death of Mrs. Watkins. After a brief illness, lasting only < several days, Mrs. G. W. Watkins -I passed away at heir home in St. Charles Monday March 2?th. Inter- i ment took place the following day in the Old Church yard at.Wells Cross Roads. The services were conducted by her pastor Rey. Mozingo. \ Mrs. Watkins was the daughter of < Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Baker of St. j Charles and w<to 88 years of age \ ffha was a faithful nasher -eJT'i.the < Baptist church and was loved * by all who knew her. Besides friends mpd relatives Mrs. Watkins is survived by i her husband and six small children. \ Campaign Opens For Camden Boy Scouts following uh M direct result of u recent community dinner and full discussion of the local Boy Scout situation is the announcement issued today that u campaign is now under way to enlist the ymthusiaam of Camden citizens in scout work and to raise a minimum of five hundred dollars to finance an organization program for a period of one year under the direction of national headquarters. At the meeting of last Thursday evening, staged jointly by the Chamber of Commerce, Young Men's Business League, and Rotary Club, it was declared that many Camden youngster? are unable to become Boy Scouts because the lone existing troop is crowded to full capacity. Until additional troops are organized, it was shown, the local movement' can not hope to expand. The meeting was presided #Ver by R. B. Pitts and Rev. George Watson of the Lyttleton Street Methodist church delivered the principal address of the evening. Mr. Watson paid splendid tribute to ideals and activities of the Boy Scout and following his talk the movement was strongly endorsed by representatives of every organization present. All Camden ministers have been requested to preach Boy-Scout sermons on Sunday, March 15, and Friday, March 20, which will mark the campaign s close, will be observed as Boy Scout Day in Camden. The campaign is under the direction of committees, from the Camden and Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce, the Camden Rotary club and the Young Men's Business League of Camden. ? 7 In order to raise necessary funds the citizens of Camden are asked to contribute through the- newspaper* as no intensive canvass is anticipated as necessary. Subscriptions received by Th(? "Chronicle through Thursday morning are as follows: R. B. Pitts $25.00 Kendall Mills p.c An T. L. Little J R 5.00 J. M. Villepigue 5 00 The Camden Chronicle 5,00 Mr8. Lula Shepard To Make Addresses Mrs. Lulu Loveland Shepard of Salt Lake City, Utah, known as "The Silver Tongued Orator of the Rocky Mountains" has been secured to give two addresses in Camden, South Carolina dealing with the question - of Mormonism. ^Mrs. Shepard ha* Jived for the past quarter of a century in Utah and is conceded to be *fr authority upon this question. She has had an unusual opportunity to study the question at clobe range. She will discuss the question from the standpoint] of its n|iasionary propaganda, polygamous teachings and practices, its political, commercial and financial povjer. An unusual opportunity to know Mormonism fronr the inside out, Mrs. Shepard is without doubt one of the most popular and forceful speakers upon the American platform today, ranking with the leading platform oratora of the nation. She will instruct, entertain, inspire and arouse her hearers. There is not one dry moment in the course of her address from beginning to end.v The general public, regardless of church or creed^s most cordially invited to hear her. Her speaking schedule is as follows: Wednesday^April nth in the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, Camden, South Carolina at 3:30 p. m. Her subject will be "The Mormon Temple Secrets" which will be ope* for women only. A Union service of the Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist Churches will be held in the Baptist Church, Camden on Wednesday, April 11th 8 p. m. Mrs. Shepard's address at this time will be "The Mormon Misuse of the Bible," ? Receives Clemency Ben Alexander, who was sentenced to serve six mounths on the Kershaw County gang has been paroled by the- i jTjvernor. He began serving his sen^in J^ary,^ The governor re- j Miss Cornelia Nelson, of Rock Hill ipent tor week end here With rels^ ? ; % t Directors Discuss Road Situation The Board of Directors of Kershaw County has cleansed its official hands of any responsibility for dulaya through litigation on the paving of State Highway No. 26, ^running from this city to the Sumter county line, If resolutions passed unanimously at a meeting of the board held hero Tuesday morning may be accepted as authority. The resolutions as adopted follow ing a joint conference by the board with a committee from the Camden and Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce call upon the State Highway Department to undertake at once the hecessary steps looking to the paving of this highway on the present location in view of the fact that it seems that the new proposed location is indefinitely held up through injunction proceedings now before the supreme court. The meeting and action of the county board which has served as the first formal airing of the road situation in this county, was attended by R. M. Kennedy, Jr., chairman of the chamber of commerce committee; David Wolfe, R. N. Shannon, L. J. Whitaker, all of Camden, and W. A. Boykin, W. C. Seagle, and B. O. Truesdale, all of the Boykin community. H. G. Carrison, Jr., chairman of the board, declared for the especial benefit of a press representative present that Kershaw county under its paving agreements was in no manner responsible for financial losses which have resulted to contractors because of the present litigation. Other members of the board present included D. M. Kirkley, E. H. Bowen, Jf. H. Sowell. JJ Highway No* 26 is a portion of the Mate road system in this county which is scheduled for hard surfacing under the terms of a bond issue amounting to $1,760,000.00. Agreements were made between the Kershaw county hoard and the state highway department more than ten months ago; the bonds have been sold at a handsome premium and the money for paving is now in local banks. In spite of available funds, however, the road paving situation is at an apparent standstill on three out of the four roads , originally slated for hard surfacing. The road leading to Columbia is being laid without interruption and within a few weeks is expected to be open to traffic but on the roads to Bethune and Kershaw, as is the case on the rotate to 'Sumter, contractors pnd engineers alike are being downed in their tracks by injunction* and threatened injunctions . against proposed rSloear tions. Construction of the new highway toward the town of Kershaw, constituting more than twenty miles of the Charlotte to Charleston highway, is being held up according to reports, on account of the threatened extermination of Dusty Bend, notorious bootleg rendeVous at the ISdrthern ' outskirts of.XjCanuicnT inT 'order to gain a shorter and more diSpt route. The road northward to kt&une, another twenty-mile stretch of Federal highway No. 1, remains unimproved because of' rumored dif'ferences as to necessary rights- of* way. The average citizen of Camden is slow gt giving an expression of opinion as to whether Kexshdy 'county roads^should be run principally for ^he benefit pf local taxpayers or for national tourist travel but' more liberal'thinkers are prone to say that the motorist iwm Maine to Florida or equally remote sections, traveling along a road that is not reasonably fr?A of primit^^^ia, wlfr Certainly fail to get ^he greatest value for his five-cents-j^gallon gasoline tax < and an added toll of fifty cents to cross the Wateree river bridge which to residents of this county is ^now accessible at the reduced rate of six and one-fourth centa per round trip ticket. ?# -!t~jis*', ~ ' Death at Bethune B. Fv Estridge, 16, ton of K. T. Estridge, a well-known farmer of the Bethune section, died at 4 a. m. ^ Friday-morning, following an attack of measles ^xi y^n^um'onia. ^ The S funeral services and interment were HB-at 4- o'clock Friday aftsraourrat;?; Kershaw.?'Laricaster Nirws. ^ ' " A" Hiu M?, it&Mjr' ipftnt U? WMk *nd with roUtlve. Ii? K?nte?t