The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 27, 1928, Image 1

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^ i, , uimmi0p ' ?"** ** f mm wwqm '"*"? YOU CAN GET THE CHRONICLE SIX MONTHS FOR FIFTY CENTS?OFFER CLOSES MAY S - The Camden Chronicle i I..???? , M m MXXXX. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1MI^ NUMBER 5. David Sinclair >d Last Saturday. services for John David well known Camden iiimi, Id at Marshall's Church, tan Bt of^Camden Sunday after3 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Pierce Watson, of the Caminxli.-1 ( hurch. loclsir died at hia heme on road street at an early hour l morning afte* sun illness of ee days. He had been sick ,w days but no one thought is and his death came as a shock to hia friends. He years of age and is survived widow, who before marriage 18 Charlotte SftokM* and the t children: Kistler Sinclair, D. Dabney, Mrs. S. W. West adopted daughter, Miss Helen He also leave! a large family on?three fall brothers, J[. T. W. W. Souihdr?.e< the Marhurch section, &. W. Sinclair, atfter; three h*lf brothers, Sinclair, Willie Sinclair, ol and Henry Sinclair, of North ;, and two half sisters, Mm. ullock, and Mrs. Kate Steen, fa. Sinclair was a native of the il's Chmrdh section and regie up to about twenty years ere he followed the occupation raier. Moving to Camden he med as a Magistrate's deputy red for a number of greats as for the late Magistrate FjnLt the time of his death he ployed by the Carolina Motor y in operating an all night tation, and was also engaged aking of fine blooded poultry of his pens taking first n-state and county shows, ame iff a very highly 'ireand industrious family, teachiiving the part of a straightman always believing in nd clean living. Hb. ha^ a imber of frien#* all ovet^thf who will be sadrfftrmy^. . foil" passing away. ? . ? m ft* iel's Store Itae tirmows For Sale h convenience of those who e sport of fishing Mr. J. .B. of Freckei's five and ten cent i? on '.hand a large quantity minnows for sald[ at a very ihie price. This is an innovan this section. Heretofore, CT wai)6ng these minnows ad to order them {from fiaBti[ The litfte fish are excellent te bait, and with the nurmerexus an(' streams around Camden schel is having ready sale &r mows. Thy arc of the most dock and he has not lo0 * pu* eath since getting them in h?a They hare- <>een.known to live re tllan a J?-ar. in a hath tub. a supply hand now and 'e bother order arriving next lnd expects to keep them at lont' as the seaabn will: Mr. Fischrf keeps abnewat ?mes and is giving this city 4 service in the sale of small it his store. ^ ~ ounty Crops Destroyed by Hail ^ApriT^A storm worse i am . ^'Peneuced before by nklI ;nhab5t?nte struck the *** Springs section of Lee * ween Rose Hill and the ndnS hl?> ^^ay aifteroun? ,Ul cott??? COTn acc?rding to reaching bomter iodav. " frees "torm that **1* ase* '.I f\ the rP?fs off sevterrilif v. arB8? a cloudburst si? i? Ceavy ^ k in tv! I' same time about k> a'lern?m ia reported und u'y was the rainfafithat * to ^ aL ?:0Vere<1 vHth water L ei?h* inches. a bv lt wa? Piled tip wind and water, was rm n?Kr?r morning. ? a'm,hT TOt ?nd directly easterly visited by its et m ii about ?a? mile wide ottoi/'rJ01*' **** ?tated. i S%M ^ient their cropft ajpe w u J.' A . ncock, Charles H. all of?' WllHe l>e, John 1 _ ni Lee ecounty. Tt rea mj1 ^f ^northern \Sfra. Nancy Truesdale Pauses at Westville I f V III.I l JgWeatville, S.-q.;. April 24.~Mr3. Nancy M. Truesdale, aged 89 year#, died at the home of her son, R. H. *t Westville, on Thursday, Apr* 19th.. after a Uttering illness "'-Mra. Truesdale is survived by Ave children by her drat marriage?Land? IV. Gardner and Willie E. Gardner, 8. Mm. W. A. Fletcher, of Kershaw; Mrs. T. A. Watts, of Hahnes City, We,; Mrs, Baxter Gardner, of McBee, S. C., and three children by the second marriage?Mrs. i -Nannie Hunter, of Kershaw; J. J.J Truesdale, of feishppville, R. H. Truesdale, of Weetville. ?he is also sur-! vived by two sisters?Mrs. W. F. Russell, of Camden, and Mrs. D. G, Fletcher, of Spartanburg. The funeral and lairial occurred at Damascus' Church, near Westville, Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock, services being conducted *ty her pastor, Rev. G. W. Davis, assisted by Rev. P. E. BlackSMMU . ' i Sforibpers Leave Sunday Trip To Miami tWnty -three members of the Camdeft Shrine Club and two ladles win 'Camden Sunday afternoon at 4 tfclock headed for by way of special Pullman over the Atlantic Coast Line railway. The Poach will be run as a special over jjjj ^Northwestern railway to Sumter where it-will fonn part of .the "Shrine Special" over the .Atlantic Cdadt Line to Miami. The g>arty will leave Miami on the return trip Thursday, May 3, and is due ttyreach Camden Friday, May 4. Several <o'f the ^embers of the party intend to ?uba while on this trip. Thobc Jn -the party are: AS. UhfweRyn, Frank Campbell,- G. A. Creed, W. F. Nettles, S. R. Beard, ML H. Dea3, J. M. (Goodale, I). J. Creed, T. V. Walsh, rtfefc! wilLcompromise the drum crops. i'SSKSBHfiLflfcft DuBose, .Carl Rosborough, Jf. H, MeLeod, | Clyburiv 'H.Schlosburg, pflilosburg, Dr. W. SL Clyburn, Lfe>hn I**1 '-Wilson, A. E. Miller, Botand Cood Jy E. Ross, W. D. Barrett, R. Babin,H. w;G. Brown. TPhe Sadies iin the party are Mrs. A S. Llewmllyn aoB.Mrs. H. G. Brown. Fnur Sentenced For life Tiane ,i. ~ -- *? > i"?. ... ' T " rr;Allendale, April 20.?George Garvm' Hagood^Garvin, Robert Badger aT*d, Armle Chews, charged with the murder-of Frank Miner, a fisherman, swarrtps of Savannah river Hast Fejmtary, were found geilty of murder in criminal court, with recommendation to mercy, Judge Milledge I/. Bonhn m presiding. /The confession of the Negroes to their,guilt of murdering ,man, anil throwing the body hj the river, was made to officer* and given by Mjfem 3n tftdijriail. The body has mot jeft been recovered. The Negroes say they wok it' from the water a few days -after and buried it, and after Jibe Uajme of a week fearing it was uot in a secure place, dug It ap *** -ft ?gaijL ifi a more secluded spot. After th?" arrest, confederate* the four condemned criminals say, moved the body and put it in a thirl gr#rgt adhere they say It caimot be 43hml?ir Freed by Jury ^Washington, April 21.?Harry F. Sinclair was freed today of dhauges that Jhe conspired to defraad the government In the "Teapot Dpnxe oil lease. A jury ifi the District sf Colombia Supreme court acquitted him, requiring only three ballots to readh its decision. One of the jurors, who withheld his name, later said not a single vote for convfctaon was cast by any of the jurymen in the one hour and fifty-nine minutes they considered the case. On the first ballott he said, eight were for acquittal and four undecided, and on the second, ten tor acquittal and two undecided.? -j Wffifimm* Q*ta FviLiii3 Over 484,000 is being distributed in they vaVraae/^ountiea of South Carolina tovche'fire departments by- the state iiirarahce commissioners office. Each town receives one per cent of the t|W7 - fire insurance premiums collected within*that town by foreign corporations which are not domesticated in this state. .Of this amount the Camden Fire Department gets $646.36. . Named As Delegates My. H. G. Garrison* Jr.* chairman of the County Board of Directors gpd Mr. IL ^ Munn, road superintend?** of Kershaw County have been nanftd by CfeVrtoor J. G. Rfcksrds, among the ninety delegates from South Caroline to attahd the. Matfcmal good roads dhafWrtwa to he held 4w4Jee Moinaa, Iowa, May 23 to June 1. ~ ' ' /// * - s^' Two Camden Men Lose Their Father After an illnese of some time, A. J. I^angston of near Tlmmonsville, du?<i at a local hospital Monday morning at If:30 o'clock. H? was 53 years 'old. Mr. Langston was a merchant of Sardis and Minning and his ? home was at the latter place at the time of his death. He *was twice married, his first wife being Miss Mary Jordan of Sardis who died some years ago, and his second wife being Mrs. J. Ru'hbourg of Sunvmerton. The following children survive: Mrs. R. P. Billups, of Sardis; B. W. Langston, of Tampa, Fla.; J. Ivey Langston, of Camden; Perry R. Langston, of Camden, Clifton and Carroll Langston, of Florence. One sister, Mrs. Fannie E. McLendon, of Florence, and one brother, S. M. Langston, of (Sardis, are also left. Mr. Langston was a well-known and 'popular citizen of this section and the news of his death will occasion grekt regret.?Tuesday's Florence News-Review. The Messrs. Langston who operate garages on Market and east DeKalb, street, both attend the funerul of their father. Chevrolet Cars Built in the South Tlie first Chevrolet car ever built in Dixie rolled off the assembly line Friday, April 13, when the mammoth new Chevrolet factory in Atlanta? the largest automotive institution i* *11 the South?swung into operation tio supply the Southeastern states. In the presence of a group of Eatables, including city, state and divic (officials, the first South ern-bai It Chevrolet was welcomed to the land of cotton and sunshine by Governor Hardeman of Georgia and .Mayor Ragsdale of Atlanta. Representing the Chevrolet Motor company were W. S. Roberts, plant manager, and L. S. Costley, regional sales manager. Flashing from the assembly line, its lustrous finish glistening in the sunlight, Number One caught every eye as it waB quickly driven out to make room for Number T\md, which was coming up immediate in the rear. Over to the draw away shed it went as an admiring crowd followed to make further inspection of the car that is .the herald of U lo^g line to follow in succeeding woekj. City officials present at the formality.! commeaEed oh the significance of the event, Its dmrportunce, not only to Atlanta, but to the entire Southeast, and joined in the opinion that the huge Atlanta plant would be a leading factor in increased industrial activity in the Snath. \ Lancaster Woman Has Narrow Escape Mrs. F. G. CcWb, wife of the superintendent of the .Lancaster CottonMills, Lancaster, S. C., was severely injured yesterday^ afternoon when the automobile in which she was riding skidded on the highway between Florence and DnfKngton near the Pee Dee Experiment .station, and turned completely -over. Mrs. Cobb's arm was deeply cut by broken glass. "When ahe arrived at The MoLeoM Infirmary blood was flowing freely tram the wound, and her dress was spotohed with red. Surgeons remedied this condition and last night Mrs. Cobb was reported as doing very steely. She was declared to be one of the best and bravest patients thai has ever'; entered the hospital under such serious -conditions. J<V>ur other women jn the car with Mrs. Cobb escaped without injury. One of them was Miss Hortense Cobb, a daughter ?f Mrs. Cobb* Xloyd - Moore of Rock HiH,^lrJu Moore of Lancaster, and Mrs. Allen, of Lancaster, wane also occupants of the i Ufa ted car. Fortunately none eras hurt efccept Mrs. ;Cdhb. Much concern was felt ??r the condition of Mrs. Moore, an elderly woman, but last night it was. reported that rthe had suffered no ill effects from the shook of the wreck. The accident occurred close to the Ma r Dee Experiment station. When the car skidded R turned over and landed in the difadv R. E. Brown, a former member 6f the faculty of the Florence city schools but now of Columbia, passed at the time of the accident, and with Mr. Davis of the General Electric company, released the women from the wreckage and brought them _to the hospital.?Saturday's Florence News-Reviey. Teachers? Meeting Spelling Contest * ????. The last regular meeting of the Kershaw County Teachers' Association will be held at the Camden High School Auditorium on Saturday, May 5th, at 11 a. m. At this meeting the regular election of officers of the Association for the next year will be held, and it is hoped that alt teachers in the County can attdnd. A special feature of the program will be the county spelling contest, at which Kersh?r??Coonty's representatives at the state spelter conteJuly *11t?* princS pais .of all iMhobtt ara urged to have County Road Hondo firing Good Premium ? ? 1 he Board of Directors of Kershaw County were in Columbia Tuesday to | sell $100,000 bonds of Kershaw Coun-1 ty which had been advertised for that date. There were twelve bidders and the range of bids testified to the good credit of Kershaw County and the excellent reputation that its aecuri- j ties have among the bond buyers of I the country. The bonds were sold for par and accrued interest and a premium of $4,329, and went to Braun Bosworth & Co., of Toledo, Ohio. J* These bonds are to be used in the construction of the Camden-Ohar lotte highway to the town limits of Kershaw. Most of the right-of-way for the relocating of the road has been secured. The contract has been let to the Newell Construction Co., of Greenville, S. C., and their road working outfit, comprising a steam shovel and one hundred head of stock. will be camped midway between Camden and Kershaw next week to begin operations. Work on several of | the bridges has already commenoed. | By relocating the road the distance between Camden and Kershaw will bo shortened by a little more than a mile. It will also eliminate three railroad crossings?crossing the railroad near DeKalb on an overhead passage. The full list of bidders, their addresses and the amounts bid were as follows: fibasongood & Mayer, Cincinnati, O., $3,388; Tajflor, Wilson & Co., Inc.,. Cincinnati, O., $4021; Robinson Humphrey Co., Atlanta, Ga., $3471; Gniswold First State Co., Detroit, Mich., $4100; C. W. McNear & Co., Trinity, N. C., $4060; A. T. Bell & Co. and South Carolina National Bonk, Columbia, S. $3659; Weil, Roth & Irving, Cincinnati, O., $3090; Caughman Smith, Peoples Securities Co., Charleston, S. C., $4236; Ryan, ftgtherland & Co, Toledo, O., $4817; j Braurr Bosworth & 'Co., and The Detroit Trust OwoBurny, Toledo, O; I $4329; AsBel Goetz & Moerlih, Inc., .Cincinnati, O., $4131; J. H. Hillsman ,& Co., Caldwell ? Co., Atlantd, Ga-, I $3611. ' Oppones a Parole Mr. D. L. Melton has handed the following communication to The Chronicle which we gladly publish for hran: 44It has been brought to my attention that there is being circulated with my approval a petition for the pardori, of Mr. John Cameron, who was convicted for son assault on me which resulted in the loss of my right arm. I desire to say that I knew nothing of the petition being circulated until brought to my attention by some friends, and beg to say that it is without my approval, and any -statement to fcho contrary 3b absolutely false. I tako this mcdhod of letting my friends and the people generally know, that there are false statements being made when the petition Is being presented." Camden Rotarians .Go To. Charlott ????? :'i 8Ara<mg the Camden RotarUpss-attending the 68th district convention of Rotarians held In Charlotte on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week yregg c: Zemp, W. L. DePasa, St., ^KTWooten, A. S. Llewellyn, Ralph N. Shannon, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. ;Chapman, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Zemp, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. ViUepigue, W. T. Red fee rn, Hughey Tindal, Mr. and Mrs, G. H. Baum, M. H. Heyman, nfJ? K?r.esh? William King and R. B. Pftts, Misses Esca Myers and BilUe Mayor DuBose Names His Committees Mayor C. P. DuBose has named his committees in the various departments of City Council, with Alderman -C. C. Whitaker from Ward; four as mayor pro tern. The committees named are as follows: Finance?43; W. VanLandingham, chairman; W. L. Jackkon, C. C. Whitaker. I Pblice-?C? C. Whitaker, chairman; S. W. VanLandingham, R. M. Keni?dy. Water and Light?R. S. Williams. Chairman; ,C. C. Whitaker, M. L. Bmith, Jr^ jS. W. VanLandingham. City Property?W. L. Jackson, fc. Smith, Jr., a W. VanLandingham. ? I>n>**tmenb-^M. L. Smith, Jr, ^rmah; R. fi. Williams, R. M. Ken^^trnan, R.~gf WAHam* Pontiac Man Cleared of Murder Charge Clifton Jacob*, 52 charged with the murder of A. H. Meotze, near Pontiac January 12 last, was acquitted by a jury in general aehaiona court late Monday night. In order to clear the calendar so that pending bank cases might be called Tuesday morning, Judge M. M. Mann, presiding, had ordered that Jacobs' trial be flnishej before court adjourned Monday night. Jacobs' defense rested upon an alibi which he offered to show that be was not even at the scene of the killing of Meetze. He produced witnesses to prove that he was at a church some miles from the scene in the .lfternoon of the killing and that, after he returned home from the church, he spent the rest of the day at work around his place. In answer to evidence introduced by the prosecution that shells fitting Jacobs' gun had been found near the scene, the defense admitted j that Jacobs had been hunting around the spot the day before the killing j occurred and that he had dropped the j shells where he had "broken" his gun. I He said that he killed a dove and a partridge and that he sold them to a negro. The prosecution introduced testimony to show that Jacobs shot Meetze during an altercation in the woods near the Meetze place. The altercation, according to the prosecution, grew out of a charge made by Jacobs that Meetze had been cutting wood tram Jgcobtf property. Henry Dial, a prosecution witness, stated on the stand that he had been present at the thne of the alleged killing and that Jacobs had thr^WB a stick of Wood at Meetse, whereupon Meetze advanced upon Jacobs with an axe and had been shot. Witnesses introduced by the prosecution were: Mrs. Mary Meetze widow bf the slain man; Dr. Jean LaBorAkJd- M. Gammons, Mrs. Henry &?, D. Dunzwgy dnd Ji-flU Witnesses introduced by the defense to support the alibi and to testify to the character of the defendant were: Adolph Dabbe, Coy Jacobs, Walter Malls, Martha Ana Jacobs, H, S. Corley, Eunice Jacobs, Fannie J^ae Jacobs and Cliff Jacobs. ?Tuesday's Columbia Record. Store Burglarized; Safe Carried Away Thieves entered the store of Mr. B. C. Troesdell near Boy kin's Mill last Saturday night and carried his safe away. The safe was found a short distance down the mill stream the next day and had been broken into* and robbed of around $300 in cash and checks?mostlv cash money. Sheriff McLeod went down the next day . and secured evidence enough agalnBt Dan Cantey, * negro, to, pl*?{> him under arrest, and be is new in jail. The safe waa broken open with an axe and this axe waa found in Cantey's possession. Other evidence was the fact that fur .from a sweater worn by the negror Wfis * foui^i on the boards through which the negro crawled through a' hole in order_to enter the store. It is thought that several others were implicated in the robbery and other arrests are expected. ^?" His Father Dead , Mr. Dupont Hancock^ of Camden, waa callea to Robinson, Ga.. Sunday on account of the death of his father, Mr, Henry W. Hancock, who died at that place Sunday night in the 76th year of his age. Besides the Camden man he is survived by one other son, Mr. Cecil Hancock, , and two sisters, Mrs. Belle Martin and Mrs. Dan McKibbon. The funeral and burial occurred at Bethany chiurch near his old home. ' Camden Methodist Church Lyttieton Street, near Hampton Park, Rev. George Pierce Watson, Pastor. Sunday, April 29. ? Bible school at 10 a. m., tftth clafeea for ail grades and Ages. Epworth League at Tilfi p. m. Public worship, at .11:15 and Q: 00 p. m., conducted by the pastor. Morning service especially for akDdren and young people. Theme: "The Children and Youth of Today, the Citizens and <*rarch of Tomorrow."* Evening theme: "Celebrated Characters Compared and Contrasted." -ddkMveek grayer service, Wednesday at fc:00 m. The public is moot cordially invited to afl the services of church. Seats free.. Bible limits. -DMITBr MM JHF Slayer of Teacher Put in State Prison Columbia, April 24.?John Henry Baker, of Beech Island, Aiken county, who killed Ma sweetheart at Rid go Spring early Sunday morning, was h tick man at the state penitentiary to day, too sick to be seen by reportera, but earlier in the day he did have a ahort convocation with the Rev. J. Dean Crain, the penitentiary chaplain, and to him and to other* he said he loved Miss Sarah Clark, young Iatngley girl, whom he fatally wounded at Ridge Spring. "I loved her," Baker told persons with whotn he talked at the penitentiary after being brought to Columbia. ' "I loved her more than anything on earth. I want to go where she is." To Chaplain Crain he narrated some of the details of the tragedy. But these the chaplain would not diacueB, for Baker asked that they be not told to the world. Authorities of the prison declined to let reporters see Baker during the day because of his physical condition. "He is all shot to pieces, his nerves are torn and he is a sick man physically," Chaplain Sanders, of the prison guard, stated. ... Baker has not eaten fort several days. His stoipafch is in a bad condition. This mprning ho was removed from hie cell In the main cell block, to a private cell in one end of the woman's prison, the section in which arexdocated the officers of the -prison-guard. He asked not to be disturbed and *wae under treatment of the prison. Baker haa given no ? detailed account of the tragedy, nor has he explained %by he kiHed the young lady with whom fee was in love. Feeling against Baker, was running High in SafadA and in Aiken counter yesterday, nnd for this rca-^son he was brought to the state prison here. Governor Richards Orderad 'She*transfer and. instructed SheriffAr deputies a. w6uM bfe tpecdcd to InOtlra a safe transfer of the prisoner. Thero were four deputies at Saluda, however, and one detective from the governor's office, and thgse were regarded as sufficient to protect the prisoner in his journey to Columbia. He was brought by automobile, by way of Newberry, and reached the penitentiary early Monday night. He will be held in the state penitentiary until the June term of court at 4Miluda, it is stated. John Henry Baker, 85-year-old Aiken county farmer, held for the fatal shooting of Miss Sarah Clarfc, of Langley, young school teacher, ?t Ridge Springs eajjy, Sunday, wag^J placed In a cell at the state prison^ Monday night for safekeeping. Sheriff J. F. Zeigler, Saluda county sheriff, reported that a threatening attitude bad been; manifested both in his county and in the" Aiken county neighborhood wltere the young woman' lived. Governor Richard# was advised of this situation and upon suggestion of the governor, the prisoner was brought froirf Saluda, where' he had been in jail since the shooting, to the penitentiary. t ; W After Bakerhad been brought to Columbia under he was carried ^quietly to his cell. The prisoner appeared on the verge of a collapse and at one time as he Was being escorted to his cell stumbled and waa saved from falling only b> the assistance of a person nearby. In reply to questions, he said that . he fedt too sick to talk and did not care to make a statement. He was just recovering from an attack of influenza, he explained* At the ttone he shot the young school teacher. When he reached his cell, tye-plumped down jipon the cot And a?>da|ently fell into a state Of semiconsciousness. The man who is charged with firing two fatal bullets into the chest and neck of the young Aiken county woman after previously frightening her by firing two other shots at her while they1 were out riding is An unusually small person. His height was estimated a (little mtag than five feet and his build is Jfc^er slight. He seemed resigned and manifested an attitude broaching upon Indifference as he was brought to the state prison. -? " Schedule Change