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m_XHE_CAMDEN CHRONICl.P L-? CAMDEN- S?UT.H CAROLINA. FKIDAY, J (J N E a, 192<t, ~ ? ^ inis For Thirty-One , Camden Hi School phe forma! .losing exercises of the mden city schools commenced Sun- ] ^ evening. May 27, with the grad- I lion sermon by the Night Reverend , fkuaan G hinlnyj of Columbia, (fodnesdiiy evening the children of i , jy^'cr ifrades presented an oper- ] "The Funy Rose," under the dition of the teacher of public school jjf, Miss Isabel Bunk ley. , The class day exercises were held ursday evening, May 31, and the lowing program was presented: ica^he high school orchestra; hlaian, Ansel Bateman; joker, VirginDsLoache; biographer, Virginia Ik; "01 e Ca'lina," high school cho; alphabet, Mary Boykin; censor, mces Owens; "Where My Cara, Has Bested," Virginia De'Loache, Iher PeLoache and Molly BlackJ; statistician, Edith Goodale; proit, Molly Blackwell; class song by for. class; poet, Ellen Stewart; yer, Stanley Babin; Laurel Branch rch, orchestra. I ion Friday the honor rolls ad and other statistics prey J. G. Richards, Jr., super7 t of the Camden schools. C r. night the final graduation took place, the Rev. Capers of Clemson College presentgraduation address. The y was given by Miss Virailc and the valedictory t?y elyn Bruce. >llowing medals were awarde Rev. G. P. Watson: First :holarship medal to Ernest fourth grade scholarship! i Emily Shannon; fifth grade lip medal to Katherine Brayixth grade scholarship medal am 1 hmopson; the Hasckell seventh grade scholarship)! inia Drawdy; the deLoach' '.on medal to Elizabeth' ; the American _ Legion er, scholarship, progress) to Ten: the D. A. 1$. jjiedal (exin history) to Samuel Mcthe Libman medal (eighth holarship) to Grace RobinJudge W. C. Benet medal rade scholarship) to Elizanip; the deLoach English i Duncan Lang;-the Harding icdal to Ellen Stewart; the ohnson Boykin English medal mi&Ha.Ie; the Harding gramAd high school scholarship to Jack Villepigue; the Cecelia 'km history medal to Elmer tod the athletic* scholarship o Elmer Watts. awards were followed by the S of the diploma's to the fol^ graduates: Stanley Babin, iteniar., Austin Sheheen> Eltts. j?;in Gettys, Job Mills, E Molly Blackwell, Mary Mar-v Brown, Evelyn Bruce, De Louche, Virginia Haile, Willie Locke, Marnt>y. lsabelle Lorick, Marw' Ki" n Stewart, Lillie Mae W"se Watts, Rebecca Zemp, 'dale, Cleo Hasty, Edna Holy Moseley, Hazel Moseley, >w*ns, Louise Trapp, Lucile Mary Reeves. Commercates were' presented to tilings and Margaret East, memory prizes given fry ^chers Association/ Friday L 1928, wbpe'as follows: Wnt nh gh scho<>1> t0 high school,Voo, t? ( Loachc. - j. pf' grammar school, $5.00, prize, grammar School, -leanor Wattar B-kiw;rmar s'hocl' ?|? ",n to the regular medals 110 was a new medal Athletic-Scholarship deJivere^ ^ the Sun f nday mottling to 8 of the nth Grade. This i.ade possible through the alVrK^6" ^ letic Scholarship So-oondary schools.* Camden f.lu* ^ third high Carolina to become Nations for receiving the Firft the thletic letter in one m?jcr_ apoets,?eeeee* >n8ecutive semesters ADd 'P?rUmaMhij^Mh^ highest type. ( The National Atheletic' Scholarship: Society aims to promote the above qualifications. Every boy .in the Cam- j don High School has a chance to win| one of these medals as a medal is given to each young man who is] qualified to receive it. It is the hope I of the school authorities that every ' boy who engages in athletics will! strive for this medal. Nearly Honor Roll Grade 2-A?jWilhelmina Strak, , Wylie Hogue. Baniel-JVlcCaskill, Jack Rhame, Jack Richards. Grade 2-B?Carolyn Hilll Grade 2-C?Margaret West. < Grade 3-A?'.Minnie Sue Bruce, Ellen Little, Lillie Mae Smith, Willie Mae Smith, Nancy Watts. Grade 3-B?Ctyburn Huggins. | Grade^ 4-A?Jack Halsall, McKain Richards, Robert Shaw, Sarah Bissell, Elizabeth . Goodale, Fannie Mickle, Emily Shannon, Emily Sheorn, Helen Tindai. Grade 4-B?'Pearl Godwin, William Wylie. Grade fi-A-'-Ruth DeLoache, Frances Mcl>eod, Es telle Myers, Florence, Sawyer, James Chapman, Roland Moo iv. ! Grade 7-A? Katherine Kennedy.?. Grade 8-A?Grace Robinson. Grade 8-B?Grayson Shaw, Joe I Jenkins. . ' Grade Haile, 1 beth Zemp. j Grade 10-A?Duncan Lang, Rochelle 1 Sheorn. 1 Grade 10-B?Betty Cureton, Caro- ? line Richardson. \ Grade :11-A?Elmer Watta. 1 Grade 11-B?(Mary Boykiu, Mary Brown, Evelyn Bruce, Ellen Stewart. ' Yearly Attendance Honor Roll Grade 1-A?'Louise MoNeely; 1 -Grade 1?C?Thelma Blackwoll, Kathaleen Smith, Curtis DeBruhL ? Grade 2-A?tSophia Creed, Elene Steen. Grade 2-B?Carolyn Hill, Harold 1 Smith. - >i" 7 t Grade-AiA?'gillie Mae Smith, Wil- 1 lie Mae Smith, Ralph Shirley, Man- I ley McLeod, Lyles Munn, Isaac Pitts. . Grade 4-A?doLacy Brayshaw, Jack Brown, Raymond Moore, McKain ? Richards, Hefiry Shannon, Elizabeth .Fatmie Mickle, Lena Steven- ( on. ?Grade. 4 D* 'Dorothy WattarWilHs DeBruhl. Grade 6-A?Ruth DeLoache, Francgfc-^kanks. Eleanor Wetto, Jamee I Chapmaiir Ottt-Gfied, iMoeeve John- eon. 'N Grade 5-B?iMary Richey. Grade 6-A?-Carrie McLeod, Golda Shirley, Margaret Baldwin, Mary E. MoCaakill, William Thompson, Luther Shaw, Laurence Kirkland, Clarence Christmas, Cecil MoCaskill, Marion Evans. Grade 6-<B?iMattie Rabon, Nataline Zeigler, Alvin Christmas, Donald Hill. Grade 6-?C?William McLeod, Lloyd ' ? :> ' > Srnyrl. Grade 7-A-?Mary Jane Mac key J Sara Kirkland, Katherine Little, Virginia Drawdy, Frances Creed, Nancy Brown, Charlie Sheffield, Reuben 1 PittB, Joseph Lang, Thomas Bruce, Tack Boyd, Homer Baldwin. . I Grade 7-B?Eugene Dority, L. O. . Punderburk, Eleanor Brown. < Grade 7-C?'Elizabeth Gaskins, L. i r. Holland. 1 -Grade 8-A?Eloise Rhoden, Grace 1 Robinson. 4 1 Grade 8-B?George Rhame, Gray- t jon Shaw, Ruby Burns. Grade 8-C?Wilburn Denton. i Grade 9-A-^Henry Lee Clyburn, 1 rlouston Shaw, Willie Haile, Marguerite MoCaakill, Carolyn McKain, 1 ifyrl Rast, Helen Roaeboro, Mattie 1 Grade 0-B?Laura Moaeley. 1 Grade 10-A?Grace Sawyer, Althea 1 lander*. * I Grade 10-B?Catherine Boykiu, 1 )ra Hinsoh, Nancy Pearce. Grade 11-A?ElmerWatts. ^ 1 ~Qi ade ll-R?Stewart. 1 Class Leaders With Averages < Grade IhA?-Ernest Freitag 96, 1 joltie Smysl 94. "j?4 Gradr 1-B^-LiHe Mar Haggtur S7, \ {Continued' on Page Four) 1 Speaking Oaten Set I For County Campaign The Kershaw County Democratic j [Executive committee met at the court , ]< house Saturday und chairman J. F. () McDowell named J. Scott Dunn, D. T. g Varborough and D. M. Kirkley to fix l ii date for the opening of the cam h pttign. I i G. Murphy, W. T. Holley and E., M. Workman were also named as a r committee to look into the cost of holding the election so as to deter- a mine upon the amount to assess the 7 candidates. A resolution wus passed t t&pt V*e t'me 'or candidate announc- t ing through the local pupers be c brought to a close on July 26. Ano- \ ther meeting of the Executive Com- t mittee was called for Saturday, July j 28. 'By theHime of "this meeting all c candidates will have announced and the committee will then be in a bet- 1 ter position to know how to fix the 1 assessments. There being so few 1 offices to be filled and so few candi- t dates announced so far, the assess- i ments will very necessarily be high t in order to meet the election expenses| 1 The enrollment books are now open * at the homes of the secretary of j their respective clubs. The same en-:' rollment books will be used as werei ( used in 1026. Names of voters who!' have moved away can be stricken off 1 and those who have become of age ' or moved into the community can be added. The enrollment books will ' close on July 31st. The itinerary as fixed by the com- ' mittee will be as follows: Campaign opens at Blaney on Monday, August! 20, at 10 a. m.; Tuesday, August 21 at Bethune, at 10 a. m.; Wednesday, August 22, at Kershaw, 10 a. m.; Thursday, August 23, at Camden, 4 p. m.; Friday, August 24, at Buffalo at 2 p. m.; Saturday, August 25, 8| p. m. at Mill school house. The date of the first primary fa 1 Tuesday, August 28 and the second! prjmary comes on Thursday, Septem-I ber 11. j' iennettsville Ready ( For Confederate Vets Bennettsyille, S. C., Juno 4.?H. J. Li ley, mayor of Bennettsville, sends v ut the following tentative program f f the South Carolina Division of \ Jnitcd Confederate Veterans to\ be i: eld in that town on June 13, 14 and t 5th: i Wednesday, June 13, will be ar- \ iyal und registration day. The Coast Line railway will oper- % ,te a special train out of Florence at i ':30 p. m., arriving Bennettsville at c p. m. This will enable all visitors t o leave their homes on the morning e f the 13th, and arrive in Bennettsville that night. Of course, those t .raveling in automobiles will be ex- 1 jected sooner and those traveling on ] >ther railroads will arrive sooner. < The Bennettsville and Cheraw rail- ] oad has arranged to have the Sea>oard stop their fast train No. 1&2 j irriving at Kollock at 6:10 p. m., and ( hey will have u special truin await- i ng the arrival of this northbound , rain and will bring all guests trav- \ ding via 'SeaboaiVl from Columbia \ md they will arrive at about 7 p. m. ( Suitable entertainment for the vistors has been arranged for the night >f June 13. The reunion proper will 1 j pen Thursday morning, June 14, at | which time addresses of Welcome will be delivered and an address by Dr. , D; W. Daniel, of Clemson College, and one by ex-United States Senator John L. McLaurin will be delivered. All meetings of the veterans will be held at Playhouse theatre. Wednesday afternoon the visitors will be taken on an automobile trip over Marlboro County. Thursday night will be occupied with a band concert and dance for the visitors. Friday morning a parade will be held, following which speeches will be made by United States Senator Cole L. Blease and Governor John G. Richards. The final session of the veterans will be held Friday afternoon, June 15th. The United Sons of Confederate Veterans will also hold their annual reunion at Bennettsville during the above mentioned dates, and their place of meeting will be the countv court house. I Dinners to the official guests will | be served oil June 14 and 15, and i Mr. A. C. Green is chairman of the: dinners committee. Mr. EJ. P. Miller is the general chairman and is especially anxious to have the names of all veterans, sons of veterans and ladies who expect to attend this reunion, so that proper assignments can be made before their arrival. It is requested that all camps send in at once to him, a list of 'those expecting to attend and the names of all sponsors, maids, chaperones and maids of honor. Grazed Man Shoots i Bishop; Kills Himself i Charleston, June 4.?Critically ^' uncled by a minister bearing a 1 ancicd grievance, the right Rev. l)r. 1 Villium A. Guerry, 07, bishop of the 1 ; uth Carolina diocese of the Pro- 1 . stant Episcopal church, tonight lay i n a hospital here with a gunshot \uuud ill his left chest. His assailant, the Hev. J. II. Wood- t sard, 00, of Brunswick, Ga., a retired i nmister of the South Carolina dio- i 't'se, was dead, huving turned the gun t >n himself after felling the noted 1 louthern cleric. I .ate today Dr. H. S. Cut heart, attending the bishop, said his patient >vas in a "very critical' condition, i He was still unconscious. An op- 1 >rution for removal of the bullet was 11 performed late today. jl The attack and suicide occurred in the private office of the bishop at diocesan headquarters here. Just 1 what occurred between the two men lould not be learned ( bu apparently 1 there was some discussion of the re- ' tirement age jc? ministers and finances, as the Rev. Mr. Woodward before entering the office told Miss! Henrietta P. Jervey, private secretary to the bishop, that ho*wished to see his superior about the retirement age of ministers. When Miss Jervey entered the private office after hearing two shots she fpund both men on the floor. The Rev. Mr. Woodwar.l| with a pistol in his hand; the bishop: unconscious and a check for $50 made1 out to the minister and signed by the bishop lying on the floor. The Rev. Mr. Woodward, according to Miss Jervy, was demented. She said th:.t when about to retire to his private office the bishop asked her not to leave the adjoining! room. "This man is crazy and no', telling what will happen," she quoted' the bishop a;; saying. i The ltev. Mr. Woodward was for; years a minister In the South} Carolina diocese. He was known as) a man with ti^ed opinions on the j negro question, in particular. In 1918: when Bishop Guerry sought a suf-t l'ragan bishop for work among the negroes of the diocese, the minister made h number of public attacks on him through public statements and speeches. While serving as pastor of an Kpiscopal church at Bluffton he shot and killed n negro burglar. He was exonerated following the killing, residents said, but never fully recovered from the nervous shock. . After his difficulty with the bishop over the negro bishop question the minister was retired but retained a J canonical connection with the dio- ! cese. For several months, a short time ago, he was a supply pastor at St. Marks Episcopal church at Burnswick. His family is said to live at Darien, Ga. Bishop Guerry was born in Clarendon county, South Carolina, in 1861. He was ordained deacon in 1889 and a priest a year later. After serving pastorates at Florence, Marion and Darlington, he became professor of mathematics and pastoral theology at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., leaving the school in 1907 to become v bishop co-adjutor of South Carolina. A year later he became bishop. A description of today's tragedy by Miss Jervey told how the Rev. Mr. Woodward entered Bishop Guerry's headquarters and asked to see the bishop. "At 9:30 o'clock" said Miss Jervey tonight, "the Rev. J. II. Woodward, J. Herbert, I think it"Is, came into diocesan headquarters, 142 Church street. Mr. Woodward is canonical[y resident in this diocese, although ; be has been working in Georgia. He asked to see the bishop. I telephoned to his hopse, and he asked that 1 Mr. Woodward come to his house if it was convenient, since he would not iome down for an hour. "I told Mr. AVoodward that, and 1 be hesitated as if he had not heard. 1 I told him again two or three times. ; Then he said that he would go. I 1 bad to telephone - the bishop again j about something else, and he told me i hat he was just leaving! to hold Mr. : Woodward until he arrived. "When the bishop came in, he spoke \ io Mr. Woodward, made a telephone : rail, and aaked the visitor into his office. X told the bishop that It would ye cooler in the main ofrtoe, ard that \ [ would go |? %ha end of the i ?> *11111 frpl privacy;1 Mr. Woodward into his earn office, j however, and after closing the door for a moment said to me, *1 want you to stay in this office. This man is half crazy and there's no telling what he will do." Then he went in himself and shut the door again. "He was in conference with Mr. Woodward for some time. Then the bishop came out by himself and dictated several routine letters. He did not seem agitated. "He went back into thp room where Mr. Woodward was and shut the door. Five minutes later, 1 heard a shot, and the bishop's voice called 'Miss Etta" then there was another shot. 1 rushed into another office and telephoned police headquarters. Then I went into the bishop's office. Both men were prostrate. I put my hand on the bishop's shoulder and spoke to him, but I could see he was unconscious. He was breathing heavily. So was the other man. "I went back to call for a doctor. Then Mr. F. G. Davies came in. I asked him ^tu stay with the injured men until I called the ""doctor. Soon afterward a young interne arrived. We all waited until Dr. Robert Wilson arrived before doing anything, and then they were sent to the hospital. "While Mr. Woodward and I were waiting for the bishop, he told me that he had come to find out the age of retirement for ministers, and | he said that he was 66 years old. 1I said that Ij did not know, but that the bishop did. * "Mr. Woodward used to come into the office occasionally when he was in South Carolina, but since being In Georgia had not returned for some time. He was a brilliant man intellectually, but had the reputation of being a bit queer, and also of having a high temper. I had never seen him in temper, though. He was tfclling me about the sermon he heard at St. Michael's on Sunday, and I thought at the time that he had-a remarkable vocabulary. ? ~r ? ~ r "He did not seem irritated, or out of his head, or anything like that tthen are vera waiting for the bUbop. - a? a ? ? VL a i _ ?' LI. - -? * rw end pun Tits wstcn rrom ms pawner iwiM was a narvoua sort of aaa anyway." Former Camden Man Makes (iood in Atlanta i Mr Victor Myers, of Atlanta, was he guest of his siaK-r Mrs. Carrie M. Davis, 011 Tuesday. He was enroute : prOm Raleigh to Atlanta, where he lud been filling a week's engagement .vith his orchestra. Mr. Myers is now conductor of 'Yick Myers Orchestra" operating in ,he Ansley hotel at Atlanta. Their nusic is highly enjoyed by the guests ind it is also broadcasted over radio wice duily from station W S B Atanta. Presbyterian Church Notes The installation and ordination of, aewly elected deacons and elders will Mi ludd Sunday morning, June 17.' (Overy officer of the church is asked i to be present at that time. The "Men of the Church" meet Tuesday evening June 12, at eight D'clock, at the home of Mr. W. D. McDowull at Knight's Hill. Mert come | and let's talk about the church for an hour. The attendance at Sunday School last Sunday was 105. The men had 22 and the women 20 present. This leavbs the women one point in the lead over the men for the contest which will run for two more Sundays. Children's Day wil be observed with a special program in the Sunday school on June 24. We are planning to have the Daily Vacation Bible School again this year, The school will be in charge of Mrs.! G. H. Baum, assisted by the young ladies, who have recently returned from college. The date has been tentatively set for the last of June, and first of July. Of the $170 we hoped to raise laqt Sunday for Presbyterian College at' Clinton, that it might keep its doors open next session, we raised about $98. Those who want to help raise this balance and who were not nt church Sunday may do so by giving a check to Mr. Lindsay, designating it for that purpose. Unless it comes from special gifts it muts come from the cfldrch treasury. The public is cordially invited to all the services of this church. Spring poultry sales in Cherokee county total 54,000 pounds und receipts to farmers of $10,000. lioggan C. Trippett Ends Life dun BoggUM ('. Trippett, farmer and world war veteran, of the Boykin section of the county, wax found dead at a spot half mile from his home ithout m^'ht o'clock Wednesday morning. An automatic shot gun with one she 11 fired and a note beside his body addressed to . a relative bore mute testimony to the fact that the unfortunate man hud pulled the trigger of the gun and sent u load of shot into his left breast. Mr. T rippett had only recently returned from a government hospital where he had been trying to regal.t his health, lie was staying ut the home of his sister, Mrs. (hxrl Emanuel, of Boykin, and went to a negro tenant's home and it is thought from there to an oak tree where he sat down, cut a twig with which to pull the trigger. It is supposed that he killed himself about 4 o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday and his body was not found until eight o'clock Wednesday morning. All ind ications pointed to the fact that he had carefully premeditated the act in that in the note he left implicit instructions as to where he was to be buried and also named eight fiiends to act as pall bearers, they were Sheriff J. H. Mclx-od, J. A. Hough, F. M. Maynard, James Sheorn, W. L. DePuss, Jr., S. H. Mickle, Perry Brown and I)eas Boykin. Other details of a private nature which the family would not devulge were found in the note. Mr. Trippett's mother and his wife went to Oregon six weeks ago to visit Mrs. Trippett's family. They have been notified. i Mr. Trippett was born January 6, i 1801, the grandson of Colonel and j Mrs. E. II. Cash. His father wus Or. B. Trippett, who died some years ago. His mother remarried and is now Mrs. Bessie Irby. He has surviving, besides his wife and mother, two sisters, Mrs. Carl Emanuel of Boykins.and Mrs. Charles E. Boineau ' of Rembert. He attended the Citadel and later attended the University of South Curolina. Boggan. Trippett was a likeable fellow, fond of sports and enjoyed the great outdoors. He had numerous friends who will regret to learn of his death. The body was brought to the C. W. Evans funeral parlor and prepared for burial. The funeral occurred yesteulay morning at eleven o'clock [from the home of his sister and the i burial vqs at the spot where he had [designated and the pall bearers mimj ed by him officiated at the last vad rites. New Folders Issued Distribution of an attractive new, [illustrated folder just kissued by the Seaboard on Wrightsville Beach and other beaches in North tparolina, Virginia Beach and points of historic interest in Tidewater Virginia is being made by Mr. !C. W. -Small, Di- i vision Passenger Agent of the Seaboard Air Line Railway at Columbin, ,, S. C. * "With vacations near at hand, we are having many calls for this new folder," said Mr. Small, Vas it gives much interesting and valuable information and shows a list of hotels with both daily and weekly rates. Though Wrightsville Beach and Virginia Beach are featured, -because of their diversified amusements and unusually attractive surroundings, the hunting, fishing and golf opportuni ties are described and .historic Cape Henry, Norfolk-Portsmouth, Ocean" View, Old Point Comfort, Newport Netfs, WtlHamsburg, Jamestown, YorktOwn, etc. are included with jnanjLilluatEationa nTKLmutb information of interest to prospective visitors* Charles S. Warren, a. fonder state'a attorney of Illinois, and six others, were indicted by a Federal grand jury-Jin Chicago on Friday on charges pf robbing the United States malls and Conspiracy to rob in conn act ion with the $1 $3,000 malt robbery at Evergreen Park, last February. It is alleged that after the robbery the . gang had gone to Warren's home, divided the loot there and left $4,000 for hipi, presumably as a defense fee ^ / * - Fairfield county chipped &c first co-opinr^ of weighed $,MA pounds. ^