The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 29, 1928, Image 6
SERVICE I
Your Fire Insurance Policy is nothing more than a !
contract between you and some insurance company. j
When you buy insurance, be sure that the other party I
to the contract is anxious to do u little more than the !
right thing. fll
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This agency has had sixty-three years in which to I
select the pick of the companies most fair and prompt I
in adjustments. No company is permitted to operate
through our office who would in any way take ad- I
vantage of one of our clients. Our record sustains us
in our claim that no insurance agency can render bet* |
ter service than that furnished our customers. j
Williams Insurance Agency I
R. M. KENNEDY, JR., OWNER j
ESTABLISHED 1865 I
Marriage
Mr. Eugene Leon Branham and
Miss Almeade Thornton, both of
Blaney, were married on June 22nd
by Probate Judge, W. L, McDowell.
Week End Tickets
At very low round trip fares
, now on sale to mountain and
seashore summer resorts.
Travel By Train
Comfortable?Economical?
Safe
Southern Railway
System
t DeKALB COUNCIL No H8
Junior Order L'. A. M.
wfcyC Regular council first and
' * third Mondays <>f each
month at H p.m. Visiting Brethren
are welcomed. I). J. CKBIOI).
L. 11. JONES, Councillor.
Recording Secty.
Will E, Johnson
Electrical
Contractor
til4 West DeKalb Street
Camden, S. C.
T. B. BRUCE
Veterinarian
Day Phone 30?Night Phone 114
CAMDEN, 3. C.
R. E. CHEWNING
Contractor and Builder
Camden, S. C.
If sj ou have building to,
Uo-4'et me figure ^with you.
Sa t i s f a c tio n g u a r a n t e ed.
References given on application.
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Says The Kershaw Era
J. C. Jenk ins brought to The Em
1 office last week several fine June
peaches, but there was a particular
jone which was u very fine specimen
and weighed one-half pound. This
| peach is unnamed, and was brought
up to its present size by Mr. Jenkins
by experimentation and careful attention.
It is a cling and is a co-mWinatSon
o1 p'mV anA reA Yn co\ot,
and is a firm and highly flavored
fruit. Mr. Jenkins states that he has
about .'125 trees budded from this
peach last year and hopes to have
many more budded this year.
Mrs. Mary Rebecca Howell, widow
of W. B. Howell, who passed to his
reward several years ago, died at the
home of her son, J. T. Howell, just
north of the city limits last Wednesday
night at 11 o'clock, following a
1 protracted illness, and was buried in
the Laurel Hill cemetery on Thursday
afternoon, following funeral services
conducted at the home by Rev. J. M.
Neal, her former pastor, assisted by
Rev. (i. W. Davis, Rev. A. S. Lockee
and Rev. Hoyt Blackwell.
EXCURSION
Washington, D. C.
Tuesday, 3, 7528.
Round Trip Fares:
Camden $12.00
Kershaw 12.00
Lancaster 12.00
Proportionate fares from intermediate
points. Final
limit Sunday, July 8, 1928.
BASER ALL: Washington
Senators vs. New York Yankeys,
July 4 (double header)
Washington Senators vs.
Chicago White Sox, July 6
and 7th.
Consult Ticket Agents.
Southern Railway
System
Character and Reliability
Mercantile ag&ncie* quote the bank's opinion of a
man as being the strongest kind of evidence concerning
his business character and reliability.
Loan & Savings Bank
CAPITAL $100,000.00
IN THE CAROLINA8
Items of Interest Gleaned From The
r*tHTH of Two 8tate?
Charles K. Owens, choieh as Qoq.
nee county candidate for Manter
Farmer, i* n young man who works
long hours every <Jay on his farm on
Walhaila mail route.
Needhain Ixrftin, a middle aged
farmer of near Ayden, N, C., was
found raging with rabies in a field
and policemen had difficulty in capturing
hi in to take him to a Greenville
hospital. He was bitten two
weeks ago.
Charlotte wants to sell the old
auditorium building to erect a better
one, and Mecklenburg county wants
to sell the old court house, but no
serious bids have been received for
either. I he county also has a second
hand jail for sale and no bidders.
Ava Lee KUer, the five year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Eller,
of I>onoir, N. G., died in a hospital
there after being hit by an automobile
driven by George Everhart, of
Lexington, who is in jail. The Uttle
girl was playing with others digging
steps in a bank of earth when the
speeding car ran into them and pinned
the girl to the bank.
The contract of the building of the
16-bed infirmary at State Park, near
Columbia, was let for $7,045 which
cost is contributed by the grand lodge
of Masons. It will house incipient
cases of tuberculosis, and Masoni,lodges
are to furnish the rooms at
$100 each.
Attorney General Daniel is beginning
his investigation of gasoline
prices in South Carolina, following an
advance of one cent in price last
week. Last year similar action by
the attorney-general resulted in a
{i)rop uf 4 cents in price, from Zi
cents. (
Warren L. Moore was sentenced t'?
40 years imprisonment at Wilmington,
N. C., for the murder of Thoma<
B. Evans last February and says he
was lucky. . At the conclusion <jf that
trial, he pleaded guilty to killing M.
Lomax Hill, of Charlotte, and shooting
Pete Kelly. It was a war amon^
j bootleggers.
! Davidson county, North Carolina
I which last year led that state in
wheat yield, is harvesting this week .?
crop which promises to hold the supremacy
again, with enough farmyielding
33 to 35 bushels per acre t >
make a high average for the countv.
Charlotte firemen injured in a coilision
of a fire department truck an i
a heavy freight truck have filed suits
aggregating $32,500 against the receiver
of the Withers corporation, the
owner of the freight truck, and the
estate of Captain R. E. Mendenhal!,
who was killed in the accident, is ex'pected
to sue later.
The temperature of 98 degrees at
the Charlotte Weather bureau Thursday
broke the station record for the
date, being the hottest June 21 in
forty years.
The Blacksburg-Gaffney highway
is closed for the next four months
while the new road is beng built.
The latter eliminates all curves and
will be one of the best in the state.
A confederate at Riverside Baptisi
church, Anderson, of which Rev. A. S.
Loekee, the Indian evangelist is pastor,
broke up in a near riot yesterday
and S. V. Mills and his son, W. W.
Mills, were later arrested for disturbing
a religious meeting by drawing
knives on other men. Debate over
some dispute became so hot that the
pastor adjourned the conference, but
200 men remained with a deacon presiding.
The real fighting between the
two factions came soon after.
Minnie Garrison, or near Monroe,
N. C., was found in Greensboro in boys
clothing after the neighbors had
searched for her several days after
she disappeared while passing through
some woods with her mother. They
found all the clothes she wore in the
woods and were much alarmed about
her disappearance. She is 16 years
old and told Greensboro officers that
she left home because she had to
cook, sew, plow, cut wood and do too
nruch work.
A committee of leading citizens and
churchmen of Charlotte -brought in ?>
detective and on Friday night raided
the Central hotel, arrested the assistant
manager as the keeper of a bawdy
house, and later convicted fourteen
women as inmates. The women were
sentenced to 18 months in the county
industrial .home, and the trial of W.
T. Lucas, the assistant manager, was
set for today. Four negro employes
were given 60 days on the chain gang.
Four of the women appealed and wer?
released on bonds.
Two deputy sheriffs arrested E. *W.
Sims and Wiley Hook five miles south
of Gastonia when they found 30 galIons
of hootch in their automobile in
half gallon fruit jars under the load
of garden truck. The men and car
were from Columbia and the officer*
laid in wait for them all night on the
road from Yorkrillc to Gastonia,
I catching them about *un?up,
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Ben Bess Again
In Penitentiary
Columbia, Juno lift.?Ik*" Be??,
Florence county negro, who serve!
thirteen years of a 30-year sentence
for criminal assault on a Florence
county white woman, to l>e pardoned
a few weeks ago when the prosecu-1
trix in the case signed a statement j
which declared that Bess was not
guilty and that her testimony at the
trial was false, is behind the bars at
State prison again.
A Florence county grand jury
found "nothing in the evidence or
otherwise that would lend color to
the truth of the statement" made in
a petition for clemency that Bess
hud been wrongfully imprisoned.
During the grand jury's investigation
Bess was placed in the State
prison here for safe keeping.
In a new affidavit, the prosecutrix
who cannot read, stated that she
never intended to swear that Bess
was not guilty. She merely intended
to forgive him and thought that the
previous affidavit she signed so
stated, she swore in the second statement.
Judge S. W. G. Shipp to whom the
grand jury report was made, said a
"grave injustice" had been done the
county by Bess' release and urged
that the matter be investigated thoroughly.
A detective from the governor's
staff aided the grand jury investigation.
Bess was seen at the Prison by the
correspondent of The Charlotte Observer
and to him he declared again
J his innocence, despite the fact that
.the prosecutrix in the original case
i has just signed a second statement,
declaring that her first "affidavit"
was a fraud and that she never in'ended
to sign any statement clearing
Bess, reaffirming at the same
time the negro's guilt.
Boss is to be held at the State penitentiary
several days, for his own
safety. He agreed to be lodged there,
J on the governor's proposal, based on
jthe fear that there might be violence
; at Florence, were the negro to remain
there. Bess has had other
; troubles in his day, including a fight
and cutting scrape with another prisoner
on the State farm where he was
incarcerated some years ago. It is
i intimated that if necessary a warrant
! may be sworn out oh this or some
tsimilar charge.
It is regarded as improbably that
the
old ch?rg? against Bass can bo
revived. 'The negro was convicted
some 13 years and then pardoned,
so that this offense, it is regarded, is
perged from his record.
Jtecently a fund was raised to aid
Bess, prompted by the public's feel'
ing that the negro had been done a
grave injustice. It is understood
that more than $600 was raised. Only
about $60 of this, however, has yet
been turned, over to Bess. Bess says
he paid this to a Florence man who
helped him with his petition for
clemency.
Motor Train on Seaboard
A forward step along the lines of
better train service between Estill
and Columbia is to be inaugurated by
the Seaboard Air Line Railway, commencing
Sunday, July 1st next. Steam
trains Nos. 21 and 20 are to be replaced
by clean, comfortable, easy
riding motor trains and greatly reduced
fares, with seasonable limits,
will be placed.in effect at the same
time.
The motor train from points south
will arrive in Columbia at 10:30 a. m.,
leaving Columbia returning at 4:30 in
the afternoon, allowing six hours for
shopping, attending to business matters
and visiting. The schedules .have
been very carefully arranged for the
convenience of patrons at all stations
along the line and the absence of
smoke and cinders should result in a
cool, and comfortable jourpey.
It is believed that the public will
make a ready response to this effort
to provide improved service; and
though the move is somewhat of aij
experiment on the part of the Seaboard
Management, it is hoped the
new service will remain- permanently
in effect. i:)
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JillfiT PqUON TH^WmW
Third Weekly Report Showi
Strong Flgii ll';
Clemaon College, June "zo
bM both general ?Pre?4
weevil in the Piedmont
the reppH for Week ending
Tho newly reported art;)l
northeastward iucluding
and Chester and counties bttZj I
The average weevil populttkJ I
acre for tho newly infeatad cu^l
are u* follows: Edgefield 7,^^H
wood 91, Newberry rz,
and Lancaster 26. There v,MB
marked change in the number o(B
ils per acre found in the <ountit,
Pee Doe section. There wu8i
an increase in the square infa^H
in that section.
Very good results have betnclM
ed from pre-square jKnsoning, l^^B
method of control is now becomiml
effective, for in many sectioit^B
plants are developed to suehaoJ^B
that the weevils are feeding <*^1
squares instead of in the bud, J
necessarily limits the effectWtoq^H
that form of poisoning.
The standard dust method dj^B
now be used for control. Sqo|2
testation counts should he mak^B
quently and dust application lB
When the infestation reachee lj^H
Cent. In formation concemiq^H
method may be obtained, uponijfl
for Extension Circular 95,
the Boll Weevil," from county^H
agents or the Publication Djfl
Clemson College, S. .
Near Concord, N. ., a bullfl
a horse which then kicked thefl
death, although hitched
wagon. ; I
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