The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 20, 1928, Image 2
Claim* Banned by County Hoard of
Directum, June 5, 1928.
C. H. Truesdalfc, lumber 1200
feet >40.HO
The People* Meat Market, nppplica
11 OHO
Ku/ahuw Mercantile A Hkg, Co.
auppliea 307.26
J. M. Must-ley, salaries nupt.
and guards, suppliant 663.00
Threatt-Camon Co., tool*, etc. ..2H.40
Ausaie Weal, salary bridgekeeper
100.00
S. W. Rone, aalary bridge keep,'*r
, iOOHJO
I rueadale Drug Store, rnediA
cirne? . 34.26
A. H. Whitaker, 27.60 hu. corn 37.60
McDonald Service Station, auto
partn and repairs 17.87
J. M. Clyburn, lumber for
coffin (Kubt. Kirby) 10.76
J. A. rhorne, aalary tractor
n^?jVeM a"<J wchanica ... 266.60
D. M. Maya, gas and auto part* 10.10
i> . {'umdale, supplie* 70.80
ii l* H*U' HUPP'??? 168.30
H. K. Munn, salary 126.00
t . A. Johnson, salaries aupt.
and guard* 60H 25
Midway Service Station, gas
, uml oil 31.88
Gulf Refining Co., gun and oil 600.10
Stoney Campbell, 66 gallon* oil 27.60
A M- H- Dfcal? salary less JenViiis'
invoice No. 14036 113 00
W. C. Kcarboro or bearer, 100
bu <-'<irn 126.00
Lena M Lineberger, salary Muy 75.00
K. C. Dennett, supplies and lui
P C6.50
t . I lckett, examination , . . 30.00
Burns & Barrett, hardware
?uppn?H 8.55
No-Nox Service Station, gas
U"<1 oil 173.00
Rhame Bros., inc., groceries
and supplies 346.18
1-. J. Whitaker, shoes 12.00
VV ulker, Evans & Cogswell Co.,
record hooks 83 74
Zemp & DePass, medicines, etc. 17.60
Walter Jacobs or bearer, salary
0t^U* ' 40.00
i)tts Market, meat supplies .... 12.50
B. H. (Irocery, onions 1.00
Camden Gas and Oil Co., gas
and oil 2 <jj^ j <2
Myers Service Station, oil, gas
and auto supplies 16.01
City Filling Station, oil, gas
and auto supplies 25.77
G. F. Taylor, salary Bd. of
Registration 50.00
G. K. Clements, sulary Board
of Registration 37.50
W. I). Trantham, lumlier for
bridge 33.63
S. \\ . Hogue, salaries self and
clerk, and postage 81.55
B. M. Smith or bearer, salary
, '"agistrute *. 75 00
Ga 1 ion Iron Works. & Mfg Co
. ?U,)pllIi,c;s , ' 69.00
.John Whitaker, hay and oats 97.45
>. B. Adams A Co., road machinery
parts 02 22
Alma M. Burgess, salary and
''Menses , 36.36
< ity Water and Light Dept..
water and lights 30.51
W. 1". Russell, salary coroner
ami postage 42 17
J. H. McLe-od, salary, jail fees
and ex|H>nses 45(h60
<> r ( ooley, salary Deputy
Sheriff 126.00
R. M. hord, salary and expens
155.00
D. H. DeBruhl, salary and ex
155.00
A. W . Humphries, examinations 15.00
S- Hcgue, Treas., int. on
Bonds and Commission . 90.23
( P. Hilton or bearer, salary
and expenses 155.00
Home Furnishing Co., supplies 12.00
H. K. Gardner, cutting ditch . 5.00
5 ancey Bros., plow points . 28.00
( olumhia Supply Co., supplies 35.09
S Hogue, Treas., interest
on bonds 3500.00
Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co.,
telephone rental 43.03
S. P. Wat kins or benrer, salary
and expenses 155.00
J- W. Sanders, salary and expenses
01.66
< . W. Birchmore, printing report
of Directors 16.00
J'K* Moselcy. beef S.00
A. R. ( ollins, casket for Frank
Muckey 230.00
I auly Jail Bldg. Co., jail supI'bes
76.00
I he R. L. Bryan Co., record
l>(x>k and binders % . . . 75.00
i.aureus T. Mills, salary clerk
and poor fund 300.00
Standard Much. and Equip. Co.
wheeler repairs .... 143.10
Ci. W. Huggms and Sun, repairing
law:, mower ...... 1.50
L. B. Dgburn, salary bridge
keeper 100.00
B. K. Sparrow or bearer, clerk's
salary 50.00
B K. Sparrow or bearer, salary
and stamps . ....... 57.05
Standard (hi Co., ga> and oil 530.40
Redfearn Motor Co., supplies
gas and oii 66.35
Mrs. Margaret C. M ay tie id.
County nurse appropriation 400.00
Jeff Hunt Road Much. Co.
road machinery parts . 2402 03
Carolina Motor Co., Inc., gas
and < >:! 1 25 88
S. W. Hogue. Treas., interest
on coupons '23S0 y I
Mackey Mercantile Co.. hardware
supplies . '.'.20
K. A. Jenkins, labor and supplies
;i;; i. i r
Wolfe-Eichel Co, sh^>os and
clothes 30 50
W. L. McDowell or bearer, salary.
lunacy, etc 86.Ot
Burns A Barrett, hardware
supplies 60.2.
MoC-askill A Lollis, food supplies
130 '
H. E. Munn or bearer, payrolls,
etc., paid By B-C 1005 8'
Welsh Motor Co., auto parts.
labor and shop rent 92.8
Sinking fund Kershaw County,
appropriation 1927 4000.01
Broad Street Service Station,
gas and oil 14.3
Dr. T. B. Bruee, medical atH
^
tention to mule 3.50
3 Happ Brothers, 59.00
J. Team Gettys, salary, stamps,
0 clips, t. w. ribbon . 119.76
5 122.796.34
Laurens T. Mills, Clerk.
Lightning De
Historic Old Church
Hartsville, Julv 8.?The pausing
of the historic Welsh Neck Baptist
church at Society If ill when it was
destroyed hy fire at 9 {30 o'clock
Thursday night, July 5, having been
struck hy lightning, removed from
t.lje F'ee Dee section h landmark rich
in tradition. The steeple, nearly 100
feet high, caught the bolt as it did
once before in the early '80s. The
storm was similar to the tirst. It
was tern tic, one peal after another,
accompanied hy a little cloudburst,
the hardest ruin of the seasonSeeing
the tongue of flames shooting
up, the pastor, the Rev. C. E.
Stevens, rushed over from the parsonage
across the street, and residents
of the community gathered
about the edifice. The flames were
making rapid headway. The 80 year
old treasured Bible was saved, along
with a few other articles, but practically
everything was destroyed.
Welsh Neck Baptist church as an
organization dates buck considerably
more than 100 vears. The first
church was erectea across the Pee
I-hre river in Marlboro county. This
was burned, and another was built
on the same site. Later this was removed
to the Darlington side and
erected ut Society Hill. In time this
church was taken down, und in 1840
work was commenced on the handsome
structure that burned Thursday
night. The residents of the community
gave their time and erected
the magnificent frame structure, ono
of the finest in the state. It was
built of heavy, unbled pine, with
handmade nuils and mortised together
with large pegs. Three years
were consumed in the 'building and
June 4, 18411, the structure was dedicated.
^ 1 he church records show that
$7,169.67 was paid for the material
entering the building. The work was
given by the members in the community.
Hence building the church cost
u large sum when it was erected. At
the dedication of the church the dedication
prayer was said by the late
Rev. J. (). B. Dargan, a distinguished
divine of those days.
The church is rich in history connected
with the Palmetto .State. The
long line of honored, as- well as pious
men and women who attended the
church and the many pastors who
preached there would fill a volume of
interest.
The gracefulness and dignity of the
majestic, tall, white edifice, with
large columns of the brick front 1
porch and the 100 foot steeple which
was built us a separate unit from the
ground up at the center to the rear
of the building, yet a part of it, had
caught the eye of everybody passing
through Society Hill. The distinctiveness
of the church made an impression
on all who saw it. At the top
of the steeple, which held one of the
sweetest toned bells of the state,
pointing heavenward, was the spire
with the weathervane keeping tab
on the wind. It was this spire that
caught the first lightning stroke,
which snapped it off and tossed it
headlong through the roof into a pew
of the church, where it was found
standing upright. In the first catastrophe
the building did not catch
fire.
In recent years considerable
money had been sj>ent on the church
for a heating system, new roof, a
pipe organ, costing $2,700, which was
installed ten years ago. Painters
wore getting ready to repaint at the
time of the loss. The building and
equipment cannot be replaced for
$25,000. Only $0,000 insurance was
carried on the 'building, and it is
thought there was $800 on the organ.
A loss, and a heavy one to South
( arolina, has come in the destruction
of this fine old church.
Boy Scout News Notes
The regular meeting of Troop Two
was held last Friday, July 13th at
8 p. in. We assembled in front of
the meeting house where we presented
the colors and gave the Oath
of Allegiance artd the scout oath.
T hen we marched into the house and
had the roll called, twenty scouts,
four officers, one visitor and one new
member-to-be were present. The
scouts paid their registration foes and
eight paid their camp fees. The
camp is to be held at Dinkins pond
and all scouts are requested to pay
their camp fees ami have their equipment
at the meeting house by Thursday
night. A group of boys under
Walter Rhame and Armel Bate ram
arc to take the equipment down Friday
morning on a truck loaned by
Mr. L. O. Funderburk and these boys
wi:l make camp, the main body gomg
down Monday, July 23.
Richard Jenkins applied for membership
and it was decided to initiate
him on the camp. He objected and
for good reasons hut his objections
were overruled. We ran two boy*
down the line for misbehavior and
then adjourned.
George Rhame, Scribe.
They Made Fine Failures
\ oluntary petitions in. bankruptcy
were filed yesterday at the office of
1). Durham, clerk of federal court,
for this district, by L. H. Hick, insurance
agent, and his wife. Mrs.
Ethel R. Hickok, stenographer, of
Spartanburg Hickok fisted liatwttties
of $1 Id.t>81.66 against assets rtf
$770.15. and his wife returned liabilities
of $8,034.83 and no assets.
Both filed pauper's oaths.?^Greenville
News.
Governor Richards has turned all
1 the files of the odorous Ben Bess parj
don matter over to the attorney gon1
| oral for further investigation Mean(
while Bess is kept in the penitentiary
on ari old charge of assault with in-,
tent to kill, it being impossible to annul
his pardon.
Is Smith Big Enough
For Chief Executive?
(By Will Ihimnt)
Houston, June 27.?'Phi* j* Houston,
lovely and lovable, brilliant with
sunshine, architecturally handsome,
leisurely active, courteous and ttliromfortablf,
with a library that
rlv?l* New York'*, and a temperature
that rivals hell.
The street* are vivid with bunting,
noisy with bands, and almost covered
with parades. Below the hotel window
long troops of cowboys pass,
lassoing pretty oiaidens on the curb,
who mourn when they find the capture
temporary; ahead and behind the
cavalcade are samples of the national
political symbol, the donkey,
What stirring music! Tears come
to the eyes as ono recalls the Memorial
Day processions of years ago,
and the fine songs we sang, and the
dreams we dreamt of a nation intelligent,
peaceful and free.
Later comes a sparsely populated
prohibition parade, chanting "Glory,
Hallelujah," and announcing that the
Constitution must be preserved. No(,
saying whether in alcohol or otherwise.
There is hardly a delegate in
line; they are all standing with one
foot on the brass rail, blowin g off
the foam.
Houston is a perfect host. It receives
the delegates with great
warmth, with cordial and yet quiet
hospitality; it meets them at the
trains, escorts , them to bheir hotels
in private cars, and welcomes large
numbers of them into spacious homes
where the southern lady radiates her
aristocratic grace. I'm glad I came.
And yet our coming, anybody's
coining, is quite useless; for lieru,
too, the convention is over before it
has begun. "Al" (or, as we are told
to say now, "Alfred"?as if anyone
would vote for Alfred Smith) is
nominated before a vote is cast; and
that item settled, it does not matter
a bean what the platform says about
prohibition, f#rm relief, or ways and
means of mitigating Tammany corruption
on the sidewalks of New
York.
What sort of man is it that has
captured all these delegates, and
resurrected and united a shattered
party, without stirring from his desk
or neglecting for one moment the
tasks which for eight years he has
done so well ? There is something irresistible
in him?a personality whose
color and lure make Hoover seem infinitely
remote, impossible for th^.
common {>eople to understand or lovo.
What is the secret of this pervading
popularity ?
There are many elements in it,
running from racial considerations to
astute expenditures; but beneatli
them all is the fact that Governor
Smith is not so different from the
average man, either in character or
in name, but that affection can mount
to him. People will admire Hoover,
but their hearts will be far from him.
They will sing "AP? My Pal," but
not even a college cheer leader will
persuade them to sing about the man
who wishes to bring science into
government. They will call Smith
his first syllable, and it will be dif|
hcult not to vote for a man with
whom one is so friendly. That first
name will be worth half a milliori
i votes; and even the last name should
bring a hundred thousand.
Millions more will go to Smith
because he symbolizes perfectly the
ultimate dream, in every American
I heart, of rising from poverty to
honor and power. Think of it, a boy?
born in lowly South Street, New
'York, son of a truckman and a wild
Irish Rose; selling newspapers to
help keep the wolf away; sent to
work at the age of 13; earning a, simple
wage as clerk in Fulton Fish Market.
and then as a laborer in a pumping
station; so then the old shibbo
eth is true, that in America any
lad can rise from newsboy to President
1
Nothing could he more romantic,
or more like the stories we used to
love; and nothing could appeal mure
passionately to the American soul.
For this is precisely what America
has meant to all the world.
Many men have risen from poverty
to greatness; what stands out here
is the spectncle of a man coming
from politics to statesmanship thru
all the mire of machine subserviency;
see him at the beginning of his
career, handsome, sociable, and happy
as n pauper; supplying speeches or
demand for any Tammany candidate,
good, bad or human.
"He could be counted upon to tak<
orders." says a sympathetic hiogra
phor; "he was .safe, sane and regu
lar." In 1904 he is rewarded with i
nomination to the assembly, ant
there he serves the "organization" si
faithfully that all the liberal pres:
denounce him, and the Citizens Unioi
blacklists him as having "on most is
sues of importance stood against tb
, public interest."
He "shows not the stightest erl
dence of independence"; he under- i
blend* that independence is no open
sesame to public office, and suspect* that
if he rebels against the sachme* i
he will soon be as dead as a New i
York Governor who was impeached I
for honesty. ?
So it goes for Id years, as As- i
semblyman, Sheriff, Senator and t
Governoi. Ihcn suddenly, in 11122,* he 1
revolts against Murphy, MoCooey
and Uhe other uncrowned kings of ,
metropolitan Democracy; he ignores ,
all consideration of expediency, i
stands his ground, and wins; this is
the birth of the second A1 Smith, the
metamorphosis of the politician into
a man trying to be a statesman; the j
worm turns, and hatches into a creature
with wings. 1
From that moment his flight as- '
cends until the organization become.i '
as secondary in his administration
as the husband in a modern family,
lie ceases to rely on tipsy brown derbies
and prima donna smiles; he forgets
eifeVything but his work, becomes
so .interested in it that it is
his recreation as well as his duty,
and takes the place of presidential
' fishing or hobby-hoss riding. "I have
faithfully, honestly and solely given
every minute of my time to the business
of the State of New York," he
says; and it is so.
Above all, he can efface himself,
and take advice, and delegate strands
of his power to competent subordinates,
whom he appoints without
regard to party or creed. Thru them
he atones for his own lack of a formal
education, and shows how character
can employ intellect, whereas intellect
without character is like
Buridan's ass, poised and starving be- ,
tween arguments, torn between wish- es
without will.
Nevertheless, in all fundamental
things he relies on his own judgment.
It is be who defends the Socialist assemblymen
when the Republican
Legislature ousts them for Christianity;
it is he who stands in the way
of the Lusk bill that would have
made thinking illegal in New York; it
is he who consolidates the business
of the State into a minimum of departments,
under responsible cabinet
heads, limits their expenditures by
executive budget, and makes the government
of his State a model for all
America. It is he who shows the
way, even to Congress, in protecting
the common-wealth from unsocially
1 acquisitive enterprise, by State conI
trol of water power. State supervision
and aid of housing corporations
and welfare legislation standing
between the worker and ruthles9 exploitation.
-It is he who takes the
most complex problems of administration
and finance, pierces thru their
verbose technicalities, and makes
them intelligible to the electorate.
Politically, this uneducated man has
been our greatest educator.
It is this record that has made him
stand out so high above his fellow
Democrats that at this convention no
one can think of any name but his.
Back of the record, however, is the
man. "In the end only personality
counts," as Goethe said, and it is
personality that draws even his opponents
to Governor Smith. We admire
his simplicity and kindliness; we
admire his honesty, which is as great
as his associates will permit; we admire
his courage, his brave admission,
in the teeth of his enemies, that he
has not dhanged his views on the only
saure that threatens hi* defeat.
Above a)}, we admire hie loyalty
?to his tasks, to his faith, to his
uOther (with whom he spent every
Sunday morning, even in the days of
lis greatness), to his wife and fam?
ly, even to his organization; he has
lot, in the years of his prosperity^
Lurned his back upon the friafld* ()/
lis youth.
He is a good man. May he be
lominatjcd by this convention, and by
%n overwhelming vote elected Goverlor
of New York forever in,lD30.
All that the Senate presidential
rarapaign investigators appear to
lave demonstrated is that it coats
Honey to run campaigns.?Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
CMId-Kilftrr
Toledo, July 16.?Chari^
26, must die in tin- electric
the murd*" Dorothy
7, iii? wife's cousin, whom hT^H
after he had kidna^d her frJ^H
bed May Wth. Tne death nj I
was ^nuouiu^d' today hy (^u9
three common pleas judgw wfcouH
evidence on his sanity aft*r um
f?uuuMi to th? slaying. HoMa^B
signed an alleged confeaaiun
killed Miss Lillie Dale Oroy, txj^B
school teacher, two yeai?
was sentenced to die October IB
*"'? ?-?
At Anderson during * UrrilkJH
trlcal storm last week, u ur^yH
electricity hung 1&0 feet abovi^|
ground for a full minute,
slowly and sending out little ittS
?rs of light. The oldest inhah'^l
were awed by the spectacle. ^^B
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during July and August.
Plant now : Garden Corn, Beans, Collardi?
Cabbage, Squash, Beets, Cucumbers, Melon. J
Okra for late crop and Tomatoes.
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