The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 03, 1928, Image 6
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SERVICE
Vour Fire Insurance Policy is nothing more than a
contract between you and some insurance -company.
When you buy inHurance, be sure that the other party
to the contract is anxious to do a little more than the
right thing.
This agency has had sixty-three years in which to
select the pick of the companies most fair and prompt
in adjustments. No company is permitted to operate
through our office who would in any way take advantage
of one of our clients. Our record sustains us
in our claim that no insurance agency can render better
service than that furnished our customers.
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Williams Insurance Agency
R. ML KENNEDY, JR., OWNER
ESTABLISHED 1865
m DeKALB COUNCIL No 88
Junior Order U. A. M.
Regular council first and
/^r\ third Motiduys of each
month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren
are welcomed. I). J. CREED,
L. H. JONES, Councillor.
Recording Secty.
a[ KERBIIAW LODGE No. 29
A. F. M.
V G VRegular communication of
i y^S^^^this lodge is held on the
firgt Tuesday in each month
' ' at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed.
T. V. WALSH,
J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master.
Secretary. 1-14-27-tf
NOT1CB OF BIDS
Bids will be received on Aug. Gth,
1928 ut regular meeting of City
Council for Lease of Opera House
Store for one yeur.
CITY COUNCIL,
By YV. H. Haile, City Council Treas.
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ROBT. W. MITCH AM
Architect
Crocker Building,
Camden, S. C.
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NO-MO-KORN
FOR CORNS ANI) CALLOUSES
Made in Camden And For Sale By
DeKalh Pharmacy?Phone 95
T. B. BRUCE
Veterinarian
Day Phone 30?Night Phone 114
CAMDEN, 3. C.
R/E. CHEWN1NG
Contractor and Builder
Camden, S. C.
H you have building to,
do let me figure with you.
S a t itd" a c t.io n g u a r ante ed.
Uefervnees given on ap(
plication.
RICHMOND FAMILY LOSES
Youth Winn Fiance and $15,000 By
Posing as Heir
Richmond, Va., July 30,-r-A young
man who, the police say, gained entrance
to Richmond society by posing
' heir to the Baker Chocolate for'
tune, contemplated the matter in the
| city juil Saturday as he awaited a
| hearing on charges of obtaining $15,000
by false representation from the
I mother of his fiancee.
Bernard F. Champayne, alias Walter
W. Baker Jr., of Ticonderoga, N. Y.,
was the name he gave police when arrested
last night. The name of his
Richmond fiancee was not divulged.
"The police preferred charges withj
out complaint from the woman from
, whom he obtained the $15,000, or
' from his fiancee," Chief or Police
i Jordan told the Associated Press,
i "We do not like to embarrass these
I innocent victims by telling their
I names."
Champayne, police said, aroused
' suspicion by attempting to get $1,000
bills changed in the city. Officers
were assigned to the case and communication
with New York revealed I
that there were n^pBakers now as1
sociated with the chocolate company
in a financial way.
He engaged rooms with a family in
the Ginter Park section a month ago,
police said, in telling his story. There
for a month he lived a life of ease
and luxury, showering gifts upon the
, duughter of his landlady and family
becoming engaged to the girl. He
1 represented himself as a member of
1 New York Stock Exchange, police
j said he told them, and obtained $15
j 000 from the landlady on pretense of
I making an investment for her. He is
i said to have purchased an expensive
! automobile while here and to have
; made application for memlrership in
several fashionable clubs.
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Two Die In Aiken at Dice Game
Aiken, July 29.?Harold Drayton]
and Tom Daly, negro laborers at the
MeNumee Kaolin mines, near Bath
were shot to death Friday night, in
I a general fight among a number of
' men.
There was a gambling game going
j on in a house and after it broke up
] the crowd came out. Harold Drayton
and Allan Mann got into dispute
lover a pair of dice. Grant Garner
j got into t'he argument and pulled his
gun and started firing. Various memj
hers of the crowd pulled guns and
Tiring became general. When the
' smoke of battle cleared away Dray!
ton and Daly were dead. It is alleged
that the ?hooting of Drayton
| was intentional, hut Daly was killed
i by a stray bullet.
The coroner's jury returned u verdict
that the dead men came to their
I death at the hands of Allan Mann,
| Grant Gardner and Harold Drayton.
| Mann and Gardner fled.
Officers are looking for them and
j expect to locate them shortly.
Taking Advantage of Opportunities
Saving makes a man keener for opportunities ami at
the same time it provides him with cash to take advantage
of them.
Loan & Savings Bank
CAPITAL $100,000.00
DAIRY HERD OF 1.000
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Former Mr*. Vanderbilt ( realm Very
Interesting Experiment
Asheville, N. C? Aug. 2.-?
Jvdith Stuyveagnt Vanderbilt 0#rr>,
wife of Senator Peter Goelet Gerry, of
Rhode Inland, and society leader, i*
tlie creator of an interesting community
c Apt; time lit here and the
founder of a dairy farm of more than
1,000 cowi, one of the ehow place>
of western North Carolina.
Her intereat In the work began in
1H?'J when her late husband, George
W Vanderbilt, purchased 100,0o0
acres of beautiful mountain country
neui Asheville. In the center of this
vast estate the Vanderbilta built
their home, liiltmore House, a chateau
in the heart of the Blue Ridge
Mountains.
(In the thousands of acres which
surrounded the mansion they established
u village along feudal lines to
house the native mountaineers, who
in their homes had preserved many
of the cottage industries of old England.
Teachers and artists who studied
carefully the weaving of Scotland
and England were brought in to encourage
and improve the bit of it that
was preserved among the highlanders
of the South. Schools were built
and mountain boys and girls were
taught old crafts under skilled guidance.
This circuit homespun industry
grew into a large business, whicn
since has been organized into the
Biltmore Industries, operated at Grove
Park Inn, Asheville. Reforestation
methods introduced by the Vanderbilts
gave such impetus to forestry in the
section and resulted in such a mag
nificent sweep of pines and other native
trees that the government purchased
86.000 acres and established
it as the Pisgah National Forest.
After the death of Mr. Vanderbil'.,
his widow and daughter carried on his
projects and passed practically their
entire time on the estate. Mra. Vanderbilt
turned her particular attention
to the agricultural development.
Her efforts resulted in a dairy and
farm which started with three employes
and now has an operating
force of ninety trained men and women.
Every visitor to the estate, ]
which is open to the public twice each
week, is served with ice cream and
cake at the creamery.
Because of her interest in agrieu!
tural development Mrs. Vanderbilt
was appointed to the North Carolina ,
I'air Board and became of first woman
president of it, during the ad- \
ministration of Governor Cameron ,
Morrison, 1920-1924. In 1925, after
the marriage of her daughter, Cornelia
Vanderbilt, to an attache of the
, British Embassy, Mrs. Vanderbilt
married Senator Gerry.
Her daughter, u|wn reaching her
twenty-first birthday, took over the
estate, but Senator and Mrs. Gerry
built their own home, Firth, in Bilt*more
Forest. Mrs. Gerry spends much ,
of her time in Washington, where she
and the Senator have opened another
home, and here she centers much of
her talent on Washington's social
life.As president of the Congressional
Club she is a leader among the wives .
i of Congressmen and she is recognized
as a leader in diplomatic social circles.
Wood Wins Air Trophy
Detroit, August 2.?Eon P. Wood,
W ausau, Wis., flying a Wright-engined
Waco plane, zoomed across the
finish line at the Ford Airport at
2:51 p. m. Saturday, the unofficial
, winner of the fourth national air
I tour which started from here June 30.
Wood, w'ho had amassed enough !
points during the tour to assure him
of victory and the Edsel B. Ford
ti'ophy, led the fleet of twenty-four
planes, to finish on the last leg of
the journey from Battle Creek, Mich.,
from where they hopped off at 2 p. m.
I he other planes landed in quick succession.
Lee Schoenair, flying a Lockheed i
plane, was the second to cross the
finishing line; Charles Meyers, flying
a W right-i-ngined Waco, was th.rd;
Lewis Meister, piloting a Buhl sedan,
was fourth, and Eddie Stinson, a inner
of the 1927 tour, was the fifth to
land.
The tour, the purpose of which is
to test the reliability and efficiency
of planes and pilots, wus scored on
the basis of the load carried, >kill
displayed in handling the planes and
landing and taking off, and the genernl
efjgFtnecy of planes and pilots.
North Carolina state employees to
the number of 290 asked for* an increase
of salary from the salary and
wage commission.
Against Removal of Wilson House
Columbia, Aug. 2.?Protests against
the proposal to raze the " boyh&od
home of Woodrow Wilson at Hampton
and Henderson streets here are
being filed almost daily with the local
newspapers.
The old Southern home, starviing
on a corner lot surrounded by magnolia
and cellar trees, where the
World war president spent some
years of his boyhood while his father,
Dr. Joseph Ruggles Wilson
preached in Columbia, is slated to be
replaced by a $800,000 citv auditorium.
The commission named to select a
site and supervise the erection of the
auditorium decided on the site ,argely
because of the price at which It
was offered. The lot was offer?><1 for
$28,000.
The place known as the Van Metre
place is a typical old Southern residence.
It stands well back in the lot.
a two-story frame structure, and
gives the impression from the outside
of quietude and being a homely sort
of place.
On Hampton street, just in front
of the gate of the old picket fence
that surrounds it, is a huge granitu
boulder. On the face of the boulder
is a bronze plate recording that
Woodrow Wilson spent the years
from 1871 to 1874 there with his
father and mother. The marker was
placed by the Womens Auxiliary of
the local post of the American Legion.
The protest* are largely In the
form of letters to editors of the
papers. Thus far there has been no
concerted public movement looking to
preservation of the place.
FIND SON IN MOVIES
Long Search By J'arenU Ends In
Picture Theatre
Providence, R. I., A'ug. 2.?Mr. arid
Mr a. Leroy Birmingham went to n
theater to see a movie, and found
th^u lung lost son, l^roy, smiling
d<^^ a' them from the screen.
The i>o> i an a way irom home with
a cirrus when he wa*- By tho
time his parents gut fli,'touch with
.rum he had left the circlW. He had;,
wanted to be an acrobat tjtid a clown,j
but had succeeded only in being anassistant
wet-nurse to elephant* and,
camels. Not? so good.
For months they sought him in
vain. Mrs. Birmingham wus certain
that eventually they would hear from
him or he would return. She made
inquires ubout him with every circus
that played near here. When Mr.
Birmingham's work made it necessary
for them to move away from the old
home, they hesitated about the
change, fearful that Leroy would
communicate with them there and not
be able to get in touch with them. \
They like the movies and go
regularly, but they were hardly prepared
for the spector that confronted
them on the screen one evening not
long ago.
As a thin, boyish figure walked on
tho scene, Mr. Birmingham grasped
her husband's arm.
"It's Leroy!" she wanted to shout.
The name of the player appeared
in the cast as Allan Whitney, but
they were certain it was their son.
They communicated with the New
York office of the producing company,
which in turn made inquires at the
studio.
"Yes," euger parents were told,
"Allan Whitney is your long-lost son,
Leroy."
The Birminghams are now preparing
for a visit from the prodigal.
He's going to Providence after the
completion of the picture in which he
is now working.
Singularly, bhe picture which found
him for his parents, was the first in
which "Allan Whitney" had a regular
role. For four years he had been a
nameless member 01 the movie mobs,
living a hand-to-mouth existence. On
a chance a casting director had picked
him out of a mob for the part.
Charged With Burning of Friend
Beaufort, S. C., July 30.?Charged
with throwing a bucket of gasoline on
a friend who held a match, Sherman
Washington, negro, was held in jail
here to'da^' to await action Of thfe
grand jury. James Carter, negro,
victim of the burning, died in a hospital
yesterday. His wife, who was
burned at the same time will recover.
According to testimony at the inquest,
Washington went to Carter's
home with a bucket of gasoline. Finding
Carter in bed, Washington is said
to have asked him to strike a match
and as he did so threw the gasoline
on him. The house was destroyed by
fire. Washington was captured a few
hours later. He also is charged with ;
arson. |
ASYLUM DESTROYED.
Hundreds of Irresponsibles Turned
Out of Building As Fire Starts.
Nashville, Tenn., July 27.?State .
officials tonight concentrated on ob- (
taining a water supply for the central
state hospital for the insane,
eight miles from Nashville, the ad-'
ministration building of which was
totally destroyed by fire early this
morning. * *
Although 15 of the more than 1^00
patients escaped when authorities
turned them out of the buildings onto
the spacious grounds, only nine remained
at large tonight, hospital authorities
were not worried over these
being at large. Two of them were
confined for murder and were described
as "bad actors" but ti was
not expected they would molest any- body
and officers were watching their
familiar haunts in hopes of effecting
early captures.
The fire started, it was believed, by
defective wiring in the cnpolil
50 year old central unit oitfcl
destroyed all hospital recordfM
longings -of the superintejjfira
Attendants unlocked all hdfl
it nd escorted out men and wotd
their night clothes or whiiMjl
coqld gather about them, jj
them on the lawns where, luitw
by cordons of guards, they ?3
the blaze. Most of them weftfl
ed inside by <3 o'clock* 9
-, ?Xhe loss, was estimated |M
of $2$0,000 but definite fl|ra|
nob available. The state ct?
own insurance fund which, M
is hpt believed to exceed fl2U
the jfreqent. a
To Clean Piano Keyiij
Discolored piano keys duiM
instrument and give an appetijfl
slipshod house/keeping. Taj
them ,cover with a paste of pii
chalk and alcohol and when?
move, rub keys with alcohol Ml
with soft- cloth. ]
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cents you can have your
laundry work done here..
It is no trouble at all. We
call for and deliver all
work promptly. Telephone
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laundry service.
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PHONE 17
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Our special cleaning pJ
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matter how soiled thta
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