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The Camden Chronicle UME XXXX. ^ im?imrn r: CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. AUGUST 17, 1928 -1 .lj? *r NUMBER 21. d Medal* % warded , 16 Master Farmers >0)501) C i'.it'gt, $, ?? August 16 Clenison College today as one ,e mu.-t dramatic features of neiV Week" gold medals Y;and kite* of honor are being awardi gixtw^i "Master Fawners'' of i Carolina as follows: U. Watson, Saluda; W.IC. Smithy pton; H. Lake> Aiken; J. R. y, Calhoun; Edgar L. Culler, ge^burg; W. N. Henderson, iwood; J. W. Gaston, Spartun; J. Wade Drake, Anderson; B. Re?d, Chester; J. L. G^ttys, haw; W. B. Wilkerson, York; Williams, Sumter; C. W. Rogers, on; J; B. Clarkson, Williams; S. W. Minis, Dorchester; A. V. n, Dillon. Kill recognition ia also given to her South Carolina farmers who also won notalble distinction in tction with this enterprise. These be men wh<^ had the distinguiShKognitiun of being selected by county committees as the ter Farmer Nominees'i for thei* etive counties?several of whom iwly missed being Gold Medal tr Farmers this found and will likely become such later on. k twenty-four Master Fanner lees and the counties from [they come are; ^ V, Shealey, gton; A. D. Conner, Barnwell; . Joudon, Jasper; Kenady DowMcCormick; J. P. Hopkins, b; Hayne Workman, Laurens; W. imbright, Cherokee; Mrs. J, E. ,Newberry; B. F. Freeman, Pick. S. H. Farries, York; F. Lee a, Anderson; J. M. Shealy, New; G. A. Sherrell, Chesterfield; T. erdin. Greenville; C. B. Owens, ee; T. L. Ross, Darlington; W. L. on, Georgetown; S. S. Mitchum, imsburg; E. L. Crawford, BerkeI. \S. Parker. Florence; M. M. (lis. Cha-lesi-.n; B. H. Hinson, M B. I- letcher, Marlbbro; D. ndaJ, Clarendon. iter Farmer carn^^wTOTnow Conducted in half th? irtatea ,of pon and the following is a sumW the movement in this state: Ik extension workers of Clemftlege in ftieir annual meeting fcnter, The Progressive Farmer id that a joint campaign be Bhbn for the discovery and puft>- j wnition of some of the best " ot the Palmetto State. The I"1 w? accepted and the camH *"? oo. problem was to locate a rf ^ beBt farmers in each I To do this a committee was ^around each coUnty farm V This commftUy included the home agent, vocational teach ?"ty ^itors and k banker'. The I" nofninated by this committee P> county were scored individualB e Allowing score card::, ten an.-, 0f soil, fertility, crop *ystem for adaptation, to soils, |h, and .fficienb use j>f rtan and labor, adequate tools, macbin* I equipment, well housed and I ?f timber r . farm on cadh or- bank r0 basis, mastery of haf&teaos I and attr^1ve^pfoe,~Ti6dr CbI^,^Pment in hous*? character r nd ; n<l father, education add St if F. ,ch?ol? and dtnrehm, to. ^^f^crvralcased of d Mnt?w!e? Wfth proa; 1 >*t?r convictions. ft * '<?* "rvWof Direc^- sass t the state Master Far mar nominees, examined effch farm, the buildings, livestock, fanning system, and other features of each farm, and learned further from the county farm agents of the farm and its owner. To our thousands of readers in South Carolina. And hundreds of thousands elsewhere we wish now t:> introduce these 16 Gold Medal Master Farmers of South* Carolina and to consider their ups and downs, what struggles they had, and how they finally achieved success. Master Farmers are not measured *ftd gauged so much by the things they have as by the distance they have conj^from where they started art# the methods by which they made progress along the way. None of them, bias attained perfection, and for all' there are other succasses and triumphs yet to be reached. Diversification; system; home and farm Siippoyt originating in the soil; legumes; weil -building; the cow, the sow, ami the hen?these are some of the things that have helped to make Master Farmers of these men on the one hand; While on the other hapd, it was their faith, wise management, hip unceasing work in applying the principles of good farming, that completed the "job. The Progressive Farmer of August Ifi gites the following brief sketches ; of JvL. Gettys, ctf this eowtf . ;'c>Head of ;ja family community rather than a farm, for in add*#*? to the . home in which Mr. and Mrs. Gettys have Hvad for 48 years, two sons and a daughter-in-law live on the lffoO acres in this estate. ! ^fjtere are 600 acres in cultivation, 808 in pasture, 800 in forest open j enough for 800 acres to furnish good "Of^the 76 head of dairy 'cattle 50 are pure/bred. More than 1,000 head of .poultry are produced annually, including turkeys, ducks, and 206 pure* . bred hens. The .smokehouse has about three tons' capacity and- Is never empty. The following are p statistics lowing the Gettys' diver *iflcation:rs , *Corn and cotton are grown on t 250 acres each, wheat for home use L is regularly grown, 100 acres in oats, f 100 in rye; 5 acres in sorghum, i60 each in cow peas and soybeans, 80 in vetch, 10 in crimson'clovsr, 50 ap r. pie trees, 50 grapevines, and 150 * peach trees, 10 acres in sweet pota, toss, and one of the best pastures in tta stats, i *"Ibe farm is adequately equipped, t All of the 1* tenants have poultry, [ Bog* a garden, and iwaet potstom* Lightning Kills Six During July j Columbia, Aug. 9.?Six deaths by lightning and six injuries marked the weather of the month of July, it js reported by Richard H. Sullivan, head of the United States weather bureau station here in his summary of weather in South Carolina for that month. Fleming Porter, Gaflfney planter, was struck by lightning and, he and his mule ware killed on the afternoon of July 22. Three days later, J. C. Porchi-r and John MoLain, negroes, were killed at Florence during a fraternal society encampment, three other negroes being injured. The same day Isabel Walker and Tommy Tuck, negroes, were killed while at dinner near Newberry, two women being injured. The next evening a 161year-old negro girl was killed while an infant she was holding was badly hurt. Little property damage from storm or lightning marked the month's weather which kept a normal temperature -average with precipitation [ slightly above normal. All crops I made svibstantial progress. V* - ... 1 Order Hickman Hanged ! Los Angeles, Cel., Aug. 9.?William E. Hickman today was ordered hanged at San Quentin penitentiary on October 19 next for the slaying of Marion Parker., Judge Douglas Edmonds overruled nine defence 'obpections before Betting the second hanging date for the youthful kidnapper, who slew the 12-year-old schoolgirl here last December. Sheriff John P. Hunter, of Lan-1 caster county, who is not a candidate ( "2?r reelection and retires at the end Of 1928, has filled that office for 38 ?s and is over 80 years old. rtprd ^r-cfrhtinuous service has 0&1 If ever been equalled in the state. Pardon For Ben Bean Was Legally Obtained Coluunbitt, Aug 10. -Obtaining the certificate on which Ben Hess, Florence negro convict, secured hia pardon from the unserved part of a $0 year term for criminal nsaault, wu made without fraud or misrepreaentation, it was found today Jay J. C. Townaend, ?|>ecial referee in the habeas corpus hearing brought by Bess to recover hia freedom. The referee filed hia report with the clerk of court this noon for trans* miaaion to a circuit judge after he had announced earlier that he could not complete the report until tomorrow. The first affidavit, signed by the Florence' county white woman, Bess was convicted of criminally assaulting in 1916 which repudiated her testimony against him, "was signed of her own free will and accord," Master Townsend found, and "the after explanation and limitation of the same that it was given only to forgive the accused was made after the fact had been brought to her attention that probably she would be prosecuted for perjury and that there was greater cause for her' repudiating the same from a personal standpoint and interest than there was in the first instance for signing the same." The woman knew that the paper she was signing was to be one to be* used for the purpose of getting Bess a pardon, the referee found, and it was her intention that it be used as. such, but because of her "limited education and intelligence" she did "not understand the full purport of' the affidavit Which she did sign and her interpretation, that it was given with the intention of forgiving the accused was different and at great variance from the interpretation placed upon the same by the governor which moved him to the action of granting suspension of sentence and pardon." ? Summing up his findings of fact,Mr. Townsend said: "I find as a matter of fact under the terms of the order referring said cause to the | Master that no fraud whatsoever was perpetrated against the affiance in obtaining the affidavit, which, among other things, repudiated the testimony given by her at the . original trial upon which conviction was had, and that said affidavit was read over to the affiance -before the same was signed and that she together with her son had plenty of opportunity to acquaint themselves of the true facta set .forth therein." \ 4 _ 4 i Girl Drowned in Lynches -River ' i . 4. Florence, Aug. 10.?Miss Annie Mae Langston, 17, was drowned in Lynches river near Elim late Thursday afternoon after Granville Timmons, an 11-year-old boy, who was a menpber of the swimming party, had ttgjuntcd every effort to save her and JukI narrowly escaped death ia the Water himself. The body was recovered at 10 o'clock this morning 100 pards from where the girl was last eeeh. JgThefce. were'four in the swimming jMpTty,' Miss Langston, who. was drowned* Miss Hazel Timmons, 16, Grdnvflle Timmons, 11, . and ..Ralph Myers, it. All live in. the Elim com* munity. . ft The tragedy occurred V*t :t sand hank 6n the river behind the Stephen McCall place between. Slim and Effingham. The two girls, it is reported, got into deep water and the hoyi attempted to save them. Ralph Myers - succeeded in -bringing : Miss Timmons to the shore. Rut .the younger lad, although he same-close to sacrificing his om? . ttf*,'.-w*s not successful in savfng Miss Langston. It was with the greatest difflctilty that he broke the death hold with which it is reported the drowning girl, much older than the lad, had Mfii him in her last effort to save herself. * ' 7rJt ' "' 0 v ** Moses Reed Harris, of Afcermarfe, N, C., despondent over his grandtian being taken from his home by the boy's father, fired a shot gun at hissself and missed. Then, next morning, he stabbed himself in the jugular vein with a small penknife, as - he Stood in the little bey's play house in the back yard, and died* Wednesday. TXst uua a fi-X VAAMt Aiul VsyMi Ls ??" ween trw yrtirn vTftl UTTtJ nntl XAtn If* bad health for sevsrsl years. He left.a note saying trouble and feed health eauasd his stfidde. Cruelty To Child Causes Iter Death Columbia, Aug 11.?Ah# We?i. Horry county tobacco farmer, i? charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature in h warrant sworn out by Mrs. Ward, ol Horry county, according to L. C. Johnson, detective connected with the governor's office, who has made a report to the governor of his investigation into the death of Edith Ward, I 9-year-old girl, who died in a hospital in Conway some weeks ago. West, v*l) probably be tried at the September term of court in Horry county. Detective Johnson was sent to Horry to investigate this case when someone sent the governor a newspaper clipping to the general effect that a little girl had been so severely whipped in Horry county that she died. The report of Detective Johnson to the governor's office shows that Mrs. Ward had eight small children and fthat her husiband moved away. Hating no means of support other thau her own labor, she placed the chil-1 dren in various homes in Buckner township, Horry county. Edith Ward, one of the children, was placed with Sylvester Vineland, Detective Johnson says, on the agreement with the mother that she was to be returned to the mother if the little girl was not satisfied in her new home. About six months later, this little girl was traded to Asa West for $5 worth of frying sized chickens, according to Detective Johnson. She was carried to a hospital in Conway in July, being sick, and an examination of her body showed she had been severely beaten?she said that her foster father had beaten her. The physician in charge said the child was suffering from rheumatic fever and that the abuse she had received had aggravated the malady. The child died. ifetatements of people in the comjfNtoiity, Detective Johnson says, are to the effect that the child had been cruelly treated and hard worked by Asa West, being made to replant cotton and corn in all kinds of weather. On one occasion, the detective says, the child was thrown from a buggy while being taken to Sunday School, the wheels passing over her head. The statement of the Sunday School teacher is that blood was coming from the child's ears and that clotted blood was in her hair when she arrived at Sunday School. Before the child died, the detective says she told her little brother that West had asked his wife to go bring in a cow as a storm was approaching. The wife said she was afraid, whereupon West told the child to go sifter the cow and when she refused he punished her with a shingle and kicked her in the back. The detective reported that the mother said the child was of rather delicate nature. Beans Pay Clarendon Manning, Aug. 12.?"Clarendon county's bean season brought her more profit than any other truck crop ever attempted," says County Farm Agent F. M. Rast. "Starting with this project five years ago, we have been steadily increasing our production until this year our. sales ran WeU over $10,000. This money came in well, too, at a time when monejr. is most needed on the farm, J. B. . Brogden, one of pur large farmers, told me that he managed to run his farm on bean profits during the entire season of about four wecSsu Bis six acres "yielded f869.60 in gross sales, which, after paying 918940 expenses, netted 9670 profit." J. jC, DuRant, with two acres, sold $486.79 worth of toeans at a profit of $98.74 afi ?cre. B. H. Reeves, with six acres, made a profit of $98.74 an acre. Eugene DuRant, with two acres, made g profit of 947.60 an acre. Norwamd DuRant with thro.. acres, made a profit of 995-85 an acre. - W. P. Scurry, with seven acres, made 4 profit of 9186 but Jpst $800 on a spinach crop previously occupying the land. * A Gaffney Methodist church has in its choir six musicians who have sang there for at least 80 years and a fetal of 141 years. The oldest tn service in that choir is the contralto who has ffif OA aa^l tKa kfi44 3UTT^ T iit a c TlrT aV w,s u"" has tiro mad there fer 85 year*. TV orj?1st has played there fer M _ a Game Is Plentiful Says (lame Wardens (Sunday's Culunibui Kctoid) An abundance of game in South Carolina wus reported from every county in the state by ^amc wardens who came to Columbia during the past week to obtain licenses for hunters who will sally forth Wednesday, the first day of the ojkti season for deer in the state. According to A. A. Richardson, chief gume warden, from whose offices 165,000 licenses were issued to wardens during the week, the supply of deer in Colleton county is becoming a liability instead of an asset, as they are present in such numbers as to render material dumage tj growing crops, particularly cowpeas. As many as 46 deer were counted in one farmer's pea field several days ago. Another farmer reported that he found 20 of the animals feeding in his field on a recent moonlight night. The deer season will tempt many nimrods Wednesday, and each day until January 1, when the season closes. Although deer are scarce in the eastern and northern portions of the state, an abundance may be fdund south and east of Columbia toward the coast, with the number increasing nearer the coast. Quail, doves and wild turkeys also abound in practicu'lly every county of the state, and the crop of squirrels, raihbits and opossums is also said to be a bumper one. The open season for the various wild game specimens is as follows: Domestic game birds and animals, Thanksgiving day to March except deer. Bucks only may be hunted from August 15 to January 1. Raccoons, opossums and foxes may be hunted from September 1 to March 1 provided that between September 1 and Thanksgiving day rabbits may be hunted without firearms, and squirrels may be" hunted without dogs. 1 here is no open season on pheasants. The open season for trapping fur bearing animals is from Thanksgiving day to March 1, but there is no open season for trapping deer and foxes. It is unlawful to use deadfalls and steel traps except within 200 yards of a person's residence or within 25 yards of any poultry house where the traps are set for the protection of property, i The migratory bird, season is as follows: | Duck, geese, brant, coots and snipe may be hunted between November 1 (and January 1; rails and gallinules | from September 1 to November 30; woodcock from December 1 to December 31; doves, from September 1 to September 30 and from November 20 to January 31. There is no open seasou on rice-1 birds, reedbirds, wood duck or summer duck. Bag limits are: Duck, 25, geese, 8; brant, 8; coots, 26; Wilson snipe, 20 a day; sora, rails and .gallinules,, 25 a day but not more than 15 of any one species of rails and gallinules i a day except sora; doves 25. Night hunting is not allowed ex-j cept for opossums, racoons and foxes* and there is no open season on do-J mestic and (migratory insectiverous and song birds. The seasons for domestic game, birds and animals may be shortened in any county on recommendation of the county delegation in the general assembly. Something of the growth of the state game wardens department in the last 15 years may be gleaned < from the. statement of the chief game warden that since he took office in 1918, the total receipts from the sale of'- licenses and prosecutions has grown from $1,966 in 1912 to $202,120.07 for the year which ended June 80. The state's game laws are enforced by a corps of nearly 100 game wardens. Counties in which the greatest nurajber of hunting licenses r* old are Richland, Orangeburg, Sparta rfburg, Greenville, Charleston, York and Laurens. Fifty-five par cant off the total receipts from the sale of licensee is used in enforcing the game laws and for maintainancc of the state game department. Fortyfive per oent is turned back to the school fund in the counties where collected. Ninety thousand dollars has been or will be distributed- to the various counties for school puTposea from collections made in the Wrrr? 'Tfls&iTlilr J ' 1 , Better crrf anltation. in. the department end cooperation of the county feme wardens enforcement of statutes together with the recently enacted law requiring the wearing of the large license button by hunters resulted in the sale of 58,000 more licenses in 1927-1928 than the previous year, according to Ifr. Richard- '? - ' i..>. ,.>?e?*W i >ini rfwBiq, id- ia< Oad^asW>n. - . -M-a. . 'si ** *'/-. ^ i .-L1 milium-i Pictures To He Shown At School Auditorium Through the joitifcb efforts of Prof. J G. Richards, Jr., und Mr. John M. Yillt'pigue, these gentlemen have made arrangements whereby the theatre-going public can witness some real up-to-date moving picture plays, duiing the time the Majestic Theatre is being remodeled und made into a larger playhouse. The proceeds of those picture show receipts will go for the benefit of the Camden high school footibull team. The program will open in the high school auditorium tonight, Friday, at 7:30 o'clock and last until 11 o'clock, with "Thanks For The Buggy Hide" as the first offering. On Monday night, August 20th, "We Americana" will be the offering. All of these pictures are entirely new and offer excellent entertainment. According to a Winston-Salem minister who saw this picture in that city "It is offering much that should be Been by every n>an, woman and child in the United States." The story of "We Americans" is simple, but at the same time decidedly impressive. Three families emigrate to New York, from Hussiu, Germany and Italy. The parents retain all they love of the country, making no effort to become Americanized, but the i children grew up to be typical young Americans incapable of understanding their parents who, in turn, are incapable of understanding their ^children. But the war comes along for a 'brief moment and the children enlist. ThiB marks the turning point of the story, sq far as the parents are concerned, and the ending is of rare beauty and happiness. The cast includes George Sidney, Patsy Ruth Millej, George Lewis, Eddie Phillips, 9fypi':.M#rd*r, and others of equal note. On Thursday, August 23, the offering will be "Finders Keeper." I Along with every picture will be Shown a delightful comedy. All will be shown at the popular prices of 35 and 15 cent*. The managers do not want to be misunderstood as offering some silly, cheap affair, but they are entirely new and high-class photo-plays, and if the pulblic responds like they hope, , they expect to be able to give pictures three times a week while the Majestic is closed. They want the putolic to bear in mind also that it is not a money-nvaking scheme, but given in the interest of good, clean athletics in this city. School children will offer the tickets for sale, and they will also be on sale at the doors the night of each show. Started Off Well The Parlor Meat Market, opened. Saturday at the old stand of the DeKalb Grocery with apice /line of meats and that all goes -frith a firstclass market. They have .an up-to-date line of fixtures and refrigerators for the care and display of meats. A large number of friends of the new store called during the day and the sales were good. The ndfr market ia under the management''of^||af?ra. W. R, Watkins and Steve L. Ptt't: Sandwiches and lertionn4? were served to the custtmfcrs on''the opening day. * > . . x?:, . ! $' i ' i "t .. The fchronicld tt, h receipt of a letter-. from at Bethune whien' readiest partly v * "I notice thatmy namehas been announced for d!r4??to? for Buffalo good, but 1 did not "t*y apyone^to do thia, for I do'Vlot wijm|. the position. I am Just notittapositfon to attend to the duties' ot tne office if 1 should ft* elected. So you will please cancel this announcement and make a' statement to thte effect in your paper." The announcement" above referred to was telephoned to this office last Thursday just tfltfsve our hour of going to ;press and came frona a' friend of Mr. Clyburn. Tbe' Chronicle regrets this but we wete acting in good faith. ?i ' - I