The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 17, 1928, Image 1
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.
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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."
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i Girl Drowned in Lynches -River
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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. *
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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.
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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
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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
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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- '?
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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.
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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.
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