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? NUMBER 22.
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J Candidate* Speak
^ndidatts who are seeking of,
thi? county made their first
0 the voters at Blaney on Monnd
ohe commodious new uudi
in the Blaney high school
,g wa.- .11:ie<l to such an extent
landing room was at a premiere
was not much expres[rom
the crowd and so far as
irious candidates were concemt
voters of that section were
,g their own counsel,
fneeting began at ten o'clock
fjs presided over by Mr. Silas
and by a little after noon all
poken and the crowd was ready
Bperse. A baribecue hash was
to those attending and a soft
vendor also served hot dogs.
|, McKenzie seeking the Office
perintendent of education was
ft speaker for that office. Ha
if his long service with the
j and his two terms in that ofn<j
claimed he knew the school
1 from bottom to top. Said
ffiee required three things of
perintendent and that was exe,
constructive and financial
i. That there were many difu
arising that had to be met,
ising ways and means for the
cment of the school system,
wught that his experience and
ng both in ptfblic and private
ess fitted htm for the position,
that he inaugurated the first
club and domestic science club
s county, and favored vocational
ng in the schools and especialressed
the need of book keepgiving
the students a fundaal
knowledge of business. He
ised if elected to strive to keep
law on top so far as its schools
concerned.
s. Kathleen K. Watts, the first
to ask for political office in
iaw County, stated that she was
g friends at Blaney, and that
I served twenty. ryeara as. a
nci that since women had
> possession of the ballotr
were no longer just a part
tchen but were now taking
e> in other lines. That she
prise enough to ask for a
> and thought.that she was
to serve in the su per intende
and therefore was seekvotes
of the county.
P. Hussell, long a familiar
in fcrshaw County politics,
lis bid for re-election to the
)l coroner. His addres was
ature of a swan song in poli*
stated that if elected this
would be the last time he
er ask the voters for au ofWest,
seeking the office of
merely made his announce
the office and that he would
e the help of the voters.
Hinson, seeking the office of
director from Wateree
thip, said that he had no special
ses to make, but that he had
d sixteen years as magistrate
ad met with the various governosrds
of the county, even beck
the county had the supervisor
Had no criticism to make
iy member of the present board,
>romiRed if elected to cooperate
other members of the board for
d show no patriality and would
All over township. Thought a
le in this office might bring betr
would not ask for re-election.
H. Bow en, seeking re-election as
ship director, stated - that his
d was before his . people, and
w them to compare the condi?f
roads three and a half year*"
?nd now. He had fair and
*? a'l an<i had~~no jobs to give
Dor ^a<l he given out any with)ermissk)!)
of other members of
toard. He would leave it to his
J* that were not true.
I ?clk was the"first of the five
poking a place in the lower
f of the general asaenAly. Mr.
introduced himself as being a
*Cr to many, but they could ask
rlends who he was. He had no
to offer other than his priv'
Personal record of which he
jot sshamed. From his sariiest
0 present time. If elected
old be ever ready to serve for
of Kershaw-County. He
*nod roads, good sckoftls and.
the time from his schooling
hcho?I house up to the pret
prosperous time and a^ki-,1 that,
"let's go on." Promised if elected to
work in common with other representatives
for the betterment of cou'u
| ty and state.
I Newton Kelley, present representative
from this county, began by statin*?
that he was ever grateful to
Hlaney for his vote two years ago
which was 215 and that he would get
more this time for the people had
told him so. He said that it had
been said that he was fighting the
tax commission and the highwuy department.
lie said that he had gotten
the highwuy department where he
I wanted it and was ready to let it
| alone. That* it had come to think
that it was "all' of South Carolina
and he had made it where it was a
[ "part" of South Carolina. He said
that he had rubbed eLbows with doctors,
lawyers and others in the house
and said with great pride that he had
as many friends in the legislature as
any other man there, and that he
might add without boasting that he
had more friends there. Wanted the
voters to scrutinize his record in the
house, that he had always stood foursquare,
had been truthful and conscientious
in all of his efforts in the
house. He said that he was not a
"politicioner," that "isms" had put
him out, and that the people had requested
him to offer again for reelection
and that .they had elected
him by a great majority. He promised
to always contend for what was
right, and referred wi^h great pride
to the fact that the supreme court
had upheld the injunction in this
county, which proved that he was
right.
J. N. McLaurin, aiso for the house,
announced that he had no past record.
\Vas reared on the farm and was asking
the support of the people. He
represented no f*isms." Comes as a
man. Wanted his past record reviewed
as 'iT pWvate citizen. Was in
favor of goo<! schools, good roads and
an economical government. Promised
if fortunate enough to be elected
that he wbuld work in harmony with
other representatives.
D. M. McCaskill, seeking a seat in
the house, began .by saying that he
was a Democrat, had always been a
Democrat and expected to support the 1
Democratic nominee from president
on down. Said that he entered politics
twenty-eight years ago at Cureton's
Mill precinct (now Blaney) and
received all the votes cast. His half
century in piiblic life had acquired
him a gread deal of experience in
public affairs and that he wanted to
wind up his career in the general
assembly that he might crown his
amlbition to be of some service to
his county. He said that he was not
the candidate of any set or group but
of his own choice. If elected would
co-operate with other memfbers for
the best interests of his county and
state. 'He had no fight to ipake on
aby departments of the state, that
they were necessary and what was
needed was cooperation to get better
service. Reviewed the progress
the state had made. Favored progress
but wanted a dollars worth for
the dollar paid in taxes! Thought
that his knowledge of taxation would
help in a measure to bring relief. He
did not want to retard progress in
any manner. He favored the rigid
enforcement of laws, and wanted a
higher appropriation for old' soldiers
and would advocate the county supplementing
the state fund like they
done in Richland county.
N. S. Richards said that he. had
been before the voters several times
and had been elected and defeated,
but .held ho malace for those who
voted against him. Blaney had nearly
always given him a majority in
Bs races. He stressed the fact that
"economy in our government and taxation
were the chief issues." That
they were so interwoventhat you
might call it one issue. H* reviewed
the bonded debt of state, county and
towns and said that it amounted to
some one hundred and fifty million
dollars. He deplored the extravagance
in, government and said that
it had gone so far that it taxed you
from a bottle of cold drink to your
hound dog and that you had to even
pay a tax to hunt a rabbit. Stressed
the fact that economy was the only
remedy. Some might call him an old
fogy, but he compared the running
of the state government with that df
one's private business. Said that he
had gone to the house once before
but couldn't be of much help because
the house wae composed of mere
xchgpl hoyiy.hnt that be had always
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(ireat Flood Reaches
Into Santee River
Columbia, Aug. 21.?The Sanbec
rivet at Rimini had reached a height
of 23.6 feet early yesterday, a rise
<<t 3.9 feet in the previous 12 hours,
according to Richard H. Sullivan,
meteorologist at the Columbia weather
bureau. The river at the Santee
bridge on the highway between
Crevleyville and Charleston has
reached a higher stage than that of
1910, according to Charles H. Moorefield,
state highway engineer. The
Santee reached a higher level ta,191d
than in 1908. v
Mr. Morefield said that he had just
returned from a visit to the department's
two bridges in that section
and he said crews were at work to
protect them as he did not know
what damage might be possible since
the approaches had never had such
high water against them since their
construction. *
At Ferguson the river was reported
yesterday morning as stationary
at 15 feet.
At Cheraw the Pee Dee river had
riseh 2.8 feet to a level of 35.1 feet,
while at Effingham Lynches river had
risen 1.4 feet to a depth of 8.4 feet. |
The Black river at Kingstree had
risen 7 feet and showed a level of
9.2 feet yesterday.
The Congaree river at Columbia
was at a level of 17.5 feet yesterday
morning, 2.5 feet above n^-mal
flood stage, having receded 9.7 feet
in the previous 12 hours. At Pelzer
the Saluda was down to eight
feet early yesterday while at Chappels
it had receded to 20 feet. At
Blairs the Broad had reached flood
stage of 15 feet yesterday morning,
receding five feet in 12 hours.
At Camden the Wateree had receded
5.3 feet in the 12 hours before
8 o'clock yesterday morning and
was at a level of 26.5 feet, 1.2 feet
j above flood stage.
The state highway department has
opened most of the roads in the upper
state but both highway and railway
transportation are handicapped
by rising waters along the Santee
river.
To Get Water Out of Basement
Mrs. S. W. Bradley has hit upon
an easy method of getting rid of water
in the basement, and wishes to
pass the information on to others in
this day of water-ftlled basements.
She says to take an ordinary garden'
hose and fill it with water. Detach
from the socket and hold your hand
over *TTie opening to prevent the waI
ter from running out. Then place
,the hose nozzel in the water in thai
basement, and the hose will draw it
all out. (Sounds very simple, and is
surely worth trying.?Gastonia Gazette.
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JVoters Will/!<il lot
For Choice
Kershaw County's first Democratic
Pr unary will be pulled off next Tuesda>.
August 28.
The polls at everj precinct will
open at eight o'clock in the morning
aivl will close promptly at I p. m.
1 he machinery of the Democratic
party is all primed and ready to
Operate efficiently when the voters
fppi-a at the various polls on elec-1
tifon morning. All managers have
Wen appointed and all ballots have
fien printed.
p The Chronicle, with a desire to
_^erve the people of the county, requests
managers to get the report of
the vote at each precinct just as soon
as possible, so that The Chronicle
may print full results the next day.
Persons interested in the results will
confer a favor 'upon The Chronicle
by aiding the managers in tabulating
and getting the results to the
proper officials as early Tuesday as
is possible.
Camden Methodist Church
Lyttleton Street, near Hampton
Park. George Pierce Watson, pastor.
Sunday, August 26?Bible school ut
10:00 a. m. with classes for all grades
and ages. Epworth league at 7:45
p. m. Public worship at 11:15 a. m.
an^ 8:00 p. m. conducted by the pastor.
The public is cordially invited
to all the services of this church.
Come and bring your friends.
Pictures at Auditorium
The management of the Camden
High School footiball team will continue
to show pictures at the Camden
School auditorium on Monday,
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of
next week and the week following on
the same days, from 7:30 to 11 p. m.
These are high-class pictures and
the attendance at the auditorium has ,
been good. The proceeds derived
from the pictures will go for the
b^&fit of athletics \n the school.
The usual admission charges will
prevail. I
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Antioch School To Open
Antioch High School will open
Monday, September 3rd, with the following
corps of teachers: First
grade, Miss Annie Pate; second and
third grades, Mrs. Sarah M. Marsh;
fourth and fifth grades, Miss Viva
McLeod; sixth and seventh grades,
Miss Ruth McLeod.
- High School??W. P. Cdker, principal,
agriculture and mathematics;
Miss Lavinia Coker, English and
history; Miss Cora Lee Kitchings,
science and French,
s There will be a meeting of teachers
at the school building September 1st.
and pupils may enroll and get book
lists on that day from ten to twelve
o'clock.
What Mr. Kelly's Record Shows
The General Sales Tax, Ihe question and vote of which has figured
prominently In at least one of the Kershaw county campaign meetings,
was presented during the general assembly of this year in ?he form of a
bill to raise revenue to meet the expenses of the state government
by providing for and the collection of a license tax on businesses, occupations,
incomes, professions, trades, employment, etcetera.
'Briefly the bill, while offering relief to the question of taxes upon real
estate, would offer confiscatory tollB upon retail business in South Carolina.
As voted upon during the past session of the legislature the general
sales 'tax provided for a tax on almost'every class of business from the
crossroads grocery store to the city's hum/ble boot/black stand.
lender the provisions of the bill any single mechanic, tradesman or
laborer, whose weekly salary amounted to forty dollars, would be required
to render unto the state government taxes amounting to sixteen dollars
yearly, on his wages alone, while his married brother, similarly employed,
wonld have to pay exactly half this amount in salary tax.
On most businesses the tax would have been ten dollars for the first
thousand dollars of gross income. For the grocer each additional hundred
dollars worth of business would have been taxed at the rate of fifty cents;
for the dry goods merchant, seventy-five cents; for the cotton buyer, one
! dollar; for the druggist, one dollar and fifty cents.
On tb* basis of a yearly business amounting to ten thousand dollars the
grocer would be compelled to pay fifty-five dollars in business tax alone
whfty-the 'druggist-would have to charge his customers enough to pay the
required tax of one hundred and forty-five dollars.
In every case the tax would ultimately be paid out of the pockets of
the consumer unless he ordered his goods from beyond his own state's
borders which would mean immediate financial impoverishment to South
Carolina and the eventual bankruptcy of the state.
It required a special committee several months of state-wide investigation
and travel before the general sales tax bill could he offered in the
general assendbly. Easily it was the most widely discussed piece of legislation
which the past legislature dealt wfth because it provided revolutionary
methods of the state system of taxation.
Long debated in the lower house and spread for weeks on the front
pages of the state press the bill finally found defeat by the vote of 7$ to
36. The vote was taken upon a motion to strike out the enacting words of
the hill.
At Bethune Tuesday Newton Kelly, who is seeking re-election to
the house, declared from the stand that he did not know how he voted on
The general sates tax. ?
According to the Journal of the House of Representatives, however, Mr.
-Kelly voted along with the minority in favor of the general sales tax.
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Hit and Run Driver
Kills I\'ef/ro W oman
I wo women, Belle Kendrick am,i
Susan lli'l[i'inun, were run over in
the town ol Rent be n Sunday ui'ternoon
by a ear driven by Robert
Dennis. Belle Kcixinck was fatally
injured, dying thi-s morning. Susan
Hoi.eman was a!-<> seriously hurt,
but today was reported improving
ami will probably recover. Dennis
who drove rapidly away from
the scene of the accident, was pursued
by several Kenrbert citizens,
but escaped into the woods before
the pursuing party reached his home,
where he left hb car, and fled on foot.
Up to i.oon today he had not been ur
rested. Monday's Sumter Item.
Warrant Issued! For Killer
< oroner W. J. Seal? on Mouday
conducted an inquest to determine the
cause and fix the blame for the deuth
of Belle Kendrick, of Rem Bert, who
was iatully injured Sunday afternoon
when struck by an automobile driven
by Robert Dennis.
I he following facts were brought
out at the inquest:
Belle Kendrick, negro woman was
injured Sunday afternoon when she
was struck by an automobile driven
by Robert Dennis, negro, near Rembert
on the Camden-Sumter highway.
She died some time Sunday night.
It seems that the Kendrick woman
and Susan Halleman were walking
towards Remibert on the right
shoulder of road. Dennis' car was
coming from the Sumter side, going
in same direction as the women.
Another car was ahead of the women
going in same direction, and the third
car meeting them. Dennis, the testimony
showed, was driving very fast
and attempted to pass the car by going
to his right and out on shoulder
of road. Eye witnesses say that the
woman was thrown in the air higher
than top of car. Dennis' car then
swerved back to left-and across road
into cornfield. He left in his car
at once without going back to place
of accident. Testimony was that
none were drinking.
Dennis was held by the coroner's
jury and a warrant issued for his
arrest.?Tuesday's Sumter DailyItem.
Now Occupying New Home
Chief of Police H. I). Hilton, who
has been residing on north Lyttleton
Street since the destruction of his
home near Sarsfield, has moved into
his new house recently erected on the
site of the old one.
Woman To Die in Chair
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 16.?Eul.i
Thompson, 24, of Etowah, Tenn., will
be the third person to die for the
murder of Coleman Osiborne, Chattsworth,
Ga., storekeeper on the night
of August 5, 1927, and the fourth woman
to be executed in Georgia, if
nothing intervenes to prevent the
evecution of the mandate of the Georgia
supreme court. The court refused
her a new trial today.
Her husband, Clifford Thompson,
and a negro, Jim Moss, were executed
at Milledgeville Aug. 3.
S
; , Girl Drowned in Lynches River
Florence, Aug. l(k?-Miss Annie
Mae Langston, 17, was droWned in
Lynches river near Elim late Thursday
afternoon after Granville Timmons,
an 11-year-old hoy, who was a
member of the swimming party, had
exhausted every effort to save her
and had narrowly escaped death ia
the water himself. The body was recovered
at 10 o'clock this nvorning
100 yards from where the girl was
last scan.
There were four in the swimming
party, Miss Langston, who was
drowned, Miss Hazel Timmons, 16,
Granville Timmons, 11, and Ralph
Myers, 17. All live fn the Elihi community.
The tragedy occurred at a sand
bank on the river behind the Stephen
MoQall place between Elim and
Effingham. The two girls, it is reported,
got into deep water and the
boys attempted to save them. Ralph
Myers succeeded in bringing Mis*
Timmons to the shore. .But the
younger lad, although he came close
to sacrificing his own life, was not
successful in saving Miss Langston.
It was with the greatest difficulty
that he broke the death hold with
which it is reported the drowning
girl, much older than the lad, had
seized hun in her last effort to cave]
tonalf.
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All White Electors
IS timed by Joe Tolbert
i uluutbiM, Auk 17-?Nine Republican
electors for South Carolina
were selected here Thursday at
a meeting' of the State Republican
Executive committee. The sessions
of the committee were not public
and 'he ticket was announced after
the meeting by J. W. Tolbert, of
Nmet\ S:x, chairman of the committee
and Republican national committeeman
from South Carolina.
In making public the names of the
men who will appear on HooverCurtis
ticket which will be placed in
the field against the Democratic
Smith-Robinson ticket in the general
election this fall, Mr. Tolbert pointed
out that all Republican electors were
white men. They were selected, he
asserted, with a view of making the
strongest appeal to the "best citizens
of Uhe state."
The ticket announced by Mr. Tolbert:
,
C. I'. Pridgen, Charleston; Geo.
W. Beckett, Beaufort; E. E. Verner,
Seneca; Dr. Frederick A. Luben,
Greenville; S. ' E. Lawrence,
Chester, H. E. Montgomery, Kingstree;
R. L. Smith, New Brooklyn
and Columbia; Julius N. Green,
Charleston; R. R. Tolbert, Abbeville.
Although declining ut present to
discuss the Republican campaign
plans for this state, Mr. Tolbert let
it be known that hiB party planned a
determined drive for votes through
the distribution of literature and personal
campaigning. "We are not trying
to beat the Democrats, though,"
he declared.
IN THE CAROLINAS
Items of Interest Gleaned From the
Papers of Two States
The Table Rock dam built for
Greenville's water supply, which disintegrated
this summer, had its basin
'drained for repairs to it and all
sluiceways were kept open, hut 61 ^
feet of water accumulated behind it
during the flood of last week.
The general commanding this corps
area has, at the request of Senator
Blease, been directed by the war department
to afford all relief possible
to.flood. sufferers under the emergency
army regulations, along the
Broad, Catawba, Saluda and Congaree
rivers in South Carolina.
The house of GeorgtT S. Wilson
.chich burned near Abbeville this
week, was over 150 years old and full
of antique furniture which burned with
it. It has been in the same ...
family ever since it was built.
The state board of education has
asked for the resignation of all three
school ..trustees, in Lancaster county
of the board to which belonged W. A.
Carnes who was removed from office
by the county board.of education and.
appealed to the state board. The latter
found that the removal of Carnes
was the result of bitter fighting Inside
the board of trustee*.
Down in Dorchester county where
two factions are fighting for control
of the courthouse, the only real one
of the two campaign meetings scheduled
by the county committee was
held on Tuesday at SumtnerviUe with
2,000 to 8,000 present?but search
and call by the chairman showed that
there was not a single minister there
to open it with prayer, and so the
factions went into action fighting
viciously' without any preliminary
prayer.
Miss Ethel Allen,. ,47 years old,
literally died of ftjiffht at Henderson,'
N. Cf Wednesday, as a result of
crossing the flooded Roanoke river.
She %as one of-a party taking a long
tour in a bus and at the bridge the
water was so near the floor that the
bus went over empty and the pas*
sengers walked. jMiss Allen fell in
the middle ot the bridge and died at
Henderson while being rushed ..te*a*
hospital. She is the sister of George
G. Allen, the tobactep magnate, of
New York, and her home was at WarrentOn.
Detective Frank Little John, who
skillfully worked out the poison plots
at Charlotte and jailed a half dozen
persons for murder, awoke early Monday
morning with intense burning in
his epes which later were swollen
tightly shut. His physician says thu
symptoms are tboae of mustard or
other war gas, and police are working
on the theory that the r*s was introdueed
into the room through an open ?
window, but ira without definite
clues. - " vv*
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