The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 31, 1928, Image 2
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SERVICE
?) Your Fire Insurance Policy is nothing more ttfian ft
contract between you and Home insurance company.
When you buy insurance, be sure that the other party
to tiie contract is anxious to do a little more than the
right tiling.
This agency ha.-, had sixty-three years in which to
select tin* pick of tin* 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 belter
service than that furnished oitr customers.
Williams Insurance Agency
R. M KENNEDY, JR., OWNER ?
ESTABLISHED 1865
Ten thousand persons are reported
as homeless, 200 dead and 1,400
square miles of territory devasted as
the result of a hurricane which swept
over Haiti last week.
X DeKALU COUNCIL No 88
Junior Order U. A. M.
Regular counoil first and
third Mondays <yf each
month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren
are welcomed. D. J. CREED,
L. H. JONES, Councillor. ,
Recording Secty.
ft KER8HAW LODGE No. 2t
i/V, A' F* M*
<#H)ARegular communication of '
/^w^this lodge ii held on the 1
v first Tuesday in each month
at 8 a.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed.
T. V. WALSH,
J. E. ROSS, Worehipful Master.
Secretary. 1-14-27-tf '
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ROBT. W.MITCH AM
Architect
Crocker Building,
Camden, S. C.
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FOR CORNS AND CALLOUSES
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Don't Spend More
Than You Earn
It takes some backbone, some genuine courage, to
withstand the temptation to spend more money than
youreally effort!. but you'll feel better-to keci*
out of debt.
Loan & Savings Bank
I CAPITAL $100,000.00
GEORGIANS MISSING
Among Them Treaaurer of Home
Miasion > Board of iBuptiata
Atlanta, Aug. 26.?Five Georgians,
:wo of them of prominence, who have
been missing unexplainedly from
Lheir homes for varying periods of
Lime, were the objects tonight of urgent
inquiries by families and friends
seeking to learn their whereabouts.
They are:
C. S. Carnes, Atlanta business man
ind treasurer of the home mission
board of the Southern Baptist contention.
J. D. Ellington, well known business
man of Thomaston.
Capt. A. H. Harrington of Thomasville,
his wife and their ten-monthsold
baby.
Anxiety for the safety of all was
expressed.
Mr. Carnes disappeared the afternoon
of August 15 after telephoning
his chauffeur to notify his wife that
he had been called to Raleigh on a
business trip.
Authorities of several states have
been called on by relatives of Mr.
Ellington to assist in finding him.
He left his home at Thomaston Monday,
ostensibly for a business trip
to Atlanta, but diligent inquiries
have failed, his family said, to r?veal
a trace of him since then.
Six weeks have passed without
word of Captain Harrington, his -wife
and child, who left their home in
Thomasville for a motor trip to the
jeorgia coast. Harrington, a former
)fttcer in the British army and the
>wner of a nursery and restaurant
>usiness at Thomasville, was known
o have carried considerable money I
vhen the family left for their outng.
Meanwhile, leaders of the Southern
laptist convention were gathering
lere to lend what aid they could to
he search for Mr. Carnes. Dr. George
Truitt of Texas, president of the con'ention,
who now is in Lynchburg,
i'a., has been notified. He was exacted
in Atlanta within the next
ew days.
Auditors now are at work on the
reasurer's books and a report is exacted
soon.
>CISSORS SHARPENED?10 cents
per pair; satisfaction guaranteed.
George Tidwell, Camden, S. C.
3-ti-sb
THE t'lAYVHAM OF THE FLOOD
Crmt .Woven Forward Saturday and
Waters Subside This Week
(Tuesday'* Yorkville Enquirer)
The Hood of last week lessened its
energies tn tb? Piedmont and moved
| southward on Saturday, when its
crest wan near Columbia with the
rivers there at record stage* and during
the following few days gradually
subsided, leuving millions of dol,
lai? of damage In its wuke. The
total loss of life in the two Caro
lina.- was 12.
\\ i.ilt* Asheville, Spartanburg and
(ii ee/iv tile were rebuilding railroads
and roads and in general repairing
Hood damage as rapidly as possible,
und '.he county authorities in a score
id countii*8 were replacing wushed out
bridges by the hundreds and repair
ing damaged roads, on Saturday, the
people farther down the rivers were
ex|M;riencing a real Hood compar
uble to that of l'Jlfl.
The Congare went above 36 feet
at Columbia, the Broad above 37 feat
at Blair, near there, and the Watered
at Camden reached a like stage, while
the Santee, receiving all the water
from above attained 30 feet. But it
jvas the Saluda which really gave An
exhibition of flood conditions, although
some of the other rivers broke
all past records for height.
The Saluda caught a crack Southern
railroad train of two sections at
Strothers, 30 miles from Columbia
and kept it there surrounded by
water for a day or two. The passengers
were removed in automobiles
after spending the night on the
train with no food and little light.
The railroad station at Chappels was
flowing swiftly a half mile wide.
The waters reached the lower sections
of Columbia where many streets
were flooded, and went over the window
sills of some plants there. Hickory,
N. C., reported the dangers past
but the damage there $1,000,000.
Hamburg, S. C., across the river from
Augusta, Ga., was under water'Saturday
and its inhabitants fled to
higher ground, as the Savannah river
went to flood stage and higher than
ever before in weather bureau
records.
The floods also reached eastern
North Carolina for the first time on
Saturday. The rain was not so
heavy there, but the Cape Fear rive*
went to 35 feet, the Roanoke to 40
feet, the Yadkin, which becomes the
Peedec in South Carolina, went, ou;
of banks, rising at the rate of two
feet an hour. Up near WinstonSalem,
the low lands were all flooded
and a power plant drowned out of
commission.
The dam at Lockhart, S. C., has a
section washed out, but was previously
flooded a dozen feet deep, so the
washing out of the structure had no
effect on the river below.
The crest of the flood moved on toward
the ocean over Sunday, and yesterday
found the central part of the
state experiencing what the Piedmont
felt last Friday, with highways
broken and closed to traffic, railroads
desperately trying to save
bridges and with tracks under water
for miles, and huge lakes where
farms had been.
Where the Congaree and Waieree
rivers meet to form the Santee, 30
miles south of Columbia, there is td?
day a lake 30 miles long and twenty
miles wide, and the low lands along
the Santee below there will be overflowed
in turn tomorrow and the following
days. The highway crossing
of the Santee river near Kingstroe
was protected with sand bags by a
j big crew of men sent by the state
highway department. The Atlantic
Coa9t line railroad bridge across the
Santee at Rimini is anchored today by
great wire calbles and weighted with
loaded box cars to prevent it being
swept away.
The main highway from Columbia
to Florence was closed at the Wateroe
river, 18 miles from Sumter, whore
the river was miles wide ami Uk#
highway covered with the water and
being washed under the concrete s ab.
There also the railroad was trying to
save a trestle across the river whiclf
the flood was threatening to take
out. At Columbia all five spans of
the Broad river bridge, including
heavy concrete pier went down in the
flood.
Over to the east the different sygtem
of rivers had their own floods
disconnected from those of the Piedmont
system, but almost equally rampant.
United States highway No. 1,
the north and south one nearest the
coast, was closed in South Carolina
on account of the havoc wrought by
the raging Pee Dee river. Over
Sunday, the crest of that flood was
at Cherarw, and the current wag
swifter and more forcible than any in
western part of the Carolines. Cattle
were caught and drowned on
islands, in the bottoms which finally
were siibmerged, and 300 mules
in one bunch were drowned after bet
in* *?<i on a temporary island for
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n i + , . . j .. 1 . . - . : :?several
day#. The Hat boat, propelled
by a Ford automobile engine, got
out of control of It# pilot twice, and
once was swept twenty mile# down
u\er and another time several mile#
b> the terrific current.
After the Piedmont flood had passed
on southward, Chester was without
water aupply for several day#, because
last week its electric motor
driving the pumps of the waterworks
were flooded ami had to he sent to
Charlotte to )iave its wiring dried out.
A dozen bridges in Chester county
were washed out, but none of con*
sequence in Lancaster cou#ty where
t ine) are all concrete. The bridge
j ivit the Broad river at the Chester|
I nion county line had part of its
't r ion county end damaged. Ander
n topped the rainfall records with
| .">?> inches of rain in a couple of
i days last week.
All eyes were turned to the I^ake
Lure, N. C. dam over the week-end
and yesterday. It is 100 feet high
arid 800 feet long, of concrete witn
earthen ends, in a forge of about the
same width for a mile or more below
it. Its sudden going out would send
and immense quantity of water down
the gorge. Last week all inhabitants
for miles below the dam were warned
out of that section as the earth part
of the dam began to disintegrate.
Water seeped under it, great slices
fell off, and opening the safety gates
showed they had been located so
that they created an eddy which eat
away the dam worse than the Hood
itself. The dam slowly disintegrated
at the ends orf earth. The gates
stuck for a day but finally were repaired,
but when wide open they are
on sills which keep 80 feet of water
behind the dam. By yesterday morning
the lake was down to that level,]
and the disintegration of the dam was
going on gradually but continually.
Its builder, who was in charge of
the work to save it, said Sunday that
his work to prevent it going out
quickly and entirely under the flood,
pressure was handicapped by lack of
funds asked from its owners, a
Philadelphia corporation which built
it to make a resort lake with incidental
production of a little power
which is sold to the Duke company in
toto.
Last night the state of the earthen
end of the dam showed that it would
continue to slowly disintegrate until
all had sloughed off into the stream
below and the lake was entirely
Members of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen, on lines west of
Chicago, are taking a vote on the
question of a strike (because of failure
of the railroads to meet wage increase
demands recently made.
grained. As long as this process continues
a slow one of seepage through
the earth part of the dam in large
quantity, there will be no danger from
flood below. But if the earthen dam
end that is left ,goes out all at once
with the 80 feet of water behind it,
a dangerous flood wave will be sent
down the gorge below the dam. Five
different methods of saving it have
failed, including placing 200 tons of
rock and a large numlber of trees
against the earthen fill, but this reinforcement
was washed down like
chips in a creek.
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TootkTaken FroraLwl
Spartanburg, Aug. 15.?Littkfl
thy Brook, eight-year-old dauftyfl
J. T. Brook, of this city, U foil
and happy again today afttrfl
cessful operation at a loci] kql
for the removal of a tooth vffl
lodged in her lung after
sucked it down her trachea pfl
{? The child's father extrticS^
molar but before he could retttfll
from her mouth she hud drmfl
down into her lungs. RmhadjW
hospital, a surgeon removed thehfl
by use of a fube and a vacuna <1
The child was taken home i shfl
time
later.
Scotland plans to prohibit tkfl
of preservatives in foods,
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Think of it! For a fewcents
you can have your
laundry work done here.
It is no trouble at all. We
call for and deliver all
i work promptly. Telephone
17 for efficient and economical
laundry service.
City Laundry
PHONE 17
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Our special ch-sOng priJ.l
cess completely removed
all spots, dirt and sUiwl
from your k;u meats, nol
matter how soiled theyl
might be. Just teleplqS
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PHONE 17 I
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Of Camden, South Carolina 1
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