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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. D. NILE#..Editor aad pJbliahar I Publiahed every Friday at No. 1100 Broad Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina poatoffica aa aecond clan# mail matter. Price per annum Vi .00, payable in advance. Camden, H. C., Friday, Sept. 7, 1028. 11 \1 '% y 1926 SEPTEMBER 1928 *CT Urn, "Wij" tw "IT ^ \ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8, V 10 li 12 13 14 15 ] 16 17 IS 19 20 21 22 24 ? V v y - Carrol I). Nance, three time* elected a* a representative /ruin Laurens county to the lcgialuturc and one time candidate for governor, declared in a formal statement Wednesday that he had withdrawn from politic* for good. "My political career, both as to county and state, ended Tuesday/'' he said. On Tuesday Mr. Nance failed of election to the general assembly by a comparatively small vote. Miles F. Fox, of Steelton, Pa., Navy gridiron star, died of the effects of u sunstroke Friday at Annapolis, Md., u few hours after the Naval Academy football squad had had its first workout of the season. Fox was looked upon as u coming star. The Ivousiville Courier Journal and its evening edition, The Times, have come out for S'mith and Robinson. With two or three exceptions the Democratic newspapers of Kentucky ure supporting the national party ticket. B. B. Hill, a merchant at the Laurens Mill village shot and wounded J. Walter Hellams, former alderman, but the latter was not seriously injured. Although the shooting occurred on election day, politics had nothing to do with it, and it grew out of fuss about a drain ditch on the premises occupied by the barber shop of one and the store of the other. Sheriff "Bossy" Limehouse, who has just been turned down by the voters of Dorchester county after a hard and gruelling battle, takes immense satisfaction in proudly pro claiming that after January 1st when his present term expires, hi will work for (Governor John G Richards us special constable. II Limehouse is guilty of one-half th< things he was charged with during the past campaign, there are prob ably thousands of South Carollni voters who think that Governoi Richards has no right to use theii tax money- in- putting any sucl character on the State payroll.? Chester Reporter. Card of Thanks We desire to express our sincere thanks for the many kind deeds am expressions of sympathy shown us u the recent death of husband anc father. * Mrs. B. F. Haile and Family Card of Thanks We wish to thank our many friends for the many kindnesses shown u: during the illness and death of oui husband and father, Phillip Shields who died at his home in this city August 11. Widow and Children. Camden, Sept. 1. Card From Mr. DePass To the Democratic voters of Ker shaw County: 1 wish to thank yoi for entrusting me with the office o Master in equity for Kershaw County the duties of which, I will discharge efficiently and impartially to the bes of my ability. Yours truly, W. L. DePASS. JR From Mr. Copeland To The Voters of Lower Buffal Township, Gentlemen and Ladies I take this method of thanking oac and every one of you for your loyfi help and support during the cam paign and election. By your loyalt and good work I am again Magis trate for the next term. With you help and cooperation I hope to mak one of the best officers in Kershaw Counts. 1 wish to call especial al tention to the people of Haley's Mi for their support and confidence i me as an officer and law-abidm citizen. Thanks to all. J. F. COPELAND. Card of Thanks To the Voters of Buffalo Townshi; I want to thank each of you for th very flattering vote you gave trie i the last election. 1 appreciate th splendid endorsement of my work i this township, and in the county, feel that I can never do enough fc you to repay you for the splendi support, but 1 am going to do my be: for you during the next two yrai and I want your help in building th loads and in keeping them up 1 remain your obedient servant, D. M. KIRKLEY. Congressman Returns Thanks To the Voters of Kershaw Count] Allow me to express my apprecu tion for the splendid vote^received l your County in the recent Congre c:onal Primary. W. F. -STEVENSON. No Politic* In Junior Order By the distribution locally of AotiAl Smith propaganda by individual members and also by the state-wide notoriety of the state secretary of the Junior Order of United American "Mechanics, the Order has come in for some severe criticism and possible injury. As councillor of DeKalb Council! No, 88, Jr. O. U. A. M., I wish to state that this organisation is not in politics and takes no pa/t jn same whatsoever. However, it is not responsible for the views of individual members. So far as I afn personally concerned I propose to support the nominees of the Democratic Jmrty from Al Smith on down the line. Politics are never discussed in the lodge rooms at any of our meetings and it is sincerely hoped that this statement will set at rest any rumors to the contrary. Very respectfully, D. J. Creed, Councillor, g DeKalb Council No. 88. Eight of twenty-three men indicted at Frunkfort, Ky., on charges of violation of the state anti-loboying law, pleaded guilty yesterday and were fined $260 each and costs by the court. frive fatal accidents were recorded among the thousands of United States citizens who rushed to Toronto, Canuda, in automobiles to spend the week-end and Labor Day in the wet province. Forty-three persons were more or less injured, and many were overcome by smoke as the result of the third accident in a New York subway within ten days yesterday. CITY SCHOOLS TO OPEN NEXT MONDAY MORNING Continued from page one Reader; Spelling, McCall's Complete Speller; Language, Kinard, Brown,' Rogers, "Our Language," Book No. 2; Arithmetic, Smith, Modern Advanced Arithmetic; History, Estill's Beginners' History of Our Country; Geography, Smith's Human Geography Complete; Drawing, Practical Drawing, No. 5. Sixth Grade?Reading, Searson, Martin & Tinsley, Studies in Reading, Book No. <5; Spelling, McCall's Complete Speller; Language, Kinard, Brown Rogers, "Our Language," Book No. 2; Arithmetic, Smith, Modern Advanced; History, Simms' ^ History of South Carolina, Revised; Geography, Frye-Atwood, New Geography, Book No. 2; Drawing, Practical Drawing, No. 6. ^ra<le?Reading, Searson, ? Martin Tinsley. Studies in Reading, Book No. 7; Spelling, M?Call's Coro plete Speller; Language, Kinard, f Brown, Rogers, Book No. 3; Arith> metic, Modern Advanced Arithmetic; History, Thompson's History of the ' People of the United States; Geography, b rye-Atwood Geography, Book i No. 2; Drawing, Practical Drawing, p. Book i. " t- Grade?English, Junior l English Book, Hitchcock; Literature and Life, Book" No !; History, West's Short History of Early Peoples, Hughes Community Civics; Algebra, Wells and Hart, Modern High School. I Ua,rt ^?- 1; Science, Caldwell and > Eikenberry's Elements of General j Seience; Latin, Smith's Elementary Latin; Home Economics, Greer's School and Home Cooking; Spelling, < hew s Practical High School Speller. Ninth Grade?English, Junior English Book, Hitchcock; Literature and Lite, Book^ No. 2; History. West's Modern World, revised; Algebra, Wells and Hart, Modern High School, . Part No. 2; Science, Sniallwood, Reveley & Bailey. Biology for High School, revised; Latin, Smith, Ele mentary Latin; Ullman and Henry, Second Latin Book; Home Economics, Greer School and Home (booking; Spelling, Chew's Practical High School Speller. Tenth Grade?English, High School English Book, Hitchcock; Literature i i7-1C*ii k'fe# Book No. 3; Geometry, Wells and Hart, New Plane Geometry; Science, Bradbury, First Book ' in. Chemistry; Latin, Bennett's c < icero; Bennett's New Latin Composition; Bennett's New Latin Grammar; French, Chardenal Complete ' M,UrJ*V, Stenography, Gregg's Short Hand Manual; Gregg's Speed Studies; Typewriting; Bookkeeping, Twentieth ( entury Bookkeeping; Spelling, o ( hew s Practical High School Speller. Eleventh Grade?English, High " School English Book, Hitchcock; Lit? erature and Life, Book No. 4; Hist ? ory, l^itace, History of the United y States; Wallace Civil Government ol r u C ' HxVl ,U' S,: ('eometry, W'ells and Hart, Modern Solid Geomctrv; Phye "R's. Black and Davis, Practical Phv" ,ics; Laboratory Manual; Latin. Ben ii ? Virgil's A? neid; French, Char' denal. Complete Course; Commercial '2 Gregg. Shorthand Manual. Gregg X Speed Studies, Twentieth Century Touch Typewriting Bookkeeping Spelling. Chew's Practical High School Spoiler. NOTICE TO ELECTION ~ 5 managers ie Managers of election for the Dem n ocratie Primary, held Tuesday Au is gust 28, are hereby notified to retun "J to the county chairman enrollmen books for the following clubs: Blanev >r DeKa.b. Gates Ford, Gumberry, Ned' id Creek. Oakland, Roland. Rabon': Cross Roads, Salt Pond, Swift Craak Westville. i T^e1Js<?cond primary election wil be held on Tuesday, September 11 and in order to have boxes, books an< ballots ready for delivery to thi managers l>efore the election it wil , be necessary for managers at abovi f ; named precincts to complv w;th thi * request immediately. 'n j- f. Mcdowell. vr T County Chairman M L. SMITH, JR., Secretary. J...i ssrssssamBBitsammfKi Cleveland Count\t Attends Funerals By Kenn Drumiu, tthelby correspondent of the Charlotte Observer, 29th. Shelby and Cleveland county UB in clearing the destruction of a half bum nea* block this afternoon and trooped sadly out to start burying their dead. ' Four of the six victims in the building collapse of yesterday were interred today as 3,000 people stood silently by a* Mowers bedecked mounds covered those who yesterday were crushed in the ruins of two business buildings.1 The bodies of the two remaining victim-. will be buried Thursday. The funeral of Miss Ora Kskridge will be held Thursday morning at 10 o'cloi k here, and young Guy Green, the bank clerk who was married only a short time before his death, will be buried at Sandy Hun church in the county Thursday afternoon. Business firms were closed today and their personnel fell in the funeral processions without so much as leaving notice on the doors. The largest attended funeral was the double burial of father and son, Zeb and Carl Blanton, at Sharon Methodist church just west of toWi). The same funeral rites were said lot both father and son. The bodies, crushed to death beneath the bank front were lowered at the same time into graves side by side just as the two had lived and died. Among the 1,600 people who watched the scene were 10 children of the father and 10 brothers and sisters of the youth together with a heartbroken little girl who was to have become the bride of young Blanton week after next. ! He met death while at the bank with his father arranging for a botfie for himself and the bride he hoped to take. About the same hour in Sunset cemetery here a young widoik and her child, a widowed mother, an3 a grandfather, who is one of the county's veteran ministers, formed the front row of another sad scene as Alex Hoyle, young bank clerk, was burned. Approximately 1,000 friends of the teller stood by with the griefracked widow and her child, the sobbing mother and the tottering, white haired grandfather as the casket was lowered beneath a mass of floral designs. In the upper section of the country neur Casar, at Clover Hill church, where the foothills climb into mountains, the people of the hill eouhtry, hundreds in all, gathered about the funeral bier of their victim, Clyde Carpenter, young farmer, who was crushed while at the bank on business. Undertakers officiating at the four funerals say they have never seen such an outlay of floral tributes. They came into the funeral parlors and sides of the funeral services from the homes of high and low. Wild flowers picked from the sides of the South mountains near where Carpenter was buried, lay side by side with the big floral wreaths from the homes of the wealthy in Shelby. *| IN THE CAROLINAS . . I Items of Interest Gleaned From the Papers of Two States An investigator has discovered that Charlotte eats 10,000 dozen eggs a day and almost uniformly the year around. The plurality of restaurant eaters here order them scrambled. Most of the Charlotte demand for eggs is supplied by importation from outside the state, and a small fraction of the hen fruit comes from surrounding farms. The city buys every year the product of 250,000 hens laying an average of 170 eggs per annum. The conditions show tne lack of farmers raising and selling products in home markets. All seven convicts who escaped from the North Carolina prison farm after killing a guard were captured. Two were found in a freight car at the prison farm station, having entered it far away on the railroad and thinking it was going to Norfolk. \'a. All seven were placed in solitary con1 finement. Miss Hallie Hartman fell into the 1 water at the hend of the upper falls at Linville, N. C? last weeK, and was swept down them, through some rap ids, over another falls 100 feet high, into a whirlpool 65 feet deep, and , then was rescued by Charles Davis of , Lexington. It took eight men many ' minutes to get her out of the gorge , to medical aid, after Davis got hei v out of the water. She was rushed tc her home in Salisbury in an amba lance in a serious condition, but wil! recover. Gastonia bankers feel sure that th< - young man who got $1,000 from | - Hickory, N. C. man - on a story ol 1 needing it to get on with a cargo #1 t liquor from Charleston to Knoxvilje . is merely a new variety of go!d brtel s artist. The same man came to tw< ? Gastonia bankers with the same storj ? and a ring alleged to be a diamotK for security, and they turned hin 1 down and tried to reform him fron . his bootlegging ways. After seeing 1 the Hicktory story, they believe h< e is not a bootlegger, but an artist o: I another type. In the meantime, th< e Hickory Daily Record has started th< s federal prohibition unit to work 01 the alleged underground railroa* greased bjr, .bribed prohibition agent u which th^' man with the ring <je scribed to the Hickory man wfc loaned him $1,000 on it. ggsgs- ; .J.?? Signal Victory For Dorchester i Exactly what the conditions ware in Dorchester county that gave birth to the "Dorchester Riddance league" we do not pretend to know. For the past eighteen months the atmosphere down there has been mora; or less super-heated- Charges of maladministration have been made freely and, at times, iriterttperateiy. We are in no position to judge how true they were. What seems to he fairly well established, however, is that the county has been controlled by a powerful and well orgunized political machine and unless one belonged to, and ran with, the "Limehouse Faction," he was pretty much of an outsider of things. The head of the faction, Sheriff "Bossie" Limehouse, has been the master of the situation, and apparently, the political dictator of Dorchester county for twelve years. Into Dorchester county, about two years ago, as we recall the time, moved a quick-spoken, small and slender grey-haired newspaper man by name W. B. Turkington, who got a controlling interest in The Dorj cheater Eagle, published at St. George. Editor Tarkington did not like the way things were being run in Dorchester county. He began to pry into them very caustically in his newspaper. Very naturally his conduct, his insistence on expressing his opinions freely and boldly, did not make him popular with the dominant political powers. A crisis cnme when, about a year QF more ago, he sharply criticized Sheriff Limehouse's actions in connection, we think, with the enforcement of prohibition. Growing out of that episode, Tarkington was arrested, thrown into jail, and, according to his statement, treated pretty roughly. Thereafter two libel actions were commenced by Sheriff Limehouse, one, an action for criminal libel against Tarkington, the other, an action for civil libel, alleging damages of $50,000, against his newspaper. Neither action has yet been tried in the courts, according to our information. The probability is, now, that they will not be tried; no doubt, under the changed conditions it would be somewhat difficult to get a jury in Dorchester eounty to convict the editor on the criminal charge or to award Sheriff Limehouse damages in the civil action. As we said in the beginning, we are not familiar enou gh with the conditions that have prevailed in Dorchester county to venture an opinion on them. But we must sur- j mise that the affairs of local government were not being administered satisfactorily to a very large representative and respectable element of the population, else the demand for a change, which has cdlminated in the decisive defeat of the "Limehouse Faction," would not have arisen. W hether there were actual maladministration and attendant evil or whether there was oppression by the powers in control, or what were the underlying causes, we know not. But, obviously, there were fundamental . grounds for the revolt, and these grounds have apparently existed for some time. There was, of course, widespread opposition to Sheriff Limehouse, but it does not seem to have become organized until the appearance on the scene of Editor Tarkington. Following his arrest and the institution of the suits against him, the opposition became both organized and militant, resulting in the formation of the mysterious "D. R. L." and the overthrow of the Limehouse dynasty. Involved in the fall from power of Limehouse is Senator H. H. Gross, for sixteen years a prominent figure in the General Assembly, whose seat will be occupied by R. Lon Weeks, St. George attorney, one of Editor r Earkington's counsel in the libel suits. j Whatever the rights or wrongs of - *he lssues of the campaign may have | been, there is no doubt that the re. ault is a personal triumph fof Edi! ,Tarkingt?n and his Dorchester ' He ha9 had t0 fi*ht a l?ng " bltter fikht to sustain the free! v!mu ?f the prcss in his county, but i he has won it, and in winning it he J h\8 W?" * battie for the press of the entire State.?( olumbia Record. m . Thanks Voters I County? 0"""'0 Vot? ?< Kershaw I JtZSifSf*'to" ?' t allowing L the pnvfw ?.*L"\fo' ? fYt I ing you. Again thank* ^spectfully, R ? munn, r' ? 4 Superintendent As part of the celebration of the victory of one faction over another in Dorchester county, the victors hung a skeleton to wires at a street intersection in St. George, and pinned to the bosom of the skeleton was a copy NOTICE TO LUMBERMEN | The Board of Directors for Kershaw County will receive at the office of the chairman at the Bank of Camden until Saturday, September 15, at noon, bids on the following sizes and quantities of lumber to be used on the Wateree River bridge at Camden, S. C. Stringers, 1706 pieces or 127,306 feet B. M., 4 by 14 inches by 16 feet S. I. E.; Flooring, 4,500 pieces or 162,000 feet B. M. 3 by 8 inches by 18 feet S. I. S. I. E, This lumber to be original long leaf pine and strictly prime. TJOY^fher,, Wtftt conform to the specifications of South Carolina Highway Department as to knots, windshakes, etc. Quote prices f. o. b. Camden and also de- r livered at Wateree River bridge. The right is expressly reserved to reject any or all bids. M. H. DEAL, Bridge Superintendent. Camden, S. C., Sept. 6, 1928. CITATION The State of iSouth Carolina, County of Kershaw. By W. L. McDowell, Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas Mrs. Daisy M. Thompson made suit to me to grant her Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of Harrison H. Stokes. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Harrison H. Stokes deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Camden, South Carolina, on Monday, September 17th next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should ftot be granted. Given under my hand, this 3rd day of September, Anno Domini 1928. w. l. McDowell, Probate Judge for Kershaw County. Published on the 7th and 14th days of September, 1928, in the Camden Chronicle and posted at the Court House door for the time prescribed by law. of the Limehouse organ, The|3 Crepe wan tied to the doora ohjl prominent in the Limahoug There wan no disorder at the ph^| The Limehouse newspaper thfe^l finds space to tell that thel agent has vaccinated over 8,0I^| for cholera this year, and^B weeks ago a Dorchester couofl was 'made a Master Farmer,I cheater county seems to be kM normalcy again. Wants?For Saiel PSALE?Inine pure'bredkeifl Giant hens, one year old, froall prize winning strain. Price $1|B the lot. Address A. H. Araokfl v ?,,.Gtoden. ? 3. 24 pi, WANTED TO RENT?StandardM board typewriter until October iH Address 301 DeKalb street, cfl den, S. C. 24 fl FOR 8AL.E?1N0. 1 and Nn' V J Shingles. McCaskill A Ldfl ' Camden, S. C. FOR SALE?-Nine "pure' bred^^B Giant hens. One year old ftfl best prise winning strain 111 $10 for the lot. A. H. Aral Route 5, Camden, S. 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