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I The Camden Chronicle |(JM? XXXX. - ?. - l m i ... CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, ?.KIDAY. SEPTEMBER 28, 1928. NUi^tef;i< 27. Wtiny To Re Held Mi Intercut of /toads ^B Kci-iui.v County Hoard of , H(,.. whold their regular H mcc'Mig next Tuesday at ; II ""<' they have in| |ic .-nt legislative delega ?gation-elect to- be | H I ;.- objeet of the meeting | ! - :, ls and arrange to have I Banalen Hethune highway, CamH Ker-!:.iw and the remaining ^B twi-i amden and H\ .mt* paved. r< of a new survey of the road main by engineers of the state ?lf. artment will be subat time. H)m< \\h'< will be at the meetifig Senat-i drover C. Welsh, Rep tattves Coring Davis, of BeNew Kelly, of Lugoff, and elect Norman S. RichH of Liberty Hill, along with DiHrs H G. Carrison, Jr., E. H. Hn. I?. M. Kirkley pnd J. H. Mober Will be Last Month to Register Hre October 1st, 2nd and 3rd will Hie last days for Democrats in ' uoima to register in order Hthey may vote in the November Hon Democratic leaders through South C arolina are calling on H Democrats in every community Help create public sentiment to out a heavy registration. Hooks I be open on these dates at the Hthousc and you will be doing your Hy a r. al service by registering casting your ballot in November. Br Members for Al Smith Club Hughev lindaL treasurer of the Al Bth for President Club announces following new paid up members Hoin the club recently: M. L. I H A f Drawdy, E. B. Tindal, H * 1 'eed, 1). V. Dixon, J. L. Hey. D. J. Creed, S. W. Hogue, H Chapman, B. C. Truesdale, L. Hykin. C. P. DuBose, A. S. Mc Rollings, J. P. Lewis, Hi. Jumper. Herr,? twenty-five or more have J Hwtne secretary that they be enHi but have not contributed. , ^B bat those who desire to be ,H?"? :and their^ contribution to J ^H^'-Warcr so that they can get j I Cimden Methodist Church Hyttletor. Street, near Hampton! George Pience Watson, Pas-1 H' September 30 Bible' ' h. m. with classes for fades ami ages. Epworth League H P- ni* ;"r all the young people H^e congit gation. Public worship Hb^<? m. and 7:30 p. m., conducted 1 -be pa.-- v. Sermons by mem ?* training school faculty? V' McGee, at the morning H and by Rev. George K. Way at Hj'- 3..{p j. m training: school H -.c.,1 it. first session for enrollH a"!' a>vfgnments to classes. All H1 School workers in Camden H^Led t., attend this school. The I ordially invited to all H ben-t'^ of this church. Come V / > tir friends. I Liubt Miles of Apples R0 m":' ^ a-> Sept. 24.?Enough ;|ke a train eight miles , ; f ed this year in orchards Kjyr)a '"trolled by Gov. Harry I rt I nomas B. Byrd, brother I n ' 1 > Richard E. Byrd. ^ situated in Frederick. v "vnanddah counties, inB/e ,v "'.OOO trees. Those who B lr * " K counting apples on terms of barrels say fir--(l|" barrels, or enough be f- Vt ::''a(len freight cars, will ty ' bese orchards. Nearly I n this country and marI' * ' ?P? anfi South America K arples from the Byrd orchand Short I' year-?071' Sept> 24.?Cotton of Iptemkl Krowth ginned prior to WW ba,e.. I. , ' found bale, u h?lf B *nh "cl,,d1n* Unter,. comP.73& r, 'bales, including in-W1"' fo" 1927 Ff"' *,,wi r?u,Ki B* tJ^'th* CWNW bureau a* * * ~ I ; % At Smith Club Organized Here1, More Vhun one hundred nuinL. have been enrolled in the A1 Siui'. for- President dub of Camden an: Kershaw county, following organization of the club here Friday after noon of last week. The meeting was featured by .. 100 per cent Democratic attendance, although it had been advertised as open to everybody. I he club will be county-wide in scope, and memberships are now be-! ing solicited in every quarter by a1 committee composed of business and' professional men of this city. A committee was also named at I the meeting Friday afternoon to direct a heavy Democratic registration. The committee is headed by! T. J. Kirkland, with other members including W. L. DePass, Jr., and I. C. Hough. T. K. Trotter is president of the club; W. R. Hough, vice president,! and Hughey Tindal, secretary and treasurer. Immediately following the' initial meeting, the secretary wired national .headquarters that Kershaw j county will continue to go 99.44 per: cent, surely Democratic in the coming election. Remorse Killed Former Postmaster Rock Hill, Sept. 22.? Less than one ' week after he had begun to serve a seven months sentence for violation of the United States postal regulations, J. A. Hyatt, former postmaster at VanWyck, Lancaster county, dieJ in the Newberry county jail. Friends here and relatives believe that grief over his plight pwjctpitated the heart attack which resulted in death 45 minutes later. Hyatt pleaded guilty in federal district court here last Friday and was sentenced by Judge H. H. Watkins, being taken to Newberry the same day to begin serving his sentence. He had .been charged with a shortage of $322 in C. O. D. accounts but had maintained that carelessness .rather than criminal intent was responsible. Prominent residents of Lancaster and York counties appeared in court to vouch for his gopd reputation and character. JFyutt had been engaged in the lumber business at Van Wyck in addition to being postmaster. He is survived by a large number of relatives. Crop Great Shortage With That of Last Year Special agent William D. Cook who makes the report of ginnings in Kershaw County states that there were 204 bales of cotton, counting round an half bales, ginned in Kershaw County, from .the crop of 1928 prior to September 16, as compared with 4,641 bales ginned to September 16, 1927. Much cotton was ready to be picked out following the long wet spell after a few days of clear weathdr, but the severe wind storms of last Tuesday and Wednesday caused heavy losses to cotton growers, as well as damage to corn and other crops.The crop in this section is estimated to be any where from two to three weeks late this year. Swiped Preachers Flock of Chickens Jim Hall, a negro youth, is behind the jail bars to await sentence in higher court, being a confessed chicken thief. For some weeks colored residents of west DeKalb street have been missing their fowls and one night last week Rev. S. M. McCullom, pastor of Trinity Methodist church, lost eight chickens. He passed the word around and on last Saturday Hall, who works at the slaughter pen, offered the chickens for sale to a local merchant. The police were notified and the trail led straight to the slaughter pen where the missing fowls were found and identified by the preacher. Hall at the same time confessed, saying that he only took| eight chickens, but there were nine,, and the preacher said he only lost eight, so he is better off by one fowl.; It is thought that chickens will be safer in their coops now that Hall U behind the bars. Trying To Create Interest In Dairying Mr. B. I). Boykin has recently returned from a trip to the Southern pari of South Carolina where the farmers in that soctiun are getting ntensely interested in dairying. It ? very prohahle that one or more urge condensing plants will be looted in this state. It is said that in ilk routes will be established within a radius of fifty to seventy-fiv?? miles and it is desired that this county be on one of these routes. Twenty five of the leading merchants of the lower part of the stat? went on a pilgrimage to points in Alabama and Missouri to see and learn what they could of the dairying industry in that section. One of the members of the party is quoting itv the Kdisto News as suying: "The next day, the fifteenth of the month was pay day in Starkville. On that day $125,000 was paid out by Borden's Southern company and the Co-operative Creamery to the farmers of Oktibbeha County for milk and cream. Last year's total amounted to $1,359,320.07 for milk and cream and about $120,000 for cattle shipped out of the county. There was no estimate placed on the increased value of the herds resulting from the heifer calfs, but some idea was given of the value of the dairy compost when it was learned that cotton production maintains its pre-condensery level on a much less acreage of land and with the same farmers who now combine i their six months production of cotton with twelve months production of j milk. The farmers of Oktibbeha .County are out of debt. The revenue from their milk, in the main, supports the family and carries the cotton Crop. The revenue from the cotton, therefore, is left to buy comforts for i the home, to purchase the automobile, to educate the children and to use in a hundred different ways. * There is no doubt among thoae who know that this is the greatest forward step in i Southern Agriculture, and Southern Freedom." I _ Death of Mr, Mather Olar, S. C., Sept. 26.?George Ora1 stead Mather died at his home near Govan on Saturday, -September 22nd. Mr. Mather was for many years a prominent and successful farmer, but had been in failing health for some time. The interment took place at the j George's Creek Baptist church, of which he was a consistent member. | He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Maggis Leitner, of Camden and by several children by a former marriage. In his death Bamberg County j has lost one of her best citizens. Smith Foes Routed by Eggs Tallahassee, Fla., Sept. 20.?A barrage of eggs broke up former Governor Sidney J. Catts' anti-Smith address here tonight. The egg throwing began when Catts took up the religious question after he had been speaking for about 30 minutes. The address was being |delivered in an open air grandstand. It was said that some of the eggs hit j him. Catts came down off the stand and went into the crowd with an offer of i reward for the location of the egg j throwers. He was said to have challenged any map in the crowd to fight | singly. ! The rest of the address was called I off. Billie Pitts Injured; Being Struck by Car Billie Pitts, who was placed in <* local hospital following painful injuries received in an automobile accident here Saturday afternoon, was ! removed Tuesday afternoon to' his 'home on North Lyttleton street where he is reported as well on the way toward recovery. Billie, the seven-year-old son of ;Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Pitts of this city, lis said to have been the victim of an 'unavoidable accident when he was knocked down and run over by an jnutomobile driven by Mr*, M. H. Deal, of Camden. Mrs. Deal, according to witneses, used every effort to present striking the young fellow and her car, it is said, was being driven at a low rate of speed. The child received emergency treatment at the hospital but was released when it was learned there were no internal Injuries nor broken bones. flakes Loup Trip ' In Search of Cat SL '' \shs 11 iu' uflcdion for her pot P' ;ian rat that t i?>n^ht Mrs. K. P F .< long of \\ -nth- op. Maine, an.I P?. iainu ( ity, I' if , all the way from 0 ando, F la., to ( ,inulen through the country acros> storm bucked roads. - dr.s. l-urlon^ and hei son name in to ; lie office of tin* ( ainden t 'hronicle Sa' urday und t.d.i hei sad story to E : tor Niles. It appeared that Mrs. J1 mi long was last week making a motor trip from her Northern home It Florida in company with her son 'dfnd two othei jhm.sons and her Persian cat. "Dannie Hoy." According C' Mrs. Furlong, "Dannn Hoy" had been a member of the family for si* years. \N hile stopping in Camden bad ideas entered Dannie Hoy's head. I Something about ( amden aj)parentl\ [ luied him to desert his family and j tuke up his abode here with u-. \ hurried search failed to reveal his whereabouts to his anxious mistress. It became necessary for the party to proceed on their way to Orlando. However on reaching there the grief incident to "Dannie Hoy's" absence became too much for Mrs. Furlong. She determined to return with her son to ( amden and there to endeavor to find him. She arrived here during the morning and after inquirirfg for and posting a reward of ten dollars for Dannie Boy she was stricken with tears on finding no news here of her loved one. She remit: kcd through her tears that she felt just as if she had lost a member of her family. After spending several hours in Camden, Mrs. Furlong left for Lynn Haven, Fla., where she expects to remain throughout the winter season. Presbyterian Church Notes I he Men of the Church will ha\^ their next meeting Tuesday evening, October 2, at eight o'clock, at the -home of the Pastor. Every man 1n tile church is urged to comes The sacrament-or the lord's Supper will be celebrated in this church Sunday morning, October 7. The S3 nod of South Carolina meets in the First Church of Columbia Tuesday evening, October at eight o'clock. Presbytery of Congaree meets in the Hose Hill church October 2'2. At a recent meeting of the session the following were selected to represent Bethesda church. .Synod, F. M. Wooten, delegate; J. S. Lindsay, alternate; Presbytery'. S. W. Van Landingham, delegate, and "W. L. DePass, alternate. Rally Day will be observed in our Sunday school Sunday morning, October 7, at 10 o'clock. We hope to have a splendid attendance and offering foT the Sunday School work in needy places of the South. A special program "The King's Highway" be given at that time. Sunday morning 121 attended our Sunday School. This is fine We hope you will help us make a steady growth in Sunday School interest during the fall. Sunday School 10 a. m.; Morning worship 11:15 a. m.; Midweek service Wednesday evenings 8 p. m.; ( hristian Endeavor Sunday evenings * p. m. The public is cordially invited to attend all services. Training School Commences Sunday The Standard Training School for >unday School Workers will hold its irst session in the Methodist church at 3:30 next Sunday afternoon, Sep mber 30. The courses offered and 'he tepts used are as follows: "The ew Testament; the text-book costs cents; "The* Church and Its v- ork;" text-book, 80 cents; "Prin. pals of Teaching;" text-book, $1.00; 'he Sunday School;" text-book, 80 cents. All persons seventeen years old id over are eligible for credit "! the above courses upon the satisfactory completion of the work a-signed. Every one is welcome u hether working for credit or not. Not only Sunday School officers and teachers but all who wish to train for better Christian service are cordially invited to attend. The cost of the text-book will be the only expense attached to attendance upon this school. Come one, come all, and let us have a record school and a gracious season of Christian fellowship. G. P. Watson, Pastor. L? C. Shaw, Superintendent. ) outiff Woman Hurl In Automobile Smash Miss I'-llic I'.?r k ? i". 1? veur-oid i e?idriil ' 1 i his ! > who ie?eivvd s < \ oil' cut- a> the i ? miI( <if ,iii auto , uiobili' w i fi i\ Deal I ugoff malay,, was W <-dncsduy al'< nooti i < ;.<> i* *! as st: in a gia\- uditioli at the ' ani?ii i hospital in -11* >hi was plu.cc! following th? i t nil-lit Mi Parker was r.iuicd wlw-n the light M'llaii in whii h she wa> traveling, left the highwas at a high rate of spied, it is said, ami crashed into an embankment bordei.ng the road The ear was the piopeity of I.an>; ford's L'-Driveit System of ( annh and was piloted l>\ L,. A. Mutiti of this eity. Other oceupatlts of the ear im bided Mi-> Sarah Sheffield ami Miss Jeannette Sheffield, both ol < a inden. Mr. Munn stated Wednesday alter, noon that he was foreed to leave the paved highway when it became blocked by anothei ear pulling in line witu a third ear parked for roadside repairs, All three ears are said to have been traveling in the same direction. The ear driven by Mr. Munn sustained damages Approximating tilt\ dollars while the parked ear, driven by Ernest ( roxton of near Kershaw, was also damaged to a slight extent. Mr. Munn will 1m- made defendant in a suit for both aetual and personal damages, it wa> reported Wednesday, us a result of his automobile striking the ear of Mr. Croxton. Attended Funeral of Mrs. Johnson Among these attending the funeral of Mrs. W. T. Johnson in Winnsboro, Wednesday were Mr. and Mr... J. B. Cureton, Mr. W. C. Cureton, M?\ Frartk Cureton, Miss Drue Baxley, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Cunningham, Mr. W. D. MeDowall, Miss Margaret Me| Dowall, Miss Sue MeDowall. I)< A. K. To Meet Thursday The Hobkirk Hill Chapter 1). A. P.. will meet at the home of Mrs. J. H. Clyburn on North Broad street, Thursday, October 4th at 4:30 j?. m. All members are urged to attend. Professor Paid by Power Trust Washington, Sept. 25.?J. S. Thorn as, director of extension work at the University of Alabama, testified to. day in the federal trade commission's investigation of power utilities that he was paid $000 a month from July, 1027 to July 1, 1028, by utilities interests of the state and at the same time received his university* salary.* He said the compensation was for "making researches in the field oi : sociology anil economics, and foi making speeches all over Alabama.' I Examined by Kobert EL Healy, commission counsel, he said his audience: had included Rotary, Kiwanis -anc Civitan clubs, farmers' meetings an: similar gatherings. Prior to undertaking this type ol work, Thomas testified that he hac undertaken public relations work foi the utility interests for six months during the first tour,of which he was paid $300 a month and the last two months of that arrangement his salary was set at the $000 a month figure. Mayor Grateful For .Offer of Local Post Members of the James Leroy Bolk, Post No. 17 of the American Legion, answered another and different during this city's most disast rous storm, Commander A. S. Llewellyn ordered his organization to stand subject to the call of Mayor . P. DuBoso and the citizens of Camden. "The local legionnaires," declared Mayor DuBose Thursday,? "came to us with their offer to help in any way possible while trees were falling in | every section of the city ami while almost every minute meant a fre>n break in power and light lines. "The legion's spirit for serving under any and all conditions was again clearly demonstrated," the city's chief executive continued, "when Commander LlewellVn, speaking for his post, offered men to patrol the streets of Camden aa well as climb poles and use axes in clearing away fallen timber. "While it did not beepme necessary to augment the city's splendidly capable forces we none the less heartily appreciate the legion's offer. In an emergency," said Mayor DuBose, "we should look first toward our former soldier boys. They airways do h4g things in a trig way." Jjt Ih solution Stalks In / loritla Lake lief/ion ' , Ciiy, Fla., Si*Di. 22.-A fi?m iiey through the gu-ai I Oki-i, h.-l? , lo tlu- southern when- t fit tmpiml hurricane's blew the Ink, i.\?m towns and helph liundi ed.s, uveal* .it i.hi and wholesale tragedy. 1 .winds au m>nielc?f At Belle (,: ' "id South Hay. hot I) isolated 11-n, the outside world except hy boat. dia-tic steps have taken to prevent spread of disease. The whole area of hoth -owns has heen sprinkled with lime. ' uptftin G. <;. South, Florida national guard officer in geheial charge ot rescue work through most of the atea between Canal Point and Miami Iaa ks, -aid that for the moment, ho was more concerned with preserving saint a r> conditions than with the re, o\ e! \ of bodies, although "we uro trying to do hoth." W e have neither the equipment '''e men, sanl Captain South, with which tn do what we woul I like to do. If you cared to walk with me for a lew hours, I could show you In* bodies ot several hundred persons we have already located hut have been unable to recover because we have an insufficient number of boats, trucks and men. (The several hundred bodies mentioned by the officer were not included in the number of recoveries given out). I hose who have died are beyond ; help so we are for the moment more concerned in the preservation of sanitary conditions than anything else." Asked what he believed the dentil totaled would be, the captain said that in his opinion "it will be a minimum of 1,500. This has been the greatest disaster in the history of the I state." At Belle Glade, no building in the , tow n remained undamaged. ' Only three in the business district were 'habitable. Hundreds of crude untainted coffins cluttered- the streets. Trucks came and went, bringing loads 'of lime and other disinfectants and J coffins and then taking out the dead. Undertakers worked in the streets and so unconcerned had become those passing by that they hardly turned their heads to look at a corpse as it was placed in a coffin, sprinkled with lime and. piled with others against the time a truck would arrivq to take :them away. '' At South Bay conditions were even ! worse than at Belle Glade. Only two houses and a house boat still : were habitable. And the bodies were to be left in the field "until we can get enough I men to pile th.em up and burn them," $jV. C. Denton, relief supei^isor said. I All of the corpse were coveted with I | lime. i Only 156 of South Bay's residents r Tiave been definitely uccountod for. i At Pahokee, conditions were better. There still was a number of , bodies yet to be found but in the s town proper things were -beginning i to be straightened out. ) 1 Winter Weather?> For North States New York, Sept. 26.?Wild geese were going South today, their distant honks heralding the Approach of -J winter, the first breath of which .chilled the northern part of the | United S^tes yesterday from the j Rocky mountains east to the sea. j Snow fell fn some parts of tho country, in the Great Lakes region, I the Berkshires aijjl the Alleghanies .with frost in many other sections and temperatures down to freezing and , near freezing. i /now which fety for five minutes | at Chicago was tl\c earliest fall on ; record, the first previous record dato 'being October 6, in 190G and ^925. | The temperature was down to 46 j degrees in New York with frost painting fields in the suburbs. The thermometer mark was 18 degrees below the average for the day but set nd record, the temperature was down to 41 degrees on that date in 1887. Two thousand white pupils of the Fenger High school of Chicago, went on a strike last Friday because of the transfer of 25 negro girls to that school from another high school. The strike was of short duration* as the police gathered up the strikers wherever found end took them- back to the school- m patrol wagons. V ?? """ ~ ??-4--^.;