Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. D. NILES, jiditor pad Pablieker Published every Friday at No. 1100 Broad Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina postofflce aa second class mail matter. Price per annum $2.00, payable in advance. Camden, 8. ('., Friday, Nov. 30. 1028. 1928 NOVEMBER 1928 , SVa ' MimT Tw?. | J Tim [ $H. I foe."! I 1 2 3"' 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 1112 13 14 15 16 17 ) 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1 25 26 27 28 29 30 <4 <f f ? / ' *e ? , ^ Thomas Fortune Ryan noted fin tinder* and railway man, died at his Fifth Avenue home in New York Friday at the age of 77 yearn. His fortune is estimated at three hundred million to five hundred million. Mr. Ryan wan u native of Nelson county, Virginia. He worked in a dry goods store in Baltimore at the age of 17. Two years later found him in Wall street as a broker's clerk, and another four years found him as a member of the New York stock exchange. The First Telephone Sixty-one years ago a New York City paper warned its readers ugainsv buying stock in a company promoting n new-fangled device called a telephone. "A man about 43, giving the names of Joshua Coppersmith, has been arrested," the article states, "for attempting to extort funds from ignorant and superstitutious poopie by exhibiting a device which he says will convey th? human voice any distance over metallic wires.. He calls the instrument a 'telephone' which is obviously intended to imitate the word 'telegraph* and win the confidence of those who know of the success of the latter instrument. Wellinformed people know that it is impossible to transmit the human voice over wires as may be done with dots and dashes and signals of the Morse code. The authorities who apprehended this criminal are to be congratulated, and it is to be hoped that his punishment will be prompt."? Lancaster News. NEWSPAPER V1EYVS Philadelphia's main trouble seems to have l>een too much brotherly love between trie bootleggers and the cops J ? A rk;t nsas Gazette. A gangster's funeral runs into thousands of dollars?and it's worth to ah concerned. - l>es Moines Reg Lter. Though Henry Ford says he is in farm' ?t t ?ie old dances, he didn't put t"e mime <>ld dummy into hi- new flivve:lie!,lit (Wis.) News. An. Ati-tial.an actie.-s annmm her engagement to Explorer With n . Mr Wilkin- -ays he lias nothing to R i- a good sign when a hiudefinds that out Hint early. Amern an 1 .umberman. One way to tell just what you can get on your radio is by turning the dial; another way is to take it around to some pawnshop.?Cincinnati Knquiror. The doctors seem to have their fails, just like everybody else. A while ago, pulling out a person's teeth was a cure for all ills. Just . now it is calf liver.?New Bedford Stn ndard. The Osage maiden who spent $38 in one month for scalp treatments had a great-gramldaddy who gave them to the white visitors for nothing.?N a t c h ez Democrat. News advices say that a girl who climbed into an auto for a ride with strange men was thrown out and hev brain injured. It doesn't seem possible.?Houston Post-Dispatch. News of The Camden City Schools Thanksgiving services were held a the respective chapel hours of th< Grammar School and the High Schoo on Wednesday, November 28, 1928 in the school auditorium. The stagi was decorated with the gifts of th< school children. Among these wen a quantity of canned goods, fruits vegetables, rice, nuts grapes, aiv staple groceries. These harvest sug gestions make a truly ideal settini for the Thanksgiving program an address. The program was opened by th entire school singing "A Song o Praise." Then the grades 5-A, 4-,i v and 3-A sang a "Patriotic Hymn. These two songs were accompanie Dy the High School Band. Th Scripture reading and a prayer fol lowed. Next Caroline Richardso played a "Turkish March." Dr. Wa' son delivered a splendid address whic - was thoroughly enjoyed by everyom The program whs closed wit "Mazurka" played by Elizabeth Zomi The gifts were turned over to Mri Mayfield to help make a joyfi Thanksgiving for everyone. Chain Store Tax Heard In Court South Carolh*^ chit in store tax was up in the Kit'hland county court yesterday before Judge J, Hotor'y Johnson, a dozen large chain companion, through counsel, yesterday placing their arguments against the tax before the court. The suit is being brought to test the constitutionality of the tax, known as section of Act, No. 674 passed by the 1928 general assembly, requiring corporations operating more than live stores within or without South Carolina to pay m annual tax $100 in addition to other license fees. Judge Johnson said he would study the arguments and isue an order in the case at a later date. ' The chain operators claim the tax is unconstitutional in that they allege it discriminates against one class as opposed to another. ('or die Dage, assistant attorney general, defended the act for the state and the corporations were represented by a battery of attorneys including the following firms: Harold Hirsch, John W. Stewart, James it. Murphy, Henet, Shand and McGowan, Allen and Doyle, Hodges and Leatherwood, J. Alex Neoly, Jr., Gwinn and Dell, Auerbach and Cornell, William Henry Jacobs, Sullivan und Cromwell and Til let und Tillett and Kennedy. | The case is a consolidation of two cases, one brought by the Great Atlantic und Pacific Tea company against W. G. Query, J. P. Derham and J. Fraser Lyon, of the South Carolina tax commission, and the second by ten other chain store concerns operating in the state. In the second case are the Southern Grocery stores, the J, C. Penney company! the I*. V\. Woolworth company, McLellan Store company, (he Dixie stores, the S. II. Kress company, Max Cohen, Jacob Cohen and Elias Cohen, partners trading under the firm name of the Cohen company, the Haverty Furniture company, and G. P. Cabiniss for the Cabiness company, Inc., of ( olumbia, the Cabiniss company, Inc., of Greenville, and the Cabiniss-Gardner company of Spartanburg.?Saturday's State. ( hueter county will abandon the chain gang and send all its prisoners to the state penitentiary at Columbia. Chairman Harding, of its board of commissioners, told the penitentiary superintendent, Col. J. X. Pearman. th.. latter says. Senator Prookhart, chairman of the, seny.te i inuiiittee, >a\ > he is not' satisfied with affidavits ,,nly and will -:ib|i?,, na resident*" of Charleston. I Greenville, Columbia. and other places. appear and te-nfy about Die bart-ei and sa.es of p.?-t . ffices 111 ; South ( a .mi. Many Teachers Belong To State Association Columbia, N.?\. 2fi.?Almost It. per cetii. of the teachers are members I of the South Carolina teachers' asj sociation, according to an announcement made by J. P. Coatcs, secretary. -Of the 7,621 teachers in?Soutdr-Cnro^ lina, d,4JS have joined the association. Ham berg, Jasper, Chester and Calhoun counties have 100 per cent, enrollments in the association and Newberry has 08 per cent enrollment. One of the objectives of the association this year, -according to George W. Wannamaker, of St. Matthews, president, is to have a wellorganized teachers' association in every county with every teacher a member of both county and state associations. The theme of the county meetings, which are now being held, is "Education for Character." This will he the theme ot the state convention to be held in Columbia in March. It IS also proposed to strengthen the associations placement bureau so , tliat teachers may get good positions with gieater ease an<l at loss expense ' and schools may get better teachers I through a more efficient agency. Liquidation of obligations assumed by the association to purchase per| manent headquarters in Columbia sc J that teachers may have a place where j they wish to come when in the Capital City is another objective thii year. j Believing that a teacher who U free from worry for what will hap e pen to his or her loved ones after hi. f or her death is a better teacher, ii \ is a desire of the president to see j' every teacher tho holder of a mastei ? insurance policy. The association heartuy endorses i II progressive legislative program am ~ desires the closest co-operation be , ! tween it and the state board of edu hj cation with the 'view of tmprovin, ' j rural schools and giving every bo1 Jj and girl in the state a high schoo education. - --- .. itpfr - ? - ? ? --^Vn ' v ?f. Negro Confesses Hatchet Deaths .Spokane, Wash., Nov. 27.?Police said today that a Negro giving the name x>f Elmer Williams, 24, laborer, ha<i confessed to the series of hatchet mirdera in Omaha. The man whs arrested, according to Chief of Detectives C. G. Miles, after h?- engaged a newsboy\to write letter. for him, referring to the mysteiy murders of Mrs. Walter Uetao und her sister, Greta Drown in Omaha, and saying that Nebraska au thoiities, who were making "a bad mistake" by holding Jake Bird, another Negro suspect, in connection with the hatchet killings. Chief Miles said another newsboy told Patrolman "Red" Akers about the letters and Akers arrested Wil liams, who ut once said that he had killed Mrs. Kesso and Miss Brown with a hatchet. He refused to am plify this statement until police found out whether Omaha authorities wanted him. A newspaper account of the ResaoBrown murders at Omaha November 18 was found in the Negro's possession. Police said they would communicate with Omaha authorities to verify his story. Officers said Williams cold them he eluded the cordon of police and civilian posses thrown around Omaha after the slayings, and left the city November 19, taking a passenger, train to Denver. At Denver he bought overalls and a blue denim jacket, going outside the city to, change the clothing he wore at the! time of the murders. "That's all I'll toll you now, until: I know that the captain of detectives in Omaha wants me," Williams said. W illiams is heavier and shorter than the man described by Mrs. Harold StriblinV of Omaha, the latest victim of the Negro's attacks, police said. Later Williams >aid that after killing Mrs. Resso and Miss Brown, he threw the hatchet into a <1 itch near the scene of the murders. He added that he had been confined in the state insane asylum at Hastings, Neb., for criminal assault upon a woman but escaped about a year ago. The police said they believed Williams insane but felt that he \^as "rational enough to understand fully that his statement gravely incrimi nates him." W illiams was described as a light mulatto, L14 years old, 5 feet, 8 inches' in height and weighing over MO pou nds. i Green\ ille has 72 passenger i u>-escnter an 1 leave that city daily -?-v-' en bus . ties carrying traffic to :ri'l ' >m 1" towns in the two CVo'.i asj d Ge-'-gia. The printei - employed i?y vie! n. w-sp;i; "i-s of Albany, ' N. Yu- iti -n a strike ln-t Friday night, ad1 r.xne of the pa... is were abie to is-ue: their regular i litions or. Saturday! morning. t olumbia was chosen for the next session of the Fpper South Carolina Methodist conference ;n 1929. the host! to be the Washington street church. Spartanburg also wanted the next an-' nual conference. A total of 6,954,000 shares were bought and sold on the New York Stock Exchange last Friday, and the! biggest day s business on record.' During the day a seat on the exchange was sold for $550,000, and later a bid of $910,000 was made for an exchange seat. Offer To Give Farmers Use of Purebred Bulls -Clemson Ctdlege, Nov. 24.?There is a plan under way, according to V. W. Lewis, general livestock agent of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, for financial institutions and railroads in South Carolina to help place good, purebred dairy sires with farmers who want them. By accepting this proffered assistance at a very nominal cost they can improve the production of their dairy cows remarkably in a generation or two. And it is expected that first daughters of tho ' bulls will pay the cost in their first milking year in the form of produc1 tion increase. "When one considers there aP > fewer milk cows in the country that - recerttly, that population increase! ? faster than production, and that cowl i are both scarce and costly, it is logica! to look for dairy development throufcl J purebred bulls. Furthermore," sayi Mr. Lewis, "there is no dairy over * production in sight and one can viev t the future of this business with core i plete confidence. t From a practical standpoint, th livestock agent points to the retxnhii ? that the Dairy Division of the U. S i Department of Agriculture says cat - be expected on the average fron - daughters of grade cows bred to pars f bred bulls. In Leaflet 16 the Divl 7, sion says these daughters will rs 1 turn about $40 more profit a yea than their mothers. -ST.- Tgsr: '"-? More Automobiles In South Carolina ?. Hartford, Conn., Nov, 21.?South {Carolina showed an increase of 18.8 per cent. in motor vehicle reifistration on October 1, this year, aa comI pared with the same date in 1927, according to statistics juat completed by the Travelers' Insurance Company. In actual figures, there arc now registered in the State 228, , 212 machines, aa against 200,574 on October 1, 1027. The report shows this State to have the third largest per cent, of increase, the District of-Columbia leading, with 10.4 per cent., . and South Dakota coming second with 14.6 per cent. At the end of September last year 33 States and the District of Columbia had registered 1G,685,907 motor vehicles, while on the same date this year the registration had i increased to 17,688,140. Florida wus the only State of the number to show a decrease. Twenty States showed an increase of more than 5 per cent, and six, of which South Carolina wus one, showed nn increase of more than 10 per cent. Eugene Schmitz, musician, three times mayor of San Francisico, died in that city last Wednesday,- aged G4 years. The Greenville postmaster has rented another building and employed 10 extra \-Ierks to take - cafe of the holiday mail there. t THE GIDEONS I heir Custom, of Placing Bibies in Hotels and its Origin Who are the Gideons, who place Bibles in hotels? This question is often asked, but very few people are able to answer it says The Pathfinder. "The Gideons, the Christian Travelers Association of America," is a religious society organized, according to its declaration, for the purpose of banding together the Christian travelers of America ajid -through - th?m winning the commercial travelers of America for the glory of God; to supply every hotel in America with a Bible for each guest room, and to prepare the hearts of travelers for salvation. The organization canje into existence on this wise. In the early part of 1891/ John H. Nicholson, of Janesville. Wis., came to the Central Hotel at Boscobel, Wis., for the night. The hotel was crowded and he was asked to take a bed in a double room with S. E. Hill, of Beloit, Wis. These two men soon discovered that each was a ' devout Christian. While together, as they conversed upon religion, they 1 conceived the idea of banding together j Christian commercial travelers fori1 the purpose of converting commercial! traveling men. On May 31 they met at Beaver! Ham, Wis., and worked out theirj plans further. They called a meet-! i:ig at Janesville July 1, 1899. in the! ^ ^ r- A building there. Only! thice men attended this meeting, but! they organize.! with S. E. Hill, presi-j dent. W. J. Knights, vice president,' as.f! John II. Nicholson, secretary and! tita^aiei. I hat was the beginning! ot the Gideon association. Much thought was given to a name! for the association. It was Knights, the vice president, who suggested "The Gideons, the Christian Com-! mercial Travelers Association." He I lead the sixth and seventh chapters! of Judges to show why the name was appropriate. Gideon, one of the! judges of Israel, was a man who~wa7f Willing-to do exactly what God wanted | t0 do? irrespective of his own ! judgement as to the plans and re-! suits. A pitcher with a lamp inside! it was selected as the emblem of the Gideons, in allusion to the pitchers and lamps carried by Gideon and his three hundred followers when the Midiauites were delivered into their hands. ?~? A monthly magazine?"The Gideon a Traveler's Magazine"?is published at the Chicago headquarters of the organization. ?\ Bible in every hotel guest room" and "Winning commercial traveling men for Christ,"' are the slogans of the Gideons. The! hrst Bibles placed were 226 in the! ^upenor Hotel, Iron. Mountain, Mont.I That was in 1908. Since then more i X B,ibleS have P?-ed in . he hotel bedrooms of America and ' number are added each month for 1 may be procure<i' Funds for purchasing are raised . Whntbbr. In their local churches of",,, B. Only commercial traveling men Christians and in ' :landil* ?s members of a church mcmbert.h.p, although the I otgsru.tion ha., ,s,oci.^ Z I lui-tmroj". members. The v- ? s quarters is maintained bv l,?a ' pose' '"ft "PeCific"">' *< * th?t pur3 T! , bV Tnry t'??i as dues by gular And a.ssociate members of i- the <ocietv. The ! mDera 01 En is .Lt e??h m,, ra. m ceiving with the membership a copy of the Gideon magazine. Citation The State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. Hy W. L. McDowell, Esquire Probate Judge. Whereas Ellen M. Williams made ^uit to me to grant her Letters of Administration of the Estate of and L'ffects of David R. Williams. These are, therfore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred *nd creditors of the said David K. Williams deceased, that thev be and ; i appear before me, in the Ctofl Probate, to be held at Oamdf^jB Carolina on Tuesday, DecemfcrH next after publication thereof,fl o'clock in the forenoon, t6 show 9 if any they hkve. why the saidl ministration should not be grant! Given under my Hand, this |H day of November, Anno Domini W. L. McDOWEM Probate Judge for Kershaw c! Published on the 30th day oil vember and the 7th day of Del ber, 1928,' in the Camden Chrol and posted at the Court House I for the time prescribed by law. I EXECUTOR'S NOTICE J All parties indebted to the es of J. A. West, deceased, are hei notified to make payment to the dersigning, and all parties, if having claims against the said es will present them duly attested w in the time prescribed by law. A. A. WEST, Execute Camden, S. Cv, November. 28th, SPECIAL SALTI Special on account of working up some heavy tracts in flour, ?u gar, butter and eggs, w? hgva to use the raw material and in order to move it fj are goins to mention a few specials. If you *1 come to our shop you c#n phone your grocer and ha I him got what you want. V^lr ROLLS! ROLLS! Parke: Ilcuae? Finger? Butter Jiiscuit Worth 20*. Per Dozen SALE PRICE 15c. TEA ROLLS Special at 106. Pet Dozen COOKIES! COOKIES! Lemon?iKiaisin?Oinger? Oatmeal Worth 20c. Per Dozen SALE PRICE 15c. FRENCH ROLLS GRAHAM ROLLS Worth 20c. Per Dozen SALE PRICE l&c. CREAM PUFFS, ECLAIRS APPLE TURNOVERS Worth 60c. Per Dozen SALE PRICE 50c. LADY FINGERS ' Worth 20c. Per Don.,, SALE PRICE 15c. OR Wt DOZEN FOR 25c. W CINNAMON ROUT? Worth 20c. Per Dosen SALE PRICE 17e. 1 PIESJ PIES! PIESTB Raisin?Peach?PineuppU-, Apple?Worth 36c. H SALE PRICE 25c. Angel Food Cake, 2S<^B Each; Sponge Cake, 16^H and 25c. Each. Pound Cake, Raisin, Cherry ;nrB Plain 35c per ib.; 3 pounds fofl $1.00. CLAUSSEN'S FAMOUS? FRUIT CAKE 75c, 85c, and $1.00 per pouml^B At Your Grocer Electrik Maid Bake Skill Th<; new Ford 1 has a very simple aoA & *" effective fr 9 " lubrication system I THE lubrication system for the engine of the new Ford is as simple in principle as water running down-hill. A gear pump trrthe hot- ~ torn of the oil pan raises the oil to the valve chamber reservoir. From here it flows on to the main crankshaft bearings and the front camshaft hearing. Overflow oil drops into the oil pan tray and runs into troughs through which the connecting rods pass. As the ends of these rods strike the oil they scoop up i a supply for the connecting rod hearing. At the same time they set up a fine'spray that lubricates the pistons and other moving parts. ' *" ~* TTTT 7^3 From the tray the oil nuts into the bottom of the pan, and la again drawn up^ through a fine mesh screen and pumped to the valve chamber. This system is so effective that the five-qnart contents of the oil pan pass through" . the pump twice in every mile when you are traveling at only 30 miles an hour. Yet there is only one movable part the MI oil pump. As a matter of fact, the lubrication ifitea for Ij I new Ford is so simple in 4 sign and so carefully nwj that it requires practical! no service attention. There is just one for you to do, but iti??^l important thing . ,wrfcJi thtt oil! Change thtfojl every 500 miles and be ?urj I the indicator rod never reg? latere hrlow low (!*)? I I If the oil level is allow?* to fall below low, the wpW| becomes Insufficient to jj all parts as they should !* oiled. To insure best perfo"*? anee it is also advisable If have the chassis of your lubricated every 500 mile This ban been made *41 in the new Ford through ts nae of the high Preeie,1 grease gun system. I Proper oiling ing mean so mnch totbeJJ of yonr ear that thy not be neglected or - ' ' *'"i M flBDnJT. .ONUWtt ve j See yonr Ford dederijl ularly. He is especially fitted to tabrtarte It? ?S Ford ?nd h* *"*' ^ good, ?(P job.? w p"^l ' Ford Motor Company i . 1 . ii'vV-ir'. r ^? T-~ :