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I The Camden Chronicle ill**le,*ll*WWW^^^^* *il^ * *e ?ee* B?Bs eBm*a*Hee*BeH emeieee? e B|^ e=^ 'SP'^=^ *=^H8eH^BSS9ss s!ess eaeee*ee?eiiieee8? eeesw* ?eeE?em H?ss!E5B-sg*B* ?MP 41. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1929. NUMBER 1. B mm 111 " i Imp?? I J mil I ,,,,? Iidge Williams Is I to Wreck Victim Bt Sunday night ma William ' J. Frank Clyburn and Kid- j Villidwi* of Kershaw, were I )ward Ohirlington in a new 1 t coacn\driven by Mr. Hayes, i 1 a head on collision with a j d roadster wben within about >f Darlington. The impact ! both cars up badly, Eldridge' i i received a fatal injury, his' i ng crushed, while Mr. Hayes' Clyburn escaped with but ' ijuries. An ambulance was i >d from Darlington and all of < ed were taken at once to the i Methodist Hospital in Flor- J here Mr. Williams passed i out midnight Monday night, iins being brought to Ker- I uesday forenoon by D. M. i in the umbulance of the Kerercantile and Banking Co., b?dy had been viewed by A j jury. Mr. Hayes had been home on Monday by his Robert, and James Carson, t to Florence for him early morning. At this writing urn had not yet arrived, but >cted that he will return with tr T. B. Clyburn, (Tuesday) i- - Our information is that r of the Ford roadster, wh<?, tally, also bears the name of nd is from Columbia, escaped injury. s the only son of Mr. and 1 Williams, of our town, and raduate electrical engineer I nson College. Following his' n, Mr. Williams went to the Illinois, where he married several years. He ha<H>eeu} only a comparatively short 1 was to leave very soon for | tia to accept a position Bsion of electrical engineer-' funeral services were held ifternoon at 4 o'clock at the dr. and Mrs. R. F. Marshall,] I aunt of Mr. William^ body was taken on account less of his father, who has: ined to his home for quite1 The services were conduct-1 v. Geo. E. Smith, pastor of aw First Baptist church, asRev. J. F. Hoffmeyer, pastor ethodist church. Mr. Wil-' survived by his wife and one father and mother, and two1' liss Irma Williams, teacher aleigh, N. C., city schools, Minnie Williams of Kerrshaw Era. assers Injure Property Garrison, Sr., has a warnto trespassers published in this week, which it might >r those who go on proput permission to heed. Mr. as large farming and cattle ?n the river just a few w Camden?all fenced in locked. He tells us that ireants have broken his 1 staples loose and entered mds, turning his cattle out owing crops of grain and the cattle into the public tbey are subject to inissing motor cars. Mr. ates that he intends to those found trespassing roperty regardless of who e. rterial To Meet Here aree Presbyterial will meet mden Presbyterian Church ay, April 4, continuing! iday, April 5. The first' ?e held Thursday afternoon and again in the evening On 'Friday the opening > at 9 a. m. with a conam through that day. All urged to attend. Visitors enomination8 are cordially ter, left handed pitcher cinnati Reds, lied sudando, Fla., Monday after : in a practice game. He 't trouble. Storms Take Tolls In Southern States Atlanta, March 24.?Drenched with rains and ravaged by storing during :he past ten days, the South today :ook stock of the damage beneath a harm springlike sun, while floods still raged in. some sections. Tornadoes and floods of Friday and Saturday caused at least 46 deaths in dx states, while probably damage ofl ">i??e extent was listed in two others. The greatest loss of life was in' rennessee, where yesterday placid streams, under a deluge of rain, were converted into, waging torrents that swept narrow, almost gorgelike val-' leys, trapping many before they were aware of danger. Tennessee's dead wdre 20 at Harriman, with two bodies recovered;1 seven at Rockwood, members of a Boy^ Scout troop; three at Webster.' Four of the deaths were in Kentucky,1 a youth drowning in the flood waters of Cumberland river at Pineville, and three boys drowned at BarbourVille.1 All the rest were due to tornadoes,1 except one, a farmer, who was struck by lightning at Alpharettu, Ga. Two others, both Negroes, were listed in Georgia from a tornado near Ameri-1 cus Alabama had five killed in a tor-i nado, Mississippi, three, an^ North' Carolina one. With the exception of Tennessee and Kentucky, where major streams were rising, conditions were improving ovej the South. In Montgomery! it was said danger of serious floods on Alabama river were past, with power dams on Coosa riv^r controlling the situation. Emery river and White creek in age in that state, had fallen, and along the upper reaches of Tennessee and Cumberland rivers and their tributaries floods had gone out rapidly. But along the lower reaches of the two major streams there, was a threat of overflow as they continued to rise steadily. Through eastern Tennessee and Kentudlcy floods are of freshet type and subside almost as rapidly as they rise. The streams yesterday were overburdened by torrential rains that fell over -a great area. At Harrimunn, Roclcwood, Oakdale and other towns of eastern Tennessee, at Pineville, Middlesboro and smaller towns, along Cumberland and Kentucky rivers, conditions were improved today, with citizens beginning to restore their homes and business. Damage to property still was unestimated tonight, but it was said that the total when finally reckoned would run into the millions. Scouts Caught Dayton, Town., March 23.?White creek flood waters caught a party of 21 boy scouts on the roof of a creekside cabin near flock wood, Tenn., today and a scoutmaster and two boy scouts were' drowned. Fiwe others are missing and believed dead. The rest, 13 in all, were rescued. This information was brought to-r day by a special correspondent for the Chattanooga News, who returned late this afternoon. He said Scoutmaster Jim Wright and J. C. Hill and Ed Burnett were drowned, and their bodies recovered. ?? ~ The missing are: Jack iShambarth, Lawrence Montgomery, Woodrow Kerr, Roy Green and Fred Burnett, twin brother of Ed's. The boys noted the rising White creek water at 5 a. m. and the scoutmaster ordered them on the roof when, it got into the dwelling. Soon they were in peril of their lives. Neighbors heard their screams, and succeeded in taking some of them off, before:-the others were swept away by the surging mountain creek water. Traffic over tlte Wateree river bridge between Sumter and Columbia is closed on account of high water and automobiles are being routed by way of Camden. - Pension Money Soon To Go Out . The pension fumi will soon be ready for distribution in South Caro-f Una, The appropriation this yerfr U the same as It was last year, |7<J0,-| 000, though there may be some changes in the distribution. Under an act of the 1020 legis-j lature, the rule regarding widows or pensioners was changed. Under the new rule a widow must show that she was married to the veteran of the' (Jivil War at least ten years before his death. If she whs not living with the husband at the time of his death or during the ten years of married ( life, she waa to show that the sepura-. tion was not her fault. The office of Comptroller General A. J. Beattie is now preparing the^ pension rolls, the fund to be distributed to the veterans and widows through the probate judge of thd counties, who are to submit the rollb,' Under the new rule regarding widows, the number of widows of vet-| erans entitled to pensions will be increased this year, as the number of years of married life required is soj much lower than would have been necessary under the old rule. At the same time this increase is off-set somewhat by the thinning , of the ranks of the heroes in gray, so that, the amount of money received by J each pension this year is expected to be the same as last year. "This can-; not be determined for sure however.") said Eldridge C. Rhodes, chief clerk ^ in the comptroller general's office, until we ^;av? received complete in-i formation as to the rolls from the probate judges. ' Veterans ancT widows entitled to pensions have until April 1 to get their applications in the hands io'f the .probate judges. No persons applying after that date will be entitled to pensions. ? Tuesday's Columbia Record. Methodist Church Services I Rev. George Pierce Watson, pastor 1 of the Camden Methodist church, on Lyttleton street, near Hampton Park, announces services for Sunday, March 31, as follows: Bible school at 10 | a. m.; pdblie worship, 11:16 a. m. and 8 p. m., conducted by the pastor. | Morning theme: "The Resurrection, Christ's Transcendant Triumph." Evening theme: "God's Call to, Man for iMan." , Epworth League, 7:15 p. i m. Mid-week prayer service, Wedj nesday 8:00 p. m. The public is most I cordially invited to all the services of ! this church. Charming music, con1 gregational singing, helpful studies , of Bible truth. Worship with us, expecting the divine blessing. ^ Belling a Home Made Product The phrooiele is this week carrying an advertisement from Howie & Savely, of Darlington, in which they are telling, of "the good quality of ?he Carolina-Made sugar cane syrup. Several merchants are listed in this ad as carrying this syrup for sale. The makers have favored this newspaper with a sample can and it 1b delicious. Mrs. Savely was the former Miss Edith Parrott, who for a number of years was prominently identified .with home demonstration work through Winthrop College. She has devoted several years of hard work in perfecting this syrup, and the manufacturers state that in some towns where they have placed their product on sale it has doubled one hundred per cent and more, it is proving popular wherever sold, and it is sold on its merits alone. Two New Rurals Appointed Sheriff J. H. McLeod has appointed James X,. Hough, of the Three C's community, as a rural policeman for the Elat Rock township in the place of C* P. Hilton resigned. Mr. Hough was a recent member of the Kershaw police farce. For the West Wateree ' township Hampton AT Unbon takes the place of R. M. Ford, also rej signed. j Kershaw Citizen Dead Following Auto Wreck E. B. Williams whose address is given as Kershaw, S. 0., is in a critical condition at The McLeod JuArmary as a result of an automobile acHiiit ^etwleen Darlington and DovesJ I i. ?..ay n'gh.t about 10:80 !'K l kuU fractured, his j broken, and late last night InoA Ti, I Ot ,egained consciousness h",m? ?c,cld.<!nt' complete paralyais having tesulted on one side. The car' in which Mr. Williams wa dding! with three others, is said to have Cftl. HS, W CHr Whlch Hayes was driving alone. Mr.1 Hap was given first aid at ^ MUjeod Infirmary and later left the' I?JV tl,on* , Physicians last night' Iflfr VvH pe for the r,ecovery JMMr. Williams. Both of the auto-1 F n* urn,6 coml,,ett'ly Wrecked. ' [ L B. Williams, 2A, of Kershaw, 6. C., injured lute Sunday night in an adtolnobile wreck near Darlington,1 Tin M i ?, Tko this morning at McLecd Infirmary. The botiv Was carried to Kershaw early thta' morning by J. H. Kistfcr, undertaker: rfn,! "fUn' Mr' w'?iam5 wns a1 repiesentative of The General Elec-' trie Company and was well known throughout this territory.*?Tuesday's Florence News-Review. . ilinJt? ' Presbyterian Church Notes You are Cordially invited to worshipLa&tin.Sunday wording at' musfc T,here wiH he special music, songs and the story^of the' The pastor speak' on the theme "How Jesus Has' ^^JWView of the j a?iinvited ^ P?"ew#^lr infants or children for the sacrament' P^fm at the morning wwsliip1 pletoe loZC Til10 Care t0 u: xx past?r s" The session of the church wilTmeet - Wd7 Sch0?1 rooms nt 11 I,mmedlately after the Sunday School hour to receive anyone whJ ^ZLft,re t0 1)6 receive<* into the letfe? conf08sion of faith or by hundr*d d thirty-seven attemtod our iSunday School last Sunsunerinf f a! tr Sund?y morning the superintendent has arranged a special mi*, |tPr0gram and you not less than lb ' W* CXpect not f, Mr- W-,H; Parker, who has taught monthsenHn T f?r the past three the M *5 ^turned to his home' in the North We appreciate very much ?is\T^erel and to help us ! a teacher in our school. ^Ve? Momber Canvass which nlaId tlf. ,aSt Sunday wm be coinThi ,1 h!f nf.Xt Sundi,y nfternoon. dav If? V** kept open on Sunday afternoon from 3 to 6 o'clock to or anyXh. -rrot. yet been seen by the deacons. The deacons will be present to retim? A?f8? Wr\? ?rG t0 come at this time. At 6 o clock all the canvassing teams will gather at the church to make a final report of the success of the canvass. Sunday School 10 a. ni worship n:is; Chriathu." Endeavor dav* midw?ek service Wedn*svfted tn n ?u Y?U are ??H??y inited to all these services. Tk Win fl?ve Easter Service* There will be Easter Services at SuHda Mth ? ?" L*ttlet<m Street, Sunday, March 31, at 3:30 o'clock conducted by Rabbi EL L. Freud of Rumter. Everyone is invited to'attend these services. m*, Sln* at Trinity The Claflin University"* famous singers will appear at Trinity iK od,,t church ?? .Friday April s. Jn a good program of songs. Admission for adults will be 26 oents The entertainment is given for f?J ZXFZXXithi'-H >KN GkOWN LILIES : I ? tly scene in one of the Blouses of The Camden B Company on West B< Street where thou3I of beautiful Easter are now in bloom. Bompany'8 Bales extehd " any states and tHii '~ B two thousand? Brom their greenhouse* 7 B? Beach alone. Ample ^grator storage rooms . Bhis Camden plant well 1 with Easter lilies to the season. The Bn Floral Company, in B" to being jthe South'* ; B growers of Easter I grows for qountry distribntioii virtually variety of cut flower .B Jeffers Gets New Trial By Order of Judge Judge Thomas J. Mauldin has issued ?n order dated March 20, granting a new trial to J. Klmore Jeffers, a farmer residing in the West Wateree section, who waa convicted at the October term of court for this county and sentenced to serve three years for the killing of" Peter Kirkland in an election brawl at Hlaney. In issuing this order Judge Mauldin says in part: "The defendant in the case was( tried at the October, 1028, term of the court on a bill of indictment charging him with the murder of one Peter Kirkland, was convicted of manslaughter with u recommendation to the mercy of the court, and thereupon sentenced by the presiding. Judge, Hon. J. Henry Johnson, to a term of three years imprisonment. I "The case now comes before mc on; a motion for a new trial upon the ground of after-discovered evidence based upon the entire record in the case, but more specifically upon the ground that a member of the jury, namely, B. T. Davis, and the deceased married second cousins of the whole blood, "The record disclbseH that upon the call of the case for trial the presiding judge, in response to the suggestion of the solicitor and assistant counsel that the jurors be sworn on their voir dire as to relationship, submitted an inquiry of all the jurors as to whether any were related by blood or marriage to the deceased or the defendant, in reply to which the juror in question made no response. He was thereafter sworn as a trial juror and participated in the finding of the verdict against the defendant. "Mr. Justice Blease in a separate concurring opinion in the case of Bishop against Nicholson, filed June 18, 1928, well says: "As a firm believer in trial by jury, I know if thU 'great right is to be preserved, the jury box must not only be kept pure but that each individual juror ought to be above the least suspicion." "In a number of decisions beginning with the caB? of the state against McQuaige, supra, up to this I utterance of Mr, Justice Blease it has been the constant and determined ?fI fort of our court to throw every safeguard possible around thiB great ' right of trial by jury, and to hold it as pure and free from suspicion as human foresight and precaut?or, could make it. If there is ijfo im; propriety in the service of this juroi ! ancl his participation in the convic1 tion "of this defendant, then ther< j could be no impropriety in the con i stituticai of a whole panel of jurort j smilarly situated with regard to th< deceased, and the principle would b* unaffected if such a juror had indicted the death penalty instead of finding a Verdict of manslaughter with a recommendation to the mercy of the court. To hold that such a trial would be in accord with the sacred and inviolable safe-guards of constitutional rights under our system of government, designed for no higher and more vital interests than securing to a citizen the right of trial by a fair and impartial jury when charged with crime of any kind, and especially a capital felony, would be a reproach upon the orderly and safe administration of justice. "After a thorough consideration of the record submitted and in the exercise of what I conceive to be a sound judicial discretion in the disposition of this motion, it is ordered apd adjudged that the verdict and the sentence and judgement heretofore pronounced thereon and against the defendant, be, and the same is hereby vacated and aet aside and a new trial of the said caum be, and the same is hereby ordered and granted to the defendant." The first trial resulted in the jury being hopelessly.-iiied-up and a jniatrial was ordered. The second trial resulted in a conviction. Solicitor Spigner was assisted in this case by IS. D. Blakeney, of (Camden, while the defendant was represented by M. Lw Smith, of Camden, and Claud? N. Sapp, of Columbia. Injured Man Goes Home The Sumter D^ily Item of Tuesday says: ? "Perry Haynsworth, who has been in the Camden Hospital since he was -injured in an automobile wreck on the Xolumbia-Camden highway Monday morning, March - l<8th, was brought Efrmp Tuesday _imirning? There has -been gratifyingly steady improvement each day since the operation following his injury, and it is hoped that he will be completely - restored . - to -health and strength within a few weeks." . ":V :v Governor Names X. T. Bowen ? Governor Richards yesterday ap\ pointed E. T.' Bowen of Blaney to take the place of his father, E. H. Bowen, who died some days, ago, as a member of the board of commisday^SUU. " - Judge Smith To Help To Uphold Bond IssueFormer Judge Mendel L. Smith, of thin city has been engaged by the State Highway department and Governor John G. Richards to assist attorney general John M. Daniel in the suit brought against the state of South Carolina to test the constitutionality of the $(*5,000,1)00 road bond issue. The case will be heard before the supreme court on April 8. Another attorney assisting the attorney generul in this case will be R. E. Whiting, of Columbia, while a long list of attorneys headed by United States Senator.Cole L. lilease, will contend that the bond issue is unconstitutional. Others taking part in the fight against the bond issue will be I). W. Robinson, llayuesworth ' and Haynesworth, ex-attorney general Sam Wolfe, Thomas and Lumpkin and A. H. Dugncll. Blew Box Car From Train Chester, 8. C., March 23 'The freaks of a tornado manifested iti self on the Lancaster and Chester railroad between Fort Lawn and Richburg, Saturday afternoon, when I a box ear heavily loaded With cotton lis reported to have been blown clear 3 -of the train and hurled into the ditch upside down. The train was enabled ' to go its journey merely by roI coupling, it was stated'.' The wind blew with such terrific force that fo/J a time it looked as though the entire train would be blown over. This tornado was some hours different from j the one that visited Chester. The hedfty cloud1.from which that tornado came could easily- be seen from here. No other damage is reported from that section tonight. & Wateree Wood shop To Begik Operation The Wateree Wood Shop, Camden'.? i newest industry, is commencing operations this week. The officers of the company state that while the ,J plant will turn out all kinds of ,J cabinet work its specialty will be the i manufacture of native furniture. j I For many years furniture of the type . that the Wateree Wood Shop will . build has been made by the negro artisans pf the neighborhood. How; ever, the demand for the product has i exceeded the readily available supply i so the, new shop has decided to make .a specialty of it. . This native furniture is attractive in designs, unique and durable. It .'will be made primarily of poplar and^" . oak but furniture of almost any j material desired will be supplied. The . finishing will all be done by hanj^,_ . . The chair, settee and stool bottoms 1 will be furnished in either , "twisted ; corn shucks or woven split oak. Tables, benches, settees, chairs, stools . and swings will be among the articlesmanufactured'. ft One member^of'^Camden's winter i colony has given the Wateree'Wood [\ Shop an order which will furnish his ..house -throughout- with this native J product. [: Mr. Partridge Dead " Alfred Dwight Partridge, 78, of I Bedford, N. Y., died nt his winter . residence in this-city "early Tues day afternoon.. His passing fol lowed an illness of several weeks. i Mr. Partridge, born in Bedford, was the son of Rev. Alfred Hinsdale . Partridge, for many years rector of Christ's Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, N. Y. j He retired from business forty I years ago after a highly successful 1 career as a partner of Williams, Russell & Company, coffee importers, of c New York City. T Mr. Partridge was married fiftythree years ago to Marie Anderease, of New Yorkt who in addition to an only son, Dwight Partridge of Cam- _____ den, is left To survive. Funeral services, attended only by immediate relatives, were held at the family residence in this city Wednes-_ day afternoon with interment-to follow in Bedford. Civic League Plants. 200 Live Oak Trees Claiming first place among ^ge^nt community-building projects is" the tree-planting program, initiated this week by the Camden Civic League, which calls for the placing pf two hundred live oaks on Lyttleton and Fair streets. _TL___ The trees are , furnished by the league and are being planted by the city council of Camden under the direction of the street commission; W. D. ,Whitaker, commissioner, is supervising all work while assisting him isForce of th? Ammfcrmig Tree Company of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The v present work follows a? mirably the recent planting by the Ha?\o0f on^ h^,ffed pin* trJ^ ? '