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The Camden chronipi e ?^ME 4U i CAMDEN, aOUTH CAHOUWA, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, / NUMBER 14. IdNegro Pensioner Answer* Final Call Uncle" Wash Drakefbrd, the last r0 jn Kershaw county to draw a nfederate pension, died at his home t fifteen miles north of Camden. June IB- According to his records WH8 about 87 years of age. He urn! the war Between the States ih his master, Colonel William .keford, who was a member of one Kershaw county's first companies. I served faithfully and never deLed the cause. Up to a few weeks p this faithful old negro's mind L as bright and alert as one of Lger years. He remembered dates [battles, commanders and personal Lriences which could be proved by fc\as one of the few old-time roes left. He delighted in conjing over the past, and while he never attended . school he could \ and write from what had been ii in slavery and around the during the war. He used correct English and could mself in a clear manner, man had been thrice mars survived by his last wifa iber of children'. He was >rker and up to a short we walked straight and upng a soldierly bearing, was his bond and he lived | way he made white people negroes respect him. His suddenly while sitting in a s own household. His rare buried near the home had resided since his free'carried on" to the last and d upon a well-earned rest. irst Cotton Bloom Morgan, bright little son [organ, who farms on the and place about four miles ;amden brought the first oom to this office for 1929. licked on June 25, from a sixteen acres. st bloom last year was rey W. H. Haile of Camden picked on June 24. The 1927 was reported by J. B., June 13. The first for 1926 :ame on June 15. The 1924 ne on Juno 28 and_1928's 5 June 21. ~~ - 4 y's mail brought a cotton im W. P. Rodgers* grdwn Ihillips in the Mt. Pisgah This bloom was picked on Five Charges To ird At July Term re indictments to be passed he Kershaw county grand he July term of criminal ling here July 1, were yeswarded by Clerk of Court Clyburn to A. Fletcher olicitor of the fifth circuit, ce in Columbia. )ur indictments will be preainst liquor law vjpiatora r crimes to be heard, infollowing: willful injury to isebreaking and larceny, 8; eny, 5; assault and battery ; to kill, 4; drawing worth1; non-support of family ion, 2; disorderly conduct, oncealed weapon and as>attery, 1; burglary, 2; abd rape, 1; disposing propmortgage, 1; harboring esict, 2; larceny of livestock, and battery of high and ' nature, 1; assault with ipon, 1. * at Colonial Lake Fourth there will be swimts at Coloniif 'Lake, north At 3:30 o'doiik Contests Id for fancy djying, fancy races and other water iree heats will1 be' held in to find the tvlnitor. Thosa 1 compete ih':,iihy of the ease leave their name at ? at the lake or tvith either erman Baruch or George managers of the resort.' A twenty-five cents will be J1 bathers or season tickets ured. Many picnic parties ">g to spend the day there. Blakeney In a Wreck 1>. Blakeney ' had his utoniobile almost completeI one night recently while ???m- MrBee * on~ "Federal I he accident happened bea"d Bethune. and was the car going down an emand turning over. Forh< Judge was unhurt ex* few bruises which have l,'g him trouble since th? C. Kohn, president of^Oon (jje at River Forest, 111. r ?* the Missouri synod "Yv11 church as no' empathy with the Volstea< rigorously opposed to th< f criminal practices of pro Jseng*' 8hootiT* down in 'Gold Star Mothers9 Free Trip Abroad Stlf irT,U' ^^June 2?.-?oWi Mar mothers and widows of World war veterans buried in France will P?, interested in an artidle that will appear in tbe July igttue of The American Iwgion monthly which tells of plans the government is making to conduct free pilgrimages to the American cemeteries in Europe and the battlefields of the World rr;, ter8 are now being sent out by the War Department in an effort to find out how many mothers anil Wld^? to make the trip. . 'Since the World war there has! been many simple pilgrimages by * mothers - and widows to the oeaneteries in France," the Legion article will say, "but most of ?the bereft mothers of America whose sons' bodies are still buried in France and I most widows have found the difficulties of a long voyage to a strange country insurmountable. "Now, however, every Gold Star mother of a service man burled overseas and every widow who has not remarried since the death of her husband may make the long overseas journey to a loved one's grave, untroubled by any difficulties. The I Unit?d States Government has made I provision for conducting them on quiet pilgrimages to the cemeteries abroad. 'Congress in last March passed a law making the pilgrimages possible and provided that all arrangements should be directed by the 'Secretary of War and all expenses j should be met out of public. -ifunds. National Adjutant James F. Barton has asked that all posts of The American Legion and all units of the American Legion Auxiliary do everything possible to inform mothers and widows of the pilgrimages. He has requested that pqsts and units report the names of the -mothers and widows of their communities to Major General B. F. Cheatham, quartermaster general, war department, Washing ton, D. C. .Full name of son or husband should be gjtvep, the branch in which he served mid the cemetery in which he tgttyfcHed overseas. 'Congress has provided that the pilgrimages shall be made by small groups during the period from May 1, 1930, to October Zl, 1033, and each i group will be in Emrope for a period i of two weeks. Cabin class accomI modations will be furnished on steam ships for all those making the pil| grimages. The 'Secretary 'of Wa?j will prescribe regulations as the I time for each group pilgrimage, itineraries, the composition of groups, accommodations, transportation, program, management and all other details. "Stepmothers, mothers through adoption and any woman who held the place of a parent to a deceased member of the military or naval forces for a year before he entered service will be entitled to the privilege of the pilgrimage. Only widows who have pot remarried since the deaths of their husbands are eligible to" make the pilgrimage." "V" Lady Postal Clerk Short Aiken, June 24.?Miss Maggie George, money order clenk at the Aiken postoffice, has been placed under arrest on a federal indictment | charging embezzlement of funds. I >She was released today under $1,000 , bond, following her appearance before J United States Commissioner Thomas , R. Morgan. Miss George had been an employe | at the Aiken postoffice for many years and is a member of a family well known in this section. Junior Base Ball League People are wandering what this junior league is. What it isn't, is easier to tell. Last year for instance, 122.000* ooys in * the United States played under the direction of the American iLegion. Oakland, Cali fornia won the championship. New York thlB year is putting over 1,000 . teams in the running. Oregon, which had no team last year now has 500; Indiana has over 800 and Lincoln, Nebraska has 30 in that city alone. Th& winner gets a trophy awarded by Howard P. Savage, a world's chjfmpionship pennant from Judge K. M. Landis, and a trip to the world j series, with each player getting a suitable trophy. This state is divided into zones sc as to make a more compact organization. Anybody who is 17 after th< 15th of September is not eligible t< play, and don't think that the rule* are not carried out. ? ? Baseball teaches fair play and is I one of the best training games foi , anyone to play for he has to thinl . and act at once. When business men take their tim< ' Ahd help all classes di boyj in 't [ recreation, Uien it must be good fo ! all, and boys are lined up from her to Tombstone, Ariz., and way sta tions. , ? R. C. Brice, well-known characte , of Bessemer City, tried to cross t bridge traveling at the rate of sixt 1 n^iles an hour and hia body was late ? found submerged in ten feet of wetei * The wrecked car contained three fiv? gallon cans of whiskey. A negro rid ing with him escaped uninjured. Fruit Fly Ban-Due To Politics, Avers Banker v.Sre?nTia& tUne ??Thu Medtteiw ranenn fruit fly business In Florida looks somewhat spooky to Col. Harry U. Calhoun, of . Barnwell, former president of the South Carolina Hankers association, who has been here this week to attend the annual convention of the ftnuncial fraternity, rpj ...am " by well informed Hondiarw," said Colonel Calhoun yesterday, "that the whole thin# of | putting an embargo on Florida fruits ! li a ^reatL injU8^ce? that the fly has been m the state for 160 years and I that the action of the federal governyient instead of.being a good thing tor the peninsula commonwealth is the? ^ FU*n ^ citrus industry" . Colonl Cealhoun explained that in his judgment the state of Florida is being presented with some bud ad, vertising, is having its fruit business ruined and that perhaps the whole lousiness has been inspired by some i Caiiforiiian who wants to divert the attention of the country from Florida to the Gold Coast state. I do not say so myself," continued the banker, but it Vis being freely talked in Florida that President Hoover, who is a big landowner in California, is one of those j countenancing this outrage against J he state. As I say, I do not charge i this myself, but I do believe that a serious injustice is being done Florida. eople in the eastern and northern I centers will not buy Florida fruit 1 now, fearing that the-fly may "have I put something into the orange, the , grapefruit, the lemon or the fig that i may cause sickness or death. The citrus industry is being ruined in t lorida. Naturally enough this is ; boosting high as the sky. the demand over the country for California fruits. "The department of agriculture contends that the Mediterranean fruit fly. is brand new in Florida. It says , that the fly has recently been j brought here from southern Europe I ?n some manner and that unless it | is stamped out it will ruin tlje crops, i} his is nonsense, I believe, for old j fruit growers in Florida will tell you .that the fly has been in that state for many, many years. I Now the, fly did; apparently cause ja heavy fall of fruit from the trees1 last season. However, it appears that this has been due maxe pftrticularly to meteorological conditions. That is what soma of the largo growers in Florida think and froifa what I have been able to learn it is the case. -"I believe that the people of the South as a whole should rise up and stick by Florida in this hour of her peril. If unscrupulous Yankees are using the- fly scare to ruin the market for Florida fruits, then it ought to be exposed. The department of agriculture ought to be informed of the real conditions and those rei sponsible for this outrage ought to j be dealt with. "^Florida has been the biggest factor ever known in the development of the Southern states. It has been the rich Northerner on hfs way to and from the land of winter flowers and sunshine that has invested his money in industry in the CarolinaS, Georgia and Virginia, after they saw the possibilities of these states. I do not believe that these ! wealthy people woujd have seen our I Southern states as soon or invested their money so quickly if they had not been going to and from Florida. "This whole thing seems to be a great injustice to Florida and I hope that the people of this and other Southern states will rise up against this effort to put Florida out of the running with California." Kershaw Marine Will. Shoot in Rifle Matches Quantico, Va., June 25.?Looking forward to competing in the important, rifle and pistol matches to.. ..he held this summer, Austin J. V. Roberts of Kershaw, near Camden, S. C., is with the selected group of U, S. Marines, who left here recently for Wakefield, Mass., where they will have several weeks' practice on the rifle range before the firsts of these 1 -matches begin. * ' ^ , w i Roberts was chosen to accompany i the Marine 'Corps riflemen who make I an annual pilgrimage to Wakefield l to shoot in New England matches, .held late in August, and later go to *' Camp Perry, 0.. to compete in the big National Matches, which, take 5 place in September. * Scores of shoot} ing trophies will be awarded to i marksmen in both competitions. } Roberts was born in "Lancaster r county and formerly made his home c with his father, William jSJ. Roberts, in Kershaw. He has been with the i Marines for a number of years, and i has frequently taken part in rifle r matches. Last year he won a silver a medal ifl fl rifle competition . held here. In view of his skill as a marksman he was directed to leave with the squfld bound for Wakefield,;... a The Mexican government, through y president FortesGil, *?* reached satr igfactory agreements with the repren aenUthres of the Roman Catholic church, bringing to an end the conI* trovers) which has long disturbed the Mexican republic. ? : * Professor Faces Murder Charge <tolumbu8, Ohio, June 2iJr-~-IndicW4 today on a charge of%1JKlegrl? mur<ict of Theora K. Hix, JU,y?u-ol?J Ohto State coed, Dr. Jamel'K. Snook* who yesterday confessed h$ had hammered h?*r unconscious and then pjjt her throat with a pen knilp. m* lieve her of suffering, without bond tonight awSwojf/Wis arraignment in criminal The statement Doctor Sfir^U^^made to authorities yesUrday/'4$MUVng he hud hammered the girl. dqWng a violent quarrel in his auto/wohm on the outskirts of the city^'jjWihen slashed her jugular \tein ,^OTmuf her j.iinrering, was presented t^Oyro/wrand jury by Prosecutor John as the basis for a first-<hjjjra^u lnurThe whole story of Doctor 7pi|ook's relations with Miss Hix TVOnr the tjw1* she came to the veterilJftVy ^Hnic arthe university a6 a stenographer three years ago until l^st Jyne 13,1 the night of the murder, vf+SL laid before the jury. V^L, Curiosity, aroused by thry^stery and the characters in one of t"hf most notable murder cases that ever Went on the records in Columbus, was not j abated by Doctor Snook's confession. ! From II o'clock in the morning, when ' the grand jury went in sessi<m^iintil i late in the day, crowds milled anHiud j the courthouse and packed the cor-j ridors as close to the grand jury room at they were allowed. ? ?1 Except during the afternoon,'Uflton he, was taken to the city prison 'td hatfe Dtiriillori record;?, made, vpocipY Snook remained in Jus cell in the COttnty Jail. Although he had confessed .the killing, he refused to signify .today, what he will plead on arraignment^': After the degree of the cji^g*03& came known, it was learned tor Snooks' attorney, formfof JohmF. Seidel, his chief couri^flSw^ A. O. Ricketts, might build fense in the trial upon a rpleA\oi temporary derangement. It is believed a date for iinmttmh}. trial will be fixed for some tmwC'fli ing the summer. Bcthesda Presbyterian Church '^1 <4The Safety of the Occupied Bfeart," will be the pastor's .aitfYpojlp an&J^ct Sunday morning, June 50.*^, ' Miss Mary Thompson will speak to the yopng people at the vesper seYP;ice Sunday evening at 7:16.o^ thp Young" People's Conference at.; ^Clinton which she recently attend^7-r'-'V5, For the midweek service next Wednesday evening we read Psalms 117 to 121 and study Psalm 121.. The young people of the church reminded that junior choir practice is held Friday evenings at 8 o'clock at the manse. Notice is given in another space in this paper of the Daily VaieAtiOfi Bible school that will be held church July 1 to 13. The and teachers of this school arcAasfced to meet with Mrs. Scheffner home of the pastor Friday evgjufrg, June 28, at 9 o'clock, for a pyraljMinary - discussion of plans an4^^^ gram of work. ? y^Y'VSunday School 10 a.m.; mofrmfig worship, 11:15; mid-week seVpktf, Wednesday evenings, 8 o'clock. > Vesper service Sunday evening frTR.l?" Daily Vacation Bible Schot^ Beginning Monday moiih>BgK J#y 1, nt 9 o'clock and runningffor teh phys a Daily Vacation Bible Sehppl wilfr be held at the Presbyterian school is open to all ehft&eni-ofNthe church and city under age I5.Vand all such children will be cord&l^/wel-?y corned. The program itffuat M-^fceaclfc doctrine peculiar to an)?ph^rP? but^ the principles of life Ut~ramknt by Jesus. The program .^^vulhclud^ Bible /stories, Bible leMOddjD* Biblp memory work, Bible songs, drills, supervised play. yyt^Sv When one realizes thj&Abp child, who attends Sunday laejbopTj every. Sunday in the year re<mmf>u>nly 26 J hour a religious instructo^jbVo&e wis! donri of'the Vacation scoboT-ti apparent. The child who this | school faithfully recei^pK/iilrnost as imuch instruction as in.^l^ple year attendance on Sunday ?th"o61. The school is under the direewbn of Mrs. Geprge Sheffner and pastor ?*of the local church. V. ^*V\\v x Negro Matt Mefftgled In Saw Mill Accident ' fit' ' The horriblv mangled Hody of David Sertoli, of Jeffprson, w'as brought to the Canidon hos>&U Wednesday? The young negro hnH*?j?llei\ into a circular saw?the right '4eg was severed below the kneeOthp right arm wtksevered below the a gaping wound in his right^MMESa Five'physicians labored to minii man and in a desperate effort to prolong hit life a call was sent out for volunteers to match his blood transfusion. Four strong. jty$grt men soon appeared and offepMLxMbr blood.., One was found ifi the transfusion was made blood ht toon passed awiqte \ This speaks well for ?four men offering thert^krt^AW strange negro they ^ * 1 .. ^--1 X ? I Resident of Ret hum Passes at Great Age 1 . Rethune, June 26.?'Mr. J. J. Ho*-"" ton, aged ?eyenty-eight, a well known and highly respected citisen of this town died at five o'clock last, Wednesday morning after having been oa^fined to his bed for three weeks. ?rton was born and reared near manuka wand lived in Kershaw county ' Wc vf his life. For a number .of the had resided in Bethuno for a long while he held the of chief of police: He was u tent and faithful member of the alist church and possessed a and unselfish disposition which fon him many friends. _ Horton is survived by nine chilMrs. W. A. McDowell, Messrs. J'Otd.a, Jesse and Lem Horton, of Bethfitaj Mrs. J. K. Holley, McBee, W. B. Brown, Raleigh, N. C,; Mitt. F. F. Iiorton, Kershaw; Mrs. Roland Horton, Angelus; Mrs. K. T. MdManus, Middendorf; one sister and one .brother and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The funeral services were hold at five o'clock Wednesday afternoon and were conducted by his pastor, the Rev. E. T. Derrick, assisted by the I Rev. Sapp. Interment was in Bethel i cemetery beside his wife who had precoded him to the grave seven months . ago. The floral tributes were unusually beautiful. Acting as pallIbearers were Messrs. J. N. McLaurin, I i.J. L. King, J. M. Clyburn, M. G. King, i Gftnway Gardner and Dargan Gly-1 burn. *. S. ' * John H. Holmes Drowned ^Columbia, June 25.?John H. Holmes, 29, World war veteran and recently employed as flagman on the Southern Railway, was drowned in j the W&teree river, ten miles from ! JSaktover, S. C., last night, according i g^jlhformation reaching Columbia to- | .\Xhe accident occurred about 9' iWclock but his body had not been J >wdOvered this morning, despite-the] ra?t> that an all-night search of the Wwr had been conducted. vMXolmes was on a fishing trip at the ffp. in company with J. A. Mooney WMp and H. J. Mooneyham, bom'of MjJumbia. A pin was dropped from motor on the boat almost sub.Werging it. Holmes jumped and atarted to swim to shore but was unable to make it due to swift current. Tbe other men remained In the boat Ahd reached the shore. The accident occurred near the junction of the Congaree and Wateree rivers. i i<\ !?* To Install Officers ^ DeKalb Council, No. 88, Junior Ori der United American Mechanics at the regular meeting next Monday night, July 1, will install officers elected to serve for the next six months. All members are requested to be present. Visitors 'welcome. Not All Are Crooked The editor of The Chronicle had a personal experience the past week ' which makes him place great faith in the integrity of Uncle Sam's mail clerks. A member of the force had ordered something frohi ~ a Chicago concern and asked Us to exchange i currency for a check, placing the order and currency in a stamped, addressed envelope. The envelope was placed in the outgoing mail box unsealed and sent on its way. As soen as the mistake was discovered advice was asked at the Camden postoffice and the clerk who worked the letter i remembered the letter. Telegrams were sent to the firm to look out for the letter and another was sent tf>lthe postmaster asking him to enIwftfeept the letter and return by regwered mail. It was one chance in ^thousand?but that unsealed letter 'Containing forty-five dollars traveled A&'Chicago unmolested, and Arthur C. Speder, postmaster at Chicago, wrote the postmaster at Camderu "The letley described waa intercepted and was found to be unsealed and containing ! the sum of forty-five dollars in currency. Under official seal and by; ;Tsgistered mail, the letter is being "returned herewith to you." ' , Man Likely To Recover After Shotgun Barrage \V. C. McManus, of near Kershaw, who was admitted to the Camden hospital Tuesday, was late yesterday afternoon reported as resting in comfort and with chances favorable to I recovery from five loads of small shot fired into his legs, arms, chest 'and face early Tuesday morning. The shooting, said by McManus to *>Jiave been done -by Arthur Vincent, .is said to have resulted from an Argument over the removal of certain flowers planted by the wife of MciiManus on the farm homferthe couple i^iad rented from Vincent. McManus stated that the shooting |i#pcurred in Lancaster county and no WUformation was obtainable as to JWhat charge, if any, Vincent will be Trailed upon to answer. V Asko C. Burgese^ 87, postoffice Whaii messenger of AnsonU, Conn., is TtUlder , arrest in connection with the ttftisappearance of two mail sacks conlYUinlng $68,000. The money was reftjbovered hidden in the woode. Several Fine Homes Now Being Erected With around seventy thousand dollars worth of construction under way in Gamden this city is experiencing a record summer building boom Contractor VV. G. Adams is'erect|ing two modem residences on North Hroad street for Mrs. Cato*. Douglas G over .nd Mr?. W. A. M.tu of thU city. I he Glover residence is a twostory building of brick veneer and contains eleven rooms an<l three baths Xft* !f "n oxP?nditu.o of around $16,000. Hie Metts residence is also a two-story building- of frame construction with twelve rooms and three baths to cost around $12,000. Both residences will be equipped with steam heat. A- A. Shanks has the contract for plumbing and heating. George A. Creed has the contract lor the, erection of a two-story frame residence for Henry Savage, Jr., at Lake View Terrace. The building will be of Colonial style and contain seven rooms, to cost around $H,000. Mr. Creed ulso has the contract to erect a Dutch Colonial residence at Lake View Terrace for Mrs. W. R. Miller, of Montreal, Canada. It will be a two-story building with eight rooms and cost around $1.'1,000 Wright and Ratet, of this city, have begun erection on I^ake View Terrace of a seven room residence for Mrs $G,000>dy? a coat of around' -Mayor C. P. DuBose has begun the erection of a ^.wo-story eight room residence on corner-of1 Fair and Laurens streets on a lot recently pur chased from W. P. Thomas. The building is of frame construction and will ^ cost around $8,000. R. E. Ghewmng has the contract for this building. Mrs. George R. Cook is having a bungalow near Green street remod- ~ eled by Contractor W. G. Adams. | Ernest L. Woodward has let the contract to J. C. Heslep, of Columbia, to remodel a twunlnj building on Green street, near Holly Hedge. The w. be changed to a Colonial Black Mute in Jail; Burglary is Charge A negro said to be John Morton Nell, and claiming his home as Cuba, Is in the county jail charged with burglarizing two residences in the night time, which under the law could send him to the electric chair. Nell broke into the house of R. L. Richardson on the old Ferry Road and* stole five dresses, a suit of clothes and a portable Victrola. He then went to the house of Bessie Smith and stole a suit of clothes and several dresses. He packed his loot in two suit cases and left on the 10:40 Seaboard for Columbia. Sheriff McLeod suspected the negro and had Columbia officers to look out for him and warned them that the negro had ~ two pistols and. was a bad actor. The arrest was made in the 700 block ^of Pendleton street by Detectives Shorter, Knox, Allan. and Val Smyrl, specie agent of the Const Line railway. The negro had taken refuge under a jbed and when commanded to come from under the bed with both hands up, the negro obeyed, which proved that he was mute, but not deaf. Officers have questioned him since his arreBt and find out that he can hear* but by his admission he has always been mute. He can write in Spanish and makes signs to make himself understood. Carlot Shipment of Poultry Due to the severe break in New , York poultry prices, there will be no more carlot shipments .until November*. shipments have been exceptionally good over the entire tate this year. Since December 10 Kershaw county has made ten shipments ,of poultry. Nine hundred and nineteen farmers have shipped 41,346 pounds for which they received $9,954.41. This is about 10,000 pounds less than was marketed by this method during a similar period in 1927-1928. This does not, however, indicate a decrease in poultry in the county, but rather an increase in consumption of the home marketing. | Do not neglect your poultry* flock. Remember that there are two things which will determine your profit feeding and culling. Home "grown feeds must be used by any livestock raiser if a profit is expected. Most especially is it true of poultry. Oull close for egg productions and sell your boarder hens. Watch for the early molters and get rid of them. With the satisfactory markets for poultry and poultry products which are now firmly established, the hen can become an important source of family income. Try them as a means of farm relief, advises W. H. Pressley, county agent. ..Republicans of NewYortTire considering the nomination of Mrs. Ruth Piatt, now a eongreaawoman, for the . ?*I9ralt? of Naiw York aity.