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I The Camden Chronicle 1 volume4i. i nmum iim "I."* t ^BesKSfr^gsBgg^s^ammwmmmmaaasssaBmsem WtieaFUMWied Knife I With Fatal ReHiiltn I l*ura Wallas, 24-year-old negress, ^ at the Camden hospital Sunday < Kt where she underwent an opera* 1 En to save her life. i She is said to have been the vie- ! ?in of ? kni'e wound inflicted in her ] Efht breast by Hattie Dempsey, 18- | Ear-old negrese. An inquest was 1 Keld Monday moraine end the Demp- ,, K^y girl was ordered held for trial. Vfte knife wound was inflicted j Kjonday afternoon and the matter ' Em not reported until the woman i Kgd to be carried to the hospital i Eire she jrae -operated on to re- i ^Love clotted blood. Every little could be learned from * Efitimoiiy at the inquest except that Kg row started over the loan of some liking utensil The stabbing took E^. in an old two-*fcory residence jE West DeKslb street formerly used E a Catholic church. itfl Death of Mr. Watkins. mfl j. W. Watkins, * aged 75, a weil rrtHgown farmer and land-owner of the 4^Kndy Grove section, died at bis home (j^Kesday morning, July 16, after a linillness. e^Kr. Watkins' home was on what is n^Hw known as the old Wire Road( eiSjdlng from Camden to Oheraw, re^Edhe had made his home in that secidMffl pii ftf his life. Mr. Watkins was an active member gK Sandy Grove Methodist church and .[ was in this graveyard that his body Hm laid to rest, after services conI iEcted by Rev. T. E. Derrick, assisted Rev. Glennon, of Greeleyville, Rev. n D. Daily, of Jefferson and Rev. Ebert Sapp, of Bethune. He was a r ^^Rmber of Lynchwood Masonic Lodge Bethune and Masonic honors acj IKmpanied the burial. ^ Surviving Mr. Watkins are two p-Henry Watkins, of Jackson j He, Fla., Jesse Watkins, of KerHm; and three daughters?-Mr*. Brannon and Mrs- Ransom I Eaton, of Cassatt, and'Mrs. Roma E of Bethvne. ; S Fix Woodward Ball ^^^Hnerg, July 18.?The law firm i Rps & Levy and Judge Mendel Kjwith yesterday afternoon apin chambers before Associate ** J. F- Carter in a motion for ^^H^the younger Woodward, wh? , Ehged to be implicated in the killK of McKenzie in Lee county reSty. Woodward is., now confined : ? hospital, it is stated, while the I mK Woodward has already been reSal on bond. After hearing the ^Sments Justice Oarber fixed bail >^Btf>,000. The father and eon are Qy.tiiarged with the death ?f McI | Died Sitting Tti Court j HpTisiderable excitement was caused cotJrt ( f common pleas Tuesday | Av! rn ^ was. discovered that ? Dawk ins, well known Sumter J Sty farmer, bad died while watchi Kfe proceedings from a front seat ERI S spectators eactlon. vnV' Dawkins was sitting upright J S' seat and only the nnnsnal paleof his face attracted the attenseveral persons in the court S- A doctor was summoned imSately but when he examined Mr.j EWns he discovered that death had -- red several mlhUttf bfif^rc, A S*n heart attack Is believed to H been the cadsp of death. As jRe " could ho determined Mr. T>aw died at 10:30 o'clock.?Tuesday's | Item. ^^8 " ~ i ^. i t" 1 ti" m?fed Granii Lodge ?t Kefs Here Next Year lege ^S. ne?ro Grand Lodge Knights of ;Eas.is ir> .session this week in . with more than one thous ' attendance. * hody of delegates from S*n and Kershaw county lodges ^ j^BUp Thursday and put in a strong E tho "feting to be held in this ftE f uly 193?- Their pleee met k 0- j Excess as The Chronicle was inW by telegraph Thursday mopifc. J5 ^E&t Camden had been selected at* B J?f,ans bhat '.Camden colored ^ called upon to enterEiim ty*n of the i their race next mmH * ***** of the order Agricultural Teachers 1 Return From Trip ' " 1 The vocational agricultural teacher* >f the following schools returned a nome from their annual conference li it Tamaeaee in Oconee county: J. G. v Poster, Bethune; R. M. Foster, Mt. t Pisgah; P. B. Waters, Blaney; W. B, ^ Stevenson, Midway; and D. W.. Trax- a ler, of Antioch. a Objectives set up for the year are: t Hie teaching of co-operative market1* t ing with emphasis on teaching how f to increase the income on the farm, \ and more effective use of that income; i the use of better farm mechanics, to 15 Improve living on the farm; the d?- * velopment of the Future Palmetto Farmer organization among boys and 1 class organisation of adults to feac*) \ (prmers to work together; the use of c camps and educational tours to buili c up the morale of farm life; and the t use of experimental data to improve t the farm practices of vocational pu- k pils. 1 The teachers while at the confer- c ence gave the D. A. R. school a $100 < scholarship for one girl for this coming year. 1 The teachers lodged at the Future < Palmetto Farmer camp and took 1 meals at the school. Teachers were in ' attendance from every county in the 1 State, except Union. On Friday af- ' ternoon the Rotary club of Walhallv l pnnHnptod n -mntnTCftrin for the teach* i ers to. some outstanding farms in Oconee county. A barbecue was served by the MuTett Seed Farm at Westminster, On Wednesday of ttiis week the agricultural teachers met at the court house and formulated "plans for their ' department In the county fair thiB fall. . Awarded Thousand Dollars. After deliberating for she houra the jury lnthe case of A. F. Stafford against the Williams "Veneer .-Own pany for $85,000 for thq four i fingers Saturday night r^teppoed * verdict for the ^airttiff, awarding hhn $1,000. The case was given to the jury at 8:80 o'clodk after m trial that lasted fhwe days. Stafford "lost four 'fingers -on -his fight hand while working for the veneer company. "He was represented by li. D. Jennings df Suuiter and Senator Miller of Hartsville, while the defendant "had Epps and "Levy and Harby, "Nash and Hodges, as attorneys.?Monday's Sumter Item.' To 'Clean 'Off /Cemetery. C. T. Trapp, treasurer of Arttioch Baptist church, requests the mendbers of that churCh to meet at the cemetery on Thursday, August 1st, for the purpose of Cleaning the cemetery. "Every member is urged 'to come or ;aend help. Interest Money meceived. County Treasurer S. Wylie Hogue tan Tuesday received .a iheck from tee i state highway department amounting to $25,89.8.60 to apply ?s interest on the $600,000 and $800(?00 rtyghway bonds -now^vhding spent for paving, projects in this county. Baptist Churth SercVices On ffcmday 'morrting act <the H:16 oVlock service Rev. Greer, pastor of iibe Baptist cctaardb ?tf Mayeeville, wCl hare charge of the aervioe. Sunday school will he at .ID a.m. On Wednesday evening jd .8:30 o'clock will 4>o the prayer meeting service. All &ne cordially invited ;U> these aervSoea. Bethune GeAs Comity Cbampieushtp In the American Legion baseball league for thh county Bethune has been awarded championship. On Thursday, July 18, the decirfing game was played at the local ball park bp* tween Blaney and Bethune with Be* thune winning with a sdore of 18 te 5. The line up was as follows: Bethune: Watford, King, Datfs, Mc-' Laurin, _ J., McLaurin; R* Bakerr Jones, Glyburn, -Stewart. Bl^lMF'i Simpson, Thornton, Rose, C.# Sanders, Branham, Edens, Rose, L.'? Kelly, Ross. . ... i I, -1 _ -^r Early Morning Marriage. Mr Henry Edward Branch, of Durham, N. C., and Ml.? Sarkh Clement,, of Adrian, Oa., war. marri^d at tjle home of Probate Judge W. L. McDowell on Monday morning leatet 8:80 o'clock. Immediately after Km marriage .tbe ywinf couple left ?n the Charlotte hue for Dtulmm, plwee SmmUrdmOil Oomprtjr^nad where SwwKk" Tuberculosis Patients On Ltete Of Waiting Challenging the people of the tate to increased interest and effort n the struggle to build a ward for roroen patients at the State Sanatorium, the Masons are asking that ublicity be given the fact that there re rpfr 214 tuborculoals patients waiting their turn for treatment at he sanatorium. In the long list of hose who are hoping against hope or a chance to get Well are 88 vomen and 43 men, ill enough for ufirmary care, whose opportunity nust come soon if their lives are to * saved** ist is one on which are grouped 14 vomen and U men in earlier stages >f the disease whose chances for reovery. are excellent if they cnn be idmitted soon, but who are risking heir hope of recovery by losing (round as they wait for their turn, besides these two ligtft is that of 50 colored men and women lined up for i place at Palmetto Sanatorium. Perhaps the most appealing of all the waiting list is that of the 27 children who have not yf t been notified that they can be admitted to Campbell Hall, the children's t^nit, of $he State Sanatorium. There is no way of estimating how this number may be increased by the infection of ehlldren in the -homes" of the adult patients who are still on the waiting list. The state treasurer of the Masonic Tuberculosis campaign has received more than 115,000 of the $50^106 which was set as a goal. A great deal more has "been ^collected and T$ stiR-hrthe hands of the local lodges who have not finished their efforts and who will report later. X 'quota of $3.90 per member or mono was requested from all lodges. The following have exceeded that amotptt: Aiken "Lodge No. ~:g* Aiken, 86 members, $10 per capital Winnrboro Lodge No. 11 at Whtttsbaro, 182 members, $6 per capita; Rdtledge "Lodge No. 351 at Uhi^ 30 members, $5 per capita; Lexington Lodge No. 152'at Lexington, 76 memberg, $4770 per capita; Sheppard Lodge No. 32Q at Trenton, 34 members, $4.60 per capita; 'Coleman Lodge No 97 -dt Shelton, 54 members, $4.50 per capita; Mine Lodge No. 177 at McCormick, 88 members, $4.30 per capita; Parksville Lodge No. 199 at Parksville, 47 members, $4.30 per capita; Taylors Lodge No. 345 at Taylors, 48 -members, $3.26 per cap it*. * , , Two-thirds of the lodges have not reported arvd not five, per cent have closed the canvass and made their fhsal report. - i. A Son Born ;v Announcement of the birth of Charles Henry Eichcl in St. Louis on July 78, has been received in Camden. He is the son of Mr.-and Mrs. ^inron Wolfe 'Eichel of St. Louis. The father is a native of Camden, the-son-of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eichel pf this city, and the mother 1b the former Miss Virginia Blotk of St. Louis. Mr. Eidhel moved to St. tibuis in 1926. Marriage at Lugoff. - Mr. tleorge Mickle and Miss Thelma Truesda'le were married at the Methodist parsonage at Lugdff last Saturday evening, the ceremony being performed by Rev. E. V. Best. The groom is a son of Mr. Robert T. Mickle of the Rabon's Cross ftoads section of West Wafteree, and is well known and "held in high esteem by his friends. The bride^is a daughter of.Mr. and Mrs. John W. Truesdale of the "Westville section. She is a recent graduate nurse from the Oamden hospital and is one of the most popular to ever graduate from-that"inatUntfan. .iX-.v " ? ' Annual Camp and Short Course^ The annual camp and short-eourSe ^or bhc Home Demonstration women of the county will be held at Charlotte Thompson school house about eight mile* from Oamden on July 30, 31 and August 1. Three days of recrwtfc^~reat and instruction have been .planned for them by Miss Alma Bungeee, county agent and it is hoped that every member in the county will he present. vMrt. S. O. Plowden, district agent will be bennahfc to etay aiMgltt are aged g| ^tepre??t an during Ifce daya,-^. Alligator Hunter Confesaee Murder Tuvures, Florida, July 28.?The mystery that shrouded the brutal i laying 0f an elderly couple in their 1 .oiling station at Mohawk on the i night of July 6th, today wus cleared t away by Lake county authorities who j announced that one of three men in 1 Jail here had confessed to the slaying, < implicating one of the others under arrest. A special grand jury will in- 1 fipstigute the case tomorrow. i Officers said H. W. Prescotte, an j alligator hunter of Fisherman's Par- 1 adiso, had confessed he and ?1. C, "] ^JPike of Winter Garden, beat Mrs. An- > Gillis and Levi Allen to death i |with a hammer during an argument i over payment for soft drinks and money due them for alligator hides j they had sold the couple. ] Prescotte in his confession to of- *1 jlcers said he and Pike went" to the ] filing station to buy soft drinks and ?hat when payment was demanded i an argument ensued. He, said he and .< >ikc asked payment for alliguto- i bides they had sold Mrs. Gillie and * heated words followed. Prescotte said he was slapped with a knife and Pike came to his rescue with a hammer, killing both the man and the woman With his blows. The confession denied that the two men had any intention Of robbing the place. Ruffin Rogers of Apopka, the third man held, Prescotte said sought to assist him and Pike in "framing" a story of an all night alligator hunt. Rogers is held as a material witness. Allen and Mrs. Gillis had lived at Jfeihawk for some time as brother and sister, but after their deaths relatives declared they were not related. Allen was a past master of the Grange at Oxford, Mass., and formerly operated a large dairy farm at Oxford, Mrs. Gillis was said to be from Worcester, Mass., where she pas superintendent of a rest home and at one time was on the editorial staff of the 'War Cry" Salvation Army publication. Coavicted aft <Cana*ta#e? Prague, Ozecho Slovakia, July 17. ?Fourteen out of nineteen Gypsies who have been on trial at Kaschau in connection With charges of cannibalism were found guilty today. Cannibalism itself Was not made one of the formal changes because the penal code of Czecho Slovakia does not deal with that subject. Sentences -will be passed Satarday. When the case came up in April the attorney-"general at first rejected confessions by the Gypsies as being beyond belief. Later "he said that investigation at the scenes Of the crimes had revealed unmistakable evidence that left no room for doubt. ) Shock Was Too Great Spartanburg, July 18.?When Miss Lou Carswell of Aiken, S. 'C., was dealt thirteen diamonds in a bridge game here last night she .fainted. Water was necessary to bring her around. Abandons Appeal . Charleston, July 18.?Robert J. Watson of Bkmey, sentenced to ten years for killing Earle R. Fetter, army , cook, has decided to abandon his appeal to the state supreme court, J. C. Long, his attorney announced here_yeSterday. He. was convicted of manslaughter June. 11. At the time of the trie) he said he shot in self defense. Passes State Examination. It is with interest and pleasure that the friends of Miss Stella Catherine Bowen, formerly of Blaney, note her name in the list of registered nurses who -passed the recent state examination. She was graduated in the spring from the Nurses' Training School of the Greenville city hospital, I which she entered as a student in February 1926 from the Tamassee lndustrtal School of Oconee, wheye she had feceived her public school preparation. Death at Mill Village. ""Edward. H. Stone, 50, a resident of the Wateree mill village died last Sunday , evening. He had been in bad health for some time. Mr. Stone had been wMiip^arried and he is survived by his second wife who was the widow of Mr. Stewart who met death in an automobile accident near the Hermitage mill eome years ago. He laaxfct three grown children by Ws first marriage, -who reside in other towfts. Th* vfQag** *nd burial vrmi in Iten From. Colleges In State's Prison , Columbia, July 23.?It has bean well aaid /that a college education is of tanefit in every walk of life. This nay be true even if the path leads hrough prison doors. A survey of ] )risone show that college men are i -here and that they are trusted with i >fflce duties and other executive work, i "It is hard to say how many col- 1 lege men we have on our rolls," said < ''apt. J. O. Saunders, captain of the \ guard of the South Carolina peniten- i tiary. "We only have the word of the \ prisoners for it, you know, as to whether they wont to college or not, 1 ind some of them may not give such ! information. ( "We do have men we know of, rep- ' resenting five of South Carolina'? ! leading colleges. Some of these men help with the office work of the i prison." Lr Some of the men in the penitentiary, the captairf said, have high school education, but most of them are not educated at all, and many of them cannot read or write. It is a touching sight to witness little groups on the prison grounds, huddled, it may be, around one man who can reud and who reads aloud. During 1928 the number of prisoners in the penitentiary increased by 138, but-ai-tho same time the number of illiterates decreased. In 1927 there were 152 prisoners who could not read and'write, while in 1928 the number of illiterates had decreased to 1.7 per cent. The prisoners read the newspapers with much interest. The recent Rafo King trial at.OheBter won much of their reading tint. They devour baseball scores and news. Aviation endurance and long distance flights are of much interest to them. "'The prisoners are great Bports Sans. Baseball is their chief athletic interest. Many of the prisoners are excellent ball pi ayes and they have a first class team .that _ jputa up a splendid brand of baseball, *fhey have games Saturday and Wednesday afternoons, as these days are half, holidays for the prisoners. The prison team has played many games with other teams in Columbia, alfways, however, on their own "home grounds." Liner Breaks Record. New York, July 22,?The new German 'liner Bremen reached Ambros Light at the entrance to New York harbor at 3:02 p. m., daylight this afternoon, easily breaking the speed record for ocean crossing held by the Manretania. The Bremen's time from Cherbourg on its maiden voyage was four days, 18 hours and 17 minutes, which beat the Mauretania's time by 8 hours and 17 minutes. Death of Leroy Hilton Leroy Hilton, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. J, M. Hilton of Kershaw, died at the Baptist Hospital, Columbia, Friday night after a short iHness. The body was carried to Kershaw at noon Sunday. Funeral services were held at the residence of his parents at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, conducted by the Rev. George E. Smith. Jptcrment was in the Kershaw cemetery.?Lancaster News. McGraw Case Mlrtrttl Columbia, July 18.?Thb jury trying A. B. McGraw, New Brookland police officer, for murder of Henry Martin reported a few minutes be-1 fore 9 o'clock this morning it had been unable to reach a verdict. It had been deliberating for more than thirteen and a-half hours. Judge W. H. Towtisend, who was already at the court house, declared a mistrial and discharged the jury after thanking them for their efforts. The case was begun Tuesday morning and since that time the jury ha/1 been kept together. _ During the two days of the trial a mass of testimony was offered, including that of Officer McGraw, who took the stand to toll how he shot Martin in self-defense in* the operating room of the Oohtmbia Hospital as the latter was approaching him with an open knife. The policeman had taken Martin and a companion to the hospital for treatment following an automobile accident in which they had been injured. ? Two nurses of the hospital, who were at the doorefLthe room trhtn McGraw shot, testified that they had not eeen Martin make buy move to* ward the officer. Records Determine the Value of Poultry Flock Clemcon College, July 20.?A qum >"?ry of the demonstration pooHry flocks in South fJsVolina for the month of Juno shows an average egg production of 16 eggH j*.,. j,en, from ' a total of 1)4 Hocks included in tho summary, representing 13,744 birds, says P. H. Gooding, extension poultryman, Clomson College. The feed 20st per hen was 34,8 cents und tho total income was 77.0 cents, leaving a net profit of 43.1 cents per hen for tho month. "** "H. P. Cromer of. Laurens led tho backyard class with a production of? , 24.2 eggs per hen, In the farm flock shisa R. S. Cask ill, of Clinton, lad with a production of 24.7 eggs per hen. In the commercial class J. J, Armstrong, of WiHiamston, led with a production of 22.1 eggs per hen, "Every day," continues Mr. Gooding, "questions as to whether the farm poultry flock pay, are asked. *' ^ When properly managed, the farm poultry Hock is a paying proposition, as proven by the above figures. "The only way to find out definite- " ;||| ly whether a flock is making or l<yjing money is to ffcep records of all transactions involving the flock. These records enable one to analyze their business. Each year more poultryu?en are~lakThg' advantage of the service ^offered by the Poultry Divis- ; '||| on'irvAhe keeping of accurate records on the farm's flock." ^IgB -im A Kicking Ford. DiHoniJuly. 19.?A vgty. accident happened at the home of t 1 Walter Wallace, when both father and son ,broke thbir arpis in attempting to crank a car. ' ' ?' ?' ) The son, Wade Wallace, tfhdn ht- ' tempting to crank the car, bfok* Mb arm, when the motor kicked back* - 4S1 His father, Walter Wallace, went:to x:':: his son's assistance and started to canik the car to cptry his son to A 3 physician, Tho motor kicked again and broke Mr. Wallace'skfm. .4j Started On Small. Scale. Brookhaven, Miss., July 20.?Starting in 1027 with a total capital of six * Sa acres and $4.20f>J. D. Merritt has developed a poultry farm of 31 acres, 1,200 White Leghorn hens and 6,000 baby chicks. He values his investment at $16,060^One day alone his sale of eggs totalled $00, He also owns 14 dairy cows, When he started, Merritt invested' his $4.20 invdmby clucks, raising 21 hens from the lot. He got 4,106 eggs from the 21 hens in 11 months. He turned most of his income back into his farm. The business has grown un- . til Merritt predicts that it will be the largest in west Mississippf witliih three year*,- : .... ^ Unusual Operation. - Springf^eldi Me., July 22.?An open safety pin and a piece of pongee cloth eight inches wide and a yard . long, was removed from the esophagus of Mrs. Mary Btalsh, 30, of Springfield, by Doctors W. C. Cheek and Jay Silsby here yesterday. Relatives of the woman were unable tor explain how Mrs- gIfti*h h>m^ ^;*wallow the pin and cloth Saturday night. .The pin's poiht#*s lodged in the wall of the esophagttftand the clotty wadded down " Three Convicts Slain Jl| Dannemora, N. Y., July 22.?Behind a smoke screen issuing from 0 building they set afire, a band of the .. jj! toughest criminals in the state led 11,800 inmates of Clinton prison in a break for liberty today. ? When the smoke cleared three convicts were degdp twenty were wounded, two guards were injured, the prison carpenter shop was burned an<| the dynamo that furnished the prison light was smashed, but not a prisoner . -^5 had escaped. Tho instigators and leaders of the ~? riot, which finally was quelled by guards mounted on the walls with rifles and machine guns, were lifers ~ sent to Clinton prison for discipline from other dtate prisons where they had proven , themselves "hard cases * ?~ v- I ' ' ' , IV James Foreman and his wife Mary Foreman, aged retired farmers of Barboursville, Ky., were found murdered in their home Monday. They had been beaten, choked and shot * through the heart. Foreman inuT *gTfc?boUM --j