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Hi Camden Chronici r VOLUME 41. ?? ' CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROLINA. FR.DAY. NOVFMH.P , ^ ??^ ? NUMBER 32 Eleventh Annual Fair to Open Here Next Week w 1 " Opening of New Fair Grounds and Woodward Airport to be Feature for ThursdayNumber of Exhibits to Exceed Those of Last Year Noted Speakers to be Here and Army and Naval Planes to Take Part?Football To Be a Feature for Friday. With less than a week remaining lefore the gates will open on the Seventh annual Kershaw County >iir, officers *of the association and md8 of the various departments late that practically everything exept the very last minute details have een completed and that indications oint to one of the best fairs ever eld in the history of the organizaion. These annual exhibitions of he county's resources from an agicultural standpoint have been very ducational to our people?not only I'rom the agricultural side of life, but I from the handiwork of the women *ho delight in economics and household goods. We are told that all Spaces ior booths in the exhibit building have been taken. Poultry Show f The new fair grounds this year afford adequate room for the fowls now being raised on Kershaw County farms, and this year's exhibits will indoubtedly surpass anything yet Inhibited. I. Home Demonstration Exhibits kWcations now point to the finest demonstration exhibits ever as M it. this department. This is department in which many take Bcial delight irv putting forth their efforts. I Household Department The household department which PiHy carries the largest number pentries is expected to double those former years. Other Departments I The floral, Art and Needle and ptcy Work departments, so popular ph the women, will have keener repetition than ever before. School, Exhibits [School exhibits which have always Facted a large portion of the visw* attention and- in former years ife won state premiums, will again kire this department. Some of km have been hot contestants and F year will see . many vieing with |e another to see who can capture k prizes. Live Stock Exhibits [This year, on account of the interIraised in dairying, cattle breeding phog raising, the premiums are Fh while, and exhibitors are now paring for a good showing in this ftase exhibits will all be worth Pf- You can learn from your phbor many things that will be advantage. Come to the fair?ask phow he does it. Tell him how fdo it. The exchange of ideas beneficial. I Entertainment Features P* entertainment features of the pth annual Kershaw County Fttclud. a program never before ror heard at the general flln of Pj fa;is. The association this u T?i tunate to present a varied that wiH undoubtedly bring *r the largest assemblage seen Capi?nl of Kershaw County in years. program for Thursday, the opincludes an auto, parade PTbt' h air Grounds on lower Main fjt where they will assemble at F?clock. Participating in thi$ |7e .*hich will go to the WoodP lrPort for its official opening the various organisations of I th '' 2? :Shrine Patrol from SumItb ?hrine C0l"ps from Florence mth e band fTVm Columbia. I - * Tan- grounds the parade El WfK^ward Field where" L airplanes from WbshIT.^vPensacola' P1*-? will give C?IFbitions. Woodwax brother of ErF 0odward, donor of WoodI ward Field, will have three planes here for the week. One,of them will be piloted by George Haldeman, who landed on the coast of Spain in an attempted trans-Atlahtic flight with Ruth Elder. The Woodward Aviation Commission sent personul fopresentutives to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, with an invitation that he be present, but so far, they have been unable to get a definite promise as to whether he will be present or not. Attorney L. A, Kirkland, who has been active in the interest of securing Camden's aviation field and who is intensely interested in aviation will introduce Governor John G. Richards as a speaker and also Congressman W. F. Stevenson at the airpbrt. Among those of other cities who will be prominent guests of the occasion are Mayor Thomas P. Stoney, of Charleston, and Mayor L. B. Owens, of Columbia. While in the city they will be guests of Mayor and Mrs. C. P. DuBose. While in the city Governor Richards will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Birchmore. Senator Please to Speak After the airport opening the next attraction will be the address of Hon. Cole L. Blease, United States Senator from South Carolina. Mr. Blease always draws a large assemblage. He is looked upon as one of the most conspicuous figures in the national house and has the largest following of any man in iSouth Carolina and many will come here from all parts of the state to hear his address. While in the city, he and Congressman Stevenson will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Garrison, Jr., the former being president of the county fair association. A football game on Friday at 3 p. m. between Camden and Rock Hill high school teams will bring a host j - of friends to see these teams battle ; at the county fair gridiron. One of the outstanding social features of the week will be the dance at the new armory building given in horror of the army and navy flyers who will participate in the air maneuvers for the opening of Woodward airport. The association also has engaged the Tip-Top Shows to furnish entertainment for the week, commencing on Monday and there will also be a number of free exhibitions that wiLV delight the crowds. Smith to Speak on Armistice Day Judge Mendel L. Smith, of Camden, will be principal speaker at an Armistice Day program at the Rivoli" theatre at 8 o'clock on the night of November 11, planned by Greenville post of American Legion and the local Auxiliary, it was announced yesterday by officials of the organizations. Generhl plans for the event wel*e made at a meeting of the executive board of the Auxiliary yesterday morning with Mrs. John Lucius, president in charge. ? Sunday's Greenville News. Cotton Ginnings Off Cotton ginned in Kershaw County prior to October 18, numbered 6,42o bales in 1929, with 9,154 bales during same period in 1928, according to Thomas T. Truesdell, cotton ginning reporter. Fails to Open Parachute Bellingham, Wash.? Becoming frightened after he had leaped from an airplane, Ed. Mills failed to open his parachute and dropped to his death 2,000 feet below.1 It was his first attempt at parachute jumping, Barbecue at Wateree Members of the Wateree Baptist church, recently dedicated will serve a barbecue at Wateree park, near the mill, on Saturday afternoon, November 2, from five to seven o'clock. The proceeds from the sale of the bn rbecue will go for the benefit of the new church furnishings. A charge of 76 oenta wRl be made. Wall Street Scenes Wild and Hectic New York, Oct. 24.?The remarkable eru of avid public speculation In stocks which has swept over the country during the past five years came to a climax today in the tnost terrifying stampede of selling ever experienced on the New York stock exchange and other leading security markets. . Not since the war panic which resulted in closing the exchange for 17 weeks in 1914 has Wall street seen such a dark and trying day, w*d never in financial history have Security markets been thrown into ,such tumult. Stock markets in Buffalo were unable to face the situation and trading was suspended, but the New York stock exchange and curb exchanges saw the ordeal throilgh, several brokers collapsed and had to be helped from the trading floors. By early afternoon, the situation became so grave that a hurried meeting of leading -bankers was called at the offices of J. P. Morgan & Co., and a reassuring statement issued from the conference by Thomas W. Lamont, one of the Morgan partners, finally checked the sickening drop of stock prices and saved tho 1 market from a complete impasse. . iScores of important stocks tumbled from $150 to $70 a share, paper values vanishing at the rate of tens o? millions of dollars a minute, until mid afternoon, when the bankers' statement prompted large operators who were reaping millions in selling the market short, to cover their commitments, and prices of many issues rebounded substantially. Total sale% on the stock exchange reached the amazing figure of 12,984,680 shares, surpassing by more than 50 per cent, the previous record of 8,246,740 reached on March 26. The ticker quotation service fell hours behind transactions, and traders who ; were unable to get quotations front I the floor through their brokers pro! ceeded blindly, save at intervals when a few stock quotations were sent out through the bond market tickers. Standard dividend paying >stocks were thrown overboard along with the more speculative issues. Stocks were sold for what they would bring in blocks of from 1,000 to 150,000 shares. Traders on the floor of the stock exchange shrieked and howled their offers for desperate minutes before they found takers. Such a roar arose from the stock exchange floor that it could be heard for blocks up and down Brown and Wall streets. Speculators and sight seers poured into Wall street- in such volume that extra traffic police were required to handle them, ar*i the stock exchange gallery/ to which spectators are admitted only upon recommendation of a partner in a member brokerage 'firm, was closed t$ the public. To Meet Here Next Year. The Kershaw Baptist Association which met at Mount Pisgah Baptist church was attended by sixteen delegates from the First Baptist church bf Camden. The delegates from here extended an invitation for the association to meet in Camden next October and it was voted to accept the invitation. Dr. Thayer Dead Sumter, Oct. 24.?'The Rev. William Edwin Thayer, D. D., died at his home here tonight. He was born in Charleston, S. C., October 11, 1872, the son of William Thayer of that city. Dr. Thayer was educnted at Richmond college where he received the A. B. degree and at Louisville seminary where he received the degree of B. D. He received his Doctor Of Divinity from Furman university. His pastorates were at Ridge Springs and Rock Hill, Winchester, Ky., Laurens, Chester and Sumter. Here he was pastor of the First Baptist church for thirteen years. Because of ill health he resigned the pastorate of the church here two years ago. Dr. Thayer is survived by his widow. who was Miss Nettie Lou Mauldin. of Greenville. Mr. and Mrs. William C. Moore have returned from a visit to relatives in Richmond. They will have an apartment at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Wilson on Lyttleton street. Mrs. Moore prior to her marriage wa%?Miss Margaret Hogue. ~ ,' ... --- A*_ ??-? - . 1 v J?J- " imiiyr Grand Jury Frees Gaslonia Killers . N. C.f Oct. 24.?The ntmmei) arrested in connection wjlh .the kilnn^ of Mrs. May Wiggins, and tin seven arrested after the kidnaping of three National Textile Workers union organizers, were freed todav by a Gaston county grand jury. No "true bills" were found against any of the sixteen, after bills of indictment had been drawn by Solicitor ,T.,hn G. Carpenter. Hie killing of Mrs. Wiggins occurred near Bessemer City on September 14 when an alleged anti-Comihunist mob turned back a truck load Ol Bessemer City cotton mill strikers en route to a meeting in Gastonia, .following them and later fired into the group, one of the bullets striking 1 ier and killing her almost instnntlv. Two sessions of a coroner's jury were hold after the nine men had been ordered held the jurors did not place the blame for firing the fatal shot on any of them, however. 1 he kidnaping and subsequent Hogging of one of these men captured took place September 9. A- mob entered a Gastdnia boardtfig house, seized Ben Wells, who was later beaten, and C. M. Lell and C. D. Sajlors taking them to Cabarus county almost 50 miles distant. Four of the nine men were tried in a Cabarus county court last week but were acquitted. ?? m Married Mr. Hubert MeLeod, of Camden, and Miss Lois Denton, of Greenville, were married in Greenville on Saturday, the Judge of Probate in that city performing the ceremony. The young couple are making their home in Camden. Fire Damages Ginnery A small amount of damage was caused by fire at the ginnery of Kha ne Brothers on Arthur street last Saturday. The fire department put the flames out. The loss was covered by insurance. The gin was put out of commission for only a short while. PERSONAL MENTION Messrs. S. W. ?(ogue, J. B. Wallace, Albert Goodale and John Laurens Mills were spectators at the football game in Orangeburg yesterday. Messrs. Hughey Tindall, Leonard Schenk and James Watts were among Camden people at the Carolina-Citadel football game in Orangeburg yesterday. Misses Rosa MeLeod, SibleRhoden, Ila Mae Rhoden and Eloise Rhoden were in attendance upon the Caroiina-Citadel football game in Orangeburg Thursday. Mrs. Frederick Robinson returned to -Camden last week from Ryd, N. Y., where she spent the summer. She is occupying her lovely home on north Lyttleton street. Dr. and Mrs. W. R. Clyburn, Mrs. James Clyburn and Francis MontI gomery formed a party to Orange' burg yesterday to see the CarolinaCitadel football game. Mrs. Grace P. T. Knudson and Miss Mabel Appleton, of Castine, Me., have returned to Camden for the winter. They will again open The Torii jShQP in the Geisenheimer house on north Broad street. Dr. Hubert Padgett, Miss Bernice Padgett and Miss Dot Crosby, of Ruflfin, spent last week end with their aunt, Mrs. A. C. Drawdy on Mil! street. On Sunday they accompanied M iss Virginia Drawdy to Winthrop College where they spent the 'day with Miss Drawdy and Miss Natalye Padgett. Friends of Mr. C. J. Shannon, 4th, will be glad to learn that he is improving rapidly from an operation of appendicitis which was performed on Wednesday in Durham, N. C. Mr. Shannon is a student at the yniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and it was there that he was taken ill and rushed t<> the hospital in Durham. His father, Mr. C. J. Shannon, Jr^ spent several days in Durham last week. - rrrr Mrs. Charles Sowell, Mrs. Colemah Shaw and Mrs. W. R. Hough attend-, ed the tone meeting of the Methodist church in Kershaw Tuesday afternoon, k Hugh TV Mart, 54, of Spartanburg, widely known as a photographer, band director and musical composer, is dead at Spartanburg. ? ? *" ^ y* 1 *1 Parent-Teachers Meet Held Tuesday In h meeting of delegates from th? individual parent-teachers organisations throughout Kershaw County held Tuesday afternoon in the high school auditorium for the purpose of forming ? county organisation in affiliation with yie stale and national parent-teacher Issociation, Mrs. Otis Arrowsmith of Kingstree, state president, defined the work that is being done by the club, and gave a few suggestions as to how the work of organization should be carried on. The basic idea of the association, said Mrs. Arrowsmith, is the training ;of parents; next, bringing about the co-operation of parents with the school authorities. Its chief uim and end is the welfare of the child, and it wishes to include among its members not only parents and teachers, but all those who are interested in children. It is the duty of each local branch of the association, she said, to lind what it? own school needs, by meeting With teachers and superintendents unci tfoen co-operate with them in obtaining these things. After Mrs. Arrowsmith spoke, E. W. Rent/., from the Blaney school, told of the success of the Andrews association, with which he worked last year. The business of organizing the Kershaw county association was then begun. Mr. Rentz was elected president; Mrs. J. O. Funderburk, of Antioch, vice president; J. C. Foster, ol Bethune, treasurer, and Mrs. I. D Boykin, of Charlotte Thompson, secretary. Mrs. Kathleen B. Watts, the superintendent of education, was appointed organizer, to bring the local clubs together. Music was provided during the af ternoon by Mrs. James DeLoache, Jr and Elizabeth Zemp, who gave a violin duet, accompanied by Mrs. F. W Chapman at the piano. Miss Rost Curry of the Kershaw school, sang * group of songs, Miss Maclaren at th* piano. , - Camden Presbyterian Church v The sermon subject for Novembci 3 will be "When God Seems Fa Away and Unwilling to Help." At the mid-week service next Wed nesday we study the parable of tin Pharisee and the Publican. Last Sunday morning the Rev. S K. Phillips of the Arsenal Hill churcli in Columbia preached to this congregation on the needs of Presbyteriar college. The pastor of the churcr spoke in the church of Bethune or the same subject. On Tuesday evening, November 5 at seven o'clock in the Sunday 'School rooms of the church a complimentary dinner will be given the men of the Presbyterian churches of Bethunt. Cassatt and Camden. This dinner is given by the committee on the Program of Deliverance for Presbyterian College at the request of Mr. MeSween. No effort will be made to subscribe funds for the college. No charge will be made for the dinner. President McSween merely desires this opportunity to speak to the men of these three churches on the program of deliverance. The officers of the mens' club and the pastor urge every man in these churches to be present. Sunday School at 10 a. m., Morning worship at 11:15., Mid-week service on Wednesday evening at 7:30. You are invited to all these services. Wolfe To Run For Attorney General Columbia, Oct. 26.?Sam M. Wolfe, widely known Anderson attorney, today announced that,he would be a candidate for South Carolina attorney-general in the 1930 election. > Mr. Wolfe served the state in that capacity for six years once before, finally voluntarily retiring. Although he has made no announcement to that effect. J. M. Daniel, the present attorney-general, is expected to be a candidate for re-election, opposing Mr. Wolfe. Reaches Over to London London, Oct. 28?Communists and London police fought Tor more thar. a half hour outside the Am$fican embassy last night when several hundred paraders attempted to present a resolution to protest at the Gaatonia, N. C., textile workers' trials. ? i. mi., ?ijjj. 11,11 i? i j,i. ji.... .. j.?ligggsr Handsome Church i Dedicated Sunday A great many city officials and Other residents of Camden, friends of the Wat*fee Baptist congivgution, attended the dedication of the handsome new Waterce Baptist church m the Watoive mill village" Sunday afternoon. Rev. Dr. W. M. Whitesides, superintendent of the Baptist hospital in Columbia, guve the dedicatory sermon. Rev. T. 1- Willjnghnm, the pastor of this church presided. Rev. J. B. ( aston opened the meeting with a prayer, nnd Scripture reading was by Rev. George Pierce Watson. Other ministers occupying Ihe platform were Rev. C. (?. Richardson, of Grace Episcopal church and Rev. C. 1.. Norman of the Hermitage church. Short talks were made by Mr. A. Stanley Llewellyn, Mi. H. P. Kendall, president of the Kendall Mills, My. H. G. Garrison, of the county board of directors, Mayor C. P. DuBose and Mr. J. E. Robinson, of the board of deacons of the church. The church, designed by Perry, Shaw & Hepburn, of Boston, ^nd built by George A. Creed, of Camden, is built along colonial lines and is an emblem of new beauty that is coming to mill vHlages. The brick used in the building was made in Salem, Vii., and is of the same type as that used in the restoration of Williamsburg, Va. It if of such a texture that it gives the appearance of real antiquity, Mr. H. P. Kendall, president of the Kendall , company, which owns the mill, has given his personal attention to the i designing of the building. The cost of the new structure was ? I approximately $30,000. Ten thousand dollars was paid by the Wateree - Baptist church from insurance m^?. ey when the old church burned, and the rest was giyen by the Kendall . company. The church is to be chaii tered according to the laws of South i Carolina and turned over to the mem* ? bors of the Wateree Baptist church. The members and friends of the church have furnished hymn books, Bible, piano nnd carpet and are now putting on a drive for the necessary 1 furnishings which are still to be add1 ed. It is a beautiful structure, with Sunday school rooms, baptisn&l pool, room for serving church suppers ana all modern conveniences. ; Hampshire Hogs Also To Compete | The Kershaw County Fair catalog this year did not list Hampshire hogsfor premium contestants. However, | arrangements have been made for r Hampshire hogs to compete on the ^ same basis as do the other breeds as listed. It~~is hoped and urged that many hogs be shown at the fair this year. It is likewise urged that poultry owners enter all forms and breeds of poultry ?chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, guineas and pigeons. Nearly seven thousand baby chicks have been ordered by members of the County Poultry Association, so it is evident that interest in poultry is good and we should cooperate by showing our birds at the fair, thereby increasing this already splendid interest and help put Kershaw among the leading podltry counties of South Carolina. ?Henry D. Green, County Agent. Methodist Church Services Lyttleton Street Methodist Church, near Hampton Park. George Pierce Watson, pastor. -Sunday, November 3 services will be: Bible school with "classes for all attendants at 10 a. m., with Mr. L. C. Shaw, superintendent. Epworth League, especially for tho young peopje at 6:45 p. m. Public wtfTship at 11:15 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., conducted by the pastor. Morning theme: "Elijah Under the Juniper Tree." Evening tlieme: "Sowing and Reaping." A study especially for the young people and they are earnestly requested to attend. Midweek service, Wednesday, 7:30 p. ifi. The public is most cordially invited to all the services of this church.Come and bring your friends. , To Be Tried For Embezzlement James W. Ladd, Jr., for about a year postmaster of Sumter ap- , pointment from outside, will be tried in the Federal court which convenes in Columbia November 4fh on tho charge of embezzling postoffic.