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[ 5* ^*HE Camden Chronicle to* I VOLUME41' ^ CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 28. >930 NUMBER 49 ~ I Many Now Enjoying I Camden's Climate " # March first brings the apex of the (Carolina resort season, and finds I Gamdcn aetivity at its height in all directions. v I Social affairs are so numerous us 1. to render reporting difficult, and Hunts, Pplo matches and Golf tournaments are daily events. The Blue and lied Polo teams meetK ing in daily combat, are giving splendid exhibitions of their skill in Polo I on, Field No. 1. Participating in the match games are: C. V. B. Gush-man,. Wabson Pomeroy, Carroll K. Bassett, Jr., Charles Nichols, Gaddis Plumb, Sumuel Russell, Charles Little, It. Norton, Norman Snow, R. S. Allison, and Laurence Norton. I, 1-'. Klliott Cabot, who is passing the season at the Kirk wood acts as refDrag Hunts are run off twice weekly, and after the Tuesday Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Pomeroy entertained the field with a breakfast at their home, One of the most unique and delightful events of the current week was the barbecue and picnic given by Mr. Stanley Forbes, of New York, and I Mr. Al I). Kennedy, of Camden, at Ingleside Plantation.' Luncheon was I served under the pines in true plan tation style, and singing by darkies from the place delighted the marry Northern guests. Sunday afternoon's exhibition golf I match played over the Kirk wood ' B course between Tom Harmon and Everett Bacon against Lester Tait and B Eugene Homan resulted in a tie , B score. In the Sarsfield Club House are exhibited a very handsome display of golf trophies, among them a cup presented by Colonel J'ohn Caswell of B New York for best gross score of 18 holes during March, and another by Colonel Frank Presbrey,'"klso of New York, for best March net score. House parties are numerous, and among them are several guests from H Cleveland visiting Messrs Laurence I B C. Norton and Robert H. Norton. I Mrs. Robert B. Deans returned : from New York for the Washington's! Birthday events, and has with her j B M iss Morsehead and Mr. and Mrs. ! B Philip Franklin, of New York. ' ! Mrs. Hartley Dewart, of Toronto, i is visiting Miss Euphemia What- | redge, and Miss Phoebe Rollinson, of . B West Orange, and Miss Alice Kelley, | B of Summit, are guests of Mrs. CarB roll P. Baasett and Miss Estelle i Bassett af Goodie Castled M iss Olive Whittredge entertained t B recently with a luncheon at her home-! for twenty-four guests, and on Mon-1 B day evening, Mrs. Robert B. Deans, honoring the birthday of her father, . Mr. R. W. Pomeroy, gave a dinner at her cottage. At Green Leaf Villa affairs have )>een too numerous to chronicle all, but among them are noted a dinner for eighteen with Mrs. John S. Sweeney as hostess; a luncheon by Mrs. David E. Williams, of Philadelphia and the Court Inn, for nine; a luncheon by Mrs. H. G. Casler, of the Court Inn, for seven and another luncheon by Mrs. Alfred Bill for six guests. Many parties have also been held at the Old Mill, the Precipice and the Mt. Pleasant Plantation, the marvelous spring-like weather having lured visitors to long drives through the fragrant pines. Mrs. George B. Martin was hostess this week with two tables of bridge at her cottage, guests being Mrs. T. E. Krumbholz, Mrs. H. G. Marvin, Mrs. Henry Savage, the Misses Elizabeth Farrelly and Katherine Farrelly, Mrs. Thomas J. Kirkland, Mrs. Warren H. Harris, Mrs. D. O. Houser and Miss Leila Shannon. Mrs. S. Dacre Bush, of the cottage coloijy, gave a small tea for Dr. and Mrs. George Roe Lookwood, Miss Florence Dobie and others. Mr. and Mrs. W. Roscoe Bonsai, of Charleston, and Mr. and Mrs. W. Roscoe Bonsai, Jr., of Camden, were dinner guests this week at the Court Inn. Mr. Channing M. Wells, of Bostrn, has joined Mrs. Wells for a visit at the Kirkwood. A card party for the benefit of the (,atholic church will be given by the ladies of the parish in St. Mary's Hall on Tuesday afternoon, March tourth, at three p. m. 1 he committee in charge consists of Mrs. Woods Robinson, Mrs. GayJord lucker, Miss M. Eleanor Brown and Miss Elizabeth Farrelly. Arriving at the Court Inn recently are Mr. and Mrs. Alfred L. Ferguson, Miss Ruth Ferguson and Howard rerguson, of Greenwich; Mrs. Jack^,on Hoyd, of Southern Pines; Mrs. , k. Case, Mr. Kenneth Lord. Mrs. Bunnell Tappen, Miss Cathleen Tappon, o/ New York; Mrs. H. C. Wood\* rs> k- Smith, of Montclair; Mrs. P. R. Moffitt, of Dobbs' Ferry; iji Peter Hare-worth, of White j lains; Miss Estelle Adams, of West Grange. At the Kirkwood recent arrivals vt Uc!j ^r" WHham E. Stewart and vjr. Edwin Stewart, of South Orange; !, and Mrs. Herbert Coppell, of New York; Miss M. H. Poor, Miss Margaret Franks, of Salem; Mr. F. B. Moore, of Trenton; Mr. W. S. Hard2*' J^r- P- C. Percival, of Boston; Mr. Roger Williams, of Mount Vernon; Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Nelson, of Yonkers; Mr. and Mrs. Marshall of New York; Mr. and Mrs. a W<hsr, of Weehavrken; Mr. and Mrs M. M. Walther, of Tenafly; Mr. and Mrs. Matson C. Carnow, of ?och.e.lk;' Mis8 Blanche Cr Millet, Miss Estelle JP. Loeb, Mr. R. M. Ddr?ey, Mr. J. H. Killinger, of New ?-w- ~ - . . _ . ~ York; Dr. and Mrs. L. E. Dickerson, of White Plains; Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Kaven, of Worcester; Mr. and Mrs. E. Kirk Haskell, of Morris town; Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Aldrich, of New York and Mr. John Roger, of New York. Coming to Hobkirk Inn are Mrs. Ward C. Belcher, of Lakeville, Conn.; Miss Florence Willcock, Mrs. S. C. Milligan, of Pittsburgh; Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Lovell, of Melrose; Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Judson, of New York; Mr. Jesse Richards and Mr. W. H. Pearce, of Garden City and others. After visiting Mr. and Mrs. S. Dacre Bush, Mr. and Mrs. >S. Dacre Bush, 2nd, are passing a week at the Kirkwood. About twenty- golfers representing the Haig-Lar Golf Club, of Trenton, are playing the Kirkwood course this week coming down for their annual visit. In the party are Comptroller N. A. K. vBugbee, Messrs. H. W>Bradley, James West, Blase Cole, William Dolnn, Walter F. Smith, D. Lane Powers, F. B. Moore, Theodore T. Tama* Ralph Shaw, Herbert Caver ly, Edwin Bars tow, Samuel Munson, Floyd De Vore, Charles Smith, Frederick Barlow and others. Penney Manager Arrives In City F, F. Williams, who has been appointed by the J, C. Penney Company ajtf manager for the new store which will be opened in this city early in Mareh is now here completing plans for the opening and receiving his initial shipment of stock. Mr. 'Williams comes here from Florence where he was also connected with the Penney organization. The new store will be modelled after the last type of design adopted by the company for the convenience and service of customers and will present many new features adding to the facilities with which the wide range of women's and men's clothing footwear, piece goods and*other items in the large list of merchandise , handled, may be displayed. The new store in this city is number 1424 in the chain of stores which j covers every state in the union and ; which was started twenty-eight years ago in the town of Kemmerer, WyomingThe rate ?f growth of the company may be seen from the fact that there were 517 stores after 1t had been in business 22 years, approximately 500 ! more were added in the next four years and last year the number of new stores added totalled 372. Total sales for 1929 were in ex-, cess of $209,000,000 and estimates for 1930 anticipate over $245,000,000 in sales for this year. J. C. Penney, the founder of the J. C. Penney Company, is nationally known as the man with over 1,000 partners, because of the unique policy of the organization which makes every store manager a partner in the company. In its general methods of operation, every J. C. Penney Company store works largely as a local 'institution, the manager being able to profit from the buying facilities and merchandise distribution set-up . of the company. The majority of J. C. Penney Company managers are young home owners in the cities where their stores are located and in nearly every case are active members of civic and social organizations as well as being contributors to charitable groups and workers in the religious life of the community. The work of remodelling the Penney store building was under the supervision of R. E. Chewning, well known local contractor, who made it one of most pleasing appearance, and? adds much to that portion of Main street. A Charlotte Tragedy Camden people sympathize with the family of Mrs. ,Sarah C. Ashe, formerly of York, but now of Charlotte in the great tragedy which occurred in her ho^ne on Friday morning last in^ which she took the life of her young grandson, Beverly Payne, Jr., aged 5, in a moment of insanity and then tried to( end her own life by strangulation. ' She is now a patient at the Presbyterian hsopital hovering between life and death. ? Mrs. Ashe is known here to our older citizens as Miss Sarah C. Niles, where she was born and reared. Tragedy after tragedy coming into her family life, coupled with financial reverses is said to have dethroned her mind and caused her to take the life of the ilttle boy whom she had only recently nursed back to health after he had been terribly mangled in an automobile accident. Relatives of the dead child from Camden attended the funeral services held in Charlotte and the burial at York on Saturday aftern9on. Chain Stores Fined For Short Weights Columbia, S. C., Feb. 21.?Chain stores in Florence, Union and Spartanburg have been fined for selling short weight packages within the last few weeks, J. W. Shealey, State Commissioner of Agriculture, Commerce and industries, said here today in announcing that prosecutions against other chain Btores on the same charges are now awaiting trial. Mr. Shealy said that in each instance the store was fined $25 and warned not to violate the weights and measures law again. More severe penalities, he said, are in store for second offenders. Resident inspectors in each of the ten districts in this state are enabling his department to keep in close touch with violations, Mr. Shealy said. The violators in Florence, Union and Spartanburg were apprehended by three inspectors and tried before local magistrates. The enforcement of the weights gnd measures law is under the jurisdiction of my department, Mr. Shealy said here today."! expect to see thAt our people get 16 ounces for a pound. The inspectors employed.^.}' this department have been instructed to watch all articles of food in package form found offered for sale on the markets in this state and I expect to prosecute wherever the law is violated. I consider this one of the most important laws to be enforced by this office and I expect to see that it is complied with throughout South Carolina." Managers of the A. and P. storo on Evans street and of the Rogers store on Palmetto street in Florence entered pleas of guilty when taken before magistrate Marvin ?>mith and paid fines of $25 each on charges brought against thebi by the state bureau of weights and measures. They urged their ignorance of the short weights charged against the packages examined by the inspecting bureau agents. Of 80 packages of a various assortment of goods, according to magistrate Marvin Smith, before whom the cases were tried! the evidence showed that 60 packages were short in weight. Upon the pleas of guilty, submitted by the managers, the fines were imposed and paid. Chain Store Merchant Fined. L. O. Yarborough, manager of the Broad street Atlantic and Pacific Tea company, appeared before Magistrate Bennie M. Smith Monday and plead guilty to an indictment charging him with violation of the weights and measures law. The warrant was issued by a special agent working out of the office of J. W. Shealey, com'missioner of agriculture. It was alleged that more than one hundred packages of goods proved to be short or irregular in weights and Manage Yarborough claimed it was an error of a clerk in the store who weighed the packages. At the request of the special agent, Magistrate Smith pimped a minimum fine of $25 on Mr. Yar bo rough.> Reports also gained circulation that one of the Iodine Store managers was also placed under arrest for the same violations. Inquiry proved that these reports were untrue. Manager T. C. Gladden tells us that the inspector weighed their packages, examined the scales and found his weights and scales in keeping with the law. Prof. James A. Hootman of the physics department of Emory university, Atlanta, Ga.., expresses the belief that there are almost unlimited quantities of radium locked in the granite of Stone Mountain. Poultry Shipment From Bethune A poultry shipment will be made from Bethune in the usual way, delivery being made to a truck on Thursday, March 6th, 8 to 12 o'clock. All flocks should be culled very closely Take out and sell non-layers. Prices have not been received yet but vill be in the county papers that have not gone to press by time prices arrive by wire. Feed poultry well before shipment but do not feed heavily on morning of shipment. Please try to have poultry in crates rather than in sacks. Do not hav? feet tied. Please notify your neighbors, requests Henry D. Green, the county agent. Poultry Prices. Poultry prices for Bethune shipment, March 6th, from 8 to 12 o'clock. Colored hens 22c Leghorn hens 19c Colored stags 15c cox ia& Ducks i.. 12c Geese ~.T7T.~." TV .7... r...... ~t?c .Turkeys ...... 26c Toms 18c Guineas, each ...... ^...... 35c Henry D. Green, County Agent. Government Sending Special Agent Here Kershaw County is in line for a treat and an opportunity for the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D, C? will send Mr. Oris V. Wells here for a series of Outlook lectures. Every farmer, toucher, banker, business man in Kershaw county has something at stake in these meetings for w<* are all very much interested in ugriculture and these meetings can strengthen in a large measure Kershaw county's agriculture. For three months county agent Green has been corresponding with officials in Washington in an effort to secure the aid of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U. S. 1). A. Monday afternoon arrangomeuts were consummated for Mr. Wells to come. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics carefully studies the trends of ouch agricultural commodity in every State in the United States and in practically every country in the world. Mr. Wells will be able to toll us whether or not cotton has "i promising outlook and why. He will show charts and other graphic material. To produce a product not knowing whether or not it will likely be sold at a profit is poor business. These Outlook meetings will be the eyes for our agriculture in 1030. Should wo cut or increase acreages of certain crops? Will it be safe to develop livestock? Come to one of these meetings. / The bankers of Kershaw ^coUhty voted at their recent meeting to urge that Mr. Wells be sent to Kershaw county. All of our farmers and older children, school teachers, business men and banker^ should attend one of these meetings. Our progress and prosperity depends largely upon the kind of agriculture we perform. Maybe the toils of our farm people, men, women, boys and girls, could be more profitable if we knew what our government has found out and is trying to tell us about. For the sake of our people, our agriculture, our present and our future conditions let us come to one of these meetings and learn more about the work.that we get our living from?agriculture. Meetings have been scheduled as follows: Friday 10:30 a. m., Liberty Hill. Friday 2:30 p. m., Pine Grove School. Friday 7:30 p. m., Bethune. Saturday 10:30 a. m., Court House Camden. This is best chance to get acquainted with your agriculture in a broad sense. Kershaw is the only county in South Caroling having this opportunity. Don't miss it, folks. Kindly notify your neighbors to uttend. Oyster Supper Masonic Hall, Friday evening, 7:30. Tickets can be bought at W. Robin Zemp's Drng Store or Telephone 373 or 338-W. Governor Given Desk and Chair In a message to the general assembly Friday, Governor Richards expressed his appreciation for the action of the two houses in adopting a resolution to the effect that ho be presented with the desk and chair which he has used for four years while governor. He said he was grateful for the sentiment arid that he would treasure the gifts highly. ?Saturday's State. Colored Teachers to Meet The county teachers' association, colored, will hold its regular meeting Saturday, March 1, in Jackson School auditorium at 11:30 a. m. Teachers are urged to attend as this will be the last meeting of this school term. The final plans for Field Day which will be held March 7th will be made. No further notice will be given. Lyttleton Street Methodist Church The fdllowing services are announced for the week at Lyttleton Street Methodist church by the pastor, Rev. George Pierce Watson: Sunday, March 2, Bible school,-10 a. m., Mr. L. C. Shaw, superintendent. Epworth League, 6:45 p,.-> m. Public worship, 11:15 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning service conducted by the pastor. Theme: "The Holy Oottfmunion as a Medium of Perpetual Power." Evening service conducted by the Rev. J. G. Ferguson, Bpworth League secretary. This Service will be of special interest to all the young people. Midweek fti ifte/ Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. The public is most cordially invite<T to all the services of this church. Visitors are especially welcome. Come and brine your friends. ? ' |' j ^ -.v " ' ^ Two Veterans I^eft of Camden Company ' If 1 1 f Major J. M. Kiddle has in his possession a silver cup which is to be given to the last surviving member of Co. E., 2nd South Oarolinu regiment and by the unfolding of events it may be that Major Kiddle will be the recipient as well as the donor of this cup. Sixteen years ago Major Kiddle stopped off in Camden en route from Sumter to Lancaster and he had in his possession at that time a copy of the Camden Weekly Journal printed on April 20, 1861, which contained a list of all members of the company. Major Kiddle dropped into the office of the 'Camden Chronicle with the request that the list of soldiers ] of this company, which was the first ! to leave Camden after war was declared, be printed. A happy thought struck Mr. Riddle while he was reminiscing on the j civil war days. He decided to buy a ' sitver loving cup and donate to the ! last surviving member of the company of which he was u member. Now Major Kiddle has kept the cup for sixteen years and it is probable that he may keep it the rest of his life for he bids fair to be the last surviving member of this company. As far us is known in Camden and Kershaw tljere are now but two living members of this famous company?Major Kiddle of Lancaster and Judge I. F. Holland of Camden. Major Kiddle is now 86 years of age while Judge Holland of Camden is ninety years of age. When one of these men die the other comes intv) permanent possession of the cup. The cup is not a very large one and is mounted on a pedestal. It bears this inscription: J. M. Kiddle to The Last 'Surviving Member of Co. E., 2nd S. C. Reg. Of the entire company Mr. Riddle was the youngest member and he was affectionately known as "Little Jimmy." Although he is now 8(5 years of age he still has u vivid memory and can recall many of the details of his service through the four long hard years of the war. Mr. Kiddle has been a member of the Methodist church all his life and it was while he was enroute homo from a Methodist conference at Sumter that he stopped off at Camden sixteen yearB ago and made the rather unusual announcement of donating a cup to the last survivor of hiB company. He attended practically every conference held by the church when he was in good health. For twenty-seven years he never missed a meeting. Through a mistake Judge I. F. Holland of Camden thought that Mr. Riddle was dead and believed for that reason that the trophy belonged to him as the last survivor. However he has been informed that Major Riddle is very much alive, and that out of the eighty-seven irtembers of Company E, which left Camden in April, 1861, at the -Outbreak of the war these two men are the sole survivors. The Second South Carolina Regiment saw some of the hardest fighting of the great civil conflict. A large number of* Kershaw and Camden men were in thi3 company. Mr. Riddle was but seventeen years of afge at the time of joining the army and was a private. He seeured his military title by being a member of the Governor's staff.? Lancaster News. More than 125 persons are bein^ treated in San Francisco hospitals and privately on account of being poisoned by food served at a Salvation Army banquet on Saturday night. Manj^of the victims are said to be in serious condition. Camden Baptist Church Services The following services are announced for the week at the First Baptist church by the pastor, Rev. J. B. Caston. Sunday school at 10 o'clock, Mr. W. G. Wilson, Superintendent. Preaching by the pastor at 11:15 on the subject: "The Critics at Matthew's Dinner." Evening service at .7:30,. preaching by the patsor on the subject: "Putting God First." Mid-i week prayer service 7:30 Wednesday j evening; B. Y. P. U. Sunday evening at 7:30, Mr. Fred Moseley, President. We are planning to conduct a teacher training school next week. Beginning with Monday evening classes will be held each evening at i 7:30 through Friday. We are anxious for all teachers in the Sunday school And all prospective teachers to attend. There will be a Sunday School Rally held at the church next Saturday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The superintendents and pastors of all the churches in the Kershaw association are urged to be present. Dr.J. H. Webb and Mr. J. L. Corxine of Columbia will be the speakers. The public is cordially invited to worship with us. ] Highest Tribunal Passes The Bond Act Washington, Feb. 24.?By abruptly ending oval argument, the Supreme Court today indicated it would dismiss the appeal of u group of South Carolina citizens to prevent the state from issuing $05,000,000 in highway improvement bonds. The court stopped the presentation of argument by counsel for C. L. Johnson and other South Carolina citizens, and declined to hear counsel for the state, which has moved to have the appeal dismissed on the ground that it presents no Federal question. Counsel for the citizens contended the statute under which the bond issue was made was iu violation of both the state and Federal eonstitut ions, but he was interrupted frequently by members of the court who sought to bring out his precise reason for contending that a Federal question was involved. The group of citizens sponsoring the appeal, it was explained, sought an injunction to restrain the governor and the state treasurer from selling the bonds. When the case reached the State Supreme court, counsel said, three of the five justices held the statute violated the state and Federal constitutions. The state chief justice, in writing the decision, said the act "arbitrarily and capriciously whetted a- > way the people's power to govern the issuance of bonds.fV0 the dissenting justices then demanded a hearing of the case before the judges of the state courts sitting en banc, and a majority of these held the statute constitutional. The United States Supreme court, it was indicated after today's hearing, will take the ease under advisement and return a decision at an early date, probably next Monday. The first court session at which decision will be handed down. The decision is expected here to be | a dismiss of the case, since it is al| most invariably regarded as a sign I that the court will take that course i when it declines to hear the other [ side of the case after the complaint I avginncnt hn? been made, j Such action means, C. E. Jones, , chairman of the South Carolina highj wuy commission, said tonight, that ! "so far as South Carolina is concerned, the state can proceed to issue obligations in anticipation of the special gasoline taxes and automobile license fees and complete the state highway system." This idea is right in line with Prefrident Hoover's program to relieve the unemployment and to provide construction work for the people of the state. We will be able to * . complete the state high-way system, in about four years, connecting the different centers with each other and providing for interstate travel with paved, all-year roads." Those who appeared to argue for the state were: Attorney General John M. Daniel; Ivey Humphrey and Cordie Page, assistant attorney general; Judge Mendel L. Smith, former Circuit Court judge of South Carolina and former advocate in War department; Judge W. C. Wolfe, Orangeburg; Judge R. E. Whiting, # former acting associate justice of South Carolina Supreme Court; C. C. Wyche, Spartanburg* A. M. Lumpkin, Columbia. Petitioners were represented by L. G. Southard, Spartanburg attorney. Illustrated Lectum, At Methodist Chuseh The Rev. Jesse G. Ferguson, Field Secretary of the South Carolina Epworth League Conference, has been fortunate in securing 57 colored glass Flides Which illustrate on the screen in a graphic way the seven objectives of the League for their Mission Special, These slides cover the fields of Africa. Paine College, Chairs of Missions at Southern Methodist University and Emory University, Chair of Religious Music at Scarritt College. Work among the Mexicans in Arizona, Student Pastorates qt University of Arizona and University of California. There is no .admission charge to this illustrated lecture, but^ where the local Chapter desires a fr<^,)will offering is taken for the causes represented by the lecture and the entire amount credited to that Chapter. This will be about the last place where this lecture will be given in the South Carolina Conference as the central office has written for the slides to be returned. The edupa- . tional value of this lecture is great. The Epworth Leaguers, the Woman's Missionary Society, and the friends of Missions, will all wish to see these seenes. * . ., , ,< It te hoped that a large audience will greet Mr. Fbrgtraon Sunday evening* at-7:30, at the Lyttleton Street Methodist church. .'**?.?? %>j%j ??? ? 'j. - wSzyv?aan||