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^ ^ CAMDEN. SOUTH CARQUNA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 1930. * ^
iil-lhu-j.... . NUMBER 24
Ilty Schools Upen
Monday Morning
Schools will open on Monday morng,
September 8th, at nine o'clock,
lere will be no fonnnl opening on
L first day due to. the fact that
[}* auditorium will not accommodate
both students and (.patrons. ' Howler,
at a later date patrons will be
Invited to assembly periods when arbnx?ments
have been completed for
Lpirate divisions.
All students are expected to asewble
on Monday prepared for a
all day's work. Lists of texts to
twd may be had at the two book
sres, so that as far as possible
kldren should be provided with
woks for the first day of school.
Examination privileges will be slewed
all students who failed to pass
subjects, provided, not more than
i*o failures occurred. Such examinations
will be given on Monday
ifternoon beginning about one' o'rlock.
This arrangement has been
jiade particularly for those students
rho failed on one or two subjects
ind were unable to attend the sum-1
ner session.
As was stated in a former notice in
N PAP01". Parents are called upon
p> bring their children who are to
tfer the first grade to the schools
* Friday morning September $th,
a that they ..may. be enrolled. I
[uchers will be on hand at both the
4f grammar school and the Mill
dool to handle this enrollment. |
fte Camden High football squad
pder the management of Mr. Jno. I
tilkpigue has just returned frbnTal
wry pleasant and profitable stay of i
??ht days at the French Broad camp '
near Brevard, N. C. The boys enjoyed
a varied line of sports such as
tennis, golf, basket ball, canoeing,
hiking, as well as foot ball. Those 1
who attended _were Mr. and Mrs.
John Villepigue and two sons, Jack
and Yates; Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Rich- 1
ards, Jr., and two sons, Jack and
Main; Miser Henrietta Zemp, Beckham
Russell, Walter Wooten, Sam
downing, Sam McCaskill, Elmo!
Brown, William Thompson, J. H.
HcLeod, Carl Boheler, Dan Mackey,
??s Garrison, Robert Goodale, L. T.
Holland. Red Baldwin, Julian Burns,
Carlisle Jackson, Reuben Pitts,
Douglas Kennedy, Harold McNinch,
earoe (antey, James Chewning,
Austin Jones and George Rhame.
-The list .of teachers to serye for
> season will be:
First Grade?Mrs. LaUrens T.
; ; Car"den; Miss Emily L. Zemp,en,
Miss Lois Latham, Easley.'
Second Grade?Miss Ada Phelps,
.amden; Mass Margaret Blanding,
Jumter.
Third Grade?Mrs, Leslie McLeod,
Amden; Miss Julia Seabrook, Ofareston;
Miss Grace Oakes, DarlingFourth
Grade?Mrs/ Susie Taylor,
en; Mrs. J- M. Dempster, CaimUurens
street school.
Fifth Grade?Mrs. Leonard Schenk,
Camden; Mrs. Louise Cantey, Camden;
Miss Helen Chambers, Edgmoor.
Sixth Grade?Mrs. J. R. Montgomery,
Camden; Mrs. Annie H. Roykin,
Camden; Miss Lucile Allen, Catawba.
Seventh Grade?Miss Margaret
Rumet, Camden, principal; Mrs. J.
L. Guy, Camden; Miss Cornelia Oliver,
Greelyville.
i Mill school.
I Principal and fourth grade, Miss
'Ernestine Bateman, Camden; fourth
grade, Miss R MoOarrel, Columbia.
Third Grade?Mrs. J. G. Richards,
Jr., Camden.
Second Grade?Mrs. Bessie L. McCaskill,
Camden.
| First Grade?Mrs. Lou Pearoe,
' Camden; Miss Lula Gillis, Rembert.
? High school.
Principal, L. W. McFadden; ^C. T.
, Baldwin, Orangeburg; H. G. Granade,
Alabama; Miss Agnes Corbett, Cam|
den; Miss Henrietta Zemp, Camden;
Miss Grace D. James, Bishopville;
; Miss Ada Montgomery,. Gable; Mrs.
j Ethel M. Murchison, Camiden; Miss
| Katherine Murchison, Camden; Miss
I Gertrude Strother, Saludar Miss Horten8?
- James, Cameron; Miss Lenora
Knight, Sumter. . 1
Special Teachers ? Miss Hal lie
Carson, public school music, Summerton;
Mrs. G. T. Little, drawing and
art, Camden; Mrs. A. t>. McArn,
private piano, Camden.
Kotary Club Visits
< Bishopville Club
Ihiring the month of September
the Rotary clubs of Bishopville, Sumter,
Hartsville ami Camden "\yill put
on inter-city programs, On Tuesday
evening the club from Camden went
dfrer to Bishopville to be guests of
that club and after a delicious chicken
dinner was enjoyed the meeting
was turned over to R, B. Pitts, president
of the Camden club. The president
and secretary of the Bishopville
club, Mr. Lapey and Mr. Victor
I Goodyear, welcomed the visitors.
Talks were made by R. B- Pitts, president
of the Cairttlen club and also
by past president, Dr. John W. Corbett;
past president, A. Stanley
Llewellyn and Rotarian Lee Little,
which were enthusiastically received.
Singing was under the efficient direction
of T. V. Walsh assisted at
the piano by Mrs. T. V. Walsh.
| Those who made the trip over were
Messrs. R. B. Pitts, A. S. Llewellyn,
l>r. John W. Corbett,*Dr. R. E. Stev1
enson, T. Lee little, E. B. Buddin,
George Creed, T. V. Walsh, R. N.
Shannon, W. R. Zemp, Mrs. R. B.
Pitts and Mrs. T. V. Walsh.
Presbyterian Church Services
| All church services will be resumed
in this church Sunday, September 7..
The pastor will speak Sunday morn1
ing on the text: "Now, Therefore,
Give Me This Mountain." Morning
worship 11:16; Sunday school 10:00
a. m.; midweek service Wednesday
evening $ o'clock. The public is cordially
invited to ail services in this
church.
Mimnaugh Sells
Columbia Store
Sale of the Mimnaugh department
store to Belle's Department Stores,
Inc., was completed Saturday, John
L. Mimnaugh; Jr., of Columbia, retired
head of the store here, an-,
nounced. Mr. Mimnaugh said the
price was "in six figures."
By terms of the purchase, Belle's
gets the department store, one-half
the large Mimnaugh building at the
cqmer of Main and Hampton streets,
and the entire stock of the store, except
in the shoe department. Mr.
Mimnaugh will conitnue to operate a
separate shoe store, and supervise
hie chain of stores, established in
Newberry, Camden, Orangeburg and
Spartanburg. /
Transfer of Mimnaugh's department
store to the Belk company
marks the passing of~bne~bf Columbia's
oldest mercantile concerns. The
firm name, "Mimnaugh's", has not
been sold with the store, however,
and the shoe store and out-of-town
chain stores will continue under it.
Alliance of the Columbia store with
Belk's gives that mercantile organization
stores not only in Columbia,
but in Charleston, Lancaster, Greer,
Greenville, Newberry, Anderson, and
two in Spartanburg. The chain possesses
70 stores over the United
States, The company has a large
store 'in Charlotte, that city being.
its headquarter*.
The newest Belk store will remain
closed for some time, while arrangements
are made by the incoming
management. H. A. McLaurin, pert
owner, will manage the Columbia
store in the future.
The department building is one of
the largest in Columbia, being three
stories high, Vith a basement. It
fronts 54 feet on Main street and
has a depth of 179 feet.?'Sunday's
Columbia Record.
Death of Mrs. Stewart
- On Saturday morning last after a
lingering illness of many months the
spirit of Mrs. L. T. Stewart passed
into the great beyond.
Mrs. Stewart, before marriage was
Miss Ida Wilson, daughter of the
late T. J. Wilson and Anna Wright
Wilson. In eagly life she united with
the First Baptist church, of which
she remained a life-long member.
Besides her husband she is survived
by one daughter, Mrs. W. T. Dempster;
one brother, J. H. Wilson and
a sister, Mrs. Lang Amnions.
Funeral services were held Sunday
morning at 10 o'clock and interment
was in the Quaker cemetery.
With Camden Oil Mill.
Mr. L. E. Graham, pf Fort Gaines,
Ga.y arrived in Camden this week,
where he will be associated with the
Camden branch of the Southern Cotton
Oil Company. Mr. Graham takes
the place of Mr. Howard E. Cannon,
who has been made manager of the
Orangeburg mill. Mr. Graham is stopping
at the Park View Inn.
TABULATED VOTE OF DIRECTORS AND MAGISTRATES IN FIRST PRIMARY
Director Director Magistrate, j Magistrate I Magistrate Mag'trte : Magistrate
Buffalo Flat Rock Camden I Bethune | Kershaw Wateree ' ^ Flat Rock
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2 I I ! --J 1 a | J- & -?- a .1. | | | I
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Xr^? - O JR ** VCJcq ^ o 5 ? ? d ? H j d J
fig.- I..W..1MI ,.|| II..11 ...7..39
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CT? . .m .125 .: 1<66 . . 73 . 77 . . . .
521? ..*:. ...V? 150..13..53
CJn 230 .170 .577
5?" - 23 ..63 11 5 ...9 ..34 ..32
T. . .rvW^vr , V.. ,,.. ..32.. .7 ..43 ! i
5"D. . .24 ..59 ........ . .46 . .22 . .68 . .24
JSp1**- ......... ..42., 9 I....! i I
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5JH,1! ......... . .34 . .42 v ;....) ..21' .76:..24 . .33
LockK^ * * 4 ' ?" ri r r < ?#( f # ! ! r ? 81 ? 4| j j
Vsr ; .29 . .16 . .16 . .24 .... 191...1 ...6..11..31 ........j . .25 . .12j. .20 . .11
0gu?reek ..86,.33 1 69 . .19 . .33 .... j.... j
IVtI; ' * > .V* ..20...,...6 j ;
&'** fnu::: "40*,j2"28 ::: ::a::n ::::
fcuL* M,U 80 ,M?.M .... :.t: ;';?6 ..80)..70
fchfLi SB..*! I 3..16..19
Sk&L 83. .41
sh"nwck -86.^1 ........ 8. .13.. 27
'^Pard . ' ^ ifctrtjti IL i?i .. ? .... 10 . . 4|. .37[[ ........ *'*] 1 1
SS}#!> HPl * ? ; 11....I..i9|?i | ? "24"a6"ift"?2
Creek 22 '"2"28 * * ' *'
j ?. "jj* ^j|* * ?|' .41 ?| ... J.. . I.... I...
- * * *? * If. .001.. .5 .104 *'m * '*** * *
TiCr~ * * * * * 4fik4j.il? iBm* ?57|f.. *. I.... L.... . ... .68 . .30 .90 ?o4
.gooi.isol.iMi.i^.iooi .301.y1.2ig.29r
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"Black Shirts"
At Atlanta <
Atlanta, Auk. 60.?Today's Constitution
suys evidence that committees i
of a newly .formed organization i
known as the "American Faclst Association
and Order of Black Shirts" <
have demanded that Atlanta employ- t
trs discharge negro labor will be i
placed before a federal grand jury 1
convening September 8. 1
The newspuper quote* an unnamed
official at the federal building as t
saying his information was that the i
committee told the employers that if >
the demand were not complied with 1
trouble might be expected.
Such action, the official sad, was 1
in direct violation of a statute pro- 1
viding penalties up to ten years im- i
prisonment and $5,000 fine for per- i
sons "who conspire to injure, op- i
press, threaten or intimidate any cit
izen in the free exercise or enjoy- 1
ment of any - right guaranteed to .
him by the constitution or laws of ]
the United States or because of his 1
having exercised the same."
The ?tory says stenographic reports
of addresses made at meetings
of the "Black Shirt" organization, i
some of which have been "highly
sensational and incendiary as to
threats made" will be presented to
the grand jury along with names of
some of the business Arms alleged
to have been called on by committees
and in some cases the names of the
committeemen.
In a petition of incorporation filed
in Fulton superior court August 8,
j but not yet acted upon, the "Black
Shirt" organization sets up, among
others, the purpose "to inculcate and
foster in the minds of its 'members
and the public generally, white supremacy,
charity among its members,
obedience to law and order" and to
"disseminate patriotism and -loyalty
to the government of the United
States" and to "assist its members
in lecuring employment."
The petitioners are R. A. Gordon,
R. S. Gulledge and H. J. Gewinner.
Walter A. Sims, former mayor of
Atlanta, filed the petition as attorney.
Two Corrections
In the tabulated vote at Rabon's
Cro^s Roads the vote for^J. R. Belk
for the House was given as 15 votes
and it should have been 58 votes
which gave Mr. Belk a total of 2,347
instead of 2,304.
At Harmony precinct B. E. Sparrow,
candidate for renomination as
Auditor was listed as having received
5 votes when it should have
been 26 votes, giving him a total of
2,002 instead of 1,982.
Both errors were made in copying
down the returns -in a rush, but
made no changes in the result.
Woman In Wreck
Burns Under Car
Sylva, N. C., Aug. 30.?J. K. Privett
of Ninety-iSix, S. C., who, officers
charge, drunkenly set fire to an automobile,
fatally burning Mrs. Thad
Brown, of Ninety-iSix, was held here
tonight on a charge of manslaughter.
The two, with Mrs. Brown's husband
and several small children of
the'two families, were on their way
from Ninety-Six to visit relatives in
this county. Friday night, their automoble
overturned, 30 miles from here,
pinning Mrs. Brown beneath it.
The woman's 16-year-old daughter
said she sought to extricate her
mother," but could not, and called to
Privett for aid. ? Instead, she said,
he sat down on a bank, lit a cigarette
and tossed the match toward the automobile.
Gasoline which had spilled
from the car's tank, ignited, setting
the automobile afire.
Officers said there was whiskey in
the car and that, apparently, all the
adults in the party had been drinking.
Brown gave as his reason for not
attempting to liberate Mrs. Brown
the fact that he was tending an injured
child.
Privett was the driver of the automobile.
It was overturned down a
mountainside after leaving the highway
' ~ ^
Greenwood, August 31. ? While
preaching a sermon at Tranquil
church near here this afternoon, the
Rev. J. Traynham Miller, Samperanimated
of the RMwdiat
Bpleeopel church, South, upper South
Carolina confinunaa, dropped dead.
." .. ,0:. .. ; V l; 5 ?W\?:
New DeKalb School (
Opens September 15
i hr faculty for the coming year
n the Bumn UcKalb High School u
s announced as follows: s
grammar School?Miss Jessie Gil- r
hlrist, of Hock Hill; Miss Siby Turn- 8
sr, of Sumter; Miss Ksbelle Gramil- n
n?, of Orangeburg; Mrs. Irene B. s
rrueadale, of Westville; Mr. John K. c
-ee. Jr., of Lugoff.
High School Miss Mazie Roberts, |
>f Camden; Mr. G. M: Faile, of Ker- t
>hawj Mr. W. A. Mason, Jr., who c
vill teach agriculture in addition. to o
vis duties as ?U|)erintendent. t
The schodl will open on Monday, i
September 16, in the homo of the >
late Captain L. L. Clyburn, where c
tnost of the classes will be taught *
Jntil the new school building is ready 1
in November. In addition to the
Clyburn house, >the DeKalb. school
building will be used for classes. The ?
exercises on the first day will be ?
held at the Clyburn house and it is v
hoped that all patrons of the school c
will attend these exercises, which will <
begin promptly at 9:00 o'clock. t
The school authorities are expect- 1
ing a good year and urge the cooperation
of the patrons of the school
in having their children enroll on
the first day of school. I
Q :
CHAMPION SNAKE KILLER. >
? I
I wo Snake Stories Here and Near i
GreeleyvllJe. i
Mr. Alf Spradley, 79 year old far- ,
mer of the Mt. Zion section, is prob- ,
ably the champion destroyer of fat- J
tlesnakes for this season,. Thirteen in j
one nest is his record. While walking
on his farm a few days ago a flee dog
which accompanied him "bayed" in a
hollow log, and Mr. Spradley discovered
a mother rattler which measured
about five feet in length. With her
were twelve young rat/tiers measuring
about eight inches each. All were
killed.
Here's another one from Greeleyville,
similar to Mr. Spradley's snake
story:
"Believe it or not, here is a snake
story thgt-is going to be hard to
beat. E. M. Godwin, who operates a
saw mill in Mount Hope swamp near
Greeleyville, was eating his dinner at
a spot about 100 yards from his saw
mill. One of his laborers saw a big
rattler crawl into a hollow log. The
log was cut into and it was found
that the mother snake was protecting
a number of small rattlers. When the
mother snake was killed she was
found to have 18 rattles and a button,
the smaller snakes, 16 in number,
were then killed. A pilot snake
was next killed under a nearby
stump. The next morning a truck
near the same log, ran over a rattler
measuring nine inches in circumference
and four and one-half inches
across the thickest part of its body."
Majority Of Cars
Bought On Time
j;
Washington, Aug. 30.?Of all passenger
automobiles sold in 1929, sixty-one
per cent were purchased on
the installment plan and less than
four per cent were repossessed for
failure to maintain payments.
, These figures,- submitted to the
census bureau by 426 automobile finance
companies, showed the average
deferred payment on each car to
have been $444.30. Installment-purchased
cars, numbered 8,478,973, of
which 1,820,436 were new and the remainder
second-hand.
Analyzing the reports the American
Motorists' Association found that
purchases involving a one-third down
payment resulted in only 2.8 per cent
of repossession, while payments of
one-quarter yielded for the year repossessions
totaling 5.1 per cent.
Five out of every 1,000 car buyers
attempted to escape their payments
by absconding, the association re
ported.
| Trying To Save The Trees.
[7 A good many of the handsome
shade trees adorning the parks and
pavements of Camden are dying from
drought, and Mayor Kennedy has a
force of the street department busy
this week digging trenches around
the decaying trees and Haohng water
to them in an effort to savw- then.
The mayor requests that all ptopeity
<mnera cooperate with the dkty in an
ft to preeeree the tree* on their
Individual prefitj.
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hit look Good
For Foultrymen
Clem son (lolluKc, August. 30,?The
infavomble outlook on the (poultry
ituation <>jf a few months ugo i?
upidly becoming more, favorable,
ays C. L. Morgan, chief poultrynan,
who ud<i*> tlnat recent re porta
how that egg receipts are falling
onsiderably below that of the same
leriod last year. The increased sup>ly
of eggs over last year on the
aeiw of receipts sinc^ January 1 and
old storage holdings urc rapidly disippearing.
The drought situation in
he surplus producing states is mnkng
large reductions in flocks which
vill undoubtedly result in much reluced
egK receipts for the fall and
vinter. Goo<l prices may therefore
>e expected for both poultry and
>gg?.
South Carolina poultrymen should
nake special effort to mainatin nor *ial
flocks. If good pullets are amailable
flock increases, in many
uses, would be advisable. Kee])
>nly well devek>i>e<l, healthy stock
ind provide the best conditions of
lousing und feeding for these.
>
Cotton Maturing Rapidly
On account of the dry weather cotton
throughout the county is oponng
rapidly and in many instances a
jood deal of it is opening promo :urely.
Pickers are busy in nearly
ill fields and the weather has been
deal for gathering.
Up to Thursday afternoon the ginlera
in Camden reported quite a lot
>f cotton at their ginneries. The
Southern Cotton Oil Company had
ginned slightly over 100 bales; the
gin of John E. Rhame had ginned
165 and Swift & Company gins reported
72 bales.
R. A. Bruce, public cotton weigher,
reported slightly over 500 bales at
the public platforms.
The price yesterday was quoted at
11.30.
Dove Season Opens
The open season for doves got underway
in South Carolina Monday
morning. Rabbits also may be hunted
without firearms and squirrels
without dogs. There is said to be an
unusually large crop of doves this
year, and reports from over the state
tell of large kills. In fact, such large
slaughters have been reported that
chief game warden Richardson has
issued instructions to county warden;*
to attend dove shoots wherever possible
and see that the state and federal
laws are not violated as to bag
limits. The bag limit for doves is
25 per day.
Several big shoots took place near
Camden both morning and afternoon
on Monday, but there" were such poor
shots in. the crowd that it is not
thought the bag limit was exceeded
by many. In fact some of the boys
were shooting so low that several in
the crowd got peppered in the face
with long distance shots, but no eyeB
were injured.
Snakes Plentiful.
' On last Sunday afternoon, while B.
W. Bowers and Chalmers Deese were
out walking near the Scab Trueadale
old bridge on Hanging Rock Creek,
they observed the head o4 a rattlesnake
protruding from a hollow log.
Killing the snake and, drawing the
body out of the log, it was followed
by eighteen young rattlers, who were
also speedily dispatched.?Kershaw
Era.
Lyttleton Street Methodist Church.
George Pierce Watson, Pastor.
Sunday, September 7th, Bible school
10:00 a. m., Mr. L. C. Shaw, superin- *
tendent. All members of the congregation
are asked to make this a Rally
Day for the school, especially the
adult department. Epworth League,
7:15 p. m. Public worship, 11:15 a.m.
and 8:00 p. m., conducted by the pastor.
Morning theme: "With Christ
on Golgotha." The evening service
will be a union service in the interest
of our college, high school and grammar
school pupils. The college students
are requested to sit in the center
of the auditorium, filling in from
the front; the high school students
filling in behind them. The grammar
school jmplk wlH please sit on each
side, s1** filling in from the front.
The theme win he; "TV* Nature and Purpose
<rf Baoeu*m." MM-are*
Iterate, WednouHqr, 8:00 p. m. Tfce ?
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