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-^MDE:N Chronicle NUMBER 27 phriners' Parade rTo Feature Event During a conference in iCamden Tuesday afternoon between Potentate 4*writ)oe M. Pinekney and chief of degree team, Campbell Burn# ""of Charleston, and the chairmen of the various committee# on the coming' ceremonial of Omar Shrine, the pre-1 Ihuinary plana for.the festivities and ' solemnities for the day of October 15th, 9:00 a. m. to 12:00 midnight,! were carefully checked and revised i jnd ail are thought to be in concrete form for smooth working. Full details for the occasion will fee fomisWd to all members of Omar it good standing through the usual pgrams by mail in ample time. parade will be from lower Broad itreet north to Laurens arid end at Hampton Park, thence proceed by cars to Woodward airport where the j men's lunch will be served at noon ' sud the impressive "ceremonies of: conducting the novices across the hot! sands of the desert will immediately j follow. ' v . I A feature of the day will fee a free ' 'movie entertainment at the Majestic j Theatre for adults only. This will in^chide a reel showing some of the peat work being done fbr crippled children by the Shrine Hospital and till prove deeply interesting to those have not already seen it. The 4^res will -start at 5:30 p. m. ChiL m cannot be admitted to this beof ack of seating room. . it is expected that holding the , ffremonial at the airport will attract! f Mveral visitors by planes. [ Another feature will be ?he Fall I Carnival of the local American Le- ! lion post on the lot adjoining the ' postoffice, with a concert by the ' Shrine band. ! Shriners' ladies will be entertained j ^ with lunch followed by dancing until j1 midnight, at the Camden Country 11 Club, and an orchestra has been en-1 J gaged to furnish music for this. ' 1 i Methodist Church Services. Lyttlcton Street Methodist Church, j1 'George Pierce Watson, pastor. Sun-j day, October 5, Bible school 10:00j a m., "Mr. L. C. Shaw, superintend-; ent; Epworth League, 6:45 p. nf.;j public worship, 11:15 a. m. and 7:30 j P m., conducted by the pastor. Morn- j I ing theme, "The Standard Set by the Holy Communion." Evening theme,' ( The meaning of Mercy." Mid-week j | ~sm1oe, Wednesday",-Tr3^-TJrTrr7- /Phe ^ public is most cordially invited to all i services of .this church. Come and bring your friends. - * Former Camden Couple in Wreck Martinsville, Va., Sept. 27.?Mr. j ?nd Mrs. E. T. Asbury, 1002 Fair-; Wont street, Greensboro, N. C., are I in the Salisbury hospital suffering from Injuries received late Thursday .j two miles south of. Salisbury when! their car got out from under control and was. wrecked. They were en route to Greensboro from Charlotte. Mr. Asbury's injuries were very about the head and his left hwd was broken, while Mrs. As, tory escaped with only bruises and roratches. Mr. and Mrs. Asbury are well in Columbia and Camden, in& lived at Camden several years, JJkro Mr. Asfeury was engaged in hrick manufacturing business. County Gets Insurance Money . ^ecks totaling $93,380.92 are be1D* mailed by Sam King, state incommissioner, to ' county ^*?urers on account of additional E^tirtnce license fees on premiums ^ by insurance companies for ^mi-annual period ended June 30. ha* county gets $1,235.49 of the e amount. Murderers' Electrocuted h - N. Cn _ Sept. u. 26.?Two ? county negroes paid with jTT u'es in the electric chair at foj,., ( ar?Hna state's prison today tan ?! murder and robbery of Callie A?i^rd age<* Wilson county, grocer. sHarpe was the first of the *by 1 cha^t followed , rry Richardson... , ... KT^S?6 and confeased hllin? ?y alone wer6 fcuilty of the robbhl|r ?f WiHiford, dew.,umZlie>t*d Wright btS,?????. ta an at' "Wn, Mcepe ehrir by ,t*.tonldn,,D"n th?" ?? alaetoncuta, Bjrm.ni and knu . "** traaud iniiiM | ky Coy!y~ Reds Forfeit Bond On Murder Charge Charlotte, Sept, U9.?None of seven labor leaders convicted of second deK?ee murder of O. F. Aderholt, Gastonia poliee chief, who was sin in during etrike disorders there in June, 11>20, appeared to accept sentence when su|>erior court convened here today and the state prepared to declare their bonds, totaling $27,000. forfeited. A court order issued at the last term of Meeklanburg superior court directed the American Civil Liberties Uniop, bondsmen for the ,yien, to bring them into court today or show cause why. the bonds should not be forfeited. . ... . When n<?ne of the seven appeared, Solicitor John G.' Carpenter moved that the bonds be forfeited, but at the request of J. Frank Flowers, attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, Judge Walter E. Moore held action on the motion in abeyance until 2 o'clock this afternoon. The seven men under sentence are Fred Erwin Beal, Lawrence, Mass.; Clarence Miller, Brooklyn, N. Y.; George Carter, Mizpah, N. J.; Joseph Harrison, Passaic, N. J.; W. M. McGinnis, Louis McLaughlin, and K. Y. Hendricks, all of Gastonia. . Beal, organizer for the Communist National. Textile Workers' Union, and his four eastern companions, are under sentences of 17 to 20 years-in state prison. Their bonds are $5,000 each. "?' > Died in Columbia Mrs. Barney Poston, 18, of Kershaw died at the Baptist hospital in Columbia about noon Tuesday following an illness of about two weeks. Mrs.- Poston was formerly ' Miss Minnie Sims of Kershaw, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Sims. She was a devoted member of Flat Creek Baptist church and was a yoman of many fine traits of character. ~ She is survived by her husband and parents; three brothers, Dude Sims, Lester Sims and Hubert Sims, all of Kershaw; two sisters, Misses Lee and Annie Mae Sims. Funeral services were held from Flat Creek church at 10 o'clock Wednesday with the Rev. Mr. Smith, pastor, in charge.., Interment will be in the churchyard. Senator Blease Thanks Hkfriends Mr. W. R. Hough, of this city, who is a close personal friend of .Senator Cole L. Blease, is in receipt of the following letter of thanks to him and other friends for their loyal support in his recent campaign for re-election. The letter is written from the senator's home in Pendleton, S. C.,* and hears date of September 30: "My dear Bill:?? "I wish to thank you and other friends in Kershaw county for the loyal support which you gave me in the recent campaign and primaries. I appreciate your friendship more than I can tell you. "I have already announced-that I shall again be a candidate for the United States Senate, and I hope that none of our folks will make any promises to any' other candidate in the meantime. We fought a good, CRSTTfight and we will do so again and win the next time."I expect to return to the practice of the law in Columbia, and I hope that you will run over to see me when you feel like it. Of course, when I am in Camden I will look you up. , "With my kindest personal regards and very best wishes, Cole." Presbyterian Church -Services Rev. A. Douglas McArn, pastor of Bethesda Presbyterian church, announces services for the week as follows: Sermon subject, "Broken Bodies." The Lord's supper will be observed nt this service. This Sunday is Rally Day in our Sunday school. A special Rally Day program ip being prepared and every member of the church is urged to be present. Christian Bndeavor, 7 p. m. Sunday school 10 a. m. Morning worship 11:15. The public is cordially invited to all these services. ^ / 4-H Boys iGo To Clemson Covert MoCalluni, Harold MciCallum, Kenneth Joye, Elilee Pate, Shell West, Lee Weat, 4-H boys from Kershaw cotmtfr, and William Dabney -<4*H -club bey from Lancaster county) left, with Itr. Henry D. Green, county agent, to go to Clemaon col* lege to compete'in the district Judging contest for club boys. They will judge Jersey and Guernsey cows end various breeds" of bogs. This conUet will be held Tuesday, September SO. - L * .^7x.?TTy t? ? ...' l.L., _r: Trap Gun Kills Road Engineer Pageland, Sept. 27.?Charles Ctflmore MeElroy, 23-year-old engineer for the South Carolinu state highway department, a graduate of Washington and Ix?e university lust spring, whose home is Tampa, Fla., was almost instantly killejl at 8 o'clock this morning when a shotgun trap, set for robbers in n filling station near here, went off as MeElroy entered the place to purchase a package of cigarettes. He died within a few minutes. MeElroy and three other engineers on a highway construction project on route 35 between Jefferson and Pageland, went to the filling- station of JGLJy.,. Laney, tour miles south, of, Pageland. Laney had entered the j building, walked around a cord tied four inches from the floor, when MeElroy touched the cord and received the load from the gun in his body. He fell a few feet inside the filling station entrance. At an iiKjuest held here later in the morning before Magistrate. J. ]Vf. Richardson, a verdict was brought that MeElroy died from wounds received from a gun set by Laney. No arrests have been made. It is understood here that county officers are consulting with the solicitor. Laney testified at the inquest that he called to MeElroy to watch out for the cord, one end of which was tied to the trigger of the doubled barreled gun and the other to a. door near the back of the store. The other engineers, named Hale, Wyrrjan and Tiptons, testified that they did not hear Laney warn their young friend. They had waited outside the filling station while MeElroy purchased the cigarettes. Laney's filling station and store had been broken into several times recently and he had set the trap-gun to shoot the robbers should they return. He had carefully tied a cord from the gun, placed in the rear of the store building, to the door, just off the floor all the way, so that an unsuspecting ' person walking in the room would ?oueh the cord and fire the gun. Karl S1<5an, resident engineer for the project, informed J. S. Williamson of Columbia, central division engineer, who in turn told the state highway department officers in Columbia. ? MeElroy,?whose father is Hiram MeElroy, 817 South Wilton street, Tampa, Fla., joined the department June 13, 1930, a few days after he had been graduated from Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Va., with a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering. Before entering the university he had studied at the Georgia Military Academy, College Park, Ga., and had worked during the summer vacations with the MeElroy Engineering company, of Tampa on drainage and Bubdivision work. McElroy's body is being held at Pageland pending the arrival of the father from Tampa. Old Man Still Picking Cotton Sam Mcllwain, belonging to that element of the negro citizenship usually characterized as the "old time colored folks", has reached the age of 82 years and one day last week picked 82 pounds of cotton on J. T. Floyd's farm near town, which was no small achievement for "Uncle Sam." Sam is also a handy fellow about town, being given employment by various ones in garden work and about the yards. in which he is painstaking in his efforts to do it exactly right. His .kind are decreasing rapidly, however.?Kershaw Era. ^ Football Game Today. ? First of the elimination games of football for this season will be between Camden Hi and Olympia Hi played on Zemp field this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The Camden bull dogs are in good shape for the game and with the fans cheering them on to victory it should be a good game against the strong team from Columbia. Admission, adults 60 cents and all school children 26 cents. Work on liberty Hill Highway Work on the bridges of the highway through Liberty {Uli from Great Falls to Camden has commenced on the northern end of the stretch. Or the road blasting sUQ^cohtlnMi ? the contractors are confronted wit* the problem of moving much rock ?(Lancaster Newt. lv \ M-"i?hijl -i mxMu Airport Leased To Weeks Company The Woodward Airport Commission co-operating with the Camden and Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce this week hn? signed an agreement whereby the Woodward airport will be leased for the next twtf' yeara to the Weeks Aircraft corporation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Tho lease is to ta^e effect on November 1 and the airpdit commission has agreed to let tho Weeks corporation have the aviation field and yse of the hangar until that time and. it is expected that several planes will arrive here shortly. The lease covers a fcntal of two years with an option of one or more years. The deal was made through T. J. Sauerborn, vice-president of the Weeks corporation, who is now eta-i tioned at the Charlotte airport with] a number of planes. The Weeks corporation has agreed to supervise the flying field, maintain it and keel) representatives on hand at all times. Planes will be here for the Shrine ceremdnial and also for -the county fair. It is also said the corporation expects to usfe the field for air transportation?making rail connections at this point between New York and Atlanta, and Atlanta and Jacksonville for passenger service. e> The Weeks corporation also maintains a school for pilots at Milwaukee and has leased the Charlotte and Camden airports with a view to"training student flyers during the winter months and it is not unlikely that a number of students will train at Camden. The Woodw'ard airport was presented to Camden and Kershaw county several years ago by E. L. Woodward, of Leroy, N. Y., a winter resident of Camden. The airport commission consists of L. A. Kirkland, chairman; H. G. Carrison, Jr., vicechairman; C. P. DuBose, secretary; ! Re M. Kennedy, S..-W. Van Landingham and J. H". Sowell. ! Records Prove That | Hen Lays And Pays Clemson College, Sept. 27.?Ninetyi one poultrymen in different sections ! of South Carolina, keeping records on a total of 9,919 hens, obtained an average egg production of 11,.2 eggs per bird during ^ugust, reports P. H. ~ rOoding, extension poultry-specialists The hens in the 91 flocks ate 24.3 cents worth of feed and produted a | total income of 66.5 cents each, leaving an income above feed cost of 131.2 cents per bird fo* the month. These records show that if the hens are fed right they will make money. Poultrymen receiving the highest I egg production in the different size j flocks are as follows: Flocks smail| er than 50 birds, Mrs. John H. Hill, Kathwood;. flocks between 60 and 600 j birds, Mrs. Carrie Bragdon, Man| ning; Flocks with more than 500 , birds, M. B. Henderson, Owings. . Among the poultrymen keeping calendar records Mrs. O. G. Dorn, Oswego, received the highest egg proi duction in the class of flocks with ; less than 50 birds. Misses L. and M. Theilkuhl, Walhalla, received the highest egg production for flocks consisting of more than 60 birds. Mr. Fletcher To Make Address. The A. T. Jfcmison Bible Class of the Camden 3aptist church issues the following announcement: "The Men's Bi^le Class of the Firs: Baptist Church will have the pleasure of having Mr. D. R. Fletcher of Kershaw, S. C., a noted Bible scholar, to make an address to them Sunday, Octboer 5th. We especially urge all the men of the church to meet with us, and all others that do not Sunday school elsewhere." K'egro Charged With Bfftfrdafr Lancaster, Sept. 29.?Amos Young, Negro, charged with the fatal shoot, ing of Roy White early Sunday morning at a highway corfetaruetive camp on the Liberty Hill-Oreat Falli | road, was in the- Lancaster count) jaii'V^ffht under a charge of murder. White, a resident of MorristoWsi ' Tenn., was rushed to a hospital short yl after the shooting but died sever* 1 hours later. ' Young was arrested by Brite Tor i ner, magistrate's deputy in Cheaten i county and held for Lancaster off! - cava who brought Mm here this af tarftooa. ' i - ? - ' J. ' 1 ? Tragedy at Kershaw; Youth Is Stabbed Kershaw, Sept. 2H.? Seventeenyear-old T. J. Dee tie, who lives eight miles from Kershaw on the I*uncnster highway, was killed with a knife early tonight in fropt; of the neighborhood schoolhouse by Paule Faile, 14, a crippled friend with whom he had quarreled. While friends of the young boys gathered about the body and looked ftt the sharp trickle of blood from a wound near the heart, Fatle disappeared into the woods. Hours after the homicide he had not been approbended. One of ten children of Mr. and Mrs Lee Deese of the Black Creek section Of. Lancaster county, the 17-year-old boy and his pal had quarreled last Sunday as they were returning from a religious service. They met again late today and were walking homeward when the group of which they were members stopped in front of the school building, a few feet from the busy state highway No. 26. Before the friends, who apparently knew of last Sunday's quarrel?the cause is not known?could interfere, Paul and T. J. had run together. There was a Hash of the knife, a sudden slump of the older boy's shoulders, a few tottering steps and a fall to the ground. He was dead. Faile, the cripple, is the son of Amble Faile. Hours after the killing, although a police officer was present, the body of Deese remained on the ground before the schoolhouse pending the arrival of tfce Lancaster county sheriff and coroner. These officers reached the scene later and ordered the body removed to Kershaw, where it is being held tonight. The dead boy's brothers and sisters are: Hasel Deese, Vernie Deese, Fred Deese, Lindy Lee Deese, William i Deese and an infant, all brothers; i three sisters, I. Butie? Deese, Ardry I Deese and Donnie Belle Deese. ! Legion Carnival Again This Year The Leroy Belk Post of the American Legion is planning to have the fall showing of their carnival on Wednesday, October 16th. All pjans are being perfected to make this the best show ever put on by the post. The lot iust North of the postoffice will again be the place of entertainment from noon on October 16th until midnight. Along the midway will be many wKeels of chance to attract the eye, and lucky winners yrill be able to pick from candy wheels, bacon and ham stands and for the ladies flowers. The cry of "Bingo" will no doubt bi as popular as always. The horse races that-proved so interesting last time the carnival was held will again be run, so plan now to back your favorite. "Mag" Taylor, of. Stateburg, the fortune teller, popular with old as well as young will be there to foretell coming events. Be sure and let her read your palm. A boxing match has been arranged for the day, that will very likely prove an attraction to many. A vaudeville shqw of local, talept is planned and some very good acta are being rehearsed. ' Tickets will be sold for twenty-five i cents on a Ford to be given away that night to the holder of the lucky number. In all it will be a ^ala occasion i. with crowded midway of gay ^e.oplc and a genuine carnival spirit prevailing. Thirty-four musk ox calves are op the way from Greenland. The de1 partment of agriculture is importing them. They will be shipped to Alaska in the hope of restocking frozen . plains where the species once roamed ,in great numbers. r _ First Baptist Church Services. ' The following services , are an? i nounced for the week at tlfe Fissl ? Baptist church: Sunday school at 1C h o'clock, Mr. W. G. Wilson, supcrin tendent; preaching by the pastor al 11:15, on the subject, "How T< Fray." Evening service at 7:30 '< preaching by the pastor on the sub I ject: "The Mistake of Felix." Prmyet meeting Wednesday evening at 1 o'clock; Junior iB. Y. P. U. Sunday t evening at 0:30; . Senior ?T. Y. P, B Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Tlx public ia cordially invited to attorn all the service* of tfci# church. : ,r; " ' V * Special Prizes For Potatoes ( Icmson Collage; Sept. 27, ? Ona hundred dollars additional prize money |?as been of tared by Clemeon College for the best sweet potatoes exhibited at the State Fair, according to announcement of Prof. R. A. Me- ' Ciinty, horticulturist, in charge of the big exhibit of the state's horticultural resources. These prizes, mad? possible through the liberality of tho N. V. Potash Export My... will be ^warded as follows: Prizes of $2.r>, $lh and $10 to individual growers winning first, second and third places; similar prizes to county exhibits, these to be made up of exhibits of five or more individual growers from a given county. "Jump in and win some of this money," says L. P. Watson, extension horticulturist, "by selecting a bushel of your very best ,^o. 1 potatoes. Y\ rap each potato carefully in tissue paper; pack them into a bushel basket and send to Moffatt 13. DuPre & Co., Columbia, S. C., being sure to mark on the tag?FOR FAIR EXHIBIT. You furnish the potatoes and the container for shipping them and we pay all other expenses, express, storage, drayage, etc. We prepare the potatoes f<^r exhibit at our expense. You may enter as many bushels as you wish. We do not want very large potatoes or small ones. Wc want mediumsized potatoes, uniform in shape. ' These arc to be exhibited in trays which we furnish and unless the potatoes are uniform in shape and all practically the same si2e, it will be impossible to exhibit your potatoes to the best advantage. For further Information see your county agent, who is in position to aid you in this matter." State Foresters Close Stay Here Free motion pictures and lectures at Wateree school and Weeping Mary church Friday night marked the close of the Southern Forestry Educational (project in Kershaw county. The three trucks that have been operating here for the past two weeks in an effort to show with moving pictures, lectures und literature the tremendous damage caused' by even the lightest burning of our timbefed IsmJ&and the beneftts~tobe de- ? rived by fire protection, have carried a message to over 6,600 men, women and children in our county. Approximately 8,000 pieces of literature centering on woods fires, have%been distributed, and posters have been placed in conspicuous places in the rural sections of the county. The men carrying on this work report that a large number of Kershaw county citizens are eager for and are forming fire protection plans of their own. The citizens of Kershaw county are beginning to see that the solution of the idle land problem is by growing timber on those idle acres that are unsuited for agricultural purposes. It is expected that through the combined efforts of the Kershaw Forestry Association, the State Forest Service, and the Southern Forestry Educational project, that a wide anti-fire sentiment will be created ) strong enough to suppress for all ? time, the "Red Enemy" of our for, eats?woods fires. We are Rure the Southern' Forestry Educational project appreciates the , assistance rendered them by -the county school superintendent and tfte citizen^ of Kershaw county. L Teachers To Meet Saturday, Oct. 11th Mr. Virgil Harvey, president of the Kershaw county teachers' association, , announces the first meeting will be held Saturday, October 11th, at 11 ; a. m., at tbe Camden high school. > The teachers will have the pleasure of hearing Mr. Henry Strohecker, t State president, and plans for the six > meetings of the year will be in, nounced. Notice for First Sunday Mt. Pisgah Baptist church, .Rev. f &uiwi?y s^vml P.ftJ. Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. 1 Preaching at 8 o'clock. Everybody It invited to attend these services. .