The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 03, 1930, Image 1
-^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
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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
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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.
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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. ^
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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;
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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. .