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The Camden -Chronicle I VOLUME 42 , ' " " ; ? " CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1930 1 -UJ" ' 1 1 111 " "L NUMBER 30 I Annual County Fair I Only One Week Away I The Kershaw Co?iity fair premium j Ijjfct is off the praaa and has been distributed throughout the county anlouncing the prises offered in the various departmental The fair opens on Thursday, November t>> *t the new fair grounds. The exhibits open at 9:00 a. in. Cetlin & Wilson shows come on Monday, November 8, and furnish imusenient for the entire week with the usual entertainment devices. Bee Kyle, lady high diver, puts on a free Jiving exhibition every afternoon and evening. Balloon ascension and par?chute jumping every afternoon. Friday, November 7, will be school day, when all pupils and teachers fjj] be admitted free from 10 a. m. I mill P- ?? ?A football game betweeh Camden and Orangeburg will | a feature for Friday, the game commencing at 3:30 p. m. Saturday, November 8, will be deTated as colored school day, when pupils and teachers will be admitted free. A fine community fair has already been held at Liberty Hill in which iome fine exhibits were entered which will be brought to the county fair. Other community fairs which till undoubtedly stimulate interest j fc the county fair will be held at I jjiney, Friday, October 31; Bethune, I Ifotober 31 and November 1; Mt. I .Igah, Saturday, November 1, and j !, Saturday, November 1. i miums in the swine delave been made much more and several more classes loys 4-H Club department classes have been put in 'izes made worth whije. j hool exhibits this year the Is decided to cut out the ! ?s so that every school i would have an equal! istead of giving first, secird money, they will offer, divided equally among nil itering. Thus, the large I 1 have no advantage over 1 ones. dividual farm display cash ?50 for first money, $30 and $420 for third should j >od exhibits. ; lunity booth showing best I capture"~a prize of $50: >30 and $20 as second and J r". i I department this year has attractive to flower lovprizes offered by out-of-' sted friends. >y secretary Brevard Boyunty Agent Green state nterest is being manifest\ There has been an un-I ?e amount of food crops, is county this year and it! ime to exhibit what the > county can produce. of admission will be 35! dults, 15 cents for chilight admission 20 cents leeting of Stockholders al meeting of the stock-1 'he Wateree Building and j ation was held Thursday! last week. This associaganized in 1904, and has! -six years of successful The annual report subbis meeting showed sub*1 $857,000; paid in cap13; and' profits of $47 series are being carried, >tal of 4,285 shares. This has been conservatively d has been a great asset lunity. The officers were '. the annual meeting as vid Wolfe, president; S. hngham, vice-president; secretary and treasWittkowsJcy, golicitor. i are David Wolfe, F. M. J. Shannon, Jr., S. W. mm, L. L. felock, C. W. i U A. Wittkowsky, John! 1. P. Lewis. M. H. Heywis Lee Clyburn. >r Revokes tngum'8 Parole tichards yesterday morn. the parole of Clifton ^shaw county, whose nine nice for the manufacture s suspended May- 6 fol:onviction in November ston Latimer, secretary nor, said that the goveen informed that the s parole had been vio<?d not know the na? violations. Mangum is Kershaw county jail at a and child and report ^ .0 dniiM tK-Wrd of p.r* " " > * ? . ' \ Gigantic Air Show At Woodward Airport Fliers from the Weeks Aircraft corporation will put on a gigantic air | show at the Woodward Airport on Saturday and Sunday marking the inaugural opening and operation of that port by this company. The flights will feature a daredevil stunt pilot and Jim Bothrick in his record-breaking delayed parachute jump. , Col. J. J. Grady, with the Canadian air forces during the war, will feature his daredevil upside-down flying. Pop Hanscom, of the famous laUfayette Escadrille, of World war fame, will be here as will also George Shealy, famous racing pilot, winner of the national air races of 1929 and 1930: Passengers will he carried for flights at a penny a pound. Speaking of this great aircraft corporation locating in the south the Charlotte Observer of Wednesday contained the following: Organization of Weeks Aircraft of North Carolina, Inc., for the purpose of leasing and operating the Charlotte airport and to establish an aviatiorv_school here, was announced last night following a day of conferences between attorneys and interested parties. Officers of the new concern are: Elling O. Weeks of Wilwaukee, president; L. J. Sauerborn, formerly of Milwaukee and Birmingham, now j of Charlotte, vice president; Joe j Blythe of Charlotte, treasurer; Wal- j ter Mayer of Milwaukee, secretary i and TCric, E. Myer, of Milwaukee, assistant treasurer. These men with I the exception of Eric E. Myer, are i directors, along with George I. Ray,' of Charlotte. The firm is capitalized at $100,000. Of this, Weeks Aircraft of Milwaukee has paid in $49,000. tional funds have been - subscribed by Charlotte men principally stock holders of Charlotte Airport, Inc. This Charlotte group has assured the Milwaukee interests that the remainder of $30,000 sought here will be raised at once. i This means, Mr. Saureborn said I last night, that the new firm will , exercise its option on a ten-year j lease of the airport today, and that hangar cohatttlction and organization of the flyiitgcschool will be be- j gun at once. Mr. Sauerborn has es- i tablished his home in Charlotte and ( will manage the business here. ! The Charlotte corporation will take ; over all physical assets of Weeks ; Aircraft of Milwaukee, the parent ^corporation retaining only stock in the new organization. Removal of the equipment to Charlotte has already begun, and will be completed before November 8, when the Weeks concern is to stage a big air show under the auspices of the American Legion. Mr. .Sauerborn said. One Fairchild five-place cabin^ plane has already been brought here. Another of thnf type, two Kinner Eagle Rocks and two Great Lakes trainers are to follow. Three complete planes upon which, students work in the school shops are also to be brought. In addition, equipment of the Hyer & Son aviation school at Clarendon, Pa., recently purchased by the Weeks interests, is to be brought down at once This includes two Eagle Rocks and one Waco. Pop Hanscom, first commander of the Lafayette I&cadrille in the World war, is leaving Milwaukee this morning with a plan? and Jack Grady, Guggenheim test pilot and veteran aviator, is leaving Clarendon at the same time to the Weeks firm j whelT it absorbed the Hyler group Saturday, and will be it ; fiving at Camden, where Weeks Air craft of North Carolina has leased the port. The field there will be managed by Glenn Hyer, young member of the former Hyer & Son firm. Hanscom, who was formerly superin ten dent of the JMtcairn Aircraft factory, has been employed as chie mechanic for Weeks Aircraft of North Carolina. ?hsorpMr. Sauerborn said that absorp firvr, nf tho Hver school and the Weeks school in Milwaukee by the North Carolina corporation would mean that between 25 and ^ atuden mechanics and pilots brought to Charlotte as oon a the school here can be opened. bids on the newuha?gftrVA hi issued also house the school, is to next week, and officials of the com i pany expressed the hope that, would be in ?fv. Xry ember 1 or shortly thereafter. Mills Increase Operations Greensboro, N. C., Oct. IB ? *? j Consume here, White Oak, Revolution and Proximity, Will go olV four-day week basis of operat*? Monday, it waa announced today. The mills have been running but three day. a week rince June. About S,400 workers are employed by Lant Chapter pf Kidnaping Story Athens, Ga., Oct. 18.?The law to'lay sought Willie Wilson, 32-yearold married man, on a charge of kidnaping Esther Furcron, student of Anderson college, Anderson, 8. C., who was restored to her parents here yesterday, A week from the day she disappeared from school the 17-year-old , girl rejoined her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. W. K. Fureron, of Grovtr, j N. ., Wilson's home town. The girl I said she escaped from Wilson here! by leaping from his car and running to police headquarters. She was joined by. her parents yesterday. They planned to return to Grover today, happy in their re-! union. The Rev. Mr. Furcron said i his daughter wh8 not harmed by Wil-! son. Father said she was influenced to! leave with Wilson when he told her! her sweetheart had asked him to bring her to him to be married. He carried her as far as Marion, III, j she added and then returned South. She said she awaited a good,pppor-j tunity to escape and realized it here. In addition to the kidnaping ac-! cusation, Wilson is charged with! stealing an automobile and<^three bales of cotton in Shelby, N. C. Correction In Fair Admission Price* In a page advertisement published in The Chronicle last week the admission price of the county fair was stated to be children 25 cents, adults I 50 cents and automobiles, 50 cents. This was incorrect in so far as the admission for children and adults. It should have been adults 35 cents,! children 6 to 16 years, 15 cents, and night admission 20 cents to all. ????? _ Lyttleton Street Methodist Church George Pierce Watson, pastor.! Sunday, October 26: Bible school, 10:00 a. m., Mr. L. C. Shaw, superintendent. Bpworth League, 6:45 p. m. Public worship, 11:15 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., conducted by the pastor. Morning theme, "The Human Magnifying the Divine." ' Evening theme, "Capturing a Stronghold." Midweek service, Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. The public is most cordially invited to all the services of this churclr Visitors are especially wel-' come. Come and bring your friends.Merciless General Dies Late In Life Madrid, Oct. 20.^-Captain-General; Valeriano Weyler, first in rank in! the Spanish army, died today at the age of 92. General Weyler, a veteran, of Spain's ooloninl wars, succumbed to illness growing out of a fall off his horse on his 92nd birthday last month. General Weyler, regarded by Spain as its most loyal and efficient sol-. dier, is remembered by Americans as . a merciless ruler in Cuba who had much to do with bringing on the Spanish-American war. When Weyler was sent to Cuba to1 succeed Marshal Campos, whose dealings with insurrectors were regarded as too mild, he began a policy of in-! exorable repression. One act requir-' ed all inhabitants of insurgeon provinces to concentrate near military camps, thus depriving them of their homes, normal occupations and associations. They were massed in such numbers that they could not be properly fed and sheltered and General Fitzhugh Lee, then consulj general of the United States at Hav-1 ana, is authority for the estimate' that probably 200,000 of the rural j population of Cuba died of starvation or resultant causes during the concentration period. Under pressure from the United States* General Weyler was recalled by Spain in October, 1897, less than ttfo years of his merciless rule having elapsed. Convention at Aittioch The Lee County Singing Convention will meet with Antioch Baptist church on Sunday, October 26th, at 2:30 p. m. We especially urge all nearby choirs in Kerehaw county to take part with ua. We expect the famous quartette from the Second Baptiet church of Harts villa to be with us. Also Prof. Green, president of the Cheeterflald Convention, with several of hit cboire. '* A warm welcome to alL says L. A. Moore, president. * . ' . -- . ^ 4, . ,r . ^ * * " g^gacwgg i ii ii 11, i Camden Man Now State Comtnander A. Stanley Llewellyn, of Camden, yesterday became the commander of the American Legion of South Carolina, succeeding Osc*r Doyle of Anderson, under whose guidance the department reached the highest, mem eiship mark in its history and piade. other forward strides. The transfer" took place at a joint meeting of the outgoing and incoming executive committee of the state .Legion. (*Jt was decided to call all post commanders, post adjutants, past department commanders and adjutants, and all officers, to Columbia next Sunday for a conference, which will include religious exercises led by the state chaplain. After a dutch luncheon, the Pinlift, fox?the?year?will Kr. mapped ; out. The meeting will be held at the j Jefferson, I he committeemen went on record yesterday as determined to contfnue the fight for a government hospital in'this state. Commander Llewellyn's appoint- i ments were affirmed. He named Felix ! Goudelock of Union, adjutant; George! IX Levy of Sumter, judge advocate; Ellison Capers and Loui Greet .athletic officers; and Howard Anthony, George D. Ix>vy and Corris C. Lumpkin on the hospital board. ! The newly elected and appointed department officers are: Commander, A. Stanley Llewellyn, Camden; vice' commander, Harry M. Arthur, Union; vice commander, N. Walser Edens, Bcnnettsville; national executive committeeman; J. Monroe Johnson, Marion; historian, George W. Wannamaker, St. Matthews; chaplain, the Rev. John McSween, Clinton;' judge advocate, George D. Levy, Sumter; athletic officer, Loui Greet, Green: ville; athletic officer, Kllison Capers, Columbia; service officer, Fred W. Graham, Greenville. Executive committeemen: J. J. AltuoUu, Charleston; Solomon Blatt Barnwell; Dr. W. C. Marett, Seneca; Walter A. Johnson, Clinton; Carl H. Hart, York; George W. Ten-ell, Marion; Russell S. Wolfe, Orangeburg,?Monday's State. Two Cars Cattle For Mulberry Place County Agent Green has returned ffbm southwest Georgia where he purchased two carloads of bred white face Hereford cows for Mulberry.} plantation. These cattle are some of~ the best in the United States. They were purchased from P. S. Cummings and Sons of Donalsonville, Ga., in Seminole county. The Cummings ranch comprises approximately 40,000 acres of very fine grazing lands and border on the Florida and Alabama lines. . The chief herd sire on the ranch is named Seminole Woodford and weighs J,600 pounds and is said to cost $20,000. Mr. John L. Weeks, of Carn-r den and New York, purchased a son of this famous bull some time ago through County Agent Green.' Mr. Green was accompanied on. the trip by Dr. C. F. Sowell, Camden dentist. Former Camden Man Dead T Funeral services for William Mc-~ Combs Hinson," 62, who died Saturday afternoon at his late residence^ 1012 Hampton street, will be held at 10:30 this morning from the McCormick mortuary with the Rev. John H. Webb, pastor of the First Baptist church, in charge. Surviving him are his widow, formerly Miss Delia Young, of Camden; a son, H. C. Hinson of Fairfax; a daughter, Mrs. A. P. Rose of Dallas, Texas; two brothers, George Hinson of Monroe, N. C., and H, G. Hinson of Charleston; and one slater, Mrs. Cora Watkins of Charlotte; N. C. ^ ; V Mr. Hinson had been living in Coj lumbia for the past six years and was a merchant on Assembly. street. He was a member of the First Baptist church of Spartanburg and - of Live Oak camp of the Woodiften'of the World. ? Tuesday's '"Columbia State. f Mr. Hinson was a native of den, where he resided for many, years^ following the trada of a 'tTirftaas maker. He left here about eighteen |**rs ago to nfake hia where. Hi* body was frgfUftL .'fr; Camden Tuesday afternoon where R waa buried in the Quaker tematwy. v : : ^ g ? 5 ^^ssBsssastaamsBBessmis ? ?J juii Many Rare Old Maps Will (lo O Display The finest and largest collection of early Southern and South Carolina maps in tho South, assembled and owned by Henry P. Kendall of Boston and Camd?n, president of tho Kendall company, will be placed on fjee public exhibition in the library of fhe University of South Carolina, beginning November 3. This will be the first extensive display of such maps in the history of the state. The collection has not been shown publicly before. To see anything resembling it would necessitate, a visit to the Library of Congress or the New York Public library. To South Carolinians interested in the history of the state the exhibition will ity to observe its evolution by means of maps. Rare early prints of South Carolina subjects, of which Mr. Kendall has perhaps the "best collection in the South, will constitute an additional exhibit. A number of excessively rare maps are in this collection of 120 items, several are not listed in the catalog of the library of Congress. The earliest is dated 1063. Dutch, French, English, German and Italian cartographers of ^he 17th and lHth centuries are abundantly represented. /> I Unlike modern maps,i most of t*hese ! historic specimens are rich in beauty. No reputable cartographer of the old old school would let a map out of his hands unless it was lavishly colored, illuminated, decorated, engrossed and enscrolled. In addition to I handsome cartouches, often interestI ing information about South Caro; lina is engraved on the maps. In i one case, a list of the early slave! holders of the province is set forth. J . The maps are not confined to SoiU/h Carolina. In numerous instances they included North Carolina and Georgia and, in some, all America. | r, The exhibition will be made by Mb "Kendall in response to the invitation of the University of South Carolna. It will continue for several days. All interested are invited to see it. No charge of any sort will be made. Many visitors from the state at large I and from other states are expected A special room in the library hag . been set aside for the exhibits. One of the most striking and pleasI Mr. Kendall, a native and resident of Boston, has announced that it will remain in the South. The Boston Transcript, in an article describing ; the collection, recently said: "Not the least devastation of the South has been in the recent excursions of wealthy universities and li' braries after historical items. The friendly gesture which, keeps this Camden collection in the South is kin to other reports of Mr. Kendall's sincere regard for the country there-I abouts." "The collection is housed in Mr. Kendall's Camden home, "The Sycamores." "Mr. Kendall is a nationally-known cotton manufacturer and is president of several mills in South C&rolina and elsewhere. When he bought his home in Camden, where the original of the Southern g#bup of the Kendall mills is located, ho became interested in South Carolina maps, Indian artifacts, prints, furniture, books, pamphlets and autographs. This material has been gathered in London, Boston, New York, Charleston, Columbia and throughout South Carolina and the .Southeast. He has one of the best private collections of South Caroliniana, in the opinion of experts.?Sunday's State. Annual Church Party The anual church party of the Presbyterians will be held Friday evening, October 31. The place and plans will be announced later. It is hoped all members of the congregation will keep this date open. Hit and Run Plane Pensacola, Fla., Oct. 20.?A woman was instantly killed and a man seriously injured -Friday when a navy seaplane was said to have struck a fishing boat in Pensacola Bay. Mrs. Annie I^ee Edgecomb, mother of five small children, was dead when rescuers reached the overturned boat, Alfred G. Simmons was takes to a "hospital, where his condition vat said to be critical. Simmons said the seaplane landed close by the boat, taxied toward It and a pontoon struck his craft, hurling the occupants into the water. The seaplane then flew away, Simmons said.- Official# at the naval flying staiton here are in* vettigating. >, SEE?;."' .-T"; ' ? - -r: ?--..trrt ?- I 1 II . .1 JI I III,.. I 1 Many To See Game in Columbia Today Indications point to a Urge at* tendance when Camden meets th? Batesburg Leesville football team today in ( olumbia, The game is scheduled to take place at the Stat? hair grounds at noon and no doubt a great crowd will witness the game. Both teams are well mulched and this will probably l>e the deciding game for this district. So far Camden has been undefeated and in the five games played' have piled up a total of 151 points to their opponents points. ? Wlorefrce was defeated 10 to 0, Olympia 26 to 0, New Hrooklund 21 to 6, (Beat Falls 6.% to 6, and Swansea 10 to 0. Batosburg-Loesville ul-s?> haw n most?impros-vivp record. ?" Last Friday Camden defeated the Swansea team in a game which featured the forward pass from the first whistle until the last. There were several spectacular completions and interceptions made by both teams. Cam do it- scored in the first period, second period and fourth period. In the third period honors were about, even. In the closing minutes of the first half, Swansea got away with a long run and two nice passes to put. the ball deep in Camden territory, but the whistle ended their only serious threat. Swansea brought over an exceptionally clean, hard playing team and made a splendid impression on the Camden crowd. Children Burned in Country Home Newberry, Oct. 22.?George Andrew and Merle Horton, four and two years old, respectively, sons and only children of Mr. and Mrs. Kugene K. Horton, were burned to death in their home in the Bush River section of Newberry county ubout midday when the Horton dwelling was consumed by v fire of unknown origin. Their mother was picking cotton about two hundred yards from the house, and when she saw smoke emitting from the dwelling she rushed there to find the hotwe gutted by the fire:The unrecognizable bodiesVpf the two children were removed from the burned embers'w.'hen the Games subsided. Nothing was saved and no inJ surance was carried on the dwelling. Mr. Horton was in the city with a bale of cotton when the unfortunate accident occurred. Old Time Negro Killed by Train George Washington, said to be around ninety years of age; who has been employed for a long while at the Camden Oil mill, lost his life last Saturday morning while on the tracks of the Northwestern Railway near the oil mill, r The old negro had been sent on an errand and the train was backing out when he was caught and dragged some distance. It was not thought he was seriously hurt at the time, but he expired soon after reach-ing the Camden hospital where he was carried in an ambulance. His exact age was not known but 1 it is claimed that he was 96. Tarantula in Bananas While opening a bunch of bananas Thursday morning at Massabeau's Grocery, Mr. C. V, Massabeau cap-tured a large tarantula which had hidden away in the bunches. It is said to be a deadly poisonous spider and is a native of the tropics. Baptist Church Services The following services are announced for the week at the First Baptist church: Sunday school at 10 o'clock, Mr. L. N. Harwell, superintendent. Preaching at 11:15 and 7:30 by Dr. A. W. Lamar of Alpharetta Georgia. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Senior B. Y. P. U. Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Junior B. Y. P. U. Sunday evening at 6:30. The Kershaw Baptist Association will meet with this ch^reh on Thursday and Friday of this week. The pastors and members of the other churches of the city are invited to attend the sessions of the association. Dr. A. W, Lamar, a former pastor of this church, and for many years a famous Bible Conference Lecturer, has informed us that he is planning to attend the association and will stay over in Camden through Sunday. Hence we are making the announcement that ha will job the pulpit while here. ?? The puhtte Is cordially invited to attend all the aervioea of this elmN^