The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 24, 1930, Image 1
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
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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
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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.
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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. * .
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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;
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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.
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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. >,
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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^