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' 'f?? MWSr:/#>y: .' *; .' . *>., ' ' v .- '~ . _ __ _ fr" The Camden Chronicle -= ? . -111 . i > ..tiiii... -- ?? CAMDEN, SOUTH CAltOUNA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 26, 1930. ^ t ^ HLUME 42 'ffh M NUMBER 39 !Book Game; 'o Gets Fleeced ?rd, a wall known negro ht*8 Hill section, WEB day of the old pocket 1 was fleeced out of $400 ency, While hie would-he left him waiting on a said to have been atand: near the Loan and ?av- . hen a strange negro acnd unfolding his coat let eep at a wallet said to 0 which he is alleged to Brevard got a glimpse il and the stranger told of the wallet was filled Another negro came into his time and they''were on DeKalb street to dials. Soon ,a white man a ctep, containing "fc third first negro asked the b white man as to what the money. Everything utmost secrecy, so the vas to get $400 as hush vard was to provide this 1 return was to receive ? found money. he First National Bank, n out $400 in eash. The 1 that he ^aa with some oes and warned him to with that much money, was given to the white I we away. The three neBvered around, trying to < to divide the money, ri- j j him one at a time. | d the corner at Mim- j i and the last negro told , to step aside for ,,a mo- j nr him to watch for the >es who were to come j street. The last negro, i left Brevard standing j yfching was done in such ! Brevard was afraid to \ the sharpers had gotten 1 way. a., had. evidently , studied | efore coming to Camden i ew a good many local * d here and the leader in re his name as ftemg a j Br at Kershaw. tas Tree at mory Building i licle is published . this; Klnesday afternoon, but j ; (morning, therefore we' make announcement that tree will 'be given to the edy children of iCamden r county on Thursday afo\:lock in the Armory Rutledge street, be Christmas caroTs" "will j a real Santa Claus wiTr dispense the gifts. This; by the Associated Charee in charge of the affair kis newspaper to thank o by their contributions Christmas tree possible. Friday afternoon, using ee and at the same hour tree will be held for the. Iran. This affair will be in B. English and Rev. J) W. preparations have been ound two hundred needy IreA. >ort of (The Gins -vte H. L. Richey, cotton lerator, who keeps a regins for this county, there bales of cotton ginned in duty prior to December compared to 13,675 bales eriod last year. ~ ill Game For Charity ternon at 3 o'clock a footicked from the Kershaw [ris city wi)l play a picked the Sumter Guard? at . The admission fee will for men, 3b cents for lacenlte for children. The from the game will be the Children's Home. i?, colored barber, is proving hoot to Be staged in hire at the Armory buildto receipts from this boat donated to. the Children's olina' Railroad company t*tn Snow Hill, N. 0, to t)., Friday applied to the XNnoMtoa commisaion for to abandon its line. Population Figures For Kershaw County The United States department of commerce, bureau of the census, has recently issued a bulletin showing census figures in detail for cities, counties and toyhs of South Caro-' Una. The report shows .that in 1790 this state had a pouulation of 249,073 and the figures show that for 1930 it has 1,738,765 residents. South Carolina contains 30,495 square miles of land. . Kershaw county contains 671 square miles. Kershaw county is shown as having a population of 38,070 and is given by townships as follows: ,i Buffalo township, 6,449; Bethuno town, 522; Kershaw town, 1,120, with 332 in Kershaw county u'ud 788 in Lancaster county. DeKalb townships 14,977, 5,183 of this nufnber being in Camden city. Flat Bock township, 4,748, with (54 shown as living in Westville. Wateree township, 5,896, with 175 Residing in Blaney town. Camden city has a population of 5,183, divided ^mong the s|x wards as follows: Ward 1, 1,763; Ward 2, 446; Ward 3, 1,314; Ward 4, 851; Ward 5, 288; Ward 6, 521. Kendall To Build Houses. Charlotte, N. C., Dec. 19.?The Ketndall Mills, owning textile plants at Paw Creek, in Mecklenburg county and Newberry, St C., today announced it would construct 61 residences, to <jpst approximately $2,500 each, 23 at Paw Creek and 38 at Newberry. Total cost is expected to be around $152,500. Receiving of bids from contractors closed December *17, and announcement of award is expected from the company's offices in Washington, D. C., this week. Presbyterian Church Services Sunday, Decemiber 28th, at the Presbyterian church services will be as follows announces Rev. A. D. M*cArn, pastor of the church: Morning worship at 11:15; Sermon subject "Unrealized Purposes." Sunday school at 10 a. m. The public is cordially invited to all these services. Boyle Fatally Shot at Sumter Sunday Sumter, S. C., Dec. 21.?-Walter C. Boyle, one of the most prominent of Sumter's citizens, was fatally shot at his home tonight when he stepped outside the house to the side of the porch to enter his automobile. His son, Belton B. Boyle, who, with other memlbers of his family, heard the shot, ran to his father's side. "It accidentally got me," he quoted his father as saying. The wounded man yas carried inside the house, but died within a minute or two. Members of his family said that he did not own a gun and 'were at a loss to explain the presence of the (pistol that fired the fatal shot. They said that at the time they were so excited they did not notice where the gun was when he was first reached or later when it was brought into the house. -A,phort while before the tragedy, Mr. Boyle was in the %ouse with his Tatovily and upon leaving?remarked that he was going to get a paper. Mr. Boyle had been ill with a touch of influenza fof the past two weeks, but today was much better and had been to his office, where members of the family said he might have procured the pistol. - - * ~ Accidentally Burned To Death. Columbia, Dec. 19.?Norman P. Shipp, unemployed since July, was burned to death at his residence hero today. The charred body of the man was found in the bathroom by firemen who were called when the house was discovered to be on fire. Coroner McCain said indications were that Shipp had lighted a small gas heater to warm the room while hi shaved and that a leak developed bringing on unconsciousness. TTie escaping gas then ignited, he said he believed, setting fire to the house. Song Writer Dead. New York, JDec. 22.?Oxarles K. Harris, song writer and music publisher, author of "After the ' Ball," one of the moot popular song* ever written, and the theme song of the gay nineties, died at his home here today after an illness of three wedkv. Ho was 65. Attendance Honor Roll i Camden City Schools The attendance honor roll of the Camden City Schools for the second . six-weeks period, 1U80-?1, i? a? fol- ( lows; ? * Crude l (M4lU>? Lee Campbell, 1 Kdward Ix>vette, Bill Miips, Tod Patterson, Alva Hush, Marion Schlo*- i ourg. Colvin Sheom, Ellerbe Trapp, i 1 ho mas Turned, Betty Campbell, El-11 len Dempster, Artie Dixon, Jane Hof-! i for, Virginia Joyner,* Geruldine Kinney, Peggy McQuirt, Mary Pitts, 11 Betty Scott, Dorothy Sowell, Botty i Stevenson, Peggy Little, Da la Mor-L gan. Grade 1 (Zemp)~Albertus Greer,! t Hazel Horton, Ben McManus, David Melton, Henry Niles, Billy Hush, i Kamel Sheheen, Fra^k Sullivan,'' James Trapp, L. J. Watts, Mary' Hasty, Doris Hinson, Mae Player,' Margaret Sanders, Margie Thunman,' Rmily Ktta West! Grade ~1 (Wolfe )-^-Dargon Jen- ! nings, Carson Peebles, Myrtle Out-: law, Geneva Thigpen, Mary Trues dale, Marion Truesdale. Grade 2A--,Mabel Tobb Campbell,! Carolyn Cooley, Martha Gettys, Laura Lee Green, Elizabeth Jackson, Ix>uise Moore, Betty" Munn, Doris WcLeod,' Nettie Leese Ogburn, Beatrice Oliver,; Frances Rhame, Rebecca Shivar, Mary Smith, Billy Clarkson, Clarenee Graham, Claud Lamoy, Walter Mime, " Chai les MoCaskill, Rufus Redfeari(, G^ady Rileg, Leonard Schenk, Marvin i Smith, Jack Shiyrl, Billy VanLand ingham. Grade 2B?Wilma Laney, Mary F. i Bowen, James Sheorn, Marvin Shir-! ley, Elvin Scarborough, Jack Stein,' Mendel Williams, Paul Williams, Lloyd Truesdale, Earl Downey. Grade 3A-?Catherine Christmas, Minnie B. Cunningham, Margaret' Fischel, Betty Gettys, Annie Mae Godwin, Marjorie Hatfield, Fay Hor-( ton, Phyllis Karesh, Clarine ^.Jdunn, j Myrtle Mcl^ain, Berlee Scott,' Martha Smith, Betty Sowell, Betty Thomas, Eugene Campbell, Jerry Hancock, Billy" Pitts, Benton Sheron, Jimmy Little, Hazel Twitty. Grade 3B?Malcolm Anderson. Hugh Cox, J. V. Sanders, Thomas Shehden, Albert Shirley, Edward Watts, Sarah Brunson, June Connell, Lucile Mooneyham, Rosa Peebles, Nancy Sanders, Juanita Trapp. Grade 3C?Arthur Brown, Charles E. Trapp, Goldie Corbitt, Margie -Creed,?Teresa?Reed, Mary Riggins, Margaret Sinclair, Dorothy Smith. Grade 4A?Kathryn Boyd-, Harriet, Brunson, Dally Jackson, Neta Kirkland, Margaret Munn, Lois Rhame, Grace Rhoden, Virginia Riles, Sara Sheorn, Lenora Sinclair, Kathaleen Smith, Lottie Smyrl, Vashti Thigpen,' Betty W hi taker, William Christmas,; Raymond Harris, Robert Little, Junior Smith, Massen-burg Trotter, David Wallnnu, Harry Lee Waters, Billy' Wilson, Richard Gettys, Harold McCa skill. 7 1 Grade 4B?Norman Baum, Clinton Christmas, Carl Drakeford, Matthew | Munn, Clarence Owens, Archie Stein, i Ralph Stevenson, Homer Shirley j Marie Ajwmons, Mattie Lee Cullen,' Margie DeiLoache, Dorothy Dority,' Elah Evans, Doris Hall, Lilhe May Rabon, Sfbyl Robinson, Juanita Sanders, Cora Lee Trapp. ard Goff, Claremont Rabon, Gilbert Shirley, Julius Hough, J. C. Hough, Rhetta McLeod, Vira Truesdale, Ruby Vereen, Lucile Watts, Margaret West. , ' Grade 5A?Henry Carrison, Edward Crolley, Benjamin Gettys, Hugh Gettys, Wylie Hogue, Albert Jrby, Dan McCaskill, Robert McLain, Jack Rhame, Willis Sheorn, Pay ton Shirley, Jack Villepigue, Douglas WootenJ Spohia Creed, Lesta Davis, Beulah Graham, Betty Holland, Louise Mickle, Margaret Osborne, Ben Mildred Sowell, Wilhelmina Strnk, Francis Templeton, Paulette West, Catherine Wright. Grade 5B-1?James Graham, Lewis Robinson, Meshell Sheheen, James Williams, Jean Bell, Rosa Lee Harden, Edwilla Hough, Kathryn Myer's, Ruby Player, Cora Mae Scarborough. Grade 5B-2?Sidney Gardner, Carlyle Jackson, Harry Moore, Fred She heen, Elizabeth Jordan, Ethel Lee Kelly, Ruby KermmgTbn, Mary Alice Rabon. Grade 6A ? Emerson Branham, Francis Chapman, Billy DeiLoache. 1 Walter Harris, W. L. Jackson, August Kohn, Robert Marye, Harold Mci Call urn, Billy Nettles, Frank Oliver, , Isaac Pitta, Woodrow Sanders, H. B. (Continued on Laat Plsge) , . . ji. i Charles M. Coleman Died Sunday Night. Clwrte. Murtm Colem.n, ? rssWwit. ? t-amdert around thirty years,, died *t the Carnden hospital Sunday after-: won at six o'clock after an illness of Tour weeks. Mr. Golem*n half been in ill hesOdi since last May nn<i gradually declined until taken to the hospital four weeks ago, and the eml came Sunday after noon. He was born at Monticello, in Fairfield county, January 12, 1877, the ion of Charles Ferdinand Ooleman *nd Mary Alice /Martin Coleman, prominent people of that county." In L'arly childhood his father died, and his mother married the late Col. 1). A. Dickert, oif Newberry, author of the "History of Ker.^haw's Brigade." He served as an apprentice under J. W. White, of Newberry, where he developed into an expert machinist and metal worker. Mr. Coleman cam* to Camden as a young man and first' worked for the J. B. Wallace . hardware store as a machinist. Later fee! established a repair shop and sporting goods store, but of late years had followed hiR trade as a machinist. While not a native of Camden, he fit. ted well into the community life and being of a genial disposition everybody was his friend. He was a golden-hearted fellow?ever thoughtful of his fellow man, and his death brings sorrow to all who knew him., On October 28, 1904, he rwas married to Miss Octavia Rhame, of this city, who, with one son, George Coleman, survives. Mr. Coleman aflso leaves one sister, Mrs. Claudia Suber, of Newberry; two_JhaIf-sisters, Mrs. Lucile Dickert ^Moibley, of Denmark, S. C., and Mrs. Gussie Dickert Wells, of Minneappolis, Minnesota. ^The funeral services occurred from his late residence on north Ffcir street Monday afternoon at three o'clock, conducted by the Rev. Warrop G. Arialll, pastor of the Methodist dhurch, assisted by Rev. J. B. Caston of the Baptist church, and interment was in the Quaker cemetery. y * Serving as active pallbearers were Clarkson Rhame,' Walter Rhame, Chap Barrett, John Laurens Mills, Donald Barnes and M. M. Reasonover. The honorary pallbearers were N". R. Good&le, Sr., J. K. Lang, W. H. Haile, James H. Burns, L. A. Sowell and H. D. Niles. Round of Activity To Help This State (Tuesday's Columbia State) A general round of activity in -South Carolina to relieve the present unemployment situation is now undec way and will be given considerable f*B?etus by a federal., appropriation of $1,200,000 which will be available immediately for road construction, Thad Holt, Southern regional adviser of President Hoover's committee for employment, said yesterday. /.?j stopped in Columbia to confefwith road officials, Bishop Kirkman G. Finlay, chairman of Governor Richard's committee on employment, and others interested in relief. He expects to return next month for the meeting of the governor'? ^The appropriation for road construction in South Carolina, Mr. Holt pointed out, is over and a/bove alt other federal appropriations and will not have to 'be matched immediately by the state, rt is part of the $106,060;000 recently appropriated by congress. j Dr. W. W. Long, of Clemeon college will represent South Carolina .farmers in the procuring of loans tot farmers from the $45,000,000 authorized by congress to be used in'^Mia drought areas for the growing Of next gear's crops. Rivers -and harbors work at Cft^rles'ton will be speeded up ^nd -Uritiiy public buildings throughout the state will give added employment, Mr, Holt said. He cited a $75,000 balding at Harteville, which is now under contract; a $300,000 building at Hill, specifications for wbico'-Uj^being draxpi; a $420,000 building at Spartanburg; bids for whMh have already been received, and a $60,000 building at Dillon, plana for yhich are being drawn. i (Many local and charity , projects and the state-wide odd-job campaign ware also referred to by>l?r, Holt as means of relieving the present edda. Hog Production Increases In County Hog production in Kershaw county < has increased in the past year even j greater than we expected it would. In fact it seems very likely now that we can begin shipping car lots next year. * Of course the 4-H club boys are leading in this development of hogs ' in the county. . Every farm family in the bounty j should have at least one good brood ! sow b^L it would be better tfi have two iJPwey can be taken care >f properly. A plenty of hog meat will help in a large measure to cut down on the | family living expenses,^ Then if a surplus can be produced and sold it , will help on the family income. Each sow should bring two litters j per year. They should be bred May 1st and November 1st. The gesta- i tion period is 113 days. The pigs should be weaned about 60 days old. Breed sows 10 days after weaning the pigs. The pigs should weigh ! from 160 to 225 pounds each at seven months of age and should Ire sold at that time, which will put them on the market in February or Murch I und in September, which are the high-priced seasons of the year due to being times just before the corn belt or hog-producing states thro^ their hogs on the markets of theN United States. As a rule South Carolina hogs produced according to the county agent or Clemson college bring more per pound ancLcost less per pound to produce. Most of our car lot shipments of hogs are sold in Richmond. In order to get the highest price for our hogs we must breed our sows at the right time, then push the pigs for all the growth they will put on in six or seven months and then sell them on the top market prices. Keep the boar away from the sow until the proper time and get your breeding work timed correctly and then continue to get two litteTs" per year from each sow. Two good soWs should bring seven ,pigs each twice a year or a total of 28 pigs per year. If these are sold at seven months of age with an average weight of 200 pounds each they will bring, at 10c per pound, a total of $560.00; and if home-grown feed is used a large part of this $560.00 will be profit. Fix a good warm place for the hogs and pigs this winter. Feed and water them well. Don't forget the necessary protein feed?use fish meal, tankage, meat scrap or skim milk. With an extra corw or two you can sell the cream to the creamery for cash and feed the sl^im milk to pigs, ohickens or calves?at -a profit-. /Get your copy of Extension Bulletin No. 80 on "Hog Raising for South Carolina." Let's have more hogs, cows, chickens and- home-grown feeds in Kershaw county, advises Henry D. Green, the county agent. Calls Doctor; Steals His Auto. Evanston, 111., Dec. 19.?Dr. Wallace D. MaeKenzie received a telephone call last night to hurry out on An emergency operation at an address several miles from homo. He ' hurried to his garage to get his car. * "You are very prompt," said one of ' two hold-up men who arranged Ore call, as they took his watch, his mon' ey and his automobile. Penney Co. Distributes Bonus to Salesladies _ ' ???-? ? The Annual Chrisbmas Bonus Fund for'" employees of the J. C. Penney 4 Company, totals $536,778.36 for 1930, with 0,671 salespeople ami other employees benefitting. Distribution of < $he bonus checks will be made at the 1 Close of business on December 24th. The total number of employees rbenefitted by this bonus is 144 groat: er than last year when the total recipients of bonus cheeks totalled 5,527. \ \ Bonus checks are based upon durar tion of service with the company and the annual salary rate of the individ1 ual. In all, employees in more than 1,450 stores as well as in the New York City and St. Louis district of flees will receive check* on Christma* Eve. ' All associates sharing in this bono* were in the employ of the company ' on'January 1st, 1930. r * ' . J-i - . ... i i ' Forty million pounds of tobaoeo r wore sold on the Wilson, N. C., mar* ket this season. Two Camden Children Lef t Small Fortune A special dispatch dated New York, December i50, which appeared in Sunday's Columbia State, tells of the good fortune which will come to two ( atnden children. It reads us follows: "Caroline Rose Kohn, J)?vid Kohn, Jr., and August Kohn', 3rd, eaOh receives $24,795 of the estate of their lute uncle, Irving I). Jacobs, which ,wa? filed for appraisul in the stute transfer tux department office here today, Mr, Jacobs died June 13, 11)2-9. His estate showed a nc^ value of $91M8l." c ' The Camden children are Caroline Kobn, age 14, a pupil in the 9th grade, and August Kohn, 3rd, age 11, in the tith grade *?f the Camden schools. David Kohn, Jr., Is a student at Clemson college. They are the ehil dren of Mr. David Kohn, of Greenville. Their mother who was Miss. Jacobs died about five years ago, mid the two youngest children have made their home in Camden for the past four years with their aunt, Mrs. Gustave Hirsch, on north Hroud street. Their Camden friends rejoice with these young children in their good fortune. Sol Kohn, an uncle and a prominent business man of Columbia, is their j^unrdlan. |^Commander Llewellyn \ Sends Out Greetings , ? ^ | A. Stanley Llewellyn, department (commander of the South .Carolina j American Legion, has mailed out handsome greeting caixls to every de! partment commander in the United j states, with (Thristmas wishes and ! New Year's greetings. I The cards are from the Dietz press i of Richmond, Va., and is a work of art. The artist bus entwined the United States flag with the Palmetto Slate flag, with the American Legion emblem in the center. Below is the i preamble to the constitution of tho j American Legion, on either swte of ! the preamble are the words, "Peace 4 on Earth" and "Good Will To Men". At the bottom is engraved the senson's wishes in the commander's own handwriting. The card is printed in black, blue, gold and red on a white background, giving a most pleasing effect. The cards will also go to every post in the State and is large enough ! to be framed. ' i - White Hot Lava Takes Great Toll of Death t Batavia, Java, Dec. 19.?Merapi, the great volcano Vvhjch has been dor- _ mant for eighty year*, burst into violent eruption and poured a river of white hot lava upon the little villages at its foot yesterday, and today-? as bhe eruptiop continued it was fearod that 90 natives have lost their lives. For the pnat two weeks there has been a menacing: rumble in the bowels rot the mountain mt the sudden awakening took the vicinity by surprise. Many villages in the region have been evacuated. Those killed wore at work in a field near the volcano's base when an avalanche of white bot lava 70 feet high and 200 yards wide, slid down the mountainside and overwhelmed them before they could escape. Neighboring farms and valleys were covered with the mass of lava, jrtones and ashes, and a surrounding wide area was devastated by the intense heat. Loud rumblings accompanied the eruption and were , last reported increasing although the rain of ashes had subsided somewhat. The volcano last night presented a terrifying sight. Clouds of black smoke enveloped its summit and ffasdies off fire shot from the cone. The volcano observation post has spread a warning to residents in a wide area about the base to 0 leave their homes and find plaices of safety. The last eruption was in 1849, c Governor Gardner of North Carolina has issued paroles for the release of Lawrence Hogan, Del Lewis and We? Fowler, doing time on the . roads of McDowell county, for inciting riots in connection with the mill troubles at Marion, N. C., last year. The paroled man had aboift 20 .days of a nix months sentence to serve. -The $110,000,000 unemployment ap- * ju epilation hill was approved by the* staate appropriation* committee on Wedneaday and sent to the senate for consideration. ? - ... - 'tsaf i '.Ami it. ? . .a