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CAMDEN, SOUTH CAltOUNA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 26, 1930.
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HLUME 42
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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)
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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
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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.
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' 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. '
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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.
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