Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. D. MLBB Kditor and Published every Friday at Ne. 1101# Broad Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina poatoffica aa second claaa mail matter. Price per annum 92.00, payable in advance. Friday, January 0, 1991 UNFORTUNATE The clueing erf the Ix>an and SavifkOCn bank of this city on Wednesday morning wsi most unfortunate, but thoee in u position to know feel that the director* did the wiee thin# under the circumstances. JBe it said to the credit of the officers and directors of this bank that no set of officers worked harder to keep from closing and only <Jec-ided on their course -when they saw it was hopelessi Not a bit of wrongdoing has been charged to anyone - and they have the sympathy ot the entire community, in which all those connected with the bunk are held in the highest esteem. Two bad crop years following in .succession with the present low price of cotton caused farm loans to be uncollectible, together with the general business dejnession, was the cause of the closing. Not a ripple of excitement was caused by the collapse of this bank ami business ?> going <>n as usual. It :s moat heartening to know thut the officers and directors fully believe that, in time, all depositor* will be paid in full and there wil. scarcely Ih* jury 1 ?*> sustained. BACK TO I MK FARMS" 1 A ? it nation that should deeply om- | corn (very South t'ai -linian. and whic . explain- in considerable <le- | groe ibii e.i..-tt.unoniK cotidulo/t . in this state. i- pointed out in an advertisement published by the Cotton Manufacturer- As.-oeiation oi South Carolina. In the la-t ten year- dl.TOU f.irmhave been abandoned in '.hi* state, a decrease of Is per cent, a- compared with an average decline of 'J. ' per cent for the whole country. South Carolina is largely an agricultural j state, and so large a reduction in t chief economic activity necessarily ' means a serious !o-s in' its wealth. There must Ik- a revitalizution oi agriculture in South Carolina. The-c must be a "back-to-the-farm" movement along sound lines that will provide the basis for satisfactory living for thousands of citizens to whom its industry cannot at present offer t Hitter. South Carolina farm lands offer the opportunity for satisfactory liVr ing. But that must U- through a -omcwhat different form -?f agriculture fr?>m that which primarily t?> the production of cotton. With the ? vjH-ctat i<>i) TIT p!'o\ ul.nir everything 1 else out of lh< proceeds ??f that crop. The hack-to-; n?? farm move must be i on the ha.-;.- <?f making the farm pro- J vide a liv ing, and not on the basis j f making it a mere cotton producing factory. South Carolina can become one of the most prosperous ag (cultural states in the country it wo get back to farming on that basis. And whatever sound and constructive -teps wevcan take to promote the program of living on and from the farm, will bo a direct and most.valuable contributii?n. not only to tho solution of many individual economic problems, but likewise to the increased prosperity and wealth of the -tate.?Greenville News. Lexington Negro Held As Alleged Slayer Columbia. Jam .V t^uuk action by Governor Richa'd- m ru-hing Tillman P<Wcr . negro, from the Lexington county jail n la-vingto*: to the state penitent in-y her,- u a ~ credited today with havmy .im <-?! .? possible lynching |.t\. The negro i- he'd a- a c,i>ix. i ,r, the brutal nun ! ?; r 1> night watchman at a '.umber pi am n ( ayee, ji < "lutnoia -u>urh. p , watchman w.i- d..-c<>v t t, ,j S.itirdav night, hi- hca.: , i and i?:-! missing. Arrested ye-lcidny after >d stains were tound >-n r.;> . ."thing, Boozer was taken to 1a-\u gton by Sheriff H. Cromer Oswald. C-aycc iin I>exingt4>n county. Governor Richards said todny he was advised la.-t night that a movement was undo- way to storm the I-exington jail and lynch the negro. He at once ordered Sheriff Oswald . to transfer Pooler to Columbia, and sent seven of his detectives to aid him if there was any trouble. The sheriff discounted the idea of a lynching, Governor Richards said. The house appropriation sub-committee put its stamp of approval or the proposes! appropriation ?vf $4f?. (?lQ,rtO0 for drought relief. Secretary Hyde of the agricultural department maintained that not more than 92b 000,000 is needed for the pur{>ose. ? ' *> Br; ? - - I : . V The Ineniploymcnt Situation Horn it rid bred in an old school, it u hard to get accustomed to these new fangled methods of doing business and bucking panic*. There i? h lot of bunk about thia unemployment business. This pulling one'* self out of a Ikole by tbe bootstraps never has, and never will, work. It has l>e?n going on a long time, and building road* will not solve it. We wera urgently invited down to the Orangeburg conferences for reducing tuxes. They are going at it in the right way, but an ounce of prevention would have been worth far more than a pound of cures they will make. Orangeburg went daft on the road and school business. Its tuxes were allowed to run on, unpaid for year*. The salaries were too high. Extravagance waa rampant. It is now paying the penalty, Us everybody must, under like circum stances. It was the same with the atate. In our feeble way, we warned them, week after week. We were laughed at. Our pig-headed legislators tfent on piling up deficits, increasing bureaus, enormous salaries, colleges wasting money like drunken sailors, whilt the rank and file were groaning under the loud, but still trying to ride and go in style with the white-collar ilea. No man and no government can go on indefinitely spending more than the income, without suffering. Pretty much everybody i- opposed to hard work and the f) roper kind of economy. ,A farmer told us the other day of trying to get some oats sowed. Though fee t'nys are short, and "Limes fia-d," not an employee on the place v ml.! plough for less than a dollar n day. , H? went elsewhere and got .tile labor he wanted at T.r> cents. It i- to- mhiio with the whites. The price, and the kind of work must k., H--w many HUtomoi>..i. an. i.id up in thi.? county? They say that money is being hidlen out? If so, (which we doubt) it is because people are too careless about paying it back when borrowed. though they have it. It r< harder t<> collect it now than il use! to 1h- to make it. You saw a long list of delinquent taxes advertised. W hen the final pinch ca-mc- there were very few. They could have gotten it much easier a year ago and saved all that extra penalty and expense. That is just an illustration of the kind of business that is going on. You st?e very few people, who really work hard, and who live within their means, out Insggmg for help and a job. The deservingly destitute need help, and should get it. But there is a woeful lack of the old independence, economy, industry an<l integrity. Many haven't been taught to work or to economize, and it is mairfly from that crowd, that criminals. come. They think the world owes thi-nt an easy living. Some deniaml it at the {K?int of a - ioi. Tin-re are iiTI sorts oi iUUscthat have brouglit ??n the panic, it will continue until the people change. You have heard the "hard time cry since the war closed. You will continue to hear it and experience it (many) until you depend more upon yourselves and less upon others.-? Calhoun Times. The Man and the Machine. A hundred men and boys stood about the edge of the big pit in which one steam shovel is digging out the bed of the now Federal building to be erected in Spartanburg. The monster laboring below was displacing lalx>r, relieving human brawn, from the strain that would have been placed upon it. were men called upon, as in former days, to dig out this basement with pick and shovel. Among those w ik? looked on were men and boys out. of work. n<? doubt, some of whom nkght .willingly ha.\ e accepted employment removing the dirt with the old hand tools. The machine with coal ami water und a guiding hand was do:r.g the work of a hundred 1 imn. 1 iV.it Montgomery. Alabama. that the authorities of trat i ty aw.ir<i;iig municipal cont-ar'.-s -nvoiv:ng excavation have stipula'c-i that machines cannot be etii! y ec. a11d that men must be g:\en i ikp >y nient ir.s-ead. If it come- t > a oiis'.et I>etWeen the mail atld the m l j chine, the man will win. strange as 1 that may seem, m the age gone machine mad. "You must watch your step." saiJ a contractor a few days ago. "in fixing a minimum wage, Just a few cents a day will send the men and th'. mules away and bring in the maohim outfits." ?Spartanburg Herald. Tinaley-Bell. Kershaw, Jan. 4.?-Walter T. Bell son of T. S. Bell, was married durin, the holidays to Miss Gertrude Tins ley of Spartanburg. The marriag< j was performed at York by K. Getty Nunn, probate judge of York countv i The street cars will U-gm to run i ' j CohinVbia again tomnrow. after long time of street . ar sorvu I there and much htig.itu r going : the I nNted State* supreme cni't r > * \ * a. ^ - As The "Patrol Tax" Is Seen By Some There hat* been much in the newspupei> about tiutt 50 cents hooked on to the auto licenae plate. If we are correctly informed, the legislature gave the State Highway Department the ro)H>, and the latter furnished the camouflage to hoodwink the autoists ?.which meana the univertatf 'pliblic. Do you know, brother of the liiue Back Spelling Book, that you are paying two dollar* instead of f>d cents, for the license to drive. It is slick, but very simple. You paid 50 cents down, on the plea and promise from the while-collarite, that it is good for three years. Is it ? Let us see. In addition to that 50 cents down, you had another 5<> cents tacked on to the price of the plate. That -will be due again next year, and again once more in 1932. ui.' These items make $2.00 don't they? At the end of the third yea?, there will be another 50 cejlt* to renew your licence to drive three years, hut 50c extra each year on the plate again till the trhee years are up. Fine camouflage. Slick work. Old Mrs. Winslow, wijh her soothing syrup, or that other quack, with a bottle of Castor ia, couldn't do a better job on the crying babies, than these guys perpetrated upon the riding |>opulation .of our good old commonwelath.?Calhoun Times. Spending Money Every family of your acquaintance spends about seventy percent of its income .just for a living, according to economic experts. Think what this means?seven dollars out of every ten invested in food, clothing, household utilities and all the multitude of things that keep a family comfortable ami happy. It's a big job to spend so much money wisely and well. It requires careful business methods to get the be*t possible returns from each dollft" that leaves the. family purse. The clever woman goes for help to the advertising columns of her newspaper. There she finds a directory of buying and selling. She learns about the offerings of merchants. She compares values. She weighs quality and price. She takes this opportunity of judging and selecting almost anything she needs to feed, clothe, nmuse. instruct and generally bring up her family. Do you read the advertisements? You will find them willing and abl? to serve you in the regular business of purchasing.?Gaffney Ledger. . Dispatches from Shanghai. China, bring the information that news from Kan&u province is to the effect that Mohauijhedan armies have slaughtered 30,000 of its inhabitants in the recent past. Wants?For Sale FOK SAI.E?Stve-ai hundred' thousand feet of ash. gum, oak and pinv timber. Located ten miles north of Camden. Apply to T. B. Clyburn. 1210 1-2 Broad Street. Camden. S. v C. 41pd. WANTED?Straight salary: $35.00 per week and expenses. Man or woman with rig to introduce Poultry Mixture. Eureka, Manufacturing Company., Ka-t St. I>ouis, 111. 41 pd FOK SALE?N e, rich home-grown Pecans, 25e jht -pound f. o. b. Sumter, S. ('. Mrs. C. G. Rowland, Sumter, S. C. 41-43pd FOR SALE?One old-time solid mahogany banquet table. This table is more than 100 years old. It is in three sections. Has two ends with one drop leaf and center has two drop leaves. When put together measures 14 feet long. For a number of years this table has been .and is still in possession of descendants of General Anthony Wayne. If interested write Ralph S. DesChanvps, Pinewood, S. C. 41 sb -Notice of Meeting of Stockholders The regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Bank of Camden will be held at the hank's office on Tuesday, .January 13. at 11 o'clock. The Bank of Camden. II._G. Garrison. Jr.. Cashier Card of Thanks We wish t<? express our appreeiation to our friends in Bethuno and surrounding community for their | kindness shown in the sudden death of our father and grandfather. Mr. H. H. Catoe. Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Catoe and famiU. Notice of Stockholders' Meeting. The annual meeting of tho stock-1 holders of The First National Bank of Camden, will be held in the Dtnec- ' tors' Room, Tuesday, January l'Jth^l 1M1, at 4:00 o'clock, P. M. I S. W. YanLANDINGHAM. Secretary. ! Notice of Stockholders^ -Meeting. j The annual meeting of the stock- i holders of The Camden Ix>an and Realty Company will be held in the Directors' Room of The First National Bank of Cam den, Tuesday, January 13th, 1931, at f>:00 o'clock P. M. - S. W. VanLANI)INOHAM. Secretary. LOST '. Savings R<x>k No. 373 on Bank of Camden. Please return to the Bank of t a in den. The Bank of Camden. 4ti P()UN1> J>afurday on the street# of' Camden a valine containing man's <wtarin^ apparel. Owner can get name by describing property and paying for this ad. Address Tommie Thompson, 1205 Campbell, street, Camden, S. C. 41pd j TO RENT??Four furnished room*, j Sleeping porch, bath. Teriua- reasonable. Apply to J. K. lung, Cam- J den, S. C. 4Ub j FOB SALE?Nice bright Rye Straw. ~+elegant bedding for live stock, i Ci <3. RWland, Sumter, S. C.u 10 42:pd. i FOR HACK?Holly, dogwood and j iroock orange trees, 3 to 4 feet, 00 i cents each. 'Balled and burlapped, 75 cents. Borden Nursery, Mrs. ' O, M.s Emanuel, Manager, Borden, S. C. 40sb FOB RBNT?One 11*30 now Chevrolet sedan for rent by week or by the moii&h. Apply to John T. Nettles, Cariiden, S. C. 8S-41sb FOB SALE?One old time walnut bureau. Over on? hundred years | old. Guignard Farm, phone 148, .box 328, Camden, S. C, 38pd , FOR RENT OR SALE?Cottage with two acrbfc of land in town of Bethune, S. Cv Write Mrs, E. S. Hough, Hamlet, N. C. 38-41pd FOR SALE or Rent?Beattie house on East Walritit Street. Apply to L. A. Wittkowsky, Camden, S. C. j 32tf v 1 FOR SALE?275 strong and vigor-1 ous Dwarf Boxwood plants (Sem-1 pervirens Suffruttcose), 10 inches! high by 23 inches in circumference j to 32 inchee high by 90 inches in j circumference. Can be aeen at my home. Apply to Mrs. J. T. Hay, BoyWn. S. C. 83-30pd WANTED?You to know that tf you ' have anything to sell an adver-; tisement placed in this column will .more than likely sell it for you. FOR SALE?Ma lk cows, heifers, i bulls, grade or registered, fresh or j springers. Henry D. Green, Cam-1 den, S. C. FOR RENT?One aix room hbttse one five-room cottage. Furnished rooms for housekeeping. Apply to ; G. C. Bruce, Camden, S. C. ANNUAL MEETINC Annual meeting of Stockholders of; | Loan & Savings Bank will be held az' their Banking house Tuesday, January 13th, at four o'clock p. m. JOHN S. LINDSAY, Secretary What Mrs. Brenninger of N.Y. Says About Rat Poison. "Tried preparations that kill rats, but RAT-SNaP is the only one that prevents disagreeable odors after killing. Also like RAT-SNAP because it comes in handy cakes, no mixing with other food. You don't have to dirty your hands, it's the best for household use." Try RAT-SNAP. Three sizes, 35c, 65c, $1.25. Sold and guaranteed by Zemp & DePass, Druggists, Camden, S. C., and Bethune Hardware Co., Bethune, S. C. FOR RENT?Smalt house, five rooms and bath, lights aud water, on Rutjedge street, 'one block east of Broad srtreet. . See W. R. Zemp, at Drug Store, or phone No. 30, Camden. S. C. 31sb FOR RENT?Several houses for rent. Apply to L. A. Wittkowsky, Camden, S. C. 31sb WE WANT you to know that each dollar invested in stock of our No. 16 Series and paid for 78 months ($78.00) paid the holder $104.25. The member paying $10.00 each month received in the 614 years,$1,042.50. Are you THRIFTY? looking to your future? Then buy our December Series stock NOW. Enterprise Building and Loan Association. Camden, S. C. 19tf =g-J FOR RENT?Nicp, large, aeven-roem residence next to Park View Inn onf Lyttleton Street. Rent can be paid by room letting. Apply to Henry Savage. Jr., Camden. S. C. 31flb WANTED?No. Jt pine logs. Highest cash prices paid; year round demand. Sumter Planing Mills and Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Booth, Sumter. S. C. 1-tf-sb CARPENTERING?John S. Myers, 'Jj phone 268, 812 Church Street, "d Camden, S. C., will give satis- ? factory service to all for all kinds of > carpenter work. Building, general repairs, screening, cabinet ... J making and repairing furniture. My workmanship is my reference. I solicit your patronage. Thanking you in advance.? 60 tf. ' ' 11 >-1 ANNUAL STATEMENT OF | The Enterprise Building and loan Association OF CAMDEN. 8. C. ; "K 4 (THE OLDEST IN SOUTH CAROLINA) DECEMBER 31, 1930. 0 !/ ! . RESOURCES. ' j Loans on bonds and mortgages $356,909.89 | Loans on members' stock..* 15,166.89 ] Loans on real estate (special)..... .. 5,000.00 Real Estate owned by Association 6,256.86 ! Furniture and Fixtures . i ?. 498.90 Insurance and taxes advanced. 8.60 ! Interest due, uncollected 6,433.21 Cash in bank and office 341.18 ufi ' -;s\ '* Total $390,604.58 LIABILITIES. . v Installment stock (paid on dues) $156,158.82 1 y Hills payable (money borrowed) 187,360.50 Cash over account 9,14 Interest accrued, bills payable 9,297.44 0 ^ Undivided profits (expenses and taxes paid) 37,778.63 Total $398, 664 ,58 I I Average earnings on stock 9 v/< compounded. .v A ttest?Correct: C. H. YATES, Chairman DAVID WOLFE, I W. G. WILSON, Finance Committee. v * -V *. W. R. ZEMP, President. % * * J. B. WALLACE, Treasurer. More Opportunities To Save On F White Goods and Bedding | at Lowest Prices in Years F BUY NOW ! WHY ? Price* Lowest ! | in Year* [ | Reduction* of 10 per cent, 20 per cent, and j _ e^en more, have, during the past six months | . become effective in every department of oar store. We have 1 passed on to you every I reduction we have obtained in the cost of raw materials and production. Wizard Cases 42x36 14c ea. | Wizard Seamless I Sheets 81x90 63c ea. . . . . rf Wizard Seamless Sheets 81x944 69c ea. Wizard Unbleached - ^ 9-4 Sheeting 23c yd. S Nation-Wide Brands 9-4 Sheeting, Bleached . . 32c 9-4 Sheeting, unbleached . 30c 70-4 Sheeting, Bleached . 35c 81x90 Seamless Sheets . . 33c 81x99 Seamless Sheets . . 37c | Pillow Cases 42x36 .... 2/c ea. PENCO BRANDS 1 Sheet8 81x90-....-.u. . $1J23 || Sheets 81x99 .... $1J33^lm; 9-4 Unbleached Sheeting 43c 1 . 9-4 Bleached Sheeting . . . 47c i| Pillow Cases 42x36 .. .. 31c 11 Belle Island Muslin, 39 in. wide .,10 yds for 73^ 11 Honor Muslin, 10 yds; Cotton Blankets, 8ize 70x80' ., .. II We extend you an invitation to come in and- note the drop in \ prices and the rise in quality of all merchandise' I every department. . .. M ,u , I J. C. Penney Co. i . I DEPARTMENT * STO RE I