The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 15, 1931, Image 8
Veterans Honor
Guests at Dinner
The annual dinner for the Confederate
Veterans of the country was given
on last Tuesday in the Sunday
school room of Bethesda Presbyterian
church at noon, by the John I). Kennedy
Chapter, U. 1). C. Rev, Warren
G. Ariail asked the blessing and then
Commander T. v. Walsh of Leroy
Belk Post, American legion, spoke u
few words in behalf of the legion
to the veteran* of '00. Mrs, iS. C.
Zemp, president of the U, I). C. chapter,
spoke of the pleasure, it gave the
chapter each year to honor the men
who fought witji Lee. Mayor K. M.
Kennedy, Jr., made an address of welcome
that fully expressed his pleas
ure at seeing the following Confederate
Veterans able to be present:
Messrs. 1. F. Holland, 1>. 1*. C. Murchison,
G. K. Watts, B. M. Jones,
. ; A? S. tMcKoniio and G. S, King.
A delicious dinner was served by
members of the IJ. I). C. on u table
beautifully decorated in the colors
of the Confederacy, red und white,
in flowers and table,,appointments.
Antioch High School Commencement
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Plans have been completed for the
finail exercises Friday evening, May
16th at 8:30 p.m., for the commencement
exercises of Antioch high school
Mr. J. H, Hope, state superintendent
of education, will deliver the address
to the graduating class, Mrs,
Kathleen B. Watts, County superintendent
of education, will be present.
High school diplomas rwill be delivered
to the following: Evelyn Branham,
Olive Hall, Grace Marsh, Tom
Johnson and Marie Sparrow. Tho
) patrons and friends of the school are
cordially invited to attend these sercordially
invited to attend these exercies.
No Name Signed
The Chronicle is in receipt of a
marriage announcement of very recent
date. The party sending in
same did not sign their name to if,
so jt will not be used for publicar?
'i0?. iEiPS-'ta* me Jo ilKjifficg
and make known their identity. We
take no chances on unsigned communications,
so our correspondents
can s?ve their stationery and postage
by not sending them here.
Majestic Program
Friday, May 16th
William Farnum with Tom Santschi
in "TEN NIGHTS IN A BARROOM."
All talking picture of the
world famous play. Mighty, Crashing
Melodrama of Truth. Also Comedy
and Cartoon.
Saturday, May 16th
Fun for the whole family?"TOM
SAWYER," from Mark Twain's famous
story. With Jackie Coogan and
Mitzie Green. Starting today, the
first chapter of the sensational Fire
Department serial, "HEROES OK
THE FLAMES." Thrills, thrills,
thrills, piling one on another in the
wildest rush of excitement.
Monday & Tuesday, May 18th-19th
The most alluring lady of the
screen. Constance Bennett, in "BORN
'i TO LOVE." Thrill to her story, the
story of all beautiful women, born to
love! A love drama of the perfect
hour and the day of reckoning. Together
they shared love, alone she
faced the penalty.
Wednesday, May 20th
Here's a real American melodrama
with Richard Barthelmess in "THE
LASH." It's the kind of picture that
makes ydu gasp with astonishment
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Lugoff Lady Tells of
Success With Garden
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Showing what can t>e accomplished
with a garden when the proper attentibh
is given to it, Mrs. B. J.
Truesdale, of Iaigoff, Route 2, has
written the following interesting letter
to County Agent Henry I).
Green:
"1 saw in the Chronicle that you
were advising ]>eople to raise plenty
of garden produce. I wish to tell
you about -my garden especially my
spinach patch. II had W. rows U5
yards long and sold 2,3*5 pounds at,
id cents a pound, which brought mfe
$238.?0. There was no record kept
with what wan used' for two families
of 8 in each family, Very little fertilizer,
was used also. Js'ow I have
a nice English pea patch with a
heavy crop on it. I am. only getting
5 cents per pound for them but all
these things help. Most of my spinuch
was sold to the A. & P. stores.,
1 have a variety of garden produce
to go along with Ttnnte but not as
good u sale for them. I always try
to sell enough of everything 1 plant
'to pay for seed und fertilizer,
but .1 am planning saving
all of my seed this year. My
spinach is 2 feet 'high in seed and
I notice that all of it is not producing
seed."
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To Meet With Ml. Zlon
The spring quarterly session of the
Kershaw Baptist Union will be held
at Mt. Zion Baptist church Saturday,
May 30, (beginning at ten otlock. All
Baptist churches at the association
are urged to send representatives to
the Union. Also the pastors and
superintendents of Sunday schools are
urged to attend this meeting to consider
a nerw iplan for our asBOciational
Sunday school work as worked, out
by Mr. J. L. Corzine and Miss Elizabeth
Knucles, leaders of our statewide
Sunday school work. Everybody
bring lunch.
Changes at First National
Lewis Lee Olyburn, assistant cashier
af jchfr First*'National *Bamrh, has
been named as secretary of the Wateree
Building and Loan Association,
and secretary of the (Camden Loan
and Realty Company, to fill the vacancy
made blithe death of Mr. John
T. Mackey. Mr. Clyburn still retains
his status with the bank as assistant
cashier.
Basil Bruce, who has been clerk in
the bank, has been named as assistant
cashier of the First National.
Mrs. Shiver Dead
Mrs. Elizabeth Shiver, aged 55,
wife of Mr. C. W. iShiver, died at her
home in the Antioeh section Tuesday
after a lingering illness. Mrs. Shiver
is survived by her husband and
one daughter, Mrs. L. A. Shiver. Funeral
services were held Wednesday
and the burial was at Antioeh, services
being conducted by Rev. T. P.
Christmas.
Shamrock School to Close
The closing exercises of Shamrock
grammar school will 'be held at the
school house Friday evening, May 15.
at eight o'clock. The teachers, pupils
and patrons invite the public
to these exercises.
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LOOKING BACKWARD
Taken From the Files of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Years Ago
THIRTY YEARS AGO
May 17. 1901
Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
David Witherspoon dead.
Mrs. D. W. Jordan, mother of Mrs.
H. G. Garrison, dead at home of hor
daughter in this city.
Kershaw Guards, largest company,
numbering 56 members, returns from
delightful trip to Chieamauga.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bateman move
into new residence on Lafayette
avenue.
C. B. Smith and Miss M. J. Reasonover
married near Camden by Rev.
J. M. Knowle. J
John L. McLaurin and B. R. Tillman
both resign from United States
senate as a result of political differences.
Kershaw county brings suit against
Richland county for pay in case of
trial of W. R. Crawford for killing
of Mrs. John Stuart in Columbia.
Crawford obtained a change of venue
from Richland to Kershaw.
Lowlands of the state badly washed
by recent freshets in rivers and
much damage done to crops.
Ernest Dutton, colored, who poisoned
baked beans which boarderR ate,
was sentenced at Wilmington, Delaware,
to receive 60 lashes, pay a fine
of $5,000 and stand an hour in the
pillory. <
New laid 35 cents a dozen
found few buyers in London recently.
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FIFTEEN YEARS AGO May
19, 1916
Mrs. Annie Oliver, of Aiken, comes
to Camden as Postal telegraph manager
succeeding E. W. Sinoak.
Graduation exercises of Camden
high school with the following graduates:
Marparet McRae I^enoir, Ethel
Ihirant Smith, Elizabeth Workman
Wallace, Sara Annie Williams, Joseph
Clyde McCaskill, John English
Nelson.
Pine Creek cottor^Jpils at Camden
sold to Lockwood, Greene and company,
of New York.
Melvin J. Truesdale married to
Miss Docia Truesdale, of Westville.
Mrs. -S. J. Benton, at Kershaw, suffers
broken bones in her ankle caused
by fall.
Samuel Wright, aged 20 years, died
at his home near Kershaw.
N. C. Arnett having residence bu.lt
at corner of Broad and Hampton
streets. *
Kershaw Guards elect Ebert J. McI>eod
as captain; H. H. Birchmore,
first lieutenant; and A. M. McLeod,
second lieutenant.
Judge W. F. Russell attends Confederate
Veterans' reunion at Birmingham.
H. G. Carrison, Jr., and L. J. Whitaker
purchase store on North Broad
street from Mrs. Laura Nettles.
J. J. Barfield, of Pisgah section,
dies from efffcets of shot- gun wound
inflicted by a man named Logan.
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District Conference
To Meet in Camden
The Fifth District Conference *?t
South Carolina Congress of PajQgnta
and Teachers will meet in Camden,
Wednesday, May 20th, 11 a. m., in (he
American legion Hail.
The fifth /district comprises the following
equities: Cherokee,yQhetter,
(Chesterfield, York, J/iincaster, Kershaw
and Fairfield, and each county
is well organized.
Mrs. John WiltKm, Sumter, S. ,4C?
State President, will be the guest of
honor. Mrs. Wilson has just returned
from the National Convention at
Hot Springs, and her report will be
interesting and a cordial invitation
is extended to any who may be interested
to attend this meeting.
Destroys Slot Machines
-Sheriff J. H. .McI>eod yesterday destroyed
eight slot machines that had
been confiscated and carried to his
office. A recent act of the general
assembly outlawed these gambling devices
and instructions were issued fo,r
their destruction. A goodly Mm .jjtj
money was found in these m*chis&fc.
and was turned over to county treasurer
Hogue to go into the general
county fund. -
More Than Half Taxes Collected
County Treasurer <S. Wylie Hogue
closed his tax booka on May^bth for
the final payment of 1930 taxes and
says his books show that aroixhd
$50,000 of the 1080 taxes have been
ipaid in, representing about 66 per
cent of the total assessed taxes for
the past year.
Negro To Die In Chair
Bennettsville, May 8.?Hilton Williams,
negro, today was sentenced by
Judge' E. C. Dennis in general ses*>
sions court here to die in the electric
chair June 12 for the murder of John
L. James.
Two Autos Crash
Three Are Hurt
An automobile owned and driven
by MUs Etta L. Robbing, superintendent
of the Camden hospital and
a car driven by W. S. Collins, auto
transfer, driver, crashed at the corner
of Eyttleton and Dekalb streets
last Friday morning and caused injury
to Miss itobbins j^nd two comj^anions
ridirtg with her,
Miss Kobbins was going south on
Lyttleton street and Collins <was go*
ing east on DeKalb, and the crash
came at the corner after the itobbins
car had partly cleared the block.'
Miss Itobbins received a broken arm
at the wrist, Mrs. iS. C. Zemp received
bruises which confined her to (
her home for several days and, Jdiss
Laura W. Caden, of Evanjj^lle, Indiana,
who was visiting Misc Rpbbins,
received a cut on one ear which required
several stitches. MiyMV den I
has recovered sufficiently td to
her home and left Monday.
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Mayor E. E. Roberts, liberal leader
of Reno, Nev., was re-elected mayor^
Tuesday for a four-year te^m. He
is an advocate of a wide-open town.
One hundred and fifty gold star
mothers sailed from New York Wednesday
for a visit to the battlefields
of France at the expense of the government.
This i* the first contingent
of mother* td go to France this year.
a \r>Police
of New York Wednesday arrested
Francis Crowley after a search
of two weeks for the murder of Virginia
Brannen, hotel dance hostess,
whose dead body was found in a <park.
Wednesday (morning Crowley shot a
policeman to death in Merrick, L. I,
when the officer requested him to
show bis driver'* license.
# Earthquake shocks of sufficient intensity
to rattle dishes, etc., was felt
in thd Birmingham, Ala., area early
Tuesday morning.
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How One Horse Thifcf Was Caught i
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Dr. Thomas F. MoDow was a phy- \
sician with a practice covering: an im- }
mense acope of territory in the two B
Carolihas from .Camden to iSaliabury. t
His son of the same name deterior^t- t
ed into a lawyer, 'but this story Js
about the famous doctor.
He rode horseback a good deal.
Once, while he was in a house attend- I
ing to a patient,- some miscreant stole d
his horse and went to Camden where t
he tried to sell the animal at a livery e
stable. " v
But somebody at Lancaster, the a
home of the doctor had written the o
name of the physician on a saddle
flap, and when this was found by c
! somebody a the Cathnden -stable a quick i
nvestigation- began while the yn,vith
the horse was held. The thief vent
to the penitentiary, and Dr.
doDow got his horse hack?tout so
tove up by hard riding: under tbehief
that it was not worth much
hereafter.?Yorkville Enquirer.
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Rafe King Gets Life |
Lancaster, S. <?., May *-**1
Cjng tonight was conviclsijj^pf
legree murder by a Lancaster jury
hat recommended mercy. The allefd
slayer of his pretty school teacher
rife, Faye Wilson King:, automaticUy
will be sentenced to life imprisnment.
The jury returned its verdict just
i little more than an hour after
t received the case at 10:24 o'clock.
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Cannon and Haynes
T o wels
Single and Double Terry
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10c S? 15c
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