The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 25, 1931, Image 1
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a t ' , CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY,. DECEMBER 25, 1831 - NUMBER 38
Rays Chester today
IFOR CHAMPIONSHIP
I fans who have seen the
^Chester team* play durist
few years all state that
teams play about as- fast
,y as any high school teams
in South Carolina, and fans
was swear by their coacnes.
,e Spearman, Chester's
j all-state end on the Newn
in years gone by, apd he
harge ofxthe Cheater tegm
i^ara, and during that time
our up-state championships,
championships and has lost
pionship, and will enter his
the fourth championship in
against Catnden on Christillepigue,
Camden's coach,
, the Camden high school
y years ago and later playStaunton
military academy
Virginia. His assistant is
I. Richards, Jr., who has no
ecord other thany haying
ss football at Davidson color
to Mr. Villepigue taking
>f the Camden team, Mr.
had been coach and his
ays ranked well up among
in South Carolina,
ilepigue is a very popular
Camden, and is active in
Chamber of Commerce,
t>oy scout and other civic
> is one of "the bes? golfers
n and at one time was a
lis player. lie is also one
st bridge players in the
;arman is one of the best
Chester and should,,CamChester
haye an inter-city
s spring, his opponent will
,y be Mr. Villepigue.
, will send over a large del*
Columbia, on Christmas
he championship match,
cords of the C&mden and
earns during the past four
e been so outstanding that
of them will be of interest,
as the two teams will bate
Class B. championship 4n
ears ago Lawrence Spearcharge
of the Chester team,
defeat of the .first season
he state's championship atesburg-Leesville
by a score
, The Camden team under
epigue also lost one game
in and that was in the lowchampionship,
and Batesville
won by a score of 14
:t season Camden and Chest
for the state's champion>lumbia
and Chester won 19
amden had no reserve ma1
two of the players, Boheaynes,
had broken arms fend
hroughout the game with
s in plaster casts. Camden
he second half with Chester
y 19 points but before the
s over with Chester was
with its back to the wall tc
' defeat from a determined
fear Chester lost to Union IS
to 0 at tho beginning of the season
in a practice game. Camden and
C hester in the semi-finals of the upstate
championship fought a wonderful
battlo, the final score being 82 to
32. Camden next had to play Union,
and won by a 7 to 0 score, but two
of their star players were on the hospital
list after the game. 1 Union had
a big powerful team and they put
up a savage battle. The following
week, in the up-state championship,
Camden tyst to Chester 7 to 0. The
team was. so crippled from the Union
game to .hold the Chester team,
which had a wonderful player by the
name of Martin, who played one of
the best games ever seen on the local
Held.
This season Camden defeated
Chester in a practice game and a
week later Union also defeated Chester.
Since then Chester played three
tie games with Brookland-Cayce and
Easley teams. Camden has played a
very hard schedule and is untied and'
or defeated*
During the four past years Chester
has lost to Batesburg-Leesville,
Union (twice) and Camden, and has
been tied by Camden, BrooklandCayce,
and Easley (twice.) Camden
has lost to Batesburg-Leesville and
Chester (twice) and has been tied byj
Chester. These' records are why the
Chester supporters swear by Spearman
and the Camden supporters are
enthusiastic about Villepigue.
Six years back, and two years ^
prior to the above record, the only
games Camden lost in the regular j
high school schedule, in which the'
championship was involved, were to
Columbia, which later won the state j
championship and the next year.to'
Mullins, which also1 won the state
championship.
Camden's record this season is:
Camden 14, (Chester 0.
Camden 6, Great Falls 0.
Camden 7, Sumter 0.
Camden 26, Bishopville 6.
Camden 1, Lamar 0 (forfeit)
Camden 44, Hartsville 6.
Camden 32, Barnwell 13.
Caifiden 26, Swansea 0.
Camden 21, Marion 7.
Camden 25, Newberry 6.
? Camden 33, Clferaw 14.
Oamden 25, Andrews 0.
Camden 13, Batesburg-Leesville 7.
Pension Board To Meet
A meeting has been called for all
members of the Pension Board for
Saturday, January 2nd, at the county
court house at 11 o'clock. All veterans
of the War Between the States,
from this county are asked to meet
at this time also.
Mr. Gilliam King, of Bethune, has
been elected to serve on the Board to
fill the vacancy made by the death of
Mr. A. S. McKenzie.
Cotton Ginnings
1 According to the government ve1
port there were 23,456 bales of cot1
ton ginned in Kershaw county prior
1 to December 13, 1931 as compared to
21,541 bales for the same* date in
1 1930.
Tilting Tourney to
Feature New Year
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Christinas l>ay will be celebrated
by many porting and social events.
Those activities will last throughout
New Year's Day, on which the Tilting
Tournament will bo the leading
feature. #
Mr. and. Mrs. John L. Weeks, of
New York, will be hosts at an oldfashioned
egg nog party about noon
on Christmas Day. The same evening
Miss Olive Whittredge has issued
invitations for a buffet supper
at which most of the winter colony
will be present.
Christmas morning the first official
meet of the Camden Hunt will
attract a large field. Mrs. Dwight
Partridge, to whose enthusiasm and
interest much <.\f the success of the
hunts is due, is master of hounds.
Interest in riding increases with
large shipments of nunters and racers
during the past week. About
seventy-five horses belonging to. Mrs.
l>onald McClave, Watson Ponkroy,
John L, Weeks, H. D. Kirkover, P. M.
Baldwin, Norman, L. Snow, Casilea
Cobb, Ward Belcher, J. North Fletcher,
Tom Waller, Lamont Dominick, C.
K. Bassett, R. S. Allison are here for
the winter.
Id. addition to the tilting tournament
to be held at 2 p. m. on New
Year's Pay at the Oherflkee Race
course a Paper Chase arranged by
Mr. Samuel Russell and others will
be a delightful event.
The annual Christmas ball will be
held as usual at the Armory and will,
bring together the many college students
passing their vacation in Camden.
Mr. and Mrs. Casilea Cobb of New
York and Warrenton, Va., who have
been at HobkiTk Inn have returned
to their Virginia estate for the holidays.
Their horses are here and they
will probably return to take a cottage
for the season.
After several weeks in Boston Mi?s
Frances Weeks has joined her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Weeks at
Bloomsbury.
Mr. Arthur E. Whitney and Mr.
Rodney Jarvis, of New York, who
Rave been with Mr. W. L. Wright,
have returned north.
Supper parties at the Old Mill Tea
House Which opened for the season
this week and at Green Leaf Villa
are popular.
The Pines, a few miles north of
Camden the old fashioned square
dances on Tuesday evenings will
I again prove attractive to the yuong
set as well as the older folk.
Mr. Ward C. Belcher and his son,
Beri Belcher, of New York, who have
leased the Painter cottage on Lyttleton
avenue will arrive shortly after
the holidays.
At the Court Inn Pr. and Mrs. J.
Podge Peters and Lamrtlon Peters,
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Nisbet and
William B. Nisbet, Jr., are New
Yorkers passing the season.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry P. Kirkover
are entertaining Mrs. Kirkover's sister,
Mrs. F. A. K. Boland, of New
York. V- \ . , v
Pr. and Mrs. I. F. Harris and the
Misses Betty and Ellen Harris, of
Bronxville, are passing the holidays
at ffobkirk Inn as are also Mr. and
Mrs. Wallace I. Keep, Mrs. K. K<. Tyler
and Miss Barbara Keep,
i Mrs. George Walson, of Washing'
ton, who is spending ten days with
Mrs. Warrqn H. Harris will return
, home on Sunday.
Dr. and Mrs. J. Dodge Peters and
Langdon Peters, of New York, for
many^seasons residents of the Court
Inn are again there.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Coogan, of
I Easton, Pa., are at the Court Inn for
the holidays.
I Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Stearns have
come from Saranac for their usual
winter sojourn at ftie Court Inn.
' Miss Charlotte Campbell is spendintr
two weeks with her sister, Mrs.
H. G. Marvin, at Hobkirk Inn.
Mr. and Mrs. Pell W. Foster and
children of Englewood, N. J., are the
guests of the latter's mother, Mrs.
Chester Paper Pays
Camden Tribute
1 ,
Concerning the game between
Camden and Cheater to be played on
Melton Meld in Columbia today at
2:30 p. in., the Chester lie porter reviews
'the delayed titular contest in a
moat fair and sportsmanlike manner
and says:
( "All difficulties in connection with
the Chester-Camden battle for the
( lass B football title have been eliminated,
and Chester has accepted
Canpden's proposal to play the game
on Melton Field in Columbia Christmas
Day at 2:30 p. m., under the
auspices of the state league.
"At the meeting in Columbia Saturday
the committee overruled Chester's
protest and awarded >the championship
to Camden, after having
j first ruled that the title was vacant,
and cancelling the championship
game. Camden, however, refused Jo
accept the championship on such
terms, and issued a challenge to
Chester for a game on Christmas
I day, which has bcon accepted and
which should decide the issue.
'(Chester, of course, had no desire
all-along except to play the game
I with Citmden, and made only one request?that
out of consideration for
the heavy and unusually severe
schedule undergone by the Red Cyclone,
on account of three ties in the
semi-finals, the game, which was ordered
for December 18th, bo postponed
until the following Tuesday. Camj
den, which had been idle for two
j weeks, took an opposite view, and
bhe football committee, nfter first declaring
the title vacant, finally ruled
with Camden, and awarded that team
the title.
"But Camden, with true sportsmanlike
spirit, refused to accept a
title on such terms, and issued a
challenge to Chester to play Christ I
mas day.
"The only obstacle in the way of
the Christmas day galne?and the
same condition probably prevails at
Camden?is that several members of
the eleven have Christmas week jobs,
and practice this week may knock
them out of tins' Christmas money.
But many employers have already
signified to superintendent Brockman
their intention to cooperate to the
fullest, and this difficulty will be taken
care of, he says.
"There is a feeling of general pleasure
here at the sportsmanlike spirit
of the Camden team, which was only
what was expected. Chester and
Camden have been playing for a
number of years and while the games
have b6en hard-fought and close, the
cleanest of good sportsmanship al,ways
prevails, and Chester is sincerely
glad that the little tiff with the
football committee has not affected
in any degree at all the good feeling
between the two teams."
n
Eugene C. Clark at her Lyttleton
avenue cottage.
Mr. and <Mrs. C. P. Bassett and
Carroll K. Bassett have arrived* at
their Camden estate, Goodie Castle,
for the season.
M iss Helen Meriam Farrelley is
passing the holidays with her grandmother,
Mrs. Stephen Farrelley at
her cottage on Hampton avenue.
The beautiful spring like weather
of Wednesday added to the pleasure
of those of the winter colony who
went for dove drive and picnic luncheon.
In the party were Mr. and Mrs.
Larhont Dominick, Mr. and Mrs. William
B. Nisbet, William B. Nishet,
Jr., Mr. H. D. Kirkover, Dr. and Mrs.
J. Dodge Peters, Mr. and Mrs. It. M.
Smith, ,Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Partridge
and Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Barnes
and Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Wright.
An informal drag was also enjoyed
on/Wednesday with many riders in
t&rTield.
A. coon hunt a few evenings ago
was another gathering p]ace for many
of the young set.
Wednesday evening Mr. and Mrs,
Reuben B. Pitts opened their attrac
tive home for a charity dance which
was one of the season's most delightful
events.
Misses Lucy Kirkland and Barbara
Ledley, of Welfesley, are passing the
holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Thoma.<
J. Kirklaml.
Mr. and Mrs. .David Rogerson Williams,
who recently opened Mulberrj,
for the winter, have with them Mrs
Williams' sister, Mrs. John Hill, an<:
children, of Paris, France.
Mrs. George R. Cook, of Trentor
and Camden, is entertaining her mother.
Mrs. John H. Hutchinson anc
her nieces, the Misses Mary I^ouist
and Betty Jlutchinson.
Mrs. Elizabeth Jennings Thomas
ljas gone to Catonsville, Maryland
for the holidays, returning later t<
her home here for the winter.
Enjoying the attractive buffet sup
per last Sunday which is a spec^a
feature on each Sunday and Thurs
day evening at Green Leaf Villi
were Mr. and Mra. F. M. Rhodes
s Mrs. E. J. Thomas, Mra. W. N. Kerr
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Kennedy and Mr
and Mrs. Gaylord Tucker.
Hamilton Wright, of Harvard, ii
spending the holidays jrith P*r
" ents, Mr. and Mra. W. I* Wright.
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PROPOSED SUPPLY BILL
MAKES DRASTIC CUTS
V ..j
A proposed supply bilfTor Kershaw
county for county* purposes for the
year 19.32, showing the appropriations
to bo made as compared to th$
items for 1931 has boon submitted to
the public. Chief among the items is
the propose^ abolishment of the four
rural police and their expenses
amounting to $(>,960, and the cutting
of the roads, bridges and maintenance
Grinds from $56,000 to $18,000,
and coupled with other slashes in salaries
and cutting out entirely some
items brings the sum total to $50,330.00
as compared to $100,113.31 for
the year just closing. This information
comes to The Chronicle not as a
paid advertisement but as news of
general interest to all citizens of the
county. The legislative delegation
; invites the close attention of the pub-|
lie to tHe proposed bill and asks for
criticism or suggestions. The bill,
i as compiled for quick reading, as The
Chronicle could condense it, may conj
tain some minor errors, but, may be
surmized as substantially correct,
I reads as follows:
! Roads, bridges, convicts and maintenance
of road working organizations,
gasoline and gasoline distribution,
cut from $55,000 to $18,000.
Salaries of clerk of court, deputy
clerk of court $1,000 and $1)00, remain
the same.
Sheriff's salary remains the same
at $2,100.
The deputy sheriff is cut from $1,500
to $1,200.
| -Superintendent of .education remains
at $1,500.
Treasurer cut from $016.67 to
$700.
Audita* cut from 016.67 to $700.
Judge of Probate, $600, remains
the same.
Coroner, $240, remains the same.
Attorney cut from $400 to $260.
Physician account c utotumaiethT
Physician at $160 cut out. <?
Janitor of Jail cut from $600 to
$300.
Janitor of court house cut from
$420 to $240.
Four county directors cut from
$1,600 to $800.
Clerk county directors cut from
$600 to $400. ~
Four rural policemen at $6,000 cut
out entirely.
Expenses for four rural policemen
at $060 cut out entirely.
k Camden magistrate, $900, constable
at $600.
Bethune magistrate $400, constable
at $200; v |
Blaney magistrate $400, constable
at $200. * ^
Kershaw magistrate $400, constable
at $200. ^ Upper
Flat Rock magistrate $200,
constable at $100.
Lower Flat Rock magistrate $200,
constable at $100.
Upper Wateree . magistrate $200,
constable at $100. .
Kershaw Guards cut from $600 to
$300.
,James Leroy Belk Post American
Legion remains the same at $100.
Service officer for Post cut from
$600 to $200.
County board of education remains
the same at $100. ,
Board of equalization remains the
same at $250.
Board of registration remains the
same at $150.
Jail expenses including dieting ot
prisoners, 50c per <day, $2,000, remains
the same.
Jurors and witnesses cut from $7,000
to $3,000. (Provided that jurors
shall be paid $2.00 and mileage per
day and witnesses 50c and mileage)
Solicitor fifth circuit $200.
Stenographer fifth circuit $100.
County home, poor house and poor
cut from $2,700 to $2,000.
Afw*ociated charities for support ol
Kershaw County orphanage cut from
$600 to $200. , , ,
. Post mortems, inquests and lunacy
cut from $500 to $150. (Provided 1
r that the fees of probate *nd
physicians shall not exceed $0 in lu,
nacy cases) .
Public buildings, including water
1 and light, fuel and insurance, cut
from $1,500 to $1,000. * t
Printing, postage and stationery
, cut from $2,000 to $1,000. (Provid.
ed that expenditures
I only on request and approval of the
board of county directors.)
Miscellaneous contingent remains
' at $1,000. .
Vital statistics remains at *^50i
County health units cut from
400 to $1,500. The county health de,
partment is expected to Carry on the
. usual duties of a like organization
I Included in such duties w. 1 be the
. giving of typhoid apd smallpox vaccine
to the people of the county, the.
t examination of pre-school and achoo j
, children, the training of
sanitary survey, correction of water!
supply and excreta disposal,
. to and fly control, the use of all
1 means of publicity, such as newspa.
per articles, talks before schools and
l, PUAudifftof county books $350 is cut
\ ?UOnre and insurance on airport $200
is cut out.
b Telephone and office rent for
- county agent*, ?ountv farm and horn
demonstration $160 i? cut out.
Stenographer for homo and county *
lemonstratton agents, $360, is cut ,
>ut.
lights, insurance, keepers, mnintetance
bridge cut from $4,8(H) to $4,10.
(Provided that the briduo keepers
shull not receive over $75 month*
v.) *
' Total put from $106,113.34 in 1931
o $50,630.00 in 1932.
The sheriff shall receive in add!"
ion to his regular salary, his neeesmt'y
expenses a ltd Ave cents por mile
'or each mile traveled in going and
-oturning when called Ixyond the
imits of the county on official busi\ess.
In addition the sheriff shall
ilso receive 50 cents for committing
wul Afty cents for discharging each
>rUopor, and forty cents per day for
lieting each prisoner for each day or
'faction thereof while detained in the
munty jail or in his custody. That
he sheriff he allowed ^500 if so muchjo
necessary for criminal work dono
mtside of the county, payable upon
lis order. . .
The board of directors of Kershaw
;ounty is authorised and directed to
sorrow for the use of Kershaw counly
for the payment of tho items a>ove
appropriated, the amounts need?d
to provide for tho payment of tho
mine, and shall have no right to boi ow
for county purposes in excess of
,he total amount of the above appropriation;
except that they may bor ow
for the renewal or extension of
indebtedness as may be needed for
.hat purpose. And tho said board of
iircctors are authorized to execute
lotes or other evidences of indebted*,
less for the amounts borrowed herejnder,
and are empowered and directed
to pledge for the payment of
.he same the full faith and credit of
Kershaw county and the taxes levied
for the current year and all otnor
funds from whatever source coming
into the hands of the treasurer and
ipplicable to county purposes.
If any emergency shall ajusc for
the expenditure of a greater amount^
than hereinabove provided for any
purpose. the increased Or additional
expenditures shall be made only With
the approval of the legislative dele
iration and when any expenditure i
lo authorized and approved the board
of directors may borrow to the amount
necessary for the payment?
^AlT^funds from, whatever source
other than the taxes Jevied for the
current year, commg^into the
of the treasured and applica!bio to
county purposes shall be "fild,fJr an
applied to the Payment of *? {J?*!
and interest indebtedness of! Ker
shaw county as the same sthaU be
come due until the whole is Pft.^
Sports Program For
First Day of Year
On next Friday, New Year's morn- .
ing at 10:80 o'clock a paiper chase,_
open to all will start just north^of
Doodle Hill Farm on the Liberty Hill
At 2 p. m. at the race track there
will be a 'tilting tournament, under
the auspices of the Junior Welfare
League of this city. Admission will
be 50 cents for spectators.
Several beautiful silver cups have
been donated and will bo competed
for by the knights riding. To each?
of the knight's ladies will be given a
l0Aftcf the tournament a 100 yard
dash will be run and for this event
prizes will be given.
Entries for tournament should be
wen I in to Kirby Tupper.
There will also be a bruah race,
quarter and half mile race. on the
flat.' 'Entries for races should be
sent In to Samuel Russell, this elty,
before December 28th.
College Night at
First Baptist Church
The following service* are announced
at the First BaPl'8t Chur^
Sunday school at 10 o'clock in the
mornWWUTi Mr. T. ?
-perintendent; public worship conductId
by the pastor at 11:15 a- m and
the subject will be ';The W.seMen.
At the evening serv.ee at 7.30 t-o
We Night" Will bo observed and several
Short addresses will he dol.vered
by college students. The Colleg
! Night service was moat helpful and
inspiring last year and we are expecting
it to be as good or betterj^
vcar. Don't miss this service. Pray
er and praise service Wednesday evening
at7:30; B. V. P. U. Sundayeveni^eatpubHc
is cordially invitod to
attend all the services orf th.a church.
Miss Mary Mickle, of Jotaaon Clty.c
Tonm, ha. arrived to HF
days with her parents, Mr.
J. u Micfelo. .' ..
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CAMDEN HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM?1931
B (Photo by E. T. Start, Camden)
courtety of CdlombU 8t*t?) : - T ' ? t a n*.jLm Pitta Kennedy. Trapp.
jg?t JidooB, Brfdwin, Bonn, 8ander?, Brno., Flowon, J?m* B???, i.