The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 20, 1932, Image 1
The Camden chronicle
vol UME 44. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY, 20, 1932 , NUMBER 7
.ell Known Citizen
Died Wednesday
[Nonius Baxter McClain, for tho
it thirty years a well-known and
(uniuiit citizen of Camden, died
>ut noon Wednesday after a short
less at his home on north Broad
eet. Mr. McClain was born in
rk, S. C.? June 13, 1857, and on
1Uar\ 14, 1880, was married to Miss
ncy Massina MoClain. To them
re born five children, all of whom
re passed away, and the widow
jne survives.
(jr. McClain moved to Camden
^ut thirty years ago, when he built
LJen's first telephone exchange,
ce that time he has been engaged
various lines and was at times a
relin^r salesman. A short while
jr to his death he was assistant;
the county treasurer's office,
it-fore moving to Camden he was,
ititied on a large scale with Yorki
int'ss interests. He at one time
ted a telephone system, a carriage
buggy works, and later on a cotnull.
He had traveled extensively
was well informed on many lines.
[r. McChyjt had a large number ofi
nds here and elsewhere, who ret
to learn of his death. He was an
r in the Bethesda Presbyterian
rch of this city and took great in?t
in church affairs,
hort funeral services were conted
from his home in this citjr at
/clock Thursday morning and r4he
a! occurred Thursday afternoon
he family plot in the York cemepture
Two Men
nd Stolen Cadillac
co white men, giving their names
oe Brown and John Lewis, were
ght to Camden last week and
?d in the county jail to be held
Richmond, Va., authorities. They
i arrested in Bethune on Friday,
13th, charged with having stolen
idillac sixteen cylinder automoThe
car was located in the*
Is near Bethune. Sergeant Parof
the Richmond detective force |
npaniod by another Richmond
er, came for the men and car
lay and carried them back to the
inia city. Sergeant Parker told
den officers that his main duty
to trail stolen cars and up to this
one hundred and twenty-five
had been stolen from Richmond
year.
Iportant Meeting
For Farm Women j
B'y .-cction of Kershaw county
Bk- represented at the spring
Hnc the County Council ofj
W'-men. which will be held in
Bk,Legion Hall on Friday
Btg. May 27, at 8 o'clock.
B^ ' j-.ty Council is composed of
B>'.;: \-.ndrod twenty farm women
^B.'e i! . tubers of the seventeen
B Demonstration Clubs organ ^"^'hdUt
Kershaw county. All
dur.- will be represented at the
Br 1 he president of each club
B?g greetings and the eleven
chairmen will give 'condensed
Bs the work accomplished in
^Pr: departments.
will be given the club hav-;
^B' " t people present, so it is
Cat the attendance at this
B? A be the largest in the |
B tne council. A part of the;
B*^ a;!', consist of songs, music,
Pl'r: 'u.ks by friends of Patens'
'nii- I. Landrum, State
'' - Nation Agent, is ex
present and to bring
m Home Demonstration
program will be puhB
Getty*, president of
' vinci 1 of Farm Women.
"n Drive Against Crime.
B ,r'c brutal kidnap-murder
B ' r':;K'rgh baby, members of
an l^egion post hero have
nv-elvo^ on record as urgB
nte.nbers^f that organization
^B ' ''m m a crime crusade.
^B^Tbers also pledged themV?
*tr,ct observance of the law
B attempt to inculcate in those
H intact a respect for cons'
authority. . .
E- Howell, of Decatur', III,
^B ?t here at the home of her
^^B* r- and Mr*. E. T. Barnea.
Railroad Builder I
Passes at Cheraw
The passing of Mr. Adolphus H.
Page at Cheraw last Saturday removed
one of the county's most val-1
ued and respected citizens.
Mr. Page died at his home at 11:20
o'clock Saturday morning. Ho was
81 years of age,< and though he had
been in failing health for some time
his death came as a shock to his relatives
and friends.
Born in Wake county, North Carolina,
he was the son of the late Wilbur
and Cora Page. He camo to
Cheraw about 30 years ago and became
the leading spirit in building
the Chesterfield & Lancaster railroad.
The memory of the stirring events
I of that time are still fresh in the
J minds of many citizens especially
'along the line of this road. The town
of Pageland at the western terminus
of the road proudly boars his name.
The personal character of Mr.
I^ige seems fittingly described as that
of a high-toned Christian gentleman.
At least one strict rule of conduct
applied to all workmen employed in
the construction of the railroad. He
allowed no profanity and it is said
several men were dismissed for this
offense.
Mr. Page is survived by his widow,
formerly Miss Nancy Guess, of North
Carolina, and the following children:
Mrs. William Godfrey. Mrs. Ethel
Wannamaker, Wilbur Page, Hunter
Page and Mrs. P. A. Murray, all of
Cheraw; Alfred G. Page, Washington
and Mrs. George Goodwyn, Hagerstown,
Md. Several grandchildren and
one gi'eat grandchild also survive.
Chesterfield Advertiser.
Sounds Like a Lie I
Reidsviile, N. C? May 12.-*W W.
King, Reidsville resident, says Clarjence
Cayton, a neighbor, has one for
the book.
King said Cayton shot a leatherwing
bat with an air rifle, using a
match instead of a shot. He said
matdh entered the bat's stomach and
came out through the mouth and the
match struck the bat's teeth, and
burst into flame.
Carl West Named As President
Rock Hill, May 18.?About 40 physicians
of the Fifth congressional district
meeting here today electedL Dr.
Carl A. West, of Camden, president
for next year, Dr. Sylvia Allen, Winthrop
college resident physician, vice
! president, and Dr. George Rhame,
! Camden, secretary-treasurer. I hey
selected Camden for their next session,
to be held next Spring.
CoastGuardScours
Sea For Kidnapers
New York, May,l-l?A mysterious
vessel believed to carry persons who
imay be the Lindbergh kidnapers was
sought today somewhere between
Boston and Tape May in one of the
| m?st intensive ocean hunts ever orj^FoT'more
than 24 hours 25 coast
iguard craft have been ^Ung to and
I fro on the Atlantic watching for the
vessel, with which Col. Charles A
! Lindbergh is understood to have made
contact Wednesday. .
Wired instructions from Washington
started the hunt. They conUmcd
a meagre description of hejs
iterious boat, but this was withheld
There was not a major vessel at
the Staten Island base of the ?as
I guard last night. Fourteen, including
six of the new 165-foot patrol
| boats, had loft under sealed orders.
'Others were sent from Boston an
i New London, Conn.
I Cmguard officers were not por!
mitted to discuss the search.
School Closing
Exercises Soon
The High commencement
exercises begin on Sunday night.
! May 29, 1932. in the school audit
!* ot 8-30 The regular commencer,um
at 8.30. ine K he(, by
ment sermon will be P
Rov J. B. Gaston. Monday nigh
8:30 class Day exercises will be he
in the auditorium, with the me
of the senior class par' thc
final exercises will be held i
auditorium on Tuesday, May
8:30. Adhering to the general custo
adopted by the High Schools of the
State there will be no 'fT*
dwaa. A dei.iied v. jbe c
mencemetit exercises will be *1
n?xt week in this paper. v_
" J. G. Jr.
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'News of Interest in
and Near Bethune
Bethune, S. C., May 17.?In* a declamation
and reading contest held
at the high school auditorium last
Wednesday evening the following
were winners: High school pupils?
I First, Edith Olyburn, who gave
"Little Boy.Blue"; second, Cleora Estridge,
"Cigarette's Hide"; third,
Kate Helms, "Bobby Shaftou"; boy,
Forbis Morgan, "The True Grandeur
of Nations." |
Grammar school .pupils: Girls?'
First, Harriet Mays; second, Juanita
Pate; boys, first, Bill Nicholson; second,
Otis Elliott. Judges: Miss Louise
Jones, Miss Lucile Gregory and. Mr.
: Gregory, of Kershaw.
Memorial services under the auspices
of the Bethune chapter of the
U. D. C, were held at the high school
i auditorium last Tuesday evening.
The stage was decorated with baskets
and bowls of red and white roses and
flags of the state and confederacy,
the meeting was presided over by
J^ws Stella Bethune and opened with
prayer by Rev. .7. E. Williams.
"Dixie" was sung by the audience.
The speakers of the evening \v<*re
Col. E. N. Yarbrough, of Colummir,
and Mr. Ned Gregory, of Kershaw.
Col. Yarbrough, who is a native of
l Bethune, is one of the few surviving
Confederate veterans and is on the
[ staft of General DeSaussure.
| Special music was given by Mrs.
|J. C. Foster and Mrs. T. R. Bethune.
(The meeting was closed with the
; singing of "Tenting on the Old Camp
j Ground" by the audience and prayer
! by Mr. J. H. McDaniel.
1 Mrs. M. L. Kelley, Mrs. A. K. McLaurin,
Miss Mary Louise McLaurin
land Mr. George Kelly accompanied
by Mrs. C. M. Wilson and little son,
I of Columbia, left Tuesday for Johnson
City, Tenn., to visit relatives.
Mrf Kelley and Mr. Kelley will remain
for an extended visit while the
others will return in a few days.
Miss Ethel Kolly's many friends
will be sorry to Jearn that it was ne,
cessary for her to be taken to the
i Columbia hospital Monday for an opj
e rat ion.
) Mr. and Mrs. Allard LaBruce, of
Georgetown, were recent guests of
;Mr. and Mrs. Loring Davis.
I Miss Margaret Truesdell, of-Cokumjbia
College, was at home for the
j week end.
j Miss Lizzie Kate Davis, who is
.teaching in Kershaw, spent the weekend
at home. \
| Mr. Robert DuBose, who has been
working with the state highway department
near Bamberg, is at home.
Miss Eunice Severance spent Saturday
in Charlotte, N. C.
Mrs. Mattie Kelly has been with
.Mrs. B. F. Bolton for the past week.
I Miss Stokes, of Bishopville, has
j been the recent guest of Miss Margaret
Hearon.
i Miss Cecelia King, who has been
j spending some time with .relatives in
I Florida is visiting her sister, Mrs.
D. M. Mays.
The woman's missionary society of
the Methodist church met with Mrs.
J. M. Clyburn Tuesday afternoon.
Premier of Japan
I Killed By Assassins
1 Tokyo, May 16.?Premier Suyoshi
Inukai died shortly before midnight
from bullet wounds inflicted by asj
sassin members of a group of military
terrorists who were responsible
for a series of bombings carried out
j at the very moment the premier was
; attacked.
| Bombs were exploded at the office
of the metropolitan police board,
| the Bank of Japan, the headquarters
of the Seihukai (government) party
and the home of the lord keeper of
the privy seal.
At two o'clock this morning a hurried
ceremony was held in the palace
and the powers of government were
transferred to Korekiyo Takahashi,
! who has been serving as finance minister.
Mr. Takahashi was appointed
acting premier.
The assassinated premier, who was
77 years old, died at 11:25 p. m., almost
exactly six hours after he was
shot. He was the second head of a
state to succomb to an assassin's
bullet within a period of ten days
May 6 President Paul. Doumer, ol
France was killed in the same manner.
j The premier was shot in the ri^'ht
temple and in the nose as he was
.talking with a visitor in his official
residence.
His assailants, a group of seven or
eight men wearing naval or army
j uniforms, shot their way into the
residence to get to him.
To Have Protracted Meetirtfe.
1 Beginning on July 17th, there will
r be a protracted meeting held in th<
i Lyttleton Street Methodist churcl
! for ten days. Dr. Luther Bridgerc, oi
Gainesville, Ga., will conduct thi<
' meeting. Dr. Bridgers is one of th<
i most noted evangelists in the South
The public will be cordially welcomed
to theee services.
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Legion Post Passes
Quota for the Year
On Tuesday, May 17th, the James
Leroy Belk Post No. 17, of the American
Legion, was proud to announce
that they had passed their
quota for membership. New members
this year number sixty-one and
renewals one hundred and fifty-four,
making a total enrollment of 215.
The Post has been organized thirteen
years ami eleven of those years
this post has shown an increase in
members. In many ways the local
post is unusual. It has the distinction
of having two congressional medal
men as members; Legionnaires Richmond
Hobson Hilton and Oantey Villepigue.
Listed as members is to be
found the fact that both a father and
son are members?Judge Mendel L.
Smith ami M. L. Smith, Jr., who both
served during the World War, from
this county. Three ladies hold membership
in Post No. 17: Miss Etta L.
Robbins, and Miss Anne Thompson,
of Camden and Mrs. Edna 1>. Clark,
of Boykin. Three brothers are members:
Alex Young of Bethune, Jack
Young, Walter Young, of Kershaw.
Past Department Commander A. S.
Llewellyn is a member of James Leroy
Belk Post, which is an honor few
cities of this size can boast of.
One member, Major E. C. Von
Tresckow, the American Consulate
General at Rotterdam, Netherlands,
formerly of Camden, has a membership
here also.
A monthly meeting is held at Legion
headquarters on DeKalb street
each second Monday night of every
month. An entertaining program is
arranged in advance with an interesting
speaker and fine meetings are
held, drawing the members closer together.
Officers for the present year are:
M. M. Reasonover, commander; W.J.
Hasty and S. J. Crolley, vice commanders;
W. M. Alexander, adjutant;
L. I* Wallnau, finance officer.
Teachers' Notes Ready Soon
The state treasurer announces that
the notes for teachers' salary and
transportation of pupils, provided for
in the appropriation bill passed at
the recent meeting of the state legislature
are now being printed and
will be ready for distribution within
eight or ten days. The quota for
Kershaw county teachers' salaries
will be $65,905.00 and for transportation
$12,502.00. A certain amount of
these notes have been sold, at par,
in the county. The remaining notes
will l>e issued to the teachers in varying
denominations.
Over one hundred thousand notes
were required, Julian H. Scarborough,
state treasurer, said, and it is taking
considerable time in which to get
them ready.
Buys Aged Mules
For Retirement
Columbia, S. C., May 10.?An unI
usual philanthropy, purchase of oldbroken-down
horses and mules, is
practiced by Archer Milton Huntington,
New York capitalist, at his winter
estate near Georgetown.
Mr. Huntington pays $20 a head
, for the animals and "retires" them on
pastures of his estafoT""^ They are
never ridden or worked. Children of
the neighborhood are paid to walk
the animals. '
Seymour Carrell, field representative
of the American Humane Education
society, explained the work
j when passing through here with four
'horses, which will spend a ripe old
i age on the Huntington meadows.
1 Kir**t Baptist Church Services.
Thr? following services are anj
| -A .
i noun< f (1 at the First Baptist church:
! Sunday school at 10 o'clock, Mr. C. ().
Stogner, superintendent. Public worj
.ship at 11:15 a. m. and 8:30 p. ni.
| The morning service will be conducted
by the pastor, subject: The St.
I Petersburg Convention. As the pasj
tor \vil' lv> at Jefferson for their
/commencement sermon at the evening
hour the young people of the
B. Y. P. U. will have charge of the
services. Prayer and praise service at
8 o'clock Wednesday evening. Senior
B. Y. P. U. Thursday evening at 8
and Junior B. Y. P. U. Sunday even1
ing at 7:30.
i ? We are glad to hear such good rei
porta of the aervfees rendered by the
f. young people last Sunday and many
i j will no doubt rejoice to learn that
\ they are to give another program
.' next Sunday evening. We are ho#ng
I for a full nttesidanoe at both ervioes
J next Sunda^r. ?-" \
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Capt. W. E. Charles
Dies At Bishopville
Bishopville, May 18.?Capt. William
E. Charles, one of the oldest
Confedtatote veterans in South Carolina,
died this morning after a week's
illness of pneumonia. He would have
been iH? years of age June 28. Capt,
Charles had been in failing health for
about a year and his death was not
unexpected.
Captain Charles is survived, by one
daughter, Mrs. Willie Stuckey, and
! one son, Kemper Charles, both of
Hishopvillo; two brothers, K. 1>.
Charles, of Timmonsvillc and J. B.
Charles of Darlington; two sisters,
Miss Carrie Charles and Mrs. Linn
Hart of -Darlington. Miss Eva
Charles, another sister, died about a
year ago.
-Captain Charles was born in Darlington
county, June 28, 188th His
father was Col. H. G. Charles and
his mother Miss i/ouisa Martha DuBoise.
At the outbreak of the Confederate
war he joined the Darlington
Guards. Captain Charles was'
commissioned as a, first lieutenant
and later promoted to the rank of
Captain. He was retired at the end
of the war as a major of the Fourth
battalion of Del Kemper's regiment,
light artillery. Until a year ago,
Captain Charles seemed to be in excellent
health, but he gradually began
to fail.
Death of James Branham, Jr.
Funeral services for Robert Jtomes
Branham, Jr., who died Tuesday
night at the home of his father near
Blaney, were held at 3 o'clock Thursday
afternoon at Harmony Baptist
church, near^Blaney. Interment was
in the churchyard.
Young Branham was born February
2, 1007, the son of Robert James
Branham and Lavinia Abbott Branham.
He had been in poor health for
several years, though seriously ill for
only, the past two weeks. He lived
in Columbia for some time before his
health failed and leaves close friends
here who mourn his passing.
Mrv Branham is .survived by his
parents and four brothers, Ernest
L. Branham, of Washington, D. C.,
J. Guarry Branham, of Columbia,
Oscar H. Branham and Fred Edgar
Branham, of Blaney.
Pallbearers will be three brothers,
Ernest, Oscar and Guerry Branham,
and G. A. Dowey, Russell Maddox and
Walter C. Butler.?Wednesday's Columbia
Record.
Golf To Be Played
Again This Year
The people of Camden will have
golf again this summer and at a
lower cost than ever before, through
the generosity of Mr. Karl P. Abbott
in turning over the small Kirkwood
links to Mayor R. M. Kennedy,
Jr., who has in turn delegated the
operation of the club to the street
department of the city, of which Alderman
Henry Savage, Jr., is chairman.
Citizen's Committee, composed of
W. L. Goodale and W. l-t. DePass, Jr.,
will receive the nominal dues and
fees and turn them over to the City
Clerk. This committee will also act
in an advisory capacity to Superintendent
of the Streets W. D. Whitaker,
who will have immediate charge
of the maintenance of the links.
The membership fees will be five
dollars per person for the entire summer,
beginning next week, May 23.
Greens fees to pon-members will be
fifty cents per day. Caddy fees have
been set at fifteen cents for nin* hoi**,
and twenty-five cents for eighteen
holes. These figures represent probably
the most economical golf to be
1 had in the history of Camden or anyI
I where in the state.
The club house with its cool and
spacious porches and refreshment
service will be open to the general
public every afternoon, regardless of
whether or not they are members of
the golf club. The club house will
not be open at night.
All persons desiring to join the
1 club please remit five dollars, the
amount of the dues, to either W. L.
DePass, Jr., or W. L. Goodale, at their
earliest convenience and all are requested
not to play on the links until
their dues are paid.
New York dope haa it that Tamminy
would r.arr.c Owen D. Young for
i the presidency; Senator Wagner for
: governor; Mayor Walker for United
i States senator and Alfred' B. Smith
k for mayor of Ifew York
Largest Auto Tire
To Be Seen Here
"Did you ever see a tiro twelve
foot high and four foot wide, that
weighs more than a half ton? You
won't find any in my stock," says
Hughe y Tindal, of the Carolina Motor
Company, the Goodyear dealer in
Camden, "but you will see such a
tiro in front of my service station
Tuesday afternoon, May 24, at 3:30
and remain overnight until 8:00 a. m.
on Wednesday. * i
"This giant $5,000 tiro is towed by
a special bus equipped with a public
address system, ami is touring the
entire United States. 1 asked Goodyear
to bring it to Camden because
1 want everybody to see it."
"The mastodon of the highways
was built at the Goodyear factory in
Akron, Ohio. Nobody knows how
long it will take to wear the tiro out,
but it ought to go several hundred
thousand miles," continued Mr. Tindal.
Goodyear engineers were going to
build the tire much larger, Mr. Tindal
points out, but hud to stay within a
12-foot limit because of low bridges,
railroad underpasses and other obstructions
on the roads. In one location
it was necessary to dig a ditch
five feet wide and eight inches deep
to.get under a bridge.
"This tire isn't just a stunt, it is
rather an engineering and experimental
development looking years into
the future. Some day huge airplanes
may land on tires patterned
after this one," declared Mr. Tindal.
"It is some big tire and worth seeing."
An extra attraction, also of interest,
is one of the huge new Goodyg^r
9.00-13 Airwljeels, developed from the
airplane, for automobile use. It holds
about three times as much air as an
ordinary tire and glides or floats a
car over roughest roads with pillowy
comfort on as little as ten pounds
pressure.
New Members
Join 4-H Club
i,
Interest in 4-H club work is steadily
on the increase for Kershaw county.
This is true not only among the
young people who are joining the
club, but also among the mothers and
fathers. There is hardly a week that
passes but what one or -more new
members are enrolled. Up until Wednesday
of the present week the following
had joined the 4-H boys club:
W. T. McCoy, Jr., Camden; Horace
Joyner, Cassatt; Karris Joyner, Cassatt;
Oscar Woolen, Camden; and
Basil Munn, Camden.
The people of the county nre corner
ing more and more to realize the importance
and value of 4-H club work.
Many leading people all over the
county have credited 4-H club work
to a large degree with the increased
number of hogs and the amount of
corn now in the county and with the
general development of the "Live-ntHome"
program. While much of these
products were grown by people other
than 4-H members it has been pointed
out by prominent citizens that the
4-H program and various 4-H activities
have led many farmers into following
more improved farm methods,
especially ajong the line of producing
food and feed for the family and '
livestock. These claims by advocates
and promoters of 4-H club work were
well borne out by the splendid showing
made by the 4-H club members
at the last county fair.
We should all realize that time is
passing and it is not only our privi%
lege and pleasure to L?k*> advantage
of the opportunities presented from
day to day, hut it is also our duty
and responsibility to takr advantage
of every opportunity which affords
itself for the development and future
success of our children.
Ix't's all of us cooperate more
closely than ever for the betterment
of those who are to take our places.
It is believed that many parents in
Kershaw county do not encourage
4-H club work simply because they
do not know just what club work is
and what it can do for young folks.
Therefore, all parents ami children of
Kershaw county are invited to get in
touch with the home agent and county
agent for further Information on
the value of 4-H chub work, saya
Henry D. Green, the county agent.
- A mrtft of a Son " '
On May 10th, 1030, at the Doctors*
1 Hoapfttl, New York City, a ton was
bom to 'R4n?ld Je tl '
Kirttbrid*.
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