The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 10, 1932, Image 1

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The Camden Chronicle *P^tfSP*'?!BHPBB???',*l'!BHB??aSSI3?BM?!SisEBaSHHeSH5S5H5S!aS5SeaBeHS5BS35 VOLUME 44. '.' CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROUNi^, FRIDAY, JUNE 10,1933 NUMBER 10 - L - 1 ? ' 11 ????? mmms=a=!sa^sgammi } - - 1 ||1>r " "'1 fonor Roll Students imden City Schools ,, ?S attendance record, of the, '" ?? city .Choeto ? furnished to | ' by the superintendent for the seali, lA-SchoHrehip, won hy iHi# Smith, average), 94. ride 1C?-Moat improvement. Giv^fpU Wolfe. Won by Ruby ** wijLbert jsie C, Thyior. Won by.- Jierbeit g^/^&houiship medal given Weinberg Bros. Won b, Con.nc<> Kinney, average 96.6. . Grade G -Seholarahip. Won by ViUcpigue, average 93.2. I rmdo 7?-Scholarship. Haskell j ^1. Won by Minnie Sue Bruce, J Stede ^Composition. Given by' U W B. deLoaoh, KdgehiH Me<W. ? by Elizabeth Pitte, overage 92., Rade 7 -Character, Scholarship, Aimcrican I^ion Medal m by Mrs. A. Karosh, won by Grade1" 7?Excellency in History, A. R- Medal^ won by Lucille Deuhl, average 96. Grade ?-tScholarriiip, given by rs. L. Libman, WOP *y Joe Jordan, erase 93.3. ^ , Grade 9?(Scholarship, by dge Wa?. Benet, won by S?m ?oyi, average 92.4. , Grade 10?English, deLo*ch Medal, lft by Marjorie Walker, average High School LMin M^lal.^ven by V. F. H. Harding, worn ?JT Emily corn, average 94.2. ' ?i High School English, Airme Johni Boy* Medals won by Marjorie Llker, average WML- r^___ highest history Average tn <p?ventn L. Cecelia |n by James WIfd, average Pjr??lrool historical M "J*^1 Kjxby American Legion Amnliary. In by Katherine itenaB^g-. Erammar and high ?A*a Ip medal given by Rev. F. -H. HardI, Won by EHzabeth Moore, av-_ Age 96.1. ' 111 medals are to be warn for one Ir and returned to school authoriBtate typewriting speed- xrte&al won I Mary Elizabeth Wooten. Itate typewriting speed cup ..won I team of J^mes Moore, Hfcuby Ed|gs and Lucille Ford. . , ~ Kershaw county spelling contest I by Minnie ,Sue Brtice. State high school football .CUP, J. iMcLeod, captain. thletic scholarship medal i(3) won James Moore, Reuben P4fct?, Sam Caskill. #_ |s8 Leaders and Seconds trade 1 (Mills)-Millie Smithi 94; I Christinas, 93; Harold Hatfield rade 1 (Zcrnp)-?Elizabeth X>rakem, 94.1; Caleb Whitaker 92.7. Brade l (Wolfe)?Ruby Evans, 92; tha Truesdale 91; Mary Cameron, Myrtle Outlaw, 91. Brade 2A?Mary Pitts, 96; Artie Bon, 96; Thomas Turner 96.6. Brade 2E?Nell Je^fcoat, 96 5-3; Beva Jackson, 90. Brade 3A ?Frances Rhame, 95.9; tt* McDowell, 95.5. Brade 3B?Paul Williams, 9L5; B& Belle Branham, 91.1. Brade ?,C ?Harry Moseley, 89.2; 5^rd Lli.va, ??.?>. Br*de 1A?Herbert Moore, 96; toee Kiri.land, 94. Brade IP. William Brown, 92 6-7; B?ta Tra; 92 6-7. Bade h( (Oakes)?Dorothy Smith, Hi Char , - Edward Trapp, 91.5. Brade -1 ? Constance Kinney, B ^a>h\ Thigpen, 94.9. Brade ?Matthew Mrmn, 87/4; Brade ."i|; i.ueile McLain, 85 6-7; Bade I !:ver)?Virginia Fryc, B :a:? r. A alts, 87.5. Jac.e \ Jack A^llepigue, 93.2; ad,- i; Margaret I/ominac, 88; B Ma,- ":mnions, 87.5; George ''' Burnice Poison, 88.9; Babe V ^ -^inn'e Sue Bruce, 93.5; a<3t" 7B-Annette Hkfety, 8G.9; er.r.c l^'.nj>ster, 86.7. B^e x ?'oe Jordan, 93.3; Lena 9- Sam Boykin, 92.4; Leola l'> -Elizabeth Moore, 96.3^ Wgl* Waller "?6r.. tl Katherine Kenxg^iy, 115.7; BT Brown, 94.1. Two Die In Auto Hit By Southern Two men were instantly killed when they were knocked clear of their automobile and tossed m*ny feet into the ditch aldnq the railroad right of way at the Steele crossing just out of Rock Hill, about 5:30 o'clock Monday evening. They drove at 60 or 66 miles an hour upon the (Southern track directly in front of the passenger train due here at 4:10 o'clock, whioh was nearly two hours late and running fast. One was lOhalmers E. Williams, secretary-treasure? of the Heath Springs textile mill company. The other was Edward Robinson, a farmer of Kershaw county. Mr. Williams was about 50 years old, and Mr. Robinson about 70 years of age. They were returning from Rock Hill to Heath Springs. An ambulance from Rock Hill arrived soon after the accident and took the bodies to Rock Hill. The train was stopped as sopn as possible, and the crew rendered whatever assistance they could until the bodies were removed. The automobile was entirely demolished. Th^ train passed Yorkville over two and a half hours late. It had been delayed at Kingtille for an hour and fifty minutes by a broken down engine which necessitated' bringing another engine from Columbia to pull it on its way. The road foreman, riding on the fireman's seat, Baid there was hardly time to cry out or move a finger from the time^the automobile appeared dead ahead on the track and the crash which seemed to explode it as bodies and pieces of car flew in all directions.?Yorkville Enquirer. Yearly Honor MoB (Thbse who havVbeen on honor roll for six six-Weeks periods.) ~ Grade 1 (Mita?Joe Christmas, JimGandy, HarokhHatfield, Hugbey Tindal, Louise Copela-nd, Hollie Louine Hancock, Elisabeth Shivar, Beth I WGrade 1 (Zemp)-^kA mttajief. Gertrude Christmas, Jnanlta Stokes. Grade 1 (WoHe)?Brian t Cox, Mary Cameron: ? / . Grade 2A?Marion Schlosburg, Kirby Tupper, EHen Dempster, Mabel Poster, Gary Guthrie, Beverly Hendrix, Margaret Hinson, Jane Hotter, Mary Pitts. _ Grade 2B ? Nell Jeffcoats, Dora Rdbinson. ' . Grade 3A?Jimmie Graves, Claud Lamoy, Walter Mims, Charles McCaskill, Jack Smyrl, Carolyn CooteY' Marjorie Little, Betty Mann, Nettie Leese Ogburn, Rebecca Shivar, Mary Smith, Cleo SmyrL s Grade 3B?'Anna Belle Bran ham. Grade 4A?Jerry Hancock, Herbert Moore, Billy Pitts, Wesley Pitts, Marjorie Creed, Zelene Margaret Pischel, Marjorie Hatfield,Phyllis Karesh, Ida Lee Smith, Betty Sowell, Ann Whitaker. e Grade 4B?William Brown. Grade &C (Oakes)?Teresa_BeedL Dorothy Smith. " . Grade 5A-1 - Wilham Christmas David Waltnau, Jane Haisall, Dally Jackson, Lottie Smyrl, Vashti Thigpen, Maggie Trantham. Grade 6A-Jack ViUepigue, Paillette West. ' Grade 7A?Minme Sue Bruce, Naomi Walker. Grade ^Sadie Prietag, Emily She or n, Lena Stevenson, Helen Tindal, Joe Jordan. \ ' Grade 9?'Sam Boykin, Leo la HudCrade 10?Johnsie Carpenter, Elisabeth Moore, Marjorie Walker. - .Grade 11-^Nancy Brown, Katherme Kennedy, Betty Garrison, James WaTd, Virginia Drawdy. Yearly Scholarship Honor Roll Grade 1 (Mills)-?Joe Christmas, Jim Gandy, Harold Hatfield, Billie Smith, Hughey Tindal, Louise Copeland, Hollie Louine Hancock, Carolyn Pitts, Elizabeth Shivar, Beth Wilson. Grade 1 (Zemp)?Caleb Whitaker, Gertrude Christmas?, Elizabet^Drakeford; Tuanita Stokes. Grade 1 (Wolfe)?Briant Cox, Harry Tidwell, Carolyn Baruch, Mary Cameron, Ruby. Evans, Myrtle Outlaw, Geneva Thigpen, Martha Truesdalc, Minnie Tidwell. Grade 2A?Charles Boincau, John ! Langford. Bill Mims, Alva Rush, 1 Marion Schlosburg, Colvin Shetorn, ! Luther Sowell, Frank Sullivan, Ruby Tupper, Tommy Turner, Ellen Dempster, "Artie Diion, Mabel Foster, Cary Guthrie, Beverty Hendrix, Margaret Hinsorf, Jane HofTer, y>r8ima Jo*n"' Mary Pitts, Gwendolyn Shirley, Pnscilla Trantham, Mary Walsh. v Grade 2B^Nell Corbitt, Dons Vinson, Geirevfe Jackson, Nell Dora Mae Robinson, Vermelle Bush, Margaret Sanders,. MargarlJSlillilPtfAA?Billy Clafkson, Jimime Graves, Claud% I>amoy. Walter Mims, GMWes -MoCaskHI; Jack Smyrl, Ocar Wooter. Edna Aldret, Carolyn Cool Knife Wound Fatal To Tom Phillips Tom Phillips, 48-year-old white man, of near Kershaw, was brought to the Cainden hospital (Sunday night and died soon, after from knife wounds inflicted by Claud Roberts. The cutting affray happened on a ^public highway n e nr Shamrock church, and.although there were Ave Witnesses who testified, none were able to, or would not, tell what caused the row. Pav^d Sheorn, Lillie Barrett, Mary Barrett and S. C. Roberts, all told practically the same story at the '^coroner's inquest held at the court house Monday at noorn Their testimony was* to the effect that Phillips, accompanied by Will Barrett, d*pve up on them on the <pub|ic highway, stopped the car and got out saying he had "come to raise hell." He was invited a short distance behind the car by Roberts and aftet a few words came back to the car with his throat slashed. The injured man was carried to Bothune where he was attended by Dr. E. Z. Truesdale, who sent him on to the hospital. Dr. G. S. Rhame testified that the man diet! from hemorrhage, as the result ocf a knife wound four inches long. . Phillips I operated a Ailing station fW*r Kershaw and is survived by his widow and nine children. Roberts is a farmer and resides near Shamrock. As a result of the verdict of the coroner's inquest Roberts is being held i* jail for the killing. - Extends Clemency To Kershaw Man Hazel' Bowers, convicted in Kershaw county in February, I960, of manslaughter and sentenced to serve three years in jail, was extended clemency by Governor Blackwood yesterday, the balance of his sentence being suspended daring good behavior. He had served something over a year of his time. The state board of pardons in February, 1932, recommended clemency and Solicitor A. F. Spigner recommended that Bowers be paroled after service of two years. ' All jurors signed a petition for clemency as did numerous other citizens. Bowers was convicted of killing an uncle, Bumey Bowers, in a family Tow, the file sete forth. Bassett Winner In Several 'Chases It will be of interest to Camden residents to know that Carroll K. Bassett, .who got all of his early knowledge of riding, especially raceriding, here has met with unusual success since his departure after the Carolina Cup race in March. He won three races m one day at Richmond, Va._, and last month won the biggest steeplechase of the spring seasoft, the "Billy Barton," at Pimli; ca, Maryland. There ^ were eleven sta^t^rs, the best 'chasers in training, ahd he rode and won with "Tereus," owned by Mrs. T. H. Somerville, of Montpelier, Va., and trained and raced here last spring. He won a steeplechase at the same place the previous week with his own horse, "Peacock," Friday, June 3rd. He rode "Bandit" for Algy Goodwin, of Hamilton, Mass., and won the Aiken Hunters Steeplechase at Belmont Park, Long Island. Judge Smith Speaker At Legion Meeting At the regular monthly meeting of Leroy Belk Post American Legion, Monday night, June 13, Mendel L. Smith will speak^wi the Preamble to tbe'TTonstitutron ^rthe American Legion. Judge Smith, a former Colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Department attached to General Perj shing's headquarters in France, and a charter member of the local post is j particularly fitte^l to speak on this subject and his address will be well worth hdaring. Every ex-servico man in Kershaw county is invited to j be present.v It is also expected that J legionnaires froin^ surrounding towns i wilt be present on this occasion. At this meeting delegates to the Annual State Convention to be held in jAiken July 4-5- will be elected. Bay at The Club Market daand Saturday mad buy Kershaw county product* raised by Kershaw county people. Market open# at 8:46 an4 ataya opeil for two hoars. ?g. rf1,11 ?.? B^tists Seeking To Raise Funds ... - The central committee of the Baptist denomination of South Carolina, set up especially to promote tb? South-wide campaign for $300,000 to meet emergency needs of the Home and Foreign Mission Boards of the Southern Baptist Convention, has set aside Wednesday, Juhe 15, for prayer services in all the Baptist churches of the state. This date has been agreed on by all the states of the Southern Baptist Convention and the 2?1,000 Baptist churches in the Southern States are all invited to co-operate. Many churches have a regular prayer meeting scheduled for this day. 'They are requested to give that meeting to this cause. All other churches are requested to call a special player meeting for this purpose. The $800,000 is a minimum need to meet Immediate and pressing obligations of the Homo Mission Board at Atlanta. Ga? and the Foreign Mission Board at Richmond, Va. These two boards carry on the work of evangelizing, hospitalization and education in all sections of the world, including foreign groups, negroes nnd Indians in America. The taking of the offering will begin on. jSunday, June 19. Every Baptist Church is being urged to conform with this request for special prayer meeting and to do their very beat to make a liberal and sacrificial Qfferjirlg for this special cause, June 19. * v Fifrst' Baptist Church Services The following ^services are announced at thd First Baptist church: Sunday school at 10 o'clock, Mr. C. Ov Stogner, superintendent; public worship conducted by the pastor at 11:15 ?m. and 8:30 p. m. morning subject, "Our Children"; evening subject, "The Value of Music." Prayer and praise service Wednesday evening at 8:30. B. Y. P. U. Sunday evening at 7:30.-: ^ rnblic is cordially invited to tttencrall the services of this church. One New Announcement Alva D. Gaskin, seeking the office of superintendent of education, is the only new announcement appearing in today's Chronicle. Mr. Gaskin is a resident of the Flat Rock section, is a college graduate and for the past year has been teaching in the Mount ^isgah high school. ' James R. Belk, present member of the house of representatives, while he has not made his announcement through this paper, tells uS thaxt his formal announcement will appear in next week's paper. He will be a strong contender for re-election and has a large following throughout the city and county. Protracted Meeting in July The pastor and members of the .Methodist congregation - announce that on July 17 a protracted meeting will begin in the Methodist church, with Dr \Luther B. Bridgers, of Gainesville, G?., a well known evangelist doing the preaching. The pastor and his congregation cordially invite the public to these meetings. Judge Smith Speaker Judge Mendel L. Smith, of this city, was in Columbia Tuesday night where he delivered the graduating address at St. Paul's Lutheran church to the twenty graduates of the Columbia hospital. Again on Wednesday night he was the speaker at the Hi lie rest school graduating exercises in Sumter county. Forestry Association Urges Care Woods fires are of course exceedingly destructive at any season, but particularly so during the summer months, when the trees are in full foliage. " THe destruction to wild life -is also much greater during tlw breeding and nesting season. Due to our highly resinous pine forests in this county, and our general climatic conditions, fires are apt to break out at rfny time unless great .caution is used. All landowners are, therefore, urged to cooperate with the Forestry Association in the prevention and prompt suppression of destructive fires. r _ t Change of Schedule Train No. 69 over Northwestern railroad, leaving Camden at 7:30 a. m. for Sumter, has been discontinued. Train No. 72 will arrive from Sum""ttr |as~proaent, 12 noon- Train . No..-73 will leave Camden at 2:30 p. 1 m. for Sumter. This schedule will 1 becqme effective Sunday, June 12, ft'nd remain effective until August 15. Former Resident Buried Here Sunday L, W. JBoykin died at his home, I 3208 Hunter street, at 9 o'clock Saturday night after a brief illnees, He | ha<j suffered for some time from angina pectoris but had been confined to his home only for the last two weeks, which wa? considered more n? a rest thati actual illness. Saturday morning, however, he suffered an acute attack and was in a critical condition front that time on. Few other men in South Carolina could boast as many genuine friends as did Whit Boykin. Himself the most open hearted and generous and hospitable of men, he drew others to him and held them with his frank and charming nature. Anything that was his was also the property of his friends, or of anyone who might need it. 1 During the greater portion of his life he farmed extensively on his ancestral plantation, Pine Grove, ir^ the Boykin neighborhood, and during these days, * countless numbers of South Carolinians enjoyed his bountiful hospitality nnd entertainment. But not only the oldest and most revered families of the state shared his jovial kindness. No one was too poor or lowly to be the beneficiary of his open heart, and never was a wanderer, however mean, . turned hungry from his door. Brought up in the country, Whit Boykin was an pxpert woodsman ,knd a phenomenal shot, and he brought hunting and fishing to the point of an art. (His experiences by field and flood, told in his gripping and inimitable style, have delighted innumerable hearers around campflre^ and dining table. In more recent years, seeing the ever increasing scarcity of game, he had been deeply interested in conservation. "Mr. Boykin was first married?, ih 1887 to M.iss Ellen Douglas Cantey and to thii Pinion nine children were bora, seven of whom survive! The first Mrs. Boykin died 20 years ago. In 1926 he was married to Mi& Lulie Frances Harvin, of .Manning, who survives him with the following children of the first marriage: Mrs. B. D. 'Boykin, otf Boykin; Mrs. H. McGowan Holmes, of EkUsto Island; L. W. Boy-, kin, Jr., of Aiken; L. H. Deas -Boykin, of Boykin; Mrs. T. L. Alexander, of Atlanta; J. Willis Cantey Boykin, of Boykin, and R. B. Boykin, of Boykin. He is also survived by dtwo brothers, B. H. Boykin and A. J. Boykin, both of Boykin, and by 17 grandchildren. Lemuel Whitaker Boykin was born in the Boykin community, Kershaw county, November 26, 1861, thereby being in his 71st year. He was the son of A. Hamilton Boykin and Sarah DeSaussure Boykin. He was educated at Kenmore academy in Maryland, Western Maryland university and Sewanee but until comparatively re; cently spent practicallyhls entire mature life on the farm. A^ter abandoning his farming activities he was for a number of years connected with the federal land bank as an appraiser of land and later was with the state highway department condemnation board. For the last seven years he has lived in Columbia.?'Sundays Columbia State. Funeral services were held for Mr, Boykin from Grace Episcopal church Sunday afternoon, being attended by one olf the largest crowds ever seer at a funeral in Camden. Service! ( were conducted by Bishop Kirkmar G. Ffnlay, of ^Cohimtna. The buriai was in the Quaker cemetery, and the many handsome floral tributes cam( from all sections. Many Columbians accompanied the remains to Camden and attended the funeral. Pallbearers serving were: J. S, Harvin, of Manning; K S. Boykin " atfd "W. D." "Boykin, of Sumter; C. V, Boykin, of Charleston; N. C. Boykin, of Camden; E. Miller Boykin, of Wil liamsburg county and J. M. Cantey, Jr. Honorary pallbearers were: Dr D. D. Salley, of Orangeburg; Harry G. Bates, of Eastover; Gilbert H Green, of Rock Hill; W. E. Johnson, of Camden; W. S. Nelson, C. J, Shannon, of Cannfen;^ J?- Ivey Humphries, E. W. BJack, A. L. White, oi SparU^pburg; F. H. Haskoll, Dr William Weston, fi. R. Heyward Dr. LeGrand Guerry, Dr. J. M. At kinson, Berrien Brooks, J. M. Bell S. B. JVfcMaster. Frank. Hampton, Jr. Dr. C. Fred Williams, 6/ H. Yates, oi Camdfci, A. Jf- Saunders of Ha good W. A, Boykin, of Boykin; 3\ l Jand of Camden, George Saunders 1 W. K/TTough of Camden, Willie I of Watkins Winner Of First Prize Several weeks ago the Carolina Motor Company ??nt out, contest blanks to motor owners offering $60 in prises to those answering the nearest number of feet a new model four-cylinder Ford car would run on one gallon of new high-test antiknock iPurol- gasoline... f The test was made last Friday afternoon and witnessed by several citizens. A large number of the blanks wore sent in and the winners announced were as follows: ^ ^ | J. H, Watkins, Oassatt, won a cash prize of $25. His estimate was 168,013 feet. , H. iS. Moore, of Camden, $10 cash prize with an estimate of 147,110 feet, Willis Sheorn, of Camden, $5 in trade with an estimate of 146,160 feet. Garwood Jayr.os, of Camden, $5 in trade with an estimate of 166,218 feet.- 4* C. C. Vaughan, of Oumden, $5 in trade with an estimate of 145,000 feet. The correst test by actual measurement was 151,028 feet. Forestry Association Adda Acreage As an indication of the growing interest in forestry, and particularly fire protection, in Kershaw county, within the past few weeks a total of five thousand three hundred and twenty-eight acres have been listed for fire protection with the forestry association. * Ihis' recent addition brings the totaf^acres under organized protection in the county up to 71,157, with prospects of several thousand acres more to toe added toefore the fall fire' s*dVo& landowners listing the above acreage were Clifford Plantation Company, 3,678; First Carolines Joint Stock Land Bank, 900; Hermitage Manufacturing Company, 600; Mr. H. G. Lloyd, 160. _ W. C. Wardlaw Appointed Ranger At a recent meeting of the directors of the Liberty Hlll jistrict of the Kershaw County Forestry Association, William . Wardlaw, a native of -:: Liberty Hill, was appointed ranger to succeed L. P. Thompson, resigned. Mr. Wardlaw is thoroughly familiar with lands comprising the Liberty v Hill district and has every qualifies- o tion for this very important position. Mr. Wardlaw will have complete charge of fire protection, law enforcement and other forestry activities of the Liberty Hill ranger district under the supervision of the county for* r ester. * : ~~ " A- ? Gates Rill Club Meeting The Ghtes Hill Home Demonstration Club held its regular meeting on Friday afternoon, at 8:30 o'clock at the school house. Fourteen members were present and two guests joined. ; The meeting was presided over by , : the president in the absence of thO agent. The club members had as . their guest Dr. A. W. Humphries who _ gave a very interesting and helpful talk. After all business the- hostesses Mrs. R. B. MoOaskill and Miss 1 Lucretia Yarborough Berved refresh' ments. ' Old Slave Dead , Bennettsville, May 28.?'Fannie A. / Bright, negro woman, whoso age was estimated at 105 years, is dead. She lived in the Brightsville section of Marlboro county. Before the Civil r War, she was owned as a slave by the late E. W. Goodwin. I fft^ HfllL A _Al 1. /?. # AW MSWft VMUt AUUW1I V/IAUXUI \ TTie Lee County Singing Conventioh will meet with Antioch Baptist ' church on Sunday, June 12, at 2:30 ! p. m. We cordially invite all choirs^ and singers of Camden and Kershaw 1 county to meet with us. A warm welcome to all says L. A. Moore, the ' president. Important Meeting of Colored Leaders > There will be an important meet ing of all colored leaders Saturday, ? June 11, at-11 o'clock at the Jackson high school. We are planning to accomplish a great deal at this time, therefore we are/very anxious.. that . everybody attend?' There will be a t - number of talks <on gardening, self support, live-at-Amo program etc. : It will be worth your while to come out and take part. What we want ? Is 'actirfK and rfbt just word# and we're going to have it! If we fail ? at first try again?we're not downr hearted! Now is the time to be op1 timiatic and put the world on its ^ -feet.?Cojiliibuted. ^ ~ ^ _ . i JSri% C. Scales, adjutant general of **" ? Mississippi, shot himself to death in . his pffice at Jackson on Saturday. King George of England celebrated