The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 09, 1932, Image 6
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Veterans To Meet
In Durham, N. C.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 5.?The 1933
reunion of the United Confederate
Veterans, Adjutant General Harry
Rene l*ee said today, probably will be
?" held in Durham, N. <5.
The invitation of Charleston, ?
C , was Accepted at this year's meeting
at Richmond, Va., but Mayor Burnet
R. Maybank of that city in a letter
to General Ixjo, withdrew the bid,
v explaining there was "*'?all M)e"
that the state of South Carolina
wo.uUl be able to contribute anything
toward the expense.
* "While tho City of Charleston,
Mayor Maybank wrote, "is willing
and eager to supply its quota of th|
funds necessary to holding the convention
here, our own t\m(nciul condition
will not permit of our assuming
the entire responsibility and so, much
to my regret, I am compelled to
withdraw the invitation extended to
your organisation with tho sincere
hope that, when times and conHltiona
' are more propitious, we may be honored
with the convention in question.
General Doe said ho >ad received
a "very urgent invitation" from Dur.
ham, through the chamber of commerce,
and bcljeved it would be accepted.
Re ware "of "Official Spokesmen"
An unseemly begging for Federal
offices by "deserving Democrats of
South Carolina is likely to take place
when Mr. Roosevelt shall bo inaugurated.
Wire-pulling will begin at once.
The News and Courier declares to the
next president and his national advisers
that the gentlemen in office
and holding party offices are not the.
Democratic-party in South Carolina.
They are not. as a rule, the most influential
men In the party, and one
way to weaken party loyalty would
be to give them too much heed. The
South Carolinians voto the Democratic-ticket
quite regardless of them,
often eontemptously of them.
.Flection in a primary is not even
evidence of political strength?it is,
as a rule, no more than evidence of
the objectionableness of the successful
candidate's opponent. In the last
ten years governors, for example,
have not come out of office as commanding
political figures and-there is
no prospect of a change as to tMt.
The News and Courier suggests that
Democratic presidents and cabinet officers
beware of "official spokesmen
in South Carolina. The more reliable
advisers are out of office and do not
want office. If the Democratic administration
would have satisfactory
service in South Carolina it would
better have connections with some o
the non-politicians.?Charleston News
and Courier.
Ho Did South Carolina a Service
That letter to Governor Blackwood
from New Yorker who when traveling
through South.Carolina to Florida
recently suffered "automobile trouble
near Camden and found in W. G.
Brigman, "an employe of the state
highway department," a good Samaritan.
makes us wish to express our
personal thanks to Mr. Brigman. We
feel that in doing a service to strangers
which so impressed them that
pleasant word about South Carolina
manners^ and courtesy he did a service
to the state and to us, as part
of the state.
This feeling of gratitude to those
who help support the state's good
name quite naturally finds expression
in another quarter when we see the
state being inspired by the action of
those who, whatever their purpose
may be, place South Carolina in a
false position.
A "good name" is a priceless asset
for a state and country as well as
for an individual. Honesty, faithful
dealing, faithfulness toward an obligation,
count for a state as well as
for an individual. And the actions
of individuals reflect for or against
the state.
South Carolina needs alWhe friends
she can win and hold. .She can not
make too many friends. Justice and
courtesy are great assets.?Columbia
State.
T> fi'-t conviction under the socalled
Lindbergh act. caused by the
kidnapping case, a law making
it a felony to mail a letter for the
purpose of extortion, occurred in An-(
derson. South Carolina, the other day.
Judge Wot kins, of the Federal court,!
sentenced A. L. Kilgore to four
months in jail for sending a letter to ^
his former employer, J. Ix>wery,;
mayor of Seneca, making charges j
and saying that unless the mayor j
sent a check he would go to jail. The
letter was unsigned, but the jury believed
evidence that it was, in the
handwriting of Kilgore.
Joe Stafford, under sentence of
death in the North Carolina state |
prison for the killing of his wife, de-1
clares that his plight is due first to "
"too much mother-in-law" and aec-,
ondly to too much fmblbtng with his J
father-in-law. J
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Three Men Killed
By Boiler Blast
Walterboro, Dec. 2.?A boiler at a
sawmill in northern Colleton county
exploded today, killing three men and
injuring two other* badly.
The dead: Fairy Ramsey. 30, lumber
inspector; Perry Morris, 35, fireman;
Frank Crosby, 35, mill hand.
The explosion occurred at the saw
mill of Warren A. Griffin, at Williams,
about 11 a. m? Ramsey and
Morris were instantly killed when the
blast hurled the boiler a distance of
150 yards. Crosby died four hours
later.
Several other persons narrowly escaped
death or injury as buildings in
the vicinity were damaged.
Henry Carter, employe of the mill,
was struck by n piece of (lying wreckage
and was badly wounded in the
back of tho head, and also rfififi^d
a broken leg. Dave Raymond, also
an employe of tho mill, received a
dislocated hip.
Lumbermen believed Morris had
permitted the water supply to run
low, and then started the pUmps,
which threw cold wutor into the heated
boiler. It exploded almost immec,
diately.
A heavy piece ofs boiler passed
through the roof and ceiling and
smashed into a dining table in the
homo of Junior Kinsey, more than a
hundred yards away. Mrs. Kinsey
had just set the table^ for the noon
rtftoal and had gone into another part
of the house.
Witnesses said the boiler was propelled
more than one hundred feet
into the 'air, coming to earth 150
j yards away, One piece of pipe was
I picked up 235 yeards from the scene
of the explosion.
| The 150-horse power boiler was en!
cased in brick and these were scat|
tered throughout the area.
I It was believed the victims and
| those injured were struck by flying
brick or other pieces of wreckage.
Owners estimated the damage at several
thousand dollars. There was no
insurance.
FIRST COTTON MILL
Built About Sixty Years Ago in Big
Highway in Lancaster County
Tho Lancaster News has discovered
about two miles west of Fort Lawn,
on the old No. 9 highway, the wreckage
of an old cotton mill, one of the
first to bFbuilt in South Carolina and
there are few who pass by the place
who are familiar with its history.
The place was once known as Cedar
Shoals and not one of the houses
which once were there are now standing
but the wreckage of an old lumber
framed cotton mill is there to
show that tho wheels of industry once
moved in that quiet spot.
Residents of Fo?t Lawn are not
able to tell just when this mill was
erected but they say it was shortly
: after the Civil war. Mr. Will Nunnery,
who lives at Fort Liwn says
, that his father built the mill some
time before he was horn, which was
in 1874.
This mill was operated until about
30 years ago. Water power was
used and a fiflfir and grist mill was
operated in connection with the cotton
mill. It is on Fishing Creek and
the falls at this place gave the place
the name of Cedar Shoals. It was
known as the Barber mill and the
property there is still in the possession
of J. O. Barber, of Richburg, the
son of the man who operated the mill
originally.
Only cotton thread was made there
and a cotton gin was operated in connection
with the mill. The cotton
was purchased in the seed and at that
time cotton seed was practically
worthless and it was thrown in the
river.
In the days when this mill was
built there were high hopes of the
Catawba river being used for navigation.
I^ocks were built along this
i river at various places and the locks
at Landsford may still be seen. It
i.> said that one trip was made by
small boats up as far as North Carolina
before the project was abandoned.
At. about the same time the mill at
Cedar Shoals was built by Mr. Barber
another mill was erected by his brother
at Lando. This mill at Lando has
long since been abandoned hut the
Monet La Mills took its place and is
still being operated.
It Is believed that the oldest cotton
mill in the upper part of South Carolina
was erected where Great Falls
now stands and was known as the
McOullough mill. However, some residents
of the Fort Lawn vicinity say
that the Cedar Shoals mill was the
first cotton mill to be operated in this
state for any length of time.
Football language
Small Son: Grandpa, when are you
going to play football?
' Grandpa: Football?I don't play
football.
Small Son: But dad said we'd get a
new car as Soon as you kicked off.
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Official Postmistress
Of Gypsies Now Dead j
Fort Smith,"aSTDec- 2.-There's
no mail to#y for the Gypsies, for little
Mrs. Marie Cole, their only official
postmistress, is dead,
For 20 years she had received and
delivered letters for the Gypsy tribes
of the world, letters that reached her
"poatoffice" from the hands of the
wunderera who make Fort Smith ai
port of call, letters she sorted and
handed out when other trib<4 came
to town. . ? r
Mrs. Cole, who became the first
registered woman pharmacist in Arkansas
and the eleventh in the United
States soon after she came here with
hcT husband and started a little drug
store back in '84, died at a hospital
last night. She had beert ill for several
months, ever since she fell down
the stairs from her apartment* Her
liusband, W, II. Cole, is reported ill,
too.
She was selected as postmistress
by King Steve Costello, of the Spanish
Gypsies, two decades ago. King
Steve, it is said, wanted someone not
a Gypsy for the job, because a Gypsy
wouldn't remain in the same pluce.
So friendly Mrs. Cole was chosen and,
starting with the Spanish Gypsies
she was entrusted with the mail of
the Russian, Roumanian, English and
French tribes.
Although not a Gypsy herself, she
adhered to their custom of declining
to reveal hep age. Friends said she
was about 78 yohrs old.
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FUTILITY OF BEING A MISER
Editorial Evangelist Preaches Plain
Sermon of Value In the Good
Eugene As her aft, the philosophic
columnist of The Monroe (N. C.) Enquirer,
preaches this short, but practical
and true sermon on the futility
of living for riches:
The older I grow the more do I observe
the futility of men making a
mad scramble to secure more and
more of this world's goods, and which
they actually do not need.
Then I remember men Who during
past years have worked almost day
and night in order to pile dollars on
top of dollars only to lose their money
in the end. There are men in
this community right now with their
noses to the grind-tftone carrying
more life insurance than they can afford.
Life insurance money on the
average lasts a dead man's family
less than two years.
Then there are numerous men, in
town and country, who possess property
that brings no return whatever
on the investment. These men are
straining every nerve to pay taxes
and upkeep on that for which they
have no earthly need. And these
same men complain mightily of excessive
taxation.
If I were "a preacher I would take
as my text: "Trust in the Lord, and
do good; so shalt thou dwell in the
land, and verily thou shalt be fed."
The jails in the counties of the
western district of the federal court
are so crowded, that the judge had to
put some convicthd men on probation
until room can be made for them as
boarders in the county hoosegows.
Cherokee county had eight or nine
federal prisoners awaiting trial at
Spartanburg, out of a total of 22 in
the county jail. The counties of the
western district are Greenville, Laurens,
Chester, Fairfield, Lancaster,
York, Abbeville, Edgefield, Greenwood,
MdCormick, Newberry, Saluda,
Anderson, Oconee, Pickens, Cherokee,
Spartanburg and Union.
Former Governor Duncan C. Heyward
seems to have been agreed upon
by the powers that be for appointment
after next March 4, as collector
of internal revenue for South Carolina,
to succeed Victor Q. Ilambright,
who got into the office not very long
before the overturn of things in this
Nation. The office is one for which
appointments are at the pleasure^of
the president, and the custom is to
make a change at once, whenever a j
minority party gets into the White I
House.
Frank I.. Eyer. former director of j
music at Limestone college, died sud- i
denly of heart disease at Greenwood
at the home of a niece where he was
visiting. He has been living in poor
health at Montreat, N. C., lately. He
, was born 64 years ago in Dayton,
Ohio, was a graduate of the Royal
1 Conservatory of Music at Ixupsig,
Germany, and was for years editor of
Etude, the leading music magazine of
America. Ho retired from Limestone
college in 1926, after 17 years there.
He leaves a widow, a son and a
daughter.
The governors of the 48 states will
be requested by President-elect Roosevelt
to consider-the.taxpayer in their
participation in his inaugural on
March 4th. He is desirous of having
simple but dignified ceremonies with
little of the pomp of former like occasions.
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Fooled Doctors;
Cheated Death
When physicians warned Prof. Orrin
Sternbarger, art instructor at
Wittenberg College in Ohio, that he
had tuberculosis in an advanced stage
and that he had only a few months
to live, he didn't sit down, fold his
hands and wait for the angel of death
to appear, o
Instead, thia warning, given him
18 years ago when he^as 57, opened
a now chapter in Sternbarger's life.
Jt seemed to help him reach a decision
to embark on an adventure he
had been considering before, that
"going native."
What the professor did was to give
up his teaching, his home, bid his
friends goodbye and go to the wooded
hills along the Wad River near Tiffin,
O., where he built a*oCrutie platform
in the top of a lOOrfoot elm tree. Then
he set about the task of curing him?
self by the fresh air and sunshine
method.
And he did it. In 18 years of the
Robinson Crusoe existence every vestige
of the disease had disappearedWhen
winter came that first year he
built a rough covering over the platform
in the tree. Later he built a
shack on the ground under the tree
but rarely have even bitter snowstorms
driven him to this shelter.
Sternbarger was soon forgotten except
for the few farmers near his
tree home who came to know him as
the "Hermit, af $ad River." Only
when he goes to a nearby store for
bare necessities does he show himself.
The rest of his food is supplied
with a bow and arrow and fish
caught in the river. Ho has come to
prefer the companionship of birds and
animals to humtfn beings..
He reached bis tree top home by
hoisting himself up with a rope,
pulley and counterweights. Three
years ago the rope broke, compelling
him to live in his shack on the
ground. He had no money to buy
a new one and would ask no favors
from anyone. But a few weeks ago
he told an old friend of his need. The
friend bought him a new rope.
Though physically robust, Sternbarger,
now 75, can no longer climb
a tree, but he soon solved the problem
of getting the yope up into the
tree. With his bow and arrow he
shot a silk thread over a limb. ..To
the end of this he tied one end of a
ball of .twine, drew it over and with
it the rope. With the sheriff s help,
the old man clambered up the rope,
put it through the pulley, attached
the counterweights and now can rise
or descend single-handed once more.
The joy of the old man at getting
back into his old home was pathetic
to see. He has nothing further to
ask of this world than to be permitted
to spend the rest of his years in his
tree top.
TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR
As you sav, "She may be empty, but
I'll "tell the world she's clean!
But when the sheet is printed and is
out upon the mail,
On its way to the subscribers I have
never' seen it fail?
In the center of the front page, in a
most conspicuous place,
Some typographical error fairly kicks
you in the face.
For the typographical error is a slippery
thing and sly,
You can hunt 'till you aro dizzy, but
it somehow will get by,
Till the forms are off the presses it
is strange how still it keeps,
It shrinks down in a corner and it
never stirs or peeps-.
That typographical error too small
for human eyes,
Till the ink is on the paper, when it
grows to mountain arize,
And you see that blasted error, far as
you could throw a dog,
Looming up in all its splendor, like a
lighthouse in a fog!
That glaring blunder juts out like an
ulcerated tooth,
Where it dodged the eagle vision of
the napping comma sleuth.
It is sure too late to mind, but it
fills your soul with rage,
As you see it swelling loudly in the
middle of the page.
The boss he stares with horror, then
he grabs his hair and groans,
The copy reader drops his head upon
his hands and moans?
The remainder of the issue may bo
clean as clean can be,
But that typographical error is the
only thing you see.
It was down among the six-point 'till
the copy was all read,
When it shifted into the blackface or
a two-inch banner head-?'
Then when the sheet was printed it
jumped up and hollered "Boo!
You never saw me, did you ? This is
sure a horse on you!"
?Printed in a recent issue of the
Montezuma (Ind.) Enterprise and
credited "Author Unknown." q
The Patman bill for the full payment
of the soldier'bonus or adjusted
service certificates is scheduled to
come before the present short session
of congress. Patman asserts that
there is sufficient idle gold in the
^treasury to permit the issuance of
$2,500,000,000 additional money to be
used in paying the veterans.
The city of Charleston is taking
care of about 1,100 families of the unemployed,
but broadcasts the Information
that it does not want any immigration
of that kind of people.
Farmers Should
Secure Bulletins
While thousands of bulletins are
given out by the home au<^ county
agents annually in Kershaw county
still there are many farmers in the
county who have not availed themselves
of this service which is paid
for by the Federal tax imposed on
commodities in South Carolina. This
tax would be paid to the Federal government
by South Carolina consumers
whether our farmers use these bulletins
or not or even whether there
were home or county agent in the
state or not.
However, it is desired that everyone
in the county interested in farm
subjects should secure the government
bulletins on the subjects desired. A
few of the more popular bulletins
which we have in the office for free
distribution are as follows: Sources
of Ammonia, Alfalfa for South Carolina,
Austrian Winter Peas, Agricultural
Finance in South Carolina, Agricultural
Outloojc for South Carolina,
Asparagus, Beef Cattle, Berry Culture,
Breeds of Beef Cattle, Beef
Cattle "Judging, Beef Production on
the Farm, ^eef Calf, Brick Brooder,
Better* 'Pasture's, Mexican Bean Beetle,
Boll Weevil,. Portable Brooder
House, Transferring Bees to Modern
Hives, Corn Silage, Production and
("are of Cream for Shipment, Corn
Crowing for Club Members, Corn
Contest, Carpet Crass, 4-H Camps,
Cotton Contest, Boys' ami Girls' 4-H
Club Work, Cotton Marketing Studies,
Community Cotton Improvement;
Dehorning, Castrating, Branding and
Marketing of Cattle; Corn Production;
Winter Cover Crops; Control of
Insect Pests in Stored Grain; Feeding
and Management of Dairy Cattle;
The Business Side of Dairying; Care
and Management of Ddiry Cattle;
The Business Side of Dairying; Care
and Management of Dairy Bull;
Judging Dairy Cattle; Emergency
Crops; Breeding for Egg Production;
Culling for Eggs; The Fertilizer
Problem in South Carolina; Forest
and Forestry in South Carolina;
Farming for Profits; Farm Manures;
Analysis of Commercial Fertilizers;
County Fairs; Farm Orchards; Farm
Garden; Fruit Grading; House Fly
and Fumigation; Fruit Growing;* Vegetable
Gardening; Sudan Grass;
Grapes; Small Grains;Hay; Fattening
Hogs; Equipment for Hogs; Pig
Raising for Club Members; Hog
Cholera; Judging Swine; 'Hog Breeding
Crate; for South Carolina;
Honey; How to Tell Laying Hens;
Soy Beans for Hogs; Prevention of
Round Worms in Hogs; Protein for
Hogs; Lespedeza; Laying House and
Equipment; Onions; Organized Agriculture;
Portable Brooder House;
Poultry Diseases nnd Parasites; Oats;
Protecting South Carolina from
Pests; Poultry Raising for Club Members;
Peach Tree Borer; Growing
Peaches; Propagation of Plants; Pork
for South Carolina Farmers; Peanuts;
Pecan Culture; Pruning; Poultry
Feeding Experiments; Rat Control;
Rural Church nnd Cooperative
Extension Work; Rabbits; Rotation
of Crops; Rat Proofing Buildings and
Premises; Sheep Production; Sweet
Potatoes; Soil Building; Soy Beans;
Squab Raising; Taxation of Farms^n
South Carolina; Terracing; Vetches;
Making
Vinegar; Water System for Farm
Homes; Wheat; Farm Water Power;
United States Year Book of Agriculture.
Other subjects may be secured on
request, advises Henry D. Green, the
county agent.
Marshal Henri Petain, "savior of
Verdun," and one of the world's
greatest soldiers, has accepted membership
as a private on the staff of
Gen. W. McK. Evans, commander-inchief
of the department, Army of
Northern Virginia, United Confederate
Veterans.
Alfred E. Smith is being boomed
for the mayoralty of New York city.
Florida Boasts
Tongue Twisters
Miami, Fl*., Nov. 27.?A train callor
with his heart in his work would
revel in the Job of announcing town*,
rivers and lakes in Florida.
He might etart with some of the
musical names of towds, like this:
^All aboard for Chokoloskee, Chuluota,
Chattahoochee, Eatiffanulga,
Hialeah, Holopaw and HomoBaasa."
Then as he warmed up .to his work:
"Hypoluxo, illahaw, Immokalee,
Estachatta, Keuka, Kissimmee, Lacoochee,
Lake Istokpoga, Lodhloosa,
Loxahatchee, Miakka, Micanopy, Miccosul^e,^NarcoQsseet
Nocatee, Ochlockonee,
Ocoee, Oklahumpka, Okeeluntn,
Okeawaha, Penascoffkee, Sopchoppy,
Thonotoaasa, Umatilla, \Vaukecnah,
Wewahitchka, Yalaha and
Yulee."
The Seminoles, responsible with
early English and Spanish settler*
for the older names on Florida's
map, nearly outdid themselves in
names of'rivers and lakes.
Warden Peardjfcrv of the penitentiary,
will resign, effective January 1,
and retire to his farm in Anderson
county to supervise it hereafter. He
.will be 60 years old next month and
Is wefcry of being responsible for a
much overcrowded prison with too
little money to operate it, and moat
of the convicts idle and hence dynamite
ready to explode any minute.
He will hand over to his successor Jho
task of making a budget for the next
year and then trying to get it from
the legislature, while convicts can
not vote. Superintendent Pearman
took over the duties of managing the
state prison in 1927, appointed by
Governor Richards j and has made a
signal success of the job all the time
J since. He was on the state railroad
t commission for several years, and
| formerly was clerk of court at Anderson.
The first patients to enter the
new veterans hospital at Calumbia ?
the other day were four men, one of
them for an emergency operation
which was performed at once. This
last was S. G. Gaines, of Lancaster,
stricken at his home that afternoon
and operated on that night. Emergency
cases will be accepted at the
hospital at any time, ita manage
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Home Furnishing Co.
Broad St. Camden, S. C.
TAX NOTICE '
Notice is hereby given, that after the 31st day of |
December, 1932, no discount will be allowed on the ? payment
of City taxes for the year 1932. All City
taxes paid between now and December 31st, 1932,
will be subject to a one (1%) per cent, discount.
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J. C. BOYKIN, iS 5
Clerk and Treasurer. j j
Camden, S. C., November 25, 1932.
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