FORECLOSURE SALE
Notice is hereby given that in accordance
with the terms ami pruvis- i
ions of the Decree of tin* Court of
Common Fleas for Kershaw County,
South Carolina, in the case of the
First Carolina's* Joint Stock Lan<l
Hank of Columbia, plaintiff, vs. C. C.
Whitaker, defemlant, I will sell to the
highest bidder for cash, requiring" of
tho successful bidder a deposit in the
sum of one hundred twenty-five and
no-100 ($125.00) dollars, before the
Court House door at Camden, 'South
Carolina, during" the legal hours of
sale on t'he first Monday in May,
11)33, being tho 1st day thereof, the
following" <te?cribcd property:
1. All that piece, parcel or lot of
land situate, lying and being in the
State of South Carolina, County of
Kershaw, about six (6) miles northeast
of Camden, on both sides of the
Lockhart Road, Containing one hundred
two (102) acres, more or less,
ami being bounded on tho north by
lands of Mackey and Workman and
Schenk and .Company; on east by1
lands of Schenk and C-ompany; south
by lands of Lewis, formerly of Bel- j
ton; on the west by lands of Lewis, I
formely of Bolton and by lands of '
Mi..or, formerly of Savage and Lit- J
tie. Tho said tract of land was ac-1
quired by the said C. C. Whitaker in
two parcels, ome by deed of W. R. J
Hough and J. L. Cuy dated January !
23, 1912, and of record in the office'
of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw 1
County in Book "AF", at paw 53, I
and the other by deed of G. H. Le- j
noir dated July 31, 1912, recorded in
said office in Book "AF", at page 58. I
The said parcols of land aro more
fully dhown on plat by R. W. Mitcham,
Surveyor, of date February 25,
1911, and ALSO
2. All that piece, parcel or lot of
land, situate, lying and being in the
State of South CaroJina, County of
Kcrrihaw, in DeKatb Township, about
six (f>) miles north of .Camden on the
Liberty Hill road and containing
eighty-eight and sixty-six one hundredths
(88.66) acres, more or less,
as shown, by plat of A. B. Boykin,
Surveyor, <kated November 23, 1025.
The said tract of land is bounded on
the north by John T. Nettles ami of !
Boykin Rhame, on the cast by Liber- 1
ty Hill road and lands of Charles J
Holland of by ,la?ds of Sanders Creek j
Baptist ChuivK; on the south by
lands of Charlotte Mollis, by lands I
of Sanders Creek Baptist Church, of
T. B. Bruce, of the estate of Mark
Anthony and of John T. Xrtllo. and;
(. '! the west by lands of John T. NVt- '
tkvs. The said tract of land was acquired
by C. C. Whitaker in two parcels,
one by deed of Charles Perkins
of date January 29, 1919, of record
in the office of the Clerk of Court
for Kershaw County in Book "AZ",
pa?o 516. the other by deed of Peter
Baskins of date January 3, 1925, recoriled
in said Office ii# Book "BM",
at pa^e 631.
W. L. DePASS. JR.,
.Master for Kershaw County.
Negro Found Guilty
in Second Trial
Doeatur, Ala., Apiil 1).?-Death in
the electric chair confronted Heyvvood
Patterson, 19-ye:ir-old Cliattanooga
negro, for the second time today
as a Morgan county jury in the
first TMrial of the "Scottsboro case"
found him guilty of attacking a
white woman.
The verdict was returned at 10:58
n. m. (Central standard-time) after
the jury had been out 21, hours.
Judge James E. Horton had ordered
the reconvening of court at 10 o'clock
to receive a report from the jury, but
a delay of nearly an hour occurred
until he arrived at -the courthouse.
A hundred spectators received the
verdict in silence. Patterson himself,
who once before had been sentenced
to death on the same charge, lowered
his head and appeared nervous as the
jury made its report. Shortly afterward
a squad of national guardsmen
escorted him from the courtroom to"
jail.'
Later he was taken under military
guard to Birmingham to await formal
pronouncement of sentence on April
17. At that time the defense will
have opportunity to move for a new
trial. If the motion is overruled, the
defense then could carry the case to
the state court of appeals.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cu.ster, widow of
Gen. George A. Custer, famous Indian
fighter, is dead at her home in
New York at the age of 91 years. Her
husband was killed with 207 of his
men in the massacre by Indians near
Little Hig Horn river in Motana nearly
57 years ago.
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AN EARTHQUAKE FEELS
Vivid Pen Picture of Effect on One
Man in California Shockit
First 'hand descriptions of what
they themselves felt and did give the
best description of liow an earthquake
really feels. One such pen picture
whs written to friends of a prominent
newspaper man of the Middle
West, lately a large orange grower in
California, living at Santa Ana where
three people were killed by the recent
earthquake in Southern California.
C. F. Skirvin tells what he saw and
feit un<l did during that shaky time,
and part, of his account of the thing
is as follows:
it was a night of terror. Major
vibrations were followed with minor
quakes with such frequency that it
became almost a continuous iwrformance.
Adjustment of one's nerves I
was out of the question. Timorous
isn't the word.' It was a panic.
As 1 write this letter out in the yard
more than fourteen hours aftor the
first shock the gjfeound is crowding itself
for a new location, and intermittent
disturbances continue.
The earth seemed to be heaving in
all directions. Of course it wasn't
but the impressions were shaky. The >
Skirvin household made the move unanimous?the
entire population took
to the street. And most of it remained
there during the night, sleeping
in automobiles, rolling in blankets
on the ground, sitting in chairs by
bonfires. Any expediency was proper.
There wasn't any formality. Iti
was an effort to find a place of security,
and the safest position was in
the open, provided you were not in'
the tnisinesa area.
I have had the experience of going
through several slight shocks, but this]
'.me "The Old Hoy" ju^t wanted to
m'i' one, out if it responded according
to my sensations the instrument is
still moving.
I am not hesitant to admit my fear.
The roar and vibrations were too
much for my courageous equilibrium,
and was my face red??no, it was
white. I have the statement of the
family for this condition. My first
sensation was one of helplessness, and
a convincing emphasis that the law
of human limitations was at work.
I don't like earthquakes; I haven't
found any one who does. Even the
contractors are opposed to them.
Scientists tell us there are rifts and
faults in the earth structure which
causes "quakes," that new mountains
are being formed and in the readjustment
some one has got to move.
I did. And if the darned things keep
it up I'll move again,
j For the past fifteen hours I have
tried to get some sleep. But the fel'
low who is managing these "quakes"
'isn't in favor of it. Just about the
time I say "Now I lay me down to
sleep," I get up.
1 I'm not so much afraid of the
ground opening up three or four
inches and allowing me to disappear,
as I am that some one will throw a
hunch of plaster in my face, or drop
a bridge-whist vase on my head.
Anything can happen, and I think
it will. I wish they would get this
earthly budget balanced. If this is
one of Roosevelt's new deals he can
leave my hand for another player. I
don't mind people . talking about
"quakes," old ones or new ones, but I
haven't made an application for any
such an experience. Once is more
than plenty.
I was just acquiring the habit of
going to church again. Now I got an
alibi. But 1'jn not going to use it.
Just as I write this paragraph
along comes another shock to let me
know the strain hasn't been relieved.
What a case of topographical indigestion
it must have.
An airplane is just passing over. I
am a living witness of having my feet
on the ground and being up in the
air at the same time. In,:rfaot I've
been in the air for more than fifteen
] hours. ifi
Earthquakes are terrifying. They
take a fellow's nervous system and
; disconnect it. They defy man. They
j change the whole mental complex."n
; and set the haughty in the places of
the humble. They ileal death and devastation.
They provoke a prayer,
too long silent, and compel an acknowledgment
of an Invisible Power
incomparable to human helplessness.
Some one wroU^a poem once about
"I shall not pa^^His way again," or
something like tnac.
That's my recessional to earthquakes.
A pipe smoker at Fairview, Okla.,
filled his pipe with loose tobacco from
his p?.ekot. An oxplosrion followed
after he had lighted the tobacco.
There had been a .'2'2 calibre cartridge
in the tobacco. Fragments of the
wood of the pipe were driven into the
I smoker's eyeball.
j The new MX> air station at
j Sunnyvale. Fal.. is about ready to be
pu* ;r comm.'*.: >n by the navy de
par: mer.t. It w,l! be headquarters
j for the new dirigible, the Macon, si?,
tor-ship of the ill-fated Akron,
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WHEN WHITE MAN WAS SOLD
In Kershaw District Not F? From
Yorkvllle, He brought a Dollar
(From tho Yorlcville Enquirer)
Believe it or not, a white man was
once sold in South Carolina. Th?
purchase price was $1 and the purchaser
his wife. ? ... ,
The interesting account qf this unusual
sale is contuined in a copy of
an old newspaper, the Highland Sentinel,
which formerly was published
in Anderson county.
The incident occurred in Camden
(Kershaw district) ulmost one hundred
years ago, and in connection with
his chronicle of the incident, *ihe editor
of The Sentinel refers to the*
indignation of "The Carolinian," a
newspaper then published in Columbia
and the people of South Carolina
over similar sales in tho state of Indiana
during tho 'forties.
The Sentinel article which appeared
in an issue during the latter part of
IS 10, read as follows:
"Our Loco Foco friends who have
been so much horrified a? the sale of
white men in Indiana, have now an
opportunity of manufacturing a new
supply of indignation upon a subject
at home. We imagine in advance that
we see the tender-hearted editor of
"The Carolinian" struck with speechless
horror, his hair standing up like
a rumpled hen's feathers, and his eye
brows so distended in amazement as
completely to burst their gluey fetters.
We think we are perfectly safe
in promising the readers of "The Carolinian"
at least six. columns of indignation
in that paper next week,
upon this flagrant violation of the
rights of white rr^jl,
"The following letter from a friend
| in Camden, with the subjoined adver|
tisement, contains the whole history.
' of the affair:
Camden, S. C.,
Nov. 2, 1810.
" 'Dear Sir:
"'Enclosed I send you a document
which may be of son^e importance to
convince the Democrats of South Carolina
that white men are sometimes
sold in our beloved state, as well as
in Indiana. This man was this day
sold before the courthouse in this
place, in accordance with his sentence,
for the sum of one dollar for
four years, and bought by his wife,
who took a regular bill of sale. The
notice I send you was posted at the
post office of this place, and the order
of sale made by one of the Democratic
judges of our state. But this
was duty and he could not help it.
FALL TERM, 1840
"The State .
vs
"Reuben Bradley
"Conviction of Bastardy.
"The sentence of the court is that
the services of the defendant be sold
on the next sales day for Kershaw
district for the space of four years
or any shorter time which may com|
mend the requisite amount, according
to the law in relation to bastardy,
unless the defendant shall on or before
that date, enter into the requisite
recognizance of the bastard child.
(Signed) J. S. Richardson.
"Agreeable to the foregoing order,
I will offer for sale the services of
the defendant on Monday next, before
the courthouse door in Camden, for
four years.
"Geo. Q. M'lntosh, C. C.
"October 20, 1840."
Here's A New Racket
Purcell, Okla., March 22.?A "tall
dark stranger" <?old several five gallon
kegs of liquid here at $5 each.
The bargain-hunting customers learned
on opening the kegs that they contained
quart jars of liquor sealed
neatly inside against the bung-holes.
Water filled the remaining space.
Three hours after a gang of seven
bandits had robbed a bank at Kansas
City, Mo., of more than $5,000, one
suspect was killed and five others arrested,
two of them after having been
shot by police.
A High Point. N. C., man reports
killing a i 1-2 foot snake in his yard;
and found a hard lump in its middle.
Opening it he f<?urwi it was a <loor J
knob that had been in a basket of j
eggs.
Chairman W. F. Stevenson of the
home loan bank board, has appointed
Ivan Allen, of Atlanta, Ga., to the
board of the fourth home loan district
with headquarters at WinstonSalem,
N\ C.
The "William A. MofFett hangar"
will stand at the Shushan airport,
new aviation field at New Orleans, as
a monument to the late Admiral Moffett,
who lost bis life in the crash of
the Akron at sea la.<*t week.
Three British employes of the
Metropol;tan-Vickers Electrical company,
under arrest in Rus?ria on
charges of sabotage and bribery, have
boor, granted freedom on posting of
bonds in the sum of 55,000 rubles.
Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt has let it
he known that guests at the White
Hou-r may have coki beer to drrink
when a^d ; f the saie of beer is legalized.
Mrs. Rooeevelt doea not drink
boor.
LOOKING BACKWARD]
Takes Frew ike File? * ** Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Ye?r? Aai
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FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
April 10, 1003.
Schubert Trio to give farewell concert
at Kirkwood Hotel.
Auditor W. R. McCreight? makes
considerable changes in interior of
his office.
Crmfedei ate^yeterans publish resolutions
on deatfti of Gapt. C. C. Huile.
Camden still gay with (tourists.
Every variety of vehicle from the
handsome tally-ho to the cart seen on
our streets.
Miss t/eila Tiller, a pupil in the
Camden graded school dies suddenly.
She was the daughter of Mr. and'
Mrs. \V. H. Tiller and resided one
mile west of Camden.
New board of county commissioners,
consisting of J. \V. Butler, B. M.
Poaroe, A. G. Jones and S. A. West,
hold their first meeting.
County* officials buy road working
outfit, consisting of road machine,
traction engine, dump cars, dump
carts, wheelers, scrapers and steel
phrughs, at a cost of $2,729.
Mooting of Camp Angus MoLaurin
U. C. V. called to meet at Bethune.
The hirty-five fine horses from the
Whitney stables at Aiken being shipped
back to Northern homes.
J. D. M. Cantey is the secretary of
tho South Carolina State Fair Association.
A two-year-old colored girl killed
near DoKalb by Southern passenger
train while plhying on track.
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THIRTY YKARS AGO
April 12, 1918.
People of county witness march of
soldiery boy acouta and school chUihen
in Liberty l^oap parade.
Dr. Edmond M. iBoykin, for^
Camden boy, prouninent physician^Charleston,
dies in Hoper hospital
John Humphries, of Camden, and
Miss IXaisy Davis, of Lucknow, rnarried
in Bishopville.
W. A. Hinson's residence in
vrlle destroyed by Are.
Herman Dewey Martin, of Shawmut,
Ala., married to Miss Bessie E.
DeBruh), of Cassatt.
Davis DeWitt Mitcham, of Cam- den,
matriod to Miss Eva Mae iihep.
pard, of San Bernoixhno, Cal, Tha
wedding occurred at the home of'i
ltev. J. C. I>awson at Greenville, S. C.
Luther Barives Horton, of West-1
ville, married to Miss Ruth Stogner
of Bethune.
Captain Bedton O. Kennedy promoted
to Major at Camp Wheeler, M?con,
Georgia.
Mrs. Mollie Horton, wife of Doug- 1
las V. Horton, dies at her home near 4
Kershaw.
Mrs. Mary Hegler, wife of J. H.
Hegler, die? at her home in White
Bluff section of Lancaster county, J
Major John G. Richards presented i
with old gold watch chain ami charm -j
by fellow members of railroad commission.
W. H. Ellerbee, of Rembert, dies
and funeral held at Church of the i
Ascension.
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Mrs. Custer Dies
in New York
New York, April 5.?* Mrs. Elizabeth
Bacon Custer, widow of Gen.
George A. Custer, who made his last
stand at the Battle of Little Big
Horn, Montana, in 1876, died in her
Park Avenue apartment Tuesday of
heart disease. She was 91.
Herself a veteran of the prairie
schooner trails and the Indian campaigns
led by her young soldier husband
in the era following the Civil
War, Mrs. Custer spent much of her
j later life recording the glamor, hardship
and romance of thofce stirring
days on the western plains.
Her first book, "Boots and Saddles,"
was published nine years after
Gen, Custer and bis battalion were
annihilated by the Sioux Indians. In
it ahe detailed the adventure and
tragedy of her campaigning days
with "the boy general of the golden
locks." i
Until stricken Sunday night, Mrs.
Custer had been in her usual health
and had continued her habit of taking
occasional drives and short walks
through the Murray Hill section of
Park Avenue.
,Two nieces, Mrs. Charles W. Elmer
of Brooklyn, and Miss Lula Custer,
summoned from her home on the old
Custer farm at Monroe, Mich., were,'
with her when she died. Burial probably
will be at West Point where
lies Gen. Custer.
Born in Monroe, Mich., the daugh-!
tor of Judge Daniel S. Bacon, she j
first met Gen. Custer when he visited
his sister in Monroe late in 1862. He
was then a captan in the Union Army.
They were married two years
| later, and the young bride followed <
her husband until the close of the
Civil War. She was near him at i
Richmond, Va., when Lee surrendered
to Grant at Appomattox.
After the war Gei(. Custer was
transferred to the West, and Mrs.
Custer remained close to his side as
he fought the Indians. She waited at ,
Bis-marck, N. D., while he joined an
expeditionary force in a campaign
which Gen. Phil H. Sheridan hoped
would be decisive.
It wtis not until three weeks aft*
Gen. Custer with his entire connmaad
of 207 men were massacred that?
slow moving- prairie steamer broflfM
the news of heir bereavement <
While ^he viewed th^ massacre W
a terrible tragedy, Mrs: Custer o?*
said that "perhaps it was necessary
in the scheme of things for the jxAl* I
clamor that rose after the battle resulted
in better equipment for tit<
soldiers everywhere, and very
the Indian warfare came to its end. .
Old Time Turfman
Dies in New York
New York, April 10.?Records at 1
Bellevue Hospital last night listed }
the death of Robert T. Edwards, 6t>, i
dishwasher.
But the man who had died in the 1
heart of teeming Manhattan from a
cerebral hemorrhage was the same
"Boz" Edwards who for ahnost 25 :
years was one of the paddock's nota- 1
ble figures at race tracks throughout
the country. Once he owned the famous
Shenandoah Stable at Richmond,
Va.
As an order for an autopsy war J
issued, a stepson, Burl Jones, explained
at his tenement home:
"My father rertired from the track ^
about 15 years ago. He lost everything
in the depression. Then he op- j
erated a little coffee shop around the
corner on Elerventh Avenue. He kept
it going untiL two weeks ago, but
business was bad because in hard
times dock workers carry their own
lunches."
The body, he said, will be shipped
to Richmond, 4lltne of the turfman's I
brightest days, for burial.
The Fox studio at Hollywood, CaL,i
closed for 18 months, has reopened -j
and reemployed hundrdes of workert >
to begin production o<f 26 motion pictures.
Mrs. Anna G. Steinfad of Baldwin
Park, Cal., corresponded with Daaid -j
W. Terry, of iBalcfrvtin, Kan., for M
years without seeing him. She mar- 1
ried him the other day. He is now H
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? and perplexity. Human remedies have failed to re- jj
' lieve that world distress. In the language of Jeho- *
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are out of course." (Ps. 82:5) The final evil will be
fl reached at Armageddon. When vvilljt come? Con- ?
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pour upon them my fierce anger.' (Zeph. 3:8) In m
his last prophetic utterance when 011 earth Jesus fore- a
told Armageddon, describing it as a time of "tribula- 1
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