University of South Carolina Libraries
ammmm?m. i .? ' THE CHRONICLE THE Contribution** to this "(JoJumn" <uv most welcome. Nhiuc* of contributors 1 will never Ik* printed?unices desired. Ju*t aitfn "pen name," toifother with your own name ami address, the latter for our information only. Recently the death, at his desk, of the veteran publisher of a small Southern paper, called out comment from important newspapers throughout the country .... his name had become a household word over a wide neighborhood .... he had been the chronicler of the births and' weddings and deaths of more than a generation . . his kindly philosophy had held the J lamp of help and hope and guidance for faltering footsteps?had pointed blasted trails where the paths of civic righteousness were sometimes tangled and obscure .... his pride in the power and province of the press had subordinated commercial gain to professional principle and held his cour- I ago inviolate from menace of threat or jeer. J As a maker of phrases or a coiner ?.f sensational epigram he was probably a conspicuous failure; as a wholesome and helpful force in the community he was a one hundred per cent. success In these days of "boiler-1 plate." his paper kept the integrity, i of its own opinion and provided an! ] example of a rapidly disappearing', species of publications .... it was j , one of the last- surviving links be-1 ft tween the early days, of "broadsides" , and these' later davs of a voluminous t and luxurious modern newspaper. j What .he thought of f>0 or ?>() -yago | dailies or 100 page Sunday editions 1 v> is unknown .... his own modest is- 1 sue was limited to less than a half i dozen pages of print .... The genius 1 of Mergunthaler and IIoo were not unknown to him but for his own pur- 1 / poses a patient and skilful hand suf- < ficed to write his "copy," hand-set i his type and hand-press his issue.... < he lived in a small community by < choice as much as by accident of ' birth or circumstance ....he saw the ' miniature yet certain stature of small places and diminutive events i .... he visualized and realized the potentiality and the utility and the artistry of making a thing that was indubitably a part of himself. All unwitting, he was a fellow in the royal guild of individualistic craftsmen .... within his own appointed limits and in his own name and style he carried the magic of Wilkes and Greeley andv Watterson and McKelway and Glynn .... he must have had a spirit touch with White of Emporia and Sherwood Anderson of Virginia and with all the other great journalists of yesterday and today. * * A few days ago a strolling newspaperman related to me an anecdote of the poet Frost?thut he had first to publish in England to- get well known in his own country .... of the same cloth was my yarn to S. Anderson the first time we met?that I had first t<? go to France, via one of the English journalist Sisley Huddleaton'rt books, to learn that .rnderson pub-i-died a country- newspaper in Virginia .... and now many of us have t?> visit the columns of far-flung dailies t-o read the epic of a humble newspaperman of the South. A eountrv editor, what a world of tradivnn and honest value the term <. * u r.' u s'! For Utnr rrg ipuaiit ;e?: for a -.rujT"U :<-pi for : :ic iar.dn.aiKs ,,f ! ..a:.o '.try il?*fir.i'.e iin.ita'. |..., ; f<.|- a fir,?- tid? ty the . u-l a - pi rat ku: - < t r> ig.nbov* ami hi? r.elghhoi t,...for a:. .!<! fa.-hi :r? d yet r.evv-:'a>ha?ned of he re::tt:ve valile- of money arai nan. 1 s ural.rv.es wonder vvheth r r his unheralded pubii-her is not as great a tome for human happ.ra s< as - contemporaries on a Guardian, a l'r.bune or a Thunderer. Thomas Wood? Things arc beginning- to liven up out at the Saratoga race course. The other morning we went out there in the freshness of the early hours of the day when the horses get their work-out* .... met Fred Johnson and rode with him to see his "How High" and "Top High" come down the big tracks to tho finish line, doing the five furlongs in l.lKt .... His horses winter in Columbia, S. C., with the iBuxton Hrothers and have a flying start on their less fortunate comjK'titors, who have to spend their winter mid snow and ice way up North on Ixing Island. Noticed the Widener string going by.. '.an imposing array. .. .The CJlen Riddle stable is here and the Hrookrneade racers. . . . From now on, they'll be coming in, fast. The Chronicler * * ? * IMitys I'olo With President ? Son The*, following is from the LittleIon, New Hampshire, Courier, of Jury 13. Mr. an'l Mrs. Mendel L. Smith, Jr., are. spending a part of the sumner in the White Mountains: "A spectacular shot by Huek Smith f Camden, S. and Bethlehem, in he sixth chukkcr, or last period, was ill that prevented a tie score' at the )olo game at the White Mountain i I'olo '"Ranch Sunday afternoon. The sail rolled through the goal posts just as the whistle blew to give th<* Whites a 4 to 4 lead over the Blues. The other three goals made by the winners were chalked up by Bill Mc[Juckin of v Whitefield, Harvard '34, star member of the intercollegiate /arsity champion polo team this season. On the Blue team, Jap Blandin was responsible for two goals, and Teddy Poor, 12 years\ old and eighty pounds of horseman, got the third one. John Roosevelt started at number one on the Blue team and was later relieved by Adam Gostomski, Polish cavalry captain. There was an excellent attendance, a fast game was played and the polo field was in fine condition." ' * * * * In a letter to the editor of this paper Mr. Smith writes as follows: "Have been playing polo over at White Mountain Ranch and hyve met quite a few nice young men. John Roosevelt is a fine young fellow and no one would ever suspect him of being the President's son. If anything, he is the most regular boy on the ranch. He plays number one on the Blue team and I am number four on the Whites and it is his duty to cover mo during the game-and in that way I have seen a lot of him. "Was over at the ranch tho morning Mrs. Roosevelt paid John a visit pud she'certainly did make Herself at home?sat right down and ate with all the boys. "The weather Is certainly cool here?stays around fiO degrees all the. time. An overcoat is very comfort able in the evening." * * Along the line above mentioned about Mi-. Roosevelt the I.eRoy. New \ ork, Gazette. hjjs the following paragraph: "Mrs. Krnnklin 1>. Roosevelt is not .i'.!ov\.vg her exhalted po-ition as first "a * ?>f the land to prevent her going : a - and seeing thing* in the same rn.a; and friendly manner that an\ o'.her American woman travels .? > a'. I >: iv.ng 'ner own roadster. M : It .ewdt -hows up unt-xpccted!;. and unannounced in places contain.ng something she is interested ii. -<lag. or friends upon whom she do- iv* t > call. Apparently she is a "new dea." Mrs. President and the public is taking kindly to her free and friendly comings ami goir.gs." Th? r;r.y's S^vfMK'.ooO na\nl 1?u i.?J : a ; r'^'nni f<?r H'T'.-'U has }?t < r. Kr.a a * I'm r.: II < ? a1' ! 'A'.il :?< a-U-v! a: < r.. . The i a'. - f<T the hax <f 2\ sr.. ! .ai.r-.^r a i '"U <?r. h*a\> ; :,i-cr N'i'tt V-ok police on Saturday, w.th :: a. i of :! ?> t hreater.e.i victim, a vr. - ; ? -??? ?i m i apt"irir.tf two of i \'i'!i:nn,>;s who had sent the . ;?!. 'ot<? demanding1 ?10.l">(>0 ,u<\> - of kidnaping ami v:u & ... 11.1 IIIII? II ?| 11ise,unamiiii Hiinannmrrarj \nnouneing I I he opening of an .Automobile General Repair R Shop at the location formerly occupied by I lenrv Morris on West DeKalb Street, next door to Creed s lulling Station. Day Plione 486 I N'iglit Phone I 7 3-W E. D. DRAKEFORD B. A. YOUNG < \ r:? _ Camden Rotarians Attend Convention ' Threo Rotarians from Camden attended the Rotary International held in Boston during the last week in Juno and wo are indebted to John K. do Loach, the Camden club secretary, for the following1 interesting account of the convention: "The annual convention of Rotary International was held in Boston, M^ss., during the last week in June at Mechanics Hall, an extremely large auditorium which could house approximately . twenty thousand people. Eight thousand Ave hundred Rotarians and Rotary Anns registered for the convention from all parts of the world. One man, Frank Milner, number of the Rotary Club of Oamaru, New Zealand, traveled ton thousand miles to the convention. There were also men and women from Australia, Japan, China, Europe, South America, Mexico and Canada. A little fellow from China, Fong Foo t Sec, obtained the greatest ovation of the assembly when he responded to the welcome of the governor of Massachusetts, acting mayor of Boston, president of the host club and governor of the host district. When he arose to speak he was applauded at length and again when he had finished?there appeared to be some evidence of sympathy for the Chinese people in that ovation, it was so very spontaneous. Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd, a Rotarian of Winchester, Ya.. was one of the speakers and told of having carried the Rotary Hag over the North and South poles and that' on his next trip to the South pole in September he expected to carry the Rotary Hag again in hi^ effort to find a new continent. Achuiral Byrd invited the assembly to visits "The Bear", the ship he is to use in this next trip to tho south, which was then at tho navy yard at Charlestown. Adjoining Mechanics Hall was another large room which was fixed to resemble a garden, with evergreens planted about in soil brought there for the purpose. This place was called the "House of Friendship." There were seats neatly arranged in groups 'as in a garden, and at one end of this room was a reproduction, in part, of a genuine "Cape Cod Cottage." Parts of the cottage, except for the necessary woodwork supports, were more than 200 years old. There was a picket fence around the front yard of the house, which was the only part of the yard reproduced, and this wns planted with evergreens and flowers. In \he House of Friendship there were also a lounge for the Over-Seas delegates, booths of every description for aid in travel and 'obtaining reservations, telegraph, telephone, stock market quotations, motion pictures and other conveniences. Besides the business sessions there were many diversions arranged for the Rotarians and the Anns?golf tournament, motors tours, a trip around the harbor With planes and gyros flying overhead and zooming about the four or five ships chartered to take the crowd, and the fire boats sending up streams of water amid much blowing of whistles, teminding the Camden delegation of their trip up to Boston on the boat wher. they went through fog and the boat blew its whistle every, few minute during the r.ight. It blew so <on t .ntly that each time Den Merri in. who was also on hoard w:tn his wife and young son. began tcl.u.g a story he would stop at the proper time, let the whistle blow, and continue with his story. Al?o, there were dances, including the President's Bull, a very colorful affair with the Scotchmen in their k.lties and the Japanese in their native costumes. There weren't many of these eost umes. however, as most overseas folks dressed just as Americans. There was also a pageant and a cone.-rt by the Boston Symphony Orchestra consisting of ninety - three pieces. The business sessions were carried of well, the speeches were excellent and made by leading nun of this and other countries among whom were: Wilfred Andrews. Sitt ingbourne. England; lhiu! 1'. Harris, founder of Rotarv International, and a lawyer of I'h.mg". Hi.: Admiral Byrd. John Nel-.-n. Mi rtreal. Quebec. Canada, ia president of Rotary Intevr.ationj al. associated with the Sun life Ini --.ivaiue c< rr.parv of Canada ; Clinton I' Anderson, pa-t president of Rota; v Interna:'.oral, who presided at all faj-.r.? -os-ion* of the convention ard d.d so excellently; Herbert Schofield, immediate past president f R oary in the British Isles; Wil: liam deCork Runing. The Hague. Netherlands: Maurice Dupe-rrey, Paris, . France, ar.d others. | The delegates from Camden con[ si-ted of T. V. Walsh. Jr., immediate past president of the Club; A. Stanley Llewellyn, past president; John K. del/oach. secretary, and Karl P. Abbott. They, with John Wilson of Jjthe Sumter Club and Dudley French A v . H . 1 * I ?? Two States Vote To Repeal Amendment (By The Associated Press) Prohibition repeal piled up sizeable leads last right as returns poured in from elections in Arkansas and Alabama in the first test of the 18th amendment in Dixie. Only a small percentage' of the total vote had been heard from at that time, however. Repeal jumped into the lead from the start, and several hours later had i 1 a large margin. ! The voting in the two traditionally dry states was considered by both wets and drys as a crucial test of prohibition sentiment. , Anti-prohibitionists, including James A. Farley, postmaster general, and chairman of the Democratic national committee, had predicted that Alabama and Arkansas would bring the total number of states voting for repeal to 18. ^ Sixteen already have .approved repeal with n-.ne in opposition. Favor-' able action by 36 is necessary to take prohibition out of the constitution. { Two v more states?Tennessee and Oregon-?vote this week. Arrangements already have been made for, sufficient additional states to record their sentiments to bring the total to 35 by November 8. Any one of five other states?Colo-j rado, Montana, (^klahoma, Utah and Virginia?may be the 36th. A direct appeal for repeal has been made by President Roosevelt in a tel-1 egram to Leon McCord, Democratic national committeeman for Alabama.) The postmaster general, Farley, al-' so delivered an address in Memphis ( la.-t Saturday urging the Southern ' states to \ote against prohibition. The !') state* that already have1 voted, on the basis of incomplete returns. gave a popular v^te of 8,312,' '?! for repeal and 2.310.271 against.' ! Those figures do not include the p"pjular votes of Nevada and Wyoming.! i which chose their repeal delegates j through mass meetings or county convent ions. Official communications from La j 1 Paz. Bolivia, say that 500 Paraguay-! ? : soldier* were killed and 1.000 or j i more wour.ded in an attack on Bo, livian positions in the Gran Chacoi territory on Saturday. of the Newberry Club, were enter- j tained while in Boston by Karl P. Abbott, at one of his chain of hotels, ThcT Vendome* situated in an exclusive portion of Boston, and at which President Grover Cleveland once stayed while visiting there. e i Mrs. H. J. Ray Dies At Camden Hospital \ Mrs. H. J. Ray, aged 35 years, died in a Camden hospital on Monday after an illness of several days. Mrs. Ray was iburied at the Bethany Baptist church in Kershaw county on Wednesday morning at .11 o'clock with Rev. H. P. Bennett, of this city, officiating, assisted by Rev. Mr. Tucker, of the Methodist church of Camden and the Rev. J. T. Dabney, of j the Second Baptist church of Ker-1 shaw. Mrs. Ray was a member of f the Shiloh Methodist church in Ker- J shaw county but had been a resident of Lancaster for some time. She is survived by her husband, II. J. Ray, and the following children: Leroy, Willie, Paul William and Rebecca, besides four brothers and four sisters. Three of the sisters, Misses Mollie j Mamie and Grace Hunter, live in Lan caster. She is also survived by her! mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. j John Hunter, of Bethune. Mrs. Ray j was a good mother, a good wife, a ' good Christian character and was, well thought of by all who knew her. j ?Lancaster News. I j Death of Mrs. Gardner [ The many friends of Mrs. ,T. C.Mj Nelson in Kershaw and vicinity willM sympathize deeply with iher in th^m death of her mother, Mrs. ViotomM] King Gardner, 84, who died at berfl' home near Tiller's Ferry Sunday af-'fl ternoon and was buried in the ceme-B' tery there Monday afternoon, follow- H ing funeral services , conducted by H1 Rev. W. V. German, of Bethune; Eer, H, Mr. Henderson, of McBee; and R. R. Tucker, of Kershaw.-; ' Mrs. Gardner, who was the widow of James W. Gardner, a valiant Con-fl federate soldier, was a life-long and^B devoted member of the Bethsny^B Methodist church, near Tiller's Ferry,^B where she resided all her life and^B was held in highest esteem by aB^B who knew her and mourn her losl^H to the community. As an expressioa^B of the esteem in which she wai.MdB her grave was literally hidden be-^B neath floral tributes which they fered to her memory. Many fnendl^W from a distance attended the funenl^W ?Kershaw Era. Miss Eileene D. Graham, of Thompson hospital, Lumberton, N.C? is spending her vacation with Mr. Mrs. H. E. Graham. ^liytd in MXa^l ' ' "*v4 __ powered ty the makers of I Essolene The motor fuel that CjuMranteeA. Smoother. Performance 1 * -----'-ftmiiiin ,1 UlE magnificent Italian flight just completed was made with Stanwo Aviation Gasoline. This product is produced l>y the makers of Essolene! Of the 56 successful transAtlantic flights to date, 49 have been powered with 1'Stanavo. No trans-Atlantic flight with Stanavo hasher failed. If you want in your car the dependability, power, and guaranteed smooth performv ance w^ich Stanavo helped to give to General Balbo's fleet of planes, use the new motor car fuel. . . ESSOLENE. ESSOLENE isthelatestachievement of the makers of Stanavo and, in the opinion of practically everyone who has tried it, is the finest regular-priced gas vi-.-.-.v.v.-.-.-.-.v.-''>-^>llllBPHBHHHHHHiHBHiHHHH^K CONGRATULATIONS-GENERAL UALBO! ??r That mu a _/ine _/<>fc?-but *c? know you'd do it* The B jjy thill and reeourcefulneee of youreelf and your men P' Hand head and thouldert above any ether feature* n ' of your fight ? Bon Voyage wherever you to- \ i & oline that can be bought today. "Standard" Esso Stations ' ' and Dealers also sell Esso, Essolube . . . the 5-Star Motor Oil. .. and Atlas Tires, Batter , ' 4, ies and accessories. , , - _ " I Essolene is produced and guaranteed by the world's leading oil of? I ganization. Its composition is protected by U. S. patent pending. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY I (?sso) STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE MERCHANTS AND FARMERS BANK? LOCATED AT BETHUNE, S. C., AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS! JUNE 30, 1933 Resources Loafis and Discounts , Overdrafts (secured by cotton) Bonds and stocks owned by Bank jTj^Bl) Furniture and Fixtures Banking House l'o20J^Hn Other Real Estate Owne<i (.'ash on hand and due from Banks Exchanges for the Clearing House Collection account . ' Liabilities Capital Stock Paid in Undivided Profits, less Current Expenses and Taxes Paid Due to Banks and Bankers '^^Bg lndi\idua! Deposits Subject to check. .. .< $20,073.41 ^B^ Savings Deposits 302.54 Time Certificates of Deposit i 9,607.80 Cashier's Checks 606.28 Notes and Bills Ro-discounted Bills Payable, including Certificates /for Money Borrowed . .. ^^^Bd Statp of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. ^ ?w,?*k. Before me came G. B. McKinnon, Cashier of ^he above named ^ bpinit duly aworn, nays that the above and foregoing ataUweht w condition of said hank, aa shown by the books ot said bank. G. B. McKinnon # Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of July, 1933. Correct Attest IX) ring JDavis r^B. Loring Davis Notary *>nNie W Sooth T. M. Clyburn Jno. T. Stevens Directors cK5T .. .< ' . ~T' /. 3