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> v . . ' BUY YOUR SEASON TICKET TO KERSHAW COUNTY FAIR FROM ANY CAMDEN MERCHANT ss the Camden Chronicle h VOLUME 45 CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1933 NUMBER 2? ," f ' - " - i i. .rim ii . Big Crowds Expected In Camden Next Week m i ? ing is all set for ft successFair >Xt week, October uuots Carnival Shows will tents on Monday morning iir will be ready to receive at day. No definite probeen set for Monday and >ther than midway attraclay ushers in the first big the Merchants and Manuin charge of the program, and farmers and members mi lies are expected to come that day as guests, of the and Manufacturers and tho largest barbecue ever county. The business men i want the farmers to alii t home in Camden, and receive a warm welcome at A committee headed by Ail son will have charge of ue which will be served in grounds. All visitors are irgdd to stay over for the ray acts during the afterafter first dark a very elabeworks display will take lis* will be worth traveling ee and it is hoped that all the county who cannot atbarbecue will come in for irks. This magnificent distake place at the fair lso and it is made possible nerosity of a public-spirited ong with the cooperation of and county. - The fireworks is published in another secie paper. There will be no charge to see the fireworks By having the program ifter first dark, will enable ,ry friends to return home lonable liour, regardless of hey live from Camden. Visit nearby towns are expectend also. The midway will 11 blast and if our visitor are to -stay over after the there will free acts on the 'ollowing the fireworks diso ' ay will be Agricultural Day >urse the farmers will y*.8^ in large numbers agaifr^to line exhibits. Hen^y <jreen^' ral agent and Miss Sadie iemonstration agent, have r collecting exhibits from all the county. Another feature will be the big political ;. All candidates for goverre accepted invitation^ to it day frpm a platform that erected in the athletic field. 11 of course be. no admission or this, and you will hear hot issues discussed. This nil attract ^thousands. That \ will be free acts on the and again during^the night, or chants and it <1 a" large tent 80x120 and r?t at eight will bo an "Old Convention'." ^pverybody loar old fiddlers and the tent a kcd. Fiddlers from all diw ill participate. will be "School Children's <1 every school child of the < expected to take part in >moth parade that will pass the business section of Camioven o'clock. Another large iii come to Camden to see parade, which will be interAith beautiful floats. One of urc floats will be the NRA Fountain, entered by the is and Manufacturers. Proud will line the streets to watch i'iren pass in review. Bands snappy marching tunes. The w ill continue on to the ath- , '<1 of the fair grounds for ercises. At three-thirty will >iba 11 game between Camden fast Brookland-Cayce team, the largest crowd ever to sec in ( aniden will be on hnnd " the Bull Dogs, who have mden at the top of the foot^ for the past ten years. will be free acts pit the midIt during tb? afternoon and E night. ! :ht at night will be a Fashion which is to be put on by a ee composed of Miss Mary >n, Clifton -McKain and Elihu This will take place at rchants and Manufacturers I. 5 r- ! ! tent. Some of Camden's prettiest girls will appear on the stage wearing ihe latest Fall models of clottfes, and during this show, music will be ! furnished by a band and also by Taylor Brothers, broadcasting orchestra. The program on Saturday will be turned over to the Negroes of Kershaw county. The Negro school children of the county will parade thru the streets Saturday morning and they too will go on to the fair grounds for their exercises. That afternoon will be a football game between the golored high school of Ctfcnjjyn and the Chester colored high Free acts will take place on the midway both during the afternoon and night. ( - . The Negroes will arrange an at- ! tractive program for their day, which will be announced later. The fair grounds and buildings are now being overhauled in readiness for the Fair. The city and county officials are going to lend a helping hand in every way possible. As usual, the American Legion and Shrine Club will work day and night with the Fair Association, and all is needed is good weather to guarantee the; best fair ever held in Camden. . * ^ Two attractive exhibits at the Fair will be those of the Forestry Association and the Fislh and Came Association. Kershaw county has taken a lead among all counties of the South in forestry- conservation and Charlie Nuite, county forestry agent, will have a fine exhibit. The Fish and Game Association will have a large booth with live pkr- j tridges and Canadian geese and; mounted fish and game. They want! to show the citizens what a paradise j we can have if fish and game are j protected. All styles of guns and J fishing tackle will be displayed also. The Association has a live membership and have outlined a program that will restock our fields and our streams, and protect game from pot hunters, forest fires and the like. Samuel Russell will have charge of the Dog Show Thursday, October 12, at 4 p. m., and this will give you #a chance to see some of the best dogs , in the State. He has an able committee assisting him. Following the dog show will be the horse apd mule show and races that will take place during the show. Mr. Russell will again have charge of this and a strong committee. is, helping him. Program of Fireworks The display of fireworks at the 1 Kershaw County Fair this year will be the largest Jftd most magnificent , ever seen here ore. With a crash and bang, twelve nine j inch Aerial Flash Salutes will be projected high into the night in salvos of < two, where they break into luminous I spreads of silver fire'^ai'td detonations < that can be heard,for miles around.; This announces the display is about to ] begin. Then follows the Grand Nat-ji ional Color Flight, Discharge^ ope 1 < Fifteen Inch "Old Glory Shell", two i nine inch "Skyland Carniva^' Shells,), two nine-ir.ch "Yankee Doodle Shells",] two ninc4*ich "American Beauty" |< Shells, two nine-inch "Silver Comet Shells", dne twelve-inch "Liquid Sil- i ver Shell", one twelve-inch "Magnes- i ium Shell", one twelve-inch "Blue < Eyed Susan Shell", one twelve-inch , "Spiderlancfirf-ShcU", two nine-inch ; "Weeping Willow Shells". Next will be presented the following device?: I Statue of Liberty, Lattice, Diamond, < , Five Vertical Wheels. Then the dis-j charge of more shells: two nin.e-ir.ch "Peacock Plume Shells", two nineinch "Radium Shower Shells", two nine-inch "Aerial Roquet Shells",; une fifteen-inch "Glittejjng Diamond Shell", one fifteen inch "Selma Lee Shell of Shells", one fifteen-inch 'The Giant Spider-Web Shell", one j fifteen-inch "Mount Vesuvius Shell",! me fifteen-inch "Special Paramount Shell". Then the showing of more: devices: The Universe Wheels, Bom-f bardment Wheel, The Tropical Sun.! The discharge of one fifteen-inch 'Shell of Shells", one eighteen inch 'The Crater Shell", "Serpent Shell", me twelve-inch "Whistling Rufus Shell", two nine-inch "Rose Garden Shells", one eighteen inch . "Silver rhreads Among the Gold Shell", \ Niagara Falls Device, Mammoth American Flag Device, Then come* the Grand Finale consisting of three levices, Electric Flash Curtains, vhich will be fired in rapid succession. 'Good Nlte" fc beautiful set device in 14 inch letters of colored fire is a fit;ing close foe this magnificent dis>i*y. s "' % . - r * a BIG THURSDAY I i This is Farmers' Day at the I , County Fair and it will be crammed I full with events. During the morning the exhibits will be judged and ' prizes awarded. At eleven o'clock ( J the candidates for governor in next , j year's campaign, including former Governor and United States Sen- > ( at or Cole Jj. Blease, Lieutenant ' [ Governor JAmes O". Nheppard, Olio1- j | D. Johnson, Wyndham M. Manning j and perhaps Thomas B. I'earce and ' j Burnet R. Maybank will be guests < | of the Fair and will deliver ad- < dresses. A large number of other v notables over the state have been ^ Invited to be present on this occasion and have expressed their ' Intention of attending. t > , 1 - - . a * County Teachers Name Committees At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the Kershaw County Teachers Association some definite plans were made for the association. Speakers are now being selected to address the teachers at each general meeting for the entire year. It ia the purpose of this committee to secure^ some of t^?^Deat people of this state for these meetings. It will be noticed that the committee plans to have a certain number of departmental meetings at which time there will be well planned programs carried out by the presidents of each department. It is 'hoped that more may be accomplished in one hour by this method than by having a general and a departmental meeting to run two hours." '. ?. ..Plans are now being made to print a small hanjJ book which will carry the programs for the entire lV$fear, and a copy of this given to each teacher at the first meeting. If there was ever a time when every teacher of the county should back the teachers association; both county and state, it. is now. May we bake the following statements as our goal: "Every teacher in Kershaw county a member before first meeting." It can be done. Following is a list of officers andv committees for the year: C. A.' Byrd, president; II. Granado, vice president; Thomasia Guthrie, secretary. Executive: N A- Byrd, H. Granade, Thomasia Guthrje, Mrs. Kathleen B. Watts. Research: J. G. Richards, Jr., J. C. Foster, W. B. Stevenson, Jr. Membership: Miss: Josephine Cureton, R. M. Foster, L. W. McFadden. Stage: Mrs. S. C. Taylor, chairman. Music: Miss Stella Bethune, chairman. Meetings will be held on the following dates: Thursday, October 12, at four o'clock, general meeting. Thursday., November 16, at four o'clock, departmental meeting. r Thursday. Deoember 14, at four o'clock, general meeting. Thursday, January 18, at four o'clock, departmental meeting. Thursday, February 16, at four o'clock, general meeting. State Teachers Meeting will take the place of the March meeting. April, date to be determined, a call meeting, election of officers. Baker Transferred To Portsmouth, Va. Andrew C. Baker, Jr., son bf A. C. Baker, of Camden, has successfully completed his training at the Marine Base, Parris Island, & C., and transferred to the 'Marine Sea School, at Portsmouth, Va., for further training in the duties of the "Soldiers of The Sea." Upon completion of this training young Baker will be assigned to duty aboard one of the larger cruisers or battleships, it is an- | announced by Lt. Col. A. B. Drum, officer in charge, Marine Corps Recruiting Station, post office building,, Savannah, Ga., where Baker was accepted for enlistment on July G. It is further announced ,by Colonel Drum that a limited number of grad-; nates of high school are accepted each month- Applications will be mailed upon (request. Midget Football Team i8 Organized in School (By Jack Hal??ll) The midget football team is for small students of high school that are preparing themselves for the first team the following year., To play on this team they must be passing on three subjects. In other words this is not an inelligible team. The boys on this team are practicing very hard every aftorn^on, learning new signals a,nd scrimmaging afterwards . They | are using the first teams left over 'equipment from the last two to ten years. Edward Holland was elected captain by a unanimous vote and Marion Smith was elected manager. L. S. Mayer is very good at, forward passing. Edward Holland and Nod Heard ar^. good at receiving j passes. Hilly Nettles, McKain Richards, Albert Irby, Jack Brown, Mur! ray Ja?r.ahuni, Wood row Sanders, Bill lU'Bruhl and L. S. Mayer are good at ; running with the ball. The list of players are as follows: Edward Holland, Bobby Maryef Ellis Howell, "Tub" Wooten, McKain Richards, Ro&coe Johnson, Ray Mooro, Jack Halsall, Albert Irby, Billy Nettles, L. S. Mayer, Ned Beard, Stanley Watts, Hugh Gettys, Billy- Bates, Llifyd Rush, Henry Garrison, Ogburn Hough, Bill DoBruhl, Jack Brown, ''Murray Graham, Woodrow Sanders, Hurrel 'Capehart, Frank Oliver. 1 In two or three weeks this team ! expects to play Blaney and Bethune. | These two games will be yery good I and we hope the town will support 'the team. The admission for all is 10 cents. , Grace Church Services Services at Grace Episcopal church for Sunday, October 8th, as announced by the Rev. F. H. Craighill, Jr., rector, are as follows: Holy Communion 8 a. m., church school 10 a. m., morning prayer and sermon 11:15 a. m.; no Y. P. S. JL. | 'Hie public is cordially invited to attefcd these services. Program Outlined for a Mammoth Parade John K. deLoach, president of the Chamber of Commerce, called a meeting of the committee that will have 'charge of the N. R. A. floats of the big parade on Friday morning at ten o'clock. | iiie Moats will feature the N. R. A. ! and "New Deal," and will be very attractive. Mrs. Samuel Russell will have charge of the floats and she will be assisted by Mrs. Leon Schlosburg, Miss Olive Whittredge and Mrs. Kathleen Watts. ., H. S. Porter will be chief marshall <of the parade and he will have many horsemen entered who will lead the j procession. He will have all of the local polo players and winter visitors who have horses in the line .of march, i Mrs. Ka/ihleqn^ B. Watts und Superintended^. G> Richards,- Jr., will have charge of the school-children of the county, who will be in the parade also.'"-The school children will assemble at the Court house and the parade will start promptly at ten o'clock. Iveon H. Schlosburg will have charge of the musit and he is counting on having one or more bands to furr>ish mu?ic. F. Nettles is chairman of the committee to have all merchants enter Moats and .to cooperate with the parade committees. All merchants are expected to have out their Mags and other decorations that day. j 1 he school children will continue 1 the march on to the athletic field of the fair grounds. A reviewing stund will be erected at the opera house corner where the city and county officials and other distinguished visitors will review the parade. The following is the tentative line " roarch: Ladies of the Sixties, Confederate Veterans, NRA and the other Moats, fire department, Spanish American War Veterans, Kershaw Guards, American Legion, Boy Scouts, Camden Football Team the Brookland-Cayce Football Team,' Ro- J tary Club, NRA Marchers, all occu- i pations, School Children. Virginia Joins Wet Parade Richmond, Va., Oct. 3.?Returns from more than half of the precincts in the state, including rural as well as the heavy voting urban centers, in- j dhated tonight that Virginia, second .-tate to ratify the 18th amendment, had become the 32nd to join the repeal move. v Wants You To Write Hrm D. J. Creed, who has been operating the broadcasting for the'Camden Baptist church requests those who have been listening in on the services on Sunday and those who have been hearing Dr. John Davison in tha { series of sermon*, both day -and night, bo write him a card. He is doing this in order to know if there la enough interest to warrant his continuing the broadcast. Camden Mourns Death of Mrs. K. O. Camden citizens and winter visitors will mourn the passing of one of Camden's adopted daughters, Mrs. Charlotte Brown Whistler, age 73, who died early Sunday morning at her home "Paint Hill," after a long illness. Mrs. Whistler eame to Camden about thirty-five years ago and operated the Major Cantey homo on Camden' Heights, which was later sold by her to. the lute T. Edmund Krumb- j holz, who remodeled it and ehanged the name to the Kirkwood Hotel, visited by thousands in recent years as winter guests of Camden. In recent years Mrs. Whistler has i bought and remodeled many old Camden homes and has been \inatru-1 mental in bringing many Northern { home-owners to Camden. Mrs. Whistler's grandfather, John Potts was the first president of the Corn'Exchange, New York City. Her; fathor and mother were Robert W. Brown and Josephine Lovetto Brown, who lived at Eden Prairie, near Minneapolis, Minn., where she was bovn. Later they moved to Richmond, Va. In early lifo she was married to K. Girard Whistler, by whom she is survived, as well as two brothers, C. C. Brown, of Camden, and Robert W. Brown, of Navato, California. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Kornegay Funeral Home with Rev. F. II. Cmighill conducting the services. Pallbearers were W. L. DePass, J. K Graham, A. I). Kennedy* Jr., W, R. DeLoacha Thomas Ancrum, Geo. Hodge, R. M. Kennedy, Jr. Youth Succumbs to Auto Wreck Injuries James Colie Shirley, nineteen-yearold Camden youth, died at the Camden hospital Monday from injuries received in an automobile accident near the southern city limits Sunday night. Shirley in company with a young man named Trapp, were attempting to pass a truck loaded with cotton when he was blinded by the lights. In applying the brakes too suddenly the car turned over and the lad's leg was so badly torn that amputation was necessary. He died from the shock. His companion escaped injury. He was born and reared in Camden and was the son of James M. Shirley, a textile operative, who together with Harold Shirley, a brother, survives. The funeral was held from the Kornegay Funeral Home at 2:30 on Tuesday afternoon and the burial was in the Quaker cemetery, Rev. J. B. Caston conducting ?he services.4 New Bank Opens Next Wednesday A charter has been granted by the secretary of state to the Commercial Bank of Camden capitalized with $30,000 and surplus of $7,600. The new bank will use the old Bank of i Camden building and will open for business next Wednesday. The officers will be: H. G. Garrison, Sr., president; R. B. Pitts, vice-president; H. G. Carrison, Jr., cashier; and Henry Savage. Jr., as attorney. The directors to serve are: II. G. Carrison,-f Sr., W. J. Mayfield, R. B. Pitts, Henry Savage, Jr., C. H. Yates and W. R. 1 i Zemp. The affairs of the old Bank of Cam' den will be liquidated bv an agent to ! be named by the State Board of Bank I | Control. The Bank of Camden has i been operating since the banking holiday under a conservator. Most of the stockholders and directors of the new bank were affili-. ated with the old Bank of Camden. Petit Juror8 Drawn t^o Serve at October Term * i Jurors drawn Tuesday to serve for the first week of general sessions court which convenes on Monday, j October 23, with Judge Philip II. i Stohl, of Kingstree, presiding, the following: Lawrence Jones, Lawrence L. Waif- 1 nan, jChris Belpos, J. .M. Hoffer, ; W. L. Stokes, Jr., Dewey J, Creed. < C. T. Tranp, L. H. Catoe, J. J. McDowell, W. S. Walker, I). S. Murchison, W. I). McDowell, Camden; 1 J. Arthur Bowers, R. C. Bennett, 11 Lewis Barfield, W. T. Baker, James j IWirton, V. A. Humphries, J. E. Coats, Jr., R. A. Cauthen, W. S. Taylor, B. F. Copeland, T. R. Catoe, L. L. Bradley, S. R. Johnson, -Tom (tandy, P. G. McManuflL Kershaw;!. W. P. Bowers, L. B. Tidwell, H. L. Anderson. Cassatt; J, J, Rughry Arthur Jordan, Westville; C. X. Rabon. Lu, . v ?Munn* Bethune; W. C. , Wardlaw, Liberty Hill; E. 3. Rodgers, Jefferson. ? Gaston county, N. C? woman, 33, received a divorce last Monday, ten minutes later she was flurried again to a man whose age is 57. From di-1 vorce to being married again requir-, ed leas than 80 minutes. _ ' ..:t . __ - -i- - ? ' - ?* '. r- 44r, Fifth District Soon Have Survey UtiCMtor, iS. a, OH: 2.?The United States Geological Survey, in cooperation with the 'South Carolina Relief Administration, will soon beKin a topographical siftVey of those sections of South Carolina that have not been mapped previously. Due to the fact that i>o similar survey has, in the past, been made in any of the counties of the Fifth Congressional District, Congressman J, P. Richards has been in consultation with the Geological Survey and the -State Relief Administration urging an immediate survey in the counties of the Fifth District. R. M, Porter, chief engineer of the State Relief Administration, who will direct the survey in South Carolina, has definitely assured Congressman Richards that one of the first survey projects will be com-, iiujucd in the Fifth District. Mr. IJh-burd.s is of the. opinion that this 8Ui*Vey will open up great possibilities for industrial development and that the completed survey will prove to be a real source of adequate information to all concerned. ttr Charleston Bantams Down Camden Team Charleston, Sept. 30.?Charleston high school Bantams defeated Camden high, 20 to 7, here today, but the victory did not come until after the Bantams had received a scare when Camden led them 7 to 6.. Kooksie Robinson had run back a 40-yard punt for the first touchdown but Ross Santos missed the kick for the extra point Camden came back with a drive in the second period to score a touchdown ahd mado the extra point. In the third period the .Bantams scored a touchdown and stayed ahead. Soon after the period began Charleston got the ball on their own 47-yard line and mado a touchdown, Santos and Robinson running from punt formation. Robinson made a 15-yard run, reversing to land on Camden's 13-yard mark. (Santos and Poteat took .the ball to the 5-yard line and Robinson went through to score. The extra point was scored on a pass. ' In the fourth the (Bantams scored another touchdown.' ... Team Has Good Record Over Period of Years Wlhen the big Charleston high football team defeated Camden on Saturday it made the second team that had been able to defeat Camden since the 1928 season. The other team to defeat Carqden in that long period of .time was the Chester high team. . The BalesburgnLeesville team defeated Camden in the lower-state championship in 1928, and this makes three teams to defeat Camden since the 1927 football season. Since the 1927 season, Camden ha?^. played in the lower-state championship series, the upper-state championship and three timeR in the state championship, winning the state championship in 1931. Until the defeat on Saturday, Camden had never lost a game prior to the championship series since the 1927 season. The team played Charleston without the services of Flowers, the captain, and two linesmen, who were on the injured list, but managed to lead the first half by a score of 7-6. _ ? Camden Eleven Meets Chester Team Today The footbal season will open "in Camden this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock 9 on Zemp Field. The old rivals Cam- \ den and Chester will bo seen in a fast game as both teams are in good condition. . Camden played last Saturday the strong team from Charleston in the City by the Sea and the score although being 20 to 7 in favor of the Charleston lads was one full of thrills. Chester played Newberry last Friday and won by a score of 33 to 0. Chester has been .put in Class A this year, having an enrollment sufficient to be classed with Colum_!? Spartanburg, Charleston, Oreenville and other of the larger towns of the state, so- the two teams will" * not have a chance to contend for 25s, championship this year. _^nis is pro&ably the ..only chance Camden will get to play this team, ? full attendance is expected. Admission will be adults 60 cents, ?' an?school children 26 cents. Don't miss this game. Coma out and show the team you are with them. -*zr " -