The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 17, 1933, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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Uuble8 may npt
understand, but
mothers know the
priceless feeling
of security the
telephone brings.
And priceless it
may sometimes be
to hear the reassuring
voice of the
doctor saying "I'll
be right over."
But emergencies are unusual?and
the telephone has
anothor important job in the
home, smoothing off the rough
corners of everyday existence.
It runs errands, saves time,
trips and waste of energy. For
your leisure hours, it
P forms a quick contact with
F' friends to arrange a spur-ofthe-moment
trip to the movies,
or an informal evening of
bridge. When your frlendi
want to reach you, why?you
are as near as your telephone.
Your own experience tells
you in how many ways the
telephone can serve you well,
and at a cost so small that it
really doesn't pay to try to do
without it. If you do not have
a telephone, ask about the service
at the telephone Business
Office. ?
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Radio Address on
History of County
Hundreds of radio listeners thruout
the two Carolina's heard an interesting
address over station WBT
Charlotte Friday afternoon on * Kershaw
County and its history delivered
by John K. deLoach president of
the Camden and Kershaw County
Chamber of Commerce. Mr. deLoach's
voice came in clear and
strong and the reception in Camden
was perfect. Below is his address in
full: i.;l
While in good society, boasting by
individuals' is regarded as odious, yet
it is complacently allowed to towns
and counties. ? Indeed, each is expected
to proclaim jtself the ibest on earth.
The effort will' be made in this brief
discourse not to abuse the indulgence,
but to stay ihside of the facts.
Shortly after the Revolution, the
Extensive District of Camden was
carved by the Legislature into eight
counties, York, Chester, Fairfield,
Richland, Lancaster*. Kershaw, Sumter
and Clarendon. Prior to this, the
town of Camden was the Court House
Seat for the whole of Camden District
which was about 150 miles long and
50 or 60 miles wide.
Subsequently Camden District was
divided into counties and the county
immediately . surrounding Camden
"was named in honor of Joseph and
Lli Kershaw. Joseph about the year
1750 came up from Char best on and
located at Camden, then known as
Pine Tree Hill, where a town site had
been laid out in 1733, and there cs-!
tablished stores, mills, and various in-,
dustuies which gave great impetus to J
the young community, attracting
many settler?, especially a colony of j
Quakers. These people brought a i
v - ?ady and substantial quality ot |
character. Their descendants are;
- iii P. tho . Community. Kershaw
himself, married one of them, Sarah
Mathia. j
Along with Joseph Kershaw came |
his brother Eli, who received a grant j
of the land on which the town of
< 'heraw stands, first known as Chatham.
These name9, Camden and
Chatham, were bestowed as a tribute
to tho two great Englishmen, Wm.
Pitts, Earl of Chatham, and Charles
1'ratt, Baron Camden, for their immortal
defense of the American Colonists
in tho English Parliament. Let
us never forget these cham-pions of
Liberty.
During the Revolution these two
K?-rshaw brothers were vigorous patriots
and when Camden was occupied
by the British in 1780, were taken
prisoners and transported first to |
Honduras, then to Bermuda. They
-ufferod from tropical distemper and
Eli died. Joseph remained prisoner
f >r 18 months. He was ruined by the
war. His residence located on *the
ising ground, then named Tine Tree
' 'II. in thr Southeast eerier of the
"' osent Camden, was occupied as
vidquarters by Comwallis, Rawdon
id Tnrleton. " It stood intact untfl
" Civil War when it ffbrished ir.
I ' ll uary 1865 from tho torch applied
' "J man's men. .
Camden during the Revolution was
a most important interior military
and commercial post, and the region
in its vicinity, now within the limits
of Kershaw county, was the scene of
bitter conflicts, especially along the
old stage coach road between Camden
and Charlotte, which came to be
known as the Great War Path. Among
these may be % mentioned Hanging
Rock, in the Northern edge of the
County, where occurred a fierce combat
beUyeen Sumter and Col. Stewart,'
and there 'tis said, Andrew Jackson!
was captured by the British and [
brought a prisoner to Camden. On
this same road is tho vsp<<t,; twelve
miles north of Camden where Col. |
Rug^ley and his band of British and
Torie^^surrendered to Col. s Wm. i
Washington ar.d his sham log carinon.'
Seven miles North of Camden we
traverse the ground of the battle of
Camden, where the disgraceful flight
of militia has obscured the glory ot
the Continentals, who after being
outflanked and out numbered, made
the British pay dearly for their victoryf
and afterwards drove them out
of North and South Carolina; for
these same heroic troops furnished
the backbone at Guilford Court House
in North Carolina, at Hobkirk Hill in
the northern edge of Camden, at Cowpens,
Ninety Six and Eutaw. Have
forestation. There is a full time
ihey any equals in our annals?
The same Great War Path was the
Indian trail over which King Haigler
KJ his CataWbas to Camden. His
life size ideal effigy, with drawn bow
and arrow cut out of sheet metal,
v ine to 1825, has served as a municipal
weather vane for Vr'ell over a century
and still so serves. It is one of
the most unique objects in this country.
The War Path lies two or three
miles to Die West of the present pav"f\
I?. S. Highway No. 521, which
it intersects at Heath Springs, just
North of Hanging Rock, and at
Shamokin, five miles North of Camden.
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T:ucr> to its military tradition, it
was along this same old pathway that
Sherman sent his detachment in to
Camden, his headquarters being at
Dr. Horton's residence twenty miles
North, on the site of Hanging Rock
battleground.
Generals Washington and Lafav^tte
both visited in Camden and it is here
that Baron DeKalb, celebrated Recoluionary
figure, died and is buried.
During the War Between the
States, Kershaw County furnished its
quota and more >f men to ilia lost
cause, among whom were Six Generals:
General J. B. Kershaw. General
John D. Kennedy, General John B.
Villopigue, General Zack C. Deas,
General James Chestnut, General
James Cantey, and one. of the greatest
heroes of all time?Richard Kirkland,
a youngster of Kershaw's Brigade
who, without protection and unarmed,
left the Confederal trenches,
amid the shot and shell of Northern
troops, and carried water into tho into,
veiling "no man's land" with which
4n still the agonizing cries of the
T'nion wounded and dying victims of
'he many assaults of the L nion soldiers
uoon the impregnable positions
of the Confederates. Seeing this act
of generosity and kindness on the
part of Kirkland both sides ceased
Starving Woman Has
Large Bank Account
A purse containing $147,75 in cash
and seven bank books, indicating unit
she had deposits of almost $(>0,000 in
New York banks, was carried by a
half-starved woman who collapsed in
a Manhattan department store a few
days ago.
The woman was identified as Kinma
Flannigan, 00, homeless.
Clerks saw her wander into the
store, ''-She wore shabby clothes and
shuffled up an aisle on low shoes with
worn heels. Moving as if in a date,
she turned into another aisle and suddenly
sank to the lloor.
l>r. Murphy, of St. Vincent's Hospital,
attending her, diagnosed the
case as "malnutrition, a mental case."
Honor Roll Huron Dekalb School
tirade 2.?Dorothy Broome, Carolyn
Owens, Lor en a Outlaw, Johnny Sowell,
Junior Horton, L. C. Branham.
Grade 3.?Viola Horton, Margaret
McDonald, Eugene Faulkenberry, Max
Rush, >Sam Truesdale, Jr., Frank
Workman.
tirade 5.?Nina Young, Cleo Smyrl,
Hoyt Owens.
Grade 6.?Ruby Young.
Grade 7.?Ruth McDonald. 4
Grade 8.?Ann Clarkson.
Grade it.'?Myra Owens.
Mme, Ernestine Schumann Heink,
world famous contralto and "mother"
of ex-service men, is in a San Diego,
Cab, hospital suffering from an intestinal
infection.
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firing until his act of mercy was completed.
When the call to Arms came in 1917
the Kershaw Guards, military unit of
State militia, consisting of Kershaw
County men and boys, was inducted
into service and took part in the
breaking of the Hindenburg Line. Out
of this chaos emegred two more
heroes, who,were given0 the nation's
highest award?the Congressional
Medal of Honor?John Cantey Villepiguo
and Richmond Hobson Hilton.
in the recent disturbance in Nicaragua
another Kershaw County boy
proved himself a hero and the United
States Government conferred the
Congressional Medal of Honor on
Donald Roy Truesdale.
i Kershaw County is bisected by the'
! Sand Hill belt which crosses'the State
I and extends from near Raleigh, N. C.
1 to Montgomery, Ala. It averages
i about 15 miles wide. That section of
; the County lying South of it is part
of the Coastal plain; that portion to
the North belongs to the Piedmont,
and rises into hills rugged with
granite. Thus, the County contains
great diversity of soil and landscape.
Many are apt to condemn the sandy
section from superficial appearances.
It forms a comparatively small area
of the State. The winter tourists of
Camden, Southern Pines, Pinehurst,
Aiken can testify to its inherent fascination.
The soil is clean and never
muddy, the air pure, tho water crystal
clear, delicious and soft, never
failing to flow. In the extreme
drought of 1845 people from the Clay
:,county came with their animals to
get water in the Sandhills. Camden
is in the midst of the Sandhills, and
the beautiful gardens, especially of
the winter residents, show the capabilities
of the Sandhill soil when fertilized
with a fat pocket book.
Kershaw County is mainly agricultural,
but within it are two cotton
mills, a foundry, several lumber
plants, two weekly newspapers, an
oil mill, the great water power development.
of the Duke Power Company
on the Wtrt'eree River, Granite quari
ries, an excellent hospital, the gift oi
Bernard Baruch, who is a native oi
Camden, three tourist hotels, three
I golf courses, four polo fields. Wood'
ward aviation field, Springdale Race
Course where the famous "Carolina
Cup" and othei races are held annually,
and beautiful estates oi
Northern residents, many of whonr
have become so much attached to the
County that they live almost the en
tire year there.
Kershaw County is one of the
.pioneer counties of <$he country in
forester who has control of the execution
of the program for the county
including fire prevention. There are
two steel fire towers in the county
with ntter fonts and the South Co olina
Forestry Department maintains
there a tree nursery where hundreds
of thousonds of pine and other trees
for utilization in reforestation, are
prown and shipper! each vear to various
parts of the State ahd United
States.
News of Interest in
and Near Bethune
Bethune, Nov. 14. Am.m j the social
affairs honoring Mss Thelma
Stroman, whose jwcddihg will take
place the first of Deceiv.. b r, was the
lovely heart dice party g^on by Miss
Stella Bethune Wednesday evening of
the past week. Six I \hlea were
placed for the games in beautiful
setting of pink gladioli and ferns, the
bride-elect's place being marked with
an old-fashioned nosegay of pink
flowers. Miss Thelma Stroman and
Alvin Clyburn won high score prise.
Coating as unite a surprise to the
guests was the announcement, made
In an unioue manner, of the engagement
of Miss l.ucile Brown and J. M.
McDaniel, the wedding to lake place
December 2Kth in Kbenetser Presbyterian
church, Hock Hill. Gifts were
presented to both Miss Stroman and
Miss ltrown.
A delictou# chicken salad course
with hot coffee was served.
Mrs. L. I). Robertson and Mr. and
Mrs.^Hamilton Thomas and J. M.
Clyburn, Jr., attended the wedding of
Miss Mamie Douglas and NNorwood
Thomas, Mrs. Robertson's son, .at St.
Paul's Methodist church, Winnsboro,
Saturday, evening.
Clyde Horton, who has been' in
Maine for some time, is visiting his
.foster-parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
McDowell.
Mrs. J. A. Graham, of Smoaks, is
tthe guest of her mother, Mrs. John
McDonald.
Josh Smith left the first of. the
week to join his brother, Tom Smith,
at Kast Orange, N. J.
Miss Margie Parrott, of Winthrop
college, was at home for the week
end.
Mrs. Charles Rivers, of Chesterfield,
is spending the week with her parents,
the M." O. Wards.
Education week was observed with
appropriate exercises by the Bethune
schools.
Fatten Turkeys
For The Market
Clemson College, Nov. 13.?Whether
to sell turkeys alive or to dress
them will depend on the local marketing
service, distance from the consuming
market and available labor for
doing the work, advises P. H. Gooding,
,t. extension .poultryman, who reminds
us that thev turkey marketing
season is almost here and that everyone
with turkeys for sale should lose
no time in getting the birds finished.
The "Qualities which Mr. Gooding
says make a dressed turkey most attractive
are: 'Straight breast-bone;
plump carcass, ^ell -fleshed in all sections;
no scabs or bruises; well-bled,
picked clean, all pinfeathers removed.
It is important that the tuVkeys be
well finished before they are marketed.
If they were hatched early
enough and have been kept growing
well all summer, they will be in good
flesh and finished when the marketing
season arrives.
To this end, the specialist suggests
from now until the birds are disposed
of it will be wise to keep the birds
to be soldf in an enclosure and feed
them largely on grain. Whole corn
will be best if the turkeys are accustomed
to eating it.
About 10 days' feeding of a wet
mash immediately preceding date^of
r marketing will add several pound's/of
' weight. This mash may be made by
1 using 60 pounds of corn meal and 40
, pounds of wheat shorts or whole
. ground wheat. It should be fed as
? a slop and moistened, preferably with
milk, but water may be used.
! The mash should be fed about five
times daily and as much given as the
t birds will clean up in 20 minutes. If
. this method of feeding is continued
f longer than 10 days, there is danger
? of some birds going off feed.
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A district court jury at Oklahoma
City, Okla., rendered a verdict that
the drinking of poisoned Jamaica ginger
with resultant paralysis, by W. P.
Hearn, 51, was an accident, and gave
a judgment to him for $2,900 ngainst
an accident insurance company, which
contended that drinking the extract
constituted '.'attempted suicide."
Sheriff John K. Tate and three
others were indicted at Chattanooga,
Tenn., by a special grand jury inquiring
into the disappearance of 124
gallons of whiskey stored in the
Hamilton county jail in charge of the
sheriff. The liquor was mysteriously
I changed into water. Conspiracy to
violate the liquor laws is the charge.
IlaVold S. McDonald, .'17, of Providence,
R. I., has, been sentenced to
serve 10 yeatffc in a Nova Scotia
prison, following conviction on seven
counts charging forgery. His specialty
was passing war pension
checks.
Tennessee's legislature this ,year (
whacked $7,000,000 off the annual expenses
of the state government. Not
sure that it has gone far enough,
three state officials have been appointed
to do further pruning if
necessary to keep the budget balanced;
W. H. Hutchins, former cashier of
a closed bank at Senath, Mo., has
been sentenced to serve five years in
prison following conviction on a
chaf-ge of embezzling $12,000 of the
bank's funds. He was also charged
I with being accessory to robbery of
the bank on January 8th.
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Charlotte Thompson News
Mr. and Mrs. John Shiver and family
were visitors in Sumter Saturday.
Miss Elisabeth Workman and K. T.
Pearce spent Tuesday in Columbia.
, Mr. and Mrs, L. A. Barnes and son,
Ladson, of Hock Hill, spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Workma
A, E. Hush spent the week end
with his mother, Mrs. J. E. Hush.
Mv. and Mrs. W. A. Dennis and
little son and Miss jfranee.s Dennis,
of Columbia, spent lust week end with
their parents at Hembert.
Marion and James Shiver, of the
University of SoUth Carolina, spent
last week end at the home of their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Shiver.
Miss Eloiso Branhum, of Boykin,
spent Sunday night with Miss Loree'
Young.
Miss lva Lou Arrants had as her
guests on Sunday Miss |)orothy Durfoe,
A. B. White and Clifford McLeod.
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Sheriffs in Iowa called on the governor
for tho national guard to presorvo
the peace yestprday in a few
counties along the western boundary .
of the state, where the Farmers lloli- '
day organization threatened more violence
to prevent marketing of 'farm
products of all kinds. Governors of
several adjoining states also stood
ready to quickly crush out any overt
acts of violence by the organization
which comprises a small fraction of
tho farmers, and is composed almost
entirely of tenants,
Fiv.e children were burned to death,
their parents and another child injured,
when ftro destroyed their home
in Trumbull county, Obio, Wednesday,
TAX NOTICE
Books for collection of School,
County and State taxes year 1933 will
open October IB, and stay open until
December 31, li)33, inclusive, without
any penalty. Any information concerning
this (office will be given by
mail. When inquiring about taxesplease
state School District in which
you live or own property.
Following is a list of total levies
for'eaclf School District, for School,
County and State taxes:
DcKalb Township
Mills
District No. 1 40
District No. 2 3d
District No. 4 ,... 38%
District No. 6 ...' 40
District Nor 25 24
District No. 43 24
Buffalo Township
District No.. 3 37%
District No. B 21%
District No. -7 30%
District No. 15 21%
District No. 20 28%
District No. 22 ... . , . .. r... 40
District No. 23 28%
District No. 27 3B
District No. 28 21%
District No. 31 ........ 29%
District No. 40 *. .,, 40
District No. -12 21%
Flat Hock Township
District No. 8 35
District, No. 9 35
District No. 10 25%
District No. 13 .' 24%
District No. 19 35
District No. 30 ..$ , 21%
District No. 33 . .. 35
District No. 37 35
District No. 41 35
District No. 46 25%
District No, 47 21%
Wateree Township
District No. 11 24%
District No. 12 35%
District No. 16 25
, District No. 29 27%
District No. 38 21%
District No. 39 26%
Yours respectfully,
> S. W. HOGUE,
i Treasurer Kershaw County, S. C.
Ono man was killtkl and thousand'
of dollars worth of property were destroyed
when farmers of Iowa attempted
Sunday night to stem the
(low of produce to the marketing
centers. Milo Bennett, leader of the
strike of western farmers, is quoted
as saying: "Never again will we call
off this strike until our demands are
met by the federal government."
John Lanier, unemployed .textile
worker, has been arrested at WinstonSalem,
N. C., for an alleged, attempt
to extort $10,000 from R. J. ("Dick")
Reynolds, on a threat of kidnaping
his 25-year-old wife. Lanier was ar-?
rested as he picked Up a dummy
package of money at a spot where,
two notes sent Reynolds directed that
the money be placed. Lanier admits
writing the notes. ?
Prisoners in the San Quentin prison
of California will debate the California
tax system with a group ?rom
St. Mary's college. The convict debaters
will take the affirmative of the
question: Resolved, that a state income
tax is a more equitable system
of taxation than a state sales tax.
Five hundred convicts with records of *
good behavior will be allowed to hear
the debate.
John Lanier, 35, unemployed of
Winston-Salem, N. C., waiving pre!
liminary trial on charges of using the
i mkils in an extortion scheme, involvj
ing a threat to kidnap Mrs. R. J.
I Reynolds, announced his intention to
I plead guilty when placed on trial,
j Bond was placed at $25,000. Lanier
. said he was in desperate need of
! mprtey and demanded $10,000 in his
threat to kidnap Mrs. Reynolds..
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