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^ S CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1833 NUMBER 38
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Dr. Will. Rainsford I
Dies in New York
News was receivod in Camden on
Monday announcing the death'of Dr.
W, s. Rainsford, retired Episcopal
clergyman, which occurred in Roosevelt
Hospital, New York, Sunday
' night. Dr. Rainsford for many years
has spent his winters in Camden,
on corner of nort h^ill and Green
streets, in his lovely garden home,
known as "Deodar." He was a grfcat
lover of Jhe outdoors and ^a^juuehland
around Camden leased as hunting
preserves. Ho was nationally
known as a militant rector, speaking
his own mind, and ho also gained
renown us a big game hunter in Africa
and as a pioneer in the Canadian
^northwest, where ho readily made
friends with the Indians of those
days. He was an interesting conver-'
sationalist and when one could get
him in a retrospective mood in his
later years, he could give the younger
generation something to think
about as to the privations endured
when American forests were young.
Not many local people know it but
J. Piorpont Morgan, y Jr., was a devoted
friend of Dr. Rainsford, and
on several occasions has stopped over
in Camdeiy to have lunch and chat
u with this nged man, whom Camden
people had learned to know and love.
The following interesting article
dealing with the life and history of
this noted Divine appeared in the |
New York Times, the world's greatest
newspaper, of Monday, December
18:
The Rev. Dr. William S. Rainsford,
who was rector of St. George's
church in Stuyvesant Square for a
quarter of a century, died at 8:15
o'clock last night in Roosevelt Hospital,
where he had been a patient
for a month. He was 83 years old.
His death was' caused by the combined
effects of pleurisy and hardening
of the arteries.
At his bediside were all the members
of his immediate family, his
wife, Harriette Rogers Rainsford,
and his three sons, Ralph Rainsford,
of Convent, N. J., W. Kerr Rainsford,
of Katonah, N. Y., and Dr. Lau- J
rence F. Rainsford, of Rjte. N. Y. d
The Rev. Dr. William Stephen
Rainsford desired above all else as
a boy to be a soldier. He lived to
become one of the militant leaders
in his church.
Born in Dublin, Ireland, on October
30, 1850, th? son of the Rev. Mar-I
cus Rainsford, chaplain in the hospital
for the blind, he attended elementary
school at Dunkalk.
His memories, of his early school
days were not pleasant.
"I was dull and stupid at Latin and
Greek, and very shy," he recalled in
later years. At Cambridge University
ill health overtook him for a
time and he left the university to go
to the south of France. Returning,
be became interested in the slums of
Lo:. !on, and, shortly before graduating*
from Cambridge, led a band of
80o out from the London tenements
to find new homes in ''Canada's fur
Wi
1 fiv was born within him then
;,n 'crest in hunting which he car'' ?
to the end of his life. While in
-r. Canada he shot buffalo and
big'game and established a rep- j
ut.-i'.m for prowess with a rifle. He
for nued to hunt whenever the ocvti
n presented itself, even after he
bf...T.f an octogenarian. On the eve
- eighty-second birthday he fell
w hunting pheasants near his
b' in Ridgefield, Conn. ,
interest in London's unfortun;t'
led him tP enter the church,
a'" : was ordained a curate at tthe
Pa- - of st. Gile's in Norwich, Eng,ar
in 1872. There he remained for
f' years. 0
young rector, whose pulpit
neements in New York later
w? ;o earn him nation-wide fame
a""l - >mc criticism, thought serious >'
quitting the ministry before he
ha : 'icon in it two years. He even
a i the Bishop of Norwich to rer.;m
of his orders. Then came
a n'Portunity to preach for four
m' in New York as a substitute,
'vvj. nc accepted. He later conducted
sions and preached in various
part- i,f (he United States and Canafla
. r.ri in 1878 became an assistant
a* v .JamcsV Cathedral in Toronto.
"'s first New York visit was destir.ku
to change his whole career.
in 1882 the people of St.
George's in Stuyvesant Square were
kced with a serious situation. Their
church was fast being surrounded by
_*n alien tenement population. The
Parishioners were moving^ uptown
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Vandals Molest
Christmas Tree
The city officials have had a living
holly tree on the school grounds decorated
in Christmas lights for the
community Christmas tree service to
bo held Sunday afternoon?Christmas
eve.
Some .unthinking or wrong, thinking
persons have been guilty- of stealing
the light bulbs and in other ways
hurting the tree, so orders have been
given ^hnt anyone found molesting
the tree in any manner that they be
chargdfl with violating public property
and a recorder's case made
against them.
This- tree 4s a beautifiH sight and
has given pleasure to all who have
seen the lovely spectacle and for
anyone to wantonly destroy its beauay
they should be punished, sb all
are warned against taking tho lights
or in any manner harming the tree.
The White Christmas
Sunday evening, December 24, at
eight o'clock the young people of Bethesda
Presbyterian church will present
a play, "The White Christmas,"
at the Presbyterian church. The
public is cordially invited. An offering
is taken at this service each year
for the cause of ministerial relief.
The characters are as follow: Prologue,
Dorothy VariLandingham; Mary,
Charlotte Salmond; Joseph, Jack
Haile; Simeon, Robert Rhame; Timothy,
Derrett Wooten; Isaac, John
Carl West; Anna, Lena Stevenson;
Thomas, Lewis Bradford; Ruth, Minnie
B. Cunningham; Dfcborah, Emily
Sheorn; Rachael, Caroline Nelson;
Priscilla, Mary Florence Little; Melchoir,
McKain Richards; Gaspar, Wiley
Hogue, Jr.; Baltasar, Ernest Wooten.
Christmas Midnight Mass
The annual Christmas midnight
mass which has come to be annually
a. feature at the Catholic church of
St. Mary's, on Lyttleton, corner of
Pine, will be held as usual at 12
o'clock midnight Sunday.
There will be a special program of
Christmas music by a choir, and assiting
will be a number of non-Catholic
friends of the church. The rector,
Father O'Brien, extends a hearty
invitation to all to be present at the
Christmas midnight service, one of
the most beautiful and appealing ceremonies
of the year.
The following musical program under
the direction of Mrs. F. N. McCorkle
assisted by Miss Myrtle Huckabec
will be rendered: Prelude, piano
and violin, Mrs. McCorkle, Newel
Wimberly; Processional, "Silent
Night," by choir; "Adeste Fideles,"
choir; "At the Communion," choir;
offertory, violin solo, "Ave Maria";
anthem, "Bethlehem Lullaby"; recessional,
"Angels, We Have Heard."
On Christmas day the ftiasses will
be at 8 a. m. and 9 a. m. announces
Father D. M. O'Brien.
College Students Home
The following students are home
for the holidays: Emily Zemp and
Mary Elizabeth Wooten, from Woman's
College of North Carolina;
Olive Nettles, Mary Lee Blakeney,
Carolyn Kohn, from University of
South Carolina; Lenora Rhame from
Columbia College; Peggy Pitts, Em- I
ily Pitts, Elizabeth Zemp, Katherine
Kennedy, Grace Robinson, from Con- I
verse; Betty Garrison, Harriet Beard,)
Virginia Drawdy, Pollye West from
Winthrop; Douglas Kennedy '.and Eu-1
gene DuBose, from Duke University.
Baptist Church Services
The following services are announced
for the Camden Baptist!
church for Sunday, December 2*4:
Men's prayer meeting at 9:30; Sunday
school at 10 o'clock with C. O.I
Stogner, superintendent in charge; ,
public worship conducted by the pas-i
tor, J. B. Caston, at 11:15 a. m., ser-1
t I
mon subject, "The Mission of the i
Bethlehem Babe," preceded by a (
short Christmas message to phildren. J
At 7:30 the young people will present
a Christmas play. Junior B. Y. '
P. ,U. Sunday evening at 6:30. Se-I
nior B. Y. P. U. Thursday evening
at 7:30. The public is cordially in-!
vitod to attend all tho services of this :
church.
Christmas Pageant Waterec.
There will be a Christmas pageant !
at the Wateree Baptist church on
Sunday evening, December 21th, at ;
6:30. The public is cordially invited
to attend.
J. T Littlejohn, Pastor.
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Postoffice Open Saturday
Good news to the patrons of the
postoffice will be the information
given out by Postmaster W. T.
Stewart that the windows of the
postoffice will remain open all J
day Saturday in order to take
care of late postal service, accomodating
all those late in mailing
packages or letters.
It is also announced that there
will be no delivery of any kind on
t Christmas Day.
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Average Teacher
Gets Less Money
I The average salary of white South
Carolina school teachers was estimated
yesterday to, have decreased from
$968 to $812 in th^ past three years.
l)r. 11, L. Fulmer, director of the
bureau of information and research
of the state department of education,
said the only factor in school operation
which increased, during the period
was the number of pupils assigned
each teacher.
The average salary for elementary
school teachrs declined from $878 in
1081 to $740 in 1983, Fulmer reported.
A similar drop brought high
school teachers' salaries from an average
of $1,202 to $1,033.
Fulmer recorded the decrease in
the average salary of elementary and
high school teachers combined, exclu-,
sive of supervisory pay, as follows:
1931, $96.8; 1932, $8G8; 1933, $812.
He saul it has been "gradual but
decided." It amounted to approximately
16 per cent over the period of
time.?Columbia State.
Kershaw County Average Low
The following information is furnished
us relative to the pay of the
teachers in this county:
"Comparing the salaries of Kershaw
county and those of the Camden
schools with the above average
for 1933, we find that the average
salaries for high school and elementary
teachers is below the average
for the state.
"The average salaries paid elementary
teachers throughout Kershaw
county is $540.36. The average salaries
paid high school teachers is
$570. J ; -
"The number of days taught in the
elementary schools of Kershaw county
are expected to be 160 and the
number in high schools, between 160
and 170.
"The. average salaries for the ele- <
mentary teachers of the Camden
schools is $675 and that of the,high j
school,- $725 per year, per teacher, j
"Since 1931, the salaries of the ma-j
jority of high school teachers of the
Camden schools have been reduced a
little'over thirty-eight per cent, the
lowest reduction was thirty per cent.
"In the same period of time ?the
salaries of some of the elementary
teachers have been reduced thirtyeight
per cent, the majority of them,
reduced thifty-three and one-third
per cent. A few of the lowest grades
of the elementary teachers were reduced
twenty-dive per cent.
"The above information is given in
order that the citizens of Kershaw
county and school district No. 1 may
know what salaries the teachers are
now receiving and how much they
have been reduced."*
The actual reductions of salaries in
! the Camden, city system since 1931
is as follows: Superintendent of
schools, 36 2-3 per cent; principal of
high school, 25 per cent; other prin|
cipals average 30 per cent, average
high school teachers, 35.2 per cent;
average grade teachers, 35.4 per cent.
* Hanks To Observe Holiday
All depositors and patrons of the
two city banks. The First National
and The Commercial Bank of Camden,
arc requested to bear in mind
[that they will be closed for Christmas
day and the day following, Decefnber
25 and 26. They will kefcp
longer hours on Saturday, December
23, for the benefit of their customers,
however.
Methodist Church Ser\ices
The members of the Sunday school
will bring their White Christmas offerings
to the Sunday School Sunday
morning. This is to be given to the
Epworth Orphanage. We trust it
will be generous, and will gladden the
hearts of those of our little orphan
children. Our Christmas message
will be at the morning hour, 11:15.
Theme: "A Ray of Light." Evening
service will be our Christmas program.
It will De a musical service
in the main?with chorals and special
instrumental music, with a short address,
and some other features in
keeping with the day. There will be
no early Sunday service on Christmas
morning.?C. F. Wimberly, pastor.
An American Airways passenger
plane was landed at Birmingham on
one wheel, after the pilot had discovered
that the craft's right wheel was
useless because of a broken strut.
Martin Gray, negro, 28, now in the
Southern Illinois .penitentiary, confessed
to the sheriff of Marion county
that he had killed five men.
Community Tree
for Christmas- Eve
There will be a community Christmas
tree service held on the school
grounds Sunday, Christmas eve, to
which all the county is cordially invited.
This tree is being sponsored by
the City of Camden and everyone is
expected to be present to join in a
Christmas program at 5 p. m.
The tree is a lovely one South of
the city school, and was beautifully
decorated with electrical fixtures by.
city employees, I,. P. Tobin, Walter
Khame and H. E. timham, of the
City water ujid light department.
The lights are turned on each afternoon
at 5 o'clock and remain on until
midnight. ,
Around four hundred stockings
\vill be distributed to underprivileged
children of the county at the service,
the Junior Welfare league members
to assist old Santa Claus in the distribution
' of them. The names of
those children have been secured from
the files of the Ker.^jjrnw County
Emergency Relief Council workers,
from every section of Kershaw county,
and it is hoped no little child will
bo* without a Christmas remembrance
I this year, for it is the wish of those
in charge to see that all are made
happy.
* Christmas carols will be sung by
the entire assemblage, led by A . C.
McKain and everyone is requested
to join in the singing of these songs.
Mayor R. M. Kennedy, Jr., is gen- J
eral chairman and has as his able
assistants, the following: Central
committee, \V. M. Alexander, John
T. Mackey and A. Sam Karesh; rFinance,
R. W. Pomeroy; Transporta-.
tion, American Legion; Decoration,
Federation of Temple Sisterhood;
Stockings, Legion Auxiliary; Santa
Claus (?); Reception, Junior Welfare
League; Registration, Miss Christie
|Hey; Music, A. C. McKain; Grounds,
J. G. Richards, Jr.; Lights, L. P. Tobin;
Fireworks, John T. Mackey.
I On Christmas day, at the same
hour, 5 p, m., the same tree will be J
{used for the colored people of KerIshaw
county and the program is to
'be carried out by the following com- |
Imittee: *
Rev. J. W. Boykin, chairman; I. B.
English, F. R. Gladden, T. M. McClester
and W. I. P. Rosborough.
This committed will be assisted in
the work by women from the different
organizations of the city. AH
pre requested to meet at the Presbyterian
school building on Market
street where the presents and stockings
will be assembled. There will
be a community singing of Christmas
carols at the tree. It is hoped to
have all the colored children of the
city and community attend and to
those in dire circumstances an especial
invitation is extended.
"Pine Tree" Name
v Given New School
On Monday, December/. 18, at chapel
exercises the new school located
between the two mills received its
name. The selection of the name
had been in the form of a contest in
which the pupils of the school engaged.
Each was permitted to bring
; in a name in a sealed envelope. These
' were handed over to^he board of
trustees.
W. Robin Zemp acted as spokesj
man for the trustees at chapel,
bringing with him the selected name.
The new school is to be called
"Pine Tree School." This has an interesting
historical significance.
Whon, two hundred years ago, the
white man first settled in this local1
ity, it was near the spot where the
new school now stands. This- settlement
was between Pine Tree Creek
and Little Pine Tree Creek and was
! called Pine Tree Hill. I>ater the set!
tiers moved across Little Pine Tree
: Creek and changed the name of their
village to Camden. So the original
1 name of the community where the
school now stands was ' Pine Tree
1 Hill. Therefore the trustee? to pre
serve this name have called the new
school "Pine Tree School."
i Those who made the best suggestions
and received prizes are as follows:
Lewis Drawdy, Gene Gw,nn,
.Gladys Robinson. Doris Conyers, Lester
Roberts,-Frank Elkins, I^ois
i Blackwell, Lonnie Newman, Clarence
I Munn, Grady Humphries, Elizabeth
jCrolley, Oneida Jordan.
Thomasia Guthrie
Merchant's Association to Meet
? The December meeting of the Merchant's
Association is called for Wednesday,
December 27, at 7:30 o'clock
at the Legion Hall. All members
. are urged by John T. Mackey, president,
to attend.
Annual Report of
The Garden Club
The following report of the Camden
Garden Club sent to the meeting
of the South Carolina Garden
Club, November 10th. will be read
with interest by many. We are reproducing
it as it was submitted by
the president of the local club, Miss
Fannie B. Fletcher:
"The Camden Garden Club has sixty
members. Our program scheduled
eight regular meetings, at one of
whieji our state president, Mrs.
Phelps, ws guest speaker. Three
parties Were given the I lub, at one
Mr. Gordon lfunthorno showed bis
choice and rare flower prints. At
each meeting a blue ribbon is awarded
for the most interesting tlower or
flowers. At the end of the year^the
greatest number of blue ribbons,
takes a prize.
We sent a speaker to the Hartsville
Garden Club, Vo a P. T. A. and
to a Teachers Convention in Camden,
We had one delegate to tin* National
Council of Federated Clubs in
Miami,
We had one plant exchange.'
We have planted the northern approach
to the toll bridge over the
Wateree River, landscaping on either
side of the highway a strip 250 feet
long by from 20 to 50 feet wide.
Each planting contains low shrubs by
the roadside, a long grass plot in the
center and taller shrubs^in the back--'
ground. A truck load . of nursery
stock was bought. Club members
and friends gave us seed, fertilizer,
dogwood, crepe myrtle, bamboo, cassine,
jasemine, spirea, nandina, etc.
Other members brought in various
natives from the woods bacchaiis
was the m'ost satisfactory. We planted
with regard to summer bloom as
well as winterfoliage, keeping in
mind fragrance as well as flowei*ST
The planting was mulched and watered
in the early spring drought and
kept pruned and cultivated during
the summer. Summer mortality was
less than five per cent.
We have kept small signs off the
highway from the bridge to the city.
Those signs now line a small boy's
den! We have succeeded in removing
some large signs, but others
which are the only sure income the
land produces, remain. One way-side
pig pen is now out of competition.
We have a special committee at
work on each of the five parks in the
city. Another committee valiantly
working to spread the gospel of holly
conservation. Their campaign takes
them into both white and colored
schools., >
We have voted to join the wild
flower conservation society.
Our Mayor allotted us one day in
Camden's week of bi-centcnnial celebration.
We planted a large oak,
descendants of James Kershaw, first
settler, unveiled and dedicated the
tree. There was a gem of an historical
address, but no one was there to
see or hear. The moratorium was on
us and it raiaed. However, our garden
pilgrimage in the afternoon
brought out about one hundred people
who were taken in motors to the
garden spots of the city. And out
flower and shrubbery show was well
attended, people coming from communities
as jar away as Charlotte,
N. C.
We plan to go in a body to Sumter's
flower show that all of us may
have the thrill some of us had last
spring whea we "discovered there
large branches of the incomparable
stewartia.
At the Kershaw County Fair we
exhibited a landscaped hou:-e and lot,
a choice bit of artistry in miniature,
for which we received a special prize
of $5.00, which paid our dues to this
body." _
Mrs. David Attends Meeting.
Mrs I). M. Davis, of the Camden
Beauty Parlor, who is a member of
the South Carolina Board of the Association
of Beauty Parlors, attended
a meeting in Columbia last Sunday.
, ,
The meeting was to frame an ac
I that the association will try to get
passed as a law fA the next meeting
! of the South Carolina legislature
! The act if passed would raise the
i professional steward of all cosmotolo??i?ts
in this state. *
The friends of Mr. R. Luther Bel!
will regret to know that he has beer
quite ill at his home on LaFayetU
avenue for the past several weeks.
Railroad Crossings Rough
Considerable complaint is beinj
made about the roughness of the
railroad crossings at both ends ol
DeKalb street, and it is hoped tha<
the city council will take steps t<
remedy same at an earjy date.
Farmer is Killed by
Hit-and-Run Driyer
Noal Branham, a god 50, a farmer,
with wide family connections thruout
the county, was killed Instantly Friday
night, when ho was struck by a
hit-and-run driver while walking the
('anulen Hishopvillo highway, a few
miles east of Camden.
Mr.H Branham left Camden about
0 o'clock to walk to his >homo alone.
His \vutoh was picked up n&nr the
scene of the accident and had stopped
at 10:20. His skull was. fractured
and there were other body injuries.
The door knob of the car was picked
up near the scene which may furnish
officers a clue to work on, hut latest
reports are that they have meagre
chances of ever learning the driver
of the car. A heavy fog was prevailing
at the time and it is said a
driver could see only a few feet in
front.
. Mr. Branham was u native of west
Wateree and formerly resided at Lugoff,
but of late years had made his
homo six miles oast of ^amden on
the Camden-Bishopville highway.
His wife died several years ago.
Ho is survived by thd following sons
and daughters: Mrs, Ij. A. Campbell,
of Camden; JMrs. Alice Scholtx,
of Trenton, N.. J./Emerson Branham,
I^eroy Branham, of Camden; and an
aged mother, Mrs. Maggie Branham.
Brothers and sisters are: Gary Branham,
Earle Branham, of Charleston;
Mrs. John Holland, Mrs. Melvin Hail,
of Camden; and Mrs. Eugene Holland,
of Cassatt.
Mr. Branham was a member of
Pine Grove church in West Watereo
and the funeral ami burial occurred
there on Sunday.
A coroner's jury was empanelled
and viewed the body at the Kornegay
Fup^.ral Homeland the inquest has
"bt$n delayed pendihg investigation of
the case by officers.
J. Caleb Clarke Dies
in Georgia Capital
J. Caleb Clarke, 58, widely known
Atlanta attorney, died Tuesday
morning at his residence at 897 Argonne
avenue, after an illness of
several weeks.
He and two of three sons, J. Caleb
Clarke, Jr., and Charles D. Clark?
practiced law under the firm nam?
of Clarke and Clarke, with ofTices in *
the American Savings Bank building.
Mr. Clarke wa&-;.a native of
Camden, S. C., and had resided in
Atlanta for 38 years.
Mr. Clarke and his sons were counsellors
to the American Savings bank.
The twof sons and their brother, Hal
Clarke, survive, as - do the widow,
three daughters, Mrs. Georgfe Hayhoe,
of Toronto, and Miss Mary
Clarke and Miss Ellen Clarke, of
Atlanta; two sisters, Mrs. R. C. DeSaussure
and Mrs. John M. DeSfrussure,
both of Atlanta, and a brother,
T. II. Clarke, of Sumter, S. C.
The above is from the Atlanta
Constitution of a recent date. Mr.
} Clarke will be well remembered by
jour older citizens. Ho was a brother
of the late lamented Boykin B.
Clarke, long n prominent member of?
the Camden bar, aruLhae many relatives
and friends in thus city and
county who will regret his passing.
Christmas at Presbyterian
Sunday, December 24, the services
announced by A. Douglas Me A i n, at
Bethesda Presbyterian church will bo
as follows: Church school as usual
, at ten o'clock, morning worship at
11:15 with anthem, "O Holy Nig.it."
1 Sermon subject "Religion's Grea.est
1 Gift." Intermediate club Friday evening
at six o'clock. Junior club Sat,
urday evening at seven o clock.
Your.g People's Society Sunday evening
at six. No prayer meeting service
next Wednesday. A play "The
White Christmas," will^e presented
Sunday evening, December 24, at 8
. o'cloc k by the young people of ihe '
church. An offering will be taken
a: this service for ministerial relief.
The public is cqrdiully invited to all
the services in this church.
Methodist Men's Bible Class
This group of men is growing
. each Sunday in interest and attend'jance.
Dr. Wimberly's addresses are
' timely and thought-provoking. Wo
I wish all our men would avail them,
selves of these wonderful morning
? talks. He will speak to us next Sun
day on the meaning of this day we
celebrate, Christmas. Let us turn
out and give him a room filled with
r men.?Jack Moore, secretary.
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f A disastrous brush fire swept over
t a large area northwest of Los An>
geles, Cal., last week and did damage
estimated at $4,000,000.
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