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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE U-l '.I. I' - 111.11., ? ,J ll.l. 11.... II . . I L..1I U III |l I, I ^111 . . I, II. -J -J L--JLL.I y UL ?HJ-1-1- J-L.J... - * VOLUME 48 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1934 NUMBER 43 ' ' I I- I , ?L_ _ . ; ' - ..JU.U ?l , III, ill I \ Mil . . Ill I, ? , 11,1 .J t 5 i . Many Visitors Here For Winter Season (By Sally Broomell) Si'iiloui h?s this picturesque town been-as lively so early in the season, with visitors arriving daily by motor, ^ rail and airplane and many parties being given to make their stay in Camden a pleasant memory. Mrs. Wv L. Wright gave a bridge, luncheon and golf party Tuesday for her house-guest, Mrs*. deWitt Peterkin, of Great Harrington, Mass. Bridge took up the moriving, followed by luncheon and golf in" the afternoon on the Sarefleld Cflub course. Among her guests were Mrs. Wallace I, Keep, Mts; H. G. Marvin, Miss V Lillian Yates, Mrs. Nancy Zemp, Mrs. Walter Wbst, Miss Blanchard, Mrs. Eugene Clark, Mrs. C. V/(. Benton, Mrs. Alice Marye, Mrs, Aubrey T. Barnes, of Great Barrington, Maffs., . who is spending the season, at Court Inn; Mrs. Robert M. Smith, of Rye, N. Y., who is also at Court Inn for the season; Mrs. J, Dodge Peters, of New York, at Court.rtInn for the season; Mrs. Ball and Miss Ball, Mrs. Karl P. Abbott, Mrs. Oscar Seelye, of Paoli, Pa., who is at Hobkirk for the season, and Mr. A. R. Ball. Miss Ruth Richards, of Greeh Leaf Villa, ha$ been spending several days is Boston oh business. ^ Mrs. Ward C. Belcher and her house-guest, Mrs. 0. F. Monahan,>of LakeviHe, Conn., left Monday to spend a week. at Sea Island Beach, Ga. Before leaving Mrs. Belcher gave an informal tea for her daughter, Mrs. Damon deB. Wack. Michael Burke, of Marlboro, Mass., has arrived at the Hotel Kirkwood, where he passes every winter for the golf. Mrs. Burke will join him n February. They have spent many seasons at the Hotel Kirkwood. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson H. Boyd, of Southern Pines, have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Somerville. He is M. F. H. of the Moore County Hounds. Noel Laign, the rider, also is their guest* Lawrence B. Smith, of Millbrook, /? L. I., is at Hobkirk Inn for an indefinite stay after which he will go to Southern Pines'to join Mrs. Smith, who is former M. F. H. of the Millbrook Hunt. v .V A Mr. and Mrs. Normal^P. de Moriac, of Bedford, N. Y., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Pomeroy while looking for a suitable cottage. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lanahan, of South Orange, N. J., are at the Hotel Kirkwood for ten days en route further south. Karl P. Abbott and G. Elliott Morrison, of Sayville, L< L, have been enjoying some good quail hunting with Mr. Abbott's two noted pointers, Kirkwood Jeff and Kirkwood Flash. Miss Ruth Ferguson, of Greenwich, Conn., has arrived for a visit with Miss Frances Thord-iGrey at' the Partridge cottage. ? Mrs. William N. Ken% of Sewickley, Pa., and fclue Hills, Me., has started her series of Sunday afternoon teas again this season at her charming home near the Kirkwood. Mrs. Robert W, Pomeroy enter-, tained fifty presidents and secretaries of the Federated Garden Clubs of South Carolina last Friday at Cedar Knoll after which there was a lecture for the entire membership at the auditorium. by Norman McClintock, of Rutgers, University, New Brunswick, illustrated by motion pictures of birds and growing flowers. Mrs. Sheffield Phelps, of Aiken, is honorary president of the organization; _ Mrs. Pomeroy, president; and Miss Leila Shannon, of Camden, secretary. Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Potter, of West Warwick, R. I., are at the Kirkwood for the quail hunting, having brought several of their bird dogs with them. Mr. and Mrs, Potter are equally well .known as Isaac Walton * devotees, having won many fly casting and bait easting contests all over the country. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Steward, of Goshen, N. Y., and New York City, havo taken the Kerr cottage in Green street. Augusto Bussemante and Bassett Bowers, of New York City, landed at the local airport Monday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Walton Ferguson. They are returning to New York after attending thfc Air Races in Miami. Apiong; the visitors at the Hotel Kiiltwood -are: Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Stetson, of West Orange, N. Y., for ten days; Mrs. J. C. Bay, of Bridgeport, Conn., ^for the month; C. U. Bay for a week; Miss Josephine H. Perfect for a Week,' Jfrs. Wallace I. Keep, of Loclcport, N. Y? for tha season. Among the season guests at the Hohtkirk are Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. West, of Middlebjufjgh, Va.; Mr, and Mrs. A. S. Craven, of Greenwood, Va.; and Frank H. Conkjiin, of Middlebero, Mass, ? i Mrs. Ernest L. Woodward, of Holly Hedge, has been spending several days in New York* Miss Jane Swords gave a small dinner Thursday evening. Mrs. John R. Todd returned. fr6m New York Wednesday a Ad is p)3mning to leave soon for the . Todd ? plantation at Brewton, S. C. SeVeral of the younger set had a Dutch Treat supper Sunday evening at the Log Cabin tea-room after the round robin polo game Sunday, which, by the way, brought out a splendid crowd of home folks, cottagers and hotel guests. Among them were Miss Helen Savage, Miss Edna Mabee, Mrs. Damon do B. Wack and her houseguest, Mrs. Vance MacCauley, of New York City, Walton Ferguson, Jr., and his guest, Ernesto Santa Maria, of Havana, North Fletcher, Matthew Ferguson, Miss Alice DePass, Dixie Boykin and Augusto Bussemante and Bassett Bowers, of New York City, whoare en route to New York by plane after attending the Air Race in Miami^.. They expect -to return to Camden' next week. Mr. and Mrs. Karl P. Abbott entertained for Mr. and Mrs. G. Elliott Morrison, of Sayville, L. I., and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond L. Forman, of New York, at a steak-roast last Sunday. _ Mr. and Mrs. Edward ;H. Delafield, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dahn, of Darien, Conn., and Charles H. Theriot, of New York City, spent the week end at-ihe Kirlrwood en . route further. South. Miss Jane Swords had Sunday dinner with them. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Wheeler, of Albany,, were ^over-night guests Monday, at the Kirkwood and were with Mrs. Edmund T. Krumbholz and Mist Kl&ra Krumbholz, 'also of Albany. The Wheelers, who are en route to Orlando for the winter, were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. James 8. House, of New York, who will spend tjje winter in Miami. Thomas H. Blodgett, head of ? the. Chiclet company,, and Mrs. Blodgett, ; of New York City,, have left Court Inn for their winter noma in Pasa- , dena, OaL 1 Mr. and Mrs. G. U. Burdett, of (Please turn to last page) Gene Sammarco To Play Here For Ball Gene Sammarco, formerly first violinist of the Los Angeles Symphony, has been most generous in contributing the services of his orohestra, the Califoraians, for the President'* Birthday Ball in aid of the Whrm Springs Foundation, to be held in the armory hall on Monday evening, January ?9. A previous engagement prevents them from playing here on January 30 when other balls for the Foundation will be held all over the country. , Gene Sammarco and his GalifornI ians are exponents and purveyors of the smooth, flowing rhythms and slower tempos, whicfi the setting the [trend of American music today, and, in the modern manner, utilizing the instruments which interpret the upto-the-minute fashion in dance music, violins woodwjMs and piano accordians. After careful consideration as to how his smooth melodies would be received in the East, and arranging an itinerary of the smarter places enroute, including the Drake Hotel, in Chicago; The Ship Cafe, Milwaukeee; ^.ddison Hotel, Detroit; the orchestraopened the fashionable Seven Gables Inn in Milford, Conn., last May and was an instantaneous success. In rapid succession came such outstanding engagements in the East as at M. I. T. Proms, Boston; Holy Cross Proms; Harvard, Yale, Hazel Park Club Bancroft Hotel, Worcester, Mass.; Black and Gold Boom, Holyoke, Mass; Palace Restaurant, Old Orchard; Rosewood Gardens, Taunton, Mass., and four weeks on the Keith Theatre circuit in Connecticut and Rhode Island. Now Gene Sammarco and his Californians are coming South with their modern music, costumes, five vocalists, trio and quartette,* their smart novelties- and thirty , instruments. Trumpets, trombones and saxaphones if you prefer the "hot" numbers. Violins, clarinets, accordians and flutes for the smooth fox trots, waltzes and tangos. They can be booked through the Southern Entertainment Bureau, Florence, S. C. I.*,1*!.11 ,r"""! ?r? "i" u..1 - - -Cotton Acreage Sign-up Begins Clemson* College, Jan. 6.?Beginning January 8 the cotton farmers of South Carolina are being asked \o sign contracts to reduce the planted acreage next season to approximately 1,149,000 acres, in a Southwide program to restrict total plantings to 25,000,000 acres. Under the provisions'of the 198435 cotton acreage adjustment contracts of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, South Carolina cotton planters will receive in reptal and benefit payments next year approxi-. mately $7,360,000 if a 40 per cent reduction of the five-year average of the annual acreage planted to cotton is achieved. Chester C. Davis, administrator of I the A. A. A., makes the following statoment regarding the 1934-35 cot-: ton acreage reduction contract: I "It is a fair contract that offers 'to the producer an adequate compen-I sation for making this reduction, and protecting as far as possible the interests of all involved. It is absolutely necessary that the-production of cotton be reduced next season if producers are to receive a decent price for their crop. Through this program we are aeeking^to achieve a reduction in production next year that will bring us nearer to the balanced situation that is necessary f if cotton is to bring a fair price, .^The administration has every confidence that the cotton farmers will unite under this program and take the second step in adjusting production." The average annual cotton acreage in South Carolina during th4 base period was 856,000 bales. Under the 1934 cotton reduction plan, South Carolina farmers would receive in the form of rental payments, if the reduction of 40 per cent is achieved. $5,725,000. The "parity payment" of at least one cent per pound on the farm allotment, on the basis of a 40 per cent reduction, would total $1,635,910 for . South j Carolina, on a total farm allotment of 342,000 bales. Dr. W. W. Long, director of the Extension Service, urges all farmers and business men to attend the county and community meetings being held this week to initiate the campaign and get clear comprehensive understanding of the whole program and then lend their hearty cooperation to forward thin plan of the President for agricultural betterment. "At the community meetings it is our intention," says R. W.^Hamilton, Assistant to the director, in charge of the campaign details, /to put all Hooded information in 'walking distance' of every farmer; then it is up to the farmer for his'cooperation, without which there can be no IV success. - . j., Boy Scout Notes The Viking Patrol met at the home of Ralph Stevenson last week and, after business was concluded, the host served delicious refreshments. . A contest was enjoyed, all taking part in it. - i",T~ ~ Officers were elected as follows: Jack " Villepigue, assistant - patrol leader; Douglas Wooten, treasurer, Bill DeLoache, scribeThis patrol is a newjytformed one and is doing fine. Bill DeLoache, Scribe. A Japanese cherry tree at Seattle, Wash* is reported - as being in full bloom now. They usually bloom in April and May. A Beautiful Tribute Worthily Bestowed There are now hanging on the wall of the Lyttleton Street Methodist church Sunday school auditorium the pictures of three noble men, who. served this Sunday- school through a long period of years?C. W. Birchmpre, who fcas directly connected with the school *a'tf"lea?h?r atfd superintendent for over forty years; Dr. Prank M. Zemp, who was the superintendent for about twenty-five years,* and George A. Rhame, who was the treasurer of the school for over twenty years. These pictures are beautifully fr%med and on each is a silver plate bearing the name and dates of birth and death.. This tribute was planned and executed. by M. M. Reasonover, the former superintendent and the work waa dona by J.*M. IJoffer, of the Hoffer Jewelry Company. "Hie good that men do live a3ftat So true in this Mary McCoy Wins National Canning Mary McCoy, member of the Midway 441 Clvrb, won first place and tirand Ohumpionship on a can of soup mixture in the Hazel-Atlas Canning Contest held in Chicago \|?st month. This ia the first time that a South Carolina club girl has been so honored. \ But doing outstanding ththgs is not unusual for Mary. She was president and valedictorian of her class. She went to school eight years without missing a day, and has the distinction of never missing ^an hono*^ ttoll. She likes athletics and was a star on the bhskot ball team. At present she is taking a commercial course at the llartsvillo high school. Mary is. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. McCoy, of Cassatt. The following is Mary's club story: "While Mrs. Boykin was Honie Demonstration Agent, I longed to join the 441 Club, but was not old enough to become a member. My mother was a club member and some of the older girls in our community were 4-H Club girls. This aroused my interest in club woak and I decided then, when I reached the age of ten, I wpuld join the 4-H club. "Miss Burgess, the new agent, came to our school to organize the -4-H Club, I joined the clothing club. During the year I began to sew for myself and canned the required amount 6f fruits and vegetables to be a club member. In the Fall I exhibited some of my sewing and twelve ! cans of canned products at the County Fair. Much to my astonishment I won three dollars as a prize for my sewing exhibits, but did not win anything on my canned products. This was very encouraging to me, although I did not win on my fruit, and I decided to work * harder and can better the following year. "I joined the room improvement club, and much to my surprise was | elected secretary of the club. Again I worked hard, improving my room, | and canning my fruits and vegetables. I At the County Fair I exhibited again and won first prize on my fruit and various other prizes on my sewing. I felt as though I had really accomplished something since I had so greatly improved my room. "The next year I began to lose interest in the club since it became impossible for the agent to any longer have the meetings at the school house. But that year I canned my fruit and tried to continue my club work th> best I could, "In the Fall, Miss Craig, the new haim demonstration agent, came to our school and re-organized a club. All my lost energy was revived and 1 became very -interested in club work again and joined the gardening and canning club. I joined this club in hopes of learning more about canning. We had many demonstrations and I learned lots about canning. I again entered the contest at the County Fair. I came out victorious, winning first prize on my fruit. During that year-1 sold vegetables which 1 had raised in my garden. I added this to my saving fund. I also put out shrubbery and other plants to help beautify my home. "Last Fall I joined the food club when Miss Craig . re-organized the clobe.:' Again I was elected an officer ?president or my, club.explained the importance of food, telling what a -great part H played in our health, and I saw I did not eat as I should. I very seldom ate any vegetables because I didn't like them, and I did not get the needed minerals for the up-keep of my body. 1 ate too many sweets and not enough fruits. My greatest fault, as I realize now, was not taking the proper care of my teeth. I very seldom brushed tihem and now they seem to be "off-color" despite the Care I take -of them. I resolved then and there to turn over a new leaf in my "Health Book" and earnestly try to improve my health. "Some times one thinks club work is all work, but there is lots of fun even in work, when thinking of the good times that are had during the County Short Courses which are reward* of work well done. Achievement Day is another day lodked forward to by club members. Each year I have attended the Short Courses. We have lota of fun during these courses ? playing games, singing songs, swimming, making many interesting things for our home. I have^ wall pockets, sofa pillows, scarfs, cassis, silhouetted- and a number of other useful Aouvenim that I have '* ^ . mad* it tfct ilwrt eowm each summar. "My saving fund I had saved is a neet egg to go to college. But my savings wore so small thai I'm using it to talcs a commercial course, in hopes of attending college at a future datje."' ^J?l|igj>" .vV-rw \' ' ' - ..i da H "4^ ' . -V." . State-Wide Pageant To Be Staged Here A statewide and countywide beauty pageant will be staged in the high school auditdrium here on Friday, January 20th, at 8 o'clock. * Who will be "Miss Camden?" "Who will be "Miss Kershaw County?" Who will be "Miss South Carolina?" Come out and see. Extensive preparations hia'C txjen made for the .statewide and local Merchants' Beauty Pageant, jyhcn more than ono hundred girls will go on dress parade in an extravaganza that will fill the auditorium. ^ Out-of-town judges will decide who is tho most beautiful girl in Camden and she will be crowned "Miss Cam-, den." Next will be chosen "Miss Kershaw County." These two girls will then enter tho competition, with the winners from other cities for the decision of out-of-the-state judgos, to decide who will be chosen "Miss South Carolina." "Miss South Carolina" will be given a trip to 'New York, Niagara Falls and later go to Atlantic City, where she will enter the National contest to try for the title of "Miss America 11)34." This contest is being sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary of Camden and great interest is being taken in it. Each merchant, is to be represented by a young lady of their choice. j" > Bishop Thomas at Hagood Sunday Bishop A. <S. Thomas will make his annual visitation to the Church of the Ascension, Hagood, this Sunday, January 21st, at 11:80 a. m. He will preach and' administer confirmation. Everyone is invited to., attend. Cassatt Baptist Church iServices at the Cassatt Baptist chuqph for next Sunday will -be as follows. Sunday school at 10 o'clock with O. G. Hatfield as superintendent, j Preaching at 11 o'clock by the pastor J H. C, Morrison. The pastor and congregation invite you to worship with them. Baptist Church Services The following services arc^ announced for the week begining January 21 at the First Baptist church: Men's prayer meeting at 0:30 Sunday morning p Sunday school at 10:00 o'clock with C. O. Stogner, superintendent in charge; public w,or ship conducted by the pastor, J. B. Caston, at 11:16 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning subject': "The / Backward Look." Evening subject, "The Forward Look," Weekly teachers meeting Tuesday evening at 7:30. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30. Senior B. Y. P. U. Thursday evening at 7:30. Junior B. Y. P. U. Sunday evening at 6:30. The public is Cordially invited to attend all the services of this church. Processing Tax C^nged Congressman J. P. Richards, along with other southern Congressmen, held a lengthy hearing before Mr. Savoy and other authorities of the Agriculture Department at eight o'clock Wednesday evening in the interest of eliminating the processing tax on the sale of dressed hogs by farmers who are not engaged as a business in the slaughtering and sale of pork. A request was m;?,ae that a thousand (1,000) pounds dressed pork exemption be allowed in this matter, as many small farmers who have only a few hogs to sell for pocket dhange would be unjustly penalized. The representatives of the Agriculture Department finally agreed to recommend that the &le of eight hundred (800) pounds ' per year of dressed meat be exempted before the processing tax would be imposed, with the understanding that if over thirteen hundred pounds per year were sold by any one that the tax would apply as before required to any and i all -'poundage sold. Congressman. I Richards became active in this matter. wihen he received protests against the processing tax from some of the ; markets and farmers of his District. Ed Wall, of Winston-Salem, N. C., attempted to collect a $2 debt from a friend. He will spend five years in prison thinking it over, as he used a pistol in his attempt at collection. i " * 1 Many Offer To f Serve On Council Tho Chronicle is today carrying a long list of candidates, some seeking re-election?others offering for their first time. Frank Mayer, a half-brothel of former counc ilman W. L. Jackson, has announced from Ward One, as have C. V. Massebeau and M. Billings. There are others mentioned from this Ward. In Ward Two "George A. Greed, ^ W. B. Porter and W, C. Scarborough v will make the race. In Ward Three iF. N. McCorklo and John T. Lanoy are offering for * tho position held for two terms by S. W. VnnlrfuuHngham. Leon t&chlosburg is seeking re-election ahd the name of C. C. Whitaker, Sr., is announcod for tho same office in Warti Four. Henry Suvage, Jr., present alderman from Ward Five, will have T. V. Walsh, Jr., as his opponent. J. E. Ross, present alderman from v r^! Ward Six, is being opposed by Mon'del L. iSmith, Jr. The election comes in March and meetings of tho citizens of the six wards will soon be called for organization. A secretary will have to be named to succeed the late C. W. Evans and a complete ne# registration of all voters will have ?to be made. Anniversary Services Mt. Mori ah Church > * Bev. J, W. Soykin, pastor of Mt. Moriah Baptist church, is planning his anniversary-services to be held on Sunday, January 28. On that date the church will bo sixty-eight years of age and has the unique distinction of having had only two ptfstors in I that length of time. His' father, the *<*: { , Rev. Monroe Boykin, established the kjhurch and served as its pastor until pis death. His son succeeded him and has served continuously since. At 3:30 in the afternoon the main (gpture of the anniversary will be the jubilee songs that are always inspir-, ing, haying come* down to Us as ^ rejiic of slavery?old plantation mel* odies. The anniversary addresi' will be made by Judge Mendel L. Smith, of Oamden, who never fails to interest. . :^J1h At 8 o'clock at night short address- , ok on the condition and progress of the church will be made. The officers land deacons serving with Rey. Boykin are T. M. McLester, clerk; Ben Jenkins, treasurer and Ben Jenkins/ T. M. McLester, Isaac Doby, Damon JLawson, William Boykin, James Gijr- V jtaiir and William Brooks hs deacons. Attended Funeral in Savannah Judge and Mrs. Mendel L. Smith, Mr. and* Mrs. W. W. Bates, Misses - ^ViSgH Minnie Clyburn, Tillie Geisenheimer,'. ' and Gus Hirsch nttendef the funeral of Moses Smith, prominent business man, who died in Savannah, Ga.f on Wednesday. Mr. tSmith spent many years in Camdep where he had a host of friends. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Clementina Clyburn, for- ' merly of Camden, ,but now of iSavan- . Methodist Church Sunday V Services in the Lyttleton Street Methodist church Sunday will be as I follows:- Sunday school opens at 10 promptly by Dr. A. W. Humphries, the superintendent. The devotional . I period wijl be in tbe main auditorium amfr will last for' twenty minutes. The classes then *o to their own departments. Preaching by the pastor at 11:16. Subject, "How Shall We Escape I" .Special music, violin solo by .Newell Wimberly, with the choir. Preaching at 7:30. Subject, "What Christ Mtfma ttrTJK"?Out . J night congregation ir growing And It I should continue to grow. We want to put the best we have in the night I service.?C. F. Wimberly, Pastor. .-t I _________ Death at Mill Village J Adison Jones Kenningtop, 59-yearold textile operative, died at his resi- . 1 dence in the Hermitage mill village Friday. Mr. Kennington was born in Lee county, near Bishqpville and moved to Camden about fourteen years ago. He is survived by his ; JmH widow, two daughters god one son. | He was a member of the Hermitage Baptist church. The funeral and * I burial occurred at Mt< Elort Baptist