The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 15, 1935, Page PAGE NINE, Image 9
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ltice to debtors and
creditors
Bll parties indebted to the. estate
J. R. Belk are hereby notified to
Bke payment to., the undersigned,
all parties, if any, having claims
Binst the said estate will present
Bm likewise, duly attested, within
B time prescribes by law.
Trannie C. Belk
Annie May Williams
Minnie McDonald
eeutrix's of the estate of J. R. Belk
Baden, S. C., January 18, 1935,.
notice
Bin Agent of the South Carolina
Be Commission Income Tax Division
Bl be located at Camden, S. C.,
Bnty Court House, February 20-21,
"he purpose of this visit is to asB
taxpayers in executing State InBie
Tax Returns for 1934.
Bl! persons should avail themselves
this opportunity of securing aid
Bch will be cheerfully given withB
charge.
^special tax notice
Bfter January 31, 1935, oiie per
B assessment penalty will be added
all taxes assessed for the year
4 not paid. This penalty is added
B>rding to law for the month of
Bruary
S. W. HOGUE, Treasurer.
Kershaw County, Camden, S. C.
44-48 sb.
m tax returns
Boiice is hereby given that the AuBr's
Office will be open for receiv
Tax Returns from January 1st,
5, to March 1st, 1935. All persons
ling real estate or personal propBp
must make retums of the same
nin said period, as required by
, or be subject to a penalty of 10
cent.
Bh? Auditor will attend in person
by deputy at the following places
the county on the dates indicated
receiving retums:
ethune?January 17th and 18th.
Bershaw?January 23rd and 24th.
lberty Hill?January 29th.
Bestville?January 30th.
janey?January 31st.
"I persons between the ages of 21
I 60 years, inclusive, are required
Bay a poll tax, and all persons be er>
the ages of 21 and 50 years,
usive, are required to pay a Road
i unless excused by law. All
stees, Guardians, Executives, Ad strators
or Agents holding prop
. in charge must return same,
ties sending tax returns by mail
t make oath to same before some
Ber and fill out the same in pro
manner or they will be rejected.
B. E. SPARROW,
Auditor Kershaw County.
B 39 sb.
Surplus Poultry
Moves To Market
Columbia, Feb. 9.?During the last
two weeks of January county agricultural
agents, through cooperative
carlot schedules, have moved approximately
160,000 pounds of poultry
whieh have brought to the growers in
12 counties approximately $20,000,
announces George E. Prince, chief of
the Extension Division of,,Markets.
Additional schedules are being operated
in several counties during the
first two weeks of February and Mr.
Prince believes that by the end of
February practically all of the counties
having surplus poultry will have
been served by these cooperative
poultry sales. He e&tipoates that
more than 350,000 pounds of poultry
will have been moved in the period
of one month, and states that schedules
during this four-week period
, moved more poultry than was moved
iii a similar manner during all of
1234.
Prices are considerably better in
the Eastern markets and are more
i$ line at the present time with local
prices, which make sales of poultry
through carlot schedules more attractive
to the producers in 'South Carolh^
. . : *
Starting in March, schedules will
, be operated again and if there is
I enough poultry offered, it is probable
that additional schedules will be operated
again in April.
Choir Singer Goes To
Prison For Bigamy
Newton, Feb. 7.?William (Pete)
Gibson pleaded guilty to the charge
of bigamy in superior court here and
was sentenced to the state prison at
hard labor for a period of not less
than five nor more than seven years,
by Judge F. Donald Phillips, of Rockingham.
Gibson was married on Saturday
before the last Christmas in (South
Carolina to Miss Vera Yount, member
! of a prominent Newton family. It
was later discovered that he had a
wife and daughter living in Madison,
where the .marriage took place about
seven years ago.
Gibson had been living in Newton
for about two years, and had established
himself in the social and religious
life of the community. He was
i active in the Sunday school being
treasurer of his class, and was h
member of the choir of the First
Methodist church.
He was located in Madison last
week at the home of his father and
brought to the Catawba county jail
by officers Saturday night. He was
arraigned Tuesday.
Rev. Mahaffey Dead
Rev. James Erwin Mahaffey, a
well-known retired Methodist minisy
ter, died at his home in Clinton after
a long illness, aged 70 years. He
was for 44 years an active and devoted
minister of the Methodist
church, holding assignments in a
number of places in the Piedmont section
of the state. Because of ill
health he retired in 1930 and returned
to Clinton with his family to spend
the remaining years of his life, where
he had his first conference appointment
in 1886. ?He leaves four sons
and three(daughters, besides his widow
whty./vt&s Miss Mattie May Wingo,
of ^artanburg county, where he
himself was born.
Sues Sheriff
Mary Covington Heustis, of Bennettsville,
has sued tjhe Sheriff of
Hampton county on his bond, alleging
that political motives caused him
to fail to collect delinquent taxes,
and hence she was not paid for teaching
school in that county. The suit
ihcluded all unpaid teachers in its result,
and the supreme court has cited
the sheriff, his bonding company, and
other Hampton county officials to appear
on February Id, to show cause
why they have failed to pay teachers
for 1931-32. .
Committee Gets
Data On Farms
(frionj Saturday's Columbia .State)
By enlarging the state farm, ope'ated
in connection with the state
penitentiary, and managing the enlarged
area in the same general capable
fashion as that now obtaining,
the state penitentiary could be made
arge y self-sustaining and money appropriated
annually for the present
Prison could be used in constructing
a new state prison, without increase
or the tax burden, according to the
opinion of a committtee appointed to
investigate the state farm.
The state penitentiary and its
crowded condition have come in for
much comment during the present
session of the legislature, and there
have been several discussions of
plans for improving conditions.
A committee, consisting of R. I).
McDonald, Oconee; J.-p. Isenhoweri
'airfield and J. A. Lofton, Oharles-1
ton, was appointed to investigate the
farm ahd report to the house. Yesterday
morning it made its report 'as
rollows:
"We found 1,515 acres of cultivated
land on the farm, divided as follows:
600 acres of corn, 200 acres of wheat,
400 acres of oats, 100 acres of truck,
b acres of sweet potatoes, 160 acres
of cotton, and 30 acres of sorghum
for syrup.
f ??Und a large body of ????
fertile Wateree river bottom land,
reasonably safe in times of floods.
I his land has already been worked
and harrowed, and is now ready to
plant. The upland is sandy loam, all
broken and in a high state of fertility.
~u ^oun<i 68 mules, six old mules
have been sold, and ten young mules
bought this year; 215 head of well
cared for cattle; 300 pigs, hogs and
shoat8 for 1934 meat supply; 120
h?5* have butchered this winter.
We found on hand 7,000 bushels
of corn, 250 tons of hay besides a
quantity of oat and wheat straw,
6,000 gallon cans of tomatoes, and
okra, besides a quantity of small
cans. v
"We found it supplied with ample
barns, stables and out houses, a gin
house, saw mill, cannery, shop, etc.,
two barracks to house 200 prisoners.
These buildings are of brick, three
stones, fire proof. The lower floors
serve as dining room and recreational
hall; the second and third stories,
dormitories. The prisoners here are
not locked in cells, but sleep on cots
in these large halls?plenty of room
and ventilation.
"We feel safe in saying that thiB
is the neatest, best cultivated farm
in South Carolina. Bear in mind that
this farm is managed by one man,
Mr. Glenn, and judging from the appearance
of the farm and the clocklike
way things move, he is a wonder.
"But your committee had in mind
this question: What relation does this
farm sustain to the penitentiary; in
relieving congestion, contributing to
the maintenance, does the farm pay?
In order to answer these questions,
we call your attention to the follow|
ing facts: The legislature appropriates
$96,000 for the maintenance of
the penitentiary. Out of this must
come: Personnel, salaries, guards and
| employes, $56,000; power, lights, coal,
I 30 cars, and water, $10,000; insurance
with sinking funds, $6,000; fertilizer,
80 tons soda, 100 tons acid, and 30
tons potash, $6,000; miscellaneous,
[including various supplies, $16,000;
total $94,000.
I "Here you have $1,000 left to feed
1,300 prisondgp 68 mules, 216 cattle,
300 hogs. Then, where does the food
come from? The entire penitentiary
population is fed grits twice a day,
corn bread twice a day; 68 mules fed
every day; and 120 hogs fattened;
300 fed for carry over. Now every
grain of this corn comes from this
farm, and still on hand 7,000 "bushels,
and the 1934 crop cut in half by severe
drought. The entire population
is fed tomatoes and okra once every
day; all this comes from the farm,
and still on hand 6,000 gallons, after
selling $800 worth to the State hospital
and the 1934 crop was cut to
about one-sixth by the severe drought.
Once a day vegetables are served;
nearly all this comes from the farm;
200 acres of wheat with average
seasons will yield 15 bushels per acre;
this means approximately 500 barrels
of flour; 30 acres of sorghum will at
least produce 30 barrels of syrup.
One hundred and sixty acres of cot|
ton produced 160 bales, which sold
for 13 cents, here a cash income of
nearly $10,000. This cash income is
j increased considerably by selling othj
er produce n?t needed on the farm?
. cotton seed traded for meal, 2,600
Lgonnds of meal for a ton of seed.
Every acre on this place suited to
agriculture is now under cultivation,
and the balance in pasture.
"Your committee is of the opinion
that if this farm could be enlarged,
or another as large as this present
one could be obtained by the state,
land managed aa well aiUthls one, it
would go a lopg way toward baking
th* penitentiary eelf-mmlehiing; Another
farm could supplement the food
wiWr$is devote more nam ibl
ifliiiiliin in tfti funfu,; jt iiioMt
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Fire Destroys
Clemson Dairy
Clemson Col leg, Feb. 6.?Fire of
undetermined origin tonight destroyed
the dairy barn at Clemson college
causing damuge estimated at between
$30,000 and $36,000;
All but three of the 175 cattle in
the dairy were rescued. Cadets from
the college fought the blaze and
brought tWWs to safety.
Four siflMl^l^re left standing, but
the two wings vfid the center of the
u-shaped bqllding were destroyed.
About $5,000 wb*?h of feed was also
lost.
tentiary in such position that should
your committee decide to build a new
institution, after the Georgia plan,
the annual payments could be made
out of the regular appropriation for
the penitentiary, without increasing
the tax burden.
"This would not only be a source
of revenue, but would for the time
being relieve congestion within the
walls. Here we could probably use
three or four hundred prisoners for
two years at least. Buildings would
have t? be erected, pastures built,
clearing land, roads constructed,
ditching, etc., all this necessary in
bringing the farm into the proper
state of cultivation. Thus another
farm could be included in the cost of
the new penitentiary, and bo managed
that the penitentiary out of its regular
appropriation can pay for its
own new home.
"We cannot close this report without"
expressing our appreciation to
Colonel Scarborough and Captain
Glenn for the courtesies and hospitalities
shown us for their open, honest,
willingnefca to answer every question,
and show us everything."
Sumter Woman
Kills Her Husband
i/ouis Myers, middle-aged white
man, died at the Tuomey Hospital
shortly before midnight- last night
from a pistol shot wognd indicted by
his wife at their home in Shannon
Town, southeast of the city limits
Friday afternoon.
Rurul Officers Dollard and City
Officer Cummings were called to the
Myers home shortly after 4:30 o'clock
yesterday afternoon. They found Myers
lying in the back yard with a pistol
shot wound in his side. He was
taken to the Tuomey Hospital where'
he died last night.
Mrs. Myers told the officers hef
husband came home drunk and attacked
her, pushing her into the back
yard. She fired at him twice, she
said, one of the shots striking him
in the side.
Two months ago Myers shot ami
killed Joseph iBrown, following a
quarrel at Myers' home. He used the
' same pistol with which his wife shot
him yesterday. A coroner's jury,
however, cleared Myers of blame in
the killing of Brown on the ground
of self-defense.?(Saturday's iSuanter
Item.
Lee County Citizen
Shoots Negro Man
Biahopville, Fob. 10.?Jim Boatwright,
60-year-old Negro man, Bishopville,
wus futally shot here last
night at 11:30 on Main street by
Boots Skinner, young white man of
the Shannon Hill section of lee county,
it is alleged. Five shots were
fired at iioatwright. Four of them
took effect. There were one or two
eye-witnesses. Boatwright was on
his way home with some groceries
when the fatal shooting occurred. As
yet no reason has been given for the
shooting*
Young Skinner is reported by Policeman
iPittman of the Bishopville
force to have said, "I killed him." He
turned over his pistol to Officer Pittman
and was lodged in jail.
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Relief Roller?It wasn't that. What
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hours and being allowed only three
hour for meal*. We think it should
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