The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 16, 1937, Image 1
J TWO DAY TRADE EXPOSITION - MAY 7 AND 8
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NUMBER 5
Merchants Making 1
For Most El;
At no time before has there been
aa much Interest manifest in a program
such us Is being evidenced in
the details incident to the trade exposition
to be held in Camdeu on May
7 ami H, under the auspices of the
Hotuil Merchants Bureau 6t the Camden
and Kershaw County Chamber of
Commerce.
The chamber has arranged to send
out several thousand invitations to
farmers of the county to attend the
affair and it is believed that thlB invitation
will bring some splendid reeulta
in the turnout of shoppers who
will be seeking to make their dollars
go twice as far as they have ever
done before.
Interest in the personality contest
that is to be held in connection with
the exposition is at a white heat as
indicated by the letters of inquiry
coming into the Chamber of Commerce
office. Secretary Heath of the
Chamber of Commerce addressed a
meeting of the Kershaw County Education
Association at the hl^ii school
auditorium last Thursday and requested
the superintendents of the eight
high schools in the county to elect
Bome attractive girl to represent the
respective district in the contest to
name a "Miss Kershaw County," on
Saturday, May 8.
.Since that meeting Mr. Heath has
[written to superintendents of the
Charlotte Thompson, Pisgah, Midway,
Antioeh, Blauey, Baron DeKalb, Bethone
and Kershaw schools, asking
thern to arrange for the voting contests.
The young ladies who come
from these schools will compete with
"Miss Camden," who will be elected
by a popular vote conducted by the
Camden Theatres. All of the contest^
sous will report at the Chamber of
Commerce office on Saturday morning,
May 8, at 11 o'clock and at noon,
til nine princessek of the Kershaw
sounty realm will dine at the Camden
Preparations
aborate Sales Event
Hotel. At 3 o'clock, in the afternoon j
the contest will be decided by the'
selection of "Miss Kershaw County,"
who will immediately be crowned at
the coronution ceremony to follow.
The contest will not be a beauty
contest, but Judging of the young ladies
will be based in personality,
poise, ability to converse easily, features
and form. Bo the winning girl
must have a character possessing all
of these pleasing personality traits.
Southern girls are noted for their
grace and charm and it goes without
saying that Kershaw county does not
have to take a back Beat with any
other locality when the matter of
personality is taken into consideration
as applied to its galay of fair
sex.
During their stay in Camden all of
the girlB will be under the care of
chaperones named by the Chamber of
Commerce.
j Just where the coronation ceremony
will take place has not been determ|
lned but the chamber secretary desires
it held 1q the down town district
where it may be observed by
the shopping crowds.
Merchants of Camden realize the
value of this trade exposition and the
local papers report an unprecedented
demand for advertising space in the
paper to be issued the week of the
affair.
Quite a number of Camden's leading
merchants and business men are
already displaying pennants signify|
ing their intention of participating in
the Trade Festival, Among them are:
I The Boston Store, Newberry's 6 and
110 Cents Store, The Fashion Shop,
Lomansky's Shoe Store, J. K. Lefc,'
Camden Furniture Co., Wallnau's, J.
C. Penney Co., Home Furnishing Co.,
Dr. T. B. Bruce, City Electric Co., Redfearn
Motor Co., Western Auto Associate
Store, Carolina Motor Co., Barringer
Hardware Co., Eichel's Department
Store, Belk's and Arthur Store.
Darlington Defeats
Camden By 3 to 2
Darlington, April 13.?The Darllngon
Blue Devils defeated Camden
tere today, 3 to 2. The game was
\ pitchers' duel between Blackmon
md VV. Lynch. This was Camden's
irst loss of the season.
Camden scored first in the third.
Vest got the only hit which Blacknan
yielded, and advanced to third
n errors. Reeves' bunt scored him.
'he visitors scored again in the sixth.
Vith two down, Branham walked, he
tole second and soored when 3fillams'
long fly to left field was mufTd.
Darlington scored once in the sixth.
Wright's slow roller was muffed. He
dvanced to third on Blackmon's hit
tuough the pitcher's box and scored
n a wild pitch. The Blue Devils taled
twice in the seventh. Gardner
'alked, stole second and scored on
toylc's hit down third base line.
k)yl?. scored when a throw to first
?" a double play went wild. Lynch
leliifd flve hits to Blackman's one.
ow.'ver. Lynch got ton strikeouts to
la? Union's nine.
Darlington plays Lamar here FriD
m what promises to be a crucial
"n* in the district elimination. DarlU'toii
defeated Lamar in the opening
me- of the season.
Death of Mrs. Clyburn
Mrs Sallie Bell Clyburn, 66, wife
1 B. Clyburn, died early Thursday
Dining at her home on north Broad
"cet after an illness of one and a
Bill years.
B^he was born in Fairfield county
Bb 6. 1871, the daughter of R.' H.
Bd Catherine E. Bell, and was the
B>D]er of three sons and two (laughs'-'
Henry Clyburn,'Of Camden; L.
I Clyburn, of Kershaw; T. B. Clydr.,
of Westville; Mrs. Charlton
Bex ton and Mrs. Robert Croxton, of
Br s haw.
if and Mrs. Clyburq moved to
mien from their home near Wests'
a number of years ago, and they
?' made many friends in Camden
o will regret her passingS'im
rai services will be held Frir
morning at 11 o'clock at DamasV
F church near Westville,
'he pastor, Rev. L, D. Hamer,
elating.
Fiddler's Convention at Kershaw
here will be a fiddler's convention
ym Kershaw high school audito >
on Friday nlghl, April 23, spon
b>\ the MacDowsll Muglc Club.
"> per cent of the prooeads will
praxes. The public Is Ibr
^Bhaw, 8.UC. A<t B?* W'
County Council
Meets Tomorrow
The Kershaw County Council of
Farm Women will hold Its spring
meeting at the Court House Saturday
afternoon, April 17, at 2:30 o'clock.
This organization is composed of
j three hundred and forty women representing
twenty or more rural communities
of-Kershaw county.
An interesting program dealing
with timely subjects has been arrtmged.
The outstanding speaker on this
program will be James H. Hammond
who will discuss the Social Security
Act.
Special music will be furbished by
the newly organized mu^ic. club
chorus in the Malvern Hill Home
Demonstration club.
The members of the Kersha^county9
delegation are the specially invited
guests. Frank H. Heath, secretary
of the Camden and Kershaw County!
Chamber of Commerce and Dewey
Creed, chairman of the 1937 county
fair will also be present as well as
Mrs. Sadie Craig Kirksey, former
Home Agent.
Ah interesting feature of the meeting
will be county reports on the following
subjects: Agriculture, extension
beautiflcation, citizenship, education,
finance, health, legislative, membership,
music and recreation, pubI
licity, and religion and welfare.
Splendid work has been accomplished
in the Home Demonstration clubs during
the past year and these reports
will contain a great deal of inte^Ming
information. n
During the business session 6fCJcers
for the next two years will be elected.
This will include: President, vice
president, treasurer and two directors.
Every Home Demonstration club
member is a member of the county
council of farm women and is expected
to be present. The public is invited
to attend any part of this program.
Frank C. Withers Dead
Frank C. Withers, who has been
general manager of the Columbia
State since soon after its founding
died in the Columbia hospital Wednesday
night. He was one of Columbia's
best knowncitizens and was
identified with many othet business
enterprises ahd organizations.
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N R6hr^ro^nZehas
Names Hours For
Summer Closing
Camden
merchant!* have completed
the organization of the Retail Merchants
Bureau, ami the two-day trade
festival that is Jo be stuged in Camden
May 7 and 8, will be the first
affair to be sponsored ?by the group.
The committee having in charge the
circulating of the agreement relative
to the object and regulations of the
bureau hus Been a big majority of the
business men and sufficient signatureu
to the membership have been secured
to insure Its success.
The regulation which governs closing
hours is arranged in three groups.
Group No. 1 which includes all department
stores, variety stores, millinery
shops, Jewelry stores, etc., will
open at 8 a. m. and close at 6:30 p. m.,
daily excepting Saturday when the
closing hour will be 9:30 p. m.
Group No. 2, which includes meat
markets and grocery stores will open
at 7 a. m. and close at 6 p. m. On
Saturdays the closing hour will be
10 p. m.
Barber shops of the city are In the
third group and will open at 8 a. m.
and close at 7 p. m. weekdays and at
10 p. m. on Saturdays.
The holiday closing program plans
for three complete days of rest for
business men and clerks, they being
July 4, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
During thja months 'of June, July and
August all business places will close
Thursday afternoons at 1 o'clock.
vAll merchants affiliated with the
Retail Merchants bureau have agreed
to comply with the regulations that
govern advertising, charity donations,
etc,
The bureau has created a sanctions
committee which will pass upon the
proposition of solicitors. The regulations
as listed in the bureau agreement
provides that the placing of advertising
in newspapers of general circulation,
school papers published by
schools in Camden, use of bill boards,
posters, picture slides and films is
not barred by the bureau.
All solicitors presenting any of the
following matters shall be refused consideration
unless they present written
credentials from the secretary issued
under authority of the sanction committee.
All forms of advertising not
above excepted, including programs,
hotel registers, menu cards, time
books, song books, trading stamps,
etc., and donations in cash or goods
to churches, lodges, clubs, societies
and er organizations, and purchase
of tickets, except when solicitation by
an organization, is confined within its
own uiembership.
When credentials are presented tiy
a solicitor, the member solicited is
by no means bound by the approval
of the bureau, but is free to use his
own judgment.
Secretary Heath of the Chamber of
Commerce expressed his appreciation
of the work of the committee in getting
all the merchants signed up for
the Retail Merchants bureau.
"The regulations on closing hours
becomes effective for all merchants,
barbers, and the like, of Camden next
Monday, April 19," said the secretary.
I "I hope that the shopping public will
take notice of the new hours of business
and do their buying in time. The
new hours will be a boon to the buaiI
ness men and clerks, especially for
those in the grocery stores and meat
markets which have in the past remained
open unlil-7 p. m. I would
like to also call attention to the hours
qf the barber shops so if any of the
men want to get a hair cut or shave
of an evening they had better plan
to be at a shop before the 7 o'clock
closing hour.
How difficult it is to tune in on a
radio program that suits the whole
family.
Fools have positive opinions.
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Mrs. Branham
Buried At Blaney
Funeral services for Mrs. Robert J.
Branham, f?8, who died at the Baptist
hogplta) Saturday, were conducted
at 3 o'clock Monday uftoriujn from
Harmony Baptist church, hear Blaney.
by the ltov. J. L, Willis, pustor.
Interment was In the church yard.
Mrs. Branhum wus the duughter of
Perelval and Sallie Klklns Abbott and
wus a native of the Blaney community
After her marriage she moved to
Columbia. For the past several year's
she hud mudu her home near Bluney
?U a part of the old family plantation.
Slid was a member of Harmony Baptist
church and loaves., RUUiy friends
who Will Join with heH family in
mourning her passing.
She Is survived by her husbund,
Robert James Branham of Blaney;
four sons, J. Q. Branham of Columbia,
E. L. Branham of Chicago, 111.;
Oscar II. Branham of Columblu, and
Fred IS. Branham of Union; two brothers,
John R. Abbott of Blaney, and
M. K. Abbott of Columbia; a halfsister,
Mrs. James Sharp of Columbia;
her step-mother, Mrs. Perelval
Abbott of Columbia, and five grandchildren.?Monday's
State.
Quaker Cemetery Being Beautified
Visitors to the Quaker cemetery
this week have been pleased over the
n? appearance of the Quaker avenue
drive through the plat since being surfaced
by granite screenings.
This idea originated with C. Grainger
Kornegay, who has been instrumental
in making the cemetery attractive
in appearance ever since he became
a resident of Camden. Approval'
of the suggestion was forthcoming
from the cemetery association officials.
Some one hundred tons of screenings
have been placed on the drive
but If the work of surfacing the entire
drive system in the cemetery is
carried out another h.U?dred tons Or
over will be reqyffed.
It has been -stiggested that Camden
residents who are interested in t)ie
beautifying of this last resting place
of so many of the illustrous sons and
daughters of (he community, can aid
in the work by volunteering to defray
the expense of one or more tons of
the granite screenings. In this way
enough contributions may be secured
to complete the work.
County Education Association Met
cy
The Kershaw County Education association
met last Thursday afternoon,
April 8, for the purpose of discussing
plans for next years program
and electing officers for the next
school term. Dr. W. D. Maglnnls, of
Wlnthrop college led the discussion in
a most Interesting manner. At the
conclusion of the discussion Cyril B.
Busbee, superintendent of the Baron
DeKalb school, was elected president;
E. M. Shannon, Antloch high school,
vice president; Miss Mary Olive Varn,
Baron DeKalb school, secretary; W.
J B. Stevenson, Midway high school,
treasurer; and Kathleen B. Watts,
county superintendent of education,
! membership chairman.
The out-going officers are: J. H.
McDanlel, president; Mrs. Louise
Cantey, vice president; and Mrs.
Louise Tiller Lee, secretary.
Wateree Baptist Church
Services announced for next I^ord's
day are as follows: Spnday school
at 1,0 a .m., J. E. Robinson, superintendent.
Our slogan Is Watch Our
Sunday School Grow and Go." The
regular preaching service at 7:30 p.
m. each Sunday evening. The subject
for this coming Lord's day will
be: "Facts About Ourselves." We
shall bo pleased to have you coma
and worship with us.?B. J. Mclver,
pastor.
PROGRESS
THE RESULT OF COOPERATION
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Community development depends upon working one with another
for the benefit of * '7.
The results of oooperatlon will be more civic improvements, finer
schools, greater religious activity, higher morals and better business.
All these things dlreotly affect the people of this entire community.
Real prosperity will come to us by having developed the community
spirit In Camden.
It will bring about individual prosperity, happiness and cofttentmsnt
to every resident of this ?omjnunity.
Cat us make our town grow by contributing to Its general .welfare
through the medium of patronising owe home town merchants, whose
success means the success of the Community. When you make your
purchase dot of town, you jiro fighting against the community spirit.
Buy at hornet
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"The Tavern" Is '
Ably Presented
The Pluymaker's Guild of Camden I
presented its first pluy lust Friday t|
evening in (ho high school auditorium';
to u large and enthusiastic gathering j
of Camdenites and winter visitors.
"The Tavoi;n" as written by George |.
M. Cohan, us ably directed by Mm.
Donald Morrison, us produced by Miss
Martha Hfugleton, and as excellently
acted by Guild mem bet's, proved first
class entertainment.
The curtain rose on a set designed
by George Grlswo(d and Robert Brook,
ubly assisted by Miss Ada Phelps,
so cleverly constructed ae immediately
to creuto in the imagination of the
audience the ddslred illusion: a tavern
of the early nineteenth century. 1
All of th?}.action of the pluy took
place in this one room during one
night of terrific storm. Too much
pruise cannot be given the technicians,
Hen Team, Christopher Vaughan,
and Richard Kirkland, who contrived
the sound effects of wind, thunder and
lightning so realistically that this
spectator at least unconsciously gluuced
outside the auditorium window between
acts to note the progress of
the storm.
In this high tension atmosphere of
night and storm, the tavern keeper
as acted by L. W. McFadden, his bou,
played by Allen Hardy, and the hired
girl, as portrayed by Miss Virginia
Halle, discover two suspicious trespassers
in the Tavern barn, a nameless
vagabond and an exhausted woman.
Robert E. Breck as the vagabond,
handsome, eccentric, with a ready
tongue and a charm of manner bewildering
to the Inn Keeper, and Mrs.
8tanley Babin as the distraught woman,
together with Donald Morrison as
the Tavern hired man, were easily the
outstanding performers of the evening.
The success of the play was
largely due to the talented and far
from amateur acting of these three:
Mr. Breck, the hero and the center
of all the action, Mrs. Babin, in the
difficult role of a desperate woman, I
and Mr. Morrison as the clown, ably*
supplying the comic relief.
While the Tavern Keeper is puzzling
over his unwelcome guests, other
refugees from the storm enter the
scene: the Governor, happily played1
by Major A. M/ Brails ford, his wife
and daughter, charmingly acted by
Mfs. L. P. Tobin and Miss Peggy
Pitts, and the daughter's fiance as
played by Joe McKain, There is mystery
and ever Increasing excitement
as the night wears on. Before morning,
the sheriff with his two men,
played by Dr. T. B. Bruce, Thornwell
Hay and John DuBose, and an asylum
attendant, portrayed by Clifton Mc-ti
Kain, crowd.the tavern and tangle th't
plot.
But the strange and fascinating
drama emerging out of the chance
meeting of these diverse characters
reaches a satisfying and unexpected
climax at the height of the storm,
when, it develops that the sheriff is
the robber bandit who has held up
the Governor's coach that very night,
for which offense the vagabond was
being held in the Tavern, the unknown,
woman is an escaped lunatic
t from the ^asylum, and the vagabond
a one-time Inmate of the same institution.
The sheriff is lihndcuffed, tho
lovers reunited, and the vagabond,
who by this time has cast the spell
j of Ms personality over the entire chst,
and is recognized as a fugitive, goes
! out into the storm.
Before the final curtain, it was evident
that the Pluymaker's Guild had
done an excellent piece of work and
demonstrated beyond doubt its ability
to provide a much needed cultural element
in Camden's social life.
Mrs. Samuel Russell, who as first
president of the Playmaker's Guild,
has had the difficult task of launching
this new enterprise, la to bo congratulated'
on its undoubted success.
Those who had the privilege of ienjoying
"The Tavern" look forward to
the presentation of other Guild plays
in the future.
First Baptist Church Services
The following services are announced
for week beginning April 18, at
the First Baptist churfch: Sunday
school at 10 o'clock with W. G. Wil-,
son, Jr.,-superintendent, in charge*
Public worship conducted by the paar
tor, J. B. Caston, at 11:15 a. m. and
8 p. m. Morning subject: "The Life
That Ends In Ruin." Evening subject:
"An Important Question." B. T. U.
8unday evening at 7. ; Prayer meetIng
Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock.
The public 1s cordially invited to atMt
all the ;
List of Members of
IMaymakers' Guild
Mr. and Mrs. G. it. Uuum, Mrs. Wllllum
Barrett, Mrs. J. 8. Blickwell, Mr.
and Mrs. C. 1\ Hasaott, Mr. and Mrs
W. R. Bousal, Moultrie Burns, Misa
I). 10. Brown, Mrs. H. 1). Jioykln, Mra.
N. C. Boykln, J. 11. Crocker, Mr. and
Mra. Hill Coxe, Mra. A. 8. Davidson,
Mr. und Mra. Wllllum L. Del'aaa, Mr.
und Mrs. C. 1*. DuBoae, Jr., Mra. C. 1*.
Dulloae, Mra. E. C. DuBoae, Mra. John
Duvine, John Davidaon, Mra. Davis,
Mr. and Mra. Simon Eichel, Miaa MarKaret
B. Fowell, Mra. Alice Del'uaa
Fergus^d/Mrs. Wllllum Goodule, Miaa
Mary Goodule, Mr. und Mra. McKoo
Graham, Mra. Warren Harris, Miaa
Mae Heywurd, Dr. D. C. Hlnaou, Miaa
Mury B. Hough, Mrs. Alice Hutchinson,
B. B. Hiuckley, Miaa Virgintu Huile,
Mra. lleulah Hicka, J. T. Hay, Allan
Hardy, MIbb Wllhelmine Kirby, Mr.
and Mra. Harry D. Kirkover, Mrs. J.
L. Knapp, Mr. and Mra. Charloa G.
Knight, Mr. and Mra. It. M. Kennedy,
Jr., Mr. and Mra. Stanley Llewellyn,
Mra. W. J. Mayfluld, Mr, and Mrs.
John Mullen, Mrs. H. O. Marvin, M1b?
Celeste Mumford, Miaa Elizabeth. Mo
Dowell, Mra. Clifton McKaln, Mra. Joe
McKain, MIbb Olive Nettles, Mtb. W.
F. Nettles, Mr. and Mra. J. H. Osborne,
MIbb Hdchuel O'Daniel, Mr. and
Mtb. Reuben Pitts, Hairy Porter, Mra.
L. C. Proctor, Oliver Rice, Mr. and
Mrs. F. M. IlhodeB, Mra. Samuel RusBell,
MIbb Etta Robblns, Mr. aud Mrs.
Ralph Shannon, Misa Martha Singleton,
Mra. H. 8. Steedman, Miaa Sarah
Steedman, Mr. and Mra. Henry Savage,
Jr., Mr. and Mra. E. C. Stout,
Mr. and Mra. Charles Shannon, 4th,
MIbb Jane Trantham, Mias Dorothy
VanLandlngham, Dr. and Mrs. Carl A.
West, Dr. A; B. Whjtaker, Mr. and
Mrs. E. L. Woodward, Miaa Olive
Whlttredge, MIbb Sarah Woolfe, Mr.
and Mra. J. B. Zerup, Miss Gertrude
Zemp, James D. Zemp.
Paroles Convict
Who Checked Riot
Eddie Wright, a negro, serving a
15-year term for manslaughter, who
played a consplcious part in subduing
rioting prisoners on the stale prison
farms in May, 1936, ^as given a parole
yesterday by Governor Johnston.
Wright was sentenced in Beaufort
county In November, 1931, and was
admitted to the state prison the same
month to begin his term, and was
transferred to the state farm.
According to Capt. John M. Glenn, ' -^ipt
manager of the state farm, Wright
"usdd a pistol that belonged to a
guard who had been shot down." With
the pistol he captured and returned
t6 the fc&j^racka Sdme ninety prisoners
"who easily' could have mads their '
esoape after severely wounding the ^ Si
guard," according to the official report.
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"At the time the guard 'was Bhot
down, he was the only guard on duty
near enough or in position to stop f
the riot" and so was the only guard
in firing range, it was stated.
"Had it not been for Wright's very
timely interference and help, the entire
group of convictB could have gotten
away, for the guard had used all
available ammunition," the report ' ?
read.
Solicitor F. A. McLeod, who prosecuted
the prisoners who participated
in the riot, mado a strong appeal in
Wright's behalf and said he had been
of inulerlul assistance to him in bringlug
the other prisoners to justice.
The negro appeared in court as a wit- _
ness for the state and assisted In
securing the conviction of the six con- '
victs who participated in the riot and
who were sentenced to serve ten
years each, the record sets forth.
Solicitor McLeod, who recommended
clemancy for Wright, said that,
"there will, always be a feeling on
the part of the convicts in the penitentiary
against thlB man. . ."
Captain Glenn of the state farm v-J;
recommended clemency for Wright,
and the state board of pardons recommended
a parole during good behavior.
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The parole granted by the governor
was during good behavior.
Not Entitled To Ihare
( Charleston, April 14.?A decree of
Jiulge J. Lyles Glenn, flled in U. S..
District Court here today, ruled that the'self-styled
common law wife
the late John K. Cross well, Sumter
philanthropist, was . not entitled to
share In his estate/ hat directed executors
of his will to pay a part of the
posts of the action. The case went
before Judge Glenn on exception?
from a maater'a report,
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