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The Camden Chronicle ^ VOLUM CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1937 "" NUMBER 24 Old Paper Found; May Mean Fortune Tho discovery of an old yellowed jopy of the famous Grant's "Walllipr" edition of the "Vicksburg CitlJJJT. published at Vicksburg, MIbs., j^^day, July 2, 18(13, the day the '7'nioJi"ffr,'0eH under Grant occupied 0>ig famous Confederate stronghold, pyiy mean a fortune to Mr. and Mrs. H. S Campbell, of this city. The paper, yellow with age, but itlll Bhowlng the exquisitely conventional design wall paper in red, tan, brown with gold highlights, was found iinong some old papers belonging to Mr#. J- Graham, mother of Mrs, Campbell and widow of the late Rev. Mr. J. P. Graham, former Baptist inini?ter of Camden. Mrs. Graham received the paper from her father who traa a union officer named Freeman. Mrs. Graham turned the paper oyef to her daughter Sunday, an Inquiry revealed that this particular edition of the Citizen has a value- ranging from $10,000 to $25,000. Mr. Campbell has sought the aid of the Camden chamber of.commerce In making Inquiry regarding anyone seeking a relic as valuable as this document. The facts In connection with the printing of this particular edition are interesting. It appears that the lack of paper made it necessary to use wall paper for the printing of the Vicksburg papers. At the time that Grants forces came Into the city, the Citizen was just about to go to press with the July 2nd Issue. The Union forces seized the newspaper plant aud after inserting Beveral items they themselves had prepared, ran off the edition. Outside of a column story on General Grant and a two paragraph 'notice,'' the edition carried the news items that had been prepared by the regular stuff of the paper before the Union forces seized It. J. M. Swordsla listed ns proprietor of the paper. In the edition appears an editorial regarding the lack of discipline among the Confederate troops in the city, the editor taking them to task for failure to atop foraging parties from stealing chickens, etc. Then another I column Is devoted to "Yankee News I From All Points." There is an excelI lent editorial regarding Robert E. Lee I and his operations in Virginia. Thin article concludes as follows: "Today I Maryland is ours?Pennsylvania?the I next Ohio?now midway like MohamI met's coffin?will fall. Success and I glory to our arms. God and right I are with us." ' The most interesting item In the I edition is the "notice" set by soldierI printers in the Union army and whfch reads as follows: I "Two days bring about, gre&t Qhangles. The banner of the Union floats lover Vicksburg. Gen. Grhnt has "caught the rabbit"; he has dined in Vicksburg, and he did bring his dlnIner with him. The "Citizen" lives to I tee it. For the last time it appears on I "wall-paper." No more will It eulogize Idle luxury fo the mule-meat and fri|cas8es kitten, urge Southern warriorB I to suc h a diet never-more. This Is die last wall-paper ^Citizen, and is, excepting this note, from the types I *1 we found them. Printer-soldiers I Bet this note and worjf; the form. It 1*111 be valuable hereafter as a curilosity." I Mt. Pisgah Dedicates Building I Ike Mt. Pisgah Baptist church, of die Kershaw association is planning I* dedicatory service August 29, dedil<*tlng a new brick building, with seat* I'Qg capacity of 700 and thirty-five Sunl<toy school roouaft. In connection with I this service we are celebratihg our lone-hundredth anniversary. The ser vices begin at 10 o'clock a. m. Lunch l*iU be served at the church. The Italic i8 cordially Invited to attend I tola service, and we extend a special l?vltation to the former pastors and tofmer members.?Rev. Connie Dablae>\ pastor. I Farm Tour Planned I are Planning a farm tour to the I *bdhin Experiment Station at PonIJtoc on Monday, August*30, at 3 o'clock I the purpose of looking over the rork Giat is being do .'v jhere. Since 1 I to land i? similar to a great deal 1 I 0Ur land this trip should be esI lnt?r?stlng to you. |g 0 wiu meet at the Experiment 1 lb U?n at * o'clock, so be on time 1 |>?rder to avoid oonfusion. I am 1 Vr* *nxl?us to have a good attend*? c<>me and brtttf your neigh- ] l??y. W. O. MoCar..,, County < ' Chamber Asks For Rental Lists Home owners in Camden und vicinity who will byvo rooms or apart-1 meats to rent during the coinRig tourist season are urged to iist their names with the chamber of commerce at once. Mr. Jieaih, secretary of the chamber states that his office will compile a listing of all homes, apartments,! rooms, etc., that will be for rent and whea Inquiry is received at his ofTleo for accommodations, copies of this register will be mailed out. It is the plan to hav^ hundreds of copies of the rental list printed and they will be available to all persons, whether the request is by mail or in person. "I cannot urge too strongly upon the people who will have rooms or other rental facilities to offer this coming season to get their names to me as soon as possible," said Mr. Heath. "This summer 1 have met j many people who complained to mo that they had rooms for rent last winter but no one ever citine to look at them. 1 inquired if they had registered thy rooms at my office and they .replied in the negative, to which 1 could but say that no one connected with my office can claim to be a Houdini and send people to places not registered with us." Boys and Girls Clubs! Enjoys Camp Long Last week was a red letter week; for the 4-H club boys and girls from j Kershaw county who attended Camp J Long which is the State 4-H Club] camp and is located in Aiken county, j 88 miles from the stop light in Camden. Three buseB filled with boys and girls from all parts of the county left here Monday afternoon. ThiB was a real experience for many and the good times started at once. It was the first time a number had visited our capital city. The buses arrived at the camp on schedule time and registration* properly dispensed with, swimming was in order and duely engaged in at beautiful Camp Long lake. A staff of ten efficient men and women remain at the camp for the summer and everything moves like clock work. Recreation was the principal feature of the program. Swimming and hiking were participated in and classes in nature study, folk dancing, pep singing, health education, courtesy, harmonica, and soap sculpture were engaged in. < Thursday afternoon a ride into Aiken was enjoyed after which all attended the matinee. Night programs consisted of play parties, stunts, Indian dances, camp fire programs and the like. The Bamberg boys and girls were also at camp and many new friendships were formed. Friday afternoon came all too soon for most and it was with regret that the good times ended. The return trip was made by Lake Murray and Saluda Dam. The official cbaperones for the encampment were: Mr. and Mrs. W. C. McCarley and Miss Margaret Fewell, who were ably assisted by men and women from various communities who are serving as local leaders. t This encampment was'made possible by the school trustees who permitted the use of their buses, by the Kershaw county delegation who made an appropriation for 4-H club work and the following organizations and firms who expressed, their interest in young people of the rural section by generous contributions: Barring^ Hardware company, First National Bank, Belk's Department store, Southern Cotton Oil mill, Kershaw County Council of Farm Womea, Carolina Motor company, L. I. Qulon, City of Camden, Commercial Bank, H. Q. Carrison, Sr., J. C. Penny, Shrine club, M. B. Burns, Potter & Wing, Robert Kennedy. ' Methodist Church Services The following service will be held at Lyttleton Street Me^pdist church on Sunday, August 29: Sunday school, 10 a. m. There will be no other services on this Sunday due to the absence of the pastor on vacation. Regular services will, be held next Sunday, ^eptem^ar 4.' . ' Sales Program To Begin Here Shortly One of the neatest 'sales programs <*ver offered in this part of the state w?U he inauKuarted by the Merchants tureau of the Camden Chamber of | Commerce within the next week or ten days, the event to extend over a period ending December 15. The affair is HO programmed thut U will not Intrude on the uaual holiay trade period. In magnitude it is without any exception, according to the Chamber of Commerce retail merchant members, quite the most outstanding event in Camden history. Within a week or ten days all Camden stores and shops, filling stations, and the like, will ckrry placards grift ng details of the affair. In addition the county as well as surrounding communities will be covered by mo torcadeB advertising the Camden event. Camden and Kershaw county people, as well as thrifty shoppers in the Grounding counties are urged to watch for the details of the affair. Cooperating merchants, all members of the Chamber of Commerce, will be Klad to answer all questions on the part of customers. Next week the Camden press will carry a complete list of the merchants and other business houses coopers ring in this gigantic sales affair. C amden has had sales programs in the past but after talking with some of your oldest merchants I am convinced that this program about to be launched will be the biggest event of its kind or any other similar trade promotion program ever offered ip Camden or in this part of South Carolina," sftld the Chamber of Commerce secretary. "We are going to increase Camden mercantile sales by a healthy margin I am certain." G. E. McGrew To Teach In Camden o. E. McGrew, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Weston McGrew, of this city, has been elected as teacher of diversified | Occupations in the Camden high school. Mr. McGrew is a graduate of Clemson college and formerly taught In the Textile Industrial Institute of Spartanburg and the Ninety Six high school. The department of diversified occupations is a new addition to the Camden schools this year and the people of that city are to be congratulated on obtaining the services of a man of the ability and experience of Mr. McGrew.?Sumter Daily Item. 8oftball Season To Close Soon With but a week remaining of the last half schedule of the Camden Twilight softball league two teams, the Merchants and the Wolves are neck and neck While the Kershaw Guard unit is but one game behind. Games this week will wind up one of the most successful summer programs ever undertaken in Camden. The first half of the league race was won by the Esso White Sox team. The Merchants team, hopelessly in last place after dropping six games in a row, did a turnabout and did not drop another game duripg the entire half and continued their winning streak into the second period until they had won ten straight. They have l>een beaten but twice during the last half. ~ During the season the eight teams in the men's division ^nd the teams in the girl's group have played to approximately ten thousand or * more spectators^ . Camden teams entered in intercity contests have won a large percentage of their games. Beginning in December the bureau of recreation, sponsored by the chamber of commerce and the city of Camden will launch a winter program of basketball, volley hall an^ amateur boxing, IN THE FAMILY Mrs. Bibb Graves may be all that her husband says she is, and perfectly capable of representing Alabama in a most worthy way in the U. 8. Senate^but tl^e fact remains that Governor Graves has revealed himself as of peanut proportions la ever making uch an appointment A man of real gubernatorial dimensions woald never have considered conferring such an honor opon a m?nbar ot lite own funto o? to that Bibb dMat- appoint hlmMU?ChwUr R? * y y-%:M vv.-&" .*j, Two Cars ("rash On Liberty Hill Road A woman giving hor name us I^oulso Siuipsoa and residence us Great Fulls,' may be u song composer, but state po-' lice declare she isn't ho keen as un auto driver. A big sedun, license number E-3,688 and occupied* by three women, all well under the Influence of liquor according to the authorities, crashed into a small coupe driven by Trace^ Hammond, four miles from the city 'on the Liberty Hill road late Monduy evening. Hammond claimed he was turning into the driveway to his yard when the sedan crushed into him. Both curs were badly damaged but fortunately none of the occupants were injured. Highway Patrolman W. T. Bell took charge of the situation and brought the three women occupants to this city and placed theiu in jail. In the buck seut of the car was found u partly empty liquor bottle, bouring the label "White Lightning." The woman who claimed ownership of the car gave her name us, Mrs. Louise Simpson. On the back of the cur in question was a lurid banner, with the words "Listen To The Song ?Dixie Hose?Composed by Louise Simpson." According to the authorities the wouien sought to make a settlement and- pay fines for "driving while uud of- the influence of liquor." It is said the amount was approximately $ioa. which covered the dumago to Hammond's car and the amount of tin- fine. ^ 4 Henry Savage Buys Moore Residence Henry Savage, Jr. haB purchased -the ten - room residence on north Broad street forpierly belonging to Dr. and Mrs. W. Curtis Moore. The i residence will be re-roofed repainted and repaired on the exterior, but the' interior will remain as It is. ' This house weh built many years ago by the late Mannes Baum and as we remember correctly It took some two or three years In the construction of same. The interior is of the finest oak lumber and the original cost must have been considerable. "Doc" Frasier, a negro carpenter, now residlhg in New York City, did the work on the residence. The residence adjourns Green Leaf Villa, Mr. Savage's other property, which contains a five-room cottage. This cottage will be rolled to the rear of the Moore residence and made to front on Monument Square. There is also another two-room cottage fronting on the Square which is now being remodelled. All three of these residences have been rented. ILLITERACY IN 80UTH CAROLINA The following has been submitted by J. H. McDaniel, Kershaw county attendance teacher and the figures are from the United States census bureau for 1930: "The neglect of education does harm to states"?Educational Nuggets collected by John R. Howard: Of the 1,292,939 people ten years and over in South Carolina, 192,878 are illiterate. This is 14.9 per cent of our state population ten years old and above. How do you think thees figures compare with thpse of Kershaw county? Watch your county newspaper for more educational facts. More Enlistments For The Navy During the month of September, sixty young men from the states of North and 8outh Carolina are to be enlisted la the United States Navy as apprentice seamen. Immediately after enlistment these young men will be sent to the United States Naval Training Station, Norfolk, Va., where they will receive twelve weeks Instruction in Naval life and routine, before being assigned to one of tho ships of the United States fleet for duty. W. A. Shriver, chled electrician's mate, U. ?. Navy, recruiter in charge of the U. S. Navy Recruiting Station, U: S. Court House building, Columbia, S. C., has announced that applications for enlistment In the U. S. Navy ?tf?v being accepted every week day between the hours of 9:00 a. m. and 4:$0 p. m., excepting Saturday! when the hours are from 9:00'a. m. to 1:0Q p. m. :\J ? Congress has completed work on at appropriation Mil to aet up a fund ot g|f?.687,466 for inty housing. r v&yipSt** V "L~" K_ ; Grid Squad Leaves Today For Camp ThLrty-oue members of tbo Caindcu High liluc k uud Gold avalanche grid squad will louve Friday for Gump MonUumln, near llenderuonville/' N. C., where they will bo hi cump uutil September 4. Accompanying the teum will be Couch and Mrs. John M. Vl.llopigue, Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Zeuip, lluan Small, Charles Klrklaud, Mr. and Mre. Jack Nettles and Clarkson lthame. The boys who will make the trip are: JtoWell, Homy Brown, West, Hendrix, D. Lynch, Italey, Cox, Gettys, Stein, S. Watts, Outlaw, Wllllums, Woolen, Hicharda, Maraball, W. lloyklu, P. Hoy kip, Merrlir, J. Vllleplgue, Nolan, Wilson, McCaaklll, A. Watts, Pitts, Mullen, Little, launoy, Jordan, H. Brown and Y. Villepigue. Upon the return from camp the boys will go Into rigorous training for the hard schedule of games listed for the Gold and Black avalunche this fall. Some hard games have been listed to date and it will bo an acid tost for the squad that will represent Camden High this year. Some of the veterans of the past two years will bo missed, but thu coaching staff believes thu't the new material that Is coming up will more than fill the slioeB of the departing stars of yesterday. Bethune School To Open September 13 The trustees of the Bethune Public schools has announced that their schools will begin work Monduy morning, September 13, ut 8:30 o'clock. The plans aud objectives for the year will be discussed with the teachers Saturday afternoon, September 11, at 4:30 o'clock in the high Bchool building. The complete corps of teachers for the sessiod are as follows: Grammar school, primary department?Miss Pearl Bryson, Prosperity; Miss Martha Thompson, Roek Uili; Miss Ethel Turbevllle, Turbevllle; Miss Stella Bethune, Bethune. Intermediate department?Miss Sara Rector, Inman; Miss Sara Proctor, Rock Hill; Miss Miriam Smith, Marlon; Edwin W. Clamp, Salley; T. R. Campbell, Clio, principal. High school?John H. Koon, Prosperity; Dupree Sassard, Pageland; Miss Louise Ortmann, Anderson; Miss Pearl Rlckenbacker, Cameron; M. C. Mason, Lodge; J[ C. Folfcr, Bethune, superintendent. A new building has been ereeted on the grounds during the summer, which will house equipment for a community cannery and . a school workshop. These new features of the school will be under the dlredt supervision of M. C. Mason, teacher of vocational agriculture, and Miss Louise Ortmann, teacher of home economics. The rental book system which was very popular laBt session will be continued for the coming session. A large supply of books are now on hand which will meet the needs of the pupils desiring to rent their textbooks. Pupils that have been promoted and know definitely the high school courses they will pursue may rent their books between the hours of 9 o'clock in the mornings and 6 o'clock In the afternoons Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, September 8, 9, and 10. BARON DeKALB WILL OPEN FRIDAY MORNING, 8ETEMBER 10 The Baron DeKalb school, as announced by Superintendent Cyril B. Busbee, will ^commence Its 1937-1938 session Friday morning, September 10, at 8:30 o'clock. The regular open* ing hour after that will be 8 o'clock. The school will attempt to have on hand at the very beginning of school a complete list of rental textbooks and also a supply of the various work books to be used. Textbooks may still be purchased at the local book stores. Prompt enrollment and regular attendance is urged of all parents for their children because It will : protect the child's educational Interest and it will be In accordance with the new attendance act. | While no formal exercises are to be held on the opening day, parents and friends are 'welcome. Flrat Baptist Church 8ervloe '? Sunday, August 89, Res. M. M. Benson, a former pastor will preach at 11:16 a. m. There will be no arealag service. Sunday school will be at til* u*o*l horn. "10 a. *lth W. 0. Wilton, Jr, IB charge. . .. ? - Vc. Football Season' Not Far Away (By Frank il Heath) Well, folkrt, it.s gelling mighty close to the football season and it will not be many weeks now before we'll ull be till ling (ho trail to the stadium on the Sumter highway io watch the t'Uinden Gold and liluik avulancho inact Ion. Naturally tho harvest duys and tho near approach of I.ubur day aroueoa gridiron thoughts and our thoughts right at this moment concern the news that The Citadel football team is to abandou the double wingbuok offensive and will use u modified Minnesota style in tho 1937 conflict**. Now .what does this mean. It moans that the double wtngback system, which is tine for short gains In midfield but which hogs down when the going gets tough Ids id e the twenty yard Hue, is being relegated to the ash pile for something that la radically different, but something that Pernio Merman's three time national championship teams, have used, a sort of shoot-the-works brand of foothull. . Power plays are the thing in thlH new type. Touchdown plays start from anywhere on the field Wide op vn uttack, featuring a Judicious mixjure of spectacular aerial plays, sweeplng end runs and crashing ofT tucklo Jaunts make up this Minnesota offensIve?and who should know better than one who has watched this Biormau brand for years. One of the features of the Minnesota brand is tin? comparative simplicity of Its operation.' You bund the hall to a buck and be bangs away bedrid a fistful of interference. The intricate and highly dangerous hand "K of tho bul1 behind the lino of scrimmage, always necessitated by the double wlngback is done away with almost completely. Purely coincidental I am told l? tho fact that both Citadel aud Charleston High are abandoning the double winghack. The Bantams planned the sszr,ar back us ,ttat "i"1 ? Whether the new system .is going / to be effective at Citadel is something else to talk about, it may be and it may not be. Minnesota won three national titles with that type otZ fenajve?so it must be good. But Minnesota had Bennle Blerman to put It over with the squad. And Blerman may be the answer. T?nft?H Watchln? football In-jthe Big Ten, the central group which includes otre Dame, Marquette, and other of f8amedlrg 8Ch?018 ,n football'? arena of fame, I never did hare much love ** t** d?nble wlngback system. _ Bqt as I said before, Blerman may be the answer. Mr. 8hannon Dead This community was shocked to learn of the death of Joseph Kershaw ?n' ' ttt hl? homo at Greenso, N. C., Monday morning at 7*80 O clock after a brief illness. " Mr. Shannon was 46 years of age and was a so. of Kershaw Shannon and Marie Kennedy Shannon. Mr. ' shannon had been successfully engaged In the Insurance business for many years at Greensboro. Besides his mother and father he j leaves his wife, who was formerly my Tilly, 0f Greensboro, and a son Joseph Kershaw Shannon. He also * leaves a sister, Mrs. Frank Babbitt,' of Asheville; three brothers, D. K Shannon, of Camden; Charles J. Shannon, 3rd, of Atlanta, Ga.; and Alfred Shannon, of Camden. Mr. Shannon's boyhood was spout In Camden. Hater he went to Chartte, N. C., to make his home and eventually toqk up residence at Greensboro. Funeral services' were held Truesday iborning at 10 o'clock from his ate residence, in charge of Rev. Robert E Roe, of Holy Trinity Bpiscipal church of which he was a member, mterrnent was in the Quaker comeery here at 6 o'clock the same day, Pallbearers were members of the pame insurance firm as Mr. Shannon worked for. Honorary pallbearers 1 were officers In insurance companies in North Carolina. ?" More than 2,000 silk workers were ordered back to work in 35 silk mills in New Jersey by the C. 1. O., oh Monday, after agreements had been signed With the Textfle Workers' Organise ; tlon committee. T ' ? Iwematurely born baby of If ra ' SS* SchmoaUer. wife of a.prlcl^ truck driven weighed but 14 oammT '