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\T Bethel Y OU Judge What is the right price for a funeral service? You be the judge. Complete funeral prices are marked on each casket in tlhe Komegay display and patrons are urged to make there own selection in keeping with what they can afford to pay. KORNEGAY FUNERAL HOME " A COMMUNITY SERVICE 8INCE 1932*' Phone 103 Camden, S. C. j ^ r Catawba Indians Live On In York (By Bob Ward of llook Hill, in Charleston News and Courier) Beside tho wators of the Catawba river, a few miles from tho city of Hock Hill, there Boh h reservation upon which In colonized the last of the Catawbas?once a mighty nation, friendly to ull white men. Proud Ih the history of the Catawbas, whoae forebearu trod tho forest trails where now tho cltleH and towns of South Carolina rise. While their numherH huve dwindled from thous-, and? to a pitiful few, thp pure-blooded rod men Htill hold their heads high with the pride of their race, and, as they tell the legends of their people,' their eyoH reflect the glory of a time unknown to their pale-face brothers. Surprisingly little Is known of the Catawbas, even to the folk who have dwelt near their reservation for years. They are scarce soon save when women of the trifle offer pottery for sale or when Chief S. T. Blue comes to hold friendly pow wow with his white neighbors in ltock Hill. Many whites seem hardly uware of the presence of the few remaining members of the once powerful nation. Here, then, are a few tales from the Catawbas. One version of the origin of the Catawba nation was that its tribesmen were originally members of a Canadian people driven from home by Connewango Indians and the French about 16")0. According to this story, they settled in Kentucky and Virginia and finally reached the Catawba river , (which they called Kswa Tavora) where they engaged In a terrific battle with the Cherokees, each side losing about 1.00U men. Thereafter, it is said, the Cherokees were to confine themselves to the territory west of the Broad river( (called by the Catawba Eswa Huppu-i day) while the Catawbas lived in the territory along the banks of the Catawba river. The land between was neutral. Nation Ford was said to have been the scene of the Indian battle. . However, there Is a second version, of the origin of the Catawba tribe. It has been written that the Catawbas were found near their present locality by Juan Pardo, a Spanish Captain,' who headed an expedition Into the interior of South Carolina from St. Helena in l.">t>7. Writers who have studied the Catawbas also have found some basis for the probability that j they were the same "(Jauchule" mentioned by HeSoto's chroniclers. Nevertheless, when South Carolina began to be settled the Catawba nation was one of the most powerful i uikI warlike tribes In the South, liy right of savuge manhood they controlled lurgo territories In the two Carollnas. From Canada to the Gulf of Mexico "women trembled at the j name of Hodonosannu," says one writer, and the bravest warrior dreaded 1 this foe. Ho powerful were the Ca-( tawbus they were not afraid to make 'expeditions Into the country of the I formidable Iroquois. I Thomas Spratt, according to le'gend and general belief, was tho first 1 white man to settle in the Catawba country. This big, good-natured Irishman was accepted as a friend by the I fierce warriors of the Catawba nation, and they aided him in bis every undertaking. One of his "undertakings" furnished material for a tale long passed down by the chiefs, headmen and braves of the Catnwbas. Tom Spratt went on a spree one Saturday, so the story goes, and went to Charlotte, N. C., for some fun. He had his fun and found himself in jail. An Indian friend saw Spratt get into the trouble. Forthwith a swift runner was dispatched to Nution Ford to spread the alarm. From the river banks and the forests there soon gathered the most warlike assemblage of warriors which had been since Catawba and Cherokee met in legendary warfare on tho spot yearB before. They marched to Charlotte, broke down the jail door, and carried Tom Spratt safely to his home. Spratt fought through the Revolution, it is recorded, and died in 1807, a brave man, respected by Indians and Whites alike. From time immemorial the races of men have worshipped a hero?their greatest warrior, their strongest lighter, their noblest orator, or statesman. King Haiglar, most noted of the Catawba chiefs,' was a great soldier, a strong man and a statesman. I Once a French fiddler, traveled through the Catawba country, charming all and sundry with the music of his violin. So pleased were the red men with the music that one, more greedy Jthan the rest, laid in wait and slew the Frenchman and took his instrument. The white men of the surrounding country were frightened by the murder and called upon King Haiglar to mete out justice to the guilty man; to make an example of the murderer that no more white men might meet the same fate. King Haiglar blew a mighty blast upon his hunting horn and called together all of the tribe of Hodenosanne, the Catawba. When they were gathered. King Haiglar stood with Ids rifle, emblem of supremacy in a country where the bow and arrow were the weapons of a war-like race, over his arm. When the guilty man appeared, King Haiglex sensed his guilt, shot the murderer through the heart, then turned and walked back into his dwelling. Never again was a white man murdered by a Catawba Indian. King Haiglar himself was slain by foes of another tribe who ambushed him. Today Chief Samuel Thunderbird Blue, head of the tribe, still endorses King Haiglar's stand and frequently supplies newsmen with a statement for the press. Many and strange are the rituals and customs of thjS" Catawbas. Early stories made claims that members of certain branches of. the tribe bound the heads of their children that their foreheads might be flat, that their eyes might protrude, that they might become mighty hunters. There is, however, in the opinion of many students of the Intelligent race, no basis for such a belief and this report Is generally discredited. A custom which was followed by many of the noble redmen, however, was that of applying oil to the skin, I then exposing the bodies to the sun. j The skin, naturally * dull bronze, became the color of old copper. i I GINNING I The farmers of this section appreciate the modern ; I I ginnery we operate and we invite you too to become | I a customer. We not only have one of the finest of | j I Ginning Outfits but also have a most capable gin crew j I to operate same, and you are assured of a splendid j I sample, which means more to your pocket book when | j I you sell your cotton. We can also handle long staple j | ; ' cotton. I j The capacity of our outfit insures you against long j delays which are costly during the harvest season | , Sell your cotton seed to us. We are a local in- ' I dustxy and our payroll means a lot to the merchants i j 1 I of our town and county. Seed that are shipped to j | i neighboring towns help build up the industries of those j ! I towns. I I ! WE WILL ALWAYS PAY THE TOP OF THE j I j . MARKET FOR YOUR COTTON SEEP I THE SOUTHERN COTTON OIL CO. I ! Phone 54 Camden, S..C* j ! ! ? I ;; * & * Pisgah News Notes IMsgah, Sept. tf.?On Wednesday, August 2f>, more than a hundred relatives and friends of Mr. aud Mis. W. P. Maker were present at the Maker home for a reuuion. A dinner consisting of barbecue, hash, rice, rolls, chicken, salads, sandwiches, sliced tomatoes, pickles, cakes, pies and iced tea was served picnic style on tables under u large elm tree. Relutives present besides the family of W. F. Maker were: Mrs. Mamie Maker Matfield and children, Mr. and Mrs. If. L. Hubert son and children, C. L. Maker and children, Mr. and Mrs. J. It. Lackey and children, and Mrs. A, J Hatfield and children, all of Monitor; Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Maker and children, Mrs. J. W, Kennedy and son of Mishopvlile; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Baker and children, of Moykln; Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Maker and children, of Rembert; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hatfield and children, Mrs. Hugh Hatheld, Misses Kute Morris and Mary Cato, of Morden; Mrs. J. J. Hatheld, of Buniter; Mr. and Mrs. Clareuce McLeod and little daughter, of itembert; and Miss Kva Maker, of Now York City. Friends present wore: Rev. and Mrs. Godbold and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John K. McLeod und daughter, Mrs, T M. Rogers, Dr. and Mrs. T. M. Moore and spns, L. 8. Vinson, William Vinson, j Kitty Vinson, C. M. Emmanuel, S W. Youug," Dannie McLeod, Guy Morris, W. A. Shuler, all of Rembert; \V. A. Heal, Mrs. Mattie Reames, Hilly Ogburn, of Sumter; Rev. and Mrs. !\ K. Bl&ckmon, of Dalzell; Rev. J. T. Littlejohn, of Mishopville; Julio Love, Irwin Love, Harold Chase, of New York City; Gaillard and Sarah Lenoir, of Horatio; Mr..and Mrs. J. T. Watson, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest McManus and Miss Anna Hawkins. , Mrs. Uon Stuckey and daughter, 'Aurella, Mrs. L. A. White and daughter, Minnie Mlanche, of Springhill, spent last week ut North with Mrs. Alec Livingston and family. Miss Maude Hatheld returned home last Sunday from a two week's visit with relatives in Sumter. On Tuesday nighJ^Mr. and Mrs. W. F. I3uker had as *flubpe^ guests Miss Kva Maker, Irwin ana Julie Love, Harold Chase, all of New York, the latter three vacationing at Pocallo, and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence McLeod, of Itembert. After supper Misses Thelma and Carrie Maker entertained about thirty young people from Sumter, Camden, Rembert, Horatio with a peanut boiling, their visitors from New York being honor guests. Various games and the Mlg Apple were enjoyed. On Wednesday, September 1, the \juarterly meeting of the W. M. (J. of the Kershaw association met with the IMsgah W. M. U. The meeting was presided over by MrB. K. R. Kenney, president of the Pisgah organization. Devotional was conducted by Hev. J. T. Littlejohn, of Biahopville. pastor of Pisgah, who also led in prayer. The welcome was given by Mrs. Cecil Rogers, with response by Mrs. M. McLaughlin, of Horeb. inspiring talks were made by Dr.'Brooks and Miss Lance, of Columbia; Rev. and Mrs. Mclver, of Wateree church, Camden; Mrs. P. E. Mlackmon, Of Dalzell; Rev. Linder, of Methune; Rev. Dabney and Mrs. Ray. of Camden. A recitation "My Daily Prayer" was given by little Tommy Rogers, a member of the Sunbeam band. Special music was two duets "I-ook For the Beautiful" and "I Gave My Life For Thee," by Misses Thelma and Carrie Maker, and "Evening Prayer" sung by Mrs. K. R. Kenney and Rev. LittleJohn. A committee consisting of Mrs. C. M. Shiver, Mrs. W. F. Baker, Mrs. D. J. Hatfield, Mrs. Roy Baker and Miss Ellen James served a delicious dinner of fried chicken, sandwiches, salad, rolls, sliced tomatoes, pickles, cake and iced tea to the seventy-five present. Misses Eva Baker and Mury Lou Dunlap have returned to New York after a two week's visit with relatives here. Misses Carrie and Lila Baker and Margie and Lillian Shiver spent Thursday with Misses Mary and Sarah McLeod near Camden. Mrs. J. J. Hatfield, of Sumter, Is visiting relatives here at Rembert. The state board of barber examiners will hold its first examination on September 27. at Columbia. Barbers working before December ;;t, 1936, were licensed and do not need to take the examination, but others must do so. under penalty if they barber in this state. Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Gee McUee, Copyright, 192$. THE BIG APPLE~GROW8 IN POPULARITY IN FLAT ROCkT ..the big apple dance la growing by leaps and bounds In Hut rock, the cullord folks have took holt to It and will soon make it indecent, they have added ao much to It. ..at first, the big apple waa a verry aimple conglomeration of atepa and crooks and benda, but the followerlng haa benn added ou, vlzzly: the rumba and the hootchy-kootchy and the black-bottom. ..mra. holaum mt/ore aaya It wont be long till the big apple will Include the strip-tease dance and the balloon und the fan and ball-the-jack and the akiddo tumble, bro. will waite, j our pasture, haa preached 2 scrmonta ugalnat thia evil und aaya It la leading the young folks towards perdlction anaoforth. ..miss Jennie veeve smith, our scboll principle, is trying to keep the big apple dance open and above the boards in her class-rooms and permits a little of the skirt dance, but she wont allow anyboddy to undress enduring the various and sundry skitB. . ,mr. ,>art square, being too old to dance, says the folks act like iddlots while dancing the apple and he believes that it was discovered in a furrin land 'Where heathens and other kinds of people live, he condmeus it with much hate and anna-moslty. ..but it looks like a very innocent past-time to yore corry spondent, and he has Jined in with them on sevveral occasions, miss blondle head, the pressent social leader of flat rock, is teeching the big apple, up to this date, she has got 15 married men signed up and 3 boys and 5 girls. ..it takes new-fangled ideas to keep our people engaged, since so manny of them have quit work and got govvernment jobs, they must have something to help them spend the ballance of the time, if too much stuff is not added to the b' ipple, it will be a fine move. n< ,y wants it to be a crab-apple tho. yores trulie, mike Lark, rfd, apple caller. SOCIAL DISTURBANCES IN FLAT ROCK ..there has not benn verry much pease in the social set of. flat rock since miss blondie head returned back fram Washington to make her home with her pa and ma. ..the fruit tree agent, the onllest sweethart that mias Jennie veeve smith, our afficient scholl teecher, ever had, has took up going with miss blondie and now miss Jennie veeve wont speak to him or her either, she is losing weight. . .one or two of flat rock's leading married citizons are being threatened with divorces, allimonys, rolling pins, hot watter, shot guns and other utensels. if they don't cast their smiles at certain persons around their own homes, the worst mought soon happen. ..mi's, holsum moo re says that blondie head is a hart and home breaker and ought to be drove out of town bodaciously. she keeps everthing and everboddy stirred up to a fever heat, it looked liko matters were quiting dcfwn till last satturday afternoon; she walked up town In her pretty pink pajammas, and all of the mail sex followed her everwhere she went ansoforth. (.. .mrs. art square refused to Invite her to a tea givven In honnor of out.of-town vissitors, but she drove past her hoAse 5 times enduring the festivities In a big blue pack-hard sedam with a lawyer from up north and nevver so much as turned her head to look towwards her party, everboddy was peeping out of the winders at her. ..some of the wimmen have started a whispering campane aboutfltier. they say her husband died under suspicious circumstances, all of a sudden, in the bathroom and his stummick was not examined for pizen ansoforth. he hell a pollicy in a big insurance company in her favvor for 10.000$. that's the basin of their gossip, but miss blondie do not listen at gossips, she Is more beautifuller now than ever since she has died her hair a light blue, yores trulie, mike Lark, rfd, corry spondent A two year old negro baby went to sleep in a truck near Estill, and was covered with a load of seed cotton. At the gin Its stifled cries were heard, but it took a hunt of two hours to And the negro baby, almost smothered to death by that time. ' * \ " REMEMBER... ' We Deliver Just Phone 301 AND YOUR WANTS WILL BE SUPPLIED HOME STORES MARKET "The Only Market Delivery In Camden" I 1028 Broad 8treet 0. W. OUTLAW/ ph0n# ^ Sapp Considers Race For U. S. Senate The 4^38 South Carolina senate race took on a different appearance Saturday with the crystallizing of rumors that Claude N. Sapp, of Columbia, United States attorney in the eastern District of Sbuth Carolina would run for the post. Mr. Sapp began his brilliant political and legal career in Lancaster twenty-flve years ago, serving as state representative from Lancaster county in 1912-1913. Mr. Sapp is also well known in this section for his work as city attorney and county attorney in the early days ? of his career. Mr. Sapp has not yet definitely announced his candidacy for the senatorial berth, now occupied by the veteran H<lllson D. Smith. However in his statement Saturday he admitted that he is giving the matter quite a bit of consideration. "I am considering entering the race," Mr. Sapp said, when asked if there were substantial foundation for the rumors. "But I have come to no detinite conclusion. I cannot say further than that?that I am considering the matter." Mr. Sapp's probable entry into the race brings to four the number whose hats may land in the 1938 ring. Governor Olin D. Johnston has not definitely announced his cadldacy, but it is considered very likely that he will run. State Senator Edgar A. Brown,, of Barnwell county, is thought to be getting ready to heave his hat into the ring. Should Mr. Sapp eventually decide to cast his lot in the senatorial race,the latter will have developed a new" angle. For the district attorney Is a New Dealer, a supporter of Roosevelt from away back. In 1931, he ' 1 1 ?. was vice president of the ltoosei Southern organisation; chairman the South Carolina delegation in < cago at the Democratic natioual < vention and was one of the floor u agers on that occasion; ho waa presidential elector In 1932, w ltooHovolt waa elected. He wuh also chairman of the Bo Carolina delegation at the conven in Philadelphia in 198$.?Lanca News. Strearns in eastern North Carol were high out of their bankH at week ?nd. NOTICE TO DEBTORS A CREDITORS All parties to tha. estate of Willi Fortune are hereby notified to nfl payment to the undersigned, andl parties, If any, having claims aga| the said estate will present them l| wise, duly attested, within the t| prescribed by law. L.UCINDA feEATTl| Administratrix. I Camden, S. C., September 7, 1937. I It'* tho old raliabto among "* ^ ?ct powdori, provon good g Kw:Iff/ for more Ihon two generation!. UMMI Cgtl for It ond rid your homo ol po?t?. 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