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I The Camden Chronicle | ^VOLUME . > CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER lO, 1837 NUMBER 38 anqle pin day begun# TODAY throughout county Beginning Friday, December 10th, i*ery student In/the schools of Ker|haW county will be given an opportunity to buy a bangle pin, which la ,.tbe emblem of TubarcuUmU Associa. pens throughout the world. A few Ma later there wiil be a bangle pin jay in Camden, when every adult will b#Ve a chance to buy a bangle pin. I The Kershaw County Tuberculosis, Association wishes every one to know ( 0,8 origin of the double-barred oross ( ,nd how it came to be used as the Insignia or emblem of every organisation engaged the fight against tUherculosls. There are several stories, nbout the'origin of the double-barred, cross- one b^ing / that the ancient Lorraine Cross was made the emblem' of the fight against tuberculosis because it had for centuries stood for L<*mquest. 4 The Lorraine cross dates back to ( the ninth century when It was made ribe emblem or the Eastern branch ojt the Christian church. From thb eleventh to the fourteenth centuries ( the crusaders through contact with the Eastern church in Palestine famll- ( larized Europe with it. (Godfrey, the [ Duke of Lorraine, a leader of one of the first crusades, saw the cross In Jerusalem and adopted it as his standard when he was elected Christian ruler of the Holy City in 909^ It is still known in France as the Lorraine Cross and differs from the Eastern, church cross in one respect only, the' lower bar Is nearer the base. The adoption of the cross by the auti tuberculosis movement in 1902 was purely accidental and had no re- -1 lation to previous uses. In 1906 the National Tuberculosis Association by j a special resolution, adopted the dou- j i ble barred-cross as Its emblem, but < it was not until 1912 that a definite effort was made to standardize it for | the tuberculosis movement in the United States. The Standard Tuberculosis Emblem now has two horizontal cros| arms of ,( equal length, the part above the arras (] being shorter and the part below the < arms being longer than the cross ' arms. The ends of both arms are j pointed. " -y. ' V , The significance of the crdss is as-, Bociated with conquest and victory. 1 The work Of the Kershaw. County * Tuberculosis Association is to exert 1 every effort to win the fight against' ^ tuberculosis , I! Have you bought your health bond or your Christmas Seals? Will you1 be among those who will buy a ban-(? gle pin on "Bangle Day?" Watch for,1 the workers at the booths which will I be opened in the down-town section j in the near future and look for the 1 workers who will be on the streets * on "Bangle Day." n AGRICULTURAL BUILDING FOR J COUNTY 800N BE UNDER WAY _ "" r Project" number 2841, featuring the t const ruction of a $26,000 agricultural! building for Kershaw county, has I been given the final approval by the t Federal government and county offl- t clals. Work will be started at once v according to officials and the building (t is to be ready for occupancy by the ^ t first of June. j? The construction ,nf the building j will be accomplished with Federal a aid, the government to pay 69 per j cent of the cost. It will provide work(V for thirty laborers at the start but j this number will be Increased to fully . t fifty within a few weeks. . ' n The building is to be constructed t on DeKalb street on the property 1 across the street from the George T. u Utile property. It will have a frontage of 107 feet on DeKalb street, with s a depth of 40 feet. 1$ will he 61 brick v construction and will be equipped with a modern heating ancp idntllat. . wi/r ? mg system. Of two story construction it will | $ave thirty-two offices, these offices ^ to be so arranged that they can belo grouped in suites. There will be am- g pic lavatory .facilities and the offices ^ will all have an?! lighting?both artificial as -well as natural- : d The Idea of an auditorium has been d 4i?pensed with in this unit of work, < but plans are under consideration to J Ms an additional -Federal project- ap-, ^ Plication that wil\ provide for an am- g Pie auditorium at the rear of the of-{g< ** building, #ltb an entrance from the lobby of the latter. Bvery unit of agricultural endeavor W be honied to tfifi ROW buHOlpg. ?Wch will permit of the county ooortl **?e being restored' to use of Judicial j law enforcement group*- I WPA work relief rolls increased * nmh 7#*S f - 'OR. KOCH TO READ CHRIST.. I MA8 CAROL IN CAMDEN I Several year."ago Dr. Frederick H. Koch was a young instructor in Eug-1 Hah at the University of North Dakota. He happened to re-read "A Christmas Carol" by Dickens a?u was! .truck with the idea that everybody! ought to. read it at Christmas time.' At the suggestion of his friends Dr.' jKoch road it to a small group around' a crackling' fire. His audience grew until the large North DaKpta Unlver-' sity gymnasium was filled to over-1 Rowing and his reading of the Carol' ; became a looked for event at the' Christmas season. When he oame to' the University of North Carolina he' founded the . "Carolina Play makers." I He continued reading the Carol 'and at Chapel Hill no Christmas Is com-* Plete without It. The auditorium of' the big Memorial hail there I. always ' nlled to overflowing every Christmas season when he reads It The founder pf the C!flroHnj?. Playmakers still finds time in his work as Head of the Department of Dramatic Literature at" the University bo carry Dickon's message .of Christmas cheer to cities in the South and the North. He has given this program four times in the Town Hall, New York. City. Twice he has read it at the Institute of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University.' Large cities, little country towns in many parts of the country have heard him give Tiny Tim's immortal toast,' "God bless us everyone." This year Camden will have the privilege of hearing Dr. Koch on Tuesday evening, December 14, at 8 o'clock at the Haiglar Theater. The program is sponsored by the Business Woman's Circle of the Presbyterian Church. Admission for children is 26c. For adults 50c. A few seat will be reserv-! 3d at 75c. LATE ENGINEER MADE GOOD 8UGQE8TION8 A8 TO BRIDGE - i % Edmund C. Stout, whose death oc-' mrred recently at his home at ?026 Broad street In thj^s city, was a skill- , >d engineer and a fuw v,0f?rn lis demise he wrote to the Chamber I >f Commerce expressing congratulaions at the suggestion made by that )ody to the State Highway Departnent that a new bridge be- construct- ] !d over the Wateree River on U. S. i toute One. The interesting ' feature of Mr. < Stout's s letter, a copy of which has )een sent to the State Highway Com- | nission, -was his^suggestion, .tor the diminution of ddngerous.; cjprves On he new bridge and also -eh the ap^* i iroaches. <* .Itld Mr.' Stout in his letter, "The jresent bridge and its approaches are ?ot wide enough,and the. south ap-\ iroach has a dangerous and entirely ] mnecessary curve in It. The side ,ruard rails are not substantial enough < o prevent a car from going ofT to a \ 10 foot drop, as has* been demonstra-. i ed several times; I "Your request for a new bridge may ] lave contained the suggestion that j he new bridge be located south of he present one. If not, it would be ] rithin your province to recommend1 j hat the south approach be tangent | o the curve of the road, as the pre-' j ent one is, but swinging the ap-j roach tangent so that it, the bridge j nd the north and south approach, t ermlMhe north approach to connect i rith the curve on number One ap- f roximateiy as it does now and Ipt j he present bridge and it. approaches j erve as a temporary bridge while < he new bridge is being constructed. I "husUhe cost of a temporary and us-| ally dangerous bridge will, be saved." j With Mr, Stout's - letter was a' ketch showing the idea as he had 1 worked It out. j* - Descends to Great Depth 1 r/7/ ' 1 Port Washington, Wis., 'T-W& 1? j fax E. Nohi, JI7-year-old amateur di~}I er defended 420 feet to the floor i f Lake Michigan today, to reach the <] reatest depth in water ever attained j a man In a diving aijit jl After nearly three hours in the icy a epths Nohl wat hauled back to the t eck of Jthe coait guard cutter Antle- 6 sna.*":' : 1 a The depth of 420 feet reached by v fobl exceeded by 114 feet the United y tates navy diving record of 806 feet t et by Frank Crllley on the bottom f Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, In 1916. Patronize The Community Market Visit the Community Market held ] tch Saturday morning from 8:25 to t 0:30 and ypu will And troth eggs, | hickens, pork, butter* pecans aad < sgeUblea. Give us your orders for * hristmas wreaths aad other deoora- t wbwt ',i?1 j." t._. . ....I ? jj 'special exhibit of books to be shown at court hou8e A special exhibit of children's books Is being shown at the court house In Canulon. Friday and Saturday, December 10 and 11. The pub-j Tic hr invited. Those books - como from the Stato Library Hoard of J South Carolina through the courtesy of the Nutional Association of Hook Publishers. Some fifteen publishers | have agreed to choose copies of those books which they considered best of their publications for children aud send them to the states which so desire them so that they might be shown throughout the libraries and the communities in that state, The teacher libraries and the parents as well as the children are es*( pecially urged to seo this exhibit. This is an excellent opportunity for the parents to see and learn the goofL new bopks for children. Perhaps some wilt want to select titles for C.hrlhtmftw giftft and the Ilka W In. hoppd^hat all the children will see the books because a real thrill Is In store for them?seeing so many new and Interesting books together for them to browse over and enjoy, says Mrs. Jessie J. Baker, supervisor of the Kershaw County Library. camden m/\n only survivor of seaboard surveying crew The recent opening of a new station In Oamden by the Seaboard Air Line Rail way,v>was of special significance to one man?lone survivor of a quartet of Camden youths?who back in j 1898 were members of a surveying crew that laid out the right of way for the 8eaboard from a point above MoBee to Columbia. This lone survivor Is Minton O. I Huckabee. The other three Camden lads in the crew, T. B. Barfleld, head rodihan; Sam Phelps, rear rodman; j J. L. (Dick) Brasington, rear lineman ?are all dead. Mr. Huckabee worked as a head lineman. The chief engineer of the crew was a Captain Walton. Frank McBee, aepbew?of the?general?superintendent, of the Seaboard, for whom the village of McBee is named, ran the level, and another member of the crew, whose name could not be ascertained, ran the transit. Four negroes from Camden were In the group as akemen, while the negro cook also came from Camden. The first camp was at what Is now the site or Cassatt?the second camp was at Lynch wood, now known as Bethune. The last camp will be remembered as being featured by much! privation, due to the crew having to work for two weeks in water knee deepr as the right of way* was laid out through the swamp bordering on Lynche'B River. ' * jj From the next camp at McBee, the crew went north about fifteen miles? then returned to Camden. The next ; work led to LugofT, thence to Blaney, J then to a point near the present over- ; head near Pontiac and finally to a i point near Hyatt Park near Columbia. ( After the survey was finished Mr. j Huckabee worked with an engineer lamed Harris until the Seaboard , trains were operating over the line mapped out. |i While not only having the distlnc-1 .ion of being the lone survivor of the ; mrveying crew, Mr. Huckabee has ; the distinction jot being one of the , irst city carriers out of the Camden j >os toff ice when It was inaugurated , rears ago. He has been an efficient i jmployee of the postoffice ever since. Baptist Church 8?rvloeo !j The following services are an- ' lounced for week beginning Decern-( >er 12, at the First Baptist church: j Junday school at 10 o'clock; public 1 vorship conducted by the pastor, J. 1 3. Caaton, at 11:16 a. m. and 7:30 1 i. m. Morning subject: "Winning the ( jost" Evening subject: "A Foolish >ecIsion" Prayer meeting Wedneslay evening at 7:30. B. T, U^Snnday ' ivening St 6:30. Our moving; picture ] oachlne is now in service. We had i moat thrilling and instructive pic- 1 ure last Sunday evening. Come at-1 130 and enjoy the picture with us ,nd stay for all evening services. You 1 rill help us and we shall try to help aor-The public is cordially invited . o attend all services of this church. Church About Qpjnpleted Since the first of April this year be congregation of Bethesda Preabyerian church hisheeh worshipping In* he churcfh school building. The re* talrs made oa. the. church are now completed and by the end of this reek all the interior furnishings will ?e in plaee. The first services in the torch will be held on Sunday: Dec - -i-1.- -L ' CAMDEN POLO CLUB OFFERS ' ANOTHER GAME ON SUNDAY. The Camden polo* club will offer un-' other uftornoon game next Sunday, according to Captain Dick Floyd. The practice game lam Sunday attracted a few of the braver polo en* (huaiasta who dolled a drizzling rain to wutch the poniea gambol over the turf at the No. 2 Hold, The game Sunday will feature a alx ;chukker program between two | Camden teams, the Town and Couu* try group, and should have a lot of exciting momenta. Floyd has had his players at practice dally now for some ten days and riders and ironies are fast rounding Into shape. Captain Floyd announced this week that the game a week from Sunday | should offer a lot of polo thrills for the fans, as he expects all his players i and the ponies to be 4n condition to < go, the entire six periods. This game will probably be played on the No. 1 AnM K ~ ~ m.VIaL l~ A# nA?.m.wln grasH and rates as one of the best polo surfaces in the South. I CAMDEN MAN 18 PRE8IDENT *> | OF POINTER CLUB OF AMERICA Harry D. Kirkover, one of the foremost sportsmen" of * the country, a , winter resident of Camden, and instrumental in the successful carrying out of the pretentious winter program , of steeplechase races, horse shows, hunter trials and the like, la now president of the Pointer Club of Am- i erica. j This club, rated as the outstanding , organization of tho kind in the coun-j try, is Just completing a ten-day held trial program at Pinehurst. The show has 150 clogs entered In the various 1 events?a record entry list?topping all other trials in the United States i this year. . 1 Mr. Kirkover believes that with^ suitable accommodations available Camden could make an effort to secure a show of this kind, which would i be u big asset to the .already fine ] winter program offered here. The i Pinehurst?show?attracted?hundreds -i of dog fanciers beside the group exhibiting dogs?hotels In That 'commu- i ntty being filled during the period of the event. , SEEKING TO LEARN THE j< "LIFE" OF A HIGHWAY < . ;< How long do the highways of^Ker- j shaw county "live?" What is. tne ( "normal life expectancy" of the many j highways in South Carolina? ] In order to answer these and nu-j merous other questions the Highway j Planning Survey has Inaugurated a , road-life study or highways In Ker* j Bhaw county and other counties In j the atate. . I No rohd has been built to last for-1 ever. ^Consequently, each road may j be said !^o have a "life." ^y a road's ( "life" 4g meant the number of years' from the time its surface is built un- j til its "death," or that time when It t is abandoned or changed by recon- j Btructlon. For example if an asphalt | road was completed in 1923 and no changes were made until it was resurfaced In 1935, the "life" of that Burface would be twelve years. Thus, the "life" of every road can, be designated. Summaries can be ] made which may be likened to birth, ' dcgth, and population tables for :hu- 1 man beings. .Life tables and curves * can be computed and the "probable average life" forecast. The average service "life" of road .1 constructions of different types Is be-M Ing obtained by a careful study of all Df the contracts let by the State High- 1 way Department since its beginning ' In 1917. From these contracts, the ^ officials of this study will record the 1 design and construction features, con- 1 Btructlon costs,- improvement costs, 1 and other factors pertaining to the iife" of each highway. . ? The final objective of Che road-life Burvey is to determine, in any proposed program of improvement, how, much it will cost annually to build.1 and maintain roads suited to the needs of vehicles traveling over them. These needs are to be defined -from j lata gathered by the traffic study and other divisions of the survey. i i ' Steer 9C,tOSM ? Chicago, Dec. 2.?Ashbourne Or-* ange/grand champion steer of the 38th International Livestock Exposition, sold at auction today for $2.35 a pound, $5oehU~Mi tbdhTUKe price paid for the last three kings of cattle. Wilson and Company bought It for the Palmer House, Chicago. ; Oklahoma A. and M. college, which exhibited the grand chamjdon, will receive $M*&A0 for* the steer which MAYOR OSBORNE PROMOTED BY SOUTHERN OIL COMPANY J. Hamilton Ouborno, tuipurtntendent of tho Camden mill of tho Southern Cotton otl Company for .the punt twenty six yours, hus been appointed district englnoor of tho Columbia dlatrlct. which comprlaos all of South Carolina and tho western part of North Carolina. The appointment Is effective Wednesday, December 15. Mr. Osborne, who has been mayor of Camden for nearly four years, will retain his oltlxunshlp hero Ipdofinituly It being his pufpobo to commute between his home here nnd the Columbia office. He will retain his office' as mayor of Caindon to the conclusion of his present term on April 10. Mr. Osborne Is Master of Kershaw Lodge No. 29, F, and A. M., and Is also a past president of Rotary. I In tuklng over the office as district engineer of the Sopthorn Cotton Oil] Company at Columbia, he succeeds1 r*. W. o<TBerfw(?i iracr arcu rwccticJjr aa the result of an auto accident after Korvlng the company as engineer for' thlrty-flvo years. \ Mr, Osborne has boon engaged In the cotton oil Industry for thirty-throe years. He Is a native of Mills River, He came to Camden from Charleston. He has mude a wide circle of friends since coming to Camden and | while his friends congratulate him on a deserved promotion, they hope that' his new position will not ultimately take he and his interesting family away from Camden. 1 WARRANT8 I88UED FOR MAN ON SEVERAL SERIOU8 CHARGES . I Warrants for the arrest of Clyde Cunningham, former convict, on the charges of highway robbery while armed and also the robbery of a filling station, have been ^sued and pin cod In tho hands of Sheriff J. H. McLeod for service. I Cunningham, a man of 35 years. Is alleged by the authorities to have taken an auto from Harold Truesdale' on Sunday, November 28, and driving1 iwav with a 17 year nir\ girl companlon from Camden, who he forced to accompany him at the point of ft gun. Tlie car, a Ford coach, was recovered at Clover, Sh C., In York county, i few days\gjgo by the authorities. F. A. Nelson, manager of a filling station on United States highway number one, a few miles west of Camden, ' Identified it as being the car used by a holdup'man who stuck a gun In his race and ? robbed him of his pocket-j Ooob on November 30. The identification of the car and :he fact that a sister of Cunningham resides at Clover, clinched the iden-| ilty of the man who had stolen the machine and kidnaped the Camden 5lrl. The sheriff believes that Cunningham's apprehension and arrest is but, a matter of a short time. It is alleged that Cunningham has served :ime in both the state penitentiary as well as on chain gangs. j FIRE DE8TROY8 8UBI/RBAN I . HOME AT AN EARLY HOUR Awakened by the crackling of the flames, the family of H. 8. Moore fled from their burning home on Highway number one, a mile and a half east hf the city at an early hour Thursday morning, clad only In what clothing :hey could hastily grasp. * j The blaze was discovered by Mrs. Moore at 2:30 o'clock when she was awakened by a feeling of suffocation occasioned by Bmoke. Awakening tier husband, the two quickly aroused the other members of the family. The antire upper part of the dwelling was In flames at this time, the fire spreading so rapidly that the occupants had. to flee with only a few garments of clothing. An alarm was sent to the Camden fire department and the equipment was rushed to the scene. There was no water supply, available and the firemen were unable to do anything to halt the flames, Mrs. Moore picked up six-year-old Herbert when she flrst discovered the home was afire and hurried cut. The flames soared skyward and were seen for many miles, attracting many motorists *and others to the scene despite. the early honr. {* The dwelling was completely destroyed, only the brick foundation supports and chimneys standing. All of the household effects were lost. The amount of insurance coverage Is not known. ?? ? ./. . ? .... - ^ fCjtjjpiKsttef1 The friends of Mrs. Bsell Kelly on glad to know she has returned to bet home in DaBoee Pork, and Is Impm tog after undergoing ?a operation a toe Camden hospital THREE NEQROE8 BEING HELD IN DEATH OF FRANK L. STOVER t . Johnny Lee I)yo, negro, 1h in the Kerehliw county Jail on a murder commitment, while Ted MIiiko, alias Ted Haglns, and John Williams are In custody on n charge of being ncees- eories to the murder of sovoutoouyear-old Frank Lloyd Htovor on November 84. All three are negroes, | Dye ban signed a confession, according to Sheriff J. 11, McLeod, in which he admits the shooting of Stover, while u signed statement has also been secured from Hagins, and Williams, the latter substantiating the confession made by Dye. It is a fine commentary that these three, men wore taken into custody the day after the killing by the sheriff and locked up 011 a charge of being suspected of knowledge of the crime. The body of Stovor was found in a dense wood near Liberty Hill on the imrrara# <w ?wVw?w SS-. W.iZTZZZ'.Uili reached the sherifT shortly after nine o'clock and in a few hours he had Dye, WilliamH and Hagtn under arrest. After a coronor's Inquest they wore placed In chargo of tho sheriff on charges of murdor and accessory to tho fact, tho charges being made by Coronor R. T. Uoodale. 1 All three men doniod, when arrested, that they knew anything of the klllthg, but later, under cross examination by the sheriff and other officials, admitted everything. Dye, In his confeBBlon, claims that Floyd whs killed accidentally, that he and Floyd were scuffling whon the gun, belonging to Floyd, was discharged, the contonts tearing a path through Floyd's breast on the left side. He said that when ho and the other two men saw that Floyd waB dead, they became panic stricken, fled froir the place and to their homes, BELOW FREEZING WEATHER; BUT CAMDEN E8CAPE8 8N0W Biting winds and below freezing weather has held Camden in a frigid grasp for several days, with temperatures going as low as 14 degrees in the early morning hours Tuesday^"" Readings from 16 to 24 degrees were reported on other mornings. A throat of snow was in evidence Monday evening, with a snowfall re-' ported within twenty miles of the city. Outside of a few flurries Camden escaped a white blanketing, '1 be cold wave has been general all over the country with l<Li|^w zero readings In the north ^^^Kldwest. Florida citrus growers given warning to protect their groves and motorists front the "Sunshine State" declared that the landscape was dotted with the glow of smudge pots in groves to ward off freezing temperature. The produce in Florida was given a rude jolt by the frigid blasts and according to reports, occasioned a 16 per cent loss. The citrus crop r escaped, It is said. The weather bureau has promised a break in the cold wave and lndlear Hons for a warm week-en^ fyld continuation of mild weather promising. Nurses Pasa' Exams | .Included in a list of 124 names of young women who^ successfully passed nurses' examination for registration In November and are now licensed to practice the profession in South | Carolina are the following from Cam;den: Eva BrasJngton,^ Hazjel B. Eddings, Wilma M. Sill, Mlttle Pauline: Steadman. ' , *; Grace Church Services The services for Sunday, December 12, at Grace Episcopal church will be las follows:, Celebration of the/rfoly Communion,at 8 a. m.; church school .at 9:45; morning prayer and sermon by the rector, Dr. Maurice Clarke, at11:16. ' The choir will sing the anthem, "Incline Thine Ear." The Young Pbo! pies Service League will meet at-the I home of Miss Betty Whltaker at 7 , o'clock. ; The Laymen's League will hold lta first ladles night in the Parish House , at 8 p.m. Sunday. -There will bu&i| I Hpecial musical program with solos by Mrs.. Josepph Branson and jL C. McKain. A Russian Legend composed by TschaU|owsky will be sung by the jeholr. Refreshments will be fserved. r ' - -0 Bethesda PresbyterMn Ohvrch Sunday. December 12, A. Douglas > McAru, pastor, the services wW.Aa r as follows: Church ddroot'fer all t to all VfrjaggRfe'A4 ,-r