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ngThe Camden chronicle--' jyOLOME 49 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1937 NUMBER 42 Kirkwood Hotel Opens January 10 j-jje Kirkwood hotel, Camdeu's urgc8t hostelry, will open Jauuary 10 *nd according to announcement J,lved from Milton C. Smith, manamt definite bookings give every in* Ration that 1838 will be a surprisMly Hucceasful season.. The personal of the hotel operating group will announced later. ft The hotel and grounds are now in the hands of renovators and the handle building, representative of the tma Southern.-colonial etyle, will be iplc and span on Monday, January 10. The Kirkwood golf course, styled a "Walter Travis layout/7 will again be in charge of Joe. Patelll, and is in finer condition than 'it has been in years. The course has been open for pjay now for several weeks, ill .addition to the fine golfing opportunities, the Kirkwood is offeHng polo,.horse -racing, hunt olub activities, tennis, bunting for quail, wild turkey and joves, with guides and dogs available, and also aorseback riding over the many m'les/of flanked bridle paths. The Ki' , "nod is sponsoring dance Instruction With an expert from the Cowles Woodward studio in New York present to assist pupils. Dancjhg will be in order in the hotel grill ivery evening. The manager of the hotel, Milton < C. Smith Is In charge of the Hotel i Westbury during the summer season, bad those who have come in contact with him believe that the Kirkwood t will prove Interesting and attractive t inder his direction. ' i ? .. t Rambler's Again ; Winners At Polo > f Some brilliant shooting and mallet rork by Dick Floyd, who registered e [vo goals, wag not sufficient to close t i gap igade by a furious charging t tarn bier four and the Yellow Jack- < to wont down in defeat 7 to 6 in the't go'B&ffiopftag Qt he two ace polo teams on field num- < er one last Sunday before an enthuiastic Christmas crowd of fans. The Ramblers were defeated the (receding week by the same score.: j Led by Ancrum Boykin, with three * (eautiful shots and sonte fine deffcn- ' live work by Joe Bates, the RamblerB f took a two score lead in the first < thukker when goals were scored by < KIrby Tupper and A. Boykim^V^ 1 In the second chukker, Jtfe YelltSwjJ fackots tiOd it up when WfUiams and! 1 Toyd scored pretty- shots. jBoyxin, 2 br Ramblers and Floyd for YelfoWs, i ich scored in the third. The Jackets' ^ ook the lead in the fourth on Floyd's 1 third goal. The Ramblers went to 1 town in the fifth when Tupper and iates each scored. In the early part 1 g the sixth, goals by Robinson and ' Boykin put the Ramblers in front 7 1 0 6 Floyd took advantage of two 1 penalty shots and made good on both i to pull up to within a goal of the Ramblers. o. The game was featured by several ' kills. Charles Little, of the Yellows, 3 Pa dazed when he hit the ground 1 bring a furious exchange. Later 1 obinson and his mount went sprawl 1 Bk near the curb but neither man or Borse was injured. ' 1 flywood Unit For, 1 New Industry The Powe and McLeod Veneer ^ Bbnt in this ctty has just completed P* construction of a plywood anit 1 4 expects operation In this depart- 1 *nt of the new industry to be taken ' Bp within & week or ten days, i tirr l^epur traek-Is- being constructed I fcu the present termintis of the J Ptl across the number one highway ( P * point between the veneer plant ^<1 the plywood unit. I plant is putting in an enormous J B*onnt of logs and the making of the 1 toeer is beffit "CWTted on dafly. 1 I ?II ! 1 I Methodist Church Services ?The following services will be held [toe I.yttleton Street Methodist j on Sunday, January 2: Sunday { at 10 a. m.; morning worship Hf11:16; evening worship at 7:30. ( P* public is cordially invited to at * *" Of these services. K^feart The New Year Right ? 1 not start the Nsw Yeur t rt? Ycm are invited to attend the 1 Bible Class of the First Bap- i P Sunday morning, January I Recovers Bicycle After Long lime Archie Stein, the Camden high school football star who was glvun wide publicity recently because of his versatility as a wage- earner, student and athlete, may prove to be a Sherlock HolmeB. r? Stein has anVuncauuy memory and bis eyeBight is^omething to talk about. Over a year ago, fourteen months to be exact, J Stein had a new delivery bicycle stolen from the front of his home. Last Sunday when visiting at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Francis Sinclair, oh George ftreet, Stein observed a negro man walking past pushing a bicycle. Even from a distance of several hundred feet, Stein knew his old bike. He ran out of the yard and toward the negro mant who, seeing him coming, started away on the bike at top speed. Football spectators have witnessed Stein do hie leg stuff on the gridiron but they "hadn't seen nothin' " to the speed this high school lad exhibited as he pursued the man on the bike. Stein chased his quarry for three blocks and then, getting close enough, launched a flying tackle'and in a second Stein, the negro and the bike were a rolling mass on the road. When the dust cleared, Stein had a hammer lock on his arm, and a roundBy ed negro lad of ten years was logging it for a police officer.. Leonard (Lemon) Oliver, age 27, was the name of the n%gro person taken in charge for the theft of the Stein bike 'that occurred fourteen nonths ago. And when officers went :o Oliver's cabin, things began to happen, for the place was filled with stoen merchandise, enough being 'on land to start a small hardware and lotion store. Oliver's home is in. the (Antloch motion of the community. He will be irralgned in court on several charges, he authorities claim?one being that vt burglary and the other Involving he theft Of the Stein bike: . V ? .. ?#? tiUl-'v 1 3AMDEN LADY LOSE8 MOTHER BY DEATH AT MARION, S. C. ... Marion, Dec. 26.?Funeral services, for Mrs. Sarah Ellerbe Miles, wife of 3tephen G. Miles, were held at the lome Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Commitment was made in the Shiloh jhurch cemetery. The Rev. Dr. Emerson Ford, presiding elder of the Ma-j ion district, assisted by tile Rev. Mr. garter, pastor of the church, of wl^ph Mrs. Miles was a member for many fears, and the Rev. M. Jones, a former 7 pastor, officiated. Grandsons vere pallbearers, and granddaughters iad charge of the nowers, oT which here were many beautiful designs. Mrs. Miles died December 24 after leveral weeks' illness, which followed i stroke of paralysis, surrounded" by ler family, who had ministered to her ovingly and devotedly during her ill1688. A daughter of the late Caj?t. Wiliam 8: Ellerbe, whose home was near Sellers, she was born September 11, 1866. When quite young phe became he wife of Stephen G. Miles, with vhom she had spent nearly 60 years lefore death. She was a woman of the highest standards. She lived up to them in ber relationship of daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend an<^ church mcmShe is survived by the following hildren: - Miss NiU Miles, Marion; Mrs. J. R. Montgomery, Camden; Mrs. Richard E. Smith, Marion; Will F. Miles' Marion; Mrs. J. W. Howard, Florence; Sam E. Miles, Marlon; Mrs. rheo Miles Friar, Florence She is also survived by two sisters, M*s. E. -Miles, Little- River, Eve Ellerbe. Columbia; 14 grafatifchlife-en and four great-gradchildren. She was a sister of tW late OoverbOTTgrmtem H. Bltorbe and-Congressman James E. Ellerbe. BeWdes her immediate family, she is survived by a very large family connection. A Christmas Party Wednesday, December 22, a Chriptata party was given'at the Wateree Club Hcuse under the supervision of Mrs W. S. Oaakln, recreation director of this center. Recitation, and a urogram of Christmas carols were EL tot candy. Fruit and candy was mtv^ throtvhout the morning. Onj leaving they ell expressed a lovely! time and hoped to UToeMt^y^tyj Air Show Again Set For January Ninth Camden la going^ to hit the air lanes agulu with one of those thrill* a-mluuto shows that Jimmy Wood# and Capers Zemp, Woodward airport lads, have in atore at regular lutervals ~ This show ou Sunday, January 9, la going to be even finer and offer more thrills than the one held thla fall. It will feature the appearance here of Johnny Crowell, the greatest stunt pilot in the world, and the only one who has been able to do an outside loop In a cabin plane. Jack Huber, the chap who soared aloft some five miles and then Jumped out and plumetted down to within several hundred feet of pnother earth before he yanked the rip cord to open his chute, will repeat his delayed opening stunt. Huber's flight from a point where he could not be seen to the minute he opened his chute was marked by a thin white streak, as a bag of flour on his pack poured out' a tracer line. In addition to some spectacular work by these two lads, thet-e will be many novel events on the show. A loud speaker system will be In charge of "Flash" Woods, who will decribe the various feats of air prowess as they are unfolded by the skilled pilotB. Deleter Martin, head of the aeronautical commission of the state, will be In Camden for the show and arrangements are, being made to have him take up several administrative groups of the city and county. Great Group Racing Steeds Are Expected The most outstanding group of racing steeds ever gathered together in a southern community will bo in evidence in Camden stables within the next two weeks. Fully two hundred head of the finest racing talent will be here to begin training for the 133S?aeaSQIl.?which openn here nn . February 22 with the nationally famous Washington Birthday race program and followed on ttre last Saturday in March by the Carolina Cup event. Some of the stables now occupied here are rtiose of Ambrose Clark, of Westbury, Long Island, who has twenty head of horses now in training. Ray Wolfe, another well kpown devotee of the horse game will have his horses here within a short time. "W. B. Street, of Warren ton; J. E. Ryan, of Unionvllle, Pa.; Mrs. Randolph Scott and Randolph Duffy, are others who will occupy their Camden stables- within a week or so. Escape, Fugitive, Ostend, Indigo and Cadeau II are among some of the nationally famous horses that will be here. In the last' running of the Carolina Cup race Fugitive upset the dope sheet and took the cup. The* Carolina Cup event, the outstanding steeplechase race of the season kt the United "States and second in point of attendance only to the Grand National In England^ will have the finest field of jumpers ever assembled In the history, of the Springdale course. "BANG BANG" CLUB STAGES - M08T INTERESTING EVENT Christmas night at the "Bang Bang" club was one of. the most pleasant events of the kind ever held In Camden and attracted a crowd of one ^hundred and fifty dancers and diners. ... . . __ From nine o'clock dinner service was In order and the chef in charge had prepared delicious steaks and the* necessary trimmings to make It an oplcnrian delight. Diners took occasion to compliment the management upon-the perfect cuisine prevailing. The merrymaking continued until the ttidnight hour and dancing featured the evening?music being provided >y the Palmetto Swingsters. - The "Bang Bang" club has stepped Into the spotlight of popular favor and with the splendid cuisine and service that has featured the routine to date, the season Is certain to be a big success. ? The next event on the club calendar will be the New Tear's eve party, which is bound to be a success and largely attended. Already -the dancing set Is ypai^to gjve the New Tb* cost to the taxpayers of the >7."M ??tra ssss|pa of congress Is IriliyffiT WI ss biffifr - ^ . .. . Sarsfield Course Being Put In Shape Tile work of clearing the tall grass from the Camden municipal golf couree, formerly tiio Sarallold course, la well under way. After the 'course ha* be?u mowed It Is plauned to roll the falrwaya. Moat of the playing area Is In excellent shape but there are two holes that will have to be rolled several timea as they were badly cut when the area was used by polo players as a practice Held. Donald Morrison, who is supervising the work of getting the course In shape for play this season, believes that he. will have the greens under work within (he next toeek. At the same time the conditioning of the tees trill be tAken care of; Much Interest has been occasioned by the movement to provide Camden gold enthusiasts with a course where play may be Indulged In at a minimum of expense. The idea of a local golf club with . ..regularly scheduled tournaments throughout the year has also struck with a popular chord. Cup Play Starts January Ninth t> The outstanding early season polo event of the southeast will get under way Sunday, January' 9, when, tho Town and Country teams of the Camden polo club clash in the first of u series of games to determine tho 193& ownership of the Devlno cup. ThiH handsome silver tropty Is offered each year and the names of tho winning teanl's players and scores of the matches engraved thereon. Tho ciip is presented by Mrs. John Device in memory of her husband, who was an ardent follower of polo and all other sports connected with horses. Last year the series was not concluded until .Spring and. offered some-stellar polo. There is a lot of speculation as to the probable outcomo of the series this vyr. Cantaln Dick Flnvd. of the Catftden polo club, has a lot of fine players under his charge this season and with the conditioning period of several weeks under their belts the riders are all hardened tot the most grueling kind of a fracas. Ponies too have rounded into midseason form and the first game is bound to produce gome thrills. With the score standing at deuce, with each team stowing away a game in the series so far played, the Ramblers and Yellow Jackets will stage the ffaal and deciding tilt Sunday at the number one field. * This*game should bring out some dazzling-polo, ah the Issue will decide" the pre-season honors between these two line teams. In the first game of the series the Yellow Jackets copped 7 to 6, but the Ramblers came back last Sunday to win by the same score. The field has been Ironed out after the game of last Sunday and with the warm weather of the past few days It Swill be in shape for some fast action on the palrt of the players. LATEST RECEIPT8 8HOW THAT SEAL 8ALE IN COUNTY GROV?8 Wednesday's receipts increased the amount the Kershaw County Tuberculosis Association has on hand from the 1937 sale of Tuberculosis Christmas Seals, Bonds and Bangles to ap-l proximately one thousand and fifty dollars. This figure Is about one hundred and fifty dollars less than the total returns for 1986. There are several schools and community chairmen not yet heard from so It is apparent that when all reports are in there will be available for the tuberculosis control program an amount that la. at least eftual to'the fund raised last year. In view of crop and business conditions, this is 11 bowing and evidence of generosity that Is gradually.?becoming county-wide. The splendid response also Indicates an increasing Interest in protecting the homes in the county from preventable disease. The Tuberculosis Association extends thanks to every member of the committee who assisted with the Heal Sale and to every citizen who contributed to the success of the Seal Sale by purchasing seals* bonds or bangles. PCSObytcrtan Church Services Bertrleee at the Bethesda Preshyte riaa church Sunday, January 1, wfl] be *48 follows: announces Rev. A. Etongfce McArn, pastor: Chord an ngee at If a. ?. Morn lng worship with sermon at 11; 15 Tbcjp^^cordlally Invited to <kl '/~7~v " i"'""-} Celebrate Christmas At Nursery School (By thj) Skipper) Hello folks! This is tho Skipper speaking. Just have to tell you today about the Christmuu 1 witnessed at I the Cumdeu nursery school oyer there on Lafayette street. If you have never visited this worth while s^hoool, 1 would suggest you make it a point to drop in some day about 12 uoon and see these little tots at dinner or luncheon as it Is termed there. | * Two big tables and a score of tiny tots, ranging In age from a few years Up to four or five, and believe It or not, folks, they even had tiny tots serving as waitresses. And when a tiny voice Invoked the Divlno bless tag, well It was just a little bit too much and darned If 1 didn't get a lump around my Adam's apple. I But on this day I am speaking about, the little tots all hung up their tiny stockings. I guess they must have all brought an extra one because when they left for home they seemed to be well stockinged. But the next day, well folks, It was a picture ono never would forgot. Santa Claus had been to the school during the night and every stocking was filled. Gracious, such a lot of apples, orangos, tangerines, candy and toys. I'll never forgot the gurgles of delight, tho happy cries, the hugging of dollies, eager grasping of toys. The only sad feature of the whole prograan was that quite a number of the little folks who would have been there, were absent because of the measles. One little boy, seriously ill at the hospital with pneumonia was remembered by Santa Claus who saw to It that his stocking was carried to him at the hospital. And the little folkB who were at home with measles all received their stockings as well. There may be Christmas celebrations, some in big auditoriums, some n halls, some In schools, and community celebrations In city parks, but to me that Christmas at this nursery -sehoek was something never to bo forgotten. The light of Jay ami happiness on little faces will remain with me as long as I live. And I echo the thanks of the school staff, to the merchants and friends who contributed the gifts so that overy one of the poor littlo tykes would know that "honestly and truly mother ?there is a Santa-Claus.'' 8EVEN HURT WHEN CAR8 CRA8H AT ROAD INTERSECTION Seven persons, three of them children, were In the Camden hospital Sunday as tho result of an.auto crash tour miles _north of the city during the heavy fog Saturday night. Those In the hospital were Mr. and Mrs.'Jacob Johnson and three children. Shorley, age 1; Eugenia,4, and Mary 3, all of Cassatt; and Mrs. C. W. McDonald, of Camden. Two othI em, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Gardner, of Columbia, were bardly cut and lacerated but were released from the hospital after their Injuries had been cared for. All were badly cut and bruised. The two cars, one driven by Gardner and the other by Johnson crashed at the Intersection of the old Hartsville road and highway number one. when a blanket of heftvy fog reduced visibility to a minimum. With Gardner was Mrs. Gardner and Mrs. McDonald, while the six members of the Johnson family were in the other machine. ; Authorities state record of accidents reduced by reason of henry fog preventing Christmas eve celebrators from venturing out on the highways and causing those obliged to drive to proceed cautiously. " *** ' r Bandits rfyob 8anta Claus New York, 24.?Guntasn won't prevent the political club of Paul E. Santangelo from plying Santa Clans to 1,500 families today. Fire gum en robbed-dab headquar ters of $2,700 raised to pay for Christ mas baskets, but the club announced the distribution would be carried out on schedule. The spokesman did nol disclose the source of the money t< replace the stolen fund. ; - The gunmen jrftered the dub roomi of Bantangelo, Tammany leader, las night. "Thjs money Is for charity," Morrl Solomon, club secretary protested I "It is for Christmas baskets for th poor widows and chfldroa. You shout i be ashamed." "Won, w. bare to ban a UUI . Christ ma, raaa.,. too," tho robbor 1 rotortod, at tho, ocoopod op tho m. no, is4 fed. ts^^asaessBsssssecBsmk Christmas Observed at Children's Home Chrivtuias, 1M7, was observed lu * flttliik manner by nil of Cam don. But (he outstanding features were (he variouH events in which (hp poor and the needy were involved. Al the Children's Home, eighteen little folks observed the Yuletide Friday with appropriate exercises in which Christinas oarolu, recitations, aud the like played an important part. Hev. Douglas MoAru of the Presbyterlan church gave the Christmas message a/id also lod In the prayers. A gayly deeqrated Christmas tree graced one side of tho room and th| little folks all aat In rowa on the other side of the fireplace. The splendid choral numbers certainly reflect-* ed the attention and Interest taken by those in charge of the Home. On Christmas morning the little folks gathered around the tree to receive the gifts that Santa Claus had left for them. It was a happy and joyous group that oponed the parcels and exclaimed In delight over the gifts received. A sumptuous dinner was served at noon and the little folks did ample Justice to a most interesting and appetising menu. Christmas Is indeed a children's day for that is the infinite significance of that Divine event in Bethlehem nineteen centuiieH ago, a significance which cannot?must not be overlooked in the hurry and bustle of workaday events?in the rush and flurry of holiday observance?not for nothing are wo reminded that of Him, whoso birth wo celobated it was said "And a Little Child Shall Load Them." Eight Negroes Die In Wreck Wallace. N. C\. Dee. 27? Coroner Carl Smith,said today ho would hold an inquest tomorrow Into tho drowning last night of eight negroes near Chinquapin, fourteen miles south of here. -Smith said the nesnws were riding ? with Alonzo Whitehead, a- relative, when he became blinded by the light# of an approaching automobile. The oft* swerved sharply, pluuged.through a heavy bridge guard,-fell thirty feet onto a shoal, and overturned in the Northeast river. Whitehead was helped to shore by J. B. Wiggins, who arrived at the scene soon after tho tragedy. Another white m&nr Lfco Ilrpwn, soon brought his &w hoe* to the spot and six bodies wero recovered. The remaining two had not bang found early today. " ~ Thtr dead, 'air related, Wefei?ttu- ~ bert Bharpless, 18; Alberta Pickett, ~ and Onetls Pickett, 9; and Alberta's sister, 28, and her children, Mamie, 111, Ruby, 8, Lonnie, Jr., 6, Claude," 13, Mary Lilly Brown. All the bodies were recovered except those of Claude and Onetls, The dead were, tenants on a farm near Clnquapln. Cards Mailed to Depositors D. A. Boykln, conservator of The Bank of Camden, this week mailed out several thousand reply post cards to the many depositors of the old bank requesting their slgnatu/h and address. It Is the request that these cards be returned promptly, because ~ failure to return them may bar the *?! depositors from participation In ?mP1 pay-off. ' ' This Is the final dividend of the old Bank of Camden and is made possible by the action of the CurrMon Wntsin| Company, composed of the children of the late H. O. Garrison, wjio jus taking, over the entire rwirta of the ) old bank and with the cooperation ojr certain larger ^depositors are settling T In toll the bank's deposit liability. The present intention is to make | these payments on January - It Is hoped that all ui the many details will be fully completed by that I Grace Church Service# ? I The services in Grace Episcopal t church on Sunday, January 2, will be > as follows: The church school^^P 9:45 o'clock. Holy communion end i sermon by the Rector, Dr. Mauricet Clarke, at 11:15. The early service - will be omitted. The choir wtil sing 8 great anthem, "Arise, Shine L for Thy Light la Come," at the 11.1S 4 t ??=?z? Am'bi ^ey ' m4UMfact^r?r of