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COUNTY CANDIDATES TO SPEAK AT BETH UN E WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3 The Camden chronicle ' CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY, 29, 1938 ' NUMBER 20 To Start Work On New Park August 11 Work ol converting etghty-olght acres of donated to the cltv a year ago by Kruest L. Woodward Into a recreational and park area, will be Btarted on August 11. according to word received here from Wl'A officials The area, located near the overhead bridge on No. 1 highway, west of the ctiy, will be arranged bo as to feature a modern polo field, a Softball diamond, aeVeral tenuis courts, drives, walks and landscaping. The polo field will be graded and planted with grass at once in an effort to have it lu shape for the 19881939 polo Beason. It Is not believed possible, however, that this can be accomplished, as thePe will be fenclug, stables, and the like to erect, and funds for this part of the program may not be obtainable this year. The softball field, originally planuned as a baseball park, will be leveled and grass planted at once in order that it will be in shape for the 1939 municipal league program. It is hoped to erect bleachers sufficient to accommodate seven or eight hundred people at this softball field. That the field will be equipped with lights is believed a certainty. This means that the present softball field at the high school grounds will be utilized by the girl's league, which will play at 6 o'clock In the afternoon. The men's league would get under way at 8 o'clock. Dewey Creed Sells *His Filling Station i . Creed's Filling station, located on DeKalb street, just west of Broad, and operated by Dewey J. Creed for over ten years, has been sold to Allen Morris, who for some five years was employed by Mr. Creed. It Is proposed to have the station carry on under the name of Creed's Filling station, due to the prestige that has accrued under the pmnagement of Mr. Creed. Mr. Creed disposed of the filling station In order that he can give his ( entire time to the contracting busl- 1 ness in which he Is affiliated with j his brother, George, and to hlB own pulpwood industry which is one of | the major industrial programs of the : community. Because of his many business interests coupjed with the unstinting time j and effort given to the county fair of ' which he is chairman and to the Nutrition camp program of which he^is a leader, Mr. Creed found it neces- 1 sary to relinquish some of the duties ' involved in such an active program. ' i South Carolina Cuts Auto Toll I _______ ' j Columbia.?A decline of approxi- j mately 26 per cent in traffic fatalities ] in South Carolina was recorded dur- ' ing the month of May, the monthly j summary of motor vehicle accidents f released by the state highway depart- j menr discloses. Twenty-five persons were killed in automobile accidents, nirte less than in April," Wilbur S. Smith, traffic ?nirineer, reported. Approximately 218 injuries were listed. (>' the total of 270 accidents recorded, nine per cent were fatal, 43 ( r-r cent Qpn-fataJ Injury accidents, 1 and 47 per centv-*4roperty damages. J a.-: compared with the April accidents, 1 - per cent of which were fatal, 46 1 cent non-fatal, and 41 per cent 1 property damage accidents. First Baptist Church i * The following services are announc- > ed for week beginning July 31, pt the t First Baptist church: Sunday school at 10 o'clock, with V. J. Rector, superintendent, in charge. Public worship conducted by the pastor, J. B. < aston at 11:15 a. m. . Subject: "Looking Two Men In The Face." Rev. evening services. B. T. U. Sunday evening at 7:15. The picture will be ' Isaac, The Boy," at 8:15. Preaching at 8:30. The nubile Is cordially In\ited to attend all these services. New Agsnt For tJouthsrn * U. G. Burns* of Denmark, has ar- o (rived in Camden to be agent for the e Southern Railway In thla"Hl? family will move here at an early li date and wlH occupy the SiU^resi- a Charles Usher Myers Died On Tuesday Charles Usher Myers, 84 years of age, died Tuesday, July 26, after an illness of teu days. Mr. Myers wus a pioneer farmer of this county where he reared a large and respected family. Ue spent his entire life In this community, retiring in 1934. He was twice married. His first wife being Miss Katherine McLeod, of this county. To this union were born two sous and ouo daughter? Usher N. Myers, of Camden", J. U. Myers and Mrs. I). H. Young, of Charleston. Mrs. Mat tie Huckabee, his second wife, with the following children survive: Leslie Myers, Hazel Myers and Wilson Myers, of Camden; Mrs. Norman Carson, Vineland, N. J.; Mrs. Ida Belle Parson, Mrs. Ellen Mae Curry, of Camden. He leaves also one sister, Mrs. J. H. Skinner, of Elliott. Funeral services were held Wednesday from Mt. Zlon Baptist church, Dr. A. S. Lockee and the Uev. B. H. Broom officiating, with burial In the churchyard. Active pallbearers were L). H. Young, Paul Curry, U. N. Myers, J. L. Myers, Hazel Myers and Leslie Myers. Honorary pallbearers were Dr. J. W. Brunson, Dr. S. F. Braslngton, Dr. A. W. Humphries, J. H. McLeod, C. V. Massebeau, J. Scot Dunn, S. A. McCasklll, Jim McCoy, Wade Stokes. Jesse Branhaiu, Willie Branham, Eugene Lee, Tom Truesdale, Lem Young. Major Munn, W. T. Gardner, Jim Kennington, Lewis Harris, H. O. Burns, S. Twltty, S. Moore and H. West. Dove Season Again Split South Carolina hunters In the dove fields this fall will again have a split shooting season, according to Information from the state game department. The counties In the northern part of the state, comprising Aiken, Edgefield, Anderson, Oconee, Pickens. Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg Cherokee, Union, Fairfield, Chester and York, will have a season opening September 1 and closing September 30, but reopening again December 20 and closing January 31. All dateB Inclusive. The southern and eastern counties bave a solid season from November 20 to January 31?all dates Inclusive. "These regulations are set by the United States bureau of biological mrvey. and are the agreements between the chief of that bureau and the several game commissioners of the Southern states," stated A. A. Richardson, chief game warden. The new regulations still fall to ;lve any leeway regarding baiting love fields. "Baiting of doves is not luthorized, regardless of the distance aetween the bait and the shooting. Doves may be hunted In season from 1 a. m. to sunset. Repeating Bbot juns muBt be plugged to limit three ihells. The daily bag limit remains Ifteen per day. Campaign Opens at Bethune Wednesday The candidates for Kershaw county jfflces will have their first speaking late at Bethune on Wednesday, August 3, at 10 a. m. There are fortyour candidates seeking office in this county. Of course all of these will lot make speeches at Bethune, for nany are offering for minor offices in he various townships, but doubtless til will be present to mix with the roters. The complete itinerary for he campaign 1b as follows: Bethune?August 3, 10 a. m. Blaney?August 4, 10 a. m. Rabons?August 9, 10 a. m. Kershaw?August 11. 10 a. m. Westville, August 11, 3:00 p. m. Cassatt?August 16, 10 a. m. Antloch?August 18, 10 a. m. Mt. Pisgah?August 23, 10 a. m. ^ CAffiiTCfi?ATLgUM 25, 3:00 P- ?. Camden Mills?August 27, 3:00 p.m. Insult Burled London, July 23?Samuel Insull, iH$o toirTRmr Tmrerty nile in* ose a $4,000,000,000 utility empire, raa burled today in a simple, golden ?k casket in the Putney Vale cemtery. " _ ^ ^ , The last chapter in the fabulous ife story of Abe magnate who died X the age of 78. a heart attack in >kriB Just a weeXlago. was almost *?, j """"to" "t r 0-- - - tn? Iain cotttn to ? ?r?T? booeoth Boy Injured in An Unusual Accident * - J. Murray Smith, Jr.,. fifteen-yearold son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Smith, Sr., of the Charlotte Thompson auction, had a narrow escape from death wheu the plunger and valve of an insecticide spraying machine he was bending over blew up. The accident occurred early in the week and tho youth ia now at the Camden hospital recovering from the effects of tho explosion and a subsequent infection that set In the wounds. The iron plunger and valve struck the lad in the loft side of tho face, knocking out four teeth on the upper Jaw and fracturing the frontal Jaw bones. Several days after he had been taken to tho hospital Infection set in and his fever rose to over 104 degrees. At* last reports, however, the boy was resting comfortably and his recovery Is now assured. His father operates the Bourbon dairy farm some seven miles south' east of Camden. Escaped Convict Arrested Hartsville Jake Green, 32 year old escaped convict, was arrested oti Tuesday night In the Mont Clare section by Deputy Sheriffs E. M. Miller, Austin Freeman, assisted by J. P. Privette and Roy Williams of the Darlington! police force. The convict escaped from the penitentiary In Raleigh, N. C., two years ago while serving a twenty year sentence on a murder charge. He had been living In Darlington county for some time under the name of James, Sanders. It Is reported that he con-J fessed to the officers that he was the wanted man and he has been turned over to North Carolina authorities.?r fiartsville Messenger. Powell Sees Better Conditions Norfolk, Va? July 19?Due to the heavy rains in Florida which have done away with any danger of a poor citrus crop, and the ten point rise in the condition of the orange crop situation, better business conditions should result throughout the South, L. R. Powell, Jr., Receiver said today. In addition to the above favorable reports, Mr. Powell pointed out that the grapefruit growers rate their crop condition at 74 as against the .poor showing of fifty in 1937. The paper and textile Industries, both large us-< ers of traffic on the Seaboard, are: expected to Increase their carloadings 1 ltf the fall and winter. The splendid peach crop In Georgia, and the Carollnas has resulted in a substantial improvement in Seaboard Air Lin?; carloadings. Yellow Baseball To Get Try Out August 2 Chicago, July 21.?^The yellow baseball, credited with being easier to see than the regulation white ball, will be tried out in the major leagues August 2 In one game of a doubleheader between the DodgerB and St. Louis Cardinals at Brooklyn. Larry MacPhall, boss man of the Dodgers, said today special permission had been obtained from the National League to use the ball. Playing experiments were made with the ball in several college games ; last spring, and those who saw it used claimed vthe batter can see the pitch more easily, thus assuring greater safety for the batsman than by use of the white ball. ( To Meet With Mlrpah The Lee Cbun-ty Singing Convention will meet in its one hundred and fifty-first session on Sunday, July 31, at 10:30 a. m., at Mlzpah Baptist j church, in an all-day song fest. The I church is situated twelve miles east of Camden, three-fourths of a mile off highway 34. Turn to right at Joyner's stote. This will be a tri- , county convention, composed of Kershaw, Lancaster and Lee. All attending the session will bring a well-filled bMTteF bT TuSCh. A <55rdIiT W6TbOffie" to all.?L. A. Moore, president. t - Revival at Pleasant Hilf The revival meeting is in progress at Pleasant Hill Baptist church now with the Rev. Boyce Davis, of Ruby, doing the preaching. 'Coxne and hear the. great messages each day. The public is most cordially welcome to feme and worship with us. Come thou with us end we will do thee good^Rev. W. A. Clanton, pastor. ? Noted Chemist Dies At Savannah Home Savannah, Gh , July 27.?Dr. Char* I OH H. Horty, 71-year-old chemist, who pioneered in tho development of pa per from southern pine trees, died today. Success of the alight, soft-spoken scientist In the making of newsprint from slash pine was widely heralded. Dr. Horty reported that, even with the vast investment of capital requir-v ed for manufacturing plantB, newsprint could be produced from southeru forests much cheaper than the Imported paper. Born at Mllledgevllle December 4, 1867, Dr. Herty was graduated from the University of Georgia in 1866. He received his Ph. D. degree at Johns Hopkins In 1890. He taught at the University of Georgia until 1892. when he left to work with the United States bill on U . of forestry. In 1906 he developed a special type ot turpentine cup for the naval stores Industry. He later taught chemistry at the University of North Carolina, and then for five years was editor of the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. His wife, the former Miss Sophie Smaller, whom he married In 1896. died August 19, 1929. They had four children: two sons, Charles Holmes and Frank Bernard; and two daughters, Sophie and Dorothea. Mrs. Woodward Of Bishopville Dies "Greenwood, July 25.?Mrs. Blanche Tarrant Woodward, 48, wife of H. W. Woodward, of Bishopville, died in Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, early today after a Tong tfiness. Funeral arrangements have not been completed but services will be held in Bishopville probably tomorrow. Mrs. Woodward was the daughter of Mrs. Ida Reynolds Tarrant and the lats J. Robert Tarrant, of Greenwood. 8he graduated from Wlnthrop college In 1912, and after teaching Bchool Beveral years was district supervisor of the state home demonstration department until 1932, when she married Mr. Woodward. Besides her mother she Is survived by five sisters. Mrs. James Howard, Atlanta; Mrs. Fred Culvern, Kershaw; Mrs. Hugh Broadhurst, Kansas City; Mrs. H. W. Robapds, Oxford, N. C.; and Mrs. O'Hear Sanders, Greenwood; five brothers, Guy Tarrant, Columbia; Leland Tarrant, Alabama; Hunt Tarrant, Atlanta; Arthur Tarrant, Charlotte; and William Tarrant, Marion. State Highway Lights Talked Columbia, July 20.?Plans for lighting approximately 4,000 miles of state highways were being considered today by A. J. Beattie, secretary of the state rural electrification authority. Beattie said he would ask approval of the authority for an application for federal funds for the work. "The construction of power lines along the state highways would serve a double purpose,'" Beattie said. "First, these lineB would make possible tho illumination of the highways at night, and thus would promote safety in night travel. "Second, people living along the highways, not now provided vyith electric power, would bo in position to get power at a low rate by having their homes connected up with the highway lines. In this way hundreds of our citizens would benefit and modern conveniences would be available to a great many homes. "I estimate that $3,000,000 would be needed for this work." Smith, Brown File Expenses Washington, Jtriy 20. Senator BmitlP (Democrat) of South Carolina, reported to senate investigators today he had spent $3,690 in his campaign-for the Democratic nomination, to succeed himself. Replying to a questionnaire from the senate campaign expenditure# in-j vestigating committee, Smith said he had received no contributions. Edgar A. Brown, of Barnwell, 8. C.. reported expenditures of approximately $4,000 in the same race. He said he ha* received no contributions. ? ? t " ' Hamilton, in epecch at Herkimer, charge* the Roosevelt Administration seeks $0 control prcaa., f Valuable Books Now At Camden Library A valuable collection of books, donated by the estate of Miss S W Perkins, has been placed on the shelve^ of the Camden public library. It lp interesting to know thut Miss Perkins was the contributor of the first books to the Camden library. Miss Perkins first visited In Camden In 1865, visiting her slater, Mrs. ltoger Perkins, lovingly known as "Miss Callle," who lived at the Kirkwood house, now known as doodle Castle. At that tliue the Camden library, supported by a group of Interested citlsens, was housed In two second floor rooms of a frame building located near the present Fashion Shop. Miss Perkins became Interested In the modest library of that period and donated three hundred books, all of I liiem of great value. Nearly all of the volumes were destroyed In a fire but several were saved and became the nucleus of the present library located In the Carnegie building on Broad and Laurens streets. It Is timely to state slat it was due to the efforts of Mrs. E. C. von Tresohow, president and founder, that Camden has such a splendid library building. From time to time Miss Perkins has added to her original gift of booltOrOknd had promised Mrs. von Treschow that at her death, others would be forthcoming. In June, Miss Perkins passed away and last week; over three hundred books were received from her estate and placed on the library shelves here. The list includes novels of the Early Victorians, George Elliot, An-' thony Trollope and Charlotte Bronte as well as those of today. 'Among the latter are Virginia Woolf, V; Sack-1 vllle-West, Hugh Walpole, John Galsworthy, Katherlno Mansfield, John Buchan and G. B. Stern. Biographies, books of travel, religious books, essays, plays, books on philosophy, the fine arts and social sciences are included in the valuable collection. Many of the books are out of print and many are autograph*, ed. - , Miss Perkins, according to her friends, was a delightful and Interesting personality. She was particularly Interested In religious books and poetry, and it is said that she knew enough poetry to repeat a new poem every day In the year. She numbered among bar friends many outstanding figures here and abroad. She and Ramsay MacDonald were close friends since he was a boy, and when he visited the United tSates it Is said that he remarked, "I am going especially to see Miss Perkins." Colored Home Agent For Kershaw County The United States Department of Agriculture, cooperating with the Land Grant colleges of the state, has appointed a colored home demonstration agent for Kershaw county. Susie Blvens is a native of South Carolina having been born in Greenville county and raised on a farm. She received her college education from the Colored State Teacher's college In Orangeburg and la a graduate In home economics, holding the B. S. degree. She has had experience as a teacher of home economics and furthefr training as assistant colored home demonstration agent in Allendale cpunty. Her background, education and training well fits her to assume the duties of colored demonstration agent. She will work through the rural schools in organized 4-H clubs, and in the rural sections In clubs for colored women and with individuals. Her program will Include all phases of work dealing with the home, with special emphasis on production and conservation. - She comes to Kershaw county August 1, and for the present can be reached through the office of Miss onstratlon agent. Appointed on Welfare Board W. L. McDowell has bedn appointed a member of the Kershaw County Board of Public Welfare to succeed D. T. Yarborough, of Bethune, for the three-year term beginning Jnne 18, 1938. The appointment was made by state director Thomas ttj Daniel, of! Columbia, upon the unanimous' recommendation of the Kershaw connty legislative delegation < Tlje other members of the board are N. g, Richards and Mrs. Margaret Mayfleld. Miss Sarah Crawford to 'cdunty director. ? .':V S . - - - i-15 u?r-;ig!:'-.-?szr.*z2: ? First Long Rail Line Goes Into Discard Bamberg, B t\, July 25.?Succumb* Iiig to the world's greatest depression and the added exigencies of changed conditions and bus competition, the Southern Railroad. Charleston to Augusta, the first long railroad In the world, built more than one hundred years ago, Is serving notice this week In newspapers In counties Involved that all passenger train service will be discontinued between BranchvtUe and Augusta on August 5. The railroad, through E. L. Kelster, of Charleston, superintendent, Is serving this terse notice to the public: "Notice la hereby given that effective August 5, 1938, tralti No. 17, loftVlug Urauchvllle at 10:30 a. in., and ar- < riving at Augusta at 1 p. m., and train No. 18. leaving Augusta at 3:4*1 p. m., and arriving at Branchvllle at t>:80 p. m., will be discontinued." No reason 1b assigned for the discontinuance. but an official of the road stated that "thero Is no need for trains, as plenty of buBeu run right along the railroad." This road from Charleston to' Augusta was built in the early 1880'S, and completed about 1833. It was on this line that the "Best Friend," famous locomotive, hauled carriage-like cars laden with passengers a century ago, making frequently as much j speed aa fifteen to twenty miles per hour, which caused consternation among people living along the right of way for fear that such excessive travel would be exceedingly dangerous to the public. The railroad succeeded the stage coach line which operated pi lor to . the completion of the South Carolina railroad from Charleston to Hamburg, Just this side of Augusta. The stages used the old Charleston and Augusta dirt road, and Midway, so named because It Is almost exactly half way between Charleston and Augusta, was the principal stopping place In this . "section of the state. After the operation of the railroad began, Midway thrived as a railroad center, being the nearest point to a vast area of country. Afterward Bamberg was founded, other rallroadB were built, and Midway went the way of the oldtime towns, Now there are two or three dozen people living there with a gasoline station and a small store. ChurcheB, hotels and big mercantile establishments have all disappeared. ' It is related that the South Carolina railroad wanted to go through Barnwell, but there .was an uproar, because It was felt that chickens, | pigs, and plckanlnlesCScplgs9 peed pigs, and pickaninnies' would be jeopardized; and the ' protest was so strong that the railroad promoters changed the route by Blackville, some nine miles distant, Instead. Only a few years ago there were three passenger trains dally each way t on this section of the South Carolina railroad, now the Southern. Two , trains were taken off during the predepression days fifteen years or so -J ago. Some years l^ter, the passenger train service was reduced to one train each way, which schedule is now being maintained. The taking off of the two remaining passenger trains deprives the territory of all passenger train service, excepting Denmark and Blackrllle, which have other tracks passing thru them. As to how the express and mall business will be haddled, there is dt this time no Information. At present there Is one freight train passing through Bamberg on this division each way per day?or rather, per night, for the train goes to BranchviUe about 1:30 a. m., and returns to Augusta as soon as* the business In Branchvllle Is completed, an hour or bo later. The time-honored custom ot fojk* "turning out" to meet the train Will have to go Into the discard. Few of 1 the younger boys land girls have ^ never ridden on a train, and the suggestion is being passed around that they should take a trip right away before all train service la discontlnued, as they could tell their children about' the~Ume fhey once "rode "on a passenger train. In the meantime, however, Bamberg is being served by humerone buses every day, being on two hue i lines. : Grace Church Services ? Services at Grace Episcopal church on Sunday, July 81, will be: Holy communion at 8 a. m., morning prayer and sermon by the rector, Dr. Man- . rice Clarke, at 11:15.