The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 02, 1940, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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Cruising |;j
Around
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with | !
i, "Skipper"
No tins *n th? home town-paper, the
rag on which I held down the city;
desk for fifteen years, that Wisconsin
cows are in for some strenuous
times?actually a 24-hour-a-day routine
And thereby hangs a tale that * '
rouses this department to flight*' of
fancy and blank verpe.
Soon folks will be "crawling out
rrom under blankets made of milk,
spread on a bed held together with
milk / rug of milk will protect your,
bare feet from the cold-milk-coated
rto0r You will turn on a faucet handle
made from milk to take your morning
shower, after which you will shave
wlih a milk-handled razor, comb your'
lialr with a comb made of milk, brua^
it wtth'% milk-backed brush and Insped
the result in a milk-backed mirror
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The you'll don a suit of milk wool,j
held in place by buttons of milk and
will he ready for a breakfast of creamdrenched
cereal served in a bowl madol
of milk and eaten with a milk spoon.
Then when you climb Into your automohle
and turn on the milk ignition
Idiog and your hand will grasp the
knoh and your hand will grasp the
lever Upon reaching your office you
will go to work with your milk-barreled
fountain pen and write a check
on a sheet of milk-surfaced paper.
And if you do not feel lilyj writing
you may thumb through the glossy
milk-coated pages of a magazine.
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No folk's, this is not a dr^am pulled
out of the milky way or the ranvblings
of a writer who has imbibed too deeply
of creamy egg-nog or spiked milk
Shake It is all in the realm of possibility
And we refer you to the Ameriran
medical society bulletin. It comes
from chaps who are doing research
with casein. And so many uses have^
already been discovered for casein,
that, as we said at the beginning of
this spasm, the Wisconsin cows will
have to go on* a 24-hour-day to keep
the production of Industrial plants
going
? Bossy
will have a bigger job on her
hantjs, or hftf bOOfl. than to supply
milk for baby; cream for the old man's
coffee and butter for the ^entire family.
She will hriii the responsibility of providing
raw materials for a dozen industrial
plants weighing heavily on
her shoulders.
So if these research'Chaps do not
spoil It all by finding you can make!
munitions of war from milk?well the,
future lives of farmers and cows will
be filled with the Joyous business of
-the bees. The future looks all milk
and honey.
Well, now that we have had our
milk portion, supposing we turn to
sports. Funny thifig Isn't it that we
never did hear from this club training
here next spring. Sort of ru<Je and un-l
sportsmanlike not to wire or write af-|
ter sending a telegram away back onj
January 10, that he would let Camden
know January 9 definitely whether
bis club would come here.
All we can say Is that this little:
breach of curtesy Is* going to give Mr.
Clunk a headache, as Judge Bramham
is a stickler for etiquette.
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'Mi yes, we cannot let the occasion
pass without some commont on the_
er weather. Some place In South.
Carolina had a temperature reading,
last Saturday morning of 6 above zetO|
and another place a bit north in the
sta: ? reported 14 below.
I Klsewhere In this issue of Henry
Mies' weekly you will read of the
strange paradox of two groups of
tourists meeting in. Camden, one going
north from Florida to get warm and;
the other going south to Florida to
get warm. Blamed humorous if you
ask me? * ^
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And from some of this department's
tried and true friends down in the
sunshine state come frank admission
that it has been some chilly down^
thataway. Orlando, beautiful Orlando,.
r.-s.'.. .
reports as low as 28 degrees.
And Miami and Palm Beach shivered
and shook in tbeoeid- Waets while at
Key West, for the first time in the
knowledge of man, they saw snowfiakes.
So. we Camden fans haven't any
qpologies to make.--We admit it has
been mighty chilly around here during
January?but watch us from now on.
It was a tiiflse move on the part of
the Camden polo club group in postponing
the series with Pinehurst until
later. The polo flield was icy on
Saturday and even with a thaw, it
would have been too slick for the
jK>nies to navigate with safety.
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All credit to Bill Nettles, a grand
guy and well worthy the honor paid
him at the state scout council meeting
at Oranegburg Sunday. If you did not
read the story of the scout session, let
me say that Bill was invested with
the Silver Beaver award, a recognition
of his loyalty and perseverance
in scout activities in Camden and
Kershaw county. We say in all respect
to others in scout work here that
if it had not been for Bill Nettles,
there would probably not. be any scout
troops in Camden. Congratulations to
a fine fellow.
Yes slr-o o o . This is the season of
winter sports. If you had motored out
to any of the ponds and lakes about
here Sunday you would have seen the
boys and girls romping over the icy
surface of the water. Over on a lake
near Camp Jackson one of the soldier
boys of Uncle Sam donned a pair of
skates that he chanced to' have in his
pack and entertained a crowd of several
hundred people by executing
figure eights and other graceful turns
on the Ice.
"City of Flint"
Ends Long Journey
Baltimore, .Jan. 27.?Tfce freighter,
City of Flint, rusty and Ice-flecked,
nulled Into an American anchorage
f for the fjrst time in four months today,
wiit'lng flnls to its strange Odyssey
of' international adventure.
From the lips of the 4,952-ton ship's
skipper, Captain Joseph A. Oainard,
and from his doughty crew of 41 came
again the story of the Flint's*capture
by u German man-o'-war, an enforced
voyage with a German prize crew to
Murmansk, t^pssla, and Anally release
off the coast of Norway.
The re-telling was none the iess
dramatic. Gainard smiled broadly as
| he praised the "splendid behavior of
I my crew."
On October 3. 113 days ago, the
Flint left New York on^its historic
voyage that was to Involve four coun|
tries and bHng diplomatic note-passing/
On October 9, the German pocket
battleship Ueutchland captured her,
then put a prize crew aboard.
"There were 18 Germuns all told
1 communded by a young Lieutenant
Pushbach," said Chief Engineer William
H. I^ogan. "They were armed
with pistols, daggers and hand kreiiaiTes.
They made us understand
they wore taking charge?and didn't
leave us in any doubt."
Gainard said he cautioned his men
against fighting with their captors
and added that "only once did they
want to go to ^rork on a German, and
that* was when 1 restrained ihem."
However, one member of the crew
said they were getting ready to "have
it out" with the Germans when the
prize crew took the Flint into Tronisoe.
Norway en route from Murmansk
to a German port.
Eagles Lost to Washington Quint
The hard-fighting Eagles of Mather
Academy lost a thrilling double-header
to the hard-charging Booker Washington
quint from Columbia at Mather's
gymnasium Friday night. The
girls lost 29 to 34 and the boys 36 to
48.
Both games were fast and sure with
sharp shooting throughout. Sarah
Aiken was the star of the Eagles girlB
game, while Jones and Jacksen were
outstanding among the boys. Elliott
and Fields were the stellar players on
the Washington boys team.
Mather Eagles- romped, over Jackson
high of Camden last Friday. The
Eagles' next foe will be Couller Academy
of^heraw in Cheraw February 2.
The collared peccary . carries a
musk gland on its back and uses it
for sending signals. The scent is, noticeable
for great distances.
,V FOR SALE
1 ' ' i ~ivt **" f '
2,345 acres of land tp Dorchester County. Can
he made into splendid Htwtin* Preserve. Plenty of
ib,rdl *nd natural feed for them. Abundance of waJjr
Fine bluff on Cdisto River, which is always clear.
Good fishing. One hundred miles from Camden. Qn
paved rond. Price on application. ^
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"Goat Castle" Comes
Into Court Battle
Nwtcois, Miss.?"Goat Caslle," mudo
nationally famous by a sensational
murder 8 years ago, comes back Into
the news next week when Chancery
Court fakes up two-year-old ouster
proceedings against its two aged ocHupants
and thlr goat companions.
The fruit was brought by heirs of
a Charles Zerkowaky, who claimed to
hold a long overdue mortgage on the
"castle."
G. J. Hansen, wealthy Mtlwadkeeau,
several years ago negotiated to purchase
property from the heirs atnf offered
to build a cottage on the estate
for tihe old couple, Richard Dana, 70,
and Miss Octaviu Dockery, 67, descendants
of nationally famous families..
Hut when the pair heard their constant
companions! goats, could not remain
with them under the suggested
setup, they began a sit-down strike
which the court is called upon to end
at the request of the Zerkowsky heirs.
The defendants are not very worried
about the forthcoming court action,
or at least they don't show it to visitors,
who brave the filth and goat odor
to soe the faded splendor of the mansion.
The old man, with the sad mustache,
stood in the center of his ruined
parlor und watched the goat on
the sofa.
"That goat," he grumbled, and
walked out on the porch. "That goat
sure likes stuffings, soft stuffings."
Three more goats came galloping
by and disappeared into the parlor.
"He's always pulling the stuffings
out of that sofa," Dana explained.
"He does it all the time, and scatters
the stuff all over the floor. I have to
follow around after him, putting it
back."
A short, stout woman padded up
in her bed room slippers. Shb had
lines in her1 face, criss-crossed, as
if they had been mad*e with a stamping
machine. She looked at Mister
Dick.
"Oh," she said. "So you got down
off your high horse."
"We don't need any more of that,"
he said shortly.
The woman explained to the visitor:
"We had a fuss and he got up on
his high horse and went up to his
room all morning. He said he wouldn't
come down to see visitors."
The three goals galloped out.
"They're triplets," Mister Dick said.
"Now, you take this signature."
He went back into a room lined
with tall, glass-doored cases filled
with books,?pictures of Confederate
Generals, girls In - ho^p-sklrts, and
brown and faded letters with strange,
angular signatures. Mister Dick pointed
to one of the signatures.
"Now this one," he began end
rapidly reeled off a history iQfrV.ilk
thre^-hubble of words, which the stout
womait~Sntdfrupted.
"This Kere," she said, pointing
through tbe glass door at the picture
of a* dignified Confederate ..officer,
"was my father, Brigadier General
Thomas Paine Dockery, of Arkansas."
"He's a fine looking man," she
said as she peered through the glass.
"He fought the Yankees at Vlcksburg."
She moved along the bookcase to a
tinted picture of a beautiful young woman.
"That," the stout woman said, "was
me as a young girl. Every time I see
it now I feel like hiding my face."
She hid her face in her hands.
It was Saturday afternoon in "Goat
Castle." a great dilapidated mansion
In the woods, three miles from Natchez,
where still stand some of the most
magnificant ante-bellum homes in
America as testimony to the grandeur
of the cotton planters.
It roiild have been any jtftfvrnoan
In the past eight years since the old
couple. Mister Dick and his guardian.
Jthe stout woman, Miss Dockery, had
been arrested as suspects in a strange
murder.
Their neighbor, Miss^tennie Merrill,j
used to shoot their goats when the
animals invaded her estate Glenbiirney.
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At 64 Miss Merill, daughter of Ayres
Merrill, once minister to Belgium,
was good with a rifle.
She shot the goats and quarreled
with Miss Dockery the day before
she herself was found slain in her
home the night of Aug. 1, 1932.
Dick And Miss Dockery were indicted
for murder.
The world outside of Natchez didn't!
know them. They lived off the main
highway In a house that had once
been magnificent.
The goats ran wild, and so did
Dick?in a gunny sack through the
woods?'hiding from humans. Huntsmen
finding him said, "Hello, Dick."
'Tm not Dick," - he would say,
"Dick's in New York, singing in Christ
Church choir."
While Dick and Miss Dockery were
in jail reporters rooted around
through their estate, called Olenwood
then. reohrlBtened it "Goat Castle,"
Dick's story:
Ho was tiie son of a distinguished
Churchman, the Rev. Charles Bacus
Dana, and a member of the family
cf Charles Dana, of the Now York Sun.
He had attended Vanderbilt University.
studied music in New York?andhad
sung in Christ Church ohoir.
Ho" said he had come upon Miss
Dockery in 1892 when he promised
her dying sister he would protect Octavia
forever. He stoutly dghled there
had ever been any romance between
them.
Miss Dockery, writer of poems and
stories for southern newspapers in
her younger days, said she was educated
in New York in luxury and when
the family fortune failed opened a
chicken farm on Dick's estate. Then
she bought goats.
Public sympathy turned so strongly
ia -tbelr--favor -R was- impossible to
find a jury to try them. Thirteen other
suspects were brought into the mystery.
Evidence pointed toward a Negro
named Pearls as the actual slayer
of Miss Merrill. The Negro was
shot to death in Pine Bluff, Ark., by
officers trying to arrest him.
When Dick and Miss Dockery, stepped
out of Jail, the whole world knew
them. Tourists streamed along the
rutted road to their estate to see
"Goat Castle."
Dick aud Miss Dockery began charging
admission. It gave them a living.
Miss Dockery had herself appointed
Dick's guardian and by selling
chickens, eggs, cow's milk, goat's milk,
pigs* and charging admission to their
home, the couple suspected "Goat
Castle" was in the neighborhood of
easy street forever.
Then the heirs of a Charles Zerkowsky
claimed to hold a long overdue
mortgage on "Goat Castle." Two years
ago J. H. Hansen a .wealthy Milwaukeean.
negotiated with the Zerkowsky
heirs to buy the estate.
Dick denies hrr ever signed a mortgage
on Glenwood and says the procedure
under which Miss Dockery was
appointed his guardian with power of
attorney was irregular.
"Of course they said I was orazy,"
Dick declared. "But they never proved
it."
Meantime Dick and Miss Dockery
have placed this sign at the entrance
to their estate: ; >~
4'Visit the nationally famous Goat
Castle: Help the old people save their
home."
They profit tremendously from the
tourists who pile through Natchez
every spring to visit the proud and
splendid ante Bellum homes advertised
by this city's two garden clubs.
"Goat Castle" isn't on any of the
tours and a visit to it is not encouraged
by the ladies of .the garden
clubs.
Dick is gloomy and belligerent at
the thought the Chancery Court decision
may go against him. But not
Miss Dockery. '
"Suppose," she was asked, "you
and ^tok have to get out of here.
Then what will you do." _ -B~"Qh,"
Mies Dockery said- "I don't
know, t think III go to New Orleans
I hear that's an interesting city. Td
like to walk around and see ft. ft ha*
a lot of buildings.4
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your child scratching.
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Walsh Named To
Columbia Agency
T V. Walsh, Jr., for tho past
four years coin me re la I agent of tho
Atlantic Coast Lino for Sumter and i
adjoining counties, has been appointed
agent at Columbia, S C., vice
t\ V. Hall, deceased. The appointment
is effective February 1st.
Mr. Walsh has been In the Atlantic
Coast Line service for twenty alx
ami a half years, starting as a clerk
in the Sumter freight office in 1919
After a few years ho was promoted to
the |M>8itl^>n of traveling freight agent
in this territory. In 1920 he was appointed
general agent at CamdtA,
where he remained until 1995, When
the Northwestern .Railroad was dUcontinued
and the Camden office
closed. He wus transferred to Cheraw
whore ho served as agent fov four
months, after which he was appointed
commercial agent for tho Sumter district,
In which position ho has served
-'successfully for four years.
His many friends In Sumter, his
homo town, are gratified at his promotion
and are- extending eongivtulaVlons,
but they regret tho removal
from Sumter of so good a citizen ?
Tuesday's Sumter item.
CONFERENCE AT ANTIOCH
There will be a conference held at
Autioch Baptist church Sunday February
4, for the purpose of calling a
pastor. All members are urged to be
present.
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Nolan Is Shooting !
Ace of Police Force!
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"Six burley bluecoats, shooting at
a wall.
Nolan proved a winner?Well! !
that's all!"
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Yes, Elmer Nolan, the freshman
member of the Camden police squad,
proved to be the sharpshooter of Alva
Hush's brigade'of cop snipers in the'
weekly bullet contost in the guards
armory Tuesday.
At a distance of 75 feet and in the
staml-gloom of the target alley, Noian
hit tho hull'-eye 52 times, which is
some sniping in any man's contest. I
Alva Hush finished second with 44]
target hunches while Maybr was third!
with 26. Mathis, who led the march'
of pistol experts a week ago hit tho!
skids and fathered by 18 points, while]
Jones, who has Just stoppod out of a(
sick bed totaled 16. Officer Mahoney
has requested his score be omitted
from this newscast. i
.Commissioner Charlie Shannon,'
who finished "first" from the bottom j 1
a week ago was in such splendid trim
Tuesday that ho elected to use his
skill in an assault upon doves.
The next police target drill* will be
held next Tuesday. The boys in bluej
are getting the feel of the now "police]
specials" and declare their scores will
improve each woek. [
Jessie Barfield
. Dies at Kershaw
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Kershaw, Jan. 30.?'Jessie H. Bar- B
field, 63, died at his home in the 8
Three C's section ne^r here Tuesday^
morning.. after, an. Illness . of -several./j
months. Mr. Barfield was active in <j
everything pertaining to the welfare 8
of his community and was one of thH c
most prominent men in his section. 9
He was a past master of Flat Rock
Masonic Lodge, No. 178, and a Shrlner.
He was also a deacon in Bethany
Baptist church and had served continuously
as a member of the school
board of his district for a number of
years. The Masons had oharg<j^4>f thej
services which were conducted from'
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Bethel Presbyterian church at 1:00.
o'clock Wednesday morning by tho
Rev. B. C. Davis, assisted by the Rev. j
W. S. Porter and the Rev. B. O. Mur-,
phy with Interment in the adjoining
cemetery. I
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. L
Mamie Brown Barfield; one brother,
S.~~W. Barfield; one sister, Mrs. Johxi
W. Truesdale, all of Kershaw.
Ten thousand admirers of a great
statesman, Senator William E. Borah
attended his funeral on Thursday at
Boise, Idaho. The services were carried
to other uncountable thousands
by way of radio. Borah died January
19 at Washington, after a week's illness.
The marriage of "Virginia Williamson
to I^eroy Williamson was said to
"never have existed" by judge Wilfred
Bradshaw in an Indianapolis,
Ind., court last Thursday. The young
couple has been married only a short
time. The marriage was dissolved
when it was found that Mr. and Mrs.~"
Williamson, separated when children
were brother and sister.
STATE THEATRE
KERSHAW, S. C.
Telephone 98 ?
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Matinee, 20o; Night, 26c.
Children 10c any time.
Sulfapyrldine, new drug used to
ombaf pneumonia, was administered <
everal days ago with remarkable reults
to Governor Clyde R. Hoey, of
Jorth Carolina, his secretary, R. L.
ho m peon, - etatw.- "After wlfapyrli ?
line was administered the governor
howed marked Improvement," he
ommented.
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meat curing department
in connection with our ice
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thirty days*
1-2 cent per lb. next ..... ...
thirty days.
We Furnish Salt and
Apply It.
Bring meat as soon as
Slaughtered
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