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Conductor Made
Saine Run M Years
W. A. Graham. 50 yearr and eight
months on jthe ‘ run*’ from Marion, N.
C., to Columbia, mado his last trip
from Rock Hill to Marlon, as conduc
tor for the Southern rallw^ay Saturday.
Reared In Capaden. Cap’n Graham,
as he Is known around Rock Hill and
all along “his line” started work on
the line ns a brakeman whea^ia was
17 years old. Tn March* 1893. In two
years he was a conductor on what was
then known as ‘‘the Three Cs” rail
road. In 1902. the Southern took
over the line. Five years later Cap
tain Graham was promoted to pas
senger conductor froai Kingville to
Marlon. He had the.-official title of
trainmaster bt theT Rock Hill divlsW
but he likes his Job as just “conduc
tor ’ best of all and that Is where he
has spent most of his years.
Captain Graham has a record eat-
viable of all railroad men. He’s been
oyer 50 years on the line with no pas
sengers hurt and no serious accident.
Qf course, he says, he’s hU a couple
of cows with the inevitable cow catch
er and few “trespassers" have met on
the track with his train.
The Southern railroad is the best
Camden* S. Cl
Eatabliahed 1889
Broad 8treet —^ Phona 62 person in the world to worh
I dared Captain Grahant, who has^'smil-
•ed and waved at perhiips millions of
children up and down the road. ‘T’ve
never asked for anything from them
that .1 didn’t get, afid sorry to be
leaving."
' Captain Graham needs a rest from
the roar of his train, .however, and as
soon as possible, he and Mrs. Graham
arb going to move to one of their
two apartment honsea In Charlotte.
They expect to divide their time be-
^Jlween there and their beach home at
Ocean Drive. .
C. O. STOGNER
All Kinds of Firo Inturince
Agent F«r
feffertoa Standard. Life
Insurance Co.
lomplets Insurance Coverage
Attorneys-At-Law
W. L. DeFASSAJr.
ATTORWCY AT L^W
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Camden, S. C.
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WHITAKER, Realtor
dep—Beil—Lease—^Appraisals
First Floor Crocker Building
Csunden, S. C.
hore Rebuilding and Repair
UPHOLSTERING
ty Upholstering By Bkllled
Crastsmen
riey's iipkolstery Shop
teKalb 8L Phone 262->i
lotus is a sacred .flower to
»ts—a symbol of purity, be-
t grows out of the mud and la
lied.
ly one-third of the water
of the United States^ is In the
of Washington, Oregon and
War Beads and Stamjps
Navy Wants Job
Analysis Experts
Job analysis experts, services and
sale's renegotiators and men experi
enced in packaging of materials may
now be. eligible for Naval commis
sions, Mr. H. G. Carrlson>-ohak^tnaa
of the Camdea committee tor Naval
Officer procarement, announced re-
«fntly. - .
There wDl he a limited number of
officera appointed for duties in the
Navy department and throughout the
shore eatabllahansnta for the porpoae
of analyzing amd evaluating civilian
Jobs, and adrleing as to recruiting
placement and classification of civl-
Han personnca. Such applicants should
have a degree from "an accredited col
lege and ha^e ^ad at least two years
of recent intendlve-juid progressively
responsible experience in j[6h.-.wnaly8ls
and evaluaiion work, or have had re
sponsible adnitnlstrative experience
coupled wHh a thorough knowledge of
Job classification principled, regula
tions, methods and problems; prefer
ably those who have a major in busi
ness administration or a background
of engineering or accounting, coupled
with the foregoing experience. In the
absence of m icollege degree, appli
cants must bave^ad at least two
years of colluge wbrk, or its equiva
lent, ai^ have bad at least four years
of recent intensive and progressively
responsible administrative experience,
coupled with a Ihorough knowledge of
Job dassificatlDn principles! regula
tions, methods .and problems. Age
limits are 25 to 50 years, with con-,
sideratiqn given to applicants under'
30, only If not physically qualified
for sea ddty.
Mr. Carrlson invites all Interested
candidates to contact either the local
committee or the Office of Naval Of
ficer Procurement. University of
South Carollns, Uolumbia, either by
mail or In person. Other members of
the Camden committee are: Mr. F. N.
McCorkle and Mr. Joe E. McKain!
Read The CIuMmicle Ads
JOSEPH R KERSHAW, MAN
OF LAW; SOLDIEJ^ OF THE SOUTH
The October issue of the American
Bar Association Journal ffatures a
cover page picture of Camden’s out
standing, soldier and hero. General
Jo^5!5^ B. Kershaw, and a story en
title,'- “Joseph B. Kershaw. Man of
the l.,aw and Soldier of the South." _
The articTe was written by George
R. Farnum, Boston,' Mass., former as
sistant Attorney General of the United
States. Because of the great affe^
tlon that Camden and South Carolina
felt for General Kershaw and the fact
that so many of his immediate off
springs are living in this community
and the Palmetto state, the story is
reproduced from the Bar Association
Journal and is as follows:
“The Postmaster of Camden sat by
the open fire and, as he ivatched the
dying embers, let his thonghts drift
back over the long past His allotted
hours In the dispensation of time
were drawing to a close.“Me had run
a good race, reached the goal, and
now his pace was what Justice Holmes
described years afterwards as 'the
canter that brings you to a stand
still,’ There were otdy memories now
to cheer and satisfy—the memories of
a life filled with Intense activity and
high drama.
‘'He had been born In 1822 Into one
of the representative families of
South Carolina. His grandfather, Jo
seph Kershaw, after whom he was
named, was a stout hearted and re
sourceful Yortishlre man who had
settled In the middle of the 18th cen
tury at Camden. There he made a
fortune—which was quickly lost when
he cast his lot with the patriots In
the Revolution. He had suffered cap
ture and emdured deportation to a
British dependency In the bargain.
"Of his father, John Kershaw, who
died when be was seven, he retained
but a vagne recollection. His mem
ory, however, bad been cherished tn
the family and honored in the com
munity, and hp had at various tlmps
served as Mayor, county Judge, mem
ber of the legislature and congress
man. Hla -mother was a DuBote of
Hogaewot extraction, whose father.
Captain Isaac, had fought valiantly in
the Revolution and had established
himself wt Camden shortly thereafter.
•‘As he reviewed bis schooling In
the kmg retrospect he found little of
which re boast. Neither was' his first
start In illfe an Impressive one—a
clerkAlp in a Charlestdn dry goods
store, where be soon wearied of the
work. Returning home he'entered af[ tation than he would have shown on
a student in the law office of John
M. Desausaure and. at the age of 21,
was admitted to the bar. Shortly
thereafter he formed a partnership
with James Pope Dickinson.
"Wltb the coming of the war s’lth
Mexico the young partners closed up
their office and departed for the fronL
How different their fates had been.
- ‘Kershaw's "RrIgB(tBr~'SB Rls oommahd
charge at Cherubusco—he, • Kershaw,
was struck down by fever and sent
home. , After recovering his health
he had divided his tinie for the next
12 years between law and politics, ac
quiring B growing proficiency In the
first and gaining a reputation tor high-
minded public service in the second.
“In D^ember, 1860, he had been
sent as a delegate to the state Reces
sion convention. Wltbout debate the
fateful ordinance was passed and the
dread forces set In motion which were
to fulfill the oininous prophecy of
William Tebumseh Sherman, then
head of the Military Academy of
Louisiana, "The country Will be
drenched in blood.’ He bad imdiedi-
ately undertaken to recruit the second
of the infantry regiments authorized
by the state and was elected Its
Colonel. The regiment was ordered
to Join Beauregard’s forces at Charles
ton. where from Morris Island he wit
nessed the bombardment of Fort Sum
ter.
“Elarly the following month his regi
ment had volunteered for Confederate
service and was sent to 'Virginia, ar
riving in time to participate in the
fighting at Ball Run. In February,
1862, Jbe had been promoted to the
command of the First Brigade of Mc-
Law’s Division of Ixmgstreet’s corps
came to be known-*-which included
his own and other South Carolina
regiments—fought as many battles,
ndured as many hardships, and gain
ed as many laurels kt the three years
which followtHi as auy command in
Ilie.-CQo&<i.£rAta.Jorcea
“It had b«?en actively engaged in the
stubborn fighting on the Pelnsulur,
where the Confederate, tldfi^of victory
met a bloody check on the slopes of
.Malvern Ilill. The hopeless but he
roic charge of Kershaw's men against
ihat impregnable position, had been
in the face of a deadly fire which, as
an old comrade' Ih arms later had
written, ‘cauaed our already thinned
ranks to melt like snow before the
sun's warm rays.’
“His, brigade had been in the thick
of the melee at Second Bull Run and
South Mountain. Thus 'bongstreet
had written—with pometlfing of the
awe^me and sinister beauty Of Dante
—of the time it went into action at
Sharpsburg, ‘The fire_ spread along
both lines from left to right, across
he Autletam, and back again, and the
thunder of the big giins became con
tinuous and increased to a mighty
volume. To this was presently added
the sharper rattle of' musketry, and
'be surge of mingling sound sweeping
up and down tho field was multlpited
and • confused by the reverberations
from rocks and hills. And in the great
tumult of sound, which shook, the
air and seemed to shatter the cliffs
and ledges above the Antietam, bodies
of the facing foes were pushed for
ward to closer work, and soon added
the clash of steel to the thunderous
crash of cannon shot. Under this
storm, now Kershsw advanced his
men. Through the open, on through
the woods, with a solid step, these
brave men went, while the bathery on
their left swept their rank with grape
and canister.’
•‘At Fredericksburg had come an
other dramatic opportunity re demon-
atrmte the cool and _CCTireaeoua. yet
dashing;, quality of his leadership.
Upon the fall of their commander be
had been called upon to assunM dl
reetlon ot the Georgia troogs. bolding
the sunken road at the foot of Marye's
Heights. He recalled Ure starles which
were current of how he had responded
to the command to t^e ower. It was
said that almost before he had fln-
tehed scanning the order, he .vaulted
into the saddle and galloped out Into
the hall of bullets with no more hesl
bis way to a political hai4>ecae In his
native South Carolina. It was added
that when he emerged «n an eleva
tlon and reined In his horse, a con-
^picions target fbr Union rifles, tb^
bnemy withheld their* tire in tribute
to his heroism—a • chivalrous act
which he acknowledged by doffing his
hat ere he plunged out of view. Ah
Dickinson was killed while leading a yes, he had done bis duty that day as
becomes a soldier, but perhaps in the
retelling some fancy had become
blended with the facta.
-‘‘His brigade had come to bloody
grlj)8 with the foe again at Chancel-
lorsville, apd marched north with Lee
Into Pennsylvania on that audacious
thrust which was parried on the
Gelds of Gettysburg. Tragically de
pleted by the losses at Gettysburg ^is
forces had then been transferred west
ward to fight at Chickamauga and in
all the engagements of the Tennessee
campaign. In the spring had come
his promotio nto Major General to
supersede his old chief McLaws in
c^mand of the First Division of
i/intgstreet's corps and bis order to
rejoin Lee in the epic struggle with
Grant in Virginia.
“Though a modest gentleman, now
that memories were all that were left
h^, it was pleasant to recall what
an officer serving In hfs brldage had
written of him as be prepared to lead
it into action in the Wilderness.
‘While forming his lines of batfle, and
while bnlleti Were flying all around,
General Kershaw came dashing down
in Iront of his column, his eyes flash-
ing fire, sitting his horse like a cen
taur—that superb style as Joe Ker
shaw only could—and said in passing
us, ‘Now, my old brigade, I exg^ yov
of the Army of Northern Vlrg^la. to do your duty.* In all my long av,
periebce. In war and in peaceu I never
ipplement your meat^rBtioned meals with plenty of
^tein-high milk. Eat it fs well as drink it ... in
Btefuliy prepared foods that give you a high percent-
of.your daily mineral and vitamin requirements,
pecially Row, in these harder working days, milk
>ys on the job for healthier, appetising meals. Milk
nutritiously good and taste^appealing . . . and lends
many differentrmenus. Order more than your
Hal supply today.
fresh Milk WUh every delivery.
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DISBURSAL SALE
The Leitner Herd of
Dairy Cattle at
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MARION, S.C.
Tuesday, November 9, 1943,2 P. M.
Consistinf
41 milking'cotvs- 5 bred heifers. 2 bulls 3 years old
—1 purebred Guernsey; 1 milking shorthorn twice
Grand Champion at the Pee Dee Show.
The^ cattle are negative to Eismgs and Tuberculosis,
.and will be SOLD RAIN OR SHINE.
Cows not now fresh, will freshen in the* neat 60 to .90
■ 1 .
days. -
L. T. LEITNER
MARlON^S. C.
■aw such a filctate'as Kershaw an(1
is war borte made In riding down
n front of his troops at the Wilder-
iicKS.’ And tn the' seqnel the men
lad Ju8tifie<l all his expectations. At
potslylvanla and again at Cold Har-
Ktr his men fought like Hons as I.^e
Vugge^l it om with Grant.
“After some service In the trenches
about Petersburg to which I..eo had
ctlred. he had been ordered to rdu-
forre Ilarly In his campaign In the'
Valli-'V, In Septenflwr he h;fld been
rCealeed by Lee, and Elarly thus weak-
ned had been attacked and defeated
by Sheridan at Lexington and at
Fisher’s Hill. Back to the valley
tgain be had led hla. men. Here in
October he participated *ln that rurl-
nts and dramatic struggle at Cedar
Creek-^ battle which had begun with
a Federal rout and ended with a
Confederate, stampede.
“He had then rejoined Lee In the
desperately held trenches about
Petersburg. In January, 1865. his old
brigade had been det^'hfd from hla
division and sent home to confront
the Sherman Juggernaut which was
rolling northward after Its * famous
march through Georgia. On April 3j
I..ee evacuat<^ Petersburg. Three days
later the curtain fell on his own great-
career a» a soldier, when outnumbered
and surrounded at Sailor’s Greek
had been forced to surrender. They!
said that after the battle, In a wist- ‘
ful tribute to his old command, he had
declared, ‘If I had only had my old
brig«4e with me I believe we couM
have held these fellows in check until
night gave us the opportunity to wlth-
;iraw.’ Years later he, himself bad
written of the night following that
day of disaster. ‘As I lay in the midst
of Custer’s squadrons watching the
cold Insensate stars, I buried all my
dreams of Southern Independence.
The God of battles had deserted our
banners. I boved-^ my soul in sub
mission and tried to say, ‘Thy will be
done. From henceforth be mine the
task, as far as I to staunch my
country’s bleeding wounds.’ As a
prisoner of war, he had been sent
North and confined at FV)rt Warren In
Boston Harbor until mid-summer wh^
he had been released and permitted to
refurn home.
"With that mixed emotions he hsd
come bsck to South Csrolins—so de
spoiled of the flower of her youth snd
so devsststed under the borrow of
war. It was not in his nature, how
ever, to iield to us^ess refrets. He
had resumed the practice of law and
had assumed an active role In state
politics. Ilk, 1877 he had been elected
circuit judge and served until 1891,
when falling health forced him to re
tire. As s Judge he had* always ad
monished himself to speak in moder
ate tones, to listen wril snd ask few
questions, to inculcate respect for the
law by the dignity of his deportment,
and to Inspire the lawyers who ap
peared before him, particularly the
younger practitioners, with confi
dence. He had been especially In
terested In the equity Jurisdiction of
his court and had striven to have bis
decrees reflect a painstaking study of
the evidence and an exhaustive re
search of the law. Speaking to a
delegation of the bar at the time of
bis retirement, ha had said, among
other things, ‘Gentlemen I retire to-,
morrow to the shades of private Ilfe,i
to seek in some way the neceesities of
life. I do so without regret 'What
can I regret?’ / i
"As a last gesture of the affection
and esteem in which he was held by
his fellow citizens, he had been msde|
postmaster of bis native city. Addi
tionally, he bad been commissioDed'
by the legislature to collect the war
records of the sons of South Caro
lina—a commisiion which he knew!
would be unfulfilled.
"He had buLa short time to await
now,
‘Till like a clock worn out
With eating time.
The wheels of weary life at
Last stood still.
"They burled him In the old Quaker
hurrying grounds at Camden with all
the honors due a brave soldier and
gallant Southern gentleman.
“Toward the end Of hie life he made
thia profession of faith, ‘I started at
the bottom. WhKtever success I may
have attained in life is due to a kind
and good providence. In every station
and In every crialajjt Ufey I have feH
e ns dnof that provlden'ce and have
seen it as distinctly at if it had been
my father’s band lifting me out of
difficulty,’ Lef ua believe that in hia
last hours he felt the same strong
and sure hand leading him through
the portals to eternal life."
Training Accidents
Are Falling Off
According to information recently
released by the War Department
Bur r.H of I’nljlic Relations, not only
is the effort of t.Kr cotnhal pilot belUK
revvjrdml In a high degree^of eutccfia
over the enemy, but there has been
a definite reduction In the number
of j^rmy aircraft trnitiiitg accident.S'
during the fiscal year 1943
The reduction In training accidents
was evert more spectacular In light
of the ki.owledge that the record was
made in a year when there was 190
pt r cent'more flying thaTt-in'-the year
previous.
As a ri'hult of this achievement, the
National Safety Council has awanled
to .the .Vrmy Forces Its ‘ nistinguished
Service to Safety Award " A copy of
this award has been rtcelved at tho
64th .\.\FFT1> and now hangs in tho
Civilian Instructors room
The record, being set by the A .\.F.
has local slgniricancp when one con
siders that not only Is there a train
ing tinlt here where pilots learn to
fl.T, but there are also parents, rela-
t4v<^,' and friends of many 'who are
already flying who represent this
community’.
Marine Corps
Birthday Nov. 10th
Twenty-three women from the State
of South Carolina to date have Joined
Ihe Marine Corps Women’s Reserve
to free male leathernecks to fight. It
was announced recently.
The Marine Corps, which celebrates
Its 168th birthday Novwnber 10, and
la the oldest branch of the country's
fighting forces, was the last of the
services to open its doors to wdmen.
The 23 South Carolina women Ma
rines are; Madine D. Bragdon, Flor
ence; Lillian C. Case. For^/Wlll; Ellx-
abefh . M. Clbtworthy, Sylvia, M.
Streeter, Mary B. Fendarvis, Charles
ton; Edith Dobbins, Greer: Ellen M.
Drake, Anne O. Smith, Greenville;
Sara O. Edwards. Calhoun Falls; Mar
tha F. Grubbs,' Burnwell; Lillian D.
Johnson.'Tarboro; Lavlnia S. Lyles,
Winnsboro; Frances F. Owens, Seneca;
Mary M. Reese, Weet Columbia; Fran
ces L. Ridenhour, Rock Hill; Bonnie
J. Self, Gaffney; Agnee L. Smith,
Jonesville; Mary B. Sullivan, Bessie
E. Johnson, Spartanburg; Laurie L.
West. Cassatt; Elizabeth M. Wicker,
Townvllle; Florence R. Wlngard,
T-enlngton; Alice R. Perkins, Allen
dale.
CITATION
By an odd local custom the Indian
women of Bolivia lift their hata when
greeting friends on the street.
State of South Carolina,
County of Kershaw.
By N. C, Arnett. Probate Judge;
Whereas. Katherine D. Bryant made
suit to me to grant Annie D. Del.rf)ache
Letters of Administration of ih»
Estate end effects of B. P. Del,«ache,
These are. therefore, to cite and
admonish all and singular the Kin
dred and Creditors of the said B. P.
DeLoache. deceased, that they be and
appear before me. In (he Court of
Probate, to be held at Camden, 8. C.,
on November 17. next, after publica
tion hereof, at 11 o'clock in the fore
noon, to show cause, If any they have,
why the said Administration sbouid
not be granted.
Given under my hand this ^2nd day
of November, Anno Domini, 1943. 33
, N. C. ARNETT, *
Judge of Probate for Kershaw county
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