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LllMt <• CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROLINA, FEIDAY, AUGUST 5,1949 N«mb«r21 Brother-In-Law Of Lincoln New Commission Kershaw County ia g h 0W n the tombitone, in Quaker Cemetery, marking the resting place of Dr. George Rogers brother-in-law of Abraham Lincoln and his f fodd was a surgeon in the (Confederate Army. ' pber had difficulty in getting a picture of the inscription might be read. The inscrip- r “Dr George Rogers Clark Todd, .of Kentucky, * gorgeon C. S. A. and His Wife, Martha Lyles j*" The tombstone was erected in 1944 by J. les of Spartanburg, and Edward Hughes of Mo- ITnephews of Mrs. Todd. They erected the t after their attention had' been called by Col. Tresckow of Camden, to the fact that the graves larked. federate Surgeon, ' _ • ■ • ■ *T. I ^ ■ . 'H oln’s Brother-In-Law led In Cemetery Here I Ignored By Family ugh most of the nativts of Camden and the old- s of the city ai$ acquainted with the fact, there my new-comert ttf Camden who will be surpris- that a brother-in-law of Abraham Lincoln, who eon in the Confederate Army, is buried in Quak- y in Camden and that on each Memorial Day a ilaced on his grave by the Daughters of the Com Places Fishing PennHsOnSale J. H. McLeod, Jr., One of ■ 7 - . " . j Four Gome Wordens •v«. ■- ■ • , .• - • * \ . T ] Named By Body r— Fishing permits for the waters embraced in the ter ritory of the new four-coun ty- Catawba-Wateree Fish and Game Commission have been placed on sale in Ker shaw county, according to an announcement this week by J. H. McLeod, Jr., one of the four game wardens appointed by the new com mission. The four game wardens ap pointed for the new commission are Mr. McLeod, Grady Bolton of Lando, Chester county; C. Lester Graham of Lancaster, and George R. Lauderdale of Winns- horo for Fairfield county. The wardens are responsible both to State Chief Game Warden A. A. Richardson and to the commis- on. They do not replace present county game wardens, who con tinue to be responsible to Mr. Richardson. , The new Catawba-Waiaree ■ commission became effective July 1 and Its restrictive fish ing regulations went into ef fect on August 1. Principal among its regulations —affecting Fairfield, Kershaw, Chester and Lancaster counties— is a $1 license to fish regardless of whether live or artificial bait is used. This is in addition to a state license for use of artificial bait The $1 fee it charged all fisher men more than 15 years of age. / Members of the Catawba- Wateree Fish end Game Commia- sion are E. W. Bruwon of Chest chairman; E. Clarkson Rhame _ Camden; W. R. Hilliard of Heath Sjarings^mKl U. G. Desportea of Mr. McLeod has announced that fishing permits will be necessary to fish anywhere on the Catawba and Wateroa rivers from 100 below the Wateree dam > Rogers Clark Todd, rt S. Todd, of Le*- the brother-in-law ru making his home cans when the war North and South d cast his lot with Beeves a physician some duty as placed In in Charl« to risk hit life friends and kindred frit that he had ocpiUl ly was made heed ide hospital in Cafn- tmden he was nfar- Martha Lyles, who ne of Camden’s rid lus. Following the i to Barnwell where when he died. His t t to Camden for Quaker Ceme- F rears dm rest- d Dr. Todd waa fed through the C Voa Tresckow >1 was erected to • wife in 1544 by *• L Belton Lyles, ■*9. end Edward Mobile, Ala. m Chronicle b •ttsion of two very j?®* ’Written about <amden people. One mny years ago by '-elhoun Ancrum, n?f rum and re *“ D. C. chapter, and *n. Leslie Whitak- £ore the Hobkirk D. A R. r » Mrs. Ancrum re- bmutiful custom availed in Camden “Ch Memorial Day of the Confed- *** m Quaker ceme- but estrange j red because he i to do what he , cm Dr. did. if he would be true to him self and his honest convictions." Mrs. Ancrum said in her article that Dr. Todd left one son and namesake who lived for a while out West with hit cousin, fyobert Lincoln and afterwards came back to the South and married in Au gusta, Ga., and has now gone West again.” Mrs. Whitaker’s Todd follows: “The brother-in-law of Great Emancipator’ was Dr. George Rogers Clark Todd, son of Honorable Robert S. Todd of Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Todd, who was thrown with Lincoln much in the days before The War Between The States, making his home in New Orleans when fiie conflict broke out be tween the North and the South, an ardent sympathizer of the Cause of The Confederacy, joined the service of the South, and Will Haw Own Soil District Throe Supervisors Will Bo Named In Election To Bo Held.Saturday o 1 ■ ' um Kershaw county has with drawn from the Ljrnche’s Riveri Soil'Conservation Dis trict and in the future will have its own district to be known as the Kershaw Soil Conservation District Three additional supervisors to serve with two hold-over di rectors are to be elected Saturday, Aug. 6, to serve the new district L. O. Funderburk, Sr., and Finley Brown who have been rep resenting Kershaw county in the Lynches River district will con tinue to serve as supervisors of the Kershaw county riatrict Charles L. Truesdale of Ker shaw, John M. Catoe of Bethune, and James L. Sweet of Boykin, have been nominated fbr the three remaining vacancies as sup ervisors. The official notice of election as sent out by the state soil con servation committee from Clem- son College follows: “Notice is hereby given that on the 8th day of August, 1949, between the hours of 9 a. m. ana IS noon, an election will be held to elect Three supervisors for the Karshaw Soil Conservation Dis trict tition signal by Oar ^ fied electors. Such been received from Soil Co “All _ „ in the Sections of In this election. The .v*. will be open at the Agr Building In f-—s’ C be- tweenthe hmaeof 9 n. im and 12 noon." Lee County has Mao withdrawn from the Lynches River District and will havo its own dbtrict in the future. WM York county from county: Sports 1 Hardware Co., C Hardware and Supply Co., West- era Auto Store and C. V. Maase- beau, Camden; Hinson’s Store, and Fort’s Store, Camden, R. 3; Oscar R. Branham, Rabon’s Cross Roads: Riverside Mercantile Co., Lugoff; Truesdale Sport Shop, II; * , , ♦ .' il Local Man Had Korean As Pupil Ho Chun Whang of Kaesong (Songdo) Korea, who is spending a year in the United States studying textiles, agricultural work and Future Fanners of America activities for the purpose of taking new ideas back to his country, was a pupil of Hukm A. Small, agricultural teacher of the Camden High School, who taught Future Farmer activities at Clemson College for two weeks in July. He is shown in the above picture receiving inatructions in poisoning boll weevils. Left to right in the icture are M. H. Johnson, agriculture teacher of Olanta High School; Prof. G. I. Nutt, head of agricultural engineering department, Clemson; J. S. Evans, assist ant agricultural engineer, Clemson; Mr. Whang and Mr. Small. The Korean came to this country in January, 1949, under the auspices of the Methodist Mission Board. Sponsor Day Camp At 4-H Club Hut. New District Forester Hen I Nelson L Pooch Succeeds A. A. Lohockoy, Who Is Moved To Columbia Nelson L. Peach, who has been named district forester for the Camden district to succeed A. A. Lehockey, has arrived in the city and has entered upon 4111 duties. He came here from . Florence where he had served as dis trict forester of the Florence district for the past year mid a half. Mi*. Lehockey, who had Mrved M dbrtrict forester for fit* Cam den district for the pool three veera, becomes associated with the management of the state office in Columbia. TheCamden district is compos ed of Chester, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee, Richland and Sumter coun- Work Stoppage At Du Pont Plant Was Settled On Monday Conditions have to nawari at Du Pont plant slla foUowiag a strika of < hr J. > following sta ■sued all D. Wilson, field asalset of the con- Ho Chun Whang A Good Student Local Agricultural Teach er Enjoyed Having Him In Class At Clemson Hultn A. Small, agricul tural teacher of the Camden High School, who taught Future Farmer Activities for three weeks at Clemson Col lege during July, had aa one of hie students Ho Chon Whang Kaesong (Songdo) Korea, who is spending a year in the United States studying textiles, agricultur al work end Future Fi of America activities. Mr. Small says that Mr. was vary intelligent, van interested in the ‘ of Ufa and Miss Ida McDowell Wins Carolina Jr. IGolf At Greensb lit! Camp will register at the Ker- w bounty Health office any te between Aug. f and Aug. 12. .names read that 4 Mrs. Ancrum. 'Jfrtrther-in-law of **A£2S£i •fing it among *°r Southern r proved the !! n * Con f edarate ^ ‘given aid “• His rank was had chapel Jhe war, of a on lower feSK*. » was ^utifui Southern Jfas became his 7 .role of minister- the sick and ^>]»r article f riter that maga- ssriS early in the War became a sur geon in the Confederate Army. "Dr. Todd loved the South and haaj did not want to be known as the brother-in-law of the man who favored The Union Ride; he took no pride in their relationship, and, in fact, refused to have any as sociation with the Famous Ameri can. One day he was introduced to a stranger in Barnwell. The stranger said, ‘Oh, you are the. brother-in-law of Abe Lincoln.’ Dr. Todd replied, ‘Yes, the damn rascal,' which was characteristic of The Doctor,- who, sometimes when angry, loved to ’cuds,’ and would often say, *You know I am the black sheep of the family.’ “One day a close friend said, ’Look here, Todd, if you dont stop cussing you are going to Hell when you die’ He said That’s all right, HI be with all my friends/ “Dr Todd was held in high S a* a physician, after some i Virginia, he was placed ge of a hospital in Charles ton, and eventually was made head of The Way Side Hospital ^ Miss Ida McDowell of Camden, daughter of Mn. Rhetta Mc Dowell, sank short birdie putts tournament by a single stroke over Jane Thomas of Salisbury, at Greensboro on Wednesday.! Miss McDowell, trailing by three strokes before Wednesday s play, picked up two on the front with a four over par 41. Miss Thomas appeared on her way to the crown when she paired through the first four holes. A double bone six on five and bogies on Nos. 7, 8 and 9 soared her to a 43 on the first nine. I Even then she held a stroke lead add picked up another as the Palmetto, champ went one over regulation figures on each of the first three holes on the back side. Jane lost her margin on 13 when she took five strokes to get in the four hole. Ida, mt near Lake Shamokin liandsir through Friday of each woc£ The camp will be for children • ta 12 years of age, inclusive. Children who desire to attend the ci shaw imi | The office will be open for tration between the hours a. m. and 5 p. m. each day. One hot meal will be served the children at fife camp each day. E. A. Williams, superintendent of the Baron Dekalb school, will be the supervisor for the first week and he will have the assistance of four counselloralpH The children will leave Camden each mofning at 8 o’clock and return in the afternoon at 6 o’clock. Transportation will be furnished. The camp this year was made possible by contributions made to the Kiwanis Club for the camp last year. The camp was not held last year because of the in cidence of polio. Children at the camp will be under supervision at all. times and there will be planned recrea tion and playground equipment ■ Mr. Poach is marriad and ho and Mrs. Poach havo one little daughter. They will occupy a new home which is i built for thorn. At present they are living on Lyttleton • Roberta, ill, of ight* er of Mr. and Mrs. Rose Rob- Misa Joyc< the Buffalo section, daught- erta, waa atruck by lightning and instantly killed Tueaday night about 7:80 o'clock. killed 7:80 She <wma sitting in the din- Gty Schools To Open September 6 Superintendent J. C. Richards, Jr., has announced that the Cam den City schools will begin their 1949-50 session on Tuesday, Sept 6. BUILDING NEW GDI Swift and Company have tom down their old cotton gin on West DeKrdb street and are now in the process of srecting a new one on he same site. ning room of the heme when she waa atruck. Her father who waa in the room waa uninjured. Miss Roberta was in the 8th grade of the Mt. Pisgah School. She Is survived by her mother and father and two sisters, Dora, 16, and Ruby, 10, and several uncles and aunts. Funeral services Will be held at Buffalo Baptist church Thurs day afternoon at 4 o’clock with Rev. John Dabney officiating. A thunterstorm accompanied by considerable electricity pasaM aver Camden about the same time Tuesday night I in the workings lied htmoatt •emed to be much til that ha saw am Ife Whang came to this country in January af this — 3 A " — auspices of the Me Board and wfii-.be in this i for one year. „ Mr- Small says that Whang said South Korea was gradually put- Un* in Democratic ways and that condition* in that country had im- _ MM IA said there was a complete blackout between Southern Korea and. Northern Korea which is in the hands of the Communists and therefore be hind the Iron Curtain. He said that Southern Koreans knew ab solutely nothing of what was go ing on in Northern Korea. ing on in No pressed witn Wos Sent In A Pockoge was very much ba the fact that in this country pupils were allowed to “fue wlth their teachers on points of difference. . He is very anxious to take a jeep back to Korea with him. Mr. Small said that he enjoyed very much having Mr. Whang ia his classes at Clemson. in the historic town of Camden, Carolina. While he in personal charge of this hospital he met Miss Martha ~ ne d, the i South let Miss Martha Lyles, who belonged to one of Camden s old pioneer families, and after a short, courtship, took her as his bride. /Jjurflfter the War Dr. Todd and his wife moved to Barnwell, South Carolina, and there with the enthusiastic aid of his loyal wife, built up a very large prac tice. He would receive calls far out of Barnwell County, and would take charge of entire fami | lies for the small foe of fifty dol tars per year. Dr. and Mrs. Todd in life, and after her passing bfe red himself sick over the of bis beautiful wife “Dr. Todd’s only son, George, three-foot putt for the first of her two match Winning birdies. Bo gies on 14 and 15 cost her three more as Miss McDowell tayed her third shot, on the par five 15th just inches from the cup. The title was settled on the final green as Miss McDowell roll ed a 15-foot putt ten inches past the hole and dropped it a moment later. The winner's final round 90 R Va her a 54-hole total of 4. as compared to Mbs Thomas' 148kThi* marked the first time ia the touxaoy's 11- year history that the crown has gone to South Carolina. Miss McDowell fired a record- breaking 79 on Monday to win the medalist’s honors in the tourney. Coming Events ts. Fort Jackson, 9:15 p. m. Sunday, August 7 flwrvkns in of the city st Stewart Heath, Jr. National Champion Junior Skeet Shoot Mystery As To How The Chronicle BASEBALL vill* KIDS' NIGHT. . Baseball: Camden vs. Camden people were interested to learn of the victory of Stewart Heath, Jr., in the Junior National Skeet Championship Shoot at Dallas, Texas. He has numerous relatives here. He is a grand nephew of Willis Cantey. According to a story in The State Mr. Heath did not get in on the shoot until the last minute and there was a lot of rushing to met him entered. He went to Dallas by plane. Lining up for the shoot Stewart failed to slip off the safety on his in and so did not shoot at the st bird. That was the only one he missed, breaking the next ~~ and coming out in a tie. It was then necessary, according to The State story, for him to moot an other 125 straight to break the tie. “And that’s shooting la any league (age group), for making 224 straight is a physical strain as wall as a test of accuracy/* says in The State. The mystery as to how a copy of The Camden Chron icle got behind the Iron Curtain into Hungary ha* been solved. It was included in a package of clothes sent last winter by Miss Mary Ada Chase, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Waldo Chase, and Miss Mary Jeanette Campbell to a Hungarian girl in answer to a pathetic letter Miss Chase had received from her. She had gotten Miss Chuse s name J frfm a copy of the New York Herald^Tribun^p The ***** ^ thanking me for the package and) ' ‘ in good < in a 14-1 the that tha the IS to L City Fort Chase, written from h«f home at Middlefield, Conn., to the editor of The Chronicle, will be read with interest: “I have read with Interest your last two articles in The Camden Chronicle on the many letters re ceived from Hungary. “I think I can solve the mys tery as to how a copy of The Chronicle happened to get past the Iron Curtain. • “During my stay in Camden last winter 1 sent a package to a Miss Verone Posts, Posts Veronka, Ujfeherto, Hetkereszt, U. T. (St) Department Szabolos, Hungary, in answer to a pathetic letter I had received from her. of I obeyed type,, so rink ii “Mary Jeanette Campbell and packed a carton full of dothes, tc.. and included a copy of Tha i. Undoubtedly Mitt it around to bar and froo-hHting rids a half telling me it arrived in good con- ] dition. > “It is my belief that there Is one person in Ujfeherto who un derstands and b able to write Kng- lish and she b writing for these other people—as all the letters have been simitar to the one I received from Miss Posta last summer in which she said she had my name in The Herald Tri bune (New York) in the account of a wadding, I had been in. “If these poor people are re- J to such measures to get help they surely must be desper ate. Only yesterday 1 received Fort City. Fort 45 n it H 31 As lot tor WAVE able to Austrian, 1 am un- tzyivF} .J-' I s,, paHK