The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 31, 1917, Image 2
FINE CROPS BEING PRODUCED ON LANDS OF
CONSOLIDATED FARMS COMPANY NEAR HERE
A t'hronlelo rt<|>i'oMi)k(utivH in colli*
pany with several frlftiiU had ||??
pleasure of riding over I lie old Aucruin
funn several miles Jitiluw ('umden wv
?? tit I day* It now llio pro|H?rly
of the CoiiHolldated Kuniw <'<?., of Cam
Mr. !?'. .M. Woolen, of Camden, In*
liiK president of tlu* corporation and
helnu tho director of the faruiIiik opera
lions, witli Mr. II. II. Mathls, the over
seer.
Tills larfce farm contains seven hun
dml ami fifty ari'cs under culllvatlon,
with an Immense swamp ami highland
pasture for stock raising. The prhle
of the farm this year is the corn lield,
sahl to lie the handsomest in the state
ami favorably commented upon l?.\ well
Known fanners thronuhont this ami ad
joining counties. <'oUiit.\ demoiisira
tion ageou 1 ?r. Waller Sorrell, claims
to have directed ami sii^'ucstcd many of
lite mH hod- nj*?n t Id- farm. I?iversi
tlcation pla.vs an important part in (he
operations. Stated roughly there arc
l?.v tin i'.\|H*rleu(vil drainage ouifjnwr;
from < haiioMc,
Another in Iciest llitf |?!?????' of IiiikI Ik
tli.xt .Mi?n fur mazlnti purpose*. For J
t> mvc acres have been sown divided
lull) Meld* of Jo (I I li I -Jft l?<"IV plot*.
Tweiit.X iirivs HIT!1 Mi\Vi*r| to fj't' III Oc
1ol.ll- /111 ? I file poUllds of \\ It 11?' doVOr
?.red -?>w M broadcast iho day following
ilie sowing of rye and harrowed In
Twenty live |><>11 ii? 1 ih of .!it|>uli clover
won* vowii broadcast on lop of mound
and no) harrowed In tforlliK l'"' 111I<I<II<*
of I'Vhruary. Tlir ryo was cut Jim!
of .J11 iu* for seed purposes, yielding
iltoul ten bushels per acre. This thou
loft a pasture mixture ready for ?rn?
in;?. This pasture will he permanent
so loou as left undisturbed hy plow, as
nature makes this mixture resccd on
top of ground each succeeding year.
This Held had an appliciitiou of two
toiix of ground limestone per acre he.
;.?re being sou 11. The first twenty
acres was limed .iml seeded al a cost
in'ixMlly amount carried over from the
UiMt year. Onl.v last week thene farm'*
sold two hundred tviishels ??f last year*
?orn at jh'?'
a carload of jhi inhering one
It ii)i? I i?mI head, lir I he paatnres mi
till* farm which will Im? ready for mar
idlnK thin winter.
.\fv. Wooten has recently purchased
n new corn hinder, husking ami ah red
(IIiik machine. 1'art of IiIh large crop
of corn I* now l>eln? cut ami shocked
ami will later I?e idireddcd ami tlie
stover fed to steer*. Fifteen acres of
this corn will he cut ami pla<tal Into
silos ami l>e used as steer fped the
coiulliu winter. These silon have heen
ordered from Macon. <???aiul^are now
??n the way here. They are to he con
arncted of hollow tll?.
I Miring their trip to the *tockrai*
ntc sections of North Carolina and
Tennessee.. 1 ?r. Walter Worrell and Air.
Wooton purchased four car loads of
steers?eltfht-eiuht head In all-?one car
1
('lit No. I, Showing Km! View of Fifteen Acre Corn Field as Compared With .Mans Height.
?Joii in rev in cotton. 1<m> acres in corn
."i acres in alfalfa. ~i acres in \\ Ileal,
and KM) acres in mils < l.*i acres of
which were killed out ami mowed tor
hayi. Then* an* also -<? acre- in rye.
It is est ima r <*? I that Mr. W'ootcn will ,
iret fi'i'in I.<mh? in hu.-hcls i?f corn
from his <? r<? 11. Fifteen inro of this
i?urn wiis planted in latter part of !
Mareli in tIn* usual way - live font rows ,
and fifteen inches in the drill, side
dressed with pounds of rotten seed. ;
hlood and arid phosphate per acre in
til rev application-. Thi- lield of corn
is shown in the accoinpanx inir illn-lra
tion as ('in No. I
Another twenty acre- was -own to
< ritnson clover into cotton the preecd
mil; year. Thirty live acres sown to
Ahru/zi rv ?? the p reced i 11>ear The
'-?lover and rye were turned under in
April and Ma\ with a three di*c t ra??
tor. heiinr broken ahout 1 'J inche- deep.
Land was then harrowed and planteil
the latter part of May. fine thousand
pound- of fertilizer p.-r acre wa- n-cd
in three application*?one at lime ??!'
planting and two side applieatiop
There are acres of tine cotton on
this furm which it is estimated will
yield a 17."?J?ale production In some
places on thi- farm lucre will In- found
cotton and corn irrowiii'.' w here noth
ijy.jl hu? I -heen produced in the pa-t tif
f?m? n or twenty years ami which had
trrown up into hrooiu ?edire or wa- for
merly ditch hank- and low craw li<h
lands. Thi- has all heeii obliterated
liy a perfect -\-teiu of tiling which Mi
Wooten ha- put in since the proper! \
came into his possession. It is esfi
mated that fully live tliou-and dollar
has heeli spent in tiling. usIuk twenty
seven car loads and heini; placed there
,,f jfll.Tr> per tiere. It produced ten
hushels <>t' rye jut aero. valued at
per hu-hel, thu- leaving .1 protit of
.<)after payiim all expenses <>J
I??>1 It lime ami seed. Mr. Woolen is
w?? 11 plea-ed uiili ?lii-* mixture that
he plan- I" -ow alioiit 7-> l<> 1<MI aeres
uu'it* in this manner this fall ami
-prim:.
'riir <>l Imt Vweiitv live aires were
-?*">w 11 in Japan ? li'Vci' in oats during
iii i 11 < 11?? <>f February. ,v iehlinu around
hnshels i?f oat- per :i?*!???. This also
leave- another permanent pa-lure of
.1 a p.i iu'v<> c|ii\ cr alone wliieli al-o re
-cod- eaell s??ji-o||.
I'ive Hires mhvii iii alfalfa ha- al
read\ yielileii two heavy ami "lie liirht
? ?11; i I lir" lip lo dale ail'l experts lo _'e!
another liefoie frovi.
I i\e ii('if? -? i \\ ti iii wheal i- sai'l !??
have \ ielded I he largest amount per
;l i I'e of a 11V like er 'p \ el reported ill
: hi- -tille liirinu the vear. < >ne htm
? heil ami *ixt\ ?? LlT 11f bu-hels were
?_':t I hereiI. a \ i? r.i -ziir_' 1 hit-hel- per
I'e
Sixj.v iii'i'e- of oats have heeii cut
oil i hi- farm yieldimr U.ihmi bushels. or
an avrrau'i- yiehl of ."..'J 1 bushel*:
per ai re. The heaviest yield of oats
was from portion of Meld on whieh arid
phosphate i |(mi pounds per acre i wa
applied at time of ?sovviliiT. Some of
?lies,, ai res making better than (>o hush
els per aere. This yield w.'h so satis
?'a- toi \ that in the future arid phos
plt.ile of the ahove amount will he used
inder entire oat erop nt the lime of
owin^.
Twenty mules, he-ides many of the
a test improved farm implements are
used on this farm. Knmi^h foodstuff
i- raised to feed all animals with a
i wciuhinu 1,(10(1 |>i.mill- jut steer ; t w? ?
ears mi 1.1>M) pounds, itiiil olio car av
ciauin^ l.'J(N) pounds per animal. Most
? >f i1h-s?? animals come from Western
North ('Molina Mini arc erratic short
liorn variety. This firm is already
i - s.??-k**?l w ith one 11 u in I r?*< 1 head of cows.
;?r 1 \??- ami yearllnirs composed tnhliil.v
of i:rade ?liorf horn ami Hereford now
I:-ra/iiiu in highland pastures. N.
This |lastiirr demonstration of feed
< ;i 111> * Iims attracted such wide at
ti'iMin t liiofiulioii! tile" county that it
' i?. ver\ j1 !*oi?ihh* that half dozen or
j moro farnn rs w ill iro into beef cattle,
iiiMm: <-ii -.mall herds tlds fall to tie
ii.< rea-ed from vear to
Put Out of Office.
j Austin. Texas. Aujr. 1'L'.?.lames !?'.
I I \tvuson was suspended from the of
; (Jmvrnor of '|Vxa> shortly af
; lie !i o'clock toniuht. when the hoard
| of nine in i mu'crs named |?y i lie house
'??f rcpiv>cntatives presented t ? ? tile
[senate twenty-one articles of impeach
J'lient. Mlh-uin^ ??tlieiaI mi-conduct.
? H'., I', Hobby. Lieutenant (ioveriior.
| aufoiiiM t ica lly succeeded to | he novel'
, icr-hip. pending disposition of the
? liaises in i lie senate. The senate for
' ma lly designated next Wednesday as
' t' ie time for heirinnin^ the trial.
Newton Kelly to Speak.
I-Mitot* ('hroniele: lMease announce
that I will make a speech at Pine
(.'rove selloid house Saturday. Septem
ber 1st. at -:.'?() o'clock in the after
noon. My subject will he "The I'reach
??j and the Dirty Side of Politics."
I.ailies and all invited. 1 make this
speech by request.
Newton Kelly.
Cut No. 2, Showing Side View of Fifly-Fhe Am- Field as Compared to Height ?f Ford Car.
N'KifRO TKOOPKKN HIOT.
Chum* Death ami Injury to .Many Citi
zen* at Hotwton. Te*??.
floiistoii, Texas, Aug. 24? Ulanket
charge* of murler were lilrnl tonlK^t
by District Attorney John ('rocker
against thirty-four negro soldier* of
tin* Twenty-fourth infantry held in the
county Jnil as a result of the trouble
last ulKht. which ended with the death
df seventeen persons, four of them city
police officer#.
This wus tlie first uiove Indicative
of au attempt hy the state to retain
custody <>f the soldiers rather than turn
I them over to the army for punishment.
Announcement that (Jen. Parker had
I ordered the removal of negro soldiers
of the Twenty-foijrth infantry from
Houston to Ooiyihhiis, N. M., served
materially to restore a spirit of quiet
here tonight after a spirit of unrest
following the race rioting last night,
w hIch resulted in the death of seven
teen persons and (lie wounding of more
ifhunwt score.
Coining' ns the climax to a series of
| minor Ironldes ln?twoon city |m?1Ico and
negro military police guarding Camp
Logan, Houston's mobilization site for
the Illinois division of the National
I < >iittI'd, Thursday's outbreak created a
reii;n of terror for many hours. Of
I lie 1 'Jo negroes to leave their camp
Thursday night with stolen ammuni
tion for a raid upon the city all but
eight were accounted for at (t o'clock
tonight The remaining fugitives are
expected to he round?*) up early to
night. scores of civilian and military
patrols' being In the field hunting for
them.
Major iJen. (ieorge Hell, Jr., will ar
rive tomorrow to take charge of the
situation from (Jen. John A Hulen, of
the Texas National (Juard. who was
appointed commander when the city
md county were placed under martial
hi w.
Indicative of the complete control
now held by the white military forces
the announcement issued tonight
I font construction work at Camp Ixv,
! Iran, interrupted during the day be-'
tiuse of the riot, would be resumed on
regular schedule Saturday morning.
The rioting Thursday night started
i'about fi o'clock. During the day the
I negro troops became Inflamed against
(the white police of Houston because of
l the reported shoof'ng of a negro ser
? geant by a poll<i> officer. Stealing coin
1 naiiy ammunition. about 125 of the ne
groes seized their rifles and left camp,
starting toward the city and shooting
j indicriminately. Warning was immo
idiafely given and mounted police of
j fleers sought to halt the mob, surren
dering their lives in vain effort to drive
! the soldiers back. Illinois guardsmen
I enenniped at Camp Logan soon arrived
on tlie scene, hut only in time to throw
a cordon between the negroes and great
Jernwds'of Houston citizens, who had
| armed themselves and quickly gathered
| to oppose the raiders.' The negroes*
If hen took to the open country in flight,
j some returning to camp, where they
; were placed under guard, and others
i billing in the fields and ditches along
Who near by roads.
jf Thirt.v-fwo guards of armed citizens
j/tided the military forces during the
/day in the search of the San Vol ice
district fur stragglers from the rioting
, negro band As fast as a negro sol
; ilier was found he was immediately
: placed in custody of either the civil
; ian authorities or under guard at Camp
j I.ogait.
Automobile patmls alsofraversed tho
! roads radiating from the .city in all di
I rections in ?i'it'<t of fugitives, in sev
leral Instances with successful results.
? While 'he armcil forces devoted the
I daylight hours to this work command
; inir officers under' Gen. TTulen were en
| gaged in planning for the protection of
j the camp through the coming night.
1 The additional force of approximately
I WX) men from Fort Sam Houston, de
| tailed from the Nineteenth infantry,
?arrived during the afternoon.
' Earlier in the day a detachment of
i coast guard artillery from Fort Crock
j ett."Galveston, arrived and relieved the
Illinois guardsmen who had been on
! patrol duty throughout the night with
out rest, and these with the fresh
troops from San Antonio assumed full
control during the afternoon.
Sentries placed on street corners in
1 In the husinem district during the
j morning were gradually withdrawn un
til only a few streets where racial
trouble might develop were tinder
guard. Much of this sentry duty dur
ing the early hours of the day had
been left to Texas National fiuards
| men. who lacking arms were supplied
! with shotguns and riflles from the
j stocks of hardware stores.
Rusiness in the city proceeded during
I the day in accordance with orders is
I sued by < Ion.?Ilulen. Saloons were
1 closed- and all clubs obliged to ob
; serve the military order against the
l sale of lienor.
At Camp I/Ogan building activities
; were at a standstill.
Indignation over the outbreak was
i particularly expressed because of the
I savageness displayed by the negroes
toward the white ]h?]ir-e officers, who
were slain and whose bodies in nearly
i every instance had l?eon hacked with
bayonets. Among the Illinois fSunrds
i men. also much feeling wa? evident
( because of the mutilation of Capt. Jo
seph Mattes, one of tlie first men to
l>e slain by the rioter?.
Hoeause of this feeling Gen. Union
' at noon ordered the public morgues in
. which the hodi*?? were held to close
their doors to all except immediate rel
; a fives of the victims.
Chief nf Police Tlrtok during the day
issued a statement concerning the
> cause of the riot, in which he as
1 verted that both "he and Lieut. Sheker
urlan. of the Twenty-fourth infantry,
had eonfoTTCl for two honr? Thurslay
afternoon regarding the possibility of
i an outbreak and preventive measures
Id l>e taken. Neither, however, l?e
lleved the trouble yvouhl reach a crl
-is so quickly.
All uthduvU hefoj-y lulHtary uuthoil.
ties by l.eroy rinkott, private In 1
com|amy of the Twenty-fourth regi
ment, who partlelpated In the rioting
giving what he naltl was a complete
Ntory of l he trouble, whh made thin
afternoon. 1 I is an follow*;
'Yesterday about 3 p. m. we heard
that Corporal linltlmore, of our com
pany, bad been shot hy aiieclal police
officers <white officers who ride horses)
All the boys said: "let's go get the
man who shot Haltlmore" It wan get
ting late then, and we atood retreat at
(I o'clock and then 1 heard Sergeant
llenry of our company, any "Well
don't stand around like (hat.' If you
are going to do anything, go ahead
and do ii."
"After thai I ?aw some of the boy a
Klip over to Company ft-41 ml I heard
them say they had stolen the ammu
nition. Then <'apt. Snow called the
men out in line. He ordered a search
made for the ammunition and alao or
dered that' our rifles be taken tip.
"Another sergeant, took up our rifles
from our tents. In this same talk
('apt. Snow told us that Haltlmore was
not in the wrong, that the policeman
was in the wrong. I heard him say
that. A big fellow in our company
named Frank Johnson then came run
nine down the company street, holler
ing, ^Jet your rifles, boys'. We all
made a rush then for the supply camp
and got our rifles and we went to a
large ammunition box and got our am
munition. Sergeant Henry was the
leader. v
"Corporal Wheatly, Corporal Brown,
Corporal Snodgrass and Corporal Till
man and about one hundred privates
were in the crowd that had gone and
started off towaru town. I was in the
crowd. I had n^y gun and my ammu
nition. We done some shooting as we
left the camp. I shot, about, five times.
I did not know a girl got shot. We
met an automobile with a white man
in it. They stopiied him and Sergt.
Henry told the man to get. out of Ills
!>:u\ but lte did n<it uet out and all
the soldiers that were in front shot
the man. I judge that about fifty
shots were tired at him. I was to
ward the back and did not fire any
shot here. Then we marched 011 up
the road and as I passed the cafr I
I heard the white man in the car groan.
I Then we met some officers in a car
coming itoi the K.MiHil xNMM| Hlu,
sergeant 11 inde them M'l um Ull(,
Uitttk t? leuVi' the ?ur. Wo did Uor?j
4Uiy_jiUuulUm hetu. w*> IUM
mm in h buggy which u.kui .J*,
Mexican*, hut we did not siUK? ,/h
Then WO started to tlu* grave yttr,i '
Sail ftjUpft street HMtt vlght ai <3
graveyard they started shooting.
Henry wnn in front and ho holing /
everybody to lay down. They.?|
down hut myself and two iUoPt, ^
lows, ami wo ran down a aide 8tr^?
Ah wo ran I hoard shooting tbi
sounded like all of them were *hoS
Jug together. 1 tried to Ket back b
the camp, hut wan afraid ami Ht|*2
in the woods all night ami wan ar
rested thin looming".
Seventy-live delegate* said to \
from Alabama, North and South C?r
lollna and Florida appeared at M?co*
<ia? Thursday to hear "thoma* K. Wit
son addresa an anti-draft meetlt?i
Their chieftain failed to put lu
I appearance. Olty and county author!
ties imd put out worn that the uit^
ing would not lie allowed.
1 An a result of. the inquest h cot
I neetion with the killing of the negr<
preacher at York three white an
and throe negroes have been pl*^
in jail. m
NOTICE OF ELECTION
A petition having beeil tiled witj
the County Hoard of Education si|
hy at least one -third of the real
?lectors and a like number of the
Ideut freeholders of the age of
years of Indian Fol*| School l)l?
No. 21 aaklng for an election to
tormlne whether or not an addi'
two mill tax shall he levied
the property In said District for __
purposes and the Oounty hoard ha
granted said petition notice 1h
hy given that an election for ?
purpose will be held nt Indian Ko
school house on Tuesday, Sept. Ill
1917.
Only qualified electors who
In the District and who present t
tax receipt and registration .oei
cate shall l>e allowed to vote. P
open at 8 A. M. and close attt4 P.
The election shall be conducted in
same manner as general elections ?
held.
T. P. Horton
D. A. West,
It. M. Ray.
Board of Trustees.
WANTED
A Man of Ability
Fo? Permanent Money-Making Business
A half-million dollar corporation is looking for one or two
good men to represent them is this territory.
The man we want need not necessarily he a thoroughly
experienced salesman, but he must have sufficient education and
ability to properly present to farmers the most'highly efficient
and modern system of Electric Lighting for the home and farm.
The Company is thoroughly established and now employs
over a thousand representatives, every one ?of whom derives a
very fine income from his work.
Every man gets a thorough training in this work and the
connection offers an unusually fine opportunity for the right man.
In writing, give full particulars about yourself and your financial;
responsibility.
HOME LIGHT AND POWER CO., " ;
DISTRIBUTORS OF DELCO-LIGHT PRODUCTS
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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Jeweler and Optician
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