Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SCRAPS AND FACTS Jateresting Gathered From 1 Many SovrcM. W. H. Vt ldell, Sr., aged 82 years, fur many years clerk of court for Greenwood county, was struck and killed by an automobile Sunday night it front of the Baptist church in that city as he was about to enter churfh. Jack Fouehe, aged twenty two surrendered to the sheriff as ihe driver of the car, and claimed that the accident was unavoidable Mr. Yeldell was killed on his birth j?y. He had long been a prominent citizen of Greenwood, but was native of Edgefield. Sam Bigby, of Abbeville, was shot to death by Prentice Ashley, near Honea Path, because Bigby refused Ashley the loan of 50 cents. Ashley >s being held in jail without bond. kid McCoy, former pugilist, was convicted in Los Angeles Monday of Manslaughter in connection with the shooting in that city of Mrs. Theressa Mors last August. The penalty for manslaughter is from one to ten years. The jury was out seventy tight hours and is said to have taken twenty-four ballots before the fate of the prisoner was known. An entire business block on the west side'of court square at Corinth Miss., was destroyed by fire Sun day. Over thirty stores were burned making a loss estimated at a mil lion and a half dollars. The fire^is thought to have started from an oil stove in a cafeteria. Rudolph Adams, ten years of age was killed Sunday near Edgefield when a passenger train ran into an automobile in which the youth was riding. His father is probably fatally kurt and Mrs. J. C. Turner is probably kurt and a baby was slightly injured. The United States steamship Levia than reached New York Tuesday af ter one of the worst passages across from Southampton in its history. Fif teen pasengers were injured by the lashing of the vessel during the storms at sea and many of the ves Kel's portholes were smashed by the waves. The first serious attempt to cross the Atlantic with a dirigible was made October 15, 1910. The dirigible America, which embarked at that ?ime from Atlantic City, ended in disaster less than seventy hours later. A Chicago policeman entered a down town jewelry store last Tuesday while robbers were busy looting the contents. "Hands up or you are dead," said the robbers and up went the^oliceman's hands. The policeman was placed in a back room with the proprietor and several others who had keen previously taken care of. The robbers escaped with $50,000 worth ? f loot. An underground river passing un der Mont Blanc has recently been discovered. The river, which has been named the Eauxbelles, contains many beautiful cascades and grottoes, and is believed to be the sources of the Seine and the many rivers flow ing through Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The Malays of today are still using the water clock to tell time,_ This apparatus, which has been in use in the Far East for the past 5,000 years is simply a small bowl with a hole in the bottom.-' When this is placed in a tub of water it will sink, the action always taking the same amount of time. I "For Salt?A Prison," is the odd advertisement which appeared in the newspaper of the town of Meckam burg, Switzerland. The jail has been empty for many years and the offi cials have decided to sell it and save the money of its upkeep. The demand for snakes for medici nal purposes in Jnpan is so large that the most famous snake-catcher in Tokio declares the annual consump tion to he between four and five mil lion for the country as a whole. Eigh ty per cent of the reptiles are charred anfrpowdered, or else dried and made into capsules and pills. Geniuses often come from large families; Napoleon was an eighth child Benjamin Franklin was the youngest of seventeen children, Wag ner and Mozart were both seventh < hildren, and Balzac was the youngest "1* a long line. America has more than twenty-two million telephones in use, or more than the rest of the world combined, 'here are more telephones in New ^ ork than in Great Britain and the North of Ireland, and more in Chicago han all of France. In the fifteenth and sixteenth cen turies the thumb was the fashionable ring-finger." A third of the automobiles in the United States are owned by farmers, Eighty-five per cent of the farmers tff the Middle West own cars, while fifty per cent of the Atlantic coait farmers are owners. Dry weather and lack of food has driven bears to seek the rural sec tions of Oregtm. Orchards are raided [and food stolen from camper*. Seventy years a*o aluminum 'sold or |7 an etmcs and was advertised as 4 ATTORNEY KILLS SELF Prominent Cheater Man Taken Hie Own Life . Chester, .Jan. 6?Samuel K. McFad den, 56, one of the must able and bril- J liant attorney^ in this state and one , of the most highly esteemed and pop ular citizens in Chester county, end ed' his life at his home on Westend this afternoon by firing a bullet from a 38 caliber revolver through his brain. Death was instant. He had b*en in ill health for a long time and it is believed that he became despond ent. , The news of Mr. McFadden's death caused one of the most profound shocks this city has experienced in a long time and has cast a pall of sor row from one end of the county to the other. . Mr. McFadden was born in Chester December 7, 1869, a son of the late John C. and Margaret Louise (Waters) McFadden. He was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. The MeFad dens and their kinsmen, the McKin neys, were pioneers on Fishing Creek and Catawba river in the eastern part of Chester county. He wap educated in the graded schools of Chester, graduated in 1886 from Bryant and Stratton' Business college at Baltimore and in t.887 en tered Fur man university at Green ?ville, where he received his master of arts degree in 1890. He then taught for two years in the Chester public schools, read law with . J. L. Glenn at Chester, and in .1894 graduated from the law department of South Carolina college. He has been in ac- ; .'tive practice since 1894. Mr. McFadden specialized in cor- I poration law and represented a num ber of the leading industrial and com mercial interests of his section of the state. It is said that only one other law office in South Carolina had a finer library and other equipment than that of Mr. McFadden. Mr. Mc Fadden had made a definite choice partly as a matter of diversion from his routine work as a corporation law yer, of criminal practice. During his career he successfully defended many capital criminal cases. He was wide ly known for his effective and logical presentation of cases at trial and also as An orator on other subjects. His talents as a speaker were in great demand during the war and he spent much of his time campaigning in behalf of the various Liberty Loan, Red Cross and other drives. He has never held public-office {nor has he I ever offered for any. ? Mr. McFadden was a director and attorney for the National Exchange bank, Spratt Building and Loan as sociation, Chester Machine & Lumber i company, Springstein mills, Eureka mills, Lancaster & Chester Railway company, Travelers Insurance com pany and other corporations. He was a member of the Kappa Alpha frater nity in college. November 14, 1900 he married Miss Ethel Means, daughter of Capt. J. D. Means of Chester and a representa tive of a family that came to this part of South Carolina from Mecklen 4 berg county, North Carolina. Of this union survive five children, Joseph Means, Louise, Jessie, John C. and Samuel E. McFadden. He is also survived by three sis ters, Mrs. John G. White and Mrs. J. H. M. Beaty of Chester and Mrs* D. N. McLauchlin ?f Norfolk, Va. With the capture near Paniplico, Florence county, late this afternoon of Harry Thomas and Craven Friar, two of the six boys who broke the detention ward at the South Caro lina Industrial School, all six have been recaptured, the other four being taken into custody at the Mars Bluff bridge over big Pee Dee river at an early ,hour this morning. W. H. Blackwell, the officer in charge of the boys at the time of the getaway, who was attacked with a furnace poker and beaten into unconscious ness, remains in a semi-conscious state at a local hospital. James Lockey, an 18 year old boy, handled the poker, while Delbert Walters managed to get the keys away from the officer, letting out six of the boys. There were many more in the special ward who refused this chance for liberty. Ruined the Whole Hufliness A stranger, walking along the road, ^ passed &n old darkey. He began talk- ( ing with him and found out that he had known George Washington. "I suppose you remember ? when Washington crosed the Delaware?" he asked. "Deed, boss, I steered dat boat." was the reply. "And do you remember when he took a hack at that cherry tree?" "Deed 1 do," the darkey replied, "cause I drove dat hack myself." Gold in produced in nineteen coun ties of the state of North Carolina. ~ With two fingers you can lift a girder of duralumin-' metal strong _.L a * t ? t _ ? - T* I A Life for a Life In these altruistic days, so celled, when in some circles of society when the man with one or more notches in the stock of his gun is regarded wor. thy of distinction, it it refreshing be< yond description to hear some cour ageous voice raised in denunciation* of lawlessness, in support of the Divine injunction: "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." Some Sundays ago the Rev. Alexander Sprunt, pastor of the Scotch Presbyterian church, preach ed a powerful sermon against the lawlessness prevailing throughout this country, in this state and among us everywhere. The last Sunday of November, l)r. Sprunt preached an other powerful sermon?a "follow up" sermon as it was called in the last number of the Sundays News, which printed it in full in response to "very general request by members of tho congregation." Dr. Sprunt did not mince his words, in denunciation of the flabby morals, the "sob stuff," as it would be call ec) in Lnurens, or Chesterfield, pos sibly, of the people who would show mercy to murderers, confessed, 'con victed in the forms of law made for the protection of society; and with the plain, unequivocal, inescapable command of the Almighty: "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall hi's blood be shed." That is the com-' rnand of the great Ruler of the uni vafcset that also is the requirement of tne law of our own making, and if society is to be protected, and justice done and the state is to- be saved the low must be enforced without respect to those who never sympathize with the victims of the murderers but in many cases with the man whose hands are stained with human blood. Dr. Sprout stood up for capital punishment for those who take the lives of their fellows, first because it is the command of God Almighty, second because it is the law of this state, nnd he pressed home his points with unanswerable force. That plain speaking, that stern enforcement of the law against murder in South Car olina he quoted from this statement made by the Rev. G. Croft Williams, professor of sociology in the Uni versity of South Carolina: "The tale af homicides in our state is especially disheartening. Last year we had 204 homicides, and up to August^ 1 last year we hi|pl 93. Forj the last .nine years South Carolina'sJ homicides have annually averaged 214. In 1922 London had two homi cides to the million population; Chi cago had 68; New York had 46, and South Carolina had 168. We think of I New York and Chicago as cities, of great danger, yet New York has | scarcely over a fourth, and Chicago about two-fifths of our murder per centages." i These are the facts. What are we going to do about it? Wouldn't it be a great' thing for the Baptist conven tion meeting in Spartanburg today to adopt a declaration on this vital ques tion and inviting all the churches in South Carolina to unite upon, the en forcement of the law against the crime of murder? Dr| Sprunt has done his duty, and set an example all other preachers in the state might well follQw if the state is to be saved. ?Spartanburg Herald. Thirty Years Ago When eggs were three doten for '26 cents; butter 10 cents a pound; "milk was 5 cents a quart. The butch., er gave away liver; the hired girl received *2 a week, and did the wash ing. Women did not powder and paint (in public), smoke, vote, play poker, or shake the shimmie. Men wore boots, chewed tobacco spit on the sidewalk, and cussed. Beer was 6 cents and the luuch was free. Laborers worked 10 hours a day and never went on a strike. No tips were given to waiters, and the ha^ check grafter was unknown. A kerosene hanging lamp a stereoscope in the parlor were luxuries, and Unguentine was an infant. / ? No one was ever operated on for appendicitis or bought glands. Mi crobes were unheard of. Folks lived to a good old age and every year walked miles to wish their friends a happy New Year. Today! 1925 Everybody rides in automobiles, or flies; plays golf; shoots craps; plays the piano with their feet; goes to the movies nightly; smokes cigarettes; drinks rukus juice, and blames the H. C. of L. on their neighbors; never go to bed the same day they get up, and think they are having a great time. These are the ulays of suffraget- | ting, profiteering, rant-hogs, excels taxos and prohibition. But it's a pretty good old world after all, and we think you for our ' share of the good of 1924. At the close of 1925 we hope you will have missed -all of the bad, and had some of the good.?Rock Hill Record. tj> ?? ? ? Gifts In 1924 j Some say that corporations are soulless. This' may be true, but from the table of gifts during 1024, which ' is reproduced below, it appears that many of the people who composo j them are very different. The list 1 is as follows: James B. DuRe $40,000,000 George Eastman 15,000,000 Elizabeth B. Frasch .. . ! 10,000,000 J. P. Morgan 8,500,00Q Henry Ford . 7,500,000 Andrew Preston G,000,000 Geo. F. Baker .. .. 5,000,000 Lotta Crabtree 4,000,000 Mrs. Jack Gardner . . .. 3,000,000 Mrs. Montgomery Ward . . 3,000,000 John D. Rockefeller .. . . 2,500,000 Henry R. Towne .. .. . 2,000,000 Catherine Stuyesant .. .. 1,800,000 James A. Patten .. .. .. 1,500,000 Josephine Williams .. .. 1,200,000 Mary F. Bennett 1,000,000 Mary Richardson 1,000,000 Edward Harkness .. . .. 1,000,000 $113,500,000 -Sumter Herald. In America and England alone, up ward of 10,000 ne3T books are printed every year. Stock Selling This in the open seaHQ^H^the sharks who work among^^Hrorous farmers as salesmen of ^K>rthless stock, let the man who made some money this year beware. "A hundred million dollars were utsken out of North Carolina in 1010 on fttke stocks, and seven good men committed suicide within twenty miles of Kaleigh." So sayi Hon. James 11. Pou of Raleigh recently. The Mecklenburg Times refers to "a county adjoining Mecklenburg in which worthless stock was sold in 1923 amounting to almost as much money as the taxpayers of the county contributed to the support of public schools for one year." Mr. Hen Dixon McNeil writing in the News and Ob server, estimates that the farmers of Eastern tyorth Carolina and South Carolina have lost $10,000,000 in the stock of the ? Fisheries Products com-{ pany, promoted by one Thomas 11. Hayes of New York. Says Mr. Me-' Neil: "Stockholders charge that the i plant for which Hayes and his as- j sociates paid $(>5,000, together with three small .fishing steamers, was turned into the company and capital ized at $1,300,000, On September 11th, 1018, the capital was increased to $1,000,000. On October 14th, 1010 the capital stock was increased to $10,000,000. More than seventy agents were sent abroad in the state \ to dispose of the stock of the com- j pany. They usually worked in pair", J and tlmr appeal was direct to thrd" farmer. Although the stock was j issued at a par value of $10 per share,1 in most instances the farmer was in- | duccd to pay $12.50 with the assur-1 ance that purchase on this basis; would entitle hini to buy his fertilizer j at wholesale prices, thereby ^ivin^! him a large saving. ' I "Relatively little cash was paid for j stocks sold to farmers. The usual ! method was to take the purchaser's j note, secured by a lien on his lands. I He was assured that the dividends, , on the stock, together with the sav i ings to be made on the purchase of i his fertilizer, and the enormous crop to he made by the use of the fertilizer ' would make the stock pay for itself. Half a dozen counties in the state have lost an aggregate of $3,000,000 I with Robeson, Scotland, Wayne, Wil son, Lenoir and Martin being among | the heaviest losers. Scores of farm j ers have entered suits against the j corporation, alleging fraud." The Progressive Farmer asks: "Will the farmers profit by these experiences? It is to be hoped so. The wise farmer will not have fi nancial dealings with strangers, and under no circumstances give a stran ger money or a check for any kind of stocks or bonds. And don't give a note?for these financial sharks will never be heard from after they havo sold your note to some bank. As the Progressive Farmer has said over and over again: "Never buy any stocks, bonds, or any sort of investment offered by traveling agents. The most reputable high class, and trustworthy securities ?re never offered in this way. 44If you must invent in stock* or bonds, then go to your banker and ask hfb advice. You know him and he || an authority on investments and is your friend. Again, if you art' swindled by some smooth-tongued promoter, then tell it, Don't lot false pride or fear of ridicule influ ence you'to keep it quiet but tell your friends, haw it put in tho paper, report it to your sheriff, and to your county and state legal departments. Warn others as you would have oth ers warn you."? Gaffney ledger, Hendersonville's Mayor Kesigna Hendersonville, N. C,, Jan. 1.?At a meetinR of tlie board of aldermen of this city toflfay Acting Mayor W\ H. Kirk informed the board that he had been advised through attorneys for Mayor Sam Bryson that the lat - tor's resignation haa been written and will be in the hands of the acting mayor tomorrow morning. The action of Mayor Hryson is outgrowth of a personal encounter in which he engaged with R, !<? Brooks, a local barber, last Satur day night, - when it is alleged tho latter fired at the mayor when Hry son was found in the Brooks home. Brooks has also filed a suit for $50,000 against Bi'yson, charging the latter with the alienation of the af fection uf the plaintiff's wife. Hry son is reported to hold property worth yrivv $100,000. He is said to bein Asheville, where he has ?n since the trouble, occurred. The summons is returnable .Janu ary 20 and in the meantime a war rant of attachment has been lodged against the Bryson property. Mayor Bryson hail nothing to say in Asheville today concerning the suit which has be&n momentarily ex*, peeted since Brooks shot three times at Bryson. Lightning Sets Barn Afire Abbeville, Jan. 1.?The barn of Harvey Cochran, who lives about five miles from Abbeville, was struck by lightning during a storm yesterday afternoon about o'clock and burned to the ground. All feed stuff and four fine mules were lj>st. The ap-* proximate loss is estimated at $5,000, with only $500 insurance. Cowcatcher Catches Buck ' Hunting with a locomotive is an other way to kill buck, or so thinks the engineer on the morning .Southern train. Wednesday his engine struck a buck this side of Tillman. Fur thermore, it killed the animal without mangling it, breaking only one leg and a small piece, of one antler. Tho buck was in perfect condition when the engineer, stopping his train got out and picked it up. He attached it to the engine and took the deer on to his home. The lucky possessor of the buck was overheard to remark to an official of the railroad at Allen dale that "they couldn't sby anything ? about it, because he "was within the law?he killed only a buck, and killed it in the daytime."?Hampton County Guardian. Going It Alone Really no man can go it entirely alone in business. We all de pend upon each other. This bank assists you in the most in r* r* telligent kind of co-operation. 5? The First K TA National Bar, -an i?1: ? to <ind any ? - tfctm