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)SK HUNDRED YKARH old iarkuble Old Woman Resides In Guatun County ast-onia, April 4.?'Monday marked birthday anniversary of tho old living resident of Gaston county. Henry C. (Granny) Ratchford a one hundred! years old on that (v. She was born in South Point kvmhip March 30, 1825. There is no guess work about Mr.], itchford's age, as is the case with i many who are reputed to lure inched the century mark. The fig fci iu"t< verified by references tu tho lI Katchford family Bible, which in ill in a fair state of preservation, ic record was -written with a quill, rends: "Mary C. Ratchford, born inch 30, IH'25." This Hible was i- property oS her parents, liobert and Ann Ratchford, who AveIX) max ? k>d August 15, \H22, according to u> same record. Mrs. l^atchford lives with her only ?), Rufus A. Uatchford, and a aiidson, Duff Ka'tyfcford, <m the tint* farm and in the same house hero shir was born. This property las purchased by her father about 80. The old building is still in a [)<>;! ?-;at-c of preservation. The house approximately 140 years of age. is constructed of logs, but was [uathcrboaTded. about fifty years ago. |!ho original brick ochimney still lands, and the old eighfoot fireplace j there, with the pothooks of for icr <lay.s still dangling ffom above, he trmbers in the old house arc in pparently perfect condition. AI the foot of the hill is a mag lifieent spring, now 11 effected, which urnished water for the Ratchfoixis or many years, until a modern well vas dug- in 1885. A few hundred lavds below, on the banks of the trcam, there stood in the good old lays a stillhouse owned by "Granny's' father. It has, of course;, long since lisappeared. But buried in the leaves 1 the bed of the stream there still lie sections of the old gum log "race" ?.vhich carried the pure water of the spring down to the stillhouse. Up until last year "Granny" Ratch ford was unusually active physically, and regularly worked in the garden and around the flowers and busied herself with activities around the house. She retains her sight and hearing to a remarkable de-gree. One does not have to talk to her in other than the usual conversational tone. She has always read a great deal, and is a constant peruser of the daily papers, and is well informed on the events of the world. A bookcase over against, the wall contains some vol umes over a hundred years old. "Granny" .hopes that she will be ?trong enough this spring to get out in the gaixlen and around the house and enjoy the out-of-doors. She rather resents the insinuation that she is not able to get about without the aid of others. She does not use a stick and does not wear glasses, ex i ?'])t to read through. ? In November, 1920 "Granny* RatCh-: fotd cast her first vote, ft was for ?lames M. Cox for president. She ?iocs not smoke a pipe, as do so many j of {he women of a former generation- j She uses snuff to some extent, though! out addicted to the habit. She is -ft member of the Now Hope Presby- i terian church. The farther she has J ever been from her home was when ?he went to Waxhaw, Union county, a distance of sixty-odd miles a few years ago to visit her brother, the I late Rev. W. W. Ratchford, who has >inee died at the age of ninety-one. j She made the trip in an automo bile. in fact, she is very fond of uuiomobiling, and takes a ride when ever opportunity affords. She has vis ited the Gaston county fair several times. "Granny" has one son living, *ix grandchildren and fifteen great grandchild ren. (ONFEDERATE REUNION To He Held at Dalian, Texas, May 19th to 22nd, 192.r, The Southern Railway has been ^elected as the official route fox the Veterans, Sons of Veterans and others who expect to attend the United Con federate Reunion, and special through Pullman sieoping cars aryd day coaches will be operated from Colum bia on Sunday, May 17th, via Atlanta, Birmingham, Frisco System to Mem phis, Cotton Belt Route. Three cars will leave Columbia at 1:30 p. m. Sunday, 17th, arriving Dallas, Tuesday morning May 19th. Z The Veterans from the eastern part of the state will assemble at Co lumbia and those in the upper part of the state will join the movement at Greenville. Very low round trip excursion fares have been authorized on account of this occasion. For further information, Pullman reiHrrvation, etc., apply to ticket agents or address S. H. McLean, Dis trict Passenger Agent, Columbia, S. C\ A radiator cap painted with a combination containing metallic -io didee that jrill change color at leait fifty tinea with heating and cooling ** MMm tms taMVtaMiMfts" Jugo-Slav Tamburica Orchestra Unique Chautauqua Feature The widely popular Jugoslav Tauaburtca Orelrt'ktra will be a delightful feiiHnrc of the coining Itedpath C'huutauquu here, The music of JugoSlavlu lindn expression through m unique instrumentation. The national instrument is the small and delicate tnmhurica npou which the tones of the cornet, clarinet, flute uixl oboe art' beautifully simulated. In tlu* orchestra which will heard here the tamhurlcu will have a premier place. The one large instrui(tt*n! used' is an oddly conntrUcteU buas viol which i? plucked with the finger*. Selections ranging from overtures, fru^? frveat oiK'ras to light popular numbers played by this novel orc^e?tra are replete withmellow and resonant lovoMm'sp. The Country Weekly Somebody Is always taking the joy out of life. There are those who Would even pick a fuss between the country weekly and the agricultural press, if they could, admonishing the country publisher in fatherly tones to beware lest he lose his "cud." Why, we don't' know. Mayhap it is more for reasons of self-interest than for any other. Then maybe it's an at-, tempt to curry favor by that cheap est and mushiest of all means ? flattery. Hut whatever the cause, the fact remains that when it comes to the agricultural press and the coun try weekly, there is no basis what ever, for jealousy or antagonism. Each ? has its peculiar ifield as well as its individual responsibility and individ ual opportunity. The country weekly under business like management that is ably edited has a typ<* of opportunity for service that cannot bo duplicated by any oth er publication. The agricultural press has nothing to do with the promo tion of local enterprise as such. Nor is the agricultural paper interested so directly in either local politics, or local, civic, or social matters.^ With reference to all of these problems the country weekly has a field all its own. How well the field of any paper is occupied of course depends alto gether on how thoroughly that paper itself tries to occupy it. So in point of actual fact, the agricultural pa per does not interfere in the least Jury Would Sign To Pardon Deepest sympathy is felt by the members of the jury who 'convicted Policeman K. Morris MoFadden, for the unfortunate young policeman, it was stated to The Yorkville Enquirer this morning by a member of the jury. The juror said that he was convinced that a number, if not all, of the 12 would gladly sign a pe tit ion asking Governor McLeuJ to pardon the convicted defendant in the noted case.?1-Enquirer. v" . I with the country weekly's opportun ity. ^ There is perhaps no better way to state our attitude than to say that it is our conviction that no farmer of any county should try to get along without his favorite local paper, nor should he attempt to do without his agricultural paper. As stated already, each ministers in a peculiar way to his needs. The one supplements the other. Each, therefore, is necessary to that full understanding of local problems and opportunities and '.o that complete knowledge every farm er should have of the larger as -well asi more intimate phases of his life. Anybody that would have him or the publisher of the country weekly feel otherwise is an enemy to both, con sequently to society as a whole. Peel ing as we do, it is our wish to see the country weekly prosper.? South ern Rurnlist. It Is Really Coming A single office building in Atlanta, Go., is to cost $0,00.0,000; and Har vard University is to build a busi ness school at Brighton, Mass., for which it appropriates $5,000,001). Xe\\| irrigation works at .Grass Val ley, California, will cost $7,500,000; a hotel in Portland, $2,000,000; a Presbyterian temple-church at Dallas, Texas, will cost $2,000,000; a bridge at Wilmington, N. C., will cost $1, 500,000; a hotel and garagr at In dianapolis will represent $3,500,000; the Rainier-Longview bridge across the Columbia will cost $2,000,000; a hydro-electric system at Leeper, Mo., will tost $3,500,000; Gulfport, Miss., will spend $1,500,000 on roads an<l bridges. These items are taken at random from all over the county, as Indications that business conditions generally are good and that "people have faith in the future. The record of employme-nt and investment is the result of sound public consciousness - ahe condition which makes pros perity.? Rock Hill Record. For' more -than two years the sun'> heat at the tropics has been from one to two per cent below normal, but at present it is up to normal again. Half of the Irish immigrants U> the United States camo before 1867 while half of the Italian immigra tion has come since 1006. HUD again Reduces Prices Effective Midnight, April 25 Hudson Super-Six Coach $1250. Was $1,345 Five Passenger Sedan $1695 Was $1795 Seven Passenger Sedan $1795 Was $1895 ' All Prices?Freight and Tax Extra This is in line with Hudson's Policy of always giving the world's greatest value World's Greatest Buy Everyone Says It?Sales Prove It LITTLE MOTOR COMPANY DISTRIBUTORS T. LEE LITTLE) Manager CAMDEN. S. C. Given Six Yearn Spartanburg, April 24?Found guil ty of manslaughter in conniption with the fatal shooting of K. l?, Homgrgs, nitfkj manager of 1he Piedmont hotel) on Matfpolia street, Rosalie Moaeley, I 22 year old negro woman, was sen tenced by Judge M. L, ltonham yester day to serve six years in the state penitentiary. According to evidence adduced, from j witnesses on bath sides, several negroes were on a masquerade party on Hallowe'en night last year and stopped before the hotel while tier tha CJarrettj dressed as a man, filter ed and asked permission to speak to the porter* Mr. SeriHpg^, thinking she was a man, asked her to remove her hat, and when she refused the manager attempted to eject her from the lobby, At this juncture, Rosalie MoscU-y entered the building', drew a revolver and shot Mr. Si-ruggs in the baek. The Moseley . woman said she shot only after Svruifgs had reached in his hip pocket for a bot tle with which to strike her sister. Five Children Within a Year Anderson, April 23. The birth of triplets this morning: establishes a record of five children born to Mr and Mrs. Fugene' Clarence Fields, of the llo)K well-section of this coun'y. within the past ten months. All three of the children weighed A?ur and one-half pounds each at 1 irtfi and are living". Mr. and* Mi's. Fields, are both,'.HQ ^veajs (if age and" live on the farm of M1. n., M. Duckworth. Twins, a boy and a girl were horn .June 111, 1024 an 1 the triplets,, two girls an 1 a buy, \\lie.born this morning, a to tal of five children in just about ten months. Mrs. Fields, who spent yes terday at work in the field is doinj? nicely. Chester Child Killed Chester, April 23,?Vernon Lee Cudd, five year old son ot Mr. and Mrs. L, C. Cudd of the Baldwin mills, was run over and fatally injured at the Baldwin mills by an automobile driven by Miss Inez Holder. The child was rushed to the Pryor hos pital but died about an hour afte; ln?ing strucK. His skull was frac tured. It se'ems that the little fel low wanted to cross the street and had his eye on a car that was ap proaching but evidently did not see Miss Holder's car, for just as soon as the first car passed he attempted to dart across the street and was struck by Miss Holder's car, Which was be ing driven, it is said, at a moderate rate of speed. For a year, Dr. William 11 awes, founder of the Royal Humane Society of London in 1774 for the purpose of rendering "First Aid" in cases of drowning, offered a reward out of his own pocket to .anyone bringing .1 body rescued from the water within a reasonable time of immersion. Traips passing through Kansas may now toot the regular VVhooo, whooo, wooo-wooo, the same as in other states, the statute calling for three instead of four blasts being recently revised. Honor Roll Antioch School The following names are the ones who are on the honor roll for Antioch school: January First grade?Leona Belvin, Joe Corbitt, Arthur Holland, Bernice Hol land, Bessie Lee Joy, Leroy Marsh, Mary Pate, Marie Rogers, Marion Shiver, Iris Arnold. Second grade- -J. C. Branham. Third grade?I>acy Galloway, Sam Spears. Eighth grade ? I^oyd Davis, Henri etta Joy. Tenth grade?Marie Watson. Eleventh grade ? Myrtle Smith, Lecene Corbitt. February First grade?Iris Arnold, Marie Rogers, Bessie Lee Joye, Arthur Hol land, Joe Corbitt, Leona Bclvin, Le roy Marsh, Mary Pate, Marlon Shi ver, Bernice Holland. Third grade*?I^acy Galloway, Sam Spears. Fourth grade?Audry Arrants. Sixth grade?Irene Hill, Lilliaa Watkins, Sadie Pate. Seventh grade?Ixmn Smith. Eighth gTade?Loyd Davis, Henri-' etta Joye. Ninth grade?Margaret Johnson. Tenth grade?Marie Watson. Eleventh grade ? Myrtle Smith, i Olive Davis, Ivouise Pate, Lecene Cor-1 bitt, Maie MoCaskill. March First grade?Elma Arrants, Le-: ona Belvin, Alice Branham, Jo<* Cor-! bitt, Hollie Crossland, Mike Cross land, Arthur Holland, Bernice Hoi-! land, Bessie Lee Joye, I>eroy Marsh,! Mary Pate, Marie Rogers. Marion Shiver. Second grade J. C. Branham, Rob ert Rogers. Third grade?Katherine Crossland, Ij&cy Galloway, I?ma Hinson, L. E. Peeples, Sam Spears. Fifth grade?Audry Arrants, Marie Sparrow. Sixth grade?Irene Hill, Lillian Watkins, Jessie Mae Sinclair. Seventh grad??Lena Smith. Eighth grade?Henrietta Joye, Loyd Davis. Ninth grade?Margaret Johnson. Tenth grade?Mane Watson, Male Wataon, Eleventh grade ? Maie McCaikill, Ltmime Pate, OlWe Duvifl. SKAItOAKf) WINS SUIT (?rowing Out of DumaRt'H To < ar by Seaboard Nrar Camden I nwMinr ii' 1'x * ' A ft or deliberating f\>v several hours the jury in- Ihe ease of Hoy ward (Jack) Reavta against tho Seaboard Air Lino Kailroad returned a ver tJit*t in favor <xf tho defendant. This vaj?e was a suit for duiun^cs t?> tho amount of $1*0,000, ami grow out >f the collision of tho automobile which M?. Rcnvos \va* a pasMivgOi' with a Seaboard !?< ight train near tho oily -limit's <vf Cimuloiy, about a year ago. Tho case was LaKiM up by th? spring ,torm of oo?n?a >n j>;< as court for Loo courtly, with Judge J. K; Henry, of Oh<ster, preaidiiifc, Thurs day morning of last week. Tho tes timony and afVuuton^K oP lawyei> consumed practically a*ll of Thursday and Friday. 1 /I\'a jury ;ufirod Friday night with tho widtnee, and rutunnoU a aealod verdict* Saturday morrtini;' shortly after oovi- i convened tho ve? - diet was road. This case was a hard fought legal battle, with splendid legal talent on both sides. Kvory inch of Kt'ouiUl was contested, and quite a largo. num her of people? wore poest nt through out tho ni.ii'. Thoro are several oth ?v or oases on the docket growing out of the same accident. The CP so of Iiodges .Mooro against tho Seaboanl tried last yoar, in which iMr. Mooiv was awarded damages, was the firs', ease to be tried, and.is now before tho supremo ;court on an appoftl,; Hishopvillo Messenger. I'almcttn Towns' tMd Nairn's The towns of South Carolina art' named largely for familioK of promi nence in their IrtenlH'ies during the past. There are two municipalities in the state, however, which bear the names of foreign countries?Denmark and Switzerland. Among the towns- whose names show a foreign influence dating back to the time of their settlement might be mentioned Abbeville, named for the city of that name in old France; Charleston, bearing the name of tho ruling sovereign of Great Britain at ;iie t.tne of its settlement, as well as GeorgeUjwn, also on thV coast. Walhalla, high In the Piedmont re gion of the state, bears the name of the abode of the gv>ds in Norse myth ology. As to odd?ties in the names of towns, that of Green Sea is only to bj matched by the name of Green Pond. The names themselves suggest their origin. There also is" a "White Pond. Many ]>ersons have beeti heard to express a liking for the name Monck's Corner, due to its quaintness. There is Kingstree, a name also denoting an object, as well as White Hock, Silver Street, Cold I'nyH and Honea Path. Fort Mill also presents an odd com bination in its name. It is said that the town^took its name from an old Indian fort in the community ami from a grist mil'l which Was located on the Catawba river or a creek near the site of the to*wn. *f Collins' Body Recovered Cave City, Ky., April 22.?The body of Floyd Collins, cave explorer, who died from hunger and exposure when trapped in Sand Cave late in January, today was freed from its natural un derground prison and 'moved from be neath the rock that ipinned it to tho bottom of the seventy-foot shaft, W. Hunt, Central City, Ky., engineer said early today. The body was in good condition, considering the time it had been ex posed to the underground elements, Hunt said, adding that the corpse Svould be raised froTJa the shaft tJ the surface at o'clock tomorrow morn Lng.' Examination -of the rock that fell on Collins and pinned him in the death trap showed that it weighed only seventy-five pounds, Hunt said. Sentences Negro to legislature. Spartanburg, April 24.?Tho Yno.-a extraordinary sentence ever given a man in General Sessions court here was imposed on John Ivennius, 29 year old negro, Convicted of issuing a fraudulent cheek todoy. In sentenc. ing the negro, Judge M. L. Bonhani of Anderson, said, "I sentence you to serve for a period of four months on the public works of Spartanburg ? county, or that you serve a' like sen tence in the State legislature." The negro hung his head and the court room laughed. Judge Bonham then amended the sentence, changing the word "Legis lature" to "penitentiary." After coun adjourned, the judge declared that he had slipped and laughiogly added: "If the newspapers get this I sup pose I'll be ruined." Catholic Church Services Services at the Catholic church on Sunday, May 3rd, will be as follows: Sunday school at 0 a. m.; mass and sermon at 10 a. m. All are invited to these services. i More than 30 per cent of the pau I pers in American afamiftroaea are j?over seventy year* of age.