Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

GENERAL NEWS NOTES 1 | l.l J. I _ ,| _ . Grpss is growing in the bed of the Saluda river between the steel bridge and the dam at Ware Shoals. The water is so low that people can walk from bank to bank on the rocks with out getting wet. Most of the river rocks are visible. Under natural conditions ail of these rocks are cov ered with water. There were U0,000 fewer farms, or a decrease of one-half of one per cent, in the United States last year as compared with the 11*23, and a re duction of land in crops of 1,200,000 acres, or one-" third of one per cent tho Department of Agriculture has found in a survey of the situation. Of the decreased crop area, approx imately 1,000,000 acres wen- used for additional pasture. The railroads of the country |>aid out to tax collectors $5,K0 for every $100 they received in operating reve nue in 1024. The tux payments of 1923 were $4.40 for every $100 of income. Pt^Jeral taxation of rail roads decreased last year but state taxation increased. Kighty per cent of all taxes pa id* by the carriers goes to the state treasuries. One state, New York, got $22,000,000 from this source last year. Taxes on Soft drink,?;, on admis sions to places of amusement, fo** documentary stamps, etc., amounted to $254,806.16 for the month of June. Mrs. S. S. Smith, wife of Chesnee Baptist preacher who had preferred charges of breach of peace and dis orderly conduct, against W. F. Green, white man of the same town and an employe of the Chesnee mill, was told by Judge M. B. Brissie who heard tho case, to go home and get her preacher husband, to go to Green's house Cihree mornings in succession and hold family prayer with him, af ter whic^ if she still had a grievance against him, he would render his de cision in the matter. Both Mrs. Smith and W. F. Green agreed to do this and the parties to the action went out of court t<> await the result of the family prayer. Birds are .what make agriculture possible in the United States, accord ing to Archer Wall Douglas, editor of the business bulletin of La Salle Extension university. "Not a crop of any kind could he raised in Amer ica without the activities of the in sect eating birds," said Mr. Douglas. "Crop devouring inject multiply with inconceivable rapidity; ;t single pair (?f boll weevils may ha\e 1 'J.OOO.dOO descendants. M. J. Smith, formerly of Buck Hill, and wanted thereon charges of fraud, issuing worthless checks and receiv ing hundreds of dollars under false pretenses, will probably never be tried for these offenses, because he js- be lieved to be in the Daitofi, (ia.. jail charged with the murder of Chief W. M. Hannah, who was murdered there li6 years ago. Under the name of J. It. Jones he lived ill Georgia. At the time he shot ('hicf Hannah he was being hunted for a i liarge of drunkenness. As the chief advanced ?Jones shot, killing him. The police are ,-u.e now tivat the two are one and tin- same M. .1. Smith, but unless he escapes the penalty <.t* murder in Georgia there U no hope of him fac ing the bar of justice in Kov k Hill. "Practically all of our old students will return to C!em?-on in September as usua\" -v.i ;vi M ?. .1. ( '. Littlejohn, registrar. Friday. "I ndication- 'it this time po:r.t to a freshman class of nearly fou' hundred. a- large, or arger than la?t \ea:'^ freshman elasv. Detecli\?- K s ? .?:.f;din". that K. J. Th onvas, <omniai!(li r of the Branchville American Legion, who was found de.ul :r h Bran, hvi!l<* r' >oni Monday night, with a rope ? round his neck, committed suicide. \frer n . ? v.iTmnnt'^r r>f Thoma?' ' stomach .? ( ' dumb i \ are ?U'e 'hat no p.. ? .p was u-. -I. Kogers is i ttemp'.;ng ; > a r:\i- .i* -nine eon- I 1'jsion as w ? \ . ?na* ;?| \Nh I \ris 1 n t rrost i ni; Notes I r"iii Many Sour re*. I ? * i i* !???;!* -n: t" - ? i- ? h?-? n d:sc>\tird in Ti .v;;-v, Of the m-:.- :r..t\ jijo ^ ^ ' ' ?rm . ?r.?: ? ??.?.. u v: 1? -a -t l?f? ?" r <>"?* ?' *...?? .? ? v. ft- ;<*>r:rayei . }>y n-a! ^.nu-i' jr?-*tures or manner: rr. - %??%?? ?r:r.^r ??' art ficiaht*. would bi u:.?-rrir.jr!\ ? ? . ? ? . * * ? -.! hv th? audi on.. i\ In the J 'rii. pp.: - ?? f;sh r n:u ? b ! r. <- ' qj.rt , >i<=on thr ti^n . ? h : ;? that 1 'i.Ooo .J ' ;? . 'i. mat ureti. r.v ? r- n hg-ht Hr? ("?" a native ? i f : > h that , ivc on ?l:\ lar.. I and ? .*?. n when piat ?h1 in u.u \\at< When en insect plague t^vept over the region near Ksson, (iermnnv. ?!?? foliating ft!l the tree*. tho rstat.- r> f Mans von fierlepsch, which has over a thousand birds nesting on twelrp acre* o i land* remained stand ing out Hke an oa*f? in n do#er?. POISON OF BORGIAS MIDDLE-ACE MYTH? ? Modern Science Shed 9 Light on Subject . V. v } <)T hM tii* n (til)**. In tin* vi?*t rogu ea' ?h1'? : > of hU(ur.iV' r.ont* ahlnea with , xurh alulHer ?? an (lift of J "Borgia/ 'I'll* <-Iih?m iirlaile of ilia j U org In* Alexander VI., I'aeaara, and Lik i'< rl? which (lira inada t lie great ? mi appeal (o fho popular Imagination, in ihf ir mv plotter* mikI poiaon- J <??* a. They are credltod wllli ( li#? moat complex ai raiagema and with lunnmer u !>!*? murder?, committed wllli * 1110*1 artistic kniHiiiv nijii varlelj of meilp od. The nanal iinpncafclon Ik Mint au ?ndle** prp?**(i?ln?) ?>r I'ui'diuulK, dnkea and prime* Uined with, drank lit* health of, or m'cepfrd rVt* S A froln the ratal fa nilj.v, MHO (tied neeka lairr wiiliou) vlaible' ?> mpiouia of foul piny. I Tha legend i* mi itn'i'ible lhat It ?ernia a I IllOKl a pill ll Ik Hilt till*. However, ?he fa* la are thai I .were. ?la. aDp|)U?edl} (iit> btacWett figure of ?he three, wxi really nothing Wore than a rulifr Immoral, and certainly \ erj ni ppld woinrn tiilli no provable ?rim'nul record xi ?ll, Oaeaare. her brother, H*v aimph a mediocre free lull if ?old'er, rained 10 dukedom by the power nf kiln pan on, the pupa. Kls Milnnndiiig niindf'f*i -Ihose of bin brother, Mi broi her-ln-lan. and Aalora Manfredi were rough, vulgar affair* nf r#dd sl^el In III* hand* of aenunt*. Alexander VI ?**hik l.i> bate been ihe ? > ? ? t > poisoner In the family; mid the polnnn he chiefl> affected. hIikd rilaguoaed in ibe light of contemporary ?? ? mini* of 1 lie death* of Ms vp-rlma, Id h i(i??|i|ioiBipif?iii ; merely tin nrsen mid* ?<il hi ion rom pa ruble to modern en 1 | -o' son. There in n?? nulhentlc auppml for ; he 1 fable nlioni hi* presentation ?f rin^,\ with small. sharp fan^s on | lip ins'de! which scratched the tidlm and canned lingering death; ihere Ik. in ?n.? 1 hk?, no poison suilahle for adminlm ration In ,)uM ;liin way except curare. nlii<')i In e\ori lodnv exceed Injjlv difficult to otdnln ,'tnrl l? nm ifieri unknown. Tl'f ?> 11 1 y retilly |d? i ur????|iie mode | of * > * **s'iiii l Jolt in x ojjue 11 n.v \\ hen* i ncur 1 l?e period, in fncl,. Ix tine ineio- ' tl<iiio?| h.\ Mciiv emtio I'l-ilini; poison ? int by 1 lie iidininial rat ioi! <?!' powtlcrf-d 1 dihiimod. t 'riiidird jflii*>K, an is ni?w w<dl I known, doe* not deserve the I'opiiFfl I lion it i>ih?? I'liJoM-d. imr; according t?> ; ? '??lliii, do oilier iiM^licd Jowois pro-! iIiici* i he ^oiioine diainoivd efferi. iKoii I r;i tin* III'*" will* || r lo Iiol liillllt, ;i in wliii li v| :"i'i ' iill v .{.ero'l rule llie \\;t!ls of i he j ?? I oiit.o It. So ll ! !tj. ! I !i?' l??PK d'M'id'Ml ! ??i<ii-* j.' .1 ir J T i , x ' "i'v iirtiii.v froni onr i of I '<"*1 oi niu>? l)avv ? a j founo.i, toll hi I io I \ l ? ? \ It ti tier li:*d i id ?*n i ? ? ? r (tit's to w Imiiii it,' is|?ed all tl>e :-V"ii.> |.ov^ihl? mill pteol \ of dih liioiuft I . I{. Kit. i !o\ . ,n Adventure M uy .1/ i ne, New York's Poiver Plunt I i.i yi?*i. ie*>i ?:nt.?>ii lor ^ecieiulin^ eleciro* | u,wi i* Iteiit^. hoiil by th?' New Voi k i <iis?.i? ? on panv ai Kour feeniti viirei uinl llie Kasi river. Hie bnilding ainl ium< Ii iiwr> will cost $50, (NHi.ikni. ;tnd 1 1 e >iaiion will li?v? a capMeltj .if ;i |i ) > t'o x 1 1 n h i e Iv 1.000,000 lior^e power. < onsidera bly mure than ibe eiiliie projected develupnieni tif Moit< le Sbonl*. Thia one siaiion can Miipplj t iuieni enoii|f)i lo liglil 8,000. ?ITHi boii?en more than liier* >r? In i h <? wliole ?Mle of \ejv York oulxlde New ^ oi L < nr. NNIili i Ii 1 a addition, t be ^e??e rating alatioH^ in New York ?-liv ?nn prodiii e inin b ligldmK and pn\v e; . urreni ?.? la ii?rd In nil Vrailce TJih w > e? nil id?-n of llie extraor #i I n h i % use of ??le. iri?- I j;tn uinl power ii ii.e I n''ied s' I m ' *? * Vintili * ( 'dm JMl n * * Ft . Avocation a and Terth In xii arli. le >ui ?: ?? ?imx'joi; .t' i ,??us \ iu jtlKUis .ii.it ii' tiiaJ ii the ** i > . i ,i i I 1 . N t> v\ ? *e r > i i e of i.i' 'nam |>o n ? "ii t * li? weTs .ind pr ?i\ ...,kv i e it i>r*t Miffe. ers from t'Hil '?*??* t? lte!.?*v?-d lo r * 1 1 1 f from ihi !? x ' ?? ? k of v ^ i r ii i? v . ??;i?ii:ne I i j ner w % < .^i !? w ' r flip i .. .iih Ifail .i i : ? J Mlrei ' 1 1 ??? v 1 1 r 1 1 ?? ? w f'> it < | 1 h em ?i. ! n Water Fatally Charged ? I "? n <? ? < a i i . i , tl ? . . . - ? . T*'f ' ? i',dj' . .f :...[?<????? ?? e ti : I y ,? ,? ?? ?? .?? <? iv ? ni p \> ' ? ? ?> - I r ;? ^ .? h? ?? ? < - ? )i ?? r. >? ? ' ? ? )?? ;t fi ? fi 1 1 1 . ? ' i ? ? ' i 1 1 ? ? .. . . j -n'-n . .. v* . h * . .it ? i ? ? ? ? k \\ *<? i \ . r.. ? -'ni! t ?*<J (las Pre sen ri h i?l\ T' ?* ? <>f < :t ? \ i f* C - ? !i ' ? - ? I't'il) J rt vl . , . _ , . . ' I ? H M I , ? , | , , , l?f ' v '? . i1 \ ?i? \|i>n' I h ?? -u ? -? 1 i' ?? ????*? ? (if f vrjfi* w :? ?> ? v ' 1 1 is c*i | ? I ? t n 1 ? ? ? 1 1 j rrfi i?,r ??r< t l>?> *y?!#-in l? ? x *??| fti MUliiJ ll?e Uiarkty for frusti nU*. Potmibla to Haye Too Many 14 Iron t in fire " If iii.k ??fl ??'!(,?> to W. )u.t )*>{: ht\ lit* iiil ill lilt ?n;Ul oOii ?? , ? | .. *. urge i IimI 4 pay UJOIV ill I C 1 1 1 Joll l? |?),V UH'lt bUsinoB Ml' I J lo 111*. Alili, jit u Iff I MM'* I wn.\. he \ ill tic itfcHi. No one ever limi limv or public cateeiu by leUiitg U.# other ii How run hi* own woru. Ilui I like the young friend. AuU hu ik lyiiUK too bit; a allvk, "J. i\ " w ii : tu the Kuuaua Oily Slur. "lloK'k >ot.r |?? i? V" I naked. A ltd he kUld iinpal iei.lly that if Ik pep t\u? Mil rigiit, "lib ?.* ail right." It* ?witi. "I've got i ? ??? many iron* In the Hve to In down/' A a long **> 1 have known the young friend be ha* hud kn h i'ii > Id 1 ?f Iron a in i ho ftre, ami half li e time lite Die whmi'I \ ttty liwt and he lad to upend hit >pare hour* blowing il. He began mm ?n amateur champion In one of the walloping < iMft*en. I (fid h kick In each mil. hi* little playmate* mid, and might by ihia i line have been fighting for stake* be.voml (he dream* of hla youthful avarice if he hud been con lent lo become n iirofeaaional mun Hot no, it* must go Into business "He'll get' I here, toe," hla friend* IIT, , \ err likely tie *?|ll. If hla wagon does not break down. Aa long aa I've known |/ltn It* ha* been the. wheel- 1 hoi>e in J a office. He wan t,he one who did Important trick a on Sunday* , ? lid holiday*. when the rest of the force could not be found by blood hound*. He rrtn always willing to stay up mid get up. If any one Imd a Job I oo mio-h the young friend took It over. B.\ nod by be begun to brunch out and run businesses ou the aide? Of course. Ik* kUii has itidl^CKtion end hla color I* not what It should he There are t ?>i * i?f arguments favor lug a modified and conservative Inzl nes*. One ha* a better time and j> rob ? ahlv Uvea longer. Of course, the granite toinliSi one will not he so tail aa It would be if one had conalat enl ly overloaded all Ii1s life. Earth Fires Cause Alarm ? Villager* nrc alarmed at I'ouremile, France; by a natural phenomenon or cufrinjr in a rartrw close to the rail road of Boilers. where the ground has become so hot I hat It burns t he feci of anybody trying t<? stand still. Clouds nf heavy black smoke are rising from figures in the rocks. while in some spots it thick, oily subs lance 007.es fro.Mi cracks in the ground nt^fl evap orate* a* soon us it yet ?< in contact uilii the air. leaving e< er\ thing eov ?ered with h mI ilny idack. hard oontlng.' I'lie jieolo^ica ! foruiatioti <if the Avey rou district is \id<anl< aj origin, but tills appear* To l.e ilie flr^t c!s;n of sub terranean activity since prehistoric times. Scientist* are proceeding to the "poi io investigate. Pending a re report. It la suggested llial hi straliltu of lign/i?? which exists in tnany parts of Ate.vrou may have become incan d? *' ent P a in i ly Hf ral/1. Building Smaller House* Dwelling* planned during the t\ral three montha of this year are not as large hk lliovi- projected during the first quarter of iftlM. The difference in afie la Hlmoii aa much ? * a good fiired ll>ing room. Oomparlaon show* lI'Hl the average arei( of i he fl mat group ?if I blT? houaes la ;<TI aipiare feet amall* <?r than the dwellings planned during ?Innuart. February and March of 191I-4. The eondualon* are that more fme family dwellings have been planned 'taring die -.unem year ilian were planned during the flrnl ipiarter of last veai More ii" denlial project ? ha?e t?een Hied il i"i.?li the I'ountry ihls yeftr ihon w ? i t'l.'d iti?i year. Thla sup yorls .!%e ? i tcon lhai the individual hou*e r:ii.ie lian :h^ larger unit is dow ^ ilie Mlieu'ion >f the builder. Poultry InduMtry Big Sputtered about the farms * . f ih* fount rv a i f about half * billion chick* env ? ' r il\e Tin Htcn man. worn an and lii (I in the lun?i In the !hj?i year i|>etf I>hh he??n .hi in- reuse of about 10 per eni. I he ^niiuai output of i lie . ...in i r \ I* \ a I ii ?*il a I a bum $000, '|7if hi. ken? crown for out n* ? : f :? n ti ?t h N v nearly half a billion .tollar* I" m ?? farms of t he coun try a ' pieneut n\f nocked with poul try ?>' ;i I klm!* \ allied a! about $400,* ihmxwm) i he i :iii>.:!ou ..f the French kira k t- - :nt r.r -to prosperous ? hat >? ' i \ j ;i s h ii t might ha*e a thick en n the (>"i on e a >\ eek ha* been niO' e ii.tn rent ic.|' n Aim-ru n ?a,VS t h f n e >e \ !*''? I m?v Caught Eagle in HanJs K ? . ! v o n^> froti: Apptnfon. Mmne, ,, ? i ,.^c. - Mat u hen Klden Mad lo- k ?? - 'ni liis '."????>. >?f :baf town, w y i \ , 1 c \| . M a d<lo>'ks r .? light m f *v tli us huutN The rajf'i1 .* ,? ilvin; \?*rv slowly ?nd Mr Mad -in, u xrojn f,\ ti'w .i r ami -aught iiim \ \ \ .i ?* *?-?merl 1 1 o r t help '.>r ??>";?? "I'mon I'he ?'.ijT^e's < | *r:iM ?? m ? ?; ltt?'h?*? lie did no1 ?? b?* 'imiii^.j .-t t finally M - M ? -n 1 :if ? try in i . i ? " r I ;>.?? k ' o 1 ? f >: ! ' v(ri i ? in-! i h i | ?i i s News. Limit of Hard Luck 'I! .? * .* r. ?trr.' ' h#> <ttn 3',,,ri' '? i > .ii -i a'l w i.? |'f:U*e. ? ?i,ijij#-n! \ < ?lh'd the man who pnu?ed on t'i#? I ? i -lize jlxivf the I J f 1 1 e <trcii?i. ilnv'v r v ? : . ( n sr "** * The Tuber tu.tii v o i bo hank sighed and i6wked ii^ "Rotten. i??y friend. " he re|>)led > on k*r?<TCT- what? Xhry areti t galling gwilT (iood Paper Made of Corn 8ta)k? A ton of corn stalk* Huh been con sidered so much agricultural \vaste, but the chemical engineering- depart ment at Iowa State college, Ames, Iowa, has found it to bo worth, at present prices, about $160 a ton when converted into paper. Prof. O. ft. Sweeney, head of the department, has manufactured paper of a fine quality from cornstalks, and lu- believes it can be made to match in quality any stock of wood paper pulp. The question of utilizing corn stalks fur the making of paper in volves a number of industrial prob lems into which the chemists have been delving. Prof. Sweeney's exr, periments show that by means of a chemical process worked out in his laboratory, six-tenths of a ton of ?paper can be made from a ton of stalks. Iowa produces between 20 milflion and 26 million tons of stalks , yearly and the United States about 100 million tous. Oat and wheat straws have been used in the manufacture of straw board but they are too short-fibred for making higher grades of paper. Corn stalks do. not offer this diffi culty, said Pro Sweeney, they being longer in fact than wood. Paper man ufacturers who have seen the paper made in the laboratory declared it to be of high quality. Well Clothed for Hot Weather Ben Abney, 10-year-old negro boy of Greenwood, was discovered asleep in an old foundry in that town Friday morning, wheu the temperature -was up to 100 degrees, wcaHng four pairs of trousers and five shirts. An offi cer, who was attracted by Ben's ap pearance and his snoring, thought he might connect the boy with >the recent robbery of a Greenwood store. Other negro boys said Ben was one of the robbers of the store. The easy against Ben and the other boys will come on for a hearing in court in due time. __ Rare coins are filtering through ' o Paris and America in numbers so largo that they suggest that a valu able find has been made. It is be lieved to be in Persia. Draughon's Business College COLUMBIA, S. C. RECOGNIZED BY THE NATION'S BEST BUSINESS MEN AND BUSINESSES A DRAUGHON'S diploma is your auursnee that your ability will be recognized and your ser vices sought. Tuition in this widely known business college is no more expensive than in the unrecognized schools. Prospective students pwe it to themselves to write for information. Enouxh of Florida | Yesterday morning a printer and linotype operator of fifteen years ex perience on some of the biggest news papers in the country, entered Th6 News office hunting for a job. He had been in Miami operating a linotype for one of the big Florida doilies, but was leaving the land of plenty for New York City. He was traveling by auto and just before leaching Chester two -tires went to the bud. He said that he did not have the money to buy others and was wanting a job or he Would like to sell his car so that he could get money to reach New York. Having heard that linotype opera tors were making plenty of money in Miami The News asked him why he was leaving Florida. "Yes," he said, "operators are making good money in Florida. The scale in Miami is fifty-three dollars a' week with time -and a half for overtime, but what is that when it takes all to get a bed and your meals. Living in Miami is going up by leaps and bounds and things are getting to the place where a working man has n.) business dowri there. Deliver me from Florida until I get in the mil lionaire class." ? Chester News. Wht n Segundo Tellechea, a butcher of Campo Florida, Cuba, won the $20,000 government lottery prize, he reduced meat prices far below any other butcher in Cuba. A "Puffuctly" Happy M?i-> Gee McCee in the Anderson Mail thus describes a typo jnore or less familiar in Camden and other towns iu Ure South: i The happiest mortal I over suw was in the person of a nigger preach er. He had on a jim^swinger coat, patent leather shoos and a panatnn hat. He possibly had 15 cents in his pocket. The females were making right up to him. He had never heard about cotton mill stocks going to 450 a few years ago. Texas never bother ed him. He owned nothing but a poll and it was exempt because of hl$ profession. He prided his gold specks and watch fob above anything else. He has friends a-plenty. He never suffers for a place to lay his head, and the best that can be had is none too good for him. The only burdens that bear down on him are 'his bed and clothes. Worry and gloom an\ unknown to him, and I've been won doring if we would not all be happier if we had nothing, wanted nothing and craved only good health. Of 28,000 Christian missionaries working in foreign fields, 19,000 are from the United States, while Amer ican annual contributions to the work amount to $40,000,000 out of a total of $45,000,000. Monkeys of PatUmi, a southern province of Siam, are trained to pick cocoanuts and edible seed pods for I their trainers. Announcing Important Changes in Bodies and Chassis Added Beauty and Utility Closed Cars in Color No Increase in Prices All- st eel bodies on Tudor Sedan, Coupe and open cars. Bodies and chassis both lowered. Larger, more attractive fenders, affording greater protection. New im proved transmission and rear axle brakes on all types. One-piece ventilat ing windshield on closed cars; double ventilating type on open cars. Curtains opening with all doors on Touring car and Runabout. Closed cars in colors, with upholstery of finer quality to har monize; and nickeled radiator shells. Many other refinements now add to the beauty and quality of these cars. See your nearest Authorized Ford Deal er today for complete details. DETROIT, MICH. ?

Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 28, 1925, Image 8