The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 03, 1926, Image 4
THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
,
H. D. Nile* . . Editor and Publisher
PublUhed overr Friday at No. 1109
Broad Street ana entered at the Camden,
South Carolina, postofflce aa
second claas mall matter,,.Price per
annum |2.00. _
Camden, S. C., Friday, Sept. 3, 1926,
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United States Senator Bert M. Ferimld
of Maino^ died at Weat Poland,
Me., Monday afternoon, a victim of intestinal
poison and a weakened heart.
His funeral occurred yesterday.
The Democratic party of Ohio has
adopted a platform pledged to retain
the primary ayatem, decrying huge
campaign expenses and promising a
clean sweep of alleged utility control
of the state government. The state
republican party platform has as its
slogan: "Continued American prosperity
by insuring continuance of Republican
policies."
W. H. ("Coin") Harvey, whose
books on finance made him famous the
country over in the middle nineties is
critically ill at his home at Rogers,
Ark, He is a victim of blood poisoning
and is 75 years of age.
The jury in the cuse of W. K. Hall
and John W. Ramsey, charged with
the slaying of Henry Roan, an Osage
Indian, was discharged at Guthrie,
Okla., Wednesday morning after reporting
that it could not agree. The
jury took the cuse last Friday.
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THIRTY YEARS AGO.
Some Things That Were and * Were
Not Done a Generation Ago.
Thirty years ago?
We'd never heard of static.
Garage was b French wprd.
Girls did not look like boys.
Nobody wore wrist watches.
Good girls did not use rouge.
Editors called themselves "we."
A 5cent cigar was a good cigar.
Tumble bugs were no curiosity.
Women's skirts swept the streets.
Young men wore hats and caps.
Gasoline was never stepped on.
We rode in hug-me-tite buggies.
Petting parties were taboo in public.
Women tended babies und did not
vote.
Appendicitis was plain cramp colic.
Men put shirts on over their head3.
The only calves we saw were in
pastures.
A good hot toddy tvould cut a bad
cold.
Everybody,had their tonsils and
adenoids. .
School boys played bull-pen and enjoyed
it.
Bicycles were used instead of automobiles.
Small boys said "yes sir," and "no
ma'am."
A drug store was a place where
drugs were sold.
Politicians' friends "urged'" them to
run for office.
Evangelists called folks dirty
hounds and curs.
Ministers preached hell fire and
damnation sermons.
' Lots of people rested on the Sabbath
day and kept it holy.
Only merchants and professional
men patronized the banks.
A woman wasn't considered bandsome
unless she was a waspwaist.
Farmers could say, "I never bought
a bushel of corn or a pound of meat."
It was disrespectful for children to
call father and mother old man and
old woman.?Monroe (N. C.) Enquirer.
HEAVY TRAFFIC TOLL
More Than Fifteen Hundred Killed in
South Since January
Traffic in 11 'Southern states killed
233 persons and injured 415 from
July 24 up to and inclusive of Mon"
,day, is revealed t/hrough a compilation
of Associated Press reports.
The total for August represented
an increase 6f 76 in the number of
persons killed over the total reported
for July and an increase of 384
in the number of persons injured.
The August report brought the total
of persons reported killed since January
1, up to and inclusive of yesterday,
to 1,517 and the number of
persons injured to 9.021.
During the past month 21 persons
were reported killed in grade crossing
accidents and upward of two score
injured. Several of the fatalities resulted
from aviation smashups.
..More persons wore killed during
tihe week of August 15-22 than any]
other week of the mnuKli. 50^ fatalities)
being reported for the seven days.
More persons were injured during the
week of August 8-15 thnn any other,
when 303 person* were reported to
have sustained hurts of var>ing degrees
of scriousnoAO.
A method .for Uldng aluminum in
-making v r 11 paper has been devised
by Swis.v manufacturer*.
FEW BUFFALOES NOW
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Once Ur|??t Herd Now Numbers
Lous Than Two Thousand
Fort Pierre, 8. D., Aug. IK?In a
gulley on the Missouri river's western
bank a few hundred buffalo nestle
lazily where once roamed thousands
of their kin.
They represent the remainder of
the old Scotty Phillips herd, once the
largest buffalo herd in captivity, and
the source of almost all the buffalo
to be seen in American parks and
preserves. * *
** Phillips, an Indian trader and a
rancher of a generation ago, was the
first to take practical recognition of
the fact that the buffalo was dying
out. He- established a herd of the
Ahaggy 'beasts on his ranch here, and
with his half-breed wife cared for'
the animals until the herd numbered
many thousand, and was virtually the
only herd, wild or tame, in thq United
States.
Since the death of Phillips some
yqprs ago the herd has been largely
dispersed, and parks and preserves in
a dozen states have established herds
of their own by acquiring animals
from the ranch here. <Circusses and
carnivals also have been good customers.
The Phillips herd now numbers less
than 2,000, but each fall tbe ranch
is the scene of a big buffalo hunt, in
which sportsmen from throughout the
country participate.
Pioneers of Western South Dakota
recall many. Interesting tales about
buffalo hunts of 'bygone days. The
most famous was at Buffalo tiap,
S. D., so-called because, there, at a
puss through a mountain chain, the
buffalo would congregate at the migrating
season, sometimes to the
number of 300,000.
The Buffalo hunter's greatest peril
laid in the danger of being unhorsed
in thf path of a buffalo stampede.
The animals, running forward, would
never swerve from a straight line.
Occasionally the buffalo would charge
a mounted hunter, but the animals
are easily outridden if a path of escape
is clear.
Likelihood that the buffalo ever
will become extinct has virtually
passed. A hardy animal, the buffalo
will live and flourish in captivity. He
is difficult to transport by train, however,
and most of the shipments of
buffalo from the Phillips ranch have
been made on passenger train schedule,
longer trips proving fatal to
many of the beasts.
The commission appointed to inquire
into the sanity of W. D. Manley,
head of the defunct Bankers Trust
company of Atlanta, made a report
Wednesday to the effect that in its
opinion Manley was responsible for
his acts.
Thirty coal miners are reported hs
believed to be dead as the result of a
gas explosion in a coal mine at Clymer,
Pa.,?yesterday afternoon. Five
miners escaped alive while twelve
bodies were taken from the mine yesterday
afternoon and last night.
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.
Interesting Notes Gathered Froin
Many Sources.
Trial by water .still prevails in certain
sections of India. The disputants
are taken to a sacred tank where sacrifices
and prayers are offered. Then
their heads are immersed. The one
coming to the top first is the loser/
Fire destroys an average of 360
homes, 96 farm buildings, IB hotels,
6 department stores, B churches, B
school houses, 4 warehouses, and 1
hospital each day in this country.
Hens exposed to direct sunlight
produce e.ggs rich in vitamine while
those kept in glass inclosure do not,
experiments conducted at Kansas*
State Agricultural college indicate.
The government of New South
Wales, Australia, has ^uilt more than
1,000 homes at an average cost of
$3,250, selling them to workmen on a
low weekly-payment plan.
A Seattle policeman uses roller
skates to patrol his beat in the outlying.districts
of the city. His mode
of transportation has the approval of
his superiors.
Tw<>( thousand minnows are being
sent from this country to Argentina
in an effort to combat malaria there.
The top minnow thrives on inalariacairying
mosquitoes.
More than $400,000,000 is hoarded
away in mattresses, stockings, sugar
bawls, cupboards, and other household
hiding places in this country, according
to experts of the United
States Treasury.
Latest fashion in England is for
v.omen to indicate their status or
mood by ear ornaments. Two'eari
ngs means n woman is married; one
in the right ear. that she is engaged.
(. ircles and ropes of gems indicate
i t int she desires no new acquaintances
v htle cor ornaments in tii?\# form of
bdls denote that she is*out for a good
time.
FAMOUS FLIBR KILLED.
! Commander John Rodger* Met Death
I in Delaware River.
Philadelphia, Aug. 27.?Commander
I John Rodger*, hero of the Ban Francisco-Hawaiian
flight, i* dead.
r The brave and 4 resourceful navy
flier, yvho warded off death on the
broad Pacific ocean, was killed a* the
result of a drop in a land plane into
shallow water of Delaware river this
afternoon. He was injured so seriously
that fleath overtook him in the naval
hospital in two hour*. He died at
6 o'clock.1
Samuel Schultz of Philadelphia, his
mechanician, with a broken back, lay
near death tonight in the hospital of
the Philadelphia navy yard, near
which the acrident occurred.
KyewitnessjRRiiffer on the distance
the commandeWell, but most of them
agreed it was between 30 and 150 feet
as he was gliding to make a landing.
The cause of death, so far as navy
surgeons could determine tonight,
was hemorrhages due to broken ribs,
puncturing vital organs. Many of the
ribs on one side were crushed in. One
of his legs was broken in two places
and cut open.
The famous commander suffered
great pain and was unconscious, at
intervals, but he was able in the true
navy fashion to give fragments of information
to vavai officers as his life
ebbed away.
Every resource of the big yaj-d was
brought into play in the rescue. The
commander was pinioned in the cockpit
for nearly an hour and- suffered
agony. An officer and sailor worked
up in their necks in water to free him.
"Go easy, boys," h? said, "I'm
caught somewhere.' No further time
was lost and the fuselage of the ship
was literally torn apart with tools to
get the navy officer out. When he
was freed and a brief examination
made, it was announced he had Bllffer-.
ed only a broken leg and a sigh of relief
went up. Later, it was cautiously
stated, that he was suffering greatly
from shock and that a more thorough
examination might show serious injuries.
.No further word came from
the hospital until the announcement
that he had died. At first it was not
believed, but naval surgeons sadly
confirmed .the news.
Today the commander flew a land
plane of the V type . He followed the
historic Delaware river on his way to
the navy yard after crossing the state
of Delaware. The Philadelphia navy
yards landing field stretches along the
river for some distance and when the
commander was sighted he was descending
to make a landing on the
broad stretch of grassy ground.
A few officers and men watched the
arrival and saw the plane go into a
slow glide. It was over the river and
pointed toward the field. Suddenly, it
was noticed that something was
wrong and before anyone could realize
it, the plane shot downward into about
three and a half feet of water,
approximately 100 feet from shore.
Commander Rodgers and Schultz,
strapped to their seats, were unable
to do anything to save themselves.
When it settled in the river, the cockpit
of the plane was just above water., 1
The shock of the fall broke the pro- peller.
Water welled into the pit but
Communder Rodgers and his com pan- J
ion were sitting high enough to keep J
their heads above the surface of the
river and save themselves frqny
drowning.
Officers, sailors and marines leap- -j
ed into the water and floundered out
to the rescue. Others tumbled into a
20 foot navy barge and pulled out to
the wreckage. The first efforts to lift
the commander out of the plane were unavailing,
eyewitnesses said. The
commander and bis mechanician were
conscious but thedr faces showed they .
I were in great pain. The engine of
the piano wae partly lodged against
I Rodgers' chest. ^Stalwart sailor? and "
I marines tugged and pulled as beet
i they could but finally had to send hur|
riedly for wrenches and saws. Despite
, their best efforts it took fully 50 min- ,
utes to move the engine and release
the wreckage from the commander's
leg.
Lieut. Cyrus H. Bettis, army flying
ace, who was seriously " injured fn
Pennsylvania mountains on Monday
when his plane flew against a mountain
side, and who crawled five miles
with a broken leg before being found
was on yesterday removed from
Bellefnote, Pa., to the Walter Reid
hospital in Washington for treatment.
The transfer was made by airplane
ambulance.
George Cohen, Chicago crook, was
sentenced by a New York judge on
Thursday to serve forty years in prison
for his part in a New York jewelry
store hold up committed last
month.
Owners of radio receiving sets in
Gei many must paj* fifty cents a
month for the privilege. The government
u;cf. the money to oncou~age
broadcasting,
I SUMMER
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