The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 05, 1929, Image 6
The U. S. A. is only a
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few minutes wide
THE Bell System Is ever busy reducing the width of
America and the distance between cities. For ex'
ample, in the last five years 350 major improvements,
as well as thousands of others whose aggregate
importance mounts high, have been made in
telephone central office equipment.
Improved operating practice# have eliminated the
necessity of your "hanging up" and being called back
in 05 percent of out-of-town calls, adding new speed
and ease to your long distance service. You hold the
wire and the operator does the rest.
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Since .Vw Year's Day, 1027, the average time for ,
completing all out-of-town calls has been cut 35 per
cent and at the same time the per cent of error has
been further materially reduced.
There is no standing still in the Bell System. Better
and better telephone service at the lowest cost
is the'goal.. Present improvements constantly' going
into effect are but the foundation for the future's
greater service.
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
tl incorporated)
LOOKING BACKWARD
Taken From the Files of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Years A|fo
THIRTY YEARS AGO
March 31. 1 MM
J. ('. Hilton, of Wostville, v."
L'aught in the machinery of hi" steam
null and was thought to be fatahy
n jured.
Protracted meeting on at Methodist
r.u'rh. Dr. .J. Thomas Pate being as
- ? / by Rev. .1. G. B'-ckwith, of KerO.
M. r:;r'. given contract for
erec. .on of < hur h at cotton mill.
< amden vi-it?-d o? terrific wind
sto-m. bordering on v'lone whicn
blew down trees and fen * -. The H.
(i. Garrison wind mill was damaged
as was the I'pton Court when the top
<if a chimney was blown off.
A press dispatch from Princeton,
N. J., announces the death of Dr.
James (). Murray, the dean of the
university. Dr. Murray was horn in
Camden November 7. 1S27.
Memorial day to be ob?er\ed on
2i'.th of April with Rev. W. 1J. Gordon
as the orator.
The death of Ix-o Sche.nk. aged four
years, announced f- mi membraneous
croup.
1/llee Hy -aitd Mi?s Mollie S-tokeru
Dr. J. K. Rutiedge and Miss Annie
Hilton; W...J. F.llis and M:-s Caroline
Brarvnon, were, mar. bed.
Preaching announced at Cooks
chur. n by Rev. W. \Y. M . 11>.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
April 3,-1914
City ar ! rural schools meet he
obaer'. i held dav exercises with
large attendance.
| <'amden'- ^Ixth annual horse show
hi : i with large number of out-of-town
J cnt-- and many visitors present. j
j K. T. M:ck':c. of \Ve?t Wateree, reJ
ported rat ;d:y improving from Injuries
received in a -unaway ncciden*.
' Henry Savage receives large shipi
meut of fine blooded Angus cattle forj
1 his Westerham plantation.
\V. R. Dela.a. he named alderman'
, from ward five in a second primary.)
Kershaw Guards to leave to parti-j
) cipate in maneuvers at Isle of Palms.)
Government advertises for bids on.
construction of postoffice building.
Washington announces that E. C.'
VonTresckow qualifies for consular)
service.
Rev. Palmer C. DuBose on visit to
Camden from China preaches at
j Presbyj-crian church.
Mrs. Edward MacDowell. widow of
famous composer leaves for her
: home in Peterborough, N. H., after a
--visit- to Caoxlen.
Now that Einstein has some spare
I time he might evolve an easy method
j for applying typewriter ribbons.?
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Written (or The Chronicle bjr Gee
McGee, Copyright, 1928.
A Night of Flrfght
1 free not at all scary. 1 am noted
for my bravery far and near, bat
moetly near. I don't mean that I'd
Aght a tiger or a lion or anybody else.
I ain't talking about that kind of
bravery. I era trying to lead up to
the matter of ataying by myself in
a house at night. Why, for the sum
of 2 or 3 million dollars, I'd spend ?
nights in my own home all alone. No
sir ree, 1 ain't no baby.
Bdt not long ago, my wife went
south for a week for ber health: (her
sister lives 40 miles down south a*
the crow flies,- and that's where she
went seeking her health), and I had
to stay in a room }>y myself during
her absence. Of course, there were
j othere people in the house for me to
| protect and look after, and I told
tr.em to retain their equijibnim and
ju me if anything happened.
I am a tittle bit deaf, but long
ab-.ut midnight, 1 heard a burglar
saw ;r.g the screen out of one of the
windows in iuy room. I was too
weak to scream. The temperature
was about 26 in the bed, but I began
sweatir. g a heavy night sweat, and
thai sawyer juat kept on a-sawing.
There was a pistol in my chiffer-robe
drawer, but I was not physically able
to ge* up and walk across the floor
to ge .? weapon, so I just stayed;
as st..; a> possible and breathed low
and deep. . . .j
That sawing kept up with muck
i uniform -y of strokes. 1 knew that
guy w shoot me the minute ha
got the opening lJ,rkfc enough to poke
his guv. through. I trembled and
sweated a- : prayed and prayed and
sweated ar : trembled, but the robber
did not .et up. I supposed that he'
had four.-! out in some manner that
1 had brougnt 2 dollars home with me
to pay the washer-woman,- and he
was going to have thatmoney or my
life, and possibly both. I wished I
had never ow ned any money, but that
saw kept a-cutting.
I gathered enough vitality to ooze
myself -nut of the betF and craw!
under it. It was cold as the dickens
under there, but perspiration kept
soaking out of me. I didn't know
what in the world to do. I'd have t>
pass right under the window that was
being sawed to get to the door, and
I wouldn't risk that. I began to
catch cold, but I knew better than to
sneeze, and my stummiek almost
busted several times from holding-in
pressure.
This thing went on thusly till daylight.
I crawled close to the window
to {>eep out and identify the burglar
before 1 ran. and when I got where
T could get a perfect vmw of him 1
found that he was a little limb of a
peach tree which had grown long
enough to rub against the screen
while the wind blew it about. I fed
ofT .j pounds that night, and was s-j
nervous for a week ! wouldn't answer
the telephone by myself.
Mr. Hoover is going to call ar.
extra session <>f congress to consider
Farm Relief. 1 am sorry I haven't
got much faith in a Republican eon-i
gress, composed of professional
politicians, doing anything for the'
P"or old farm'er. I am going to wait
on the boys until they have had one,
more chance, but in the meantime?'
I ain't going to hang up my sock in j
anticipation of help that I don't pay
for. 1 advise the farmers - just to
work right on like they've always
done, and when the "relief" comes,
; let it be a surprise.
flat rock, s. C. Apull the 2, 1929.
! forrin mission bored,
{ atlanta, ga.
deer sir: ?
j i hereby apply for the job mr.
j '-arnes give up tint long ago to go
I into the government service at 200,j
u:m>$ a vr. I believe i would suit you
j all right, i am not a babtist, but if
necessary, i will jine and be babtized,
but i believe in close communion, and
pre destination ansoforth, in fact :
sung in a babti-t quire sevral sundays
in suck session in georgy before i
married my present wife, as she was
one, as to my expt'rienee. i was
treasure of the w. o. w. camp 2
months and aliso rote out reseats for
the -redmen tribe and would of been
grand totem if i had of got 1 more
votes, i e or foam if i will be considered,
and we can fix the pay per
mo. after i work a yr. or so. hut
cant takt the job iill i get beat fm
kurrtner, ar ; that may never be.
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd.
I'nltoTi Fetter
New - April 2.?Hi sympathy
with ('" -i and home-brew. New
Orleans lo pQints on advice
from R.m.r that the Maharaja of
Siam i- i'ii:g to sleep in a cutton
night - .? instead of in nothing
ns here: Boll weevil, infestation
loot- promising than over
in South < arr.hna, Georgia, an<i other
semidenu rattc states, but Wall
street st.:; gets a pawn-shop rate fur
the federal Reserve hank's surplus
money w legitimate business lives
by the sweat of its brow. American
consumption shows an increase, but
this is attributed to the flu, yet?if
guano could be bought on credit, ar.d
groceries could be had by the plan
note of hand, and taxas ignored, and
all the insects wero ' murdered, the
cotton farmer could possibly garner
in enough cash to run his lizzie and
keep at least 2 of his younguns in
school, therefore?we advise mors
market weather.
Son's Death Marred
Career of Coolidge
v - 1 1 " ? .
The curr?ut iMM of tb? Cosmopolitan
magazine, now oh sole, contain*
the first of a M-ries of article* by CaU
vin Coolidge, who retired from tho
Presidency last week. Mr. Coohdge,
it is announced will writ# articles for
the American magazine and tb?- La
dies' Home Journal as well as for
the Cosmopolitan, and the reading
public will watch his contributions
with interest.
At 10 o'clock one Saturday morning
about six weeks ago/ Ray Long,
editor of the Cosmopolitan magazine,
was ushered into President Coolidge's
office in Washington. The president
handed him a sheaf of papers.
"I've got something done," he sail.
"1 don't know how good it is but any
way it's here."
That "something" was Mr. CooL
idge's .story of his years in the"Whit#
House, The outstanding " passage in
the* installment that appears in the
Cosmopolitan is his description of the
death of his son, Calvin, Jr., and the
cost in heartaehes of hie years in the
White House.
"My own participation in the cam
palgn of 1921 was delayed," Mr. Cool
idge writes, "by the death of my son
Calvin, which occurred on the 7th of
July. He was a boy of much prom
ise, proficient in his studies, with a
scholarly mind, who had just turnel
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"He had a remarkable insight into
thing*.
'The day I became president he
hud just started to work in a tobacce
fit .When one of his fellow labor
*r- -aid to him: 'If my father was
pf'ceident, i would not work in a tobacco
field.' Calvin replied: 'j^f my
father were your father you would.'
"After he was gone someone sent
u a letter he had written about the!
same time to a young man who halj
congratulated him on being the firs*!
boy in the land. To this he had re-]
plied that he had done nothing and
so did not merit the title, which1
should go 'to some boy who had dis-j
tinguished himself through his own
action.'
"We do not know what might have
happened to him under other circumstances,
but if I had not been president
he would nor have raised a
blister on his toe which resulted in
blood poisoning, playing lawn tennis
1 ir. the south grounds.
In his suffering he was asking me
to make him well. I could not.
"\N hen he went the power and glory
of the presidency went with him.
The ways of providence are often
I beyond our understanding. It seem]
ed to me that the world had need of
I the work that it was probable he
| ec u Id do.
"I do ndt know why such a price
was exacted for occupying the White'
House."
The fu st article describes Mr. Cool-*
idge'x entrance into the White House!
on the death of President Harding!
and some of his early experiences as I
president. In subsequent chapters
after reviewing his years in the
W hite House he tells of his boyhood
and young manhood. The work, says
Mr, Ix>ng, is really an Autobiography.
Duel Closes Tragedy
Tampa, h la., April 1.?The pistol
duel in which two men lost their lives
here Friday was a closed incident, so
far as the police were concerned, according
to James McCants, department
chief. The investigation ended
almost as abruptly as the shooting began,
on a prominent residential
corner. Aurello Castillo, former Yboa
i City, cafe owner, married, and the
j father of two children, is dead, a1
, bullet in his heart and M. P. Bronson, i
39 years old, railroad detective,]
recently divorced, is dead from a!
bullet in his brain. A woman driving
an automobile in which Castillo
! was riding when he overtook Bronson
at the intersection, is "missing."
j "Why carry the -matter further?"
police detectives asked their questioners
today. "Had either of the men
iived the woman would have been
held, at least as a material witness,
but when Bronson died last night the
whole case changed," they claimed.
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More Rum-Runners Intercepted
Last Thursday Sheriff Dabney and
his officers, hearing that rum-run-!
ners Were making free use of the
Rocky River road in getting their
cargoes into North Carolina, went out
. and parked a truck across thhe road.
Presently a big car heavily loaded
came rushing along, collided with the
truck, pushing it out of the. road and
sped away. Another car *%vas following.
and this one in attempting to
pass the truck, slipped intp. the ditch
and was stalled. The driver of the
c ar, a new Ford touring, jumped out
ahd made his escape, leaving the car
and 102 gallons of whiskey in the
hands of the sheriff. Some months
ago, rum-rur.ners were using smoke
screens to prevent successful chasing
by officers of the law and in some
cases used firearms in resisting the
.. ?fftcersi but in the recent- past, the
policy of the runt-runners seems to
be-to get by if they can and'If overtaken
or halted by the officers, to
give up without offering any* resistance.
In most cases the drivers of
rum ladeti car>< are extremely' young
men. The liquor wa8 poured into the
sewer Friday.? I.ancaster News. W
Stevenson Praises j
President Hoover j
Strong!) commending the "^'on '
President Hoover cortfWeein* ?
house rig in the Republican
party in the South to end the abuses
in office sa!e> and politic*! patronage*.
Congressman William F. Stevenson,
of Cheraw, ? paid a tribute to j
the chief executive of the nation while
in Charlotte yesterday.
"I am gratified to see that Mr.
Hoover ha* lived up to his reputation j
[ || | business man, a man of chgruc*; I
ter, who is not afraid of politlcaj
machines in doing the honest thing,".
declared Congressman Stevenson in
commenting on a lengthy article on 4
this Subject which appeared ou. the
front page of The Observer yesterday.
j J
"I inaugurated a fight three years j
ago on the system of selling federal
offices in South Carolina by Joseph',
I W. Tolbert, Republican State ohairman,
which had become notorious.'
| 1 had the splendid help of H. E. C.
! Bryant of The Observer's staff in
Washington, and we have from time
to ti.me exposed the fact that all 1
federal positioi.s had to be gotten by 1
the-endorseiuent of Joseph W. Tolbert ?
apd that endorsement was procured
for a financial consideration.
"Up to the present administration
this fact was ignored. Hut Mr.1
Hoover has boldly dismantled the
Tolbert organization in South Carolina,
and has made it apparent that
he expects federal positions to be
awarded to the fittest. This I feel
sure he will carry out. I am not opposed
to the Republican party nam-,
ing the officers. It has that right,
being the party in power, and I would
not interfere with that if I could. But
it is a refreshing development that at
last we have a president who will
not tolerate a brokeragGpin office. I
"I congratulate Mr. Hoover and
will say that it confirms my estimate
of the map, whose political and official
actions I have watched very
closely since 1917. J
"I feel sure that he will see that
the law is enforced which was in-(
troduced by me, and passed December
8, 1926, making it a criminal offense
to buy, or offer to buy, or sell,
j>r offer to sell, political influence to
procure an appointment to a federal
position, and which has been a dead
letter in South Carolina for the reason
that the district attorneys were the
appointees of Mr. Tolbert and one of
[ them is his nephew.
"This thing has been an infernal .
scandal for a long time and I'm certainly
glad it's getting through with."
?Thursday's Charlotte Observer. j
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Secretary. l-li-tfA
Home Away By Shouting Frj^~l
Atlanta, March 29.?Acquitted I
a charge of murder on a pita A
justifiable homicide, W. L. Shipp^H
a warehouse clerk, who slew |n
Davis, motor dealer and civic fa3l
last December, last night was boS
from the court room on the shoalfaK
of shouting friends. !
A jury deliberating a little A
than four hours on the case reiunjlfl
a verdict 6f not guilty in a coajfl
room that was crowded as it had betsl
through the afternoon when |9
tor neys made their arguments, m|
on announcement of acquittal n|
crowd broke into cheers, swarorfjl
about the youthful defendant *jfl
bore him from the court room. ^9
Man So Nervous Get* I
Sore When Spoken f?|
"It actually irritated to hajfl
anyone talk to me, I was so nervoutl
Vinol ended this and I feel wooderfdl
now*"?Wm. Fahy. ^9
Vinol is a compound otf irdn, pM-l
phates, cod liver peptone, etc. fill
very FIRST bottle makee .you tie? I
better, and have a BIG appetite, I
Nervous, easily tired people are flfcl
prised how QDKJft the iron, pb? 1.
phates, etc., give new life and p? I
Vinol tastes delicious. 'Vf; >M*I
Zemp, Druggist. ;; _ ^
Moral and Mental \ 1
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lntluence Jg|l
Having money in the bank will help you even it?jl|
you do not use it for a great many years. The moral II
and mental influence of haying something laid by that .11
you could use if you had to will mean a great deal to jj
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FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, MARCH 29-30,
APRIL 5-6, 1929
Southern Railway Systejn J
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| Camden $4.00 Lancaster I
Heath Springs 5.25 Kershaw ............?- ^ I
! Proportionate low round trip fares from all inter- 1
| Bxcursiojrr tickets good going on all regular train?. H
except Crescent Limited, Fridays and Saturday, May1 B
i 29th-30th, and April 5th and 6th. Also for trains No*
16 leaving Columbia 2:20 a. m., March 31st and ApnJ |
7th. Tickets good returning on all trains except ?
I bye^nt| io^reach-original starting poifa?1
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