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I ^ " 1 y ? -I yw/i /4j^ w ^Hl ~jr '.'^ B ^Hl Br '^ MHbhMIV wy ^MBHAM^JvUijlBfl^j^flj^r languid, lazy do this delightful 1 1 LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the Filee of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Yeere Ago THIRTY YKAR8 AGO Mmj 19, 1899 New uniforms for. the' Kershaw Guards are received in Camden. W. Ancrum, in examination with, ten applicants, wins appointment to Annapolis. Constable Crawford to be tried at approaching term of court for killing of Mrs. Stuart in ^Columbia. Closing exercises are held at the Russell Place Joint School, taught by Misi Ella Beattle, fqr pupils of Kerihaw and Lancaster counties. Dame Fashion, reports the Frog Pond correspondent, has in a large crop of small waists this year so the physicians will reap an abundant I harvest of fees. H W. M. Lollis, L. L. Block and David Wolfe are among jurors notified to ippoar for Service at coming term of H^lteeting of Sumter union at Antioch ??st church is reported. The inHfthctory sermon was delivered by fb. A. T. Jamison. stated by ther editor that?a arenty-five cents local ^ The Chron jeie last week has already brought Bin to the advertiser twenty times that i amount in actual cash. mmrnrnmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmfmrnmmmm f ' FIFTEEN YEARS AGO May 22, 1014 i Work to begin on postofflce building. R. W. Mitcham named aa contractor, temporarily in charge, while J. B. Zemp has the contract for hauling and grading for foundation. 0<?d. Fellows in annual meeting at Columbia elect Mendel L. Smith as grand master. Lights of White Way on Broad and DeKalb streets1 are expected to be turned on during the week. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Eve, Jr. announce the birth in this city of William Radford Eve, 5th. Appeal made by C. P. DuBose, treasurer, for checks to cover membership dues to chamber of commerce. Laui'bns T. Mills announces that he will be a candidate for the house of representatives from Kershaw County. Seaboard Air Line railway to inaugurate reduced, week-end fares toBig Springs near Bethune. Dr. F. M. Zemp begins work on new street to run through A. A. Moore property on Broad street. in The Bay's Work Sometimes the newspaper editors >#rite n better editorial for our magazine than we can. One of these appeared in the Hamlet, N. C., NewsMessenger not long ago. In a matter-of-fact way it tells how our I people keep the lines open: I . "One night some weeks ago a blacksmith shop at Lilesville burned. IWhether it buried 'down' or 'pp' we fon't know; but at.least the flames Blunt, up. iNot^much to a blacksmith B burning. New York and lots Bdtar places did not even know about it But there was more to it than ifiows on its1 face. The up Ming flames burned through the distance telephone wires. Thai would have made a difference to New I York and other places that didn't fire a whoop about all the blacksmith shops in the country burning. Trouble shooters', at Hamlet and Rockingham were notified at bed time of the fire. As fast as cars would carry them they hprriscf to the scene. Before the fire died down the wires had been spliced and communication restored; long before the Jtock oarket opened next morning all the jjifcuits were working'. Last week high water in the Pee Bee River again endangered the toll kaes. Ed Arthur's crew of linemen *as here and proceeded to the scene. Tangled lines were straightened out propped up, and two or three of Ike fellows, stayed by all night long etching the rising water and keapta? the lines clear. <3ommnnioatiozl *as not interrupted. Working over the ^smouldering heat of a building or wading through the told water of a swollen river is just an incident of the day's work for these fellows. Thus Are town boys maintaining the traditions of the telephone service. "The world must have its news. That is why men end women in the telephone service, in the mail service and in newspaper work must carry on. Ideals of the three are the same. Loyalty to these ideals is the absolute essential for employment. Personal feelings must be ignored; obstacles must be overcome; the lines must be kept clear. "The consciousness of high ideals maintained, of a job well done, is reward enough for anyone who has the stuff to make a telephone man or a newspaper man."?Southern Telephone News. ' . i ii. King George of England on Wednesday returned to Windsor Castld, after, 13 weeks at Craigwell House, where he slowly regained his health, following a very virulent attack of rpleprisy. j Small Tombstone Marks Barber's Grave Sullivan, Ind., May 18.?A tomb- ' stone in Venter Ridge Cemetery here is believed among the world's small- 1 est. It is four inches high, two wide j and seven long. The marker, made | of marble, is inscribed with only ' three words: 'Chase, the Barber." It rests upon the grave of ChaWes^ ] M. Chase, native of Sullivan, wh6 1 died 30 years ago after a long career1 i as barber. 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Annual Conference Held June 10 to IS > / j The Woman's Missionary Union of South Carolina gathers for its annual conference, camp and class work at Hartsville, June Coker College has opened her doors to the women | and her campus and buildings will be at the disposal of the Baptist women. ( Mrs. J. D. Chapman of Anderson, state president, and Misa Vonnic Lance of Columbia, state secretary, have arranged a moat excellent program, providing olasses and conferences for the Baptist women and their children. As the combine^ as-1 aembly program is all in progress I at that time, the Baptist men will be I engaged in the miuisters' and lay-1 men's school, while the W. M. U, 1 work is In progress. i The Baptist family group can find 1 in this program a diversity of inter-1 est with an assembly program unit, 1 especially adapted to each member. .1 During the entire assembly there | will be over three scora prominent 1 Baptists from all over the South, ou I the program. I Following the woek given to W. M. I U. work* the assembly directors have I arranged a B. Y. P. U. camp Junh'l 17-28, the state Sunday school conr vention June 18, 19, 20, the statfl evangelistic program June 17 and the I state B. Y. P. U. convention Juno I 22-23. G m The B. Y. P. U. encampment, which | will be in session June 17-28, is a new | feature of the assembly program and I is provided for the youth of the J churches. It will be directed by Miss 1 Florrie Lee Lawton of Columbia, S. C. I ?, w 1 Lugoff Honor Roll , I Grade 1.?Lucile Branham, Bill! Cameron, Eliza Ann Parker, J. T;j Ray, Ida Lee Smith. | Grade 2.?Paul Cameron, Richard I Gettys, Paul Jordan, Lula Mae 'Nel- J son, Marie Parker, Thelma Rabon, Grade 3. ? Ann ("larkson, Jane I Clarkson, Benjamin Gettys. Grade 4.?Alma Ward, Robert Clay- I ton, Corbet Branham, Harold Mc-1 Collura. m "?" | Grade 5.?-Dorothy Dellinger, Ida 1 Ruth Jordan, Joe Jordan, Vivian Lee? I Mattie Rabon. I Grade 7.?Fannie Sue DellingeV, I Earl Jordan, Laurence MoCollum. I , TELEPHONE GIRL MARTYR Gave Her Life With a Smile to Save | Others ?_ Cleveland, Ohio.?Among the brav-1 Sat heroines of the Cleveland Clinic 1 disaster last week, was Gladys Gibsop, I of Cleveland, a telephone operator at I the clinic, who deliberately faced I death while sending out alarms. '! I The brave telephone girl saw death I approaching in a cloud of ghastly yel-1 low poison gas, but she stayed at her exchange board making heroic efforts I to warn everybody in the clinic' tfj 'their danger, and to rally police, lire- I then and ambulances. Faster than ever before in her life I She worked, plugging in socket after J socket in the Switchboard as she set ail telephones in the clinic to ringing madly their alarm of death. Finally the heroic girl collapsed. Somebody carried her out, and she soon died in. a hospital. "Greater love hath no man," s^id a I priest with tears in his eyes, as he saw Gladys die. *V3he was a brave 1 and noble girl." Gladys died as bravely as she had lived. There was a smile on her lite as she expired. 7* r Hotel Clerk, at ) M Works Daily Stint I 'Stockton, Cal., May 18.?Charles | Dubois, 98, claims to he the-oldestL ttotel 'clerk in the United States. I ? He works daily at a local hostelry | ?nd greets guests with all the zeilToT] i much younger man. He smoker] four cigars daily and eats wh&tevei-ft lis desires dictate^ jT v K He was bom lit Switzerland. ' In I860 he joined the Mexlcag'^revoluiionary army of Benito Juarez, rose :o the rank of a lieutenant and was me of those who witnessed' the sxecutjon of Emperor Maximilian. Sixteen inches of rain fell in Polk, :ounty, Texas on Monday. Several) Irownings have been reported due to' lood waters in rivers and creeks., Mayor Frnhk Hague, Democrat, vas re-elected mayor of Jersey City?} >n Tuesday after the most determined- j tssaull on the IlrfgW regime in 20' rears. SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION Competitive examinations for the tward of vacant scholarships in Hemson College will be held on Frilay, July 12, 1929, beginning: at 9 i. m.. by each County Superintendent if Education. These scholarships will e open to young men sixteen years if age or over, who desire to pursue purees in Agriculture?or~-Textiles. Scholarships are awarded by the Hate Board of Education on the ecommendation of the State Board if Public Welfare. These examinations include EngIsht Algebra, Geometry,- and History ~'J ind are based on tag .State High?^ khool curriculum. Applicants for Agricultural Scholarships are also eximined on Agriculture. ^ Persons interested Should write the Registrar for information and ap-' J? ilication blanks befoi*-t?e time of he examinations. Successful apilicants must meet fully the requirenents for admission. Each scholarship is worth $100.00 nd free tuition, which is $40.00 aditional. Scholarships are open only o residents of South Carolina. For further information write? THE REGISTRTR, Clemson College. S. C. \1 y-tu f -7^ "7 . - ^k j* ' fell'..'' > z-.~j L j CL AIMS OLDEST PIANO New Hampshire Man Has Instrument Built in 1763 ! i j Charles W. Gray of Portsmouth, N H., whose wife was formerly Miss Sarah E. Robert, daughter of the late Edward E. Robert of Hartford, believes that his piano built in London in 1763 by Johann Zampe is the old est'one'In the United Stales. Twenty-one years later it was brought to this country for John Jacob Astor. It was with difficulty that the strings were kept from rusting during the long passage across the ocean and after its arrival in New York the much drier atmosphere caused the woodwork to crack, says the Hatford Cou rant. " ? at^mm. For nearly 40 years the piund remained in the ABtor family. When it went into the possession of the father, of the late G. Alexander Emery of , ^ Boston. On the death of Mr. Emery the 'pfano passed to his son and on his removal from Boston to Porta- ,wmouth, N. H., he took the piano with him, and it was at hia death that Mr. Gray purchased it. It is still in a _____ good state of preservation. .. . . FARMERS I WE HAVE ON HAND LARGE STOCKS OF 8-3-3 I I AND 8-4-4 CONGAREE SOIL-BUILDER FERTI- I I LIZER. YOU WILL PROBABLY FIND THAT YOU I I WILL NEED SOME EXTRA FERTILIZER THAT I I YOU DID NOT ANTICIPATE. SEE US. WE KEEP I I THE STOCK. I I DON'T BUY SODA UNTIL YOU GET OUR I lj I PRICES. WE HAVE PLENTY OF*IT AT ALL I I TIMES. 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