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' . flr ? . LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the File* of The ^kronlcle Fifteen and Thirty Yearn Ago f. ' ? ' ' i 'V? THIRTY YKAR8 AGO ' t' June 23, 1899 H. L. Schlosburg purchases the Barclay lot, corner of I.*ureos and Lyttlaton streets, and begins erection of handsome residence, Seaboard Air Line railway announces that work of extending line from Cheraw to Camden will be rushed and that trains likely will be running by last of October, Twenty tracts of country property are advertised to be sold for delinquent taxes by Sheriff R. B. Williams. Dr. J. A. Lightner, colored physician, comes from Chester to locate in Camden for the practice of medicine, W. K. Thompson, president of the Auxiliary Farmers' Experiment club, and Joel Hough, secretary, call the club to meet at opera house for purpose of naming best time for holding summer institute. <y Lawrence McDowell, now of Tampa, Fla., visits relatfves in Sumter county. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO June Ik 1914 Squire James ft. Truesdell, of Westvllle and for forty-fix yearn magistrate in Flat Rock township, was a business visitor to Camden this weev. John M. deSaussure dies in Atlanta, Ga., and is buried in his native city/ of Camden. Boykin correspondent reports that crops are in a flourishing condition for this time of the year. Purchasers of lots on new Walnut street development, aa, announced through the agency of Kennedy & Shaw, include J. C. Bldckwell, Luther Sowell, Alfred McLeod and W. I). Muggins. / C. J. Shannon, Jr., is elected president of the South Carolina Bankers' association in Charleston where also attending the convention us representatives of local banks are John T. Mackey, C. H. Yates and John S. Lindsay. First airship collision in history is reported, in this issue of The Chronicle, with a loss of nine lives at Vienna. Each summer night may be calmrj peaceful, undisturbed. Just by using FLY-TOX. Spraying the shaping rooms. Killing the mosquitoeB. i Everyone knows -mosquitoes are disease carriers. They must be killed. I Health authorities advocate FLQ& TOX. It is the scientific insecticide developed at Mellon Institute of Industrial Research by Hex Research ( .Fellowship, Simple instructions ?n | each bottle (blue label) for killing, ALL household insects. INSIST on FLY-TOX. It is safe, stainless, and, has a perfume-like fragrance.?Adv. j [Senator Blease Talks To Mill Operatives Greenville, June 22.?United States Senator ?ole L. Blease speaking in West Greenville, a mill community here, tonight assailed "foreign northern influences", which he said had instigated the labor troubles in the southern textile region during recent months. The senator urged the cotton mill people to organize their own union, to operate under a state charter and to have nothing to do with outside influences. He did not mention any j organization by name. The The only labor organizations specifically named by the speaker was the Communistic party which has been active in labor disputes raging around Gastonia, N. C., lately. The senator flayed these people as being antagonistic to everything Southern people hold dear, and called on his audience, made up chiefly of textile people, to put them out of the state as fast as they come in. The state board of conciliation, the Hoover social program as it involves entertaining negroes along with whites and other present' day ills as he sees them were flayed bitterly by the junior South Carolina senator. Senator Mease read his nearfamous poem about the' supposed I overrunning of the White House at [ Washington by negro guests of the i Hoover*. His crowd cheered wildly as i he read stanza after stanza. Judge .). Lyles Glenn will preside over a special term <>f the Federal i court m Columbia which is to convene in that city on July 22. The court will give special attention to the disposition <>f criminal business, CITATION. The State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. By W. L. McDowell, Esquire, Pfobate Judge.* Whereas, G. B. Peach made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of J. E. Peach. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said J. E. Peach, deceased, that they be and appear before me. in the Court of Probate, to be held at Camden, South Carolina, on Monday, July 8th. next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show' cause, if any they have, why the Said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 2-lth 'dav of June Anno Domini 1029. i w. l. Mcdowell. i Judge of Probate for Kershaw County Published on the 28th day of June and the 5th day of July 1929 in the Camden Chronicle, and posted at the Court House door for the time prescribed by law. Wartime Secret Just Revealed Leicington, Va,?Eleven years ago thii| week, Lieut. Matthew Volm, Imperial German infantry, stood watching a group of queer little balloon*, made apparently of colored paper, float to the ground behind the "lines. Td each was attached a six-fOot thread at the end of which dangled 'a packet of papers. ~~A German soldier ran up with two of theiu and reported: "Millions of these are floating behind our lines. They stick in trees and come even into the trenches. Lies are printed in German on the papers. See?" And back of the Allied defense, French and British intelligence offlcers were seivding up two' and onehalf millions of these ttyy oil-paper carriers each week. They were released to travel with dominant air currents ami timed to drop at specific distance# in Teutonic territory, bearing messages to teach the German masses that the war was fought for world freedom, not for Allied conquest. It \yas the idea of an American teacher, whose contribution to Allied victory came to light this week i*> connection with the retirement of Dr, Henry Louis Smith, president of Washington and Lee University. President Smith, physicist and meteorligist, who devised the plan in 1018 for the American National Defense Council will retire at the close of this year to writing and lecturing, after half a century as an educator, the last twenty-nine years of which have been spent as a university president. Today, Lieutenant Volm, now Professor Volm of the German and French languages at the Virgina Military Institute, the campus of which adjoins that of Washington and Lee university, and President Smith, who are neighbors in the academic calm of this little college towrij sat many thousands of kilometers from the French battle-front, and recalled for a newspaper man the planning andfyhe effect of the "balloon device" which furnished the chief means of distributing the publicity whiclj) George Creel, director of public information during the war, declared broke the German morale in the summer of 1018. "No credit is to be taken away from the courage of the Allies or the heroic, decisive charges of the Americans at Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel, or Bellau Wood," Mr. Creel explained. "But the fact remains that the end came unexpectedly, dramatically because of a spiritual collapse jn Germany. "In 1870, France fought on without army, food or munitvbns. It was nothing but th,e truth that split the foundat^pnjjjf German militarism and brougrvt aoout the surrender when the GMwirvrP aVrMy was well equipped with supplies" and munitions." - f I How complete this collapse was, I how effective the stories about America dropped from the air, was i suggested when Professor Volm re- I marked: "1 did not dream that some day 1 I would live a neighbor of the man who invented those balloons; that some day our joint purpose would be the training of young American minds!" hi the closing weeks of 1917. booming howitzers echoed from France till they reached the. quiet, orderly desk of President Smith at Lexington. A mailed first threatened Democracy. American leaders needed a plan to undermine German spirit and to present the American point of view to the German people. The National Security League offered a reward for the best plan to distribute Allied propaganda over Germany. The acceptable scheme came from President Smith's study at Washington and Lees'; For fourteen years before coming i to Lexington, Doctor Smith had | served as professor of physics and j meteorology. He knew that northtemperntfc air currents blow northeast ward: almost continuously over Germany. So he prepared a map of the currents and experimented with the escape of gas through slightly porou.paper and other substances. Ther. he proposed releasing large numbers of these colored paper and rubber balloons, filled with coal gas and hydrogen. Borne by the air-drift, each balloon w .uld carry a message over the enemy lines. These papers, at the end a tw??-yard thread, would flutter (. nspivuously as the carrier descender Size and gas content wa? to detem ne the distance travelled before th? balloon settled to earth. Sucees.- was apparent when American officers found that eigh" out of e . ry ten prisoners capture carried A ed propaganda in the. ^j^ockets. Reports declared the 1:'. ' erature " : thumbed." Profe - Volpi today told of t success < plan. "I rememb well the i - ,-t* the balloons to get format i nd our lines," he s:i "We kr> e balloons were float continua : *o our territory. A ward \\ 'Yred," I believed." our cor: , .quarters for every 1>. loon tu ; but, of course. ' - did not a reading of the rr sages." - Be for. \ 1918, twenty-.-, millim-i .t.- had been dropped. German ! ey contained Pre\\ ilsor - - . hes, true news of activity- America, millions cartoon.- -tat omenta of causes, nificaiioi ,,nd aims of the war. Doctoi Smith was born at Gr*.boro, \. i'.. in 1859. He reacheoffic.a', retirement age this July, was a-iked by the trustees of Wa. ington and I^e University to ...... tinue ir. office as president ujh.' January 1, 1930.. Since coming to "Washington .v.,; l^ee in 1912 to take administrate, charge of the institution, Doctor Smith has lived in General Robe; 1 tfi. IjeeV fui mer htWIB Ull the Tnmjr. Bethune News Notes Told by Correspondent Bethune, June 26.?Misses Mary Mouzou Brabham of Orangeburg and Nita Sturgeon of Denmark have returned to their home# after spending some time with Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Uffttc. Missea Ruby Pate, Margaret Truesdell and Minnie Eddins McKinnon were delegates to a convention of the Intermediate Christian - Endeavor society which was held in Clinton recently. Misses Katherine Truesdell, Ruth Estridge and Mary King attended a meeting of the Senior Christian Endeavor societies at Chester the past week-end. Marion McDowell of Tampa, Fla., is spending some time here with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. McDowell. / Mrs. C. L. Mays is in Birmingham, Ala., visiting her daughter, Mrs. Davis. Mr. and Mrs. A1 Bethune and duughter, Miss Annie Mae Bethune, of Bessemer City, N. C., were guests of relatives Sunday and Monday. Misses Kathleen and Tressie Mae Hyatt of Columbia are the guests of their sister, Mrs. G. Fpwler. Miss Frances Severance returned home Monday after having spent two weeks in Hartsville attending the Baptist Assembly at,<Coker college. Mr. C. H. Wall was the week-end guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Ward. On his return to Andrews Monday he was accompanied by Mrs. Wall who has been spending several weeks with her parents. .Miss Stella Bethune is attending summer school in Nashville, Tenn. * Miss .Xnllian Reaves of Bishopvillc i- the guest of Miss Malloy Hearon. Mr. and Mrs. Coring Davis have returned home after visiting relatives in Dothan, Ala. M r. .Joe Hall of Gaffney was a week-end visitor in Bethune. Mrs. V. W. Brabham and Mrs. Wells Brabham of Orangeburg were guests recently of Mrs. J. D. Lafitte. Biggest Car in World An automobile 125 feet long, 25 feet wide and 45 feet high and with wheWs 10 feet in diameter has been designed by air engineer in Germany for desert travel. It is intended to accommodate 150 passengers and 200 tons of cargo. General David Fremane, youngest Confederate veteran, commander of the Georgia division of the United Confederate Veterans, died at his home in Atlanta on Wednesday, aged 77. He attended the recent Charlotte reunion. ?where the Southern chieftain died while president of the college in October, 1870. "The money I won as prize for this balloon device," President Smith smiled, "went toward buying the first automobile I ever owned?and I was a college president, not a college student, when I bought it!" Methodist Divine Wins Bucket Shop Shekels New York, June 24.?'The stock market trading of Bishop Jamea Cannon, Jr., of the Methodist Kpiacopal church South was thoroughly scrutinised today at the hearing into the bankruptcy of Kabie and company, an alleged bucket shop, through which the anti-Smith Democratic 'leader dealt.j# Counsel for the trustee confined himself almost entirely to the bishop's account, bringing out that with a deposit of only $2,500 the bishop ran up a paper balance of some $11,000. The only witness of the day was Harry L. Goldhurst, principal partner of the bunkrupt firm Of Kable and company. Both Goldhurst and the other partner, Charles W. Kable, are under indictments for using the mails to defraud in connection with conduct of their business. Goldhurst told C. Edward Benoit, counsel for the trustee- in bankruptcy, that he had known the bishop for about seven years and had transacted business for him, buying securities for cash, before the formation of Kable and company. He said no record had been kept of these transactions. After the company wflffi organized he said the bishop authorized him. to buy and sell for him at his discretion and that numerous transactions were j carried through, some at the bishop's direction and some just because Goldhurst thought they were advisable. The witness said the bishop paid "on the installment plan, a feature of the Kable and company business, and authorized him to b?,y as much as might call for an initial payment of , $2,000 or $3,000, which would obligate the cleric to total payments of about $10,000. | Goldhurst emphatically denied that the bishop had any interest in Kable and company or received any part of the profits or was given anything for sending other customers to trade with the firm. He said no one knew the bishop had an account there, although he had not requested secrecy, and that his name was never used to help get new customers. Damage suits aggregating around $200,000 have been filed against Harold Yarn, und F. H. Varn, as the result of the fatal automobile accident near Columbia on January 31, when Walter S. Montgomery of Spartanburg and James Parker, Columbia high school boy, were killed and Dr. Elwood Bell of Spartanburg, was seriously injured. Dr. Bell is asking damages in the sum of $50,000. Consolidation of the Chase National bank and the National Park bank New York into a $1,700,000,000 institution, the third largest in "file United States, was announced Tuesday. , T. B. BRUCE ! Veterinarian Day Phone 80?Night Phone 114 1 CAMDEN, s. c. ' i m DeKALB COUNCIL No 88! Junior Order U. A. M. I Regular couneil first aid \ third Mondays of mall month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. D. J. CREED, L. H. JONES, Councillor. Recording Secty. ~~ja KERSHAW LODGE No. 29 ^ A. F. M. Regular communication of /^o^^\this lodge is held on the " first Tuesday in each month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. T. V. WALSH, J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master. Secretary. 1-14-27-tf p? ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED tOdorless Liquid he New DESTROYER LEAVES NO ODOR oAt all CEMOL servke D)-ugStores Sold In Camden By DeKALB PHARMACY . * "a Keeping a Cash * Reserve Fund One of the most satisfactory ways of keep:: g a cash reserve fund is to deposit it in a strong hank like * this on interest-hearing certificates of deposit. Loan and Savings Bank CAPITAL $100,000.00 - r C ' J ? "" ? ' CARTER'S SHOE SHOpI V27 South Broad Street Let us rebuild your worn dowi Shoes. Complete shoe repair eqofo. ment. The Standard Hydraulic Preaaer Cementing Machine i- \ No NaiU. No Stitches. No mor? tight, stiff Shorn. Finished with appearance of qtv All WoxH-Qparapteed. H# C. CARTER, Propriettf I j ? ??? Automobile Repairing 4 ! 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