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' ' " 11 ?" Wjr- ... . LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the File* of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Year* Ago THIRTY YEARS AGO Italy 14. 1899. J hi v id Wolfe. Camden merchant, leaves for the northern markets to purchase good a, Mrs. If. JK. DuUoae dies suddenly of malarial fever. Henry Smith, 70-year-old citizen of West Wateree dead, and burial at Ebenezer church. Six bicyclists from Camden made trip to Yorkville and from there went on to Gaffuey and Spartanburg. In the party were W. E. Johnson, Jr., R. J? I>ef*oachef J. Des Davis, H. T. DePaaa, C# C. Moore and W. L. DePass. Dr. I. II. Alexander left for Richmond and points north on a vacation. ( J>r. Kusaell Zemp of Knoxvillc,' Teqn., on u visit to Camden. J, K. Pearce resigns his position as superintendent of Camden Cotton | Mills and mvoea with family to Augusta. . 1 . Richland county board of commisaionera refuse to pay cost of case in trial of Crawford who was granted a change of venue to Kershaw county. Alex McLaurin of Hethune who ha-> been attending Clomson college, is at home on vacation. The talking movies are still in their infancy. Perhaps that bpwhy they lisp.?Kalamazoo Gazett^^ FIFTEEN YEARS AGO July 17, 1914 First ycur's report of Camden Hospital shows receipts of $4,204.73 and expenditures of $3,883.02, leaving a cash balance of $687.00. Blanche Salley of Camden and Julius Coachman Green of Uoykin adjudged by Woman's Home Companion as two of the seventeen best babies in the United States. Bennie Smith spending some time in Columbus, O., with his uncle, Sidney Smith, catcher for tbe Columbus baseball team. Heavy Seaboard freight train ; pulled by two engines crashes into Southern freight train at Spaulding junction. Conductor C, A. Fouts of Southern slightly bruised. Engineer.) escape by jumping. Tracks and trains badly damuged. Joseph Young, aged 34 years, of the DeK.aU> section, died at hospital. William A. Clyburn, aged 76 years, died at his home at Bethune. May Blackweli, ten year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Black we 1.1; dead of pneumonia. Fra Alexander, 18-months-old daughter of Mrs. Rivers Alexander, dead, > County board of commissioners met and recommended that W. T. Blackmon, E. H. Clements, and Jake Lee be appointed as rural policemen. Tests Reveal Truth About Turkeys Clcmson College, July 15.?'Recent experiment# have proven that turkey? can be raised successfully when brooded in partial confinement, if they are on clean ground away from the chickenp. and are fed like baby (( licks, Bays P. H. Oooding, extension poultryman, Clemson College. "The popular notion that turkeys must have half the farm to range on and be fed bread crumbs from the table, or some specially prepared feed, is" groundless. Chickens are carriers of the germs that cause the disease known as blackhead, hut it seldom develops. Turkeys, however, are more susceptible to the disease and when they are allowed to run with the chickens the disease usually develops when the poults arc from ?1 to 12 weeks old. "A good practice is to keep the poults confined on ground that chickens have not ranged on for at least two years. Feed some good chick starter and keep before poults at all times for about four weeks. Then hopper feed cracked yellow corn in addition to the mash until the poults are large enough to eat whole yel low corn. "A ration composed of 80 pounds yellow corn, 20 pounds wheat bran, 20 pounds wheat middlings, 20 pounds meat scraps, 5 pounds dried buttermilk and one pound of salt has given good results. Water should be available at all times. If enough skim milk is produced on the farm to keep before the poults each day, the dried milk may be omitted and the meat scraps reduced to 10 pounds." : i Freed Man Sues Attorney. Rockford, 111., July 11.?A strange ; sequel from the famous case of Hen- J ry D. Olson, found to be innocent of killing a tilling station agent after being convicted of the crime and sentenced to prison here today. A fifty thousand dollar damage suit against the lawyer who defended Olson, Harry B. North, was filed by Olson who charges that North knew the real slayers and permitted Olson to make the long fight for his life and receive the prison sentence. After his conviction, Olson jumped his bond and did not know the real slayers, two Rockford youths who are now in prison, had been found, until he read the Associated Press account, in a New Orleans newspaper telling him he might go home. Olson charges tkat North, a promi1 nent attorney here ' and formerly |state's attorney, defended the Rockford youths, George Bliss and Morris Maham, when they were arrested shortly after the murder of Floyd Stotler, the attendant, North, declared Olson in his bill, knew the young I men were the real killers when Olson was convicted. Mrs. Bessie R. McCalla, prominent woman of Starr, S. C.t who died some days ago, has left her estate valued at $75,000 to her nephew, Feaster I. Jones. Her home place of 40 acres was left to Mr. Jones' three small children and when they attain their majority it will bo divided equally among them. T. B. BRUCE Veterinarian Day Phone 30?Night Phone 114 CAMDEN, 3. C. I m DeKALB COUNCIL No 88 Junior Order U. A. M. j TbLpic Regular counoil first and third Mondays of each month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. D. J. CREED, L. H. JONR)S, Councillor. Recording Secty. KERSHAW LODGE No. 29 A. F. M. Regular communic*tion of 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 Your Money in Bank Benefits You and the Community Your money in the bank is in circulation while you are not using it. Thus you get not only many direct ! benefits, but your money helps to upbuild your community and you profit as a resident. Loan and Savings Bank t CAPITAL $100,000.00 6K7 H* * yrr . 15? p 0 - ; r ? Rate King Sentenced To Die September 20 Hole tun Hcene Enacted in ChmUr Am Dread Words Are gpoken. V The last chapter in the Rafe King ca?e ho far an Cheater county it concerned, unlean the Supreme Court grants a new trial, was written yesterday morning when Judge J. K. Henry sentenced the defendant to dip in the electric chair Friday, September 20th, after having over-ruled the motion of the defendant's attorneys for a new trial. These reasons, which were read as follows by Mr. McDow, were as folowa: 1. That the verdict of the jury is contrary to the evidence. 2. That there was insufficient evidence to warrant the verdict of the Jury. 3. That His Honor should have directed a verdict of "not guilty." 4. In reading the request to charge submitted by defendant's counsel to the jury in such an inaudible tone of voice that the defendant could not hear same, defendant's counsel could not hear same, and the jury could not hear same clearly. 5. (n icalling the request to chargo as submitted by this defendant's counsel to the jury in such an inaudible tone of voice and in delivering his charge to the jury along other lines in such strenuous tones as to impress the jury. With the idea that there was little or no merit in the request to charge submitted by the defendant's counsel. 6. Failure of the presiding judge to instruct the jury that the failure of the defendant to take the witness stand in his own behalf could not be construed against him. 7. Iii permitting a hostile audience to crowd in and around and show their hostility to this defendant by reason of their position before nnd demeanor Tn front of the jury as shown by the defendant's affidavit. 8. In permitting counsel for the State to comment in their arguments to the jury upon the fact that the defendant, Rafe F. King, failed to testify ip the case, the portions of the arguments pf various counsel referred to are shown in King's affidavit. Judge Henry said he believes the defendant had a fair and impartial trial. He said he saw no evidence of any attempt to influence the jury, and regarded the behavior, of the audience as beyond criticism. The State offered no argument against the motion. King was outwardly cool nnd composed as he stood to receive sentence, though the twitching of the muscles of his face gave evidence of his agitation. He entered the court room with a smile on his face. On his way back to the jail he made the statement to deputies, "I am ready to die, and I will die innocent." King set forth in his affidavit that, during the presentation of part of the State's evidence that Sheriff Howze stood between him and the witness, and at other times Solicitor Hines, as well as others obstructed his view, and interfered with his hearing. He also asserted that the judge'? charge was delivered in such a low, inaudible voice that he could not hea>and expressed the belief that the jury did not hear that part of the charge, which the defense had requested. The affidavit, further set forth, "that His Honor refused to consider this defendant's request to charge except as to one request and did not read this defendant's request to charge until urged to do so by defendant's counsel, although same had been properly submitted in writing and then read the same as herein aforesaid in such a low voice that this defendant was able to hear but a few words of the said request. He also declared in his affidavit that crowds, apparently hostile to him, wer?- permitted to push into the bar and before the jury, and that thi fact was plainly visible to the jury. Judge Henry, in making reply, said that ho had attempted to mak himself understood and that when it was sugg- ted by defense counsel that the jury might not be hearing, he went and stood within six feet of the jury, and re-read that portion which the 1 iwyers said the jury mighc not have h. ard. After K.ug had been returned to the dock : > hear the indictmer.' ________? against hiiw, read ugalu by Dr. J. E. Corn well, Clerk el Court, and the report of the jury again announced, he was asked if he had anything to say. "Nothing more" wa? the only comment of King, who wa? prompted by his attorney, Mr. McDow. "Stand up, King," instructed Judge Henry when he was released from the dock and started back to his seat. "The State of South Carolina has no more more use for your life, except to let it serve as a deterrent to other young men to lead them from an awful life and a horrible end," Judge Henry told the defendant. King stood and gazed straight ahead. In passing sentence, Judge Henry declared, "let the defendant, Uafe V. King, be confined to a place, as provided by law, and later as ordered be taken to the State penitentiary at Columbia, S. C., and there confined and on a date to be determined by this court, to be taken to the place of execution and there suffer the penalty of death by electrocution. May Cod have mercy on your soul." Then Judge Henry asserted that the State of South-Carolina had no urie: for the life of Rafe King except to serve n? an example and a deterrent to others. "You have lived a putrefied life, and this is the cause of all of your trouble. The timv given you before execution is allowed in order that you have opportunity to contemplate and reflect upon your wrong doing and seek repentance before God," continued the Judge. "These few remarks are being mad. in the presence of these young men in the hope that they may see your example and may be saved from your fate. I am making them in order that good may come out bf evil," Judge Henry asserted. Quoting from the Bible, Judge Henry declared, you have verified the Biblical warning, "He that soweth to - ti.e fh'i.hr-shall of the flesh-reap -eorruption, and he that soweth to the wind, shall reap the whirlwind." As he spoke of the defendant's opportunity to make?peace with God before his execution, Judge Henry declared that his only hope lay in salvation of Jesus Christ. "But for the grace of God I might be in your place," said the judge. As Judge Henry told the defendant to put his trust in Jesus Christ, tears welled into his eyes and streamed down his face. He wiped them away with his handkerchief. "There's hope for you in the salvation of Jesus Christ. May you find it" concluded the jurist. King calmly sat down without a word. In a few minutes Rev. E. B. Hunter, A. R. P. minister of Sharon, who was the first to question King's explanation of his wife's death, sat down by the condemned man and talked earnestly with him. King said a few words at the beginning, but during the remainder of the conversation he did not utter a word, as the minister evidently spoke words of comfort to him and made a plea for trust in God.?Chester Reporter. Killing in Lee County. Another kiling was recorded for Lee county eaily?Wednesday?morn ing. Burrel Chambers, a young negro man or boy was killed at Durant's store, about 0 or 7 miles from Bishopville. The facts in the case are hard to get and rumors are rife. But as near as we can get at the matter it is about as follows: The negro Chambers was sleeping in a back room of the store which is owned by George Durant. He, it seems had gone off and left the negro boy in charge of the room. Early in the morning some one entered the room and shot Chambers. On making an investigation it was found that & negro boy about 13 years of age and whose name is Redfair, did the killing, ho having confessed to the deed. The shooting was done with a shotgun. r ??I The gun barrel was placed at the neck or chin of the murdered boy and the" load almost tore off the head. The boy seejps to have had money as it was found <?hat afyput $60 was taken by the murderer. The dead boy is a son of Gabriel Chambers. The boy d^ing th^ kiling is said to be a brother of Jonas Redfair who killed, some months ago, Vander Washington. Caesar Wright and Annie Belle Wright were also lodged in the county jail as accessories to the crime. Redfair claimed that they got the money. H. L. Hopkins, rural policeman, made the arrests. The verdict of the coroner's jury faas that Burrel Chambers came to his death at the hands of Otis Redfair with Caesar Wright and Annde I^elW Wright implicated in the crime.? Bishopville Messenger. Send in Your Suggestions. The editor of a newspaper wheeled his chair around and pressed a buttonon his desk. The office boy entered. "Here," said the editor, "are a number of directions from outsiders telling how to run our paper. See that every one is carried out." And the office boy, gathering them all in a large waste-basket, did so. Renew Your Health By Purification Anv physician will tell you that "Per loot Purification of the System is Nature's Foundation of Perfect Health." Why not rid yourself of chronic ailments that are undermining your vitality? Purify your entire system by taking a thorough course of Calotabs, ?once or twice a week for several weeks?and see how Nature rewards you with health. 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