Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? . LOCKING BACKWARD Taken From the Fllea of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Yeare Afo _ ? I I ml THIRTY YEARS AGO AUGUST 25, 1899. Brick etore of P. F. Wwtkina, corner Broad and DeKalb streets Ticai tug completion. W. C. Gerald goes with Baum Bros, as sale* man. JU Lb Bldtk returns from Saluda, N. C., ^greatly improved by;hi? trip. John S. Lindsay, of Rock Hill, viai' tor in Camden. Little daughter of John Outlaw , ' died at Fdotory village. She had her scalp tdrn oft ait ltock Hill when her hair got tangled in machinery. About one hundred bale* of ooiton marketed in Camden from 1899 crop. The ruling price p&ul was 6%c. W. F. Moeeley writes long letter about hie trip to Honolulu on hie way. to the HhiHipmus. He was on board U, S. transport "Tartar." J. D, Anderson goes with Hchlosburg'e store as salesman. Gates Hill school opens with Miss Kate Bethune as teacher. Mayor F. lx?slie Xemp writes Gov-v ernor McSweeney congratulating him on reducing the state dispensary constable*. fiftkkn teaks ago AUGUST 28, 1914. Walter I>avis, of the DeKalb auction, died at Caugien hospital and body buried at Hickory Head church. Charles T. Connors, editor end lawyer, of Lancaster, dea?l. Ho was at one tunc law partner of late Judge Joseph B. Kershaw. Miss Margaret Taylor entertain* in honor of Misses Beulu'h and Margaret I>empater, of Kershaw. Charge of rape dismissed against Stewart Barrett, white man. Attorney K. I). Blakeney represented Barrett and proved there was frame-up."* Southern Oottou Oil Company Kad ginned 40 bale* of 1914 cotton crop. Too early for buyers to be on the market. I, J. Watts loses dwelling by fire three miles north of Camden. I?s? around $14,000, with only partial insurance. Henry Eichel returns from northern markets. ? -o J. ('.'Singleton leaves Southern Bell as manager here and goes to Columbia. J. A. Hough assumes managership of Camden of lice. OLDEST EUROPEAN CITY V ? St. Augustine's Day Commemorates Birth of First Settlement. On Auguist 2H the inhabitants of the oldest permanent .settlement of Europeans in the United States will celebrate the 3(Mth anniversary of the birth of that city. The celebration is known as St. Augustine's Day. It was in 1505 that the Spanish colonists under the leadership of Admiral Pedro Menendez do Aviles sighted land olF Florida. They land ed September 0 and founded the city of St. Augustine, which was destined to become our ftnst permanent settlement. Of course there had been otherr colonieis founded before St. Augustine, but they did not last. Yet history tells us that Ponce de I>eon discovered Florida and landed in the vicinity of what is now St. Augustine as early as 1512. You remember the story of taia searching for the famous fountain of youth whose waters were supposed to be capable of restoring youth and prolonging human life. Be that as it may, the "'ancient" American city indirectly owes its founding to the I French Huguenots. 1 To escape persecution in France, John Ribault guided two carveTs? small two-masted ships without the whole docks?to the New Yorld. They are supposed to- have arrived off the coast of Amast'asia v island near the site of St. Augustine in 1502 and selected a site for*a colony, which they mimed Fort Carolina. Then Ribault returned t<> France and the colony starved. Another French Huguenot oxpedi-1 tion start ed a colony on the banks of the St. John's river in 1504. The next year Menedcz appeared with five Spanish ships. Ho told the Frenchmen that he was sent by the King of Spain to kill all the Protestants. The Huguenots escaped to the sea and were met by Ribault returning with o?even vessels. With th-reo of these he tried to oust the Spaniards at St. Augustine, but the latter marchel overland to Ft. Carolina .and massacred 142 Huguenots. Ribault's ships were wrecked be low St. Augustine and hi? party of .100 was ambushed ;tixl massac red by the Spaniards. This ended the early Huguenot colonies in Florida. Later in an effort to avenge this outrage on the Huguenots a French Roman Catholic named do Gourgc.. aided by the Indians, led an cxpod tion against, the Spaniards. Many ?f them were killed, 1 but the colorv planted by Menendoz weathered that ami other sieges an<l hardships to earn the title of the "oldest permanent settlement of Furopeans in the United States." In 15S6 both the city of St Augustine ami the fort were captured ami burned by Sir Francis Drake. In 1665 they were again captured and pillhged by ('apt John Davis, the English pirate. Gov. James Moore of South Carolina captured the city in 17D2, but not the fort. When Florida was ceded to England in 1751 nearly all (he Spanish inhabitants of St. Augustine went to Cuba. Twenty years later Florida was ceded back, to Spain and the English in turn left. It was in 1821 that the state came under American control permanently. And the old fort at St. Augustine played its part in the Civil war. This old fort, potently visited by the Pathfinder photographer, is located at the north end of the city. Once known ?t Old Fort San Marco, it is now Fort Marion, being renamed in ? ?* - ?- ? . . honor of General Francis Marion (the "Swamp Fox") of revolutionary war fame. It is a well preserved specimen of early Spanish military architecture, though certain parts of it are said to date hack to 1656. Near the "ancient" fort are the picturesque city gates which were also* "built by the early Spaniards. These pillars stand some 20 feet high. The city of St. Augustine now has a population of more than 10,000, many of the natives being descendants of those Minorcans who first settled at New Smyrna, Fla., under Andrew Turnbull in 1760 and later moved to St. Augustine. The entire city reflects the Spanish influent*'?early as well as modem. Many of the old houses have those typicnlly Spanish protruding balconies. The streets are narrow. St. George street, a chief thoroughfare, is only 17 feet wide. One part of Treasury street is nothing more than an alley. The stati arsenal is nothing more than an alley. The state arsenal now occupies the site of the old St. Franciscan convent. Even the post office was once a Spanish administration building, Of course St. Augustine has im1 portant industries?the chief of these 1 being the manufacture of cigars, 1 straw hats and agricultural and horticultural products. But the city is I now chiefly important as a winter rc| sort. It has immense hotels, govern; ment buildings, a public library and j other public buildings. Many of these : buildings, especially the hotels, tolj low the modernized Spanish style. i Shot; Gun Duel Fatal to One. Clover, Ga., Aug. 22.?A pre-arranged shotgun duel here today left ! Marcus Brown, 40, dead and Pate ' Huddleston, 50, probably fatally ' wounded with buckshot wounds in I the abdomen. I County officers said they had learned "bad feeling" between the two' men, caused by Brown's alleged elopement with Huddleston's daughter, brought about the duel today. Brown sent HuddlestjOn word from a nearby town that he "was coming to get him." Huddleston waited at the depot here. As Brown swung from the train, both men blazed away with their shot guns. Brown was killed instantly. Huddleston wis taken to a hospital where physicians said he had no chance for life. Both men were married and each was the father of five children. | Officers said Brown hud served a I throe month's chain gang sentence j for a previous elopement with Huddleston's daughter, -and was still on parole for the offense. "Young Samson Hurt Anderson, Aug. 19.?"Young Samsou" Otis Bowling, who has been treating the local public to thrilling performances of strength and daring during the past three days at Keys Spring I>ake, last evening suffered severe injuries when a mishap spoiled one of his stunts. Eying prone he bad an automobile, an Oakland, driven over his stomacb, by E. Price Bryan, of the Arm of Van-Bryan local dealers for the oar, but as the machine had almost gone over his body pressure said to have been inadvertently applied to the brakes with the result the weight of the car wa#*transmitted in a grinding, twisting manner which is believed to have torn him internally. i Scott A. Farley, 69, veteran telegraph operator of Buffalo, NvYh*">? dead. He yorked for 25 years for the Associated Press. FISHERMAN HOOVER. New President Enjoy* Angling Better Than Any Otfcer Sport. Herbert Hoover in undoubtedly our moat onthuaiaetic ftshermsiv-provident since Cleveland. True, President Coolidge won Anally won over to the sport, but up to tour yea re ago he didn't care anything* ubout it. Hoover, on the other hand, has always liked angling. Fishing, incidentally, is his chief outdoor recreation. He doesn't play golf, tennie or go hunting, though he does exercise with the medicine ball. , Speaking of Grover Cleveland, hie Ashing trips with Joseph Jefferson, the famous actor, occasioned much wit and verse in the newspapers. For months Cleveland used to go out on the water every day. Roosevelt didn't care for fishing; lie liked hunting, tennis ami riding. Many pictures were taken of him on horseback where he never refused to pose. Although he played tennis a great deal Roosevelt did not want his picture taken in tennis costume because he thought the public might not approve. ? As to golf, Roosevelt looked upon it as a "sissy" game and not only did not play it himself but when Taft became president Rooseyelt told him the game would harm him in the public mind. Today, however, "everybody's doing it" and nothing is thought of a public man taking his round of golf. Hoover ami Roosevelt are alike in one respect, at least. Whether at work or at play, Hoover likes to have literary people, scientists and others of scholarly bent about him. So did Roosevelt. It was intellectual diversion for these men to want to know the latest developments in the arts a?nd sciences. Just what it is about fishing that takes so much of Hoover's time while at his Virginia or Maryland camps can probably be answered by every other fisherman in the country. ?The Pathfinder. James Rae Clarke, Philip L. Clark and John F. Bouker of New York, have been committed to the Federal j prison in Atlairta, to serve sentences for their part in the looting of Clarke Brothers' private bank of some $5,000,000. The first named is to serve eight years, and the other two a year and a day each. Bide for the co? mi ruction of a $160,< 000 tuberculoefo hospital for Greenville county have been advertised for letting on September 12. The proposed hospital is to be located on P?rvey mountain and ie to include Ave units with total dimensions of 2H6x100 feet. NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of sundry paving executions directed to me by W. II. llaile, city clerk and treasurer, of Camden, S. C., 1 have levied upon and will sell the following property the first Monday in September, being the 2nd day thereof, during the legal hours of sale: All that lot, with building thereon, bounded on the north by, LaFayette avenue; on the east by Court House square; on the south by Kershaw county property; on the wejpt by Mrs. Trammie Belk. Levied upon and to be sold as property of D. V. Dixon for non-payments of paving assessments due April 1, 1929. , Also All those lots with buildings thereon, bounded on the north by DeKalb street, on the east by American I/egion Hall, on the south by W. T. Smith, on the West by Schlosburg and Karesh. Levied upon and to be zsold as property of Isaac English for non-payment of # paving assessments due Ajril 1, 1929. A lso All that lot with building thereon, bounded on the north by property of Gus Beleos, on the enst by Mrs. I'. E. Welsh, on the south by M. G. Huckabee, on the west by Market street. Levied upon and to be sold as property of L. E. Hill for nonpayment of paving assessments due April 1, 1929. Also All that lot with building thereon, bounded on the north by F. H. Wilson, on the east by Broad street, on the south by Francis Hart, on the west by part City Lot No. Levied upon and to be sold as property of llaile and Thomas for nonpayment of paving assessments due April 1, 1929. Also All that Jot with building thereon, bounded on the north by C. W. Birchmore. on the east by T. T. Truesdale, on the south by DeKalb street, on the west by Mrs. Marie Richey. Levied upon and to be sold as property of Charlie Holland for non-payment of paving assessments due April 1, 1 IPL'9. ] Also All that lot on Church street, bounded on the north by Amelia Mo < Laughlin, on the east by Church j street, on the south by Estate James 1 L. McLaughlin, on the west by Dinah i Thomas. Levied upon and to be sold ; as property of Jane Lang for non- 1 payments of paving assessments due < April 1, 1929. Terms of sale: Cash. H. D. HILTON, Chief of Police, Camden, S. C. ; . SUMMONS FOR RELIEF. State of South Carolina, County o*f Kershaw, (Court of Common Pleas.) Henry Savage, Plaintiff, against Ned Williams, T. B. L. McNeely and J. C. Gordon as executors under the will of Queen V. McNeely, and all unknown heirs of Sam Harroit and all unknown heirs of Linda Harriot, alias Linda Harris, Defendants. To the Defendants, all unknown heirs of Sam Harriot and all unknown heirs of Linda Harriot, alias Linda Harris. - , You are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, which has been filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for KerBhaw County, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office at Camden, S. C., within twenty days after service hereof, exclusive oJ' the day of B such service: and if you fail to ?n-B swer the complaint within the tint H aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action Ha will apply to the Court for the relief c 'emanded in the complaint. } Dated August 12th, A.T). 1929. flu HENRY SAVAGE, JR., | Plaintiff's Attorney. c M cl To the Defendants above named:You will take notice that the origv^Ha nal Summons and Complaint in-.thu^Hu action has been filed in the office of^fl the Clerk of Cour.t for Kershaw Couv^fl tv, this 12th day of August* 1929. HENRY SAVAGE, JR., MP Plaintiff's Attorney. Notice To Debtors and Creditors. All parties in debt to the estate Lewis Ballard, deceased, are herebj^H notified to make payment to Sallie A^fl1 Ballard, Administratrix, and all ties, if any, having claims against tkfl said estate will present them, duljfl| attested, within the time prescribe! by laW, to SALLIE A. BALLAjRD, Administratrix, T. K. TROTtfER, Attorney. \ Camden, S. 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