The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 30, 1929, Image 6
^ ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Police Abandon Search For Aaaailant
of Charleston Merchant.
Charleston, August 21.?City detectives
today abandoned the search for
an assailant o< Abraham MendcUhon
who was found trfhofc through the left
lung in hi* King street store shortly
after 8 o'clock Tuesday morning,
having discovered apparatus in the
store which led them to believe sui
cide was attempted,
it) the rear of the atore was a narrow
closet with a mirror door. In the
closet was a false back, extending
over six feet from the floor; Behind
this, Detectives McNeil and Poole
found two bricks, wrapped in homespun,
iittached to a stout string about
five feet long having a 88 calibre re
volver attached to the other end.
The bullet was found directly opposite
the mirror. _
The theory is that Mendolsyhn,
holding the door with his left foot,
shot himself. When he released the
revolver the weight of the bricks
drew' it behind the jfcrtitibn. A
strong spring of the door closed it
when he removed his foot.
Drops of blood on the floor indicated
that Mendelsohn walked about
twenty-five feet, toward the cash
register ahd fell with his feet toward
the cash register and his head by a
water cooler.
He told his physician .that a negro
had shot him and detectives worked
on tins theory until the discovery of
the revolver about 11 o'clock this
morning. He is still ir*. a critical condition
at the Riverside infirmary.
Last Lake Log Drive.
The end is seen of the "big timber"
boom which brought wealth to Michigan,
Minnesota a n<K Wisconsin. The
Associated Press reports the "last
big drive of logs" in the Great Lakes
section with the fioating of some
2,500,000 feet of pine, hemlock and
hardwood down the swift waters of
the Manistique river. With big timber
in the Great Lakes states now gone
save in preserves, major lumber operations
have been shifted to the Pacific
Northwest.
Notice To Debtors and Creditors.
All parties indebted to the estate of
J. Frank West, deceased, are hereby
notified to make payment to the undersigned,
and all parties, if any,
having claims against the said estate
will present them duly attested within
the time prescribed by law.
DR. C. A. WEST, Executor.
Camden, S. C., August 12, 1929.
TAX NOTICE.
TREASURER'S OFFICE
CAMDEN, S. C.
August 14, 1929.
. Notice is hereby given that all
State, County and School taxes for
year 1929 shall be due and payable
between September 15th and December
31st, 1929. Any information with
reference to taxes will be cheeifully
furnished upon application. When
making inquiry please state School
District or Township.
Very respectfully,
S. W. IIOGUE, Treasurer,
Kershaw County, S. C.
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WOMAN DOCTOR LEI) THE WAV.
Dr. Mary Walker First To Advocate
Sensible Dreas For Women.
Washington, August 24.?A Washington
woman, I>r. Mary Walker,
pointed the way to the sensible freedom
of dress which women now
enjoy. . v ...
The only woman ever allowed to appear
in masculine attire by act of
conRi ca* that waa Dr. Walker,
Had she not paraded her trim figure
through the at recta of the capital in
the late fJO'e, the feminine costume of
today probably would consist of much
more than two or three pieces.
Samuel Hurley Milton, veteran exchange
(editor of the Washington Star,
who knew Dr. Walker well, characterises
her as the "one -glittering personality
of her day" in the progress of
American women.
"Bocuuko Dr. Walker dared to do
something original and unique, woman's
dress today is the sensible, attractive
thing it is," says Mr. Milton.
The veteran editor recalls how children
hooted at the woniftn who led the
fight for dress reform. She would be
an inconspicuous figure in Washington
today.
"Dr. Walker was slender and frail,
so her form was admirably adapted
to men's clothes of that time," hesays.
"In the 60's ami early 70's it
was the fashion for young men t->
wear tight-fitting suits. Their trousers
were often so tight they had to sit
or lie down to pull them on.
"Dr. Walker always carried a slender,
gold-headed cane. Though a reformer,
she was not loud nor provocative.
In all her lifetime in Washington
she never was involved in an altercation.
"Many women who took up causes
in later years enjoyed scrap. Dr. Walker
eschewed them. She had a fine
legal mind, she knew that two wrongs
never made a right. She could stand
ridicule for the sake of maintaining
her ideals, and would have been in
thorough sympathy with women's
styles of today.
"Her fight was not so much for
masculine dress as against the preponderant
amount of clothing with
which women of her day wera burdened.
It took an immense amount of
courage for this little woman to discard
bustle and panniers and appear
in trousers, frock coat and' high silk
hat."
Dr. Walker was a surgeon in the
Civil W?r and was awarded a congressional
medal of honor. After four
years on battlefields her life was
spent in fighting for women's rights.
An example of how strong her influence
was lies in the fact that she was
able to obtain special legislation in
congress on the matter of what she
wore.
Sam Brody Begins Sentence.
Sam Brody, young Sumter merchant,
convicted last year of attempting
to burn his own building on the
corner of Main street and Hampton
Avenue, known as the Reid building,
was taken to the State penitentiary in
Columbia Thursday to begin service
of his sentence of twelve months.
Brody's appeal to the state supremo
court against the sentence as passed
on him was recently denied and he
was ordered placed in the penitentiary
1 to begin service of his time.
A great deal of interest was nrous1
fd by the Brody case at the time of
the young merchant's arrest and all
during the trial. Shortly after Brody
purchased the Reid block of buildings
a tire was discovered in the loft, but
was extinguished by the fire department
before much damage had been
done. A large quantity of kerosene
in various kinds of containers was
- found by the firemen in the loft.
It was brought out at the trial that
Brody had the building heavily insured.
Circumstantial evidence was reliisl
on almost wholly by the state in
the trial, which resulted in conviction
of Brody on one of the counts.?Saturday's
Suniter Item.
Babe Abandoned.
Columbia, August 24.?Abandoned
in an automobile in front of the Colonial
hotel tonight, a three-day-old
white boy was found shortly before
11 o'clock by the automobile's owner
as he started to thrive the car into a
. garage. Smartly dressed and well
. wrapped in a pink and white" baby
9 blanket, the boy was crying lustily *
Capt. Richard Cleaves of the 106tb
f observation squadron of Nashville,
t Tenn., now in training at Camp Jack^
here, from the hotel, where
he and his wife are guest?, to pot hi?
car away for the night. The babe was
f placed in the city juvenile home.
Ool. Walter T. Bradley, wealthy
coal mine operator and prominent citizen
of Philadelphia, waa kitted Wedneeday
when he plunged from a window
on the thirteenth floor of the
Warwick hotel in that cKy. It i? beltayed
that he jumped from the win.
dow because of ill-heelth.
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Nobody's Business
Written for The Chronicle by Gee
McGee, Copyright, 1929.
A Tele of Woe by Uncle Joe.
Uncle Joe wan down at our houae
last Sabbath ruminating about the
good old time* of "way back yonder."
He deplores the changes that have
taken place and finds himself yearning
for the night of an aeh-hoppcr
and longs to attend one more *>g !
rolling and a corn Chucking. Bui
there ain't any loga any more to roll
and nobody makes enough corn -to
keep a bunch of huskies shucking
aamc more than 10 minutes.
Uncle Joe remembers when his dad
rfy ueeter keep ? Imttle of toddy (Yea,
that's what he called it,) sitting on
the fire-board all the time, and it
wasn't used during those times to
get drunk on and raise the dickens;
it was just put there for a fellow to
take a swallow or two of it when his
throat got dry and hie stummlck
seemed bordering onto weakness. He
seems to think that some refreshments
would help the country to appreciate
its apparent prosperity.
It is true that times have changed
hut I didn't know that nature had
been so affected ad Uncle Joe claim?.
lie and his brother Jack caught a
possum over in Georgia once that]
weighed 184 pounds and he said it :
was nothing unusual to trap a mink
in the henhouse that was 6 feet long. 1
He was an expert at squirrel shooting
and as "ammernition" was rather '
schcc, he would always line 8 or id!
squirrels on a tree and shoot 'em all
at one time. The highest he ever)
brought down at one shot was 19, So I
he said. i
Uncle Joe called our attention to |
another thing that seemed quite per- <
tir.ent. He told us that he and nil
his folks wore a little bag of asafoe- j
dita (for fear that some folks won't
know what I am talking about, I will ;
explain that the said- bag contained |
assy-fidity, a drug famous for its od- j
oriferroueness) around their necks;
from the time they learned to crawl j
till they graduated in the blue back;
spelling book at "in-com-pre-hen-sibil-i-ty,"
and they never caught any
disease of any kind. Now everybody
has everything anybody else has two
days after they get it.
Uncle Joe swore that the cows gave
better buttermilk when he was a boy.
He recalled that old "Spot" permitted
6 gallons of the finest lacteal
fluid ever to be extracted from her
udder every morning and every night
and this "iveated" from 7 to 9 pounds
of butter. (She fed the calf also in
the manner provided by nature, .and
this took at least an extra gallon.)
The bee tree he and his cousin robbed
one December contained enough honey
to fill 3 washpots and 2 tubs and
they gave the neighbors a plenty to
last them til Christmas. Uncle Joe
quit talking when Aunt Minervy came
out and sat near him, and before I
knew it he had dozed off to sleep.
Uncle Joe Tells How.
Uncle Joe says he has a friend who
lives in another state who knows how
to make whiskey and how to sell
whiskey and possibly how to drink
whiskey. And from what Uncle Joe
says, I believe Uncle Joe knows uh ut
as much as his friend knows about
the subject now up and before us. It
seems that this "friend" .suggests the
following plan:
Pick out a nice little stream and
then follow it far enough to get out
of sight of the public road till you
come to a place where bushes grow
thick and the water shows some speed
and thon your still-sight troubles are
over.
Next you must hunt up the prohibition
enforcement officers and tell
them where your still is so's they
won't ever find it by accident or otherwise.
(N. B. The sum of $'J.V00
and a quart a week will fix some of
the K)\s so that they can't see out
of but o.ne eye, and $60.00 and two
1 quarts a week will put a great many
? of them rtone blind.)
i Select a drizzly dark night to f.- ch
I down your still and worm and b.ir
>els. Most any of jjoux* YHends who
i like a tiny snap now end then after
l prayer-meeting will assiet you in this
work, only don't let anybody know
that they helped you. You'll need a
i few empty barrel* and a long trough,
i and when you get these things propi
erly fixed you are all set for business.
i I i i * -Take
4 bushels ci pom meal and
f 100 pounds sugar and 6 cans of Red
Devil lye and 4 wheel baonrowsful of
dry stable manure and 10 boxes of
sulphur match** and as many old
beef bones as you can get ami place
them in the aforementioned trough
and cover everything with water. Let
it set for 4 or day* but come beck
^ - I M ,U1 L ' " p,v - .'?.*
and skim off the email house fliee tr?ry
few hours, but don't bother the
big blue Hies that yet drowned in the
mush; they add * kind of bead to the
brew.
Ah soon a? your conooctment haa
turned to beer, notify all of the officers
that you will be buey for a day
or so, then take the content* of your
trough and strain out all solid matter
and pour the fluid into your still
and flre up. You ought to get at
least 75 gallons of "spit.lire" from
the ft ret run, not counting backings.
It will be no trouble to peddle it out
in your community. But to keep
things in apple pie order all the time,
it is a good idea for the officers to
find your still tend cut it up every few
weeks. Of course you must ascertain
from the officers what night they are
coming so'* you can take your worm
home with you, as the worm is valuable
and the still ain't. Non^T that's
the way they do in Uncle Joe's
friend's community in another state,
so says Uncle Joe. % *
Paper Is Sued. '
Florence, August 24.?The Morning
News was made the defendant of a
libel suit for $25,000 filed here tod&y
against the Florence Printing Company,
publishers of the paper, by Henry
K. Davis, attoriley and member of
the board of trustees of the Florence
city schools. The complaint alleged
that the plaintiff had been damaged
in the sum of $25,000 as the result of
an editorial in the Morning News in
which tain statements were made
concerning his actions as a member of
the school board.
Warns Against Early Ginning.
Columbia, Aug. 23.?A warning to
farmers against ginning cotton too
soon after it 'had been picked has
been issu<sl by J. Clifton Rivers, state
warehouse commissioner. Due to the
fact that so much of the crop is ginned
while still too green and damp
there is an annual average loss of $10
per bale, Mr. Rivers said.
The warehouse commissioner pointed
out that green cotton is impossible
to seed so as to .get the maximum
amount of lint. The seed cannot be
cleaned properly and much is lost in
poundage.
J. B. Chapell, former citizen of
Greenwood county, was killed in a
sawmill accident at Chipley, Fla., on
Monday.
Probably Oldest Veteran.
Sfcatesboro, Ga., Aug. 23.?A new
claim for distinction as being: the oldest
living: Confederate veteran was
made today by Edward N. Nance, of
Statesboro, who gives his age 106,
three years more than that of Comrade-in-Arms,
William Pearson, of
Greenville, S. C., 103, who recently
received mention for the honor.
Mr. Nance, spry and active, despite
weighty years, said that he was bom
near Whiteville, Columbus county, N.
C., February 26, 1823, and while
serving in the 20th North Carolina
?> Cregiment,
was wounded three tim^s
and finally taken prisoner. His regiment
was Stonewall Jackson corps.
Recalling early life he said he used
tobacco since a boy of six years and
had taken stimulants at pleasure until
recently. He married three times,
and his present wife is 87.
Lieut. Nick Mamer and Art Walker,
aviators, on Tuesday afternoon
completed a round trip non-stop flight
from Spokane, Wash., to New York.
Their plane was refueled in the air
| en Tuote. ?
Mayor Harry P. Cooper of Murphy*
on Tuesday seriously shot I ax: Sooth.*
erland, after the latter had visited th*
mayor in hid home in the aftermoS'
and threatened the mayor with bo&H
ily injury, he being armed withanfctM
pick and a knife. Magisrate FaiiM
ruled that the shooting was justifii*
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