Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the File* of The Chronicle Fift^n and Thirty Yearn Ago " ' ? THIRTY YKAR8 AGO September N, 1899. I'eter Williams, notorious cow thief of Sumter county, brought back by court order and placed on trial here, received sentence of 1ft months on drain gnng and to pay n fine of one dollar. Hurry Trantham, recent graduate of Wuke Forest, unanimously elected assistant professor of Knglish at Wake Forest college. Cadet W. A. Antrum, Jr., of U. S. Naval Academy, at home to visit his parents after u long cruise on the Atlantic. Clerk of Court Joel ' Hough taken seriously ill while court was in session. Deputy I. C. Hough assisted by Attorney L. A. Wittkowsky carried on the clerk's duties during his illness J' Grand jury with G. W. Moscley as foreman makes report. Six old jurors to hold over were K. Reynolds, J. H. Vaughan, T. B. Clyburh, (J. W. Moseley, J. S. Rhame and J C Hilton. The death of Mrs. Mattie K. Wntt.i of West Wateree reported. Slie was buried at Pine Grove church with funeral services by Rev. W. H. Joyner. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO September 11, 1914. Camden school* opened on Monday morning with a total of 381 pupil*. Thieve* burglarized store of It. B. William*, getting several dollar* in cash. Election return* show Richard I. Manning nominated for governor over John G. Richard* in second primary. Robert Branham and Mi** Gillie Richbourg married. John Hingon, Jr. and Mis* Rhenna Bumgurdner married. Coti.niderable cotton being ginned in [ county. About 200 bale* stored irC wareliouse. Around 75 bale* sold in order to pay picker*. The price paid ranged from 714 to 7% cents and very little demand for it at that price. "Buy u Bale of Cotton" movement launched in Georgia. Twenty thousand word mortgage of $500,000 given to the Safe Deposit and Trust company by the Northwestern Railway of South Carolina placed on file in court house. 1). M. MeCaskill of Camden markets tobacco from his farm at Hnrtsville nfid get* 13 to 17 cents per (found. I.AST SURVIVOR DEAD. Jmuhh McCoy W?u Laxt of McCoy. Hatfield Clan. Pikeville, Ky., Sept. 6.?James McCoy, 80, last of the men who actively engaged In the noted Hatfteld-McCoy feud 40 years ago, died here today. Only one member of the family survives, Mrs. Fannie Charles, of Williamson, W. Va. McCoy had been 111 for a year. He had Ion* ago been concerted to Christianity and had given much attention to religion iu the last few years of his life. The Hatfield-McCoy feud cost nearly 100 lives. It began in a quarrel over the ownership of a mountain sow and pigs and continued for years. Hike county, Ky., and contiguous territory across Tug river in West Virginia were swept by the factional warfare. Tug- river was the scene of more than one killing, when fugitives from one or the other of the cjans tried to escape by swimming and were picked off with rifles by trained marksmen of the enemy. James McCoy with "Devil Ansc" Hatfield, was the most picturesque of all the hillsfttcn who engaged in the feud. Soon after the two families became warring clans, James McCoy was made a deputy sheriff of Pike county, and as such arrested many Hatfields. .He was in practically e\ cry major encounter of the clan war which ended when "Devil Anse" Hat. field's forces had been more or !? -> i dispersed and a majority of McCoy'* slain. Formal enmity was ended 25 year-I ago w hen a mountain preach" r ! brought the leaders together and a peace -treaty was made which wa- ' faithfully kept. SOI TH CAROLINA NEWS. 1 hy city counsel of Chester has approved plans submitted by Architt i ! Gilchrist of Hock Hill for the city ' hall which was recently gutted by fire. George H. Dictor of Columbia ha* '< been elected president of the Unit-d States Fisheries association, at it* convention held in Atlantic City ! N. J., last week. The sales department of the Stand , ard Oil company for South Carolina, j now located in Charleston, is to be i moved to Columbia by Jan. 1st, ac- ; cording to announcement of John C. j King, manager of the department. ' Two negroes and two mules were killed on a grade crossing in Marlboro I county, Saturday afternoon, when an A. & C. L. train hit a wagon. A negro named Kennedy and his son, 5 years old, were the victims. Bob Randolph, assistant for the F urman football team, was found in a ditch 15 miles from Athens, Ga.. Saturday with one of his legs broken. A truck had hit his automobile and threw it down an embankment into a ditch. Hazel Hinson, 13, died in a Rock Hill hospital Friday night, following injuries received when struck by an automobile n moment after the boy had jumped from a wagon in the path of the car, just outside Heath Springs Friday afternoon. J. R. Thomas, arraigned in the court of general sessions at Anderson on Tuesday, on a charge of murdering his son, Maxie, entered a plea of not guilty. The theory is that Thomas murdered his son in the hope >?1 collecting the large insurance on the hoy's life. Out of the sixty cases tried n the court of general sessions in Greenville and adjourning Tuesday, with Judge Henry presiding, there were only four verdicts of not guilty returned by juries. Thirty-one defendants plead guilty and twentynine cases were heard by juries. ! Postmaster Samuel L. Myers of Chester, has resigned his office and will engage in the hotel busim-ss at I^noir, N. C. According to a report made by Sheriff Bramlett of Greenville. <hows that officers of his office havt seized m .r.- than 2,000 gallons of \\h ky in county since January 1. Oases ha been brought against near.y 250 O "s for violations of th- liquor lav * nville officers arrested a ..oung u ' man Tuesday night be was act of carrying good* om a m the Parker road. W- n ar_ the burglar had pi!? ip 38 - of sugar. 14 sacks of t1. )r and ? . it" ham at the rear of :v< store f? -r-noval Inter. Ti.roe men are being hebi n the (i ' nville county jail on suspicion ir.at they know much abou* mur' ? ' f James D. Davis, a ca nspect -r. who was killed in tha: ty on Gi'ty 1, Davis being killed wi* b a blow from a heavy hammer. Feminine Understanding Husband (readfhg aloud a newspaper report of a flrfe): One woman escaped down n waterpipe at the back of the house. Wife: "How lovely to be as <dim a* that." KUM-SMUGGLING PLANK . . .......... ; Mistook I'niUd StaUa CuHtomH PairulN for Him OoBfederatva. Detroit, Aug. 3L?The pilot of a rum-smuggling airplane mistook Uni-i ted States customs patrolmen for hla accomplices last night. The result was the capture of the plane and 15 cases of assorted Canadian liquors. The plane circled dver a field at Dodge Park, near Detroit. The customs agents watched it maneuver and then alight near them. When they sought to question the pilot concern- j ing his landing away from an airport he became so confused thut the federal officers became suspicious and searched the plane. Finding the liquor they confiscated the plane, a new and expensive model, and put the pilot in jail, to be arraigned today before United States commissioner J. Stanley Hurd on a; charge of liquor smuggling. The pi-j lot said he was Harold C. Haney. A broker lives at the address Haney gave, but could not be reached at his home. Gets Order from India. Mrs. William C. Hane, of Fort Motte, Saturday received an order from faraway Rangoon, Burma, India, for tomato juice bearing the South Carolina iodine label. Mrs. Hane was very much gratified, not only that her product was recognized in India, hut that the iodine label was also known out there. Mrs. Hane is a prominent canner of the state and recently attended the conference in ( oiumbia with Doctor Weston, managing director of the South Carolina Natural Resources commission, with regard to the use of the label on can-' nc (1 goods, and has got out an attractive label for her goods incorporating the design of the commission. -Calhoun Times. Miss Dorothy Edwards, 17, student at the Mississippi Industrial institute committed suicide Tuesday by hang-j ing herself. Using one of her gar- j monts to make a noose she hanged1 herself in her closet. ' Father Sues Pond Owner A. Mack Park, administrator of the estate of Thelma Elizabeth Park, University of South Carolina coed, who was drowned at Twin Lakes on May 2K, is seeking $50,000 damages from W. T. Huffman, described as operator of the Columbia resort, in a complaint filed with the clerk of court in Columbia. Mr, Park is father of the dead coed and he declares the suit is brought for the benefit of Miss Park's parent. Miss Park was drowned when she stepped into deep water as she was enjoying the resort in company with another coed and two university boys. Thomas A. Edison is recovering from an attack of pneumonia at his home in West Orange, N. J. Aged Negress Dead. A telegram was received her* P day morning by Mr. Mark Keynol informing him of the death in sonville yesterday, of Judy Ranu colored, formerly in the employ of! Reynolds household. Judy vrw, years of age and was the widoi Warren W. Ramsey, who served, state senator from Sumter cm during the years just preceding construction times. The body brought to Sumte,r this aftemooiA funeral services will be held at Stfl burg, probably Sunday morning,* Judy was a very self-respeA and respected member of the A munity, Mr. Reynolds stated, aiA one time was maid for the ShaA of Camden.?Friday's Sumter ItA Notice To Taxpayers Notice is hereby iriven to the taxpayers of the City of Camden that the tax books will be open at the office of the Clerk and Treasurer on Monday, September 2, for the payment of City Taxes. 11 By order of . ! THE CITY COUNCIL OF CAMDEN I W. H. HAILE, Clerk and Treasurer I by McOormlck 4 Company. ItSt KILLN ? Flics?Mo*quitoea?Bedbug*?Roaches?Moth*?Ants? Fleaa Watcrlni^H?Crickets and many other insect* Writ* for educational booklet, McCormick & Co., Baltimore, Md. B^^l " " Mk B V TB ^^B U JMT do?lrr MDBOI farnlih, * *U ff ^Jwfv Liquid? 50c, 75? and $ 1.25. Gui?~ JOe Mfflj aifMi br I'tTMl Pa* aEr^Y?Powder? 10c, 25c, ^Oc and #1.00 a* OfmUr prim Guo-25c SPECIAL EXCURSION ?TO? Washington, D. C. 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