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1 . ... ??? LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the File* of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Year* Ago THIRTY YKAKS AGO September 22, 1899 Camden graded schools opened with enrollment of 263 pupila. Members of Episcopal church erecting Sunday school room in pine grove near church. Mrs. J. W. Corbett entertained young people at crokinole party in honor of Miss Mary Burnet who was leaving to attend Wiuthrop college. Car load of young ladies tfnroute to Winthrop over 0. It. & C. railway passes through Camden. c'~* H. L. Schlosburg moves into Barclay house pear graded schpol building, , Camden firemen give entertainment in comedy drama intitled "Under a Cloud." Those taking part were J. L)es Davis, E. A. Salmond, C. II. i Yates, A. Weinberg, W. A. Salmond, J Miss S. V. Jordan, Miss Floride De- ! Pass. Singers were W. G. Wilson, I). A. Boy-kin, E. J. I^ewis, C. K. Lewis. "f)rop harness" for horses of Camden fire department arrived and placid in headquarters. George W. Me Lain, jGamden's oldest barber, returns to Camden from New York ufter course in ladies hair dressing and treatment of the sculp. Miss Bell Thompson, milliner for Camden dry goods company, returns from the north. The late Andrew Burnet returns to. Charleston to resume his studies at medical college. Gus Sanders, of Hagood, pays visit to .Camden and talks of improvements in ihis "city." Admiral Dewey, hero of Manilla Bay, expected to arrive in New York October 1. II enry Gardner, 18 year old negro, hung twice at Mobile, Ala., for assault. The rope broke at the first fall. St. Charles hotel at Charleston partially destroyed by fire. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO September 25, 1914 The lute sheriff W. W. Huckabee and Kenneth W. Murchison badly hurt when automobile crashed into bridge near Darlington. Many citizen* felt earthquake two o'clock Tuesday morning. Camden business men Join In movement to take 2,186 bales of distressed cotton off the market in a "buy-abale" movement. Movement under way to plant a large grain crop throughout state. Camden cotton storage company farmed for warehouse with capital of ft,000. A. J. Beattie, T. M. Beattie and J. H. Mcleod the corporators. Charles Gregory, who left Camden I to fight in the Greek army against the Bulgarians, returns to .Camden. He saw eleven months of hard service and carried two wounds received in battle. J. H. Mcl^eod buys Myers property on LaFayette avenue. Frank J. Terrell to give free exhibition flights at county,fair in Curtis airplane. VV. A. McManus .dead at Pisgah. Mighty Haag shows announced for October 8. Little Miss Ruth Goodale celebrates sixth birthday with party. Engagement of Miss Oralie Mathis to J. Hunter Wiggins announced. Miss Katherine Zemp on a tour of Europe with party of friends. Mayor Grover C. Welsh, of Kershaw, and J. Frank Gardner went to Chester to take a higher degree in Masonry. Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh spent Wednesday night in Charleston as the guests of Admirul McCully at the Charleston navy yard. The Lind. bergh's are enroute to South America via Miami. Contest Over Blood Money. Anderson, Sept. 18.?James R. Thomas, convicted of murder in general sessions court last week in connection with the slaying of Maxie Thomas, will not abandon his claims to the $33,000 insurance which he carried on the life of the boy, he said today. In the event Thomas' motion for a new trial is successful before Judge John S. Wilson on Saturday, in the event of his subsequent acquittal, Thomas said he would instruct his attorneys to press his claims for the insurance money. A petition for letters of administration was filed here yesterday by Mrs. Corrie Henderson, charging that Maxie Thomas was her son but that the elder Thomas was not his father. The purpose of the filing of the petition is to pave the way to collect the insurance, it - is said. The Richland county jury in the case against Harold L. Mims, former Columbia policeman, charged with the murder of W. B. Hanson, mill worker last Thursday afternoon returned a verdict of guilty of murder with recommendation to mercy. On the witness stand Mims told a story of illicit relations of his wife with Henson, which his wife denied on the stand. Mims was defended by Mendel I.. Smith and C. T. Graydon. The state was represented by Solicitor Spigner and K. R. Kreps. A motion for a new trial was overruled and Mims was sentenced to serve life time in the penitentiary. A woman prosecutor in the courts of Moscow, has obtained the death penalty against two men charged with conspiracy to smuggle diamonds and currency out of Russia. I ?? BAILEY GETS LIFE SENTENCE Lancaster County Man Convicted of Murder of Cauthern. Lancaster, September 20.?The case of James and Wardlaw Bailey, charged with the killing of William Lewis Cauthern in September, 1927, which was called in the court of general session Wednesday was concluded Friday morning. The court instructed the jury, after the state had presented its testimony, to find a verdict of not guilty as to Wardlaw Bailey. The case was given to the jury at 1:30 and after two hours' deliberation returned a verdict of guilty with a recommendation against James Bailey. The defendant was immediately sentenced to life imprisonment. On account of Solicitor Hines' being disqualified, the state was represented by Attorney General John M. Daniel, assisted by Williams & Stewart. Sapp and Sapp represented the defendant. This is the second time the case has been tried, the court ordering a mistrial in the former trial on account of one of the defendants, Wardlaw Bailey's, becoming seriously ill while under cross-examination, having to be carried from the court room. The case has attracted recoi 1 crowds. During the past few weeks Federal prohibition officers have made many arrosts and cases against bootleggers, according to a verbal report of Capt. R. Q. Merrick, prohibition administrator for Virginia and the two Carolinas. Cases in and around Greenville have totaled 102; 62 in Asheville, N. C.; 65 in Charlotte; 35 in Fayetteville and 41 in Greenville, N. C. If yon have any of the following symptoms, I have the remedy no matter what your trouble has been diagnosed: Nervousness, stomach trouble, loss of weight, loss of sleep, sore mouth, pains in the back and shoulders, peculiar swimming in the head, frothy-like Chlegm in throat, passing mucous from the owels, especially after taking purgative, burning feet, brown, rough or yellow skin, burning or itching skin, rash on the hands, face and arms resembling sunburn, habitual const! ( tion, (sometimes alternating with diarrhoea) copper or metallic taste, skin sensitive to son heat, forgetfulnesa, despondency and thoughts that you might lose your mind, gums a fiery red and falling away from the teeth, general wetKncM wim IOM of energy* If y?ufj have these symp-II toma and havejl taken all kinds oftl meaictne ana rail itck, l especially want you to write for my booklet. Mrs, W. H. Palmer, Rt. No. 4, Piedmont, 8. (1, whose picture appears here, write*: **I have been able to work every day this whole Spring and Sunfhter, and that ia something I haveirt been able to do in Ave years before and I haven't taken a dose of medicine since I took that half of treatment in February. I eat any kind of vegetable* that I like and it doe* not hurt me any way at alL I give all of my health and praise to yon and your treatment. FOR FREE DIAGNOSIS AND LITERATURE WTUTEt W. C Rountrce, M. Austin, Texas W. C. ROirNTREE, M. D. MIS. V. H. PALMER Nobody's Business r v y.- : Written for The Chronicle ^Jby Gee McGee, Copyright, IWfc, - * v Dove Hunting The dove shooting season came in on schedule time, end es the law is being enforced iu this community o.'? everything except bootlegging, I bided my time and did not undertake to do any nlmrodding until the day after. We have game restrictions in our county. All in the world a man needs though to hunt doves and shoot at them is a good gun, plus a box of shells with a 20 per cent luxury tax stamp affixed thereto, plus a school district hunting license, plus a county hunting license, plus a state hunting license, and energy enough to walk 76 or HO miles. tL Well, 1 got everything ready for the shooting whoopee, ^iefore leaving the house, 1 hired 3 colored men to stay there and be ready to dress about 250 doves On my return. I was as full of hope as n politician is of bull, I felt sorry for the doves. I remembered that old Noru sent one out of the Ark and it did him a good turn, and just for that?it seemed a pity to kill them. The thermometer was registering only 98 in the shade, but I wasn't hunting in the shade. I walked out to Deep Creek (only 14 miles away) and stopped at a furm house and asked the (anner why he wasn't eating doves instead of fooling with an old Ford and he said he didn't like doves much, hut he intimated that he had seen 3 doves just 2 weeks ago over towards the river, and I lit out again. The first dove I fcaw turned out to In; an Knglish sparrow and thj* next one was a cat bird, but I walked right on amidst much sweat and perspiration. I looked up into the elements so long for my prey, my neck sprang a crick and 1 couldn't gaze on the ground to see where I was a-going. I stumbled along for 2 more hours, but no dove ever risked himself or herself within my vision. The temperature had changed from 98 in the shade to 120 in the sun. Bu: 1 walked and looked and stayed as nerveus as a bride all the time. I saw 2 doves.afar off coming my way: I, cocked "ftiy gun and stood in breath-' less silence, but when they got within about a mile of me, I discovered that they were buzzards, and judging from the way I was feeling, I didn't think they would have to sail around long before they would find something to eat. My legs were nearly paralyzed and my heat! was swimming itnd I was yearning for home. I gave up hunting doves at 6:30 p. m. Hunting doves was right. I don't think a dove has ever visited the school district where I spent those 4 miserable hours. I wouldn't speak to a dove if I were to meet her in the road. I am through for life and if anybody wants my gun and shells, I will trade same for a quid of chewing gum. Pay While You Ride Highway department employee* are being divided up into squads of 3 men each, as follows: A boss, a time keeper and a laborer. This was deemed necessary on account of a recent accident. While 26 men were engaged in marking a white line in the middle of the Graftall highway last Tuesday a one-horse wagon ran into them and crippled all of them but 19. They escaped by reason oc the fact that they were sitting out on the side of the road in the shade. There is some talk of changing the time of going to work on highways from 8:30 a. m. to 8.29 a. m. The quitting time will remain as heretofore. vizzly: 5.00 p. m. That is, if they are not already quit before then. Some of the employees (Yes, that's what they are called) are insisting that the department furnish an official cigarette lighter whose duty will be to light cigarettes for the employees who are busy and must | smoke. It is a pity to have to lay down a pencil just to light u < garotte. All gasoline taxes are intelligently spent. Everywhere you go nowadays. north, cast, south or west, you find men putting out grass on both sides of the pavement. No matter how dry it is or how impossible it might be for tire said grass to take root, it is being set-out nevertheless. The boys must be paid and if they must bo paid, they piust have something to do, and if they must have something to do, why, a job is the only thing that will keep them from having to go off sortiewhere and work for a living. W?/ understand that two of the bunches of grass they set out last month on the Sugar-tit. road lived and is possibly still living. If a farmer could systematize his work like the high\vay department has systematized its work (?), he would function in this manner: He would have a man to ring the bell every morning at 8 o'clock to wake him up, and a helper would pull on his britches and an assistant helper would put on his shirt and wash his face and 2 other boys would fetch his breakfast into him and he would tell the mule catcher to take the gear fetcher and go out to the barn and assist the barn attendant to get old Beck ready to go to work, and as soon as she was properly equipped, he would let the assistant plowman go and bring the actual plowman out to the field and put him in a cushion seat on the riding plow and then the "gid-dap" man would drive on off through the field, and Mr. Farmer would light out to town. So, in my opinion, highway departments are all operated on an extremely economic basis, and most of them are saving money. The maintenance head of the department employs lees than 10 men per mila on highways, and it is not true that every shovel of dirt moved stings the tax-payer to the tune of 50 cents, and further more, it is not true that 6 men are engaged at one time putting up "S" curve signs: there are only flver* the hole digger, the sign holder, the nail driver, and 2 foremen. I mm heartily in favor of hard-surfaced roads and short dresses and like the "system" O. K. Lancaster Officers Convicted. Lancaster, Sept. 19.?The jury late yesterday returned a verdict of manslaughter against J. B. Connor and' D. L. Phillips, deputy sheriffs charged in Lancaster general sessions court with slaying J. H. Harrison. Sentence will be passed some time today. Harrison was killed when the officers sought to arrest him here on charges of bootlegging, according to the evidence submitted in the case. if C. D. Waggoner, Colorado banker, charged with swindling six New York banks out of $500,000, wants freedom on bond, when returned to New York, he will have to raise the . sum of $100,000 to insure his release. | I Sunday Motor Fatalities Charlotte, Sept. 23.?Four persons killed and as many injured was the casualty list written by Sunday automobile accidents in North and South Carolina Sunday. P. F. Lowder, 38, Stanley county farmer, was struck down and fatally injured as he stepped in front of a car en route home from chfcrch, near Albemarle, If. C. M. A. Jennings, Jr., 23, died from injuries suffered when the car of Fred Hall overturned at Spartanburg and Hall also was hurt. Irby Tedder, 25, and Jule Kirby, 21, were killed near Florence. Tedder's car failed to make a turn and crashed into an embankment. Kirby's machine overturned nnd he drowned in a few inches of water. Kirby Saunders, 21, of Charlotte; Otis Cagle, 22, of Thomasboro, and Reid Craig, of Gastonia, were injur ed as two automobiles collided I G^stonia. Saunders' recovery ' Considered doubtful. . ^ Thirty thousand or more orden one or more tickets for the Wo series ball games at ^hiladelpi received at the headquarters of athletics on Monday. The park U seating capacity of 36,760, while orders for tickets is estimated**! ceeding 50,000. In the primary elections held Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Tuesday, the forces of;: Wilfcpi Vare, ^Republican political bosi^ senator-elect, whose seat has tfcifl been denied him,-carried before them. Vare's candidate tor ri ister of wills in Philadelphia defeti hia opponent by more than t?| The new Victor-Rad'o-Elecfrola hu taken thli town by storm. "Beauty of tone nevei before approached".. ."Lovely cabinet* harmonize with home lhrnishinga": such enthusiasm is universal! . ym Interchangeable units?ull accessible. Micro*aynchronoua balance. 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