The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 27, 1929, Image 6
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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.
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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
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Written for The Chronicle ^Jby Gee
McGee, Copyright, IWfc,
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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.
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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. |
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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?|
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