The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 04, 1929, Image 6
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LOOKING BACKWARD
Taken From the File* of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Yeiri Ago
THIRTY YEARS AGO
, 11 , ,
September 20, 1800
Frost was seen on Wednesday
morning, the earliest ever reported.
Cotton on the Camden market
bringing <J 7-8 cents per pound.
Hail A Boh well, merchants, make
assignment to M. L. Smith, for benefit
of creditors.
Condemnation proceedings u ruler
way for location of rightofway for
Seaboard Air Line.
Night work at Camden Cotton Mill
resumed, giving employment to larger
number of employes.
('apt. M. L. Smith invited to head
South Curolina regiment in Dewey
celebration in New York.
Camden was represented in New
York at the Dewey home-coming celebration
by S. C. Zemp, R. R, Team,
S. Libman, W. J. Dunn, H. L, Wat
kins, W. L. DePass, B. C. Parker, H.
* I. DePass, J. A. Singleton, and L. M.
Vaughan.
' Arrangements are being made for
a reunion of Sergeant Alvln C. York,
and his six surviving companions
who fought beside him in the Argorme,
when York killed 29, and captured
182 Germans, to be held in
Washington early next month.
F1FTKHN YEARS AGO
October 2, 1914.
Roadway from Camden to Kersha/w
being improved by county chain gang
under superintendent Henry K. Munn.
T. M. Phifer and Frank G. Tompkins
nre petitioners for charter for
Security Warehouse company of Camden,
to use the old power house.
Ed Barnes slashes Will Wheeler
across face with a knife, inflicting
serious wound.'
Robert I. Woodslde, chairman of
Rankers Association, makes plea for
farm diversification through press of
the state.
Major John G, Richards, of Liberty
Hill, visitor in Camden.
George S.'Barnes and his bride of
Washington, p. C., spending a few
duys here on a visit.
John Meroney, former Camden man
of Philadelphia, on a visit to Camden.
J. E. Alexander, aged citizen of
Camden, dead at residence of his
daughter, Mrs. G. W. Turner.
Sid Smith, Camden athlete, sold by
Columbus base hall club to Pittsburgh
cli^b.
W. R. DeLo&ohe leases Ctimden
opera house for motion picture play
house.
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OCTOBER FARM CALENDAR
Things To Be Done This Month aa
Outlined by Cleinnon College.
Agronomy
October is a month fo? planting as
well as harvesting.
Winter cover craps reduce losses
of plant food from soils and (if le-p
gumes) also add nitrogen for use of
future crops. ,
Oats planted early in October give
best results.
Barley, which may be grown almost
unywhere in South Carolina,
makes excellent feed.
Rye is the standby for grazing
and for soil improvement on poor
land. Sow early.
Wheat can be raised profitably by
1 many South Carolina farmers for
home use.
Horticulture
Transplant pan&ies to open beds
early in October.
Set out bulbs such as narcissus,
tulips, hyacinth, crocus.
Lift late chrysanthemums In late
October with a block of soil, pot
them off, and use as house plants.
Gather green tomatoes just before
frost and store in a cool place.
Thin out young turnips, beets, kale,
spinach, and lettuce to hasten
development.
Make out order for fruit trees of
varieties adapted to section, and place
with a reliable nursery.
Sow moss curled parsley seed in
open-ground or frames.
Plant Diseases.
Treat oat seed for smut's with
either the standard .formaldehyde
method or the new (.lust method.
Treat wheat seed for smut with
copper carbonate dust.
Select strong sound ears in the
field for seed corn as the best way
to control root rot and ear rot.
Disinfect sweet potato storage
houses with formaldehyde before
storing potatoes.
Dust fall beans with sulphur to
control mildew.
Clean up and destroy all dead
material in gardens and orchards.
Entomology
Apply paradichlorobenzine for
peach-tree borer between October 1
and lo.
Fumigate grain and other stored
products infe-'.ed with insects;
Dc-Prov old garden and truck plant,-,
.mrmali s \ after ha* v* sting rein.
fn'u e , -ict damage.
I la v. -t ?ni . a'\y f. p-vvor.t
y w.< I'.JV I., the flo! !.
Plan to.apply winter spray > ' 1
orchard*. .n tiros, .md hedge-.
Dcfoy ran'a'oupe \ to k.ll .511mnlure
st igr? of p:ck!e wonn.
Animal Husbandry
Make -u ,.f .-n.ough winter grazng
crops, |-\e for poor soils and
rape, oats, and barley for more fertile
soils.
Repair old sheds and, if necessary,
build new ones to house livestock
during winter.
Dispose of unproductive animals
thereby saving feed required to wintei
them.
When cold rains come give sheep
access to shelter.
Maintain idle horses on goo
quality bay and one-half ration 01
cottonseed meal per head i>er day il
pastures arc scant.
Dairying
Use the cows to clean up corn an<
hay fields after harvest.
When frost kills pastures, star
cows gradually on silage.
As winter feeding becomes necessary,
feed each cow in proportion to
size and production.
Feed fall-bom calves warm clean
npdlk, do not vary the quantity sud-denly,
and sterilize pails after each
feeding.
Start culling boarder-cows on basis
of not below 200 pounds of fat per
year.
Poultry.
Sore head and roup can be largely
prevented by roomy, clean, well ventilated
houses.
Repair the poultry house and make
a comfortable hen home. Avoid drafts
from the rear and ends of the house.
I)o not push the pullets for egg
production. Feed liberally on grain,
especially light breeds.
Select high-producing hens at this
"time and band for breeders next
spring.
Prepare and show poultry and eggs
at local, county and state fairs.
Agricultural Engineering.
A four- or five-mule team hitched
to a double disc harrow with sharp
discs is the right kind of equipment
for preparing good fall seedbeds, if
a tractor is not available.
Cleaning out the seed and fertilizer
cells in grain drills before using insures
accurate sowing and prevents
clogging.
Much valuable feed can be had 'by
running the corn through a busker
and shredder.
Soybean seed can be saved by cutting
with mower and threshing with
a grain thresher. The grain combine
can also be used. It cuts and threshes
at one operation.
Contract for Spinach Output.
Newberry, Sept. 28.?-W. J. and S.
H. Davenport, large wholesale merchants
of New York City, have
agreed to take all the spinach raised
in Newberry county this fall, having
contracted for this amount through
W. M. Mooney, of Newberry. About
250 acres have been signed up and
probably more will come in and sign
up before the time arrives for "planting.
It is possible that the farmers
will obtain fine price- as it is stated
that South Carolina spinach will b>
greatly in demand in the big metropoll-.
Cattle Rustier Captured.
K..loigh. \ i . Sept. IT The c
'e -tlLr.g ' I) in Wo... county
' ' \ ed ,i\ e been . ed, Kn'.<
- iee v .uounced tT>
e-t ?>!' the alleg' i . \\ thief
toviv e early today wh. r. ,i ?trange
ho gave the name \Y. E.
!ln'.!. ol' Columbia, S. (\, climbed, into
tine automobile of A. \\ . Perv, city
detective and tried to sell him three
cows.
Cattle rustling in the county eamo
into prominence four weeks ago when
two cows were stolen from the herd
of George \V. Mordecai, with no trace
, of them being found until it became
' known that the animals had been
slaughtered in Durham. It develop>
ed that several other herds were
missing bovines.
I The man arrested, who, police said,
t had passes in his possession whicli
f indicated he was I,. J. Austin, oi
Marshville, wa> identified as the person
who asked a n.-gro dairyman t<
1 haul the Mordecai cows to Durharr
and the three cows he was trying t<
t | sell were found to belong to two oth
Jer dairymen living near Raleigh.
flood Waters do damage
Fesr of Typhoid When Wat?r? Pollute
Drinking Water Supply.
Auguetn. Ga., Sept. 2&~~Whil? August*
was waging a successful ftghi
against the receding Savannah river
today, attention was drawn to smal|
ler towns in East Georgia which have
been cut off by flood waters. Fearful
of pollution of -its water supply,
Waynesboro, Ga., 32 miles southeast
of Augusta sent out a cull for typhoid
serum today, and Millen, 20
miles further south, responded.
Waynesboro is on Brier creek and
Millen on Ogeechee river, both of
which are out of their banks.
Millen, the only town in the stricke/j
area, which could be reached
wire today, reported the Ogeechee
river, a parallel to the rampaging
Savannah, was two foot higher today
than in 1025, when Dover a toWn
south of Millen, was flooded. It was
impossible to communicate with Dover
by phone, train or highway today,
Augusta proper was still fighting
the mighty Savannah and apparently
the water was slowly withdrawing
from tip* battle front along a nine
mile levee which protects the city.
One leak north of the city was well
in hand at noon and a 15-foot crevas's
four miles south of Augusta was believed
impotent to render serious
harm to the city. While engineers
were inclined to believe that the lower
end of the city would be flooded,
farmers residing near the break said
bottom lands behind the levee would
absorb most of the flow.
Sections of two of the three bridges
across the Savannah at Augusta in
South Carolina gave away today. The
Sand Bar Ferry highway bridge lost
a span to the swirling current. Part
of the trackage of the' C. & W. C.
bridge also was lost in the river. The
third bridge, a highway bridge was
holding its own in the receding water.
WHITE HOYS ROBBED STORES.
Negro Confesses, But White Boys
Were Real Culprits.
Notwithstanding that the young
negro, Buckshot Truesdale, plead
guilty at the term of court in Lancaster
last week to the charge of robbing
the Kershaw Mercantile and Banking
Company's store, for which he was
sentenced to the state reformatory
until he was twenty-one, it turns out
that two young white boys were tho
culprits.
On Monday morning a warrant was
sworn out .before Magistrate W, JR.
Taylor, chnrging Dewey Livingstone,
of the Buffalo section, with entering
and robbing the store of Miller Ogburn
in this section on Sunday night.
While working up this charge, evidence
was found which implicated the
young man in the robbery of the Kershaw
Mercantile and Hanking Company
s store also. Soon another young
man of that section, Gillum-"Small,
was drawn into the latter robbery,
though not implicated in the robbery
of the Ogburn store. The father of
Small reiported a gun in the possession
of the boy, for which he tried to
find out the owner, and a younger
brother gave information as to where
the articles stolen from the Kershaw
Mercantile and Banking Company's
store were hidden. A search was made
and the pump gun and coats were
found in a swa-mp, while two knives
were also returned. The boys confessed
to taking the guns, two of
them, money, two boxes of gun
shells, one gray coat and three
knives. But a large number of knives
were missed.
The two young men, apparently
around seventeen or eighteen years
of ago. were taken to Camden and
lodged in jail on the charge of robbing
the Ogburn store, which is in
Kershaw unty, while the robbery
of the Ki -haw Mercantile & Banking
( i.m. uy's -tore was ju<t over
the J'.r.e Larva-tor county. nT"t
warrant - - tn.it offense will ha\
to issui m that side. Compile;;
tions \\ ibtle-- ari-e over the ?L
tention Huek^io-i True-Male, t1
fourtei ; , obi ncg-'o boy, who \ o!
untarih - ,e the confession wh:
led to ing given tho reform
tory s(o- It will be rememtx
ed that s gave account last wet
that In t arrested for sneak:into
the A hams Grocery and steal
ing a La. ?ntaining about $lfl ;r
it was v hP Was under arrest tha'
he also r.fessed to the other r
i -|>ery wh. questioned about it.?Kei
shnw Eta.
, 1 anion- Stowaway Injured.
New Lu-yport, Mass., Sept. 23.?A;.
, thur Scan .bor, the 22-year-old I\?i;
i land, Ma*"o, youth who last .lur.
stowed htmsclf away on the trans
- Atlantic plane "Yellow Bird" or.
> flight between Old Orchard, Ma;r.e
? and Santander Spain, today hove-c
) between life and death at a local ho>
pita!, the victim of an automobi;
accident. -
A l'nck of CinU. * *
A private eoldier by the name of
John Aracm was taken before a may*
istrate recently for playing card# do
ring divine services. It appear* that
the sergeant had reprimanded the
soldier at the church, and after the
parson had read the prayer he took
the text. Those who had Bibles took
theru out, but thi* soldier had neither
Bible nor common prayer "book, but
pulled out a pack of cards. He first
looked at one and then another. The
sergeant said: "John, put up those
cards} this is no place for them."
' Never mind that," said John. "John,
put up the cards." "Never mind that,"
said John. So after the service was
over, the constable took him before
the mayor for playing cards in
church. This was the question: "Well,
soldier, what have you to say for
yourself? Much, sir, I hope; very
much; if not, I'll punish you more
than any man was ever punished."
"I have been," said the soldier,
"about six wepks on the march. I
have nothing but a pack of cards, but
I'll satisfy your honor of the purity of
my intentions." And, spreading the
cards before the mayor, he began
with the ace. "When I see the ace it
reminds me there is "but one God.
When I see the deuce it reminds me
of the Father and Son. When I see
the tray it reminds me of the Futher,
Son and Holy Ghost. When 1 see the
four it reminds me of the four evangelists,
Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John. When I see the five it reminds
me of the five virgins who trimmed
their lamps. There were ten; 5 were
wise and five were foolish. The six
reminds me that in six days the Lord
made heaven and earth, and when I
see the seven it reminds me that on
the seventh day the Almighty rested
from His work of creation, and hallowed
that day. When I see the eight
it reminds me of the eight righteous
persons that were saved when God
destroyed the earth. They were Nonh
and his wife, their sons and * their
three wives. When I see the nine it
reminds me of the nine lefpers that
were cleansed by our Savior. There
were trine out of ten that never returned
thanks. When I see the ten it
reminds ine of the ten commandments
that Qod handed down to Moses on a
table of stone. When I see the queen
it reminds me of the Queen of Sheba,
who visited Solomon. She was as wise
a woman as he was a man. She
brought with her fifty boys and fifty
girls, all dressed in boy apparel, for
Solomon to tell which were boys and
which were girls. He sent for water
for them to wash. The girls washed
to their elbows and the boys to their
wrists. He told by that. When I Bee
the king it reminds me of the King of
Heaven, who is God Almighty."
Well, you have given me the description
of all the cards but one. What
is the joker," said the mayor. /'Well,
I'll give your honor a description of
that if you won't get angry." "I will
not get angry if you will give n>p the
joker," said the mayor. "Well, the
greatest joker I know is the constable
that brought me here. By counting
the spots on the pack of cards I find
365, as many as there are days in a
year. On counting the cards, I find
there are fifty-two, as many as there
are weeks in a year. There are twelve
pictured cards, as many as there are
months in a year, and there are four
suits, as many as there are weeks in
a month, and on counting the tricks I
find there are thirteen, as many as
there are weeks in a quarter. So you
see, sir, a pack of cards serves me for
a Bible, almanac and prayer book."?
Atlanta Journal.
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A report from Hankow, China, tells
of the massacre of 3,000 Moslems by
Chinese in remote Ransu province recently.
Woman Robber Discharged.
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New Braunfels, Tex., Sept. 21.?
The long legal battle of Mrs. Rebec,
ca Braley Rogers, former Universi.
ty of Texas co-ed, to escape a prison i
sentence in connection with the $1,000
robbery of the Farmers National
Bank of Buda, Texas, in 1926, today l
apparently had ended successfully.
The young woman's fourth trial ]
came to a close last night when the 1
jury, unable to agree, was Mischarg. ?
ed. Shortly6 afterward district attorney
Fred Bludnell indicated he would
not prosecute |ier the fifth time.
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Seventeen Killed, Many Injured '
Detroit, Mich., Sept. 20?'Seventeen
dead and 47 injured tonight was the
casualty record of the flames and
smoke that early this morning swept through
the study club, a cabaret on
east Vernor Highway that for a yew
has been one of the bright centers
of Detroit night life. ,
] Nine men and eight women made
up. the death list. The injured were
scattered in half a dozen honpitah,
many too seriously injured to tell of
their experiences. _
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