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LOOKING BACKWARD Tal?n From the File* of The Chronicle Fifteen end Thirty Year* Ago THIRTY YKAKH AGO October 20, I HHP Water mains be Wig extended on north Lyttleton itreet us far a* Hobkirk Inn. Henry E. Beard opens Palace Restaurant on lower Main street. Willie Grigsby, of Ridgeway, joins Ann of&emp Brothers as salesman. Captain M. L. Smith attending the United States court session in Greenville. Representative John G. Richards in Camden on Monday. Mrs. S. M. Roaenbeigcr, of New York, visiting i?, Camden. T. V. Parker, county supervisor, advertises for competent superintendent for county home. Cotton crop estimate placed at 11,111,000 bales. Rig cotton lire in New York city j destroys 8,000 bales of cotton value! at $.100,000. George Bluckmon, near Kershaw, had his arm torn off in John M. Hioosn's cotton gin. C. II. Dal ton had face badly cut when knife flew off planer and struck him at J. J. Whistnant's planing mill near Kershaw. Major General Alfred Footc of Massachusetts, has been elected president of the National Guard association at its convention in Los Angeles, California. F1FTBBN YKAK8 AGO October 30, 1914 County wins suit brought in United States court against Penh Bridge Co., and A. Dallas O'Brien /or 000 for construction iron bridge over Wateree river. Many tourists arriving and engaging cottages for winter. Oscar J. Meroney dead ut Columbia, well known in railroad circles. Fire discovered by Policeman Latta in building on east DoKalb street occupied by Campbell Brothers. Had cotton fashion show in honor King Cotton at County Fair. A lucky number drawn by Miss Louise Hirsch and held by Mr. Ed Workman, won u bale of cotton. F. H. Arrants, county agent, had line agricultural exhibit at State fair. II. L. Schlosburg buys BO shares Loan & Savings Bonk stock, valued ut 35,000. Message received in Camdeh announcing the death in Savannah of Mrs. Addio Oppenheimer, sister of Mr. M. H. Heyman. Tom Workman, trailed by bloodhounds and captured tot shooting into residence of Hiram Nettles near Lugoff. Mrs. Bcedie Thomas, aged lady, dies at home of Mrs. Joseph Goodule in this city. Ben Bean Wins His Fight for Freedom Columbia, October 12.?Hen Bess won his long fight in the courts today when the State Supremo Court en banc handed down an opinion reversing the derive of the circuit judge, ordering the "prisoner released without prejudice to the right of the statj. authorities to institute such proceedings in equity as they may be advised t,o secure* a judicial determination of the issue of fraud in the procurement of the pardon." The prevailing opinion in the case was written by T. P. Cothran, associate justice, and it was concurred in by R. C. Watts, chief justice, and Eugene Blease, associate justice, and ten circuit judges. A dissenting opinion was written by Jesse F. Carter, associate justice, it being concurred in by John G. Stabler, associate justice and seve.ii circuit judges. Iiess, a Florence county negro, was convicted of criminal assault on a white woman and was sentenced to serve .'10 years in the penitentiary. After he had served about 13 years, the prosecutrix, in the ease signed an affidavit t" the general effect that the tesiim<>n\ -hi- gave at the trial was not true. Governor Richard-- gave Bess a pardon and he was set free. Some time later, the woman gave out another statement that she did not understand what she was signing when she signed the first affidavit, that she intended to say that she "forgave" Bess and not that he was not guilty. Also it was said that $50 had been paid for the first affidavit. The governor then revoked the pardon. Woman Physician Dead. Dr. Annie Alexander, first woman physician of Charlotte, and the first woman physician in this section of the Camlinas, died Tuesday morning at her home on North Tryon Street, following a short illness from pneumonia. NAVY DAY. <) -. Monday. OctoCr 2*. l'.fJ'd, the I "nit- 1 St a'c- Na\y w'll hold i; - n lieu..! at >n of "Navy Day." \;1 . - - r:idistrict are u ged t > tgat on that day to thn b: f ur Navy ami the impera; * , ,*.i f,.i .t-' the first line of nata-'i.i. ?irfen-?e. The Navy rnii-t:tutes i- ino>t et oiK-micaI insurance aid tm- g-eato-t protection for the lives and property of its citizens again-! agg*e>>ion from without. It .> no 1 e>s a potential agency to science, and aid to commerce. and an instrument of mercy in time of peace. An interesting and instructive program has been arranged for presentation at the Navy Yard, Charleston, S. (\, during the afternoon of Navy Day. It is the Navy's day "at home.' A cordial invitation , extended tc the people of this locattii to visit tht Navy. Yard to view this prograrr which has been specially preparer to attract and hold the interest of nl persons concerned with the welfare of our country. North Carolina labor leaders havi initiated plans for arbitration of the difficulties between striking textile workers at Marion and the mill own ers. : ^ ' Rum Runners Make Escape Smoke Screen Throwing1 a blinding smoke screen behind them two men who are evidently professional bootleggers gave Sheriff % Dabncy and his assistants something new to confront in?the way of stopping liquor ruimers on last Sunday evening. Sheriff Dabney and his assistants seized the car in which a large quantity of liquor was carried hut the men escaped in the dense screen of smoke which was gushing from the car. This scene took place on the Rocky River road near Buford. As Jailor Belk in his car headed the men off from the front Sheriff Dabney in his car,came up from the rear and the sheriff rammed the car of the liquor runners causing it to go into the ditch. As the smoke was thick in all directions the law violators madi their escape. When the automobile of the escaped men was inspected it was found that a container about the size of . an ice cream churn was used for holding oil to make the smoke screen. By pumping this oil through a valve into the exhaust immense clouds of smoke were thrown into the atmosphere in all directions. The smtoke screen which was evidently homemade worked with very good results for the occupants of the car. In discussing the incident today Sheriff Dabney said that he was unable to sec ten steps in front of him as the smoke was blinding. About 100 gallons of liquor anil the Ford touring car used by the liquor makers was confiscated and the sheriff is now on the trail of the men who are believed to have been the occupants of the car.?Lancaster News. TWO NEW PUBLICATIONS TO HELP SAVE THE SOIL Clemson College, Oct. 21.?How winter cover crops conserve plant food, prevent erosion, provide organic matter, add nitroy.cn to the soil, and serve for wint? grazing; and how they may he ?neces*fnily sr lect<<i and grown, 1- \plained in Station Circular -IT. \\ .tor C< \er Cr < Experiment-, and 1-Wnsio- Circu. .r !"i>. Impr-we the 1 wit Wir.'. r c..\? (Tot -. t h\ Dr. 1 S. B . o. :tgt -mist a' 1 Tin-on Co ye. Thc\ "i \ ha.. iv from y county ' . a. ...:ent . he Divis:-c ?f Publi- i f . t'lem-on College. S. C. Th? .-? publications give the results of experiments conducted at Clemson College to determine the be-t practices of growing such crops, and give the advantages and disadvantages of each of the crops recommended for South Carolina. Ryo, oats, Austrian winter peas and vetch, or a combination of a legume and a . non-legume, are the crops best adap ted to the conditions in this state. ) Dr. Buio states that late planting, \ thin seeding *he failure to ini noculate are the most common causes 1 of failure with winter cover crops. Dr. Buie believes there is no more , efTicient way to build up our soils that are so run-down that a profita5 hie crop?cannot be produced without ' large applications of commercial fer? tilizers, than by the use of winter j cover crops. How this may be done - profitably is explained iu theee publications. ATLANTA BOY, 13, IS A SKYSCRAPER Youtk I* Growing Toward Now Altltudo Mark. .1 Atlanta, Oa.?How would you llk? to be thlrUwm again?but aeveu toet two lacHt* tell? ;i .That la the age and ludght ol Henry Mulllus c* Atlanta. He hope* to be a football star at Georgia Tech some day. Doctora aay the trouble?If It can be called thut?I* cauaed by overactivity of the youth'a pituitary gland, a ductleae orgun below the brain. Such overactivity caueea the rlae oi inoat glanta. Henry Mulling 1m In the seventy Blade in achool. Hla report card la usually worth ?howlng to his father and mother?A h uud B'a. On top of that be la a good gotf pluyer. He goea around in the HOs aoine of bit drive* are 25(1 yards. Henry doesn't look toward golf for MuccesH, however. "All the club handles are too short, anywiur. I want to be a boxer and u fpotWill player, but 1 cun't flud anybody to box with me," he suid. llenry^a jsh^ee are^slxf 14. 'Hie rest of Ms attire Is In proportion. He plays end on the high school football team, center on the basketball team. He drops some baskets In without poking his hand over his head, lie played first base In baseball fmd was utility inun on /the mound. Henry Is a wow In sports I C. E. Mulllns, a six footer, brother of tho young giant, claims his bl? brother eats only about us much aS the average thirteen-year-old boy eats, "only It goes farther.** If Ilenry keeps on growing?aud he doesn't wunt to?lie will, by averages with normally sized humans?leap Into something like ten feet of humanity? a world's record. However, doctora are going to give some treatmoirts to thut little pituitary gland. Sails Ov^r Earthquake; v Feels Ship "Hit Bottom" Washington, D. 0.?Sailing over an earthquake that was sufficiently severe to be felt by seismograph* throughout the world was the experience of a British ship, the Mugnlda, that has Just .been reported to the hydrographlc office here. The report Incidentally contirms the location of the quake made on December 2, the day after It happened, by the United States coast and geodetic survey, with the aid of telegraphic data gathered from a number of Observatories by Science Service. Capt W. 8. Smalea, the steamer's commander, reported that on December 1, while en route from Talcahuano to Tocqptlla, Chile, they felt three heavy bumps as If the vessel bad struck bottom. Their position was latitude 85 degrees 38.5 minutes south and longitude 72 degrees 54 minutes! west, where the charts show a depth J from 400 to 000 feet. Cureful examlna-! tlon showed that no damage was done. According to Commander N. H. Heck, In charge of the coast and geo-: detic survey's earthquake Investlga-, tlons, the ship must have been very . close to the center, or it woufd not, have heon t'clt as it was. The three bumps, he thinks, were One to three separate shocks, of which probably only one win severe enough to set up the earthquake waves which traveled | around the earth and permitted the' seismologists to locate It when they j were received on the seismographs. Frogs Learn Geometry, Experimenter Declares Berlin, Germany.?Frogs are not so i dumb as they look. They can learn j a simple proposition In geometry, as | that a square is not a triangle. And ! they will remember their lesson for a little while at least if they are paid for 1L A European experimenter, S. Bled-1 eruiann, has reported the results of tests on the learning capacity of frogs. ne set square and trlangu-j lar blocks in pairs before his squat; pupiK One block would have a do-1 lectnl'le insect attached to It, the other would have nothing. After a , sufficient number of repetitions the frog would learn that one shape was associated with the idea of food, the | other wit: tho idea of remaining empty: :i * l when both blocks w< ro presorted without the accustomed bnjt the : would hop expectantly rn the one '1 it had hitherto served his dim ' ' able. A nt: ' < r of different species < frogs :r "vrds were Thus "educated Tree f: proved to be the most aj pupils. WORLD SERIES MONEY Small Fortune Divided Between Winners and LoaerH in itecent Gamen ' Philadelphia, Oct. 15.?The calm j thatwfollows the storm lay over Shibe Park where the tumultuous crowd of Monday in turn groaned at or cheered the changing fortunes of the Cubs and Athletics. Connie Mack; the leader uf the new world's champions, went to Atalantic City to rest up and some of the players visited the bad park to gather up personal belonging he fore going home for the winter. It was made known that each flayer entitled to a full share of the I world'- series money will receive $5,281.'W. The players met some days ago and agreed upon those who should he rewarded outside of those entitled to full shares under the rules governing the world's series contests. It was voted to split the money into 28 parts. Twenty-four players received full shares. The 25th was split, 75 per cent, going to Ossie Orwoll, who played with the Athletics th roughout the greater part of the season only to be sent to Milwaukee in exchange for Le Bourveau, and the other 25 per cent was awarded to "Bevo" LeBourveau. It was announced that Orwoll would receive a full share, the club management making up th-- other 75 per cent. Full shares were awarded to Coaches Kid C.leason and F.arl Mack, the latter Connie's son, and Trainer Doc Ebling. .1 mmy Cronin, utility infielder, and Ceorge Burns, substitute first baseman, who joined the team after the - 'hedule had been underway both rereived full shares. Acquit Gastoni in Flogging Case Concord, N. C., Oct. 19.?After . 45 ijgjjiutes deliberation a Cabarrus county jury this afternoon acquitted the four men on^trial here on charges growing out of the kidnaping and flogging of Ben Wells, British communist textile organiser. The jury reached its decision on the fifth ballot und reported to Judge A. M. Stack that O. G. Morehead, Carl Halloway, Dewey Carver and Horace Lane, all of Gastonia, were not guilty of taking Wells and two other organizers from a Gastonia rooming house and beating Wells at ;i spot near Concord, almost 50 miles distant. The abduction of the men followed the formation of anti-communist mob in Gastonia on the night of September 9, which staged a demonstration and invaded labor headquarter in Gastonia, Bessemer City and Charlotte. , The,re was no demonstration in the court room. The few people who had gathered were, for the most part friends of the defendants and crowded around them to congratulate them. The first three ballots of the jury were ten for acquittal and two for conviction. On the fourth ballot, the count stood eleven for acqhittal and one for conviction. Oh the fifth ballot all voted for acquittal. The coroner of Greenville county has developed information to the effect that John L. Rice, 52, who shot Mrs. Sarah Stover Trammell, 37, to death at her home on the Farr's Bridge road Saturday morning, and then killed himself, 'had matured his plans, twp weeks before the tragedy. Waggoner enied Withdrawal Appeal New York, Oct. 18.?Charles D, Waggoner, Colorado banker, sentenced to 15 years in Atlanta penitentiary ! (or mail fraud, today in federal court lost a motion to withdraw his plea ol guilty entered to the indictment on ' October 10. The court, however, took under advisement a motion to have the maximum sentence lowered. The 15-year term, said Elwood M. Rabenold, Waggoner's attorney, was more than the client expected for pleading guilty to the charges that grew out of a federal probe of the 'scheme by which the small town banker defrauded six New York ftnancial houses of $500,000. WaggI oner was under the impression that ) he would receive only five years, he said. n Fines Two Preachers Los Angeles.?Judge Hardy, who ' presided at the' trial of Mrs. Lois Pantages t>n a murder charge, hailed two ministers before Sueprior Court i judges on a charge of contempt. They preached sermons during the trial which he asserted tended t<> influence j the jury. Found guilty, they were* fined $75 and $50, respectively. * V. 11 < ?/?- l r* EYES EXAMINED 1 and Glasses Fitted . I THE HOFFER COMPANY I Jewelers and Optometrists I ' The Hunting Season Is Onl / I have hunting land for sale and lease that furnishes good duck and Quail shooting. Large and small tracts located near the following places: Camden, 3. C., Georgetown, S. C., Charleston, S. C., Beaufort, S. C Also at Moorehead City, N. C., and on Pamplico Sound, North Carolina Coast. Hunting Parties taken out by appointment from Hotels at Camden, S. C. Also have for sale two attractive old Southern j plantation homes. 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