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^ > ~ia^p?rqwi?I - I I.II IWIIIW i m. - LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the File* of Th? Citron Ula Fiftoon an4 Thirty Years Ago I. I ' THIRTY YKAUH AGO October 27, 1889 Work of laying the rail* on Seahoard track* begins at intersection of Bout^hern railway. The late P. T. Villepigue elected president of the Camden cotton millb. William Kirklaml, aged 5D, died in Flat Rpek section. Camden telephone exchunge re mayed from Workman House to upstairs of store of F. P. Watkins. John Jons, of -West Watered had arm badly cut in gin of II. G. Team. * Commissioners of agriculture''of all cotton growing states attending cotton convention in Atlanta. Dr. W. C. McDowell, of Westviilo, returns to Atlanta, to resume the study of .dentistry. , ... FIFTEEN YEARS AGO November 6, 1914 -C. W. Kvans, of Suiumerton, comes to Camden to organiie Camden Undertaking Company, with J. B. Wallace, K. W. Murchison, A. J. Heattie, and it. T. Good ale as corporators. A. S.' Gardner, formerly of B?thuoe, died at DeSota, Ga., of hemorrhagic fever. * It. A. Vaghan install* roller mill for grinding (lour at his place north of Camden, William '(Henry Jackson and Miss Mattie Wilson, both of Lugoff, married here. Willie Baker and Miss Adann Trucsdell, of DeKalb, married here. Skating rink opened in old-armory building. Miss Kosa Lee and Raymond L. Moore married. Death of Miss Mary McDowail Whltaker occurs. Nobody's Business Written far The Chronicle by Gee McGee, popyright", 1028. Throw Out the Life Line Farm Belief, a la Government, is about 'J months old, but the poor thing ain't able to sit nlone yet. He doesn't know what to do with all ot that GOO million dollars his Uncle Sam placed to his credit the very day ,the stork left him at the While House hut he's still thinking, So far, only about 2GO thou-and dollars have ix-en put to any use at all, and that went for salaries and office equipment and secretaries and telegrams and entertaining visitors. Hut nearly 2 dollars were expended last week by the boatfd broadcasting the glad tidings that if the farmers will put their stulf in a good warehouse and get a pretty little lithographed receipt for same, and send it to the nearest office of the "system," they will entertain a request for a loan equal to 80 per cent of the value of such corn, cotton, oats or hogs that the said farmers mlgh.i - own. Farm Relief is running true to form in that it is already a political plum which the politicians have 1m. gun to fuss about. In order to strengthen their hold on their respective constituency back home, tnt senators and congressmen from the grain belt and howling and cussing because the cottqn producer is nursing at the bung-hole, and those from the .cotton belt swear that all of the help is going to the wheat and corn farmers, when, as a matter of fact, neither farmer is getting any help from any source, and Wall street is still fixing the price of what the sweat of his brow has brought forth. When any political group becomes so pious and so considerate and so liberal and so thoughtful that it will work earnestly and honestly for the welfare of the men who plow and hoe and reap and sow, I say it will be time for us to get ready for the millennium because then the wasp will be sleeping with the billy goat and the adder will be the baby's pet. There has never been a time that good collateral would not serve the purpose of fetching forth a loan, and the only advantage that Mr. Hoover's jH?t bill has to offer :s a slightly lower discount rate than the Federal Reserve might Ik* using at the time. In other words, Farm Belief will ultimately prove itself to be a big money-lending piece of machinery. and that's all. The Farm Relief plank in the platform <>f hot h parties was full of knot holes and splinters. It was used as a bait and we bit. The bill was etiae'ed. and ever since it became law practically all commodities have declined in price. Of course, the citrus folk a: e getting a little bit better price for their stuff, thanks to the Mediterranean fly, and the potato grower is reaping a slight harvest, and the potato bug and drought are being blamed for that, but Messrs. Supply & Demand are still bosses of the fleecy staple and the biscuit and corn-dodger world. But we farmers are indeed grateful for those radio programs. I am inclined to think that Mr. Mellon pulled a bone in changing the size and texture of our currency. Why, this new money is made out of such sorry paper that it woars out by the time the fourth instalment agent collects it. Of course, I have not handled any of it so far except a few Is and 2s, but I understand that the 5s and 10s are made out of the same kind of cheap paper. If he saves Unci# Sam 960 million dolT1 . - . larfl a year, he's got to save it o*> something besides the manufacturing of hin currency. And the Bize don't appeal to nobody enither. (Cotton Letter The tttortus and cyclones and tain of U weeks ago were very bearish, and as the cotton crop was damaged only about 15 per cent, spots have not yet fylly recovered from the decline. Southern selling continues to hold December down around 18.80, but the bulls don't yet know what the southerners are selling, unless it it their mules. The textile indi^ttry is not so promising at present, but as soon as the Communists gain control of the mills, an average man cun be shot for II dollars, including the cost of the pistol. The woodle hug i> injuring the crop in Japan. This hug climbs the stalks and bites off the bolls and then comes down and sleeps between the locks and that's the last of said locks. And then ther's Wall street and the discount rate and the stock gambles; so look for lower prices. < i Dearo teecber: Don't whup my Willie no more as that is what I am for. Your job is to teach him. Wnen he hit you with them apple seeds, he was flinging them at the windovu, and he was liabull to make a mistake as he lis left-handed. He is stubborn and lazy just like his daddy, but lie ain't never' been accused of fighting back at nobody, so after this?you can count on me doing all of the whopping as no woman is big enough to cut the blood out of my younguns as long as I can set aloan. His ma. Whatever became of that guy that was rooting the goober up Pike's Peak about 4 months ago? Guess he got what he was after, advertising, and then he ate the goober and went home. The world is full of fools. A fellow came thru our town not long ago hopping. He said he was hopping from New Orleans to New York. Billie Jones sicked his bull dog on him when he passed their house, and he swapped from hopping to flying. A girl was hiking from somewhere to somewhere else last week, giving away chewing gum samples. Her skirt was so short I couldn't tell whether she had on a ruffle or an excuse. She didn't lack over 15 cents being nude. Clothes don't, make the man, but no clothes seems to make the woman.... popular. After the farmers had disposed of all their tobacco at low prices, the cigarette manufacturers raised tinprice of their "smokes" 40 cents per thousand, thus making it necessary for our hoys and girls and men and wonn-n to fork over 500 thousand additional cash per day for the joy of puffing. Wall street saw the joke in .. minute and all tobacco stocks li?ti-d on the exchange advanced from 10 to 15 doyyars per share. Hurrah for Farm Relief. A Catholic priest and the pastor of the Old First Reformed church, of Brooklyn, are vigorously protesting the licensing of a public dance nail to be located in the vicinity of their churches. EYES EXAMINED and Glasses Fitted THE HOFFER COMPANY Jewtlers and Optoptetrista Camden Can Have Cannery. We learn from the president ot the Camden and Kerehaw County Chitmber of Commerce that a large cannery can he had for Camden gnd this (taction if adequate aupport of the project i? forthcoming. No details have been announced. A definite proposition will be presented to the people of Camden shortly, -v.-4 i MH. Winkler To Return It will be pleasant news to the people of Camden to know that Mrs! Sarah K. Winkler, of New York, will retqrn to Camden this winter and do publicity work for the local and northern publications. She served well in that capacity several seasons and is popular among tourists as well as her home town people. GEN Kit A I, NEWS NOTES Charlie Porter, uegro 6t Springfield in Orangeburg county found a black looking stone that g^stened and glared in the sun light, lie waa induce(| to take it to a Charleston jeweler, who pronounced it a black diamond and gave him $500 for the gem. Charlie suys he is pretty aurc he will find some more black diamonds where he found his first one. Chief of police Smith stopped h, parade of Greenville high school students in Greenville Friday night, which they hud staged to celebratd a football game. The chief said they were blocking traffic and that hereafter they Would not be allowed to parade the town unless they had a police permit. < . Mrs. M. A, Lovelace, 03, of the Victor Mills at Greer had her husband, YV. B. Lovelace, 73, arrested4 this week in Spartanburg, charging him with desertion. In the trial of ex-governor Sidney J. Catts, at Taimia, Flu.', on a charge of counterfeiting Miss Leas Burwell, a Stenographer, testified that she had seen her former employer, Julian Diaz, a lawyer, give Catts'250 $100 counterfeit notes, but that Catts had handed them back to the lawyer. An attempt was made to assassinate the crown prince of Italy last Wednesday morning in Brussels, where the prince had gone to celebrate his bethroal to the Princess "Marie Jose of Belgium. The attack was made with a pistol by an Italian, who gave his name as Enrico Dirosa. The prince was uninjured. Henry Upson Sims, of Birmingham, Ala., was last week elected president of the American Bar Association at its meeting in Memphis.] ...Ul'l. .'A! HORRY COUNTY MURDER Don Bryant Killed Hal Brand For Talking to His Bride 1 Conway, Oct. 25.?J. Don Bryant l.s In-int? held here on a charge of murdering Hal Brand after an allt'K' d altercation at the home of Mrs. "Hi nl< > Milligan. Byant wits arrested Wednesday niv-hi .six hours after he had married. rI he shooting is said to have taken p!a > on that same night. Brand (w a- talking to Bry^nt'? bride, who *\a- Miss Edna Newton, when he was K ili 0, eye witnesses said. Bryant is but 17 years old. Brand a!.->u was a young man under twenty. mamsmsmm. !" jvu "wwffgw The navy department at Washington on last Wednesday, ahnounce^l the loss of two lives from naval ves: sels off Hampton Roads during an Atlantic gale on Tuesday. Lieut. Edwin VanBrant was lost from the Marblehead, and Boatswain's Mate John Michael Wajsh was lost frPm the battleship Florida. Three men were killed and a fourth seriously wounded in u fight between shnatyboat men on the WhitorJriver in Arkansas on Tuesday. The qaarrel was over u debt of $2. 0 . / A truck load of rye whiskey, vat J ued at $25,000) was seized by proj&fl bition officers at Harps well, Maine, J last Wednesday. Pour men Were * arrested. ? ^ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS State of South Carolina County of Kershaw (In the Court of Common Pleas) W. L. Jackson. Guardian, Plaintiff, against Silvia Jefferson, Doctor Jefferson. Henry J. Jefferson, Alice Moss. Minnie Loo Griffin and Jacob Jefferson, minor, Ruth Jefferson, minor, Julia Mocasy, minor, and Essie Jefferson minor, by their Guardian ad litem, I. C. Hough, and John Doe. denoting collectively the names of certain minors, children of Hester Jefferson, deceased, whose names are unknown to the Plaintiff, Defendants. SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS TO THE DEFENDANTS: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, which is this day filed in the office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for the said County, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office in Camden, S. C., within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the cOurt for relief demanded in the complaint. JOHN K. do LOACH Plaintiff's Attorney Dated 31st. day of October, 19'29 To the minor Defendants, John Doe:1 The following is a copy of an order. appo ting Guardian ad Litem to rep rose- ; you in this cause: "It app sring to my entire sat..-faction p..: the minor defendant. John Do. are without the State < South < n lina, and have an intei est in th , al estate described in tt, complai and it iurther appearm. that th< Me neet ssary parties t this ac* and it is necessary them to h represented in said can-by a g . an ad litem, and that i C. Houp . attorney at law, of Can den, S. i is a competent and n sponsible e-son to so act as guar ian ad m of the minor defen.: ants, "NOU THEREFORE, IT IS OP DERED cat the said I. C. Houg be, and hereby appointed guards ad liten the minor defendni John Do. . unless the said minor <1< fendant- John Doe, or someone r their bet.a'.f shall, within 20 days a: iter the ervice of a copy of this der upon them, apply .and procurthe app- ntment of a guardian .? . litem to represent them in this caw"IT IS FURTHER ORDER! that the said minor defendants, J Doe, be ..i-rved with a copy of t order by a publication of the s.. ?, coincident with the publication of ' summons herein, as provided by P. \ and a copy of the same be ma :.. ; to their Grandmother, Silvia Jefferson, at No. 197 Navy Street, Brooklyn, New York." r _ J. H. OLYBU'RN Clerk of Court for Kerahaw County. Women Seeking Extra Money Read This In every city and town some good w>man needs money?Money foi clothes or to help with home exp<m s. She may feel handicapped by lack of business training or exjp.-ricnee, hut there is a sure and easy way to earn money for just that type of woman. 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C,, and on Pampllco Sound, North Carolina Coaat. Hunting Partiee taken out by appointment front Hotels at Camden. S. C. 2* Also have for sale two attractive aid Southern plantation homes; Fine old-time residences on each. B. D. BOYKIN BOYKIN, S. C. Telephone and Telegraphic AddreBa: Camden, S. C. ' TRESPASS NOTICE All persons are hereby warned against hunting, fishingt and other, wise tj e&pas?ing~on the lands five-orsix miles beldw Camden, known as the W. C. Seagle and H. S, Zeigler lands. | Persons disregarding this notice .will be prosecuted. W. C. SEAGLE ^ H. S. ZEIGLEE October 16, 1929. ? ** ?i mi ?pp pu ' -?z*m 11 1 1 I | .. ; " 1 The Practice of Economy 1 Will Insure Saving 1 For Future Needs . I You must make up your mind now to do without : i - - ? -j , some things if you don't want to be without everything later on. w . I _ ; 'I Loan and Savings Bank CAPITAL $100,000.00 I * . 1 " II.. 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