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' ; ; 7 ? ^ ^ LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the Filea of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Yeara Ago 11 1 THIRTY YEARS AGO December 1, 1809 Adjutant General J. W. Floyd and editor J. ,W. Hamel, of Kershaw, pay visit to Camden. Mr. James Team and Miss Malita Clyburn married in Camden by" Dr. J. Thomas Piite, of the Methodist church. liev, R. T. Blackmon and Minx Mary West, of the Roland section married. K J. F. Smith pays visit to htyne~>)f Miss Katie Bethune, aj^cd 98, and M. . K. Yarborough, 09,in the Lynchwood section (now Bethune.) Messrs. J. T. Hay und C. L. VVinkler, attending supreme court in Columbia. John S. Lindsay announces opening of grocery store on lower Main street. 1 Kershuw County colored fair in progress and lurgu crowds uttending. John E. .Stokes, of Tillers Ferry, brings stulk of sugar cane to Chronicle offie# which had 21 joints. Dr. J. Thos. Pate preaches farewell sermon at Methodist church. ~ i * ' It is estimated that more than n quarter of a million fans witnessed the football games iji the Southern states Thanksgiving duy. 1 ? i Him ib wi I FIFTEEN YEARS AGO December 11, 1914 Tom Workman, Isam Johnson, Silas Chesnut an<J Jim Griffin were drown' ed in the high waters of the Waterec when they attempted the rescue of a hunting party marooned on an island. Walter Holland, young negro man, killed a few miles east of Camden while scuffling with Birchmore Clark and Bishop Clark. James A. Durant, aged 62, brother of late Mrs. D. F. Dixon, dies at Bishopville. 'Fire at an early hour destroys the warehouse of th? late "George W. Crosby, entailing a loss of $500. Abe Arthur, negro watchman, gets in jail for stealing cloth from Pine Creek mill. Mr. Thomus Whitaker, one of Camde/i's oldest and most respected Confederate veterans, dead at his home here. Mrs. H L. WatkirtB hostess to Hobkirk Hill chapter I). A. R. Miss Bland Williams hostess at a charming function held at Mulberry. Lee Fuulkenberry, of Kershaw, suffers loss of three fingers on right hand in gin accident. Mrs. Rhodu Horton, (50, wife of David Horton, dead in the Bethel section of the county. DECEMBER FARM CALENDAR Things to Ik? Done Thin Mojpth as Outlined by CleniHon College r> Agronomy Examine your cotton planting- need and see that they are not damp or heating. Thresh out your peas and beans while you can't <|o field work. You can't increase the value of your cotton, but you can decrease its value by leaving it unprotected from the weather. Plant Diseases Clean up peach and apple orchards to destroy all fallen fruit, limbs and twigs. Agricultural Engineering Plan to keep the tractor busy during the winter months with belt jobs, sawing wood, lumber, feed grinding, etc. It will also be a good time to cut in cotton stalks and other material on the land with a disc harrow. Build and repair terraces now so that they may settle before the hard spring and summer rains. The new type farm explosives are inexpensive method of getting rid of stumps and other field obstructions as well as digging ditches* This is a good time to build or repair fences if you are to handle livest oek. Animal Husbandry Provide plenty of bedding, under good shelter, for hogs during cold nights. Make liberal use of winter forages I such as barley, ryo and oats for hog grazing. Do not allow the sheep to take the cold winter rains but' provide them with a shelter which affords dry feet, dry backs and no. draught. Feed all the legume hay they will clean up. Give beef cattle good roughage, such as legume hay. Feed mules cottonseed meal along with other concentrates such as corn, if grassy hay or fodder is used for roughage. Give idle mules free access to roughage and reduce concentrates one-half. Dairying Provide convenient and abundant water for milking cows, which are inclined to drink too little water during the winter. For winter feeding include a legume hay and a succulent roughage. Feed each cow grain in proportion to milk produced. Feed calves over six months old and yearling liberally during the winter to insure proper growth. Install labor-saving equipment if possible to take drudgery from dairy operations. Hroed cows this month for early fall calving in 11)30. Poultry Feed two or three pounds daily of a wet fattening mash per 100 hens of the light breeds to maintain body weight and prevent molt. Keep the houses clean and ry to prevent colds, roup and sorehead. Provide fresh water for the hens. Do not force them to drink ice cold water. If pullets have gone into a molt feed liberally to bring them hack into production. Feed the old hens liberally so that they will complete the molt and begin production. Horticulture Prune fruit trees and bunch grapes. Make garden plans, get catalogs, and order seeds early. If fruit trees have not been set do so this month; fall planting in the South is preferable. Sow celery seed in cold-frames for spring crop. Order seed potatoes for delivery in late \Ja,nunry or early February. P*'pare hot-beds for sowing in January. Continue to prune scuppernongs. Make cuttings of grapes and omn-j mental deciduous shrubs. Protect the shade trees by covering exposed roots with soil. Watch for weevils in stored grains and fumigate with carbon bisulphide if necessary. Remember that many insect pests winter under trash and among crop remnants and clean all these up for protection and for looks. Continue to burn fallen pecan, twigs which were girdled by the twig-girdler. Plowing infested fields to reduce next year's injury froni cotton boll worm, corn ear worm, tomato fruit worm and cutworms also. Plan for the late winter orchard spraying. F.lmer Schulti, 3*2, has been re leased from custody at "ffcSTAivia, X. V., after being held for 48 hours on suspicion of killing his wife with a sh4t gun. A 4-yoar-old child, stand ing by his mother's casket, said "I bang mama." TMt has been the father's claim. r > NO-MO-KORN FOR CORN'S AND CALLOUSES Made in Camden And For Sale By DeKalb Pharmacy?Phone 95 PAINFUL INDIGESTION "I BUFFKHKD ftx>m ixxdigostion ? everything I ate gave me heartburn," says Mrs. Mattie Mullins, of Pound, Va. "For months, I did not see a well day. I wnr ried along, but never felt welL I **1 got a package of Thedford's Black-Draught at the | store and began taking it ? a ! doao every night before going to bed. I had been having an awful pain. After I had taken Black-Draught, this pain entirely stopped. I began to gain in weight, and rested well at night. In a few months I was feeling fine. My health was better than it had been in years. **I keep Black-Draught in our home, and we all take it for constipation and upset Stomach." Insist on Thedford's BlackDraught COVSTIPATIOH, IMDIOtmOM, "WQMPf ^ > tJTSiVWSx "j > i~ V- -; V - ; " " * Abyssinian Jews Only Jewish Mountaineers The only Jewish mountaineer* In (l>0 w<>rl<! are wild to live In Abyssal". These tribesmen, Fulashaa u* the> call themselves, tiitiabit the blghlunds of wliut was once part of the fju-hut kingdom of tthleh, the north of the Negus country. The KqIumIihh have a typical Jewish appearance, but lack moat of the conventional hublts und attribute* or that race. Neither they nor their ancestor* have ever engaged In trade. They ure trappers und rarely mingle with the Abyaainlans In the town* and villa gen of the lowland. They adhere to the Biblical traditions of the ancestor*, practice the usual rites und perform a rude Imitation of the passover ceremonies. They have neither temples nor rabbis. In the fuktuesses of their mountains they preserve In ? quaint mahogany casket a venerable parchment copy of the pentateuch, which their sblefi allege same dftwn to them direct from King Bolouiou through the Queen of Bheba. During the coronation of lies Taffurl us emperor of Abyssinia, representatives of the Fulusha tribes presented to the new monurch a copy of the manuscripts which King Solomon sent the Queen of Sheba before they were married. Thepe are said to contain the earliest known lovO letters from u monurch to ids royal consort. Peace on Earth Belief of an Old French Race The Busqucs of the i'yranees "beetion of France .are on old race which has outlived the Itoman empire, the I'ark ages, feudalism and monarchy. They ure thrifty, hard-working farmers and fishermen with a simple system of very Jocul democratic self-government. They are strong, simple, warm-hearted, physically sound and comely, and above ull life-loving. While other races and social organizations around them have risen' and fullen, they have never had a king, a tyrant, an arlstocracy or a revolution. They seem to be very religious, und although they are hot-blooded and Impulsive, they have never taken a single aggressive step against a neighbor In warfare.? Ray F. Ilendrlx. Light Harmful to Medicine Light which Is so helpful to sick persons does not do their medicines ; any good. In fuct so many of these J deteriorate upon exposure to light that ! druggists have authorized a special , study to discover containers,, which will protect their medicines and chetn- ' icals from the harmful light. In some cases light, rays seem to preserve the medical virtues of a preparation, hut In others they are definitely harmful. The changes which patients notice in the colors of medicines Is usually Indicative of change In the medical properties. The green color of some Iron preparations changes to an nupleusant brown. Bright yellow ointments turn brown or green. Tinctures and fluid extracts made from vegetable drugs turn a dark color and depohit sediments. Serums and other biological products lose their ability to cure or prevent disease. $ Fly Fiahing in 200 A. D. We are Indebted to the Missouri Fish and Game News for the discovery that fly fishing is far from a modern sport. In the Second century of the Christian era, a Greek, Aelian wrote as follows: "I have heard of n .Macedonian way of catching fish, and It Is this: They fasten red wool Around a hook ami fit on to the wool two feathers which grow under a cock's wattles and are in color like wax. Their rod Is six feet long, and the line is the same length. Then they throw their snare, and the fish, attracted and maddened by the color, comes up, thinking from the pretty sight to get a dainty mouthful ; when, however, it opens its Jaws, it is caught by the hook and enjoys u bitter repast, a captive. Appointment* by President The I'reshleiil appoints, without con sent of the congress, his private secretary and the librarian of congress. The President, with the concurrence or. I he senate, appoints about 1G.OOO pcrMins a year. These Include umbo-sudors. consuls, fudges, collectors of customs, cabinet officials, district attorneys, marshals, territorial governors, postmasters of certain classes, treasurer of the United States, con troll,>r of the currency, superintendent ,,f mints, commissioner of internal revenue, interstate commerce >mmis sinners, mines, pensions, patents. Indian affairs, all bureau chiefs, ill military atjd naval ofllcers. and many ot hers. Equal Opportunity to Lote "I thought you* rather liked Mr. ("rasher. Yqu know he believes In equality for women." "Yes." said Miss Cayenne. "He goes too far In that Idea to suit me w hen tie took me to the opera he Inlisted on matching coins to determine which of us was to pay for the tickets i I the supper afterward." Absolutely Noiaeleta Elderly Gentleman (wishing to rent room) ?Yes. this room pleases me, but I notice there's some sort of n manu factoring plant In ths rear fnclng the nflejr: doesn't It make considerable noise? Landlady?Oh, do, sir; not g||. That's s felt slipper factory. Honor Roll Gates Ford School { The honor roll of the Gates Ford 1 Grammar school for the third month is as follows: Grade 1?Harold Haxley, Jessie , ilorton Fletcher, Ernistine I^ong, Susie Roberts, Sara West, Sarah Williams. Grade 2?Evans Ilorton, Maybelle Blackwell, Essie Gandy, Lessie Outen Grade 3.? Mae Long. Grade 4.?Robert Fletcher, Marie Blackwell, Dorothy Horton, Elfreida : Long. i Grade 5.?R. S. Long, Grace Long. ________________________ Alfred Currier, 60, committed suicide Tuesday by jumping from the fifteenth Moor of a Chicago building. , 'I In Australia there are at least 20 species of animals that are aviators? 1-1 flying squirrels, flying possumfl ing mice and even flying besrsfl .. "gjj i_iL.jg"gg4aw^s'B*'J; The Hunting Season Is Onl 4 * I have hunting1 land for sale and lease that fur- I niches good duck and quail shooting. Large and I small tracts Ideated near the following places: Camdon, S. C., Gaargatown, S. C.( Charleiton, 3* C., Beaufort I S. C. Alto at Moore head City, N. C., and on Pamplico Sound, North Carolina Coast. Hunting Partios taken out by appointment I from Hotels at Camden* S. C. I Also have for sale two attractive old Southern I plantation homes. Fine old-time residences on each. <o B. D. BOYKIN I Borkm. s. c. Telephone and Telegraphic Address: Camden, S. C. EYES EXAMINED and Glasses Fitted THE HOFFER COMPANY Jewelers and Optometrists 1 i " ? Wishing Alone Will Not Make One Independent 1 V There wojild be a lot more rich people in the world if wishes to have money were all^that is necessary to get it. But you have to transform your wishing energy into working energy before you carf-make much of a start on the road to comfort and financial independence. I . ? ' * e Loan and Savings Bank CAPITAL $100,000.00 msm mm *Member*: ; >. federal wm I - . , * *** Vf' r"';:.;. ?' " 5 ; ?"v ,v ^ _______ Every depositor in our bank enjoys a feeling of security because we are a Member of the Federal Reserve System. : . This powerful financial system is the greatest piece of construe* ' tive work in~banking ever devised, and benefits all member banks and all lines of business. v J These benefits are DESIRABLE to this community and you get v ' > them when you bank with us. r- - ? \ . - ?fb Make OUR bank YOUR bank! - ** - ~ ^ J The First National (?