The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 17, 1930, Image 3

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!lleton Man Given, Ten-Year Sentence ? ulterboro, Jan. 11.?Ashley Crosvtts sentenced to ten years at lafbor here yesterday for firing shot that 'blinded Mont Riser, ly game warden; while the latter trailing night hunters on I)e[>er 12. ute attorneys charged that Crosittempted to kill Riser when he caught hunting at night. No dei witnesses were placed on th8? 1. A confession allege! by poto have been made by Crosby offered in evidence, ter a new trial was denied by :e J. R. Henry, defense counsel nptice of appeal and bond of )0 posted. liladelphia has begun the erecof a municipul convention hall h is to cost $5,000,QQ0. ICE OF APPLICATION FOB CHARTER e of ySouth Carolina County of Rershaw ctice i." hereby given that the unIgacd Trustees ^ill apply to the etary of State at Columbia, th Carolina, on the 18th day of jary, 1930, at 11 o'clock A. M., a certificate of incorporation for eree Baptist church, a corporaproposed to be formed for the iose of conducting religious worA. STANLEY LLEWELLYN J. J. SANDERS J. E.dtOBINSON ited at Camden, S. C., this 3rd of January, 1930. '-OOK f ORE BRAND , * ON BACK OF EACH PIECE i FINAL DISCHARGE otice is hereby given that one th from this date, on Monday, uary 3rd, 1930, I will make to Probate Judge of Kershaw Oounny final return as Administrator he estate of Hiram Nettles, deed, and on the same date I will y to the said Judge for a final targe as said Administrator. JOHN T. NETTLES, imden, S. C., January 2, 1930. TAX NOTICE. 7 TREASURER'S OFFICE CAMDEN, S. C. . August 14, 1929. tice is*" hereby given that all , County and School taxes for 1929 shall be due and payable een September 15th and Decem11st, 1929. Any information with ence to taxes will be cheeifully shed upon application. When ng inquiry please state Sehogl ict or Township. Very respectfully, S. W. HOGUE, Treasurer, Kershaw County, S.- C. N IO-MO-KORN R CORNS AND CALL0USB8 de in Camden And For Sale By )eKalb Pharmacy?Phone 95 I 5^ RELIEF [ || REFRESHING | 1"Wh have -need Thedford'e BlackDraught for years in our family. I can highly recommend it for many ailments. We take it for colds and for j constipation. "1 have four children, and I give it to them. "When my little girl gets bilious, or complains of 1ihi neadache, I give her Rj M a treatment of Black-Draught, ri 11 and she is all right in * day u| [l! "Sometimes when I have in- Ri ly digestion from improper eat- fi It ing, I have headache. Then I II II take Black-Draught. I always 111 ri feel fresh and have more ly I energy after I have taken Hi II it"?Mrs. E. Reich, 2215 East WA Ij First Street, Austin, Texas. y| lllfMAffeTIAII 6MSTtrATt0Hf HWHWilWi lf^'" ""","" - ,:i ' -. . ft ""V* i> jn "11 fr'1"" Drive to Catc h Old Plate Users Columbia, S. C., Jan. 9.?Inspectors from the State Highway Department and local police officers in the various counties of the State are planning to spread a drag net f?r approximately 00,000 motor vehicles which are yet without 1930 license plates, according to a statement issued by Ben M. Sawyer, Chief Highway Commissioner. * Already a penalty pf 50 cents has been added to the cost of each set of licenity) plates, but after the 15th of January violators of license law? will be hailed before Magistrates and charges- brought ugainst them. Mr. Sawyer's statement follows: "Our records show that an Jaiw uary 4, 1930, approximately 121,000 motor vehicle licenses have been issued for the year 1930. Making due allowances for all causes whatsoever it is conservatively estimated Jthat approximately 60,000 motor vehicles are now being operated in the State without licenses. "The law allows the Motor Vehicle Division the period from January 1 to January 15, to deliver licenses applied for prior to the 31st day of December and these have not only been issued but applications now received daily are given prompt attention The duty of the Motor Vehicle Division is to issue licenses as applied for to January 15th but the responsibility for securing licenses on or before this date is the obligation of the individual motor vehicle operator or owner. On and after January 16th it becomes the lawful duty of our organization to see and require that no motor vehicles are operated upon the p.ublic highways of the State without proper licenses for the year 1930. "Accord'rig':' "n the morv'ng of j January 16, 1930, I have authorized ^nd instructed Mr. Wr*"V. Sutherland, Director of the Motor Vehicle Division to begin a rigid campaign of law enforcement against all persons and firms who are found to be operating motor vehicles without 1930 licenses. Tyenty license Inspectors will be distributed and stationed so that, with the assured assistance and co-operation of certain city and county police officers, the State will' be covered with a drag-net. Our Inspectors will handle all apprehensions with courtesy, fairness and prompti ness but all apprehensions will be prosecuted and thereby all of the facts, stories, extenuating circumstances, alibis and what-not will have to be told directly to the Courts. "The law requires now tbat each applicant for motor vehicle license pay a penalty of fifty cents and this amount should be included in each remittance. The motor Ivehicle owners of the State are urgently requested to take notice of this final warning and secure their 1930 licenses on or before January 15th.'' Many Chinese Dead From Severe Cold Peiping, China, Jan. 10.?Half of China for days has .been experiencing the severest cold in 60 years with the dead numbered in the thousands and with tens of thousands suffering cruelly from lack of shelter. Undernourished population in the districts where famine followed crop failures in this summer were 'hard hit and many died in the hovels into which they had crawled in vain search of warmth. The greatest mortality from the wintry blasts was in the Suiyuan district of northern Shansi and inner Mongolia where it was estimated that 15,000 undernourished persons, most of them aged and children, were dead from exposure. In the town of Fengchen 2,500 were frozen to death, in Sahsien another 2,000 deid while in Poatow'chen 800 succumbed to the cold. Honan province reported the coldest weather since 1870, with below zero temperatures reported in the three Wuhan cities in Tluyioh province. The Ham river was filled with blocks of ice which had crushed thousands of Junks and drowned hundreds of persons. The Rcngo news agency said 700 soldiers were frozen during the movement of the second army. Bodies were sent back to Hankow on freight trains where soldiers and relatives were summoned !by the boating of gongs to come to the railroad yards and take charge of the dead. In Peiping the police reported 167 men and 41 women were found dead since Monday while in Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang 100 persons died within two days. Investigators hove decided that the recent disastrous coal mine disaster at McAlester, Okla., was caused by the striking of a match in the mine. The disaster caused the loss of the HTM ofjj^nrtaeri. ^ >V ^ . [Crop Summary for I South Carolina 1929; The tutal cm lima ted value of the principal field and truck crops prd. duced in South Carolina during 1929 ir $154,142,000, which is an increase of $12,920,000, or 0.1 per cent, over the eatimated value of $141,618,00 for the same crop* in 1028. Thirteen truck crops, grown for shipping and canning, are valued at $0,107,000, or 89 per cent, above the 1928 value of $0,540,000 for the same crops. Crops showing increases in value are: Cotton, corn, tobacco, oats, rye, Irish and sweet potatoes, sugar cane, soybeans and cowpeas; while cotton seed, wheat, peanuts, sorghum sirup, tame and wild hay, apples, peaches, pears and pecans are below last year in value. The total crop acreage harvested in 1929 is estimated at 5,012,000 acres, which is 5 per cent, less than the estimate of 5,271,000 acres harvested in 1928. Average per acre yield is well above last year for most crops, the yield of oats and sweet potatoes breaking all previous records. Improvement in yields over last year is especially noticeable in. cotton, corn, oats, sweet potatoes and sugar can? while .rye, peanuts, tobacco and the legumes also have somewhat greater yields, but not v/h^t, Irish potatoes, soybeans, cowpeas and hay. The year was unfavorable for fruits and nuts and these crops were unusually small this year. Bas^d on the December estimate of 845,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight and an average December 1 price of 16.4 cents per pound the cotton crop is valued at $69,290,000, j compared with $66,792,000 last year, i 1 he average price is two cents per ! pound lower this year than last and a D: \yv -ent. larger crop is worth ' only about 3.7 per cent, more money. ' Cotton seed is valued nt $10,500,-' 000, compared with $12,558,000 last .year. Although the estimated pro-! c'uction of 375,000 tons is 43,000 more j than last year, this year's reported price of $28 is $11 per toW less than the 1928 price, so that the value of the 1929 crop is 16.4 per cent, below the previous year. The state has gathered a good corn crop. The harvested acreage of 1,422,000 acres is the same as last year, but due to a much better average yield per acre the crop of 23,321,000 bushels is 6,257,000 bushels above the short crop of 1928. The December 1 price of 99 cents per bushel gives it a value of $23,088,000, compared with $28,088,000 last year. The tobacco crop is estimated at 82,992,000 pounds and compares with 82,288,000 pounds last year. The average price per pound of 16.0 cents is 3.3 cents better than the average of last year and the total value of the crop is $13,279,000, compared with $10,451,000 for the 1928 crop. Oats have a value of $8,813,000. compared with $6,821,000, last year. The 408,000 acres harvested was 71,000 greater than last year. However, the increase was more of a recovery toward a ndbmal acreage from the freeze out of the previous crop rather than nn expansion of the usual acreage. The reported average yield of 27.0 bushels per acre is the highest of record for the state, but the harvested acreage being less than in some previous years the total crop of 11,616,000 bushels is not the largest produced. , A wheat acreage of 64,000 acres is the same as last year, but the yield per acre was a half bushel less and the average price about 11 cents per bushel below 1928, so that the total value of $1,162,000 is $136,000 below last year. A sharp reduction in the early Irish potnto acreage last spring and a lower yield per acre gave a total crop of 2,354,000 bushels, compared to 4,068,000 bushels last year, but a much better price resulted in a total value of $3,296,000, or $632,000 more than last year. . A sweet potato-yield of 115 bushels l>er acre is higher by 10 bushels than that reported in any previous year. The total crop is estimated at 5,750,000 bushels, compared with 4,214,000 last year. The total value ot $4,88S,000 is $1,306,000 greater than-la^t year. A higher yield of peanuts on the fcame harvegted acreage resulted in a larger crop than last year, but the price was somewhat lower and the crop is valued at $350,000, compared with $406,000 a year ago. Sorghum, valued at $1,034,000, is approximately the same as last year. Due to a much better yield per acre, sugar cane sirup is valued at $810,000, compared with $6J5,000 in 1928. . Due largely to scarcity and high price of cowpeas last' summer the tame hay acreage of 865,000 acres was 79,000 below 1928 and though the yield was almost as. good the production of 913,000 tons was 63/000 tons less. Ths crop is valued at $6,-1 tVfcsv "*' U10.000 compared with $6,966,000 last year. Cowpeas planted alone were reduced also, the estimate being 165,000 acres this year, against 229,000 last year, but the crop of 1,155,000 bushels compares with 1,374,000 bushels in 1928. However, a price of $2.30 per bushel compared with $1.55 Inst year gives the year's crop a value of $2,656,000, compared with $2,130,000 last year. Soybean production at 405,000 bushels is about the same as last year, but a somewhat better price gives the crop a value of $972,000 compared with $832,000 last-year. * It was a poor fruit year and the combined value of apples, peaches and pears is only $1,337,000, compared with $2,245,000 last year. ! The short pecan^rop of 480,000 1 pounds compares Iwth the moderate crop of 575,000 last year^ The crop is valued at $140,000 this year arid I $151,000 Inst year. Three major bus accidents occurir\ OV? i r\ am T V%m rarlo \r I ... * J , , nine persons losing their lives and 31 being injured. The worst of the accidents was one in which several high school boys returning from a basket ball game were killed and nine other persons were injured on a grade crossing. Donna Maria Taveres, of Lisbon, Spain, dropped dead when she was told that her ticket hnd won a prize of $200,000 in the Spanish state lot| tery. " S r I - - Cleve Cline, 23, athlete, of Shelby, N. C.f was accidentally killed while hunting near that town Tuesday afternoon. The young man's gun was fired when he jogged the butt of the gun jigainst the ground in an effort to dislodge a jamimed shell. A contruct for the rebuilding of the White House executive offices in Washington, recently destroyed by fire, has been awarded at a cost of $74,800. The contract calls for the completion of the work within ninety days. V Millions of motorists hjnow that Standard on the pump means the hest gasoline on the market. Millions ?he wrong. *If you haven't yet tried it, fill up on the new processed "Standard" Gasoline. Its the quickest staging, smoothest powered, popular-priced gasoline on the market. " o MADE H Y THE REFINERS (>/- ESSO? THE LEADING PREMIUM MOTOR EUEL?STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NF.lt' JERSEY \ NEW-PROCESSED HIGH-TEdi V Cooperate With ? Your Banker j While it is true that every man must hoe his own I row, the wise man will seek co-operation of others whenever possible. Most successful men maintain business relations with a good bank which helps them j to create and preserve capital. j Loan and Savings Bank CAPITAL $100,000.00 V The Hunting Season Is On I have hunting- land for sale and lease that fur- j nishes good duck and quail shooting. Large and j small tracts located near the following places: Camden, S. 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. r Atso have for sale two attractive old Southern ! plantation homes. Fine old-time residences on o j each. * . | B. D. BOYKIN BOYKIN, S. C. Telephone and Telegraphic Address: Camden, S. C. \ I | . g ' .; ~ ~