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[looking backward I Taken From the FileiJ. ot The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Yeare Age THIRTY YEARS AGO February 14, 1900 General Porter, president McKinley's 'private secretary, on a visit to David R. Williams, Jr. Work 01 replacing Seaboard trestle over Wateree being rushed to completion.' ?) Kershaw county had $2,700 more to its credit than one year ago. Camden Press Brick Company making extensive improvements an I recently filled an order for five million brick. . James Gardner, 55, of Mechanicsville, committed suicide and willed all <if his property to the girl who jilted himj^ Dispensary at Kershaw broken into and $75 worth of liquors stolen. A. I). Kennedy, Jr., quits bakery business, leaving only one bakery in town. General Cronje and all his forces surrender to British forces under. Lord Huberts in South Africa. Greenville mill operators who went Rlu-cie Island in quest of higher wage." return lo eld j.bs at Green> ?i account of higher living costs | in New England. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO February 1U, 1915 George Barr MoCutcheon, noted : author, and James Montgomery Flagg, noted artist,/ visitors at The Kirkwood. Samuel Boykln, aged 73, died at his home near Boykin February 12 Henry L. ^atkins, prominent citizen and chief of Camden's fire department, died at his home in this city. E, I). MsK'utx'heon named as man ager of Camden's new water and light plant. Mrs. Sallie Stewart died at her home on Itutledge street. Mrs. Mary S. Marshall, 61, died at her home in Mt. Zion section. John J. Evers, of Troy, N. Y., manager of Boston world championship baseball team, visits in Camden. L. T. Hornaby mraried to Miss Nannie E. Barfield. John R. Waters, of Florence, married to Miss Leslie Watkins, of Camden. . * . Fanny Crodby, noted hymn writer, dead at her home at Bridge|X>rt, Conn. Thomas Sturgis, aged years, died from injuries from falling tree near JDeKalb. Rum Running Ships Bring Much Liquor More than 150 ships are now engaged in smuggling liquor into the United States from the high seas. And for every liquor runner captured by the 75 or so coast guard vessels engaged in patrolling the shores of tne nation, liquor worth as much as three million dollars gets by. This is the information gleaned from the records in coast guard offices at New London. Conn., where a record is kept of every known and suspected liquor (runner. The average cargo of liquor vessels is between 200 and 400 cases, although occasionally a much larger cargo is found. Some runners, however, operate on a small scale and 40 or 50 cases may be their maximum load. The boats get to the shores of the United States under cover of darkness or in foggy weather. Many fishing craft which make regular runs are used to aid them in transporting contraband to shore. The coast guard, although it has 75 vessels, is outnumbered two to one by the rum runners, but the disadvantage is even greated, for not mqre than half of the patrol boats can be operated at one time. Repairs, loading of fresh supplies and resting periods for the crews tie up many of the craft, while the smuggler keeps on running. In most instances coast guard officers find that the men really responsible for Turn running are never at sea. They live comfortably on -hore. perhaps in some large city, and one man may direct the operations of a number of boats. The men who take .all the chances and who do the actual smuggling work on a commission basis usually. The backer or owner of the boat takes from 50 to <50 per cent erf the profits for himself and the rest is divided among the crews. Most liquor now being smuggled into the country, officials : say, comes from the French island of St. Pieej:e Miquelon, in the Atlantic south of Newfoundland. Many New Millionaires ~ | Washington, Feb. 3.?The year 1929 saw 206 additions to ?.he select group of thosa whose individual incomes exceed one million dollars. In all, there were 496 in this exclusive class and of these, 24 had incomes running past the five mil- ' lion dollar mark. Altogether, the j 496 had a total income of $1,073,- i 706.325 of which, the government I collected $178,525,926 in income ' taxes. j Five Acres Corn Net $129.00 Orangeburg, Fob. 10.?W. I). Connor, of Orangeburg county made an average of 34 bushels of corn per acre at a cost of $8.20 per acre for labor of man and mule and for fertilizer and harvesting, says R. VV. Hamilton, extension agronomist. The particular five-acre field in which this was done is in a two-year soilbuilding rotation demonstration in cooperation with county farm agent Kolb. "A winter legume cover crop was turned under alidad of the corn. No fertilizer was used at planting, but two side applications of sulphate of ammonia, 75 pounds each, were made May 30 and June 14," explains Mr. Hamilton. "A small check plot that received neither cover crop nor fertilizer made only 9.1 bushels per acre. The nitrogen from the cover crop and fertilizer accounted for the 24.9 bushel increase^er acre on the main field. Mr. Connor's income above expenses was $129.00 on the five acres." Jamea S. Brown Dead A death that was a shock to relatives and friends was that of James S. Brown of the Ionia section of the county. Mr. Brown was in Bishopville Saturday in his usual health. He died suddenly at his home Sunday morning. The burial was at Cedar Creek church Monday at 3:30 o'clock. He was a member of Cedar Creek church. The services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. P. E. Blackmon. Deceased leaves a wife and six children. The children are: Ray, Richard, Lever, Wiley, Susie and Sally. He also leaves one full brother, Meroney Brown, one half brother, B. T. Brown, two half sisters,, Mabel Brown and Mrs. H. C. McCaski 11, Sumter.?Bishopville Messenger. Too Late to Change With an air of great determination the woman "walked into the photographer's studio. , "Good morning, madam; what can 1 have the pleasure of?" "These photos of my husband," began the woman, banging a packet down on the table. "They're simply disgraceful. Why, he looks just like an ape!" The cameraman's pride was wounded. "Indeed," he replied icily, "but you should have thought of that before you married him." Will Mean Great Help in the Future Health, self-respect, freedom from worry about the present and anxiety for the future. Do the>e things mean anything to you? Saving money systematically will help you to eaoh of them. Loan and Savings Bank - i CAPITAL $100,000.00 . *?_ " ' ' : ? "! _ , MUST UK I-KSS COTTON If farnwH Are lu Make Profits On , Southern Farms < incinnati, Jan. 18.?Cotton king of the South'* crops for * decades, is faced with abdication from its throne in favor of some other crop, according to Or. Karl C. Case, associate professor of geography in the College of Liberal Arts, University of Cincinnati. This in face of the widespread growth of cotton in the South, seems to be a radical thought, but Or. Caso bases his opinion on a study of international trade which he says influences cotton culture und manufacture. "If this trade were- suddenly interrupted," he says, "it would bring disaster to every important cottongrowing jand cotton-manufacturing country in the world and would menace the clothing supply of all peoples. "(iotton is, from the point of view of international trade, the most important among the products of the farm. Cotton textiles hold the same rank among the products of the factory. In 1020, cotton and cotton goods accounted for about one sixth of the value of all international trade. "For more than 100 years, the American cotton belt, with but a small percentage of the worold's potential cotton land, has produced from 50 to 65 per cent of the cotton used in clothing the nations of, the earth. "This proud position is being lost, and the records 25 years hence may show a very different story. A study of the several factors involved leads to the belief that future development will not be as steady or rapid in the United States as in other parts of the world. "It is a well-known law in economics that in order to avoid excessive loss there should be a spreading of risk involved. The American cotton belt is a compact area- subject in its entirety to adverse conditions. The Mexican boll weevil, high-priced la1 bur, or even unfavorable weather may ' strike with suddenness the entire reI k'iop. "The non-American cotton-growing areas, on the other hand, are widely scattered and the adverse conditions in some areas are offset by a favorable condition in?others." "The non-American cotton-growing .areas, on the other hand, are widely scattered and the adverse conditions iti some araes are offset by favorable conditions in others. ,-"As a result, the American crop during the last years varied from 8,000,000 to 16,000,000 bales a year, whereas the non-American crop has held rather steady and during the last six years has experienced a gradual increase ^ "In fact, the non-American production of more than 10,000,000 hales during each of the last four years was greater than that for the Unite 1 States during any one of the three preceding years. It is only by good fortune that we ha^ continually grown more than one-half of the world crop, a record which is likely to be lost with the first unfavorable cotton season in America: "The uncertainty of the future cotton production in the cotton belt, together with the increasing demand of American mills, has become a matter of international concern. The full significance of the problem can be understood only when one notes the worldwide interest shown in the development of the cotton-textile industry. "As a result, experimentation in cotton growing is being carried on in more than a dozen countries and in some cases with surprisingly successful results." Textile interests in Japan, Great Britain and Italy, are strong in promoting cotton culture, with Japan showing greatest interest, her meteoric development in textile manufacture giving her third place in cotton consumption, according to Dr. Case. In an effort to provide cotton for Japanese mills ;ind give an outlet for Japanese colonists, Nipponese spinning companies have sept experts to ' Brazil to investigate possibilities of \ establishing largest cotton plantation1 there, he reports. .Midway Honor Roll Grade 1?Archie Gordon. Hazel Myers, Margaret West, Willien West, Kverette Young. Ferris Joyner. Grade 3?Elizabeth McCoy, Willie j J Parker. Dolly Stokes, Kathleen Anderson, Roddy Rozier. Grade 4?Gene Cooper, Milton Mc! Guirt, Emily McCoy, Laurie West, Dorothy West, William McCoy. Grade 5?Etheline Corbitt, Ruth Walters, Stella Poison. Grade 6?Minnie Pearl Anderson, Willie C. Anderson, Orlaie Brannon, Annie Bell Catoe, Margaret Holland, Roy Parker, Floree Rozier, Martha Rush, Thelma Stokes, . Ruby Gay West. Grade 7?Frances Hyatt. Grade 8?K. C. Etters, Mary McCoy, Vivian Stokes. Grade 10?<Moneta West, Ruth Young, Ruby Young. Grade 11?Janie Brannon. 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"No; I don't think they'll let me have one. You see, it says in their advertisement, 'Send p. c. for catalogue.' and so, as you have a kind face, I just thought I'd ask you."? London Answers. Crawled Under Train Gaatonia, N. C., Fdb. 3.?J. M. Murray, bookkeeper, committed suicide here this morning by crawling under a passenger train as it left the station. Despite the congested massiveness of New York City and the guns and gangsters of Chicago, old London is still probably the most dangerous*', city on the globe, records compiled by the metropolitan police there show. Traffic is responsible for the majority of Londan's casualties. -aim- , 'i? ifMiiy-i .ii'i IA^J. .JAJU.-L'J.U-'.I-.1- i.J. -j-a.'?iJ-uij* (This is ihp "Make Sure/j Method of Fertilizing Cotton ** OUT of all the experimental work and farm testa with cotton fertilizera during the past 50 years, there has developed this one method, safe and sure for cotton from North Carolina to Texas. 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