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County Making Its Own Power Cor^lf' On., Aug. a.?Crisp coun(y t0B,ini?sioner? became power distribuWr,i today. They were selling hydro-electric it generated in the only coun,yawned plant in the United States. Official opening of the new plant, ^jlt at a coat of $1,260,000, marked climax of a sev^n-year campaign lor a ready supply of cheap power ,nd opened the way for, making the tounty free of taxes. d.. The plant wus financed with an isl0e of Crisp county bonds and is now grating at half capacity. Revenue w be derived from sale of power dready cojitractfd, will pay the interest on the bonds, provide a sinking fund for their ^tlr^m?nt, and leave a small surplus. Water for running the plant is furnished from a 7,000 acre lake impounded by a dam across Flint river. With no additiohal operating cost t,o more turbines can be installed jad give the plant $ total capacity 0/ 20,000 horespower. As soon as enough power is needed in the county to require full capacity operation of the plant, officials point out, an income of approximately $200,000 annually will be derived. The county's tncome front ad valorem taxes is less than $100,000. plant rutabagas now Clemson College, August 3.?Rutabagas should be planted between July 15 and August 15. In the eastern part of the state August 15 is not too late, but in the central and western part it is better to plant earlier, says R. A .MoGinty, horticulturist. Prepare the land thoroughly by plowing and harrowing until a perfect seedbed has been formed. Ap||y the fertilizer in the drill 800 to IKK) pounds per acre. A fertilizer aalyzing eight per cent phosphoric acid, four per cent nitrogen, and four per cent potash will give good results on a sandy or sandy loam soil. On clayey loam soil it is not necessary to use potash. The main trouble iri growing rutabagas is in securing a good stand during the hot summer ' months. Plant in furrows .two inches deep and cover by running the ,wheel of a wheelbarrow or planter t)ver them. When the seed germinates, the roots will be near the moist soil and will therefore stand drought well. About a pound of seed will plant an acre, in rows three feet apart. After the plants have formed the fourth leaf, they should be thinned to 10 or 12 inches apart in the row. The turnips will be ready for use about November 1, but there is no necessity for harvesting them until the weather has turned cold, according to Mr. McGinty. c. To store, pull up the turnips, cut off the tops below^ the bud, and bank the roots by covering with soil. Ten to 15 bushels of turnips may be put :n one bank and piled up in cone, shape. They should be covered at least six inches deep. Turnips put up in this way will keep in perfect condition until the weather begins to turn warm in the spring. Kershaw Man Leads Cops a Wild Chase Jousting along the streets of Columbia Sunday morning at a 60 to 60 miles speed, Tom lieaten, a young white mill worker of Kershaw, sought to prevent Motoreyele Officer Robert Eleazer from arresting him by swinging his car at the officer's motorcycle, while the policeman shot off three tires and finally punctured the radiator of Deaten's roadster to halt him, witnesses testified Monday in police courts Deaten was sentenced to a total of $226 or 90 days, $100 or 60 days for speeding and reckless driving, $100 or 30 days for driving a car drunk, $26 or 30 days for drunk and disorderly conduct. > , Robert Patterson, white steam shovel operator who asked a ride with Deaten, was dismissed on a charge of vagrancy after he told Recorder Heyward Brockinton he was en route to a job at Lula, Ga. Deaten's high speed race around Columbia began at the <5orner of Harden and Gervais streets at 9:45 o'clock Sunday mornihg, Officer Eleazer testified. On being ordered to stop, Deaten dashed down Gervais street, almost running over the officer. He went through Sumter, then to Assembly and Gadsden street^. ? Here Officer Eleazer unlimbered his pistol and blew off the first tire, he said. Deaten made three attempts to knock him from his motorcycle whilo both motorcycle and auto ran along at 60 miles,-the officer declared. On Assembly, Gadsden and Gervais, the roadster swung sidewise at the officer's motorcycle whenever they came abreast, and nearly tumbled him off each time. After the tires were flattened, the pursuit, continued across the bridge tight miles into Lexington county. Hero Officer Bloater and Officer Arthur Lovett of Lexington, who Joined i in the chase, caught Deaten after the i punctured radiatbr caused hia car to run hot. "The policeman had a pistol in his hand when 1 first saw him, and I was] afraid he was going to shoot tne,"| the mill worker declared. "We don't J have traffic cops in Kershaw, and I i didn't know what he might do." Deaten admitted speeding when the officer got after him with the pistol, but said he had not taken a drink since Saturday night. Policeman C. W. Kearse charged that Deaten had kicke^t Horace Addi-1 son, 12 year old negro bootblack, and then driven away frpm a Taylor street cafe at 50 miles an hour when ordered to halt. "1 got after him first," he testified. Silas H. Broom, city health inspector, also identified Deaten, and declared that in leaving the c&fe and driving through a filling station where the Broom car was parked, "Deaten nearly killed us all." "I can drive a steam shovel, but nttt an automobile," Patterson, whom Deaten picked up in the cafe, told Recorder Brockington. t "I couldn't get out or stop the car, and I'd never have gotten in if I'd known there would be all that shooting," he said before being dismissed. ~ John Hughes Cooper appeared as Deaten's attorney.?Monday's Columbia Record. I Distributes Hunting Licenses. Columbia.?Distribution of the hunting licenses and special badges, designed and patented for the State of South Carolina by W. Fl Blackbourn, chief clerk of the office of A. A. Richardson, state game warden, | was begun Monday. 1 n. Hoy Electrocuted Ne wherry?Tyoy A. Parish, 18, 4 young white yduth of Clayton, N. was electrocuted Tuesday afternoon wh^le at work at a rock quarry i near Blaira in Fairfield county. He was electrocuted when he jumped into a pond into whieh a high tension cable had fallen. Killed in Wreck. Mullins-?Knox Kyle, of Fairmont, N. C\, was instantly killed on the National highway near Mulling Wednesday evening when the car which was driven by George Walter McCoy, of Mullins, ran off the pavement into soft dirt and turned over twice. Thornley Has Tuberculosis Columbia.?W. L.'(Sporty) Thornley, th? Berkeley county war veteran, whose confession to the murder of Senator Dennis and his implication of four other Berkeley county' men, has been described "as a very sick man." Physicians state that one lung has been completely destroyed by tuberculosis, and* the other badly affectyd. Police Get Home Brew. Sumter.?Sumter county rural officers after raiding alleged makers and sellers of home brew near the city limits Tuesday, morning seized 230 bottles of home brew and four large stone crocks. At one place a small quantity of whiskey was seized. A chemical analysis will first be made to determine the alcoholic content before any arrests will be made. Tree Sitters Quit. Greenville.?Clifton Naughton and Billy Bailey, each 10 years old, had remained in a tree for 215 hours, but had to come down when Clifton's parents, who were moving to Charlotte, decided to take him with them. About the first task before H. B. Bennett, newly elected premier of Canada, is the question of calling the Canadian parliament to consider the matter of unemployment in the Dominion. The Clinchtield cotton mill at Marion, N. C., will go on full time schedule next Monday with a 10 per cent reduction in wages. The mill has not been running regularly for more than a year. W.C. TOwraW/ ^D. HE YOU GROWING 010 . TOO SOON? Doyou lookolder Ihah'ydu alietild? **To<t feel older than you are? If '?|W the dark or yellow, wririkley" .,ki?of old age, or any of the follow,BR lymptoinst Nervousness, bad f^OtUtion, fast heart, loaa of sleep, I |?? of weight, stomach trouble, burn1DK feet, general weakness, forget fuldespondency, bad mind, queer feeling in heaa, irregular bowel *?'ementa, and others, I have the *?nedv, no matter what your trouble ^oeen treated for. Don't think you are old at 40 or 50 you are only sick. I have .the rt?edy for such conditions. ^rite at once for my booklet and l^tionnaire. ALL FREE. Rountree, D., Box 1150 30-X, Austin, Texas An Unpleasant Subjact All of the functions of life are not '?hvJant to consider. Perhaps this is (!>? R01?e mothers refuse to think lout 8?V? "ymptoms as restless sleep, i08* of flesh, lack of appetite or Hchttn v!8e and fingers in their children, M??? caufed *>y round or pin worms, tbt er* proven, however, wj***PtllMt, Will m*k, tkwt ' . ' ... _A 1- - LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the Filea of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Years Ago THIRTY YEARS AGO AUGUST 8 ,1900. KuinfuU breaks long drought in Camden. Mrs. Laura Clyburn, wife of Sheriff Clyburn of 1/ancaster .dead. Mrs. Clyburn wax a daughter of Captain 0. C .Haile of Camden, Iaiwis Wattk married to Miss Lizzie Branham . Tillman Hinson married to Miss Kmma Jeffers. Mammoth new store of Hirsch Bros. & Co. nearing completion. Rev, J. C. Crouch, of Rembert, gets three fingers cut off when horse jerked and caught his hand between rope and tree . Boykin Rhame goes with Springs & Shannon as salesman, and Frank i Campbelb goes with store of John ' W hi taker as salesman. Mrs. M. S. Sowell^ and Sidney Smith return from visit to relatives in May's Lick, Ky. r..) Mrs. A. S .White spending several weeks in Asheville, N. C. Franklin J. Moses, one time governor of (South Carolina, arr#sted in Boston, charged with the theft of N$ft. Camden business and professional men endorse Cornelius L. Winkler as candidate for lieutenant governor. Six prostrations und two deaths from heat reported from Charleston, where temperature reaches 9U degrees. } FIFTEEN YKAK8 AGO AUGUST 13, 1915. John Kllerbe, negro, employed by Meiklejohn lumber company near Hethune, killed by falling tree. Kerfthaw Guurds return from delightful camp at Itde of Palm*. Duncan P. Moore, age 42, dies suddenly at mill village. Mrs. Mattie Hornby ,agcd JW, dies near Hlancy. Rol>ert (i. MoCreight married to Miss Kdith Mae Keonneeke. Mrs. Blandina Alexander McOoy, wife of C. K. McCoy .died in Charlotte.? > ! First open cotton boll reported from farm of L. J. Wutts in Cantey section. James Robinson, aged 0, travels from St. Louis to Patrick, S. C., a distance of nearly 1,000 miles with a card pinned to his clothing, which bore his name and address. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Schlosburv on trip to Northern markets. K. W. Murchison ,of Rochester, N. Y? on a visit to relatives and friends. Dr. I. H. Alexander, Joel Hough and Marion Williams on trip to New York . George Fitch, noted author, died in Berkeley, Cal., sanitorium, following operation for appendicitis. vjcu iifcmta cujavette that w miMer aMjctol Chesterfield r*)1930, UOCTTT* MYTMTo?ACCOCO. ]VtlLDER, YES?BUT SOMETHING MORE. ? ? J. Chesterfield oflfers richness, aroma, satisfying . flavor. BETTER TASTE?that's the answer; and that's what smokers get in Chesterfield in fullest measure?the flavor and aroma of mellow tobaccos, exactly blended and cross-blended. Better taste, and milder too! ^9^