The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 08, 1930, Image 7
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.
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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.
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HE YOU GROWING 010
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I |?? of weight, stomach trouble, burn1DK
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bad mind, queer
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*?'ementa, and others, I have the *?nedv,
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^oeen treated for.
Don't think you are old at 40 or 50
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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,
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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.
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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!
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