Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the File* of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Year* Ago THIRTY YKAKS AGO AI G I 'ST 15. J '.tOO. lit. J. T. iiuy moves to Boy kin to ji'actin- medicine. D. M. McCaskill rrrofrVd to Miff I /./iv Dora Brittftn of Smithville. (i. A, M oki'ley goes with Hirnch Brothers A- < o. as salesman. Mr? Mary Jam- Kirkland, aged kO, widow of Joseph K. Kirklaod, dies in J t'amden. ./?' I'rirnary election nominates M. L. 1 Smith and J. G. Richards to the; house; J\ T. Bruce, auditor, W. ft.! Hough, treasurer, while ft. B. William* and J. S. Trantham run over i for sheriff; Joel K. Hough and W. A.I S< brock run over for clerk; J. B. ' I'helps and ( W. M<('H?kill run over) for supervisor; B. B. t'lttcke arid J\. ft. odom make second race for super' intendent of education. 1). F. Finley i re-elected to congress, M. B. McSweeney and J. A. Iloyt make second race for governor;. Senator Tillman with ii" opposition is scratched hy lit).000 voters for his interference in governor's race. Boh I'itz^immons heats Torn Sharkey into insensibility in less than two round* at Coney Island sporting club for world's heavy weight champiopshi p. Mi s. Bui h i', wife of Major General M. ( . Butler, died at <)!d I'oint Cornfort, Va. She was a native of Kdgetiehl, S. ('. A total of 1P77 votes was cast in first Democratic primary for Kershaw county. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Augual 20, 1015. Picnic of Lynch wood Masonic Lodge held ut Bethune with prohihition address hy Capt. J. \V. Jiamel of Kershaw. Mrs. Ann Alexander llerxhman, HI, died at her home on Union street, this city. ?-?? Amos Heed, negro, drowned Wateroo river north of Camden and body found in Antrum's swamp, having drifter! 22 miles. ! :. C. Stokes, metal worker, fell from scaffold of Carnegie library and slightly injured. Mrs. Katherine J. Hough, *>X, died Hi Cassatt section. The Texas Oil Co. establishes a branch here with II. T. Myers as agent. Mrs. Graeic Hilton, aged 77. stricken with paralysis at Kershaw and died. Dr. O. M. Guy and Miss Willie Mae Crawford married at Kershaw. Miss, .Jean Lindsay named to represent Kershaw county as beauty queen contestant in Harvest Jubilee in Columbia. Miss Minnie Taylor came second and Miss Rhetta Wilson t hird. J. B. Wallace, L. L. Block. W. O. Hay and H K. Beard, Jr., on fishing trip around Charleston. Newspaper Vjews. Ohio State Journal?A vacation is about half anticipation and the other half changing tjres. TriiHly al IVn II a 11 h Kscapf. Columbia. -A bold attempt to make a daylight oscajK? from the Mate penitentiary Wednesday after i.oon by .John Middaugh, alias .John Jenkins, notorious Michigan bandit, was frustrated by Sam King, a trusty, after the prisoner had successfully gained freedom by digging a hole through the lK-irtch brick wall. King asked Middaugh what he was doing on the outside, but instead .of answering Middaugh ran away. King took chase, overtook him, and held rum until guards arrived. Middaugh i> wanted by several states for highway iobU-ry. | Convict Killed Making Escape. ! Hennottsville. Isam Norwood, alxiut 2ft. was fatally injured by a negro boy. John Turner. when he attempted to hit "Coot" Turner, fti white man who was getting ruady to] drive Norwood to City Hill bridge, j where he said his wife had been in a wreck. Just as Norwood made a, lunge at Quick with an iron bar, Turner pulled Quick out of the way i and shot Norwood, killing him. Nor- 1 wood had escaped from the Marlboro, county chain gang with three other! negroes earlier in the day. Negro Drowns in Creek. Rock Hill.?It was learned that Fred Douglas, lb. negro, was drowned Monday jn Allison creek on the . farm of Monroe Dates near Newport ; several miles from Rock Hill He is ! ^ani to have * topped into a hole play-' ing in the water with a group of com- ' panions. none of whom. it is said, I could swim. I I toy k Fired Orphan Home. Columbia.?The tire at the Carlile Courtenav homo. July 17, which destroyed the kitchen and was not started by an over-heated stove, but was set with matches and kerosene by two 11-year old boy inmates who also planned to fire the dormitory housing the very smallest children of the orphanage. The boys?Crawford F.'irrell of Lancaster county and Robert Myers of Florence county?declared at the Richland county jail Thursday morning that they did it in order to be sent to the state reformatory. Sloan Succeeds Hilton. j Columbia.?R. Stedman Sloan, a i member of the legislative delegation to the general assembly <?f South Carolina from Marion county, has accepted the office of assistant state service officer, made vacant by the resignation of R. H. Hilton, who has held the post for over two years. Mr. Sloan ha< withdrawn from the race for the house from Marion county. He was a candidate for re-election. Everv Woman Knows Every woman knows how easy it is to burn or scald herself while working in her home. Every woman knows that these burns and scalds are painful and sometimes very slow to heal. Every woman should know that the pain of burns pnd scalds will be quickly relieved, infection positively prevented and sjreedv. healing assured if Liquid Borozone is instantly applied. Get a bottle of Liquid Borozone and keep it handy in your medicine cahinet. Sold by DeKalb Pharmacy, Camden, S. C. Cheater To Have (tea. Cheater.? The <>outh?rn Public Utilities company, which asked ut the July meeting of Cheater city council for h franchise to install a gas plant in the city, has been grunted the permission. It is understood that it will take about 8 months to install the equipment. White Women Get Jail Sentences. Columbia.? Mrs. Martha Wiles, Mrs. C. 11. Brazil and Mrs. Sarah Hamilton, who were sentenced by the Columbia city recorder to pay lines of $25 each or serve 30 days in jail for disorderly conduct, were still in Jail Wednesday night. Mrs. Wiles and Mrs. Brazil hod just been released with suspended sentences of $50 or 30 days for leaving their children alone in a house while they went on j a party. Thieves Rob Folsom * Sumter?While his family was aI way and ho was at his store, Tues| day morning, a thief entered the resI idence of J. B. Folsom, on Folsom i street, and got away with a diamond j stick pin and a cravat which were left on the bureau. A negro boy was arrested hut released for insufficient evidence. | Drinking Water For Sale in West. I Washington, Aug. 7.?A story of drought in the Ohio valley resulting i in the sale of drinking water came to j the weather bureau today in a letter 1 from Dr. I.. W. Humphrey's, to his , brother, 4 William J. Humphreys, me! teorological physicist. Dr Humphreys said drinking water was selling at 3 ' cents a gallon in Logan, West Vir1 ginia. He added that across the river j in Ohio, farmers were attempting to save fruit trees by pumping water on them with old fire engines. Rural residents in West Virginia, he said, are seeking to have three months cut off the school period in order that funds saved may be used "to buy food for poor families." "I am feeding my ! bees to keep them alive," 'the doctor j said. "There is no corn fit to eat, and j it is scarce, with beans a close sec' ond. There is no gr.een grass to be ; seen and in every way things look as 1 you would expect them to look in , September after a dry summer." Tourist Shot on The Road Savannah, (la.?A story appearing in the Savannah Morning Nwes Sat! urday was to the effect that Mr. | W. S. Williamson, who with his wife i and two small children, were en route i to Miami. Flu., was shot by ambushj ers alongside the road Hearing a ! report, which sounded like a tire | blow-out, Mr. Williamson stopped to 1 investigate and while beside his car I ' another report was heard and Mr. Williamson felt a sting in his: leg, ! which was caused by a bullet. Elev; en buckshot holes were found in the ' body of the car. Mr. Williamson deI dared he would make a complaint to i Governor Richards. Rebuild Telephone Line j Sumter?A construction force of the South Carolina Continental Telephone company, working out of Sumter, has completed the rebuilding j of .the Sumter-Bishopville telephone 1 inc? and has been transferred to Georgia to rebuild several lines in that state, after which they will reI turn to Sumter and begin work on I the reconstruction of the SumterI Manning line. Cow Katn Huitcaae Greenville.?iDr. Frank Ferguson, who was up in the mountains several weeks ago left his suit case on the bank of a stream in a fine pasture while he went fishing. On top of the suit case was a cake of laundry soap. On his return he was just in time to see the last of his suit case, a paste* board one, being swallowed by the cow, while a thick fojun was around hbr mouth. The doctor's wardrobe had been previously removed. Notice of Democratic Primary Election Notice is herfcby given that a primary election for the nomination of Democratic candidates for ' United States Senator, Congressman, State Officers and County Officers for Kershaw County will be held at the respective voting places in Kershaw County on Tuesday, August 2(1, 1930. The polls will be open from Fight o'clock in the morning until Four o'clock in the afternoon. No person will be allowed to vote save those who are duly qualified, under the rules and regulations governing the Democratic primaries and whose names appear upon the club roll of the precinct at which they present themselves for voting. The polling places have been designated and the managers appointed by the County Executive Committee and they appear below: Abney? G. It. Crow, L. K. McCaskill. Ix-wis Dens. Vote at Kirkley's Mill. Antioch?D. K, Stokes, Boykin Mc( askill, C. W. Shiver. Vote at Antioch School House. Blaney?J. IJ. Kelly, J. I. Rose, Mary M. Simpson. Vote at A. K. Rose's Store. Rethune?J. E. Sevarance, D. T. Yurborough, Frank Lee. Vote at Town Hall. Buffalo?\V. T. Stroud, J. E. Holly, Louis Hilton. Vote at Buffalo School House. Camden?John T. Nettles, G. T. Little, Jr., E. L. Moseley, Wylie Sheorn, F. D. Campbell, Charles Villepigue. Vote at County Court House. Cassatt?F. M. Waters, H. E. Gardner, J. H. Davis. Vote at H. E. Gardner's Store. Charlotte Thompson?Virgil Harvey, Jr., Eugene Pearce, E. M. Workman. \ ote at Charlotte Thompson School House. DeKalb?J. J. Owens,- Nye Workman. J. E. Horton. Vote at DeKalb School House. Doby's Mill?A. K. Bowen, H. A. Hawkins, J. V. Miles. Vote at Campbell's Store. Enterprise?J. S. Dunn, W. L. Stokes, Y\ . M. Brannon. Vote at W, 4 1 ' 1,1 C4IIIIOI1 3 a filing u oa i i (/ n . Gates Ford?S. W. Long, Nick Ray. T. F. Horton. Vote at School House. Harmony?('. H. Wilson, J. M. Butler, rom'Mattox. Vote at School House. Hermitage?J. L. DeBruhl, J. Lee Player, S. J. West. Vote al Harrison's Store. Kershaw?J. A. Whitley, Everette Trueadnle, Clyde Jones. Vote at \V. R. Taylor's Store. Lockhart.?Will Owens, J. J Brown, Ix-e Horton. Vote at School House. Lugoff?G. E. Watts, Luther Jones, H. A. Rabon. Vote at Roseborough's Store. Liberty Hill?F. B. Floyd, W. C. YY ardlaw, J. P. Richards, Jr. Vote at Mackey-Jones Store. Ned's Creek?V. A. Humphries, Carl Craig, J. Q. Roberts. Vote at School House. Oakland?G. B. McCoy, J. H. Watkins, Wesley Outlaw. Vote at Oakland School House. Pine Tree?YV. YV. Horton, YV. N. Y\ est, YV. A. Hyatt. Vote at Midway School House. Roland?Lewis Spears, Lem Bowers, Otis West. Vote at West's Mill. Rabon's Cross Roads?J. E. Jackson, Arthur Dowey, Bias Ford. Vote at Rabon's Store. Haley's Mill?N. B. Welch, J. E. Davis, Carson Rogers. Vote at Mill House. Salt Pond?Blake Kelley, Blake Moore. T. YV. YVatts. Vote at Dinkin's Gin House. Sandy Grove?H. R. Hall, . W. H. Radcliffe, C. C. Cobb. Vote at Sandy Grove Church, Shamrock?Ira Horton, Lewis E. Elliott, Hasell Baker. Y'ote at Shamrock School House. Shaylor's Hill?R. L. Smyrl, R. M. Drakeford, S. W. Hornsby. Vote at School House. Shepard?W. C. YVest. H. M. Rogers, R. B. Elliott, Jr. Vote at Langley's Store. Swift Creek?B. C. Truesdale, YV. A. Boykin, H. I>. Boykin. Vote at Truesdale's Store. Twenty Creek?J. G. Gardner, Frank J. Rabon, George Ray. Y'ote at Hinson's Store. Three C's?T. H. Young, John M Croxton,( J H. Barfield. Vote at Three C's School House. YY'ateree?Jesse L. YVilliams. Eldredge Moore, Dock Kelly. at Club House. * YY'estvilU?K. F. McDoweH. R. H. Young. L. C. Clybur;. Vote at K. L. Bell's Store. At Clubs having more than Fifty mime* the Australian Ballot -\--em will be observed. The espoi attention of the Managers is ca to the rules and regulations governing the conduct < ! the primary w'r.nh rules are sen: to the manager- a! ng with the baliOt- and boxes. At Prccir.it- where voter- f> more than, one Township cast t:.e r ballot the voter- will give the manager t.te name of the Township , w-htch they reside and the managers \vih write the name of such Township on the poll list next to the voter s name. One of the Managers or some member of each club will call for the boxes, tickets, etc., which will be rtsady on Monday, August 25, at the office of The Camden Chronicle. S. F. BRASrNGTON. M. L. SMrTH, J<R.Umy Ch*irn,4n Secretary. Ex-Congressman Operated Still Washington, Aug. 7.?Manuel Herrick. former representative from Okla ho in a, was arrested early yesterday by prohibition agenU in St. Mary's coury, Maryland, on u charge of operating a still. Officers who made the raid in the earl> morning said Herrick was operating the still at the time of his arrest. He was taken to Baltimore and placed in jail pending a hearing, Herrick, a farmer and cattle raiser from the "Cherokee strip" in Oklahoma, was elected to congress from the eighth Oklahoma district during the "Harding landslide" in 11*20. He was defeated for reuomination in 1022, but in his two years here his eccentricities kept him prominently before the public. After his defeat he came back to Washington and recently has been living near California, Maryland, about 80 miles from the eapital. Officers who took the former representative into custody said he was living alone in a one-room shack near the still and had been working as a boiler tender and utility man at a nearby mill for $15 a week. Herrick is now 54 years of age. Blaney Man Dead. Paul James Ross, 2G, of Blaney, died at the Columbia hospital at 7 o'clock Friday evening following an illness of only a few days, Mr. Ross, a young farmer, was found about 2 o'clock last Monday afternoon on the Two-Notch road following a severe attack of appendicitis. He was picked up by a passing motorist and brought to the Columbia hospital, where an emergency operation was performed in an effort to save his life. He is survived by his father, F. E. Ross of Blaney; two brothers, F. E. Ross, Jr., and W. D. Ross: two halfbrothers, Eddie and J. L. Ross: two sisters, Mrs. N. B. Branham of Blaney and Mrs. F. B. Branham of Winnsboro.?Saturday's Columbia State. Governor Suspends Sentence Columbia.?Gov. John G. Richards has suspended the sentence of five to ten years imposed on Thos. J. Mixon, negro, originally of Jemrpr &ar, for robbery and larceny, during good behavior. He was convicted in FebruI nry iyid<5. Hirce Face Murder | Columbia.?Three negroes t%o unit a woman.were committed i Richland < ounty jail Tu< day , ' on charges of murder by r0ron?T^H I A. McKain after a jury rct\irt*^H verdict that l^ottie Hudson, who ! at her home in Booker Washioj^B Heights near Columbia Augu?t^B came to her death from burnB a( 1 hands of Coleman Wylie with KqS j son Kichburg and Lizzie UicharSB as accessories. Finedl For HittioK Newsboy. I | Columbia.?J' N? Crice, 50, I sentenced by the city recorder of I ' lumbia, to pay a fine of $50 for sltp^| ! ping and roughing Charles brakejH ! year old newsboy. The fine wu pa^l DeKALB COUNCIL No A Junior Ordei l). A. m H Regular counul firit ufl third Mondays nf ; month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethr^l are welcomed, A. W. II i,. n. JONES, <'oUI, Recording Secty. i ; KERSHAW L0D5E"V? > Regular communication A' this lodge is held on rBt first Tuesday in eachmoXv I at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are iflt ' corned. S. W. HOGUE, ft>:' ! J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Mt*K Secretary. | Relief From Curse* of Constipation A Battle Creek physician upl "Constipation is responsible foriorS misery than any other cause." i But immediate relief has found. A tablet called Rexall (hutr8 lies has been discovered. This UV.tfl attracts water from the system intB the lazy, dry, evacuating bowell c&llefl the colon. The water loosen* tin dry food waste and causes a gentlfl tholrPugh, natural movement withon forming a habit or ever increasing the dose. Stop suffering from constipation Chew a Rexall Orderlie at nighn Next day bright. Get 24 for 2(1 today at the nearest Rexall DnH Store.?Zemp & DePass and DeKiln Pharmacy. j There are two major classes of Long Distance Service "P?rson-to-P?rson" Calls A t"?rson-to-P?r*on call i> on* where you specify that you with to to Ike to a particular per?on at a distant telephone. The rata* for this service ar* the tame at all hours, whether you tall^Juring th# day or night. Charges may be reversed on all Per?on-to-Person call*. * " 'StaHon-to-Statlon" Calls A Statlon-to-Statlon call Is on* where you are willing to talk to anyone who on?w*rs at tbe distant t?l?phone. After th? called t?l?phon? answers, If you wish, you may th?n ask for torn* particular p?rson, but th? charges on a Statlon-to-Station call b?gin wh*n the distant t?l?phon? answers, ? On Calls Within the Stato of South Carolina The rata for Day Station-to-Station service Is lowar than the Person-to-Person rata and In the evening between 8:30 and 12 Midnight the Statlon-to-Statlon rate It about one-half less than the Day Station-to-Statlon rote. Station-to-Station calls made between 12 Midnight and 4?30 A.M. cost about onefourth as much at Day Station-to-Station ?oils. On Calli Outside the Stat? of South Carolina Th? rat? for Day Station-to-Station a?rvtc? It lower thon th? P?rion-to-P?rion rat? and In th? ?vening between 7 and 8?30 th? Statlon-to-StaHon rate it about on?-fourth I than th? Day Station-to-Station rat?. Statlon-to-Statlon call$ mad? b?tw??n 8i30 P.M. and 4?30 A.M. cost about half at muck at Day Statlon-to-Station calif. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. (IMCOMOAATIft) ^ m ? A | Back QuitN | Hurting S !8 "I was in a very weak condition t frgm a serious L sickness," writes 1 Mrs. I. Leonard, 571 Joseph 6t., ^ New Orleans, La. "I was bo weak, I wanted to sleep all the time. I / did not have M Mk strengtn to do f [Zl anything. M y M back ached nearly all the time, i was iust in misery. \M "My mother told me l must \M li arouse myself from the sleepiness, and take something to nelp get my strength back. She had taken Cardui and Uj had oeen helped, so 1 decided to take Cardui, too. After my first bottle, 1 could see uM UA that it was nelping me. 1 li took four bottles at this time. H7] My strengtii came back and S] I gained weight. Pretty soon, iM I was my ola self again. kl "My oacK quit hurting, and km I haven't hao any mora trou- mM HI ble since i took Cardui." Ad ICARDUI! HELPS WOMEN TO HEALTH kfl Take rhedforri'* Black-Draught Ccin.Htlpaii' n, Indigestion jjd EXCURSIONS1 Every Saturday, June 7th to August 30th, 1930, inclusive j Round Trip Fares from Camden, S. C., as follows: j ToNew York $37.85 j I Philadelphia 32.951 | Atlantic City 36.05 | Baltimore 27.80 Washington 25.60 Chicago 51.30 Detroit 46.78 Cleveland 46.45 Toledo 43.68 Proportionate fares from all other points Good 30 Days Limited Stop Over Privileges Consult Ticket Agents Southern Railway | R. E. Chewning & Son | 1 General Contractors and Builders I Phone 386 Camden, S. C Estimates Furnished on All II. Classes cf Work I Floors Sanded on Request 666 I Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia infl 30 minutes, checks a Cold the firctl day, and checks Malaria in three day&8 666 also in Tablets. I PELLAGRA can be cured. Have you any of these ?yn?ptorn i ? Tired and drowsy feeling with headaches and depression; skin rough; breaking out or eruptions; sore mouth, tongue, lip and throat flaming red; much mucus tod choking; indigestion and nausea; faffing memory; diarrhea or nonatipatioo. Writ* fef SO-pags book mailed FREE in plain, sealed wrapper. DR. W. J. McCRARY. Inc. Carbon Hill, Ala. Dept. 840,. ? MASTER'S SALE. State of South Carolina?County of Kershaw?In the Court of Common Pleas. Nadine Dabney Zemp, Executrix of the Estate of Frank M. Zemp, de ceased, Plaintiff, _ * vs. B. W. Sasportas and M. L. McLii* Defendants. Under and by virtue of an Orde^ Court made in the above entitled and dated the l&fch day of July, W the Master for Kershaw county offer for sale at public auction, fore the Kershaw County &>QT* House Door, Oamden, South Caronnt during the legal hours of sale on tw first Monday, 'being the 1st day of September, 1950, the following o?* scribed real estate: . "All those certain pieces, pan*1? or lot? of land, situate, lying being in the/ City of Camden. Coimty of Kershaw, State of South Caronna. on the southern side of Walnut str** and designated as lots Nos. (15), Fifteen A (15a) Sixteen (1??? Sixteen A (16a), on a plat of 9?Mi' vision as appears of record in Cler* Office for Kershawi county, S. C., ? Plat Book No. Seven (7) at *<>> Seven (7). The said described WJ eachv front twenty-five (25) feet 0 Walnut Street and extend bat Southwardly of a uniform width to depth of One Hundred Thirty (""J feet to North on Walnut Street aM are bounded North by Wallno Street; East by property formerly F. M. Zemp, now of E. C. Sasportas, South by W. C. Pettus and West W property of M. L. McLain." o ^ Any one desiring to bid at sale, other than the plaintiff he**1 shall first deposit with the Master, an evidence of good faith, check or cash in the sunt of Dollars ($50.00). At the conclurioe JJ said sale, the (Master shall return the unaoocesstel bidder any 8um w. u MM Master Kershaw Con** August 1, 1030. . 1'Jc j-. ; v ... 'Zl^-33