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[LOOKING BACKWARD lake* From ti(* File? of The Chrouicjc Fifteen and Thirty Yeare \go I thirty ykars ago , .11 ? 4.'... . ? April 3, 1901 Kev. VV. W. Mill* and W. W. Mickattend Presbytery at Sumter. Supervisor J. B. Phelips looking af[ bridges wushed away by heavy US. ft": Henry Truesdell, of Cantey section, ts both bones broken in leg by tree ling on him. Rev. A. T. [jatta died in. Monroe, C. j ' / ' ; . fhree ice houses being operated in mden. iVjllium I>atta building cottage near ided school building on Laurens eel. w drs. Mary H. McCreight, aged 76, ther <>f Mayor, McCreight dead. I. \V\ Hamel, editor of Kershaw i, installs cylinder press. I oh i) G. Capers made district atney for Ignited States district 1 it. 4 Villiain Kelly, negro boy, drowned n Mulberry while hunting on the h waters of the Wateree. H. King and W. L. Clylburn get it raets fo* repairing Marshall's :lge and Kelly's bridge on Lynches IT. ?. Mammoth Still Taken "olumbia, S. C., March 26.?A anddaddy" still, said to be the trest ever raided in South Garoi, was destroyed in Wateree river imp, Sumter county, 25 miles from umfoia, shortly after midnight this ming. The still had a capacity of ween 600 and 800 gallons of whisr a day and was in full operation. ? 1,1 FIFTBBN YEARS AGO April 7, 1916 M rs. Margaret Stewart, aged 60 years, dies at her home near Bethunc. Ford ear of S. W. Wilburn turns1 over near Augusta while returning from viewing the Augusta fire. All in the party escaped injury. Major Edward Brevard Oantey, aged 80, former owner of Kirkwood Hotel site, and Confederate veteran dies' at his home in Kirkwood. I>r. W. S. Rainsford preparing to, Build residence corner of Green and Mill streets. * | Grover 0. Welsh, of Kershaw, and ! J. It. Bolk, of Camden, announce their j candidacy for sheriff, | W. Geisenheimer announces he will ^ retire from furniture business a<fter a; continuous business career for thirty-: six years. ] Salmond property, comprising 998 lucres n?ar Knight's Hill, sold to W.I H. Kirkbride at a price of $8,500. j Moultrie Burns, Harvey Clarke,) Jack Kirkland, Clyde Spradley on honor roll in first grade at school. 'Six acres, a pprt of the "Bloomsbury" estate in Camden, sold by J. B. Zemjp and L. J. Whitaker to Mrs. Mary C. Norton and Mrs. Julia' C. Bolton at a price fo $4,000. Former Governor C. A. Smith die$ at John's Hopkins hospital. S. W. VanLandingham weds Miss Lucile Lewis of this city. Vernon A. Cook, of Kershaw, awarded scholarship at University of Chicago. J. C. Hilton, of Westville, purchases Overland touring car. I Negro Gets Respite Columbia, S. C., March 26.?'Norn Blakeley, 18-year-old Greenville ;ro. will not die in the electric ir tomorrow, as had been decreed the courts. Gov. Blackwood tnis Hternofm?signed a 60-day reprieve, Hit the negroe's case might be more Horoughly investigated. The pardon Haiti recommended this and the govHnor concurred in the recommendaI In speaking of the case Governor Hack wood stated that it had been Hid him that the 'negro, just 16 at the time of the killing of a chain gang guard, D. M. Garrett, was believed to have been forced into the deed by older men on the chain gang. It is said that the young negro says he did nox mean to kill Garrett, but only to fell him, that an escape might be effected. Frank and Cass McGaha, 21 and 18 years old, are in jail at Asheville and Waynesville, N. C., charged with the murder of Scott Brown and Mims White in the' mountains near the Tennessee line last August. 801?~T?P?T 1 r ws a7S1? j4* IAL***0001 f 7CT 6? / 60* / 5r " :? _ o 7*W /wi ms 7926 1927 7926 1929 7930 Chart showing steady increase of taxes paid per spindle by South Carolina cotton mills Taxes Increased 40 Per Cent ^ ; [ V, ? ' * O v? For South Carolina Cottoa Malls V * '' 'A , ! - ' " - ^ S T A ' * ' * . i The tdfrbve c^Wt tftows 'the steady up word trend of the taxes paid v per *pind4e by 4^i&h Garo4iifo cotton W*e frtuft aiiie yeerftir i Ehch yeah staoWfc Indefinite tndfetete except Itae ladt ohe. Th'e slight decrease <of 1929-80 is one brought aboift, by a reduction Of ' assessments, but rather by pbor conditions that made It impossible for many mills to pay ineOme taxes. c> 1 This increase of taxes paid per spindle of 40% brings to light the fact that the increase in Sefflth Carolina bOs been greater than in a Ay . | other textile state. While taxes in other textile states have actually in many cases shown decided decreases, the .burden in South Carolina has steadily grown heavier. The mills in South Carolina pay a . higher tax per spindle than in any other textile state in the United States. v ; If this tax load in South Carolina is confined to the cotton mills, then unquestionably the state owes it to its principal industry that it be relieved, for the sake of competition with other textile states; for I the sake of the development of the industry and the building of new textile plants. If this condition is more or less characteristic of the 1 state at large, then we as SoutJh Carolinians owe it to ourselves to further emfphasige governmental economy, and institute tax reforms that will reduce the burden. Such record hampers the growth of the entire estate. ^ ^ '.A Bold Marked Men Rob Winston Home . ' - " ' * Winston-Salem, March 23.?Winston-^Saleni police were without clues, tonight to the robbery here late Saturday night in the home of A, H. Galloway, in the fashionable Reynolds Park section, when two bandits during a bridge game, locked four women iti a bathroom, looked Galloway in a closet and escaped with $15,000 worth of jewels. News of the robbery was not released until today. Detectives said the hold-up men j used rare skill in their crime and left ! no clues upon which the officers j might work. 1 Mr. fialloway had retired and was | Sound asleep 'when the robbers arrived. Mrs. Galloway, Mrs. Jaines S. Dunn, Mrs. Margaret Knvanaugh and Mrs.' Louise MoBrayer, all of Winston-Salem, were pluying bridge ir. ; the libratyi I Two masked men suddenly entered j the library from adjoining rooms and approached the table from opposite .-sides. One carried a sawed-off shot| gun and the other a revolver. The women were ordered to lay their ( hands on the table. Asked where the man was, Ma**. Galloway replied that Mr. GaWoway had retired, and pointed towards thte room, on the same floor, in which he was sleeping. One of the men entered the bedroom and found Mr. Galloway asleep. When he returned the second time to search for the jewels, Mlh galloway awoke, and the robber locked bim in a closet. | At the point of a pist<H, one of the bandits forced Mrs. Gallowfcy^toaccompany him and find the jewels. The robbers then locked the1 four women in the bathroom. The bandits left the home, stole Mrs. Kavwn-augh's automobile and drove it about a mile from the Galloway home, where they abandoned the machine. ? I Air Sleepers Next Believing that travel hy nir will j largely supercede railroad travel soon the Pullman company, builders of sleeping cars, are now experimenting with the building of flying sleeping cars. Engineers are working out plans for the lightest possible construction. The time will come when we can board an airship in the evening in New York City and wake up on the Pacific Coast next moaning. ( ???^ > l??l< Ut IB Merchants Stocking State Grown Goods Greenville, S. C., March 31.?Merchants in all parts of South O?roUna, noting the demand which has arisen for foodstuffs grown in this state, are stocking the Palmetto State canned goods. Information reaching the Liberty Life Insurance Company, of this city, which is sponsoring the Live-at-Home campaign, is that housewives in every nook and corner are specifying South Carolina vegetables when they make purchases. The grocers, noting this and the fact that hundreds of club women have signed the pledge cards, are stocking liberally with canned goods from Kairfax, Orangeburg and other parts of the state. The Live-at-Home movement, which is spreading by leaps and hounds, will be given further impetus early in April when two expositions of South Carolina foodstuffs are to be held. The first of these is to be held in Greenville, beginning April 'Jth and continuing for three days. Chiefly foodstuffs will be on display here, i but every variety of vegetable and fruit grown or produced in South Carolina will be displayed before in terested merchants and others. The second exposition, to bo hold in Columbia, will 'begin April 20 and continue for two weeks. In addition to the foods displayed at Greenville, the exposition in Columbia will contain exhibits from many of the textile plants of the state. Because of the si7.e and variety of the exhibits it has been necessary to obtain the City Hall, Calumbia, S. C\, and many persons are expected' to view the products of South Carolina fields and factories. Dozens of inquiries have reached the local office during the last few days, showing that interest in the Live-at-Home campaign is keen. Many of these inquiries have come from Washington, New York and other Eastern cities. iSeveral have j contained eminent from former South Carolinians who said they were glad the old state was about to take on new life. Others, declaring that they have not lost any part of their loyally | to this state, said only such a campaign as has been launched can bring South Carolina out of its former plight. "Only by growing and buying the products needed by its own people can the state expect to prosper," declares a former South Carolinian who now lives in Wa-shington. The Live-at-Home campaign is spreading out into all walks of life, ministers, physicians, attorneys 'and others joining with the merchants in stressing the need qf giving more attention to increased production and consumption of?South Carolina food products. Noted Baseball Figure Dead St. Louis, March 28.?Ban Johnson, 67, former president of the American League, who built baseball to its commanding position as the national pastime, died at St. John's hospital here at 8':.10 oVlock this ??v\ty\ /iaraxdic-A-L tions. The death of the stfflwart, and at ; times stormy, old figure of baseball e?de<l a aix-year quest of health in which J?<hn?on wenft from hospital to hospital and sanitarium, to sanitarium in search of relief from his dread enemy, diabetes. Three Sbmfinole lntiatk hunters Tuesday solved a riddle bf Florida^ everglades by finding the body of T. H. Went*, 47, wealthy Mbrristx>wn, s c ience and airplanes had failed. The three hunters found Went*' decom- , posed body near Miami, in a lonely open savanna of the glades, a victim of starvation and exposure, during his dazed hunt for assistance after an automobile accident. According to American Legion officials of North Carolina, 36,000 veterans of that state have applied for additional loans on their adjusted certificates, and l'l,000 have already received their checks. SALE PERSONAL PROPERTY Under and by virtue of executions of Austin Nichols & Company, of Seeman Brothers and of Shedd Brown Manufacturing Company against McLeod-Rush Company and W\ L. Rush as McLeod Rush Company, and State and County executions against the same parties for 1029 and for 1030, all now in my hands and under which I have levied upon the property hereinafter described I will sell at public outcry to the highest bidder for casn, at 12 M. on ^Monday the 6th day of April, 1031, at the store building recently occupied by the said McLeodRush Company on the North side of Rutledge Street East, in the City of Camden.* AD of the goods, wares and merchandise, stock, fixtures and accounts of the safd McLeod-Rush Company and of ,W. L. Rush as McLeod-ftush Company, also one light duty Ford Truck, model A, terms erf sale cash. StwrtffHk?^MMCiunty. | Johnny Genaro, lieutenant of A1 Capone, and himself much of a gunman and racketeer in Chicago, -was found dead Friday night in a (Chicago street with seven bullets in his body Genaro was under suspicion as a participant in a number of gang slaying* in Chicago and in New York, but the police were never,able to definitely fasten ft crime upon him. During the first six months of operation of an air passenger line with schedules of twenty flights each way per day between New ' York and Washington, a total of 25,868 passengers were carried, with no forced landings. The service is to be increased. Miss Bertha Church, 29, was arrested in Richmond, Va., Wednesday on a charge of infanticide, for officers of Wilkes county, N. C. q A warrant fol the arrest of iS. J. Brock, Louisville ft Nashville railroad trainmaster for the holdup and robbery of an express messenger on an L. ft N. train near Htontngfaem, Ala., on Bflarrch Mfch, has been carom out by police erf ftont city, fbe warrant for Brock's aritci was issued after two others implicated by Arthur Buraap in a oortfosafcm in Ohteago. $5,<XJ0 was obtained in the holdup. The siren ctf the Bfclvern, Pa., fire department proved to be a summons to death for five members off the company and injury to 11 oJthers when they- responded to a grass flro alarm Tuesday. ~ Something went wrong with the truck as the driver attempted to make a sharp turn. It swerved from the road, crashed into a bank and then plunged into a tree. Marvelous Values! Spring Dresses Smart and $6*90 Interchangeable Prices ' $A.98 These dresses would have sold for two or three j dollars more than this price a year ago! 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