The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 03, 1931, Image 3
[LOOKING BACKWARD
lake* From ti(* File? of The Chrouicjc Fifteen and Thirty Yeare \go
I thirty ykars ago ,
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Chart showing steady increase of taxes paid per spindle
by South Carolina cotton mills
Taxes Increased 40 Per Cent
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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.
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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. ^
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Bold Marked Men
Rob Winston Home
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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.
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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. (
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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! Each one i
is a new Spring styln ... of hrighf rnlnrpd rillr
crepe, a gay new print or a combination of a j
! print and a pjain color . . . just the kind of a dress
| you want to wear right now,. . and all through
the Spring.
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