The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 10, 1931, Image 8
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LOOKING BACKWARD
Takes From the Files of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Years Ago
THIRTY YEARS AGO
July 10, 1001
Sumtpr crops reported in fine conr
dition.
Captain Mendel l?. Smith unanimously
chosen by Kershaw Guards
to fill vacancy caused by resignation
of Captain S. C. Zemp.
Citizens of Bishopville and surrounding
territory subscribe to fund
for the formation of Loe county.
W. Oakman Hay married to Miss
Cornelia Williams, of this city.
B, G. Team, of this city, goes to
Baltimore for operation on his throat.
Bix , chip!**!*, , ippke trip from
Wrightsville Beach, N. C., to Atlanta,
Ga., while pitVChad under a fast mfrying
Pullman coach*
The Kanaa/i Hviyp running through
Topeka so dry that grass is growing
in center o/v fiv#9f/bed. Most of the
streams of the state have gone dry.
Governor Dock ery, of Missouri, issues
proclamation setting aside u day
of fasting apd prayer for rain.
William Brooks, negro, lynched in
Elkins, W. Va,, for murder of policeman.
A. C. Watts opens general merchandise
store at DeKalb.
Treasury Department reports issuing
of one hupdr^d million $1 certificates
of the series of 181KJ. The
numbers will not go any higher and
engravers were notified to start back
to No. 1 of letter A.
FIFTEEN YKAKH ACQ
July 14, 1916
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Garrison and
Miss Elizabeth Kfeirrfoon leave for
Charleston and there by boat for
New York.
John P. Grace announces the publication
of a new daily paper for
Charleston to be called The American.
Dr. E. Z. Truesdale, of Bethune,
goes to New York to take a post
graduate course in surgery.
Engagement of <Miss Helen Robertson
to Edward B. Cantey announced.
Dalton Trimnal married to Mi??
Juanita Davis of the Antioch section.
Mrs. I. C. Hough visiting her old
home In Missouri.
L. L. Block goes to Baltimore to
attend Elks convention in that city.
Osborne Alexander, well-known colored
citizen, dies in Camden.
James H. Watson loses ends of fingers
on left hand while working with
buzz plane in shops ut Kershaw.
Richard Duren shot by Will Cauthon
near Kershaw. ,
Robert Anderson, well-known colored
citizen of Oumden, dead
Nine persons killed and forty injured
rn Storm off Gulf coast.
Edit o r of Augusta Chronicle
charges Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia,
as being a traitor to his country.
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Bethune I\ews Notes
Told by Correspondent
Bethune, July 8th.?On last Friday
afternoon Mrs. B. W .Brannon gave
a birthday party for her little daughter,
Blanche FdjQR Brannon, eight,
and B. W. BrarrnonyvJr., six, whose
birthday anniversaries are only a
few days apart. A number of children
iraihoryd 'tU'^r?!berate the happy
occasion and were entertained withj
various games. Refreshments were
served during 'the ; afternoon. The'
little girl ami boy were the recipi-,
ents of many gifts. |
Dr. E. Z. Trucsdale, Mrs. Trues-J
dale, Mrs. D. M. 'May? and other relatives
have been at the bedside of
Robert King, thirteen-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Mnrk King, of Neeses,
who is a patient at the Columbia hospital,
having been seriously injured in
an automobile accident near Chester
last Saturday. Friends will be pleased
to' learn that the lad's condition
is more hopeful.
Miss Rosa Currie, of Clio, and Mr.
?,AlVn Flannignn. of New York, were
guests of Miss Lizzie Kate Davis during
the past week.
Mrs. C. (). Terry and children, of
Ray City, (la., are visiting Mrs. Terry's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McCaskill.
Miss Kdith Clyhurn spent several
days last week in Hartsville, the
guest of Miss Frances Pennington. j
Friends will regret to learn that :
little Jeap Bethune, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Bethune, has been in
the Baptist hospital in Columbia
since last Thursday with a serious
-t eye trouble Mrs Bethune is in Columbia
with her- daughter.
Mrs. Mary I>ie, of Chesterfield, was
the guest of her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Eva Morgan, last Wednesday night.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. l>afitte, of Cope,
were the guests, for a day and night
recently, of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McCaskill.
Neil Trucsdale and J. M. Clyburn,
Jr., went to Myrtle Beach Tuesday
for a short stay.
TV TvW_ of. Limcstonb .. college,
spent a night last ween in tne nom*of
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. McLaurin.
Miss Olga Brannon, of the Baptist
hospital. Columbia, and Mr. Wade
Atkinson, also of Columbia, were
dinner guests of Miss Brannon's parents
Sunday. 'Miss Mary Brannon
accompanied them bfl1 <beir return to
Columbia for a visit with her sister.
Mr. Norwood Thomas accompanied
by Mis* Mamie Douglas, of Winnsboro,
wa$ the week end guest of his
mother, Mrs. I* I). Robertson.
Mrs. John MoSWeon, of Darlington.
has been Visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Clara Davis,
Miss Annie >Mae Huckabee, who is
in training for a nurse, was the
guest last week of her sister, Mrs.
Ixmnie Waters.
The Piedmont received a soaking
Sunday afternoon, Spartanburg county
having about an inch of rainfall
all over the county and Greenville
county almost as much. The rain extended
from Pickens and Anderson to
the North Carolina line, and crops
were greatly benefited.
Personal Mention
Stanley Babin is on a visit to
friends in Cincinnati.
M iss Marie Kirkland has gone to
Hendersonville, N. C., to spend the
summer.
Miss Ernestine Bateman and Uwson
Bateman returned last Friday
from New York City.
Mrs. Leon Schlosburg and children
are at, Daytona Beach, where they
will spend two months.
Mrs. Sam Karesh and children left
last week for 'Cleveland to spend
some time with relatives.
I)r. Luther Little, of Charlotte, was
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Cobb,
on Chesnut street several days last
week.
Among the girls at Eagle's Nest
Camp, Brevard, N. C.t this summer
are Betty Thomas. Mabel Foster and
Harriet Foster, of this city.
Mrs. Elizabeth H. Foster spent
several days recently in Washington.
She was called North on account of
the illness of her mother.
Mrs. E. J. McLeod and daughter,
Miss Frances McLeod, left Sunday
for Hickory, Virginia, to visit Mr.
and Mrs. William S. Rogers.
Mrs. John Rhame and daughter,
Frances Rhame, have returned from a
mnnth'* sLuy with ttw> farmer's sister.
Mrs. J. N. Kirven, in Darlington.
Mrs. Huger Manigault, formerly
M iss Jennie Davis, of Camden, spent
last Saturday in Camden visiting her
old friends. With her was her daughter,
Louise, and her sister, from Sumter,
Mrs. Samuel Edmunds. Mrs.
Manigault is now making her home
in Austin, Texas.
L/iruWllniu ariu mi j. Banivo r, . *-"j ~
burn and baby, of Fort Sill, Oklahoma,
are here visiting the dormer's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. James H. Clyburn.
After leaving Camden they
will go to West Point where Lieutenant
Clyburn will be an instructor for
the next four years.
Moultrie Burns and his two brothers,
Julian BurnR and Benton Burns,
will leave by motor for Tucson, Arizona,
.on Saturday, where they will
visit their cousin 'Mr. Ballet Burns.
They will later visit the Grand Canyon,
California and on returning home
will visit relatives in Washington.
A squall at Columbia which broke
the heated spell of last week there,
caused a drop in temperature from
101 to 70 degrees, brought threefourths
of an inch of rain, played
havoc with trees and electric wires,
stopped tele phones, flooded streets
and blew down signs.
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General News Notes
. William Simpson Lee, of the Woodward
community, in Chester county,
bled to death in ten minutes when
his jugular vein was severe# by
windshield glass which was shattered
when he <'en hif, car into a roadside
ditch. Six miles south of Chester,
he turned out' too far to avoid a
negro's car -hanking into the road
from a side road. His car was not
wrecked. \ The negro was jailed. '
John J. McMahan, one of'the canI
didutee for governor last titne, is
keeping himself in the public eye by
publishing a-monthly journal at Columbia
called "The People." The
first issue is for this month and ha^
20 pages. Its typography is excellent
and superior to that of any pub
lication started in this state for years.
Its motto is "Turn the Rascals Out." I
The body found scalped with -a
knife after tho jaw had been broken
by a blow, found just outside the
Aiken city limits early Sunday morning,
was that of Bertha Collins, white
and 22 yeoxs old. Gordon* Warley
and Jesse Abney, young white men of
Horse Creek Valley were ^aile$ pending
the coroner's inquest, arid the
police paid they expected to make
another arrest.
The Fourth of July deaths Iji
South Carolina numbered five, one
from drowning, two from automobile
accidents, and two at the hands of
other men, Albert Hornsby was shot
| to death by his brother-in-law at
Clarks Hill, and a negro was killed
at u barbecue in Greenwood county.
Noah Turner, 12 years old, was
drowned when a bank caved in several
tons of earth on him while he
was wading in a stream, in Spartanburg
county. Estes Coleman, of
Winnsboro, was killed when his car
jumped into a creek 10 feet deep off
the highway near Columbia.
Probably the first time a meteor,
coming out of space among the plan
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when o/ie shot into an eighth story
hotel room in Greenville Sunday
morning. It penetrated the screen
and glass of a north window from a
high angle and burned a hole in the
carpet of a room at the Imperial
hotel which was unoccupied. It was
a little meteor, and weighed about an
ounce. It finally stopped under the
bed.
A bolt of lightning near Summerton
killed two mulea*. blinded their
owner and stunned a negro boy. Both
white man and negro recovered.
Mrs. Thomas P. Moore, wife of a
prominent Charlotte banker, had
heart failure while standing waist
deep in the water at Myrtle Beach on
Sunday, and was dead when taken
out. Physicians said the heart at'
tack, and not drowning was the
cause of her death.
hearing a sudden attacsPffirt the
government by inRurrcctioTtyrtn^'-who
might /be dressed in blue shirts ami
blue pants, Chief of National<^M?ce
Cabrera of Havana, has ordered police
to fire on sight on groups so
dressed.
President Hoover and General
Pershing shared the honors in speeches
ut the celebration of the Fourth
of July by the city of Paris, which
told General Pershing that a street
there will soon be named for him.
The cigar factory at Charleston
now making 375,000 cigars a day, will
be expanded and within eighteen J
months will be making 1,000,000 a
day and be the largostVin the world.
It is adding 25 employees a week for
28 weeks. ,
While s^wimming with his fiancee
to whom he was to be married this
month, Rev. F. K. Roof, Jr., was
drowned in a lake seven miles from
Columbia. He was 26 years old and
pastor of the Sandy Run Lutheran
church in Calhoun county.
Walterboro has started organization
of a corporation to build a $75,000
hotel, modern and fireproof, near
the junction of two highways, designed
to attract tourist traffic.' Building
wfll start in ten days and a lessee
has ulready been secured.
Anderson is conceded the honor of
being the hottest place in South Carolina,
after attaining a mark of 101
this week following a grade of 104 a
few days before, both being several
degrees above any other Palmetto city
on the same day, .
President Von Hindenberg, of Germany,
on Friday sent President Hoover
a message of congratulations to
the United States on the anniversary
of Independence Day, and incidentally
expressed a personal wish to the president
"The magnanimous action started
by you will be a blessing for the
whole world."
George Caldwell, best 1&own negro
in Gaston county, North Carolin*,'
died in Gastonia, aged &6 years, the a
last of the week, and was buried on
Sunday. He had been singer, grocer,
insurance agent nnd church worker,
and during the World war made p?.
triotic speeches to negroes and served
on the draft board :for colored people.
Suits for damages of $1,000,000
against the state *Jf Oklahoma/for the
slaying of Emilo 'Cortes Rubio and
Manuel Carcia Gomez by an Oklahoma
deputy sheriff, are in prospect
according to statements made at Sai
Antonio, Texas, by M. C. Gonzalo*
attorney, who represented the Rubio
family in the recent trial of W. E.
Guess, deputy sheriff, at Ardmorc,
Okla.
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Let u? furnish your table with Fresh Vegetables,
Full line of Shelf Goods and Staple and Fancy Gro?
ceries. Why go shopping this hot weather when we
deliver? Just
Telephone 47
R. S. Williams Store
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Don't Rasp Your Throat
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Irritants
"Reach for a
LUCKY instead"
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Adam and Eve In the Garden of
Eden?A story we have all heard since chlld
hood?Consider your Adam's Apple?the
possession of each* one of us, man or woman
?your voice box?containing your vocal
? warni#1 jrwi
throat with harsh Irritants?Reach for a
LUCKY Instead ? Be careful In your choice
of cigarettes*
Remember, LUCKY STRIKE Is the only
cigarette In America that through Its exclusive
"TOASTING" Process expefe certain
harsh irritants present In all rcnv'tobaccos^
These expelled Irritants afa sold to;ma*^
facturers of chemical compound** They are
not present In your LUCKY STRIKE*. And
so wo say "Consider your Adam** Apple*"
"It's toasted*!
Including the use of Ultra Violet Rays
Sunshine Mellows?Heat Purifies 1
Tour Throat Protection?ogolnst IriItutlon ? against cough
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