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I Cotton GirinSig ' ( v Our Gins H?ve been thoroughly ovcrlui^led and everything put in readiness for ginning the 1931 cot- . [; ton cr6p. We solicit your business. v' f The Southern Cotton Oil Company CAMDEN BRANCH i , '' LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the Filea of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Yeara Ago THIRTY YKAU8 A(iO August 2H, 1901 Mrs. Amelia Cantey, widow of the late* Zack ('antey, dies at her home on Hobkirk Hill. T. H. McClain purchases lot on north Broad street and commences erection of two-story residence. ('. ('. Whitaker returns from north ern markets wher^ lie ^purchased stock df goods and millinery for firm of Whitaker and Burnet. English Brothers adds Koch's' hydraulic barber chairs ty the Kureka Burber Shop. Purmun Watson married to Miss Jlattie Barnos. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Schlosburg Visiting at Bmnchville, Mrs. Schlosburg's former home. A, V. Niles, of Camden, married to Miss Annie Ross Reeves, of Fort Valley, (la. Internal Revenue Collector F. A. Webster dead at his home in Orangeburg. President William McKinley di"s from pistol wounds inflicted bv Ofcolgoez, an anarchist, while attending Pan-A merican Exposition :it Buffalo, N. Y. Business suspended* n Camden from 12 to 2 nn(l memorial exercises held in Kpiscopa! church. Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt succeeds the late William McKinlev as President of the United States. A New York dispatch says that agents of Russia are combing the United States to secure 6,<X)0 skille i workers in all lines from coal mines to steel mills to till jobs in Russia before the end of this year. FIFTBBN YKAKH AGO KeplemIht I, I9IH First primary election results in nomination of J. H. Clyburn for clerk; M. C. West for supervisor; G. L. Dixon for coroner; Grover Welsh and W. W. Huckabee go into second primary for sheriff as does H. T. Johnson, Newt/ra . Kelly, Norman S. Richards und J. M. Martin for the house. C. W. Birchmorc ami I. J. McKenzie in second race for superintendent of .education. Manning and Mlease 17l second race for governor. I I.illie Spradley, aged nine, a white I girl, shot and killed near (assatt by I Lillie Mao Thompson,, a young ne; gress. Mrs. J. J. Josey, aged 70, died suddenly at her home in Bethune. Southern freight station on eastern end of DeKalb street destroyed by fire together with nine carloads of merchandise in box cars. Mrs. Gillian A. Hough, wife of W. Carl Hough, dies ut her residence on j DeKalb street. William Marion Clements dies at I his home in the Malvern Hill section. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hough celeibrate twenty-fifth anniversary ??f I their marrjage. Total vote for congress gives Finley U.G17 and Stevenson 8,803. Robmarliu' jbfns allied powers in World war. Evangelist S. R. Haynes conductling Bible institute in tent on corner of Fair and DeKalb streets. First bale of cotton bought by W. | H. Haile, grown by J. W. Benton and |brought 13 cents per pound. Two Boys Slain ' In Melon Patch Stoekson, Knns., Aug. 21.?Two youths art- dead, a third slightly! wounded and Arthur Merriwether, farmer's son, was charged with murder today as the result of a watermelon patch shooting near here. The dead are William Francis, 17. and Jack Screen. Id. Iceland McCall, I'd, was wounded in the leg. Merriwether, the son of J. C. . Merriwether, admitted firing on the three youths as they approached the watermelon patch he was guarding on the Merriwether farm, half a mile south of Stockton, last night. County Attorney F. K. Young filed fl^^t degree murder charges again t the slayer who is held in the county jail. ?nerri weinei" usru a siiv^uu. The victims were not armed. MoCall said the trio were fired upon without warning. He admitted he and his companions were headed for the watermelon patch. > ?n,r ' . i nmm a tt - m mm m tiin > Drt J. W. Geiger, 99, Taken by Death i/cxington, Aug. 24.?John William Geiger, who would have been 100 years old next March 31, died at his home near Dixiana, Lexington county, today. He was the oldest living graduate of the South Carolina Medical college. A native of Ig-xington county, where he was bo-n in 1 S31, Dr. Geiger attended medical college at Charleston and served as a surgeon there through the Confederate war period. Chinese Flood A Real Calamity Thousands of Chinese have drowned and millions >of dollars worth of property has been destroyed by flool sweeping over vast territory in what may prove to be one of the greatest calamities of the kind of modetn times. The swollen Yangtse has taken its heavy toll of life and left 30,000,000 homeless. Hankow itself, a city of [820,000, was threatened with destrucjtion, and there was faint hope of saving any of the live stock in the ' flooded area. Kighty counties in the north covering an area of 0,000 square miles are under three to ten-^feet of water pouring from the Hwai Ho riverviThe summer crop has been wiped out, there is po hope of a winter crop and engineers say the flood conditions will last for several months. There is no estimate of the loss of life, but it is known to be heavy. The government at Nanking is floating a $10,000,000 bond issue for flood relief. There are more than l,f>00 Americans in the flooded districts of China along the Yangtse river, and their combined properties total more than $12,000,000. Much of this property is in danger of destruction. A survey has revealed that at least 1.000 persons are dying daily in the Wuhan area of China, including Kankow, Hamyang and Wuchang from starvation and disease accompanying the unprecedented floods. | (rales and floods caused the loss of ill lives in England and the same I number in Switzerland the first part jof the week. Hair Cuts 25c. This is to notify my customers and friends that after September 1 this shop will reduce the price of Hair Cutting from 35c to 25c. This is in keeping with our policy for forty years of meeting price ad' vances or declines as the situation might warrant, rhe price of shaves will remain as heretofore. Sanitary shop, good barbers and courteous service. Let us serve you. EUREKA BARBER SHOP I. B. ENGLISH, Proprietor >- . .-vrvOywM.. A*, tkt-fr. Damage in Lancaster From Heavy Rains Heavy ruins on Friday and Sutgtday did some damage in the OseeoU section of the county as Twelve Mil* Creek went out jof its banks unci spread over various portions of low land in that vicinity. The Catawba, river arose but little and no damage was reported along the bottom lands by Van Wyck. Cane Creek arose to a point that* was within about three feet of the road on Highway 26 and did somje damage to the crops along the creek bed. However, thia creek us usual went down as fast as it arose unci little damage resulted. Lynches river went on a rampage and Route IMW which connects with No. 9 and runs southeasterly into Kershaw county had to he rinsed on Saturday as the water arose more' than three feet over the road. Howeve r, this road was opened on Monday morning us the water went down rapidly. District Engineer reports thai Route 90.'J and the road from Cheraw to Society iiilT were the only roads' to be closed in this district. Both; were opened for traffic* on Monday -morning. i? Owing to -the fact that the . royJ tyed waft very wet no work on the paving of Highway 26 between Elgin and Lancaster took place on Friday and Saturday. The trucks were not moved from the depot,and only about one-half a mile of paving wus laid during the week. There still remains a stretch of almost two miles to be paved to connect l^ancastcr with the pavement.?Lancaster News. General News Notes Home Coming day for University i of South Carolina alumni will be November 7 this year, and Furman 1 will play the university on the gridiron that day. j . The cost of enforcing the prohibition laws in South Carolina is given as $22f,911 by two members of the Wickershaiu commission who wrote the report on that topic.. This i< 12 1-2 cents for each person jn the1 population of this state. South Carolina butter makers received during recent weeks 18 per cent higher prices than the average of the whole country and over 22 per cent more than the average of the seven north central states, the agricultural department announces. I). H. Merchant, of Orangeburg, told a meeting that he used to see more drunken men there in a week, when it had 1,800 population, than he does now in five years when it has 10,000 people?and the prohibition law. The Blacksburg high school is jr. financial trouble. It has funds for only a seven months term this year and requires $2,500 more to run the usual nine months. Some people are trying to raise that amount by private subscription, and others propose a special election to levy()additionul tax. John Hartwell Chapman, who wa.% buried at Hartsville Sunday afternoon, had been a prominent merchant there for a quarter of a cen"tury. He was reared at Society Hill, and after his family moved to Darlington county, he went to "Hartsville to chter the grocery Business". The will of Samuel Morgan Jonea, of Chester, disposes of about $500,000. It was made last June and for executors names Col. A. L. Gaston and Alex B. Craig, of Chester, and John Paul Jones, of Pittsburgh. After special bequests to 20 nephews, nieces und other kin, each of tlt^ 20 gets an equal share of the residual estate. Greenville is yet *he largest cotton buying center between the coast and the Mississippi river and will handle about 700,000 bales this season. It has 2 cotton firms which collect handling charges of about $1 a bale and distribute much of the $700,000 to employes. A Greenville youth, William Carpenter, son of a physician there, having failed to pay a $600 judgment obtained against him as the driver of an automobile causing a wreck,"^tas ordered to jail for 40 days by Judge Mauldin, under the South Carolina law so providing. The plaintiff in the civil damage suit is named Jon-'s. Several young men offered to serve the jail term of the Carpenter boy for a low wage, but his attorneys decided to ask Govrenor Blackwood for a pardon. The case against former .Sheriff Carlos A. Rector, of Greenville, indicted as an accessory before the fact to the robbing of a hank at Travellers Rest by bandits, will be called in sessions court there next week at the opening of the term, the solicitor says. Dudley Moore, 18, a negro, is held in an unnamed North Carolina jail on suspicion of having murdered a I woman, 5<9, near Lexington on SunI day. *31 Rations "**-' Equal Record Columbia, Aug,;,JH.?The all record for number of electrocutions in a single year in South Carolina will be tide if Luther Graham, Horry county farmer, is electrocuted Septe/nber ] 1 as scheduled. The number for 1931 will be brought to ten, a figure equalled only in 1913 and 1916. Graham is under sentence to die for murder of his brother-in-law, Sarn Singleton, after a family quarrel. Already this year nine men have gone to their deaths in the electric chair. Five negroes died for the murder of B. W. Hendrix, a I^exington county merchant; another was executed for slaying C., L>, Mills, Cayce night watchman; Norman. Blakely, Greenville negro, was put to death for killing a chaingang guard; J. B. Moore, Cherokee county, negro, was executed for criminal assault, and Albert Floyd, the only white man in the group, paid with hrs life for slaying his paramour's husband, Howard: Bell. Records at the penitentiary show that HO negroes have been executed jsince the installation ofjthe chair in '1012, while only 14 white men have paid with their lives for a capital crime. Seventy-one of the group were convicted of murder, 10 for attempted criminal assault, and 7 for criminal assault. There is only one conviction on a charge of arson recorded, but the death sentence in this case was commuted to life imprisonment. From 1013 to 1022, no white man died in the electric chair. The Wickersham commission report on the cost of crime gives that cost in four cities of South Carolina. Charleston is far in the lead and has almost as much cost of crime as the | other three combined. For police cost j Charleston pays annually $242,880, Columbia pays $124,368, Greenville pays $86,117 and Spartanburg pays $80r342. The- cost of criminal ccrufts is $6,000 in Columbia and $10,411 in Spartanburg. Columbia has a total cost of $147,125, and the total cost to Spartanburg is $105,887. The cost per capita of population in Columbia is $2.85 and in Spartanburg is $3.69. The average in cities studied in America was $5.47. A black opal, weighing: 1 t-arats, 150 carats heavier than the.heaviest stone of the kind heretofore foiAid, has been picked up 15 feet undergroi^d in an Australian mine. The ston^%; worth a king's ransom. "Owing to a severe fall in the cotton values," the J. & P. Coat's firm ox l^ondon, has been forced to cut its dividend from nine pence to four and a half pence (8 to 9 cents). The proposed sales tax will have .ts part on the stage of North Carolina politics in 19.'i2 when the primary campaign for the governorship starts jnext summer with J. C. B. Eringhaus, Bli/.abeth City attorney, opposing the proposition. Carl Williams, farm board member, suggests that community chest? over the country buy a part of the board's surplus wheat supply to distribute in cities to the needy in the form of bread. Nearly all of the nearly 40 textile plants at Allentown, Pa., have resumed operations following a strike of the employes in protest against a 25 per cent wage cut. Se\eral thousand operatives were involved. With the larger share <,f the-fcr:B eastern markets for their prodpIj^B gone the textile mills of l^ncashipt,I England, are facing drastic cnrt^M ment of cotton manufacturing plant!I and "concentration of production q?J dor special laws if needed,'' says rfl committee of cotton trade 01 gani% H tions after an investigation of condi-^l Makes You Lose I Unhealthy Fatl .Mrs. Ethel Smith, of ^rwich,^! Conn., writes: "I lost 10 'bs. withl my first bottle of Kruschen. Beio; I on night duty it was ha..! to sleep H days but now since I am taking Km schen I sleep plenty, eat as usual and lose fat too." "hI To take off fat?take one half tes-^| spoonful of Kruschen in a glass of I hot water every morning befort I breakfast?an 85 cent bottle lasts 11 weeks?Get it at DeKalb Pharmacy, _ or any drug store in America. If H this first bottle fails to convince yoo I this is the easiest, surest and salert I way to lose fat your nxmey gladly I returned. The Dove Season I I ' B OPENS {^ ; I SEPTEMBER FIRST '* ! I i OUR STOCK OF Ij'f Winchester and WeStern Shells' I IS COMPLETE ? ^ B ! FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE WE ARE HANDLING " || STATE, COUNTY AND NON-RESIDENT j|9 HUNTING LICENSES :| Mackey Hardware Company 1 Phone ?1 Camden, S. C. < I' Ill Is Safer? I i J LOOSE cash in your pockets with which I 11 to carelessly pay your bills PAYING BY II || CHECK and avoiding the possibility of lost I II money or paying a bill twice? The answer is >'H | Open that Checking Account right now with |l I The First National Bank I II The Only National Bank in Kershaw County JM " ?. .* . / A ' *