The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 28, 1931, Image 8
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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