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Meats That Lookjood and Taste Better Were there any finer cuts we'd have them. You cnn "bank on" our Meats for a satisfying meal at any time. Ogburn Brothers 1 Phone 318-J North Broad Street V LOOKING BACKWARD Tbkcn From the File* of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Yeara Ago THIRTY YKAUS AGO October 23, 1901 Mind Tom, celebrated negro piano player, to appear at Camden opera holme. John Robinson's circus exhibits at Camden and police report no arrests being made. .Joseph Kershaw Lang married to Miss J)aisy Truesdell. Cotton quuLed on Camden market at 7 I-i cents, Thomas W. Barfield and Dick Barfield go to Georgetown to work orj the Georgetown Outlook. T. L. Smith, who moved to Puvo, (lu., returns to liis old home in the Beulah section. A curious weather co-incidence prevail* over large part of the world. In Norway and Canada the dry spell affects fishing and lumbering, and like reports come from Germany and Austria. ' In Hawaii the drought is so severe people have to send twenty miles for water. Frank Niland, negro, residing above Camden dies from overdose of laudanum taken because of long illness from tuberculosis. Kershaw Era reports repainting of caboose on S. C. & G. Extension road and says Captain Phelps is proud of his neat habitation. Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, New York, comes to a close and President John G. Milburn says the financial loss will be in the neighborhood of $3,000,000. The Western Union Telegraph company hsr^ announced a 10 per cent reduction in the wages of all land line employes, effective November -w... 1st. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO October ^7, 1916 Three pickpockets arrested in Sum-, ter arid brought buck here for. trial following Buffalo Bill's wild west pet for ma nee. Alexander Brown, well known polo star, who bad played in Camden, drowned when his hydro-aeroplane fell into the Delaware river. Anthony Crawford, wealthy negro, lynched at Abbeville, when he crushes the skull of a white man. Cotton (fuoted in Camden at l'JVi cents. Thursday morning sixty-five uutomohiles were lined up on this side of the river waiting to be ferried across. .John Mc. Smyrl died at his home, 1203 I.yttleton street. Levkoff Brothers, of this city, file petition in bankruptcy. Seventeen Camden men listed as Federal income taxpayers. W. T. Smith killed near the Lee county line and funeral und burial held at Cedar Creek church. Ford car belonging to C. B. Burnet, of l^ancaster, goes into Wateree river ut ferry when brakes refuse to hold. T. Edmund Krumbholz sends $25 as gift to ladies of the Camden Civic league. Bootleggers' still captured by city and county police on Still House Branch near Liberty Hill. J. N. Kirven, of Darlington, reelected head of State Fair association. Club Met With Mrs. Boy kin On Wednesday morning of this week Mrs. I). A. Boykin entertained her bridge club at her home on Lyttleton street. A delicious luncheon was served at noon and the game continued until 1:30. Besides regular members other guests were: Miss Elizabeth Farrelley, Mrs. H. G. Marvin, Mrs. .John W. Corbett and Mrs. Joe Guthrie. Met With Mrs. Zenip On Thursday afternoon of last week Mrs. J. B. Zemp entertained her bridge club at her home on Fair street. Autumn flowers were attr.-tcrrve in me living room, where [ the games were played. Guests for the afternoon besides club members were: Mrs. Tom Annum, Mrs. Frank Wooten, Mrs. *!. G. Richards, Mrs. W. L. Goodnle and Mrs. Dan Miller, who is visiting her mother, Mrs. William ,J. Mayfield. After cards were laid aside delicious apple pie, a la mode, with hot coffee was served. Whole wheat flour has become almost the sole diet of many farm families in drought and grnsshopper areas of the state of Kansas. Oh! I i i What a Penny I Will Do! I Listan fx>r Rjulixv Rr.ni\ rleasts to toll you?Nov. 2-6 175 Stations DeKALB PHARMACY J. D. ZEMP, Ph. G. PHONE 95 Corner Main and DrKalb The Rexall Drug Store I Welcome to The Kershaw County Fair! Kershaw County air visitors should come to in searc h of i SHOES AND GENTS' FURNISHINGS We do Sh oe Repairing also. j Lomansky's Shoe Store w\ / y V Great Inventor Claimed By Death West Orange, N. J., Oct. 18^~ Thomu* A. Edison died peacefully before dawn today at the Hilltop estate where he labored to give light, work and recreation to millions. The 84-year-old inventor, who lay deep in a coma at the end, did not wish to live, l1r. Hubert S. Ilow^ j dijfvloHcd, when he realized his com| plete recovery was improbable. ilia wife and six children, close in attendance during the last .stages of the eleven weeks sickness, fyud been told by Mr, Edison thut his work was finished. He would rather leave 'the world, he said, than burden them with the disabilities of age and illness. New York, Oct. 18.?Thomas Alva Edison was born ut Milan, Ohio, February 11, 1847, the son of Samuel and Nancy Edison. He was not especially brilliant in sohool, and in his own words was "usually at the foot of the class." One teacher went so far as to call him "addled." And after a year in school his mother decided to leach him at home As a result, before he was 12 he had been made to digest such intellectual fare as Gibbons' "Decline and Fall of the Komaij Empire," Sears' "History of the World," "Dictionary of Sciences" and Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy." Edison's intense interest in science, however, was noticeable at an early age. He first became interested in invention when at eight years he discovered what propelled a locomotive. He next became fascinated by chemistry after trying an experiment described in a text book. He sold newspapers, peanuts and candy as a "news butcher" on the Port Huron-Detroit line to get money to buy chemicals. J He set up his first laboratory in a baggage car, without asking permission, and did his experiments while on the run. He was permitted (without formal permission) to go ahead with his tests until one day a^j'erk of the train shook a tube of phosphorus from its rack and set the car on fire. This annoyed the baggageman, and he cuffed Edison's ears?an act that some early biographers say resulted in his partial deafness. Edison for a time went into journalism as a career. He set up a hand press in the baggage car of the Grand Trunk express and began publications of the Grank Trunk Herald. It was the only paper known to have ( been written and published on a train. ^ He gave this up, however, when a passenger threw him into the St. , Clair river because of an objectionable item. I After he once "found himself," Edison's inventions or improvements on inventions came with rapidity. He improved the stock exchange ticker : when he noticed it one day running an hour behind, and got $40,000 for it from Marshall Lofferts, president of The Western Union. That gave him his first real start?it was September 24, 1869?and his economic security settled, he proceeded to devote his entire time to invention. He bought an old building at Menlo ] Park. N. .1., in 1879 and developed M his laboratory, unequalled in its I sistants led him to invent the phonograph. Char.ce has played a vitffl part in many -of Edison's great inventions. The idea of bottling electricity for i illumination purposes challenged -Edison. He and his workmen started out to create# an electric light that would burn indefinitely within a glass < bulb. October 21, 1879, after spending $40,000 ami personally conducting more than 16.000 tests, Edison, 1 almost totally discouraged, met with ; success. i He succeeded in carbonizing a length of cotton sewing thread which, i when placed in an airtight glass bulb, burned for 40 hours. An argument about horses led the , "Wizard of Menlo Park" to invent the first successful motion picture camera. Governor Leland Stanford, of California, in order to prove his contention that a running horse laivd--ed all four feet on the ground simultaneously, had a photographer set up 40 cameras in a row and snapped a horse in motion. He was right. Edison saw the photographs, which was more important, and decided to reproduce the human figure in motion. He finally devised a workable machine in 1891. The outbreak of the World war stirred anew Edison's inventive genius. Moved by patriotism, he worked more strenuously than at any time of his life. Numerous devices to aid the country in its war came from his laboratory. He became head of the naval consulting board and directed the work of producing many new implements of war. In recent years he \ * iii'iisii \'in nihillYiTniTrr ~ ~ imltfii'liC Honor Roll Bethune Schools Grade 1.?Thomas Hough, Sara Margaret King, Sara Gordon, Tom Bethune, Evelyn Mangum, Howard West, Mabel Blackwell. Grade 2.?Harvey Johnson, Vera Horton, Mary Nancy Mcl^aurin, Doris Lane, Betty Best, Doris Ratcliff, Sara Ix?e Peach, Alva Horton, Sue Hilton, Doris Blaekmon, Jnnette Hinson. Grade 3.?Frances Helms, Josie Horton, Alvo McCaskill, Fannie Lee Horton. Grade 4. ? Margie Jones, Loutee Hinson, Myrtis Mungo, Oran Baker. Grade 5.?Margaret McLaurin, r,aroline McDowell, Lorene Blaekmon, Dot Hasty. Grace Horton, Eva Hor:on, Nellie Margaret Whitley. Grade 6.?Robbie Newton Marion, i\va Shaw, I^avern Jones. Grade 7.?Estella Johnson, Willie Mae Horton, Grace Horton, Richard Mcl>aurin, Rachel Williams.Grade 8.?Arlene Wagers, Clarence Heustess. Grade 9.?Mary Ellen McLaurin, Ruth Raley, Virginia Grantham, Mary A1 ice Baker. Grade 10.?Ida Outlaw, Elsie Mae Hammond, Marguerite Foster, William Est ridge. ^tirade 11.?Ruth Jones,. Edith Gly* | burn. Mary B. Radcliff. ? ??? * J School teachers of Johnson City.' Tenn., voted lf>l to 1 against a proposal of the city commission that they accept a salary cut. sought a substitute for rubber, working on it until death. Edison was,married twice. His first wife died in 1884, leaving three children, Thomas Alva, Jr., William Leslie and Marion Estelle. He was married to the present Mrs. Edison, the former Miss Lila Miller, two years later. Three children resulted also from this marriage, Charles, Madeline and Theodore. Charles is actual head of the Edison plant at West Orange today. Lesslie Irby, the negro given three] bullet wounds before he was captured in Laurens county last week for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Kitchens last November, jumped from a iSpartanburg hospital where he was being treated, while his guard went for a cup of coffee, and caused a strenuous man hunt this week. The negro escaped at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning, and both sheriff's deputies and city police combed the town for him. He was last seen a mile from the hospital in a night shirt. Irby was wounded through the lungs, and it was not believed he could last long under outdoor exposure, so the whole county was searched, by a y " dragnet, there being no clue to work on. Two automobile loads of bandits took possession of Lizton, Ind., for an hour and a half early Tuesday and then escaped with $3,500 from the Lizton state bank. The bandits cut all the telephone and telegTapb wires leading into the town before wrecking the bank with charges of ; nitroglycerin. I The school board of Monroe comity, Tenn., has placed a ban ag&taf school teachers who may want \? dance in that county. Violation ?t the ban means the loss of a job by the teachers. ???? ?."Tiii """ ... i WHILE VISITING 1 THE KERSHAW COUNTY FAIR I VISIT THE I J.C. PENNEY GO. DEPARTMENT STOR E .1 > i j The J. C. PENNEY CO. is one of the I largest buyers of Southern made I merchandise I Last year The J. C. PENNEY CO, spent I over eleven million dollars in the I Southern States I Outfit your entire family at Penney's, I where Quality and Thrift go I hand in hand I V I ' ' ????????? v I WELCOME! I To the Kershaw County Fair 1 We extend a cordial invitation to all to make ? I this store your headquarters while in Camden II I We want you to inspect our merchandise, I ! compare our low prices and let us show you I I where you can save dollars by buying "here. I Hirsch Bros. & Co. I The Big Store I II "* While Visiting the Kershaw County Fair VISIT 9ha ^Leade*/ DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, SHOES | Ladies' Ready-To-Wear I ? \