The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 23, 1931, Image 8
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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.
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DeKALB PHARMACY
J. D. ZEMP, Ph. G.
PHONE 95
Corner Main and DrKalb
The Rexall Drug Store
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Welcome to The Kershaw
County Fair!
Kershaw County air visitors should come to
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SHOES AND GENTS' FURNISHINGS
We do Sh oe Repairing also. j
Lomansky's Shoe Store
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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THE KERSHAW COUNTY FAIR I
VISIT THE I
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DEPARTMENT STOR E .1
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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
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To the Kershaw County Fair 1
We extend a cordial invitation to all to make ?
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