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:v "J 1 ". looking backward .. lfu From the File# of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Year* Ago THIRTY YJBAR8 AGO i Februray 18, 1802 S. F. Boykin died at his home in ie liyokin section after a long illi&s. ,W. R. Hough attends banquet in tlariU given to agents of the Bquit>le Life Insurance Company. ' H. G. Garrison, Sr., elected in secid primary to serve as Alderman om ward four. Dr. John W. Corbett opens infirmly on Laurens street, A Funeral services for Mrs. L. L. ock held Friday morning and burial Jewish cemetery. Miss Susie Lenoir Haile died at ,me of her parents, Capt. and Mrs. L. Haile. . Martin Yarborough, aged 76, maritnl to Miss Julia Newman, aged 32, i Bethune. Mrs. L. H.'Moore and Bailey Hall arried by Notary Public I. F, HolSouthbound passenger train? on luthcrn railway runs into washout ar Griffin, Ga., and four trainmen Seaboard Air Line trestle over vannah river near Calhoun Falls, rept away by flood. Damago amounting to $260,000 no to railway property in Chattanga district by flood waters. Tillman and McLaurin censured by nate for fistic fight on floor of The coroner's jury investigating i death of W. C. Kirven at a raided 11 near Florence, found thdt his ith? came from persons unknown, rven had been assisting prohibin officers for some time. The soitor ,says \%ill continue the instigation to discover the murderer, jht men held in jail "were released the coroner's verdict, but seven them were arrested at once by shibition officers for violation of ? federal law. [*he union of Java sugar producers i informed the international sugar incil that its 1933 sugar production 1 be reduced from 2,981,047 to >6,351 tons this year. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO March 2, 1SI7 Southern Power company makea announcement that huge hydro-electric plant will be built a few miles north of Camden on Wateree river, to coat $6,000,000. Contract awarded to Hfcrdaway Contracting company of, Columbus, ,.Ga. Friedheim building lota on DeKal^ street sold to George T. Little. Barnes and iHyman, proprietors of tailoring establishment, leave town suddenly, owing many people. Samuel N. Nicholson succeeds H. M. Fincher as Magistrate for DeKalb township. James (PL, Stephenson, 60, died in Gaffney and buried at Westville in Kershaw county. County advertising sale of $100,000 bonds for erection Of new bridge over Watreee river to replace one w,ashed away in 1916. Probable lo? cation near mouth of Twenty-Five Mil? creek. - -"Quart-a-month" liquor bill signed by Governor Manning. y Sam Huggins married to Miss Luella Krum. Mrs. Nancy J. West, 79, died at her home in the Roland section. She was the mother of M. C. West, of Camden. ? J. W. Team, aged 46, physician of Ridgeway, dies after illness of five weeks. He was a native of Kershaw county. Riley Hall, 75, died in Lucknow section. Traveling men having to pass up Camden at night on account of commercial and tourist hotels being filled to capacity. Dr. Walter Sorrell, demonstration agent for Kershaw county, making tour of Western stock-raising sections. S. JM- Rodgers, aged 77, died at his home in the Antioch section of Lee county. (Senator Pat Harrison, addressing the Mississippi legislature, predicted a Democratic victory this year, and said there is no reason to fear a war ^?tween^he^Jnite^ CITY TAX NOTICE Beginning March 1,1932, a 2 per cent penalty will be added to all unpaid 1931 taxes, .and on April 1 an addition^ penalty of 5 per cent will be added. , By order of City Council, . C. Boykin, Clerlt < I BAYER IASPIRIN L'nless you see the name Bayer and the word genuine On the package as .^ pictured above you can never be sure that you are taking the genuine .^ ^ayer Aspirin that thousands of ft>hysicians prescribe in their daily -^^kractice. I The name Bayer means genuine Aspirin. It is your gyrent? of *rity-your protectee t#afa*t the __ . _ jr ' 1 ? - % is always SAFE beware of imitations 9 imitations. Millions of users have proved that it is safe. Genuine Bayer Aspirin promptly relieves: Headaches Neuritis * Colds Neuralgia Sore Throat Lumbago Rheumatism Toothache No harmftu after-effects foilow tt? am. ft doe* not depress the heart r" rr~. ? ? rz . ' _ News of Interest in and Near Bethune Bethune, Fob. 16.?'The class of Future Palmetto Farmers under the leadership of Mr. H. B, Keisler, enjoyed a delightful chicken supper at Josh Smith's cabin on the Watts place. Mr. Smith assisted Mr. Keisler in preparing and serving the appetising supper and a most enjoyable evening was spent. Mr. Keisler is holding three adult farmer classes each weelc: Shamrock, Wednesday evening; Timrod, Thursday evening and 'Bethune Friday evening. At the two former places the attendance averages from twenty to thirty-five. Mr. Keisler is klso. planning a unit course for women to be held in the afternoon. The subjects will be home beautification, gardening and poultry. Superintendent J. C. Foster and Mr. A. W. Parker chaperoned the senior class last Thursday on a trip to Columbia, where they went to oln serve the general assembly in session. Many places of interest were visited?-Woo&row (Wilson'* boyhood home, W. I. (S. broadcasting station and several other places. Lunch whs eaten at Saluda Dam. The trip proved one of profit and pleasure to the members or the class, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Rozier and Mrs. Zeb Gordon and little (laughter, Sara, went to Monroe Sunday to visit Mrs. Gordon's brother-in-law,- who is ill in a Monroe hospital. Miss Ruby Norris spent the week end at her homo in Newberry. Other teachers who were away for the week end were Misses Thelma Stroman and Lillian Goodlett and Mr. R. R. Burns. Miss Gladys Raker and Mr. and Mrs. Hatcher, of Gaffney, spent Sunday with Mi's. A. B. McLaurin, Miss Carrie Yarbrough, of Lancaster, was at home for the week end. Mr. and Mrs. J. Roddy Bell and children, of Lancaster, visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Bethune during the week end. The 'Sunbeams of the Baptist church were entertained with a Valentine party at the home of their leader, Mrs. J. E. Williams, last Saturday, afternoon. In addition to the entertainment always afforded by the gay Valentine box, out-of-door games were played and refreshments served. Mrs. R. E. Rivers and daughter, M iss Ada Leo Rivers, of Chesterfield, were Sunday guests in the home of Mr. and Mr9. M. O. Ward. Miss Clara Gordon was at home during the week end and had as her guest Miss Minnie Crawley7~bf Chesterfield. Misses Fannie and Lottie MdSWeen, of D&rlingtdfl, spent Saturday night and Sunday with their sister, Mrs. rW. E. Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Y. T. Byrd and children, of Jefferson, were week end guests, of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Mungo. Mr. and Mrs. David Holley, of Jefferson, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Saverance. ' Mrs. Maud Watts has returned home after a six weeks' visit to her daughter, Mrs. H. G. Hiers, of Bamberg. -?-Miee-Ella Gardner, of Kershaw, is the guest of relatives here. j ?gr Alva C. Springs Dead. Funeral services for Alva C. Springs, 73, widely known Charlotte man, brother of the late Colonel Leroy Springs, who died at his home 301 Queens road, Myers Park, after having been in declining health for about four years were conducted on Saturday afternoon at"3:30 o'clock at the home. Dr. Albert Sidney Johnson, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, officiating. Burial was in Elmwood cemetery. A splendid way to bring some of that hoarded money out of its hiding places and turn it* into the channels of trade is to put on a lfttle fix-up campaign, including overhauling of the premises and the repair or renovation of broken articles. Those who do this sort of work would probably be glad to make special prices,' also those who' have supplies to sell. A concerted move, with -a little advertising to help it along, might start something worth-while.?^Chester Reporter, FOR MAYOR I announce myself as a candidate for re-election to the office of mayor of the City of Camden. R. M. KENNEDY, JR. 1 FOR ALDERMAN I announce my name as a candidate for re-election as Alderman from Ward One of the City of Camden, W.JL. JACKSON. I announce myself as a candidate [for re-election to the office of Alderman from Ward Two of the City of [_Camden..... -* J. C. GILLIS. I announce my name as a candidate [for re-election as Alderman from Ward Three for the City of Camden. S. W. VanLANDINGHAM. | I announce myself as a candidate I for re-election as Alderman for Ward Four of the City of Camden. LEQN SCHLOSBURG. I hereby announce myself as candF date for the oBTice of Alderman from Ward Four of the City of Camden. LEWIS LEE CLYBURN. I announce myself as- a candidate for re-election to the office of Alderman from Ward Five of the City of Camden. HENRY SAVAGE, JR. I announce myself as a candidate for the office of Alderman from Ward Five for the City of Camden. M. L. SMITH, JR. _ I hereby announce my name as a candidate for the office of Alderman from Ward Six for the City of Camden. J. E. ROSS. I hereby announce myself aa a candidate for Alderman from Ward Six for the City of Camden. T. C. OliADfXZN. ??it*-?? . On The Scaffold (By Or. R. H. Bennett, President of Lander College, Greenwood). It was a hanging scene. Xhe &vn* j tence of the court was being carried out. The sheriff and his men stood about the culprit. The rope was round his neck, the black cap about to be drawn over hia face, when the fire bell rang, "Hurry up! Spring the trap!" said one. "No," said the sheriff. "Let's ^ do things decently and in order, He can't. get away. He is tied. Let's leave him here, go and put out the fire, and come back and finish this thing. They left. Pretty soon another colored gentleman came along, looked up at the man on the scaffold and said, "Hi, what you doin' up dar?" "I wukkin' for one o' dese here movin' pitcher companies." "Whar de folks?" "Dey gone to put out de fiar." "Ho?w you like your job?" "Just fine. Nebber had one I like better. Don't hub nothin' to do but come out and hab my pitcher taken, den go back tp the hotel and eat a bid# dinner and smoke my seegar." "Umph!" "Yassir, dis is sure a easy job. Dey ain't but one ting 'bout it dat L don't like. All dis here high libben and eatin' turkey ebrey day upset my stummick. I been thinkin' some o' dese times I'd quit and settle down. I got me a little house, and I goin' git me a cow and somp chickens and jest stay at home wid my old 'oman. De only thing, I don't like to leab dese folks widout noboddy. Ef 1 could1 jest find a man I like, I might gib him my job and go home." "Umph, how'd I do?" "Well, I don' know nothin' 'bout you. But I like your looks pretty well. I don't care. I believe I just soon gib you dis job." "What I gwine do?" "Come up here and ontie me and I tie you in my place. And den -atter while de men come back and take your pitcher and you go back to de hotel and cat yo' dinner and res' till tomorrow." "All right." "All right. Come on up and ontie me." The exchange was made and the freed gentleman . shot out for the woods. The sheriff ana deputies came back. They did net notice the substitution. "Spring the trap." As it happened a man came up just then with a moving picture camrea. "Wait," he said, 'Met hie get a picthen with a moving picture camera. The trap was sprung. The victim was so heavy the rope broke, after nearly jerking his head off. He picked himself up rubbed his neck and said in a voice of reproach, "You all playe too rough for me. Fust thing you know, you gwine hurt somebody." The preacher was holding an experience meeting. He asked for testimonies. "Brethren, tell us what great things the Lord has done for you. Bro. Simpson this is the first time you have been out since yoyr sickness. We are glad you are well enough to be out. You speak first." Bro. Simpson had had a stroke of paralysis. He got up with his leg dragging and his arm dangling and his face pulled round to one side. "Bro. Simpson, teH us what the Lord has done for you." "Well brother," he said, "he's jest nigh about ruined me." - ' Death of William M. Ashe. Chester, Feb. 12.?William M, Ashe, 71, Van Wyck business man, died at his home there this afternoon after an illness of about six months, Mr. Ashe was born in McConnellsville and was the son of Jdhn?^Vshe and Sarah Rayney Ashe. He had large farming interests and a brick plant. He was an elder in the Van Wyck Presbyterian church. He begun his career in McConnellsville end has operated brick "plants at York, Rock Hill, Grier, and finally settled in Van Wyck. ^ The Republicans of the New York senate, sprung, a surprise Wednesday night by introducing a jesolutior calling for a legislative investigation of all departments of the Democratic administration of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. The vote on the resolution was strictly a party one and ' passed 27 to 21. It is purely a political move to try to~secure ammunition for the next state campaign that would help the Republican party in the state. This week the body of Elvin Mims was found in the Congaree river near Columbia, over three week^ after he was drowned^ from a capsized boat, It was attached to a sunken tree, eight miles below where he was drowned. He was 26 years old and i leaves a widow and baby daughter besides his mother and a brother ~~T?re funeral was held at the Neu Brookland Baptist church, i The Young Peoples Conference ol t the Salvation Army of the two Carolinas will be held in. SpartanVtirj " early in April with l/XX) delegate! l present and marching in a big parade : with one 50-piece band and anothei 25-piece band. Judge William T. Robert*, attorney : for the Federal trade eommiasior since 1914) died in Washington ox Toeeday. t j , i* | ll i 'i" t ~~~ Three Girls Burn; Parents Helpless ?Bar Harbor, Me., Feb. 14.?Three girls, the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Tracy, were burned to death today in a fire which destroyed the Tracy home at West Edena, a few miles from here. The dedd: -Caroline, 13; Mary, 11; and Gladys, 7. Two other children, Marcia, 16, and Julian, 6, were dragged from the blazing building by Lloyd Norwood, a neighbor. The fire sarted in an explosion of. fat which Mrs. Tracy was heating on the stove in preparation for frying doughnuts. Flaming liquid spattered all over the small kitchen, starting fires on every side. The father of the family who was sawing wood with Norwood outside the two-room home, dashed into the kitchen and helped , his wife through the flames, while Norwood, crawling on his hands and knees, rescued Marcia and Julian from the inner room. The other three girls frightened by the explosion, fled to an unfinished upper part of the structure, ^rom which it was impossible to rescue them. The frantic parents stood helplessly outside the building, within -sound of the wailing of their trapped children, as the fire, swept by a high wind, consumed the tar paper covered shack. Firemen arrived too late to be of assistance. The building burned to the ground in 20 minutes. Named Superintendent of Education j Mr. Lewis M. fClyhurn was elected* as superintendent of schools for Lancaster county, it was announced by State Superintendent James H. Hope last Friday at Columbia. Mr. Clyburn said on Saturday that he was arranging for his bond and that he would assume the duties of the office soon. Mr. /Clyburn said that he would probably be at the office this week but that he would not be able to do much until the audit of the books of the office was completed.? Lancaster News. ' When the county commissioners at Ripley, Tenn., cut the salary of the county game warden from $150 to $100 per month, the warden quit. The place has not yet -been filled. "It's Lucky We Kept our Telephone" . i . Said Jim aa he hung up the receiver, "or I'd still be out of a job. Just had a call to report for work in the morning." The other side of the picture: a contractor needed men in a hurry . . . "get them by telephone?it's the easiest and quickest way" . . . the natural ordec from j a modern business man with no time to hunt those out of reach. With a telephone in your home you are always ? " within instant reach . . . The cost is small. So little, in fact, that it doesn't pay to try to do without it. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company ( Incorporated ) CALL AT THE SANITARY BARBER SHOP and have them explain how you can get1 j ELECTRIC CLOCKS r 77 ~and other valuable articles 1 at unheard of prices ! SANITARY BARBER SHOP [ DcKalb Street " Next Door Majestic Theatre j ' MAGNOLIA GARDENS j | LOW EXCURSION FARES ; Fridays and Saturdays 1 J FEBRUARY 19-20; FEBRUARY 26-27; i MARCH 4-5; MARCH 11-12 ? I Alao For Train No. 15 Sunday Mornings 1 I Good Returning Wednesday's Following il Excursion fares applying from: - I CAMDEN $3.00 , j LANCASTER 4.00 , j HEATH SPRINGS .\ 3.75 ' I ' Magnolia and Middleton Gardens now approachj I ing peak of bloom. , j Also excursion tickets ONE FARE AND ONE- I HALF round trip? sold^ebruary 46-?~16-lg^Zl-Z3-25-2jT; I March 1-3-6-8-10-13-15-17-20-22, 1932. Good 7 days. jL Convenient Train Service: Day Coaches, Pullman f Cars,' Dining Cars. Consult Ticket Agents S0UTHERRN RAILWAY SYSTEM TRAVEL BY TRAIN COMFORTABLE ECONOMICAL?SATE . I<|IIIM IW.mh.I- ll.l-l-.-l-l .1. * ' ... ~ ?irt