Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I [looking backwardI T?ke? Fro* Uio Ptleo of Tho ChrouicU Fifteen ?nd Thirty Yemni Ago I L thikty years ago I April 22, 19*2 T. K. Krumbholz let* contract to I T. H McClain, of Camden, to build I The Kirkvtfood Hotel. D. G. Zeigler I and company, of Sumter, to assipt I Dr. S. F. Brasington lets contract I to J. B. Montgomery for building of I a live room residence on Fair street. I Twenty-eight candidates announced I for office iia the new county of Lee. .Columbia State announces first telI cphonc connection from Columbia to I Canulen., Columbia friends allowed I to talk to Camden friends free on first I day of opening. Joseph A. Smith, salesmun m store I of J. C. Man, dies suddenly and body I taken to Smithville for burial. Walter McRae, North Carolina neI gro, develops case of smallpox and I Camden gets a scare. J. 11. Wallace elected assistant I cashier of Bank of Camden in place I of J. B. Steedman, Jr., resigned. M. - L. Smith, H. L. Watkins and I W. (I. Wilson attend meeting of I Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, at I Greenwood. J. T. Hay, J. G. Richards^Jr., L. W. I Boy kin, Alex Brown, W. A. Schrock I and L. W. Floyd delegates to tho I state convention in Columbia. Correspondent writing to The I Chronicle and signing "Observer," I objects to ladies riding astride and I calls it indecent. Lemuel M. Boswell, aged 84, dies at home of his daughter in Eastover I and his body brought to Camden for I ILcmated forty thousand . lives lost I \vh? n island of .Martiijjqu^ in West I l:ni.e> is destroyed volcanic erup1 l.'.uOt) coal miners go on strike I in Pennsylvania. ; F FIFTEHN YBAKS AGO May 4, 1917 * Camden polo team composed of Walter C. White, E. Y. Claussen, A. IP. Perkins and Earl Shaw return from Washington victors over the Cooperstown team. 0. L. Williams, of Mocksville, N. C., purchase the Camden Veneer plant from Stimpson & Kennedy. Mark King and Miss Ola Bethune married at Bethune. Doc Outen has hand badly lacerated when caught! in machinery at Kershaw cotton mill. Supervisor M. C. West advertising for bids to construct bridge over Wateree river. J. W. Weldon, aged 70, dies suddenly at home at Spring Hill. George MoDutTie Hampton, 58, former chairman of South Carolina railroad commission and son of late General Wade Hampton, dies in Columbia. Sheriffs and Clerks of . Court ordered to take census of all men between jfgos of 19 and 25 years,,for war serivice. Negro man and woman burned to death in fire in Bishopville1. All breweries in United States turned into various manufacturing plants. Willie Jones, negro prisoner escapes from Jailer Boone. Group Five of South Carolina Bankers Association to meet in Camden. Camden high school paper publishes picture and memorial to Paul j Twitty, who lost has life by drowning. Spartanburg county farmers to the number of 1,2-13 have applied for crop | loans, and about 800 of them have, been passed upon to date. Famous Detective Dead Sarasota, Fla., April 14.?William J. Burns, 70, world famous detective, died at his home here tonight. Mr. Burns was born October 19, 1861. He spent much of his early life in Ohio. He founded the detective agency bearing his name and was director of the bureau of investigation of the department of justice from 1921 to 1924. Mr. Burns, who was probably the most famous individual in the detective business during his active years, died suddenly. Ho was a native of Baltimore. The clothing store of J. Andrew Turner,* at Winnsboro, and all its contents were burned on Wednesday morning. The loss is partly covered by insurance. Paid On Railroad Bonds Since 1881 Next month Catawba township in j York county will call in the bonds! issued for the purpose of securing the Threo "G" railroad which was built! from Camden to Marion, N. C., back in the eighties of the past century, j The ambitious promoters of this road started out to build a railroad from Charleston tq Chicago and it was known as the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago road. When it was^ built, a pioneer railroad for these | parts, it was given bonds by the people in York, Lancaster and adjoining counties. The Yorkville Kmjuirer states that the bonds will be called by Catawba township next month by the grandchildren of those who issued the bonds .These bonds were issued in' the late eighties, about 1886 or 1887 and while the grand-children of the Catawba township people who floated the bonds will pay in full next month in Lancaster county tho great grand-children of the persons who floated the bonds will be paying on the issue as the Lancaster county township bonds do not come due until 1952. Gills Creek has in outstanding Three "C" bonds $28,600; Cane Creek township, $18,000 and Pleasant Hill township, $5,400.. Of this amount Gills Creek has in a sinking fund of about $8,000 and the other two town-j ships have only a very small amount' of money. The bonds of this railroad company came due early in the present century, but they were refunded. The people of Lancaster county will have paid interest on these bonds for about sixty-six years by the .time they aro paid unless the money is raised before the date of maturity. In Catawba township of York county tho bonds 'are not due until ten years from date,- but the twonship has the money and as it is permissable to call them in at any time they will be paid next month. 1 j The Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad was responsible for the growth of Heath Springs and Kershaw as there was scarcely a settlement at either one of these places before the railroad came through. Kershaw especially owes her growth to the railroad but as there was no town there at the time no bonds were floated by the people in the Kershaw section. At the time the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad was built through this section the Seaboard was building the line which now ex- ( tends from Monroe westward. An attempt was made to get the people! to sell bonds for that road and if this was done the Seaboard lino would, have come through Lancaster. The I Seaboard line has recently gone into receivership while the Three "C" road was taken over by the Southern a long time ago. . Lancaster county residents are also paying for bond* which were is&ued to buy stock in the I Lancaster and Chesterfield railroad which was tho first one built into the town of Lancaster. By an act of the general assembly Lancaster county was enabled to buy $100,000 worth of stock in this road and issue bonds to pay for the same. Mr. T. Y. Williams has the original stock certificate which came into his hands when ho was practicing law. It is a rather artistic stock certificate, but unusual because of the fact that it was drawn by pen. While it is a hand drawing it presents a very neat appearance. The certificate bears the date of 1881, but the act of the legislature permitting the purchase of the stock was passed in 1874 when the road was promoted. J This certificate was good for 2,000 shares of stock in the railroad at $50 per share. The road went in--1 to bankruptcy after operating for a number of years and the certificate now, of course, is worthless. While the promoters of the road sold bonds with a promise of build-1 ing a road from Chester to Cheraw it was not completed and a small amount of grading from the local, depot to outskirts of Lancaster wasf the only thing ever done as to building the road from here to Cheraw. Lancaster county as a whole owes for those bonds of which $47,000 are still outstanding. $17,000 of the bonds corne due in 1985 and about $12,000 is In a sinking fund to take care of the debt. $29,000 is due in. 1915. | The Peoples Industrial bank of Rockingham, N. C., capital of $28,700, has voluntarily ceased business and pa id every depositor in full. Stockholders decided to quit because of the depression. Charles B. Skipper, 75, prosperous Bibb county farmer, was buried at Macon, Ga., under a burial shaft he erected twenty years ago. On the shaft is this legend: "This poor fellow talked too much." Why the South Wll Called "Dixie." In nn address on June 9, 1931, before the American Institute of Hanking, ?t Pittsburg1, Pa., Fred W. Thompson, of the First and Merchants' National Hank of Richmond, Va., said: "Money is the essential commodity handled by a Iwnk and I'm going to tell you a little story about' money. Money gave to the South its pet name of 'Dixie.' The principal bills issued by a bank in New Or?( leans before the. war between the, states were engraved in Fnglish on one side and in French on the other. On the French side, the word Pix was very prominent; as you know, it1 means ten. "The Americans throughout the Mississippi Valley who did not know the French pronounciation called the bills 'dixies', and iiouisiana came to' be known as 'the land of dixies,' or 'dixie land.' This inspired Dan Km-i mett, who in 1859 composed the original 'Dixie Land' for a minstrel show then performing in New York.1 He embodied in it the expression he hud so often heard: 'I wish I were in Dixie.' " The quadrenhiaf general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will convene at Atlantic City, N. J., on May 2d, with representatives from 37 countries in attendance. - - ~ NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of sundry tax executions to me directed by J. C. Boykin, City Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Camden, South Carolina, 1 have levied upon and 'will sell the following property on the first Monday in May,'1932, being the 2nd day thereof, in front of the Court House, in Camden, S. C., during; the legal hours of sale. Terms of sale; Cash. All those pieces, parcels or lots of land, situated in the City of Camden. County of Kershaw, State of South Carolina as follows: . All that lot of land, having a front;age on North Broad Street, of the I City of Camden of One Hundred ! Ninety-two (192)* feet, and running back Westwardly to a depth of One Hundred Fifty (150) feet; bounded on the North by 19th Street; Fast by Broad Street; South by lot of Henry Savage and West by lots of George T. Little. Levied upon and to be sold j as property of Lillie M. Banks for ' 1930 City Taxes. Also_ All that lot of land, fronting East Seventy-six (76) feet, more or less on Gordon Street and running back Westward therefrom with a uniform width of Seventy-six (76) feet, to a uniform depth of One Hundred Fif teen (I IB) feet and is bounded on tho North by premises of Gamble; Fast by Gordon Street; South by premises of Joo Fisher and West by the Seaboard Air Line Railway. levied upon and to be sold as property of Allen Johnson for 1030 City Taxes., Also All that lot of land, measuring Sixty-one (til) feet, more or less, on the South side of Dejvalb Street and extending back With a uniform width, to a depth of One Hundred Ninetyfive (105) feett and bounded North by? DeKalh Street, Past by lot now or formerly of Mrs. H. C. Smith; South by lot now or formerly of A. J. Boattie and West by lot formerly of l)r. A. W. Burnet. Levied upon ami to be sold as property of F., K. Welsh for 1980 City Taxes. , Also All the right, title and interest of Fosnie Williams in ami to: all that lot of land, fronting Forty (40) foot Fast on Market Street and extending back West of a uniform width to a ? depth of One Hundred Twenty-eigl^ (128) feet and bounded North by property of Rose Williams and Isaac Williams; Fast by Market Street; South by property how or formerly of Solomon Deas ana West by property now or formerly James Brisbane. Levied upon and to be sold us property of Fossie Williams for 1D30 City Taxes. ' Also All that lot of land, fronting Forty (40) feet North on I^aurons Street and extending back of a uniform width to a dopth of One Hundred Five (105) feet and bounded North by lyivirens Street; Fast by property of J. 1). Whitaker; South by lot of Withers and West by property of Calvin Beckham. . Levied upon and to be sold as property of Fmmu Brooks for 1030 City Taxes. Also All that lot of land in the extended limits of Camden, having a Northern lino of Ninety-six (96) feet, an Eastern line of One Hundred Forty-three (143) feet, a Southern line of Seventy (70) feet and a Western lino of One Hundred Forty-six (146) feet and hounded North by premises now or formerly of Joe Frazier; Fast by premises of Tom Cook; South by premises of Charlie Benson and West by right of way of the Seaboard A. L. Railway. Levied upon and to be sold as property of John Wutklns for 1980 City Taxes. Also All that lot of land, fronting Forty (40) feet on Carroll Avenue of the Cify of Camden and extending back of a uniform width to a depth of One Hundred Forty (140) feet, and is known as lot 44 in the subdivision of the Peter Cole tract and is bounded as follows: North by Lot No. 17 of said subdivision; East by Ix)ts Nos. 21, 22, 23 and 24 of said subdivision; South by Carroll Avenue and West by Lot No. 48 said subdivision. Levied upon and to be sold as property of. John Jenkins, Jr., for 1930 City Taxes. H. D. HILTON, Chief of Police, City of Camden. Help Your School Win This Beautiful PHILCO ? Philco Model 112X THIS I$S THE PHILCO MODEL 112X RADIO which will be given absolutely FREE to the Camden City Schools when it qualifies in this simple contest. This set includes many new and distinctive features in raido which are exclusive with Philco. This is the new Philco which has taken the musical world by storm. This is the new Philco which has the inclined speaker board which purifies tone to the extent that when you listen to a program, you are not hearing a reproduction of the program, but the actual program. Other feature* in<?liir|?r| in tin* Mnrlol 112X are: illuminated station I recording dial, four point tone control, pentode tubes, eleven powerful tubes and automatic volume control. This i^ a radio which will add materially to the equipment of anjr school?and it is to be theirs for a small amount of work on _ the part of each student. Easy to Win! The Camden Chronicle through the cooperation of the local Philco d^QJ^r, W. F. Nettles & Son, has made arrangements whereby the Camden City Schools may receive one of the new Philco Model 112X Radios. When the school turns in to The Camden Chronicle office 200 new yearly subscriptions or renewals at $2.00 each they will bp, giy?n one of Aese fine radios absolutely FREE. Your Child s Education YOUR CHILD'S EDUCATION is only half completed when he or she passes all of his or her tudies with fine grades. Musical appreciation is coming to be found more and more t essential in the education of children. It broadens their minds, gives them additional recreation of a finer type, and an appreciation of the finer qualities in life which can only be afforded the mthrough an appreciation of music. The air is now crowded with educational and entertaining programs j some of which every child should hear regularly. If at certain periods pnrh da v ni" park w*?*>lr fKoy uta?>a ~!! C C d *C 1!" ten to these programs, it would help them in their studies by giving them the proper relaxation and at the same time education which would be afforded by these programs. This is your chance to do something constructive and at the same time cost you nothing. j Easy to Win! With each child doing a few minutes work it will take only a few days for the school to add this beautiful and necessary piece of equipment to their property,. , The Superintendent of the school has complete information. If one of the school children does not see you in-the next few days, either call the Superintendent or principal of the school or call at this office direct. To the class turning j in the largest sum, a cash prize of $5.00 will be given. The Philco Model 112X Radio is priced at $150.00. The Camden Chronicle :-rrr--^^r .c . if*'wry* ?*" ~ y~ *.* J * ' I "