Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Nobody's Business writun tor The Gimmick by Gn RcGee. Copyright, mi OAVS of today and yestbrw day 0ur 1032-model boys dont know h0w to have * food time. All they want ia a few cigarettes, or a pair of skate* or a rumble seat, or a picture show. I am talking about boys under 10 years of age. Boys older thsn 10 are men nowadays, and you know the rest. When 1 was a kid, I prided myself on having more grass-hopper legs in nv pocket than any other 5 boys, white and black, in our community. I recall that I owned several pairs 0f grass-hopper legs that were of the saw-tooth variety and they measured over 3 inches long. Folks, them was legs for you: everybody talked about them. I was also strong for snake hides that had been shed. I usually carried all of these rarities in my shirt bosom, wrapped up in shucks. ?Thfy made a, great display whep*.I>epread them out on the ground. 1 I hay* owned as many as 250 snake-doctor wings. I was hard on snake-doctors. I strung my wings on a string and It was a beautiful sight, those wings.. ..dangling about in the breezes.... from bed-tick galluses. ..I .thought pretty well of cottontails,Tnat is, the rear appendages of rabbits. They were very much like the present day powder puffs our girls use. But the onl^' thing I did with them was tickle the boys and girls 4 on the back of their necks In school or elsewhere, if they -were there. I accumulated 35 frog eye-hplls once and made mydelf a cute string of beads, but they diddent wear very well. ...... ~~. .The best toys I ever had we>ef mud turkle and terrapin (then called tairsnoi ts. They were fine for j j pinching folks, provided, of course, that the paws had not become separated. 1 wore a squijr^l tail on my,: old hat. but they became so common, J I threw it away after a few months' sendee. My greatest possession, as I now remember it, was a thumb-paper : I got out of a boj^ of cooking soda. ..I generally kept a nice stock of lizard tails, jay-bircT claws, owl teeth, fish fins, streakfleld skins, rooster > spurs, and sparroW wings. I also ] stayed stocked lip on cross vine and , rabbit tobacco for smoking purposes. ( I kept 2 pockets full of iron nuts, , bolts, horse-shoe ends, nails, wire and other useful junk for boy-use. Yep, them were the days, but noboddy would want a boy now who found the need of the many things I considered -absolute essentials back there. ? flat rock news 1 1 a big political meeting was hell at * the ball park in our little town last ! week, but no serious damage was done excepp somebody stole the third base and tromped down some nice flowers at the gate, all of the speech- J es was verry poor and not on anny question of the day. -..a movement is oir foot to buy some 1 new pews for rehober church, the ' ladies mission-tnerry society thinks 1 wore rnonney can be raised now than J ever befoar or after as the woods and ?treets and lanes are full of candy-" < d?te? running for oflrts, and they can 1 not afford to turn down a plea for J "me, as we will not vote for any- 1 toddy^frai^yyont help the cause, so ^ *he aays. 1 j bad axident took place in mr. < amiths basement tuesday night while 'J supper was on. it seems that he p"t l too much suggar and too few raisins J *nd some chiney berries in his homebrew and it blowed a big hole thru 1 ?ie noor and busted his kitchen stove 1 *nd cubbard all to pieces, as he is 1 1 deacon in the church,- he thinks a ' _t*n of gassoleen exploded, but his 1 *ife makes like she dont know what < k was, as she is afraid of him. I ; borned to mr. and mrs. ..skinner. J Jones, 2 nice babies reppersenting 1 | both genders. aha will be ramam- j "ered a- kizzie elklns who run away *'th a vaudville show 'back yonder, 1 ?t come back home and got married ( j *nd has benn a faithful wife_ and ' trter-in-iaw ever since they moved to his pa* house, they will be giwen ^tional names: the boy will bf called 1 ^or&b" and the girl ''rosey-velt." ??th are doing well as expected onner count of their doctor is not much j bought of in his practice."" our poleesman is off on his.vacation j with pay in the mountain!, he took whole famfley in the Httle fire 7ck as the town furnishes gas# end *' will be away 10 days, our mr. redd, will hoM down his while hs is away and is wmiing badge and tflHS V*tf ijft >e 3** noboddy has disturbed the pleee j f!lilgnity ?* there- j he has not benn Jbeat op or noth ing. i will rite or foam in more news tomorrow. V yores trulie, I mike Clark, rfd. corry spondent. HOW TO FORECAST THE, WEATHER 1.. When your rheumatism begin* to tism with more vim and vivacity than has been its usual habit, look for rain. 2..When you come in late at night and find your wife wide awake, worrying about where you have been and with whom you .have been, local show-, ers are sure to follow... .after she tells you that she wishes she was dead ansoforth. _____ % 3. .When your mother-in-law comes UP in the early spring and fetches at least 4 trunks and 2 or 3 trunkets, get ready for fair and warmer weather and much electricity and thunderclaps. 4..When you came home for dinner with homebrew on your breath and* homebrew in your stagger, look <out for a cooler atmosphere till you sober up; then scotch yourself for a cyclone or something. 5..If the sun sets behind a cloud, that is % sure sign that it has gone down, and you may expect it to rise again the following morning?just as it has always rii*n, also dp weather till it lightens in the north... .which medns heavy rain in 3 days or more. 6. .If your pigs squeal at night or your rooster crows before midnight ?& your cow bawls frequently, take your umbrella to the office with you the next day as it's sure to be sultry and warmer. The pigs alone will post you on this....if you happen not to own a cow or a rooster, but a car and radio instead. 7.. When your, coal man Tefuses to, send your copl. and your installment agent has just re-possessed your winter suit and your wife's fur coat, look for snow, sleet, hail and the sheriff... .also look for the Salvation Army. 8_ .JR' your toe itches, that means fair jweather; if it doesn't itch, that means something else, but if you have a frog in your throat and it by chance happens to be a rain frog, why, you may look for rain if you want to, as the frog won't care. That's all I know about it, meaning weather forecasting: but these signs are the only signs used by the government forecaster evidently. t A Short Life Worth While He was 24 years old. It was conceded that he would lead in the primary among 29 candidates for the legislature from Greenville county. Just a week before the election he fell iead after concluding & campaign speech. His.name is Nigel A. League. His was a short life, but one well worth while. A group of graduates of the South Carolina state university talked about him in Yorkville th# morning after the'artery in his brain burst. He was known all over his state, because lie was veixT}TOnrtTIienr 1n 1ts " irersity. Everybody on the campus knew him, respected him, admired him and forecast big things in his future. In many towns in South Carolina, ether alumni of the state university talked together that morning ift tones of his ability and the tragedy of his death. In the few years since he entered college, -Nigel A. Leagne_made for himself a place in the world that , caused such groups in YorkviHe and other towns to grieve at his sudden taking ofr._ How did he take tage so well of his opportunities T He had no opportunities. Ho made them. Born in a cotton mill village, he worked in a textile miu as so<m as he was big enough?not very big. His parents were poor. He worked his way through Primary and secondary school, the state university and later a law school. He sold newepapers, while he was gaming the, re-| spectand^ admiration and honors of, the university atudent body. | the yeat .that.he was admitted to th bar. he was about to be sentto th , legislature from one of the greatest, counties in South Carolina. It might; easily have been that he would be| made governor of this iHK which reveres its governors, by 1950, as h humorously boasted would occur, when bo was a sophomore. Much greater than being |? ita values, is the lesson in h'? sho? life. - If It urges other poor- boys, m mill villages, or elsewhere to work and light for success and thus gain Ttho Ufo of Nigel A. I ? more worth while than if ho had lived on. to be governor of South ?*And so everybody Joins the ville uriverettT alumni In orro* * tragic# death of that young man. might tTv.*jySr!S2L help to th# wfcols ?tata, had he lived. ?Yorkviile Enquirer. - o. ; * Rev. Boy kin Recalls Major Catastrophe ii ** Kditor Cnrnden Chronicle? ?i In your "Looking Backward" column* thirty year# ago, August 2d, 11)02, I note with much interest the following item; 44Rev. J, W. Boykln was in attendance at convention at Birmingham where panic occurred, killing many, but he escaped unhurt." To most of the present readers of this article it is a mere passing incident, but to me it 'brings a very pathetic reminder of an incident that is as fresh to me today as thirty years ago. If you will permit me the space I would be glad to relate a brief statement as to how this panic occurred. It was on Friday night of the meeting of our great national Baptist convention; the night th^y made famous because of the speaking of Booker T. Washington, and, needless to say, that the church' in which we were meeting, though spacious, was tilled, both seated and standing, galleries, aisles, vestibules and all outside on the street was jammed with people. It was about 9:15 or 9:30 p. m. just as Mr. Washington finished his address that a woman in the choir loft, jupt behind him, screamed and said eithe'r "'Don't fight" or '^Dont fire." (Some say that two men in the choir had had a dispute over a chair before the speaking began and it was renewed at this time and one drew a pistol which excited the woman and her scream excited the people as they thought she said "fire.") Then all over the church and galleries everybody was crying, "fire" and with one mad rush a great sea of humanity moved as a great wave toward the front door. But those from the galleries rushing down upon those in the vestibule and steps, that were walled in, formed a jam that wedged the people tightly and pressed the life out of them. I note that your paper said "seventy eight killed in panic afS^oso of Negro convention at Birmingham church," but this report was evidently given before all of the facts were known, as there were on? hundred and thirtyeight or thirty-nine whose lives wert pressed out of them in this very sad and uncalled for manner. I note that you said, "but he escaped unhurt," which was true, and for which I am still thankful to a Great Providence. I sat, duringHhe pddress. the second from the end of the front seat, and though near the choir loft, when the woman first screamed, was far away from the jam', at the entrance of the clvbrch and so far as knowing What w?S happening there, I as well as the speaker and other officers of the convention, were in total ignorance. Mr. Washington and the president of the convention stood up and told the people to be quiet, that there was no fire, but the mass of people who had rushed to the front for exit were frantic and could not henr. I was not excited nor alarmed and did not know for fifteen or twenty minutes after the first excitement that anything had happened, untiL I went, down the back steps leading from the pulpit to the basement and t^ere, upon tables and upon the floor, they had lain many dying and dead. I then went around to the front and there I saw the jam and realized what had happened. The fire department had arrived and were pulling the people apart and laying them in # line in the yard to the side of the church. The most pathetic scenes of this v?ry sad panic were, as the dead lay ill this line in the church yard, friends with flash lights and candles were moving down the line to identify any relative or friend. And the next day, which was given almost wholly to memorial service, to see piles of clothing, hats, umbrellas and other articles torn from bodies piled +hc ficcr nnd tc lister, ts inqui ries from relatives and friends, who had not seen their loved ones since the panic, some of whom no doubt, were either in hospitals or at morgue. In anticipation of what my people at home would think on reading the next day from the newspapers the exciting account of this panic, I, with many others, went immediately to the telegraph office and" sent a message to be delivered the next morning that I was safe. I shall never forget thia very sad affair. ? J- W. Boykin. Mud Battle The moat ridiculous and most unnecessary political machine that has come to our attention is the South Carolina primary, where dignified office seekers are forced to grovel and sling dirt up and down the land for many weeks before winning the nomination of the party. Such a campaign would unfit any man for office and few of them come out of this ordeal fitted to serve the people.? Marion Star. Twelve hundred cases of Canadian ale were dumped into the sea off Bandy Hook, New York, by prohibition officers on Monday. * \ Thursday afternoon four masked bandits held up the teller and girl stenographer of the western Durham, N. C.? branch of the Fidelity bank and 49$9fitd in en automobile with an | amount of money not aicertained last j evening; but a $7,000 pay roll is known to be part of it Notice of {Second Primary Election Notice is hereby given that a sec-1 ond primary election for the nomiua-1 tion of the following state and county officers: One United States Senator. * One Superintendent of Education. One Director Wateree Township. One Magistrate Upper Wateree Township. 1 One Coroner. I Will bo held at the respective vot- I ?ng places in Kershaw county on Tuesday, Sept 13. 1032. The polls will be open from eight o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the afternoon. No person will be allowed to vote | save those who are duly qualified, under the rules and regulations govern-! mg the Democratic primaries and whose nam^s apppar upon the club roll of the precinct at which they present themselves for voting. The polling places have been designated and the managers uppointed by the County Executive Committee and J they appear below: I I Abney?L. K. MoGaakill, Lewis Dew, G. B. Crow. Vote at Kirkley's Mill. J Antioch ? J. D. Davis, D. K. Stokes, G, W. Shiver, secretary. Vote! at Antioch school house. i .Bethune?J. N. McLaurin, James Copeland, Leonard Brannon. Vote at Town Hall. Blaney?J. G. Kelly, J. M. Porter, Mrs. A. T. Simpson. Vote at A. K. Rose s store. Buffalo?C. W. Holly, W. P. Sowell, E. J. Catoe. Vote at Buffalo school house. . ' Camden?John T. Nettles, G. T. Little, Jr., E. L. Moseley, Wiley Sheorn, D. V. Dixon, C. R. Villepigue. Vote at County Court House. Cassatt?T. A. 'Sears, C. L. McCaskili, >L. J. Walters. Vote "at H. E. Gardner's store. Charlpite Thonmson ? Eugene Pearefc E. M.- Workman, Allen B. Murchison. Vote, at Charlotte Thompson school house. DeKalb?J. J. Owens? G. C. Rush, W. T. Young. Vote at DeKalb school house. Doby's Mills?J. V. ijMiles, Alfred MaPherson, Douglas Arledge. Vote at 'Campbell's store. ^ I Enterprise?W. L. Stokes, William Brannon, Jesse Brannon. Vote at W. M. Brannon's filling station. Gates' 'Ford?A. B. Whitaker, H. R. I Horton, Nick Ray. Vote at School [ house. Harmony?John Paschal, J. M. But- 1 ler, Talmadge Branham. Vote atl school house. Hermitage?J. L. DeBruhl, Hoyt Knight, Joe Boyd. Vote at Harrison's store. Kershaw?J. A. Whitley, T. C. Jones, John iS. Truesdale. Vote at W. R. Taylor's store. Liberty Hill?F. B. Floyd, W. C. Wardlaw, N. iS. Richards. Vote at Mac key-Jones store. Lugoff?Victor Ward, Luther Jones, A. V. (Smith. Vote at Rabon's store. Lockhart ? Will Owens, C. W. Jordan, _Lee Horton. Vote at school house. ? Ned's 'Creek?V. A. Humphries, Paul Gregory, Amsey Gardner. Vote at school house. ^ Oakland?J. H. Watkins, L. L. McLauchlin, Willie K. 'Price. Vote at Oakland school house. * Pine Tree?W. W. Horton, W. N. West, W. A. Hyatt. Vote at Midway school house. - Rabon's Gross Road?J. E. Jackson, secretary; J. L. Ford, Arthur Dowey. Vote at Rabon's store. Raley's Mill?<D. A. Munn, P. G. Rodgers, W. G. Newman. Vote at Mill house. Roland?Lewis Spears, Lem Bowers, Otis West. Vote at West mill. Sflfc Pond?A. D. Boykin, H. E. Moore, B. B. Moore, vote at community house. Sandy Grove?W. H. Bade 1 iffe, Jrv H. R. Hall, Glemson Cobb. Vote at school house. Shamrock?J. F. Baker. C. P. Blackmon, I. B. 'Horton. vote at Shamrock school house. Shapard?L. H. Catoe, F. J. Tldwell, w. G. Weft. Vote at LanglajPs store. Shaylor's?R. A. McDowell, R. M. Drakeford, C. E. Hornaby. Vote at PV11VV4 UUUfV, Swift Greek?B. O. Truesdale, J. |W. C. Boykin, W. A. Boykin. Vote -at TruesdaleV store. ? .? Three Cs?T. H. Young, J. H. Barfield, J. M. Croxton. Vote at Three C's school house. Twenty Creek?Frank J. Rabon, J. G. Gardner, R. T. Jackson. Vote at Hinson's store. Wateree-J. C. Conyers, J. W. Boyce, B. F. Robinson, E. L. Moore, secretary. - Vote at club tiooror Westville?R. H. Young, T. F. McDowell, L. C. Clyburn. Vote at R. L. Bell's store. At Clubs having more than Fifty names the Australian Ballot System will be observed. The especial attention of the Managers is called to the rnles and regulations governing the conduct of the primary which rules are aent to the managers along with the ballots and boxes. At Precincts where voters from more than one Township cast their ballot the voters will give the managers the name of the Township in which they reside and the managers will write the name of snch Township on the poll list next to the voter's name. One of the Managers or sonic member of each club will cell for the boxes, tickets, etc., which will be r^dy on Saturday, 8ept. 10, at the office of The Camden Chronicle. B. *: BRA3INGT0N, tr n, xrnpc County Chairman. H. D. MILES, r * Secretary. LOOKING BACKWARD Takes Frew tke files ef The Chrenfcle Fifteen mn4 Thirty Years Age FIFTEEN YEARS AGS September 21. 1917 Mrs. Kstelle Baker, wife of Andrew Baker, found beaten to death from many blow*. Mrs. James ChesnuL^ native of Camden, dies at the home of her daughter in Gainesville, Fla. ?e? J. Smyrl Halsall leaves postotfice to go to Georgetown. Buffalo Milling Company chartered with capital of $6,000. The new stamp taxes for war revenue goes into effect. J, C. MeCaskill, former Kershaw county man, died at Bainbridge, Ga, B. H. Baum sells Coca-Cola plant to John M. Jones, of Chester. W. C. Roberts married to* Miss Lillian Lee, of Camden. Mrs, Aline Nelson dead at home near Blaney. Yancy Adams married to Miss Minnie Robinson, of Kershaw. Hartwell M. Ayer, editor ,of Florence Daily Times, dies suddenly. Bertis Rabon and Miss Evelyn Branham, of Lugoff, married. Young Ralph MeCaskill has leg amputated at Camden hospital. James Zemp, recent graduate .in pharmacy, goes with Zemp & DePass as druggist. A ? > Mrs. Maggie Brown, wife of J. J. Brown, dies at her home in Bishopville. Little Robert Muldrow, Jr., of Bishopville, has close call from drowning in the Stuckey pond. Mrs. Bessie Waters, wife of James W. Waters, dies at her home near Bethune. THIRTY YKAMS AGO September 2, 1902 TJrrHStf""#. Brasington moves into new residence on Fair street. T. Evans, of Spring Hili, pleased with tobacco planting experiment. Sold 1,071 pounds for which he received $268.50. Samuel Boykin, near iBoykin depot, loses ginhouse and thirty bales of cotton with no insurance. Miss Fannie H. Jenkins, who had relatives in Kershaw county, dies and is buried at Rombert. John Jenkins building six-room cottage on West Laurens street. Mule belonging to Charlie Dowey runs away near Model Home, taking down sidewalk, but no one injured. Family of Judge W. F. Russell, of Westville, moves to Camden and occupies Davis residence on north Broad street. David H. \Baum leaves tp attend school at the Citadel. N. P. Gettys returns to The Citadel for his third year. J, A, Vaughan succeeds Mr. <Hartness as agent at (Southern railway station. \ Mary Knox, OS^pound colored girl, picks 430 pounds oi^cotton in one day for L. B. Ogburn. Daniel 'H. Chamberlain, former gov1 ernor of South Carolina, back in Columbia to spend some time for his health. Negro woman dies in Laurens claiming to be 120 years of age. President Roosevelt sends $2.00 check to subscribe to "Our Monthly" of Clinton orphanage. Fort Mill (Savings Bank blown open and between six and ten thousand dollars stolen. , ' - "-* ' - v> : r * Get READY for your Labor Day trip TODAY You may never again be able to buy tires at these unbelievably low prices. 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