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LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From ike File* of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Years Ago FIFTEEN YEARS A(i() December 14, 1917 Congress declares war on AustriaHungary by a vote of 803 to 1. Thirteen negro members of the Twenty-fourth Infantry hanged at Houston, Texas, for participating in the Houston riot, 'Entire country in grasp of blizzard. Slight snow fall experienced in Camden. A. S. Karesh sells his mercantile interest in Kershaw and goes to San Antonio, Texas, to enter aviation service of United States army. Sheriff I. C. Hough and Chief Whitaker capture two large trucks loaded with- whiskey shipped to Seaboard passenger depot from Jacksonville, Fla. '' " " . L. T, Mills, of Camden, appointed district deputy by the Grand Lodge of Masons held in Charleston, American destroyer Jacob Jones sunk by German U-boats and upwards of CO men lost. v 'S. N. Welsh resigns as head of the I<ee county farm demonstration work. Ancient city of Jerusalem surrenders to British army without bombardment. John Villepigue goes to Charles^ ton as a juror in UnU^d States court. < > I). L). Grant, of Bishopville, bitten by a supposedly mad dog. THIRTY YKARS AGO (NOTE; Owing to the fact that several pages of our, flies for 1002 have bean lost TW Chronicle <vwili have to omit the thirty year ago feature until January 2, 1093.) In The I<ong Ago The following y\% copied from "Backward dunces" of the Charleston News and Courier, takep from their flies of November 22, 1632: "The new Episcopal church, in Camden was consecrated to the service of Almighty Cod on Wednesday last, by the name of Grace Church. The Right Rev. Bishop Bowen performed the solemn ceremonies, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Gadsden, and the Rev. Edward Phillips, the rector. A large number of both sexes were conArmed by the Bishop at the same time. "Grace Church is a very neat and substantial edifice of brick, with a fine front finished in imitation of the granite used in the base of the DeKalb monument, and the whole building, interior and exterior is tastefully and elegantly constructed in tho Gothic^ order of architecture.?Camden Journal." Mr. Cobb To Sing At the worship service Sunday morning at the Presbyterian church Mr. Hollis F. Cobb, of Charlotte, will sing. - a ~~ ' 1 City Schools Put On Pretty Programme The pupils of the grammar grades of the Camden schools put on an interesting program at the chapel exercises Wednesday morning at 8:40 o'clock, \vhi<th) was followed later at 0:45 by a program with the high school pupils taking part. The stage was beautifully decorated with gifts from the children. These gifts, following the usual custom of the school, will be distributed to needy families for Thanksgiving. The smaller children enjoyed immensely the talk of Rev. Craighill, the new Fpiscopal minister. Likewise Dr. Wimbcrly, the new Methodist pastor, had an interesting message for the older pupils. The following program was presented by the young pupils with J. G. Uicha:ds, .Jr., presiding: "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come" by the audience; "Signs of Thanksgiving." by Junior Smith; "Grandpa's Biggest Turkey," bv Frances Rhamu; "Can a Little Child Like Me" and "Swing the Shining Sickle." by audience; "landing of the Pilgrims," by Maggie Trantham; "A Good Thanksgiving," by G race Rhoden; Doxology by Audience; Address and Thanksgiving Prayer by Rev. F. II. Craighill; "America, the Beautiful," by audience. The program by the high school, with L. W. McFadden, presiding, was as follows: "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come" by nudienco; Address by I>r. C. F. Wimbcrly; "America, the Beautiful," ?- lyy^-yndience. Mather Academy Wins Mather Academy, of this city, defeated Lincoln high school of Sumter here Tuesday afternoon by a score of 6 to 0. The game was played at Browning Home park. Gibb DuBose Intercepted a pass and ran 45 yards for a touchdown. They failed on the extra point. Daniel O'Connell, former head of a bankrupt investment house of New York, has been sentenced to ten years of hard labor by a judge who j said he had conducted his business "in mad speculation, in forgery and thievery," the like of which he had never known. White Team Taken Third Game In n hotley contested game the White team of the old Camden polo club took its third successive game from the Blues by a score of 5 to 4 Thanksgiving morning on the number 2 field in Kirkwood. At the end of the second chukker the Whites had three goals to their credit and the Blues had not, tallied but from that time on to tl$ eitd of the game the Blues put up a stitT fight, at one time tying the score at 4-all. The next game will be played Sun-' day afternoon at 4:15 and the Blues are for revenge, a thing they have shown in the past, they are well able to mete out. Line-up and summitry: Whites (5) Blues ( 1) Henry Savage. Jr. 1 Kirby TuPLCX ' M.~L. Smith. Jr. 2 Ancrum Boykiti Clarkson Rhame 3 Frank Wooten Charles Little -i Joe Bates . Cutting in: Whites. ('. I'. BuBose, Jr.,; Blues, Whit Boykin and Charlie Rul>?l?on. Scoring: Whites, Savage. Smith. Khame, Little. BuBose; Blues, Tuppet* (2), Bates,-Roherson. * Referee: A. Dalton Kennedy. Gladden?Watts 4 Mr. Clarence Watts and Miss Loma Gladden were...UJiited ill marriage last Sunday morning, November 20th,-at the Baptist parsonage. Cedar (Took church. Rev. P. E. Blackmon. pastor of Mrs. Watts, performed the ceremony. Mrs. Watts is the attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wni. Gladden, of the Flint Hill section of Kershaw county. Mr. Walts is a farmer and also a business man of Camden. Their many friends extend to them congratulations.?Contributed. I)r. William S. Lindsay, prominent dentist and highly respected citizen of Colombia. died at his home there from heart dikease with which he was stricken a few days previously. He was an active Baptist and for many years a deacon in the First Baptist church, and always responded, to calls for aid in city betterment. He was born GO years ago in Barnwell, and his father, the Rev. Dr. William S. Lindsay, was for many years the pastor of the First Baptist church in Columbia. He leaves his widow, four children and four grandchildrer.. Thieves have stolen poll books and ballots from two city buildings of Newark, N. J., for the purpose, apparently, of concealing evidence of crooked election work in two of the city's wards. {Lindbergh Case Was | Bungled, Sleuth Says New Orleans, La., Nov. 16. ? A resolution condemning "police bungling" in the investigation of the kidnaping of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr? was offered today to the International Association for Identification, in session here. . * Albert Dunlap, editor of "The Detective"," official publication for the association, offered the resolution. He said he had spent several days about the Lindbergh home immediately after the kidnaping, and he was convinced it was an "inside job." "The ladder which was supposed to have been used to climb to the aecond story window was. so dilapidated that no one would dare climb it," Dunlap said. . "There were no marks on the window sill, and a chest that rested against the window inside the nursery showed no signs of having been moved. The ladder would have had to pass over the window of Colonel Lindberg's study on the first floor, and Colonel Lindbergh was at home." | Dunlap kaid the science laboratory at Northwestern University offered a lie detector for use in questioning various members of the Lindbergh household, but New Jersey officials in charge of the investigation "turned the offer down cold." "Tho movement of members of the household were none too clear on the night of the kidnaping," Dunlap said. His resolution was scheduled to come before the convention for vote later. Arson Charged In Sumter Fire Sumter, Nov. 21.?Dan Pillas, proprietor of the Central cafe, and his brother-in-law, Nick Angelakos, were out on $1,000 bond each tonight charged with arson, in connection with a fire at the restaurant early Monday morning. Fire was discovered in the restaurant shortly before 4 o'clock by a city patrolman. Firemen soon arrived on tho scene^and extinguished the blaze before a great deal of damage had been done. A number of small cardboard containers filled with kerosene were found in the attic at the rear of th? building where the fire started. A warrant was sworn out by Chief of Police A. D. Owens this afternoon. Pillas and Angelakos were arrested and brought before Magistrate Ma-j lion Moise, who fixed bond at $1,000 each. The two men furnished bond and were released. They * refused tol make any statement. Spartanburg Negro Is Grower of Coffee Hundreds of Spartanburg county j farmers have demonstrated that hunj dreds of different crops will grow in j Piedmont soil, but it has remained for S. M. Jackson, negro tenant on the farm of B. J. Gossett, Spartanburg Route 1, to do something amazingly revolutionary in agriculture. Jackson decided last spring to grow coffee on his farm, and today he visited The Journal offices with part of his crop! ,, Ordering seeds from South America r^jfcTtsbrTTnvesfed J>0~~cenTs~lnr~bi8 novel venture. He selected average land, near Cannon's Camp Ground, on j which to plant tho seeds. Using '.8-3-3 fertilizer, he cultivated the plants just as he tended the cotton on his farm. He planted the coffee about April 10, and in late July the plants began turning yellow. Jackson picked the long pods from the plants, and on opening them found that hundreds ocf well-rounded beans had matured. He parched a number, ground them bp and made his first attempt at boiling homeI grown coffee. The experiment, he said today, was j eminently successful. The coffee possessed an excellent flavor, he said, and he plans to plant a much larger area in coffee next April. Jackson has a gallon of coffee beans upon which to depend for his next year's crop, and ho is confident! that he can grow coffee of fine quality on his farm year after year. The colfee beans brought to The j Journal offices were large, well-formed and creamy white. Jackson also^ exhibited beans which had been r ground preparatory to being converted into a beverage. The "grounds" resembled the pulverized coffee found! in groceries, and the fragrant aroma was strikingly similar. The coffee plants on Jackson's farm this year grew almost waisthigh. he said, and seemed to flourish in the soil he selected for his first coffee crop.?Spartanburg Journal. Prof. William"H. Brown, of the University of Maryland, declares that hoarding by corporations offers a more serious threat to the nation's economic structure than does the hoarding of cash by individuals. - - * ?7-? ? -- j Presents Turnip i To Columbia State J. K. Gaskin, of the Hat Hock section* who presented The Chronicle with a seven-pound turnip some t tiro ^ ago, hat found a still larger of nine pounds and sent it to* the Columbia State. In its Monday's edition thet paper has the following relative to Mr. Gaskin as a master farmer: "J. E. Gaskin, R. F. L>. No. 1, Kershaw, sent to The State yesterday nine pounds of turnips. But there was hut one turnip; of perfect shape and wfth skin as smooth'as any baby turnip could have. "The messenger was one of Mr. Gaskin's sons. 'He said his father had many more turnips of that caliber in his "patch;" "But of much greater interest than the facts about his turnips are the facts about Mr. Gaskin. He will be 80 years old on his next birthday. He plants cotton but has never "had to sell" his cotton at any particular time nor has he had to borrow from any land bank.\ "Much more than that, Mr. Gaskin is the father of ten'children and sent nine of them to college. "Furthermore, but -perhaps this should have been placed first on the list, Mr. Gaskin tells The State he is a "believer in diversification." He is a believer in something else, too, and this is another important thing? in work. For this master farmer, strong in his independence, sends word to The State that his farming has been done "without any hired help." General News Notes Marlboro county cast only 707 votes at the November election, and half of the 22 votes for the Republican ticket were voted at McColl in that county. The promises made for tlTe returns from the 2 per cent sales tax of Mississippi, are bringing more revenues to the state treasury than itss promoters estimated would be the l case when the sales tax law was | passed by the statfr legislature. M iss Mildred Wood, of Cashville, in Spartanburg county, committed suicide by shooting herself Sunday afternoon at the home of an uncle, on her way home from church;?She died almost instantly. Thomas J. Griffin, former judge of probate of Greenwood county, who i died in Greenvrlle, was 89 years old.s He served out the unexpired term of his brother, Vinnie Griffin, when the latter died in office., and- then was elected for the succeeding four years. He was a school teacher for years. As a Confederate soldier, he lost an arm uihl survived other dangerous wounds received in battle. * He had lived recently with a niece and nephew at Greenville. Bradstreet's Journal placed' the number of business failures over the country for the week ending November 15 at 415, as compared with 438 the preceding week and 502 for the same week a year ago. A lone bandit held up a messenger of an Evansville, Ind., bank on Saturday and escaped with $14,000. George Frisbie, in a hospital at Booneville, Mo., since March 4th, has been given 110 blood transfusions. Two negroes were hanged at Belzorii, Miss., Friday for the murder of a -Silver -Gity merchant. William Brew has launched his candidacy for councilman at East Windsor, Ottawa, with the one plank of his platform being birth control. The number of claimants to the $35,000,000 estate of^Miss Ella V. von E. Wendel, New York spinster and eccentric, has been reduced to 14. Malaga, Spain, has extended an invitation to Franklin D. Roosevelt, to visit that city before he is inaugurated president of the United States. John P. Jackson, wanted at Whiteville, N. C., orv charges of robbery, has been arrested at Biloxi, Miss. Many people are facing starvation in the section of Cuba devastated by the big hurricane of last week. The steel output of the mills of the country were better in October than for any month since last April. The navel orange crop of California for this session is estimated at 30,000 cars. A Follansbee, W. Va., steel plant has ordered 200 men back to work next Monday after the plant has been idle since June 30. Ivouis VictoT Green, 72, who has read the Bible from cover to cover every year for 30 years, died in a LoWell, Mass., hospital Tuesday. The Pierce-Arrow Motor company, at Buffalo, N. Y., has recently put 2,000 men back to work to produce a new line of I'ierce-Arrow cars^o* The Soviet government has adopted a policy of discharging all workers who miss a day a month without a valid excuse. When la\^yer J. D. Meyer, of Charleston, formerly district attorney, called District Attorney H. E. Davis, of Florence, a liar, in the federal court at Columbia, he was quickly fined $50 by Judge Cothran, who refused to annul the fine on the lawyer apologizing to the district attorney, the judge Buying the fine waa for contempt of court and had nothing to do with any reconciliation between the two men. The incident occurred during an argument to the jury. ^ Negro Confesses Part In Hold-up 1 | Greensboro, N. C., Nov. 22.?Dave McNnir, Negro of Durham, late today admittedHo police here, they announced tonight, that he and two other Negroes made the holdup attempt in which Mrs. Joseph W. Met Cown was shot and fatally wounded at her husband's automobile service station in the west part of Greensboro the night of November 11. In his confession police stated he was able to furnish only the first names of<) the other two members of the holdup party. He declined to state which one of the trio shot h?rs. McCown. Hfe gave the following information in regard t^chis alleged accomplices. James, alias Sleepy, alias Slim, 18 or 19 years of age, weight 130 to 186 | pounds, height five feet, seven or eight inches, slender build, black skin, long hair combed back, was wearing striped overalls, brown coat, blue trousers under his overalls, soiled brown cap, black oxfords. Sam, a "Geechy" Negro, 26 years of age, weight 135 to 140; height five feet, five or six inches, black short hair, round face with two front teeth wide apart, "fine toned voice," was wearing brown trousers, blue ' coat and vest, black shoes, blue shirt, black tie, dirty gray cap. When the Negroes attempted to hold up Mrs. McCown, who had gone behind the counter to get some merchandise which they had ordered, shewhipped out a gun and shot several times, wounding one of the three Negroes. Found in a wounded condition in Durham some hourS later, McNair was unable to explain to the satisfaction of officers how he was injured. Last Wednesday he was transferred from a Durham hospital to one in Greensboro and today was ^placed In tluT'city jail there. Thomas White, Willie Jonfcs and Joe Perry, Negroes who were arrested by Durham officers on suspicion, are being held in the city jail here. Robert Vestal, who, with Mr. McCown and Joseph M. McCown, Jr., was in the service station at the time of the tragedy, has identified McNair as one of the three Negroes engaged in banditry there when Mrs. McCown 1 was fatally wounded. ,yfi, *. i' ? Whites Winners In Polo Game Sunday ?- ?- ? ' V V. . . ^ Probably the fastest game yet played by the Old Camden Polo elub was that of Sunday resulting ,in the 1 second successive victory for the Whites, the score being S to 3. As in ?he previousv Sunday's game the ftues 4(o( under way with a bang, scoring 8 goals before the Whites were abl?^ to tally, only to be prevented from adding to this throughout the remainder of the game and at the same time unable to cope with the fast work of the Whites. A large gallery was on hand, many from out of tpwn, A special game will be put on by the club/Thanksgiving morning-at 10 o'clock. The time of the future,Sunday afternoon games has been changed to 3:16. -"" (> Lineup and summary of last Sunday's game; Whites (5) Blues (3) H. Savage, J v. ... 1 ... Kirby Tupper C. IhiBose, Jr. ... 2 .. A. Boykin, Jr. M. L. Smith, Jr... 3 .." Frank Wooten C. R. Little 4 .. .1.. Joe Bates Cutting in: Whites, Clarkson Rhame; Blues,' Whit Boykin and Charlie Roberson. Scoring; Whites, Rhame (3), Smith, Dubose; Blues, Bates, Tupper (2). Referee: Samuel Russell. . Benefit Football .Game ?? ? A football game has been arranged between Jackson school and Mather Academy, both ' of this city, to be played on Friday, December 2. This game will be played on Zemp Field and proceeds will go for the benefit of the Camden Hospital. . This will be the first time many people have ever had to see two colored teams in action, and no doubt a large crowd of white people will be in attendance and at the same time help the Hospital catise.. Red Cross Roll Those turning in their dollar for membership in the Red Cross Roll at this office are; <s Mrs. C. H. Yates, $1.00 Mrs. H. G. Marvin ..... 1.00 H. G. Maryin .......T. 1.00 Eleanor G. 'Smith ............ 1.00 Miss Adams .... ........ 1.00 Oscar Leighton 1.00 36.00 I Big Quality Merchandise For Economy Whitman's Candies, Waterman's Pens Sheaffer's Pens, Pencils and Inks Eaton's Stationery Westinghouse Lamps Armand's, Coty's or Hudnut's Toilet Requisites Gibson's Playing Cards Our entire line is selected with the view of offering quality at reasonable prices Bring or send us your PRESCRIPTIONS for prompt, accurate work -I W. R. ZEMP'S DRUG STORE Broad Street Phone 30 gj CITY DRUG COMPANY DeKalb Street Open Until IIP. M. Phone 130 - Sunday Hours: 10 to 11 A. M. and 4 to 5 P. M. Announcing fhe Opening of "" Tin Corner Book S3 nop I Corner Broad pnd DeKalb Streets BOOKS OFFICE SUPPLIES STATIONER^ /x -. PAPER NOVELTIES LENDING LIBRARY ENGRAVING SCHOOL SUPPUES FILMS DEVELOPED - *' v/'\ iv 'X rJ . - V -. 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