The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 25, 1932, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8
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.
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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
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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."
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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.
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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.
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Negro Confesses
Part In Hold-up
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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.
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Whites Winners In
Polo Game Sunday
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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
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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
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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
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Corner Broad pnd DeKalb Streets
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