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t , - "j 1 ' 1i i"" 1 -11 m ?! LOOKING BACKWARD Takra From tha Filea of The Chronlcla Fifteen and Thirty Year* Ago FIFTEEN YEARS AGO MARCH 1, 11H8. Twelve persona killed on Southern, when train* crash at Frost's station near Columbia. Trial of Andrew Raker for murder of Henry Marsh scheduled for next week. Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. McLeod buried at Beulah cemetery. Daring thieves break in and steal more than $?>l)0 worth of contraband whiskey stored in Camden police station. IJquor was captured by Sheriff Hough and police officers during Christmas week concealed in trains from Jacksonville, Fla. David WitherspWn, for many years a citizen of Camden, dies in Columbia, and body brought here for bu^ rial. Colored citizens of the county organize for the purpose of selling thrift stamps to help win the war. Senator Tillman tells Anderson audience that he will be a candidate for senate again. Oscar I-eighton, of Hobkirk Inn, publishes poem in The Chronicle entitled, "Slumber Song." George Kllison. employee of the Micklejohn Lumber Company near Bethune, shoots and instantly kills his wife while walking the Seaboard railway. He made his escape. Six months old infant of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Moseley buried at Spring Hill. Prof. J. G. Richards having a time explajning a blackened eye received m basketball collision with student. Frank Moore, son of I>r. and Mrs. W. C. Moore, carried to Baptist hospital in Columbia for x-ray examination. THIRTY YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 27 , K. F .Snyder sells out his photograph gallery to Capt. John Hall of ' Sumter. Dr. A. W. Hurnet of Camden rnar. ried to Miss Caroline Trenholm of KdUto Island, S. C. Miss Lizzie Barnes dies in a Columbia hospital and body brought : here for burial. T. Edmund Krumbholz opens beautiful new Kirkwood hotel with reception and dance in ball room. 1 State house attaches present Speaker Mendel L Smith with gold chain and locket as a testimonial of personal regard. Fire destroys residence and barn of Thoa. G. Williams in West Wateree. ] 1 Cyclone strikes steamer Olive neurj j Edenton, N. C., and fifteen persons, i drow ned. ( Tampa. Fla., has eight fires at one "time doing damage estimated at $20,! ooo. i Snow, sleet and ice cause damage : to wide area in the southern states. : Flood in Alabama river reaches! I | highest stage e\er known. ! Three drown when boat capsizes in I ' storm off coast of Washington, N. C. j Four negroes scheduled to hang in ] ^four different towns in Mississippi. | Widespread damage Being caused . by floods in Scotlan Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee, is among the latest to be named as a ! possibility for the office of secretary | of state in the Roosevelt cabinet. ; Others mentioned are Norman H. j Davis and Owen D. Young. Mr. j Young has repeatedly said that he j does not want any cabinet position. Scandal! ' Quite a stir was evidenced last Friday night on the main drag when it was rumored that a certain drug store"~"had locked up a man and a woman together in the store for the night. Upon investigation it was dis-, closed that I>r. Pepper and Lydia Pinkham were to remain in t^ie apothecary together. ? Lincoln County News. Kdwar-i O'Kourke of Milwaukee,! Wi?., m;v?ed h - aim when he kicked at a bull dog. and hi- e'Tort caused him to fa'.!. WVh< n the dog was thru chewing on him Kdwarci had beer, bit-: ten _'0:> time-. - "i She Wins A certain person in Dahlonega while undertaking to collect a debt by having a car levied on was very much surprised when the wife informed the officer if the prosecutor didn't release the car she would publicly state that he asked her to klfcs him sometime back. It is useless to state that she was soon in possession of the car.? Dahlonego Nugget. A newly discovered gold field in | South Af-ica of extreme richness is j being reported. It is being predicted ! that the new field may prove so pro- I ductive a- to be sufficient to over-; come the p-esent world depression. , Get tti t o/ That SORE THROAT! Any little soreness in the throat grows rapidly worae if neglected. Crush some tablets of genuine Bayer Aspirin in some water, and gargle at once. This gives you instant relief, and reduces danger from infection. One good gargle and you can feel safe. If all soreness is not gone promptly, repeat. There's usually a cold with the sore throat, so before gargling take two tablets to throw off your cold, ^ headache, stiffness or other cold symptoms. 'Bayer Aspirin relieves neuralgia, neuritis, too. You may use it freely, it does not hurt the heart. ' ?L-iwmuiww.*.-, Sweet Potatoes Offer Growers Opportunity Clemson College, Feb. 25.?For many growers who can and will specialize in producing, curing and marketing the right kind of Porto Rico 1 sweet potatoes, the opportunity looks fully as good as in cotton growing, says I). W. NVatkins, assistant directj or of the Extension Service, citing ! particularly the experience of Marion j county farmers in 1932 as shqwu in I the annual report of County Agent j W. K. Wells. "Mr. Wells gives the experience of nine potato growers who averaged 246 bushels per acre at a cost of 12 cents per bushel. Valuing potatoes at 35 cents, this showed a profit of 23 cents per bushel, or $57.67 per agre. Kight Marion 4-H club boys averaged 198.5 bushels on 7 1-2 aC'res at a cost of 15 cents per bushel, which ! valued at 35 cents per bushel 1 leaves a profit of 20 cents per bushel, or $39.70 per acre. "We have now reached the time of year when the price, of sweet potatoes begins to go up and the grower who has potatoes cured in a curing house begins to realize on his investment in the curirtg house," Mr. Watkins continues. "As far back as the records show sweet potatoes have been higher from this time o? year: until the crop is' consumed than in the fall, but it is difficult to keep them in good marketable condition without house curing. "County agents' annual reports show that many growers in the tobacco counties are curing sweet potatoes in tobacco barns with good results. Others are curing in brick brooder houses used later for rearing baby chicks. It is possible to build i satisfactory small and cheap curing houses largely from logs or farm lumber and, from results obtained in the past and the extent of the undeveloped market, this ought to become a far more important source of cash income than it has been. "But the markets will not take field run potatoes, jumbos, culls or j improperly cured potatoes even in the spring \vhen they are scarce. Consumersvjust quit eating sweets when those are the only kinds obtainable. The season could be extended if more good potatoes properly graded and cured were available. County agents will continue this year to help develop this crop into a real cash producer." ! , I Retiring Carrier Tells of Early Days L). R. Fletcher, of Kershaw, who has been a rural mail carrier for 29 years retires from service at the end of this week as he becomes sixty-five years of age and automatically retires at this age. He was born and reared near Kershaw and is one of the best known and widely respected residents of that section. At the banquet of postal employees on Wednesday night Mr. Fletcher made a talk in which he told something of his life. He said that he remembered the days of the reconstruction when times were really hard. He contended that times at present were not nearly so hard as during those days. v He told of the time when Sherman's army came through Kershaw as related to him by his father. He related how members of Sherman's army visited his father's farm and intended to take what few livestock were left. A negro living on the plantation drew a gun on three northern soldiers and dared them to take the three hogs that were left and the soldiers departed, according to Mr. Fletcher. The Kershaw mail carrier was at I one time president of the South Oaro- ! lina Rural Letter Carriers association and he is held in high esteem' not only in his home town of Kershaw hut also throughout the state. Ho lives on the county line between Kershaw and Lancaster counties as the dividing i:ne passes through hi? j residence in the town of Kershaw. I . . ' ' Farmers Urged To j Use Good Seed | The big economic need for pur farmers this year is to cut down the cost of production of their crops and increase the yields per acre in order that there may be a margin between the cost and the selling price, i After considerable investigation and careful observations in Kershaw county for 3 and one-half years I have come to the definite conclusion ; that a big leak in the farmers' profita lies in the fact that low quality seed are used to such a great extent. We have had many instances in this county since I have come here which show conclusively that the profit on crop production can be materially increased by the use of high quality seed.?I am of the opinion that on the average our farmers in Kershaw county can increase their crop yields from 15 to 25 per cent by the use of good, sound, high quality, high germinating seed which have been bred up by careful and scientific selection by intelligent seed specialists. Furthermore, I would recommend that in buyinj&ihigh quality seed for this purpose that our farmers buy seed grown and developed by seed specialists as near as possible to their places in order that the climate may be as nearly the same where the seed were produced and where the farmer will grow the crop. Very often our farmers have purchased see<l of splendid^quality from a section with altogether different climatic conditions and the result was that the crop produced was lower than even the run down seed the farmer had been using. Therefore, I strongly urge that as many farmers who can possibly do so this year purchase at least a small part of their planting seed from some good reliable South Carolina seed breeder, especially in the case of corn, cotton and grains. We have some cases on record in the county where farmers have increased their i corn and cotton yields more than 25 [ per cent solely by the use of improved high quality seed. Henry D. Green, County Agent. North Carolina has been loaned $2,048,000 relief funds for use in; i March and April, the money to be allocated to the 100 counties of the i | state. The states of West Virginia, [ Colorado, Michigan and Utah are to I receive a total of more than $5,000,j 000. Lime And Meal Are Important Fertilizers It is important that our farmers get the greatest possible results from their fertilizers this year in order to lower the cost of production. Practically all of our soils are acid and need lime to counteract or "sweeten" this acidity. Also our soils 'are very deficient in magnesium, which waa recently definitely proven by practical and also scientific experiments and tests conducted in cooperation with and at the request of the^. county agent. Magnesium deficiency may be noted -by certain premature reddening of cotton leaves and white streaking of corn blades, etc. Dolomitic limestone furnishes this needed magnesium as well as the calcium carbonate or lime which '^sweetens" sour or acid soils. Our uplands, both light and heavy, aro mostly sour or acid as well as our bottom lahds and heavier soils. Magnesium or dolomitic limestone (kiln-dried) may be mixetl with any of the common fertilizer materials used by farmers. Two hundred to five hundred pounds per acre mixed in fertilizer is recommended. I understand that a car of this lime is now on its way to a dealer in Camden; also I understand some is available in Kershaw, and hydrated dolomitic lime in Bethune. This is very cheap and I urge our farmers to use it in their fertilizer mixtures this year. Farmers in the county who have been using it would not do without it now. Mr. W. C. Seagle and Mr. L. I. Guion, for instance, have found it very beneficial and profitable in greater crop yields. Cotton seed meal is one of our essential fertilizer materials and should be used especially where farmers may make a favorable exchange of seed for meal. I understand that exchange may be made at the rate of a ton of potton seed for 1,700 to 1,800 pounds of meal. This is in the farmers' favor from a standpoint of fertilizer or cow feed. Ordinarily speaking, it takes about two pounds of cotton seed to equal one pound of cotton seed meal in plant food value. Be sure to get a copy of Extension Circular No. 126 on "Home-Mixing of Fertilizer" antk a copy of Extension Bulletin No. 92 on "Farm Manures." Both are very valuable to farmers. Your county agent will be glad to assist anyone to figure out proper fertilizer mixtures. I am being called on more and more each year to do World War Pilot Killed By BaJ Hollywood, Calif., Feb. % J Paul Rogers, worl<j war ^?9 draughtsman for the DougU, fl craft corporation, was >hot to M early today in a police chase is 9 he participated through Holl3 resulting in the killing of the Mask" robber. The robber was identified u M ard Wells, a negro. For weekj^H of robberies had been reported hi Hollywood area by a man we**! 'purple cloth over his face with <u9 cut for one eye, Rogers drove up to two paijj saying he just had been robbed* his request they jumped on hit] and gave chase. As Rogers <fcl near the negro's car, the robbtrJ The bullet struck Rogers in the y i A radio patrol call which jo9 the chase continued after the 3 and shot him to death after he* wrecked his car and opened the officers. Dr. Yates Snowden, profesjJ* history at South Carolina uhivtri9 died very suddenly from heart '"J shortly after he finished an ad9 at the university. He was deaTl fore an ambulance could arrivt* take him to a hospital. Dr. Snoi9 was 74 years old, was born in (3 leston, and was a lawyer and paperman before entering the tniS , sity faculty. He was admitted t?9 1 bar in 1882, and joined The New?fl Courier in 1886. Then, in 190^1 , became professor ^f history i{9 , university and had remained in tfl chair since then. j ' 7^H| The worst blizzard in many swept over the British Isles onH day. Many children were repafl as missing, presumably snow stn9 ed, in west Wales. Many vill|9 'were isolated and communication9 ! paralyzedThree bandit^held up the ?9 National bank at Hope, Ark., andfl away in an automobile driven ' negro, with $24,000. j I When a clothes bag owned by llfl I Talkington, 71, inmate of a co<9 home, , was inspected at a Ttfl Okla., hospital, it was found to9 | tain $2,060. . this. We must hold down the9 ' and also make good yields this jfl | advises Henry D. Green, the CTJHE FIRSf S\X I*\0NW5 0? V%S2. 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