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LOOKING BACKWARD Takm From the File* of Tjhe Chronicle Fifteen *od Thirty Year* A*o IFIFTJ5KN YKAKS AGO M ay 10, 101H Police make drive on vagrants and eight negro women and men sentenced and fined. H. (\ Slngletou elected city clerk and recorder. I\V. M. Young ivsigns as captain of (V>mp?Try "M, Kershaw Guards, stationed at Camp Sevier. Public roa<i from city Hmita to f Waieree mill village being improved. L. A. McDowell named a? new M member of city board of health. * . .. . Union service at Presbyterian church to welcome new pastor, Dr. Kdwin Mullcr. Co u n t y Democratic convention names I.. T. Mills as county chairman and M. M. Johnson as secretary. YV. A. Shaw announces as candidate for treasurer of Kershaw county. Frank 11. Heard, of Brunswick, Ga., married to Miss Mamie Kuth Mays, of Hethune. Gity council planning purchase of motor fire truck. Govino Prinzip, the man who start| ed the World war by assassinating I Archduke Fruncis Ker<linan<l, <lies of tuberculosis. Reports from all over county state largest crop of grain planted in hisf4 tory ol county. John L. Team, K. H. Truosdell, W. S. V* Kozier and NY II Stokes enter Clemson College for a period of military training. South Carolina oversubscribe* its quota in third Liberty Loan drive. Shenir Albert l?ine, hunklin county. Mo., has been sentenced to serve throe years after pleading guilty of embezzling while serving a* township collector. THIRTY YKAK8 AGO May H, 1903 Hailsorm south of Camden destroys all young cotton ami cause* replanting. Igulies of Grace Episcopal church hold May l>ay festival at home of Mrs. Bruce Davis and Mis* Emma Reynolds. W. F. Creech slain ,?>n CamdenBishopville road by Spain Kelly. His body went to his former home at W<hite?v?lle, Tenn. Mrs. Maysilla Keith,' said to Alabama's oldest woman, <lied i"n Montgomery at age of lit! years. I>r7 John VV. Corbett attending Amoncan Medical Association held In New Orleans. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. DoPass, Misses Km ma Shannon, Charlotte (Shannon and I^?ila Boykin return from Spartanburg Music Festival. Mr. and Mrs. Tietcnor and family and Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Krumbholz and family return to northern homes. Thos. J, Kirkland, M. I.. Smith, J. T. Hay, 1). Trantham and C. Moore attend meeting of Supreme court in Columbia. Several-ear loads of negro* serj vants leave here to work in northern j homes. i~...jCoilision at sea near Norfolk sends j steamship Saganaw to the bottom,; i causing twenty to die at sea. | Georgia fruit crop reported injured! I from eold snap. Louisiana Purchase Exposition ?>pj ened a' St. liouis with President | Roosevelt making the opening ad-j dre-s wlu'e a lie re e wind and severe ; mlil wa> prevailing. I Major James \V. Warren, secretary | J to the governor of Georgia, killed by j Georgia railway train near Atlanta. i .) uuior-Svnior lleccpt ion. The tenth grade of the <'harlot teThomjeon school gave the eleventh grade a lively reception Friday evening, May nth. The reception hail and table were decorated with pink and whtjte crepe paper roses and sweet peas. Marietta Thompson very ably served as toastmistrees at the ban-1 qUet- A toa.st was given to tfiv seniors by The 1 ma Baker. Other toasts' V ?nd short speeches were given by I Mr. Workman, Mr. Mc!/eod and Mr. Mellette, and several of thy school boys and girls. A delightful supper was served by! members of the eighth und ninth grades. l>ainty baskets of mints,1 small parasols and walking canesj wore given as favors i Just before the folks left the table) Father Time appeared and showed the seniors what their future fortunes | would 1h> . The seniors then sang a J song thanking 'the Juniors for their hospitality, after which the guests j separated into smal] to spend the tim?! m lively v<*nvor**tion. i Miss .May Boykin Entertains. J Miss May Boy kin gave a "tea" to| the teachers of Charlotte Thompson ( school ami other friends at her new, home near Boykin jx>nd Saturday nf-J t^noon, May Gth. Her home was beautifully decorated with sweet peas! and other spring flowers. The hostess served delicious sandwiches, cakes j and tea. I H. 1). C. Club Met. The Charlotte Thompson II. D. C. met \Ct.h Mrs. Allen Boykin at her home, "Woodsttx k," Thursday afternoon. May ith. Thus meeting was u fas Hon sh<w. F.och member wore a dress thtat ?ho had made, remodeled, or dyed. Miss Craig spoke of the Winthrop short course, of the Club's summer camp and urged as many members to attend each as could arrange it. After the business mooting, the hostess serVed a Ixmntifu! lunch. The r.ext meeting will bo he'd with Mrs. L. M. Mellette. ! J 'General News Notes! i Dun & Hradstreet. business stat jticians of New York, in their lie view of lust week, issued Saturday, said I that the expansion of trade and industry "broadened appreciably" dur-' t ing the past week. Retail distribution held its previous goins and' wholesale buying extended beyond the' customary period of seasonal activity. I "Bib Bill," the world's largest hog' weighing 2,550 pounds, died Tuesday) J at Huntington, Tenn. It was the in-1 tention of his owner to exhibit the pig at the Chicago fair. He will have). Bill's rkcleton and hide mounted and - exhibited at the fair. Mrs. Mario Storts Allen, 91, a real,, daughter of the Revolution, the daugh- , ter of John Jacob Storts, who joined George Washington's army when 1 1 i years old, died at New Lexington, Ohio. Tuesday. J Using a dip net, William Seymour < caught Id fish with one dip of his ' net. The total^ catch weighed 50 pounds, and the largest fish weighed 22 pounds. The fishing was in the,: Ncuse river near Goldsboro, N. C. Ii A Federal circuit court judge at , San Francisco declares that a man | dying while walking in his sleep, is 1 not an accident. He upheld the contention of an insurance company in a suit for $7,500 by the heirs of the > dead man. Governor Ferguson, of 1'exas, has; signed r bill under \Vte terms of > | which real estate 'owners can force j postponement bf forced sales for aj year by showing that earlier sale will not ^sult in a fair price. John W. Darlington, government weather forecaster at Houlton, Kan.,, who for sometime past has been making out regular weather reports without pay. has Wen notified that his salary has been cut 15 per cent. W. A. Adams. Republican, nominated for postmaster by three Republican presidents, has been appointed for his sixth consecutive term at 1 Fitzgerald, Ga. A A Vj A ml so, Mra. INnchot, wife of th#| governor of Pennsylvania, on Friday i joined picket linen of 'teen-aged textile strikers at A lien town in a vehement protest uguinst low wages an<l )?>og hours for child labor in Pennsylvania mills, and we have been given to understand all the time that such conditions only exist m the South. Chazed by drink, Oliver l>ay, 48, farmer of near Elgin, 111., on Sunday killed his employer, John Sohmitz, 66, prominent farmer, ami then forced Schmftx's daughter, 17, U> kill him after he had made an unsuccessful1 attempt to take her life. He forced the girl into his bedroom, pointed the gun at her and pulled the rigger. The' gun failed . to ItWscharge. Then HU<i-1 donly he placed the ahotgun hito tl^e hands of the terrified girl with the' words: "No, 1 guess you'd better kill I me before someone else does. You kill me or I'll kill you." President Sikes says that 86 per cent of Olcmson students remain in South Carolina and over 25 per cent return to the farms, with the rest engaged in 89 vocations. A study of u group of 880 students showed that 180 were furming, 150 of them in South Carolina; 18 of the others were connected with the United States department of agriculture; 120 were J teachers; 95 of whom were in South Carolina; 50 were engineers with 37, of that number in the state; 00 were in the textile industry; 58 of whom) were in the state. Five bandits drove up to a Chicago) brewery, with three trucks last Wed-j ihmIhv, rolled out '-IRJ kegs, all empty, and drove away with them. Tho j brewery has not yet begun opera-, t ioris. Joseph Miller, of Milwaukee, Wis.,! announced in Washington on Monday last that 15,1)00 war veterans would: reach Washington next week to press, a plea for the payment of the bonus.. Police are looking for Charles P. Iloehamer. 55, and weighing more' than 200 pounds, mayor of Eimwood Park. Chicago suburb, and Mrs.' George Hoffman, 45, president of the' village hoard of education, and almost 1 a- heavy as the mayor, on charges' of abandonment and adultery. Michael II. Acosta is dead at Baton Rouge. I.a., having been struck in the ' breast by a bat swung in an amateur baseball game. i The building of the Auburn Park) Trust and Savings bank. Chicago, has ' been converted into a funeral chapel. Embalmed assets is the cause. Strawberries are selling wholesale in Cherokee county, Okla., at $3.55 per crate this season as compared with $3 last year. Persons of the eighth Federal reserve district, St. Louis, surrendered a 'otal of $19,313.8^4 in gold and gold certificates. L. Steel operations in the Buffalo, N.j Y., area have increased to 35 per centk capacity, the highest point in two years. Mrs. Carrie Stevens, 73, a widow,' toiled and saved her pennies. She' was strangled to death at Omaha, Neb., when a scarf she "was wearing' caughLdn the wringer of a washing machine, A sack found iri her clothing Contained $1,800. Jesse H. Jones, of Texas, has been ! named chiarman of the Reconstruc-, tion Finance Corporation, succeeding; Atlee Pomerene, Republican, of Ohio | Jones has heen a member of the' board since Its formation. Joseph T. Barry, Washington and' 8*11 imore stock broker, was sentenced ' ht Washington on Friday to serve I three to fifteen years for the killing! of his partner in rivalry for the af-1 fections of Barry's common law wife. | Guido Jung. ItAlian finance minister, sailed for Italy Sunday evening after having conferred with President Roosevelt at Washington on questions t pertaining to the approaching work* economic conference. Approximately 1,000 New Yorders, mostly negroes, arrived in Baltimore Sunday night, en route to Washington in trucks and buses, to heek inter-, vention on the part of President' Rooaevelt in the ScObtsboro case. Georgia peach growers are seeking a lower rate for jpeach shipments to eastern market*. It is stated that S'Uthern railways have agreed to*a cut ;n<Phe rate, provided the eastern railroads would agree to that it i e A i? ft lee < f the , ;r< ?.t curt a" Surf*. r ha- beer. < <-< up.rd the pa-t "a i r. A.th the trial ' f trie -u." of ^L- - lr.a Car-ee. former par* of the i?>rtur.e *f *r? a'e J..-.r, K < -A(.i , r. g: u* 1 thai .-he i- hi* common law w:Jr t .V- 11 .eft mostly f r foiir.d.r.g Nr. orphanage rear Sumter. 1 ar.i! Mm wrll did no* mention VL<s Cartee. The two had made a number of trip.- t< New York and other northern places, and she allege- tnat t.iey lived together in hotel- and he roducod her as his wife An advertising niAr,. an actor and a b<ut rdir.g housekeeper came from New- York to Sumter to testrfy t.n?t Crw^weil introduced the woman to them as his i wife, and that they lived together hs man and wife The trial w?s before a master who has recessed the bearing until May 15. The English language is Ppokdn by more than 160,000,000 people and is understood by SO.OOkjfiOO more The trial of Tom Mooney, labor leader, on a charge of complicity in the San Francisco Preparedness Parade day bombing of 1U16, was started last Wednesday. Mooney is already serving a life sentence for the crime. Both houses of congress last week l?a*scd without roll calls the administration bill for Federal control and supervision of traffic in investment securities in interstate commerce, generally known as the securities control bill. The state mineralogist of (California declares that there is more gold underground in California than hai yet been taken out since the discovery of gold at iiVutter's Mill in 1840. He estimates that the state has at least $2,000,000,000 of unmined gold. The interurban ferry terminal, Ave miles out m San Francisco bay, at the end of three miles of open trestle, was badly damaged by fire Saturday night, the damage, being estimated at $3,000,000. A million dollar ferry boat was badly damaged by the Are. Joseph Taylor Stukes, who died at Manning on Sunday morning and was buried Monday with every honor, was a Confederate veteran 80 years old, and one of the most distinguished citizens of his home town and county. He leaves one daughter and f^ur sons, three of whom are doctors and the other a state senator. Solicitr A. Russell McGowan, of Charleston. was entirely exonerated of charges brought against him by Fidwanl K. Pritchard, whom he defeated in 1030. the grievance committee of the state bar association reports. The investigation was ordered by the supreme court after the, charge- were tiled, and thC high court w ill enter an order acquitting i McGowan. * Clinton S. fames, who several years ago was charged with embezzling $1,000,000 while treasurer of the home mission board of the Southern Baptist convention, litis served his; minimum sentence and is now at aj Georgia T. R. sanitorium. President Roosevelt last week sign-j ed a warrant authorizing the removal i from Knoxville, Tenn., to Edmonton, I Alta.. Canada, of Kenneth and Wil-J liam?McLean, who are wanted in Edmonton to answer a charge of murdering Walter Parsille at Manville. Alta. The National Farmers Holiday association, in session at Des Moines, Iowa, has issued a call for a nationwide strike of farmers to begin May 13, the idea being to foster the holding of all farm products from the markets until prices advance to above < production cost levels. ~ Bernard Hanford, of Omaha, Neb., one of the best known of race track jockeys, died in a Baltimore, Md., . hospital, as the result of injuries received at Pimlico race tract, when his horse stumbled and hit Hanford ; in the head with his hoofs. He was i {.o have ridden in the Kentucky derby last Saturday. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation act has been amended s0 that in future no loans will be made to any corporation paying a sklary to 1 any official in excess of $17,500 per year. The amendment went through without a senate roll call after it had been offered by Senator Walsh. The Century of Prograss exposition at Chicago will be opened on May 27th. Ave days ahead of the original date, June 1st, in order that President Roosevelt may be present to set the exposition in motion. Other engagements interfered with he presence <>L-+he president, and hence the setting up of the dale* at Chicago. The United States Senate has granted wide powers to it#- banking. committee for an investigation of the loans made by the R. P. C., the charge having been made that munj loans have been wrongfully or carelessly made. A Philadelphia judge nas sentenced a charity racketeer and attacker of j young girls to prison for "25 to 501 years for an attack maik* on a young girl. T'?- fellow's racket was to pose as a preacher and solicit funds for, chant > i -? The w v k of a S- uthern railway freight tva.r :r. \ rg:r:a. in which 27cars w< w : .-eke,: ,in<i <>ne mar. killed, with ' J*' o\ damage t -taling w i, - . by a iittY b y. ag?*i 7. woe p.a? ed a spike on The rail to see t ne ?*' .r.rfe "tatter. it out. Two otr.t r !?< >;.-. :>otn aged 12 years, ! witJte>-e?i rx placing of the spike on .the rail. i President R. x.-e", elt will this week j-hold conversations with representatives of Germany, Mexico and China I in hie efforts to clear up difficult j points that will he presented at the jworld economic conference to be held fn ^London .some time in June. ' Broker's Tip." race horse owned by Colonel Edward Riley Bradley, won the Kentucky "derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday. The horse at the ptart of the race, was not considered much of a contender and at the A ret round of the track was 13th in the Kne. ffi * * V ?J u | Remember Mother's Day And Contribute to Mother's Pleasure * $ BY SENDING A Specia 1 M th er's Da> Package | of Whitman s Candy and * a Gibson Card NEW AND FRESH AT W. R. ZEMP'S DRUG STORE I PHONE 30 CITY DRUG COMPANY PHONE 130 flf? n n iMii1 b ?xa I Camden Curb Market I FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SPECIALS We Specialize in Indian River Fruit and Home Grow. Produce?FRESH DAILY. ^ V If | We Serve Sandwiches at our Stand on DeKalb Street I Hot Dogs, 6 for 25c. j Hamburger's 6 for.... /25c j j Egg Sandwich, 3 for 25c 11 | I Tomatoes and Lettuce, 3 for 25c ./ ' ' j ! ' -v^BH ii Ham Sandwiches, each 10c j | We invite you to inspect our Fruit and Produce be, I | fore buying elsewhere. Prices are changing rapidly I j now and are subject to change upon arrival of dj 11 I Truck. W f| l| COLD DRINKS SOLD ALSO. ^ || H. STEWART & SON j Broad Street, Opposite Redfearn Motor C#r |j I DeKalb Street at Market Street Jj THE CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK j ... II Contributions to thus "Column" are most welcome Names of contributor! will never be printed?unless desired. Just sign "pen name," together with your own name and address, the latter for our information only. Echoes of the Carolina Cup and of Camden are ringing throughout the country as the sports magazine* come out. "The Sportsman," "Polo" and "Town ami Country" all have stories, on the subject. The one in the May I "Sportsman" is particularly interest-, ing as it is by William Streett, who rode "Pink Tipped," the winner of; the Cup. ITe takes the same view of the race* and the finish as was given in this! column in the issue immediately fol-j lowing the race, namely, that it was I a finish to be long remembered. Mr. Streett after a vivid description of1 the race up to the fourth from the last fence, goes on as follows: "Just at this time a big chestnut horse rolled up beside Us, atn-d I mean to say he was really rolling. Ray ^ Woolfe was sitting up there with aj grin on his face a mile long, and I knew we had our hands full! 'Pink Tipped' picked him up and we sailed the next four fences stride "by stride. It was really one of the stiffest contests any of us had ever been in, in our lives. 'Pink Tipped' was outrunning 'Hotspur II' on the flat, while he, jumping like a hoi*?e on fire, was gaining over the fences. It was such a nip-arul-tuck affair, with such a short run in after the last fence, that halfway between the last and the next to the last fences both Ray and I went to the bat. "We really went into the last fence almost faster than horses can jump timber, and both, who hadn't put a foot wrong during the whole race, made mistakes and swerved. Neither fell, however, and the mare, recovering herself more quickly, picked up about half a neck advantage, which ! she held ont<> very gamely to tihe finish. She couldn't gain another inch' on 'Hotspur' and 'Hotspur' couldn't . gain an inch on her. "It was the most exciting finish j I've ever seen on any race course." i i ?The Chronicler. ) I . 'j | Miss Ethel Endriken, 25, employ | of the defunct Title and Trust com- H pany of Merion, Pa., on August 23, -J 1 ?>29, was "loaned" $13,1)20, though | she never knew anything about it, investigation discloses. She never saw any of the money. She also _J learned that a former vice president i of the institution, Murdock P. Claney, :j on trial with David W. Charles, on charges of defrauding the institution out of $50,000, 'had in J929 bought j her a "wedding present" of stock J worth $2,950. James Bryant Conant, professor of organic chemistry there was elected president of Harvard university yesterday, the 25th in a line starting with President Henry Dunster in > 1640. President-elect Conant has 1 been in Harvard as student and teacher since 1910. He is just past T his 40th birthday, and is one of the ,] youngest men ever to attain the po- j sition to which he was chosen by the j corporation Monday. He is widely , recognized in modern scientific research. The Delaware senate has defeated -j a bill which would have made it pos* sible to obtain a divorce in thatftlte J after a residence of 60 days. 4 Stop Asthma, j Hay Fever, NOWI JUfiW iwutMd m tf IxmU, doeto. MdiJ H *W nmaUm toto falbd. TW <* <**? 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