Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I^kTking backward from the of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Years Ago myimn n years ago I * July 5, 1918. HLimiin K. Tillman, many years ^ from South Carolina, dies at in Washington, ftt^age <& ^nty-onc. Committee investigating water and E|,t plant estimated annual loss at IV W. Wilson, 80, a native of Lrldston, dies at residence of B. B. Bjrke in this city. Bp f. Blackmon and F. G. Perry ^Lounco as candidates for hou$e of Eresentatives. jnok MoCaskill, of Antioch, marEd to Miss Belle Price, of the Reedy Br It I1'11* named as* member of Eur and light commission. v. M. Est ridge-, 70-yedr-old citizen Ethe Timrv,d section, dead. Congress appropriates $35,000,000,E)0for loans to allies and to carry on Eir fgftinst central powers. It is fold's largest appropriation. Cutzon Borglum'a holdings at Stone Eountain sold at auction ^ind writes1 '. to Stone Mountain memorial Mr>. James 11. Irby, 77, died at of her daughter in Manchester, m, She had two sons residing at Mrs. William King and son go to orth Carolina to reside during Mr. nog's absence overseas. Eugene V. Debs, four times social : candidate for the presidency, ar nted by United States marshall's in B ? ? I THIRTY YEARS AGO i', .1. !.. . July 10, 1903. ' ' 1% boost in price of cotton brings Xut bale held in storage near New Old cans for 31 years. The bale lost f>0 pounds. during the time it was stored. l>r, Henry Stuckey, one of Bishopville's oldest and most highly respected citizens doad. Mrs. Gertrude McDowell Russell, 2> 1, of Westville, dies i?Pa Columbia hospital. First regiment of Stau\V*re^rtfy to encamp in Camden nearb^e^ uohv grounds. Dr. L. Hlackwell and family to re/ turn to Kershaw to reside. Dr. I. II. Alexander leaves fo attend dental society at White Stone Lithia springs. I>ater to attend National Dental Association at Asheville. D. A. Boykin; W. D. Barrett, Leslie Zemp, James Wallace, J. C. Cunningham and Beverly English go on tlshing trip to Bull's Bay. Miss Sadie Kenedy goes on a trip to Texas and California. The Southern depot being enlarged by an extension of 50 feet on southern end to take care of increased business. Camden Casket and Coffin factory now in full operation near Southern passenger depot. Twenty-three people'in collision of Southern trains near Rockfish, Va. Immense water spout near Greensbur^, Pa., causes death of 20 people and destroys property estimated at $200,000. Pope Leo XIII reported dying &t Rome. Beaufort Hoy Acquitted By Jury. Beaufort, June 29.?Earl Simmons, rf Pritchardville, 19-year-old high chool honor graduate charged with he murder of hi9 29-year-old atepttother, Mrs. Maddie Simmons, was equitted by a jurj^ in general ses(ons court tonight^ \>/' The jury deliberated two hours, reurning its verdict at 9:16 p. to. Trial jf the case was opened this morning. | The youth, who made a brilliant record in high-school studies, told the jury he recalled nothing of the shoot- ! ing of his young stop-mother in their icme June 5. Asked if sho was good to him, he eplied, "She was." At a coroner's inquest testimony ras given tn.it the boy had stayed way from home most of the night nd Mrs. Simmons, becoming worried nd going in search of him, found ( im asleep in an automobile. She rought him home, the coroner's jury as told, and a quarrel resulted. Defense attorneys asked that the' udge charge the jury on manslaughter but he ruled that the verdict must e either "murder or acquittal." Solicitor Randolph Murdaugh repesented the state. The youth was deended by John P. Wise of Ridge- j and and Senator W. B. Harvey of j leaufort. Duncan Adams, United States mar* ha! for this district, and prominent: R th;s state for many years, died at reenville arter a long illness, aged! '3 years. (!* was a native of Lau-j er.< county and lived at Walhalla1 *fore g ;rg :o Greenville four years j ? whc-r. opyointed marshal. Adams' la<i beer. , erected with the departii-e in various capacities or '.he .a-- jo years. He was prominent ;r , raj fraternal organizaf'ons ar. : was a member of the MethM'-'t chur.n. Ruben Goshnell of ?re-nv..;e was recommended as Adam > ... cssor several weeks ago, tod it ;> probable he will be appoint!d marsr.a: for this district. Adams is 'irv.ud by his widow and several hndrc-r,. 1 ur.eral services were held 11 Greer.-..!;c- on Wednesday. Senator James F. Byrnes has come 10rne "parianburg to remain while res;o?-r.i Roosevelt is cruising on aca'1 n. , v hen he will return to to conferences with the ^ a-r.t. :r. whose confidence he toml.. , ry high. Henry Hare, secSenator Byrnes, has gone 0rnc ."a'.Uvia for the summer. TV 7 "* ' erai home loan system to authorized a total of $56,s' loans to member institur<n-. "Fatty" Arbuckle Dies Suddenly New'York^une 29.?Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, bulky comedian of the films, died early today of a heart attack that followed a celebration of his first anniversary of his third I marriage. He was 45 years old. The actor, who had been attempting a "comeback" from the blight that fell on his career as the result I of the mysterious death of an actress during a gay party in 1921, died in his sleeip in his suite in a midtown hotel. | His third wife, the former Addite McPhail, screen actress, discovered his death. After summoning the house physician, she became hysterical from grief. Physicians said Arbuckle died of angina pectoris. Arbuckle completed a picture "Tamalio" yesterday at ' a Long Island studio. It was one of six hehad recently done for Warner Brothers. A^ter dinner last night he went with his wife to the apartment of William Lahiff, restaurant proprietor, where a party was given in honor of Arbuckle's anniversary. After the party Arbuckle retired, apparently in fairly good health, despite recent attacks of a heart ailment. A few moments later, however, his wife called to him, received no answer and then discovered that he was dead. Arbuckle became known to millions the world over in the palmy days of pie-tossing comedy. He was reaping a fortune when in 1921 the death of Virginia Rappe, screen actress, followed a party in Arbuckle's suite in a San Francisco hotel. He was thrice tried and finally acquitted in connection with the case. The scandal cut short his career as a movie headliner. When, after his acquittal, it was reported that his comedies would again circulate freely, there were protests from church organizations and other sources. Henry Klugh, Jr., was quickly acquitted by a jury at Greenwood, of murder for killing Harvey Walker, and five minutes later was arrested by a deputy marshal "on the charge of passing counterfeit money several months ago. Failing to give $1,500 bond, Klugh went to the Laurens county jail. A New York steel company reports that its May orders of this year are 120 per cent greater than its orders were a year ago in May. NOTICE TO TEACHERS We are accepting State Teacher's^ Notes, maturing 'n 1934, at face value, for merchandise and payment#? of accounts. * ' We reserve the right to accept them only direct from the teachers to whom they were issued. STEVENS - SPRINGS CO. POKER TOURNEY 4/ YEARS OLD GOES ON * Old-Timers Still Playing-"* Game StaVted in 1886. I i Milwaukee.? \ poker game that startc<l forty sev,vji yours ago is stm | lu progress at Mao,v. tie game has boon running eotitln* u<Ml*ly ihree or four times u week ninon 1SK(l ami one of the players who *ut In at the opening session Is still In the game. Sevon-eanl peek, a variety of stud poker. Is the game. The stakes are l cent a <Milp and the limit of a hot Is ft cents. Most of the players who have heen In the game for twenty years say they are about even. The game Is for recreation only, \ and they do not concern themselves f much about the winnings. It was In the early '80s, before Marey Imd been put on the Waukesha county map, that Mmt Marks, who was horn In the neighborhood, opened a tavern on the Lisbon road. The .community consisted of #rospt>rous farms, and farmers on their way to Milwaukee stopped 'it 'he tavern to feed their horses and take meals. Town Never Grew Large, Some years after Marks established hit* tavern the farmer's In the vlclnlIty founded Marey, but it Is still a small place, ImviiYg a population today of less than fifty. Besides several -.farms, Marc.v consists of the tavern, the public school, j a church (Ami a graveyard. A black| smith shop closed sometime ago. Fo^S'-sPVen years ago Matt Marks ! and Ids brother Fierce and a few of their friends started playing sevencard peek as a pastime, and It Is this game that has been running ever ynce. Of the original players In the game, Fierce Marks, a native of the town of Brookfield. Is still playing. Matt dlod about sixteen years ago. Sessions on Thfee Days. Sessions are held every Wednesday and Saturday evening nnd Sunday afternoon and evening. When night games are on, the rule Is that the session must close at 10:80. Strangers are not allowed to participate In the game, and an outsider can play only when a regular member of the party Introduces him as a friend. That does not happen very often, but there have been occasions when city poker players have tried to show these rural experts how the great American game ought to be played. ^ Some of these city fellows have managed to hold their own, but' most of them have learned n lesson or two when they have tried their skill against the Marey old-timers. The latter are too old at the game to take a bluff. Dental Disease Injures Minds, Declares Expert Cambridge, Mass.?Dental disease often may he the cause of mental disorders, says Dean Leroy M. S. Miner of Harvard dental school. While It Is "generally known that dental disease is Intimately associated with disease in the body as a whole, abundant evidence recently has been discovered, according to Doctor Miner, to show the connection between dental disease and disorders of the mind. "In private practice." he said, "mnqy nervous conditions have responded favorably to the removal of dental disease. Not long ngo a young hoy was taken to one of the larger hospitals of .Boston, exhibiting marked evidence of serious mental disturbances. Including melancholia. "All hope of Helping his condition practically had been abandoned and he was about to be committed to one of the state Institutions. A last minute X-ray examination of his mouth showed two badly impacted wisdom teeth. Upon their removal the patient wade rapid improvement and returned to his usual occupation." Death Rate Is Low in U. S. Hospital in Paris pnris.?The death rate at the American hospital here for 1082 was 3 per cent, according to figures just compiled. This rate Is lower than that registered by a number of Grade A hospitals in the United States In 1031. Deaths at the hospital were fewer than the previous year, when the rate was 3.2 per cent. The figures In the United States for 1031 were: Average for all classes of hospitals, ft per cent; average for Grade A hospitals, 3.23 per cent. The American hospital operates, under far from norjnal conditions, a great number of Its patients being American travelers from hotels, and a death rate of only 3 per cent for 1877 patients admitted in 1032 Is regarded as unusually good. Of the patients treated in 1032. flOfl were surgical cases. 883 medical. 113 obstetrical. Births were lift, ri-pregentlng a decrease of 8 per cent over 1031. 15 Different Faces in Year, Hunter's Record St. Louis, Mo. ?Fifteen times In the last year Jimmy Gibson, eighteen. Bartow. Fla.. has looked Into a mlr ror and each time he saw what ap -peared to H different man. Blast Ic surgeons nt a tins-pita I here have performed 1ft operations on his face since he accidentally shot him self while on a hunting trip. Kach fltiie his ap|k?iiranee has heen changed "I'm Just going ,n whit until they get a face I like on me and then I'll Yecp It." he remarked. Term "O. K." First Used in Tennessee Court Records The Hi st Known u#o of (he term O. K. appears in tlie court rwords of Bumner county, Tennessee, October 0, ; t7iH?. On (hat date Andrew Jackson "proved a bill of wile from Cary to tinspcr M.auskor, for a negro man, which was O. K." Jamea Parton, in his biography of Jackson, sug goals that what appeared to he O. K. j In the record may really have been a poorly penned O, H., which was the abbreviation for "ordered Rocorded." Apparently, O. K. canio Into general uso after Jackson was elected President In 1828. Jackson's Illiteracy' was one of the chief criticisms of his opponents during the next campaign; Seba Smith seems to have originated tho story that Jackson Indorsed his papers O. K? under the' impression that It was tho abbreviation of "All Correct," which he, according to tho j story, spelled "Oil Korrect." Soujo I dictionaries accept this explanation of | the phrase; others say it Is probably j from tho Choctaw "okeh," which Is 1 pronounced o kay, and defined as "It Is so and In no other way." This the ory was accepted by Wood row Wilson who, as President, used "okeh" III approving papers. ; There Is little evidence to support this theory. Another theory derives O, K, from the town , of Aux Cayes (pronounced ^o-kay), , from which the best tobacco and ruin j wore Imported In Colonial times. I t English Sparrows Brought to the U. S. Years Ago The first introduction of the English sparrow into this country was In ISfvO, ; when fit) pairs were set free In Brook| lyn, N. Y. Others were soon released ' at other |>oints, It being the common i belief thnt those birds would protect tie foliage of shade trees by feeding upon caterpillars that, In turn, liked to feed on the leaves of the trees. Unfortunately, now that the English sparrow is quite at home all qver the United Stntes, and, In fact, much of America, most authorities agree that It does much more harm than good. Feeding on seeds, buds, fruits and otherwise making Itself a destructive garden visitor, distributing vermin and disease germs, making unsightly nests In Inconvenient places, end driving away gentler, more desirable birds, ure some of the habits which have Injured the popularity of this bird. Carried Too Far The foreman was called away for a few days, and during his nbsence he left two of his most trusted workmen In charge. "Pat," he had said before he went, "you can be foreman on Monday, and you, Mike, can be foreman on Tuesday. \ On Monday morning Foreman Pat made Mike's life unbearable. He gave him all sorts of difficult Jobs, and complained because they were not done properly. Mike stuck It out for as long as he could without saying a word. At last-he pulled Pat aside. "Vou're having it alls your own way today," he said grimly, "but you wait untLl tomorrow, you'll wish you'd never been born." Pat laughed. "You'll be doln' nothing to me. Mike, my lad," he said. "I'm foreman of this Job today, and I'm glvln' you the sack tonight."?Answers. Dumas Hired Writers Alexandre Dumas, the celebrated French writer, was perhaps the forerunner of those modern comic strip artists who have a staff of other artists to do a large part of the detail work of fheir strips. Dumas, after the great success of tils "Monte Crlsto" nqd "Three Musketeers." launched on a program of works so extensive that no one man could hope to carry it out. lie hired a number of young writers to do the writing and then ,1m went over the work, changed It as he saw fit and had It published In his name. Despite the severe criticism which followed this action upon IiIh part, he continued to carry out the practice. While he made a large Income, he lost everything through extravagance and venturing into wild schemes. He died penniless In M 870.?Washington Star. Tooth Pretcrvative Preserves A perfect dentifrice?an absolute tooth preservative. And no worry about film on the teeth. To the contrary the film Is to be preserved. Here's Its name: Siparuna archerl. It's a hard name, hut great things usul ally require big names. Its worth Is attested by an American botanist and explorer. He discovered It in tlie rain drenched Jungles of the Choco region of northwestern Colombia. The aborigines of that region, the explorer says, insist that* it Is a perfect toofli pre servatlve. The children chew the leaves of the plant until a (llm of some kind Is formed over the teeth. Adults chew thorn about twice a year to re store any worn-off parts of the film. But this dentrlflCO has only one slight drawback?It turns the teeth almost Jet black. ? Washington post. Ancestral Tomb Looted Robbers looted the ancestral tomb of the Manchu Prince Tsal Hsun. All - the costly Jewelry buried with the royal dead was stripped from the tomb of Prince Tsal Hsun's family, and be sides the pearls the robbers escaped with Ave Jade Buddhas, eight Buddhas of solid gold, ten silver Ingots each weighing BOO ounces (worth a total of about I1.87B), and a large nutnber of otber valuables. "Panhandlers" Run Out of State Capital Columbia, S. C.?Thirteen professional panhandlers were prevented from milking Columbians of what might have been a considerable amount of money recently, when the Columbia Community Chest, after gome quick detective work, rounded them up and had them escorted out of town by police. Working the "blind racket," the panhandlers were traveling in two cars much better than those owned by many of the people who gave them money. Among them were three blind persons, a man and two women, and ten others, in good condition, who were living on the efforts of their blind companions. The work of the chest started when it received a telephone call from a i Main street store that a blind woman j had been there begging. Two chest workers went to the place at once, | found a blind woman, escorted by a boy "selling" pencils. They were taken ii> charge and led to the Community Chest office at 1125 Gervais street. On the way, another couple, a man and a girl, was seen "working" the other side of the street. Leaving one of the chest people to continue the march, the other crossed the 'street and took the second couple in charge. At the chest office, they were quizzed by Mrs. A. B. Owings, executive director. Under questioning it was developed that the man and woman Were married, and that they were from Alabama, that they were traveling by automobile and that they were staying at a tourist camp. While the questioning was in progress and after Mrs. Owings had telephoned Police Chief W. II. Itawlinson to arrange for their deportation, a third couple, this time a. blind woman and a small boy, was seen walking along the other side of Gervais street. At once, a chest worker took on again the role of sleuth and "trailed" this pair to Gervais and Marion streets, where he saw them enter an automobile bearing Georgia tags. Another Georgia car was parked before it. The chest worker went to a telephone, called his office, and notified them of his find. Members of the office, and two policemen in a squad car drove to the spot and began questioning the occupants of the cars. This quiz developed the fact that the group has been moving from town to town, panhandling money which might otherwise have gone to local needy, and moving on. It was impossible to determine the various relationships among them because of the wide variety of stories they told. After being cautioned against attempting to work their racket again in Columbia, the two carloads of sympathy racketeers were escorted to tho city limits on the Camden road and bidden a hearty, if not cordial, farewell. The Fisher Body company of Cleveland, Ohio, a subsidiary of the General Motors company, estimated Tuesday that its outturn'of automobile bodies last week would total 24,000, the largest total since 1920 in a single week. The company is employ* ing 4,400 men. The New York Central railroad carried 4,000 passengers into Chicago on special trains on Sunday. The Burlington road reports its paaae Tiger traffic as having increased ten fold. i ll.! 'ili'I, Li.. Mm Vinaept Coli, whoso slain gangster husband was acquitted of the Harlem baby killing a couple of years ago, waR arrested in Now York last week on a charge of possessing a revolver. She was placed under a bail bond of $36,000. The Kann, Loob and Company, New York bankers, will be the next to undergo investigation by the subtpmmitte? of the senate banking cqAPv / mittee. The investigation will be resumed Tuesday in Washington. WINTHROP COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION . The examination for the award of. vacant scholarships in WinCbfop Col-* lege will be held at every county court house in the state on Friday, July 14, at 9 a. m. This examination will be held whether there are vacant scholarships or not, as vacancies may occur after the examination. Applicants for scholarships should write to President Kinard before-the examination for scholarship blanks. Applicants must be not less than sixteen years of age. For further information address, President James P. Kinard, Rock Hill, S. C. june30-july7 . KERSHAW LODGE No. 2* A- MRegular communication of this lodge is held on the ' first Tuesday in each month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcome d. N. R. GOODALE, JR., J. W. WIIiSON, Worshipful Master. Secretary. 1-14-27-tf EYES EXAMINED and Glasses Fitted I THE HOFFER COMPANY Jewelers and Optometrist* \ J * ' J. C. MENDENHALL 28,499 Days Old Today Manufacturer of MENDENHALL'S MALARIA CHILL and FEVER TONIC For Colds and Coughs due to Colds j Cut this ad. out and mail it to C. Mendenhall, P, O. Bo* 687, Bveneville, Ind., and receive a 50c bottle free by mail. Sold at W. Robin Zemp't Drug Store City Drug Company Ca aid?, S. C. I md ' I I MR. COTTON-GROWER 1 i THERE IS A 13 MILLION bale surplus REDUCE CROP L NOW |kTO PREVENT flft, TROUBLE *?^LATER . ? -V V _ ?,