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? - looking BACKWARD I Krom the Filea of Ihe Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Years Ago {(EN YBARS AGO | l uly 12, 1918 ! rt merit wires relatives! , of Massenberg Trotter, >m this county killed in ench battlefront. I rs. B. R. Truesdale cele! unniversary on July 4 io for their friends and! rs. Charles B. Team re-[ tlen from Fort Worth, visit after absence of I M. Brailsford, of iCam-| jr from his son, Major [ford, of the Medical I ICO. rgaret Larigley, 18-f ighter of Mr. and Mrs. , dies. F. Davis, t>formey resiAtlanta and her body or burial. named to succeed late <at as official court I r Fifth District, cum, 66, widow of the Team, dies at herl Broad street, receives eight blooded by express from a sin. One of the little >n arrival in Camden, t, of Columbia, named > senator by Governor creed B. R. Tillman. , big hotel near Asheby fire. said to be 107 years sant Plains section of y. ilo was an ante1 great friend of the all sections say that are doing fine and th expected. THIRTY YKAR6 AGO July 17, 1903 Nearly 200 children from Hethuno enjoy picnic at Ep worth Orphanage grounds in Columbia. They were in charge of Rev. F. B. Davis. One thousand bales of cotton found buried in the sands of recent mill disaster at Pacolet. Sumter has destructive, fire when three buildings burn, including Sumter steam laundry. Fire at Heath Springs destroys greater portion of the business section. Five stores, a livery stable, depot and all warehouses burned. / Ors. \V. J. 'Dunn and S. C. Zemp perform operation on Sam Blatoding, ^vho was shot by Gilbert Stratford. vl)r. and Mrs. J. W. Corbett and daughter ? leave on extended trip north\ To visit Great Barrington, Mass., of\ their tour. G. H. Haum and C. R. Lewis leave for trip to White Stone Lythia Springs. Instead of adding third story to high school building, Trustees of Distrist No. I purchase old Leitner property to bo used as. high school building. iMrs, leitner goes to 'Chester to reside with her son, Salmond Leitner. Tent under which Christian Endeavor Convention was being held at Denver, Colorado, blows down and seriously injures twenty. Eight thousand people were seated under the tent for the last day. M rs. W. M. -Shannon and daughter go for a stay at White Stone Lythia Springs. A bomb exploded in the main entrance of St. Peter's cathedral at Rome on Sunday, injured four persons and spread panic among scores of others. The damage to the famous structure was slight* Major Harrison Is Killed In Accident Kings Mountain, N. C., July 9? I Major William Sloan Harrison, 51, ^ Juited States marine corps, retired^ Kts killed instantly three miles from Htre late today when his automobile Heft the highway and overturned upon. 1 I He was returning to his home in Hl'ijhington front a visit to relatives Ht Greer, S. of which he whs a Witnesses said the officer was atHi&pting to close a rear door with Hie hand while steering with the othBand lost control of the car. He reHived a fractured skull and other inHr.es. He was alone. His body was brought to a funeral Hwk tonight and was later sent to ' Beer. Burial will be in Arlington I ^petery, Alexandria, Vn. Major Harrison is survived iby a ! HhIow in Washington. His mother, ^frs. John Harrison, and a brother, ( Ht John Harrison, live at Greer. John I). Rockefeller, Srv celebrated Hs 94th blr'l.day anniversary at his Hwne at Ta; ytown, N". Y., Saturday. Anthony TL.po Hawkins, noted i Hvelist und. the name of Anthony Hope. died it: London on Saturday. An urovpla il explosion destroyBa bie >!' a v* ment store at Wil-j ^Pf^hurg. K . Saturday with a loss. H t , lives were lost. The Hired- <'antral railroad has n its working forces j its car r- , . shops at Centralia,1 B ''< a-ing business. n 'y dirigible Macon H?P'(ted a l", '-.our trial flight when! returned I.nkehurst, N. J., Fri Ur.f,States Steel Products pnr.y o; W.v York, announces' H*-?t o: ar. ?dor for 38,000 tons of ^ r York, noted World j i LrV'- rdnicning in the West: ; **"' ' i*''tent ion of the 18th; *ngr,-n' the auspices of the' , /*?g ha' 'irug store that is J , "a '1 ' * n ;,n business continu- i H 'r,r 7; ' ' ars. Bjsmarck, among * * as being among its Hre "trers Record, Balti- J |itj]'*?v ' ,r%vy of the south <$or< Hbv* ' *' 'nf'' reP?rts building:! H If V . ' V',al of $28,144,000 in < H^ a states. This repre-J j'rn c?ntract awards t _ * </ "'i over May. Road and ! I B^000R a ^0t 'n "*une totaled < Kfcet r ' *ostify?ng in t^e case " government against Joseph W. i ftt nfv in the federal t K |s *w York, described Harri- c L* billy incompetent", due < ttm * Cf'noIi*m. Harriman is j lb fals^ytoc the bank's d Koo ,/13?226 and misapplying j c I - ?-" Ik Home-Made Cracker Takes A Man's Life Washington, July 4.?Delayed explosion of a home-made dynamite firecracker today cost the life of Joseph L. Simmons, 2G, of Mitchellville, Md., who died in SiMay hospital here after haying had born arms blown off and suffering a fractured leg, concussion of the brain and severe burns. Lyle L. Simmons, twin brother of Joseph, was declared in a critical condition at the hospital tonight. His left arm was blown off and he was badly burned. Police said the brothers had been entertaining friends at their home ' last night when the supply of fireworks they had purchased was ex| hausted when effort to manufacture a dynamite firecracker was attempted. The dynamite was placed in a piece of pipe. It failed to explode on the first attempt and Joseph had picked it up to examine it, while Lyle stood by. Suddenly it exploded with a blast that was heard more than a mile away. 1 *' Pin This Up Somewhere An old Arab proverb runs as follows: * He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; shun him. He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him. He who knows not and knows that he kno>vs not is simple; teach him. He who knows and knows that he knows is wise; follow him.?Exchange. Pressed and Cleaned Waynesburg, Pa.?Joseph Gentile, Waynesburg presser and cleaner, was pressed against the side of his automobile with a pistol and then cleaned of $40 by a highwayman, he reported to police. Ball Player Dies. Lincolnton, N. C., July 10.?Dor- ! man Burgess, 20, who was struck on , the head by a pitched ball in a base ^ ball game Saturday, died in a hospital here yesterday from concussion of the brain. ( . - , The Southern railway at Spencer, r N. C., In a few days will begin the ^ salvaging of the running gear and ^ >ther metal pprts of 23,000 obsolete ^ 'reight cars. The hulls will be burn- -] id after the metal is removed. t The tallest man so far reported in he forestry conservation camps is j Samuel Carmack, 21, of San Diego, j Hal. He is 7 feet tall. He wears a No. ^ 15 shoe. j, The British -press were almost h manimous Tuesday in condemning ii he stand of the United States on the h roestion of stabilizing world curren- 0 y. The Daily Telegraph said: "The t; itospect of the continuing fall of the 0 lollar is a grave matter to our own t] ommerce and one that calls for tfce E government's closest consideration." U ' - - 1 '''~ r'-v1' ~~~ . v j." - >:)? : . .... ^ ^L General News Notes . , . > -v>> Oklahoiq* votes on the question of selling beer^in that state next Tuesday. In the event the sale is legalised special traina loaded with beer, will rush into the state from St. kouis and Kansas City, Mo., so as to start the sale of 3.2 stuff quickly, ' William E. l>odd of Chicago, and Robert P. Sikinner sailed from New York on Wednesday to take up their new duties, the former as ambassador of the United States at Berlin, and t^e latter as the new envoy to Turkey. 4/uke Parsons is in jail at Kansas City, Mo., on a charge of burning a barn, which he says he did because he hoped to be sent to tljo state prison. He is 61 and has spent 26 years in prison $nd sa<ys that it is the best bet for him at his age. Joseph L. Simmons, of Mitchellvijic, Md., died in, Washington on. July 4th from injuries received from a delayed explosion of a home-made dynamite: Gro cracker. He suffered concussion of the 'brain, a fractured leg and severe burns. Tho administration's economy program has so far resulted in the lemoval of more than 4,000 government employes from the payrolls in Washington and hundreds more are said to bo /facing divorcement from their jobs for like reasons. The Pennsylvania railroad has resumed work on its plans for olectiification of it sline between Wilmington, Del., and Washington, D. C., and the completion of a new tunnel through Baltimore, Md. The work will give employment to from 500 to 1,000 men, . Russel Boardman, 35, Boston flyer, aviator and sportsman, and one of tho two men who flew from New York to Istanbul, Turkey, died in an Indianapolis, Ind., hospital, 48 hours after receiving injuries in the takeoff of his plane in the transcontinental air race on Saturday. Elizabeth Jones, 19, negress, is being held by Philadelphia police for having started a fire and endangering the lives of five persons, including three children in a home there. She was angered when . reprimanded and discharged by her employer and then started the blaze. Al\ delegates to the world economic conference now in session in London, were this week presented with Bibles by the jgejipture Gift Mission, with a note suggesting that the. Holy Bible ( contained the "teachings necessary for international peace and prosperity." ? The London Daily Herald on Wed-i nesday published a story to the effect that the burning of the German reichstag building last February was engineered by Nazis under the direction of Captain Hermann Goering, aide to Chancellor Hitler. * Evidence supporting the charge is said to have been discovered by a committee headed?by Albert Einstein, self-exiled Jewish scientist of Germany. J Roscoe Turner, winner of the transcontinental air race, failed to break the speed record on Monday by 19 miles per hour over a measured course of 3 kilometers. His average was 280.247 miles per hour, while the former record, made by Major Doolittle was 294 miles per hour. j: D. McKeeler, bachelor engineer in the valuation bureau of the interstate commerce commission, who was to have been retained in the government service after July 1, gave up his job in order that a father with a family, slated for discharge might have the job. The assistant district attorney at New York is finding it difficult to prosecute Waxey Gordon, notorious racketeer and beer baron on a charge of evasion of income taxes, because of the fact that since the case started several months ago, four of his witnesses who would have testified against Gordon, have been shot to death. Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith of Des Moines, Iowa, has been elected president of the National Woman Temperance Union, succeeding Mrs. Ella \ Boole, by the national convention n session at Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. Smith is 02 years of age and has been i worker in the temperance cause for icarly 50 years of her life. The cbntest committee of the naior.al air races at Los Angeles, on Wednesday disqualified Col. Roscoe j Turner as the winner of the 100 mile ree-for-all race of Tuesday, after he iad been declared to be the winner. "Hher contestants complained that Turner had cut the fourth plylon on he first lap of the race. In a Fourth of July address at rtexico City, Ambassador Josephus larridls said a new declaration of in[ependence is needed "from favorite and privilege for this day a iour." tTThe growth of semi-feudal- j sm in the United States has made us irgely a naticm of feudal lords withut the responsibilities and obligaions assumed by the liege lord in the peration of the feudal systems of tie old work*/* Mr. Daniels declared, fe addressed members of the Aroer*n colony. I xrr X " " ?SbK&I - . Blease Favors I More Economy Saluda, S. C., July 4.-?Governmental economy to put the state on a "cash basis" without any new or increased taxes was laid down today by Cole L. Blease as one of the major platform plunks for his 1934 gubernatorial campaign. , "1 am not in favor of any increased taxation from any source,"; the fiery former governor and for-1 mer U. S. senator told the audience at a Fourth of July celebration here. "I am in favor," he said, "of handling the present indebtedness, discharging it, placing the state upon a cash basis, and letting it there remain, instead of new taxes or any increase in taxation either upon real estate, sales tax or otherwise." s Jefferson Man Dies William G. iSutton, aged 88 years, a Confederate war veteran and well known resident of Jefferson, died on July's as the result of injuries suffered in a fall and tho infirmities of old age. Several days previous to his death Mr. Sutton stepped off his porch and received a broken collarbone and other injuries in the fall. He wiis a .prosperous farmer of .the Jefferson section. Funeral services were held in the Fork Creek section of Chesterfield county on July 4.? Lancaster News. Reports from the cotton growing states in the drive to sign farmer# up for destroying the desired number of acres of cotton are reporting progress, and in almost every instance the signers have reached a third oi\ more of their quotas. Tho campaign is expected to be closed by tomorroyz j night. Moving The Cotton Mill Tank ' I Traffic -over highway 26 is being! temporarily det cured- through North Matson street to admit the passage of the water tank of the Kershaw Cotton Mills, which is being moved( across the road in its entire struc- ( tural form, steel supports and the tank thereon. An unusual sight to' persons hereabouts. The old way toj dismantle and reconstruct.?Kershaw Era. W altera?Phil li pa Miss Thelma Walters and Floyd Phillips, both of Kershaw, were mar-1 ried Saturday afternoon, * July first,' 1083. The ceremony was performed by Notary Public W. F. Estridge at' his home. - - A number of friends were present to witness the event.?Kershaw Era. X I Snow In July Orleans, Mass., July 5.-?Tho first snowfall on the fourth of July within the memory of the oldest inhabit; tants of this Cape Cod town was experienced late yesterday. The squall was short lived but enough snow fell to whiten the ground. Going Some. A country editor* wrote to a catalog house for some advertising. They replied that they would be glad to uso his space but would like to know what territory his paper covered, whereupon he told them? "This paper goes from New York to San Francisco, from Canada to tho Gulf, and it keeps me working until 2 o'clock in the morning, to keep it from going to hell.'*?Falmouth Outlook. Plans are under way for the King of Italy to send a direct radio message to the American Legion when it meets in Chicago for its annual convention in October. Sign Up Or Pull Up. Albany, Gn., July 4,-^-An acre of cotton was destroyed last night on the Early county plantation of Mrs. H. E. High tower who has declined to sign an agreement to plow up u portion of her cotton lands* in accordance with the proposed government allotment plan. A sign left in the field read: "This is the beginning. Sign up \)r we pull up." Mrs. ?Hightower, widow of one of the largest growers in this sectioq, declined to enter into the acreage re-' duction agreement on the grounds that her farm averages only eight s acres of cotton to each of the 170 plows operated. Authorities said they .were without clues to the destroyers of Mrs. Hightower's cotton. ? First Triple Execution. I Kaiford, Fla., July 10.?In Florida's first triple execution, Louis Leavine, Victory Palmer and Norman Ileidit, died in the electric chair at tho state farm hero today for the murder of Joe. 13. Johnson of Tampa. AU wont calmly to the chair. Sun's Hays Pops Corn. Shrevoport, La., July 10.?Popcorn which "popped" on the stalk during a recent heat wave, was exhibited here today by G. 13. 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