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booking backward I Krom the Fil?? of The Chronicle Fifteen ami Thirty Years AKo ^^TiFTEKN YEARS AGO I July 26, 1918 B&ipio English, an <*M and highly ^E?itcd negro citizen, died in a HJjaubia hospital after lengthy ill JJ^of Quentin Roosevelt is conby war department. He died En airpl?ne encounter with a Ger ^id Perkins, of Darlington, sucM, Milium King: as superintendent HJftadcn Oil Mill. Mr. King goes Bell resigns as postmaster B ^tville after serving twenty ^R^rnian U-boat sinks three barges { jthc coast near Orleans, Mass. H (jjii,'i?'l Benson, sixty Ave year old ^Ljoretl citizen, dies. He was env H^.lk.i b\ I'r. I>. IDeSaussuro and Er by J- B. Steediman. B'>: Fannie Bowers, aged lady, K?t her home on North Lyttlcton B ; a. Lam . prominent farmer of Belaud, himself to death. B R. G. McCreight, of Columbia, ^ irhes nine-pound trout in Hormipond. B p MeCorkle, .Jr., married to By., Mildred Goodale at home of By x on Ly ttleton street. John L. Elmore dies at home near ' Bjtsviile, in Leo county, after con-1 Baling blood poisoning. j B J. Arthur Josey dies near St. I B{tirles from blood poisoning. B John R. Norms, 59, dies in Concord Bferch section of Lee county. B Mrs. Lou la Plyler, of Lancaster, Bjiti letter telling of safety of Lieut. Bra Hazel Plyler, who fell in his Byiue behind German lines. tlUKTY YKAK8 AGO ' July 31, 1903 Lightning1 sets fire to barn and stables of A. 1>. Kennedy near Lugoff and destroys contents together with three mules and two horses. Lightning destroys polo stubles in Kirkwood and sparks ignite barn of G. T. Little thereby causing a loss to both estimated at $2,600. Mr. and1 Mrs. IC. C, Whitaker chaperone party of sixteen young people to Liberty Hill for a stay of ten days. A long procession of buggies and wagons filled with pots, kettles pans and bedding carried the merry party. Quartermaster (Sergeant W. M. Young given rousing cheer when train arrives bearing returfling Kershaw Guards from encampment *at Isle of Palms for his excellent feeds. C. II. Yates leaves on extended trip to northern points. J. B. Wallace serving as cashier of the Bank bf Camden during his absence. Sons born on Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Savage and Mr. and Mrs. Thos. J. Kirkland. Mrs. Savage and Mrs. Kirkland are sisters. Both sons bear tho names of their fathers. Two were killed and seven injured in rear-end collision of Southern trains near 'Springfield, Va. Commercial Hotel at Nashville, Tenn., badly damaged by fire. It was occupied alternately during the war by Federal and Confederate soldiers. In a gamo of dice in a church at Camak, Ga., two negroes were seriously wounded and five others severely injured. Thirteen desperate prisoners escape from Folsom prison, near Sacramento, California, after fierce figl$. I Dies From Exhaustion * Fort Lauderdale, Fla., J-uly 20.? I|!L< heart overtaxed by efforts to ire the crew of the burning Cities Knife Petrol, off the North Carolina B?ut last week, Captain Anton Bgillson, master of the tanker, Gulf B Gem, died Tuesday night in a hospital Bfee. After being on the bridge of Hh?ship for 36 hours before and durH sf the rescue, Captain Nillson was H teted by a storm off Jacksonville to 40^ his post when he should have Hks resting. He was in a state .of aQspse when taken off his ship MonHday morning by a coast guard1 vessel Bvbirh brought him to the hospital Hhere. Physicians attributed his death to exhaustion. I The flying guild of Kaunas, LiH thosia. is proposing to erect a suit tbie monument to commemorate the Mtoiof Stephen Darius and Stanley Cirenas, the two Lithunians who flew New York across the Atlantic Bod were killed Sunday when they nshed in Germany. It CMC UNA BCYS I TO SEE CHICAGO I AS GUILD GUESTS I Also Earn Chance at $5,000 Scholarship in Fisher I Competition Detroit, July 20 (Special) ? P'oat 1 ' ( ''Icuko Century of n' 1 opportunity to enmJtwo f..i-?(x OOO scholarships . }>Y l lsher Hody Craft str'i* '/ i:" ! now within tho "?hft V. l *v" s'"if6 Carolina boys, ' l r''- t"! judged tho chamth, '' """ "" ?f their statu in \i, _ "i Southern entries ut 41 mnhi, *j . Kor.i6u.'' H ;i " 'iUnp> K. Pryor, of > ' " ' ^ '' Sheridan, of 'firev>n' !",:i !?rs tho two mini* fee vo ' ' ' ' <:"IlC6 models which fM-.'t: " ''-fcthest. scores In their bunari" d' visions. Pryor has three "r,sl""'' !<f winner throughout ?tlii x'it'* ''' (,u'ld activity, and io.Bri' '* sft ian's second trip as Tw6.D:o;i "> State, fr'-s/, ho-, Wlt'1 similar winners *i!l ?r s and from Canada, ' rJ Cuild at tho B<xk;. 1'"('tjsive. Their tier; w-?h " r" "dged, in competiu i >: " "t h<-r state wi n ners, " : ? on m "larding tho seholar. " ' " ' t 'd Auk 10. ! n ' 6e competition. _ P^ioiiu.-V * 1'' S 1 OO each, were j?rr..-i o ' !,"r"V Johnston, and I n, " !" Jr. of Hock. Hill, : Mast, jr , l'aul A. C^'rn.r " ! Hobb, Jr., of oa* ,, ^ " '"h Carolina's entries flc>! at the Pea body ^" throughout tho ' wore viewed by 6 6 6 . TABLETS - SALVE |< L. ^ Malaria in 3 days. Colds first1 * Headaches or Neuralgia in 30 FlMc . minutes, M UXATIVE AND TONIC ; ^ Speedy Remedies Known . K K RUSH AW toDGE No. 2t!! J\ A. F. M. YG ^^l^r communication ot' this lodge la held on the j 1 f I first Tuesday in each month ; Visiting Brethren are wel5* N R- OOODALB, JR.. ** WILSON, Worahlpfnl Meets*. ; ^ 8mmtary. 1-14-1?-* . ii nil1 Mil id'1 Vandals Desecrate Old Cemetery Grave ' Vandalism, the acme of shocking and mysterious, is the desecration of the grave of the grandfather of Attorney Thomas F. McDow, in an old cemetery on the line between Lancaster and Kershaw counties done recently. John D. Cunningham, the grandfather of Mr. McDow, was buried 82 years ago in the Summerville churchyard. It is now a very old and abandoned cemetery, seldom visited. Word came to one of the family that the grave had been desecrated, and it was forwarded to Mr. MoDow, who at once had an investigation made. One of the family accompanied by former Governor Richards, and others, found first that the large monument of a shaft on a marble base which in turn rested on a stone foundation with steps, had been torn dowi\ and completely removed, the heavy stones being scattered around. The grave itself was open down two feet and the dirt below showed signs of having been dug out and thrown back. The investigators duj^jjown t into this dirt in the grave and found splinters of the broken coffin, some charred indicating the desecration was done at night. The skull of the old gentleman buried there had been taken out and thrown back, and all the evidence was that the grave had been thoroughly ransacked. There is no clue to the vandals, and no conceivable motive for the shocking act which required much hard work to tear down the monument of heavy ttojies and dig open the grave. The condition of the soil proved that it was done since the last rain, before the investigation, which was over a week previously. The motive for the act is difficult to guess. One time in the past the grave of another member of the same family was desecrated and the van- j dais caught and convicted. They said they were hunting treasure. How anybody now ?can believe that money was buried with the venerable John S. Cunningham over 80 years ago is hard to understand.?Yorkville Inquirer. Several hundred workers on the $18,000,000 bridge being built at New Orleans with relief money, went on a strike Tuesday for higher pay. Common laborers who were receiving 25 cents per hour, demanded GO cents per hour. Grain prices on the Chicago exchange had serious setbacks Wednes- ( day as speculators tried to adjust their accounts. Wheat was off 13 cents at the close of the day as compared with its high pricc;/corn dropped *3 cents a bushel, oats 2 cents, rye 6 cents, and barley 5 cents a bushel. Emily Hoskins, 95, of Los Angeles, nas had her hair permanently waved. Said her hair, is now as curly as it was when she heard the guns at Bull Run. She had her hair bobbed laet year. m Tn ~ . . - ? - ? ~-r~,? ?r?r^rsr. ... .?1 Guard Absolved In Death Of Convict Allen Moultrie, convict who died at the* State hospital in Columbia Thursday, came to his death "at the hands of J. p. Ives with a rifle shot justifiable in the line of duty," a coroner's jury which heard testimony in the case yesterday at the state penitentiary found. * The inquest, held in one of the offices at the penitentiary, was conducted by Acting Coroner Harry Lightsey, who called four guards and two convicts to the witness stand. The testimony in general was that Moultrie was with a detail of about 40 Negro prisoners cutting wood on the state penitentiary farm, near Boy-kin, Sumter county. As the wood | was cut it was being. stacked into cords. Seeing that one pile was leaning, G. T. Mahalfey, one of the guards, handed his gun to 1>. W. Blackwell, another guard, and went over to show the convicts how to stack tho pieces properly. Charlie Black; one of the 40 convicts working there, said that Mahaffey stopped by Moultrie long enough to tell him "to go ahead and cut wood," then walked on about five feet. About that time, Black said, Moultrie raised his axe to strike Mahalfey, and when he did Ives shot. If Ives hail not shot, Moultrie would have "killed him (Mahalfey) dead," the convict testified. Officers at the state penitentiary said that Moultrie was sent up from Charleston at the June term of court, 1922, after being sentenced to serve JO years on charges of manslaughter in connection with the shooting of a traffic officer. His term would have expired June 19, 1950. Guards testifying were Mahaffey, Ives and Blackwell, and Robert Sharp, who was with another detail of prisoners when the shooting occurred but made an investigation before the body was moved. He said he was told upon arriving at the scene that Ives shot Moultrie when the convict attempted to "strike Mahaffey with an axe." The other convict to testify was Jeremiah White, who told of the shooting very much as outlined above. Members of the jury were: T. H. Epting, P. D. Campbell, H. E. Watts, Jr., E. W. Stokes, . B. Pope and C. E. Sandifer.?'Sunday's State. General News Notes The annual conference of the A. M. E. church has been transferred from Clinton to Greenwood by the presidj ing bishop on account of the recent murder of a negro by four white men at Clinton. | At Estill, in a quarrel about payment for soft drinks W. JH. Stannard, a storekeeper, and Kalvfn Shuman werg. shot in a pistol duel, Stannard being killed by Shuman's brother, who i was jailed. Stannard leaves a widow and two small children, and (Shuman leaves a widow and four children. William Franklin Timmons, one of the oldest citizens of Columbia, was 88 years old when he died at his h^pje there, rfe was born at Marion and served through the Civil war in the 18th South Carolina regiment, being wounded twice in action. He went from Marion to Columbia 23 years ago where he became well known a? a building contractor. Seven Lancaster county physicians publish notice that after September 1, all obstretical cases will be strictly ! on a cash basis, the money or preI vious financial arrangements. The receivership of the Columbia ! Savings Rank and Trust company, lasting five years, has been closed out. The depositors got a total of a little over 76 per cent, and the receiver got fees totaling $35,<36. Mayor Owens, of Columbia, proclaims the curfew law in that city still in force. It sends everybody home at 11:30 o'clock and was passed during the bank holiday and aimed at vagrants. In Anderson county. 31,000 acres of cotton will be destroyed, and it is estimated that the farmers will get $700,000 for it. The acreage is 77 per cent of the quota of the county, and 30 per cent of its total acreage of ia2,000 acres. Farmers to the number of 3,333 signed contracts. Palmetto penitentiary convicts are also beneficiaries of the new deal in industry, and are working in prison factories only 40 hours a week, hut the guards are on the old longtime schedule. A tree dedicated to South Carolina and bearing the name of Governor Blackwood on a bronze plaque was planted Sunday on the shore of Lake Tahoe in the elge of California, on the trip of governors to their conference in that state. There was a tree for every governor present, and for Oklahoma represented by Will Rogers, who said he would rather plant alfalfa for Governor Bill Murray, for there was some chance of reaping the crop on that before the Republicans return to office. 9 " - ' * . ' 'Millionaire Oil : Man Kidnaped Oklahoma City, July ?3.?Charles j F. Urschel, wealthy oil operator, was | kidnaped by two men in a daring raid on his home late last night. J Police and Federal authorities united today in a widespread search for them. Bearing: machine guns, tho two! men broke up a sun porch bridge game in which Mr. and Mrs. Urschel and Walter Janett, a neighboring oil man, and his wife, participated. "Which one's Urschel?" demanded the leader. Receiving no reply, he said: "Well then, come along, both of you." ' Both were spirited away in a large black s^dan. Jarrett, however, >y?s released later about ten miles outside the city limits after the abductors Checked billfold cards Jo** ascertain the identity of .their victims. They took $00 from Jarrett. No hint of ransom demands was revealed. Mrs. Urschel, who was tho widow of the late Tom B. .Slick, "king of oil jwildcatters," said the kidnapers were foreigners and professionals." Urschel is a trustee of the Slick estate. Ho married Mrs. Slick in St. Louis last October 17. Urschel's first wife was a sister of Slick. /. . Woman's Husband Sees Electrocution Columbia, July 22.?Glad, ho said, to die for^his crime, Barnie Smith, 21-year-old negro, was put to death in the electric chair at the state penitentiary yesterday for criminally attacking a young married white woman. iSitting barely a dozen feet from the deuth chair, the husband of tho woman the negro attacked near Ware Shoals last March, witnessed the execution. He looked intently at Smith as the switch was pulled and lighted a cigarette as the high voltage current raced through the negro's body. A brother-in-law and an uncle of the attacked woman, mother of a smallfchild, also witnessed the electrocution. j. :Smith already had made a full confession of the crime, to the Rev. S. K. Phillips, penitentiary chaplain, and made no statement in the death room other than, "I am ready to go. I am ready to meet my God." In a statement in his cell, just before he was brought in to be executed the negro said, "I am glad to die for the things I have done." Smith went to1 his death calmly. He was pronounced dead by Dr. L. H. Jennings, prison physician, at 6:06 a. m. ~" Samuel D. O'Neal, who died at the home, of his daughter at Sumter, 91 years old, was the last surviving member of Major Coker's regiment of the Confederate army. He participated in the Battle of Gettysburg and Seven Pines and was at Appomatix on the day of surrender. N Enrollment at the 'Citadel for next ^session shows a substantial increase ' over last year, General Summefall, president of the institution, announces. J r L % Vacations and 1 k Health m * *s By Dr. ERNEST H. LINES BmUntnt Autkotky m*4 ChUf UlriWir Nft* Yth L(/? lHMtr?i?c? C>m>wy FOOD, MILK AND WATER /~\N your vaoation, make it a point to have three good meals a day. The L " proper food in proper amount* is essential to building up the reserve of mental and phyaioal energy for the next year's work. Hut do not overeat, particularly duriug hot weather. Many attacks of so-called "acute indigestion" are due | to heart weakness brought on by Svereating and drinking, or undue xertion. Most people oonfine themselves too nu|ch to the staple articles of diet, such as meat, bread, potatoes and sugar in various combinations. In hot weathor it is particularly advisable to avoid eating too much meat. Cereals, fruit, vegetables, egga, milk, salads, fish and a moderate Amount of meat should bo the chief articles of diet. Although green vegetables and fresh fruits should bo eaten in abundance, oaro should be taken to maintain a balanced diet. Vegetables and cereals should bo thoroughly cooked. If you carry cooked food on a camping trip or picnic, it should he kept in glass jars.' * By all means avoid keeping food in nil open metal container, or a can that has been opened. Any food, particularly moats, fish ami poultry, that you may suspect from tasto or smell to bo contaminated should not be eaten. Beverages Drink pure mill? and pure water. Avoid drinking too many iced soft drinks, as well as alcoholic beverages, which are common causes of gastrointestinal upsets. Milk in country places is not always pasteurized. It is a wise precaution to inspect tho dairy or storage place of the milk you have - to driuk. I - Scrupulous cleanliness and a cool j place for storage arc necessary to keep milk pure. Don't carry a supply of milk too long in a thermos bottle, for if it gets warm, bacteria multiply too freely. Make a special' effort always to obtain the purest uiilk you can find, even If it costs a few cents more per bottle. If you are traveling '+ with a baby, it is bettor to carry along a supply of evaporated milk, dried whole milk and pure water. If your child is going to a summer camp, find out if the water aupply has Ijeen tested and kept under favorable conditions. If necessary, have it analyzed yourself. , He careful of tho water you drink N in camps, summer resorts, and by tho roadside when traveling. Mako sure that no contamination by sewage or barnyard pollution is possible. If in doubt, uso only boiled water or cerlifiod bottled water, and if you can't be sure of obtaining it readily, carry along u thermos bottle of pure, cold water.-' ,, , 1 This is Ihe fifth of a series of 12 articles on Vacations and Health. The sijth, on What to IK ear, will answer the gu??iioni: 1. What clothes nre coolest? S. Should men wear belts or suspenders7 9. What kind of shoes should be worn? (Copyright. 1033, N. Y. L. I. Oo.) _ " Methodist Minister i Dies At Darlington j Darlington, July The Rev. James W. Kilgo, 71, die<l at the home of his son here today after a week's illness. Surviving are five children: James P. Kilgo, Darlington; Miss Kate D. Kilgo, Greenwood; Mrs. W. B. West, Albemarle, N. <C.; the Rev. B. L. Kilgo, Ridge .Springs; Mrs. J. N. Gibson, Gibson, N. C.; one brother, the Rev. P. F. Kilgo, Laurens. Doctor Kilgo had served the Methodist Episcopal church, South, for more than 40 years, including pastorates in Charleston and Greenville. He had lived at Darlington since his retirement five years ago. During that time he continued his church activities and pre-ached almost every Sunday at some church. He was one of the best known and best loved divines in the entire state. His passing is a great loss to the state, as well as to his church. About 1,000 additional workers were put to work in cotton mills in the Columbus, Ga., section as the result of the newly adopted textile code. Oregon Joins Wets In Repeal Election Portland, Ore., July 22.?OreKon, after 18 years of prohibition in one form or another, today had become the 20th state to vote repeal of the 18th amendment and had erased every dry law from the statute books of the state. ? A wet tide of ballots in yesterday's . 'special election gave the repealists a margin of nearly two to one. Dry leaders said that although they held some hope of victory, "We were prepared for such a jolt. We'll fight Ju^ harder than ever now." Returns from 1,324 precincts out of 1,787 in the state showed 112,541 votes had been oast for repeal of the 18th amendment and 59,490 for its retention. State repeal had a greater margin of victory.- On this proposition the vote was 117,963 to 60,754. State repeal threw into the discard the remaining "constitutional"- prohibition . laws. The bone dry enforcing acts had been repealed in the last November election. ODD, BUT TRUE ~ / OF PEOPVJE. \ W\NWT\\>t V OoR ^PN\oTt " 1 r^UCt^ORS MtP L> is "ST\U- IN jr ETovancE- ; ? ^ V/j Twrcrtu vurT\" m AWAStSt HGJEIS MAIpS ARE ,?rqmor& "to assist the guests (t^U^SWKMa WCW ttttfcBAWS . ? llN ENGUXND MNOTHSIH6 &H ? W\.W>&t> "' X., WS /\F \ Qtr\ f VtMSt ) \ H\M ^COWCVl I V **?*$. V*tA / AT 1G&l* y?^