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* nu?a ??? U.1'' "ll, '? " " 3 -rw?* rr- (??m LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the File* of The Chronicle Fifteen and 1'Airty Yeara A#a L? ? FIFTEEN YEARS AGO August 9, 1918 Fifty-four huge army trucks pass through Camden onrouto to Gamp Jackson front New York. Many (!#in<l?n people witness them being ferried^ across the river. * J. C. Hilton, of Westville, resigns as member of registration board and Is succeeded" by J. A. McDowell. Fire destroyed plant of Loo County Milling and Trading company at llishopville. Lofts estimated at with probably $t?o,0()() insurance. Joe Itergin dies at Camp Jackson. , Ho was formerly with the Kershaw Motor company at 'Camden. Jack Hurdell, son of Dr. and Mrs. W. J. Hurdell, killed in an automobile accident in Detroit, Mich. "* Val Lipscomb injured when his Htruck a stump while diving in Wateree mill pond. Eugene Moore, well-known colored carpenter, dies at his homo here. Robert Purdy, of iSumter reported killed in action. Erwin Shaw, also of Sumter, missing in action. Mrs. Emma Joico Alford dies at her home in this city. Henry Savage, <Sr., back from his old home at Cape Cod, says he heard the German submarine shelling the coastwise trawlers. Miss larroe Arthur, oL "this city, married to Lieutenant "William Rogers, of Virginia. Mrs. Nannie Hough dies at her home near Cassatt. She died of typhoid fever and had four children critically ill with same disease. Albcrtus Stove v writes to his mother from France telling her hfc has been under lire on the French front for ten1 days. Norman Huckabee is awarded a scholarship to the University of South Carolina. C. R. Lewis writes to his mother from "Somewhere in France." Leo Mcintosh, alias George Dale, under arrest at Rocky Mount, N. ('., I is alleged to have confessed being a ! party to the kidnaping of John G. I Lyle, a rural mail carrier, from Crawfordsville, Ga., on July 7, and driving with him across South Carolina and into North Carolina. McJntosk was aided by another white man and a negro, all of them escaped Georgia convicts. ^ c ? THIRTY YKAKS AGO August 14, 1903 Charles A. Smith (Bill Arp) re* ported to be dying* at his home at ( nrterayilU't Ga. . Bishopvillo haqf? new oil mill and town soon to be lighted by electricity. "Carson" is name- of new post office established in county near Jyershaw. Front of Dibble's' store, corner of Main and DeKal'b streets, being painted. VV. U. Nelson dies at his residence following the death of his wife by two years. Five small children survive. W. W, Coney, agent for Southern at Hagood, married to .Miss Nina Louise HoUgh. of Camden. James M. Heath, president of the Heath Banking and Mercantile company, of I<ancaster, dies from operation in Now York. He was 40 years of age. Funeral held in Grace Episcopal church of this city. Committee of citizens published resolutions of thanks to W. L. DePaes for obtaining encampment of First Regiment of Cavalry for Camden. II. L. Schlosburg on a visit to New York. Miss Mary Mickle visiting relatives in Yorkville. Simon Baruch, of Georgetown, visiting in Camden. ,, Ixm Sthenic, (<, H. Baum, W. E. Johnson and J. H. Burns leave for northern markets. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Zemp and little daughter, Marie, visiting relatives in Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. George DeSaassure, of Atlanta, visiting Mr. and Mrs, E. B. Cantey. Mrs. F. \V. Eldredge and three little (laughters return from visit to Spencer, Indiana. Two circus trains of the Wallace shows in wreck at Durant, Mich., and score of employes killed. I\ T. Villepigue returns to summer : home at Saluda occupied by Miss j Emily Garrison. Philip Lnchieotte, of Georgtown, visiting in the Garrison home. Passenger train No. ,'f5, fast mail of the Southern, runs into open switch near Gastonia and four persons injured. Thought switch hnd been tampered with. Pope Pius X coronated to head the Romans &t Rome. I At the convention of the Interna- j tional Association of Chief of Police, j held in Chicago last week, Chief j Reyer, of New Orleans, told his fel- ! low police officers to meet the kidnapers and extortionists with fire. "Why he so lenient with criminals?" the Louisiana officer asked indignantly. "Give the kidnapers what they tfive their victims, and enough to make the extortionists" relatives worry too. "If criminals insist upon using1 machine guns to gain their ends, let policemen light them with machine guns. They are capable enough to give guerilla warfare, and kill if necessary to stop these depredat ions." Of the 2i>0,000 automobiles stolen in the United States in 1932, approxi-1 mutely 225,000 were reeeovered for their owners. - Vacations and * Health m !* . . *3 By Dr. ERNEST H. LINES ImhtnU Authority and Ckla/ Madlcal Dlrtctar Nm? York U/< Uwr?n Campmmy CHILDREN IN SUMMER MONTHS * FOR children, the rummer monthr are playtime. Free from the tasks of the schoolroom, they look forward eagerly to the games and pleasures of tho vacation period. Hut intelligent and careful planning for the holidays is as essential for children as for adults. Since the routine of school health educators in suspended, full reaponsi- _ bili'y for heAlth falla on the shoulders of parents. The vacation f>eriod of the average ci' child is usually sj>ont with adult n i ives at summer resorts, at otl i.i/ed cam|>s, or in the year-round ci1 nvirontnenl. It is the utiforlun i hildren w ho s| >etid t he last t vpe of - it ion who re<|uire t lie closest n> vision. . v > 11 mi Id 1 ? | ir* iciilarl v u.irnci! . ar - -versa, r n ! heat pr.?tr. ,n, against ermg f la handler) b\ -'r<s't vemiors, and au oust the da' rs of accident fr..in .uit<- iii< doles. Tie- most t r I'' aspect of the child s vac ition period is the increased numlxtr of avoidable aeci lents to chi' iren due to the failure of parents and rhildren to carry on the safety can ' aurn waged throughout the m-tj <1 year Although swimming is excellent ?xr*eiso for children, particularly in. e it teaches them how to take care of themselves in the water, earn sit. Mild he taken to avoid the fxdlut ion of he old swimming hole." Children who go to summer camps should he ex; nmod in advance by the family ph si man and a record should he sent to "he camp authollies so they may regulate the chil<W*Kctivities in accordance with hts physical condition Explosions Many accidents to children occur from tho explosion of dynamite caps left lying around vacant houses, summer oottagoe and other places where children may pick them up. The Instituteof Makers of Kxplosives reports that 6<X) children are killed or injured annually from playing with blast inn caps Most of these accidents occur during the summer nn >n t h> A s'lll grciteY number of childrrn are maimed bv le e\p!'.>? 0:1 of lireer ickcrs. I.oc: .\ and bum* are i serious dan.!' - I ) >n > Jrt the l'oupth of .luiv l.c r? remtn f< " "hat your h.id has hist Lis life, or ti e\e, or some fingers from a liner.u ker cxpl. .s|i ,n. In short, plan the child's vaca'ion so that it combines the greatest freedom from the nervous tension of the formal classroom with the highest regard for t he rules of healthful living and the greatest care to avoid accidents Continue the child's regular rest period. If possible, bring the child close to the lessons of the great outdoors. See to it that, with an abundance of sunlight, air, rest and directed recreation, the little citi/en | goes back to school with a sound mind and a sound body. That in the srmn-i ../?j <>/12 articles on \'7ieatn>tis <in>i Health The third, on Camp Life, will answer the questions 1. What first aid should l>o administered for snake bites? %. H<>w should a ramp sit* be srlee' ed ? J. How should firearms be earried? . (Cop/Tl^Jit, ;?JJ. N. Y. L 1 <_? ) I News of Interest in nnd Near Bethune Bethune, August 7.?Mrs. M. F. Helms and daughters, Misses Mary Alice and Frances, left last week for u visit to Washington, I). C. Mrs. M. U Kelley 1? spending some time with her daughter, Mrs. C. M. Wilson ut her home in New'berry. Miss Ann Rueker, of Atlanta, is the guest of Miss Cecilia King. A The Rpworth League enjoyed an outing at Big Springs Friday evening. Miss Marguerite Muggins, of Lamar, is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Severance, Miss Marguerite. (Tyburn, of Kershaw, is the guest of MVs. Loring Davis and Miss Lizzie Kate Davis. J. II. MoDaniel, of Hlackstock, visited friends here last week. Miss Beth Norwood, of McBee, is spending several days with Miss Bethune and Miss Kathryn Truesdell. Mr. and Mrs. Grady Smith and children, ^of Wysaeky, were Sunday guests of Mrs. Smith's mother, Mrs. Bessie Seegars. Miss Juanita Pate spent last week in the home of her uncle, Dock- Pate, in the Mt. Pisgah neighborhood. Miss Mattie Kabon, of Blaney, is visiting Misses Ailene and Thelma Wages. Circles one and three of the Methodist ,\Voman's Missionary -Society met Tuesday afternoon with IMrs. J. W. Hearon and ftjrs. C. E. Reaawell. Woodrow Piummer, of Lynchburg, is spending a while with his sister, Mrs. Manning Parker. Miss Josephine Smith spent the week end in Columbia with her sister, Miss Birdie Belle Smith. * Miss Dorothy Parrott has a position in a school near Wadesboro, N. C. She' left Saturday to take up her work at this school. The Rev.. G. F. Kirby, presiding elder of the Sumter district, filled the puhplt at the Methodist church Sunday morning. Miss Fannie MoSween, of Darlington, has been the recent guest of her sjster, Mrs. Clara Davis. Miss Jennie Louise King, of Bishopville, has been spending some time with the Misses Parrott. A. W. Parker, of Dalzell, was the guesfr recently of friends here. Miss Mary B. RatclilT has been visiting her grandparents, at Sandy Grove. Mack Davis spent Saturday at Little Mountain. Mis<& Lorena McDowell is spending some rime with relatives in Hartville. The junior department of the Methodist Sunday school, gave a picnic at Watts' pond Wednesday. Falling in line with the N. R. A. the stores in Bethune are opening at 8:00 a. m., and closing at 6:00 p. m. Circles one, two and three <j?_lha Presbyterian Auxiliary met-"Tuesday afternoon with Misses Mary Louise j McLaurin, Carrie Yarbrough and j Mary King. G. B< McKinnon is working on a project to got a system of waterworks for the town 6f Bethune. which if secured, will not only be a great convenience, but a protection against fire and also lower insurance rates on property. Death of J. B. Whaley John B. Whaley, about forty years i of age, died at the Baptist hospital ! in Columbia last Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock, where he underwent an operation and was under treatment nbout ten days prior to his death.: The remains were brought, to Ker- j shaw for burial on Monday in the old : Laurel Hill graveyard, just north of the incorporate limits of Kershaw, and the funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. W. Jopling, pastor of the Lancaster Presbyterian church of which Mr. Whaley was a member. Mr. Whaley and family were residents at the Kershaw Cotton Mill village for about ten years dating from 1916, and from here they removed to Camden. After spending some time there they moved to Lancaster about two years ago. which wras his residence at the time of his death. He is survived by his widow, a son, J. B., Jr., and one daughter, Louise Whaley.?'Kershaw Era. New I>efinition "Dynamite." the petulant negro porter at the Sanitary Barber Shop, was worried the other day beeauso he could not find out what the NRA I stood for on the blue eagle insignia. J He came to the Lancaster News of; lice looking for information upor. the -ubject and he was told that these letters stood for National Reunion of African-. He seemed to doubt the | matter and the next day he was ini formed of the fact that the letters - ood for National Recovery Act.? ! Lancaster News. Stonewall J. Durham, lawyer of 1 Bessemer City, caused a bit of a | furor in North Carolina on Friday, ! when he gave out a story to the efj feet that two young hitch hikers had come to his home and casually told i him that Clay Fogleman, white, who j was electrocuted at the state prison ' that morning for a murder committed in April of last year in Rocking| ham county, was not guilty, the two j men claiming that they were eye wit: nesses to the killing and that Fogle: man was not the killer. Two men arrested at Tarboro, N. ' (\. as the result of an automobile aci cident. were later identified a? two | men who had held up a bank at 1 Battleboro on July 20, when they got j a w ay with $5,152. __ -4- "4 ? - . John Hamblin Is j Claimed By Death Union, Aug. 7.?John K. Hamblin, Union attorney and apeaker of the state House of Representatives seven sessions, died in Angel Hospital at Franklin, N. iC., early today ^after an operation for removal of a brain tumor. Death came shortly before dawn and after Hamblin bad rallied from the* operation, which was performed Saturday, andkvas apparently on the road to recovery. Dr. Furman Angel, who removed the tumor, said pulmonary congestion was the cause of the death. uii For # number of years 1 Iambi in was city attorney. Ho served as United States commissioner and luteins county attorney. Hamblin came Union about 32 years ago. Ho first began the piactice of law, and later entered farming and politics. He was a member of Union Lodge No. 7b, Anient Free Masons, the Junior Order United American Mechanics and the Improved Order of Red Men. iBorn at Magnolia, N. C., 62 years ago, Hamblin was one of the few men not a native of iSouth Carolina who have attained the position of speaker of its House of ^Representatives. After serving 10 years in the House, he succeeded Edgar A. 'Brown, of Barnwell, as speaker in 1027 and presided over seven sessions, including the special session in 1031. Prior to his elevation to the speakership, he served as chairman of the judiciary committee and as syieakei i pro-tern. His term as speaker was the longest of any in recent yeais. | After the 1031 session, Hamblin announced he would not offei foi teelection to the legislature. Soon afterward, his health began to fail and aboi\t six months ago he lost partial use of his right arm and right leg. Prior to entering the Angel Hospital, he had been a patient at the Biltmore Hospital, in Asheville some General News Notes New Hampshire naltoruTH Shardsmen are guarding Betty Downs, 15, a daughter of an official of the Pennsylvania railroad, now'at a girls camp, Camp Bueno, near North Sutton. N. H., following threats that the "grfl would be shot unless her parents met a demand for $50,000. Philip C. Edwards, 19, high school boy, is in jail at San Diego, Cal., foilowing his confession that he murder- I ed Dalibert Aposhian, 7, and mutilated his body on July 18, and after dismembering the corpse threv^ parts of jt into the ocean. He did "not explain his reasons for the deed. Senator Huey P. Long, of Louisiana, is getting hot under the collar, as the .pending investigation of.,the senator's political empire approaches a crisis. On Saturday the senator circulated through the streets of New Orleans scurilous handbills bearing his signature, in which he referred to his enemies as "buzzards, bats, skunks, snakes, rats, spiders, owls, polecats, and other foul smelling things." , A large section of southwest Texas along the gulf coast and the Rio Grande river was swept by terrifically high winds, much lightning and heavy downpours of rain over the territory. Damage to town and farm properties was considerable, but loss of life, if any, was nominal. Four men were arrested in a Boston lot Friday night by the police after receiving a tip from New York charged with having the "makings for gas bombs. Partly constructed bombs were found, it is said, addressed to President Roosevelt, Mr. Hoover and Norman Thomas, socialist candidate for president last year. Charlotte police are looking for one I Chris Medlin, following a decision by ! a coroner's jury that he is the one ! who is responsible for the death of his wife, whose body was found in the outputs of that city on Thursday. hidden in a honeysuckle ravine. The woman formerly lived in Gaston iH. Eugene S. Daniel!. .Jr.. of Somerville.' Mass.. is held Jiy New York police under a bail bond <>f $10,000. j for a hearing today, on suspicion of 1 being responsible for the placing of the tear gas bombs in the ventilating ^ system of the New ^ ork stock exI change on Friday. I>aniell is conj netted with an , obscure political ! party, The National Independent : party, and is no doubt seeki*j0??ubi Hefty. I Thirty thousand families of Cook 'county (Chicago) on the charity lists on April l%l. have now become self' supporting, and there has been a ; great reduction in the number of or: ders issued for grocery supplies for ! destitute families. 1 The county tax collector of Dallas, ! Texas, appealed to delinquent taxj payers to pay up their taxes and save additional costs. The appeal resulted in June payments being $69,471 higher than in June a year ago. Our Neglected Assets HI HI (By Harry Hampton) 9. Value of Game and Fiah * iMany people seem to think that j game and fish have no value other . than as a plaything for idle "sports," or, as a marketable product, legally or illegally, at a few cents & pound apiece. Yet, it has been proved by those states that have made a business of conservation, or the wise uee of their gam* and flah, that these resources are indirectly worth millions of dollars, annually,, to the people qf the state. Market sale of game and fiati, it is claimed by statisticians, brings the lowest returns, and insures destruction. The different angles of the situation are too numerous and involved to be discussed in detail here, but the principle is sample; namely^ that a great class of (people spend great sums of money annually in the pursuit of sport. Increased value of land, because of the presence of game, is testified by the purchase of large estates in the low countryifor both upland g^me and duck preserves. The attraction of tourist travel with the expenditure of large sums of money for licenses, hunting privileges, guides, boat hire, for food, for gaspline, for accommodations and in the free spending of money, generally, a characteristic of the sportsmen of America. Sportsmen ar? hpavy users of gasoline, each gallon of*"-which puts six cents in the state treashry. South Carolina, by wise legislation and administration, could build a vast industry on game. Aside from these the game birds native to this state, and the other insectivorous birds which also are under the protection of the game department, are of tremendous economic value to the farmers and the state as a whole, helping control the insect pests. * There are probably as many ways of gaining financial benefit from fish as from game. Fish ponds are easily built, and, if stocked, they could mean revenue,? Everyone in the state is doubtless familiar with the popularity of Lake Murray as a fishing place, j All of our rivers could and should be j equally as popular for the same reas- j on?if properly protected. Even now, j some good people make a living J through the fishermen who visit their places by furnishing boats, guides, places to sleep, food, etc. The average hunter and fisherman spends at least $5 to $10 a day in pursuit of his sport. South Carolina,; if it gave the game and fish the at- > tention they deserve, our pebble would reap a great part of this mon-1 ey. Being directly on the line of travel from the north to Florida, now that Florida is being boycotted for j permitting the shipment of game fish for commercial purposes from the state, South Carolina's ^opportunities are multiplied. South Carolinians, by neglecting the wild life, are burying a valuable ; resource in the ground. . Death for Kidnapers Sacramento, Cal., Aug. 3?Kidnapers who abduct a person for the ipur- J pose of * extortion will be liable to capital punishment or life imprison- j ment under terms of a new Califor- , nia law signed by Governor James , Rolph, Jr. The law, which becomes ! effective in 90 days, provides hanging or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for kidnapers who maltreat their victims, and life im-1 prisonment for those who do not , harm the persons a/bducted. In addi- ' tion, the state provided $10,000 to be offered as rewards for the arrest of kidnapers, with no more than $1,000 to be paid in any one case. The two measures were adopted by the legislature during a special session which closed last week. Dr. Walter P. MacGibbon, 61, j beaten in his apartment .Friday in New York, died Sunday from his in- ( juries. An 18-year-old former patient, arrested, admits striking the doctor. Thirty-two Chinese merchants of Greenville. Miss., have signed the NRA code and to make it binding and stronger, have agreed to fine any of their fellow countrymen $30 who may violate any of the provisions of the code, the money from fines, if any, 'to go into the treasury of a Chinese society. Negro Changed HiH Mind Very Quirk? A negro named Stewart vva*l verely cut in the vicinity of Ja? Hollow on Saturday night by anoB negro named Murdock Smith. I lowing the cutting, iStewart said I I he was to blame for the affair 1 j that he did not wish to have Si^^B) prosecuted. Stewart said that^^E would have cut Smith if the la^^E had acted as he did. ? It seems as though Stewart, B had been drinking, was acting il disorderly manner in Smith's yfl : and Smith ordered him from I premises. Stewart made a lung<? j Smith and the latter cut him. St? ' dift said later on that ho did not til I that Smith had a knife. j At flrat Stewart denied that he I i been drinking but as hi* wounds \? , being sewed up by Dr. Crawford, Gardner said: ? "Doctor, when you. get through the Stomachy ipuipp on this negro B ! we will find out wither he has drinking." ^^? "I would not lie to you for world," Stewart said. "I have 1^^? drinking hpme brew. Some ne^^K was handing it out free of charge giving all you want to drink."?L? 1 caster News. Secretary Wallace, still hop? j that there will be some sort of in? j national agreement regarding the^H0 duction of wheat production over I , world, has postponed until August^^B his decision as to what reduction? wheat acreage in the United St^^Hl will set for American farmers. ^^B Archibald M. Johnson, 47, a son? j Senator Hiram Johnson, commit^^K suicide by shooting himself at hoipe at Tills-borough, Cal., Tues? : morning. No explanation of his I was made public. He was divor? j from his wife on June 13. i Notice of Assignment of^H* of Homestead Hi State of South Carolina County of Kershaw Notice is hereby given to all cfl itors of Ellen Brannon and to ^^^p others whom it may concern that j len Brannon has filed her petitB , with me as Master for KershB j County to have a homestead set^^p to her in her real and personal ^^p tate, which real and personal estfl 1 are situated in the County of State aforesaid, and that in purB ance of said petition I will, atp o'clock a. m. on the 2nd day of SB tember, 1933, at my office in the Cfl of Camden, County and State afoB said, or as soon thereafter as n^?1 be, proceed to appoint appraisers^? set off said homestead as provi^B( by law. All persons interested ^B| notified to be present at said tifl j and place. ^?> W. L. DePASS, JR., Master for Kershaw Countj^^fc August 4-11-18-25, 1933 BIDS INVITED V In accordance with Section Thi^B} Act Number 806, Civil Code of La^^E of 1930, which reads as follows: I "All contracts for transportation? pupils shall be let only after put^^E bidding had been advertised for^^E ohe or more newspapers of the coB ty at least once a week for not IB j than three consecutive weeks, bids shall be addressed to the Coui^^E Superintendent of Education, marlj^^B on outside of sealed envelope "IB for Transportation of Pupils ^Bj> Route No. ?and shall be opei^^pi at the hour designated in the adv^B, tisement. Bids shall be opened a^B^ awards made by the -County BoaB | of Educatioh, who shall have tS right to reject any and all bids, a^Bj to readvertise for new or additioi^Bs bids. All contracts for tranaport^^f tion shall be awarded to the lowB responsible -bidder: Provided, Tn^Bs the provisions of this Section sn^B^ not apply to Counties or -School Dp tricts owning their own school buiB and in such cases such counties >B> school districts shall share in t^Bg funds provided in Section 2 here^B^ the same as all other counties a^^l school districts." Bids for contracts for the traij^^Bi portation of school children will received in the office of the Coun^^E Superintendent of Education by County Board of Education and jB Trustees of the school districts nesday, August 23, 1933. (ontrac^Ba will be received for the folloWl^^B school districts: Central. No. 5; Antioch, District No. 6; Trt-pp ity. District No. 11; Blaney, Diatn^Bi No. 12; Three C's, District No. Baron DeKalb, District No. 14; J'J^^B Grove, District No. 16; and Sto boro, District No. 46. .^^B For further information concerma^B<, these routes call upon Chairman Board of Trustees of various scc? districts. ,_?c KATHEBEN B. WATTS, Hi County Superintendent of Educa ^^B s ?| - REAL ESTATE RENTS COLLECTED, FARM AND CITY PROPERTY HUNTING PRESERVES Repairing and Care-Taking of Property ALL FORMS OF INSURANCE DeKALB INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE CO. Crocker Building ? Telephone 7 >