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| Booking backward f?kw? From the Filet of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Ytar? Ago I ^~~KIFTKKN years ago ! October 11, 1918 I M?ny oaseB ?' flu reP?rted and I diurehos it >ul schools ordered closed I by board of health, Sparks' circus I idhetlulcd to appear here has been I barred. I Lieut. Stephen Richards, only son I of Major and Mrs. John G. Richards, I dies of fh> while in a camp in one of the western states. Grant Smith,^Gantey Hill negro, I runs amuck and kills William Brown. I Kben J. McLeod, of this city, reI turnst, from London, contracts pneuI monia and dies in a hospital at Ashor I ville, N. C. I John Glenn Motley married to Miss I Lizzie May Ross, of Blaney. i Benjamin Amnions, well - known I planter and keeper of the bid WuI ter?f bridge, dies at his. home in the I Betty Neck section of West Wateree. Deaths among the colored people I from flu includes David L. Gamble, I Ransom Peas, Mary Taylor, William I Shields, Willie Thomas and John BenI jamin. W. J. I lusty, of the mill village, re ported severely wounded in France. Mrs. Itessic Jordan, of the Hermi tage mill village, dies. I Hiram L. Qregory succeeds postI master Blackmon at Kershaw, who had resigned. I More than 5,000 cases of Spanish I flu are reported by Dr. James Hayne. I The worst epidemic reported in New berry county where 1,500 cases reB ported. B Two-year-old infant of Mr. and B Mrs. Sydney Watts dies at Cantey B Coly H. Hardin, aged 6, of the B Marshall's church section, dies at B Camden hospital. B Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Blakeney and ' family, of Kershaw, to remove to Camden and occupy the Robert Johnson home on ^N'orth Fair street. Miss Louise Nettles, the Chronicle's society correspondent, victim of a two-weeks' siege of intluenza and the society page is short on news. A. Marvin Grant, a white carpenter with the Ilardaway company, dies near Lugoflf and body sent to Chester for burial. Twenty-nine deaths reported at Camp Jackson from 7 o'clock Sunday night until 7 o'clock Monday night. J After the crumbling of the Macedonian front Emperor Wilhelm sends a note to the allied nations offering peace terms. "Rut I will only extend my hand for an honorable peace," he adds. I ? I THIRTY YKAK6 AGO October 16, 1903 Moses DeWill, small boy drowns in a airing near Society Hill while trying to reach for a stick of candy he had dropped into the water. Residence of C. J. Shannon, Jr., catches tire from an overturned can of oil near a lighted stove. Only small damage resulted on the interior. (^eorge Ellerbe McCaskill, 6-yearold son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McCaskill, dies after an illness of three days. /' John Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. John N. Jones, of West Wateree, dies of typhoid fever. A. DuBose Myers, 21, son of C. U. Myers, of eastern Kershaw, dies. Mr. and Mrs. Ren Ticknor' return to Court Inn for the winter season.; Miss Tillie Geisenheimer returns to Savannah fo resume her duties as trained nurse. \J> More than 200 Chinese arrested in Boston without registration certificates to be deported. i Second Largest Grower of Cotton Passes Away Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 28.?The I cotton country Thursday mourned the the passing of R. E. Lee Wilson, the world's second largest producer of the : fleecy staple. Mr. Wilson, 67, died in a Memphis hospital late Wednesday. A powerful figure in Arkansas politics, Mr. Wilson was the founder mk! owner of the "model" town of Wilson. Ark. His farming operations included 40,000 acres in one Arkansas county alone, as well as largest acreages in other states. A pedigreed cotton farm where a special "Wilson type" of big boll cotton is bred, is operated in connection with the Wilson plantation in ArkanMr. Wilson was born two miles wuth of the place where he established the model town of Wilson and it was in this section that he spent his life. He once built a railroad through Mississippi County, Arkansas, which today is "part of the Frisco System. Four men were the first arrested !B Floi "i nee as night riders destroying cotton in fields, and all gave bond far their appearance in court. Two **e negroes and two are white men, on<? ei them being a member of the county- r><;u<! of Darlington county *here a. of them reside. Bags Two Deer With One Shot After thirty years of doer hunting without a head to his credit, J. A.. McKnight brought down two young bucks with a single shot in the Santee River swamp ten miles southwest of Pinetfcood Monday morning. Mr. McKnight was hunting with a small party of Sumter men on land t owned by Mr. Emory Clark when he i performed ^this unusual feat. A I bunch of>.five deer ran by his stand and Mr. McKnight picked out one of the bucks and fired a single shot. After waiting .a minute or so he walked over to where he had last seen.Jhe buck and fpund him stretched | out on the ground. While he was examining this* deer a second buck rolled down into the ravine badly [ wounded. Mr. McKnight 'dispatched | this one with his knife. Upon examination he . found that one of the deer had been struck in j the neck and the other in the side. One weighed about 150 pounds and the other slightly less than a hundred pounds.?Tuesday's Sumter Item. Marion Fauria, arrested in Jacksoni vilie, Fla., was sentenced at Hamilton, Ontario, to serve seven years in pris[ on and received 15 lashes, following his conviction on a charge of robbing the Royal Bank of Canada last November. ? A Fair Question I us. Ill I>? DO OUR PART J?? ^ ~~NoW |4f)f I ABOUT h= ffetteft "^ynJTI AHO Boost fttcvtirr STRAIGHTEN RIVER TO FIX BOUNDARY * > ' ' U. S. and Mexico to Curb Er ratic Rio Grande. Washington. One of the most Important root I Orations over contemplated In a boundary hot worn the United States and a neighboring country, Ih arranged for In a convention recently signed In Mexico pity which provides for the straightening of the Itlo Grande for 87 miles below Kl Paso, Texas. The convention must be ratified by the senates of the United States and Mexico, and agreements must he made In regard to engineering details. "The problem along the Itlo Grande Is a common one with rivers In all parts of the world that run through arid regions," says a bulletin from the National Geographic society, "Very light alluvial soil gathers In a wide, level flood plain; Hoods come suddenly beeause of the quick run off from the hare mountains and hills; and the swirling waters Cut new channels through the easily yielding soil with almost every major rise. "For ages the Itlo Grande wandered at will across the broad valley that lies Just above IC1 Paso, as well as over the equally wide valley that lies below the city. A careful observer driving over the valleys can see almost obliterated channels of the past far from the present river. Maps since 1850, when the earliest American surveys were made, show a confusing maze of ; looping and Intersecting lines that represent the dim ghosts of Itlo Grandes of 25, 50, 75 and SO years ago. Jumbled Property Titles. "As the Itlo Grande has been the boundary since 1850 between Texas and New Mexico, and sln'te 1835 between 'Jj'exas undXJId Mexico, the wanderings of the rivet* In the two valleys near Kl Paso have caused constant Inter-governmental disputes and hnve played havoc with property titles. In the upper valley, the problems have been domestic. Innumerable lawsuits between property owners sprang from the erratic river changes. "Finally the states of New Mexico and Texas became Involved and took the whole tangled matter to the United States Supreme court. It was not until that tribunal handed down Its decision in 1028 that numerous residents in El Paso's upper valley knew what state they were living In. For many miles the boundary fixed by the court does not follow the Itlo Grande of today, but lies a considerable distance to the west along what hqs been determined to be the river bed of 1850.\ "Straightening out the Jumbled boundary situation below El Paso has been n much more difficult task because two nations are Involved. There have been numerous treaties; but the temperamental Itlo Grande has frequently created situations that existing trenties could not quite be made to cover. The most stubborn problem of all has been the so-called Clmmlzal dispute, whoreby Mexico claims a valuable slice of the city of El Paso, asserting that the true international boundary is along un old bed north the present river location. The Chatnlzal zone is not considered In the recently signed convention, bift is left for special consideration at another time. River Wandera Around. "Enst of El Pasp the Rio Grande meanders over the almost level valley, forming numerous loops, great and -.small. When extraordinary flood# ^ome, the river Is almost sure to make a short cut across one or more of these loops. The patches of land left in the loops by the formation of a new* river bed are called 'hancos.' When a banco Is formed, It Is. of course, shifted to the other side of the river. Thus bits of Texas have In effect been tossed suddenly into Mexico; and fragments of-Mexico, into Texas. "If barrens are very small the.v become a part of tire country to which they afe shifted. Rut if Ihc.v are large, the International boundary continues to follow the old stream bed. A striking example of large areas cut off by river changes is found 25 miles east of El Paso near Fahens. Texas?an area considerable enough to he seen on large sonic maps of the United Si.it One can cross the bridge that spans the Rio Grande, drive a mile or more south, and still find himself In the United States. The international boundary there Is a half-obliterated little grass grown dale that many years ago was the bed of the river. "The convention signed by the United States and Mexico calls for the tirst tin*' for the deliberate creation of hancos. The plan is to eliminate the many kinks of the river by digging an artlfielal channel where ni?ces?ary to I smooth the stream out into a series of j long, eas.\ curves. Approximately the I same area in hancos will be left or each side of the new channel. These will become the property of the country j)n whose side they lie. The new channel will he adopted as the Inter national' boundary and will he 'pegged down' hy engineering works including levees rfprapped hanks and protected curves. Such works are practicable now where they would not have been qjfcenei'Ht Ion ago. Floods have been mitigated somewhat by the hoilding of Elephant Ruffe dain which creates a huge lint>ounding reservoir for the Rio. Grrtnde in central New Mexico," * Plow Torn* Up Gold Busk. Texas.?Emerson Polk, negro, baa quit farming. Uts disc plow was to blame. It unearthed a glass Jar of gold coins, said to amount to $925, recently. Forthwith, Polk bought hlmaelf a mo tar car and "retired.* f 4 General News Notes Hazel O'Brien, 116, estranged wife of h movie director at Los Angeles, on Saturday shot hor two sons to death ami then shot herself in the breast. Her condition is critical. Railroads running out of Chicago have reduiSjd passenger fafes and cut Pullman fares one-third in an effoit to stimulate railroad travel to western .points. Dr. James M. Doran, commission*'! of industrial alcohol, has extended by 7,000,iX)0 gallons the distillery industry's whisky quoth for the year, bringing the total to 18,000,000 gal Ions. The official weight of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) in their 101th semi-annual convention at Salt l>nki City, Utah, adopted resolutions opposing repeal of the 18th amendment. **Tho United Press service in Washington has learned thut the RFC will lend millions of dollars to established firms to finance the processing of grapes into wine. . "Railroad Jack," 70, known as the wandering human history book because of his knowledge history, is dead at Coldwater, Mich. He remembered everything he ever read. Joe lOckley sawed his way out of a jail at Columbus, Mo., after several hours of hard work, and as he made his escape was confronted by a policeman and# deputy sheriff. Marie Dressier, the well known actress, was a guest of the" president and Mrs. Roosevelt Friday and Saturday, >? She toured the country with Mr. Roosevelt in the war days in the interest of the Liberty loans. Civilian conservation corps workers during the summer and fall have shown an average gain in weight- of 12 pounds, according to announcement of Robert^O. Fechner, director. Strong efforts are being made in New York this week to get every possible voter to register, so as to bb able to vote in tttt coming mayoralty election. ~~~ r . A lieutenant colonel of the Italian army on Sunday established a new flying speed record, by covering a measured course at a speed of 1-8 miles per %our. Drv candidates in each of the 100 counties of North Carolina have been selected. North Carolina votes on the wet and dry issue on November 7th. | Sleeping berths are now a part ot the equipment of night pianos between New York and Atlanta, La., the first of the planes so equipped being put in service last week. L. L. Henderson, popular farmer of the Union section of Gaston county, N. C., lost his barn by fire started by lightning Sunday afternoon. This -week his neighbors and friends, 40 or | more, went into his woods, cut the I trees, hauled them to a saw njdH and will have the barn rebuilt. Mr. Henderson's barn was insured for $000 or more. Jealous because the girl had spurned his attentions, a farm hand of Montville, Me., shot the girl and her escort to death and then committed suicide. . """ . \ The administration in Washington is asking four Steel companies to submit bids for 841,525 tons of steel rails , for 47 railroads, the rails to be paid for with funds supplied by the HFC. A portland, Ore., World war Veteran, 35, victim of paralysis, committed suicide becnuse his malady could not be connected with his war service, and compensation had begn cut off. Oscar Johnston, finance director of the farm adjustment administration in Washington, has announced that 1,100,000 bales of cotton, government controlled, is not to be sold in competition with the "current crop." A circuit judge at Sarasota, Flu., has issued an order restraining a barber there from using the NKA sign in his place. Ho shaved the price of shaves below a code agreement fixing j the price. Sod houses, the kind used on tho j plains of the west by tho pioneers,1 will be user! to house 000 conserva-1 tion corps workers engaged on a lake and dam project nead Dodge City, Kansas, this winter. Patsy Mclnerny, of Woodside, N. Y., won the coveted distinction of buying the first "bleachery" ticket for the world series ball games in New York on Tuesday. He camped at the ticket office at the polo' grounds from September 24. . \ A New Orleans grand jury has returned an indictment against Louis Kenneth Neu, 26, charging him with the murder of S^gffield Clark, Sr., Nashville, Tenn., ^business man in a New Orleans hotel a couple of weeks ago. \ Walker Davis, 26, textile worker 'at Concord, N. C., critically wounded Pauline Hughes after the girl refused^ to mar'ry' him, and then committed suicide. In tin* trial of Senator James .1. Davis, of Pennsylvania, and Theodore Miller, both officers of the Moose irutornity, in progress in New York on charges of using the mails impromoling a lottery, it was brought out in evidence by books and checks that Davis benefited directly or indirectly to the extent ,of $133,160. C. L). Cooper, alia* Ben Jones, escaped convict who has made good as agent for moving pictures projectionists, and arrested in California, is making a fight against extradition to South Carolina. Governor ltolph, of California, is receiving scores of petitions asking that he refuse to honor a requisition from South Carolina. The Ford Motor company has ordered its officials in chargeoof the plant at Edgewater, N. J., where a strike of tool and pattern makers has been in progress for ten days or more to close the entire plant down if the strike is interfering with orderly production. The strikers are demanding a minimum of $25 for a week of 35 hours work. Senator Pat Harrison, of Mississippi, in a New York address, declared that President Roosevelt should announce a definite monetary policy,. * as recovery is being retarded by uncertainty and indirectness on the' question of inflation and reflation. Harry L. Hopkins, federal emergency relief administrator, following a confev^?nce with President Roosevelt . in New York, is at work on the task of forming a federal relief corporation to take farm surpluses and give them to the nation's unemployed. . v General Nichols Yudenich, 71, commander of the Russian armies in the Caucasus and a leader of the White Russians against the reds in the revolution, is dead in Paris. ? i J.ujfijni .?j_ j 1 ..... 4 \ For Pain Relief ? In Minute^ ? Demand And Get ' OBNUINI . BAYER ASPIRIN /F\ f A \ (B A^VjE Rj ' ' B. ; Because of a unique process in manufacture. Genuine Bayer Aspirin Tablets are made to disintegrate ?or dissolve?INSTANTLY you take them. Thus they start to work instantly. Start "taking hold" of even u severe headache; neuralgia, neuritis or rheumatic pain a few minutes after taking. And thev provide SAFE relief? for Genuine BAYER ASPIRIN does not harm tho heart. So if yon want QUICK and SAFE relief see that you get the real Hayer article. Always look for the Hoyer cross on every tablet as illustrated, above, and for tho words >IRA, GENUINE nA'VERM|f ASPIRIN on every bottle or package. 6ENUINE BAYER ASPIRIN DOES NOT HARM THE HEART j, The Yesterday and Today of Jelly Making ' By Alice Blake O i . ~ i n?u i. vrm ?wct??vest?wmwmxm i immmwMMmmwwM The modern method Those "Good Old Days" Eleven glasses In 20 minutes flJTTANDERIN'G through an old coTT lonlal house on my vacation recently, I stood before the open tireplace in the kitchen wondering about the woman who had done her cooking there. Prepared not only the daily meals but stirred great batches of Jelly over that open fire and waited tedious hours for the contents of the pot to boil down to the proper consistency. And even after that had no assurance that the Jelly would "Jell." What a long way we've come? we modern women who make Jams and Jellies In twenty to thirty minutes?from the lady who lived in that house. Think of her when you turn on your gas or electric stove or light your oil burner to cook your final batch of Jelly and Jam this season. Think of her when you measure that magical nbstance, bottled fruit pectin, into your preserving kettle and, after %two or three minutes of boiling, turn a gleaming, flavor some hatch of jelly or jam into freshly scalded glasses. "And again when you use snch simple recipes as these which absolutely assure the success of your jelly U you follow thein accurately. Ripe Grape Conserve 3 cups <114 lbs ) prepared fruit 5 cups '< 2 V? lbs ) sugar 1 cup put meats, finely chopped ' ? lb. seeded raisins la bottle fruit pectin To prepare fruit, stem and crush thoroughly about 2 pounds fully ripe grapes. Add V4 cup water and simmer, covered, 30 minutes. With tight-skinned grapes, add Julco of 1 lemon to water. Sieve hot mixture. . Measure sugar info large kettle. Add nuts, raisins, and prepared fruit, filling up last cup with water if necessary. Mix well and bring <0 a full rolling boll over hottest Are. Stir constantly before and while boiling. Boil hard I. minute. Remove from fire and stir la bottled fruit pectin. Then stir and skim by turns for just 5 minutes to cool slightly, to prevent floating fruit. Pour quickly. Par-, aflln hot conserve at once. * Ma'kes about 9 glasses (6 fluid ounces each). Spiced Grape Jelly I'.'a cups (2t? lbs.) Juice 8 cups (3Va lbs.) SURar bottle fruit pectin To prepare Juice, stem 3 pounds fully ripe grapes and crush thoroughly. Add Vfe cup apple vinegar. 1 teaspoon cloves, and 2 teaspoons cinnamon. Bring to a boil, cover, and simmer 10 minute#. - Place fruit in Jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out Juice.? Measure sugar and Juice Into large saucepan and mix. Bring to a boil over hottest Are and at once add bottled fruit pectin, stirring constantly. Then bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard V? minute. Remove from Are. skim, pour quickly. Paraffin hot Jelly at once. Makee about 11 glasaea ( fluid ounce*, each).x X. \. . .