Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LOOKING BACKWARD w / i " - Taken Fro? the File* of 11m CSuonkJe Fifteen nod Thirty Yr?r? Ago . F1KTKKN YKAKK AGO September IP, 1919 Watt-ree station of tbV Southern Power Company, the largest of the hydro-electric plants, i>0 far constructed by this company, begins turning wheel*. Located seven miles from Camden and has 100,000 horae power, composed of five units 20,000 horse power. s American Legion Voit No. 17 chartered with the following as members: L. Whit Boykio. Jr., Ralph N. Shannon, Julius E. Campbell, Alfred M, McLeod, James Uel>oache, Jr., Jack H. Watkins, Charles K. Villepigue, Q. G. Alexander, M. M. Reasonover, M Adicks Kirkland, F. H. Belk, E. L. Moseley, J. L. Team, S. C. Taylor, Charles R. Little, Sidney C. Zemp, Lynch D. Boykin, Thomas L. Alexander and Walter R. Rush. Evans Collins, highly respected colored citizen succumbs to bite of rattlesnake. Mrs. H. S. Steedrn^n builds house on Mac-key street. Carriage of Miss Mollye Shapiro and Sam Karesh solemnized in Augusta. 1,000 Shares of Second Series Camden Building and I?an offered^-John T. Nettles, president; John S. Lindsay, secretary. Two year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Kinard, of West \V*,teree drowned in tub of water. : - w THIRTY YKAR6 AGO ,r Sf|>(embcr 23, 1904 List oC members of the House of Representative* of South Carolina shows M. L. Smith and J G. Richards from Kershaw* county. Young Prince Humbert born to King Victor Emanuel, 3rd. and Queen Helena Emmanuel of Italy. Edward A. Young U. S. A. returned after six years absence, lie has been on duty in the Philippines. Excursion to Charleston advertising round trip fares at $1.25. Camden Historical society held meeting. Greenhouse being built and to be operated by Misses Villepigue and Shannon. Marriage announcement of W. F. Moseley and Miss Aggie Arrants made. Young couple to live in Charlotte where groom holds position in the post office. Meeting to be held to Vote upon increasing capital stock of Camden Wholesale Grocery, signed by F. M. Wooteh, president; W. R. De Loathe, secretary and treasurer. City's streets being clayed and put in shape for winter months. Misses Elenrwr Godfrey and Elizabeth McDowell open school on DeKalb street, for young ladies. .n 1 The flow of lava from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii is lessening after a week or ten days of violence. Legumes In Kershaw Remaking The Land "Kershaw county js truly a legume county now," says Henry D. Green, county farm agent, calling attention to the splendid results being obtained from the use of Austrian winter peas, t vetch, and crotalaria. "We have absolute records on a good number of farmers who are m.iking jo-it about twice a- much corn and cotton per a re on land where legume- were turned under u-> com-: pared with iand which did not have t he crops," Mr. Green states. "K. T. IVaree ha- 11" acres of cot-' much of whi h a ill produce more' / than one bale per a : e and which did; !.<< receive any n.trogenou.- fertilizer a* h'o except that which wa- contained 1 : original stna.l app.i ation of s. , 1 app! o.j under e -"ton before plan* r.g. "Conservative e-t .mates have pla* ? the yield of Boliver L>. Hoykin's acres of cotton at between '. (> and 10" hales. 'This cotton follows three, years of Austrian pens and vetch, re ceived no top dressing at all this year. "L. I. Guion states that his corn and cotton would never have made a comeback after the extremely disastrous weather had it not been for . the Austrian peas, vetch, and crotahir'ia he had been turning under." "J. W. Sovvell states that his 250 acres of cotton following Austrian peas, vetch, and crotalaria will make practically double the yield of cotton! which did not follow these legumes. Kershaw county is truly a legume county now." As to the trend among Kershaw farmers toward use of these legumes Mr. Green says in conclusion: "Many of our farmers have already gotten their Austrian pea-- and vetch fo- fall planting. One farmer has al. a<iy gutter. pounds of ,-eed. - ary inoculation, and plans to ^s'art p.ar.'.ir.g a- soon a; he gets a g d -t a-or. ,r. the ground around the :i.:ddl< of September." I'm la del ;>: ia making a bid for r.at.c'.nal Uemovratic party oono r,:,i r, in 1 'J30. Destroy Cotton Stalks Early Clemson College, Sept. 15.?The early destruction of cotton stalks, always an important practice in producing cotton under boll weevil conditions. seems more practical than in : the past because of the short crop and the 'decreased acreage, which allow greater opportunity for cotton grow-, ers to pick the crop and destroy .-.talks before frost, says W. (\ Net-j ties, extension entomologist, advising mat .-talk destruction should begin in many f.eids in the extreme southern p otion of the state by the middle of September. Tr.e practice of ealy -ta.k destruction reduce.- the weevil population in ta.i main way-, Mr. Nettle- explain-. 1 further breedii^g. after the crop ;- p: ke.i at i before fr is prevented by drying out of weevil-infested - juaies a:, i bo.Is. Second, feeding by adult weevils i- prevented, forcing i them to enter the winter on an empty -tomach which reduces the chances of i many weevils being alive when coti ton comes up during the spring.A third but less important factor I is the removal of hibernating quarters in burying stalks. Honor Roll For Gates Ford School Grade 1. Nancy Lou West. Grade 2. Harry Boykin, Otis Gandy, Clarice Hunter. J. V. Austin, Betty I?u West, J. W. Henry. Jr. Grade 3. Carlyle Baxley, John Boykin. Lean Elliott, Cuthbert Horton, Nolen Taylor, Olin Taylor, Myrtle Boykin. Grade 1 Edith Gaynor. Grade 5. I.awton Baxiey. Oi:n BaxI ley. I ia Outvr.. Keba West. | Grade S Je-sie Horton Fletcher, A. j W. Hunter. Harold Baxiey, Eln>* j T ay lot. bi n Jc i. Kssu- Gan ty. 1 Thre- masked bar. i:'- robbed a bank at I* ayettcv.lle. Ark.. <.f $5,671 Saturday morning after locking eight j of the bunk's employes .n the \ault. r; . ^ i.?t.?? . 1 - 4 Safeguarding All Interests The Bell Telephone System ie so organized and regulated that your interests as a user of the service are safeguarded, as well as the interests of the 800,000 or more individuals who have invested their savings in the # business. The welfare of the army of 270,000 Bell telephone workers who build, maintain, and operate the business is equally safeguarded. To favor any one of these groups at the expense of the others would not only be poor judgment, but contrary to the^ fundamental policy of the business. If the best interests ot all the people are to be served, then revenues should be sufficient to assure the continuation of the best possible grade of telephone service and to insure the continued f-nancial integrity of the business. The earnings of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company during the best years of its history have never exceeded 7% on its investment. During the past three years the average was less than 5%, and in 1933 it dropped to about 4%. Such inadequate earnings might easily have endangered the foundation structure of the business and hampered the service but for ths Company's farsighted policy of retaining each year a small part of the earnings to care for financial stress during unprofitable years. As a result of this sound policy, telephone service has rot been allowed to suffer, but on the contrary has been constantly improved during the past four years. And the scope of the service has been extended to the far corners of the earth, so that you can now talk to almost anyone, anywhere, at any rime, quickly, and at a surprisingly small cost. In this way the telephone company has fulfilled and will strive *o continue to fulfill its obligation to the public, that of furnishing the best possible service at a cost as low as is consistent with financial safety. Southern Bell Telephor> and Telegraph Co. < I ??r? r???4 ? General News Notes Two robbed a sttU bank at Clifton.' Ark,, of #2.500. locking the cashier in the vault just at closing time. He later managed to get out with the use of a acrew driver.v The agricultural department is predicting ? total orange and ffrapefruit crop this year of 74,204,000 boxes in the country, which would be M large a production as was the crop of 1930. Wart-en Dauane Smith, . Bermuda negro, sentenced to death last February for the alleged drowning of two children in a tank of water, w*a acquitted after h second trial at Hamilton, Bermuda. The NRA has given notice to the lumber code authority that it will enforce, by prosecution if neceaaary, minimum cost protection price of the code for the lumber and timber products industries. Countess Catherine Breshkovakayh, aged 90, who gave up her life of luxury to fight for the cause of Russian peasants, and known as the "grandmother of the Russian revolution," is dead at Pratha, Czechoslovak*. ? Cuban soldiers arrested 25 alleged Communists in Havana and placed them in a surburban jail. They are charged with too closely watching the movements of Jefferson Caffery, United Stages ambassador to Cuba. Ralph W. Laros, 44, former bank teller, has been sentenced to serve not less than two and a half years on his confession that he embezzled $15,000 from an Kaston, Pa., bank and trust company. The forces of Senator Huey Long were successful in the primary elections held in New Orleans on Tuesday, both of the Long candidates for congress being .nominated over, opposing candidates supported by Mayor Walmsley. Cristobal Canal Zone, received a wireless message Wednesday night to the effect that the British freighter Bradburn was racing towards Balboa with fire irv her hold. The ship had not asked for aid. It Was the third ship fire reported within a week. The bank at Magnolia, N. C\, wa.robbed of $0,000 early Wednesday morning, the yeggmen burning a hole into the steel safe by the use of actylene torches. This bank has beer. rubbed four times lr. two and a half * <*> years. j Harry Allen Shay. 15, entered a' eha? ge in the court at Miami, b la. II*. j killed his mother with a shot in the; back becau-e she ordered him >, udy his K.ngli.-h with more diiii gi-nce. He has r.ot yet been senter.c-. led. The h:>i isolation of proactinium. . hare.-.*, metal or. earth, worth $10,OU' . oo i a:, ounce, has been announced the- American Chemical society at, Cleveland, Ohio. Only one-tenth of j a gram of the metal has yet been isolated after years and years of resea rch. More than a quarter of a million persons gathered on the beach at AsburyPark, N. J., Sunday morning to look at the wreck of the Morro Castle, beached just a hundred or so feet off shore there, and to watch the efforts of rescuers to take dead bodies, off the still burning ship. William Walters, a negro, aged 30,, was shot to death at his home near I.umberton, N. C., by his son, aged 6, with a shot gun. The child was playing with the weapon when it exploded and tore off the top of the father's head. William Itandolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher, had an inI terview with Chancellor Adolph Hitler Berlin or. Sunday. Judge Thoma* F. Porter of the 1 Ith i judicial di-trict of Louisiana, has j beet* dti.lau.td the Democratic party's nominee for the state supreme court | from the thir l d;.-trict, his opponent .< for the place having died after the [pr.n-.ary gates Were closed. Relatives of a dea 1 grandmother i at Mempr.;-, Tenm, have entered .-uit against a telegraph company there for failure to deliver $'J that they had wired a relative at Cleveland, Tenn., whom they wanted to be present at the funeral to act as a pallbearer. They ask for S2,500 as damages. Four convicts at the Illinois state prison at Joilet, boarded a locomotive with the idea of ramming their way j to freedom through the prison gates. A sharp fusillade of rifle fire and two of the escapes were dead, a third was wounded and the fourth recaptured. A guard was shot. W.th a large per cent of the people ! "f this country being fed out of the federal treasury, it seems anomalous for "fivmg squadrons" to race over the country to keep men from work who have a job and are eager jo ! make an hone.st living. ? N. C. Chris*.an Advocate. M->. K\a Coo, 17, was convicted by 1 a jury at Coopertown, N. Y? or a c.-.arge of murdering her handy man f -r ?ho $!d,000 insurance carried on ' his life. She is alleged to have hit him on the head with a mallet and then placed him on a highway and i run her automobile over him until he was dead. She was sentenced to the electric chair, and her alleged aceom. plice, Martha Clift, who turned state's j evidence, was given 20 years to life j imprisonment for her part in the afI Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Geo McGee, Copyright, 1928. THE MOORE Vs. SQUARE LAWSUIT SETTLED OUT OF COURT. flat rock. s. C. sepp 12.19S4. leer mr. edditor:? ' ple&e take notis that the law suit betwixt holsum raoore et. si. A art square et. si. has been settled out of coart without bloodshed and all lawyers have benn dismissed without fees and returned back to the county seat. the suit was brought by holsum moore for slander and libel and bearling false witnesses against the pease and dignity of his familey. the defendant, who sneers to the name of art square, paid all costs and 21 in cash to settle up and apologise. | the plaintiff demanded that the defendant make a statement in the presence of his friends that he wma mistaken and was sorry, so art square, acting on advice from his ; wife and the poleesnvan, agreed to the terms of the settlement and borried the money, and put the case behind him. | the following pulick statement was made as per terms: "I art square, being of sound mind and boddy, hereby say that it was after sundown when i saw holsum moore et. al with a big basket of veggertables ansoforth near the f. e. r. a. garding, and i do not know how he got hold to same, but it mought of benn something else he had in it ... . and he mought of paid someboddy for same." \ ' .*holsum and art shuck hands after they had made friends and agreed to go a-fishing together as soon as they could get holt to some wirms for bait and some beer to keep up their good sperrits with. mrs. moore and mrs square would not "make up" with one another and she says she will newer go to anuther party where she is and vicy-versy. the town rejoices in getting this terrible lawsuit dissolved and done away with, it was calculated to hurt rehober church, as both mr. moore and mr. square ate afflicted with same, and have benn consistent members for sevveral months, to wit: since the big meeting in 1933 when they got saved by grace and re-joined by letter, the warrants were all tore up and pitched into the waist basket by the maggistrate a? soon as he got his c40 each for them, yores trulie, mike Clarke, rfd, iorry spondent. WET-DRY PROHIBITION . . I am a dry, and my state is dry, byt booze is cheap as well as plentiful. Bootleggers are prosperous, thanks to the high tax on legal venom, but competition is too hot amongst them for comfort. Somel body's going to get hurt in this business. , . .Our state permits us to send 4 dollars to a wet state, as often as once a month, for a quart of legal stuff. Now, this legal "happy-day" fluid is O. K., considering that its cost is made up of the following items: 30 percent federafTax, 20 percent dealer's license tax, 20 percent bottle and express charges, 10 percent packing cost's, and 25 percent .for the whiskey itself. ..We have hundreds of high-class, honorable, trustworthy bootleggers who will sell a fellow a quart of real good licker, made out of nothing but "ugar. potash, stable sweepings, lye, sulphur, flies, bugs, corn meal, blackstrap and gnats for only SI.00, including the fruit jar, cap, ring, gasoline. police protection (if any), and federal stamp. ..There has not yet been a plan devised that will control whiskey, nor has there ever been a law that will control a man full of whiskey. But we have lots to be thankful for yet; nearly all of our boys- and girls who drink whiskey now-a-days are over 21 years of age; but, of course, there are some exceptions. I think the government ought to raise the drinking age of children from 12 years to 13 years and 6 months. ..Lots of us thought that whiskey was fine for snake-bites, but some doctor came along the other day and exploded that hallucination; now we don't know what it's good for except to serve at parties so's folks can forget their troubles and their wives and j their past due notes and accounts. ' Prohibition prohibits the government < from competing with the bootlegger, ! but it doesn't exactly prohibit whis1 i key. i ' ..I don't think we .ought to call it "prohibition"; some other name would suit and sound better, for instance: Imagination, or Intuition, or Assasination, or Inhibition, or Expedition, Old-tradition, or Quick-ignition. Prohibition seems to extend special privileges to some, and openhanded permission to others. Of course, the winking of the law has something to do with prohibition which permits so much whiskey. Gets Five Years Greenville, Sept. 5.?boe Add Blakely, former Lauren* county commhuioner, wu sentenced to five years at hard labor in the state penitentiary today after pleading guilty in general sessions court to robbery of the South Carolina State bank at Fountaip Inn. In order to overcome technicalities of the law so that he may be allowed 30 days in which to clear up his business affairs, Blakely served notice of appeal. IJnder an arrangement approved by Judgf William 11. Grimball, the former county commissioner will be freed under $1,&00 bond and after 30 days the appeal will be automatically dropped and Blakely will begin nerving his sentence. Young Man Is Cut 3edly With Knife. A cutting scrape in the vicinity of the mill on Friday night respited in the arrest of Turner Baker and severe injuries to Wade Faile who taken to the Lancaster hospital where almost 200 stitches were necessary to sew up his wounds. Baker claims that Faile knocked him down and was about to cut him when he drew his knife and slashed him. Baker then gave himself up to Officer Thurmond who placed him in jail. Faile was cut in several places on . the back, shoulder, neck, chest and side. However, it is not believed that his injuries are serious and he has been discharged from the hospital. Officers said they did not know what the trouble was between these two men.?Lancaster News. Senator E. D. Smith of South Carolina has entered the textile strike picture by proposing v to President Roosevelt's strike mediation board that it recommend to Secretary Wallace that he susp^pd the cotton processing tax in order that the mills * may pay workers higher wages demanded by the strike leaders. He told the chairman of the arbitration board that the mills cannot pay higher wages and shorten hours of work l as proposed by labor leaders, because of the tax burden. Smith contended | that suspension of the tax would be a boon to every one connected with the cotton industry?from the farm ,to the loom. Corn On The Cob A discussion of the merits of corn on the cob, as an edible viand, is going on in the press of this vicinity. The Winnebago Enterprise says it "i? an American delicacy, in a class with friend mush and rhubarb sauce."' We do not know Whether that Is meant as a compliment to corn or simply a flash of sarcasm. Anyhow, the Blue Earth Post editor, whom we have heretofore regarded as a friend, puts in his spoon thusly: "Nonsense! Corn on the cob is fit only for hogs. You take a spoon and pour the butter over the ear, add the seasoning, and then eat. When you are through you look like a greased pig. Corn on the cob?not much! (The exclamation point is ours.) The editor of the Fairmont (Sentinel says he has "never eaten a roasting ear, never has known anyone who has, and doesn't believe that there is any such thing." He adds, however, that he "would like to eat one if the feat can be accomplished with store teeth that do not rattle too badly." That last sentence gives hope that the cuss has a sort of an ornery longing in his make-up that may eventually overcome his scepticism and lead him to repentance. All the evidence thus far submitted by these eminent gentlemen is either doubtful or negative. Now comes the testimony of one who knows what he is talking about, and to our way of thinking has these pessimists and unbelievers backed into a corner. Doc. Bixby, way out in Lincoln, N'eb., where there isn't' a spear of corn thus year, remembers the days of his youth and negotiates the entire distance to Fairmont, just to gobble down a good mess of succulent sweet corn. He proved his faith by his works?he brought a friend with him. It detracted not a bit from Doc's fine appreciation of gastronomic felicity when he found that the beaneries of the Old Grouch's town knew not the ecstatic vegetable except as it comes in tins. Shame on Fairmont! Extolling the virtues of sweet corn, gnawed directly from the cob, would be like trying to add grandeur to the view of a mountain range, whiteness to freshly-fallen 'snow or beauty to a rosebud or blushing maiden's cheek. It would be a useless task, too, as the human devotees who worship at its shrine comprise the entire race, except a few unfortunate creatures whom forgetful nature failed to endow with a proper appreciation of this succulent and detectable contribution to mankind's summer menu. We were about to conclude this effusion with that classic quotation about casting pearls before swine, but we refrain, desist and forbear for fear it might be given a pergonal application,?. A. Bresee in the Bricelyn (Minn.) Sentinel. ' rrl n f j VOU'Ll MAKE 0| FflLLTRIPS BACK TO ? SCHOOL ; GAMES 5 BUSINEsk * SsSS^&; -by Greyhound I Life re'dwakens in Autumnl I Business, school, football games, Chicago World's Fair, hunting and fl fishing?all call for pleasant trip* in the fine Fall weather. N . Add up the savings you can make ? on these trips?by Greyhound bus. M They'll total enough for a new winter coat! In addition, the fre- | quent schedules will save fcours, ? and you will have unusual stop. 1 over and return privileges. Drcn it cr 'pT * :c hslow ] for com. .?tt *iuOiiu^,..c.i. ATLANTIC GREYHOUND DEPOT? DeKalb Cafe Telephone 249 vfl Sales Of Crops Repay 1a*m September 1?.?4)ver $1,000,000 4M the money borrowed from product**? credit associations this year by far*? ers in the Carolinas, Georgia |M| Florida was repaid before SeP^?1^! 1, according to a statement by Arnold, Deputy Production Crt&U Commissioner of the Farm Credit A ? ministration. ^ "Repayment of loans early in J season." Mr. Arnold said, "indkawM favorable marketing conditions nlM four states. Although most loans will not be due for months, farmers will save oa and cut their operating costs by *1 paying their loans from the etiMH sale of cash crops." :? Up to September 1, $7,800^ been borrowed by farmers from production credit associations'? the Carolinas, Georgia and MrJjB and $1,037,000 repaid, or over 13 ym The Ford Motor company hasp*? chased the exclusive right to tow? cast the 1954 world series basNM* games, paying $109,000 for the pnn? lege. The first game will be ore* cast on October 3 from the A?*"* League city winning the which now looks like it wi ^^? louth Carolina cotton gro^B have already received $2,548,21 land rental and benefit pa>me between now and the last o HM will receive $4,402,127 more, the Jj* announced today. It w*s . make the parity payment in instead of December. C. J? chief of the AAA cotton pointed out that the tena share croppers had an intere parity payment and to delay V* into December, the usual seas ? many tenants and renters o other farms, would cause unnecw-^ complications. TAX NOTICE | Tax books for the State, County and School j? year 19S4, will be opened 1934 and remain ?^n..a",.t pttifl 31, 1934 inclusive in ?M Please state schoel dist"* you live or own property quiring atoont I Your Tespectfuliy^^* S. W. Hogue. Tr#?? Kerahaw Co"nty' - 9 Camden, ? a - - ? ' I I