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LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the Files of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Years Ago I 4 * ? FIFTEEN YEARS AGO " ?li- , octob^lT i?i? Roland ('. Thomas, Corporal .Company M. 118th Infantry decorated with (JJroix do Guerre, for heroism *in action at Vaux Andigny, France, Octobc4HT?, IP 18. One hundred twenty-five Catawba, Indians plan to leave reservation in' jp York County, ( J. Nelson Frior.son, of Columbia makes address at Grace church. James U. DeLoacho, A. I). Kennedy, W. F. Russell, 1. F. Holland, Cyo Turner, J. M. Moseley, G. W, Moseley, A. J. Moseloy, T. 1'. Sanders and Captain J. J. Hell attend Confederate Reunion in Atlanta. L. Is-vkoir and George LevkotT, twin brothers attend funeral of their brother II. CcvkolT ia August#, Rodman Law, aviator, brother of the .famous woman aviatrix Ruth Law died in Greenville. Cincinnati. Reds winners of the VVorhPs Championship baseball series against Chicago White Sox received $117,157.36 as their share of the gate receipts. Robert Henry Bell, of Westville married to Miss Mary Jeanotta Jones, of Kershaw. T. Kdmund Krumbholz, manager of The Kirkwood Hotel arrives in city to open hotel for the season. John Robinson's circus to parade and show at Camden. j Misses Kllen Douglas Boykin and Kutherine Zemp, popular brides-elect honored with party by Mrs. J. B. Zemp and Miss I41I Blakeney. THIRTY YKAKtf AGO October 2ll 1904 W. K. Thompson, elected Chairman ami (\ W. Birchmore, Secretary of Association of Kershaw County Farmer*. ^ Albert S. Zemp returns from visit to (Charlotte. Invitations issued to wedding of Miss Henrietta Hi'ailsford and James 11. Hums. Half rates advertised to State Fair in Columbia, by Southern Railway, j . Examination of Teachers to be held at Court House, signed by W. 1>. Trantham, for County Hoard of Education. Court House to be built on site of Lafayette Hall recently burned. Gentry Hrothers Trained Animal Show to be in Camden, November 3. VV. K. Milter, of New Haven, Conn., died at Northern Home. He had been u popular Svinter resident here for past fourteen years. Many handsome homos under construction ir\ Kirk wood. Prifces given in contest by Famous Gilt Edge Store won by: Mrs. Moffetfc, Congaree; W. A. Crossland, Camden; Stephen Williams, colored, Hoykin; T. W, Lapg, Camden; Perry Adams, colored, Camden; Lawrence McCaa, Lugotf; Jtobert Steward, colored, LugafT; Harriet Haile, colored, Camden.- C-, ? " ? $100,000 bequest made to Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute by will of Jaqies Callahan. Harry Payne 'Whitney bid $70,000 for "Hamburg", a horse. Gale raging off coast of New Foundland, fear felt for fishing fleet. County Breeders Win Recognition Peterboro, N. H.?Kershaw county breeders, W. T. Kedfearn of Camden, and J. S. Hinson, of Kershaw, have just won national recognition on their pure bred Guernsey bull, Coker Golden Cavalier 124745. This bull, having two daughters which have made creditable official records, has been entered in the Advanced Register of the American Guernsey Cattle Club. Coker Golden Cavalier will be known hereafter as an Advanced Register sire. Only Guernseys which meet high production requirements are eligible for entry. The two daughters which have completed official records are Quail Roost Clara* 2D9954 producing 8,360.6 'pounds of milk and 451.3 pounds of fat in class G and Quail Roost Hope 3184 IS producing 11.488.11 pounds of milk anil 042.4 pounds of fat in Class F. Jury Fails to Indict; Child Shoots Man Parkersburg, W. Vs., Oct. 13.? Cold realities of the mature world tonight had ensnared Kthel Lorane Cross, 15, tiny, blonde farm girl, who killed a 02-year-old man, charged with criminal assault. One by one, her father, her older brother, persons who made up for her the grown-up world, today were called before an inquest into the slaying of Alva Cross, 62, cousin of Kthel's father. _ Thursday a grand jury here failed to indict Alva, against whom a complaint had been entered by .J. K. Cross, the girl's father. A few hours later Kthel went to his f house, lifted a heavy shotgun and shot the man through the chest. He fell. She fired again into his prone body. The inquest dragged on until late in the day. as Coroner H. O. Robinson sought to untangle the Ibsen-like story. The jury heard Kthel, her father, her brother, Robert. It reported only that Kthel had fired the shotgun that killed Alva Cross. She had testified that she did it. "I'm not sorry." the girl said. "I killed him to save my father, who threatened to kill him if the law didn't act." The government will give employment to 25.000 persons thru January in making a thorough canvass and census of agricultural conditions in the* I'nitod States to find out what changes have been brought about by the depression and drouths during the past five years. Nude Delegates Hug Camp Fire Akron, Ohio; Oct. 14.?-"With their exteriors toughened by cold northern Ohio winds, nudists from 18 states departed for the warmth of their homes tonight, determined to induce their legislators to acquaint themselves with nudist standards and practices. Huddled in the nude around a camp fire after breakfast today, the 40 men and women- delegates to the international nudist conference unanimously adop'.e I a resolution asserting that the values of nudism are little known and understood by public officials and members of the judiciary. "He it resolved that all members of the judiciary and legislators in the several states and in the federal government he urged to make definite study of the movement and acquaint themselves with its principles in order that their official acts in regard to the movement may be guided by an understanding of the movement," the resolution said. Shortly before noon a warm sun broke through the woods surrounding the Nolon county club, which is nudist owned, and the delegates left the camp -trre-brief walks and plunges in a brook. Three guards with rifles patrolled the boundaries of \)ie club. Most of the session yesterday and today were devoted to discussions of combating antagonism to nudism with the delegates reporting that misunderstanding gradually is giving way to approval in many states. R. B. Abbott of Cleveland was elected president of the conference for the coming year. About Forest Fires Woods fires never made you a dollar and never will. The best way to stop woods fires i* not to let them start. Forest fires destroy lumber, injure labor, kill industry, rob the community?and increase taxes. Prompt action when a fire starts is the solution to the prevention of 1.000-acre fires. In the roughs, that's where the birds are. Fires drive game into the swamps and destroy nests and young. Put out your camp fires. Don't burn the woods?it ruins the range; keep out fires and keep the cattle fat. Hunters?fires drive away the game. A person who thinks won't burn the woods. A Pittsburgh, Pa., man, arrested after he admitted ownership of a still, afterward said the still belonged to his mother. She was arrested. He was released. I REAL. ESTATE j RENTS COLLECTED, FARM AND CITY PROPER"* Y HUNTING PRESERVES Repairing and Care-Taking of Property ALL FORMS OF INSURANCE DeKAlB INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE CO. I Crocker Building ?? Telephone 7 I] Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Geo McGee, Copynght, 1928.,,MIKE WRITis FOR INSTRUCTIONS flat rock, a. C., ockt< 13, 1934. mr. henry h. wall is, seeker-terry of agger-culture, Washington, d. C. deer sir:*? ' it is custom-merry for us southern farmers to begin looking about for tennants ansoforth for next year, [which is 1935, as possibly you have alreddy heard; tberefoar, i s^t myself to drop'you a few lines to let me hear from you about diff rent things. ? pi use rite or foam me at once and advise me what yore rates for plowing up cotton next year will be, allso what will you pay per hog for not raising hogs enduring 1035... .befoai i tr^de with my tennant, scudd Clark, who works on the halvers with me, and plows h?s own mule,, i will havo to know yore rates for the above. where i plowed up in 10.13, you have paid me 2 or 3 instalments, and. i have just wound up a deal with yore agent on my option cotton; i closed both bails out to him for 0$ in monney, and have alreddy spent same for 4 inner tubes, 2 shoes for my front tires, and some patching cement for my rare tires, and we are doing some verry nice riding in same at pressent. (p.s. do you think the currantcy will be inflated?). , if you will pay me 0$ per aker for 'all i plow up, i will plant twiste as much as i can cultivate, and when it comes to raising hogs, i wont even start off with one, but will leave the remittance entirely in yore hands, as 1 believe you will treat me right; you always have, but plese pay me for at least (J hogs and 2 shotes, as i genrally raise that manny when i raise anny at all. send it in cash. scudd plans to culty-vate 8 akers in cotton, and rent you 8 akers; i will plant 10 akers in cotton and let you have 10 akers as heretofoar, and we will plow up at least haff of everything, and he will get 10 percent of same, my farm has only 16 akers in it, all told, counting the cow pastor, front yard and the patch to the spring but we can get our quota, vizzly:,40 akers by taking in the entire plantation. scudd was in the world war, and draws a nice compensate from his uncle sam, so he will not need annj of the plowed up monney, or the hog monney, so you can plan to male all of same to me. direct, he got gassed in camp jackson and hasten get all of his breath thru his mouth aiLsoforth. yore kind attention to this information will be appreciated, ami you mought as well send me a p.o. money order on the plowed up account of hogs for 15$ to pull thru the winter on and save the f.e.r.a ttte trubble of feeding us. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd, dirt farmer. FRESH BREEZES FROM FLAT ROCK . . borned to mr. and mrs. art squaie, 2 twins, they will be named fera and nira after the govvcrnment. both of same is girls, all resting well excepp art; they cry a powerful heap, so he says. . .sohoi 1 is in progress at this place and miss jennie veeve smith, our principle, has her hands full of schollars. a great manny from outside districts are piling on her in busses, and she do not know at pressent what the state means not letting each district take care of its own younguns as heretofoar. flat rock childrens have been crowded out. '..the lawsuit betwixt holsum moore and judd allisson ended in a miss' trial at the county seat, the dog which bit mr. allisson was proved not j to be the property of mr. moore by 1 witnesses, but was proved to be his'n by 3 witnesses; hence?a misstrial. he is being sued for 25$ blood and flesh damages, and for a pair of blue serge britches which he tore off of him in the seat when he bit him. valued a? 2$. the rff.c. workers have struck and ?o has tnost erf the other unemployed, they are demanding 3 days a week of i hours each at the same pay instead of 8 hours a day for 2 days, or c-10 per hour, plus time and haff for dubb'.e time, with 15 days off for christmus, and all vittles donated by the govvernment delivered alreddy, cooked at their front pi-izzas, ansoforth, and not in the raw state at the commer-erry. as now. tinker wilson has bought the watch and .pond shop from izzy winski. and hevwill now have charge of everything. he is offering all unredeemed pledges at cost, and whoever has annything in his stock will plese call for same with the monney and ticket at once as he has assumed all jewelry, watches, rings and bed quilts took in by the former owner, izxy winski is going into the labor aggertating bizness, and will help ogger-nize same, he says southern workers seem to en ? y' ; _ t _ u ' : - < joy paying dues to furriners, and he is one of same, he'plans to get rich tallso. ..while dreening off his swimming hole, sid lamkin found a great manny suits of under-things belonging to both mails and femails, and he says whoever shedded, thera endpring the summer while swimming can have same by paying for this "ad" and for the cost of washing same out clean by his wife as followers: step-ins, cl5; step-outs, c20; lingy-ree, c25 each; trunks, c 15; valises, 10c. all other wearing apparel, c20 per articVle. most of same is in good shape. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. corry^spondent. Giant Flying Ships Soon To Span Pacific Washington, Oct. 14.?1Gmnt passenger Hying boats soon will tpan th Pacific, linking California with \ Orient. Announcement of early inauguration of a trana-Pacitic lra.?port ?rvice wan made today by lan-Ameilcan Airway, Inc., In corre.pondcnce with Po?tmo?ter General Parley, who ?aid his deparjntont waa "deeply Int9r0ste.fi" in the project. Pan-American has ordered six dying boats capable of carrying 32 pasSanger*. One^lhe Brazilian clipper - already i? Hying between Miami and South America. ?J. T. Tripp?, president of Pan American, said in his letter to l<ar"In view of the recently announced interest of the postoffice department in the establishment of a trans-1 acific air mail service, and particular y in view of ^aggressive steps now being taken by European nations to entrench their international air lines 111 I the Far East, we feel that we should advise you that it now appears practicable for us to consider instituting at an early date an experimental air transport service to link pur existing operations'in the Far East with California." Farley replied: "With the rapid development 01 air transport those who keep informed of its progress have, for some time, anticipated that air transport service across both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans would be soon established and the postoffice department, which is deeply interested in the extension and expansion of the air mail service to all parts of the world, has been looking forward with particular interest to the establishment of such service. The postoffice department is prepared to ask congress for an appropriation to finance mail carrying o* the California to the Far East rout?The Pan American line already holds contracts for carrying mail between the United States and South American countries. Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander oi the Graf Zeppelin, will talk with FarIcy when he arrives in this country. Eckener is interested in obtaining support for the development of regular trans-Atlantic service with lighter-than-aircraft and Farley has voiced his interest in such a project. Pan American probably will not start its experimental flights f?r se^" eraj, months, but announcement of it | was made at this time, it was understood, so as to head off opposition service bv foreign competitors. , The route to be flown has not been final!v chosen, but it very likely will be via the Hawaiian Islands. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is now studying the question of terminal facilities on the Pacific coast, the company said in its letter to I" arley. "In approaching the new engineering problems involved in conducting trans-ocean air services across the Pacific," the company said, "we have been greatly aided by the practical experience of four years' operations directly across the Caribbean sea, still the longest over-water air transport service in the world." The Brazilian clipper is a four-engine flying boat with a top speed of 191 miles per hour. It was tested by Lindbergh in heavy, rolling seas and found satisfactory. . Two similar ships are being built by the Sikorsky company and three by the Glenn Martin company,. A Martin ship will be delivered before December 1. M "It is gratifying to me to learn, Farley shid in his letter, "that the first trans-Pacific service is to be inaugurated by an American company. The splendid pioneering work which the Pan American Airways has done in establishing and building up to a high degree of efficiency air transport routes circling Central and South America has attracted the attention of the entire world and its remarkable success in these ventures undoubtedly augers success for a transPacific service." There were three women members of the Hunterdon county, N. J., grand jury which handed in an indictment against Bruno Richard Hauptmann, alleged kidnaper of the Lindbergh child?they are Mrs. Frances Large, Mrs. Flora Pidlock and Mrs. Maude Roberts. These folks own the I IH' Bell Telephone System | It is truthfully said of ths Bsll ^ Tslephone System tkU It is" gowned by the public it serves, r Of the more than 800,0^0 holders of Bell System securlI ties. 381,000 are women, 210,000 of whom are housewives; 90,000 are clerks and.. sales people; <i* 30,000 are manual laborers; 115,000 are telephone workers. There are other thousands of doctors, lawyers, farmers and merchants. In fact people in every walk of life, many of whom are doubtless your neighbors and friends. Most of these folks are small investors. Eighty per cent own twenty-five or less shares of stock, while forty oer cent * 4 of the total own five shares or lee* No one owns as much u [ 1 one-fifth of one per cent of the H j outstanding stock of the Bell System. I It is this vast army of small H * investors whose savings have financed the telephone business. Their saving* have been it- I tracted to the telephone indus- Hi(l try because of their faith in the H J0i integrity of the management, lof , and their confidence in the will. ingnesa of the public to pay a price for the service that will BJJ allow earnings sufficient to as- H:v sure the' bt^st possible service Hth< at all times and to insure the continued financial stability of ie the business. ! Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. I* (ta??r?*r?t?4 I ?< ??????? r0 Relief Provided In Purchase Program Salv<ation to thousands of farm families and relief to many communities will be brought, about bj^ the Federal program of sub-marginal land buying in the opinion of H. R. Tolley, director of the program planning division of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. In 37 tentatively chosen areas comprising two and one-half million acres, farmdrs' on land too poor to provide a living 'for their families will be offered an opportunity to sell their land to the Government at a fair price and Federal funds will be available to help these people get a new start in a place where they will have a chance to live at a better standard. Some will be offered an opportunity to move to better farms, others will be offered small subsistence! farms located near the borders of! forests or wild life refuges in which they will have work enough to furn-; ish a money income for the purchasej of a part of their living. I In a number of communities that are sparsely settled, the escape of the families living on scattered sub-marginal farms will make it possible to bring about economies in the costs of roads, schools, and other government services," Mr. Tolley says. This should relieve the tax burden on the people remaining on the better land and in the villages. The plan of operation is designed j primarily for the relief of families on land that is not suited to farm- I ing. It involves putting this land to a useful purpose. The land will be used for reforestation, wild life refuges, grazing, and recreational, purposes. EacH of the areas will become a demonstration project in the use of sub-marginal agricultural land. Mrs. Laura Kilpatrick Morgan, the mother of IVlrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, who is asking for the care of her daughter Gloria, testified that her daughter, Mrs. Vanderbilt, "didn't pay much, if any attention" to her granddaughter. Livestock Auctions R Meet Growing Favor I Columbia, Oct. IB.?More hogsflwere offered on the Columbia live- I stock auction October 12 than on any B' ? previous sale to date, the demand was B very good, and bidding was lively on I j practically all stock offered, reports I j George E. Prince, chief of the Ex- 11 tension Service Division of Markets, fl y! Prices on top hogs were $6.85 per B hundred weight for well finished fl butcher stock, which was somewhat B higher than the Richmond market on B^? the same day. There was also a good B^ demand for feeder stock, some shoats B Ki averaging around 80 pounds selling fl | as high as $6.OB per head. J There were a tew good butcher cat- I i tie but most stock was of ordinary B ^ quality and finish. The demand was B ^ good for well finished heifers and B^ steers and baby beef selling as high Bo as $4.85 per hundred weight. Only* B of a few calves were offered, with top B* prices at around $5.50 per hundred B^ weight. K Quite a number of milk cows were brought in for sale, and there is a Hi] possibility that on (the next auction B"1 day, Friday, October 19, there will I be a purebred herd of Jerseys offer"This auction market for livestock B is meeting with favor among the Hg South Carolina producers but there H y are not enough well finished cattle Hd or hogs being offered," says J. R. H Hawkins, extension animal husband- I j man, who urges livestock producers h'( in South Carolina to make it a point Hj] to visit this auction and study-the BC grade and quality being offered as fll1 well as prices. He and Mr. Prince I j believe that real quality stock would command much better prices. flc A poll of farmers of the big-corn I j growing states, made by the AAA, Hc shows that a majority of the 275,000 H f votes cast, are favorable to a continu- H $ ation of the agricultural department's Hj| plan for controlling the production of . corn and hogs. Balloting in nine H' states showed that 171,000 farmers fl favored continuation of the control H program. j FARMERS! Warehouse your cotton in a Federal Bonded Warehouse?under the supervision of U. S. Department of Agriculture. We are equipped to handle 12-cent loan on your cotton. Rate of storage 25 cents per bale per months fully insured. *J f. Camden Bonded Warehouse 109 East DeKalb St. ' R. ?, Stevenson ?^ ? J. S. Thomas