The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 19, 1934, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
LOOKING BACKWARD
Taken From the Files of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Years Ago
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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*
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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